President Joe Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign is reportedly planning to stay on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a>, the social media app whose parent company ByteDance is controlled by the Chinese communist government, even after the president signed a bill into law this week that forces the app to be sold from the company or face an outright ban in the U.S.
“A fragmented media environment requires us to show up and meet voters where they are — and that includes online,” a Biden campaign official said in justifying their decision to stay on the platform. “TikTok is one of many places we’re making sure our content is being seen by voters.”
“When the stakes are this high in the election, we are going to use every tool we have to reach young voters where they are,” the campaign official said, claiming that the campaign will use “enhanced security measures” on the app.
The statement comes after Biden signed a bill into law on Wednesday that forces TikTok to divest from ByteDance in the next 270 days.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew vowed that the company would fight the new law and claimed in an emotional pitch to the app&#8217;s users that the law would “take TikTok away from you and 170 million Americans who find community in connection on our platform.”
“Make no mistake, this is a ban, a ban on TikTok, and a ban on you and your voice,” he continued. “Politicians may say otherwise, but don’t get confused.”
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“Rest assured, we aren’t going anywhere,” he added. “We are confident and we will keep fighting for your rights in the courts.”
Chew later claimed that the company has “built safeguards that no other peer company has made” and that it “invested billions of dollars to secure your data and keep our platform free from outside manipulation.”
His claims come after reports surfaced earlier this month of a former senior employee at the company who <a href="https://fortune.com/2024/04/15/tiktok-china-data-sharing-bytedance-project-texas/?showAdminBar=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that he was forced to send American user data to ByteDance in Beijing, contradicting the company’s contention that it operates independently from China.
FBI Director Christopher Wray recently testified to Congress: “This is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government.”
Former ByteDance executive Yintao Yu made explosive allegations against the company in a federal lawsuit last year, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/technology/tiktok-bytedance-lawsuit-china.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that ByteDance’s offices in Beijing had a special unit of Chinese Communist Party members who “guided how the company advanced core Communist values.”
“The Committee maintained supreme access to all the company data, even data stored in the United States,” said Yu, who spent part of his time at the company in its Chinese offices. He said it did not matter where users were located because the company created a “backdoor” to access their information.
He said the company “systematically created fabricated users” to boost engagement numbers and witnessed engineers manually alter the algorithm to achieve the country’s geopolitical agenda. One example he cited was how engineers boosted content “that expressed hatred for Japan,” The New York Times reported.
“There was no debate,” he said. “They just did it.”
ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tiktok-data-app-report/story?id=97913249" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last year that cybersecurity experts discovered that for those who have downloaded the app but never used it, TikTok “still has your data even if you’ve never used TikTok.”
The report added, “And it’s collecting and transferring that data whether or not the app is deleted.”

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The pro-life activist who cooperated with the Biden administration&#8217;s Justice Department for its prosecution of her fellow pro-life activists over their peaceful demonstration at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714074641207000&amp;usg=AOvVaw010o2PugauBTCEDPf5iXNd">Tennessee</a> abortion facility will avoid prison time.
Caroline Davis was sentenced on Wednesday to three years of probation and no fine in a federal court in Nashville by Federal Judge Aleta Trauger. Before her deal with the DOJ, Davis <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/eleven-charged-face-act-violations-stemming-2021-blockade-mount-juliet-reproductive" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/eleven-charged-face-act-violations-stemming-2021-blockade-mount-juliet-reproductive&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714074641207000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3UsUto05V5vIDmXnbVK4Qg">faced</a> a felony conspiracy charge that could have landed her in prison for over 10 years for her role in a peaceful pro-life protest at the Carafem abortion facility in Mt Juliet, Tennessee on March 5, 2021.
She previously pled guilty to misdemeanor conspiracy to block access to an abortion facility and misdemeanor aiding and abetting the blocking of access to an abortion facility. Her testimony was a critical component of the government&#8217;s prosecution of 10 pro-lifers who were at Carafem, including six who face over a decade in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
Sentencing took less than 30 minutes, with the DOJ agreeing to the conditions requested by Davis.
Trauger agreed to let her probation period begin on October 5, 2022, when she was first arrested. Davis will pay a $20 special assessment for the case, typical for federal misdemeanors. Under conditions of her probation, Davis must also undergo mental health treatment.
The March 2021 protest involved a group of demonstrators gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside Carafem in Mt. Juliet. The group, including Davis, prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic to not get abortions. Several sat in front of doors to the facility and against the walls of the hallway.
Davis was given the opportunity to make a statement on Wednesday, and she described a difficult upbringing where she said she experienced abuse. She said that this abuse contributed to her joining a &#8220;cult-like&#8221; group after she turned 18 that promoted civil disobedience. At the same time she said that her husband was unfaithful to her, leading to a divorce. She said that the federal indictments over her pro-life activism caused her to change her life.
Davis also &#8220;sincerely apologized&#8221; for &#8220;the crime I pled guilty to,&#8221; and said that she had &#8220;harmed others for personal gain&#8221; during the protest at Carafem. She said that her stance on abortion had not changed and asked Trauger &#8220;for mercy and grace.&#8221;
Trauger said that she was &#8220;proud&#8221; of Davis and called her &#8220;very articulate&#8221; and an &#8220;inspiring figure.&#8221;
Davis&#8217;s boyfriend and two of her codefendants, Paul Vaughn and Paul Place, were in attendance at the sentencing hearing. No proof or witnesses were part of the sentencing hearing.
The FACE Act is a Clinton-era law that is frequently used against pro-lifers protesting outside of abortion facilities. Six of Davis&#8217;s codefendants, who were convicted in February, face up to 10.5 years in prison and fines of up to $260,000 when sentenced in July.
Davis also testified in a one-day bench trial for four others involved in the demonstration earlier this month. Those four — Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow, and Place — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-pro-lifers-face-prison-time-after-being-convicted-in-federal-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-pro-lifers-face-prison-time-after-being-convicted-in-federal-court&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714074641207000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0uSxwaq3hDw7S_5cl73Tnv">were convicted</a> of violating the FACE Act and face up to six months in prison and a $10,000 fine upon sentencing in July.
During her testimony in January, Davis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-played-at-trial-shows-pro-lifers-targeted-by-doj-singing-hymns-urging-peace-during-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-played-at-trial-shows-pro-lifers-targeted-by-doj-singing-hymns-urging-peace-during-protest&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714074641207000&amp;usg=AOvVaw314E-p_Uuj8ArkydHEw-CA">claimed</a> that she had a change of heart about attending the Carafem demonstration. She said her “rational side” was “in the toilet” at the time of her participation. She also said that she changed her mind “over time” and that being indicted by the federal government “terrified” her.
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In cross-examination, Davis became repeatedly exasperated with the questions from defense lawyers, especially when asked about how many times she met with the government before the trial. When asked about a previous meeting with the prosecution and about how long it was, she said, “I have a busy life,” and replied “Oh my God” when asked about another meeting with the government. At one point, Trauger told her to just answer the question and not add any commentary to her answers.
No one present at Carafem was arrested for assault or any assault-related charge. Davis said the most violence she saw was when a police officer moved two pro-lifers aside when taking a woman down the hallway to the abortion facility. Davis was also a key witness in a similar Washington, D.C., abortion facility FACE Act trial where she again pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge in exchange for her testimony.
The convictions have prompted calls from Republican lawmakers to repeal the FACE Act, saying that it has been weaponized to target pro-lifers.

