Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher declared himself spokesman for &#8220;the normies&#8221; during a &#8220;CBS Sunday Morning&#8221; interview, claiming that his goal was to stay away from the extremes on either side of the political spectrum and speak to the overwhelming majority he believes are in the middle.
Maher told anchor Robert Costa that over time—and after reviewing a number of his old editorials for a book—he had come to the conclusion that he had not changed, and the country had.
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Bill Maher, host of HBO&#39;s &quot;Real Time&quot; and author of &quot;What This Comedian Said Will Shock You&quot; takes aim at tribal politics without bias toward the right or left. <a href="https://twitter.com/costareports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@costareports</a> sits down with the comedian and writer. <a href="https://t.co/Fy8CeKqMCF">https://t.co/Fy8CeKqMCF</a> <a href="https://t.co/7NHHMhmKp8">pic.twitter.com/7NHHMhmKp8</a>
&mdash; CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSSunday/status/1789662913533247650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I speak for the normies. I speak for that vast middle that is tired of the partisanship. I don’t want to hate half the country, and I don’t hate half the country,&#8221; Maher said.
When prompted, Maher said that he typically found the extreme Right to be more &#8220;alarming&#8221; while the extreme Left was more likely to be a source of frustration or irritation – but he went on to say that he felt compelled to address the issues with both extremes because the truth was somewhere in the middle.
&#8220;The truth isn’t one-sided like that,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;The Democrats constantly are running against Trump with the idea &#8216;You people out there couldn’t possibly vote for this guy.&#8217; And people are saying, &#8216;Watch me. Hold my beer. Watch me vote for him again.'&#8221;
While Maher has made no secret of his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kate-couric-balks-at-bill-mahers-recap-of-trump-killing-it-on-cnn-town-hall-the-audience-loved-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disapproval</a> of former President Donald Trump — or the fact that he believes President Joe Biden, though <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hes-going-to-lose-bill-maher-has-bad-news-for-donna-brazile-about-bidens-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">certainly flawed</a>, is preferable — he has often <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shut-the-f-up-bill-maher-slams-the-brakes-on-michael-moores-anti-republican-rant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skewered the far Left</a>, mainly to show them that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/keep-marching-for-hamas-kids-bill-maher-says-campus-protesters-just-dont-get-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">their antics</a> could result in another Trump victory.
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&#8220;The Afghanistan culture — part of it — is we found out when we invaded and stayed there for 20 years. There are rich men who have, like, 10-year-old boys. That’s just a thing — like — you can get when you’re a rich guy; so keep marching for Hamas, kids. You really got your liberal eyes on the right prize here,&#8221; Maher recently told UFC President Dana White, referencing the students protesting Israel on college campuses.
&#8220;Now they’re cheering for Iran because they just fired all the missiles at Israel. So Iran is the good guys? You mean, the Ayatollah, the f***ing black-hearted, black-eyed, bomb-planting dude that we — captured our people?&#8221; he added.

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Bill Maher Declares Himself Spokesman For Moderates Everywhere: ‘I Speak For The Normies’

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The &#8216;Ragin&#8217; Cajun&#8217; lived up to his old nickname in a recent video, scolding and berating younger Americans and telling them all the horrible things he believed would happen if former President Donald Trump won another term in the White House.
James Carville, longtime Democrat strategist, raised eyebrows with his predictions and his outright attacks on the younger voters he was apparently trying to win over to his side.
&#8220;If they get ahold, there will be no government left, there will be no rights left, you will live under theocracy, you&#8217;ll end up with Christian Nationalism. But that&#8217;s alright you little f***ing 26-year-old, you don&#8217;t feel like the election&#8217;s &#8216;important to me, they&#8217;re not addressing the issues I care about.'&#8221;
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James Carville threatening young people to vote for Biden: &quot;[If Trump wins] There will be no government left, there will be no rights left, you will live under theocracy, you&#39;ll end up with Christian Nationalism. But that&#39;s alright you little fucking 26 year old, you don&#39;t feel… <a href="https://t.co/vixpjLRzc2">pic.twitter.com/vixpjLRzc2</a>
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Carville&#8217;s comments came on the heels of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-cnn-poll-spells-likely-disaster-for-biden-as-election-looms-nearer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">devastating CNN poll</a> that spelled trouble for President Joe Biden&#8217;s reelection campaign — a poll in which well over half the respondents (61%) said that Biden&#8217;s presidency so far has been a failure and 55% viewed the Trump years as a success.
