Newspaper Calls Out Biden’s Fake War Story, Then Gives Him a Free Pass

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‘President Trump’s routine falsehoods have changed the standards by which other presidential aspirants, including Biden, should be judged…’

Biden Grows Upset as Obama Flirts With Younger Democratic Presidential Contenders
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed to have offered solace to student survivors of the Parkland, Fla. school massacre—even though it happened after the end of his administration.

On Thursday, the Democratic primary front-runner was caught in another embellishment about traveling to Afghanistan to pin a silver star on the lapel of an injured Navy captain.

The Washington Post relayed the riveting anecdote, delivered to a New Hampshire audience of 400 during a speech last week.

“Except almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect,” reported the Post on Thursday.

“Based on interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened,” said the paper.

It comes as Biden faces increasing scrutiny over a series of gaffes and misstatements that threaten to derail his presidential bid—or at least narrow his double-digit lead in the nominating contest to take on President Donald Trump next year.

“In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony,” the Post said.

Biden defended his telling of the story in a follow-up interview with the Post after their initial report had been published.

“I was making the point how courageous these people are, how incredible they are, this generation of warriors, these fallen angels we’ve lost,” he told opinion columnist Jonathan Capehart. “I don’t know what the problem is. What is it that I said wrong?”

The Post noted that the 76-year-old Biden’s flourishes were more than simply the effect of senility. Rather, they touched on a longstanding pattern of blurring fact and fiction, including a plagiarism scandal that ended his first run for president in 1988.

Similar troubles plagued 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who caught figurative flak for falsely claiming to have taken literal flak—or rather, sniper fire—after landing at a Bosnian airport.

After defending his account to the Post, Biden later denied, during a stop in South Carolina on Thursday, that he was even aware of the newspaper’s reporting.

He reiterated his line to the Charleston Post and Courier that the spirit of his story was truthful, if not the substance, according to Politico, even partially retelling the tale in language that closely paralleled the earlier version.

“I don’t understand what they’re talking about, but the central point is it was absolutely accurate what I said,” Biden said. “He refused the medal. I put it on him, he said, ‘Don’t do that to me, sir. He died. He died.’”

Although the Post analysis noted that the tear-jerking story had been told and revised many times through the years as Biden sought to highlight his patriotic, pro-military sentiments, the paper seemed to give him a pass on the long-repeated falsehood, saying the Trump era had recontextualized the telling of political mistruths.

The Jeff Bezos-owned paper then cited a widely disputed statistic from its own partisan-leaning fact-checkers that Trump told more than 12,000 lies from the start of his presidency through mid-July of 2019.

“One big question facing candidates and voters more than 30 years later is whether President Trump’s routine falsehoods have changed the standards by which other presidential aspirants, including Biden, should be judged,” the paper’s news section opined.

WASH POST: Words Like ‘Reason’ and ‘Civility’ Are Racist Dog-Whistles

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‘The reasonable right’s rhetoric is exactly the same as the antebellum rhetoric … Rhetoric, to be precise, in support of the slave-owning South…’

University Attempts to Move Ben Shapiro Event Far from Campus
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Once counted foremost among the virtues of sound and effective leadership, calls for reason and civility in politics are now considered racist in left-wing circles, according to an op-ed that ran Thursday in The Washington Post.

Writer Eve Fairbanks—a freelance commentator for liberal mouthpieces like The New Republic, HuffPo and Buzzfeed—charged in her recent take-down of a movement dubbed the “reasonable right,” embraced by conservative thinkers like Ben Shapiro, that its arguments closely mirrored those of Southern leaders prior to the Civil War.

Fairbanks—a self-described history buff who grew up in northern Virginia—wrote, “The reasonable right’s rhetoric is exactly the same as the antebellum rhetoric … Rhetoric, to be precise, in support of the slave-owning South.”

However, she made no mention in her historical account of nation-rending episodes like the “Bleeding Kansas” movement, in which non-slave-holding settlers in the midwestern territory were brutally murdered and pillaged by free-soil abolitionists as politicians haggled over whether to allow slavery in the proposed state.

