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Unwavering Support for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

May 28, 2023/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By Amil Imani

In the face of an impending impeachment vote, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton symbolizes unwavering conservatism and a relentless fighter for our values. The allegations and articles of impeachment brought against him by a politically motivated committee led by a handful of Republicans cannot overshadow his exceptional track record and dedication to upholding conservative principles.

Upholding Conservative Principles

Attorney General Ken Paxton has built a legacy based on his unwavering commitment to conservative principles. He has fearlessly taken on the grave issue of voter fraud, defending Texas against the federal government overreach and the foundation of our Republic. The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, which documents 730 cases of voter fraud in Texas since 1979, attests to the importance of Paxton’s tireless efforts in safeguarding the electoral process. By prosecuting these cases, he ensures that every lawful vote counts and that our democratic values remain intact.

Children’s rights

Paxton’s office stance on categorizing sex-change operations and puberty blockers as “child abuse” under Texas law demonstrates his unwavering commitment to protecting our children. By advocating for responsible decision-making and safeguarding their innocence, he upholds the rights prioritizing parental rights and the well-being of our most vulnerable. As Texans, we must support Paxton in his efforts to defend our children and ensure their future is filled with hope, happiness, and the chance to grow into the individuals they were meant to be.

Unyielding Opposition to Federal Overreach

Attorney General Paxton’s well-publicized feuds with the federal government, both under the Obama and Biden administrations, epitomize his unwavering commitment to keeping Texans safe. He is one of the most dynamic of the states’ attorneys general in opposing the unconstitutional overreach of the Biden administration. Paxton has boldly challenged policies that overstep the bounds of federal authority. His involvement in legal battles to scrutinize the 2020 presidential election results reflects his unwavering dedication to upholding the principles of democracy and ensuring that every legal vote is counted.

A person of his outstanding principles is urgently needed to continue the fight against Washington’s open border policy and unconstitutional vaccine mandates.

Unmasking the Motivations:

However, it is disheartening to witness a few unhinged Republicans spearheading this impeachment effort against Paxton. It raises questions about their true motivation and threatens to undermine the credibility of the Texas House. Are they blinded by personal vendettas or politically motivated? It is crucial to remember that the consequences of this deceitful impeachment attempt reach far beyond Paxton’s tenure. They taint the reputation of the Republican Party and cast doubt on its commitment to traditional values.

A Call to Action

In the face of these phony allegations, witch hunts, and innuendoes, let us not falter in supporting Attorney General Ken Paxton. Voters must rise to the occasion in defense of Ken Paxton. We, the Texans, elected him not once, not twice, but three times amidst these challenging times.

A Few Questions to Ask of Ourselves:

Is it not crucial to ensure that our pursuit of justice remains untainted by partisan interests? Will this sham of impeachment lose the credibility and unity of the Texas House and the Republican Party? Should we value the representation of these important perspectives outside our party? Can we afford to lose a strong advocate who has fearlessly fought against unconstitutional policies that threaten our liberties?

It is now imperative that we, true conservatives, pause and deeply reflect upon these probing questions. We must rise above the clamor of partisan politics and engage in thoughtful introspection. Let us explore the significance of these inquiries and seek the truth beneath the surface. Doing so can reaffirm our commitment to justice, integrity, and the law.

Conclusion:

The impeachment attempt against him, led by fellow Republicans, is a testament to the misguided actions of some within our party. We must rally behind Paxton, highlighting his exemplary record. As the impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton loom, a glaring truth emerges: this is another politically motivated fraud reminiscent of the baseless impeachment attempts against former President Trump. It is no coincidence that Paxton, hailed as one of the most conservative Attorney Generals Texas has ever seen, finds himself in the crosshairs of fellow Republicans who are determined to silence his unwavering support for President Trump. Tomorrow, they plan to orchestrate this impeachment charade. We ask the lawmakers to say no to this sham impeachment.

Merrick Garland Is Slowly Defining A New Criminal Class, And Soon You’ll Be Part Of It

May 27, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Daily Caller

What do Kyle Rittenhouse, Donald Trump, Nick Sandmann, Mark Houck, Sarah Comrie (the so-called “Bike Karen”) and Daniel Penny all have in common?

All of them are victims of the “two-tiered justice system” and the leftist media court of public opinion. Conservatives often protest this double standard, understandably since none of these people committed any crime. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department has effectively become a symbol for this kind of persecution in tandem with its local lackeys, criminal foot soldiers and the corporate press.

Crying about double standards or “two-tiered justice,” however, misses the point. There is no “double standard” — only a hierarchy without you in it. Their persecution of everyone from political opponents to everyday people is designed to remind you that they are the elite and you exist at their pleasure.

To enforce this new hierarchy, Garland and his allies have created a new category of criminal straight out of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917: the “political criminal.”

Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in Gulag Archipelago (pg. 505 if you’re interested) that in the early days of the USSR, thieves and murderers were often treated with kid gloves. They could be rehabilitated, the party line went, and they were often allowed to commit crime if they targeted the right people.

Not so for anyone considered a “political criminal,” either directly or by association. Those people eventually ended up in the GULAG. Now this might seem unsurprising, until you realize that the crime of opposing the state could be something as simple as having more money than your neighbor, belonging to the wrong ethnic group, being Christian or simply existing.

Such people were referred to as “terrorists.” Sound familiar when Joe Biden and the media constantly harping about “white supremacist, ultra-MAGA terrorism?” That label should terrify you.

We’ve seen how we deal with terrorism abroad. We lock them up, don’t give them any due process, or just kill them. That is what Biden and co. are implying they want for you, the political terrorist.

In the leftist mind, conservatives who oppose them are peons. Leftists and their minions are the elite (or at least above you in the social hierarchy) and can do whatever they want without consequences. As long as they serve a purpose, the party has their backs no matter how evil or depraved they are.

In practice, this relationship means that Kyle Rittenhouse was supposed to let his attackers bash his head in. They supported our corrupt system and held all the right views. Kyle Rittenhouse, regardless of his political views, was wrong for opposing them, making him an enemy of the state.

Donald Trump was supposed to roll over and surrender the presidency without a fight. His crime was opposing the Swamp. Same with Daniel Penny. Jordan Neely was part of the left’s strategy to foment chaos. He had every right to be a criminal. Penny had no right to stop his activities as far as Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is concerned.

Don’t want your kids to be sexualized in schools and raped down the road? That makes you a terrorist too. You don’t even have the right to defend your own children.

As for Sarah Cowrie, even if she paid for that bike, as far as the left is concerned, she had no right to it because in the left’s twisted world, white people are always wrong – the facts be damned. And if things had gotten violent, you bet the media would have justified it all the way or covered it up.

And the list goes on, and on, and on.

Meanwhile, violent criminals get a pass every time. They are victims of society, liberals say. They can be rehabilitated if only we give a little more money to the system – usually money coming from the political enemies they persecute.

But the reality is that the criminals are coddled not because leftists love them but because they are useful. The Soviets even had a term for this – “social allies.” And for the left, every type of anti-social, child-grooming, murderous criminal is indeed an ally to knocking down the system that allows free people to flourish.

And one more thing: if leftists are trying to lock conservatives up for “terrorism” now, it won’t be long before they start trying to kill you.

AUTHOR

MICHELE GAMA SOSA

Michele Gama Sosa is an opinion editor for the Daily Caller and a historian by training.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller.

