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The Mexican government has funded a lawsuit for illegal migrants in Florida who are facing human smuggling charges and prison time under Gov. Ron DeSantis's law curbing illegal migration.
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The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center has put a group run by gays on its "hate map" because the group opposes transgendering children.
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Nearly 14 months after the first of four unprecedented criminal prosecutions against former President Donald Trump commenced in earnest, the Democrat-lawfare complex got its man: The Soviet show trial in “Justice” Juan Merchan’s dingy New York City courtroom produced its preordained “guilty” verdict.
It is perhaps hackneyed to observe that, in convicting and seeking to incarcerate a former president and current leading presidential candidate, we have “crossed the Rubicon.” Well …
The Rubicon, truthfully, is a shallow, inconsequential river in Italy. That it is so shallow helps explain why Julius Caesar was able to cross it so easily. At this juncture in American history, it no longer suffices to speak of crossing a Rubicon. We are now rapidly crossing great seas—perhaps even circumnavigating the globe. You might call President Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrat-lawfare complex our modern-day Magellans.
Ruinous or not, however, their precedent has now been set. And that raises the obvious question: For Democrats, will all of this, and especially their multifront anti-Trump lawfare, prove to be worth it?
That obvious question, in turn, has an equally obvious answer: absolutely, positively not.
First, Democrats do not seem to be getting much of a bump in the early polls after last week’s verdict. In each of the two major national polls that have been conducted exclusively after the verdict, from pollsters Emerson College and Morning Consult, Trump leads by one point. As even the liberal Washington Post conceded on Thursday, “Other polls conducted before and after the verdict suggest between no change and a two-point shift toward Biden. The shifts are quite a bit smaller than pretrial polls suggested they could be.”
Considering that Trump was already leading in most national horse race polling and that the Republican Party currently has a built-in Electoral College advantage wherein its presidential candidate can slightly lose the popular vote while still prevailing in the electoral vote, the Biden-Harris campaign ought to be worried.
Democrats’ lawfare isn’t winning over many swing voters.
Former President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom May 30 during his since-ended “hush money” trial in New York City. Democrats got their preordained “guilty” verdict, but there’s no evidence it gave them the polling bump they hoped for. (Photo: Michael Santiago/Getty Images)
Second, the damage the Democrat-lawfare complex has caused to the American public’s faith and trust in the justice system is simply astronomical—and likely irreparable. Even prior to the onslaught of Trump indictments filed last year, many of us “deplorables” were already convinced we have a two-tier system of justice in this country: Consider the wholly disparate prosecutorial treatment of the BLM-Antifa rioters and the “J6-ers” present during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol jamboree, for instance.
But the Democrat-lawfare complex’s serial overreaches have now removed any doubt as to the blatant impartiality and patent unfairness of our regnant legal order. It is impossible not to be jaded or cynical. Leviticus 19:15 commands: “You shall commit no injustice in judgment; you shall not favor a poor person or respect a great man; you shall judge your fellow with righteousness.”
Does anyone think this describes America today?
Third, the Right finally seems to be snapping out of its long lull and beginning to gear itself for pitched battle against a domestic foe that wants to punish us, prosecute us, subjugate us, and remove us from the entirety of American public life. That portends poorly for leftists.
My friend John Yoo, the Bush-era Justice Department official and law professor normally a bit less pugnacious than yours truly, opined: “Repairing this breach of constitutional norms will require Republicans to follow the age-old maxim: Do unto others as they have done unto you.”
Megyn Kelly, the influential broadcaster who has had a complex relationship with Trump going back to the 2016 GOP presidential primary, said after the verdict: “I’m going to utter words I never thought I would utter in my life: We need Steve Bannon.” The famously combative Bannon appears headed for an unjust four-month prison sentence in a few weeks, but her point stands.
Democrats have no idea what they have unleashed. Perhaps worse, they don’t even care.
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A Democrat-controlled Connecticut town council is facing backlash for refusing to fly a "thin blue line" flag to honor a fallen state trooper.
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While many legal experts say a jury should easily convict Hunter Biden, others say that jury nullification is a real risk for the prosecution.
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The prosecution rested on Friday in Hunter Biden's gun trial with the defense now scheduled to bring witnesses to the stand. The trial will likely conclude next week.
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The case could be a window into how Noreika might sentence Hunter if a jury finds him guilty of gun violations.
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On Thursday, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) pledged to litigate on Donald Trump's behalf if the NYPD revokes his concealed carry permit.
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A professional rock climber was handed a life sentence on Tuesday for repeatedly raping a 19-year-old woman at Yosemite National Park.
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Hunter Biden smoked crack “every 20 minutes or so” from 2017-2018, his ex-girlfriend testified in his gun trial Wednesday, the timeframe Hunter was hired for and managing some of the family's most lucrative business deals with high level foreign actors.
