Stanford Law Dean Who Accosted Federal Judge Leaves the University

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Stanford Law Dean Who Accosted Federal Judge Leaves the University

(Headline USA) The Stanford Law School dean involved in the mob harassment of a Trump-appointed federal judge earlier this year has left the university, according to reports.

Tirien Steinbach—who served as Stanford Law’s associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion—is leaving the school “to pursue another opportunity,” Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez said in a statement on Thursday.

Steinbach came under fire in March after she publicly accosted Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan during his visit to campus. She was joined by dozens of students protesting Duncan’s speech. 

Instead of encouraging the students to allow Duncan to exercise his right to free speech, Steinbach reprimanded Duncan for making students feel “unsafe.” She called Duncan’s work “abhorrent” and claimed it “literally denies the humanity of people.”

In a statement after the controversial protest, Martinez acknowledged that Steinbach’s actions were inappropriate.

“Associate Dean Steinbach and I both hope that SLS can move forward as a community from the divisions caused by the March 9 event,” Martinez said. “The event presented significant challenges for the administration, the students and the entire law school community.”

It is not clear whether Steinbach was fired from the university or whether she left of her own accord.

A number of conservative organizations had been petitioning the school to fire Steinbach over her behavior.

“We are thrilled to see Dean Tirien Steinbach is being held accountable for her actions,” said Cherise Trump, executive director of Speech First, who is of no direct relation to the former president. “She made it clear she does not believe in such principles as open discourse and free speech.”

Trump said Steinbach’s actions were antithetical to the very idea of an institution of higher learning.

“These key principles are vital to a college education as well as to our legal system,” she said. “The day Steinbach violated campus free speech policies and led an angry mob to shout down a sitting judge simply because she did not like his views, was the day she told the country that Stanford Law School has a much lower hiring standard than we knew.”  

Obama Judge Sentences J6 Dissident to Extra Time for Defending Himself

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Obama Judge Sentences J6 Dissident to Extra Time for Defending Himself

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Jan. 6 defendant Chris Alberts, who said he brought carried a concealed firearm on U.S. Capitol grounds for self-defense, would have served three years in a federal penitentiary if he had pleaded guilty.

However, the military veteran, who allegedly assaulted Capitol Police officers during the 2021 uprising, was sentenced by Judge Christopher Cooper to seven years in prison for taking the stand, once again in self-defense, the Gateway Pundit reported.

As a result, the political dissident may have been denied both his Second Amendment right to bear arms and his 14th Amendment right to due process, among others.

However, Cooper, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, disagreed, insisting that the Founding Fathers never intended for citizens’ constitutional rights to extend to the very seat of the federal government itself.

“In this country, you cannot make your voice heard with a gun. That’s not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution,” the judge claimed.

“There is no Second Amendment right to bring a gun to the Capitol,” he continued. “You may think that constraint is unconstitutional, but you can constitute that with the Supreme Court.”

Cooper also held that Alberts’s testimony was false when he said his bungee cords in his backpack were left in his backpack at all times, the Gateway Pundit noted.

Federal prosecutors accused Alberts of lying with respect to claims that he did not see the abundance of “restricted” signs scattered throughout the Capitol grounds. But they lacked evidence that any signs were directly in Alberts’s path on Jan. 6.

In another twist, prosecutors extended Albert’s sentencing range by slyly introducing nearly half a dozen “terror enhancements.”

Cooper—who is, coincidently, married to notorious ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page, the former mistress of corrupt agent Peter Strzok—supported the government’s recommendation to increase Alberts’s sentence by adding enhancements, extending the guideline range by two or three years.

Alberts’s lawyer, Roger Roots, warned him that federal judges were handing defendants longer sentences for taking the stand, in addition to subjecting J6ers unprecedented “terror enhancements,” the Gateway Pundit noted. Alberts’s July 19 sentence was the longest among hundreds of Jan. 6 riot cases.

The cuckold judge also claimed during the trial that there was no discrepancy between the treatment of Jan. 6 political dissidents and that of radical left-wing extremists during the George Floyd and the Antifa riots. Those events resulted in 15 times more injured police officers, 30 times as many arrests, RealClearInvestigations noted.