INSIDE LOOK: Photos From Inside ROW NYC Hotel Housing Up to 5,000 Illegal Immigrants in NYC

May 26, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Geller Report

One only has to look to history to see the fatal course America has taken under the Democrats, the party of the modern day Barbarians and Vandals.

Like Rome, our downfall is a very much a result of catastrophic failures:

In Rome, invasions by Barbarian tribes. In America, invasion at the border.
In Rome, Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor. In America, economic trouble and the over reliance on Chinese slave labor.
In Rome, the rise of the Eastern Empire, In America, the rise of China.
In Rome, overexpansion and military overspending, In America, endless foreign wars, foreign spending and the debt.
In Rome, government corruption and political instability. In America, government corruption and political instability.
In Rome, Christianity and the loss of traditional values. In America, godlessness and the loss of traditional values

INSIDE LOOK: Photos from the inside of the ROW NYC, a hotel housing up to 5,000 illegal immigrants in NYC.

INSIDE LOOK: Photos from the inside of the ROW NYC, a hotel housing up to 5,000 illegal immigrants in NYC.

My whistleblower shared that the migrants have daily housekeeping but the rooms are always trashed and alcohol and drugs are a constant issue: pic.twitter.com/EdEW3R3pZ5

— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) May 24, 2023

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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‘Black Marxist’ Professor Fired after Vandalizing Pro-Life Display, Chasing Reporter with Machete

May 25, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By Family Research Council

The art professor fired for holding a machete to a reporter’s throat and throwing a pro-life campus display on the ground is a self-described “black Marxist” who posted violent poetry on her personal website and said she identified with “real drag queens, real street dykes” and “risk-taking, sexually free nihilistic utopians.”

Shellyne Rodriguez, a 46-year-old adjunct art professor at New York’s Hunter College, “has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school,” said Hunter College spokesman Vince DiMiceli on Tuesday.

Two videos of Rodriguez’s escalating aggression went viral. On May 2, she accosted a Students for Life display portraying the effects of the abortion pill on an unborn child. On Tuesday, a New York Post reporter posted a video of Rodriguez holding a machete to his neck, then chasing him down the block while wielding the deadly weapon.

The twin videos vividly illustrate the violence and hostility pro-life young people are “dealing with on a daily basis … unhinged, unreasonable, and aggressive opposition to pro-life free speech including from those in leadership at schools across the country,” said Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins.

YouTube footage of the May 2 encounter shows Rodriguez launching into a profanity-laden rant against young adults presenting the effects of abortion on the unborn at Hunter College, a part of the City University of New York (CUNY). “This is bull—t. This is violent,” she said of the scientifically accurate, life-affirming display. “You can’t even have a f—ing baby,” she told pro-life student Patrick Rubi, assuming the gender of a male student.

“Get this s–t the f–k out of here! F–k this s–t!” she said as she twice threw fetal models and topic cards to the ground with her hands. Hunter College administrators reportedly called Rodriguez into an administrative hearing on May 12, pending an “investigation.”

“This is clearly unacceptable behavior for a professional in any field, but particularly stunning for someone who is meant to educate students in a professional and unbiased manner,” said SFLA Northeast Regional Coordinator Taylor McGee.

But CUNY for Abortion Rights and Palestine Solidarity Alliance praised the professor for her “fully justified” and “courageous action” on May 2. “This kind of disinformation should never be allowed to take root at our college.” “We refuse to allow CUNY to welcome Students for Life and other far-right groups onto our campuses.”

“Anti-abortion propaganda actually endangers people’s lives, and incites other far-right views and actions to emerge,” the group said in an Instagram post. “In solidarity with Shellyne, we commit to disrupting, dismantling, and uprooting any of these far-right groups when they attempt to plant seeds of harm.”

When New York Post reporter Reuven Fenton came to her door Tuesday morning, she first threatened and then assaulted him, according to published accounts. When he knocked, she yelled, “Get the f–k away from my door, or I’m gonna chop you up with this machete!” from inside her apartment, the reporter states. Video taken moments later shows Rodriguez open the door and hold the machete to his neck.

Footage then captures Rodriguez following the reporter downstairs onto the street, wielding a machete and making unspecified threats, including, “If I see you on this block one more f—ing time.” She then chased him down the street, with machete in hand, before kicking him in the shins.

By “attacking a pro-life student group — and holding a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter — Ms. Rodriguez is demonstrating just how deranged and ideologically strident some on the academic Left have become,” said Gerard Kassar, chairman of the Conservative Party of New York State, a potent, pro-life force in Empire State politics. “In academia today, any dissension of progressive orthodoxy comes at a price. Sadly, many moderate to conservative students now hold their tongues rather than risk the wrath of professors and administrators.”

Hunter College announced her firing shortly afterwards.

Rodriguez has long walked the line of revolutionary socialist rhetoric and incitement of violence, according to reports. In 2019, the combination artist and community organizer led Decolonize This Place, which led a targeted campaign of vandalism against the New York City transit system on January 31 to demand “free” subway fares.

The group urged its members to get out and “f–k s–t up,” culminating in $100,000 damage and 13 arrests, including two for harming police officers.

Rodriguez’s personal website posts a handful of texts, including June Jordan’s poem, “I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies,” which an LGBTQ analyst describes as envisioning “a new, unknowable world made possible by black feminist vengeance.”

“I plan to blossom bloody on an afternoon surrounded by my comrades singing terrible revenge in merciless accelerating rhythms,” it says. “I will not walk politely on the pavements anymore.”

Rodriguez described herself as “a black Marxist” in a 2019 article, adding that she hopes a world revolution will ensue following the ideology of a radical, anti-Semitic poet born LeRoi Jones who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka. “I, too, like Baraka, believe that the black proletariat is the vanguard of the world revolution.” (Baraka is also a favorite of Biden administration Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who has pursued dozens of charges against pro-life advocates while claiming transgender procedures may be a minor’s constitutional right.)

Her essay goes on to denounce the United States as “Amerikkka” and to cite the “Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions” by Communist Party founder Vladimir Lenin.

Several colleges have hired Rodriguez to share her insights on art and socialist intersectional politics. She gave a visiting lecture on “Insurgent Practices against Neoliberalism” at the School of Visual Arts in 2022.

In a profanity-laden discussion, Rodriguez quoted Sarah Schulman, who deplored the wealthier people who displaced her “artist” neighbors: “freaky, faggy, community-based people who took drugs” and included “real drag queens, real street dykes … and really inappropriate, risk-taking sexually free nihilistic utopians.”

“That sounds like my crowd. I don’t know about y’all,” commented Rodriguez.

Rodriguez was the inaugural artist-in-residence for The Latinx Project, housed at New York University in February 2019. She curated an art exhibit focused on “displacement and the ways it affects the Latinx community in New York” through gentrification.

She also wrote about “The Unbridgeable Chasm Between the Bronx and the Police” in 2017.

Professors who blend radical ideology with violent activism have no place in academia, say her critics.

“Demanding that students agree with progressive positions is not education, it’s indoctrination,” said Kassar. “Hunter Professor Shellyne Rodriguez has no business teaching young minds, and CUNY is right to dismiss her. New York City and State must ensure that Ms. Rodriguez is not rehired by any other public college or university in the state.”

Rodriguez’s fate, and her previous acts of intimidation, will never silence pro-life students, said Hawkins.

“Free speech rights students are afraid to use don’t exist, which is why we have to keep fighting for our constitutional freedoms.”

