Category: Legal

Federal Judge Blocks Part of Georgia’s Law That Protects Kids From Transgender Treatment

Federal Judge Blocks Part of Georgia's Law That Protects Kids From Transgender Treatment

By Chris Queen 2:44 PM on August 21, 2023

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2023/08/21/federal-judge-blocks-part-of-georgias-law-that-protects-kids-from-transgender-treatment-n1720854;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Federal Judge Blocks Part of Georgia's Law That Protects Kids From Transgender Treatment
AP Photo/Armando Franca
This past spring, the Georgia General Assembly passed a law that was intended to protect kids from transgender treatment. The new law was a step in the right direction, but as is far too often the case, Georgia Republicans stopped just short of what the bill should have been.

And now a federal judge has issued an injunction blocking part of the law after two physicians groups sued to dismantle it. United States District Judge Sarah Geraghty “announced earlier this month that she needed to ‘take some additional time to make sure I get this right,'” according to Fox 5.

“According to the court document, the motion was granted to halt part of the law until a trial can determine whether or not it is constitutional,” reports WSB Radio. However, the injunction only affects part of the law.

“The ban on surgery is still in place,” the WSB report continues. “The injunction only stops the law from preventing hormone therapy for transgender kids.”

The lawsuit states that the law, which took effect on July 1, undermines parents’ ability to make the right medical decisions for their kids and “singles out transgender minors for the denial of essential medical care.”

“It interferes with a parent’s right to govern their children’s medical care, for one, which is a pretty substantial right,” Ed Buckley, one of the attorneys involved in the suit, told WSB.

Related: Georgia Passes a Bill Against Transing Kids, but Does It Do Enough?

“This law unapologetically targets transgender minors and denies them essential health care,” read a statement from attorneys representing the plaintiffs. “The ruling restores parents’ rights to make medical decisions that are in their child’s best interest, including hormone therapy for their transgender children when needed for them to thrive and be healthy.”

Supporters of the bill maintain that the law is intended to save children from unnecessary medical treatments. State Sen. Carden Summers (R-District 13), who wrote the original bill, said, “We’re just trying to protect the children. That was the bill’s intent, and that’s where we’re at.”

“It’s major judicial overreach based on a false ideology,” Cole Muzio of Frontline Policy Council said of the ruling in a statement to PJ Media. “While Georgia’s SB 140 is both weak and poorly constructed, there is nothing unconstitutional about it.”

The left is fond of the old saying that “It takes a village to raise a child.” These days, it takes a movement to save kids from the harm that the left wants to do to these precious young souls.

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Lawsuit Against Pharmacies That Refused to Fill Ivermectin Prescriptions Tossed Out

By Ben Bartee 4:22 PM on August 19, 2023
Lawsuit Against Pharmacies That Refused to Fill Ivermectin Prescriptions Tossed Out
AP Photo/Mike Stewart
As my colleague, Kevin Downey, Jr., reported last week at PJ Media, the FDA quietly performed an astonishing about-face regarding its position on ivermectin, declaring doctors can now prescribe it for the treatment of COVID-19.

(Certainly, the demonization of ivermectin following the COVID-19 “vaccines” hitting market had nothing to do with the fact that the COVID-19 emergency use authorization required that there be no other effective treatments available. That would be a “conspiracy theory” – evil and wrong.)

This is quite a dramatic divergence from the FDA’s previous position, the lie that ivermectin is a “horse medicine.”

I have previously chronicled elsewhere the various lies perpetrated by the corporate state media and Public Health™ authorities over the past several years against ivermectin, as it might have competed with Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA shots’ uptake in the general population. After all, no one in their right mind would gamble with an unproven, experimental treatment using novel technology when an actual safe and effective (not to mention cheap) prophylactic measure was available to them.

This week, a federal court in Missouri threw out a lawsuit filed on behalf of COVID-19 patients against pharmacies that refused to fill ivermectin prescriptions legally written by their doctors.

Via KIMT3 News (emphasis added):

A federal appeals court has sided with pharmacies in Albert Lea that refused to fill prescriptions for medications that would be used to treat COVID-19.

Court documents state that in 2021, William and Karla Salier had gotten prescriptions from a doctor in Missouri for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat their infection with COVID-19.  William Salier had become seriously ill from the virus.  Pharmacists at Walmart and Hy-Vee refused to fill those prescriptions.  Karla Salier says the Walmart pharmacist rudely lectured her about the dangers of treating COVID-19 with ivermectin and the Hy-Vee pharmacist said it was against corporate policy to prescribe the drugs for COVID-19.

William and Karla Salier obtained and used a veterinary version of ivermectin meant for horses and other large animals and quickly recovered. The Saliers then sued Walmart and Hy-vee for violating their “common-law right to self-determination.”

A district court dismissed the Salier’s lawsuit and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit has done the same.  It ruled that Minnesota law allows pharmacists to exercise independent judgment in filling prescriptions and notes that “the FDA and every government agency and major medical authority addressing the issued had denounced and recommended against using ivermectin to treat COVID-19,” and the FDA had revoked its initial emergency-use authorization to use hydroxychloroquine to treat patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

One question remains: how many people suffering from COVID-19 and desperate for help, whose stories may never surface inside of a courtroom, were denied their legal ivermectin prescriptions, went home, and died quietly so they could become another statistic to use to propagandize the public into catatonic fear?

It’s certainly, it appears the court agrees, within any pharmacy’s purview to deny therapeutic medication with a decades-long history of safe use to its customers, but let’s make sure the public knows who’s doing it: Walmart and Hyvee.

