Day: June 9, 2025

Conservative Florida Attorney Appeals License Suspension, Denounces Political Censorship over Calling His Opponent ‘Corrupt’ and ‘Swampy’

Rachel Alexander
Florida Attorney Chris Crowley

Conservative attorney Chris Crowley, a decorated Gulf War veteran who ran for a state attorney position in Florida, is appealing a recommendation to suspend his law license for 60 days over speech he made during the campaign. His attorney Scott Tozian argued the appeal before the Florida Supreme Court last week. 

A Referee for the The Florida Bar recommended the suspension due to Crowley referring to his opponent Amira D. Fox, who eventually won the race for state attorney’s office in Florida’s 20th Judicial Circuit, as “corrupt” and “swampy” and for observing that she had “close family ties to the [Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)] terrorist organization.”

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Kennedy Announces He Is Removing All Advisors on CDC’s Independent Vaccine Panel

Just the News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced that he is replacing all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) independent advisory panel on vaccines. 

The move is the health secretary’s latest in his efforts to reshape the department and restore transparency and faith in vaccines. The panelists are not typically political appointees, but Kennedy has accused the members of having conflicts of interest.

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Michael Patrick Leahy: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Legally Deported in March and Received All The Due Process to Which He Was Entitled

Kaitlin Housler
MPL

Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, defended the Trump administration’s “proper” deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador who was held in the Central American country until last week, when he was transported to Nashville to face human smuggling charges.

In April, The Star obtained the final deportation order for Abrego Garcia issued by former U.S. Immigration Judge David M. Jones in 2019.

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Hundreds of Marines Reportedly Deploying to Los Angeles

Daily Caller News Foundation
Los Angeles

Hundreds of U.S. Marines are reportedly being deployed to Los Angeles to help control the riots sparked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the city over the weekend, multiple outlets reported Monday.

Several hundred Marines will arrive in the city over the next 24 hours, primarily to support the National Guard and Los Angeles Police Department, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal, ABC News and CNN. The riots have caused widespread damage and violence across the city, with protestors violently clashing with authorities in response to ICE raids targeting illegal immigrants residing in the city.

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Congressman Mark Green to Retire from Congress After Passage of Big, Beautiful Bill

Tom Pappert
Mark Green

Congressman Mark Green announced on Monday afternoon that he will retire from Congress as soon as the U.S. House of Representatives passes the budget reconciliation package, often called the “Big, Beautiful Bill” by its proponents, to take a job in the private sector.

“It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress,” stated Green. “Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up. As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package.”

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Congressman Andy Ogles Says Trump Will Give Parents ‘Opportunity’ to ‘Right Wrongs’ Committed by Weaponized Biden Admin

Tom Pappert
Andy Ogles

U.S. Representative Andy Ogles said during a panel discussion on Friday that the Trump administration will offer parents the ability to right injustices committed by weaponized prosecutors and court systems during a panel discussion with actress Sam Sorbo and journalist and advocate Kelly Walker. 

Ogles suggested the Trump administration would take a second look at more legal decisions made under former President Joe Biden during a conversation on NTD’s “Capitol Report,” especially in response to Walker, who said he was targeted by his country government in Arizona over his refusal to support pandemic-era mask requirements for children. 

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Tennessee Nonprofit Claims Trump Admin ‘Ignoring Due Process’ for Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘Regardless of the Outcome’ of Criminal Case

Tom Pappert
Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) responded to the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to American soil by the U.S. Department of Justice by condemning the Trump administration for purportedly attempting to conceal its wrongdoing by revealing the alleged illegal alien smuggling committed by the citizen of El Salvador for nearly a decade. 

Calling the case “an example of what could happen to all Black and brown people” when the government defies court orders in a post to X, the nonprofit stated that the charges against Abrego Garcia, “are clearly designed to cover up” the Trump administration’s “negligence,” as well as “the fact that the Supreme Court unanimously called them out on the egregious ways they are ignoring due process.”

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Tennessee Democrats, Activist Groups Plan ‘Rapid Response Protest to Support Kilmar Abrego Garcia’ amid Nationwide ‘No King’ Events

Tom Pappert
Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Democrats and activist groups in Tennessee have announced a “Rapid Response Protest” to show their support for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador who was deported in March and returned to the United States last week by the U.S. Department of Justice to face charges for an allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants, as he is arraigned in Nashville on Friday.

According to an event page on the progressive organizing website Mobilize, the protest is organized by a “group of local organizations” who claim Abrego Garcia is being subjected to “trumped-up charges” after being returned from El Salvador, where the activists claim he was “abducted” and deported “without due process.”

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California Sues Trump over Activating State National Guard for LA Protests

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Gavin Newsom

California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom sued the Trump administration on Monday over President Trump’s deployment of the state’s National Guard, after a violent night of protests over federal immigration-enforcement sweeps. 

According to the lawsuit, Trump overstepped his authority by calling the National Guard despite Newsom’s protest, invoking a law that lets the president to do so under threat from a foreign “invasion” or “rebellion” against the U.S. government, The Washington Post reported.

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Meet the Violent Criminals ICE Agents Were Attacked for Arresting

The Center Square
CBP

Paid agitators and rioters, including those with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), attacked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers tasked with apprehending violent criminals off of the streets.

Over the weekend, ICE agents arrested 118 illegal foreign nationals, including five gang members and those with criminal histories of “alien smuggling,” assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, drug trafficking and robbery.