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

The Washington Stand is Family Research Council’s outlet for news and commentary from a biblical worldview. The Washington Stand is based in Washington, D.C. and is published by FRC, whose mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview. We invite you to stand with us by partnering with FRC.

Supreme Court Rolls Back Biden EPA’s Expansive Water Regulation

May 25, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Daily Caller

The Supreme Court rolled back the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate under the Clean Water Act (CWA) in a unanimous decision Thursday.

Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, brought by a couple prevented by the EPA from building a home on their own land near Priest Lake, Idaho because it contained wetlands, considered the scope of the agency’s “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, which defines what “navigable waters” can be regulated under the CWA. Plaintiffs Chantell and Mike Sackett, who have spent 15 years fighting the agency’s rule in court, allege the EPA has overstepped the authority it was granted when Congress enacted the CWA in 1972—forcing them to stop construction on their land or face fines.

The Supreme Court sided with the Sacketts, determining their land is not covered under the text of the CWA, which gives the EPA authority to regulate “navigable waters.”

Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion, which was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barett, that the EPA’s interpretation “provides little notice to landowners of their obligations under the CWA.” The Court held that the CWA applies to only wetlands that are “as a practical matter indistinguishable from waters of the United States,” maintaining a “continuous surface connection.”

Though justices were united in their judgement, they maintained disagreements on definitions. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in an opinion concurring in judgement that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, thought the majority went too far in its test for which wetlands are included.

“By narrowing the Act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands, the Court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States,” he wrote.

Kagan similarly said in an opinion joined by Sotomayor and Jackson that the majority has appointed itself as “the national decision-maker on environmental policy” by choosing a test that “prevents the EPA from keeping our country’s waters clean by regulating adjacent wetlands.”

“The eight administrations since 1977 have maintained dramatically different views of how to regulate the environment, including under the Clean Water Act,” she wrote, noting some “promulgated very broad interpretations of adjacent wetlands.”

“Yet all of those eight different administrations have recognized as a matter of law that the Clean Water Act’s coverage of adjacent wetlands means more than adjoining wetlands and also includes wetlands separated from covered waters by man-made dikes or barriers, natural river berms, beach dunes, or the like,” she wrote. “That consistency in interpretation is strong confirmation of the ordinary meaning of adjacent wetlands.”

The decision likely means that the Biden administration will need to go back to the drawing board on its new WOTUS rule issued in January, which Republicans and some Democrats have criticized for placing a burden on landowners, ranchers and farmers while dramatically expanding the EPA’s authority. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called it a “radical power grab that would give federal bureaucrats sweeping control over nearly every piece of land that touches a pothole, ditch, or puddle.”

In April, President Joe Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill to limit his administration’s WOTUS rule. Just days later, a federal court blocked the rule for 24 states that sued pending the Supreme Court’s decision.

“The Court’s ruling returns the scope of the Clean Water Act to its original and proper limits,” said Damien Schiff, a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation who argued the case, in a statement. “Courts now have a clear measuring stick for fairness and consistency by federal regulators. Today’s ruling is a profound win for property rights and the constitutional separation of powers.”

AUTHOR

KATELYNN RICHARDSON

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Another Illegal Immigrant Protected by Local Sanctuary Laws Charged with Violent Crimes

May 25, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By Judicial Watch

In yet another disturbing example of the devastation caused by open border policies, an illegal immigrant who entered the U.S. as a child a decade ago has been charged with first-degree rape, kidnapping and armed robbery in a county that proudly offers migrants sanctuary. The 20-year-old, Jose Roberto Hernandez-Penal, is accused of raping a woman and robbing her friend this month at a Maryland park after threatening the women with a machete. Days earlier police say he raped a 15-year-old girl at the same park in Montgomery County, which has long protected illegal aliens from federal authorities.

The illegal immigrant lives in Hyattsville, which sits in another Maryland county—Prince George’s—famous for its sanctuary policies. The measures protect illegal aliens by, among other things, releasing even the most dangerous criminals from jail to shield them from deportation. Hernandez-Penal, a native of El Salvador, entered the country illegally in 2013, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told a local media outlet, and was “ordered removed in absentia by an immigration judge” about a year later and again approximately seven months after that. Nevertheless, he remained in the country and committed heinous crimes against unsuspecting residents. Police say at approximately 2:40 p.m. on May 16 Hernandez-Penal approached two adult females on the Northwest Brach Trail of Burnt Mills East Special Park, displayed a machete, stole their property and sexually assaulted one of the victims. Upon leaving the scene, the illegal immigrant assaulted an adult male. Officials told several local news outlets that Hernandez-Penal is also suspected of raping a 15-year-old girl on the same trail of the two-acre facility a week earlier. The park is one of hundreds operated by Montgomery County along with other recreational facilities such as basketball courts, campsites, tennis courts and playgrounds.

Detectives handling the case for the Montgomery County Police Department believe there may be additional victims of sexual assault by Hernandez-Penal that have not contacted authorities. The agency reveals that the illegal immigrant “made statements of involvement” during interviews with detectives after his recent arrest. He was then transported to the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit where he was charged with first degree rape, first degree assault, second degree assault, armed robbery, kidnapping, and weapons-related crimes. In its news release detectives urge anyone who may have been a victim of Hernandez-Penal to contact the agency’s Special Victims Investigations Division (SVID).

It is important to note that this is the same law enforcement agency that regularly releases dangerous criminals like Hernandez-Penal from jail to protect them from federal authorities. For example, a few years ago an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who raped a seven-year-old girl multiple times was released because under Montgomery County’s sanctuary law police is banned from cooperating with the feds. Rather than honor a detainer issued by ICE under a partnership known as 287(g) that notifies the federal agency of inmates in the country illegally so that they can be deported, local officials freed the child rapist on bond. Not surprisingly, the rapist vanished. Prince George’s County, where Hernandez-Penal lives, practices the same sanctuary measures. In fact, ICE has resorted to unconventional methods to capture criminals in both jurisdictions. In one instance the agency preempted Montgomery and Prince George’s counties’ imminent release of a batch of illegal immigrant offenders by publicly disclosing their identity, complete with mug shots. Most were incarcerated for sexual crimes involving children, including rape and serious physical abuse that resulted in death. A couple were jailed for murder and assault.

The Maryland cases are part of a national crises generated by local governments around the country that offer violent illegal immigrants sanctuary. Under 287(g), ICE is notified of jail inmates in the country illegally so that they can be deported after serving time for state crimes or making bail. Unfortunately, a growing number of city and county law enforcement agencies are instead releasing the illegal aliens—many with serious convictions such as child sex offenses, rape and murder—rather than turn them over to federal authorities for removal.

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Report: Hundreds of Thousands of Non-Citizens PLAGUE Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona’s Maricopa County, Texas Voter Rolls

May 25, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Geller Report

Without election reform, it’s over. Nothing else matters.

The Democrats blew up our election system. But we are expected to participate in the Democrat media’s prevaricated election show for the next 18 months when the rigged election is already in the bag.

Report: Thousands of non-citizens PLAGUE PA voter rolls

By Summer Lane, RSBN, May 22, 2023:

A new report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has found that tens of thousands of non-citizen voters have been potentially identified in several counties across the country, casting further doubt on the already tarnished election processes in America today, Just the News reported.

The outlet revealed that in 2017, a Philadelphia city commissioner told a Pennsylvania Senate committee that there were more than 100,000 voter registration matches to Pennsylvania driver’s license numbers that included indicators for the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Even worse, non-citizens have been found on the voter rolls in North Carolina, Arizona’s Maricopa County, and Texas.