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Many things human come in pairs. Eyes, ears, hands, feet, and lungs appear in twos. Even a single nose features two nostrils.
In this context, America’s new, two-track justice system might be perfectly natural: One for the Left—in which they suffer few consequences, if any, for their misdeeds—and one for the Right, in which arrests, trials, and prison sentences are routine.
After the Supreme Court’s current term ends later this month, masons should spend this summer re-chiseling the marble above its columns. Out with “Equal Justice Under Law.” In with “Bipolar Justice for All!”
Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs on the Left spent the summer of 2020 yanking statues from pedestals, torching police precincts, and otherwise unleashing total mayhem. Then-Sen. Kamala Harris promoted a legal-defense fund to free arrestees. Few paid any price for the “fiery but mostly peaceful” George Floyd riots.
A peaceful demonstrator shares his opinion at a Black Lives Matter march on June 14, 2020, in Los Angeles. Few, if any, of his more violent BLM compatriots suffered any legal consequences for their anything but “mostly peaceful” actions after the killing of George Floyd less than three weeks earlier. (Photo: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)
The Jan. 6 hoodlums on the Right who shattered windows and smashed doors to breach the U.S. Capitol deserve serious prison time. But other protesters naively entered after Capitol Police waved them in.
“Hey, look. It’s open house!” some might have thought.
Many of these accidental tourists are in huge trouble. Arkansas’ Daniel Hatcher entered the Capitol, snapped some photos for two minutes, and walked out. The FBI arrested Hatcher in Little Rock last Feb. 13. He now faces federal charges.
Left-wing Deep State functionaries John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Peter Strzok, and Andrew Weissmann advanced the Russia Hoax, which bedeviled the Trump administration and divided America for three years. Each of these men scored a book contract and a TV deal. Literally.
On the Right, Russiagate ensnared Trump aides Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, Gen. Michael Flynn, and Roger Stone. All were sentenced to prison. Trump pardoned Flynn and Stone. Gates served house arrest. Manafort and Papadopoulos went to the slammer.
The quintessence of these two systems involves 2016’s presidential nominees and how they separately tried to influence that election.
On the Left, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign paid $175,000 to Democratic law firm Perkins Coie, which engaged opposition-research shop Fusion GPS. It hired former British spy Christopher Steele. He wrote a baseless “Dirty Dossier” that hallucinated ties between Trump and the Kremlin. Team Clinton leaked this fraudulent report, which BuzzFeed published. And the Russia Hoax was off to the races.
On the Right, Trump was accused of reimbursing his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, for paying porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to clam up about an alleged affair with Trump that both of them have denied.
As former Justice Department official John B. Daukas wrote in the American Spectator: “So, Hillary Clinton is found to be liable for mislabeling payments for the Steele Dossier as legal fees and gets an $8,000 civil fine; Trump has been found guilty of mislabeling nondisclosure payments as legal fees and is a convicted felon.”
As Yogi Berra might have said: “Only in America.”
Clinton went on to write books, deliver lectures, and whine loudly about why she lost to a real-estate magnate and TV personality on his first political campaign. Notwithstanding emotional scars, she is out a whopping eight grand.
Trump, meanwhile, endured a six-week trial that kept him off the campaign trail for four days each week, cost him undisclosed millions in—not to coin a phrase—legal expenses, and added abundant stress to his already high-pressure life. He awaits sentencing on July 11 and could receive four years for each of the 34 counts on which he was convicted. Total: 136 years in the big house.
But is this really so wrong?
If good things come in pairs, perhaps this applies to justice.
Rather than complain about two paths to justice, one Left and one Right, maybe conservatives should celebrate this development. After all, the truth about pectoral muscles also might apply to justice systems: “One is not enough, and three are too many.”
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The United States government warned that dual citizens of Ukraine and the U.S. who are within the age of conscription may face the possibility of being stuck in the country.
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A North Carolina teen was suspended from school for using the term "illegal alien" in a classroom discussion, a transgression likened to "saying the n-word" by an administrator.
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Hunter Biden’s gun trial uncovered seven more explosive pieces of information in the third day of proceedings.
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Arizona voters will soon decide whether to give local police the authority to arrest and detain illegal aliens who have crossed illegally into the state from Mexico.
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Two more Republican senators are joining the effort to stop the Senate Democrats’ agenda Wednesday in response to former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in a New York trial.
Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., are signing on to a Senate Republican letter vowing to oppose Democratic legislative priorities, a spokeswoman told The Daily Signal.
Eleven Republican senators vowed to oppose Democrats’ legislative priorities and nominations in a letter released Friday.
“Enough is enough,” Daines said in an emailed statement to The Daily Signal Wednesday. “Joe Biden and his Democrat allies weaponized our judicial system and undermined the American people’s trust in our government. I will not stand by as the Left’s radical agenda tears apart the fabric of our nation and threatens our Montana way of life.”