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The Biden administration has set out to encourage gender transition attempts among federal bureaucrats, establishing gender transition support plans, holding trainings pushing Left-wing gender ideology, and even telling federal employees that referring to someone by biologically accurate pronouns is discrimination.
In a document published by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), effectively the human resources department of the federal government, the Biden administration commanded federal agencies to embed “gender identity inclusion practices” throughout the bureaucracy.
​​Titled “<a href="https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility/reference-materials/guidance-regarding-gender-identity-and-inclusion-in-the-federal-workplace.pdf">Guidance Regarding Gender Identity and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace</a>,” the document was published on “transgender day of visibility,” March 31, and it instructs agencies to “take actions to ensure that all Federal employees have their respective gender identities accurately reflected and identified in the workplace.” The document specifically tells the federal bureaucracy to ensure that name and pronoun changes are respected, warning that those who use “incorrect” terms might “contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment.”
It also directs agencies to host gender identity trainings, saying they should “take steps to implement or increase the availability of training programs on gender identity and inclusion in the Federal workplace for employees, managers, and leadership.”
While the OPM document further formalizes the Biden administration’s support of transgenderism, numerous federal agencies have already established policies to encourage transgenderism in the federal workforce. The Department of the Interior (DOI), for example, published a <a href="https://www.doi.gov/document-library/human-resources-policy/pb-23-03-supporting-gender-transition-federal-workplace">document</a> called “Supporting Gender Transition in the Federal Workplace” that lays out how the federal agency will offer support to bureaucrats who are attempting to change their sex.
The guide includes a list of gender identity vocabulary terms and instructs employees to avoid using someone’s “dead name,” a term for the name one used before attempting to change sexes. “Repeated, intentional refusal to use the employee’s affirming … or repeated reference to the employee’s dead name/gender/pronouns … is contrary to the goal of treating all employees with dignity and respect,” the document reads. “Such intentional conduct could constitute unlawful discrimination.”
All departments are encouraged to “establish, in collaboration with their supervisor/manager, a support team … to assist in the development and implementation of their Workplace Gender Transition Plan.”
The DOI has also set out to celebrate transgenderism through trainings and activities. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-celebrates-trans-day-of-visibility-by-screening-movie-pushing-for-more-queer-marine-biologists">recently revealed</a> that the agency celebrated “transgender day of visibility” by screening a documentary calling for more queer marine biologists. It also hosted a “Trans 101” employee training course in December. The course was led by Ben Greene, a “transgender advocate and educator” who discussed “the issues that the transgender community is facing in the world and workforce, and what individuals and organizations can do to create a safe, supportive environment for all people.”
The National Security Agency (NSA) has implemented its own policies on “misgendering,” effectively prohibiting its employees from using biologically correct pronouns when referencing someone who is attempting to change sexes.
“Intentional misgendering shall not be permitted or tolerated,” one 2021 <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/nsa-css-policies/NSACSS_P_1-78_20210525.pdf?ver=VA4t45iPZ83RG18Hz3NZXA%3D%3D&amp;darkschemeovr=1">document</a> from the NSA reads. The intelligence agency also pledges to “provide transgender and gender identity–awareness training to its workforce in order to promote an inclusive work environment for transgender personnel and to facilitate in the workplace gender-affirmation processes when appropriate.” It also states that the agency will &#8220;establish a Transgender Resource Coordinator&#8221; tasked with &#8220;assisting supervisors and civilian employees in navigating gender affirmation process&#8221; as well as be the agency&#8217;s primary resource for &#8220;transgender-related questions.&#8221;
The NSA also created a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-leaked-nsa-doc-reveals-massive-woke-glossary-pushing-critical-race-theory-gender-ideology-on-govt-employees">glossary</a>, exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, that promoted “gender-neutral” pronouns like “ze” and “zir” and complained of “transmisogyny.”
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LEAKED NSA DOCUMENT📄: We just published a never-before-seen <a href="https://twitter.com/NSAGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NSAGov</a> “diversity glossary” in my new exclusive investigation with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdailywire</a>.
It blames “White Europeans” for “settler colonialism,&quot; attacks &quot;white fragility,&quot; and warns of “transmisogyny.”
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The NSA is not the only institution within the intelligence community that has celebrated transgenderism. A diversity newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-top-intelligence-agency-says-crossdressing-makes-man-better-intelligence-officer-internal-docs-show">obtained exclusively</a> by The Daily Wire, featured an article from an anonymous agent who claimed that crossdressing made him a “better intelligence officer.” The ODNI has its own <a href="https://www.odni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD_125-Gender-Identity-and-Inclusivity.pdf">policy</a> against “misgendering,” warning that offenders could face disciplinary action. “Intentional and repeated misgendering, including use of the incorrect name, pronoun, honorific, and gender-related language of an individual, could contribute to an unlawful hostile work environment or discrimination claims, and may result in disciplinary action.”
NASA announced similar policies in a 20-page <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/new_gender_transition_guidance_final_tagged.pdf">document</a> titled, “Supporting Gender Transition/Affirmation in the Workplace,” even encouraging employees to report others who use the “incorrect” pronouns to their supervisor.
“Be a good ally,” the document commands. “If you hear or observe a co-worker using an incorrect name or incorrect pronouns after an announcement or request to refer to the transitioning employee by a specific name and with specific pronouns, gently and discreetly correct them or discuss the matter with your supervisor.”
The United States Air Force Academy similarly embraced a policy against so-called misgendering, telling The Daily Wire that &#8220;intentional misgendering may be considered discrimination or harassment under our Equal Opportunity Policies.&#8221;
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BREAKING: The Air Force Academy just told me that &quot;intentional misgendering may be considered discrimination or harassment.&quot;
Our military faces record-low recruitment and the Air Force is enforcing transgender dogma on cadets and just hosted a trans Pentagon official 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/7lyQMce9nW">pic.twitter.com/7lyQMce9nW</a>
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When asked if it is the official stance of the Air Force Academy that men can become women and women can become men, a spokesman responded: “Yes, the U.S. Air Force Academy recognizes that an individual’s internal or personal sense of gender may not match the individual’s assigned sex at birth,” adding that “individuals assigned male at birth may transition to female.”
President Biden has issued multiple executive orders intended to institutionalize the DEI agenda in the federal government, all while former President Donald Trump pledges that he will gut the bureaucracy through <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">executive orders</a> of his own if he is reelected.
“We will pass critical reforms making every executive branch employee fireable by the President of the United States,” Trump said at a rally, <a href="https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/03/trump-threatening-return-and-expansion-schedule-f/363145/">touting</a> his plan. “The deep state must be brought to heel.”
Biden recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-moves-to-strengthen-bureaucrat-protections-as-trump-pledges-to-gut-administrative-state">implemented a policy</a> intended to strengthen civil service protections enjoyed by federal bureaucrats, making them more difficult to fire.
Trump is charging ahead with his plan to fire federal bureaucrats, with his allies at the Heritage Foundation’s <a href="https://www.project2025.org/">Project 2025</a> assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats who’ve pushed the far-Left agenda.

