Riley Gaines Threatens to Sue San Fran. State University after Students Attack Her

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Riley Gaines Threatens to Sue San Fran. State University after Students Attack Her

(Headline USA) Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines threatened to sue San Francisco State University, where she was physically assaulted by trans activists last week, after an official downplayed the protests against her as “peaceful.”

Gaines alleged that she was hit by a male student while she was being escorted by police away from an angry mob of protesters at the university. Videos of the chaos show dozens of students berating Gaines following her speech and barricading her inside a classroom for more than three hours.

Following the mayhem, Jamillah Moore, vice president for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, emailed students thanking them for engaging in a “peaceful” protest against Gaines.

“It took tremendous bravery to stand in a challenging space,” Moore wrote. “I am proud of the moments where we listened and asked insightful questions. I am also proud of the moments when our students demonstrated the value of free speech and the right to protest peacefully.”

Gaines responded on Twitter: “I’m sorry did this just say PEACEFUL …. I was assaulted. I was extorted and held for ransom. The protestors demanded I pay them if I wanted to make it home safely. I missed my flight home because I was barricaded in a classroom… We must have different definitions of peaceful.”

Gaines also shared a screenshot of Moore’s Twitter account, showing that Moore had blocked her.

In an interview with Fox News, Gaines said she wants to hold the school accountable for failing to control their students and keep her safe.

“The campus police did nothing. The dean of students was there and did nothing. There will be no repercussions unless I have something to do with it,” she said.

San Francisco State University claimed it was launching an investigation into the attacks on Gaines.

“We are conducting an ongoing investigation into the situation,” a spokesperson said on Friday. “The disruption occurred after the conclusion of the event which made it necessary for UPD officers to move the event speaker from the room to a different, safe location.”

AOC Says Biden Admin. Should Ignore Court Ruling on Abortion Pills

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AOC Says Biden Admin. Should Ignore Court Ruling on Abortion Pills

(Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., demanded that the Biden administration ignore a federal court ruling striking down the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, calling it “unfounded.”

Last week, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk directed the FDA to halt its approval of mifepristone while a lawsuit challenging its safety works its way through the courts. He gave the federal government seven days to “seek emergency relief from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,” which the Biden administration confirms it intends to do.

But several Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, have urged the Biden administration to just disregard Kacsmaryk’s decision altogether.

“I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling,” she told CNN. “The interesting thing when it comes to a ruling is that it relies on enforcement. And it is up to the Biden administration to enforce, to choose whether or not to enforce a ruling.” 

Ocasio-Cortez went on to describe Kacsmaryk as a “deeply partisan” judge who has “engaged in unprecedented and dramatic erosion of the legitimacy of the courts.”

She doubled down on this claim on Sunday, claiming there is “precedent” for ignoring court orders.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued a similar statement after the court’s ruling on Friday.

“There is no way this decision has a basis in law. It is instead rooted in conservatives’ dangerous and undemocratic takeover of our country’s institutions,” Wyden said. “No matter what happens in seven days, I believe the Food and Drug Administration has the authority to ignore this ruling, which is why I’m again calling on President Biden and the FDA to do just that.”

The FDA, doctors, and pharmacies should “go about their jobs like nothing has changed and keep mifepristone accessible to women across America,” he added.

However, the Biden administration seemed to strike down leftists’ demands on Sunday, arguing that ignoring a federal court ruling would set a dangerous precedent.

“People are rightly frustrated about this decision — but as dangerous a precedent it sets for a court to disregard FDA’s expert judgment regarding a drug’s safety and efficacy, it would also set a dangerous precedent for the administration to disregard a binding decision,” Kamara Jones, spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, said. “We are confident that the law is on our side.”

House Judiciary to Hold Hearing w/ Victims of DA Bragg’s Policies

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House Judiciary to Hold Hearing w/ Victims of DA Bragg’s Policies

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Victims of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s soft-on-crime policies will testify before a hearing by the House Judiciary Committee on April 17.

A source told the New York Post that the list of witnesses will remain anonymous for now, but that it will feature individuals who are victims of Bragg’s “failure to prosecute.”

The hearing, which will examine “New York’s rampant crime and victims of Alvin Bragg,” is to be held at the New York City-based Jacob Javits Federal Building, the Post reported Monday.