Carville, who worked alongside ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos during former President Bill Clinton&#8217;s 1992 campaign, said that he had been <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-carville-mocks-young-voters-sour-biden-says-f-you-key-bloc-voters?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing complaints</a> — particularly from younger voters — about the fact that Biden and Trump were getting up there in years.
&#8220;James, young voters are just not into this. It’s two candidates, one’s in their 80s, one is almost in their 80s, they’re concerned about things that Washington politicians, and you just can’t blame them for &#8230;&#8221; MSNBC&#8217;s Ari Melber commented before Carville erupted. &#8220;Oh, s***. F*** you!&#8221; he said, arguing that young Americans needed to suck it up and vote anyway.
&#8220;Are you watching what is happening in the Supreme Court?&#8221; the longtime Democrat strategist asked. &#8220;If you’re 26, do you see what they’re doing? First of all, they’re gonna take every right that you could possibly have away from you &#8230; Don&#8217;t teach anybody that the current Supreme Court has any moral or legal legitimacy. It doesn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s in there because of contrivements, and it&#8217;s in there because of weakness and cowardice.&#8221;

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Runaways singer Cherie Currie has had enough of the &#8220;lies and more lies&#8221; coming out of the Democratic Party — and she said that it&#8217;s no longer &#8220;punk&#8221; to vote for them.
Currie, who rose to fame as part of the &#8220;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzH-k4Ks1Cp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all-girls answer to Grand Funk [Railroad]</a>,&#8221; shared the spotlight with iconic punk guitarists Joan Jett and Lita Ford — but she said in a post to X on Wednesday that the Democratic Party had lost its Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll cred.
&#8220;It used to be PUNK, R&amp;R to vote Democrat. I fell for it,&#8221; Currie said. &#8220;But when your party demands you live in fear, squaller [sic], beyond your means by just buying groceries, gasoline, disrespecting our veterans, our police, our elderly, supporting CRIMINALS, chaos, riots, Hamas, FAILING Israel, demeaning us at every turn! HURTING our CHILDREN! Wasting OUR MONEY.&#8221;
&#8220;Ineptitude with every policy! Lies and more lies &#8230; NO MORE!&#8221; she continued. &#8220;The Democrat Party can KISS MY A$$. They don’t give a damn. That’s true. Voting Dem used to be cool. But now, it just makes you a FOOL.&#8221;
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It used to be PUNK, R&amp;R to vote Democrat. I fell for it. But when your party demands you live in fear, squaller, beyond your means by just buying groceries, gasoline, disrespecting our veterans, our police, our elderly, supporting CRIMINALS, chaos, riots, Hamas, FAILING Israel,… <a href="https://t.co/JyHRucdbI2">pic.twitter.com/JyHRucdbI2</a>
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Currie went on to respond to several of the comments on her original post, including one that reminded her that Democrats were &#8220;the pro-choice party&#8221; and Republicans had tried multiple times (although they failed) to do away with former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Affordable Care Act.
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Currie was not buying the argument, however, responding, &#8220;Obama LIED. He was a terrible president and I VOTED FOR HIM! But only once. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that man could create racism and devolve us as a nation. He did that. He’s a liar. A mistake! We are in this racist hell whole thanks to him!&#8221;
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Obama LIED. He was a terrible president and I VOTED FOR HIM! But only once. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that man could create racism and devolve us as a nation. He did that. He’s a liar. A mistake! We are in this racist hell whole thanks to him!
&mdash; Cherie Currie (@CherieCurrie3) <a href="https://twitter.com/CherieCurrie3/status/1783324973320511495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Currie recently made headlines when her <a href="https://twitter.com/CherieCurrie3/status/1766637936009953293" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinions</a> about gender transitions for children resulted in her removal from the Riot Girl Festival in Bisbee, Arizona.