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More than half of the Republicans in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Senate</a> reached out to a pair of top officials in the Biden administration on Tuesday demanding &#8220;immediate action&#8221; to protect Jewish students on college campuses.
The group of 27 GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona as pro-Palestinian protests at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-dozens-of-anti-israel-protesters-at-yale" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale, and others</a> have led to reports of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-education-chair-demands-columbia-university-expulsions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harassment</a> and acts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitism</a>.
&#8220;You need to take action to restore order and protect Jewish students on our college campuses,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-biden-administration-must-act-to-protect-jewish-students-from-pro-hamas-anti-semitic-mobs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;President Biden issued a statement on Sunday, purporting to condemn the outbreak of anti-Semitism. If that statement was serious, it must be accompanied by immediate action from your departments.&#8221;
The GOP senators requested that Cardona and Garland provide their offices &#8220;an update&#8221; on relevant efforts to enforce federal laws by 5 p.m. on Wednesday. They provided a non-exclusive list of examples.
&#8220;Rioting violates federal law,&#8221; the lawmakers said. &#8220;Violence or attempted violence against anyone because of their Jewish heritage violates federal law. School administrators’ failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination or harassment violates federal law and is grounds for those schools losing access to federal funds. Espousing support for terrorists such as Hamas violates federal immigration law and is grounds for deportation.&#8221;
Federal law enforcement and the Education Department &#8220;must act immediately to restore order, prosecute the mobs who have perpetuated violence and threats against Jewish students, revoke the visas of all foreign nationals (such as exchange students) who have taken part in promoting terrorism, and hold accountable school administrators who have stood by instead of protecting their students,&#8221; the GOP senators added.
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Co-signers included Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Cornyn (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Jerry Moran (R-KS), James Risch (R-ID), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Rick Scott (R-FL), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).
Hawley also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawley-presses-biden-to-mobilize-national-guard-to-protect-jewish-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> asking President Joe Biden to mobilize the National Guard in response to the protests that have led to safety concerns for Jewish students on university campuses across the country.

