Former CDC Director Delivers Stunning Wuhan Testimony

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Former CDC Director Delivers Stunning Wuhan Testimony

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a stunning turn of events, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield laid out to Congress the case for the Wuhan lab leak theory surrounding the Coronavirus’ origin and initial spread.

Redfield, testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, noted that the Wuhan lab is deeply suspect for various reasons, the Daily Caller reported.

First, he attacked gain-of-function method research, noting that “it probably caused the greatest pandemic our world has seen.”

The lab’s behavior leading up the the virus sweeping the world, according to the former CDC director, was also deeply suspect.

“In September of 2019, three things happened in that lab. One is they deleted the sequences. That is highly irregular, researchers don’t usually like to do that. Second thing they did was they changed the command and control from civilian control to the military control. Highly unusual,” he said.

Lastly, according to Redfield, the lab made changes to its facility–specifically, its air filtration system.

“And the third thing they did, which I think is really telling, is they let a contractor redo the ventilation system in that laboratory. So I think, clearly, there was a strong evidence that there was a significant event that happened in that laboratory in September.”

Redfield also slammed leftist COVID champion, Anthony Fauci, for forcing him out of COVID response discussions because he was sympathetic to the lab leak theory.

“This was an a priori decision that there’s one point of view, that we’re going to put out there, and anyone who doesn’t agree with it is going to be sidelined,” Redfield testified. “And as I say, I was only the CDC director, and I was sidelined.”

He also noted that Fauci and friends did not believe that Redfield was taking COVID seriously enough.

“I think I made it very clear in January [2020] to all of them why we had to aggressively pursue this,” Redfield continued. “And I let them know as a virologist that I didn’t see that this was anything like SARS or MERS. … And they knew that was how I was thinking.”

The testimony sent Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, into a rage against Fauci’s stunning incompetence.

“So three days after they say it came from a lab, they changed their position, and the only intervening event was a conference call with Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins,” Jordan said.

“Again, a call that Mr. Redfield (CDC Director at the time) was not allowed to be on … And then three months later, Shazam! They get 9 million bucks from Dr. Fauci. Why, isn’t that something?”

Jan. 6 Defendant Moves to Dismiss Case after Tucker Carlson Revelations

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Jan. 6 Defendant Moves to Dismiss Case after Tucker Carlson Revelations

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Jan. 6 defendant Dominic Pezzola filed a motion Thursday morning to have government’s case against him dismissed, arguing that the recent revelations from Fox News host Tucker Carlson show that he did not violently breach Capitol Hill.

Pezzola is one of the defendants in the ongoing Proud Boys sedition conspiracy trial, along with Zachary Rehl, Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs.

Prosecutors have claimed that Pezzola and the others caused Congress to go into recess by entering the Capitol on January 6.

In his motion to dismiss, Pezzola said that no Jan. 6 demonstrators ever entered the House Chamber, where the vote to certify the 2020 presidential election was taking place. And while Jan. 6 protestors did breach the Senate chamber, they did so because of the actions of U.S. Capitol Police, as the newly released Jan. 6 surveillance footage aired by Carlson shows.

“On March 6, Tucker Carlson released shocking footage from January 6th, 2021, that showed “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley walking calmly through the halls of the Capitol with two Capitol Police officers. At one point, one of the officers appears to try opening a door or elevator, and then turns and leads Chansley in another direction,” Pezzola said.

“Later in the video clips, Chansley is seen walking past nine police officers gathered in a hallway intersection. Chansley and his police escorts walk right past the nine officers without any resistance.”

Pezzola said he most disturbing footage of all, for him, is video shown of Chansley kneeling in a prayer amid a group of around two dozen demonstrators and cops in the Senate Chamber. Chansley is shown giving a respectful prayer of thanks to the Capitol Police officers for “letting us into the building.”

The footage of what Pezzola described can be seen here:

Pezzola argued that the footage is “plainly exculpatory” because it establishes that the Senate chamber was never violently breached and, in fact, was treated respectfully by Jan. 6 protestors.

