Majority of Planned Parenthood ‘Clinics’ Located 5 Miles from College Campuses

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Majority of Planned Parenthood ‘Clinics’ Located 5 Miles from College Campuses

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Planned Parenthood is targeting college students by placing a majority of its facilities within 5 miles of campuses.

Students for Life of America’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement claimed in a Tuesday report that 87.6% of PP’s 563 facilities are located within 5 miles of a college campus, which is an 8.6% increase since SFL conducted the study nearly 10 years ago.

“This demonstrates that the Gen Z demographic is being targeted as a customer of the abortion giant more than ever before, as the location of Planned Parenthood facilities appears inextricably tied to the location of a college campus,” the report stated, according to the Daily Caller.

Approximately 16% of the open facilities are operating in a state that has outlawed abortion. As a “solution,” PP tells young college girls to get an abortion in neighboring states that have not made murdering unborn babies illegal. Out of all of these 59 facilities, only three of them are not located within 5 miles of a college campus.

“It’s painfully obvious that Planned Parenthood is preying on college students, and this is yet another reason that we need to defund the abortion giant,” Caroline Wharton, SFLA press strategist said.

“American taxpayers do not want to aid in the victimization of college-aged women as they are manipulated to their emotional/physical detriment to end the lives of their babies for the abortion industry’s profit.”

The report also said that college-aged girls see abortion as the only available choice, so it recommends expanding pro-life outreach on college campuses and increasing community awareness of local pregnancy centers.

In its first year, SFLA’s Campaign for Abortion-Free Cities found out that 73% of community members were unaware of local Pregnancy Help Centers. Within one year, the campaign increased awareness by 10% by pushing online advertisements and through door-to-door messaging.

“Equipping students with their local life-affirming resources is the foundation needed for breaking trust with Planned Parenthood,” the report stated. “Success is found from these grassroots efforts, not from expecting state laws to eliminate abortion immediately.”

Wharton pointed out once again that it is very important to inform female college students that abortion is not the only available option.

“The findings of this report also highlight the importance of the Pro-Life Generation’s work to bring life-affirming resources on campus. Young women in unplanned pregnancies should never feel that Planned Parenthood is the only place they can turn,” Wharton said.

“Instead, our student groups alongside our initiative StandingWithYou provide these women with resources and a support system that can be life-changing for her and life-saving for her baby.”

Hawley Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Trans Triggerman Mass Shooting

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Hawley Calls for Hate Crime Probe of Trans Triggerman Mass Shooting

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called on FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to open a federal hate crime investigation into the Christian elementary school shooting that happened on Monday in Nashville, Tennessee.

Police said that a 28-year-old woman who identified as a “transgender man” killed three 9-year-old children and three adults at The Covenant School, which is connected to the conservative evangelical Covenant Presbyterian Church. Authorities also stated that the shooter executed a “targeted attack” and left behind a “manifesto.”

Hawley said that the reason why the tragedy happened is that the shooter had a specific desire to harm Christians, the Daily Wire reported.

“Yesterday the nation witnessed the vicious murder of small schoolchildren in Nashville, Tennessee,” Hawley wrote in a letter to the senior Biden administration officials. “It is commonplace to call such horrors ‘senseless violence.’ But properly speaking, that is false. Police report that the attack here was ‘targeted’ — targeted, that is, against Christians.”

He also added that federal law criminalizes acts of violence based on their actual or perceived “religion.”  Police detectives even say that they suspected why the shooter targeted this specific school is that she had “some resentment” for having to attend it.

“I urge you to immediately open an investigation into this shooting as a federal hate crime,” Hawley added.

“The full resources of the federal government must be brought to bear to determine how this crime occurred, and who may have influenced the deranged shooter to carry out these horrific crimes. Hate that leads to violence must be condemned. And hate crimes must be prosecuted.”

The shooter executed her attack the same week the Trans Radical Activist Network called for a “day of vengeance.”

The students who were killed in the shooting were Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all 9 years old. The school’s 60-year-old principal, Dr. Katherine Koonce, and 61-year-old staffers Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill were also killed.