The building is just a few blocks away from the Manhattan DA’s office and the New York Supreme Court, where former President Donald Trump was arraigned last week as part of a seven-year, politically motivated investigation into alleged hush-money payments during the 2016 election.

In recent weeks, House Republicans slammed Bragg’s relentless pursuit of charges against Trump, an unprecedented move on merits that even Trump’s own critics questioned.

The Soros-backed DA pledged during his 2021 campaign for the job that “convicting” Trump would be “the number one issue.”

House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, touted the hearing in a tweet. “Alvin Bragg’s radical pro-crime, anti-victim policies have led to an increase in violent crime in New York City,” Jordan said. “Next week, the Judiciary Committee will examine these policies during a field hearing in Manhattan.”

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., slammed Bragg in a similar tweet. “If Bragg can spend resources indicting President Trump, he should be able to address the soaring crime in NYC,” Biggs said.

From Bragg’s inauguration in January 2022 through mid-November 2022, criminal convictions plummeted drastically, with 52% of felony charges being downgraded to misdemeanors––a move that effectively leaves convicted felons get off scot-free, the New York Post reported on November 2022. 

The House Judiciary Committee and the Manhattan DA’s office have been at odds after the announcement of the charges against the former president. Jordan subpoenaed Mark Pomerantz, a New York prosecutor who investigated Trump’s finances before resigning in protest after Bragg’s initial hesitancy to indict the former president.

The Manhattan DA’s Office responded by accusing House Republicans of attempting to undermine its investigations.

“Repeated efforts to weaken state and local law enforcement actions are an abuse of power and will not deter us from our duty to uphold the law,” it said. “These elected officials would better serve their constituents and the country […] by doing their jobs in Congress.”

CNN Insiders Blast Network’s Support for Don Lemon Amid Controversies

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CNN Insiders Blast Network’s Support for Don Lemon Amid Controversies

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) CNN insiders and employees have expressed displeasure at the network’s constant support for ratings-challenged host Don Lemon. CNN, on many occasions, has shown questionable support for the host despite the negative attention he creates.

Fox News reported that CNN’s latest defense of the host came after Variety published a scandalous report about him last week. The report included numerous accusations against the anchor, including sending threatening texts to a co-worker via a burner phone and exhibiting misogynistic behaviors. 

In response, CNN distributed a statement made by the anchor’s spokesperson. The statement blasted Variety’s report, noting that it was “riddled with patently false anecdotes” and “based on unsourced, unsubstantiated, 15-year-old anonymous gossip.” Fox News noted that CNN went the extra mile to support Lemon by emphasizing that he denied all claims and has also appeared on CNN This Morning.

A media insider who once worked with the network is puzzled that CNN has shown so much support for the embattled host, who only seems to bring unnecessary attention.

The industry executive told Fox News, “Well before the Variety article appeared, it’s been one of the biggest mysteries in TV news why CNN keeps Don Lemon around. He rates poorly, he is a source of constant embarrassment, and his new morning show is an unqualified disaster.”

“Now his long history of degrading women has been laid bare. What mysterious hold does he have over his bosses that explains his longevity?” the insider wondered. 

According to Fox, many other employees at CNN are also taken aback at the network’s unwavering support for the host, as one said that Lemon has mostly only done “moronic things.”

Eric Schiffer, a crisis management guru in the media and sports industry, suspected that CNN’s defense for the host might be due to “legal vulnerabilities.” Schiffer’s suspicion comes as Lemon clarified that he does not mind taking others to court. He is reportedly filing a lawsuit against Variety over its report.

“It will be Don’s behavior that takes himself out or not moving forward. He needs to get a grip on his behavior, or he’ll be ‘Done’ Lemon,” Schiffer said. “He’s got to align with the expectations of leadership, or he sets himself on fire.”

FBI Recruited Spies in Catholic Churches, Judiciary Committee Reveals

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FBI Recruited Spies in Catholic Churches, Judiciary Committee Reveals

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has recently recruited informants to spy inside churches, and relied on at least one undercover employee to generate a recent intelligence report on the so-called threat of “radical-traditionalist Catholics,” according to the House Judiciary Committee.