“To the extent protestors entered the chamber, they did so under the supervision of Capitol Police. The Senators on January 6 could have continued proceedings,” he argued.

“It was not Pezzola or codefendants who caused the Congress to recess. Congress interrupted its own proceedings.”

Pezzola’s trial was scheduled to resume today, but prosecutors reportedly notified the presiding judge that they may have inadvertently disclosed classified information to the defense. Nordean’s counsel also accused the FBI of spying on privileged attorney-client communications.

The presiding judge paused the trial for the day to hash out these matters.

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

MSM Try to Makeover ‘Merchant of Death’ Released by Biden as a Real Artist

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MSM Try to Makeover ‘Merchant of Death’ Released by Biden as a Real Artist

(Headline USA) Viktor Bout, a former Russian arms dealer who was released from prison in the U.S. by President Joe Biden in a widely criticized swap for WNBA star Brittney Griner in December, unveiled an exhibition of his artworks at a Moscow gallery this week.

Bout, widely known abroad as the “Merchant of Death,” was convicted in 2011 on terrorism charges with prosecutors saying that he was ready to sell up to $20 million in weapons, including surface-to-air missiles to shoot down U.S. helicopters.

He denied the charges and proclaimed his innocence, describing himself as a legitimate entrepreneur who didn’t sell any weapons. Russian officials have cast him as a victim of a nefarious U.S. sting operation and demanded his release for many years.

When Moscow and Washington made a deal to swap him for Griner in December, Bout was held in a medium-security facility in Marion, Illinois and had not been scheduled to be released until 2029.

After his return to Moscow, Bout, 56, quickly became a member of the Kremlin-backed Liberal Democratic Party but has dodged questions about a possible political career.

Bout’s art exhibition features a wide gamut of styles and subjects — from portraits of Soviet-era movie stars to warplanes to animals. Most of his drawings and paintings are done in a realistic manner, but there are also some attempts at abstract composition.

The exhibition includes personal objects, photos and a floor plan of his cell in the U.S. prison.

“When you are surrounded by absolutely grey walls topped by barbed wire and when you don’t see the horizon for a long time, it’s hard,” Bout said Tuesday at his exhibition. “The deprivation of such visual stimuli was a challenge for me. Drawing helped me overcome all that.”

He added that his experience taught him that “life can always change drastically.”

“You must not give up, you must do everything to the end, and you must remain faithful to your fate despite any difficulties,” Bout said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

GOP Reps. Want Marines Expelled by Vax Mandates Brought Back

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GOP Reps. Want Marines Expelled by Vax Mandates Brought Back

(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) The Marine Corps is being asked by four members of Congress, led by a practicing doctor from North Carolina, to reach out to and return thousands of Marines expelled because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Wednesday’s letter to Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marines, cited “unprecedented recruiting challenges your service and the entire Department of Defense is experiencing.” The letter noted the repeal of the vaccine mandate – by bipartisan support – and recognized the ability of those who could potentially be available for “positions where their Military Occupational Specialty expertise is of critical need.”

North Carolina Republican Rep. Greg Murphy, the only practicing physician in Congress, authored the letter alongside Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., Mike Bost, R-Ill., and Max Miller, R-Ohio. Bost is chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

In a release, Murphy’s office says the “Marine Corps dismissed over 3,700 Marines due to the vaccine mandate – by far the most of any of the military services.”

“It is an utter shame that many of these selfless individuals have been stripped of their livelihoods simply because they made a conscious medical decision,” Murphy said in the release, referring to his representation of more than 52,000 Marines aboard the North Carolina bases of Camp Lejeune and New River Air Station near Jacksonville, and Cherry Point in Havelock.

“Our request is quite simple,” the members of Congress wrote to Berger. “We request your recruiters explore reaching out to the thousands of Marines who were expelled to investigate as to who could fill positions where their Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) expertise is of critical need. We would ask special consideration for those Marines who received re-enlistment bonuses due to a need for their MOS expertise.