As reported by RSBN, Pennsylvania recently settled a lawsuit with constitutional watchdog group Judicial Watch, after finding 178,258 “ineligible” voter registrations. The state agreed to settle the case and pay $15,000 to Judicial Watch with the agreement that they would remove all erroneous voter registrations identified in the suit.

Per Just the News, most of the non-citizens on the Pennsylvania voter rolls are “motor voter registrations,” which means these individuals signed up to vote when they were submitting their driver’s license applications.[…]

In the Keystone State, election processes have become increasingly muddied over the past few years, as mail-in ballots have added a new level of complexity to vote counting. In November 2022, President Trump slammed the long-winded vote-counting process in the midterms, when then-Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz was running for office.

Keep reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

Former Deputy National Security Adviser: FBI, DOJ, CIA Planning To Rig 2024 Presidential Election

May 25, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Geller Report

K. T. McFarland, a former Deputy National Security Advisor, says the FBI, Justice Department, and CIA will rig the 2024 U.S. presidential election, following their success in rigging 2016 and 2020, because they won’t allow any candidate to win that would hold them accountable:

The question isn’t, will they? They been doing it and getting away with it both here and abroad for years, why wouldn’t they?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, without election reform, it’s over. It’s not everything, it’s the only thing.

KT McFarland: We Now Have Hard Evidence Of Election Interference By Intel Agencies In 2016 And 2020

By: Real Clear Politics, May, 23 2023

K.T. McFarland, who served as President Trump’s deputy national security advisor under Mike Flynn for the first few months of the Trump administration, told FBN’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that she believes the FBI, CIA, and the intelligence community will try to interfere in the 2024 election to “protect their own hides” by covering up evidence of interference in 2016 and 2020.

“They will absolutely interfere in 2024. We’re not sure how but they will absolutely interfere, not only because they’re not going to like whoever the Republican candidate is, but to protect their own hides,” McFarland said. “They knew they were doing stuff wrong. They knew they were going to be liable for prosecution.”

“They can’t possibly admit they were wrong because that undercuts their whole reason for being. So they’re going to continue to have this fake narrative and continue to cover up and pretend that nothing bad went on,” she said.

K.T. MCFARLAND: Well, I knew because I was a victim of it. When the Mueller investigation and the FBI came after me in the early days of the Trump administration, they knew I hadn’t committed any crime but that didn’t matter. They just wanted to go after anybody associated with President Trump in hopes they could break them or get them to lie, or at a minimum bankrupt them.

But I think, as I take a step back, and it’s not just about me, it’s not just about President Trump, what is it about?

We now have black-and-white evidence that the FBI interfered in the 2016 election. And then when they failed to get their candidate elected, Hillary Clinton, they set out to destroy the Trump administration.

So then go back up to 2020. This time, it was the CIA that got involved in the 2020 election with those 51 former intel agents who talked about the Hunter Biden laptop as “total Russian disinformation.”

So they’ve gotten away with it for two elections. They will for sure get away with it — try and get away with it in 2024, right? Because there are no consequences. The difference is in 2024, the evidence is there. We now have the Durham investigation and all the Congressional investigations.

There is now hard evidence that there was election interference by the U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Justice. Those individuals have got to be terrified. Those individuals have to be terrified that a Republican president comes in in the 2024 election, with a Republican Attorney General, and investigates them and charges them with all of the crimes they have committed over the last eight years.

MARIA BARTIROMO: Well, we’ll see if you’re right. There are questions about these elections because of this interference. Do you think there will be election interference in 2024?

K.T. MCFARLAND: Take it to the bank. They will absolutely interfere in 2024. We’re not sure how but they will absolutely interfere, not only because they’re not going to like whoever the Republican candidate is, but to protect their own hides.

That’s why they were talking to their own people, and the whistleblower brought this up, they were told “Don’t put anything on paper, just tell us orally.” They knew they were doing stuff wrong. They knew they were going to be liable for prosecution.

MARIA BARTIROMO: Yeah, it’s too bad. I wish the media were more curious about all of this. Unfortunately, the media takes the narrative of the Democratic Party and runs with it and then tries to cancel anybody who’s not on board.

K.T. MCFARLAND: Well, they’re in the same position. They can’t possibly admit they were wrong because that undercuts their whole reason for being. So they’re going to continue to have this fake narrative and continue to cover up and pretend that nothing bad went on.

They’re all in it together. This is what the terrible thing is. These people are selling us out. Not only to foreign leaders, but they are interfering in our elections. They are tearing up the Constitution. Why? Because they want to protect their jobs and protect their ratings.

I never thought I would be this upset about how anybody in the government was performing, but this is just a gut punch to the American people. [Emphasis added]

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

Transgenderism on Trial

May 24, 2023/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US

I routinely ask people in social gatherings ‘how do we win – how do we defeat the Left?’ One answer that’s come back is lawfare, tying up our opponents in court. Transgenderism is one area where lawfare could actually work. Legal action has the potential to bring down the entire Transgender-Industrial Complex.

To that end, I have created a new section on my website – Transgenderism on Trial – to foment more litigation against doctors, psychologists, school administrators, teachers, and other instrumentalities of the Transgender-Industrial Complex who are either out to make a buck or to make America a communist country.

I don’t throw around the word ‘communism’ lightly, only when I have the goods and here I most definitely do. The first thing you will see in my new transgenderism section is a video showing four transgender activists openly and explicitly discussing how the purpose of transgenderism is to usher communism into the United States. If you think communism is cute, we’ll see how cute you think it is when communism arrives here and you get the midnight knock on the door from the secret police to haul you off to the gulag for thought crimes.

Transgenderism on Trial starts with a news feed. I am the only one collecting all the stories from all around the country about litigation against health care providers and school districts pushing life-altering drugs and irreversible mutilating surgery on defenseless kids. The news out of Missouri is amazing. A trans whistleblower documented enough corrupt practices at a gender clinic in St. Louis to bring a whole-of-government investigation down on the clinic that may result in civil enforcement actions and criminal charges. The practices include pushing transitioning on kids without psychological assessments in individual cases, prescribing drugs without parental consent or after consent was revoked, lack of full disclosure of the adverse and long-term consequences of sex change drugs and surgery, false claims children would commit suicide if not allowed to transition, and other high pressure sales tactics. The investigation will determine whether school officials conspired with clinicians to form a school-to-clinic pipeline of steady business for the clinic.

That’s just one case. My news feeds chronicles other cases where doctors are being sued for botched surgeries, medical experimentation with unstudied or unapproved drugs, and pushing transgender drugs and surgery instead of providing counseling. Cases are also sprouting up against school districts for transitioning kids without parental knowledge or consent, violating teachers’ religious beliefs, and firing teachers who refuse to lie to parents or otherwise get with the transgender program.

Transgenderism on Trial provides a list of law firms and legal foundations around the country bringing these types of cases or expressing a desire to enter the field. These are the courtroom warriors who vindicating parental rights, pursuing medical malpractice claims, and taking action against so-called transgender sanctuary states that lure kids from other parts of the country.

Using my collection of parental resources, parents can arm themselves with the facts and learn how to deal with gender-questioning children and high-pressure sales tactics from clinicians and school administrators. In addition to books and parental guides, the list of resources tells parents how to find support groups and objective counselors who will give parents unbiased information about the subject.