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Here&#8217;s a statistic that, if you have a job in corporate America, may be the single least surprising piece of information you&#8217;ll hear all year.
It turns out that every single one of the Fortune 100 companies — 100% of them — has made a public <a href="https://www.hrdive.com/news/2022-fortune-companies-dei/627651/">commitment</a> to DEI on their website. There isn&#8217;t a single outlier in the top 100 companies in this country. Chris Rufo looked into this, and he found that they all have a stock DEI page. Whether you go to Amazon or Target or Dell or Verizon or Home Depot, or banks or insurance companies or anywhere else, you&#8217;ll find the same platitudes — boilerplate about the importance of the alphabet people, parental leave for birthing folks, outreach to historically black colleges, and so on.
This total uniformity took hold relatively quickly, within just the last few years. Publicly, the explanation for this change is that all of these companies are suddenly very concerned about racial justice. They&#8217;re upset about George Floyd and so on. But privately, there&#8217;s another very clear reason for it. The leadership of all of these companies understand very well that if they stop practicing DEI — if they, say, start hiring all of their employees based on merit instead of skin color — then the federal government will try to destroy them.
This is a dynamic that normally plays out behind the scenes, away from public scrutiny. But this week, in one very dramatic case, it spilled out into the open. The convenience store chain Sheetz, which has more than 700 locations all over the country, was just sued by the Biden administration after they rejected the federal government&#8217;s attempt to shake them down with a settlement. What was Sheetz&#8217;s crime, you ask? Did they sell bad gasoline? Poisoned hot dogs? Did their name violate communications decency laws?
According to the Biden administration, Sheetz broke the law by refusing to hire applicants who failed a criminal background check. Apparently, the Biden administration believes this is a racist policy because many of the people who fail these background checks are nonwhite. And to be clear, that&#8217;s the entire accusation. The Biden administration is not claiming that Sheetz intentionally discriminated against anyone on the basis of race, or any other legally protected characteristic. They&#8217;re not claiming that Sheetz used these background checks as part of a racist white supremacist scheme.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1352-biden-administration-declares-that-criminal-background-checks-are-racist-against-black-people-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
Instead, the Biden administration is using a theory of discrimination known as &#8220;disparate impact,&#8221; which was enshrined into civil rights law many years ago. Under this theory, a lack of discriminatory intent doesn&#8217;t matter. All the government has to show is that a policy disproportionately affects members of certain racial groups, without a clear business purpose, in a manner that could reasonably be avoided.
In a moment, I&#8217;ll get into the lawsuit, and I&#8217;ll explain why it&#8217;s a complete farce, even if you buy into the whole &#8220;disparate impact&#8221; theory.
First, however, I want to contrast two local news reports about what&#8217;s happening to Sheetz. The first one is from WCNC in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the second one is from CBS 17 in Durham. Watch:
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You&#8217;ll notice that the CBS News report doesn&#8217;t even mention what Sheetz is accused of doing, really. They don&#8217;t talk about the background checks at all. They just lead you to believe that Sheetz is accused of discriminating against &#8220;black, Native American and multiracial&#8221; people, with no context whatsoever.
So maybe you&#8217;re starting to see how the shakedown works. The federal government shows up to a major corporation. They accuse them of racism based on no evidence whatsoever. And then they demand millions of dollars, including back pay for a bunch of employees. And if the company doesn&#8217;t comply, then the administration sues them, and the media basically accuses the company of racism. This is why many companies choose to head off the whole problem in the first place, by openly discriminating against white people. If you do that, then the Biden administration won&#8217;t touch you.
Let&#8217;s get into the specifics of the case because that&#8217;s the only way to truly understand how insane this is.
Within the last few months, a couple of job applicants at Sheetz filed complaints with the E.E.O.C., saying they&#8217;ve been discriminated against under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And the E.E.O.C., which is a federal agency, agreed with them. Here&#8217;s what the Biden administration wrote in their lawsuit:
<blockquote>[Sheetz] committed a continuing, companywide practice in violation of Title VII with respect to a class of Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and multiracial job applicants who did not pass [Sheetz&#8217;s] criminal justice history screening by failing to hire them for all positions because of race. &#8230; For instance, Black job applicants have failed Defendants’ criminal justice history screening, and consequently are denied employment, at a rate exceeding approximately 14.5%, while White job applicants have failed Defendants’ criminal justice history screening, and consequently are denied employment, at a rate of under approximately 8%.</blockquote>
The complaint notes that the number of Indians and multiracial applicants who are denied on this basis is roughly the same.
A few points here. First, given what we know about black crime rates, these numbers are actually a lot closer than you&#8217;d expect. Nationally, according to FBI data, black people <a href="https://oll.libertyfund.org/publications/liberty-matters/2024-02-13-systemic-racism-in-crime-do-blacks-commit-more-crimes-than-whites" target="_blank" rel="noopener">make up</a> more than 26% of total arrests, and the imprisonment rate for black Americans is over five times the rate for whites. But the Sheetz data only shows a disparity of around 7%. And according to the EEOC, Sheetz is looking at both convictions as well as arrests when it runs its background checks.
More importantly, notice what&#8217;s being conflated here. The complaint states that Sheetz is failing to hire these applicants &#8220;because of race.&#8221; But what they&#8217;re really saying is that Sheetz isn&#8217;t hiring applicants who failed a criminal background check. Any reasonable person can see that those are two very different rationales. And indeed, on its website, the E.E.O.C. makes this distinction clear. <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-sues-sheetz-inc-racially-discriminatory-hiring-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">They state:</a>
<blockquote>The lawsuit does not allege that Sheetz was motivated by race when making hiring decisions.</blockquote>
This is the sort of madness that the legal theory of &#8220;disparate impact&#8221; breeds. The Left knows that it can&#8217;t find any examples of actual direct discrimination against black people in this country anymore — and certainly not at Sheetz. So instead, the Left has invented this notion of disparate impact to create discrimination where it doesn&#8217;t really exist. The problem is that literally everything — every policy, every rule, every standard, in every context — will have a &#8220;disparate impact.&#8221; The impact felt by any individual or group will vary according to their situation. If we cannot have standards that create a disparate impact, then we cannot have any standards at all. Which of course is the point.
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Supposedly, there are limits to this legal theory of &#8220;disparate impact.&#8221; The DOJ lists these <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/fcs/T6Manual7#C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exceptions</a> on its website. For example, it&#8217;s acceptable to have a policy that yields a &#8220;disparate impact&#8221; — if the policy is &#8220;important&#8221; and justified by the organization&#8217;s mission. This is an exception that clearly applies to this situation. There is a blindingly obvious reason why a convenience store wouldn&#8217;t want to hire criminals: They don&#8217;t want to get robbed. This is a point that should not need any elaboration whatsoever in a sane society.
