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“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.” ― Theodore Roosevelt Welcome to GOP Watch keeping an eye on Republicans for you. The Republican Party is using lies, hate, fear, alterative facts and whataboutism to stay in power and protect a comprised and corrupt Donald J. Trump, the Republican Party and Putin. The GOP is a danger to America and Americans.
Story by Gabe Whisnant

Two Republicans were confronted on Sunday morning news programs about former President Donald Trump's remarks in which he told people at a summit that they "won't have to vote" in four years.

The former president made the remarks at Turning Point Action's Believers' Summit on Friday in West Palm Beach, Florida. The 2024 Republican presidential nominee's speech played into the conservative summit's themes, which are tailored to "unite Christians across America," according to the event's website.

During his speech, Trump said that Democrats have "only one reason" why they do not support legislation to enact voter registration reform: "Because they want to cheat."

"Republicans must win," he said Friday. "We have to win this election, [the] most important election ever. We want a landslide that's too big to rig."
Trump added: "Christians, get out and vote just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It will be fixed. It will be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians."

In a response to Newsweek on Sunday afternoon, Trump's spokesperson Steven Cheung said via email, "President Trump was talking about the importance of faith, uniting this country and bringing prosperity to every American, as opposed to the divisive political environment that has sowed so much division and even resulted in an assassination attempt."

Former President Donald Trump spoke at Turning Point Action's The Believers’ Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., urging people to vote "just this time."
By Andrew Goudsward

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. Justice Department officials during President Donald Trump's administration took part in a decision to reduce prosecutors’ recommended prison sentence for Trump adviser Roger Stone in 2020, a watchdog report published on Wednesday found.

The report by the department's internal reviewer found that the top federal prosecutor in Washington D.C. at the time, Timothy Shea, showed “ineffectual leadership” in his handling of the case, but did not conclude that officials committed misconduct or were influenced by politics.

The Justice Department’s unusual decision to ease its initial sentencing recommendation for Stone, a longtime associate of Trump, became a political flashpoint.
Four prosecutors assigned to the case withdrew and one later told a congressional committee that his office received pressure from senior department officials who feared Trump.

Stone was convicted of obstruction, witness tampering and lying to Congress during its investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was sentenced to 40 months in prison, but Trump later pardoned him.
The Roberts Court has violated its own logic with the ruling on executive immunity. Donald Trump is the beneficiary.
By Sarah Chayes

Democrats in Congress have been developing proposals for the reform of the Supreme Court for years—and this week, we learned that President Joe Biden is warming to the idea. Although a series of controversial cases recently decided by the Court has given new impetus to this movement, the need for an overhaul lies less in the rulings’ seeming rightward swing and more in the pretexts the justices have used to reach them. The Court’s reasoning is becoming more and more incoherent as the conservative majority tosses aside even its own recent jurisprudence in order to serve ideological dogma.

This month’s Supreme Court decision granting presidents at least presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for much of what they do in office is a case in point.
By Ana Faguy, BBC News, Washington

As American voters start to familiarise themselves with Donald Trump's newly announced vice-presidential candidate Ohio Senator JD Vance it is nearly impossible to avoid his memoir.

Written in 2016, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, tells the story of Mr Vance's upbringing in Middletown, Ohio, to parents who were from the Appalachians in eastern Kentucky.

It explored his first-hand experience of the poverty and addiction of poor, white communities and became a bestseller just as Trump rose to power.

Eight years later, the book has become a new political lightning rod in the 2024 presidential race. Critics say it shows a lack of understanding. Others say it captures the life perfectly.
Story by Katherine Fung

Judge Aileen Cannon is facing renewed calls for her removal after she dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump in Florida.

Legal commentators are calling for Cannon to be removed from her position as a federal judge after she delivered a stunning blow to Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday, finding that his appointment was improper because it was not based on a specific federal statute and because he was not named to the position by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC that even though the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court could remedy Cannon's dismissal, her ruling also presented "an opportunity for the 11th Circuit to remove Judge Cannon if they think that this is a particularly frivolous ground."