Megyn Kelly Shreds ESPN for Including Trans Swimmer in Women’s History Month

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Megyn Kelly Shreds ESPN for Including Trans Swimmer in Women’s History Month

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Megyn Kelly blasted ESPN for including biological male trans swimmer Lia Thomas in its Women’s History month segment, during an episode of her podcast with guests Amala Ekpunobi and Evita Duffy-Alfonso.

In a tribute dubbed “Celebrating Women’s History Month,” the sports network celebrated the biological male trans swimmer, memorializing his movement from men’s sports to the women’s scene.

As reported by The Daily Wire, Kelly told the guests on her podcast, “We’ve gone too far, Amala. They want tolerance. We want tolerance. We want tolerance for our spaces and our awards and our sports.”

Referring to a Daily Wire report, the former Fox News Host mentioned Thomas’s “weird fetishes” and “severe mental issues”, which the trans swimmer has yet to address.

She continued, “The fact that they are now….asking us to celebrate Lia Thomas as one of the women we should be stopping to pause and celebrate on women’s month. They’ve gone too far.”

The podcast host had previously blasted Vice President Kamala Harris for ignoring all Republican first women in her tribute for Women’s History Month. 

Kelly said, “If you were a Republican who’d achieved anything, you were f***ing gone. However, sadly Kamala Harris forgot some important women in her tribute.”

The former Fox News Host pointed out that Harris excluded Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, who made history as the first woman to receive a nomination from her party. 

“Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman, the first woman to ever sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, ignored. Sonia Sotomayor, she gets a shout-out, why?” Kelly asked. “First Latino woman. So being a woman doesn’t matter in Women’s History Month.”

Kelly then suggested that Harris left out these essential names in her tribute so she could talk about herself.

“You wanted to talk about yourself being the first to create history and the vice presidential role? It wasn’t you… Yes, to win, but not to get the nomination. Geraldine did, and then Sarah Palin way before you did, Kamala,” the podcast host noted. “You were the first to win. But it wasn’t Hillary, that’s for sure.”

Her guest Ekpunobi concluded, “So I think we should also acknowledge that during their [2023 International] Women’s Courage Awards, this administration gave an award to a biological male as a woman who symbolizes courage.”

Lawmakers Blast Biden Energy Policies, Propose Permitting Reform

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Lawmakers Blast Biden Energy Policies, Propose Permitting Reform

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Senate Republicans blasted the Biden administration’s energy policies Tuesday and pointed to House legislation that could, among other things, reform the permitting process to allow for more oil and gas drilling.

Gas prices rose to record highs last summer, surpassing $5 per gallon of regular gas. Those prices dropped but are expected to rise again this year. President Joe Biden has prioritized renewable energy sources, discouraging or sometimes outright blocking either pipeline development or new drilling.

“This administration has become so beholden to the far left, all these Green New Deal climate ideologists and extremists,” U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said during the a news conference Tuesday with her colleagues.

“And what they are so fixated on in this administration is making sure that everybody is driving an electrical vehicle,” she added. “Think about it. Where do the batteries for those electric vehicles come from? They come from China. So what the administration is saying is we should be more reliant on China and the batteries that require child and slave labor to produce instead of looking inward at the abundant resources that we have domestically, he continues to look outward and rely on our adversaries.”

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said energy prices have risen roughly 40% since Biden took office and pointed to permitting reform as a key Republican solution.

“We’re looking at ways to put time limits on bureaucratic foot-dragging that slows down projects and dangerous and damaging and dilatory lawsuits to make it harder to get projects built,” he said. “That’s our focus.”

U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said Senate Republicans will be working this week to overturn multiple Energy Department regulations, in particular the Waters of the U.S. rule that gives the federal government broad authority over local waters, even small ponds.

“We view energy security to be synonymous with national security,” he said. “And while the Senate is unlikely to take up whatever the House ends up passing, we believe it is an issue that should be debated in the United States Senate, which is why we continue to raise a lot of these issues through the use of the Congressional Review Act Resolutions of Disapproval.”

Biden and other Democrats have pointed to climate concerns while Republicans have focused on the higher energy costs for Americans.

Critics also point out that while the U.S. reins in fossil fuel use, other nations are not. For example, developing nations are showing little signs of holding off their energy growth and China, one of the biggest environmental offenders, builds two coal plants a week

“Joe Biden has surrendered to climate hysteria,” Barrasso said. “And in surrendering, he has hurt the American people in terms of their finances as well as their freedom. This is a betrayal of the American people.”