“As you know, the Marine Corps is now in the process of attempting to recoup these bonuses, so these dismissed Marines face double jeopardy. General Berger, we greatly respect your past extraordinary service in our Corps and implore you to carefully consider this recommendation.”

The letter comes after an article published in Cell Host & Microbe earlier this year by Drs. Anthony Fauci, David Morens and Jeffery Taubenberger. Fauci, in 2022, left his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, from which he had great influence on the U.S. handling of COVID-19 under both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.

The article says developing long-term vaccines for respiratory conditions like COVID-19 still needs to be overcome, and that it is something researchers have known for years. Joe Zinberg, a Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow, told The Center Square last month that Fauci had acknowledged vaccines “would provide limited protection against infection and only for a short time.” Zinberg said Fauci persisted on the need for vaccines “and until recently pushed for vaccine mandates.”

Gender Ideology is Losing; The ERA Should, Too

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Gender Ideology is Losing; The ERA Should, Too

(Emma Waters, RealClear Wire) Medical professionals and the public are pushing back against radical gender ideologies that have claimed the minds, bodies, and lives of too many children. Those at war against biological sex are losing — but only if the ERA is defeated, too.

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee hosted its latest hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment. This time, to consider the merits of removing the amendments’ pesky expiration date.

Senate Democrats and pro-ERA testifiers avoided unpopular laws that redefine sex to include sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). This isn’t surprising. In the last month, advocates of radical gender ideologies have suffered numerous blows. Nicola Sturgeon, Minister of Scotland, resigned after her Gender Recognition Reform Bill allowed Isla Bryson — a convicted male rapist, who later identified as a woman — placement in a female prison.

In the United States, seven states passed or introduced laws to ban sex-sterilization surgeries or cross-sex hormones for minors. BMJ, an esteemed academic journal, released a study highlighting disagreement among medical professionals on how to treat gender dysphoria. And, a few days before, a whistleblower from the Washington University School of Medicine spoke out against the radical treatments prescribed to minors. With public opinion moving against such redefinitions of gender, those on the Left need a new strategy.

Here’s where the Equal Rights Amendment comes in. The ERA is, at best, a trojan horse for radical ideologies that redefine sex to include “gender identity.” The reality is much worse. If ratified, the ERA could go further than current SOGI laws and dissolve the meaning of sex altogether.

Jennifer C. Braceras, the director of Independent Women’s Law Center, testified against the ERA’s harmful impact on women. She explains,

To begin with, the ERA does not define the word “sex” … Today, the current administration is actively trying to redefine sex-based protections under Title IX and other federal laws to include “gender identity” … Can there be any doubt, then, that activists will try to use the ERA to constitutionally require all sorts of unpopular policies that state and federal legislatures will not or cannot pass?

Still, Senate Democrats and ERA supporters avoided questions about the ERA’s impact on women’s sports, academic opportunities, or the privacy of sex-specific spaces like bathrooms, locker rooms, and prisons. Instead, they claimed these issues distracted from the larger point of equality for women.

Two comments from Tuesday’s hearing highlight this well. First, Chairman Dick Durbin mocked opportunities for female athletes, saying, “Now we hear that what’s at stake really is not a constitutional right for women, but the fate of field hockey.” Similarly, Ms. Thursday Williams said, “There are a lot of concerns about men performing in women’s sports. We’re not worried about that.”

It’s tempting to think that the Equal Rights Amendment simply provides equal opportunities to men and women — that gender identity laws, not the ERA, are the greater threat to the well-being of women in sports, private spaces, and as mothers. This is far from the case, and Democrats know it. Rather than be upfront about their tactics, those on the Left are using the ERA as a trojan horse for their radical redefinition of sex.