“There were Antifa and Black Lives Matters protests around the country following George Floyd. Most of them were peaceful,” Cooper falsely claimed.

Alberts hopes to settle his argument over the Second Amendment and intrastate conceal carry in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Hunter Biden’s Attorney Photographed Smoking Bong

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Hunter Biden’s Attorney Photographed Smoking Bong

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Daily Mail obtained and published Friday photographs of Hunter Biden’s attorney apparently smoking a bong.

The photographs were reportedly captured when Biden was in the Pacific Palisades on Thursday to visit his attorney, Kevin Morris, after pleading guilty last month to federal tax crimes.

“While Hunter was at the house, Morris was snapped on a balcony in plain view of the public street appearing to huff from a white bong,” the Daily Mail reported. “It is not clear what substance was in Morris’s bong, and recreational marijuana use is legal in California. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”

Morris was dubbed Hunter’s ‘sugar brother’ after he agreed to loan the First Son a reported $2.8million to pay off his tax debts and joined his legal team amid criminal and congressional investigations, the Daily Mail added.

The photos of Hunter’s bong-smoking lawyer fuel speculation that the President’s son—who has been addicted to crack— still has a drug problem.

Last month, footage of a seemingly strung-out Biden went viral, right around the time a bag of cocaine was found in the White House.

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White House press secretary Jean-Pierre has sought to dispel any notion that the cocaine belonged to known drug abuser Hunter Biden.

“The President and the First Lady and their family were not here this weekend,” she said in the wake of the discovery. “They left on Friday and returned yesterday,” she said last month. “Where this was discovered is a heavily travelled area … I just don’t have anything more to share.”

But while the Secret Service closed its cocaine investigation ostensibly without finding any suspects, Solider of Fortune Magazine reported that fingerprints were found on the cocaine baggie.

The Secret Service closed its investigation the day after Solider of Fortune published its bombshell scoop, which is based on anonymous sources. The outlets publisher, Susan Katz Keating, says she stands by her reporting, and she’s filed FOIA requests in her attempt to corroborate her article.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Rand Paul’s Office Set Ablaze

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Rand Paul’s Office Set Ablaze

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was infamously assaulted by his neighbor in 2017, attacked by a mob in 2020 and one of his staffers was stabbed earlier this year.

Though not as serious as the above-mentioned incidents, the series of dangerous events involving Paul continued Friday, when a building that houses the Bowling Green office caught on fire.

Fire crews were called to the building on State Steet around 2 a.m. Friday and found a heavy blaze that required additional units, according to the Associated Press.

Six units worked for hours to extinguish the flames, with firefighters manning aerials to get at the blaze from above. The fire caused a roof collapse and a plume of heavy gray smoke rose from the top of the building at sunrise, the newspaper reported.

No injuries were reported, McKee said. The cause and origin of the fire were under investigation.

Paul said in a statement that he was thankful for first responders who arrived quickly to extinguish the blaze. He said his office is working with authorities to assess damages and determine a cause and will continue to operate for constituents.

“We have a very well established emergency management plan and have the ability to continue operations that will not impact our work helping Kentuckians,” he said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Catholic Priest Attacked w/ Machete in Front of Louisiana Church

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Catholic Priest Attacked w/ Machete in Front of Louisiana Church

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) A Catholic priest in rural Louisiana was in stable condition after being attacked with a machete last week in front of his church, according to the Catholic Review.

The attack on Stephen Ugwu, a priest at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Melville, La., is believed to have been racially motivated.

Ugwu, who is black, originally hails from Africa, the Acadiana Advocate reported.

On Thursday, July 13, around 6 p.m., two men approached Ugwu and demanded that he exchange food for their labor.

After he denied their demand, they brought him in-front of the church, where one of the men allegedly attacked him with the machete. The other man called 911.

The police report that the suspect, Johnny Dwayne Neely, 58, of Palmetto, has been arrested. Among the charges he faces are attempted second-degree murder and home invasion, KATC reported.

Melville Police Chief Phillip Lucas said that because of statements made during the attack, Neely is also being charged with a hate crime.

He allegedly said he “wanted to kill a black man today,” said Lucas, adding that the department was reaching out to the FBI for assistance with the case.

