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Maricopa County Republican Committee EGC Votes Unanimously to Demand the DOJ Investigate the State Bar of Arizona

Jun 5, 20257 min read
Lawyers

Trump Administration Cracks Down on the Taxpayer-Funded, Partisan American Bar Association

Jun 4, 20257 min read
President Donald Trump

Commentary: Overreaching Federal Judges Undermine Trump’s Trade Powers in Dangerous Ruling

May 29, 20258 min read

 

Florida Bar Rejects Third Attempt to ‘Weaponize the Bar Complaint Process’ Against Attorney General Pam Bondi

Rachel Alexander
Pam Bondi

The Florida Bar dismissed a complaint against Attorney General Pam Bondi filed by 70 mostly left-leaning 70 law professors, attorneys, progressive legal groups, and former Florida Supreme Court justices. It was the third politically motivated complaint that the bar has dismissed this year against Bondi. 

The bar said in its dismissal letter to the coalition that it “does not investigate or prosecute sitting officers appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office” since it could encroach on federal authority. The bar dismissed the previous complaints for the same reason, which were filed by two California congressmen and a California lawyer.

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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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Maricopa County Republican Committee EGC Votes Unanimously to Demand the DOJ Investigate the State Bar of Arizona

Rachel Alexander
lawyers

The Executive Guidance Committee (EGC) of the Maricopa County Republican Committee unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday night calling for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to “[i]mmediately commence an [i]nvestigation of the State Bar of Arizona [SBA].” The resolution, which was enacted by nearly 100 members present, comes after Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN), Phoenix Metro chapter, also urged the DOJ to investigate the SBA due to its targeting of conservative, minority, and other attorneys. 

The resolution focused on the SBA’s disbarment of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who “was the only Maricopa County Attorney who has ever fully enforced the state’s laws against illegal immigration, resulting in illegal immigrants leaving the state in droves while he and Sheriff Arpaio were in office.” It said “the State Bar of Arizona was weaponized for this purpose against Mr. Thomas and his deputies, prosecutors Lisa Aubuchon and Rachel Alexander, by seeking his disbarment through the use of ‘lawfare’ and a sham trial similar to what our great President Donald Trump has been forced to endure.” 

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Trump Administration Cracks Down on the Taxpayer-Funded, Partisan American Bar Association

Rachel Alexander
Lawyers

Fed up with lawfare from the Left, the Trump administration is taking steps to limit the taxpayer-funded partisan activity of the American Bar Association (ABA). The ABA uses grants from the federal government to promote leftist causes. Although the 150,000-member organization is voluntary, it provides biased draft rules and policies for state bars, which those bars usually adopt and impose on attorneys required to be members to practice law.

In March, Reuters reported that White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Harrison Fields said in an email regarding the crackdown, “President Trump represents the people, not a board of snooty, leftist lawyers.”

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Commentary: Overreaching Federal Judges Undermine Trump’s Trade Powers in Dangerous Ruling

The Daily Torch
President Donald Trump

The U.S. Court for International Trade on Wednesday struck down President Donald Trump’s national trade emergency, the reciprocal tariffs he put into effect on April 2 and other tariffs in 2025 including those seeking foreign assist to repel the fentanyl trade, throwing the subsequent tariff negotiations with the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan, South Korea and so forth into chaos.

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D.C. Bar Going After Attorney Who Used Undercover Project Veritas Videos to Prosecute Violent Rioters at Trump’s First Inauguration

Rachel Alexander
Donald Trump inauguration Jan 20, 2017

The D.C. Bar is trying to suspend Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens’ law license over her prosecution of violent rioters at Donald Trump’s first presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017. The bar conducted a disciplinary hearing in March urging a 6-month suspension for the former assistant U.S. attorney, who worked for the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office. The D.C. Bar has been accused of weaponizing the disciplinary system against conservative attorneys, including Trump’s DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark, his former attorney Rudy Giuliani, his Weaponization Czar Ed Martin, and others. 

Muyskens had an unblemished work history and has since quit the legal profession. She was accused in the complaint of violating one of the typical broad, vague ethics rules typically used by state bars to target conservative attorneys, “the duty to refrain from actions that seriously interfere with the administration of justice,” Rule 8.4(d). The other five ethics rules she allegedly violated primarily related to not disclosing some videos to the defense.