This is not the only criticism the Energy Department has received recently. As The Center Square previously reported, a watchdog report of the agency found “risks of insufficient federal staffing, potential conflicts of interest, recipient fraud, and inadequate internal controls, among others” that led to this waste in the Inflation Reduction Act and other recent spending bills.

House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and subcommittee chair Pat Fallon, R-Texas, announced an investigation into the Energy Department, sending a letter to Secretary Jennifer Granholm calling for answers.

“According to a DOE Office of Inspector General (OIG) report detailing DOE’s management challenges for Fiscal Year 2023, the Department’s budget ‘will grow from managing a $45.3 billion budget in fiscal year 2022 to $100 billion of appropriated funds and $336 billion in loan authorities’ in fiscal year 2023,” the letter said. “The OIG states, ‘[t]hese are historic and unprecedented times at the Department of Energy’ and warns about ‘a greatly increased risk of fraud, waste, and mismanagement.’”

38% of Congress Didn’t Need Additional Funds

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38% of Congress Didn’t Need Additional Funds

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) As part of the various appropriations given to help House members do their jobs, U.S. Representatives receive a Members’ Representational Allowance, which is adjusted each year to match inflation.

A recent report from Legistorm found that 38% of offices didn’t touch a penny of the additional adjustment in 2022, calling into question just how much money members need to run their offices.

According to the House’s website, the MRA is an appropriation given to each House member for “support of the conduct of official and representational duties to the district from which elected.” It includes a staffing figure, an official expenses figure, and an official mail figure.

In 2022, MRAs averaged $1.8 million. From 2021 to 2022, each member’s allowance was raised 21%, or about $314,000 per office.

Most offices only used about 84% of their total funding before the increase. On average, Democrats spent about 4.4% more of their budgets than their Republican colleagues.

Money that’s not spent doesn’t go back to taxpayers. According to the House website, unexpended funds are available for two additional years before they are returned to the Treasury, allowing offices to stockpile cash.

Members of Congress are demonstrating that they can perform their jobs just fine with only 84% of their current budget. Its absurd to continue funding offices at these levels, because it’s clearly not necessary.

COMMENT: The Real Insurrection, and the Dirty Politics of Jan. 6

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COMMENT: The Real Insurrection, and the Dirty Politics of Jan. 6

(Frank Miele, RealClear Wire) The Democrats say that Jan. 6 was the worst attack on American democracy since the Civil War. They call it an insurrection, but if it was indeed the worst since 1865, no one but a fool would dare claim it even remotely approached the scale of the bloody war between the states.

And if you weren’t a fool, you might conclude that Jan. 6 was nothing like an insurrection. It wasn’t violent in the sense of an armed rebellion. It wasn’t organized. And it didn’t seek to overthrow the government, but to protect the Constitution. In more ways than not, it was a defense of American democracy, not an attack on it.

In every particular, Jan. 6 was a pale shadow compared to the Civil War. To start with, it lasted less than six hours, whereas the Civil War lasted four long years. The war between the North and South cost the lives of 620,000 soldiers and another 50,000 civilians. The Jan. 6 incursion at the U.S. Capitol, on the other hand, claimed the lives of just two women protesters, Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland. Among the defenders of the Capitol, police officer Brian Sicknick died after suffering two strokes the next day, but without a direct known connection to the riot. Two other protesters died of natural causes during the siege, and four law officers died by suicide in the months following the attack. If you count all of those as legitimate casualties of Jan. 6, then the total comes to nine compared to a minimum of 670,000 in the Civil War.

It would be impossible to exaggerate the stark differences between Jan. 6 and the Civil War.

Yet somehow, the Democrats (yes, members of the same Democratic Party that instigated the Civil War) were able to use the Jan. 6 incursion of the Capitol as a means to terrorize their political enemies and to punish those who used their rights of free speech and free thought to question the legitimacy of the Biden presidency.

As of March 6, 2023, more than 1,000 people have been charged with crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. But the Biden administration is not done seeking its pound of flesh from Trump supporters. Last week, we learned that the Department of Justice (hereinafter the Department of Retaliation) had sent a letter to the chief judge of the D.C. federal court warning that between 700 and 1,200 more people will be charged with Jan. 6 crimes. More than two years after the fact! That brings the total of citizens likely to be charged to approximately 2,000, and according to the White House these are all domestic terrorists.