&#8220;It’s official! I’ve finally been cancelled by the Trans Activists. The Riot Girl Festival in Bisbee, AZ early May had to be cancelled due to an uproar that I speak out against Transitioning children. I am sad for my cherished friend that was putting this great Festival on. For the belligerent threats against me which caused her stress, I am so very sorry,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;To those behind ruining a lucrative weekend for you and your town? You lose. That’s on you. I will never stop protecting children, speaking the truth and I’ll never back down. For me, it’s only a scratch.&#8221;

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Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat, exploded during a press conference on Friday after he was asked why local officials were trying to hide the fact that a teenager who was arrested for allegedly plotting school shootings was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a>.
The thwarted shooter, an 18-year-old woman from Rockville who identifies as a man, was arrested on Wednesday by the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), the county <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/court-docs-show-trans-teen-arrested-for-planning-mass-shooting-fawned-over-covenant-shooter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a news release, adding that the FBI notified the MCPD about a 129-page “manifesto” in which the teenager wrote about committing a school shooting, contemplated targeting an elementary school, and more.
&#8220;What is the reluctance of the county to admit that this individual was transgender?&#8221; an individual asked Elrich at the press conference. &#8220;This is the fourth time that we&#8217;ve seen this happen very recently. And right here I hear all of our leadership saying to us today, and what we do in journalism here, what we try not do is bury the lede. Why am I hearing about this from the New York Post?&#8221;
&#8220;Because it&#8217;s not a lede,&#8221; Elrich responded. &#8220;You know, how do you publicize every time somebody gets murdered that it&#8217;s a white Christian male, who&#8217;s heterosexual? No, you don&#8217;t, you don&#8217;t&#8211; are these the only crimes that get committed? You never publish somebody&#8217;s sexual orientation when you talk about them.&#8221;
&#8220;Why are you focused on it being a transgender is beyond me,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;It is not a news story. It is not a crime to be transgender. And I&#8217;m sorry you feel that way.&#8221;
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The individual who asked the question fired back: &#8220;That&#8217;s not what I said.&#8221;
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Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich SNAPS when a journalist asks why they&#8217;re covering up the fact that Andrea Ye was transgender.
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> residents express outrage over the death of a young woman who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/once-deported-illegal-immigrant-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-death-of-25-year-old-michigan-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> allegedly by an illegal immigrant in Grand Rapids, Democratic Congresswoman Hillary Scholten — whose district covers the city — is being criticized for her past work attempting to stop the U.S. from deporting an Iraqi refugee charged with child molestation.
Scholten, a freshman congresswoman who flipped her district from Republican to Democrat in 2022, worked as an immigration attorney before she was elected to Congress and once wrote a <a href="https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2195&amp;context=fac_pubs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">journal article</a> for the St. Louis University School of Law where she and her co-author, Maureen Sweeney, called deportation “cruel and unusual punishment.” Scholten’s work as an immigration attorney appeared to reflect her beliefs laid out in the 2011 journal article when, beginning in 2018, she fought to stop the deportation of an Iraqi woman who was charged with molesting a 12-year-old girl, according to court documents first reported on by <a href="https://www.themidwesterner.news/2024/04/hillary-scholtens-immigration-leadership-includes-deeming-deportation-cruel-and-unusual-punishment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Midwesterner</a>.
Azal “Mary” Saleh, a refugee and registered sex offender from Iraq, was facing deportation after being charged with molesting a child when Scholten defended her. Saleh appealed her removal order, arguing that she was protected by the Convention Against Torture.
Following The Midwesterner report, Michigan Republicans slammed the congresswoman and anyone seeking to protect illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes from deportation. Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon ripped Scholten on her eponymous <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tudor-dixon-podcast/id1678556326" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> last weekend, <a href="https://twitter.com/TudorDixon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> the Democratic congresswoman “defends pedophiles, keeps them in this country when they are illegal immigrants, [and] also wants to get ICE out of her county.”