Further, the ERA would erase all legal distinctions between men and women. As Inez Stepman points out, current laws based on gender identity require men to “identify” as women to access sex-specific spaces. Yet under the ERA, “Lia” Thomas could remain “William” and have the right to swim on the women’s team. Why? Because the ERA ensures that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Men could enter public female spaces given that they cannot be “discriminated” against based on their sex.

Laws are at their best when narrowly tailored. The ERA nullifies or renders unconstitutional special benefits and protections that women already have under the law. There is a big difference between laws that recognize distinct needs and laws that discriminate against women on illegitimate, non-essential grounds. It is precisely because we value women that laws are tailored to account for their unique position as women, mothers, and athletes.

The only way to defeat the ERA, and radical gender ideologies, is to recognize the inherent difference between men and women. Sex is much more than one’s physical biology, but it is certainly not less. The dissolution of sex must be fought in every sphere, especially in the upcoming ERA debates, for this movement that values women, mothers and biological sex to succeed.

Department of Defense Comes Up Short On Audit

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Department of Defense Comes Up Short On Audit

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Defense has been unable to get a clean audit for decades, which limits the effectiveness of the U.S. military, according to a government report.

That means the most complex federal agency also remains the only one that has been unable to fairly present its financial statements using generally accepted accounting principles.

“Although DOD’s spending makes up about half of the federal government’s discretionary spending, and its physical assets represent more than 70% of the federal government’s physical assets, it remains the only major agency that has never been able to accurately account for and report on its spending or physical assets,” according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

“DOD’s financial management issues extend beyond financial reporting as long-standing control deficiencies adversely affect the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of its operations,” according to the report.

The Department of Defense is the largest U.S. government department. The department employs 2.1 military service members and about 780,000 civilian employees. The president’s budget submission for fiscal year 2023 requested $773 billion for the department, according to the Department of the Defense.

In November 2022, Michael McCord, the undersecretary of defense (comptroller)/chief financial officer, said in a department news source that he did not have a timeline for when the department would be able to get a clean audit.

“I would prefer to see more progress, of course, but we are peeling off the layers,” McCord said at the time.

A Department of Defense did not respond to a message from The Center Square seeking information about a timeline for clean audit on Wednesday.

“For over 30 years, the Department of Defense has initiated a variety of efforts and undergone several changes in organizational responsibility to help modernize its business and financial systems,” according to the GAO report. “However, these efforts and changes have not been fully successful to date. … Its business and financial systems are a key impediment to this effort.”

J6 Inquisition Chief Bennie Thompson Admits Committee Never Had Access to Videos, Never Analyzed Tapes

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J6 Inquisition Chief Bennie Thompson Admits Committee Never Had Access to Videos, Never Analyzed Tapes

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chair of the former J6 Inquisition, dropped a stunning admission amidst the public airing of new J6 video footage, confessing that committee members charged with investigating the Jan. 6 protests never analyzed key video before launching their Tribunal TV mini-series.

That would be the Hollywood-produced show trial where Thompson, along with fellow inquisitors Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, used select segments of video to push their insurrectionist narrative. It was video that none of the committee members appointed by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had bothered to review, according to a Twitter thread from CNN’s Alayna Treene.

Thompson said that before Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., had control of the gavel, nobody in the House, including J6 committee members, were given access to the footage.

“It’s strictly a new policy that the new speaker has put in place,” Thompson told CNN. “I’m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.”

The bombshell admission came in the wake of Thompson’s fellow Democrats and even alleged Republicans condemning Fox News host Tucker Carlson for airing previously unseen J6 footage. The tapes exposed myriad lies created and peddled by the J6 committee members, who it turned out never bothered to analyze key video, of an alleged wide-scale, coordinated insurrection that never happened. 

Thompson’s admission was met with fierce backlash from a public that has been deliberatively spun for nearly three years. 

“So my ‘staff’ never told me, so it’s not my fault,” wrote one commenter. “That’s going to be their plausible deniability defense. There are people still to this day languishing in DC jails held without bail for crimes. They did not commit and were castigated on national television. branded as traitors to the country all in an effort to stigmatize a former president.”