Now, to be clear, there was at least one instance of terrorism on Jan. 6, 2021, when pipe bombs were planted at the national headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic parties. But the perpetrator of that failed attack has never been identified, let alone charged. Instead, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the House Jan. 6 select committee and the White House have focused on making examples out of American citizens who believed that a corrupt election had been held in 2020.

By insisting that U.S. elections are always beyond reproach, the Democrats and their allies in the media have de facto criminalized the formerly protected speech of millions of Americans who have lost confidence in the electoral system. And the Justice Department, on behalf of President Biden, has decided to make an example of the Jan. 6 protesters in order to quell dissent among Republicans who might otherwise be tempted to carry a Trump flag to the Capitol.

If you don’t think that the prosecution, and accompanying lengthy jail sentences, of 2,000 protesters for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6 is excessive, consider this:

Following the real insurrection, the Civil War, hardly any of the 1 million men who fought on behalf of the Confederacy were charged with any crimes, let alone treason. That’s because President Abraham Lincoln, and President Andrew Johnson after him, recognized the importance of binding the nation together following the tumultuous war years. Instead of seeking retaliation, and humiliation of former enemies, they (and most Northerners) sought reconciliation and understanding. Forgiveness, not punishment, was the watchword.

In a Christmas Day proclamation in 1868, Johnson granted “a full pardon and amnesty to all persons engaged in the late rebellion.” He wrote, in part:

[A] universal amnesty and pardon for participation in said rebellion extended to all who have borne any part therein will tend to secure permanent peace, order, and prosperity throughout the land, and to renew and fully restore confidence and fraternal feeling among the whole people, and their respect for and attachment to the National Government, designed by its patriotic founders for the general good.

Further, Johnson declared:

…unconditionally, and without reservation, to all and to every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion, a full pardon and amnesty for the offence of treason against the United States, or of adhering to their enemies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights, privileges, and immunities under the Constitution and the laws which have been made in pursuance thereof.

Now compare that to the zealous and unyielding pursuit by Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice of the Jan. 6 protesters, the vast majority of whom neither waged war, nor committed treason, but only trespassed in an effort to assure that their grievances were heard. Unbelievably, many of those protesters remain in jail 26 months after the riot without ever having received the speedy trial they are promised by the Constitution, and others – once convicted – face lengthy prison terms in unfathomable conditions.

What does the DOJ say about its mission? Here’s an excerpt from the department’s March 6 update:

[T]he investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the attack continues to move forward at an unprecedented speed and scale. The Department of Justice’s resolve to hold accountable those who committed crimes on January 6, 2021, has not, and will not, wane.

As I said before, it’s the Department of Retaliation, and there’s no reason to think it will end there. The special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and his actions and words on Jan. 6 represents a new low in American politics. No matter how Merrick Garland or Joe Biden spin it, this is not about justice, but about eliminating the biggest threat to Biden’s reelection.

Where is James Comey when you need him? Remember when the former FBI director recited the not insubstantial case against Hillary Clinton for possession of classified information on an illegal server, and then declared “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”? That is exactly how most nonpartisan people feel about the case against Trump, who, unlike Hillary, was president and actually had the power to declassify any documents in his possession.

Even more outrageous is claiming that Trump was guilty of treason or inciting a riot because he asked his supporters to walk from the Ellipse to the Capitol on Jan. 6 “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” That’s not incitement; it’s First Amendment-protected political speech. And when Trump said, “We fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” he wasn’t talking about invading the Capitol; he was specifically talking about fighting against election fraud. Any other interpretation is disingenuous.

Yet the Department of Retaliation continues its relentless assault on Trump supporters like a bureaucratic version of Inspector Javert from Les Miserables. Instead of showing the magnanimity of President Johnson following the Civil War, the Democratic administration of Joe Biden insists on fracturing our society even more than it was at the end of the Trump administration.

Remember Andrew Johnson’s words? He said that a pardon “will tend to secure permanent peace, order, and prosperity throughout the land, and to renew and fully restore confidence and fraternal feeling among the whole people.” Why can’t the Democrats and their sympathizers like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger see that their obdurate persecution of Trump voters will have the opposite effect? Instead of bringing their opponents to heel, they will just foment greater hatred and distrust among those who already feel abandoned and rejected by their government.