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Appeals Court Rules New Jersey Can Sue Gun Industry

Appeals Court Rules New Jersey Can Sue Gun Industry

Assault rifles hang on the wall for sale at Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Virginia, on October 6, 2017. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s James Meyers
12:47 PM – Friday, August 18, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/appeals-court-rules-new-jersey-can-sue-gun-industry/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the state of New Jersey to allow them to sue local gun businesses under the state’s “public nuisance” law. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled that the lawsuit brought by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) over the Garden State being able to sue the gun industry was filed too early.

The Appeals Court claimed they filed the lawsuit before the new law enforcement began but did acknowledge that the new law is vague and does not detail what can cause the state to file a lawsuit. 

“The National Shooting Sports Foundation challenges a new state gun law as violating its members’ constitutional; rights,” Judge Stephanos Bibas, a former President Trump appointee, wrote. “But we see little evidence that enforcement is looming.”

The lawsuit comes after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D-N.J.), signed the “public nuisance” law into effect in July 2022. 

The law allows the state’s attorney general to file lawsuits against local gun businesses based on an exception to the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which is meant to protect the gun industry from liability. 

A district court allowed the NSFF’s imposition of a preliminary injunction in January, claiming the “nuisance law” was in direct conflict with the PLCAA. 

However, NSSF General Counsel Lawrence Keane stated the gun organization will file another suit against the state if they enforce the law against the gun industry.

“While we respectfully disagree with the court’s decision on our pre-enforcement challenge, it is important to note the court did not say New Jersey’s law does not violate the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act; it clearly does,” Keane said.

This is the first time a federal appellate court has weighed in on these new gun laws.

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The Highly Dangerous Georgia Indictments OF TRUMP

By Ben Shapiro 12:56 AM on August 16, 2023
SEE: https://pjmedia.com/columns/benshapiro/2023/08/16/the-highly-dangerous-georgia-indictments-n1719593;Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

The Highly Dangerous Georgia Indictments
(AP Photo/John Bazemore)
This week, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis launched a 98-page missile directly into the heart of American politics. That missile was a 41-count indictment charging former President Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators with violation of the Georgia version of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — acts in furtherance of a conspiracy to commit a criminal act. In this case, the criminal act, according to the indictment, was “knowingly and willfully (joining) a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.” 

Whether this amounts to a crime comes down to the question of whether Trump himself knew that he had lost the election; if he believed that he had won, then all the other accusations about him fall away. After all, it is not a crime to pursue a spurious legal strategy in furtherance of a delusion. But by charging RICO, Willis extends the case to people who may have admitted that Trump lost the election. This accomplishes two purposes. First, it puts these alleged co-conspirators in serious legal jeopardy, giving them a reason to flip on Trump himself. Second, it may allow Willis to charge Trump as part of a criminal conspiracy even if he personally believed he won the election — after all, case law suggests that co-conspirators can be charged under RICO even if they didn’t agree on every aspect of the conspiracy, so long as they knew the “general nature of the enterprise.”

The Georgia case also presents a unique danger to Trump because it is a state case. The Manhattan case against Trump rooted in campaign finance allegations is incredibly weak and is an obvious stretch; the Florida and D.C. cases against Trump are federal, which means that if elected president, he could theoretically pardon himself. The Georgia case is both wide-ranging and state-based: if convicted, Trump would go to state prison and would have no ability to pardon himself. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp does not have unilateral pardon power, either: In Georgia, pardons work through an appointed board. So, the very real prospect exists that even were Trump elected, he’d start his term from state prison.

But even that discussion is premature: The Georgia case, along with all the other indictments against Trump, are going to lock him into courthouses for the rest of the election cycle. What’s more, every waking moment for the media will be coverage of those court cases. That will make it impossible for Trump — even if he were so inclined, which has shown no evidence of being — to talk about President Joe Biden rather than his legal peril. And there has yet to be a single piece of data suggesting that Americans are driven to vote for Trump because of his legal troubles. To pardon yourself, you have to be elected president. But spending your entire presidential race in the dock makes that a radically uphill battle. 

Related: WATCH: Hillary Cackles Like a Hyena on MSNBC About Latest Trump Indictments

All of this is quite terrible for the country. No matter what you think of Trump’s various legal imbroglios — from mishandling classified documents to paying off porn stars to calling up the Georgia secretary of state in an attempt to “find” votes — the glass has now been broken over and over and over again: Political opponents can be targeted by legal enemies. It will not be unbroken. If you think that only Democratic district attorneys will play this game, you have another thing coming. Prepare for a future in which running for office carries the legal risk of going to jail — on all sides. This means that only the worst and the most shameless will run for office.

Trump Attorneys Blast Latest Sham Indictment, DA Fani Willis

By Matt Margolis 10:08 AM on August 15, 2023
SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/08/15/trump-attorneys-blast-latest-sham-indictment-da-fani-willis-n1719378;Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Trump Attorneys Blast Latest Sham Indictment, DA Fani Willis
(Kent D. Johnson/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
On Monday night, Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis handed down ten new indictments of former president Donald Trump over his alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump’s attorneys Drew Findling, Jennifer Little, and Marissa Goldberg released a statement early Tuesday, blasting the indictment, as well as the circumstances around it.

“The events that have unfolded today have been shocking and absurd, starting with the leak of a presumed and premature indictment before the witnesses had testified or the grand jurors had deliberated and ended with the District Attorney being unable to offer any explanation,” the statement began. “In light of this major fumble, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office clearly decided to force through and rush this 98-page indictment. This one-sided grand jury presentation relied on witnesses who harbor their own personal and political interests— some of whom ran campaigns touting their efforts against the accused and/or profited from book deals and employment opportunities as a result. We look forward to a detailed review of this indictment which is undoubtedly just as flawed and unconstitutional as this entire process has been.”

The Trump campaign separately released a fact sheet blasting Willis, calling her a radical Democrat who has been campaigning and fundraising on her “bogus indictments” of President Trump.