But we don&#8217;t live in a sane society anymore, so I will elaborate. Also, it&#8217;s an excuse to show one of the best videos to come out of Georgia this year. This is footage of a robbery at a convenience store that may be the single worst inside job ever recorded on camera. Watch:
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&#8220;It&#8217;s unclear if the robber&#8217;s fist actually connected to Patel&#8217;s face.&#8221; That&#8217;s the polite way of putting it. It takes the cops a little while but they eventually blew the whole scheme wide open — mainly because the accomplice was hanging out right outside the store when they arrived, and cash started falling out of his pocket when they questioned him.
In any event, the point is that if this clerk applies to Sheetz, they should be able to reject him because of his criminal history. His ethnicity does not matter. The fact he&#8217;s a criminal matters. Convenience stores get robbed all the time — including by their own employees. It&#8217;s clearly &#8220;important&#8221; to the business of a convenience store to root out criminals.
I read the entire complaint from the Biden administration, and I couldn&#8217;t find a single argument to the contrary. Instead, they fault Sheetz for failing to contact applicants to request additional information after they fail their criminal background checks. The Biden administration doesn&#8217;t say what &#8220;additional information&#8221; might be relevant, but they say that Sheetz is racist because they don&#8217;t request it. Additionally, the Biden administration faults Sheetz for failing to name the &#8220;specific condition&#8221; that&#8217;s the basis for their decision, when applicants have multiple criminal convictions. And apparently, Sheetz doesn&#8217;t have a whole committee making these decisions, nor is there a &#8220;procedure&#8221; for appeals.
None of this is remotely relevant to racism, nor does it disprove the obvious fact that hiring criminals is a bad idea for a convenience store. So it doesn&#8217;t really address the relevant legal issues in any way.
You get the sense that Sheetz was stunned by the Biden administration&#8217;s claims to the contrary. The federal government&#8217;s complaint goes on to state that:
<blockquote>The Commission engaged in communications with Defendants to provide Defendants an opportunity to remedy the discriminatory practices. &#8230; [but] the Commission was unable to secure from Defendants a conciliation agreement acceptable to the Commission.</blockquote>
In other words, Sheetz didn&#8217;t back down in the face of this blackmail. So now they have a massive lawsuit to deal with, along with defamatory media coverage. 
Obviously, this is one of the more egregious examples you&#8217;ll ever see of the soft bigotry of low expectations — or the soft bigotry of no expectations, in this case. If I were black, I would be highly insulted by the idea that a criminal background check presents some kind of insurmountable hurdle for me specifically. It&#8217;s a lot like saying black people can&#8217;t possibly obtain voter identification, which is another common claim you&#8217;ll hear from the Biden administration. What the Left is effectively saying is that there&#8217;s simply no chance for black, Indian, or &#8220;multiracial&#8221; job applicants to stop committing a disproportionate amount of crimes. 
So, instead of doing anything to get them to commit less crime, we have to pretend that business owners are the real criminals. If they refuse to hire nonwhite applicants for any reason, they&#8217;ll get a lawsuit. But of course, they can continue to discriminate against whites all they want.
Sheetz seems to understand that. And there are already signs they&#8217;re going to cave. In response to this lawsuit, Sheetz issued a statement <a href="https://csnews.com/sheetz-reaffirms-commitment-di-following-eeoc-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying:</a> 
<blockquote>Diversity and inclusion are essential parts of who we are &#8230; We take these allegations seriously. We have attempted to work with the EEOC for nearly eight years to find common ground and resolve this dispute.</blockquote>
It&#8217;s not exactly a full-throated defense of their position, which is obviously the correct one. And as their statement notes, this has been going on for a long time — eight years in fact. So there&#8217;s some history here. I looked into it, and it turns out that this isn&#8217;t the first time the EEOC has filed a lawsuit like this. Back in 2019, the EEOC under the Trump administration <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/dollar-general-pay-6-million-settle-eeoc-class-race-discrimination-suit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Dollar General for:
<blockquote>…denying employment to African Americans at a significantly higher rate than white applicants for failing the company&#8217;s broad criminal background check.</blockquote>
What was the result? A $6 million settlement and a three-year consent decree.
According to a top EEOC attorney at the time,
<blockquote>This case is important because Dollar General is not just providing relief for a past practice but for the future as well. &#8230; If the company plans to use criminal history, it must retain a criminologist to develop a fair process. Unlike other background checks based on unproven myths and biases about people with criminal backgrounds, Dollar General&#8217;s new approach will be informed by experts with knowledge of actual risk.</blockquote>
It&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s a real quote. They&#8217;re saying it&#8217;s an &#8220;unproven myth and bias&#8221; to believe that someone with a previous history of criminal behavior is more likely to commit other crimes in the future. You don&#8217;t need any statistics to know how absurd that is. You just need common sense. But here are the statistics anyway. According to the DOJ&#8217;s <a href="https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/dispatch/04-2022/reintegration_resources.html#:~:text=State%20prisoner%20recidivism%20rates%20average,Durose%2C%20and%20Markman%202018)." target="_blank" rel="noopener">own numbers:</a>
<blockquote>&#8230; at least half of citizens released from incarceration will recidivate in some way following release. </blockquote>
And according to other <a href="https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/repeatarrests.html#:~:text=Our%20analysis%20finds%20that%2027,to%20jail%20within%20a%20year." target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimates</a>, including a survey from Prison Policy, roughly a third of people who are arrested report that they&#8217;re re-arrested for another offense within a year. There are about a million other data points you can find. But suffice it to say, it&#8217;s not a &#8220;myth&#8221; that criminals are more likely to reoffend. It&#8217;s an extremely basic and obvious fact. And yet the EEOC pretended it&#8217;s not real. Now Dollar General needs an &#8220;expert&#8221; to tell them they&#8217;re being racist if they reject a black guy with five prior convictions.
How did that go completely unnoticed at the time? Why didn&#8217;t the Trump White House override what the EEOC was doing and fire everyone involved? Who knows. The most likely answer is that the White House wasn&#8217;t aware of it. And if that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s hard to think of a better argument that the federal government needs to be cut in half immediately, for starters, and most of these unelected bureaucrats need to find new jobs. They have gone rogue and they&#8217;re implementing policies that defy all logic, and they should be fired en masse.
That should be the first executive order if, in fact, there is a second Trump administration. With the Sheetz case, the Biden administration is trying to shake down yet another company in order to erase the distinction between criminals and noncriminals. This is economic sabotage. And it simply can’t be allowed to succeed.