Paul’s office did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by time of publication.
The senators’ letter accuses the White House of making “a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally alter[ing] our politics in un-American ways.”
“As a Senate Republican conference, we are unwilling to aid and abet this White House in its project to tear this country apart,” the letter reads. “To that end, we will not 1) allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare; 2) vote to confirm this administration’s political and judicial appointees; and 3) allow expedited consideration and passage of Democrat legislation or authorities that are not directly relevant to the safety of the American people.”
With Daines and Paul, the letter now has 13 signatories:
In a press conference Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that he would not be signing on.
“The solution is to have a Republican majority and then we be in a position to determine what the agenda was going to be,” he said. “There are opportunities when you’re in the minority, but not to set the agenda.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is still deciding if he will join on, a spokesperson told the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
“Sen. Grassley is reviewing the letter and will confer with colleagues about its potential impacts on the legislative and appropriations process,” Grassley’s office said.
Rob Bluey contributed to this report.
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Hunter Biden smoked crack "every 20 minutes or so," his ex-girlfriend, Zoe Kestan, testified against him in the gun trial.
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Hunter Biden was "angry" and "short-tempered," his ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, testified Wednesday during the gun trial.
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Hunter Biden's wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, verbally assaulted not-for-profit Marco Polo founder Garrett Ziegler during Tuesday's gun trial.
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President Joe Biden is having trouble focusing on work because he is obsessing and worrying about his son's gun trial in Delaware, a report by Politico claims.
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Peter Navarro, the former top economic Trump aide who is currently in federal prison for standing up against subpoenas from the January 6 committee, is speaking out from behind bars in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
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Hunter Biden's gun trial testimony will resume Wednesday with his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle expected to be among the witnesses called to testify in Delaware; the couple were married for over 20 years.
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Witness Erika Jensen, an FBI agent, confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop during the second day of his gun trial on Tuesday.
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Prosecutors used multiple explicit excerpts from Hunter Biden's audiobook during his gun trial to show evidence of his drug addiction during the time period he purchased a gun.
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Prosecutors must prove that Hunter Biden “knowingly” committed gun offenses, defense attorney Abbe Lowell argued Tuesday.
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Hallie Biden, the ex of Hunter Biden and widow of his brother, will testify about her use of crack with Hunter, prosecutor Derek Hines said.
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Officer Preston Brogdon was shot in the line of duty then denied a "hardship" retirement when fired two years later, according to a report.
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It’s been said that the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.
Most of us remember the national election of 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic, sudden changes to election procedures, mysterious mail-in ballots, allegedly hacked voting systems, and legions of lawyers filing scores of lawsuits.
I think we all remember the aftermath in 2021, as well. Thousands of angry conservative voters traveled to Washington, D.C., and entered the Capitol to protest the certification of the election after a surprise upset led to Joe Biden becoming the president.
Then came the speculation: Did the Chinese hack voting machines to flip the vote in favor of Biden? Were countless mail-in ballots shoved into voting machines in the dead of night?
Was Joseph R. Biden really the most popular presidential candidate in United States history even after running his entire campaign from a basement in Delaware?
I’ve prosecuted election fraud cases, but I do not know the answer to any of those questions. That’s not what this article is about. It is about why you should never be afraid to question the results of an election.
Having been in the Texas Attorney General’s Election Integrity Division, I have had more than a few conversations with people who almost seem to feel guilty about talking to me about election concerns. They usually start out with the other person saying, “Well, I’m not a conspiracy theorist but …”
That additional qualifier has never surprised me, considering how many risks there are associated with questioning the results of elections.
The moment anyone is in the vicinity of someone who claims an election was stolen, they risk becoming an “election denier.”
A few notable attorneys who filed election contests have been threatened with losing their license to practice law and even imprisonment. More than 500 of the 1,265 people who were arrested after marching on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are—more than three years later—still awaiting trial for what may ultimately amount to a misdemeanor conviction.
The rest of us are constantly told by “experts” that there was nothing wrong with the 2020 election.
But what if those experts were wrong?
Recently, the Georgia State Elections Board voted 2-1 to reprimand Fulton County after finding significant issues with the vote tally in the 2020 presidential election. The board’s investigation concluded there had been over 140 separate violations of election laws and rules not only related to how Fulton County tallied the initial vote, but also how it conducted its recount.
It should be noted that the only vote against reprimanding Fulton County was from board member Janice Johnston and that was only because she felt the reprimand didn’t go far enough. She wanted a more comprehensive investigation conducted by the Georgia Attorney General’s Office.
Out of a plethora of issues in how the election was conducted, the investigation also found that there were more than 3,000 duplicate ballots scanned during the recount. The Georgia Secretary of State’s general counsel declared that it’s inconclusive whether or how many of the 3,000 duplicates were included in the tabulated results.