Scholten’s fellow Michigan representative, Tim Walberg — a Republican — represents a district just south of Scholten’s. Earlier this month, an illegal immigrant from Mexico was <a href="https://wwmt.com/news/local/sturgis-police-home-invasion-sexual-assault-sweet-lake-mobile-home-park-arrest-michigan-police-sheriff-office-saint-joseph-county" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> for allegedly breaking into a home in Walberg’s district and sexually assaulting two young girls.
Walberg told The Daily Wire in a statement that anyone “working to keep illegal immigrant sex offenders in this country is radical and morally wrong.&#8221;
“Sadly, Michigan is not immune from violent crime committed by illegal immigrants, whether that be Ruby Garcia’s murder or the sexual assault of two young girls in my district a few weeks ago. Working to keep illegal immigrant sex offenders in this country is radical and morally wrong,” Walberg said. “We should be projecting a clear, unified message that this is not acceptable.”
Rep. Scholten has not responded to a Daily Wire request for comment.
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According to <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca6/18-4033/18-4033-2019-12-12.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court documents</a>, Saleh came to the U.S. as a refugee in 2010 and lived with a foster family in Michigan. While staying with the foster family, Saleh was raped and forced into prostitution, the court documents state. Saleh then moved in with her case worker whose granddaughter later accused Saleh of sexually assaulting her.
“Though Petitioner contests the truth of these allegations, she pleaded guilty to Criminal Sexual Conduct in the Fourth Degree, Victim Between Ages 13-16, the offense that prompted the instant removal proceedings,” the court documents state.
Saleh fought against the deportation, arguing that “she would be tortured upon removal to Iraq because of her identity as a female, Christian, Westernized, single mother without family support and with a history of forced prostitution and a criminal record that identifies her as having engaged in homosexual activity.”
The Iraqi refugee&#8217;s appeal was denied in part and dismissed in part, but Saleh, now 31 years old, still lives in Lansing, Michigan, according to the <a href="https://mspsor.com/Home/OffenderDetails/17dbd2f0-874c-4046-aeb5-ae25d2545d43" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Sex Offender Registry</a>.
Scholten has sought to address the illegal immigration crisis under President Joe Biden by visiting the southern border earlier this year, calling it a “national security crisis, a humanitarian crisis, and an economic crisis.” The congresswoman&#8217;s district was then rocked by the murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, whose body was found near a Grand Rapids road last month. Brandon Ortiz-Vite, who was deported in 2020 under the Trump administration, was charged with killing Garcia.
&#8220;My heart breaks for Ruby Garcia and her family as they grapple with this unspeakable tragedy,&#8221; Scholten <a href="https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/border-concerns-ruby-garcia-killed/69-7455be0e-2b68-490b-b51c-32c60fdda06e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> following Garcia&#8217;s murder. &#8220;The individual who committed this heinous crime should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I&#8217;m continuing to push for bipartisan immigration reform that both secures our border and makes sure that individuals who come to our country are fully vetted to keep our communities safe.&#8221;

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Dem Congresswoman Called Deportation ‘Cruel And Unusual Punishment,’ Fought Against Removal Of Refugee Charged With Molesting Child

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&#8220;The View&#8221; co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin attempted to rewrite history during a live television segment, claiming repeatedly that it was always Republicans, not Democrats, who &#8220;stacked&#8221; the Supreme Court.
The conversation began with ousted MSNBC host <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mehdi Hasan</a>, who recently called on liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step aside &#8220;for the sake of all of us.&#8221;
Despite <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/for-the-sake-of-all-of-us-sonia-sotomayor-needs-to-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court#:~:text=It%20is%20Sonia%20Sotomayor%20who,highest%20bench%20in%20the%20land.">referring</a> to Sotomayor as the &#8220;greatest liberal to sit on the Supreme Court in my adult lifetime,&#8221; he argued that she should do what the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not — much to the dismay of many liberals — and retire when she was guaranteed that a Democratic president and Senate would rubber-stamp a liberal replacement.
Goldberg was not impressed with Hasan, arguing that he should be going after Justice Clarence Thomas instead.
