Passenger Is Identified After Flight 1779 Incident The woman at the center of the incident has reportedly been identified as a 46-year-old bartender from Maryland, according to the New York Post. The incident happened aboard American Airlines Flight 1779 on September 11, while the aircraft was traveling from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Miami International Airport. A flight attendant reported that the passenger in seats 9DEF had removed her clothes and was seen by other passengers touching herself in an indecent manner. The report was sent through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, with instructions to notify airline officials and law enforcement. Air travel already produces enough paperwork, but a cabin incident like this gives the bureaucracy a full afternoon. Footage Shows What Bystanders Saw Video obtained by TMZ appears to show the woman lying across a row of seats, with her legs positioned toward the window side, while appearing to engage in the conduct described by the flight attendant. The footage provides visual context, although a short clip cannot answer every legal question. According to the police report, a flight attendant confronted the passenger during the flight. She put her clothes back on and then fell asleep…

Elias Celebrates a Records Lawsuit Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket and chair of the Elias Law Group, celebrated the NAACP’s lawsuit against the Trump Justice Department’s plan to place roughly 1,000 federal election monitors at polling places for the November 3 midterms. In an October 5, 2026, post, Elias called the case breaking news and linked to a report from his own outlet. The lawsuit is not an order stopping the monitors. It is a Freedom of Information Act case, NAACP v. Dhillon, filed October 2 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is the defendant in her official capacity as head of the Civil Rights Division. The applause was quick. So were the replies. https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/2107183773490065832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw DOJ Says the Monitors Are Not Armed Agents Dhillon has called the effort the largest DOJ election-observer operation in history and said the department was nearing 1,000 personnel. The monitors are being drawn from department lawyers and other trained legal staff. That would exceed the roughly 289 monitors sent during the 2022 midterms and the 714 sent during the 2024 presidential election. Dhillon also said monitors had already covered 11 states and hundreds of polling…