There were also more than 17,000 ballot images that are allegedly missing from the recount.
Keep in mind that Fulton County’s initial hand recount shortly after the election awarded 1,300 additional votes to Trump, and while the current numbers would not change the outcome of the election, an open question of whether there are potentially more than 4,000 votes not properly accounted for in a swing state election that was decided by only 11,000 votes is—to say the least—problematic.
The Georgia secretary of state’s position appears to be that the initial count, the hand recount, and the machine recount are all relatively similar and therefore not a cause for alarm. When Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was asked directly about allegations of election fraud, he said, “No, the numbers are the numbers … . The numbers don’t lie.”
That seems like a difficult conclusion to reach when his organization seems to not be sure what the numbers are.
It also somehow seems worse to imply that more than 140 violations of election laws were committed by the election administrator’s office for the state’s most populated county by incompetence rather than malfeasance.
Compare Raffensperger’s lack of enthusiasm with the efforts to remove Sidney Powell’s law license, or the criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump currently pending in Fulton County, both of which stem from the actions they took (or are alleged to have taken) in response to issues arising out of the way Fulton County ran the 2020 presidential election.
In fact, the results of Georgia’s inquiry stand in contrast to the popular talking point that Trump’s allegations were so spurious that even individuals in his own administration refuted his claims of election irregularity.
For example, Christopher Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, who claimed on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that the 2020 election was “the most secure in American history.”
Not only does it now seem that Krebs was wrong, but less than a month after making that statement, it was publicly reported that Krebs and his agency had been unaware of what could be one of the largest cyberattacks of our national infrastructure in history.
There was also then-Attorney General Bill Barr publicly declaring on Dec. 1, 2020, that the Department of Justice and the FBI had not uncovered evidence of “widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the election”—after an investigation he had called for only three weeks prior.
In Texas, after we received an allegation of election fraud, our team of investigators and attorneys—who are already familiar with Texas election law—would seek to contact the election administrator for the county the allegation originated from to obtain their records of the election. Those records were often voluminous and would take time to review.
We would then make attempts to speak to witnesses, including the voters, to determine whether there had been fraud or irregularities in the voting process. We would investigate whether those who cast suspicious ballots were qualified to vote, whether they typically voted by mail or in person, whether their vote in that election came from their listed home address or somewhere else, whether they are even aware a vote was cast in their name, and sometimes even whether they are alive or deceased.
Consider that there were 81,139 votes—in Nevada, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona, combined—which separated Trump from Biden in the election. Among those four states, there were approximately 12,883,742 total ballots cast. Neither of those numbers would include instances where ballots had been destroyed.
The time it took for Georgia to issue its findings on Fulton County alone took three years. At the time of Barr’s statement, the FBI only had a total of 13,245 special agents in the entire bureau, spread out across the United States and other parts of the world. Even if the Justice Department devoted all its resources and limited the scope of their investigations to the largest counties of those four states, it would have taken several weeks just to compile evidence, much less come to a definitive conclusion just for one of those states.
There is also the question whether Barr even wanted the Department of Justice to be involved. The U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William McSwain, claimed that Barr told him to stand down on investigating election fraud allegations, instead ordering him to refer any complaints to the state of Pennsylvania.
While Barr disputes McSwain’s account, other witnesses testified under oath to receiving the same guidance.
In December 2020 an “irate” Bill Barr called investigators looking into Jesse Morgan’s claim of hundreds of thousands of completed mail-in ballots hauled across state lines to “STAND DOWN”
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) April 4, 2024
“‘I told you you need to stand down on this.’
“[He was] agitated, to say the least.” pic.twitter.com/orzqQFL245
So, when Barr said he had not seen evidence sufficient to conclude that fraud would have changed the results of the election, it seems that is exactly what he meant. He hadn’t seen fraud that would change the outcome. That would be difficult to find for someone unfamiliar with election fraud—and not interested in looking for it.
Nevertheless, Barr’s statements are a common talking point for media “fact-checkers,” who are adamant that election fraud is a myth.
Take for example how fact-checkers handled allegations of Jesse Morgan. Morgan was a post office contractor who claimed that 288,000 pre-filled ballots had been shipped into the state of Pennsylvania in trailer that somehow mysteriously vanished after being delivered to a post office.
As a former prosecutor, the fact that the investigation by the U.S. Postal Service and the FBI only concluded that Morgan’s claims could not be corroborated, while Morgan himself was never charged with making a false statement to a federal agent seems to me to mean that the investigation was inconclusive. That is, neither confirming, nor denying his account.
If that’s the case, then we are left with the notion there is no security camera footage, records, manifests, receipts or explanation for a missing post-office trailer allegedly containing 288,000 ballots that was left inside a secured post-office motor pool, or that it was just a shoddy investigation.
