Hunter Used ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden to Threaten Chinese Business Partner, Testimony Reveals

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Hunter Used ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden to Threaten Chinese Business Partner, Testimony Reveals

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Along with stunning IRS whistleblower testimony indicating that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department repeatedly and improperly interfered with the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, additional testimony directly linked Joe Biden to his son’s illicit business dealings.

Gary Shapley, a former IRS supervisor who oversaw parts of the Hunter Biden tax fraud investigation, delivered damning evidence during a six-hour deposition in March with the House Ways and Means Committee, documents released Thursday showed.

Shapley divulged to lawmakers that the IRS investigation had uncovered mounds of evidence linking Joe Biden’s involvement to his family’s income streams flowing from international business dealings.

In one shockingly direct example, Shapley revealed communications lifted from Hunter Biden’s social media that included a WhatsApp message that showed the First Son dropping his father’s name to threaten Chinese businessman Henry Zhao.

The Communist Party official had investment ties to a management fund co-founded by Hunter in the days after he joined his dad, then Vice-President Biden, aboard Air Force Two for an official trip to Beijing, according to the New York Post’s Peter Schweizer, who first reported the link in 2018.

“[W]e obtained a July 30th, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, where Hunter Biden wrote: ‘I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,'” Shapley testified during his committee deposition.

“And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

“Communications like these made it clear we needed to search the guest house at the Bidens’ Delaware residence where Hunter Biden stayed for a time,” Shapley told lawmakers, adding that the DOJ shut down efforts to proceed in that direction.

Additional revelations reportedly placed Joe Biden in direct proximity to Hunter Biden when he threatened their Chinese business partner.

Hunter was placed at his father’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, by photographs recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop, reported the Washington Free Beacon. Four photos from the laptop show Hunter Biden in his dad’s Corvette on the same day that he sent a sent the coercive text to Zhao.

“If Joe Biden was sitting next to his son as he sent the message as it suggests, it would be a fatal blow to the president’s repeated claims that he never discussed overseas business deals with his son,” wrote the Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross and Andrew Kerr.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment, reported the Free Beacon.

Hollywood Actors, Activists Plot to Embed Climate Change Propaganda in Movies, TV Shows

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Hollywood Actors, Activists Plot to Embed Climate Change Propaganda in Movies, TV Shows

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Having already achieved significant headway pushing a radical LGBT agenda into the media mainstream, leftist heavyweights are teaming up with Hollywood elites and turning their focus to embedding climate alarmist themes and propaganda into movies and TV shows.

Climate communist crony Jane Fonda is joining a swarm of other high-flying hypocrites during this week’s Hollywood Climate Summit in Los Angeles, where a reported “thousands” of actors, directors, producers and activists have converged to plot ways to use their respective mediums to influence public opinion and perceptions of climate change.

“Hollywood is an extremely powerful industry. We are on the precipice of cultural change in many ways,” said summit co-founder Ali Weinstein, who self-identifies as “a queer TV writer, climate storytelling consultant and activist.”

Weinstein proclaimed that “Every single person on earth is being affected by the climate crisis in some way. If we’re not showing that in our day-to-day content, that content is science fiction.”

When not expanding their own carbon footprints by jet-setting around the world, spewing fuel fumes from titanic yachts and building multiple mansions, the green-fluencers hope to take lessons learned at the three-day summit to begin planting climate alarmist themes, messages and overall propaganda into film and television scripts and productions.

One featured session, called “Decolonizing Climate Storytelling: Hip Hop 50 to Land Back,” was slated to “discuss the importance of intersectional narratives in the #climatecrisis.”

Intersectionality has been entrenched as one of the left’s favorite promotional schemes, linking their grievances, from white supremacy and cultural appropriations to climate change, reparations and gender oppression, under an inclusive banner.

Climate change took center stage at this year’s summit in response to an analysis by Good Energy and the Norman Lear Center’s Media Impact Project, which showed only 2.8% of TV and film scripts from 2016 to 2020 “included any climate-related keywords.”

Similarly, “only 0.6% of scripted TV and films mentioned the specific term ‘climate change.’” Activists and actors declared that more must be done to indoctrinate the public with subliminal climate alarmist propaganda.

The message fell flat on social media, with critics ripping the Hollywood elite and limousine leftists for their colossal carbon footprints.