The fact sheet noted that her partisan political activities even resulted in her disqualification from investigating an election witness last year. The Washington Post reported last year that the judge in the case ruled that her actions constituted a “plain — and actual and untenable — conflict,” and even commented that “It’s a ‘What are you thinking?’ moment. The optics are horrific.”

The Fulton County Superior Court Judge described the grand jury investigation as “one-sided” with “very limited due process” for those facing charges.

Wilis even launched her 2023 reelection campaign website mere days before the indictment dropped and has been bragging about her efforts to take down Trump to the media, which have no doubt contributed to her receiving 90% of her campaign contributions from out-of-state despite being a state prosecutor with only one county in her jurisdiction. Questions have also arisen as to whether Willis slow-walked the investigation in order for the indictment to interfere with the presidential election.

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THE DEVIL IN GEORGIA~Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep643

In this episode, Dinesh locates the devil in Georgia—her name is Fani Willis—and reveals why the newest Trump indictment is in some ways the most Orwellian. Dinesh offers four reasons why the second Jack Smith indictment is full of holes. Investment analyst Philip Patrick joins Dinesh to discuss the upcoming Durban Accords. Author Gad Saad shares his recipe for a better life as outlined in his book “The Saad Truth About Happiness.”

Trump Indicted In Georgia Election Probe

Trump Indicted In Georgia Election Probe

A detailed look at the latest Trump indictment:

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump leaves after a Hispanic Heritage Month event in the East Room of the White House October 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. - President Trump invited over 200 Hispanic business, community, and faith leaders, and guests from across the country to join in the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump leaves after a Hispanic Heritage Month event in the East Room of the White House October 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

OAN’s Sophia Flores
6:40 AM – Tueday, August 15, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-indicted-in-georgia-election-probe/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

45th President Donald J. Trump has been indicted on a slew of charges in relation to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

On Monday, a Fulton County Grand Jury voted to approve charges against Trump in connection with alleged racketeering, conspiracy, and making false statements.  

The Georgia Grand Jury delivered the indictment which included 10 charges in the election probe. Those charges include Violation of the Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization) Act, Solicitation of Violation of Oath By Public Officer, Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer, Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree, Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings, Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents, Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree,  Filing False Documents, and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.

The charges come after a year of investigation from Fulton County DA Fani Willis, which included testimony from current and former state officials, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

In March, the notable Republican became the first former United States president in history to face criminal charges.

He was indicted in New York on state charges regarding alleged hush money payments made to porn actor Stormy Daniels.

His next charge was the first federal indictment against a former president. In June, Trump was indicted in Florida regarding the alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

The most recent indictment was in Washington, D.C., and revolved around his alleged involvement in the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6th, 2021.

Trump has maintained his innocence in each case and has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

The 45th president also announced that he will be holding a “major news conference” on Monday August 21st to present a “detailed but irrefutable report on the Presidential Election Fraud which took place in Georgia.”

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Fulton County Indictment BACKFIRES as Trump’s Polls SURGE!!!

Rep. Greg Steube Files Articles of Impeachment Against President Joe Biden

By Anthony Gonzalez 1:12 PM on August 11, 2023
Rep. Greg Steube of Florida filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden over his involvement in his son’s corrupt foreign business dealings on Friday.“It’s long past time to impeach Joe Biden,” Steube said in a press release. “He has undermined the integrity of his office, brought disrepute on the Presidency, betrayed his trust as President, and acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice at the expense of America’s citizens. The evidence continues to mount by the day – the Biden Crime Family has personally profited off Joe’s government positions through bribery, threats, and fraud. Joe Biden must not be allowed to continue to sit in the White House, selling out our country.”The articles of impeachment, which you can read below, include four charges against Biden: abuse of power, obstruction of justice, fraud, and financial involvement in drugs and prostitution. Each charge includes evidence provided to House Republicans concerning Biden’s corrupt behavior.Steube revealed his intent to file the articles of impeachment yesterday during an appearance on Newsmax with conservative commentator David Harris Jr. The Republican firebrand laid out the charges against the president, stemming from Biden’s “involvement in drugs and prostitution.”

“Tomorrow, I intend on filing an impeachment resolution on Joe Biden for bribery, for extortion, obstruction of justice, fraud, financial involvement in drugs and prostitution,” he declared. “We have all the facts and evidence now. In the beginning of this Congress, Republicans wanted to make sure that we did the investigations, that we got the information before the American people.”

Harris Jr. then asked the Florida congressman if he had the proof to back up the articles of impeachment and whether that proof would be shown to the American people.

“For all the things you just mentioned, bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, fraud, financial involvement in drugs and prostitution—and you’re saying you have the receipts?” Harris Jr. asked. “You have the proof?”

Steube confirmed that the proof would come to light.

Needless to say, House Republicans have unveiled an abundance of evidence detailing Biden’s corruption, unlike Democrats who impeached Trump over a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and over baseless, now-debunked accusations that the former president colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.

“To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached,” then-candidate Biden said during a town hall event in New Hampshire. Little did Biden know that he would also be facing impeachment.

Remember how the narrative began? Democrats, including Biden himself, denied that the president ever spoke with his son, Hunter Biden, about his business dealings. However, Hunter Biden’s business associate, Devon Archer, later said that Joe Biden did speak with Hunter and him regarding their foreign business dealings.

Archer, speaking with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, unveiled a letter addressed to him from then-Vice President Joe Biden, who handwrote the following sentence in the letter:  “P.S. Happy you guys are together,” an apparent reference to the friendship between Archer and Hunter.

If Biden, as he claims, was never involved in his son’s business dealings, why would he have sent a handwritten letter addressed to one of Hunter’s associates? Is it because he was involved in his son’s business dealings?

