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Nearly 8 Years Later, Charlottesville Torch Marcher Sentenced to 5 Years Imprisonment

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) While hundreds of Jan. 6 protestors were pardoned by newly inaugurated President Donald Trump, a tiki torch marcher from the infamous 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally was just sentenced to a shocking five years imprisonment. The defendant, Augustus Sol Invictus (who was born Austin Mitchell...

Bitter D.C. Judge Bans Oath Keeper from Nation’s Capital, Despite Sentence Commutation

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the right-wing group leader's 18-year prison sentence. Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for helping orchestrate the brouhaha at the U.S. Capitol four years...

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Cantankerous Judge Blocks Trump’s ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Rollback

(Headline USA) In the first legal setback of what is likely to be a familiar pattern echoing that of President Donald Trump's first administration, a federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing of a multi-state effort...

DOJ Directs Prosecutors to Probe Local Efforts to Obstruct Immigration Enforcement

(Headline USA) The Justice Department released a memo to its entire workforce directing federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration. The memo, which was written by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and...

Surprise! Democrat-Led States Sue to Stop Trump’s ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Order

(Headline USA) Attorneys general from 22 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's move to end a century-old immigration practice known as "birthright citizenship" guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status. Trump's roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of something he's talked about during...

New DOJ Drops Charges against Self-Described ‘Fed’ Who Fired Gun in Jan. 6 Crowd

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The new U.S. Attorney for DC, Edward Martin, has dropped the remaining outstanding cases against Jan. 6 defendants—including a possible federal provocateur, John Emanuel Banuelos, who fired two shots into the air during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising. Banuelos was identified immediately after Jan. 6,...

Pa. High Court to Take Up Dispute over Mail-In Ballots’ Return Envelope Dates

(Headline USA) The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Friday it will again consider whether voters should have to write the accurate date on return envelopes used to send their completed mail-in ballots to be counted. The requirement in state law has generated more than a half-dozen court cases in the past...

BlackRock Settles Lawsuit w/ Tennessee over ESG Practices

(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) BlackRock, Inc. has settled a dispute with Tennessee over its ESG practices, which the state said misled consumers. Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a consumer protection lawsuit against the investment firm in December 2023. The state accused BlackRock of failing to tell investors how much environmental, social,...

CNN Loses $5M Defamation Lawsuit against Navy Vet Who Rescued Afghan Refugees

(Headline USA) A Florida jury on Friday found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran in a 2021 story about people paid to rescue endangered Afghans following the Taliban takeover of that country. The rare ruling against a media outlet in a defamation case reflected the egregious circumstances of the case. Libel...

Black Marine Pleads Guilty to Threatening Mass Shooting against ‘Privileged White People’

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A mentally ill black U.S. Marine who allegedly plotted a mass shooting against “privileged white people” has pled guilty to transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, the Justice Department announced Monday. Joshua Cobb, 24, of Trenton, New Jersey, was arrested last year for a post he made in December...

SCOTUS Upholds TikTok Ban Set for Sunday if Chinese Ownership Continues

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it's sold by its China-based parent company, holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United...

ACLU Sides w/ Donald Trump against Central Park Five

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a brief in support of President-elect Donald Trump in a lawsuit he faces from the “Central Park Five”—the five defendants convicted of a series of assaults that occurred in Central Park in 1989, only to be released in...
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