The committee revealed this finding on Monday, after reviewing documents from the FBI about its targeting of Catholics.

Legislators demanded the documents after a leaked intelligence bulletin surfaced in February, citing Southern Poverty Law Center information to justify targeting “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as potential violent domestic extremists.

The FBI quickly backtracked from the memo at the time, saying it had been drafted in error. But the Monday announcement from the Judiciary Committee suggested otherwise.

“The FBI relied on information derived from at least one undercover employee and sought to use local religious organizations as ‘new avenues for tripwire and source development,’” the committee said, citing heavily redacted FBI records.

“This proposed outreach plan included contacting so-called ‘mainline Catholic parishes’ and the local ‘diocesan leadership,’” it continued. “The documents reveal that the FBI also expressed an interest in ‘leverag[ing] existing sources and/or initiat[ing] Type 5 Assessments to develop new sources with the placement and access’ to report on suspicious activity.”

The Judiciary Committee’s reference of a “Type 5 Assessment” is about the controversial FBI practice of investigating people without any criminal predicate of wrongdoing. The Government Accountability told Headline USA last month that it is investigating the FBI’s use of these “assessments.”

The Judiciary Committee additionally noted that the FBI planned to “engage in outreach to the leadership of other [Society of Saint Pius X] chapels in the FBI Richmond [area of responsibility] to sensitize these congregations to the warning signs of radicalization and to enlist their assistance to serve as suspicious activity tripwires.”

After reviewing the heavily redacted FBI documents, the Judiciary Committee called for the bureau to release all responsive material without redactions.

“This information is outrageous and reinforces the Committee’s need for all FBI records about the domain perspective document,” the committee said.

“Accordingly, and because [FBI] Director [Chris] Wray has not fully responded to the Committee’s earlier voluntary requests, Chairman Jordan is issuing a subpoena to the FBI for all records about the FBI’s January 23 domain perspective document,” it added.

The discovery follows another recent revelation that the bureau was using online lingo, including “based” and “Chad,” to flag users as potential extremists, Summit News reported.

Under the supervision of Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Justice Department has been determined to push a spurious narrative that white, U.S.-born conservatives posed the greatest threat to national security, eclipsing international terrorism, even as dangerous criminals continue to flood across the open southern border.

Among other victims, Garland has targeted soccer moms attending school board meetings;  peaceful, Christian pro-life activists; and a Twitter user who made a meme mocking Hillary Clinton voters.

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

Louisville Mass Shooter Reportedly a Trans-Pronoun Devotee

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Louisville Mass Shooter Reportedly a Trans-Pronoun Devotee

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The latest in a string of reportedly transgender-related mass shootings unfolded with deadly consequence in Kentucky on Monday, leaving at least five dead and multiple victims injured.

A former employee of Old National Bank in Louisville, Connor Sturgeon, was named in reports as the alleged shooter, who identified on social media using the transgender pronouns “he/him.” While listing pronouns doesn’t necessarily denote an active transgender lifestyle, it does lean heavily into far-leftist orthodoxy embracing a radical LGBT agenda.

“I’ve said it once I’ll say it again: It’s not the guns. It’s the pronoun extremists,” Trending Politics’ Collin Rugg wrote.

Trans-activists were quick to downplay any possible connection of the mass shooting to the transgender movement.

“Not only do trans people have to process constant senseless death due to mass shootings, we now have to deal deranged bigots trying to falsely pin it to the trans community,” wrote radical leftist attorney and Harvard Law School lecturer Alejandra Caraballo, who has previously demanded that activists harass the Supreme Court justices who voted to upend Roe.

Bank employees related how they tried to hide inside a vault when they spotted Sturgeon enter the building carrying “an AR-15 style assault rifle,” the Daily Mail reported.

“In the end, four bankers were killed, along with the gunman,” according to the outlet. “It remains unclear whether the suspect died by officers’ gunfire or from a self-inflicted wound.”

At least nine other victims were injured in the shooting, including two police officers, and several remain hospitalized in critical condition. Kentucky Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear said that two of the victims were his friends.

“I have a very close friend that didn’t make it today. And I have another close friend who didn’t, either,” Beshear told reporters. “And one who’s at the hospital, that I hope is going to make it through.”