That didn’t stop the Dispatch and PolitiFact from concluding that Morgan’s allegations were false in their entirety based on the aforementioned sound bite from Barr, and the Postal Service’s largely redacted report.
More dubious fact-checks come from The New York Times. It fact-checked 15 separate statements from Trump about the 2020 election. In the interest of brevity, I’d like to go summarize what I personally took from just a few:
Other popular rebuttals stem from the 2020 election contests. The 2020 general election was easily the most litigated in my lifetime. According to some news outlets, Trump and Republicans filed over 60 election challenges, losing almost all of them.
The results of the 2020 election cases always seem to be the easy way out of any debate over the election results. Why wouldn’t they be? The judges found there was no election fraud. Case closed.
Except they kind of didn’t.
For background, a large bulk of the work against the 2020 presidential election contests was done by the law firm of Marc Elias. Formerly of Perkins-Coie, Elias is notably famous (or infamous) for his involvement with the entirely debunked opposition research against Trump known as the Steele Dossier. Ironically, Elias also thinks Russians intervened in the 2016 election to defeat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In addition to being at the forefront of litigating election lawsuits on behalf of Democrats, Elias’ law firm also seeks “favorable advisory opinions” from the Federal Election Commission on behalf of Democratic candidates. They are unashamedly pro-Democrat, and to put it mildly, they are very committed to what they do.
Elias’ win record speaks for itself, and I’m not discounting his firm’s successes, but the 2020 general election was an easy playing field. In election contests, “the tie goes to the runner,” and all he and his team have to do to win is make sure that none of the allegations of fraud in any of the election contests are considered sufficient to warrant discounting the results.
This was made all the easier because judges have a hard time with any case involving an election.
Take for example Trump v. Biden, where the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Trump’s suit was barred by the legal doctrine of laches. That is to say that Trump’s allegations were reasonable, but the case had been brought too late for courts to act.
To quote the court, “the time to challenge election policies such as these is not after all ballots have been cast and the votes tallied.”
Essentially, a candidate shouldn’t wait to get cheated out of an election before they sue over it.
A similar result occurred in Kistner v. Simon in Minnesota. In that case, the petitioners filed their lawsuit within days of the postelection review, but the court concluded two claims were barred as they should have been brought before the election, and for the third claim, the court found the petitioners failed to provide service to the other county officials required by Minnesota election laws.
In Arizona’s Ward v. Jackson, the Arizona Supreme Court classified instances where a “duplicate ballot did not accurately reflect the voter’s apparent intent as reflected in the original ballot” as a mere error, and held that it did not believe there were enough of these “errors” to overturn the results of the election.
Also stated by the court: “Where an election is contested on the ground of illegal voting, the contestant has the burden of showing sufficient illegal votes were cast to change the result.” It is not enough to prove there was fraud, you must prove there was enough fraud to change the outcome.
In Donald J. Trump for President v. Way, the New Jersey federal district court declined to hear a challenge to the New Jersey governor’s executive order No. 177, which directed the state to send mail-in ballots to all registered voters and extended ballot counting to all ballots received up to 48 hours after the polls closed on Election Day.
After the suit was filed, the Democrat-controlled state legislature passed a bill codifying the governor’s decree, thereby making it law. One of the bill’s co-sponsors allegedly claimed that the bill’s purpose was to “undermine the Trump campaign’s lawsuit.”
The court’s ruling in that case was that it would defer to the state on whether to suddenly change election rules in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sidney Powell’s suit in Wisconsin, Feehan v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, was dismissed after the court ruled a Wisconsin voter and potential elector lacked standing to contest the election process in Wisconsin. The federal District Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania came to the same conclusion in Donald J. Trump for President Inc. v. Boockvar. The result was the same in Nevada in Donald J. Trump for President Inc. v. Cegavske.
Also from Nevada is my favorite postelection opinion by far, Law, et al. v. Whitmer, et. al. In that case, the judge stated that he considered witness declarations—typically statements submitted under the penalty of perjury—to be “hearsay of little or no evidentiary value,” citing that per Nevada’s election code, election contests “shall be tried and submitted so far as may be possible upon depositions … .”
At the time of this suit, America was still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and many courts were not even permitting contested hearings out of fear that several people in an enclosed space listening to live testimony could spread the virus.
That prohibition often extended to requests to take someone’s deposition, which was a hurdle I ran into in some of my own cases. Before reading this opinion, I would have thought that “so far as may be possible” under those circumstances would be broad enough to increase the viability of sworn statements to be presented as evidence. I would have been wrong.
Considering the court’s order only gave the contestants from Nov. 17 to Dec. 3 to gather their evidence and granted only 15 depositions to both sides, it’s not clear what evidence the judge expected them to be able to marshal.
I’m not insinuating there was bias, but it feels that way, reading the 10 paragraphs devoted to just bolstering the credibility of the defense expert compared to the five paragraphs the judge spends on the why he felt the entirety of the evidence presented by the other side was inadequate.