“Paragons of virtue with their climate activism. Yet they are the hugest hypocrites,” tweeted on commentator, while another derided the summit’s false climate narrative, cracking, “so they are going to spew more unsubstantiated propaganda, gotcha.”

A concentrated effort to redouble that propaganda through films and TV shows is a perfect way to reach a captive audience that has gone untapped, summit co-founder Heather Fipps said.

“We see this as a huge problem because, for the most part, people on average spend more time with television and film characters than they do with their own families,” Fipps explained. “It is really important for us to steep our fictional worlds in our reality.”

Bombshell Testimony: DOJ Protected Hunter Biden, Tipped Off Raid

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Bombshell Testimony: DOJ Protected Hunter Biden, Tipped Off Raid

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee released damning testimony from IRS whistleblowers who have come forward with explosive allegations, revealing purported interference by the Biden-led DOJ in the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax evasion crimes.

According to the whistleblowers, officials at the DOJ conspired to delay the charges against Biden, even going so far as to tip him off about a potential search warrant. These actions, the whistleblowers warned, demonstrate unequal treatment under the law, granting Hunter preferential treatment for the crimes he pleaded guilty to on June 20.

The five-year investigation into Hunter’s crimes prompted several concerned federal employees to blow the whistle on what they perceived as political corruption and a two-tiered criminal justice system. The whistleblower also accused the DOJ of alerting Hunter Biden about a search raid on his storage unit.

Federal prosecutors were reportedly prohibited from seeking a judge’s warrant for the unit, as detailed in the testimony, which was released after a party-line vote in a committee panel.

The testimony compromised 400 pages of interviews with the two IRS employees, including Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley, reported Roll Call on Thursday.

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., slammed the DOJ in a press release announcing the testimonies. “The American people deserve to know that when it comes to criminal enforcement, they are not on the same playing field as the wealthy and politically connected class,” Smith said. “The preferential treatment Hunter Biden received would never have been granted to ordinary Americans.”

The whistleblowers claimed that David Weiss, a Trump-appointed prosecutor in Delaware, attempted to pursue more severe charges against Hunter but faced rejection from the DOJ, resulting in what several Republicans referred to as a “slap on the wrist” plea deal.

The testimony also outlined a campaign of retaliation against the whistleblowers, said Smith.

“IRS employees who blew the whistle on this abuse were retaliated against, despite a commitment IRS Commissioner Werfel made before the Ways and Means Committee to uphold their legal protections,” Smith added. “They were removed from this investigation after they responsibly worked through the chain of command to raise these concerns.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer responded to the testimony with shock and criticized the apparent corruption within the DOJ.

“In five months, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s investigation into the Bidens has revealed evidence of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery,” Comer said in a press release on Thursday.

Comer vowed to continue investigating the alleged crimes committed by the Biden family, included an alleged $5 million bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden when he served as vice president under the Obama administration.

Comer added, “Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal and the Justice Department’s efforts to obstruct justice only embolden our efforts to follow the facts and deliver answers, transparency, and accountability to the American people. We will not rest until the full extent of President Biden’s involvement in his family’s schemes is revealed. Accountability is coming.”

Feds Pushed Big Lie to Justify COVID Vax Mandates, Explosive Email Shows

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Feds Pushed Big Lie to Justify COVID Vax Mandates, Explosive Email Shows

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Journalist Hans Mahncke has unearthed new documents that directly contradict public statements made by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on the justification for federal mandates on COVID-19 vaccines.

One email — dated January 30, 2021, and obtained through a Freedom of Information Act investigation — shows Walensky discussing COVID-19 “breakthrough cases” shortly after the vaccines were pushed on Americans. The damning email implies that vaccinated individuals could still spread the virus.

In the email, Walensky specifically claimed, “I had a call with Francis this morning and one of the issues we discussed was that of vaccine breakthroughs.” Later in the email, which remained private until Monday, she added, “Should we discuss? What is the best next step forward? Francis is also discussing with Tony.”

The email strongly suggests that former NIH Director Francis Collins and COVID Czar Anthony Fauci were looped into the Big Lie, and continued to push a false narrative that vaccines could end the pandemic.

In public appearances, Walensky praised the COVID vaccine, falsely claiming that it prevented vaccinated individuals from spreading the virus originating from communist China. Two months after the email she inaccurately stated that those who received the vaccine did not “carry the virus” and could not “get sick.” 

