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Ammon Bundy Fights Medical Tyranny in Idaho~Nursing mother of baby arrested at hospital; BABY taken away to unknown place

BABY "MEDICALLY" KIDNAPPED BY CPS

Idaho CPS took Baby Cyrus

If they can take Cyrus from his loving parents then they can take any child from any parents for any reason. Cyrus is loved by his family more than any family I have witnessed.

Idaho gubernatorial candidate Ammon Bundy arrested at St. Luke's Meridian

Ammon Bundy, independent candidate for Idaho governor and a leader of the “People’s Rights” movement, faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge in Meridian. Ada County Jail records show Bundy, 46, was booked into jail at 1:15 a.m. Saturday, then released. Meridian Police had arrested him on suspicion of “first offense trespass – failure to depart.” A statement from Bundy's campaign, posted on Twitter, says he was arrested in front of St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center “for the crime of disagreeing with the hospital and CPS.” According to the statement, Bundy had arrived at the hospital in support of a family whose baby had been “medically kidnapped” due to a missed non-emergency doctor’s appointment. The Meridian Police Dept. said in a news release issued later Saturday morning that police on Friday received an Idaho Health and Welfare referral about a ten-month-old child who had been admitted to the hospital on March 1 "after medical personnel determined the child was suffering from severe malnourishment." The child was discharged into the care of its parents on March 4, after the child was able to gain enough weight. However, during a follow-up appointment, Meridian Police said, it was determined that the child had again lost a significant amount of weight, but the parents canceled the next follow-up appointment and could not be located. Meridian Police had been advised that the child's condition could lead to severe injury or even death if left untreated. Meridian Police said Health and Welfare was able to contact the child’s father, who agreed to bring the child in for an examination, but then failed to show up. When officers attempted to contact the parents and check on the child at a home in Meridian, the people inside refused to let officers check on the child's welfare. Meridian Police received a warrant to enter the home but discovered the parents and the child had left before officers could check on the child. Garden City Police located a vehicle driven by the father of the child and conducted a traffic stop on Chinden Boulevard. That's when Meridian Police took the child into custody, then took the child to St. Luke's Meridian. According to Meridian Police, Bundy "and several of his followers" showed up to St. Luke’s Meridian and refused to leave the property when asked to do so. In addition to Bundy, officers also arrested Wendy Kay Whitaker, 69, Miranda Chavoya, 23, and Marissa Anderson, 21. Police accuse Whitaker of attempting to interfere in Bundy's arrest and also refusing to leave St. Luke's property. Chavoya and Anderson were arrested on suspicion of resisting or obstructing at the scene of the traffic stop in Garden City. All of those arrested are out of jail at this time. Saturday’s arrest may have been the first time Bundy was accused of trespassing at St. Luke’s, but it was not the first time Bundy has been arrested for trespassing. Court records show a jury trial is set to begin Monday, March 14, for a case in which Bundy is charged with two counts of trespassing -- second offense -- following an arrest on April 8, 2021, at the Idaho State Capitol. He was found guilty of a first misdemeanor trespassing offense and sentenced to 40 hours of community service for refusing to leave an auditorium at the capitol during the August 2020 special session. In July 2021, Bundy kicked off a campaign for governor of Idaho. At the time, he was pursuing the Republican nomination. However, he announced in February that he would instead run as an independent. As an independent, Bundy will not be subject to the upcoming May primary election. He is on the Idaho Secretary of State's unofficial list of candidates who have filed to run for office this year.

Gubernatorial candidate for Idaho Ammon Bundy is no stranger to a good fight. He now finds himself in the middle of yet another, this time concerning parental rights and medical tyranny. One America's Dana Cohen caught up with Bundy for more details.

 

A Bill Banning FACEBOOK’S ‘Zuckbucks’ Foundation Funding in Virginia Elections Is Headed to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Desk

The Era of ‘Zuckbucks’ in Florida Election Administration Ends - The Thinking Conservative

BY THE FEDERALIST

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/a-bill-banning-zuckbucks-foundation-funding-in-virginia-elections-is-headed-to-gov-glenn-youngkins-desk/;

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Virginia’s assembly passed legislation to prohibit state and local election officials from accepting certain funding from private groups.

The General Assembly of Virginia successfully passed a series of bills this week that would prohibit state and local election officials from accepting certain gifts and funding from private individuals or non-governmental entities that would impact how elections are conducted within the Commonwealth.

Passed by both the state’s House of Delegates and Senate, HB 205 (and its companion SB 80) would mandate that “The State Board, the Department, each local electoral board, and all offices of the general registrar shall not solicit, accept, use, or dispose of any money, grants, property, or services given by a private individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding voter education and outreach programs, voter registration programs, or any other expense incurred in the conduct of elections.”

The operation of polling places and voter satellite offices in facilities supplied by private individuals or non-governmental entities are exempt under the law, however.

Del. Otto Wachsmann Jr., who introduced the measure in the House, told The Federalist he was “pleased” the legislation has successfully passed both chambers of the General Assembly while emphasizing how “outside entities” will no longer be able “to influence how elections are run by the state.”

“While nongovernmental groups are allowed to conduct events like voter registration drives outside of our governmental agencies, this bill clarifies that they have no business directly influencing the way that our registrars and electoral boards conduct their business,” Wachsmann said. “That is the sole role of our governmental agencies. I am pleased that the General Assembly has agreed with this concept.”

In explaining the need for the legislation, Wachsmann cited a press release from U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., which details how Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave $350 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a left-wing advocacy group. CTCL spent millions on “financing the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by left-wing activists and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, and data-sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive outreach campaigns in areas heavy with Democratic voters” leading up to the 2020 election.

Wachsmann also noted figures from the Capital Research Center, which show CTCL spending nearly $4 million “Zuckbucks” in Virginia during the 2020 election cycle. While the report notes that CTCL distributed funds to more counties won by Trump (22 of 87) than Biden (14 of 46), over 90 percent ($3.4 million) of the organization’s funding was given to the 14 Biden-won counties, with less than 10 percent ($358,910) going towards the 22 Trump-won counties.

“This is the second-most lopsided bias in favor of Democratic-leaning counties we’ve identified (after Texas),” the report concludes.

Having officially cleared the General Assembly, the bills now head to the desk of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who previously said during Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial primary last year that he would make election integrity a “top priority.” According to Youngkin press secretary Macaulay Porter, the governor “will review the legislation when it comes to his desk.”

In addition to Virginia, numerous battleground states across the country saw Zuckbucks infiltrate their election systems during the 2020 election cycle. As detailed by Federalist Editor in Chief Mollie Hemingway in her New York Times bestselling book, “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections,” Zuckerberg “didn’t just help Democrats by censoring their political opponents,” his financing of “liberal groups running partisan get-out-the-vote operations” was ultimately “the means by which [Democrat] activists achieved their ‘revolution’ and changed the course of the 2020 election.”

“It was a genius plan,” writes Hemingway. “And because no one ever imagined that a coordinated operation could pull off the privatization of the election system, laws were not built to combat it.”

As of March 2022, 16 states have either banned or severely restricted the use and acceptance of private funds for state and local elections.

Biden’s ‘science advisor’ trashes Christians, dismisses individual rights, says government can force vaccine

Francis Collins and Russell Moore: Evil Revealed In Leaked Audio

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://robertspencer.org/2022/03/bidens-science-advisor-trashes-christians-dismisses-individual-rights-says-government-can-force-vaccine;

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America’s future as a free society is in serious peril because there are so many authoritarians in positions of power and influence who have contempt for the American people and their values.

“LEAKED: Audio Shows Former NIH Director Trashing Christians at Event Hosted by Christianity Today,” RedState, March 8, 2022:

Dr. Francis Collins, former NIH Director and current “science advisor” to Joe Biden, has long proclaimed himself and Dr. Anthony Fauci as “not political figures.” But newly leaked audio, obtained by The Daily Wire’s Meg Basham, tells a far different story.

The audio was taken on October 26th, 2021 at an event hosted by Christianity Today in conjunction with the Institute of Politics (a leftwing organization founded by David Axelrod). Russell Moore, a favorite among socially left-leaning “evangelicals” like David French and Beth Moore, conducted the interview portion that included Collins.

What followed was the mocking of Christians, the dismissal of individual rights, and false assertions about the legalities involved with vaccine mandates. But rest assured, none of this was political per Collins’ self-description.

“The US government does have the authority to mandate vaccinations if there is an outbreak that is threatening people, because it’s not just about you, it’s about the people you’re going to infect,” Collins claimed, even though science journals were already reporting by that point that vaccinated people were just as likely to spread the then-dominant Delta variant as those who were unvaccinated.

Collins went on to ask rhetorically, “Do [mandates] convince people who otherwise wouldn’t get them?” He answered himself, “Oh yeah, especially if it means losing your job.”

Perhaps Collins should opine less on legal issues because that turned out to be objectively false. As most are aware, the Supreme Court ended up striking down the Biden administration’s federal vaccine mandate. Collins tried to cite Jacobson vs. Massachusetts, a 1905 case that involved state-level mandates, in the interview, again showing his lack of knowledge of the topic. The lack of empathy shown to those losing their jobs over a mandate that was scientifically pointless (everyone spreads COVID) is also striking.

Later, Collins would go on to outright mock Christians who value personal freedom from the government.

Collins said evangelicals, in particular, over-emphasize notions of personal liberty when it comes to mandates, saying they have so “wrapped themselves in the flag and wrapped themselves in this concept of personal freedom, that public health just grates on them.”

“[Evangelicals] have forgotten many times that freedom is not just about rights,” Collins contended. He then employed a mocking caricature of a Southern accent, asking the students, “How many times have you heard, ‘Muh freedom means I got rights’? Well, okay, you also have that other R-word: responsibilities. That’s what freedom is supposed to incorporate.”

I’m not sure what planet this man lives on, but freedom is actually about rights. There can be no freedom without rights, and anything that violates those rights is logically not freedom. The nod to “responsibilities” is a weak, commonly used excuse by government apparatchiks to force their agenda on others. Even tackling Collins’ claim on the merits, what responsibility to others does someone have to get vaccinated if the vaccine does not stop the spread of COVID?…

Arguably the most politically pointed portion of Collins’ remarks came when Moore asked him about the political opinions of his fellow Christians. Collins answered by referencing an Atlantic article by anti-Trump pundit Peter Wehner, another member of his and Moore’s book club, that argued evangelicals have “embraced the worst aspects of our culture and our politics” and that “churches [have] become repositories not of grace but of grievances, places where tribal identities are reinforced, where fears are nurtured, and where aggression and nastiness are sacralized.”…

Proposed law in Maryland would allow mothers to kill their babies up to 28 days AFTER birth

Image: Proposed law in Maryland would allow mothers to kill their babies up to 28 days AFTER birth

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-03-09-maryland-proposed-law-allows-babies-be-murdered.html;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

(Natural News) Sen. William Smith (D-Md.) has proposed new legislation in Maryland that would legalize “abortion” up to 28 days after a child is born.

Senate Bill 669, also called the “Pregnant Person’s Freedom Act of 2022”, provisions that a newborn baby can be left to die for up to a month after being born in the event that the “mother” decides she no longer wants to keep it.

A hearing for the “woke” bill has been scheduled for March 15 when legislators will debate it.

“The bill also proposes a revision of the fetal murder/manslaughter statute that would serve to handcuff the investigation of infant deaths unrelated to abortion,” American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) attorney Olivia Summers pointed out.

The reason for this has to do with wording in the legislation that would prohibit investigations into and criminal prosecutions of women and medical professionals for “failure to act” in relation to a “perinatal death.”

“In other words, a baby born alive and well could be abandoned and left to starve or freeze to death,” Summers said. “And nothing could be done to punish those who participated in that cruel death.”

Why are Democrats so obsessed with murdering babies?

The language of the legislation, Summers warned, is so unclear that it would, in fact, “prevent investigations into the death of infants at least seven days AFTER their birth, and may extend to infants as old as four weeks.”

Maryland code does not currently define “perinatal.” A 2020 law, however, does define “perinatal care” as the “provision of care during pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum and neonatal periods.”

According to MedicineNet, the official definition is “the 20th to 28th week of gestation” to “1 to 4 weeks after birth.”

Maryland already has a “Safe Haven” law in place allowing the parents of newborn babies to surrender them to a responsible adult without fear of prosecution. So why the need for SB 669, other than to expand the range of time in which a baby can be murdered?

“Under the Safe Haven law, a distressed parent who is unable or unwilling to care for their infant can safely give up custody of their baby, no questions asked,” said the Maryland Department of Human Services. “Newborns can be left at hospitals or law enforcement stations.”