The White House used to say Biden never spoke to his son about his business dealings but has since changed that narrative too. Now, the White House says that Biden was never directly involved with his son in his business dealings. But that, too, is a lie, as we have come to find out today with the release of the articles of impeachment.

Democrats used the power of impeachment for political reasons, but Republicans are using the tool to impeach a known corrupt president who lied to the American people time and time again about his involvement in corrupt foreign business dealings.

Read the full impeachment resolution:

Steube Impeachment Resolution Against Joe Biden by PJ Media on Scribd

Anthony Gonzalez

Anthony Gonzalez is a freelance contributor for PJ Media. He is currently in high school, where he is president of the Conservative Club.

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'What more do we need to start an inquiry?: GOP lawmaker asks

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., discusses the latest developments in the Biden family investigation, special counsel Jack Smith proposing a January 2024 trial for the Trump election case, and the White House requesting $40 billion from Congress.

Rep. James Comer To Subpoena Biden Family

Rep. James Comer To Subpoena Biden Family

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 05: House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) speaks to reporters after attending an FBI briefing in the House Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at the U.S. Capitol Building on June 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. The chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee attended the briefing to review documents pertaining to U.S. President Joe Biden's alleged acceptance of a bribe as vice president, from a foreign national. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) speaks to reporters after attending an FBI briefing in the House Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at the U.S. Capitol Building on June 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

OAN’s Noah Herring
11:25 AM – Thursday, August 10, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/rep-james-comer-to-subpoena-biden-family/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Members of the Biden family including President Joe Biden and his son Hunter will be subpoenaed as part of a corruption investigation, House Oversight Chairman James Comer announced on Thursday. 

“This is always going to end with the Bidens coming in front of the committee,” Comer (R-KY.) told Fox Business Network “We are going to subpoena the family. We know that this is going to end up in court, when we subpoena the Bidens. So we’re putting together a case and I think we’ve done that very well.”

Comer did not verify a specific timeline for when this would take place as he claimed that he wants to talk to “three or four more associates” of the Biden family first. 

The “associates” were not identified by the Republican, but he said the Oversight committee was “communicating with a couple of them” and told them “if they don’t come in voluntarily, then they’ll be subpoenaed.” 

According to staff memos, the GOP-led oversight panel has identified more than $20 million in payments to the Biden family from foreign countries including China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan. Comer indicated that at least a dozen members of the Biden family may have been involved in the “peddling scheme.” 

Hunter and his father have been the central focus of congressional investigators as he is also facing a federal criminal inquiry. His former business partner Devon Archer recently testified to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family “brand” was intertwined in their ventures when Joe Biden was vice president. 

Hunter put his father on the phone around 20 times during business meetings, according to Archer. He also claimed that Joe Biden attended dinners with his son’s foreign business associates. 

“The president and the media were telling us that number one, no money had been transferred to the Bidens while Joe Biden was vice president — that was false,” Comer contended. “He said he never communicated with any of the people who were wiring his family the millions of dollars — that was probably the biggest lie of all, Maria. That’s what we proved with the Devon Archer transcribed interview.”

The White House has disputed the GOP allegations, arguing that there is no evidence the president did anything wrong. 

“It’s House Republicans who have repeatedly refused to release evidence that doesn’t fit their selectively tailored false narratives – including continuing to hide the transcript of a former FBI witness whose testimony apparently contradicted some key House Republican claims,” White House spokesman Ian Sams wrote in a recent memo.

President Biden has also reiterated his claim that “I never talked business” with his son’s business partners following an event in New Mexico on Wednesday. 

“This is a complicated case,” Comer said, “and we’re being obstructed every step of the way by the Department of Justice, by the FBI, by the Secret Service, by the IRS, and by the Biden family attorneys.”

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AmmoLand News Journalist Faces Gag Effort by US Attorney

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SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2023/08/us-attorney-attempts-silence-ammoland-news-journalist/;Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

  • Attempt to Silence Reporting: AUSA Taylor has made repeated efforts to suppress AmmoLand News journalist Crump & his reporting on the AutoKeyCard Case.

  • Government’s Request to Destroy Key Documents: The U.S. Attorney has filed a motion demanding the destruction of the Presentence Investigation Report (PSR) in possession of Crump & AmmoLand News.

  • Constitutional Concerns & PushBack: The legal community & advocacy groups like GOA are rallying behind Crump, viewing these actions as infringements on 1st Amendment rights, a free Press & an attempt by the government to hide from public accountability.

Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Laura Cofer Taylor seems to be attempting to silence AmmoLand News journalist John Crump over his reporting on the AutoKeyCard Trial.

Crump has been a thorn in the side of the ATF/DOJ for years, and his reporting continues to frustrate them. Other media outlets have relied on Crump’s information to cover the shocking AutoKeyCard case. The reporting at that time infuriated the AUSA Cofer Taylor to the point that she called out Crump to the presiding court Judge for having a courtroom source feeding him information. The judge, in that case, dismissed her complaint.

Fast forward to August 2023.

— MOTION FOR ORDER PROHIBITING DISSEMINATION OF PRESENTENCE INVESTIGATION REPORT

“WHEREFORE, the government requests that this Court issue an order reiterating that the PSRs are non-public documents and may not be disseminated beyond court personnel, the defense teams, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and order that any individuals who possess a copy of the PSR without authority (including Crump, Hughes, and Erica Hoover) destroy it and confirm its destruction in writing, and any other relief this Court deems necessary to protect the sentencing process in this case.”

Once again the Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Laura Cofer Taylor is having issues with continued reporting on the case and, this time, wants a document called a Presentence Investigation Report (PSR) about the same AutoKeyCard Case that is in the possession of Journalist John Crump destroyed.