The bottom line is, a significant number of the election challenges brought in 2020 appear to have been thrown out for procedural reasons, rather than evidentiary ones. In the few cases where election fraud was discussed, the courts seemed to consistently hold that those bringing the case hadn’t shown enough fraud. Just don’t tell the fact-checkers at Reuters that.
Going into the election of 2024, it’s not even clear who will be able to successfully contest a national election. Neither voters nor electors appear to have standing to contest an election in their own state, and at least a state attorney general and House Representatives do not have standing to challenge elections in other states.
Those who do make it past the standing requirement only have weeks to depose as many witnesses as it takes to prove that enough fraudulent ballots were counted to change the result of the election.
If you’re unfamiliar with an election case, that could potentially mean finding thousands of fraudulent ballots in less time than it would take to contest a speeding ticket. Good luck with that.
The silver lining in all of this is that a byproduct of the controversies surrounding the 2020 presidential election is that we are at least talking about it. And the public outcry has been substantial.
Once a niche topic, election integrity is now at the forefront of public discourse, and several states—including Georgia—are engaged in massive undertakings to identify vulnerabilities in their electoral process and have already taken steps to pass new laws seeking to prevent election integrity issues.
When Texas ran into hurdles with its high criminal court declaring it was unconstitutional for Attorney General Ken Paxton to unilaterally prosecute election fraud, the voters responded by voting out three of the eight justices who signed on to the opinion, and they were the only three up for reelection.
I do not know what happened in 2020, and I don’t know what’s going to happen in 2024. But I do know election fraud exists, and it has been around for a long time. So long as there are ways to cheat the system to obtain power, there will be people seeking to take advantage of them.
I also know that behind every successful election challenge, investigation, prosecution, and legislation are individuals courageous enough to come forward and question the results when something seems off.
That courage is becoming less and less rare after 2020, and it will be a force to be reckoned with in 2024.
That’s why I encourage everyone to never be afraid to question the results of an election when they see something suspicious, and act on those suspicions.
Maybe you win, maybe you lose, but the only way it will change is if you’re not afraid to talk about it.
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Prosecutor Derek Hines delivered a blistering opening statement in Hunter Biden's gun trial, telling the jurors, "No one is above the law."
The post ‘No One Is Above the Law’: DOJ Declares in Opening Statement of Hunter Biden’s Gun Trial appeared first on Breitbart.
Judge Maryellen Noreika excused juror number 16 in Hunter Biden's gun trial after she emailed the court explaining that she could not make it.
The post Juror 16 Excused from Hunter Biden Trial Before Opening Statements appeared first on Breitbart.
Days after Afghan migrant suspect attacked anti-Islamification rally in Germany, police have decided there was probably an extremist motive.
The post Mass Stabbing Against Anti-Islamic Extremism Rally May Have Been Islamic Extremism, Police Say appeared first on Breitbart.
Opening arguments will be delivered Tuesday in the Delaware trial of Hunter Biden on gun charges, thus beginning the first prosecution of a sitting U.S. president's offspring.
The post Opening Arguments Launch Hunter Biden’s Delaware Gun Trial appeared first on Breitbart.
The jury selection for Hunter Biden's gun case finalized on Monday with 12 jurists and four alternates.
The post Hunter Biden’s Jury Set: 6 Men, 6 Women, 1 Former Secret Service Employee appeared first on Breitbart.
Terror police "immobilised" a 34-year-old Syrian at the Israeli embassy in Romania after he is alleged to have tried to set himself alight.
The post Fire Bomb at Israeli Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, Syrian Migrant Arrested appeared first on Breitbart.
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Mara Macie joined Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM to discuss her congressional seat challenge to Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL) just days after a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts in District Attorney Alvin Bragg's business records trial against the former president.
The post Exclusive – Mara Macie Calls Out John Rutherford for Not Trying to Stop Weaponized Lawfare Against Trump appeared first on Breitbart.
Officials within a police department in Maine warned that they have seen an "uptick" in fake social security numbers being used for driver's licenses.
The post Maine Law Enforcement Officials Report ‘Uptick’ in Fake Social Security Numbers appeared first on Breitbart.
The “Biden gang” of “Fabian socialists” is trying to kill former President Donald Trump with “a thousand cuts,” according to conservative radio legend Michael Savage.
The post Exclusive – Michael Savage Likens Trump Verdict to Internal 9/11: Biden ‘Gang’ Trying to Kill Trump with ‘1,000 Cuts’ appeared first on Breitbart.
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin predicts former President Donald Trump will be sent to Rikers Island to serve a prison sentence.
The post ‘The View’ Host Sunny Hostin Predicts Trump Will Be Imprisoned in Rikers Island appeared first on Breitbart.