“There is absolutely no reason for Maryland Senate Bill 669’s attempt to prevent someone who lets their baby die from being investigated,” Summers wrote in an analysis of the bill.

“This bill just further exposes the complete lack of regard abortion advocates have for innocent human life.”

If the Democrats pushing the legislation really want to protect life and women, then all they would have to do is extend the length of the safe harbor provisions that are already in place. Since they are not doing this, it would seem as though they have a different agenda.

This is hardly the first time that left-wing politicians have proposed legislation that aims to increase legal eligibility for baby murder. Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) infamously blocked an amendment proposed by Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) that would have protected newborn survivors of botched abortions from being terminated.

“What about if you do not like your two-year-old?” asked someone at LifeSiteNews. “Is it okay to murder her as well? What about your old grandmother who is not much use to anyone anymore? What about the Christian who opposed gender confusion and indoctrination in the schools? Should they be permanently silenced, too?”

More related news can be found at Abortions.news.

Sources include:

LifeSiteNews.com

NaturalNews.com

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SEE ALSO:

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2022/march/aclj-warns-proposed-maryland-senate-bill-could-legalize-infanticide-up-to-28-days-after-birth

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/02/14/jones-seeks-constitutional-amendment-to-strengthen-abortion-rights-in-maryland/

 

Second-grader Chastised for Preaching the Gospel to her Classmates

BY BOB ADELMANN

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/second-grader-chastised-for-preaching-the-gospel-to-her-classmates/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

A second-grade student attending North Hill Elementary School in Des Moines, Washington, has been sent to the principal’s office 10 times since the first of the year for witnessing to her classmates on the school’s playground.

When the parents contacted the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the public-interest law firm sent a letter to the principal reminding him of the student’s First Amendment-protected rights and suggesting that unless the harassment stopped they would be filing suit.

The principal responded by telling ACLJ that the student was scaring her classmates with talks of Satan and hell. She offered religious tracts which some of her classmates took home with them, resulting, as the public relations officer for the school district told CBN News, in “Multiple parents complain[ing] about their children coming home with religious pamphlets.”

The PR officer filled in the blanks: During playtime, the student would stand on a playground table and preach the Gospel. School officials told her she couldn’t “tell other children they’re going to hell and that [she] must stop distributing what the school considers to be unacceptable religious materials.”

The principal said she would be allowed to distribute religious materials but only if the staff decides they’re appropriate.

The ACLJ was astonished after learning from the parents that their daughter was being stopped at the schoolhouse door and having her backpack searched for those “unacceptable religious materials”:

We were astonished when we were first contacted by a second-grade student’s parents who said their little girl had been sent to the principal’s office at North Hill Elementary School no less than 10 times since January 1st for witnessing to classmates on the playground.

But it only gets worse. Not only were they scolding her for talking about Jesus to her classmates outside of instruction time, but they were stopping her at the entrance to the school every morning to inspect her backpack and remove any Christian tracts!

Her mother witnessed this exchange one morning when dropping her daughter off and immediately confronted the principal. The principal told her that her child is not allowed to pass out tracts or crosses to students because it is upsetting parents, and the school wanted her to confirm that there were no tracts in her daughter’s backpack every morning before dropping her off from now on.

Christian tracts were being treated as contraband, as if speaking about Jesus were an illicit drug.

The ACLJ is prepared to defend the student if the school doesn’t back down, declaring that Supreme Court precedent supports her right to share the Gospel with her classmates:

It is well-settled Supreme Court precedent that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969). [Under that ruling] students are free to express their religious views while at school, which includes sharing Bibles, Christian tracts, and crosses.

Since 1969, Tinker has often been cited in cases such as this one. Although the court at the time of the ruling was considered one of the most liberal in judicial history, the majority opinion, penned by Justice Abe Fortas, is comforting:

First Amendment rights … are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

This has been the unmistakable holding of this Court for almost 50 years.

In this constitutional republic, wrote Fortas, freedoms come with certain inevitable risks. The alternative is tyranny where no expression outside of what the state declares is allowed:

In our system, undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression.

Any departure from absolute regimentation may cause trouble.

Any variation from the majority’s opinion may inspire fear.

Any word spoken, in class, in the lunchroom, or on the campus, that deviates from the views of another person may start an argument or cause a disturbance.

But our Constitution says we must take this risk … and our history says that it is this sort of hazardous freedom — this kind of openness — that is the basis of our national strength and of the independence and vigor of Americans who grow up and live in this relatively permissive, often disputatious, society.

If the Highline School District, where North Hill Elementary School is located, decides to accept ACLJ’s challenge, it will have to show that the student’s behavior “materially and substantially interfere[s] with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school,” according to the Tinker ruling.

ACLJ has given the school district until March 14 to respond. The New American will report on any developments in the case. 

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Starbucks Employee Claims to Have Spit in a Conservative Student’s Coffee

BY NATIONAL FILE

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/starbucks-employee-claims-to-have-spit-in-a-conservative-students-coffee/;

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A Starbucks employee claims to have spit in a prominent conservative student leader’s coffee in Denton, Texas. University of North Texas (UNT) student and former YCT (Young Conservatives of Texas) President, Kelly Neidert, found the post on Yik Yak, an anonymous Twitter-style social network popular on college campuses.

UNT is the same campus where dozens of far-left activists shut down a speaking event featuring Texas State House Candidate Jeff Younger earlier this month. Younger gained widespread recognition following a lengthy custody battle over his son James, where Younger’s ex-wife, Dr. Anne Georgulas, diagnosed their son with “gender dysphoria,” which is a psychological disorder characterized by a child’s “consistent and insistent” expression of “cross-gender statements and behaviors.”

A jury said Dr. Georgulas had the right to “transition” her son, who she has reportedly renamed “Luna.” Younger eventually lost custody of his son last August.

Kelly Neidert played a big part in organizing the event for Younger, which was hijacked and ruined by dozens of far-left agitators. The extremists pounded on tables and shouted “**ck you fascist” until Younger and the event organizers were forced to leave. The group was later attacked by more far-left extremists as they exited the event.

Police ultimately had to hide the 22-year-old in a janitor’s closet due to the mob’s threats. Neidert said she had already coordinated with police prior to the event because she had been receiving “death threats and threats of violence” at school prior to the event.

A little over a week after the event, Neidert discovered a Yik Yak post in which a Starbucks employee claims to have spit in her drink. “Kelly from the right came to my Starbucks this morning and she got a BIG spit in her drink,” reads the post. “Starbucks employees spit in my drink because they knew I’m conservative! Conservative Twitter, do your thing,” the UNT student leader wrote in response.

According to Neidert, the incident took place at Starbucks Store #11149, which can be reached at 1-940-382-0242. The Starbucks location did not respond to National File’s request for comment.

“Greatest Fraud in History”: Doctors Sue Federal Government Over COVID Vax

BY VERONIKA KYRYLENKO

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/greatest-fraud-in-history-doctors-sue-federal-government-over-covid-vax/;

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America’s Frontline Doctors, a group of medical professionals who work to promote early COVID-19 treatments and to expose the influence of pharmaceutical companies on federal decision-making, is suing the U.S. government over the COVID vaccination campaign. The latter is called by the plaintiffs “the greatest fraud in the history of the world.”

The suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on February 16 includes a comprehensive amount of evidence regarding such pressing issues as serious side effects linked to COVID vaccinations recorded in the U.S. military and COVID vaccines’ ineffectiveness in preventing infection and protecting one from severe disease, as shown in the breakthrough infections records of Medicare patients.  

The lawsuit alleges that the federal government — and particularly the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is ostensibly responsible for protecting public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of medical products — was aware of these issues yet intentionally withheld them from the public.

The suit was filed by Ohio-based attorney Thomas Renz, who posted a “Special Notice Regarding Critical Evidence Related to COVID-19, Potential Governmental Corruption, and the Safety of Our Military and Citizens” on his website. The document provides bullet-point information on each allegation made in the lawsuit, and is intended to be shared with lawmakers, governors, state attorneys general, “and as many other elected officials as possible throughout the nation.”

The notice reads,

For approximately two years now, two presidents, congress, the federal and state court systems, and the American public have been lied to, manipulated, and injured. What started as one of the most egregious over-reaches of executive power in American history — 14 days to flatten the curve — quickly morphed into an anathema to the principles upon which our republic was founded. These lies and manipulation have resulted in an economic crisis, a mental health crisis, the erosion of freedoms fundamental to all Americans, and the debilitation of our military.

While Renz underlines that his clients do not deny COVID-19’s existence, he states that non-establishment doctors have accumulated enough evidence to prove the “combination of unelected and totally corrupt bureaucrats, big tech and big pharma billionaires, the mainstream media, and the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry have successfully perpetrated the greatest fraud in the history of the world.” That was achieved through such methods as “data manipulation, terrible public health policy, and political manipulation that made a disease with approximately the same case fatality rate as the seasonal flu in most people appear to be the end of the world.”

The notice focuses on the damage that COVID vaccines have done to U.S. troops who have been vaccinated since late March 2020. The shots were mandated for the military in August 2021, and all non-compliant servicemen have been threatened with discharge. As of today, as stated by Renz, the U.S. military might become weaker by a quarter, since 25 percent of all servicemen have refused the shot.

Military Data: Spike in Diseases

Thanks to Department of Defense (DOD) whistleblowers Doctors Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers, and Theresa Long, it has been revealed that U.S. military personnel have seen a significant increase in cancers, neurological, and reproductive issues, and numerous other conditions in 2021 compared to the five-year average rate. The information was learned from the Defense Military Epidemiological Database (DMED), the official database of the anonymous medical records of all American servicemen.

As reported by The New American at the time, Renz presented this bombshell information during a panel discussion titled “Covid-19: A Second Opinion” in Washington, D.C., on January 24, 2022, hosted by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Following the panel, the senator wrote a letter to DOD Secretary Lloyd Austin asking if he was aware of this troubling development and if he had done anything to investigate it.

Renz said in the notice that the DOD reacted to the news by providing a statement to a “fact-checking” organization claiming that “a glitch occurred in this database affecting the data from 2016-2020.”

Renz is not buying this. He says that it is unclear how a glitch could occur in “the premier epidemiological database in the world,” which is being meticulously monitored by “the entire division of the military” and also the nation’s top healthcare agencies. If that truly happened, then the health advice in the years 2016-2020 was based on false premises. Then, if there was a technical issue, how could it “repair” itself in 2021, while the whole matter remained unnoticed until the exposure in 2022?

“What has occurred represents negligence on an unprecedented level and, more likely, a clear cover-up,” alleges Renz.

Project Salus: Shots’ Low Effectiveness

DOD data accumulated and analyzed by Project Salus between January and August 2021, showed that Biden administration officials and the president’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, were “lying in claiming this to be a ‘crisis of the unvaxxed,’” say the physicians.

Among the Medicare population of 16 million seniors, “an estimated 71% of COVID-19 cases occurred in fully vaccinated individuals.” They also accounted for some 60 percent of all COVID hospitalizations.

The project was also intended to track shots’ safety. The methodology that was used, however, seems to be designed to conceal a number of side effects. For example, all side effects that occurred within 14 days of full vaccination were excluded from reporting. At the same time, “It is well known that most side effects occur within 14 days of receiving these injections,” per the lawsuit.

Any side effects that occurred after the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, which are part of a two-shot series, were also ignored.

The data on breakthrough infections has not been shared with the public, nor, “to our knowledge,” with elected officials, note the plaintiffs.

They conclude,

This document definitively demonstrates that the DoD and DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services) have known for quite some time that the injections are ineffective but have continued to force them on our military and healthcare workers, while also falsely promoting the “safe and effective” narrative to Congress, the courts, and the public.

Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports of Pfizer Shot

More than 40 thousand serious adverse events and more than 1,200 deaths were reported in the first two and a half months since the beginning of Pfizer’s COVID shot rollout. In 9,400 cases, the outcomes for vaccine recipients were unknown. This is according to the FDA’s own document titled “Cumulative analysis of post-authorization adverse event reports of PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) received through 28-Feb-2021”:

Despite the document identifying a total of 1,291 so-called adverse effects of special interest, the FDA concluded that the benefits of Pfizer shots outweigh the risks.

A “special interest” is explained by the adverse events’ “association with severe COVID-19 and events of interest for vaccines in general,” per the notice.

“Given that these injections were only authorized — as opposed to approved — and that they were a new category of drugs (gene therapies), why were these not listed as potential side effects?” ask the doctors.

FDA’s Presentation: Limited Data on Effectiveness; Withheld Data on Safety

On October 22, 2020, the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) presented the data on the safety and efficacy of the COVID shots, which was monitored through a number of systems such as VAERS, FDA BEST, DOD, Veterans Affairs, FDA-CMS partnership, and others. Some were said to be monitored in “near real-time.”