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Minnesota State Lawmaker Confesses She’s an Illegal Immigrant

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Kaohly Vang Her

A Minnesota state representative on Monday admitted to being an illegal alien during remarks on the state House floor and said her father had misrepresented his familial relations in the paperwork.

“My father as the one processing the paperwork, put my grandmother down as his mother. And so I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” said the representative. The speaker in the video appeared to be state Rep. Kaohly Vang Her, DFL.

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Advocacy Group at Heart of Anti-ICE Protests in LA Has Long Raised Money Through ActBlue

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An advocacy group at the center of the organizing efforts of the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles has long raised money through ActBlue, the controversial Democratic Party-oriented non-profit entity that is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Congress.

According to the social media pages of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), the group was formed in 1986 to “advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees.” Its mission is to “educate, organize, and advocate.” The landing page of CHIRLA’s website solicits donations through another entity, called Funraise.

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DOJ Charges Another Chinese Researcher with Smuggling ‘Biological Materials’ into U.S.

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DOJ Logo

The Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday charged a citizen of China with smuggling biological material into the United States and making false statements.

The charges come a week after the DOJ charged two other Chinese researchers with attempting to smuggle a fungus dubbed “Fusarium graminearum,” into the U.S., which it claimed scientific research “classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon.”

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Soros-Funded Group Unleashing Millions into Texas to Turn State Blue

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George Soros

A George Soros-backed political action committee (PAC) is launching a multimillion-dollar effort to flip Texas blue, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in the Republican stronghold in decades. However, Texas Majority PAC, which has received millions of dollars in funding from Soros, hopes to change that trend with its new “Blue Texas” initiative, according to the WSJ.

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Cohen, Blackburn, and Kustoff Sponsor Bill to Improve Ground Transportation at Busy Airports

Zachery Schmidt
Memphis Airport

Tennessee congressional members introduced a bill last week that attempts to improve ground transportation at America’s busiest airports.

Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), along with Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) and David Kustoff (R-TN-08), introduced the Don’t Miss Your Flight Act to help passengers reach their flights quicker.

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Arizona GOP Files Brief Supporting Trump’s Election Integrity Order

Rachel Alexander
Voting Booth

The Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) submitted an amicus curiae brief in May supporting Trump’s Executive Order 14248 addressing election wrongdoing, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.”

U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who was appointed to her position by President Bill Clinton, has already temporarily blocked part of the order requiring documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) to register to vote.

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Grassroots Group Investigates 2022 Arizona Attorney General’s Race, Concludes Improprieties Helped Mayes Win

Rachel Alexander
Kris Mayes

The grassroots organization We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA) presented a video review last week of election improprieties in the 2022 election, stating that it believes these improprieties contributed to Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes’ victory over Republican Abe Hamadeh by 280 votes.

Shelby Busch, who leads WPAA, and WPAA’s attorney Bryan Blehm, who represented Kari Lake in her election challenges, said they believe thousands of votes were not counted for Hamadeh, including 9,000 that have been destroyed.

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Judge Assigned to Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case Previously Handed 21-Month Sentence to Republican Later Pardoned by Trump

Tom Pappert
Judge Crenshaw

After the federal government last week unsealed its indictment alleging Kilmar Abrego Garcia spent nearly a decade smuggling illegal immigrants throughout the United States, its case against the citizen of El Salvador was assigned to Waverly Crenshaw, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, who last December sentenced former Republican lawmaker Brian Kelsey to 21 months in federal prison.

Kelsey was found guilty in 2022 of illegally funneling money from his Tennessee State Senate campaign account to his federal campaign for U.S. Senate.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Indictment Claims Alleged Human Smuggler Lied About Travel Schedule During Tennessee Traffic Stop

Tom Pappert
Kilmar Abrego Garcia

New details emerged within the criminal indictment unsealed by the U.S. Department of Justice against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the citizen of El Salvador deported by the Trump administration in March and returned last week to face charges, including that Abrego Garcia allegedly lied to Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) troopers when explaining the travel itinerary that led him to Tennessee.

After The Tennessee Star was first to report that Abrego Garcia was stopped in Putnam County, Tennessee, on November 30, 2022, by a THP trooper who observed him speeding and failing to maintain his lane, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quickly confirmed the Salvadoran was suspected of human trafficking during the stop, and that Abrego Garcia told troopers he was traveling from St. Louis, Missouri, to Maryland.

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Roger Simon: Elon Musk ‘Is Brilliant…but Nuts’

Kaitlin Housler
Trump and Musk

Roger Simon, co-founder of PJ Media and author of the Substack “American Refugees,” said the feud between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk is nothing more than a predictable clash of powerful personalities, which appears intense at the moment, but will ultimately be resolved.

Simon argued that the break between Trump and Musk is “probably not irreparably broken” and compares the situation to the world of Hollywood and politics, noting that alliances often shift and so-called “marriages of convenience” are common.

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Tennessean Josh Smith Appointed Bureau of Prisons Deputy Director

Kaitlin Housler
Josh Smith

Josh Smith, founder of the Knoxville-based Fourth Purpose Foundation, was appointed deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons last week.

Smith was convicted of 10 felonies by the time he was 16 and entered prison at age 21 as an 11th-grade dropout. For five years, he was incarcerated in a federal prison camp in Kentucky for his involvement in marijuana and cocaine trafficking.

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