Melville resident, Joshua Johnson, gave an eye-witness account of Neely’s arrest to KFLY 10.

“We get to the corner, the cop had him handcuffed, and I see the chief, Mr. Phillip, assisting the Father,” Johnson said.

“He [Ugwu] was just dripping blood, and when I looked he had two or three gashes in his head,” Johnson added. “He was cut bad.”

Blue Rolfes, director of communications for the Diocese of Lafayette, told OSV News that Ugwu’s condition was getting better despite his “serious wounds.”

“He feels blessed to be alive and that his God protected him during his time of need,” Rolfes said.

“Our diocese is doing everything that we can to cooperate with the investigation,” she added. “We’re very grateful to local first responders as well as law enforcement for their quick response and for their speedy capture of the suspect.”

China Hacked Top State Dept. Officials Ahead of Meeting w/ John Kerry

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China Hacked Top State Dept. Officials Ahead of Meeting w/ John Kerry

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Hackers linked to the Chinese Communist Party reportedly broke into the emails of U.S. Chinese Ambassador Nicholas Burns and Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant secretary of state for East Asia, prior to a meeting with climate czar John Kerry.

The hacks occurred just before a four-day visit from Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, to discuss climate policies with officials from the Asian superpower and geopolitical rival, according to the Daily Caller.

Initial reports of the hacks did not detail the extent of the damage done, but hackers may have gained access to hundreds of of thousands of U.S. government emails.

Burns, Kritenbrink, Kerry and Secretary of State Antony Blinken all met with Chinese officials—including Chinese President Xi Jinping—in mid-June.

Investigators considered the meeting between Xi and Blinken as the possible point of the initial attack, though Blinken and his closest advisors were not said to have been compromised.

The stolen emails reportedly did not contain any highly classified documents.

Cybersecurity professionals in the State Department initially discovered the breach sometime in mid-June, but officials did not specify exactly when. Blinken visited China on June 18 and 19.

Another high-level visit from a Biden Cabinet member, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, followed shortly thereafter, during which Yellen was criticized for repeatedly bowing to Xi and downplaying China’s intention to destabilize and supplant the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency.

Kerry walked away from the climate meetings with nothing to show for it, as China seemed to be staunchly against American intervention and strict green initiatives.

This discovery came on the heels of revelations that the United States power grid faced mounting threats from Chinese hackers according to Manny Cancel, senior vice president of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.

“The Chinese activities are … quite alarming,” Cancel testified Tuesday to the House Energy Committee. “Chinese cyber activities are one of the most dynamic cyber threats. China continues to demonstrate increasing sophistication, including new and adaptive techniques to gain access to networks.”

CCP-sanctioned hackers also attacked 13 private companies that owned and operated oil and gas pipelines, stealing data on machine operations and the internal workings of the companies.

Amid all of these revelations, tensions between the two countries continued to rise as both of them built up export restrictions to cut off access to technological products and parts such as semiconductors and key minerals.

Biden’s Top Iran Nuke Negotiator on Leave after Security Clearance Yanked

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Biden’s Top Iran Nuke Negotiator on Leave after Security Clearance Yanked

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) Republican leaders want answers about the sudden disappearance of Robert Malley, who had been the lead negotiator in the Biden administration’s attempt to rejoin the flawed Iran nuclear deal.

The envoy is now reportedly sitting home on an unpaid leave with a suspended security clearance purportedly stemming from allegations about the possible mishandling of classified material, the Washington Times reported.

GOP congressional officials accused the State Department of stonewalling the lawmakers’ oversight function, refusing to clarify, in particular, whether the agency properly complied with procedures for a key employee as specified by law and regulations.

“These reports raise serious concerns both regarding Malley’s conduct and whether the State Department misled Congress and the American public,” wrote House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, in a recent letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as reported bu the New York Post.

The administration originally claimed that Malley “was taking leave for reasons unrelated to his government work,” Politico reported earlier this month.

It noted that, according to insiders, State Department investigators were probing as to “whether Malley could be trusted with classified material.”

Malley met regularly with Saeed Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, in the course of his efforts to drag America back into the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the Iran deal is formally known.