The shooter reportedly warned of suicidal thoughts and carrying out a mass shooting.

The Louisville shooting follows the slaughter at the hands of a transgender triggerman of six Christians at Nashville’s Convent School. Another transgender-spawned mass shooting was also uncovered in Colorado, before the deadly plot evolved.

Man Cleared by DNA in 2010 Murder Charged w/ New Murder after Road-Rage Incident

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Man Cleared by DNA in 2010 Murder Charged w/ New Murder after Road-Rage Incident

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) A Texas man who served time for murder before being cleared by DNA and other evidence now faces a new murder charge.

In a press release, the Houston Police Department announced the arrest of Lydell Elliott Grant in connection with a fatal shooting.

Grant allegedly opened fire on another motorist on April 6 in southwest Houston over what some media outlets have described as a road-rage incident following by what police have deemed a “minor crash” between their two cars.

Police said the suspect fired multiple rounds at the windshield of other vehicle and fled the area.

Grant was reportedly identified via surveillance footage, ABC Houston affiliate KTRK reported.

Houston police took him into custody the following day on a warrant.

According to the Harris County Sheriff’s office records, he is currently being held in jail subject to a $1 million bond.

As with all pending criminal matters, the presumption of innocence applies.

The victim, age 33, died at the scene in the encounter that occurred shortly before midnight.

Grant, 46, was previously sentenced to life imprisonment for the December 2010 fatal stabbing of man outside a Houston bar. A jury convicted him of murder in early December 2012.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals eventually declared him innocent in a May 2021 ruling.

Grant’s conviction was based on testimony from six eyewitnesses, one of whom reportedly recanted later.

“With help from the Innocence Project of Texas, new DNA evidence, and a confession from the actual perpetrator, Grant was exonerated in 2019 after serving about eight years in prison,” KTRK added.

Grant was exonerated “after DNA on the victim’s fingernails didn’t match his,” the New York Post recalled.

The above-referenced perpetrator in the stabbing incident pleaded guilty to murder in 2022 and is behind bars.

“We stand behind Mr. Grant’s previous exoneration,” the Innocence Project of Texas said in a statement following Grant’s recent arrest.

“DNA evidence and the confession of the real perpetrator of the crime proved Mr. Grant’s actual innocence,” it continued. “His 2012 conviction was proven wrongful, and he spent eight years in prison as a result.”

The nonprofit organization founded by two criminal defense attorneys in 2006 underscored that it remains dedicated to vindicating those who are wrongly convicted of crimes in the context of “a better and more just society.”

On its website, the organization claims that as many as 9,000 Texas are wrongfully incarcerated.

Wrongly convicted individuals in Texas are eligible to collect up to $80,000 from the state  for each year of prison time served.

HHS Sec. Becerra: Texas Not Part of America after Banning Abortion Pills

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HHS Sec. Becerra: Texas Not Part of America after Banning Abortion Pills

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In an interview Sunday for CNN’s State of the Union, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declared that Texas was “not America” in response to a state judge’s injunction against the abortion drug mifepristone.

The decision handed down last week has further roiled abortion activists—already licking their wounds over the overturning of Roe v. Wade—who had hoped to find a loophole by using mail-order abortion pills.

CNN host Dana Bash asked Becerra, the former California attorney general, for his message to women and healthcare professionals who want to provide and use mifepristone.

“This is not America. What you saw by that one judge, in that one court, in that one state, that’s not America,” Becerra proclaimed. “America goes by the evidence. America does what’s fair. America does what is transparent and we can show that what we do is for the right reasons.”

“That’s not America,” he repeated.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk—who is based in Texas—halted the approval of mifepristone in the interest of transparency.

Stopping the approval process of the drug allowed another lawsuit, the Northern District of Texas in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. the Food and Drug Administration, with the former group citing concerns over the safety and possible side effects to progress through the court system.

Kacsmaryk allowed for an appeal in the injunction, which Attorney General Merrick Garland promised to do.

In a statement, Garland claimed that the injunction “overturns the FDA’s expert judgement… that mifepristone is safe and effective.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez was also featured on State of the Union, where she claimed that the courts were out of order and should be prohibited from ruling on the matter.