"Raise your hand if you agree Aileen Cannon should be EXPELLED from the bench and Jack Smith should immediately appeal to the 11th Circuit!!" attorney Joe Gallina said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Some Republican judges are protecting Trump from the crimes he commits against America.

Boxes of classified documents were found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.
By Katherine Faulders

The classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has been dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon.

The judge ruled that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional.

"The Superseding Indictment is DISMISSED because Special Counsel Smith's appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution," she wrote.
Story by Nicholas Liu

Threats of political revenge are commonplace among Donald Trump and his supporters. Now a former official in the Trump administration is threatening to retaliate against those who challenged Trump's 2020 election claims, the Associated Press reported.

”We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” Patel said in a recent interview with Steve Bannon, referring to the 2020 presidential election. “We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly. We’ll figure that out. But yeah, we’re putting you all on notice.”

Patel's zeal for Trump landed him in the administration's National Security Council, and he served briefly as chief of staff to acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller. In his final months in office, Trump considered installing Patel as the deputy director at either the FBI or CIA to strengthen his control of the intelligence committee, but was forced to scotch the plan after CIA Director Gina Aspel and Attorney General Bill Barr threatened to resign.

“Patel had virtually no experience that would qualify him to serve at the highest level of the world’s preeminent law enforcement agency,” Barr wrote in his memoir.
Opinion by Akhil Reed Amar

Forget Donald Trump. Forget Joe Biden. Think instead about the Constitution. What does this document, the supreme law of our land, actually say about ​​lawsuits against ex-presidents?

Nothing remotely resembling what Chief Justice John Roberts and five associate ​justices declared​ in yesterday’s disappointing Trump v. United States decision​. The Court’s curious and convoluted majority opinion turns the Constitution’s text and structure inside out and upside down, saying things that are flatly contradicted by the document’s unambiguous letter and obvious spirit.​

Imagine a simple hypothetical designed to highlight the key constitutional clauses that should have been the Court’s starting point: In the year 2050, when Trump and Biden are presumably long gone, David Dealer commits serious drug crimes and then bribes President Jane Jones to pardon him.

Is Jones acting as president, in her official capacity, when she pardons Dealer? Of course. She is pardoning qua president. No one else can issue such a pardon. The Constitution expressly vests this power in the president: “The President … shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States.”
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts gave what appeared to be a disturbing warning to the left.
Dan Ladden-Hall

The president of the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday declared that a new revolution is already underway in the U.S., appearing to warn Liberals that violence could erupt if they tried to stop it.

Kevin Roberts, whose uber-conservative think tank is behind the highly controversial “Project 2025” blueprint for a second Donald Trump presidency, made the comment during an appearance on Real America’s Voice. “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Roberts said.

Heritage’s Project 2025 calls for a huge increase in presidential power as well as a transformation of the federal government, replacing existing staffers with an army of those loyal to Trump. Roberts has previously said he sees his organization’s role as “institutionalizing Trumpism.”
Story by Josephine Walker

Shortly after Supreme Court Justice John Roberts ruled in favor of giving Donald Trump immunity for crimes committed in an official capacity, an old clip resurfaced online of him saying during his 2005 Senate confirmation that the president is “fully bound” by the law and the Constitution. At the time, Roberts affirmed that not even the president is “above the law under our system.” The clip appears to contradict Monday’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision that Trump has immunity from some criminal prosecution for his role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Social media users were quick to call out the justice’s hypocrisy, with some asking if the Supreme Court itself is bound by the law. Trump’s legal team quickly seized on Roberts’ conflicting ruling, scoring a win when Manhattan prosecutors agreed to delay his sentencing in his case related to paying hush-money to adult video star Stormy Daniels until a different court can determine what is and isn’t an action committed in an official capacity.
Story by Devlin Barrett, Marianna Sotomayor

The Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress — a politically charged broadside against the Biden administration that comes a day after Garland’s Justice Department won a conviction against Biden’s son Hunter on felony gun charges.