Or maybe the Democrats do know exactly what they are doing. Spanish-born and American-educated philosopher George Santayana said,  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” but maybe even more dangerous are those who distort the past. They condemn the rest of us to a legacy of permanent chaos, lies, and animosity, and of course they expect us to shut up and take it. There was no insurrection on Jan. 6, but that doesn’t mean the people will be patient forever.

DOJ Watchdog Promises Report on Jeffrey Epstein’s Death within Months

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DOJ Watchdog Promises Report on Jeffrey Epstein’s Death within Months

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said last week that his report on the mysterious prison death of sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein should be made public “in the next couple of months.”

Horowitz made his remarks last Wednesday towards the tail end of a budget hearing with the House Appropriations Committee. His written statement also revealed that his office is in the final stages of the Epstein investigation—though he didn’t mention that verbally to the committee.

Horowitz’s update on the long-awaited investigation follows a letter an attorney for Epstein survivors sent the inspector general earlier this month, requesting an update on the status of the probe.

“It has been 3.5 years since former Attorney General [William] Barr announced the investigation. On behalf of many victims of Jeffrey Epstein whom I represent, I respectfully request information on when this investigation announced by Mr. Barr will conclude,” wrote attorney Gloria Allred on March 2.

“It is unfair that the victims of Jeffrey Epstein continue to be denied the knowledge of the conditions which existed at MCC that led to Mr. Epstein’s death. The victims of Mr. Epstein deserve to be told the truth about how and why the justice system failed them again.”

Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide by hanging, but his lawyers contested that claim. Skeptics point to malfunctioning surveillance cameras, sleeping guards and broken bones in Epstein’s neck as indications that his death was something other than suicide.

Because of Epstein’s extensive fraternization with high-profile politicians and celebrities such as Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Prince Andrew and Bill Gates, some claim that Epstein’s death was actually a hit job to silence him.

More recently, Epstein’s madame, Ghislaine Maxwell, made a similar claim.

“I believe that he was murdered. I was shocked, and I wondered, ‘How did this happen?’ Because I was sure he was going to appeal, and I was sure he was covered by the non-prosecution agreement,” Maxwell told British reporter Jeremy Kyle in January.

Epstein’s former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, also said he doesn’t think Epstein killed himself—at least not by himself.

“He did kill himself, but he killed himself with the help of guards. He didn’t do it by himself,” said Dershowitz, the lawyer who helped Epstein secure his sweetheart deal with the Department of Justice in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to a state charge of procuring for prostitution a girl below the age of 18.

“The videos were turned off and the guards turned their back and his cellmate left. So, I think he killed himself, but he killed himself with some assistance.”

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

Pope Francis Updates Laws Addressing Sexual Abuse in Catholic Church

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Pope Francis Updates Laws Addressing Sexual Abuse in Catholic Church

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has updated and finalized his 2019 Vos estis lux mundi, which was his landmark legislation to counter sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

The previous version of the promulgation was experimental and has been in place since 2019, according to Vatican News.

The new version clarifies that the archbishop responsible for the area where the crime occurred is responsible for the investigation. The updated law requires an established office the public may visit, whereas the previous one only required a “stable system.”

It also requires the protection of the privacy of accuser and accused, and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. The law also establishes strict timelines regarding the investigation of bishops.

Michael J. Mazza—the author of The Right of a Cleric to Bona Fama, and a graduate from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross whose practice specializes in defamation actions and the protection of clerics, spoke to The Daily Wire about the updated law.

“The new VELM contains a slight but potentially significant change in the reporting obligations,” Mazza pointed out. “Now defined in terms such that anything revealed to a cleric ‘in the internal forum’ is excepted from the reporting requirement.”

With this exception, Mazza argues, Pope Francis clearly implies that civil law is to take priority over cannon law in cases involving sexual misconduct.

Another update of the policy is the inclusion of laypeople, non-ordained Catholics in the accountability process.

“The lay faithful who are or have been moderators of international associations of the faithful recognized or created by the Apostolic See [are responsible] for acts committed [while they were in office],” the updated version reads.

The updated version also includes new protections for the mentally disabled.