“A Presentence Investigation Report (PSR) is a document prepared by probation officers in the United States federal court system after a defendant is convicted but before they are sentenced. The PSR plays a critical role in the sentencing process and provides the sentencing judge with a comprehensive overview of the defendant and the crime(s) they committed. “

According to a recent court document, the U.S. Attorney learned through recorded jailhouse phone calls that Matthew Hoover (better known as CRS Firearms on YouTube) had contacted Crump and given him information about his Presentence Investigation Report (PSR) and suggested he and Richard Hughes (who runs a channel called FlyingRich) create videos on the topic to inform the public of the injustice he was experiencing. Hughes also co-hosts and produces the John Crump Live Podcast.

Both Hughes and Crump agreed to make videos on the proposed sentences. This did not sit well with the prosecutor, and in this new court filing, she demanded a motion to silence Crump and destroy any PSR documents he had in his possession.

AmmoLand News views this as a constitutional violation and an attack on the freedom of the press. It would seem the federal government would rather hide its constitution-violating behavior from the public by silencing journalists than correct course and respect the First Amendment.

If AUSA Cofer Taylor thought Crump would back down, she miscalculated. Crump quickly hired a high-powered legal team consisting of Robert Olson, Stephen Stamboulieh, and James Phillips.

In a surprise move for AUSA Taylor, the legal team was quick to file a motion to intervene on behalf of Crump, defending him and the right to a free press.

See: John Crump’ Emergency 1 Motion To Intervene: Case No. 3:21-cr-22(S4)-MMH-MCR

Gun Owners of America has stepped in as well and will cover all legal expenses. Once again, it looks like an over-zealous ATF has found itself face-to-face with a powerhouse group of patriots and legal minds who will likely remind the government why the Bill of Rights was written in the first place.

Crump told AmmoLand News, “This is an attempt to stifle members of the press because the government doesn’t want anyone to shine a light on the misdeeds of an out-of-control agency,” Crump also said, “If Laura Cofer Taylor thought she could silence me, she is sorely mistaken. I will fight with every breath in my body, not just for my Second Amendment rights, but also for my First Amendment rights.”

Hughes also took issue with the Prosecutor’s attempt to silence him for his citizen journalism and said: “Today, I find myself in the midst of an astonishing legal ordeal that threatens the First Amendment Rights of John Crump and myself.” Hughes also said, “The Prosecutor has constructed a case twisting prior legal precedent to have new meaning and counting on the court not to know the truth. She is deliberately misleading the court and counting on legal action to scare John and myself from reporting on the Hoover case. We will vigorously defend our First Amendment rights.”

The attorneys argue that Hoover is within his rights to release the information and Crump is within his rights to report on it. The rules and cases referenced by AUSA Cofer Taylor in her filing only addressed the sharing of information by the officers of the court, not the silencing of journalists.

This may be a critical moment in our fight to preserve our Second Amendment while also protecting our First Amendment. Our Founding Fathers saw these people coming over 200 years away. That’s why the Bill of Rights was written.

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Federal Judge Orders Southwest Airlines Attorneys to Attend ‘Religious Liberty Training’ From Conservative Group

By Rick Moran 10:05 AM on August 09, 2023
Federal Judge Orders Southwest Airlines Attorneys to Attend 'Religious Liberty Training' From Conservative Group
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
A federal judge ordered three Southwest Airlines attorneys to attend “religious liberty training” from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy group well known for its high-profile defense of conservative causes.

Naturally, left-wing heads exploded all across the country. You can’t do that! Only left-wing judges can demand that right-wing fascists attend ‘sensitivity training’ and other bogus seminars.

More than that, the left immediately leaped on the charge that ADF was a “hate group” because the Southern Poverty Law Center says so. Since they’ve never been wrong, it must be so. Well, almost never.

The fact that the judge in the case was appointed by Donald Trump only added to the left’s hysteria.

The Southwest Airlines lawyers got exactly what they deserved. District Judge Brantley Starr sanctioned the lawyers for violating his rule in a religious discrimination case. In a case involving flight attendant Charlene Carter last year, a jury found that both Southwest and Transport Union Workers discriminated against Carter when they fired the flight attendant after she “expressed her pro-life beliefs to her union president.”

It’s what happened after the verdict that got the Southwest Airlines lawyers in trouble with Judge Starr.

CNN:

Following the verdict, Starr ordered Southwest to reinstate Carter and take several other corrective actions, including requiring both the airline and the union to “inform Southwest flight attendants that, under Title VII, they may not discriminate against Southwest flight attendants for their religious practices and beliefs, including – but not limited to – those expressed on social media and those concerning abortion.”

But in messages sent by three Southwest attorneys to the company’s employees, according to a sanctions order handed down by Starr, the airline instead said that “Southwest does not discriminate against our Employees for their religious practices and beliefs.”

The judge said Southwest also sent around a memo to flight attendants in which the company “lambasts Carter” by taking issue with the conduct she was fired over.

Blatantly violating the orders of a federal judge is not a way to win friends and influence people — unless the judge was appointed by Donald Trump and the people you want to impress are left-wing hacks.

“The Court concludes that training on religious freedom for three lawyers at Southwest the Court finds responsible (Kerrie Forbes, Kevin Minchey, and Chris Maberry) is the least restrictive means of achieving compliance with the Court’s order,” the judge said. “The Alliance Defending Freedom (‘ADF’) has conducted such training in the past, and the Court deems that appropriate here.”

Actually, ADF has no such formal training program on religious freedom, although they indicated they would be happy to create one for Southwest Airlines. And the choice of ADF to conduct the training is a little strange, considering that the Alliance Defending Freedom wasn’t even formally involved in the flight attendant’s case in the first place.

That will probably matter a great deal when the appeal is filed.