On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) responded to a question on if the trial and conviction of 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump will create a precedent for members of each party to go after their
The post Dem Rep. Quigley: There Is ‘Risk’ Trump Case Creates Precedent for Using Courts to Attack Opponents appeared first on Breitbart.
The left's political strategy to call Trump a "convicted felon" to dissuade voters is not going to work, Karoline Leavitt said.
The post Exclusive — Karoline Leavitt: Democrats’ Strategy to Call Trump a ‘Convicted Felon’ Will Not Work appeared first on Breitbart.
Nasen Saadi, described as being from Croydon in South London, has been charged with murder following the stabbing of two women in Bournemouth.
The post 20-Year-Old Nasen Saadi Charged with Murder After Bournemouth Beach Stabbings appeared first on Breitbart.
On Friday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) stated that there is “an extraordinary double standard” in how Democrats pivoted from openly undermining the credibility of and attacking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over flags
The post Speaker Johnson: It’s ‘Extraordinary’ How Dems Flipped from Bashing Alito to Demanding Blind Respect for Courts appeared first on Breitbart.
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Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk is preparing to host a town hall on his social media website for former President Donald Trump after slamming Trump's conviction.
The post Elon Musk to Host Town Hall on X for Donald Trump After Slamming Guilty Verdict appeared first on Breitbart.
Former President Donald Trump's campaign announced on Friday that it had raised nearly $53 million in the 24 hours after Trump's conviction by a New York jury.
The post Trump Campaign Announces Nearly $53 Million Raised in 24 Hours After Trump Conviction appeared first on Breitbart.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) clarified on Friday that former President Donald Trump still has the right to vote in Florida elections despite a Manhattan jury finding him guilty on 34 counts that District Attorney Alvin Bragg has asserted are felonies.
The post DeSantis: ‘Trump Hasn’t Lost His Voting Rights in Florida’ appeared first on Breitbart.
President Joe Biden flashed a smug, toothy grin after a reporter asked him about former President Donald Trump considering himself a political prisoner.
The post Biden Flashes Smug, Toothy Grin When Asked About Trump Being a ‘Political Prisoner’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Populist Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini reacted to the guilty verdict of former President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying the 45th president is "a victim of judicial harassment" brought on by "the weaponization of the justice system by the left."
The post Matteo Salvini: Trump ‘a Victim of Judicial Harassment’ by Left’s ‘Weaponization of the Justice System’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes were created to deter parents from abandoning their newborns in unsafe circumstances, potentially leaving them to die.
The post New Mexico Baby Box Sees Second Infant Surrender Since Installation appeared first on Breitbart.
Americans will speak on the Trump verdict on November 5, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily the day following the Manhattan jury finding Trump guilty on all 34 counts on his business records trail.
The post Exclusive — Marsha Blackburn: America Will Speak on Donald Trump Verdict on November 5 appeared first on Breitbart.
Joe Biden defended the conviction of Donald Trump and claimed it was "reckless" for his gagged political opponent to call it "rigged."
The post Biden Defends Sham Trial: ‘Reckless’ for Trump to Call It ‘Rigged’ appeared first on Breitbart.
The left's use of lawfare against former President Donald Trump "has already backfired," Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said.
The post Exclusive — Marsha Blackburn: Lawfare Against Trump ‘Has Already Backfired’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Former president Donald Trump appeared to refer to his disgraced former attorney, Michael Cohen, without using his name during a press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Friday morning.
The post Donald Trump Appears to Diss ‘Sleaze Bag’ Michael Cohen Without Naming Him appeared first on Breitbart.
There was no "slush fund" or "hush money" in relation to former President Donald Trump's business records trial in New York, Trump made clear during a press conference Friday morning.
The post Trump: There Was No ‘Hush Money,’ Almost Everyone Has an NDA appeared first on Breitbart.
Democrats will "rue the day" they decided to use lawfare to target a former president, Megyn Kelly warned after leftists celebrated.
The post Megyn Kelly: ‘Democrats Will Rue the Day They Decided to Use Lawfare’ to Stop Trump appeared first on Breitbart.
The National Rifle Association (NRA) won at the Supreme Court against New York and the anti-gun movement Thursday, unanimously ruling that the NRA’s First Amendment rights were violated by politicians who oppose the Second Amendment, in a major victory with implications for former President Trump.
The post Supreme Court Rules 9-0 New York Violated NRA’s First Amendment Rights, Good News for Trump appeared first on Breitbart.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been released to convalesce at home, but he has a long and difficult recovery ahead of him.
The post Discharged From Hospital: Slovak Prime Minister Was ‘Millimetres’ Away From Death After Assassination Attempt appeared first on Breitbart.
John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush and ex-Trump national security adviser, said the guilty verdict returned by 12 jurors Thursday in New York City is a “fire-bell” in the night.
