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Mark Houck Lawyers Produce Bombshell Evidence Against DOJ Case
Congress purposefully excluded abortion clinic escorts from Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act protections, attorneys for pro-life father Mark Houck argued in a pretrial hearing Tuesday. Former Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died in 2009, was the chief sponsor of the Freedom to Access Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Thomas More Society documents filed… -
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Court Could Force Justice Department to Release Documents on Biden Voter-Registration Executive Order
A federal court in Florida is considering compelling the Justice Department to reveal more about President Joe Biden’s executive order on promoting voter registration after a mediation hearing this past Thursday. Agencies in the Biden administration have mostly ignored information requests from members of Congress, the media, and watchdog groups about a March 2021 Biden… -
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FBI Had Investigative Interest in Protests at Justices’ Homes, but Apparently Took No Action, Document Reveals
The FBI indicated its investigative interest in pro-abortion protests last summer outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, although the bureau apparently didn’t act, according to a document obtained by The Daily Signal. After someone leaked the court’s draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on May 2, protesters demonstrated for… -
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Rep. Jim Banks on Politicization of DOJ: Bidens, Top Dems Play by ‘Different Set of Rules’
Classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president were found Nov. 2, six days before the midterm elections, in Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center in Washington. The Biden administration didn’t announce the discovery, which was reported first Monday by CBS News. Biden commented briefly Tuesday, saying he was “surprised to learn… -
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House Panel Probes Biden Family’s ‘Suspicious’ Finances, Twitter’s Suppression of Scandal
The House Oversight and Reform Committee has asked three former Twitter executives to answer questions about suppressing negative news of Hunter Biden before the 2020 election. The committee, now under Republican control, also seeks more information about financial transactions by President Joe Biden’s son as well as the president’s brother, Jim Biden. Oversight Chairman James… -
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Biden Justice Department Dishonestly Rewrites Law Against Sending Abortion Drugs by Mail
The Biden administration keeps coming up with new tactics to keep abortions happening. The latest is Justice Department advice to the U.S. Postal Service that a federal law prohibiting using the mail to send abortion drugs doesn’t mean what it says. By overruling its decisions inventing a constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court held… -
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Antisemitic Hate Crimes Doubled in NYC as The New York Times Targeted Orthodox Jews, Hasidic Group Says
An Orthodox Jewish organization in New York City has launched a public information campaign to combat what it describes as The New York Times' "crusade" against Hasidic Jews and their schools, a torrent of negative coverage that comes amid an uptick in antisemitic hate crimes shown by police data. The organization, Agudath Israel of America,… -
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Enough’s Enough. It’s Time to Take Back Our Streets From Criminals.
The streets of America are in chaos. Amidst the chaos, young people are taking advantage of the situation to loot and destroy stores, with no regard for the safety of others. Videos of these ruthless thieves have gone viral, showing them ransacking stores and taking whatever they can get their hands on. The cost of… -
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FBI Twitter Files Corruption Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg,’ Warns GOP Senator
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., called on Democrats to join Republicans in investigating the threat of politicized federal law enforcement after the latest installments of the “Twitter Files” revealed that the FBI paid Twitter more than $3.4 million while the bureau was pressuring the social media company and reportedly undermining Johnson’s probe of Hunter Biden’s foreign… -
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FBI Would Rather Moderate Twitter, Investigate Parents Than Follow Through on Mass Shooter Tips
On July 22, 2022, a man holding a rifle hid inside a restroom just outside the food court at the Greenwood Park Mall just south of Indianapolis. As he emerged, he shot and killed one man on his way to the restroom, followed by a couple at a table at the edge of the court…. -
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Detroit School Board Removes Ben Carson’s Name from School for His ‘Crime’ of Serving Under Trump
The Detroit school board recently voted to remove world-renowned neurosurgeon and native son Dr. Ben Carson’s name from its Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine magnet school. The reason: Carson served in the Cabinet of President Donald Trump. Before it was scrubbed, the school’s website glowingly stated why it was named after Carson:… -
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Federal Government Leaves Border Hospital With $20 Million Bill for ‘Free’ Health Care to Illegal Aliens
A hospital in Yuma, Arizona, is owed $20 million for medical services provided to illegal immigrants. “We’ve calculated that over a six-month period, from December 2021 to May 2022, we had $20 million in charges that we’re unable to bill anyone for, for services we provided to migrants alone,” Dr. Robert Trenschel, president and CEO of Yuma… -
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Hunter Biden Scandal-Squashing Was Historic
After the final hearing of the Nancy Pelosi-picked House Jan. 6 panel, Time magazine sent out an email to its audience, under the headline “Trump should be prosecuted, Jan. 6 Committee declares in historic criminal referral.” To our leftist media elite, everything the Democrats do to promote themselves is “historic.” Is it surprising to anyone… -
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FBI Paid Twitter More Than $3M Amid Pressure Campaigns, Gaslighting on Hunter Biden
Twitter's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story may or may not have swung the 2020 election in Joe Biden's favor, but the new "Twitter Files" are shining a glaring light on the FBI's influence on Twitter and other Big Tech companies, which put its attempt to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story in perspective…. -
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DOJ Charges 2 More Pro-Life Women With FACE Act Violations
The Justice Department announced Friday it is charging two more pro-life women with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Bevelyn Beatty Williams, 31, and Edmee Chavannes, 41, are accused of trying to stop abortions from taking place, thereby violating the FACE Act in what the DOJ described as “a multi-year… -
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Biden’s Justice Department Sues Arizona and Gov. Doug Ducey for Building a Border Wall
President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is suing the state of Arizona over Gov. Doug Ducey’s border wall built with shipping containers. Ducey, a Republican, has built a makeshift border wall with double-stacked shipping containers topped with razor wire along sections of Arizona’s border with Mexico in Yuma and Cochise Counties. The federal government is calling the… -
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Texas Governor, Attorney General to Investigate Private Organizations Facilitating Border Crisis
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is asking his state’s attorney general to investigate how a network of private organizations is colluding with the Biden administration to facilitate the worst border crisis in American history. Abbott’s request comes just days after The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project documented the outsized role of non-governmental organizations. Those groups, operating more… -
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Will Jane’s Revenge Face Criminal Charges for Attacks on Pro-Life Centers? Waiting on FBI
It has been over five months since vandals attacked Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center in Lynchburg, Virginia, shattering windows and spray-painting a threatening message outside the building. No arrests have been announced. The radical pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge took credit for the attack, which occurred the night after the Supreme Court issued its June 24 ruling… -
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DOJ Official Admits Targeting Pro-Lifers Is Response to Overturn of Roe
The Justice Department has been targeting pro-life activists through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act as a response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, according to Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. Gupta delivered remarks at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division's 65th Anniversary earlier this month. The associate attorney general described the… -
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The FBI Arrested Pro-Life Dad Mark Houck. Now, He’s Accusing the DOJ of Viewpoint Discrimination, Selective Prosecution
Attorneys for Mark Houck are moving to dismiss federal charges against the pro-life father arrested in a dramatic FBI dawn raid in front of his children. Houck's legal team filed a motion to dismiss charges this week in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging that the Justice Department is…