The initial version referred to “sexual acts with a minor or a vulnerable person,” but the updated law speaks of “a crime against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue committed with a minor, or with a person who habitually has an imperfect use of reason, or with a vulnerable adult.”

Mazza also spoke about the presumption of innocence of the accused.

“I am very pleased to see the right to reputation is now specifically mentioned, along with respect for the presumption of innocence,” he wrote.

“It will be interesting to see if this very clear direction from the Holy See will have an impact on the odious — but very common — practice in the USA of publishing the names of ‘credibly accused’ clerics before any penal process has occurred. This is often done in the name of ‘transparency,’ but it wreaks an unjust, serious, and lasting harm to the reputation of accused clerics.”

Calif. Prosecutors Quit in Protest of Soros-Funded DA’s Pro-Criminal Plea Deals

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Calif. Prosecutors Quit in Protest of Soros-Funded DA’s Pro-Criminal Plea Deals

(Headline USA) Several prosecutors have quit in protest from Oakland District Attorney Pamela Price’s office this week after she tried to slash a sentence in a triple murder case.

Price, a George Soros-funded leftist, brokered a plea deal earlier this year that would have reduced sentencing a triple-murder case from 75 years to life in prison down to just 15 years, ABC 7 News reported.

The perpetrator, 31-year-old Delonzo Logwood, was charged with gunning down three people in a murder for hire, carjacking and robbery. Logwood also allegedly killed a witness who was set to testify against his stepbrother.

An Alameda Superior Court judge threw out Price’s plea deal this week, but prosecutors in Price’s office say this is just the latest example of the leftist district attorney deliberately refusing to enforce the law to the fullest extent.

Charly Weissenbach, a former prosecutor in Price’s office, said she quit because she really “felt that lives would be lost because of Price.”

“I really did,” Weissenbach said. “And I hoped that I was being dramatic. I hoped that I was wrong. And now that her policies are playing out, I know that I wasn’t.”

Veteran prosecutor Jill Nerone also announced her resignation this month, citing her concerns about her ability to “protect the rights of victims” because of Price.

In another case of Price slashing a criminal sentence, unlicensed driver Cesar Garcia was able to enter into a plea deal after he caused a traffic accident and injured several people, including a pregnant woman who lost her 8-month-old baby as a result. He fled the scene and tried to report his car as stolen, according to court records.

Garcia was initially charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident and felony reckless driving with serious injury. But this month, Price offered Garcia a plea deal that allowed him to plead “no contest” to vandalism and serve just one year in county jail.

“Pamela Price and her administration are putting criminal defendants, criminal suspects before victims, before the community,” Weissenbach said.

Chris Christie Suggests He Is Only One Who Can Beat Trump in 2024

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Chris Christie Suggests He Is Only One Who Can Beat Trump in 2024

(Headline USA) Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie suggested this week that he is the only Republican who could beat former President Donald Trump in the 2024 primary.

Speaking in New Hampshire on Monday at a St. Anselm College event, Christie claimed he has the experience and appeal necessary to topple Trump. He referenced a viral exchange with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., during the 2016 primary presidential debate, in which he blasted Rubio as inexperienced.

“You better have somebody on that stage who can do to [Trump] what I did to Marco, because that’s the only thing that’s going to defeat Donald Trump,” Christie claimed. “And that means you have to be fearless, because he will come back and right at you.”

Christie then suggested that some of the current Republican hopefuls, including former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, don’t have the guts to call Trump out. Neither Pence nor DeSantis have yet announced 2024 bids.

“It’s not going to end nicely, no matter what,” Christie said. “His end will not be a calm and quiet conclusion.”

Christie dropped out of the 2016 primary a week after his viral exchange with Rubio and endorsed Trump. He has since become vocally critical of the former president, accusing Trump this week of leading the GOP down a “sinkhole of anger and retribution.”

“Donald Trump said a couple of weeks ago, ‘I am your retribution.’ Guess what everybody? No thanks. No dice,” Christie said Monday. “He doesn’t want to be my retribution. That’s baloney. The only person he cares about is him.”

When asked about his plans to run for president, Christie said, “I have my timetable.”

Christie then said endorsing Trump back in 2016 was a “mistake” and admitted he made a “strategic error” in thinking other candidates would be able to beat Trump.

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