The vote, which passed with an initial tally of 216-207, marks the third time in a dozen years that a sitting attorney general was found in contempt by a majority of House members — an indicator of the rising partisanship in Washington, and how that partisanship has increasingly been aimed at the nation’s top law enforcement officials.

Wednesday’s vote is largely symbolic, in that it urges federal prosecutors to investigate and file criminal charges against the attorney general, but that is extremely unlikely to happen, given the Justice Department’s past practice and legal analysis.

In the run-up to the vote, Garland had vowed not to be intimidated by the threat of contempt.
Opinion by Mandy Taheri

Thousands of people recently signed a petition from Faithful America that urged Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education (DOE) to stop the "hijacking of Jesus's name" with their civics course in public schools within the state.

In its petition from last Wednesday, Faithful America, an organization of Christians supporting social justice causes while opposing "Christian nationalism," accused Florida of "bribing public school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism" by offering a civics course that the organization believes "wrongly assert the Ten Commandments form the basis for U.S. law."

The petition, which was addressed to DeSantis and Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Díaz Jr., says that the civics program "erroneously and outrageously claims that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, teaches demonstrable falsehoods about the separation of church and state, brings the Bible into public classrooms, and confers on those who complete it a 'Civics Seal of Excellence.'"

As of Sunday afternoon, the petition had received nearly 13,500 signatures, with a goal of 15,000.
What is DeSantis trying to hide? Tax payers pay their salaries we have a right to know.

Story by GistFest

In recent news, Governor DeSantis’s lawyer said that he requested that a Florida court grant privacy for all proceedings during the judicial nominations. The attorney asked the court to keep the information private, away from public view.

This comes days after a John Doe requested public records from DeSantis’ office relating to the court appointments. The executive privilege addressed the 1999 bar complaint and the later suit filed by Judge Angela Dempsey of the Leon County Circuit Court to deny the public records request.

During the proceedings, Padovano debated that the governor’s records are not free from the amendment allowing public access. Padovano argued that none of the preceding governors in the state had made such an exemption.

Padovano then traveled to Leon County from Tallahassee and argued before a three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeals in the name of the court that a 1972 Florida constitutional amendment regarding public access to public records prohibited the governor from stopping access.
Story by Troy Matthews

Republican Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin signed off on a budget change cutting a tuition waiver program for children of disabled vets just days before Memorial Day.

The Virginia Military Survivors Benefits Dependents Education Program (VMSDEP) provided 8 semesters of free tuition at public universities in Virginia for children of veterans who were at least 90% permanently disabled, killed in action, or taken prisoner.

Under the new Youngkin budget, these students must first apply for federal financial aid, and put up some tuition themselves before qualifying for any tuition relief. Veterans groups are calling the move "an absolute gut punch."

"Now we have to scramble and figure out how else to pay for college," said Air Force Veteran Pamella Newton.

Newton said Virginia gold star families are now expected to spend Chapter 35 funding to put up the initial tuition payments. Chapter 35 funding is federal aid for gold star families for college expenses other than tuition, such as room and board. So families are having to dip into their federal aid to pay for tuition, costing them funds to pay for college housing.
Story by Ewan Palmer

Steve Bannon has discussed plans to have federal departments like the Department of Justice be "purged" if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.

Bannon, Trump's former White House chief strategist, named the DOJ and the FBI as two agencies that are at risk of being stripped down if Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is inaugurated as president on January 20, 2025.

The remarks made during an episode of Bannon's WarRoom podcast echo proposals set out under Project 2025, a conservative guideline led by the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank on how the next conservative administration could dismantle the United States government and replace it with one more in line with Trump's MAGA agenda, including an overhaul of the DOJ and taking steps to make it easier to fire federal workers.