The Renz notice reminds the public that according to federal law, both healthcare professionals and those who may receive the shot are made aware “of the significant known and potential benefits and risks of the emergency use of the product, and of the extent to which such benefits and risks are unknown.”

The FDA, per its own data, was aware of the numerous side effects yet never made them a part of the informed consent packets shared with the potential vaccine recipients, “nor has the public been made aware of the real potential for these outcomes,” according to the notice.

The VRBPAC’s presentation also acknowledged that “there may be limited information available at licensure on level and duration of effectiveness.”

Halt Vaccinations

The physicians are urging decision-makers to take “immediate action be taken to lift any and all mandates for military personnel to receive these dangerous injections.”

The doctors also argue for the passage of legislation repealing immunity for vaccine manufacturers: “If vaccines are truly safe and effective no one should oppose this.”

Finally, the shots must be stripped of their authorization and “illegal approvals” “until such time as the public can be properly informed of the real risks of the ‘vaccines’ and of COVID-19,” say the doctors.

Loudoun County School District Called CPS on Dad for Asking Questions About Bad Teachers

BY MEGAN FOX

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/03/07/loudoun-county-school-district-called-cps-on-dad-for-asking-questions-about-bad-teachers-n1564479;

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We were all shocked and horrified when the Daily Wire broke the story about the Loudoun County dad who was dragged out of a school board meeting for trying to speak out about the massive coverup of the rape of his daughter that occurred in the girls’ bathroom by a gender-fluid boy in a skirt. But that’s not the only horror Loudoun County schools have been hiding. Luke Rosiak, the same reporter who broke the rape story is back at it again, and this time he uncovered how a Loudoun County school official called Child Protective Services on a dad for asking questions about county test scores. The New York Post has the story:

To hear Loudoun County, Va., educators tell it, Brian Davison is a violent lunatic, a physical threat, someone who should be in jail.

Davison is a ginger-haired 48-year-old who earned two degrees from MIT, then spent much of his career as a Navy officer. By profession, he is a nerd who specializes in “operations research,” finding ways to make organizations function more efficiently. After he had two kids, he figured he could volunteer his number-crunching skills to help their schools.

He’s not a monster. To teachers, he’s something more threatening: a mathematician.

That mathemetician discovered that the schools were counting metrics wrong. When he used FOIA to get his hands on the data, the county refused to give it up.

In 2014, Davison asked for a copy of the growth scores under the Freedom of Information Act. Loudoun County Public Schools told him it did not have them. In fact, no one in the school system had ever looked at them.

Not only is the county supposed to have those scores, but they are also supposed to report them to the federal government in order to receive funding. It doesn’t look like they have been doing it.

He requested the data from other school districts in the state, which told him essentially the same thing. Educators were so opposed to looking at these numbers that they were willing to systematically lie, apparently ignore the law, and jeopardize vast sums of federal funding. They were doing it for the same reason the information was so important: It revealed which teachers were good and which were not.

This is a thing that teachers’ unions have been fighting for forever. They never want their jobs tied to student scores. They would prefer that teachers take no responsibility for the growth of students, blaming instead their parents, their environment, or the budget for any failures.

Related: Loudoun County Rapist Who ‘Scares’ Judge Will Not Have to Register as a Sex Offender

Davison had to file a suit to get the FOIA information he requested, and that’s when he became a target of Loudoun County. Davison was then labeled “dangerous.” Debra Rose, a former congressional staffer, and school board member went on the attack against Davison. She attempted to have him removed from a board meeting in 2015 for asking uncomfortable questions about the test results. The officer she instructed to remove Davison refused to do it. She then called the police while she was at her home to report Davison as a “threat” to her. She did not give police any specific information as to what kind of threat he posed but told him “he made her feel extremely uncomfortable,” according to the Post’s investigation. Again, the police took no action.

In May, another call to police, this time from Rose’s husband, took place alleging that Davison was “posting links” on the internet to Rose’s campaign website where photos of her and her children were. According to the police report as reported by the Post, “this may not be a crime because this certain post is a link to his wife’s campaign website.” The campaign against Davison was well and truly underway. This is a common tactic by the left where they will call the police to “build a record” against an enemy. It was done to me when I went up against a corrupt library board in Illinois that was allowing men to watch porn (and masturbate) in a building full of children. They ended up calling the police on me eleven times for nonsense (with no charges ever filed). One call was about a song I wrote on YouTube about a Smith and Wesson gun. Seriously. You can read all about that in my book called Shut Up!

Related: Winning: Matt Walsh Trolls Woke Loudoun County School Board—and It’s a Sight to Behold

Rose then called Davison’s father to complain about him and emailed his employer several times, presumably to have him fired. When Davison refused to stop raising questions about the testing issues at a PTA meeting, the school’s principal, Tracy Stephens, banned him from the school premises. This ban then allowed the school to continue harassing Davison with police, according to the Post.

The day the no-trespassing order was posted to Davison’s front door, Stephens called the police on him while he waited off school property to pick up his kids. She refused to allow his children to join him. The police told the principal that Davison was entitled to pick up his children, but, according to the police report, Stephens demanded, “I want him arrested!”

When the police would not arrest Davison, Stephens called CPS and lied about him being a danger to his children and told them she suspected him of being a child abuser. These accusations were based on his child coming to school wearing rain boots instead of gym shoes and seeing the children with him on one occasion when they were “straight-faced” and not smiling.

In 2016, Davison won the FOIA suit that he filed in 2014, and a judge ordered the board to turn over the testing information and pay him $35,000. But what’s incredible about this story is that Davison found in the data that there were teachers who the district knew were underperforming, and yet they stayed employed anyway. And despite this knowledge, and with the teachers’ unions fighting every step of the way, a Republican-controlled Congress passed a bill called Every Student Succeeds Act that snuck into it exactly what the unions wanted. “Buried in it was a provision forbidding the government from asking or incentivizing states to use student-growth data to evaluate teachers. The change came following lobbying by the unions.”

How can every student succeed when a bunch of them are stuck with crappy teachers? You tell me. What’s also incredible about this is the change in the testing that outed the bad teachers who came under Obama. So it was an Obama plan to find out which teachers were doing well and which ones weren’t, and the people who destroyed it were Republicans. Go figure. It’s tough to tell who the bad guys are these days, but for sure the teachers’ unions should top that list.

Pizza Hut Teaches Kids America is Built on Slavery and Genocide

A fast-food chain that makes bad pizza wants to talk to your kids about white privilege

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/03/pizza-hut-teaches-kids-america-built-slavery-and-daniel-greenfield/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

Pizza Hut, unsatisfied with making kids fat, also wants to make them racist.

The stale franchise chain has supplemented its menu of lightly charred cardboard covered in tasteless glops of something that a blind hobo might mistake for cheese with racism.

While Pizza Hut focuses on poisoning children with such horrible concoctions as cheeseburger crust pizza, fish and chips pizza, and sushi cream cheese pizza, the Pizza Hut Foundation is hard at work teaching students that America is racist and white people suck.

The training materials intended for use in the classroom want teachers to ask 10-year-olds, “How often have you thought about your race in the last 24 hours?”

If demanding that 10-year-olds spend all their time thinking about race sounds crazy, another Pizza Hut pamphlet with tips for "talking to kids about race" claims that by "6 months, babies notice racial differences" and that 4-year-olds "show signs of racial bias."

The Empowering Educators Toolbox presented by the Pizza Hut Foundation urges teachers to tell their students that everyone is defined by race, that "everyone has a racial identity", and that race defines American life. Forget MLK, the stale pizza franchise chain wants your kids to believe that they're defined by their skin color, not the content of their character.

A sane country wouldn’t take its cues on race from the people who decided to combine hot dogs and pizza into something that looks like a dachshund got run over by a garbage truck, but in a nation of woke corporations, Pizza Hut would like your children to violently hate America.

"America is a country built on a foundation of slavery, genocide, and white supremacy," a pamphlet for teachers stamped with the Pizza Hut logo declares.

Pizza Hut is built on a foundation of turning kids into fat butterballs waiting for a heart attack.

The actual best practices for teachers would be to teach your students to love America and avoid Pizza Hut unless they want to close off their minds as thoroughly as their arteries.

When Pizza Hut isn’t serving up junk food, it’s serving up junk history and junk factoids.

A Challenging Conversations pamphlet claims that the "police force is the sixth leading cause of death for black men."

According to the CDC, it's actually diabetes. But it's understandable that Pizza Hut, which makes millions giving black men heart disease, strokes, and diabetes, wants to blame the cops who are the only people keeping the underpaid employees of their struggling franchisees alive..

1,055 people were shot and killed by police officers in 2021. 234 of them were white and only 139 were black. 632 of those who were shot were waving guns. Only 34 were unarmed.

459,540 black people died in 2020. With heart disease, strokes, hypertension, and diabetes accounting for around 30% of deaths, Pizza Hut and the rest of the Yum! Brands' family probably kill more black men in one day than every single police shooting in a century combined.

Not satisfied with being blamed for Michael Jordan's food poisoning during the 1997 NBA finals, Pizza Hut's handout to teachers rants about "white privilege" and quotes a false claim that white teachers who refuse to "recognize their privilege" are harming their students.

The hateful pamphlet also promotes demands for race reparations by millionaire racist author Ta-Nehisi Coates who wrote that the police officers and firefighters who died on September 11 “were not human to me.”

Good to know Pizza Hut agrees.

A guidebook to teachers marked with the Pizza Hut logo  and with an introduction co-signed by Artie Starrs, then Yum!'s CEO of Pizza Hut, claims that "racism" has been part of America's "collective history since the first English colonists arrived in 1607." It's a good thing that the Spanish who were there a century earlier and enslaved and killed the Indians weren't racists.

"Science has proven that race is not biological," insists a pamphlet for teachers produced by a fast-food chain that understands science almost as well as it knows history and cooking.

Don't question any of this. According to the Pizza Hut branded pamphlet, saying, "I don't see color", "white privilege doesn't exist" and "all lives matter" are all racial microaggressions.

Never mind that Pizza Hut’s entire existence is an ongoing hate crime against Italians.

Pizza Hut's bad education materials come in three flavors, racist lies, woke lies, and lies that could be easily disproven if someone is involved in the racist pamphlets, which also promote fact-checking and warn against “misinformation”, bothered to spend 30 seconds on Google.

For example, the Pizza Hut indoctrination pamphlet falsely claims that the Atlanta spa shootings were a hate crime against Asian people. The shooter was actually struggling with sex addiction and was never charged with a hate crime.

"Anti-bias, antiracist instruction should happen year-round," Pizza Hut demands.

What does that mean? The Pizza Hut hate pamphlets defend critical race theory and promote the Black Lives Matter hate movement, racist authors like Ibram X. Kendi, and the 1619 Project.

But that’s what happens when you get your history from a subsidiary of Yum! Brands that once infuriated Vietnamese-American refugees by using a Communist red star in a logo.

The obvious question is why is Pizza Hut trying to poison kids in a whole new way?

The answer, as Pizza Hut's new Chief Equity Officer Chequan Lewis said, is equity.

“Pizza Hut is introducing a new chapter in our long-standing commitment to literacy – focused on the intersection of equity and education,” Lewis said.

Literacy now means corporations turning kids into Marxists at shareholder expense.

Pizza Hut's Literacy Project emphasizes Young Activists. "Find amazing examples of activism and get your students involved," a program backed by a garbage pizza chain insists.

Corporate Marxism has become as ubiquitous as it is infuriating. But wokeness is also a symptom of a declining corporate power.

Domino's beat Pizza Hut around the same time that Trump beat Hillary. Pizza Hut sales fell in 2020 even as the pandemic helped boost Domino's and Papa John's by 17.6% and 15.9%. The largest Pizza Hut franchisee, with over 1,300 locations, filed for bankruptcy in 2020 after struggling with $1 billion in debt. Pizza Hut’s garbage pizza is as woke as it is broke.

Having destroyed pizza and its own company, Pizza Hut now wants to destroy America.

Biden Admin Declares War on Texas Over “Transgender Right” to Mutilate Children

Greg Abbott: Investigate gender-transitioning care for trans youth as ‘child abuse’ 

Texas declares gender-affirming care “child abuse,” investigation underway

BY C. MITCHELL SHAW

SEE: https://thenewamerican.com/biden-admin-declares-war-on-texas-over-transgender-right-to-mutilate-children/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

Following Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s direction last week ordering the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the parents of children who have been subjected to “so-called ‘sex change’ procedures,” the Biden administration is going all out in a war for “transgender rights.” The administration warned Wednesday that it will take “immediate action if needed.”