“now hiring” sign posted on business door

Biden Administration Declares That Criminal Background Checks Are Racist Against Black People

EEOC

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Readers Pass

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider the Biden administration’s appeal of a decision that rejected the administration’s regulation of ghost guns.
In 2022, the Biden administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives broadened the interpretation of the definition of “firearm” in the Gun Control Act of 1968. “The 1968 Gun Control Act, the 1988 Undetectable Firearms Act and other federal laws all govern firearms produced by a 3D printing process or any other process, just as they apply to conventional manufacturing processes using machine tools,” NSSF <a href="https://www.nssf.org/government-relations/factsheets/ghost-guns-undetectable-firearms-explained-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>. The Gun Control Act interpreted “firearm” to mean “any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive” and “the frame or receiver of any such weapon.”
The rule claimed that the parts in ghost guns lay under the rubric of “firearm” under the federal Gun Control Act so the federal government could regulate them. It required “manufacturers and sellers to obtain licenses, mark their products with serial numbers and conduct background checks,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/supreme-court-ghost-guns.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In August 2023, in a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allowed the Biden administration’s rule to stay in effect despite the fact that it had been challenged. In November, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Biden administration’s regulation unlawful. “Only Congress may make the deliberate and reasoned decision to enact new or modified legislation regarding firearms,” the court <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/22/supreme-court-biden-ghost-gun-background-checks/73280704007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Because Congress has neither authorized the expansion of firearm regulation nor permitted the criminalization of previously lawful conduct, the proposed rule constitutes unlawful agency action, in direct contravention of the legislature’s will,” they <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-biden-administration-can-regulate-ghost-guns-rcna147065" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar countered that if the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision were implemented, “Anyone could buy a kit online and assemble a fully functional gun in minutes — no background check, records, or serial number required. The result would be a flood of untraceable ghost guns into our nation’s communities, endangering the public and thwarting law-enforcement efforts to solve violent crimes.”
“If a state placed a tax on the sale of home goods, such as tables, chairs, couches and bookshelves, Ikea surely could not avoid that tax by claiming that it does not sell any of those items and instead sells ‘furniture parts kits’ that must be assembled by the purchaser,” she argued. “So too with guns: An ordinary speaker of English would recognize that a company in the business of selling kits that can be assembled into firearms in minutes — and that are designed, marketed and used for that express purpose — is in the business of selling firearms.”
A brief for the Supreme Court asserted, “Consistent with Congress’s decision not to interfere with the making of firearms by private citizens, commercial production and sale of other items that may be used by private citizens to make firearms for their own use is outside the scope of the Act.”
Additionally, it offered another perspective, <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A82/274511/20230802162019194_2023-08-02%20VanDerStok%20-%20Resp%20in%20Oppn%20to%20Stay%20vf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a>:
<blockquote>
A better analogy would be to a “taco kit” sold as a bundle by a grocery store that includes taco shells, seasoning packets, salsa and other toppings, along with a slab of raw beef. No one would call the taco kit a taco. In addition to “assembly,” turning it into one would require cutting or grinding and cooking the meat — and until that was done, it would be nonsensical to treat it as food and the equivalent of a taco.
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SCOTUS Will Consider Challenge To Biden’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulations

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)

firearms

Ghost Guns

Supreme Court

On Friday, the Biden administration released its new Title IX regulations, and its strictures engendered anger and outrage for those defending traditional values.
The <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-unofficial-final-rule-2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a>, which runs over 1,500 pages, states that the Department of Education “disagrees with the contention that including sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of §106.10 harms women. Recognizing these bases of sex discrimination under Title IX in no way lessens the force of Title IX’s protections against discrimination that limits educational opportunities for girls and women. Further, discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is typically motivated by the same sex stereotypes that limit opportunities for women regardless of whether they identify as LGBTQI+.”
The DOE also insisted that the rules apply to elementary schools as well: “The Department appreciates the opportunity to correct the misunderstanding that Title IX is limited to postsecondary institutions. As recipients of Federal financial assistance, elementary schools and secondary schools are also subject to Title IX and its regulations.”
A <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-final-rule-summary.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summary</a> of the major provision stated that the 2024 Final Rule “clarifies that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
Former Senior Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education Sarah Parshall Perry, now working at the Heritage Foundation, reacted:
<blockquote>
Title IX—which was enacted to protect women and girls and provide them equal educational opportunities—has been manipulated so that gender activists and woke politicos can feel good about themselves. Under the new rule, girls and women will no longer have any sex-separated bathrooms, locker rooms, housing accommodations, or other educational programs. Women’s sports are likely endangered too. Any education institution, including many private schools that receive even nominal federal funding, will be affected by this rule. 
The rule also erases other important protections, like due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct, free speech protections for students and teachers who don’t want to use ‘preferred pronouns,’ and parents&#8217; right to know if their child is in the process of a gender identity ‘social transition’ at school. 
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Nicole Neily, President of Parents Defending Education, also <a href="https://twitter.com/nickineily/status/1781309424373493983">responded</a> to the new regulations:
<blockquote>
It is grotesque that the White House has chosen to capitulate to extremists in his party, sacrificing the First Amendment on the altar of Title IX and disregarding clearly established Supreme Court precedent on the definition of sexual harassment. Extending Title IX to cover gender identity means that schools will no longer have discretion over whether – or how – to provide certain services and activities to students on the basis of self-declared gender identity. 
Title IX was written in 1972 when “sex” meant male and female, and no amount of interpretive jiujitsu permits a cabinet agency to rewrite the plain language of the law. Efforts to do so have failed repeatedly in Congress for one simple reason: such an expansion of law is deeply unpopular, with opposition to these changes spanning both political and racial lines. This betrayal of students will not soon be forgotten by American parents, and we look forward to suing the Administration over this policy soon.
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‘Grotesque … Betrayal Of Students’: Critics Blast Biden’s New Title IX Regulations Championing ‘Gender Identity’

Education

Gender Identity

Title IX

U.S.