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Judge Rules Against AZ AG Kris Mayes Again in Prosecution of Trump Electors, Finds She Violated Their Rights and Orders Grand Jury Redo

Rachel Alexander
Arizona A.G. Kris Mayes

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers ruled last week that prosecutors for Attorney General Kris Mayes left out key information when they presented their case against the alternate electoral slate for Trump and several others associated with the electors, which “denied a substantial procedural right as guaranteed by Arizona law.” Myers previously ruled in February that there were enough grounds in the defendants’ motions to likely dismiss the prosecutions due to violating the First Amendment.

The defendants have maintained that the prosecution was politically motivated. Former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, one of the defendants, posted her support for the decision on X. “She & her team are trying to get the judge to STAY the decision (ie: hold it indefinitely) … so they can go around the law they are required to follow (rule 12.9 of criminal procedure) and they have the GALL to claim that the defendants (us) are not being harmed by this. WE HAVE BEEN HARMED EVERY DAY SINCE THIS BEGAN.”

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Federal Court Sides with Tennessee Civil Rights Lawyer Daniel Horwitz, Rules Attorneys Cannot Face Contempt for Private Speech

Tom Pappert
Daniel Horowitz

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee last Thursday amended its local rules following a nearly three-year fight by Nashville-based civil rights attorney Daniel Horwitz, who filed a federal lawsuit after the court issued a gag order which prevented him from discussing a case against the private prison company, CoreCivic.

Horwitz filed the federal lawsuit last October, about two years after he was subject to a gag order over his public statements regarding CoreCivic. He was then representing clients suing the private prison company, who have since settled, and made a series of claims about the company while publicly advocating the case.

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New Memos Expose McCabe’s Defiant Cover-Up in FBI’s Disastrous Trump-Russia Hoax

Just the News
Andrew McCabe

On May 21, 2017, Andrew McCabe rebuffed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s suggestion to recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation, dismissing concerns over his wife’s political campaign as irrelevant to his leadership. Declassified memos reveal McCabe’s resolve to steer the probe, even as later reports by John Durham and Michael Horowitz exposed deep flaws in the FBI’s handling of the collusion allegations.

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Declassified Memos Uncover McCabe’s Ruthless Scheme to Install Mueller and Escalate Trump Setup

Just the News
Robert Mueller

On May 16, 2017, Andrew McCabe announced to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that the FBI had formally opened an investigation into President Donald Trump for alleged collusion and obstruction, intensifying calls for a special counsel to lead the Russia probe. Declassified memos reveal McCabe’s strategic campaign to install Robert Mueller, capitalizing on Rosenstein’s doubts and Comey’s leaked memos to secure an independent investigation.

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Memos Expose McCabe’s Calculated Plot to Target Trump with Obstruction Probe After Comey’s Firing

Just the News
Michael Flynn

On May 9, 2017, hours after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Andrew McCabe, as acting director, opened an obstruction of justice investigation into the president, framing Comey’s dismissal as potential interference in the Russia probe. Newly declassified memos reveal McCabe’s rapid escalation, leveraging Comey’s private notes to justify targeting Trump directly.

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Documents Reveal Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe’s Silence on False Trump-Russia Collusion Reports Fueled Media Storm Was Calculated

Just the News
Andrew McCabe

In February 2017, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe privately acknowledged a New York Times story alleging Trump campaign ties to Russian intelligence was false but refused to correct it publicly, intensifying media scrutiny on the Trump administration. Declassified memos show McCabe’s calculated decision to let the inaccurate report fester, even as he assured White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus that only Mike Flynn and Hope Hicks had Russian contacts.

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President Trump Announces He is Suing Progressive Law Firm Perkins Coie for ‘Egregious and Unlawful Acts,’ Singles Out One Attorney

Rachel Alexander
President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump said in a post on TruthSocial on Wednesday that he is suing the Democratic law firm Perkins Coie for “egregious and unlawful acts.” Previously, Trump issued an executive order on March 6 titled “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP,” which suspended the attorneys’ security clearances, restricted them from entering federal buildings, and terminated the firm’s federal government contacts.

“I’m suing the law firm of Perkins Coie for their egregious and unlawful acts, in particular the conduct of a specific member of this firm, only to find out that the Judge assigned to this case is Beryl Howell, an Obama appointment, and a highly biased and unfair disaster,” he said. Trump did not name the attorney he was referring to. Howell is presiding over the firm’s lawsuit challenging his executive order.