Finally, there’s a page on the most despicable high-pressure sales tactic of all – telling parents their children will commit suicide if not allowed to transition. A second set of researchers reexamined the raw data from the original study making this claim and found that the data did not support the study’s conclusions. When confronted with this information, the University of Washington which participated in the original study tried to cover it up. Other early studies making similar claims were later found to be flawed for, among other things, failing to track outcomes long enough to draw reliable conclusions and hiding raw data from other researchers. Finally, the page describes two other studies showing people who transition are MORE likely – not less likely – to commit suicide. Lies, misrepresentations, hiding data, ignoring later studies – there’s enough on the page to completely debunk the high pressure sales tactics the snake-oil salesmen are using on parents.

Plaintiffs of the World, Unite! Let’s bring down the communist transgender activists who are trying to destroy the country and the doctors, school administrators, and other financially self-interested useful idiots who are getting paid handsomely for doing their bidding. There’s nothing like legal liability and a blizzard of court cases to focus the mind. Let’s swarm them and put them out of business.

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THE BIDEN REPORT: Physical and Video Proof of The Biden Family’s Corruption

May 24, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By Dr. Rich Swier

The Marco Polo USA website has provided links and a video, below, of proof of corruption in the Biden family. Please take the time to click on each link and learn the truth about Benedict Biden and his cohorts.

Please read Marco Polo USA’s Biden Report.

REPORT PHYSICAL COPIES PDF

THE BIDEN FAMILY BUSINESSES

SAR #1 SAR #2 SAR #3 SAR #4 SAR #5

CATHAY BANK 8969

CATHAY BANK 8992

SUBPOENA ON 05/15/2019

A WRECKED LIFE: HUNTER’S BILLS

WANTED: JAMES ANDREW GILLIAR ČEŠTINA

EMAILS

BIDEN LAPTOP EMAILS

EMAIL ADDRESSES ON THE BIDEN LAPTOP

COMMUNICATIONS

HB IPHONE BACKUP MESSAGES ATTACHMENTS

HB IPHONE BACKUP WHATSAPP MESSAGES.ZIP ATTACHMENTS
PDF

BIDEN LAPTOP MESSAGES.ZIP PDF

TONY BOBULINSKI MESSAGES.ZIP PDF

INFLUENCE PEDDLING

SOFT COUP PLANNING CALL ON 10/25/2018 TRANSCRIPT

BIDEN + MCCAIN = AMERICAN MISERY

ASHLEY BIDEN DIARY

ASHLEY BIDEN DIARY: TRANSCRIBED

ASHLEY BIDEN DIARY: ORIGINAL
DELRAY BEACH FL POLICE REPORT
DELRAY BEACH FL POLICE BODY CAM

PERSONAL

A “DEVASTATING” OP-ED FROM MAUREEN DOWD

TRANSCRIPT

AN ORGY WITH DAPHNE GUINNESS, AND JOE THINKS I’M A GOD

TRANSCRIPT

HUNTER BIDEN SAFARI BROWSER HISTORY.CSV

ALIMONY FROM HELL ON 03/21/2017

“MOST GENIUS SHIT EVER.MP3” ON 05/11/2018

TRANSCRIPT

HUNTER AND HALLIE: THE COCAINE SAGA ON 06/23/2018 TRANSCRIPT

TRANSCRIPT

Israeli Considering $1.3 Billion Lawsuit Against CNN Over Amanpour Terror Coverage

May 24, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Geller Report

Amanpour has been to inciting to Jew hatred and genocide for years, this is long overdue.

Rabbi Leo Dee’s wife and two daughters were murdered by a Palestinian terrorist. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour described the terror attack as a shootout. Amanpour apologized to Rabbi Dee after he threatened a lawsuit against CNN. Rabbi Dee should not accept Amanpour’s apology, and proceed with a lawsuit against CNN. CNN continues to allow Amanpour to demonize Israel (here, here, here) with impunity. It’s about time CNN pay a price for employing this vicious anti-Semite.

Rabbi Dee Considering $1.3 Billion Lawsuit Against CNN Over Amanpour Terror Coverage

By Jewish Journal, May 22, 2023

Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two daughters were murdered in a terror attack, is considering a $1.3 billion lawsuit against CNN over their international anchor Christiane Amanpour describing the terror attack as a “shootout.”

Dee made the announcement via video during a May 21 event at The Carlebach Shul in New York titled, “Antisemitism: Is There No Solution?” as part of the third annual Yoav Boteach Memorial Lecture series, in honor of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s late father. Dee was speaking alongside Boteach, Elisha Wiesel, chairman of the board of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, and Rabbi Naftali Citron. Media watchdog HonestReporting had reported that Amanpour had said during an April 10 interview with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, “We have a young 15-year-old Palestinian boy who’s been shot and killed by security — Israeli security forces. We also have the mother of two sisters, Israeli British sisters. They were — they were killed in a shootout, and now the mother has died of her injury — injuries.”

“A shootout is two sides firing at each other,” HonestReporting tweeted on May 11. “A mother & her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists. @amanpour, you owe a grieving family an apology.”

Geller Report Staff

RELATED TWEETS:

According to @CNN‘s Christiane Amanpour, three members of the Dee family “were killed in a shootout.”

A shootout is two sides firing at each other.

A mother & her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists.@amanpour, you owe a grieving family an apology. pic.twitter.com/PQUPTfHx5R

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 11, 2023

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR APOLOGIZES TO RABBI DEE FOR HAVING ‘MISSPOKE’ / Follow @Jewdefense / @amanpour apologized to Rabbi Dee for calling the terrorist attack that killed the wife and daughters a “shootout.” The night before, at our event in New York, Rabbi Dee said he’d sue CNN. pic.twitter.com/z47Nk3DURT

— Rabbi Shmuley (@RabbiShmuley) May 22, 2023

Weaponized DOJ SHUT DOWN Clinton Foundation ‘Investigation’ as Trump Left Office, Biden’s FBI Destroyed All Evidence

May 24, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Geller Report

This goes well beyond “two tiered” justice. This is treason.

DOJ Halted Clinton Foundation ‘Investigation’ as Trump Left Office, Biden’s FBI Destroyed All Evidence

By: Kyle Becker, May 22, 2023:

Newly revealed documents and interviews with former Justice Department officials indicate that the investigation into the Clinton Foundation, focused on its interactions with foreign donors during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, remained open for the majority of President Donald Trump’s administration.

The case was eventually closed just days before Trump left office, as detailed in closing documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the New York Times reported on Monday.

The investigation, which had been a subject of intense scrutiny and campaign promises by Trump to “lock her up,” continued despite FBI agents and prosecutors leading it to a dead end. The prolonged investigation became a rallying cry for Republicans who anticipated finding evidence of corruption that would harm Clinton’s political prospects.

The scrutiny of the Clinton Foundation began in 2015 after the publication of “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich” by conservative author Peter Schweizer. The book examined donations made by foreign entities to the foundation. Republicans accused Clinton of engaging in a quid pro quo by supporting the sale of Uranium One, a Canadian company connected to mining interests in the United States, to a Russian nuclear agency in exchange for substantial donations to the foundation.

The FBI initiated a preliminary investigation based on the book’s claims in 2016, but it relied on unverified hearsay information. Additional investigations were launched by the FBI in New York and Little Rock, Arkansas, based on confidential source reporting. However, the Justice Department expressed doubts about the validity of the investigations, causing frustration among FBI agents. Some prosecutors even believed that Schweizer’s book had been discredited.