“Proslavery rhetoricians talked little of slavery itself,” Fairbanks wrote. “Instead, they anointed themselves the defenders of ‘reason,’ free speech and ‘civility.'”

Whether the abolitionist ends justified the means of radicals like John Brown—whose acts of domestic terrorism helped trigger Southern secession—continues to be debated today.

Still, Fairbanks’ false equivalency between antebellum and modern-day calls for compromise is all the more shocking when the context of slavery is removed.

“All of this is there in the reasonable right,” wrote Fairbanks: “The claim that they are the little people struggling against prevailing winds. The argument that they’re the ones championing reason and common sense. The allegation that their interlocutors aren’t so much wrong as excessive; they’re just trying to think freely and are being tormented. The reliance on hyperbole and slippery slopes to warn about their adversaries’ intentions and power.”

As she goes on to dismiss the notion that members of the “reasonable right” are a suppressed minority, Fairbanks leaves lingering the insinuation that the modern Right supports slavery—or some contemporary version thereof. But others have connected the dots for her.

At a recent campaign stop in North Carolina, in a bid to downplay valid criticisms of divisive left-wing pandering, Sen. Kamala Harris declared that political opponents had supplanted ‘coded’ language like “race card” with new ‘dog-whistle’ terms like “identity politics.”

Others, such as the far-left members of “The Squad” have made race-baiting a signature part of their rhetoric, no matter the argument—whether addressing border security, the Electoral College or plans to nationalize vast sectors of the American economy.

“Many reasonable-right figures find themselves defending the liberties of people to the right of them,” Fairbanks said. “Not because they agree with these people, they say, but on principle.”

She accused conservative centrists of passive-aggressively enabling extremism and guilting leftist radicals into silence by weaponizing their so-called tolerance against them.

“Joining the reasonable right seems to render these figures desirable contributors to center-left media outlets,” Fairbanks said.

“That’s because, psychologically, the claim to victimhood can function as a veiled threat,” she continued. “It tricks the listener into entering a world where the speaker is the needy one, fragile, requiring the listener to constantly adjust his behavior to cater to the imperiled person.”

Fairbanks went on to claim that conservatives had subversively used their victim-posturing to sway infallibly left-leaning newsrooms and college campuses into condoning their errant perspectives.

“With this threat, the reasonable right has recruited the left into serving its purpose,” she asserted. “Media outlets and college campuses now go to extraordinary lengths to prove their ‘balance’ and tolerance, bending over backward to give platforms to right-wing writers and speakers who already have huge exposure.”

Fairbank’s argument implicitly invoked a leftist trope of the inevitable march toward ‘progress’ that puts supporters of the status-quo on the ‘wrong side of history.’

“If somebody says liberals have become illiberal, you should consider whether it’s true,” Fairbanks wrote. “But you should also know that this assertion has a long history … People who make this claim aren’t ‘renegades.’ They’re heirs to an extremely specific tradition in American political rhetoric, one that has become a dangerous inheritance.”

Yet, her myopic historical analysis misses one crucial point: The radical Left’s insistence on its own unyielding rectitude often leads to violent and bloody outcomes.

Prudent though it may have been for former President Abraham Lincoln, R-Ill., to “hang his hat” on the abolitionist movement, continuing, without cause, to beat the drums of a 150-plus-year-old grievance assures that the same turmoil which defined America’s past will also guide its future.

Trump Shreds ‘Disgraced and Excoriated’ Comey after IG Report

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‘He should be ashamed of himself!’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) President Donald Trump clapped back at former FBI Director James Comey‘s claim that a damning report by the Department of Justice’s inspector general had exonerated him.

The report, released Thursday, said Comey had violated FBI policy and his own employment agreement repeatedly when he purloined classified memos of his meetings with the president and shared them with a friend at Columbia University who then leaked them to The New York Times.