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Arizona Supreme Court Issues Opinion Affirming 2-Year Suspension of April Sponsel’s Law License for Prosecuting Antifa

Rachel Alexander
April Sponsel

The Arizona Supreme Court issued a full opinion last week explaining why the court upheld the suspension of former Maricopa County prosecutor April Sponsel’s law license for two years. The State Bar of Arizona’s disciplinary judge Margaret Downie issued the suspension in December 2023 due to Sponsel prosecuting violent Antifa rioters who were protesting the death of George Floyd, and the Arizona Supreme Court stated last September that the justices would be issuing an opinion agreeing with the suspension. 

A prominent former prosecutor told The Arizona Sun Times that this creates a very bad precedent, judges second guessing prosecutors. The opinion appeared to echo much of the Biden administration’s DOJ report about the Phoenix Police Department (PPD). That report, which focused extensively on PPD’s handling of Antifa riots, selectively left out key details exonerating the police and sided with the rioters’ versions of events, treating their statements as facts. 

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Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes Sue Trump Administration Over Election Integrity Executive Order

Rachel Alexander
Arizona Sec State Adrian Fontes, AG Kris Mayes

Attorney General Kris Mayes joined Secretary of State Adrian Fontes in a lawsuit filed with 19 other Democratic-run states against the Trump administration challenging his executive order on election integrity measures for allegedly intruding on state sovereignty. However, Democratic officials supported HR 1, a 2021 bill in Congress that would federalize elections, and President Joe Biden issued an executive order during his tenure directing federal agencies to find ways to facilitate voter registration and voter education. This is the 16th lawsuit Mayes has filed along with other Democrats against the new Trump administration.

Trump’s executive order will require individuals to show documented proof of citizenship (DPOC) in order to register to vote instead of merely attesting to it. Other changes include prohibiting QR codes, requiring ballots to be received by Election Day, and regularly cleaning noncitizens from voter rolls. Trump’s executive order directed the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to carry out many of his changes. 

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Attorney General Kris Mayes Sues New Trump Administration Two More Times, over DOGE Cuts to the Federal Government

Rachel Alexander
Arizona AG Kris Mayes

Attorney General Kris Mayes joined other Democratic attorneys general filing two more lawsuits against the Trump administration on Friday. One of the lawsuits challenged the pausing of controversial grants issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The second contested the dismantling of three agencies that assist unions, promote minority-owned businesses, and give money to libraries for Drag Queen Story Hour for children. Mayes, who has developed a reputation for aggressively going after Republicans, has filed 13 previous lawsuits with other attorneys general against the Trump administration this year.

The 21 attorneys general argued in the lawsuits that the Trump administration was interfering with Congress’s authority. However, those agencies are under the executive branch, not Congress. 

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Mike Benz Raises Alarm on Relationship Between U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Anti-Trump Attorney Norm Eisen

Kaitlin Housler
Eisen and Roberts

Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official and current Foundation for Freedom Online executive director, highlighted U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ relationship with anti-Trumper attorney and former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norm Eisen.

On Thursday, Benz amplified a report first uncovered by the X account The Researcher, which said Roberts spent a week living at Eisen’s 150-room palace in the Czech Republic, where the pair “worked on American and European Rule of Law issues together.”

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Far-Left Lawfare Group Files Complaint Against Trump’s DOJ Attorney Emil Bove Over Representing Trump

Rachel Alexander
Emil Bove

The 65 Project, a far-Left, dark money legal group that was formed to file bar complaints against President Donald Trump’s election attorneys, filed a complaint last week with New York’s Attorney Grievance Committee against a top attorney for President Donald Trump, Emil J. Bove III. Bove previously represented Trump in his private capacity, and is now an Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General with the DOJ.

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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Sue Kari Lake for Halting Their Funding, D.C. Court Holds Hearing

Rachel Alexander
Kari Lake

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) filed a lawsuit against Kari Lake in her capacity as advisor to the acting CEO of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) last week.

The two independent media organizations, contracted by the government, alleged that she wrongly halted their grant funding as part of the Trump administration’s DOGE cuts. Royce Charles Lamberth, a senior judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, heard oral arguments on Monday.

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Rep. Abe Hamadeh Asks Trump Administration to Rescind Biden’s ‘Political Weaponization’ Against Phoenix Police Department

Rachel Alexander
Rep. Abe Hamadeh, phoenix Police Officer

Representative Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ-08) asked the Trump administration last Wednesday to rescind its report criticizing the Phoenix Police Department (PPD), which came about as a result of violent protesters complaining about  their interactions with officers. He sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel requesting a halt to the “desperate witch hunt,” which could end up putting the PPD in a consent decree with the federal government under monitoring. The Trump administration said in January that it is pausing all civil rights investigations into law enforcement agencies.