“I do not believe that the courts have the authority to have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted, and I do believe that it creates a crisis,” she said. “Once you ban medication abortion… we are in extremely dangerous territory.

The representative went on to falsely equate the lack of FDA approval for mifepristone with a “national abortion ban,” but did admit that there would be “certain workarounds.”

AOC also claimed that the Supreme Court was rife with “lawlessness” and suffered from “conflicts of interest,” implying that the highest court may need some executive intervention should “judicial tyranny and judicial overreach” come to pass.

Las Vegas Shooter’s ‘Dreams’ Told Him to Go on Killing Spree, Letters Say

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Las Vegas Shooter’s ‘Dreams’ Told Him to Go on Killing Spree, Letters Say

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock had apparently been having deranged dreams telling him to go on a killing spree in the leadup to the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting, according to newly unveiled documents.

The documents, which were obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, are reportedly handwritten letters Paddock’s acquaintance, Jim Nixon, had been sending him earlier in 2017.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has not published the letters, but reported last week that Nixon advised Paddock against going on a mass shooting.

“My friend it sounds like you are going to kill or murder someone or some people. Please whatever it is I would like to talk to you about it and we can discuss it,” Nixon reportedly told Paddock on June 1, 2017. “Please don’t go on any shooting rampage like some fool.”

Nixon also reportedly told Paddock to seek help for his dreams.

“You need to talk to someone who know how to deal with dreams. Don’t listen to what the damn dreams tell you. I will help you all I can,” he said.

Nixon, who was friends with Paddock from at least 2013, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that no one in law enforcement ever contacted him after the mass shooting.

The letters are the latest indication that Paddock had severe mental health issues before his involvement in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history—one that killed 60 people.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, there were reports that gunman Stephen Paddock had told people around him he was a “government experiment,” and would often lie in bed “moaning and screaming” in mental anguish.

There were also media reports from 2017 about Paddock being prescribed Diazepam, a sedative-hypnotic drug.

And last month, Headline USA broke a story about the FBI investigating rumors that Paddock had been a psych patient at Mesa View Hospital in Mesquite, Nevada.

However, little attention has been paid to Paddock’s mental health woes.

Even in the wake of the FBI’s recent disclosures, most media outlets have concentrated on records about a possible motive for his killing spree: some $38,000 in gambling losses—a dubious reason, considering that Paddock was reportedly a multimillionaire.

Neither the FBI nor local police have determined a motive for Paddock’s actions.

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

RINO Rep. Nancy Mace: Texas Judge’s Abortion Pill Ruling a ‘Mistake’

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RINO Rep. Nancy Mace: Texas Judge’s Abortion Pill Ruling a ‘Mistake’

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) Rep. Nancy Mace, RINO-S.C., argued on CNN that Texas federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk made a “mistake” blocking the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of two abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.

Mace, who pushed for greater abortion access in the past, argued that the FDA should disregard the ruling. She is the first Republican to publicly do so.

“In fact, when you look at the court case and the ruling here the judge used an act or a law from the 1800s that was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1983, over 100 years later, roughly, that that law was unconstitutional,” Mace told CNN. “This is an FDA-approved drug. Whether you agree with its usage or not, that’s not your decision. That is the FDA’s decision.” 

In January, the pro-life Republican said her party needs to welcome exceptions to abortion bans. Republicans must shift gears or face serious consequences, she warned. At stake, according to her, is nothing less than the party’s very future. Mace also said she is trying to lead her party to a more “centrist” view of abortion amid an internal GOP debate over how far to take its pro-life stance.

“There are members of Congress up here that want to bring forth a bill to the floor that bans all abortions with no exceptions. That is not where the vast majority of people are in this country,” Mace said. “There’s a way to move forward to protect women’s rights and the right to life that should not be off the table.”

Kacsmaryk, a Donald Trump appointee, ruled in favor of an injunction to protect the public from the dangerous implications of the FDA’s hastened approval process.

“By illegally approving dangerous chemical abortion drugs, the FDA put women and girls in harm’s way, and it’s high time the agency is held accountable for its reckless actions,” the Alliance Defending Freedom said in a press release obtained by the Daily Caller. 

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