Keep reading.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

Videos on the Latest on the Kari Lake Trial

May 23, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.com

By Dr. Rich Swier

Here are two videos with investigative journalist Tracey Beanz on the ongoing Keri Lake trial concerning the Arizona governor’s race and election fraud.

WATCH:

Kari Lake Makes Major Announcement a Day After Court Ruling on Her Case

Tracy Beanz Unpacks the Latest on the Kari Lake Trial

The Kari Lake Trial is Proving Something Suspicious Happened in Maricopa County in 2022

Election fraud is real and widespread.

FBI Utilized Warrantless Search Authority More Than 278,000 Times in 2021

May 23, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Geller Report

This is the obvious result of Obama’s weaponization of our most powerful government agencies. Once Obama and the party of treason got their army fully in place at the FBI, CIA, NSA, DoJ etc., the government was at war against the people.

This is policy now. An estimated 85 percent of Barack Obama-era DOJ and FBI 704-5 FISA searches were illegal, and given illegally to government outsiders, according to unsealed FISA documents.

The Biden regime is at war against the American people, shredding the Constitution and our unalienable rights.

FBI improperly used warrantless search powers more than 278,000 times in 2021, FISA court filing reveals

By Brooke Singman , David Spunt , Jake Gibson , Bill Mears | Fox News

The FBI improperly used warrantless search powers against U.S. citizens more than 278,000 times in the year ending November 2021, according to an unsealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) filing.

U.S. citizens covered in that improper effort included people involved in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021; George Floyd protesters during the summer of 2020; and donors to a failed congressional candidate, the filing said.

Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows the government to conduct targeted surveillance of non-U.S. persons located abroad to acquire foreign intelligence information. When U.S. citizens are flagged as part of these investigations, the FBI takes over the process of querying them for possible security reasons.

The court filing, which spanned 127 pages, was unsealed Friday by the FISC, but was filed in April 2022.

Read more.

FISA: The FBI & 278k Illegal Searches

Kevin McCullough | May 21, 2023

The number is jaw-dropping.

In the fiscal year for the U.S. government that ended in November 2021, the FBI conducted more than 278,000 warrantless searches on U.S. citizens.

The information was unsealed in a FISA court ruling this past week.

So on average, during just that one year, the FBI was carrying out as many as 762 warrantless searches per day. That’s 32 improper searches per hour. That breaks down to a new warrantless search every 2 minutes.

These numbers do not include proper searches that used warrants and carried out the usual function of the bureau.

It also does not include the 3,400,000 times the FBI searched citizens’ data without warrants. That’s 9,315 per day, 388 per hour, and 6.5 per minute.

So in 2021–every two minutes—the FBI conducted a physical search and 13 data searches—illegally—for the entire year.

The same agency we now know tipped off that Hillary Clinton was colluding with Russia to frame Donald Trump and did nothing about it…

The same agency that lied to the FISA court to extend search warrants to surveil people that were later vindicated and cleared…

The same agency that allowed agents to conduct extra-marital relationships (an action that violates the FBI code of conduct) and feverishly work to remove a lawfully elected President…

The same agency that has held the Hunter Biden laptop in its possession has chosen to do zero in enforcement….

The same agency that knew that one political party was attempting to smear, frame, and remove an incoming President and briefed then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice-President Joe Biden as to the plans…

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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No, You Can’t Invoke the 14th Amendment to Raise the Debt Ceiling

May 22, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.com

By Family Research Council

Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the U.S. could run out of money to pay its bills by June 1 if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling. This has led to a game of chicken between the White House and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

President Biden has demanded Congress pass legislation that raises the debt ceiling without any changes to the way the federal government spends money. House Republicans passed a budget bill that would raise the debt ceiling but would also return government spending to 2022 levels. In addition, citing the fact that Social Security is on pace to be insolvent by 2035, the Republican spending plan proposes modifications to Social Security that would increase its chances of long-term sustainability. The White House has opposed all of it.

Instead of compromising with the majority of Republicans in the House, some on the Left have come up with a theory that would allow them to act unilaterally. In fact, Senate Democrats held a press conference encouraging President Biden to “invoke the 14th Amendment” so they can raise the debt ceiling without the involvement of the Congress.

As a matter of habit, the U.S. spends more money than we bring in. As a result, we’re forced to borrow money each month to pay the bills, which means that next month’s bill is always higher than last month’s bill. The U.S. debt is now over $31 trillion dollars, which represents more than $94,000 per citizen. It was only $12 trillion in 2010.

Because of our habitual overspending, Congress routinely considers legislation to raise the debt ceiling. In fact, Congress has raised the debt limit 13 times since 2000. Despite our familiarity with debt limit debates, no one has ever proposed “invoking the 14th Amendment” as a way of raising the debt limit before. The reason no one has ever proposed it before is because it’s nonsense.

The 14th Amendment does many things, but the relevant section for this discussion is Section 4, which says:

“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.”

The 14th Amendment was passed right after the Civil War in 1868 and sought to put the issues of the Civil War in the past in several ways. It clarified that all people, regardless of their skin color, would enjoy equal protection under the law. In addition, to avoid any attempts to revive the struggle, it prohibited civil and military officers who had supported the Confederacy from holding any state or federal office again. Most relevant to this discussion, it also said the debts of the Union “shall not be questioned” but the Union was not going to pay the debts of the Confederacy.

Now, you have most Democrats in the U.S. Senate claiming that this language — which was unambiguously a promise to pay Union debt but not Confederate debt — somehow gives President Biden the power to ignore Congress when it comes to debt ceiling legislation in 2023.

While this interpretation is absurd on its face, it’s worth remembering the Supreme Court was recently convinced the word “sex” actually means “gender identity,” and by extension the word “woman” actually means “anyone who wants to be a woman.” Once you’ve accepted the progressive claim that language can mean anything you want it to mean, the only limits to the Constitution are the limits to your creativity.

To be fair, even if there was an attempt to “invoke the 14th Amendment” to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, legal challenges would follow and the Supreme Court would likely halt the effort as the unconstitutional abuse of power it would be.

The good news is, there are points of agreement in this debate. Both the president and Congress agree a default on U.S. debt would be terrible. But whatever the problem is, consolidating political power into the hands of one man and destroying the checks and balances our system is built upon is not the solution.

If Democrats doubt this, they would do well to remember that once upon a time, they didn’t love the president, and that guy is trying to be president again. If they don’t want to live in a world where a crazy old guy is doing whatever he wants from the White House, they shouldn’t try to create a world in which a crazy old guy is allowed to do whatever he wants in the White House.

AUTHOR

Joseph Backholm

Joseph Backholm is Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement at Family Research Council.

New Border Numbers Show Biden’s Shell Game Isn’t Working

May 22, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.com

By Federation for American Immigration Reform

There’s no “90% drop in illegal immigration” in sight, as the latest border numbers from April show. At the Southern border alone, over 211,000 illegal aliens were arrested or expelled in April. This not only represents the second-highest total ever recorded for the month of April (after April 2022), but it also marks four months of steady increases. Indeed, as these data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) demonstrate, illegal crossings at the Southwest border are climbing back towards the record high seen in December 2022.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW INFOGRAPHIC: FY SOUTHWEST LAND BORDER ENCOUNTERS BY MONTH

This four-month increase comes despite the Biden Administration’s plan to hide the disastrous border situation from the public through its illegal parole programs. Since January, the Biden Administration has been flying aliens without visas from four countries (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) directly into the interior of the U.S. and granting them parole to avoid them from being counted at the southern border.