“That behind-the-scenes work seems to be at issue now, with questions about what sensitive information, if any, Mr. Malley revealed,” the Times wrote.

Former President Donald Trump exited the agreement in May 2018, citing information from Israeli and U.S. intelligence that Iran was violating the terms of the deal, which he had criticized on the campaign trail as a bad deal to begin with.

Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, along with a group his colleagues in the upper chamber, have called upon the State Department’s inspector general to explore the full ramifications of the official’s “mysterious departure,” including “how much access Malley maintained to sensitive information after officials suspended his clearance.”

Reports have surfaced that the State Department diplomat allegedly continued his work for a period of time after his security clearance was “quietly” suspended in the spring.

The unpaid leave apparently only kicked in as of late June.

The State Department confirmed that Malley was placed on no-pay status for unspecified reasons after the security clearance revocation, which the agency has not apparently yet confirmed, leaked to the media.

“I expect the investigation to be resolved favorably and soon,” Malley told Politico in a June 29 text-message about his security-clearance review. “In the meantime, I am on leave.”

The Times said the controversy “has plunged Iran policy into uncertainty and raised questions about whether the White House’s diplomatic outreach to Tehran might have jeopardized national security.”

In a revealing 2016 New York Times Magazine profile, former Obama White House advisor Ben Rhodes implied that he created a false narrative about the existence of a moderate wing of the Tehran regime to sell the original Iran deal to America.

Rhodes—who has a master’s degree in creative writing and is the brother of former CBS News president David Rhodes—also insinuated that the Obama administration bamboozled gullible journalists as a ploy to gaslight public support for the deal.

The U.S. State Department still designates Iran as a state sponsor of international terrorism.

Dems Plotted Same 2020 Elector Plan Now Being Prosecuted in Michigan

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Dems Plotted Same 2020 Elector Plan Now Being Prosecuted in Michigan

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced charges on Tuesday against 16 Republicans for attempting to file Republican electoral votes in 2020—accusing them of secretly meeting in the basement of the Michigan GOP headquarters and signing certificates that falsely claimed they were the duly elected representatives for the state.

But the allegations described by Nessel were strikingly similar to a plan Democrats had for 2020—one they intended to implement in Michigan, no less.

This Democratic plan was revealed by Mike Benz, a Trump-era State Department official who now heads the Foundation For Online Freedom. Benz recently posted internal plans from the Transition Integrity Project, an organization of election “experts” that includes White House Deputy Chief of Staff and former Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.

TIP’s work was highlighted leading up to the 2020 election, with outlets such as NPR reporting in July 2020 that the group had been “gaming out a frightening scenario: What if the loser in this year’s presidential election doesn’t concede?”

Such a scenario was envisioned in Michigan, according to the internal TIP document posted online by Benz.

That internal document described a scenario where Trump won the electoral college in 2020, but Biden had a commanding 52% of the popular vote. Accordingly, Democrat governors in closely contested states, including Michigan, would call for recounts.

“As the game developed, governors in two of the three (Wisconsin and Michigan) sent separate slates of electors to counter those sent by the state legislators,” the TIP document states—mimicking a scenario now being painted as a criminal conspiracy by Michigan’s attorney general.

Benz said the TIP/Podesta plan is “100 times worse than anything the Justice Department is alleging the Trump faction did.”

“And yes, I know technically it was the Michigan AG’s office, not the DOJ, who brought the charges,” Benz added. “But that’s NOT ANY BETTER. Podesta and the TIP simulation squad specifically plotted their state elector switcheroo IN MICHIGAN.”

The severe charges in Michigan, celebrated by anti-Trump critics, have drawn sharp criticism from concerned Republican leaders who believe it is merely a witch hunt intended to tarnish former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

“Check the ages. Michigan’s Democrat machine is targeting retirees. The average age of the defendants is north of 70. This is designed to eliminate the most experienced Republican poll watches,” In a separate Twitter post, conservative commentator Mike Cernovich said in wake of the charges.

“The Bolsheviks have returned.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Report: ICE Ignored Court Summonses for More Than 80% of ‘Paroled’ Illegals

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Report: ICE Ignored Court Summonses for More Than 80% of ‘Paroled’ Illegals

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recent report from Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that the entity did not issue summonses to over 80% of the illegal immigrants released under President Joe Biden’s “parole” program, according to the Daily Wire.