Abbott’s order has been vilified by liberals of every stripe as an attack on “marginalized people,” though it actually protects children from having life-changing surgical and chemical mutilation done to their bodies to further the Left’s gender ideology. The actual document can be found here.

In a statement that rings with an irony that the president appears blind to, Biden called Abbott’s direction “government overreach at its worst.” That is quite an indictment coming from a man who has spent his entire tenure in the White House mandating and dictating his way through a “pandemic” that is no real threat to most Americans. If Mr. Biden wishes to see “government overreach at its worst,” he need look no farther than the nearest mirror.

But Biden was just warming up. He went on to say, “Like so many anti-transgender attacks proliferating in states across the country, the Governor’s actions callously threaten to harm children and their families just to score political points. These actions are terrifying many families in Texas and beyond. And they must stop.”

Wednesday’s statement from the White House was not the only threat from the Biden administration that day. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra issued his own statement, saying that HHS is “committed to protecting young Americans who are targeted because of their sexual orientation or gender identity,” adding that he has directed HHS to “evaluate the tools at our disposal to protect trans and gender diverse youth in Texas.”

Describing the surgical and pharmaceutical mutilation of children as “gender-affirming medical care,” Becerra issued the threat that “HHS will take immediate action if needed” to keep the LGBTQ+ train running with children on the tracks. Becerra said, “I know that many youths and their supportive families are feeling scared and isolated because of these attacks. HHS is closely monitoring the situation in Texas, and will use every tool at our disposal to keep Texans safe.”

So, the administration ostensibly led by the man who considers Abbott’s efforts to protect children from the scalpels and drugs of an ideological war on the family as “government overreach at its worst” is now threatening Texas with “immediate action.”

Biden claims that actions such as Abbott’s are “terrifying many families in Texas and beyond,” and Becerra claims that HHS will do all in its unconstitutional power “to keep Texans safe.” But neither of them offers any evidence that anyone is harmed by not being surgically and chemically mutilated. After all, what is harmful about not being shot full of drugs to stop the natural process of puberty? For that matter, who was ever harmed by not having a healthy body part removed?

But that clear logic is lost on Biden and his administrators. Becerra referred to Abbott’s actions as the “Texas government’s attacks against transgender youth and those who love and care for them,” and described them as “discriminatory and unconscionable,” adding:

These actions are clearly dangerous to the health of transgender youth in Texas. At HHS, we listen to medical experts and doctors, and they agree with us, that access to affirming care for transgender youth is essential and can be life-saving.

Becerra’s choice of words is deliberate. By branding the common-sense measure of protecting children from mutilation as “dangerous” and “discriminatory” “attacks against transgender youth,” he grants himself the authority to use the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as a weapon in Biden’s War on the Family. In his statement, Becerra said, “Any individual or family in Texas who is being targeted by a child welfare investigation because of this discriminatory gubernatorial order is encouraged to contact our Office for Civil Rights to report their experience…. If you believe that you or another party has been discriminated against on the basis of gender identity or disability in seeking to access gender-affirming health care, visit the OCR complaint portal to file a complaint online.”

Biden drove that point home in his statement, as well, saying that the administration is

putting the state of Texas on notice that their discriminatory actions put children’s lives at risk. These announcements make clear that rather than weaponizing child protective services against loving families, child welfare agencies should instead expand access to gender-affirming care for transgender children. Respected medical organizations have said that access to gender-affirming care for transgender children can benefit mental health, lower suicide rates, and improve other health outcomes.

And continuing the charade that he gives two hoots for families, he added that families and doctors should “have the freedom to make the medical decisions that are best for each young person.”

Then, again missing the irony of his own statement, he said, “In the United States of America, we respect the rights and dignity of all families. Transgender children bring fulfillment to their parents, joy to their friends, and are made in the image of God.”

Wow. That is actual blasphemy.

Biden made a similarly blasphemous statement in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Calling on Congress to enact the radically progressive Equality Act, he criticized the “onslaught of state laws targeting transgender Americans and their families,” adding, “As I said last year, especially to our younger transgender Americans, I’ll always have your back as your president so you can be yourself and reach your God-given potential.”

Yes, children — all children — in fact, all persons are made in the image of God. And all are born in sin, which mars the soul. Biden wants to do to the body what sin does to the soul. He wants to take the image of God and mutilate it, disfigure it, pervert it. And while it is certainly true that people should be empowered and encouraged to reach their God-given potential, that cannot be done by mutilating the body to fit an already-present mental problem. Instead, the mind should be helped to conform to the reality of the body.

Biden seems either unwilling or unable to face reality himself, so perhaps it would be a bridge too far to expect him to encourage others to do so. Instead, he invokes the Almighty in a perverse attempt to defend perversion.

By invoking God, Biden shows his true colors — and those are the colors of the LGBTQ+ rainbow flag. This writer will end by invoking God as well, but not as Biden did. May God bless the United States of America. And may he have mercy on Joe Biden.

Minnesota school districts to officially observe Muslim Eid holidays

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

SEE: https://robertspencer.org/2022/03/minnesota-school-districts-to-officially;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

With the burgeoning Muslim population in Minnesota, several district schools will now be observing Muslim high holy days. Beginning in the new school year, Eid El-Fitr and Eid El-Adha will be included as official school holidays.

Demographics rules.

Also in Minnesota, a special Quran holds the signature of almost every Minnesota Muslim elected to office. The practice began when Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress in 2016. Imam Asad Zaman, Executive Director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, ordered the “largest Qur’an he could find for her swearing-in ceremony.” Afterward, Zaman arranged for other Muslim officeholders to sign it, and the practice continues.

“Minnesota school districts to observe Muslim Eid holidays for the first time this year,” by Brooke Anderson, The New Arab, March 1, 2022:

With its small but vibrant Muslim community, Minnesota’s schools have until now not observed Muslim holidays. That will change next school year.

Even with its growing Muslim community, Minnesota’s district schools have until now not officially observed Muslim holidays. That will change starting next school year, when several school districts will recognise Eid El-Fitr and Eid El-Adha as official school holidays.

“Muslims are no longer a tiny minority. In some districts, they represent a large percentage of Muslims,” Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council of American-Muslim Relations-Minnesota, told The New Arab.

“Many are traditional Muslims, so taking part in Eid holidays is important for them.”

The school districts that will observe the holidays are Minneapolis, Hopkins, Moorhead and Mankato. In addition to these districts having high Muslim — mainly Somali — populations, some of the leaders of the schoolboards are also Muslim, which Hussein said has helped the process.

With this new policy across several school districts, Minnesota joins a growing number of states that are increasingly recognising Muslim holidays.

“We expect more of this to happen,” said Hussein, “Now that we have momentum, we will target more districts.”

Though counties across the US with high Muslim populations have been making their cases for the inclusion of Muslim holidays in schools, the decisions are not always based on numbers.

For example, Fairfax County in Virginia has a high Muslim population, and so far has not managed to get Muslim holidays off, despite major efforts….

Russian Troops Just SHELLED The Largest Nuclear Plant In Europe, Trading Fire With Ukrainians

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Russian "Pantsir-S" with Ukrainian flag being used against Russians

Russian "Pantsir-S" spotted in Ukraine with the Ukrainian flag. Armed with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Pantsir-S air defense missile system with the Ukrainian flag was spotted. This Pantsir-S air defense missile system might be the one that Ukrainians captured two days ago and now it's being used against Russian Forces. The Ukrainian military published a video showing the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun system in their arsenal, judging by the video footage, it is activated since the equipment is working inside it, although the complex’s radar is in a passive state. On the presented video frames, you can see that the complex does not have any visual damage and therefore quite a lot of questions arise regarding how the ZRPK ended up in service with the Ukrainian army. At the same time, at the moment there is no way to establish the origin of this ZRPK, since these weapons were previously

supplied to many countries of the world. In turn, experts doubted that these weapons could even be used by the Ukrainian military. “Even if the Armed Forces of Ukraine received this complex from abroad, the Ukrainian military is unlikely to be able to effectively manage it, since the training of the Ukrainian military was not carried out. Nevertheless, it is possible that mercenaries who are actively deployed to Ukraine have experience in managing the Pantsir-S air defense missile system., - notes the analyst Avia.pro.

FLASHBACK: Democrats Opposed Sanctions on Russian Gas Two Months Ago

BY MATT MARGOLIS

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/04/flashback-democrats-opposed-sanctions-on-russian-gas-two-months-ago-n1563718;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

While Democrats are currently exploiting anti-Russian sentiment in the wake of Putin invading Ukraine, when given the opportunity to flex some muscle against Russia earlier this year, they flat out rejected it.

Back in January, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill that would have imposed sanctions on businesses connected to Russia’s natural gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2. Senate Democrats denounced the bill as a mere political gesture that they say would have harmed relations with European allies.

“The vote on Cruz’s measure sanctioning operators of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was 55-44, short of the 60 it needed to pass,” the Associated Press reported on January 13. “While opposition from the Democratic-controlled House and President Joe Biden meant it had little chance of success, Republicans used the opportunity to portray Democrats as timid in standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose troops are massed along Ukraine’s borders as he demands concessions from the West.”

Fast-forward to today, some Democrats in Congress are now calling on Biden to ban imports of Russian oil in the hopes of convincing Putin to end his invasion of Ukraine.

“It is so obviously apparent that we need to cut it off,” Sen. Jon Tester, (D-Mont.), told NBC News on Wednesday. “I wonder if there’s a reason we haven’t [and] what the hell the reason is.”

Oh, I have a few ideas.

“We should stop buying over 600,000 barrels [of Russian oil] a day in America,” agreed Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-W.Va.). “Can you believe that? No one knew that. No one paid attention to it. And that has to stop.”

Despite calls from some Democrats to punish Russia, there is actually some division in the party about the move. Republicans, however, are fairly united and are not only calling for sanctions, but also for Biden to reverse course on domestic drilling and the Keystone XL pipeline.

“We’ve got to cut off the oil. It’s going to supply Vladimir Putin’s war machine,” Robert O’Brien, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser says. “We’ve got to restart the Keystone pipeline. Call it the Biden Build Back Better pipeline — I don’t care. But we need the pipeline.”

Democrats had the chance to hit Putin where it hurts months ago… It wasn’t until after Russia invaded Ukraine that some of them decided it was actually okay to do so.

Cowards.

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French Journalist Claims Ukrainian Citizens Have Been 'Targeted,' Killed by Ukraine Gov't 'Since 2014': 'I Have Proof'

BY JON FLEETWOOD

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/french-journalist-claims-ukrainian-citizens-have-been-targeted-killed-by-ukraine-govt-since-2014-i-have-proof-watch/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

“Residents of the Donbass began to be targeted by their own government in 2014,” says French reporter.

QUICK FACTS:
  • Anne-Laure Bonnel (Insagram, Facebook, Twitter), a French journalist and reporter, is being criticized for claiming that locals in the contested Donbass region bordering Russia are being “targeted” by the Ukrainian government, RT News reports.
  • Bonnell says she’s been filming in the war-torn eastern Ukraine area since 2015.
  • She spoke out about her experience in Donbass in an interview with French newsroom CNews during which she claimed that innocent Donbass citizens are being tortured by their own government.
  • “They are dead and wounded I film them every day,” Bonnel said. “I take photos every day to save as proof I do not have any political message to express.”
Screenshot from Anne-Laure Bonnel’s Instagram account taken March 4, 2022
Screenshot from Anne-Laure Bonnel’s Instagram account taken March 4, 2022
Screenshot from Anne-Laure Bonnel’s Instagram account taken March 4, 2022
Screenshot from Anne-Laure Bonnel’s Instagram account taken March 4, 2022
  • “Just so you know this conflict has been widely discussed for a week, but it has lasted already eight years and caused the deaths of thirteen thousand people,” she added.
  • “People are devastated. All of them are Ukrainians and they’re extremely surprised that Europe is now aware of the situation.”
  • “This has been going on since 2014.”
  • The French anchorman interrupts Bonnel to clarify that it is Ukrainians being attacked by the Ukrainian government, saying, “Sorry to interrupt—not all of us know about the situation as much as you do, since you’ve been following it for so many years.”
  • “Something you said surprised me,” the anchorman went on. “You said that all of those people are Ukrainians and the shelling is also conducted by Ukrainians?” he asked.
  • “Definitely,” Bonnel responded. “This is something really important and somehow it’s being ignored. Residents of the Donbass began to be targeted by their own government in 2014.”
  • “And you think these bombings are being conducted by the central Ukrainian authorities?” the anchorman asked.
  • “Yes.”
WATCH BONNEL’S INTERVIEW:

WHAT ELSE BONNEL SAID:
  • “Russian-speaking citizens fell victim to shelling by Kiev government. It’s true. I have proof. I can show it as soon as I go back to France,” Bonnel told the French news agency.
  • “I have a whole documentary. It’s undeniable.”
  • “The Ukrainian government bombed its citizens. Children had to live in basements for months.”
  • “The film (here) that I made in 2015 has proof of these crimes against humanity. I take responsibility for my words and urge you to watch it.”
  • “The other day I was at the school. Two teachers were hit by an explosion. Their bodies were cut in two. I uploaded these photos to Facebook (here).”
  • “I’ve met elderly women who could not leave this area. Civilians are falling victim to heavy artillery rocket launchers. I’m not very good with weapons, but I can confirm that here in the Donbass, in the Russian-speaking part, residential areas are still being shelled today.”
BACKGROUND:
  • Bonnel’s comments corroborate Russia’s allegations that the “special operation” it launched against Ukraine on Feb 24 was aimed at protecting the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) in the Donbass region.
  • Russia claims Ukraine has been committing “genocide” on Russians in disputed Ukrainian regions.
  • The Lugansk People’s Republic “Memorial” organization helps LPR residents who claim they’ve suffered from such Ukrainian aggression to send more than 500 statements of claim to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), LPR Deputy Foreign Minister Anna Soroka—chairwoman of Memorial and the Special Commission under the LPR Head for recording alleged war crimes committed by the Kiev regime—said at a press briefing at the Lugansk Media Centre in 2020.
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Syrian, Iraqi, and Afghan Muslim migrants pass themselves off as international students in Ukraine to enter EU
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://robertspencer.org/2022/03/syrian-iraqi-and-afghan-muslim-migrants-pass-themselves-off-as-international-students-in-ukraine-to-enter-eu;republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

“The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.’” (Bukhari 4.52.269)

“Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan migrants mingle with Ukrainian refugee flows trying to enter the EU,” ReMix News, March 2, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The flow of refugees from Ukraine is not decreasing, only changing its character. Thousands of Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan, or Kurdish migrants who previously entered Belarus to enter Europe last year are now mingling with the Ukrainian refugee flows headed into Poland, Hungary and Czechia.

Thousands of Iraqi refugees, Syrians, Kurds, or Africans, almost exclusively men, are described trying to enter Poland, according to French newspaper Progress. In addition, many of them are attempting to pass themselves off as international students in Ukraine in an attempt to enter Poland and other nations, reports the French paper.

Many of them have been pushed back since they have no documentation proving their connection with Ukraine, but many thousands have already made it into the EU….

Poland alone says it is expecting 1 million refugees to cross the border, and many millions more may cross at different points into other nations. Migrants from Middle Eastern and African countries will undoubtedly see the moment as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use Ukraine as a gateway into Europe. Many countries with strict immigration policies, such as Hungary, have indicated that they will open the border to all refugees from Ukraine, including those from third countries.

Brighteon: U.S. Truckers: Destination DC, Convoy Headed To The Capitol, Ignored By Media

The PEOPLE'S Freedom convoy is holding strong and heading to DC, as the corrupt media masks the movement with a brigade of Ukraine invasion ‘news’ and propaganda, distracting America at large while its own internal war unfolds. Suzanne Monk, the founder of ‘Reopen America’, joined the Stew Peters Show to educate Americans on the convoy headed to DC. She urges Americans to become active in resisting the mandates, affirming that joining the DC convoy is the perfect outlet to make a stance.

REAL AMERICA’S Dan Ball WITH Project 21’s Stacy Washington ON Biden’s SCOTUS Pick JACKSON, 2/28/22

Sen. Blackburn: People don't want an activist on the Supreme Court

SEE ALSO: https://www.ammoland.com/2022/03/bidens-scotus-nominee-judge-jackson-and-the-gun-industry

AND: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/15/another-disturbing-detail-about-bidens-scotus-pick-emerges-n1566591 (REPRESENTING GITMO DETAINEES)

AND: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/17/the-disturbing-details-about-bidens-scotus-pick-just-keep-on-coming-n1567263 (PROMOTING CRT)

EXCERPT BELOW FROM: https://thenewamerican.com/biden-scotus-nominee-jackson-thinks-nyts-1619-project-is-real-history-not-crt-propaganda

"Jackson then quoted Nikole-Jones verbatim: 

We are raised to think about 1776 as the beginning of our democracy. But when that ship arrived on the horizon … in 1619[, the] decision made by the colonists to purchase that group of 20 to 30 human beings — that was a beginning, too.

And it would actually be those very people who were denied citizenship in their own country, who were denied the protections of our founding documents, who would fight the hardest and most successfully to make those ideals real, not just for themselves, but for all Americans."

Biden’s Supreme Court Pick is a Racist Attack on the Constitution~It’s not about gender or race: it’s about power.

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/03/bidens-supreme-court-pick-racist-attack-daniel-greenfield/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

When Biden announced that he would only consider black women for the Supreme Court, the vast majority of Americans rejected racial gatekeeping for the highest court in the land.

76% of Americans wanted him to consider all candidates regardless of their race and gender. Less than a quarter of the country wanted Biden to limit the nomination by race and gender. Even 54% of Democrats rejected Biden’s identity politics quotas and only 28% of non-whites were on board with his pledge to reject all other potential nominees based solely on their skin color.

After Biden’s announcement that he had chosen Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee, the majority of Americans continue to reject Biden’s racial determinism for the Supreme Court.

When asked to respond to a leading question by a Washington Post/ABC News poll as to whether, “having a black woman as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court would be a good thing for the country, a bad thing for the country, or would make no difference?”, the majority, or 48%, correctly concluded that it would make no difference. 45%, a number largely made up of the 78% of Democrats, insisted that somehow Jackson’s race would transform the country.

The majority of Americans know better.

The boring truth about Ketanji Brown Jackson is that, like so many other judges, she’s just another Harvard grad, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, and raised by a prominent attorney. Much like Hollywood trying to make the same old movies and shows exciting by recasting the characters as black, Jackson is the same old judicial activist in a new color.

Biden, who had twice blocked and filibustered the nomination of Judge Janice Rogers, a well-qualified black female judge nominated by the Bush administration, over her pro-Constitution views, and his political and media allies who are even now waging a concerted war against Justice Clarence Thomas, the only currently serving black justice whose nomination they had tried to block, are cynically tokenizing Jackson’s nomination as a shining new beacon of racial progress. As if having a black female justice will accomplish something historic that having multiple black male justices and female justices of other races had failed to achieve.

We do know why Biden picked Jackson and it wasn’t because of her gender or race. While Biden will no doubt enjoy occasionally leaning in to sniff her hair as he shows her around, the real litmus test wasn’t to be found in her skin color or in an examination of her chromosomes.

Biden picked Jackson for the same reason that he fought to keep Judge Janice Rogers off the Court of Appeals which would potentially have put her on a pathway to the Supreme Court.

As legal scholar Jonathan Turley notes, leftists wanted a nominee “willing to expand the meaning of the Constitution without constitutional amendments”.

The choice had come down to Judge J. Michelle Childs, who had the backing of not only Democrats, but some Republicans, and of Senator Manchin, because she is a moderate, and Ketanji Brown Jackson who has a history of constitutional violations and abusive power grabs.

Demand Justice, the radical leftist Soros group, which had boasted of “bullying” Justice Breyer off the bench, had ordered Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson instead of Childs.

Biden met with both Childs and Jackson and what he truly wanted to know was whether they would be loyal to the Constitution, or to him, and to the radical leftists standing behind him who want to transform America by perverting the Constitution into a mandate for unlimited power.

As Turley again notes, “Biden stressed that his nominee must follow a ‘living constitution’ approach, including a broad view of ‘unenumerated rights.’ When asked if she supported such an approach, Childs answered "no." Jackson, in contrast, has been far more obscure and conflicted in her response.”

When it comes to Supreme Court nominees, anything other than a “no” is really a “yes”.

Will Justice Jackson change the Supreme Court and the country? Yes, but not because of her race. Race is the least interesting thing about Jackson and yet it’s what we will hear the most about because it is a convenient distraction from her radical and secretive judicial philosophy.

With little in the way of written materials and responses to big picture constitutional questions that have her playing dumb, Jackson is an anti-constitutional trojan horse flying the false flag of identity politics. As if nominating a Harvard grad who happens to be a black woman, as opposed to a white man, is some sort of great step forward for the wretched of the earth.

Biden is not using his court nomination, which his Soros backers at Demand Justice secured by, in their own words, “bullying” a liberal Jewish justice off the Supreme Court, to uphold identity politics. He has militantly opposed at least one black female justice and was able to choose between two black female judges, nominating the one that fits a radical leftist agenda.

Biden clearly doesn’t believe his own rhetoric about the Supreme Court being in dire need of a black female judge. The only ones dumb enough to believe it are MSNBC viewers who gobble up the black nationalist ravings of Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates and cheer Black Lives Matter mobs as they burn down cities every time a drug dealer gets rightfully shot by police.

But identity politics covers up a multitude of sins. Just ask Black Lives Matter, which was able to operate a $60 million fund on terms that would have seen a neighborhood bodega shut down in minutes. Even white Antifa rioters were able to terrorize Portland for a year because they claimed to be attacking police officers and federal officials in the name of racial justice.

Biden has mastered the art of deflecting criticism of his corruption and incompetence by using black women as human shields. It began with Kamala Harris, who was grossly unready to serve in the White House, but whose nomination made a ticket headed by an old white hack seem transformational and whose continued presence makes it all but impossible to remove or bypass Biden from an office that he is equally unfit to occupy on ethical and moral grounds.

The only reason Biden picked Jackson is because he believes that she will be loyal to him, not to the Constitution and to her oath of office. He also expects to sweep away any objections to her radicalism by having his media accuse critics of racism and sexism. And once Jackson taints the Supreme Court with her corrupt presence on the bench, any opposition to her views by the rest of that body, including by Justice Thomas, will also be denounced as sexist racism.

Or occasionally racist sexism, just to shake things up.

Much like Justice Sotomayor, the original “Wise Latina”, whose gender and Southern European ancestry somehow endowed her with a wisdom that transcended her poor legal reasoning, Jackson’s “lived experience” will be used to claim that she possesses insights on account of the combination of her gender and race that we ought to submit to in place of the actual law.

The good news is that Americans aren’t buying it. Polls show that the people are rejecting the racial determinism that is being used to trade away our rights for racial privileges. As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the unconstitutional racial discrimination of affirmative action, most Americans have once again come to believe in a color-blind legal system.

Americans know that what really matters isn’t gender or race, it’s equal rights under the law.

Biden’s selection process and his nomination have been an insult to the very idea of equal rights. Even if he installs his insult on the Supreme Court, it will never change the Constitution.

DELAWARE’S GOVERNOR JOHN CARNEY SUED FOR ABUSIVE, ILLEGAL, EXCESSIVE MASK MANDATES BY ONE HOCKESSIN WOMAN FAMILIAR WITH STATE & FEDERAL LAWS

BIDEN'S PUPPET CROSSES THE LINE WITH COVID MANDATES

GETS TAKEN TO COURT BY ONE WOMAN

Delaware governor talks state’s vaccine incentive program

State of the State Address 2022 - Delaware Governor John Carney

John Carney wearing a suit and tie smiling at the camera

LEFT: JANICE LORRAH. / RIGHT: GOV. JOHN CARNEY

Carney lifts school mask mandate while trial to end it is underway

BY CHARLIE MEGGINSON

SEE: https://delawarelive.com/carney-lifts-school-mask-mandate-while-trial-to-end-it-is-underway-2;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

A Hockessin mother suing to stop the state’s school mask mandate got most of what she wanted in the middle of the trial Monday when the governor’s attorney informed the court that the mandate would be lifted on March 1 at 6 p.m. 

Janice Lorrah appeared in the Delaware Court of Chancery at the Leonard L. Williams Justice Center in Wilmington where she argued that the mandate violates state statutes and due process and causes irreparable harm to schoolchildren. 

At the end of the proceedings, Vice-Chancellor Paul Fioravanti said he would review the case and issue a bench ruling later Monday.

The trial began on a raucous note when a group of several unmasked citizens entered the courtroom demanding to be seated. Court officials tried to explain the facility’s rules concerning masking and social distancing but the group shouted back at the officials, saying such things as “It’s my human right not to wear a mask,” and “I’ll take your silence as acquiescence.” 

In response, Fioravanti cleared the courtroom of everybody except attorneys. He initially ruled that the trial would be held behind closed doors but reversed course after Lorrah implored him to allow the public in with the guarantee that everyone would remain masked. 

Some members of the public sat behind attorneys’ tables to accommodate social distancing requirements. Others who refused to comply with the clearly-posted rules were escorted out of the building.