“’We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video,'” another quoted Thompson. “And those team members run in the thousands. AKA the deep state.”

“To be fair, the committee was put in place to produce a pre-ordered outcome,” tweeted another commenter. “They didn’t need to be exposed to any evidence to roll out the playbook guilty verdict. It’s politics, not justice.”

GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell Hospitalized after Fall

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GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell Hospitalized after Fall

(Headline USA) Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized after tripping at a local hotel on Wednesday evening, a spokesman for the senator said.

The Kentucky senator, 81, was attending a private dinner in Washington when he tripped. He was admitted to a hospital for treatment, spokesman Doug Andres said.

McConnell’s office did not provide additional detail on his condition or how long he may be absent from the Senate.

In 2019, the GOP leader tripped and fell at his home in Kentucky, suffering a shoulder fracture. At the time, he underwent surgery to repair the fracture in his shoulder. The Senate had just started a summer recess and he worked from home for some weeks as he recovered.

First elected in 1984, McConnell in January became the longest-serving Senate leader when the new Congress convened, breaking the previous record of 16 years.

The Senate, where the average age is 65, has been without several members recently due to illness.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., 53, who suffered a stroke during his campaign last year, remains institutionalized with clinical depression. And Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., 89, said last week that she had been hospitalized to be treated for shingles.

The Democrat absences have proven a challenge for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who is already navigating a very narrow 51-49 majority.

The Republicans, as the minority party, have had an easier time with intermittent absences. It is unclear if McConnell will be out on Thursday and if that would have an effect on scheduled votes. South Dakota Sen. John Thune is the Senate’s No. 2 Republican.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Bank of America Spilled Info to FBI on Gun Buyers, J6 Protestors

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Bank of America Spilled Info to FBI on Gun Buyers, J6 Protestors

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) An FBI whistleblower testified in a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee in February and said that one of the largest banks in the country — Bank of America — committed a crime by collecting its clients’ bank information to aid the FBI in putting Americans who disagree with the deep state narrative behind bars.

Retired FBI National Security Intelligence Supervisor George Hill, who was based in the Boston Field Office in 2021, said that Bank of America provided a list to the FBI of all customers who made transactions in or around D.C. Jan. 5–7, 2021, to assist the bureau’s Jan. 6 witch hunt, according to a transcription of Hill’s testimony, reported Breitbart.

Hill also added during his hours-long interview that Bank of America wasn’t told by the FBI to compile the list. Instead, the leftist bank leaked the supposedly private information willfully.

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said that he received “dozens” of complaints from FBI whistleblowers that may relate to the work of the subcommittee since Joe Biden stepped into the Oval Office. Hill was one of the whistleblowers who was interviewed. On Friday, Jordan also requested that FBI Director Christopher Wray arrange for 16 FBI employees to testify in interviews with the committee.

As was expected, the Left dismissed the credibility of the three witnesses and specifically accused Hill of providing unreliable testimony about the woke bank, according to their report.

“He had no knowledge of the actual origins of this supposed evidence, never used the evidence himself and never looked at the actual document containing the information,” they wrote, adding that Hill was involved only in “less than a dozen” cases related to Jan. 6, 2021.

Therefore, Democrats said, they couldn’t “reasonably find this testimony reliable.”

“In any event, that a large financial institution may have provided evidence to the FBI in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol is hardly newsworthy, and certainly not evidence of FBI misconduct,” they wrote.

However, according to Hill’s testimony transcript, he was clear about him not physically seeing the Bank of America list.

“I did not see the list, but I did see the EC [electronic communication] that the FBI used it to bring it into the—into SENTINEL [FBI database],” Hill said.

Bank of America has a long history of showing their leftoid bias, like handing over their customers’ data — customer purchases of plane tickets to Washington D.C., hotel room rentals, and other purchases in the Washington DC area — to the federal agents after the Capitol Hill protest, as it was extensively reported by Cancel This Company.