The Democratic National Committee has accused the project of helping Trump "enact his dangerous agenda to be a 'dictator on day one.'" In December 2023, Trump was asked at a Fox News town hall to promise not to "abuse power as retribution against anybody." He replied, "Except for day one."
Story by Heather Digby Parton

With all the violence and vandalism on Jan. 6, it's easy to forget that Trump and his henchmen's real game plan was to send the election to the House and let them decide the winner as the Constitution anticipated would happen in case of a tie. This was to be accomplished by submitting competing sets of electors to the VP who would throw up his hands and say that he didn't know how to count the votes so Congress would have to decide the election. According to Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, they had hoped that in the event Pence didn't cooperate, having the mob storm the Capitol could have caused a delay which would have allowed Justice Samuel Alito time to stop the certification but they were thwarted when Speaker Nancy Pelosi reconvened Congress that night. (There is no word on whether Justice Alito had been apprised of his role but it's not a stretch to think he would have been happy to oblige considering his history of flying insurrectionist flags during that period.)

Had they persuaded Pence to twist the constitutional process for a tie vote into a process for resolving (fake) competing slates of electoral votes and had the House of Representatives taken it up, Trump would have won because votes are counted by state delegation and there are more Republican delegations than Democratic. There was a whole group of Republicans ready and willing to declare Trump the winner and let the courts and anyone else try and stop them under this unprecedented, unconstitutional plot. This was the coup.

Essentially, they were willing to stretch their undemocratic electoral college advantage in controlling rural, lower-populated states to an even more undemocratic electoral advantage in the House to steal the election. If Pence had cooperated, they might have pulled it off. It's obvious that the framers made a huge error with this silly process of having the House delegations decide the election in case of a tie. It should be the popular vote winner. (It should be the popular vote winner in all cases but for some reason, we seem to be stuck with this antediluvian artifact of a compromise that should have been fixed over a century ago.)
Samuel Alito says wife was responsible for flying two flags associated with people who claim 2020 election was stolen
Stefania Palma

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has refused to step away from cases involving Donald Trump and the 2021 attack on the US Capitol after reports of controversial flags flown at his properties had spurred calls for his recusal.

In a letter to US senators who had called for his withdrawal, Alito on Wednesday said the incidents did “not meet the conditions for recusal” and that he was “duty-bound to reject” their request.

The contention stems from recent media reports showing an upside-down American flag flying at Alito’s home in Virginia days after Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6 2021 in a bid to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. The upside-down flag was a symbol used by Trump supporters who claimed the 2020 presidential election had been stolen.

Later there were reports of a second flag raised at Alito’s holiday home in 2023 that read “An Appeal to Heaven” — an American Revolution-era design that had been displayed by participants in the January 6 attack, and which has also been associated with a push for Christianity to reshape the US government.
Story by Steve Benen

As Donald Trump’s first criminal trial drew closer, the former president lashed out at a variety of people across the legal system, including likely witnesses in his hush-money-to-a-porn-star case. With this in mind, Judge Juan Merchan imposed a gag order on the Republican in March.

The criminal defendant responded soon after by going after the judge’s daughter — publicly and repeatedly. The result, not surprisingly, was a revised gag order.

To put it mildly, Trump has not dealt well with the court-imposed restrictions. He clearly wants to go after key figures in his ongoing trial, but the former president also wants to avoid going to jail.

A solution to the former president's dilemma has come into focus in recent days: Trump is turning to GOP allies, whom he’s described as his “surrogates,” to peddle the talking points that he can’t say publicly.

Andrew Rice, a contributing editor at New York magazine, added on MSNBC yesterday that he saw Trump “editing” and “making notations” to quotes his partisan allies were poised to make to reporters.

It was against this backdrop that Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, who joined the partisan parade at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Monday, shed some additional light on his own motivations for the gesture. The Daily Beast reported:
Story by Khaleda Rahman

A conservative plan to execute every person on federal death row if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House has sparked alarm and outrage.

Thirteen prisoners were put to death in the final months of the first Trump administration in an unprecedented run of federal executions.

President Joe Biden has not kept a promise to abolish the federal death penalty, although his Justice Department announced a moratorium on federal executions in 2021—a pause that could end if Trump wins in November.

Much of the planning for a possible second Trump term has been unofficially outsourced to Project 2025, a coalition of conservative organizations, The Washington Post reported in November.

In April 2023, Project 2025 released a 900-page report called "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise," which lays out policy proposals to thoroughly reshape the federal government in the event of a GOP win in the 2024 presidential election.