The Democrat-controlled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> voted on Wednesday to quash a pair of <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Articles-of-Impeachment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">articles of impeachment</a> against Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a>, ending a months-long effort by Republicans to hold the Cabinet official accountable for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-shatters-record-with-historic-number-of-illegal-aliens-encountered-in-december" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handling of</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a> before a full trial could be held.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> impeachment managers tasked with prosecuting the case did not even get a chance to speak when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Le9FYWgrqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the proceedings</a> wrapped up in one afternoon. Senators were sworn in as jurors, fought over how to conduct the trial for a couple of hours, and ultimately voted 51-48 to nix one article of impeachment and 51-49 to crush the second.
The impeachment charges accused Mayorkas &#8220;willfully and systemically&#8221; refusing to comply with federal immigration laws and alleged he &#8220;breached the public trust&#8221; with false statements and obstructing lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Back in January, Mayorkas <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1752349544925294720" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> he was facing &#8220;false accusations&#8221; that &#8220;do not rattle me and do not divert me from the law enforcement and broader public service mission to which I have devoted most of my career and to which I remain devoted.”
One week after a failed attempt to advance the articles, the GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-impeaches-mayorkas-in-second-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> the impeachment resolution by a 214-213 vote in mid-February, making Mayorkas the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached since 1876. Three Republican lawmakers broke ranks and joined Democrats in opposing it.
On Tuesday, the GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-sends-articles-of-impeachment-against-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-to-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transferred</a> the articles to the Senate and the lead impeachment manager, House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), read aloud the articles in the Senate chamber.
Republicans pushed for a full trial to take place. Were that to happen, a two-thirds vote would have eventually been required for a conviction that would remove Mayorkas from office.
&#8220;If the Senate fails to hold a trial, it is an endorsement of [President Joe] Biden’s border catastrophe,&#8221; Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-sends-articles-of-impeachment-against-dhs-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas-to-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> in a post to X before the proceedings began on Wednesday. House Democrats <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1780634428970094674" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> &#8220;policy disagreements are not a legitimate basis for impeachment.&#8221;
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During the trial, presided over by Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray (D-WA), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unveiled a <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1780661212172181610" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> allowing for limited debate followed by motions to dismiss, but that strategy was quickly abandoned when Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1780669344357200338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">objected</a>.
Schumer then moved to effectively discard each of the articles on the view that they were unconstitutional because they failed to rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. He used a <a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/research-tools/glossary.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">point of order</a>, which the Senate glossary says is a &#8220;claim made by a senator or representative from the floor that a rule of the Chamber is being violated,&#8221; that led to a vote to kill each article of impeachment.
Republicans sought to prolong the proceedings after Schumer made each point of order, offering an assortment of motions that included moving to a closed session and <a href="https://twitter.com/CraigCaplan/status/1780686389538893890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adjourning</a> the court of impeachment for weeks or months, but each one got voted down.
&#8220;Our colleagues know that we are obligated to take these proceedings seriously,&#8221; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1780675855909314915" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> before introducing one of the motions. He added, &#8220;This process must not be abused. It must not be short-circuited. History will not judge this moment well.&#8221;
After both points of order prevailed in rejecting the articles of impeachment, Schumer teed up a vote to dismiss the trial. It succeeded by a 51-49 vote.
The Senate <a href="https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently has</a> 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and three independents who caucus with the Democrats. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was the sole Republican to vote &#8220;present&#8221; on the point of order that squelched the first article of impeachment, but she voted with her fellow Republicans to preserve the second one.
Whereas McConnell <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1780697623965716980" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> after the trial that lawmakers &#8220;set a very unfortunate precedent here,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://twitter.com/Jvguzm/status/1780707712831262830" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that using impeachment to replace &#8220;policy disagreements&#8221; would set a &#8220;dangerous precedent.&#8221; A White House spokesman released a statement that <a href="https://twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1780699835756364010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Senate &#8220;rightly voted down&#8221; the impeachment effort.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

Senate Kills Mayorkas Impeachment Articles Without Full Trial

Alejandro Mayorkas

Border Crisis

Department of Homeland Security

Impeachment

U.S. House of Representatives

On Tuesday, the GOP-led House transmitted <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Articles-of-Impeachment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment charges</a> against Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> over his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-shatters-record-with-historic-number-of-illegal-aliens-encountered-in-december" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handling of</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a> to the Democrat-controlled Senate.
The <a href="https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/status/1780305971476156500" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House managers</a> tasked with prosecuting the case were introduced in the Senate chamber and Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN), who is the lead manager, read aloud the text of the impeachment resolution.
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A trial is expected to begin Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET with senators sworn in as jurors. Senate President Pro Tempore Patty Murray (D-WA) has been selected to preside over the proceedings.
GOP lawmakers are concerned that Democrats, who have long called the impeachment inquiry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-committee-picks-date-to-consider-mayorkas-impeachment-articles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a &#8220;political stunt,&#8221;</a> will try to cut short the process before a vote on whether to convict or acquit Mayorkas.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has so far not said whether there will be an effort to table or dismiss the impeachment charges.
Last week, after the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-delays-mayorkas-impeachment-handoff-to-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delayed</a> the delivery of the articles, Schumer <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1778093790227546266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Senate is &#8220;ready to go whenever the House is. We want to address this issue as expeditiously as possible.&#8221; The top Democrat also said impeachment &#8220;should never be used to settle policy disagreements. That sets an awful precedent.&#8221;
House Republicans are &#8220;demanding&#8221; a full trial, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1780238173773111701" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Tuesday, adding that Mayorkas is the &#8220;worst&#8221; Cabinet secretary in U.S. history.
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Forty-three GOP senators <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/40-gop-senators-demand-mayorkas-impeachment-trial-schumer-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed onto a letter</a> sent to Schumer that called on the Senate to &#8220;uphold its constitutional responsibility to properly adjudicate&#8221; the impeachment articles. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1780257492078911725" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he would &#8220;strenuously oppose any effort&#8221; to table the charges, noting the upper chamber has never agreed to do so in the past.
After months of investigation, the House narrowly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-impeaches-mayorkas-in-second-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> two impeachment articles in February. They accuse Mayorkas of &#8220;willfully and systemically&#8221; refusing to comply with federal immigration laws and allege he &#8220;breached the public trust&#8221; with false statements and obstructing lawful oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Mayorkas has <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1752349544925294720" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back against</a> what he called &#8220;false accusations&#8221; levied against him. A DHS spokesperson reacted to the successful House impeachment vote by <a href="https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1757562709107761523" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;House Republicans will be remembered by history for trampling on the Constitution for political gain rather than working to solve the serious challenges at our border.&#8221;
If a full trial does get held, a <a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two-thirds vote</a> will be required for a conviction, which would lead to removal from office. That appears unlikely, however, particularly given not every Republican senator appears to favor the impeachment effort.
The Senate <a href="https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently has</a> 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and three independents who caucus with the Democrats.
One GOP defector could be Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/16/mayorkas-impeachment-dismiss-vote-mitt-romney?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Axios</a> he does not &#8220;believe there&#8217;s a constitutional standard met.&#8221; Romney also said he would be &#8220;open&#8221; to tabling the impeachment articles if there is at least some debate on them.