This program has failed to hold back the tide, however. As the data show, the number of Haitians arrested at the border in April is 42 percent higher since December – the month before the program began. Meanwhile, the number of Venezuelans arrested at the southern border since December is up a whopping 330 percent. Clearly, the magnet created by a weak border still overpowers any shell game the Administration implements to hide the numbers.

Other disturbing figures have also emerged from the April numbers release. Overall arrests of suspected terrorists are sharply up at the border. The 16 suspected terrorists arrested trying to sneak into the U.S. at the Southern border last month are more than the entire total of the previous administration.

In addition, a new front has opened up in border insecurity. The number of people crossing the Northern border illegally, normally a few thousand monthly, has been consistently over 10,000 monthly for the past year and continues to reach record highs. As the Biden administration focuses its resources on the disaster it has created at the Southern border, new opportunities for dangerous human smuggling are emerging in the North.

The Biden administration needs to come to grips with what Ponzi scheme operators have known for decades. Numbers can be easy to manipulate at first, but if the facts on the ground don’t change, the whole house of cards will always come tumbling down.

AUTHOR

Michael Capuano

Michael Capuano joined FAIR in 2022. As a researcher and staff writer, he contributes to the work behind FAIR’s long-form research publications as well as topical content responding to immigration-related issues as they happen.

Before joining FAIR, Michael worked in the Enforcement and Removal Operations Law Division at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during law school at George Washington University and then as an immigration attorney at a Spanish-speaking law firm. Having grown up in Southern California and with experience on both sides of the issue, he is acutely conscious of the importance of the immigration issue to everyday life and the necessity of FAIR’s vision for reform.

Michael’s background before law school was in Urban Studies/Planning at the University of California, San Diego, informing a deep concern for the environment and good urban design, two issues very relevant to the current immigration crisis.

NYC Mayor: Nearly 50% of NYC Hotel Rooms Filled by Migrants

May 22, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Immigration, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Geller Report

Things don’t just happen, they are made to happen. This is all by design by the Democrat party of destruction. Adams campaigned on this.

Flashback:

June 2, 2021: Every single one of the eight Democrats running for mayor vowed to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, solidifying the Big Apple’s often infamous status as a “sanctuary city.”

The mayoral wannabes doubled down on current Mayor de Blasio’s approach of barring local authorities from reporting the immigration status of residents to federal authorities during their second televised debate on WABC-TV Channel 7 Wednesday.

Mayor Eric Adams: Nearly Half of NYC Hotel Rooms Now Filled with Migrants

By JOHN BINDER

18 May 2023

Nearly half of hotel rooms in New York City today are filled with newly arrived border crossers and illegal aliens, living rent-free at the expense of local taxpayers, Mayor Eric Adams (D) says.

Since the spring of last year, nearly 70,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of New York City — many bused from Texas by Gov. Greg Abbott (R). The figure represents a fraction of the millions of border crossers and illegal aliens who have been released into the United States interior or successfully crossed the border.

For months, Adams has been giving out lucrative contracts to the city’s powerful real estate industry which is housing tens of thousands of migrants in hotels. Most recently, for example, New Yorkers are set to foot an annual $75 million bill to put up border crossers and illegal aliens in Manhattan’s iconic Roosevelt Hotel.

This week, Adams said nearly half of the city’s hotel rooms are now filled with border crossers and illegal aliens, calling waves of illegal immigration an “onslaught” that officials are struggling to deal with and demanding President Joe Biden spread out new arrivals to towns and cities across the U.S.

“Almost 50 percent of those hotel rooms are taken up by migrant asylum seekers that we are paying for,” Adams said. “So instead of monies coming from people who are visiting us and spending in our tourism, in our Broadway plays, instead of them using those hotels, we are using those hotels.”

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Discredited But Massively Wealthy SPLC Working with Corrupt FBI to Silence Dissidents

May 21, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By The Geller Report

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is one of the Left’s premier, well-heeled, and most dishonest and ruthless attack dogs. It relentlessly smears legitimate conservative individuals and groups by labeling them as purveyors of “hate” and lumping them in with the likes of the KKK and neo-Nazis. Its name-calling and defamation would be just more of the same rubbish that comes daily from the Left were it not for the fact that the social media giants and numerous other major corporations still take the massively discredited SPLC seriously and use its smear pieces as a guide to shun and deplatform various dissenters from the Leftist agenda. So the SPLC sounds like the perfect organization for the Biden regime to work with, right? Oh, absolutely. Now this sinister and hateful group is partnering with the equally corrupt and politicized FBI.

The Daily Signal reported Sunday that the FBI “appears, at least briefly, to have joined the Southern Poverty Law Center’s attempt to demonize Roman Catholics who follow the church’s teachings on marriage and who celebrate the Latin Mass.” One of those Catholics, Michael J. Matt, editor of a newspaper called The Remnant and producer of Remnant TV, noted that his organization, which is not remotely connected with violence or terrorism, was listed on a “leaked FBI memo,” along with other Catholic groups that he pointed out were “defunct.”

Matt declared that this was an example the “FBI phoning it in,” as its list of “radical-traditional Catholic hate groups” came from a 2007 list compiled by the SPLC’s Heidi Beirich and Rhonda Brownstein. Matt asked incredulously: “They took Heidi Beirich and Rhonda Brownstein’s word for it, from 2007?!” He added: “There has been an explosion of traditional Catholic groups since Pope Benedict XVI brought back the Latin Mass. None of the new groups who are in positions of real influence are targeted in the memo.” That’s good, but the fact that the FBI is working with the SPLC and targeting law-abiding citizens because it disapproves of their religious beliefs is disquieting enough.

The Daily Signal notes that the SPLC “has branded mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits ‘hate groups,’ placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.” This includes Jihad Watch and the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which have committed no offense other than standing for human rights for all people. The Signal goes on to note that “former employees have condemned the ‘hate’ labeling as a ‘highly profitable scam’ tracing back to the co-founder’s talents as a fundraiser. In 2019, the SPLC fired that co-founder amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal, the full truth of which has yet to be revealed.”

Nevertheless, “the FBI’s Richmond, Virginia, office cited the SPLC in a January memo, which the national FBI office publicly rescinded in February. That memo listed nine organizations, most of which the SPLC first added to the list of ‘hate groups’ in 2007. The SPLC suggested that those organizations espouse and support antisemitism, and it has kept most of them on the list and the ‘hate map’ for nearly two decades.”

The FBI is not just keeping a list. In early March, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked Gestapo chief Merrick Garland, “Are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin Mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country?” Garland pleaded innocent, insisting, “No, the Justice Department does not do that and does not, uh, um, do investigations based on religion.” But it later came to light — okay, get ready for the shock of your life — that Garland was lying. The feds did have informants in Catholic churches, snooping around and looking for evidence of that domestic terror threat that the Biden regime keeps insisting is the worst such threat we face today. Nor is there any indication that they’ve taken these spies out of the pews.

Fox News reported on April 10 that the FBI “recently sought to develop sources inside Christian churches and Catholic dioceses as part of an effort to combat domestic terrorism.” This was clear from internal FBI documents that the House Judiciary Committee released to the public. The documents reveal that the FBI was attempting to use “mainline Catholic parishes” as “new avenues for tripwire and source development.”

The feds wanted to educate sympathetic Catholics about “the warning signs of radicalization,” and then get them to help stop the rosary-praying terrorist by obtaining “their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires.” This is nothing short of breathtaking in its resolute determination to construct a reality other than the one we happen to be living in. If there were a steady stream of terrorists routinely “radicalized” in Catholic churches and going out to bring the wrath of the Immaculate Heart of Mary upon the populace, there might be some justification for this program. As it was, it was plain and simple harassment and scapegoating of Christians.