More than 500 pages into the report, Gene Hamilton, a former Trump administration official, wrote in a chapter on the Department of Justice that the next conservative administration should "do everything possible to obtain finality for the 44 prisoners currently on federal death row."
Ken Tran | USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Conservative firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said on Wednesday she's calling up a vote next week to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., setting up a high-stakes clash inside her own party and where Democrats are vowing to help avoid another lengthy vacancy in the job that is second in line of succession to the presidency.

Greene's move is unlikely to succeed but still is certain to roil internal GOP tension as she continues to target Johnson, the most powerful elected Republican in the country.

Johnson has been defiant in the face of the existential threat to his speakership, saying he has no intention of resigning from his post as a vast majority of his conference backs him. House Democrats on Tuesday promised to kill any effort from Greene to oust him from his speakership.
Story by Lee Moran

Sarah Matthews, a former press aide in Donald Trump’s White House, has called out Republicans who slammed the former president but have now come crawling back to him with their endorsements.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Inside With Jen Psaki,” Matthews ripped former Trump White House Attorney General Bill Barr in particular.

Barr became a fierce critic of Trump following the latter’s 2020 election defeat to President Joe Biden. But last week Barr said Biden and presumptive GOP nominee Trump were “two bad choices” and revealed he’d vote for the Republican ticket because of conservative values and policies.
Republicans put party before country

GOP Group Torches 'Deranged' Republicans Who Support Trump In Mock PSA
Story by Ed Mazza

A Republican organization opposed to Donald Trump slammed conservative figures who recognize the danger posed by the former president but plan to vote for him anyway.

The video from Republican Voters Against Trump is an update of a 2022 spot from the organization that resembles the old ASPCA ads featuring singer Sarah McLachlan.

Instead of urging viewers to help save animals, the spokesperson here warns of prominent Trump supporters suffering from “partisan derangement syndrome.”

That list includes former Attorney General Bill Barr, who has called Trump a “horror show,” dismissed his claims of election fraud as “bullshit” and said he grew “detached from reality” after losing in 2020.
Trump led a ‘violent insurrection’ but I’ll still vote for him, says McConnell
Story by John Bowden

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will vote for the man he holds personally responsible for leading a “violent insurrection” at his workplace, the US Capitol, Congress’s senior Republican declared on Sunday.

It was an affirmation of both previous statements the senator has made as well as the modern state of the GOP: utterly loyal to the man who, three years ago, he and others were roundly denouncing after a violent assault on the seat of American democracy left dozens of cops wounded and several dead including members of law enforcement and rioters.

The statement was also a fitting end to the career of Mr McConnell, 82, who will be replaced as head of the Senate Republican caucus in the months ahead after he steps down in November. A persistent ideological check to the former president within the Republican Party, the Senate GOP leader has like his colleagues been forced to continue publicly supporting a candidate now facing 88 felony counts and set to be the first nominee of a major party to be under threat of prison time.

During an interview with Meet the Press, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) does not say whether he regrets voting to acquit former President Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial after the January 6 Capitol attack.
Story by Alex Bollinger

This past Friday, the Department of Education (DOE) unveiled new rules to protect LGBTQ+ students from discrimination in schools under Title IX.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) responded to the news by posting pictures with a collection of bizarre and fringe anti-LGBTQ+ activists, who she referred to as “champions.”

“The Biden admin is changing the definition of ‘sex’ to mean gender identity taking effect Aug 1,” she incorrectly stated on X. She is referring to new Title IX rules announced by the DOE that ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ students. Title IX bans discrimination “on the basis of sex,” and several courts – including the U.S. Supreme Court – have already accepted the legal argument that such wording can include anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination because it’s impossible to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people without taking sex into account.

“This is the sign I keep outside my office in Cannon in DC,” she said, sharing a picture of a transphobic sign she put up in response to a Democrat flying a trans flag outside of her office over three years ago. “I’ve had it since 2021!”

“Whether it’s sex of [sic] gender, there are only TWO! MALE and FEMALE! A few champions who agree.”
Story by Sally Reed

Disinformation and controversy swirled as U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene proposed an amendment to crucial aid for Ukraine that critics say aligns suspiciously with Russian talking points.

