Blue Angels officer to be reprimanded
SAN DIEGO – A former Blue Angels commander tolerated inappropriate sexual comments and pornographic images in the workplace during his time as leader of the famed precision flying team and will be given a letter of reprimand, the Navy said Tuesday.
Capt. Gregory McWherter was found guilty of violating two articles under the military’s code of justice during nonjudicial proceedings convened Monday in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The articles were failure to obey an order or regulation and conduct unbecoming of an officer by fostering a hostile command climate and failing to stop “obvious and repeated instances of sexual harassment, condoning widespread lewd practices within the squadron and engaging in inappropriate and unprofessional discussions with his junior officers,” the Navy said in a statement.
Court asked to review sports betting ban
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – New Jersey is bolstering its legal arguments as it tries to get the U.S. Supreme Court to consider its effort to overturn a ban on legalized sports betting in all but four states.
In a filing submitted Tuesday, the state says the federal law needs to be reviewed immediately.
Theodore Olson, who won the Bush v. Gore election case in 2000, says the ban impermissibly restricts states’ rights.
The law restricts sports betting to states that met a 1991 deadline to pass laws approving it. New Jersey failed to act in time.
Associated Press