Hamadeh said in the letter, “Despite the Biden DOJ’s baseless claims, our officers did everything right, voluntarily cooperating in good faith, opening their records, and participating in lengthy interviews. They were met with stonewalling, mischaracterized testimony, and a final report riddled with glaring inaccuracies. The Biden DOJ’s claim that Phoenix Police Department officers violated constitutional standards during unrest following one of President Trump’s rallies was absurd. That claim is especially ludicrous because the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the department’s actions were lawful. The Biden DOJ ignored this and many other court-backed facts, choosing instead to cherry-pick narratives that support their political agenda.” 

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California Bar Appeals Panel Hears Appeal Over Disbarment of Trump’s Former Attorney John Eastman

Rachel Alexander

A panel of three judges with the Review Department at the State Bar of California, which is the appellate level for the bar, heard oral arguments on Wednesday in John Eastman’s appeal of a bar disciplinary judge disbarring the former Trump attorney. During the two hour hearing, the argument by the bar’s attorney Michelle Lee focused on claiming that Eastman lied when he said there was election fraud, since she said there was never any evidence of election fraud produced from the 2020 election. Eastman represented Trump intervening in the Texas v. Pennsylvania lawsuit over the election, and wrote a memo for Trump advising him of various options to deal with the election wrongdoing — including scenarios where Joe Biden would ultimately win.

Alex Haberbush, a constitutional attorney based in Long Beach, California, who served as legal counsel to Eastman, told The Tennessee Star, “The notion that Dr. Eastman knew his claims about fraud and illegality in the 2020 election were false is patently absurd and totally unsupported by the record from the Hearing Department. Especially in light of the fact that the claims were true. As subsequent reports and investigations have come out, Dr. Eastman’s claims have only been more and more vindicated.” 

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Tennessee Rancher Sues Biden, FCA Board over 657-Day Delay in Complaint, Claims It Forced Home Liquidation

Tom Pappert
Dustin Kittle

Tennessee rancher and agriculture attorney Dustin Kittle on Monday asked the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee to amend his lawsuit against former President Joe Biden and various current and former government officials over the allegedly politically motivated 657-day delay by the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) in responding to his complaint about the decision by a bank to demand immediate payment for an agricultural loan.

Kittle alleged in his March 2024 lawsuit that Biden’s failure to appoint members to the FCA board caused a bureaucratic slowdown which resulted in a 657-day delay over his complaint regarding a loan after a bank demanded to be paid in full despite Kittle never missing a payment, according to a press release he posted to the social media platform X.

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Attorney General Kris Mayes and Other Democratic AGs Sue Trump Administration over Laying Off Federal Employees

Rachel Alexander
Kris Mayes

Attorney General Kris Mayes, who has pushed back aggressively against the Trump administration since January including filing nine lawsuits, joined a lawsuit with 20 other Democratic attorneys general on Thursday suing to stop the layoffs of half of the U.S. Department of Education employees. The lawsuit comes on the heels of a broader lawsuit she joined last week with her Democratic colleagues suing over the layoffs of probationary federal employees at nearly two dozen agencies, and a lawsuit filed last month over Trump cutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

A press release from the Department of Education announcing the cuts said it was “part of the Department of Education’s final mission,” implying the agency is going to be shut down, which Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has called for.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn Joins Effort to Make Director of Bureau of Prisons Accountable to U.S. Senate

Tom Pappert
Colette Peters

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) this week joined the effort by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) to require all future presidential administrations seek the approval of the U.S. Senate for its Director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which under the Biden administration faced accusations of failing to comply with federal laws when housing January 6 prisoners.

Blackburn and Paul introduced the Federal Prisons Accountability Act of 2025 on Wednesday alongside Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and James Lankford (R-OK), which would require the director of America’s federal prison system to go through the same type of vetting in the Senate as the leaders of other major agencies, with the Tennessee Republican citing the sheer size of the BOP’s annual budget in a statement.

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After Striking Down Trump’s Halting of USAID Payments, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali Under Fire, Impeachment Articles Submitted

Rachel Alexander
Judge Amir Ali, US and Canada flags

U.S. District Court Judge Amir H. Ali, who was appointed to the bench in Washington D.C. by President Barack Obama, is under fire for blocking the Trump administration from temporarily halting USAID payments. In response, Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) said he will be filing Articles of Impeachment against Ali, submitting the resolution on Tuesday. Concerns are arising that due to his dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, he should not have ruled on an issue that affects Canada.