MTG Proposes Controversial Ukraine Amendment
Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned observers by proposing an amendment to strip funding from Ukraine unless the country lifts restrictions on the Hungarian minority's language rights.

The controversial amendment specifically cites the Hungarian population in Transcarpathia, a region in western Ukraine.

Criticism of Ukraine's Education Law
Hungarians make up 12.1% of Transcarpathia's population and have criticized Ukraine's 2017 education law requiring Ukrainian as the language of instruction in state schools.

Greene's amendment echoes the complaints of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has sought to expand his influence over ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary's borders.
Story by Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY

Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., accused his fellow Republican lawmaker, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., of holding Congress "hostage" after she called to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

Greene last month introduced what’s known as a “motion to vacate,” which, if passed, would boot Johnson from the speakership. The effort picked up steam this week after Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced he supports it, calling out Johnson shortly after he unveiled a plan to deliver foreign aid to U.S. allies.

But Greene's push drew condemnation from many Republican lawmakers, especially after the House was frozen for weeks after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted last year.

Molinaro was asked during an interview with CNN on Wednesday about the consequences of Republican infighting, particularly for GOP lawmakers facing tough reelection battles.
Story by David Badash

A sitting Republican Congressman is harshly criticizing far-right House Republicans over their apparent support of Russia.

“I guess their reasoning is they want Russia to win so badly that they want to oust the Speaker over it. I mean that’s a strange position to take,” U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a three-term Texas Republican rated a hard-core conservative told CNN’s Manu Raju, in video posted Thursday. “I think they want to be in the minority too. I think that’s an obvious reality.”

Congressman Crenshaw was referring to the movement led by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), now joined by U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), over the Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s decision to finally put legislation on the floor to provide funding to Ukraine to support that sovereign nation in its fight against Russia.

“I’m still trying to process all the b*llsh*t,” Crenshaw added.

Crenshaw on Thursday also commented on Speaker Johnson’s remarks, stating he will hold the Ukraine funding vote regardless of attempts to oust him over it.
Mark Alesia, Investigative Reporter

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is spreading the propaganda of American adversaries on social media, knowing those countries will amplify her messages for impact they wouldn’t otherwise have, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s former assistant director for counterintelligence.

In Monday’s debut of The Defiant Podcast with Brooklyn Dad Defiant, shared in advance with Raw Story, Frank Figliuzzi tells host Majid Padellan, “What we’ve caught Russia and China doing … is they’ll take a statement from Marjorie Taylor Green — or someone like her, someone who doesn’t deserve a particular amount of attention — and then those foreign intelligence services amplify it across social media.

“So she has immediate amplifying support out there. She knows when she spouts something ridiculous there’s going to be foreign adversaries who blow up her message so we can’t avoid it.”
Story by Matthew Impelli

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas faced criticism on Tuesday over comments he made during a case focused on the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.

"In oral argument today, Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that's because his wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he's sitting on this case," lawyer and former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Thomas made comments on Tuesday as the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case relating to the Capitol riot following the 2020 presidential election with defendant, Joseph Fischer, arguing that the court should dismiss a charge against him of obstruction of an official proceeding.
Sounds like Trump's lie

Story by Travis Gettys

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) grew up quite a bit wealthier than she has let on since entering politics, according to a new investigative report.

The New York Republican contrasted herself against her Democratic rival in 2014 as a scrappy underdog running against a "multimillionaire," but The Daily Beast found that the Harvard graduate came from a much more comfortable background than she has let on.

"If Stefanik was supposed to remember where she came from, she seems to have forgotten — to the point of making blatantly misleading statements, beginning in her first congressional campaign — how her family’s wealth has given her a leg up, from providing her with an expensive private-school education to her parents buying her a $1.2 million D.C. townhouse when she was just 26," wrote William Bredderman and Jake Lahut for the website.
Baila Eve Zisman

Ben Rhodes, the former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama, has raised concerns about Jared Kushner’s alleged corruption in his $3 billion investment fund, predominantly financed by foreign sources.