&#8220;Getting her off doesn&#8217;t mean somebody else is going to get on and be better,&#8221; she said.
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Goldberg went on to claim that Democrats did not &#8220;stack the court,&#8221; arguing that Republicans were the only ones guilty of such action.
&#8220;Democrats, we don&#8217;t stack the court. We don&#8217;t. We don&#8217;t do that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;A lot of us wanted [Biden] to do that but he won&#8217;t do that because that&#8217;s not how you run the government, that&#8217;s his feeling.&#8221;
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Revisionist history and lies from ABC News. Whoopi Goldberg declares: &quot;Democrats, we don&#39;t stack the court. We don&#39;t. We don&#39;t do that.&quot; FACT CHECK: False. Democratic President FDR stacked the court. Sunny Hostin claims the GOP &quot;stacked the court&quot; by filling vacant seats. <a href="https://t.co/gzz0OAq8iZ">pic.twitter.com/gzz0OAq8iZ</a>
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Goldberg and Hostin then claimed that by filling empty seats, the Republicans had &#8220;stacked the court.&#8221;
Despite their claims, the only real attempt at &#8220;stacking&#8221; or &#8220;packing&#8221; the Court came from the late Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the form of his <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-fdr-lost-his-brief-war-on-the-supreme-court-2#:~:text=The%20plan%20was%20to%20pass,own%20justices%20to%20the%20court." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937</a>. If that bill had passed, FDR would have been able to appoint one new Justice for every sitting justice who reached the age of 70 and did not retire.
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&#8220;This plan of mine is not attacking of the court; it seeks to restore the court to its rightful and historic place in our system of constitutional government and to have it resume its high task of building anew on the Constitution &#8216;a system of living law,'&#8221; Roosevelt said at the time.
The Senate Judiciary Committee delivered a scathing review of the plan, however, stating, &#8220;The bill is an invasion of judicial power such as has never before been attempted in this country &#8230; It is essential to the continuance of our constitutional democracy that the judiciary be completely independent of both the executive and legislative branches of the government. &#8230; It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.&#8221;

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Whoopi Goldberg And Sunny Hostin Rewrite History On Live TV, Claim Republicans ‘Stacked The Court’

Whoopi Goldberg And Sunny Hostin Rewrite History On Live TV, Claim Republicans 'Stacked The Court'

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A Democrat state judge in Illinois ordered on Wednesday that former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> must be removed from the presidential ballot, claiming that Trump engaged in insurrection during the January 6 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
Judge Tracie R. Porter of the State Circuit Court in Cook County <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/356e00f60907ee5c/dd15e02b-full.pdf">ruled</a> that the State Board of Elections “shall remove Donald J. Trump from the ballot for the General Primary Election on March 19, 2024, or cause any votes cast for him to be suppressed.”
Porter stayed her order, giving Trump until Friday to appeal her ruling while early voting in the state&#8217;s presidential primary is already underway.
&#8220;The Soros-funded Democrat front-groups continue to attempt to interfere in the election and deny President Trump his rightful place on the ballot,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Trump Campaign said in a statement. &#8220;Today, an activist Democrat judge in Illinois summarily overruled the state&#8217;s board of elections and contradicted earlier decisions from dozens of other state and federal jurisdictions. This is an unconstitutional ruling that we will quickly appeal. In the meantime, President Trump remains on the Illinois ballot, is dominating the polls, and will Make America Great Again!&#8221;
Porter said that Trump should be kept off the ballot because of the 14th Amendment ban on insurrectionists holding office despite the fact that Trump has never been charged with insurrection in Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s January 6 case against the former president in Washington, D.C.
Porter&#8217;s ruling overturns the State Board of Elections&#8217; ruling last month to keep Trump on the ballot after a group of voters accused Trump of engaging in insurrection.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering the issue of Trump&#8217;s eligibility after he was kicked off the ballot in Colorado following a small group of voters pulling a similar tactic to remove him.
Section 3 of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment bans former officeholders who &#8220;engaged in insurrection&#8221; from ever holding public office again.
&#8220;No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,&#8221; Section 3 of the 14 Amendment states.