After Lorrah detailed her complaint, the Department of Justice attorney told the court that his client, the governor, had notified him that the mandate would be lifted.

Following the announcement, Fioravanti said to Lorrah,

“It sounds like you can declare victory and go home?”

“No, Your Honor,” Lorrah responded. “This is a matter of public importance that has the potential to continue because COVID is not going away.”

She argued that the governor violated the law by initially setting March 31 as the date for the mandate to be lifted despite the order expiring on March 2. 

“At a minimum, the question of whether or not an emergency order can extend beyond the date of emergency is a matter of extreme public importance.” 

Fioravanti said he can only rule on the facts in front of him and respond to the complaint at hand.

“This mask mandate in schools is going to go away tomorrow,” he said. “That does not mean necessarily that your complaint goes away — you may still be able to litigate the issue for purposes of a preliminary injunction.”

“But what is there for me to enjoin other than to enjoin the mask mandate for the next day and a half,” he asked.

Lorrah argued that if the governor violated due process the harm does not go away with the lifting of the mandate.

Fioravanti said he would need to review the case and would issue a bench ruling later Monday. 

“I am not going to rule at this moment on this issue,” he said. “I do think that this has largely become moot because of the announcement today that the school mask mandate will be terminated at 6 p.m. tomorrow.”

Carney declined to comment on the lawsuit Monday.

Following the trial, Lorrah said she believes the governor’s decision to lift the mandate was a “direct response” to her lawsuit. 

Carney, however, said he was lifting the mandate because of the Centers for Disease Control’s Friday announcement that said masking is no longer recommended in areas rated as either low or medium transmission risk.

“I would still like to see the judge issue a ruling on the merits of the injunction,” Lorrah said.

Even if the judge doesn’t rule in her favor, she said that she would still be happy with the outcome.

“I put forth the best case that I possibly could in a short amount of time and with the resources that I had,” Lorrah said. “I am just happy that people were listening.”

She’s not totally satisfied, though. 

While her lawsuit has become highly politicized, Lorrah said it was never supposed to be about the efficacy of mask-wearing or the virtue of mask mandates generally. It was supposed to be about stopping government overreach and ensuring that — even in the midst of an emergency — due process is followed and protected. 

“There’s not much resolution on that front,” she said. 

“It matters because what’s going to happen next time? COVID is not going away — and maybe it’s a different emergency issue,” she said. “But we need to have something on the record that says: Here’s an emergency, here’s what you can do, here are the boundaries and you can’t step over the line.”

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Friends,

You probably heard that Gov. Carney removed the mask mandate for schools, but do you know why?

NO, it wasn't motivated by the CDC as the flippant press release indicated. Some may say that it was because of the upcoming state of the union address. 

NO, the sudden shift came in the MIDDLE of today's hearing against the Governor's unlawful extension of the mask mandate. 
There's more to the story and you won't get this information from the media, but it needs to get out.
All indicators pointed to a judgment against the Governor for overstepping his constitutional and statutory authority. However, when the Governor removed the mask mandate, the lawsuit became moot. Literally, the press release was published while the hearing was going on.
Two important points you should know:

1. One person, who is equipped and strategically placed, will take territory.
If you've been with us for a while or have been to any of our monthly lunch meetings, you've heard this before.
That's exactly what mom, Janice Lorrah, did. 
She used her legal background to file a masterfully written, jaw-dropping lawsuit against Gov. Carney's illegal mask mandate extension for students. 

Like so many other parents, the thought of masking little children for another 7-8 weeks felt absolutely hypocritical and illegal, since the mandate was already lifted for adults! 
“This is not about whether masking is good or bad, or whether masks are even effective,” Ms. Lorrah said. “It is about following the rule of law.”
Drawing from an 8th grade student in NY.

2. The decision about masking children now moves to local school boards.
Many have meetings the first Tuesday night of each month, which means in a few hours. Some may call an additional "emergency meeting," like Appoquinimink School District has done, outside of their typical schedule. Make sure you're watching!

Use this School Board Look-Up Tool to identify the school board members for your district. Find out if there's a meeting and try to attend; be heard on this issue. 
Lastly -- we know how this works. It matters when people like Janice make a stand.

Supporting, equipping, and encouraging those who boldly stand with courage on the right principles is what we do. Folks call us daily for counsel - it could be a student, pastor, parent, legislator, business person, or anyone in between. Click Here to stand with us. Your support is vital.
Standing,
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Read More:
Here's the Lawsuit
Here's how the State DOJ responded
Here's how Janiceresponded
Janice Lorrah's press release on 2.28
Open Letter to Gov. Carney from the House
Carney ends school mask mandate a month early
Delaware Live's report of the lawsuit
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Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Has Far-Left Record

Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Has Far-Left Record

"Jackson is also related, by marriage, to former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan."

“Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal,” Ryan told the Senate Judiciary Committee of Jackson in 2012. 

"While Jackson has served in her current position for less than a year, her earlier rulings as a district judge “comported with those of a liberal-leaning judge,” The New York Times reported."

"Those include “blocking the Trump administration’s attempts to fast-track deportations, cut short grants for teen pregnancy prevention and shield a former White House counsel from testifying before Congress about President Donald Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Russia investigation.”"

"As the head of Americans United for Life, Catherine Glenn Foster highlighted that abortion groups such as NARAL and Planned Parenthood applauded Jackson as the nominee “tragically, and literally within seconds of President Biden’s announcement.”"

"“Although Kentanji Brown Jackson has not yet explicitly stated her views on Roe or abortion, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and other abortion activists see in her an ally for the moral crime of abortion,” she stressed in a statement."

ABOVE QUOTES FROM https://www.ncregister.com/cna/7-things-to-know-about-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson

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BY AMERICAN FAITH

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/bidens-supreme-court-nominee-has-far-left-record/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

(Decision) On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former public defender and current federal appeals judge in Washington, D.C., to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Jackson, 51, had served as one of Breyer’s law clerks during the 1999-2000 term.

If confirmed, Jackson will be the first black woman ever to sit on the Supreme Court, fulfilling a promise Biden made during the 2020 presidential campaign ahead of the South Carolina primary to further diversify the high court.

“For too long, our government and our courts haven’t looked like America,” Biden said while formally announcing Jackson’s nomination at the White House.

Biden’s selection sets in motion what is likely to be a polarized confirmation process in the 50-50 Senate.

Jackson has been a federal judge for nine years and was appointed last year by Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. During her confirmation hearings last spring, Jackson faced a barrage of questions from Senate Republicans, of whom only three voted in her favor.

Jackson’s addition to the Supreme Court would not fundamentally shift its 6-3 conservative majority balance. But if she proves to be ideologically to the left of Breyer, it could reshape the three-member liberal minority and alter the court in more subtle ways.

Among those praising her nomination was the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s most powerful LGBTQ advocacy group, as well as abortion-rights groups.

Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative public policy think tank Heritage Foundation, alluded to as much in his reaction to Biden’s choice.

“There are few decisions more important for a president than the selection of a Supreme Court nominee,” he posted to Twitter. “In this Biden has utterly failed, starting with his criteria for making this appointment. Judges should play a limited role in our government, yet Jackson’s far-left supporters want her to impose a political agenda that invents new rights or erases rights she doesn’t like. Based on the information we already know, senators should reject her for this lifetime appointment.”

The pro-life organization March for Life also opposed Biden’s nomination of Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court based on her “record of judicial activism.”

“We expect her to be a reliable vote for the far left and the Biden administration’s radical abortion agenda,” the organization wrote.

In 2001, Jackson co-authored a “friend of the court” brief in the case of McGuire v. Reilly, in which she supported a Massachusetts law that created a floating “buffer zone” around pedestrians and cars approaching abortion clinics. Jackson’s clients included the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts, the League of Women Voters, the Abortion Access Project of Massachusetts, and NARAL Pro-Choice America. Later, NARAL and the pro-abortion National Women’s Law Center strongly supported her nomination to the D.C. Circuit.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List, said in a press release: “Joe Biden is fulfilling his promise to only appoint justices who support the Roe v. Wade regime of abortion on demand up to birth—a policy so extreme only a handful of countries in the world hold it, including North Korea and China,” “Ketanji Brown Jackson is backed by many of America’s most radical pro-abortion groups. She is on record opposing the free speech rights of pro-life advocates pleading to save lives outside abortion centers and supporting the false claim that abortion is ‘health care.’ We have no doubt she will work with the most pro-abortion administration in history to enshrine abortion on demand nationwide in the law.”

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD STATEMENT ON NOMINATION OF JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

SEE: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-statement-on-nomination-of-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-the-u-s-supreme-court;

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"For Immediate Release: Feb. 25, 2022

Washington, D.C. — Today, Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, released the following statement after President Biden announced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, currently serving on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to serve as a Supreme Court justice.

Statement from Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America: 

“We celebrate the historic nomination of Judge Jackson to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Judge Jackson brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and meaningful experience after years of service as a federal judge on both the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and as a public defender earlier in her career. Beyond her record of remarkable achievement, it is clear that she has a deep commitment to public service and pursuing equal justice under the law, including safeguarding individual rights and liberties. And as the first Black woman ever named to the Supreme Court, this historic nomination is long overdue. 

“This nomination arrives as our freedoms and civil liberties are in crisis. We are currently awaiting a Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that challenges a blatantly unconstitutional ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Court could rule to overturn nearly 50 years of precedent, established by Roe v. Wade, and decimate abortion access in states across the country. Already, Texans have spent nearly six months with a ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Now more than ever, we need a Supreme Court justice who understands the impact of the court's rulings on people — particularly on reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights — and the importance of protecting individual liberties for generations to come.

“Judge Jackson will play a crucial role in the direction the court takes in the future. As the Senate considers her nomination, we must not lose sight of how meaningful this moment is for this country, and for Black women. Far too often, we don’t see ourselves represented in the highest seats of government. This nomination is also part of essential work to rebuild our courts and protect our health and rights. We call on the Senate to swiftly consider Judge Jackson’s nomination.”"

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Biden to Nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

NOTE THAT THE ARTICLE BELOW FAILS TO INCLUDE OR REFERENCE ANYTHING RELATED TO THIS JUDGE'S LIBERAL, RADICAL PHILOSOPHY, AND TRACK RECORD

SEE: https://www.newsmax.com/us/ketanji-brown-jackson/2022/02/25/id/1058491/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:

President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the White House said, making her the first Black woman elected to serve on the high court.

In Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment. He has chosen an attorney who would be the Supreme Court’s first former public defender, though she also possesses the elite legal background of other justices.

Jackson would be the current court's second Black justice — Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, is the other — and just the third in history.

Biden planned to introduce Jackson in remarks at the White House Friday afternoon, where Jackson was also expected to speak, the White House said.

She would also be only the sixth woman to serve on the court, and her confirmation would mean that for the first time four women would sit together on the nine-member court.

The current court includes three women, one of whom is the court’s first Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Jackson would join the liberal minority of a court that is weighing cutbacks to abortion rights and will be considering ending affirmative action in college admissions and states' voting laws.

Biden is filling the seat that will be vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, who is retiring at the end of the term this summer.

Jackson, 51, once worked as one of Breyer’s law clerks early in her legal career. She attended Harvard as an undergraduate and for law school and served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the agency that develops federal sentencing policy, before becoming a federal judge in 2013.

Her nomination is subject to confirmation by the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority by a razor-thin 50-50 margin with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker. Party leaders have promised swift but deliberate consideration of the president’s nominee.

The next justice will replace one of the more liberal justices, so she would not tip the balance of the court, which now leans 6-3 in favor of conservatives.

The news comes two years to the day after Biden, then struggling to capture the Democrat presidential nomination, first pledged in a South Carolina debate to nominate a Black woman to the high court if presented with a vacancy.

"Everyone should be represented," Biden said. "We talked about the Supreme Court — I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get everyone represented."

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said in a statement that the panel will "begin immediately" to move forward on the nomination and that Jackson is an "extraordinary nominee." Senators have set a tentative goal of confirmation by April 8, when they leave for a two-week spring recess. Hearings could start as soon as mid-March.

That timeline could be complicated by a number of things, including the ongoing developments between Russia and Ukraine and the extended absence of Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., who suffered a stroke last month and is out for several weeks. Democrats would need Lujan's vote to confirm Biden's pick if no Republicans support her.

Once the nomination is sent to the Senate, it is up to the Senate Judiciary Committee to vet the nominee and hold confirmation hearings. After the committee approves a nomination, it goes to the Senate floor for a final vote.

The entire process passes through several time-consuming steps, including meetings with individual senators that are expected to begin next week. While Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed just four weeks after she was nominated ahead of the 2020 election, the process usually takes several weeks longer than that.