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Analysis: The Money Trails and Backgrounds of 10 Democrat-Appointed Judges Blocking Trump Policies

The Daily Signal
Gavel court judge order

Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors.

Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. These judges have issued rulings to block Trump’s policies on immigration, federal spending, the Department of Government Efficiency, and other matters.

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Trump’s Former DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark, Target of Election Lawfare, Appointed Regulation Czar

Rachel Alexander
Jeff Clark

President Donald Trump has tapped his former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark as regulation czar in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). Clark was targeted by the Democrats’ lawfare for assisting Trump with handling the botched 2020 election, and unlike several other officials at the DOJ, did not turn on Trump during the tense time leading up to January 6, 2021. Clark will not need Senate confirmation for the position.

Rob Gasaway, a business consultant, academic, and legal reformer who mentored Clark in private practice and who has known him for 30 years, commended the forthcoming appointment. “In today’s confused, often diseased, legal profession, Jeff Clark’s rehabilitation and return to high public office stands as a beacon to hope for better times,” he told The Arizona Sun Times. “Today, one can dream more reasonably than yesterday that within our lifetimes the great problem of restoring constitutional morality will be tackled inside the legal profession, in the halls of legal academia, in the larger public mind — and perhaps even solved.”

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Reporter Steve Baker Enters Guilty Plea in January 6 Case to ‘Avoid Shaming Exercise of a Trial’

Tom Pappert
Journalist Steve Baker

Reporter and January 6 defendant Steve Baker entered an Alford plea on Tuesday, acknowledging the state has enough evidence to convict him without admitting guilt, in what he later called a move to avoid the “shaming exercise of a trial.”

Then working as an independent journalist, Baker was inside restricted parts of the U.S. Capitol complex on January 6, 2021. Three years after the protest, he was charged by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice for attempting to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory with his presence.

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Tennessee Joins SCOTUS Amicus Brief Supporting Right of Virginia to Remove Illegal Voters Before Election

Tom Pappert
Mail-In Ballot Processing

Tennessee and 24 other states joined the amicus brief filed on Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court appeal launched by Virginia in its bid to overturn a ruling requiring the commonwealth to add about 1,600 noncitizens back to its voter rolls after they were originally included in error.

The amicus brief was filed in support of Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, who on Sunday appealed to the Supreme Court after the Biden-Harris Department of Justice obtained favorable rulings in lower courts to require Virginia to include the 1,600 noncitizen voters on its voter rolls prior to Election Day.

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Supreme Court Takes Rapid Action in Appeal to Remove Noncitizens from Virginia Voter Rolls

Tom Pappert
Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday docketed the appeal filed Sunday by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares after a federal appeals court declined to overrule a lower court’s decision to force Virginia to add approximately 1,600 noncitizens back to its voter rolls.

According to the Supreme Court’s online portal, the case was docketed on Monday after Virginia submitted its appeal for the high court to reverse a lower court’s decision on Sunday.

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Elon Musk Ignores Unprecedented DOJ Threat of Prosecution over His $1 Million Giveaway for Signing Petition Supporting the Constitution

Rachel Alexander
Elon Musk

X owner and world’s richest man Elon Musk is defying an unusual threatening letter from the Department of Justice, which warned his America PAC that its giveaway may violate federal law. Musk is giving away a million dollars a day to registered voters in battleground states who sign his petition to support the First and Second Amendments. Those who refer other voters in the battleground states of Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina to sign receive $47 per signature, and $100 in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. 

According to 24sightNews, which broke the news about the letter, the DOJ told Musk’s Super PAC that offering anything of value to influence voting was in violation of 52 U.S.C. 10307(c). That law makes it a federal crime to pay someone to register to vote or to vote, punishable by a fine of $10,000, five years in prison, or both. Musk continued to issue the $1 million checks after receiving the letter.

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Youngkin, Miyares Vow to Appeal for Virginia’s Right to Remove Illegal Voters ‘All the Way to the Supreme Court’

Tom Pappert
Jason Miyares and Glenn Youngkin

Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares on Friday vowed to appeal after a federal judge ordered Virginia to restore about 1,500 noncitizens to the commonwealth’s voter rolls.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Trolliver Giles, an appointee of President Joe Biden, announced her decision after the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) sued to force Virginia to restore the noncitizen voters, alleging the commonwealth violated the National Voter Registration Act by removing them so close to an election.