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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson gave new details during an interview this week about his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/longtime-democrat-dallas-mayor-switching-to-gop-american-cities-need-republicans">decision to switch</a> from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.
Johnson made the remarks during an interview on Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s (R-TX) &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson.
Johnson highlighted his background growing up poor to working class parents and being raised in a family where faith was central to their everyday lives. He said that while his family was not political, they had a very strong sense of right and wrong and put a priority on treating others well, working hard, and following the law.
&#8220;And so, I think I was always politically in a weird posture with the Democratic Party, because at its core — and I didn&#8217;t understand this at the very beginning — &#8230; you sort of inherit the Democratic Party as a cultural heirloom, when you&#8217;re African American in this country, it sort of gets handed to you, as part of who you are,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I had more phone calls with people distraught about this party switch than I ever would have gotten if I had told people that I was actually leaving the church. There&#8217;s no question about it. There&#8217;s no doubt about it. I will say that loudly and on the record. I had more panicked phone calls from people genuinely concerned about what I was doing and how I could do this than I would have gotten if I&#8217;d said I just don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m into this Jesus thing anymore.&#8221;
&#8220;At the Democratic Party&#8217;s core, as I was saying, is a belief that how things turn out for you in this country are largely determined by things that are outside of your control, the race you&#8217;re born, the neighborhood you&#8217;re born in, it just kind of excuses away your failures and excuses away your successes to something that&#8217;s out of your control,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;If you&#8217;re successful and you&#8217;re white males, it’s because of course you were. And if you&#8217;re unsuccessful as an African American, it&#8217;s both the deck was stacked against you. And I just wasn&#8217;t a person who ever believed that. And that wasn&#8217;t how I was raised. And it&#8217;s not what I was taught. But it was the overarching political philosophy of my party.&#8221;
Johnson said that politicians need to be more honest about what the &#8220;winning formula&#8221; is often times when it comes to dealing with policy issues.
&#8220;The winning formula ends up being exactly what the conservative ideology would tell you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It has to do with taking upon yourself the responsibility for yourself, and not believing that the Democratic party or any party is there to save you. And the Democratic Party wants you to believe you can&#8217;t get there without them.&#8221;
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Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson shocked the world by leaving the Democrat party and becoming a Republican.
His life story of success and hard work was fundamentally at odds with the Democrat party&#39;s opposition to meritocracy.
Listen to his story on Verdict👇<a href="https://t.co/S2x5Gyc3xm">https://t.co/S2x5Gyc3xm</a> <a href="https://t.co/7EVsIVWiwe">pic.twitter.com/7EVsIVWiwe</a>
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Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey tapped a woman she was romantically involved with for multiple years to serve on the state’s Supreme Judicial Court.
On Wednesday, Healey officially nominated Massachusetts Appeals Court Associate Justice Gabrielle Wolohojian, who has served on the appeals court since 2008, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/gabrielle-wolohojian-maura-healey-supreme-judicial-court-nomination-massachusetts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The two had previously shared a home and first went public with their relationship in 2013 when Healey ran for attorney general.
&#8220;There is no one more qualified or more well-prepared to join the SJC than Justice Wolohojian. I’m proud of that nomination, and I’m proud of nominating someone who is so deserving and so qualified. It is what the commonwealth deserves,&#8221; Healey said in a press conference, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massachusetts-governor-maura-healey-nominates-former-romantic-partner-states-high-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Healey defended her pick, saying that her former partner was unanimously recommended by the five-member Judicial Nominating Commission.
&#8220;Of course, I had a personal relationship with Judge Wolohojian for many years, so I happen to also know something about her character and her integrity and the kind of person she is,&#8221; Healey added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want the fact that she had a personal relationship with me to deprive the Commonwealth of a person who&#8217;s most qualified for the position.&#8221;
In 2015, Boston Magazine <a href="https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2015/07/28/unstoppable-maura-healey/2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Healey and Wolohojian had been together for eight years after meeting at the law firm Hale &amp; Dorr where they had both worked at one time. Healey and Wolohojian then moved in together, living in a rowhouse in Boston&#8217;s Charlestown neighborhood. Healey, who became the first open lesbian to be <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-charlie-baker-donald-trump-eed9407d66e03dd87051e46321a36f6f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elected</a> governor in the U.S. in 2022, now lives with her partner Joanna Lydgate, Boston.com <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2024/02/07/maura-healey-nominates-a-judge-and-former-romantic-partner-to-the-states-highest-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Wolohojian’s nomination was slammed by the chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party, who said it is “highly inappropriate.”