Just last week, during a congressional hearing, House Oversight Committee James Comer, R-Ky., confronted Walensky about her dubious claims. Comer asserted, “The vaccine did not stop spread or infection. I am not saying it was completely bad but it did not stop the spread or infection.”

Despite being challenged, Walensky remained steadfast in her lie, arguing that the early data and published literature in the New England Journal supported the idea that vaccinated individuals did not transmit the virus.

She claimed, “If I could actually just correct that point, and that is initially it did, for the Wuhan strain and for the Alpha strain all of the early data and literature published in the New England Journal demonstrated that for those who worked if you did not get infected that you were not transmitting to other people.”

The revelation of the bombshell email has led to swift condemnation from Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, who expressed his outrage, stating, “Stunning FOIA revelation! Three quick items: 1. @CDCgov director Walensky knew about vax “breakthrough” infections in January 2021. So did Tony Fauci. 2. They continued to push vax mandates anyway.”

Hunter Biden Was Booted from Kinky L.A. Sex Club for Being a ‘Scumbag’

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Hunter Biden Was Booted from Kinky L.A. Sex Club for Being a ‘Scumbag’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Hunter Biden was banned from a sex club in Los Angeles for being a “scumbag” by the founder of the club, which welcomes sexual degenerates but no longer welcomes its ousted founder, who was permanently expelled on Tuesday from the club.

Damon Lawner, who founded the sex club “Snctm” in 2013, is no longer welcome in the club after he revealed that Biden was a member of the club in his Instagram story this week, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“Hunter was a member at Snctm and I canceled his membership after 1 party because he’s a scumbag,” Lawner wrote on his Instagram story.

Snctm told the Times that “Mr. Lawner’s membership has been revoked, effective immediately” for violating the group’s code of conduct, which prohibits anyone from publicly revealing the identities of the members.

“Snctm, as a private members club, prioritizes the safety and privacy of our esteemed members above all,” the sex club said in its statement. “Consequently, we neither confirm nor deny the identities of our attendees. Furthermore, we uphold a strict code of conduct, and any infringement leads to a lifetime ban.”

After Lawner was contacted by the Times, he doubled-down on his Instagram post.

“Posting what I did on my Instagram about Hunter was me letting people know that the type of behavior that he exhibited was something that upsets me,” he said.

“I knew that the consequences could be me not being part of Snctm anymore, but I was willing to take that risk.”

Lawner decided to create a club for sexual degenerates after watching Eyes Wide Shut, a movie with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, in which rich celebrities have high-class orgies.

The club is very exclusive since only very rich sexual degenerates can be a part of it — the yearly fee is $75,000. Millionaires, CEOs, politicians and Hollywood actors are members of the club.

Faith Leaders Discuss Religious Freedom, Backsliding in the Americas

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Faith Leaders Discuss Religious Freedom, Backsliding in the Americas

(By Addison Graham, RealClear Wire) Faith leaders met on Tuesday at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. to discuss religious liberty and human dignity in the Americas. The conference was sponsored by the Interreligious Forum of the Americas and highlighted Christian, Muslim, and Jewish voices.

“Religious liberty is a major concern,” said Elias Szczytnicki, regional secretary general of Religions for Peace in Latin America. Mankind has always struggled to protect religious freedom, he explained, but recently we have seen “the incarceration of bishops” in the Americas. “This hasn’t happened for many years, and it’s alarming.”

Leaders at the conference were not shy about expressing their rising concerns – especially in wake of the recent incidents that Szczytnicki mentioned.

“We have to do more to prevent restrictions on religious liberty,” said Rashad Hussain, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. “We’ve watched the deterioration of religious freedom In Nicaragua in the case of Bishop Alverez.”

Bishop Rolando Álvarez was sentenced to 26 years in prison and stripped of his citizenship in Nicaragua after being charged with treason for his outspoken criticisms of his country’s increasingly authoritarian left-wing president, Daniel Ortega. In February, Álvarez refused to board a plane to the U.S. with 222 other political prisoners and is now serving out his sentence in prison rather than exile.

For many authoritarians, religious authority is seen as a threat. This is certainly the case for someone like Ortega as he looks to consolidate power in a country whose people are deeply Catholic and loyal to the church. But even in many democracies, political leaders sometimes view religion as a nuisance if not a threat.