After apprehending the illegals, ICE agents instructed them to check in within 60 days and released them on “parole.” More than 40% of encountered migrants did not check in.

The majority of those who arrived for check-in faced dismissal without receiving notices to appear in immigration court.

The Biden administration claimed the original parole system was a temporary measure put in place to accommodate the influx of illegals after it fought in court to end the Trump administration’s Title 42 protections.

More than 2,500 illegals went free after Title 42, a COVID emergency rule that streamlined the deportation process, expired on May 11.

Of those released, only 1,507 checked in with ICE by the deadline, and only 464 of those received a notice to appear in court.

That means the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, effectively lost track of 2,108 of the paroled illegal immigrants.

“These statistics are troubling to say the least,” District Judge T. Kent Wetherell of Florida wrote Tuesday. “But even more troubling is the fact that DHS apparently does not have a plan in place to track down the aliens who are in violation of the conditions of their ‘parole’—and, thus, unlawfully in the country.”

Biden administration officials claimed “limited agency resources” kept them from issuing summonses.

“DHS maintains its commitment that individuals have an obligation to comply with requirements imposed by DHS, and ICE is prepared to take such actions as may be required to ensure that individuals who were released pending the initiation of their immigration court proceedings comply with the terms of their release,” a Justice Department lawyer said.

Wetherell expressed skepticism of the Biden administration’s desire to seek out the migrants.

Over the last two years the Biden administration allowed at least 541,000 illegal immigrants into the country via the parole authority. Illegal immigrants do not need visas in this process.

The administration also tampered with the illegal-immigrant apprehension numbers to make it seem as if the problem was under control.

“The number of illegal and inadmissible aliens coming into the country is still just as high, but the administration is using a shell game and sending people through ports of entry instead of between ports of entry, and then declaring that an improvement on the border,” said Lora Ries, director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation.

Propane Explosions Near Phoenix Airport Trigger Terrorism Fears

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Propane Explosions Near Phoenix Airport Trigger Terrorism Fears

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The explosion of multiple propane tanks near Phoenix, Arizona’s Sky Harbor International Airport caused panic as residents feared potential acts of terrorism, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.

The explosions took place Thursday afternoon at a local propane-distribution company. When authorities arrived on the scene, they witnessed numerous explosions of 5-gallon propane tanks in all directions.

The explosions extended as far as 500 yards each way.

According to Phoenix fire officials, the crisis required the evacuation of surrounding buildings.

“Firefighters isolated the hazard area, evacuated multiple homes and businesses and attacked the flames with elevated master streams,” read a portion of a statement released by fire officials. “The fire was then surrounded and the bursting tanks cooled stopping the explosions.”

Evacuations included the Arizona Animal Welfare League, which has an office in the vicinity.

Sky Harbor officials said that they monitored the fire, but added that it in no way affected the airport’s other operations.

No injuries were reported as a result of the explosions.

The blast, however, was serious enough to shut down the local metro, with all trains near the area being halted.

While some might attribute the explosions to a recent heat wave in the region which has reached triple-digit temperatures for much of July, potentially igniting the volatile gas, others, like conservative pundit J.D. Rucker had their suspicions that it may have been a deliberate attack on a target just 150 miles from the porous Mexican border.

“Skeptics of the theory that these incidents are attacks would argue that propane is vulnerable to accidents like this will happen,” Rucker wrote for the Liberty Daily. “This is true. But it’s also true that they are happening at a far greater frequency than any other time in memory.”

The propane tank explosions were yet another instance in a long string of bizarre events–from train derailments to the explosion of food processing plants to strange hazy clouds enveloping large swaths of the nation—that have been ignored by the mainstream media.

Whether the stretch of casualty-free disasters indicates an orchestrated assault, or merely the crumbling infrastructure of an increasingly-incompetent nation, the fact remains that that Americans are owed an explanation.

“I’m not suggesting that EVERY incident is intentional, but there have been so many ‘unexplained’ incidents over the last two years that it’s foolish to not consider the possibility that we’re being targeted from within,” Rucker wrote.

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