&#8220;It is highly inappropriate for the governor to nominate to Massachusetts’ highest court an individual with whom she had a long-term romantic relationship in the past,&#8221; Massachusetts GOP chair Amy Carnevale said. &#8220;This nomination clearly demonstrates a lack of accountability inherent in one-party rule.&#8221;
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Wolohojian must now be approved by the Governor’s Council, an eight-member board that will hold a confirmation hearing on February 21.

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Presidential hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) pushed back on an MSNBC panel led by Symone Sanders Townsend — former chief spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris — as they attempted to grill him on the heels of his decisive loss in the South Carolina Democratic primary.
Sanders, who worked on Senator Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) 2016 presidential campaign, began by pointing to the numbers — Phillips took third place behind President Joe Biden and fellow Democratic challenger Marianne Williamson — and asked Phillips to explain how he could possibly hope to win a general election when he could not win the Democratic primary.
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Grateful for the invitation from <a href="https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SymoneDSanders</a> and MSNBC to discuss why Democrats must use invitation &#8211; not condemnation &#8211; and promote a new generation of common sense leaders like <a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovWhitmer</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJeffries</a>.
We will not succeed by coronating leaders of the past when… <a href="https://t.co/4Fbavkqwyw">pic.twitter.com/4Fbavkqwyw</a>
&mdash; Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) <a href="https://twitter.com/deanbphillips/status/1754199443887313334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Phillips pointed to the fact that his name recognition nationally was practically non-existent — something he attributed to the fact that the Democratic Party appeared to be more interested in simply coronating Joe Biden than in encouraging healthy debate and competition.
&#8220;I think I probably have 5% name recognition now in the country. No voters know me,&#8221; Phillips said. &#8220;In fact, this is my first invitation to your network in four months. So I&#8217;m grateful to all of you — sincerely, I mean that.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s my whole point,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The GOP has had a competition. They&#8217;re on TV, they&#8217;re consuming hundreds of hours of primetime television, debates, town halls. CNN has given every GOP candidate a one-hour town hall. At least there&#8217;s energy on the GOP side. We don&#8217;t get energy unless there&#8217;s competition. So when you coronate someone — especially a man like Joe Biden &#8230;&#8221;
Phillips went on to explain that he respected Biden but that his goal was to encourage more competition — a move that he said would ultimately help Democrats to put forth the best and strongest candidates.
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele weighed in next: &#8220;So the Chairman in me says, &#8216;What the hell you doing?'&#8221;
Steele went on to argue that the Democratic Party had had a chance to choose someone different in 2020 — and they had chosen Biden. He argued that the fact that Biden was not stepping down — which Phillips said was a &#8220;big mistake&#8221; — meant that the primary was his to lose.

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Freshman Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) launched a tirade against the Republican-led Secure the Border Act — H.R. 2 — and claimed that if the House Republicans acted to secure the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S.-Mexico</a> border, they should also be in favor of scrapping the Statue of Liberty.
Frost held up his own bill — which would remove the iconic statue from New York&#8217;s harbor — telling Republican lawmakers that he had &#8220;taken the liberty of drafting it&#8221; and suggesting that they could pass it alongside the &#8220;bigoted&#8221; H.R. 2.