“Many political leaders look at religion as a can of worms they’d prefer not to open,” said Cole Durham, president of the G20 Interfaith Forum Association. “In the U.S. we talk about separation of church and state, but that can be taken to extremes.” Like many advocates of religious liberty, Durham argued that when governments draft policies and pass laws, “religious perspectives are often not taken into account.”

This sentiment resounded throughout the day, but some participants at the conference argued that the preservation of religious freedom goes beyond petitioning governments to play fair with faith groups.

In one of the more provocative messages of the conference, Azza Karam, secretary general of Religions for Peace, challenged her audience to think of religious freedom within a broader context of freedom for all people. “It’s as if we think we can pursue religious freedom on its own. But we can’t,” she said. “We can’t silo women’s rights, and we can’t silo religious freedom. They are connected – just as all forms of phobia are deeply intertwined.”

Rather than only pointing fingers at secular institutions, Karam said that the interfaith movement could use some “critical self-reflection” when it comes to human rights. “It’s not as if every religious institution is genuinely a paradigm of virtue.”

To further the cause of religious freedom around the world, Karam said faith groups can do more than lobby governments and point fingers. Instead, they can bolster efforts to use their influence in advocating for the freedom and rights of all people.

The arrest of Bishop Álvarez and other similar incidents are not simply matters of religious freedom but freedom in general. As Ambassador Hussain put it, “When democracy suffers, so too does religious freedom.”

In the face of that reality, there seemed to be little disagreement among faith leaders and freedom advocates at the conference that democracy is taking hits in the Americas and beyond.

Athletes, Congressional Members Push to Protect Women’s Sports

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Athletes, Congressional Members Push to Protect Women’s Sports

(By Alan Wooten, The Center Square) Athletes and congressional members continued their fight this week to protect women’s sports from encroachment by biological males identifying as transgender, and from the Biden administration’s work to rewrite Title IX.

They also shared support for the bicameral effort to establish National Women’s Sports Week.

In a Thursday morning press conference outside the nation’s Capital, U.S. Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Ralph Norman, R-S.C., Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Burgess Owens, R-Utah, joined a group that included collegiate swimmers Riley Gaines and Paula Scanlan, and Payton McNabb, the high school volleyball player from North Carolina injured in competition by a transgender female’s spike that hit her in the head.

A number of members of Congress also met with the athletes, one of which was 31-time All-American Kylee Alons from N.C. State.

The resolution is being led by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Rep. Claudia Tenney, R.-N.Y. It centers around the June 23 anniversary of Title IX, the landmark civil rights law signed in 1972 by President Richard Nixon.

In a video posted to Twitter and YouTube by Independent Women’s Voice, Mace – first woman to graduate from The Citadel – told those assembled, “The Left wants to tell you it’s not happening. These young women will tell you that it is happening.”

McNabb, a recent graduate of Hiwassee Dam High in Murphy, was struck in the head by a volleyball on Sept. 1. She said she was always aware of the possibility of injury, but the ball hit by a biological male “was different.” She was rendered unconscious. Today, she still has partial paralysis on her right side, and says she deals with cognitive issues and headaches.

“This was 100% avoidable if female athletes had not been exploited,” she said. “If the adults in the room don’t start standing up and putting an end to the threat to females, there won’t be women’s sports.”

Gaines, advisor to Independent Women’s Voice and a 12-time All-American swimmer at the University of Kentucky, told the youngsters coming and those in competition now to “keep working. We have your back.”

“I’m proud to stand for all women of all backgrounds and to fight to ensure women’s sports remain female,” Gaines said. “I’m standing here for the next generation of girls who are today training to compete, and do not want to have to face men with an unfair biological advantage.”

Gaines appeared before a congressional committee on Wednesday to testify. She was clear to say she does not have a problem with transgender people, or even Lia Thomas, the swimmer who is biologically male and was not only allowed to compete against women but also to undress in a locker room Gaines said an NCAA representative told her was changed from “women’s” to “unisex.”

“My problem is with the NCAA,” Gaines answered a question from Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. “My problem is the Biden administration pushing a rewrite of Title IX. That is my problem. That’s why I’m here.”

Alons was another in that locker room, that is until she and others on her team found and chose a utility closet behind the bleachers instead.

