The Kremlin on Wednesday confirmed media reports from Azerbaijan that Russia will withdraw all of its utterly useless βpeacekeepersβ from the Nagorno-Karabakh region. The Russians did nothing while Azerbaijan used force to seize control of the area last year and ruthlessly conducted an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Armenian Christians who lived there.
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Grunge rock icon Courtney Love is no fan of Taylor Swift, calling the billionaire pop star "not interesting as an artist.β
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As the first day of former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial came to an end, no jurors were selected out of almost a hundred prospective jurors after many of them said they lacked the ability to be impartial.
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Democrats are teeing up a ballot measure in Arizona that would practically ensure abortion until the moment of birth, after the Arizona Supreme Court held that a new state law regulating abortion after 15 weeks did not repeal an 1864 law that allowed abortion only to save the life of the mother.
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Nigel Farage said the British people should be called on in a referendum to decide if the UK remains in the European Court of Human Rights.
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Recently appointed 4th Circuit Judge Nicole Berner is legally married to the pro-abortion lawyer who represented Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her.
The Washington Post describes Berner as βthe first openly gay judge and the first labor lawyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit,β which covers Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Berner, who is also pro-abortion, formerly served as a staff attorney for Planned Parenthood, where she focused on βprotecting and expanding accessβ to chemical abortion drugs.
Debra Katz represented Ford in her high-profile #MeToo accusations against Kavanaugh. In subsequent remarks, Katz said that her client was partially motivated to accuse Kavanaugh out of a desire to protect Roe v. Wade, the monumental Supreme Court case that was overturned in June 2022.
Ford recently reappeared in the national news cycle through the announcement of her upcoming book, βOne Way Back,β a memoir about her experience accusing Kavanaugh.
Katz issued a joint statement at the time with fellow attorney Lisa Banks, saying, βFive years ago, Dr. Christine Blasey Fordβs courageous testimony changed the world. She told the truth to the United States Senate, she stood up to enormous public pressure, and she sparked a national reckoning on sexual assault. Her bravery empowered countless survivors to speak out and seek justice.β
βWe are proud to have fiercely represented her during the Senate proceedings,β they added. βThe impact of Dr. Blasey Fordβs testimony changed American culture. We stand beside Dr. Blasey Ford and all our brave clients who have come forward to hold powerful individuals accountable.β
The book was published on March 19, the same day that Berner was confirmed to the court. Representatives did not immediately share with The Daily Signal whether this was a coincidence.
During Bernerβs nomination hearing in December, Republicans grilled her about her past statements and related political topics, including the Kavanaugh confirmation, according to The Washington Post.
βI believe Justice Kavanaugh, just like every other justice of the Supreme Court, was legitimately confirmed, and were I to be confirmed, I would follow his opinions and the opinions of every justice,β she told the Republicans present at the hearing.
βThe role of a judge is a very different role than that of an advocate,β she added.
Pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood Action Fund celebrated her confirmation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in late March in statements that suggest confidence that she will consistently side with abortion advocates.
Alexis McGill Johnson, the president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said that Berner βknows firsthand the evolving state of our nationβs reproductive and other fundamental rights,β and Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju emphasized that Berner βunderstands that reproductive freedom is a fundamental right.β
Fordβs allegations against Kavanaugh sparked a media circus, stories filled with debunked anonymous sources, a Senate investigation, a highly televised Senate hearing, and more. The Senate Judiciary Committee ultimately found βno evidenceβ to corroborate the claims against the Supreme Court justice, who was confirmed to the court on Oct. 5, 2018.
βAfter an extensive investigation that included the thorough review of all potentially credible evidence submitted and interviews of more than 40 individuals with information relating to the allegations, including classmates and friends of all those involved, Committee investigators found no witness who could provide any verifiable evidence to support any of the allegations brought against Justice Kavanaugh,βΒ the 414-page report says.
Katz has been described as βthe feared attorney of the #MeToo movement.β She is a founding partner of Katz Banks Kumin LLP, where she focuses on sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation.
In video footage obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation in 2019, Katz revealed that putting βan asterisk next toβ Kavanaughβs name before βhe takes a scalpelβ to Roe v. Wade was βpart of what motivatedβ Ford to speak out.
βIn the aftermath of these hearings, I believe that Christineβs testimony brought about more good than the harm misogynist Republicans caused by allowing Kavanaugh on the court,β Katz explained in April 2019 at the University of Baltimoreβs 11th Feminist Legal Theory Conference.