In fillings submitted ahead of Monday’s order, attorneys for Southwest urged the judge not to order the trainings, saying that “ordering religious-liberty training would be an inappropriate remedy for the alleged civil contempt.”

“Although Southwest contends the Email Notice still substantially complied with the judgment, Southwest has already offered to purge this alleged contempt by providing a corrective notice replacing the ‘does not discriminate’ language with ‘may not discriminate,’” they wrote. “Put another way, there is no conduct for religious-liberty training to remedy.”

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Law Dork Chris Geidner, who broke the news on the sanctions, wonders how the religious liberty training was added to the punishments.

It’s not precisely clear how religious-liberty training, let alone ADF, became a part of this. ADF is not representing the plaintiff, Charlene Carter, or in any other way involved in the case at all that I can tell.

Carter and her lawyers did not ask for anything like this “religious-liberty training” when she filed her motion for sanctions on Dec. 30, 2022.

It wasn’t until Starr filed an order on May 16 that he announced he was considering adding “religious-liberty training” into his sanctions order in the case.

Judge Starr apparently took it upon himself to include the religious liberty training in the sanctions against the Southwest lawyers. And those sanctions — regardless of whether they pass muster on appeal — were well-deserved, considering the arrogant dismissal by the attorneys of the judges’ orders.

Trans Activists Scream in the Faces of Little Girls Who Attended Bill Signing in Texas

By Rick Moran 10:30 AM on August 08, 2023
Trans Activists Scream in the Faces of Little Girls Who Attended Bill Signing in Texas
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About 250 transgender activists showed up at the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame at Texas Woman’s University in Denton as Gov. Greg Abbott signed the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which would limit transgender athletes from competing in most women’s college sports.

In attendance was former NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines, who has become a fierce opponent of allowing transgender women to compete against biological women. A group of little girls — some as young as five — also showed up to witness the historic bill signing.

The transgender activists accosted those in attendance, getting in their faces and, in at least one instance, throwing water on Independent Women’s Network’s Austin chapter leader Michelle Evans, who told Fox News that the best word to describe the protesters was “rabid.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Gaines also shared her observations of the protest.

“Even in the great state of [Texas], protestors have tried to find a way to smear the celebration of Governor Abbott signing SB 15 which protects female collegiate athletics. But they can’t,” Gaines, host of OutKick podcast “Gaines for Girls,” told Fox News Digital in a statement.

“Today is a huge win and Gov. Abbott’s leadership is foundational and I’m hopeful more states will follow suit.”

Speaking of the protest, Gaines continued, “Bottles are being thrown, protestors are spitting in people’s faces, profanity is being yelled at children. Law enforcement has stepped in and provided protection.”

Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, Paula Scanlan, shared on social media that protesters blocked the exits and were “spitting and yelling.”

Abbott issued a statement about the protesters:

How will they explain to Riley and Paula and to other women how they have been marginalized? They’re the ones who went through the training, not the protesters out there. They devoted their lives, working harder probably than anybody in this room. Longer days, longer nights, sacrificing so much to achieve a goal, only to have the goal erased by being forced to compete against a man.

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Incredibly, this CBS report on the demonstration lionized the protesters and didn’t even mention the screaming, cursing, spitting, and unhinged demonstrators.

Amid chants of “protect trans lives,” dozens of people—including members of the LGBTQ community—stood outside Texas Woman’s University with a message for Governor Greg Abbott about the new state law requiring athletes at public colleges and universities to compete on teams the same as their biological sex.

“I think he needs to realize trans people are people, trans Texans are Texans, and his legislation is supposed to protect Texans. But he’s not protecting trans people, he’s hurting trans people,” said one student named Eliot.

Abbott believes more needs to be done to protect the rights of biological women.

“Sports is the tip of the iceberg, but the iceberg is much bigger than people are giving it credit for,” he said.

LIVE RESULTS ON ABORTION: Ohio Issue 1 On Protecting Constitution From Special Interests [UPDATED]

By Paula Bolyard 1:43 PM on August 08, 2023
LIVE RESULTS: Ohio Issue 1 On Protecting Constitution From Special Interests [UPDATED]
(AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Update 9:26 p.m.: Decision Desk HQ has called the race for the NO votes, 57.34% to 42.66. As a result of the loss, a constitutional amendment will be on the ballot in November that would, according to Ballotpedia:

  • establish a state constitutional right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including decisions about abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage care, and continuing pregnancy;
  • prohibit the state of Ohio from interfering with this constitutional right, except when the state demonstrates “that it is using the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care;”
  • allow the state to restrict abortion after fetal viability, defined as “the point in a pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, the fetus has a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus with reasonable measures;” and
  • prohibit the state of Ohio from banning abortion when, in the professional judgment of a physician, an abortion “is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.”

If the amendment passes, abortion doctors with a financial interest in killing babies will be allowed to determine whether an unborn child is viable and whether the mother’s emotional “health” would make an abortion necessary. Look for emboldened leftists to put forth other radical amendments that would not only destroy the state constitution but the very fiber of our culture.

*******Original story:

Ohio voters are heading to the polls today for a special election to determine how hard it should be to amend the state Constitution. As it currently stands, a citizen-initiated ballot effort needs 50% plus one to amend the Constitution. If Issue 1 passes, the threshold will be raised to 60% plus one, a supermajority. In addition, if Issue 1 passes, groups seeking to amend the Constitution will need to obtain signatures from all 88 counties in Ohio rather than the current number of 44.

The Ohio legislature put the issue on the ballot to raise the threshold for amending the state Constitution. As the law currently stands, it’s fairly easy for special-interest groups, often from out of state, to come in and pour tens of millions of dollars into a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment proposal without any involvement from one-half of Ohio counties. I’ve often been surprised on Election Day to open my ballot only to find a constitutional amendment I’d never heard of. That’s because I live in a small rural county that’s not usually the target of canvassers seeking signatures to put an issue on the ballot. The special-interest groups pick and choose which counties to target and leave the other 44 without a voice in the matter.