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Iran intended to kill large numbers of people with the unprecedented attack that it launched against Israel over the weekend, according to a new U.S. intelligence assessment.
Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-informed-turkey-advance-its-operation-against-israel-turkish-source-2024-04-14/">reported</a> that the Biden administration communicated to Iran, through the Turkish government, that it&#8217;s attack on Israel had to be &#8220;within certain limits&#8221;.
Senior U.S. officials <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2024/iran-sought-mass-casualties-in-israel-strike-us-official-say">told</a> Semafor that that the attack — which included hundreds of one-way suicide drones and missiles — was &#8220;designed to cause mass casualties and infrastructure damage,&#8221; the report said.
Israeli officials said that Iran crossed a major red line with its attack, the first time the Islamic Republic has ever directly attacked Israel, and would pay a steep price for the terror inflicted against the Jewish state.
They said that despite Iran&#8217;s claims that it was only targeting military infrastructure, Iran also targeted &#8220;major civilian areas&#8221; and that a direct military response would be required.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-israeli-prime-minister-bennett-fires-back-at-biden-hints-what-israel-will-do-with-iran">slammed</a> President Joe Biden on Sunday for telling Israel that it got a “win” and that they should take the win. The “win,” according to the Biden administration, was the fact that 99% of the projectiles were shot down by Israel and its allies in the region.
“No, it’s NOT a victory,” Bennett wrote. “When a bully tries to hit you 350 times and only succeeds seven time, you’ve NOT won. You don’t win wars just by intercepting your enemy’s hits, nor do you deter it. Your enemy will just try harder with more and better weapons and methods next time.”
He said that the only way to deter further aggression was by “exacting a deeply painful price.”
Bennett said that the attack was a “big mistake” by Iran — which he referred to as “a terror-octopus whose head is Tehran, and its tentacles are in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Gaza.”
“Israel’s strategic mistake for the past 30 years was to play along this strategy,” he said. “We always fought the Octopus’ arms, but hardly exacted a price from its Iranian head.”

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> has already reportedly started to pressure Israel to minimize their response to the unprecedented attack that it faced on Saturday when the Islamic Republic of Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at the country.
Two Israeli officials told The New York Times that Iran launched 185 one-way suicide drones, 110 surface-to-surface missiles, and 36 cruise missiles.
Dana Stroul, formerly the Pentagon’s top Middle East policy official who is now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that whatever Iran&#8217;s goal was for this attack, it fell &#8220;well short of that objective.&#8221;
“Given how significant this attack was, it is difficult to see how Israel cannot respond,” Stroul added.
U.S. officials have asked that Israel notify the U.S. before launching any kind of military response, CNN reported. This is the first time that Iran has ever directly attacked the Jewish state.
CNN added that the Biden administration was urging the Israelis to have &#8220;containment in mind&#8221; rather than escalating the attacks, even though the administration told the network that they viewed Iran&#8217;s attack as &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; to Israel killing the Iranian general.
The report said that Biden was focused on &#8220;preventing a full-scale regional conflict from erupting.&#8221;
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Israel&#8217;s security cabinet authorized the country&#8217;s three-man war cabinet — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, and Benny Gantz — to decide the country&#8217;s response to the Iranian attack.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/israel-attack-strikes-live-updates-rcna147477" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Biden administration was &#8220;concerned&#8221; that Israel could launch a warranted military response &#8220;without thinking through potential fallout afterward.&#8221;
The report said that Biden &#8220;has privately expressed concern&#8221; that Netanyahu could get the U.S. involved in a war in the Middle East, which comes after Biden relaxed sanctions enforcement on Iran, allowing the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism to make $80 billion in oil revenues.
“I don’t think they had a strategy,” a senior Biden administration official said of Israel&#8217;s decision last week to kill an Iranian general who was involved in helping Hamas plan and execute its October 7 massacre on Israel.
The Biden official continued to throw Israel under the bus, claiming: “The Israelis don’t always make the best strategic decisions.”

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An illegal alien from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan</a> who is a member of an Islamic terrorist group is freely roaming the streets of America after the Biden administration released him into the country after he crossed the southern border.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/man-terror-watchlist-remains-us-released-border-patrol-rcna147192" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that 48-year-old Mohammad Kharwin spent a year roaming the streets of America after border officials released him in 2023.
Kharwin is on the FBI&#8217;s national terrorist watchlist because he &#8220;is a member of Hezb-e-Islami, or HIG, a political and paramilitary organization that the U.S. has designated a terrorist organization,&#8221; the report said.
The Director of National Intelligence <a href="https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups/hezb_e_islami.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that Hezb-e-Islami, or “Party of Islam,” is a &#8220;virulently anti-Western insurgent group whose goal is to replace the Western-backed Afghan Government with an Islamic state rooted in sharia.&#8221;
The terror suspect was arrested last month, but released again by an immigration judge in the Biden administration&#8217;s Department of Justice who was not told of his terrorist ties. He paid his $12,000 bond and was released and is out on bond and there are &#8220;no restrictions on his movements&#8221; inside the U.S., the report said.
He was released by the Biden administration because they reportedly &#8220;lacked corroborating information&#8221; confirming his terrorist ties, but they wouldn&#8217;t disclose what they were missing.
Kharwin has since applied for &#8220;asylum and work authorization,&#8221; and has flown domestically inside the U.S., the report said.
His next court date is not until next year, the report added.
The case comes just a couple months after another bombshell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terrorist-caught-at-border-released-into-country-not-caught-for-nearly-a-year-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> emerged about an Islamic terrorist with al-Shabaab who roamed the U.S. free for nearly a year.
In March 2023, according to an internal federal memo, federal authorities caught a terrorist illegally crossing the southern border, then shortly thereafter released him into the country, where he stayed before he was arrested recently in Minnesota.
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The terrorist, who was determined in mid-January 2024 to be a “confirmed member of al-Shabaab” by the Terrorist Screening Center, was initially considered a “mismatch” after his name was examined through the terror watchlist, The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/29/exclusive-terrorist-caught-illegally-crossing-border-allowed-roam-free-nearly-year-memo-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. On January 20, he was caught in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Al-Shabaab was named a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in <a href="https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 2008.</a> The group pledged loyalty to al-Qaeda in 2012. According to the <a href="https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/al_shabaab_fto.html#:~:text=The%20US%20State%20Department%20designated,are%20Specially%20Designated%20Global%20Terrorists." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Counter-Terrorism Guide</a> for the Director of National Intelligence, “Since 2014 al-Shabaab has killed more US citizens than any other al Qa’ida affiliate, and as of 2022, was its wealthiest component.”

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