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Charges Dropped against Man Who Chucked White Claw at Ted Cruz

(Headline USA) A Texas grand jury dismissed charges against a man accused of throwing White Claw cans at Sen. Ted Cruz’s head in November. Joseph Arcidiacono, 33, was arrested in early November on a felony count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he hurled multiple White Claw cans at...

Mississippi Agency Denies NAACP’s Water Discrimination Claim

(Headline USA) A Mississippi environmental regulator has denied claims that the state agency he leads discriminated against the capital city of Jackson in its distribution of federal funds for wastewater treatment. In a recently unearthed letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Executive Director Christopher...

Fmr. Va. Tech Athlete Benched for Refusing to Kneel to BLM Wins $100K Settlement

(Headline USA) A former Virginia Tech soccer player who alleged that she was benched for refusing to kneel during a Black Lives Matter demonstration won a $100,000 settlement this week. The money will go to Kiersten Hening as part of an agreement to dismiss her federal lawsuit against the school, which...

Bump Stock Ban Blocked by Appeals Court

(Headline USA) A ban on bump stocks — devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull — was struck down Friday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. The ban was instituted in 2017. Gun rights advocates have challenged it...

LA To Pay Black Family $20M for Property Seized 100 Years Ago

(Headline USA) Los Angeles County plans to pay $20 million to a black family who claims a southern California beachfront property was wrongly taken from their ancestors more than 100 years ago. Janice Hahn, chair of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors, announced this week that the county will be making...

Ex FBI Agent Who Destroyed Evidence Skates w/ 3 Years of Probation

“The sentence does not fit the crime. It’s a crime what he did, destroying evidence as an FBI agent. The law says he can get up to 20 years in prison.”

Another #MeToo Reckoning Comes for Underage Actors Filmed in Nude

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A new frontier of #MeToo litigation has opened up for exploited former child actors seeking to retroactively sue producers who filmed them in nude or partially-nude scenes, the Guardian reported. Recently, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, who starred in a 1968 rendition of William Shakespeare's Romeo...

Trans ex-Nazi Terrorist Pushing for Taxpayers to Cover His Facial Hair Removal

"The Secret Service had sprung him from jail back in 1993; after that, of course, he went on to form the Aryan Republican Army. And the weight of the evidence suggests that the Aryan Republican Army did, in the final analysis, play a direct role in the plot to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building.”

Judge Shrugged off More than 333K Misdemeanors in Ariz. Election Steal

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson, who recently ruled against Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's Maricopa County election lawsuit, systematically ignored over 333,000 misdemeanors exposed by various witnesses, Townhall reported. Thompson's dismissal of the lawsuit ignored legal precedent and allowed for the disfranchisement of primarily...

Federal Appeals Court Rules MAGA Hat is Free Speech

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The 9th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals ruled recently that the right to wear a red "Make America Great Again" cap falls under the protection of the First Amendment. A middle school teacher in Washington state, Eric Dodge, had continually worn one of...

Kari Lake Takes Election Appeal to Ariz. Supreme Court

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The legal team of Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has requested that the Arizona Supreme Court take up her Maricopa County election lawsuit, Human Events reported. https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1609555644557787136 "Petitioner Kari Lake asks this Court to transfer special-action appellate review... from the Arizona Court of Appeals," the petition...

Chief Justice Roberts Warns About Danger to SCOTUS Justices

(Headline USA) With security threats to Supreme Court justices still fresh in American memories, Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday praised programs that protect judges, saying that “we must support judges by ensuring their safety.” Roberts and other conservative Supreme Court justices were the subject of mobs, some at their homes,...
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