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Freshman Democrat Rep. Max Frost: Republicans might as well take down the Statue of Liberty if they&#39;re going to demand a secure border! 🤔 <a href="https://t.co/6yAHno9n7l">pic.twitter.com/6yAHno9n7l</a>
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&#8220;My colleagues from the other side of the aisle, let’s be honest with immigrants who deserve better than what you’re offering them. Don’t welcome immigrants if you plan to reject them. If you keep pushing your bigoted H.R. 2 bill, then also pass this bill. I’ve taken the liberty of drafting it for you,&#8221; Frost announced, waving the paper at them. &#8220;It removes the Statue of Liberty, our largest symbol that tells people to come here.&#8221;
&#8220;This is who you are, removing the fabric of America,&#8221; he accused his colleagues. &#8220;So, I want to know which Republican, who supports and voted for H.R.2, will introduce this bill. If you’re gonna support H.R.2 and these bigoted measures, the least you can do is not be a damn liar.&#8221;
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) responded to Frost&#8217;s tirade, saying, &#8220;This is the kind of serious policy debate we’ve come to expect from @DebbieforFL’s top surrogate. Excited to hear where Debbie stands on this debate. For the record, I’m pro-border security and anti-taking down the Statue of Liberty.&#8221;
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This is the kind of serious policy debate we’ve come to expect from <a href="https://twitter.com/DebbieforFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DebbieforFL</a>’s top surrogate. 
Excited to hear where Debbie stands on this debate 🧐🧐
For the record, I’m pro-border security and anti-taking down the Statue of Liberty. <a href="https://t.co/b9EaYqqsx2">https://t.co/b9EaYqqsx2</a>
&mdash; Rick Scott (@ScottforFlorida) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1747793027706302912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There’s only one party in this country that wants to tear down statues, and it’s not Republicans,&#8221; Mark Hemingway added.
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There’s only one party in this country that wants to tear down statues, and it’s not Republicans. <a href="https://t.co/zBTKqxHPKg">https://t.co/zBTKqxHPKg</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1747752460188254270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Despite Frost&#8217;s speech, 14 members of his own party <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/14-house-democrats-vote-to-denounce-biden-admins-open-borders-policies">voted with Republicans</a> on House Resolution 957, &#8220;Denouncing the Biden administration&#8217;s open-borders policies, condemning the national security and public safety crisis along the southwest border, and urging President Biden to end his administration&#8217;s open-borders policies.&#8221;

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U.S. Capitol Police is <a href="https://heavy.com/news/aidan-maese-czeropski/">reportedly</a> investigating a gay sex tape that appears to have been filmed in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington D.C.
The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/15/staffer-caught-filming-sex-tape-senate-hearing-room/">obtained</a> and released the recording of the alleged staffer having anal sex with another man, who is not identified.
“The alleged staffer can also be seen in a photo, naked on all fours, looking back at the camera on the table where Senators often sit to ask questions during a hearing. It appears to be unprotected sex,” The Daily Caller’s Henry Rodgers reports.
The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/a-race-to-the-bottom-in-ben-cardins-office/">reports</a> that the staffer allegedly is Aidan Maese-Czeropski, who worked as a legislative aide for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD). Maese-Czeropski has since responded to the allegations in a statement on social media, saying that he has been “attacked for who I love,” and that he “would never disrespect my workplace” and is “exploring what legal options are available to me.”
Cardin&#8217;s office released a statement on Saturday saying that Maese-Czeropski was &#8220;no longer employed by the U.S. Senate.&#8221; The declined to comment further on the matter.
Jonathan Turley, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law, <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2023/12/16/capitol-police-investigating-porn-video-shot-in-senate-committee-room/">said</a> that there were various charges that could be brought forward in the case under the D.C. code, including Section 22-1312 for lewd, indecent, or obscene acts.
&#8220;It is unlawful for a person, in public, to make an obscene or indecent exposure of his or her genitalia or anus, to engage in masturbation, or to engage in a sexual act as defined in § 22-3001(8),&#8221; the statute says. &#8220;It is unlawful for a person to make an obscene or indecent sexual proposal to a minor. A person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01, imprisoned for not more than 90 days, or both.&#8221;
Turley argued other charges that could be brought forward include Section 1361, which protects “any property” of the United States from willful depredation or attempted depredation; 18 U.S.C. 641 on the misuse of public money, property, or records; and 18 U.S.C. 1752, which defines trespassing as anyone who “knowingly enters or remains in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so.”

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