Kushner’s firm received a $2 billion investment from a Saudi sovereign wealth fund shortly after he departed from the White House, serving as a senior adviser to his father-in-law, Donald Trump.

During an interview with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, Rhodes expressed his unease, “This is just putting a price tag on American foreign policy… This is a level of corruption that we’ve just never seen, and it’s hiding in plain sight.”
Story by Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

More than 8 million people die from air pollution and fine particulate matter globally every year, according to the BMJ, a peer reviewed medical journal. Of that number, over 5.13 million people die from ambient air pollution resulting from fossil fuels use. Experts say that deaths from air pollution are also on the rise, and are currently expected to double by 2050. In the U.S. alone “350,000 may die annually from pollution produced by the burning of fossil fuels.” According to the American Lung Association (ALA) more than one-fourth of Americans live with “air pollution that can hurt their health and shorten their lives.” Of course, risk and exposure are themselves not borne equally; cities in the western U.S., along with communities of color, disproportionately bear the brunt of air pollution’s public health harms.

These numbers would likely be much higher if not for the Clean Air Act (CAA), which has proven both enormously popular and successful in saving hundreds of thousands of lives since its passage in 1970. In 2020 alone, the CAA was projected to prevent 230,000 premature deaths in the US, according to the EPA.

Republican Attorneys General, and their industry backers, want to gut it.
Story by Nick Mordowanec

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday said that Russia is "protecting Christianity" more than Ukraine, as part of what she described as a broader war against the religion.

Greene, the two-term GOP lawmaker out of Georgia, has been one of the more outspoken members of her party's conference over not providing continuous domestic aid to Ukraine in its two-plus year conflict with Russia since it was invaded on February 24, 2022.

A strong supporter of wanting Congress to devote funding towards the southern border and against illegal immigration, Greene has also vocally attacked Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. She has introduced a motion to vacate against him after he pushed through a $1.2 trillion spending bill that avoided a partial shutdown. While using rhetoric pegging the Speaker as a Democrat, Greene has also publicly questioned Johnson's Christian faith on multiple occasions.
Story by Sky Palma

After Donald Trump attended the wake of a slain NYPD police officer who was shot and killed during a traffic stop this week, Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan took to X and praised the former president for what he sees as his unparalleled support for law enforcement.

"No one Backs The Blue more than President Trump," Jordan wrote while sharing a video of Trump's press conference at the wake of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed earlier this week after he approached two suspects whose vehicle was parked illegally.

"We have to stop it. We have to stop it," Trump told reporters in video shared by ABC News. "We have to get back to law and order. We have to do a lot of things differently, because this is not working."

In the comment thread beneath Jordan's post, his critics pointed out that Trump's relationship with law enforcement is inconsistent at best.
Story by David Badash

Last year House Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer acknowledged former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House advisor Jared Kushner had “crossed the line” when he accepted $2 billion in foreign investment funds from the government of Saudi Arabia as he started up a private investment firm just months after leaving the White House.

Now, Chairman Comer says he will not open an investigation into any possible wrongdoing, Huffpost reports, despite top Democrats alleging Kushner engaged in “apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals.”

On Tuesday, the top Democrat on Comer’s Oversight Committee, Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, and Democrat Robert Garcia, the Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, formally requested Comer “convene a hearing regarding Jared Kushner’s apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals involving investments in exchange for official actions and to examine the resulting threats to our national security.”
Story by Gerren Keith Gaynor

“Mark Robinson’s hateful rhetoric – including his comments toward the Black community – jeopardizes companies’ desire to be in our state and, consequently, our state’s economy,” Josh Stein, Robinson’s gubernatorial opponent, told theGrio.

Controversial North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, who continues to grab headlines for his comments on race, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, could potentially cost economic growth in the state, particularly for Black residents.

After Democrats in Connecticut indicated that they are eyeing businesses to attract away from North Carolina since Robinson’s primary election win made him the GOP nominee for governor, there is some concern about his rhetoric’s impact on the state’s economy and, more specifically, the state’s Black economy.
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