For Scanlan, she was Thomas’ teammate. This after Thomas had competed for three years at Penn on the men’s team. Scanlan says the university advised her and her teammates not to speak out about the situation, advising they would regret it.

“It’s important to shed light on administrators, universities, and athletic governing bodies that are working against women, just erasing us,” Scanlan said.

Norman, in his turn, asked, “Where’s the media? I can tell you, if we had a transgender group that got together, it’d be full of cameras. But as Burgess said, we’re going to win this fight. Because we’re going to use our voice to explain how wrong this is.

“Folks, this is biblical. God made man and woman.”

Plus the biological science, as Gaines’ T-shirt read, XX does not equal XY – the sex determination chromosomes of women and men, respectively.

We cannot be silent about this, for the safety of our girls,” Norman said. “Just the fact that we’re having to go through this is not fair.”

He pledged that they’ll go all over the country “telling the truth.”

Miller said on President Biden’s first day he signed executive orders “to destroy Title IX and force young girls to share locker rooms with biological men.”

She introduced Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act on Feb. 9. The bill summary says the proposed legislation “defines sex under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 as a person’s biological sex at birth. The bill also specifies that Title IX does not prohibit schools from having sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, or athletic or academic programs, nor does it authorize the Department of Education to require schools to forgo such sex-segregated facilities or programs in order to receive funding.”

An April fact sheet released by the U.S. Department of Education gave clarification to the proposed changes in Title IX. Included, “The proposed rule would establish that policies violate Title IX when they categorically ban transgender students from participating on sports teams consistent with their gender identity just because of who they are.”

In the summary, it says the rule “builds upon the longstanding Title IX rules that protect equal athletic opportunities for women and girls.”

Ex-Texas Rep. Will Hurd Launches GOP Presidential Run w/ Trump-Bashing Cry for Relevancy

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Ex-Texas Rep. Will Hurd Launches GOP Presidential Run w/ Trump-Bashing Cry for Relevancy

(Headline USA) Former Texas congressman Will Hurd, a onetime deep state CIA officer and fierce critic of Donald Trump, announced Thursday that he’s running for president, hoping to build momentum as a more moderate alternative to the Republican front-runner.

Hurd, 45, served three terms in the House through January 2021, becoming the chamber’s only black Republican during his final two years in office.

“We need common sense,” said Hurd, who made the announcement on CBS Mornings, adding, “I believe the Republican Party can be the party of the future, not the past.”

In a campaign video, the former congressman said that the “soul of our country is under attack,” reminiscent of Democrat Joe Biden’s slogan about the 2020 race being a “battle for the soul of the nation.”

“Our enemies plot, create chaos, and threaten the American Dream. At home, illegal immigration and fentanyl stream into our country. Inflation, still out of control. Crime and homelessness growing in our cities,” Hurd says in the video. “President Biden can’t solve these problems — or won’t. And if we nominate a lawless, selfish, failed politician like Donald Trump — who lost the House, the Senate, and the White House — we all know Joe Biden will win again.”

Hurd says he’s out to redefine the contours of the 2024 race and told NBC’s Meet the Press in May that the prospect of another election pitting the current president against the former one would be “the rematch from hell.” On Thursday, he called himself a “dark horse candidate” and said that the only way to win is to “not be afraid of Donald Trump” and that “we also have to articulate a different vision.”

Hurd joins a crowded primary field with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, radio host Larry Elder and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, in addition to Trump.

Hurd said Thursday that he would not pardon Trump if the former president is convicted in the federal documents case, and he called many of the other Republican White House candidates who rushed to say they would “insane” to make that promise so early in the case.

Most of the Republican candidates in the race are trying to run more against Biden than against Trump, who largely remains popular among GOP voters. But Hurd joins a RINO herd with Christie and Hutchinson in MAGA bashing.

Hurd opted not to seek reelection to the House in 2020, saying then that he preferred to “pursue opportunities outside the halls of Congress to solve problems at the nexus between technology and national security.” Last year, he traveled the country on a tour to promote his book, American Reboot: An Idealist’s Guide to Getting Big Things Done.