Related: A ‘Yes’ on Ohio Issue 1 Would Make It Harder for Special-Interest Groups to Change the Constitution

An astounding $32 million has been poured into the efforts for and against Issue 1 for an August special election when turnout is traditionally quite low. A huge percentage of that money has come from out-of-state special-interest groups, making this a national election of sorts:

Groups supporting Issue 1 include:

  • Buckeye Firearms Association 
  • Center for Christian Virtue 
  • Created Equal  
  • Ohio Farm Bureau 
  • Ohio Pork Council 
  • Ohio Right to Life 
  • Protect Women Ohio 
  • School Choice Ohio Alliance 
  • Sportsmen’s Alliance 
  • The Buckeye Institute 

Groups lined up against Issue 1 include:

  • ACLU of Ohio 
  • American Civil Liberties Union 
  • Children’s Defense Fund Ohio 
  • Democratic Socialists of America 
  • End Citizens United 
  • Equality Ohio 
  • Everytown for Gun Safety 
  • Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio 
  • Human Rights Campaign 
  • League of Women Voters of Ohio 
  • Moms Demand Action 
  • Ohio Environmental Council 
  • Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights 
  • Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom 
  • Our Revolution (Bernie Sanders’ PAC)
  • Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio 
  • Pro-Choice Ohio 
  • Protect Choice Ohio 
  • Sierra Club Ohio 
  • Sixteen Thirty Fund (a progressive dark-money group)
  • The Lincoln Project (of course)
  • Tides Foundation 
  • Most of the labor unions in the state

Why, you may be asking, are all these out-of-state left-wing groups aligned against issue 1? It’s because they can’t get their policies through the conservative Ohio legislature. They hope to make end-runs around the process by enshrining issues like abortion rights (through all nine months of pregnancy), gun control, and radical environmentalism into the state Constitution with a simple 50%-plus-one majority. In fact, radical abortion-rights supporters already have a proposed amendment on the ballot in November. If Issue 1 passes, they’d need to get a supermajority in November rather than a simple majority.

I wrote at the end of June:

The constitutional amendment process has been abused for decades to help everyone from payday lenders to casinos, among other big-money interests, who have essentially written their business plans into the Ohio Constitution. In fact, the casinos used the constitutional amendment process to give themselves a gambling monopoly in the state, even including real estate plats in the Constitution to show where their casinos would go.

The state Constitution has been amended almost 200 times and contains nearly 70,000 words. It “looks like a paperback novel, something you’d pick up in the grocery store with Fabio on the cover,” LaRose quipped. Compare that to the U.S. Constituiton. “There have been 11,000 attempts throughout our history, but it’s only been amended 27 times because the founders said you need 75% of states to ratify constitutional amendments,” he added. “It’s about 7,000 words. It has led our nation through some very challenging times. And it fits in your pocket.”

Turnout is reportedly high in the state, according to the AP:

As of Wednesday, more than 533,000 people had voted by mail or in-person since early voting began July 11, according to data collected by The Associated Press. That’s nearly double the final early voting figures for Ohio’s two previous midterm primary elections, which included races for governor and Congress. In the May 2022 primary, for example, 288,700 people voted early, according to AP data.

It’s also more than three times the roughly 142,000 early ballots cast by mail or in-person during last year’s August elections, although drawing a comparison is tricky. August special elections traditionally have been held in even-numbered years and are intended for local races and issues. The last statewide question on an August ballot in Ohio was in 1926.

There have been rallies, debates, and emotional ad campaigns both for and against Issue 1. Early voting indicates that those opposing it had an early advantage, according to the AP: “As of Tuesday, voters identified by L2 as Democrats had cast more than 52% of ballots, compared with 40% by voters identified as Republicans. Independents cast the remaining ballots, according to the firm, which models party affiliation using the partisan primary a voter most recently participated in.”

Polls close in Ohio at 7:30 p.m. Check back here for up-to-the-minute results of this important special election.

Gov. Greg Abbott Signs ‘Save Women’s Sports Act’

Gov. Greg Abbott Signs ‘Save Women’s Sports Act’

Former President Trump Joins TX Gov. Abbott At Unfinished Border Wall PHARR, TEXAS - JUNE 30: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott listens to former President Donald Trump's address during a tour to an unfinished section of the border wall on June 30, 2021 in Pharr, Texas. Gov. Abbott has pledged to build a state-funded border wall between Texas and Mexico as a surge of mostly Central American immigrants crossing into the United States has challenged U.S. immigration agencies. So far in 2021, U.S. Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 900,000 immigrants crossing into the United States on the southern border. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
(Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
12:55 PM – Tuesday, August 8, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/gov-greg-abbott-signs-save-womens-sports-act/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Governor Greg Abbott held a ceremony in Denton, Texas, where he signed Senate Bill 15. The legislation concerns collegiate athletes in the state of Texas who compete on sports teams segregated by players’ “biological sex.”

On Monday, the governor signed the contentious bill, which is also referred to as the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” that is scheduled to go into effect in September of this year. 

Abbott (R-Texas) celebrated the signing at the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame at Texas Woman’s University.

Riley Gaines, a spokesperson for the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) swim team, was also present at the ceremony.

“This is huge news, not only for Texans, but for girls across the country,” said Gaines.

The “Save Women’s Sports Act” forbids transgender-identifying athletes from competing on college sports teams that do not match their own biological sex, which stems from legislation that was passed two years ago.

In May, the governor also signed a law that bans sex reassignment surgery and hormone blockers for minors, referred to as “gender-affirming care” to more progressive individuals.