Biden and Senate Democrats are hoping for a bipartisan vote on the nomination, but it's unclear if they will be able to win over any GOP senators after three bitterly partisan confirmation battles under President Donald Trump.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of three Republicans who voted to confirm Jackson to the appeals court last year, had pushed Biden to nominate a different candidate from his home state, Judge J. Michelle Childs. He said earlier this month that his vote would be "very problematic" if it were anyone else, and he expressed disappointment in a tweet Friday that Biden had not nominated his preferred choice.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said he looks forward to meeting with Jackson and "studying her record, legal views, and judicial philosophy." But he also appeared to express skepticism, noting he voted against her a year ago.

Jackson was on the president's shortlist as a potential nominee even before Breyer retired. Biden and his team spent weeks poring over her records, interviewing her friends and family, and looking into her background.

Biden has said he was interested in selecting a nominee in the mold of Breyer who could be a persuasive force with fellow justices. Although Breyer's votes tended to put him to the left of center on an increasingly conservative court, he frequently saw the gray in situations that colleagues were more likely to find black or white.

"With her exceptional qualifications and record of evenhandedness, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be a Justice who will uphold the Constitution and protect the rights of all Americans, including the voiceless and vulnerable," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.. "The historic nomination of Judge Jackson is an important step toward ensuring the Supreme Court reflects the nation as a whole."

As part of his search process, Biden, a longtime chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also interviewed Childs and California Supreme Court Judge Leondra Kruger, according to a person familiar with the matter. He also consulted with a wide range of legal experts and lawmakers in both parties and delved deeply into the finalists' legal writings before selecting Jackson for the post.

Jackson serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a position that Biden elevated her to last year from her previous job as a federal trial court judge. Three current justices — Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and John Roberts, the chief justice — previously served on the same court.

On Friday morning ahead of the announcement, Jackson took part in scheduled arguments before the circuit court.

Jackson was confirmed to that post on a 53-44 Senate vote, winning the backing of three Republicans: Graham, Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski.

Graham, in a tweet, indicated displeasure with the nomination, saying, "I expect a respectful but interesting hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee."

Bipartisanship is important to Biden, who has often said he was reaching for GOP support as he closed in on a nominee. Another GOP connection: Jackson is related by marriage to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

In one of Jackson's most high-profile decisions, as a trial court judge, she ordered former White House Counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress. That was a setback to Trump's efforts to keep his top aides from testifying. The case was appealed, and a deal was ultimately reached for McGahn’s testimony.

Another highly visible case that Jackson oversaw involved the online conspiracy theory "pizza gate," which revolved around false internet rumors about prominent Democrats harboring child sex slaves at a Washington pizza restaurant. A North Carolina man showed up at the restaurant with an assault rifle and a revolver. Jackson called it "sheer luck" no one was injured and sentenced him to four years in prison.

Jackson has a considerably shorter record as an appeals court judge. She was part of a three-judge panel that ruled in December against Trump’s effort to shield documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Miami. She has said that her parents, Johnny and Ellery Brown, chose her name to express their pride in her family’s African ancestry. They asked an aunt who was in the Peace Corps in Africa at the time to send a list of African girls’ names and they picked Ketanji Onyika, which they were told meant "lovely one."

Jackson traces her interest in the law to when she was in preschool and her father was in law school and they would sit together at the dining room table, she with coloring books and he with law books. Her father became an attorney for the county school board and her mom was a high school principal. She has a brother who is nine years younger who served in the Army, including in Iraq, and is now a lawyer.

Bombshell study finds more than 200,000 ballots from 2020 election with “mismatched signatures” indicating widespread fraud

Image: Bombshell study finds more than 200,000 ballots from 2020 election with “mismatched signatures” indicating widespread fraud

BY J.D. HEYES

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-25-more-than-200000-ballots-from-2020-election-mismatched-signatures.html#;

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(Natural News) A newly published study reveals additional evidence that the 2020 presidential election in Arizona was stolen from President Donald Trump just like he and his campaign surrogates and attorneys have insisted now for more than a year.

The study, by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai of MIT, found more than 200,000 ballots from the election contained “mismatched signatures” and they were all counted in Maricopa County without being “cured” — that is, reviewed for accuracy and summarily fixed or rejected, as the law requires.

Liz Harrington, who handles communications for the former president, tweeted the results of the study.

“HUGE! In Arizona there were AT LEAST 229,430 early ballots with CLEARLY mismatched signatures In an election decided by 10,457 votes,” she wrote in a tweet that contained a short video of Ayyadurai explaining his findings.

She followed that tweet up with screenshots of the examples Ayyadurai found.

This “vote” was counted in Maricopa County pic.twitter.com/eCnq18KWgJ

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) February 23, 2022

So was this pic.twitter.com/GIgEj01dQg

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) February 23, 2022

And this pic.twitter.com/3wFNIIJ4VA

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) February 23, 2022

The most secure election in history! pic.twitter.com/XAFbbC9Rrk

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) February 23, 2022

“This analysis by Dr. Shiva is unimpeachable,” she continued with more examples, adding, “6 people — 3 forensic document examiners and 3 novices all agreed that 12 PERCENT of early mail-in ballots had mismatched signatures. Maricopa County only sent 1.3% for curing.

“As you can see, it’s called irreconcilable differences,”  Ayyadurai says in his presentation.

“Over 200,000, mail ballots, with mismatched signatures counted without being reviewed, which means cured, and you’re going to understand what that terminology means in Maricopa, and this is the first study, to the best of our knowledge, to calculate signature matching rates, to provide a quantitative framework for assessing signature verification of mail ballots, the whole area of mail-in ballots obviously has become a very controversial area, it’s split up the country, there’s a lot of division,” he continued.

“You’re going to learn about signature verification, we’re going to go over the results that took place in the 2020 election in Maricopa with, how they verified signatures, what results they had, then we’re going to share with you two important experiments that we did, where we got novices, to do the same exercise of having side by side signatures, and then telling us whether the signatures matched or not from the same person,” the researcher said, adding that the purpose of the study was to “educate” election officials both in Arizona and around the country.

He also said that the results were being provided to the Arizona Senate as well as GOP Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

Ayyadurai explained that ballot curing is done by election workers who don’t have a lot of training and do not spend more than a few seconds attempting to match signatures, which is a problem in a large area when millions of ballot signatures have to be matched.

In the case of Arizona, as Harrington pointed out, some 12 percent of early mail-in ballots contained mismatched signatures, but in Maricopa County, the state’s largest population center, just 1.3 percent of ballots were sent to be cured.

That resulted in hundreds of thousands fewer ballots being sent for further review than should have been, and as the research demonstrates, there were plenty of very obviously mismatched signatures — way more than enough to overturn Arizona’s ‘election of Joe Biden’ for president.

Trump is right, again: What happened in 2020 was flat-out election theft.

Sources include:

VAShiva.com

CitizenFreePress.com

Biden to Nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Has Far-Left Record

Sen. Blackburn: People don't want an activist on the Supreme Court

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/02/bidens-supreme-court-pick-once-claimed-judicial-system-unfair-to-sex-offenders

SEE ALSO: https://www.ammoland.com/2022/03/bidens-scotus-nominee-judge-jackson-and-the-gun-industry

AND: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/15/another-disturbing-detail-about-bidens-scotus-pick-emerges-n1566591 (REPRESENTING GITMO DETAINEES)

AND: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/17/the-disturbing-details-about-bidens-scotus-pick-just-keep-on-coming-n1567263 (PROMOTING CRT)

Dan Ball W/ Project 21's Stacy Washington, Biden's SCOTUS Pick, 2/28/22

"Jackson is also related, by marriage, to former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan."

“Our politics may differ, but my praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, for her integrity, it is unequivocal,” Ryan told the Senate Judiciary Committee of Jackson in 2012. 

"While Jackson has served in her current position for less than a year, her earlier rulings as a district judge “comported with those of a liberal-leaning judge,” The New York Times reported."

"Those include “blocking the Trump administration’s attempts to fast-track deportations, cut short grants for teen pregnancy prevention and shield a former White House counsel from testifying before Congress about President Donald Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Russia investigation.”"

"As the head of Americans United for Life, Catherine Glenn Foster highlighted that abortion groups such as NARAL and Planned Parenthood applauded Jackson as the nominee “tragically, and literally within seconds of President Biden’s announcement.”"

"“Although Kentanji Brown Jackson has not yet explicitly stated her views on Roe or abortion, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and other abortion activists see in her an ally for the moral crime of abortion,” she stressed in a statement."

ABOVE QUOTES FROM https://www.ncregister.com/cna/7-things-to-know-about-supreme-court-nominee-ketanji-brown-jackson

BY AMERICAN FAITH

SEE: https://americanfaith.com/bidens-supreme-court-nominee-has-far-left-record/;

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(Decision) On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former public defender and current federal appeals judge in Washington, D.C., to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Jackson, 51, had served as one of Breyer’s law clerks during the 1999-2000 term.

If confirmed, Jackson will be the first black woman ever to sit on the Supreme Court, fulfilling a promise Biden made during the 2020 presidential campaign ahead of the South Carolina primary to further diversify the high court.

“For too long, our government and our courts haven’t looked like America,” Biden said while formally announcing Jackson’s nomination at the White House.

Biden’s selection sets in motion what is likely to be a polarized confirmation process in the 50-50 Senate.

Jackson has been a federal judge for nine years and was appointed last year by Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. During her confirmation hearings last spring, Jackson faced a barrage of questions from Senate Republicans, of whom only three voted in her favor.

Jackson’s addition to the Supreme Court would not fundamentally shift its 6-3 conservative majority balance. But if she proves to be ideologically to the left of Breyer, it could reshape the three-member liberal minority and alter the court in more subtle ways.

Among those praising her nomination was the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s most powerful LGBTQ advocacy group, as well as abortion-rights groups.

Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative public policy think tank Heritage Foundation, alluded to as much in his reaction to Biden’s choice.

“There are few decisions more important for a president than the selection of a Supreme Court nominee,” he posted to Twitter. “In this Biden has utterly failed, starting with his criteria for making this appointment. Judges should play a limited role in our government, yet Jackson’s far-left supporters want her to impose a political agenda that invents new rights or erases rights she doesn’t like. Based on the information we already know, senators should reject her for this lifetime appointment.”

The pro-life organization March for Life also opposed Biden’s nomination of Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court based on her “record of judicial activism.”

“We expect her to be a reliable vote for the far left and the Biden administration’s radical abortion agenda,” the organization wrote.

In 2001, Jackson co-authored a “friend of the court” brief in the case of McGuire v. Reilly, in which she supported a Massachusetts law that created a floating “buffer zone” around pedestrians and cars approaching abortion clinics. Jackson’s clients included the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts, the League of Women Voters, the Abortion Access Project of Massachusetts, and NARAL Pro-Choice America. Later, NARAL and the pro-abortion National Women’s Law Center strongly supported her nomination to the D.C. Circuit.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List, said in a press release: “Joe Biden is fulfilling his promise to only appoint justices who support the Roe v. Wade regime of abortion on demand up to birth—a policy so extreme only a handful of countries in the world hold it, including North Korea and China,” “Ketanji Brown Jackson is backed by many of America’s most radical pro-abortion groups. She is on record opposing the free speech rights of pro-life advocates pleading to save lives outside abortion centers and supporting the false claim that abortion is ‘health care.’ We have no doubt she will work with the most pro-abortion administration in history to enshrine abortion on demand nationwide in the law.”

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Planned Parenthood Statement on Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court 

SEE: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/planned-parenthood-statement-on-nomination-of-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-the-u-s-supreme-court;

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"For Immediate Release: Feb. 25, 2022

Washington, D.C. — Today, Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, released the following statement after President Biden announced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, currently serving on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to serve as a Supreme Court justice.

Statement from Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America: 

“We celebrate the historic nomination of Judge Jackson to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. Judge Jackson brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and meaningful experience after years of service as a federal judge on both the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and as a public defender earlier in her career. Beyond her record of remarkable achievement, it is clear that she has a deep commitment to public service and pursuing equal justice under the law, including safeguarding individual rights and liberties. And as the first Black woman ever named to the Supreme Court, this historic nomination is long overdue. 

“This nomination arrives as our freedoms and civil liberties are in crisis. We are currently awaiting a Supreme Court decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that challenges a blatantly unconstitutional ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Court could rule to overturn nearly 50 years of precedent, established by Roe v. Wade, and decimate abortion access in states across the country. Already, Texans have spent nearly six months with a ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, before many people even know they’re pregnant. Now more than ever, we need a Supreme Court justice who understands the impact of the court's rulings on people — particularly on reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights — and the importance of protecting individual liberties for generations to come.