Federal Judge Rules Biden’s Border Policies Illegal

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Federal Judge Rules Biden’s Border Policies Illegal

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A federal judge in Florida ruled Wednesday that the Biden administration’s “catch-and-release” border policy, in which foreign nationals in the country illegally are released into the U.S. instead of being deported, is unlawful.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has argued since she filed a lawsuit challenging the policy in March 2021 that the program is illegal. On Wednesday, a federal judge agreed.

In a scathing 109-page opinion, U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell for the Northern District of Florida Pensacola Division ruled the Biden administration’s “catch-and-release” policy is unlawful and “due to be vacated.” He also denied the administration’s motion for summary judgement, vacated the administration’s “Parole+ATD” Policy under the Administrative Procedures Act, and gave the administration seven days to seek appellate review and comply with federal law and his ruling.

Wetherell, of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Florida, ruled, “The Court finds in favor of Florida because, as detailed below, the evidence establishes that Defendants have effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speedbump for aliens flooding into the country by prioritizing ‘alternatives to detention’ over actual detention and by releasing more than a million aliens into the country – on ‘parole’ or pursuant to the exercise of ‘prosecutorial discretion’ under a wholly inapplicable statute – without even initiating removal proceedings.”

The judge also said of the administration’s policies: “Collectively, these actions were akin to posting a flashing ‘Come In, We’re Open’ sign on the southern border. The unprecedented ‘surge’ of aliens that started arriving at the Southwest Border almost immediately after President Biden took office and that has continued unabated over the past two years was a predictable consequence of these actions. …

“Thus, like a child who kills his parents and then seeks pity for being an orphan, it is hard to take Defendants’ claim that they had to release more aliens into the country because of limited detention capacity seriously when they have elected not to use one of the tools provided by Congress in §1225(b)(2)(C) and they have continued to ask for less detention capacity in furtherance of their prioritization of ‘alternatives to detention’ over actual detention.”

Moody said the ruling confirms what she has been saying for two years.

“Today’s ruling affirms what we have known all along, President Biden is responsible for the border crisis and his unlawful immigration policies make this country less safe,” Moody said. “A federal judge is now ordering Biden to follow the law, and his administration should immediately begin securing the border to protect the American people.”

Throughout the course of litigation, various Biden administration policies were exposed.

Last August, in one deposition, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified the southern border was “currently in a crisis” as a result of Biden administration policies. By September, Florida made public a memo issued by Ortiz instructing agents to release noncitizens into the U.S. en masse because there wouldn’t be enough space to detain them.

Another deposition of another top federal official revealed that that ICE agents were removing seven times fewer people who entered the U.S. illegally in the past year than the agency did 10 years ago. ICE was also only detaining about half the number of people it did during the Trump administration and 40% less the number of people who entered the U.S. illegally than it did during a 2019 border surge, according to the testimony.

Another piece of evidence released by Moody related to Biden administration policies repealing processing pathways of the MPP, ACA and PACR, which impacted Border Patrol agents’ ability to expeditiously process and remove illegal foreign nationals. Restrictions were also put in place regarding detention that forced agents to release hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals into the U.S. instead of deporting them.

The case went to trial in January and lasted one week. On the first day, Moody’s legal team presented what she called “bombshell evidence that the federal government wrongfully withheld until just before the trial” showing the administration’s plan to release people en masse into the U.S.

The ruling comes as U.S. Customs and Border Protection Miami Sector reported a 500% increase in apprehensions in fiscal 2022 compared to fiscal 2021, and as U.S. Coast Guard crews off the coast of Florida are on track to break last year’s apprehension records.

In January, Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency and last month introduced sweeping border security measures.

“Florida is a law and order state, and we won’t turn a blind eye to the dangers of Biden’s Border Crisis,” DeSantis said. “We will continue to take steps to protect Floridians from reckless federal open border policies.”

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