Both bills will reportedly go into effect at the beginning of September.

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Trump Pleads “Not Guilty” To All Counts~Co-Conspirators Descriptions Released In Trump Indictment

Trump Pleads “Not Guilty” To All Counts

BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY - JUNE 13: Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks outside the clubhouse at the Trump National Golf Club on June 13, 2023 in Bedminster, New Jersey. Earlier in the day, Trump was arraigned in federal court in Miami on 37 felony charges, including illegally retaining defense secrets and obstructing the government’s efforts to reclaim the classified documents. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks outside the clubhouse at the Trump National Golf Club on June 13, 2023 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

OAN’s Sophia Flores
2:22 PM – Thursday, August 3, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-all-counts/;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Donald Trump has pleaded “not guilty” to all charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election case. The 45th president is being charged with four counts.

Trump will be arraigned in Florida on August 10th for a secret document overriding an indictment. In addition, he has a hearing in Georgia on that day on a motion to remove the Fulton County DA.

The four counts that he is being prosecuted for are “Conspiracy to Defraud the United States,” “Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding,” “Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding,” and “Conspiracy Against Rights.”

In addition to targeting the former president, Smith named six co-conspirators in a 45-page charging document. He accused all six parties of schemes related to blocking the transfer of power to Joe Biden on January 6th.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has accused Special Counsel Jack Smith of engaging in election interference.

Additionally, prosecutors announced that they will not seek detention of President Trump.

The judge has set the next upcoming hearing for August 28th. Trump is allowed to waive his appearance at the next hearing.

The former president has many crucial court dates coming up in the following months.

Trump is scheduled to be arraigned in Florida on August 10th regarding classified documents superseding an indictment. In addition, he has a hearing in Georgia on that day on a motion to remove the Fulton County DA.

On August 23rd, he has the first GOP primary debate of this election cycle.

It is currently unclear if Trump will be participating in the first debate. The second GOP debate is on September 27th.

On October 2nd, the New York Civil Trial versus the Trump Org begins.

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Co-Conspirators Descriptions Released In Trump Indictment

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: President Donald Trump speaks at the "Stop The Steal" Rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump speaks at the “Stop The Steal” Rally on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

OAN’s Sophia Flores and Brooke Mallory
12:42 PM – Thursday, August 3, 2023

45th President Donald J. Trump has been indicted for the third time in less than five months. This time, he will be arraigned in Washington, D.C., regarding his alleged involvement on January 6th.

In the special counsel’s probe, Jack Smith claimed that the Republican candidate attempted to overturn the 2020 election with the help of co-conspirators. The charging documents listed six co-conspirators.

The Co-Conspirators’ names were not mentioned in the document. However, the probing details alluded to who the individual’s identities were.

Co-Conspirator 1 was described as “an attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the Defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign attorneys would not.”

Many speculate that this was referring to Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani is the president’s former personal attorney and campaign manager.

Prosecutors also allege that this person called then Arizona-Speaker of the House, Rusty Bowers, to discuss election results. Quotes provided in the indictment are similar to ones that Giuliani once stated in a call to Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.).

It is believed that Co-Conspirator 2 is John Eastman. Eastman is a law professor and Trump’s legal advisor who was described as “an attorney who devised and attempted to implement a strategy to leverage the Vice President’s ceremonial role overseeing the certification proceeding to obstruct the certification of the presidential election.”

The indictment claimed that this co-conspirator “circulated a two-page memorandum” with a scheme to have then-Vice President Mike Pence overturn the election results.

Co-Conspirator 3 is assumed to be Sidney Powell. Powell is a former Trump attorney. This conspirator was described as “an attorney whose unfounded claims of election fraud the Defendant privately acknowledged to others sounded ‘crazy.'”

Prosecutors stated that this individual filed a lawsuit against the governor of Georgia citing “massive election fraud.” They went on to state that the lawsuit was dismissed on December 7th, 2020. This information is consistent with a lawsuit she filed against Governor Brian Kemp (R-Ga.).

Former Justice Department official Jeffery Clark is thought to be a Co-Conspirator 4. In the indictment, this person is described as “a Justice Department official who worked on civil matters and who, with the Defendant, attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.” 

The indictment directly quoted an email that was sent to the Justice Department official. The email rebutted Clark’s attempt to overturn the election result.

Co-Conspirator 5 is believed to be Kenneth Chesebro. Chesebro is a pro-Trump lawyer who was described in the indictment as a campaign-related attorney. It is stated that Co-Conspirator 5 “sent Co-Conspirator 1 an email memorandum that further confirmed that the conspirators’ plan was not to use the fraudulent electors only in the circumstance that the Defendant’s litigation was successful in one of the targeted states — instead, the plan was to falsely present the fraudulent slates as an alternative to the legitimate slates at Congress’s certification proceeding.” 

On December 13th, 2020, Chesebro wrote an email to the former New York mayor proposing that Pence dismiss Biden’s electoral votes from states where the Trump campaign found fake electors.

However, the identity of Co-Conspirator 6 is the most unclear. According to the indictment, this individual is “a political consultant who helped implement a plan to submit fraudulent slates of presidential electors to obstruct the certification proceeding.”

Prosecutors stated that this mystery person spoke with Giuliani about which attorney “could assist in the fraudulent elector effort in the targeted states, and he received from Co­ Conspirator 6 an email identifying attorneys in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.”

Although the arraignment details are still shaky and could be subject to changes, the Democrats’ continuous battle to bring down Donald Trump through whatever means possible remains a long-sought-after aim for his detractors and opponents. Democrats believe that these charges could eventually hinder Trump’s pursuit of the 2024 presidential nomination, where he is polling ahead of every other GOP running mate. 

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