“Judge Jackson will play a crucial role in the direction the court takes in the future. As the Senate considers her nomination, we must not lose sight of how meaningful this moment is for this country, and for Black women. Far too often, we don’t see ourselves represented in the highest seats of government. This nomination is also part of essential work to rebuild our courts and protect our health and rights. We call on the Senate to swiftly consider Judge Jackson’s nomination.”"

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Biden to Nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court

NOTE THAT THE ARTICLE BELOW FAILS TO INCLUDE OR REFERENCE ANYTHING RELATED TO THIS JUDGE'S LIBERAL, RADICAL PHILOSOPHY, AND TRACK RECORD

SEE: https://www.newsmax.com/us/ketanji-brown-jackson/2022/02/25/id/1058491/;

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President Joe Biden on Friday will nominate federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the White House said, making her the first Black woman elected to serve on the high court.

In Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment. He has chosen an attorney who would be the Supreme Court’s first former public defender, though she also possesses the elite legal background of other justices.

Jackson would be the current court's second Black justice — Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, is the other — and just the third in history.

Biden planned to introduce Jackson in remarks at the White House Friday afternoon, where Jackson was also expected to speak, the White House said.

She would also be only the sixth woman to serve on the court, and her confirmation would mean that for the first time four women would sit together on the nine-member court.

The current court includes three women, one of whom is the court’s first Latina, Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Jackson would join the liberal minority of a court that is weighing cutbacks to abortion rights and will be considering ending affirmative action in college admissions and states' voting laws.

Biden is filling the seat that will be vacated by Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, who is retiring at the end of the term this summer.

Jackson, 51, once worked as one of Breyer’s law clerks early in her legal career. She attended Harvard as an undergraduate and for law school and served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the agency that develops federal sentencing policy, before becoming a federal judge in 2013.

Her nomination is subject to confirmation by the Senate, where Democrats hold the majority by a razor-thin 50-50 margin with Vice President Kamala Harris as the tiebreaker. Party leaders have promised swift but deliberate consideration of the president’s nominee.

The next justice will replace one of the more liberal justices, so she would not tip the balance of the court, which now leans 6-3 in favor of conservatives.

The news comes two years to the day after Biden, then struggling to capture the Democrat presidential nomination, first pledged in a South Carolina debate to nominate a Black woman to the high court if presented with a vacancy.

"Everyone should be represented," Biden said. "We talked about the Supreme Court — I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court to make sure we in fact get everyone represented."

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said in a statement that the panel will "begin immediately" to move forward on the nomination and that Jackson is an "extraordinary nominee." Senators have set a tentative goal of confirmation by April 8, when they leave for a two-week spring recess. Hearings could start as soon as mid-March.

That timeline could be complicated by a number of things, including the ongoing developments between Russia and Ukraine and the extended absence of Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., who suffered a stroke last month and is out for several weeks. Democrats would need Lujan's vote to confirm Biden's pick if no Republicans support her.

Once the nomination is sent to the Senate, it is up to the Senate Judiciary Committee to vet the nominee and hold confirmation hearings. After the committee approves a nomination, it goes to the Senate floor for a final vote.

The entire process passes through several time-consuming steps, including meetings with individual senators that are expected to begin next week. While Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed just four weeks after she was nominated ahead of the 2020 election, the process usually takes several weeks longer than that.

Biden and Senate Democrats are hoping for a bipartisan vote on the nomination, but it's unclear if they will be able to win over any GOP senators after three bitterly partisan confirmation battles under President Donald Trump.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of three Republicans who voted to confirm Jackson to the appeals court last year, had pushed Biden to nominate a different candidate from his home state, Judge J. Michelle Childs. He said earlier this month that his vote would be "very problematic" if it were anyone else, and he expressed disappointment in a tweet Friday that Biden had not nominated his preferred choice.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said he looks forward to meeting with Jackson and "studying her record, legal views, and judicial philosophy." But he also appeared to express skepticism, noting he voted against her a year ago.

Jackson was on the president's shortlist as a potential nominee even before Breyer retired. Biden and his team spent weeks poring over her records, interviewing her friends and family, and looking into her background.

Biden has said he was interested in selecting a nominee in the mold of Breyer who could be a persuasive force with fellow justices. Although Breyer's votes tended to put him to the left of center on an increasingly conservative court, he frequently saw the gray in situations that colleagues were more likely to find black or white.

"With her exceptional qualifications and record of evenhandedness, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be a Justice who will uphold the Constitution and protect the rights of all Americans, including the voiceless and vulnerable," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.. "The historic nomination of Judge Jackson is an important step toward ensuring the Supreme Court reflects the nation as a whole."

As part of his search process, Biden, a longtime chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also interviewed Childs and California Supreme Court Judge Leondra Kruger, according to a person familiar with the matter. He also consulted with a wide range of legal experts and lawmakers in both parties and delved deeply into the finalists' legal writings before selecting Jackson for the post.

Jackson serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a position that Biden elevated her to last year from her previous job as a federal trial court judge. Three current justices — Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and John Roberts, the chief justice — previously served on the same court.

On Friday morning ahead of the announcement, Jackson took part in scheduled arguments before the circuit court.

Jackson was confirmed to that post on a 53-44 Senate vote, winning the backing of three Republicans: Graham, Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski.

Graham, in a tweet, indicated displeasure with the nomination, saying, "I expect a respectful but interesting hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee."

Bipartisanship is important to Biden, who has often said he was reaching for GOP support as he closed in on a nominee. Another GOP connection: Jackson is related by marriage to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

In one of Jackson's most high-profile decisions, as a trial court judge, she ordered former White House Counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress. That was a setback to Trump's efforts to keep his top aides from testifying. The case was appealed, and a deal was ultimately reached for McGahn’s testimony.

Another highly visible case that Jackson oversaw involved the online conspiracy theory "pizza gate," which revolved around false internet rumors about prominent Democrats harboring child sex slaves at a Washington pizza restaurant. A North Carolina man showed up at the restaurant with an assault rifle and a revolver. Jackson called it "sheer luck" no one was injured and sentenced him to four years in prison.

Jackson has a considerably shorter record as an appeals court judge. She was part of a three-judge panel that ruled in December against Trump’s effort to shield documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Miami. She has said that her parents, Johnny and Ellery Brown, chose her name to express their pride in her family’s African ancestry. They asked an aunt who was in the Peace Corps in Africa at the time to send a list of African girls’ names and they picked Ketanji Onyika, which they were told meant "lovely one."

Jackson traces her interest in the law to when she was in preschool and her father was in law school and they would sit together at the dining room table, she with coloring books and he with law books. Her father became an attorney for the county school board and her mom was a high school principal. She has a brother who is nine years younger who served in the Army, including in Iraq, and is now a lawyer.

Freedom of Religion on Trial in Finland~Will Finland bow down to the gods of fashion?

BY WILLIAM KILPATRICK

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/02/freedom-religion-trial-finland-william-kilpatrick/;

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William Kilpatrick is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.  His books include Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West (Ignatius Press), What Catholics Need to Know About Islam (Sophia Press), and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Jihad.

Päivi Räsänen is a member of the Finnish Parliament, a former minister of the interior, a public speaker, and the mother of five grown children.

She faces a heavy fine and two years in prison for quoting the Bible.  In response to the Evangelical Lutheran Church’s affiliation with the Helsinki LGBT Pride event, she posted the Bible passage from Romans 1: 24-27 which condemns homosexual behavior.

Finnish prosecutors stated that the use of the word “sin” could be harmful, and alleged that Ms. Räsänen’s comments were made to cause intolerance, contempt, and hatred toward homosexuals.

But couldn’t the prosecutor’s remarks cause intolerance, contempt, and hatred toward Ms. Räsänen?  If criticizing another person’s beliefs or behavior is a hate crime, then isn’t she the victim of a hate crime?

The court prosecutors worried that the word “sin” could be harmful.  One supposes they mean harmful to one’s self-esteem.  And, indeed, the list of sins in Romans 1: 24-32 is meant to make you feel bad about yourself.  From a Biblical perspective, acknowledgment of sin, followed by repentance, leads to salvation.  In other words, feeling bad about your behavior is, in some cases, a good thing.  It’s not only homosexual behavior that is condemned in Romans I.  The extended passage condemns all manner of sins including idolatry, deceitfulness, envy, gossip, slander, and disobedience to parents.

From one point of view, this is highly offensive and insulting to those disposed to deceitfulness and slander.  From another point of view, it can be looked upon as highly therapeutic—a moment of self-recognition that leads to change.

Prosecutors should have no difficulty understanding the concept.  After all, they apply painful therapeutics as a matter of course.  They hope that a heavy fine or a dose of prison will force the criminal to recognize his crimes and put himself on the road to rehabilitation.

Increasingly, however, prosecutors are prosecuting “thought crimes” rather than real crimes, and courts are using hurt feelings as a criterion for making decisions.  Take the case of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, an Austrian woman who was found guilty of “inciting hatred” by an Austrian Court because of her assertion that the prophet Muhammad was a pedophile.  In 2018, the ruling was upheld by the European Court of Human Rights which held that her right to freedom of expression was outweighed by “the right of others to have their religious feelings protected.” In short, feelings trumped facts, and the alleged pain caused to Muslims by the “slander” of their prophet became the deciding factor.

 Interestingly, the case of Päivi Räsänen also involves “religious feelings”—her feeling or, rather, her conviction that Lutherans should be guided by the words of St. Paul rather than by the fashions of the day.

But although the feelings of Muslims still count for quite a bit in Europe, it seems likely that the Christian “feelings” of Ms. Räsänen will count for very little against the supposedly great pain homosexuals feel when they read the words of St. Paul in Romans.  The Finns will probably be hearing a great deal in the near future about the harm that Christianity causes to homosexuals, transgenders, and other favored sexual minorities.

So, just as Muslims must be protected from Islamophobia, homosexuals must be protected from homophobia.  Whether or not the free speech rights of Christians get trampled in the process doesn’t seem to matter much to European elites.

But if the rights of homosexuals clash with the rights of Muslims, what happens then?

Well, if you understand how the hierarchy of feelings is structured, you’ll quickly realize that—all things being equal—Muslim feelings will prevail.  For example, a Birmingham, England primary school stopped lessons normalizing same-sex relationships when hundreds of Muslim parents protested.

This is in contrast to the attitude of schools in the UK toward non-Muslim parents.  Such parents can expect to be ignored completely when they complain about sex-ed.  It’s not that the Muslim protests were threatening:  they weren’t.  It’s just that the Muslim population of Birmingham is thirty percent and rising.  And if you’re given the choice of offending the city’s gay population or its Muslim population, you’ll probably choose to do the former.

Meanwhile, in Helsinki, the top priority is criminalizing Saint Paul’s “offensive” letter to the Romans.  But if the Finns had looked over their border to the rest of the Continent, they might have noticed that homosexuals in Europe worry very little about St. Paul and very much about the growing number of Muslim gangs in cities and suburbs.

In Brussels according to Bianca Debaets, the former Belgian Secretary of State, “there are too many areas where it is difficult for women and homosexuals to walk.”  That may be because the Muslim percentage of the population of Brussels is now between 25-30 %.  Perhaps, you may think, homosexuals in Brussels should consider moving to close-by Amsterdam which has traditionally been a haven for gays.  But the Muslim population of Amsterdam has also been growing, and as Amsterdam becomes more like the real Mecca, it is no longer the Mecca for gays that it once was. As a result, many gays have moved out.

In short, while European elites claim to be fighting homophobia, they are doing little to resist the gradual takeover of Europe by the most homophobic culture on the planet.  A similar contradiction can be found in the attitude of European officials toward anti-Semitism. On the one hand, they tell us it’s a very bad thing. On the other hand, they welcome waves of immigrants from cultures that are steeped in anti-Semitism.

These schizoid policies suggest that European leaders are seriously confused. Indeed, many of the Western experts and authorities that we once relied on for guidance are now in the grip of deep delusions about obvious realities. I refer to politicians, teachers, health professionals, and media commentators who insist that men can become pregnant, that women can become men, and that a union between two men is no different than a marriage between a man and a woman.

It's ironic that some of these gullible types in Helsinki are now in a position to criminalize a passage in the Bible. It’s ironic because the chapter from Romans that most offends them not only criticizes idolatry and homosexuality, it also criticizes the foolish thinking of the time which passed for wisdom among the elites.

But what Paul said about the supposed wise men of his day applies even more fittingly to the supposed wise men of our own age. Here’s a sample:

So they are without excuse, for although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools…(Rom 1:20-22).

You can see why the authorities want to cancel Paul. The fashionable ideas they want people to bow down before are just as foolish as the once-fashionable idea of worshipping birds and reptiles. Yet, for opposing the present foolishness, Päivi Räsänen now faces prison time.

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