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Michael Patrick Leahy: ‘Absolutely Illegal’ Bureau of Prisons Refusing to Apply First Step Act Credits to Steve Bannon

Kaitlin Housler
Michael Patrick Leahy

Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) refusal to apply the First Step Act (FSA) good time credits accrued by Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, towards an early release to home confinement, is “absolutely illegal.”

Bannon is currently serving a four-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, for a 2022 conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the January 6 Select Committee.

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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) Demands Bureau of Prisons Immediately Release Steve Bannon from Danbury FCI and Comply with First Step Act

Tom Pappert
Rep. Andy Ogles

Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) demanded the release of former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in a Thursday letter to Biden-Harris administration Bureau of Prisons (BOP) director Colette Peters that was obtained by The Tennessee Star.

Ogles accused the federal agency of “willfully facilitating the political persecution of the Democrat Party’s political opponents,” through its refusal to apply the First Step Act (FSA) good time credits accrued by Bannon, and demanded Peters take immediate actions to secure the former Trump adviser’s early release from prison.

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Tom Pappert: Democrats Are Ignoring the Monumental First Step Act to Keep Conservatives in Prison

Kaitlin Housler
Steve Bannon

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Biden-Harris administration is “ignoring” the Trump-era criminal justice reform called the First Step Act (FSA) in order to keep conservatives, including former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, in prison.

Under the FSA, federal inmates can earn “good time credits” to reduce their sentence through behavior and participation in prison programs.

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Warden Admits Biden-Harris DOJ Has Illegally Imprisoned Steve Bannon Since October 19

Tom Pappert
Stephen K. Bannon

The Tennessee Star on Monday obtained a letter sent by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to Steve Bannon, wherein the federal agency acknowledged it is holding him the former White House chief strategist in violation of the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018.

Bannon’s attorneys filed the letter as part of an effort to secure an earlier release but it was sent to Bannon’s lawyers by the Acting Warden at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, where Bannon is serving a four-month sentence after he was convicted in 2022 for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena from the House select committee that investigated January 6.

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Trump Slams ‘Unprecedented’ Prison Sentences Biden-Harris DOJ Handed Allies Bannon, Navarro, Vows ‘I Won’t Be Doing That’

Tom Pappert
Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump vowed not to repeat the “unprecedented” prosecutions of political opponents seen during the Biden-Harris administration during a Saturday interview with Matthew Boyle of Breitbart News.

Responding to claims by Vice President Kamala Harris that Trump intends to weaponize the government against his political adversaries, the former president told Boyle it is actually Democrats who resort to such tactics, and confirmed he “won’t be doing that” should he be returned to the White House in November.

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BOP Refuses to Verify Steve Bannon’s First Step Act Eligibility Amid Allegation of ‘Illegally Holding’ Former Trump Strategist

Tom Pappert
Steve Bannon

The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Monday declined to confirm to The Tennessee Star that Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist for the Trump administration, was evaluated for possible reductions in his prison sentence in accordance with the First Step Act of 2018.

Bannon, who is now serving a four-month prison sentence after he was convicted in 2022 for his refusal to comply with a Congressional subpoena by the House January 6 committee, stated on Friday to The National Pulse, “The Harris Bureau of Prisons is illegally holding me past my legal release date–trying to eliminate one of President Trump’s strongest advocates–these criminals reek of desperation,” and called Vice President Kamala Harris the “Mass Incarceration Queen” for the White House’s failure to implement the Trump-era First Step Act (FSA).

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Fani Willis Laid Groundwork in Trump Prosecution Before She Took Office, Special Prosecutor Says

Just the News
Nathan Wade

House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday released the transcript of closed-door testimony from Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor hired by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to help manage her office’s Donald Trump election interference case before coming under scrutiny for his romantic-financial relationship with Willis. 

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Biden-Harris Admin Has Illegally Imprisoned Steve Bannon for More Than a Week, Possibly a Month

Tom Pappert
Stephen K. Bannon

The Biden-Harris administration failed to uphold the First Step Act of 2018 when implementing the four-month prison sentence handed to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who remains scheduled for release from the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut on October 29.

Bannon raised the issue in his Friday statement, when he condemned Vice President Kamala Harris as the “Mass Incarceration Queen” for the failure of her administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to uphold the Trump-era criminal justice reform in his case.

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