Hurd’s entering the race keeps alive Texas’ longest-in-the-nation streak of having at least one presidential major candidate who rose to public prominence in the state or lived there while running for or holding office. The last time Texas didn’t have a major presidential hopeful was 1972.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Florida Court Backs DeSantis’s Removal of Pro-Abortion Prosecutor

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Florida Court Backs DeSantis’s Removal of Pro-Abortion Prosecutor

(Headline USA) The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis was within his rights to remove a radical prosecutor who opposed prosecutions for abortions or gender-mutilation health procedures, in defiance of state law.

The state’s highest court ruled that Andrew Warren had waited too long to file a petition.

In a 6-1 decision, Florida’s highest court rejected the petition brought by Warren, a twice-elected state attorney for Florida’s Hillsborough County in the Tampa area. Warren claimed that DeSantis had misused his power. Warren said that he was disappointed with the decision.

“This is an issue that is crucial for democracy in Florida,” Warren said in a statement. “Rather than addressing the substance of the governor’s illegal action, the Court cited a technicality and avoided a ruling on the merits of the case.”

The Republican governor last year suspended Warren, accusing him of neglect of duty and incompetence, after the Democrat state attorney signed statements, along with other leftist activist prosecutors across the country, opposing criminal charges against abortion providers or women seeking abortions. He also said he wouldn’t prosecute people for providing gender mutilating procedures, and his office’s policies didn’t charge people with other crimes.

Florida had a 15-week abortion ban at the time, and DeSantis earlier this year signed into law a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. DeSantis also championed legislation that banned transgender minors from receiving what a growing body of evidence show to be dangerous puberty blockers, but a federal judge earlier this month blocked portions of the new law.

DeSantis this spring launched a campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

Warren also challenged his removal in federal court, where he said that DeSantis punished him for being a dissenting voice, violating his constitutional right to free speech, and nullifying the election that brought Warren to office. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, in dismissing Warren’s lawsuit in January, wrote that federal law prevents him from returning the prosecutor to office. Warren has appealed that decision.

In its ruling, Florida’s highest court left open the possibility that the case could be reconsidered if a rehearing motion is filed and suggested that Warren could take his case before the Republican-dominated Senate.

But the ruling noted that Warren chose to take his case to federal court first instead of state court, and that there was a six-month gap between his suspension and when he filed his petition. The Florida Supreme Court could deny the petition not only based on the merits of the case but for other reasons, such as “a petitioner who unreasonably delays filing a petition,” the ruling said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Va. Mom of Boy Who Shot Teacher to Cite Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal in Leniency Appeal

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Va. Mom of Boy Who Shot Teacher to Cite Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal in Leniency Appeal

(Headline USA) A lawyer for a Virginia mother facing prison time for the falsification of gun records said he will cite the Justice Department’s sweetheart plea deal for Hunter Biden as a reason to reduce her potential sentence.

Deja Taylor, 25, pleaded guilty to lying about her marijuana use when she applied for a gun purchase. Her 6-year-old son then used her purchased firearm on Jan. 6 to shoot his elementary school teacher.

Taylor faces up to 18 to 24 months in prison and has been charged with the same felony as Hunter Biden. Except, in its plea deal that was revealed this week, the Justice Department agreed to drop this charge against Biden entirely.

Taylor’s lawyer, Eugene Rossi, said he plans to cite the DOJ’s “inconsistency” in its application of the law.

“In our sentencing memo, we will surely raise the inconsistency in the government’s approach to a vulnerable and scared very young mother, who does not have a privileged background and connections,” defense attorney Eugene Rossi told the Washington Times.

As of right now, Hunter Biden is facing only two years of probation. As part of the sweetheart deal, the president’s 53-year-old son will plead guilty to misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax in 2017 and 2018, and enter a pre-trial diversion on a felony gun possession charge, meaning the gun charge could be dropped altogether if he meets certain requirements.

The felony gun-possession charge alone normally carries a minimum five-year prison sentence, according to former U.S. attorney Brett Tolman.

“Why does the prodigal son of a president get diversion on the same gun charge — along with the sweetheart deal on the tax crimes?” Rossi said. “The disparity is a bit hard to comprehend—let alone swallow.”

Former President Donald Trump, who has also been the victim of the DOJ’s double standards, likewise pointed to the plea deal as additional evidence that the justice system is rigged and “broken.”

“Wow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere ‘traffic ticket.’ Our system is BROKEN!” he wrote on Truth Social.

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