βHe will always have an asterisk next to his name,β Katz continued. βWhen he takes a scalpel to Roe v. Wade, we will know who he is, we know his character, and we know what motivates him, and that is important; it is important that we know, and that is part of what motivated Christine.β
The video was first reported by Ryan Lovelace in his bookΒ βSearch and Destroy: Inside the Campaign Against Brett Kavanaugh.β The author told the Daily Caller News Foundation at the time that it calls into question everything that Ford and Katz have previously said on the matter.
Lovelace additionally suggested that had this information been known during the Kavanaugh hearings, there might have been different questions and different results. Ford had told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she came forward out of a sense of βcivic duty.β
βFordβs audience was not the Senate, as Katz had previously suggested, but the American people,β Lovelace wrote. βIf they could be persuaded that Justice Kavanaugh was a predator, then they might not accept a future ruling by the five Republican-appointed justices altering the right to obtain an abortion established by Roe v. Wade.β
βHad the Senate understood Fordβs real motivation, as described by Katz, it might have appreciated more fully the pressure that βorganized forcesβ were applying,β he added.
Katzβs remarks at the Baltimore conference rang partially true: The notoriety of the Kavanaugh hearings caused Kavanaugh to become a target for protesting. In the days following the leak of the draft opinion indicating that Roe would soon be overturned, protesters repeatedly showed up outside Kavanaughβs home where they yelled, sang, and chanted, often accusing him of being a rapist.
Shortly before Roe was overturned, authorities arrested a man near the Kavanaugh family home who said that he had traveled from California to kill the justice out of a desire to protect abortions in the United States. That manβs name is Nicholas Roske. Almost two years later, there is still no trail date or plea agreement in his case, as The Washington Free Beacon reported.
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Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Tuesday on CNN's "The Lead " that it is fomer President Donald Trump's fault the Arizonaβs Supreme Court upheld a 123-year-old penal code provision that bans nearly all abortions except to save the life of the mother.
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The House seeks to reauthorize a controversial spy program when Congress returns from recess next week.
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A ballot initiative OKβd by the Florida Supreme Court perpetuates abortion advocatesβ favored strategy of using vague definitions of βhealthβ to expand abortion on demand.
Florida voters will face a referendum measure in November that would allow abortion up to the moment of birth if deemed βnecessary to protect the patientβs healthβ after the state Supreme Courtβs decision on Monday allowing the measure on the ballot.
Amendment 4, the so-called Amendment to Limit Government Interference With Abortion, is being pushed by a pro-abortion political committee, Floridians Protecting Freedom.
The proposalβs vague definition of βhealthβ is similar to that of the U.S. Supreme Courtβs 1973 decision in Doe v. Bolton, which defined βhealthβ of the mother as βall factorsβ affecting the woman.Β
The Supreme Court held in Roe v. Wade that same year that states could issue no regulations for first-trimester abortions and some regulations for second-trimester abortions, but only for the purpose of protecting the βhealthβ of the mother. In the third trimester, when the unborn child is viable, the since-overturned Roe allowed states to make abortion illegal contingent on the existence of exceptions to protect the motherβs life and βhealth.β
Doe v. Bolton, the lesser-known case decided on the same day as Roe, defined the βhealthβ of the mother as βall factorsβ that affect the woman, including βphysical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the womanβs age,β drastically expanding the allowable abortions legalized by Roe.Β
Floridaβs Amendment 4 similarly would prohibit restrictions on abortion when βnecessary to protect the patientβs health, as determined by the patientβs health care provider.βΒ
The proposal would circumvent current state law protecting unborn children with a heartbeat. On the same day the Florida court approved the ballot initiative, it upheld a state law protecting unborn children from most abortions after 15 weeks, enabling a six-week abortion ban approved last year to take effect on May 1. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the six-week ban into law last April, but it couldnβt take effect unless the 15-week ban survived legal challenges in the state Supreme Court.Β
Because the text of the constitutional amendment contains no definition of βhealthβ or βhealth care provider,β the measure would likely legalize abortion at any stage of the pregnancy if anyone who claims medical expertise asserts the mother would benefit from it physically, emotionally, or otherwise.Β
Florida statutes define a health care provider as βa physician licensed under chapter 458, an osteopathic physician licensed under chapter 459, a podiatric physician licensed under chapter 461, or an advanced practice registered nurse registered under 464.0123.β If it receives 60% of the vote in November, the ballot initiative would allow any doctor, osteopath, podiatrist, or nurse to determine if a womanβs health could in any way benefit from ending the life of her unborn child.Β
Michigan voters legalized abortion up until birth with similarly vague language in a November 2022 ballot initiative. Proposal 3 prohibited laws against abortion if a βhealth care professionalβ deemed it to be βmedically needed to protect a patientβs life or physical or mental health.β
Broad and unclear definitions of health have allowed half a century of violence against the unborn after Doe v. Bolton, and have ended thousands of lives in Michigan with the passage of Proposal 3.Β
In November, Florida voters will have the chance to stop another vague definition of health from turning the Sunshine State from one of the states with the most protections for the unborn to the most pro-abortion state in the South.Β
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An executive subpoenaed in the Houseβs investigation of companies involved in so-called ESG policies claims conservative legal activist Leonard Leo is behind a βcrusadeβ to stop the corporate practice.Β
ESG is an acronym for environmental, social, and governance practices that promote left-leaning activism among companies and corporations. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating numerous companies and organizations for potential violation of federal antitrust laws in collaborating on such practices.Β
Leo, long affiliated with The Federalist Society and currently co-chairman of its board, is well known in such conservative legal circles.
Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, an ESG-advocating nonprofit, brought up Leoβs name in an interview Friday with the left-wing broadcast and internet program βDemocracy Now!β hosted by Amy Goodman.
βLeonard Leo, heβs the, you know, co-chair of The Federalist Societyβthose are the folks, all of the right-wing judges, particularly the Supreme Court, but across the whole landscapeβhe was given $1.6 billion in mid-2022 to lead this crusade,β Behar said on βDemocracy Now!β
βItβs a very orchestrated campaign,β he added.
Beharβs syntax may have been scrambled, but the CEO of As You Sow appeared to claim that Leo, backed by a $1.6 billion slush fund, is leading the charge against ESG investment policies.
Reached for this story, a spokesman for Leo said the conservative attorney had never heard of As You Sow and doesnβt respond to conspiracy theories.
Behar likely was referring to reports in 2022 from two left-leaning media outlets, The New York Times and ProPublica, that Chicago billionaire Barre Seid had donated $1.6 billion to various networks associated with Leo. But that donation extended well beyond ESG as a target of conservative advocacy.
>>> Related: Ted Cruz Slams Leftβs Attacks on Leonard Leo as a βFull-on Assault on Our Constitutionβ
A source with knowledge of the House Judiciary Committeeβs ESG probe was dismissive of the notion of shadowy motives behind it.
βTo suggest that the committee is investigating As You Sow because of Leonard Leo is completely ridiculous and laughable,β the person, who asked not to be identified, told The Daily Signal. βIt seems that As You Sow is scared of what the committee is uncovering and working overtime to save face for their lack of cooperation with the investigation.β
For his part, Behar said during the βDemocracy Now!β interview that his organization provided 12,000 pages of documents to the House Judiciary Committee before getting another subpoena March 28.
>>> Related: β2 Things That Canβt Both Be Trueβ: Tennessee AG Sues BlackRock Over ESG Deception
An August letter to As You Sow signed by Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and other committee members says:Β
We write because As You Sow is potentially violating U.S. antitrust law by entering into agreements to βdecarbonizeβ corporate assets and reduce emissions to net zeroβwith potentially harmful effects on Americansβ freedom and economic well-being.
As You Sow is a member of Climate Action 100+. Through Climate Action 100+, As You Sow appears to have colluded with other institutional investors to βwork with the companies in which [they] invest to . . . deliver net zero [greenhouse gas] emissions by 2050. β¦ Collusive agreements harm competition and consumers and are illegal under the Sherman Act.
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The state's high court upheld a 15-week limit on abortion and allowed aΒ proposed abortion amendmentΒ to appear on the ballot in November.
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The Florida Supreme Court upheld a 15-week limit on abortion while also allowing a proposed amendment to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution to appear on the ballot.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could have a significant impact on how mifepristone is prescribed in the United States.
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The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case dealing with the Food and Drug Administrationβs removal of safeguards on chemical abortion drugs.
Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, four national medical associations and four individual doctors sued the FDA for removing almost all safety standards for pregnant women taking the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.
Safeguards formerly included initial in-person visits to make sure the mother did not have an ectopic pregnancy or other serious medical condition, as well as follow-up check-up visits for internal bleeding and infection.
Pro-abortion advocates gathered at the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rally in support of unrestricted chemical abortion drugs. Multiple pro-abortion protesters who spoke with The Daily Signal said they wanted women to have unfettered access to the drugs and pushed back against the idea that safeguards were necessary.
Pro-life advocates who spoke with The Daily Signal emphasized the need to protect womenβs health, sharing stories of women who have suffered severe medical complications from taking the drugs without proper medical supervision.