The post John Bolton: Trump Guilty Verdict Is ‘Fire-Bell’ for RNC to Nominate Someone Else appeared first on Breitbart.
During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, Biden Campaign Co-Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) argued that President Joe Biden should not talk about the verdict in 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s case and everyone should “let the
The post Biden Co-Chair Clyburn: Biden, Everyone Should ‘Let the Judicial System Take Care of Itself’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decried the "Guilty" verdict against former President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying the Democrats want to beat him in court rather than at the ballot box.
The post Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Democrats Want to ‘Beat Trump in the Courtroom,’ Not the Ballot Box appeared first on Breitbart.
Following the "Guilty" verdict against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan on Thursday, legal experts have been weighing in, with some saying that the conviction will be overturned, while others have been saying the coming election in November will be the final arbiter.
The post Legal Experts After Trump Guilty Verdict: Election Will Decide the Outcome appeared first on Breitbart.
In what is being termed a “dark day for America,” Republican officials are expressing outrage after a New York jury found former U.S. President Donald Trump guilty in his hush-money trial, accusing the Biden administration of using “lawfare seen in third world countries” while warning that if political opponents can target a former president, “they can do it to anyone.”
The post GOP Expresses Outrage Over Trump ‘Sham’ Conviction: ‘Dark Day for America’ — Threatens ‘Very Fabric of our Republic’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Democrats and the leftist media are now hyping former President Donald Trump as a convicted felon following a Manhattan jury finding him guilty on all 34 counts in his business records trial.
The post Democrats, Media Hype Trump as a ‘Convicted Felon’ appeared first on Breitbart.
The sentencing date for former President Donald Trump in his business records trial — where the Manhattan jury found him guilty on all 34 counts — is yet another form of election interference, Donald Trump Jr. said on Thursday.
The post Donald Trump Jr.: Sentencing Date ‘Election Interference’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Former President Donald Trump blamed President Joe Biden on Thursday for the guilty verdict in his criminal trial.
The post ‘Rigged Decision’: Donald Trump Blames Joe Biden for Guilty Verdict appeared first on Breitbart.
The verdict in former President Donald Trump's business records trial in Manhattan was the "culmination of a legal process that has been bent to the political will of the actors involved," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a statement on Thursday following the Manhattan jury finding him guilty on all 34 counts.
The post Ron DeSantis: Trump Verdict Represents ‘Political Agenda of Some Kangaroo Court’ appeared first on Breitbart.
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) is reducing criminal charges against immigrants to shield them from deportation.
The post Report: Soros-Backed Philadelphia DA Reducing Charges Against Immigrants to Protect Them from Deportation appeared first on Breitbart.
Most Americans agree that former President Donald Trump's business records trial is a "political sham," the Trump campaign said in a memo at the start of the jury deliberations, which began Wednesday.
The post Trump Campaign: Most Americans Say Business Records Trial Is a ‘Political Sham’ appeared first on Breitbart.
The jury in former President Donald Trump's business records trial in Manhattan has reportedly found him guilty on all 34 counts.
The post New York Jury Finds Donald Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts appeared first on Breitbart.
"FBI Lovebirds" Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have reached a tentative settlement with the DOJ over the alleged violation of their privacy rights.
The post ‘FBI Lovebirds’ Peter Strzok and Lisa Page Reach Tentative Settlement with DOJ appeared first on Breitbart.
Less than a quarter of Americans believe former President Donald Trump will be convicted in the business records case in New York, a survey from the Economist/YouGov found.
The post Poll: Less than a Quarter Believe Donald Trump Will Be Convicted in Business Records Case appeared first on Breitbart.
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Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump should immediately appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if convicted by a Manhattan jury, due to serious constitutional issues.
The post Mark Levin: Trump Should Immediately Appeal Any Conviction to SCOTUS appeared first on Breitbart.
Judge Merchan is keeping former President Donald Trump off the campaign trail by forcing him to wait at the courthouse while the jury deliberates.
The post Exclusive — Trump Lawyer: Merchan Keeping Trump in Courthouse so He Can’t Campaign appeared first on Breitbart.
Judge Merchan ruled that Donald Trump must sit in the courthouse until the jury is finished with their deliberations, Karoline Leavitt said.
The post Exclusive — Karoline Leavitt: Trump Must Sit in Courthouse Until Jury Reaches Verdict appeared first on Breitbart.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is calling for a federal investigation into Justice Juan Merchan, arguing he deprived former President Donald Trump of First Amendment rights in the Manhattan business records trial.
The post JD Vance Calls for Federal Investigation into Judge Juan Merchan’s ‘Conduct’ in Trump Trial appeared first on Breitbart.
One juror who listened for 6 weeks to the evidence presented in a courtroom against Donald Trump reportedly appears sympathetic towards him.
The post Report: One Juror Appears Sympathetic to Donald Trump appeared first on Breitbart.
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