This criminal regime will not stop with Christians, either.

AUTHOR

Robert Spencer

U.S. activist charges Twitter with being ‘participant tool’ in Saudi oppression

May 21, 2023/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By Jihad Watch

Money talks: “Saudi Arabia is Twitter’s second-largest investor.”

It is noteworthy that the nefarious alliance between Saudi Arabia and Twitter that the Guardian highlights here began prior to Elon Musk taking over Twitter in 2022. Last year, Jihad Watch published this story: Something more than ‘reform’ is going on in Saudi Arabia: Twitter employee spied on users for Saudi government.

In November of last year, the Guardian also published an article warning about “possible access to users’ data could pose national security risk and could be used to target kingdom’s dissidents.” A little late.

In a scenario that is reminiscent of Shia Iran, Sunni Saudi Arabia also rounds up dissidents and tortures and/or imprisons them.

This ongoing and mysterious case sheds light upon the plight of dissidents in Saudi Arabia and the role that Twitter has played. It’s mysterious because in 2021, the United States State Department “issued a statement saying it was concerned about the sentencing of a Saudi Arabian citizen known to be an ISIS sympathizer, referring to him as an ‘aid worker.’” That citizen was the same Abdulrahman al-Sadhan.

The issues involved here, however, go beyond al-Sadhan. They include the plight of dissidents in Saudi Arabia and the past wrongdoings of Twitter. These issues need elucidation regardless of who or what Abdulrahman al-Sadhan turns out to be.

Twitter and Saudi officials face racketeering lawsuit over jailed satirist

by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Guardian, May 16, 2023:

A US activist has filed a racketeering lawsuit against Twitter and senior Saudi officials on behalf of her brother, a Saudi aid worker who was forcibly disappeared – and then later sentenced to 20 years in jail – for using a satirical and anonymous Twitter account to mock the Riyadh government.

The lawsuit by Areej al-Sadhan alleges that Twitter has become a “participant tool” in a campaign of transnational repression by Saudi authorities as part of the company’s effort to monetise its relationship with the kingdom. Saudi Arabia is Twitter’s second-largest investor, after Elon Musk.

At the heart of the case lies the story of Areej’s brother, Abdulrahman, a former aid worker with the Red Crescent who has not been seen or heard from since 2021, when a Saudi court sentenced him to 20 years in prison and a 20-year travel ban for his use of Twitter.

The lawsuit, which was filed at the US district court in the northern district of California on Tuesday, contains critical new details about Abdulrahman’s story, including that the former aid worker created his anonymous Twitter account while living in the US.

He did so, the complaint alleges, “in order to call out hypocrisy” in the kingdom’s ruling family. He then returned to Saudi in 2014, before being “kidnapped” by the kingdom’s “secret police” in March 2018.

The lawsuit accuses Twitter of turning a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s systematic and documented repression of critics even though reports began to circulate about the kingdom’s “malign activities” using Twitter as early as 2018.

US prosecutors have separately established that Saudi authorities illegally obtained confidential data about Twitter users between 2014 and 2015 from two covert Saudi government agents who were working for the company. The so-called Twitter spies targeted individuals like Abdulrahman, the suit alleges, who were posted critical or embarrassing information about Saudi Arabia and its royal family….

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UK Journalist Tommy Robinson Faces Prison for Telling the Truth

May 21, 2023/in Commentary, Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Politics /by DrRichSwier.com

By Dr. Rich Swier

On May 19th, 2023, a mesmerizing list of political figures, journalists, media personalities, and social media influencers descended upon a theatre in Naples, Florida, to watch a film that was banned by a High Court judge in the UK, but has been obtained by an anonymous citizen journalist in the USA.

You may remember when Tommy was sued by the ‘Syrian boy’ and thanks to the UK’s highly political, left-leaning legal system, the judge decided against Tommy.

After the case ended, the judge slapped an injunction on Tommy preventing him from even talking about the case.

The documentary being shown in Florida, called ‘Silenced’, is a full investigation into the facts surrounding the ‘Syrian boy’ playground incident, and what really happened.

At the end of the documentary in Florida, the alternative news network ‘MICE Media’ tweeted the following:

‘Journalist Tommy Robinson faces a two-year prison sentence after independent media obtains a copy of the internationally banned film, Silenced.’

‘Tommy Robinson no longer resides in the UK because he is a target of the political, judicial and media establishment.’

‘Due to the UK judiciary’s stance on making this documentary public, Tommy will not – and cannot – speak publicly in any great detail about it.’

‘He is hamstrung legally and is extremely concerned about the response of the courts and their political directors.’

‘Tommy has been conflicted by this release. On one hand, he is relieved his findings will finally enter the public consciousness.’

‘On the other hand, as he anticipates the ramifications of its public release, he fears it will put an oversized target on his back.’

‘The truth of the matter is, he had, and has had, absolutely no control on whether this documentary was made public or not.’

‘Over the last two years, all of us here at MICE Media became aware that a group of journalists and media personalities – from James O’Keefe to Alex Jones – obtained copies of the banned film Silenced.’

‘This documentary was one of the most compelling pieces that Tommy Robinson has ever produced, however, it was swiftly banned for public consumption by the judiciary in the UK soon after all the relevant footage was sent to contacts in the USA.’

Here’s the Tweet in question:

Journalist Tommy Robinson faces two year prison sentence after independent media obtains a copy of internationally banned film #Silenced.

Robinson flees UK in anticipation of government retaliation – film set to be released May 25th on MICE Media. pic.twitter.com/4pLAhI8CWm

— MIⒸE MEDIA 🧀 (@THEMICE_) May 21, 2023

Since this tweet was posted, there has been overwhelming support and love that Tommy has received.

Tommy had the following to say:

‘It’s been two years since I produced Silenced, and in exposing the unholy alliance between the government, media, and judiciary. I have known that they really will do as they said and put me in prison for two years, even though it’s not me publishing it.’

‘As I have been through this battle before, I decided not to release the film, but the truth is it has been circulating among journalists since its creation. Whilst I do not support the release of the film, I also understand that it is important, it is something the British public has been waiting for, for years.’

‘I have said openly and publicly that I did not want this documentary to be made public, in line with the injunction laid down by the courts. Even if I do not agree with the court order, I do respect the law. This has been troubling me for a long time, but now I have to face the fact I cannot do anything about the release of this documentary.’

Tommy is not surprised by the support he has received from across the world.

There is a hunger for real news, as people are starved of the truth by corporatist globalist media, politicians, radical ideologues, and politically motivated judiciaries whose job it is to sanitize or prevent the truth from publication.

They are the enemies of truth, they are enemies of free speech, they are the enemies of freedom.

The truth will set you free, they say.

But the reality is this: the truth could get Tommy Robinson a two-year prison sentence for contempt of court.

So, the truth is never free, it only ever comes with sacrifice.

Whether that sacrifice be life, liberty, and or happiness.

Let that sink in.

Tommy is a fearless freedom fighter who always fights for the truth, at great personal cost.

This situation is completely out of Tommy’s hands, but we fully expect the legal system to come after him, all gun’s blazing, so to speak.

As soon as we at Urban Scoop have an update for you, we will publish it immediately.

In the meantime, please spare a thought for Tommy during this difficult time as he faces the very real possibility of prison again.

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