βToday, I argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of doctors and medical associations who are witnessing firsthand the harm to women caused by the FDAβs recklessness,β Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Erin Hawley said in a press statement on Tuesday.
Hawley accused the FDA of violating federal law and its duty to keep women safe by removing crucial safeguards.
βRegardless of oneβs views about abortion, we should all agree that womenβs health matters,β she emphasized. βWomen deserve for the FDA to do its job. Women deserve for the federal government to look out for their health and safety.β
At the Supreme Court on Tuesday, The Daily Signal spoke with Catherine Herring, a woman whose husband allegedly sought to drug her seven times after he found out she was pregnant. Herring said she became violently ill after the first attempt to abort her baby, and then kept watch until she ultimately caught him on video putting abortion drugs in her drinks.
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βI was the victim of abortion pill poisoning in Texas,β Herring said. βMy husband poisoned me seven times with abortion pills, in attempt to kill my daughter, Josephine.β
βHe said the pregnancy would β¦ make him look like a jerk,β she said.
βHe was using an enormous amount of powder each poisoning,β Herring told the The Daily Signal. βI got violently ill. I ended up in an emergency room, with a urine sample that was black in color.β
Regarding the child Herring was pregnant with when poisoned, she said βJosephine is the sweetest little 18-month-old. She has a lot of health issues, a lot of developmental delays. She has spent many months in the hospital, in ICU. She has a feeding tube in her abdomenβ¦ Iβm so grateful sheβs alive.β
Kelly Lester, a rape victim, post-abortive mother, and former abortion clinic worker, also shared her experience with the rally attendees.
Lester, who aborted her unborn baby through a chemical abortion, explained that she felt her traumatic experience must have been unique since she never heard anyone else discussing how isolated and terrifying it was.
βIf this was the norm, we would hear about it, there would be people out there talking about how dangerous it was, how painful it was, how traumatic it was,β she said. βBut I wasnβt hearing that, so I thought that my experience must have been isolated.β
βWhile working in the abortion industry as the receptionist, I dispensed the abortion drug regimen,β Lester shared, βI handed these women a bag and I told them the same lies that had been told to me. I told them itβs going to be like a heavy period, youβre going to have light cramping. Itβs going to be simple and easy. Itβs the best thing for you.β
βI believed the lies that I was fed,β Lester said.
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The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch have asked a Delaware court to reopen their case seeking the release of President Joe Bidenβs Senate records held at the University of Delaware.
Special counsel Robert Hurβs FebruaryΒ reportΒ on his investigation into Bidenβs retention of classified documents contained findings that contradicted the universityβs claims that no tax dollars were used in processing the records sought by the Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch.
The Delaware Supreme Court previouslyΒ sidedΒ with the university in July, shielding the documents from release.
βThe stunning revelations from the Hur report extend beyond the presidentβs memory lapses and mental state,β Daily Caller News Foundation Editor-in-Chief Michael Bastasch said. βThe court needs to reopen this case to determine whether the University of Delaware lied.β
Judicial Watch initiallyΒ suedΒ the university on behalf of itself and the Daily Caller News Foundation in July 2020 after it denied the request, claiming the records were not related to the expenditure of public funds.
Documents requested by the Daily Caller News Foundation included agreements relating to the storage of 1,850 boxes and 415 gigabytes of records from Bidenβs 1973 to 2009 Senate career, as well as communications between university staff and Bidenβs staff, log sheets of individuals who have visited the collection, and the actual collection records.
βIn sum, the report shows that President Biden directed his former staffersβ work in reviewing and cataloging the Senate papers, received the benefit thereofβand the university paid for it,β the Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial WatchΒ motionΒ filed with the Superior Court of the state of Delaware states. βSuch payments constitute consideration paid on President Bidenβs behalf in connection with the donation of senatorial papers to the universityβcontrary to the representations in the supplemented affidavit.β
Biden gave his records to the university on the condition that they would not be publicly released until βthey have been properly processed and archived,βΒ accordingΒ to the universityβs website. They have been housed at the university since 2012.
βThe search for Senate documents took place at Mr. Bidenβs direction, required the participation of many, and was paid for by the university,β the motion continues. βEven the university general counsel was involved in coordinating with Mr. Bidenβs chief of staff.β
Hurβs report noted that Biden βasked two of his former longtime Senate staffers to review his boxes in courtesy storageβ in the spring of 2011 in preparation to donate the papers. The staffers βwere paid by the University of Delaware to perform the pre-gift review,βΒ accordingΒ to the report.
βThe Hur report provides disturbing evidence the University of Delaware misled the courts in order to hide Bidenβs Senate papers,β Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
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