Trump’s firing of Comey in May 2017—coinciding with the leaking of the memos—helped trigger the two-year, $30-some-million Mueller investigation into Russian collusion, which earlier this year concluded that Trump had not conspired with the Kremlin.

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham echoed the president in her official statement, saying Comey “disgraced himself and his office to further a personal political agenda,” Fox News reported.

The report stopped short of saying Comey had criminally leaked classified information and declined to recommend charges against him, but many speculate that an ongoing DOJ investigation by special prosecutor John Durham is the most likely avenue for holding accountable Comey and a rogue’s gallery of corrupt, partisan subordinates who ran the agency during the Obama administration.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been working closely with Durham on his case and has recently relayed information after closing his own investigations into figures like ex-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok.

After falsely claiming on Twitter that the report cleared his name—which some in the media seemed to repeat without examining the actual report—Comey also took a swipe at Trump.

Many other Republican leaders in Congress and elsewhere responded to the report though indicating that the release may be just the beginning of Comey’s troubles.

‘Clown’ Comey Continues to Deny Wrongdoing, Contradicts New DOJ Report

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‘I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a “sorry we lied about you” would be nice…’

Comey Blasts FISA Memo After Release: ‘That’s It?’
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A damning report released Thursday by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General’s Office found that disgraced former FBI Director James Comey repeatedly violated agency policy, but it declined to recommend charges against him.

“We conclude that Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement,” the report stated unequivocally.

The probe related to memos Comey kept of his meetings with President Donald Trump in the early days of the administration, while Trump sought to gauge Comey’s loyalty and trustworthiness.

As their public rift deepened over uncorroborated claims of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, Comey was eventually fired in May 2017.

However, the circumstances surrounding Comey’s firing and the leaking of his memos to the media helped trigger the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller, which lasted nearly two years at a cost estimated to be around $30 million.

Comey later acknowledged that it was his intent to force such an investigation by leaking the memos.

Subsequent disclosures revealed that the FBI had been conducting its own Trump investigation based on the now-debunked information contained in the Steele Dossier, which was commissioned by the campaign of Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. The agency used that investigation as a pretense to wiretap and spy on Trump campaign officials.

Following Thursday’s release of the IG report, Comey immediately went into spin mode, claiming on Twitter that it was an exoneration by cherry-picking the minute detail that he had leaked memos to a friend who then leaked them to the press, rather than sharing them directly.

He misleadingly suggested that the memos contained no classified information, contrary to the actual findings that “much of the content of the Memos was directly tied to FBI investigative activities.”

Comey also took a victory lap over the decision not to file charges, and used the opportunity to attack Trump.

The odd reaction seemed to reinforce for many that something was amiss in Comey’s warped version of the facts and to validate the questions raised about his character.

“[T]he former FBI Director seems to have read a different report than the one released Thursday,” noted BizPac Review.

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., said the extent of Comey’s moral depravity reached absurd levels.

“To call James Comey a clown, would be offensive to the carnival community,” Gosar said.

Comey likely remains under investigation by the DOJ in a related probe led by special prosecutor John Durham.

Earlier in the week, Inspector General Michael Horowitz was said to have referred files on Comey’s deputy director, Andrew McCabe, to Durham’s office.

However, some doubted that either of the top FBI officials—nor others implicated in the Russia scandal—would face any serious criminal consequences due to the highly politicized nature of the case.

A prior IG investigation into former FBI counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok concluded with a determination that he violated the law by leaking information to the press, but it also declined to file criminal charges.

Several GOP members who previously had led congressional oversight investigations into the conspiracy reacted to the IG release.

“The Inspector General’s report is a stunning and unprecedented rebuke of a former Director of the FBI,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Graham said he expected “several more ugly and damning rebukes” to follow suit.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, ranking minority member of the House Oversight Committee, called it a “disappointing reminder” of partisanship touching on the highest ranks to destroy public trust and faith in law-enforcement.

“By leaking his confidential communications with the President in an attempt to save face in the wake of his firing, Mr. Comey believed he was above the rules of the DOJ,” Jordan said. “His actions were disgraceful and part of a wider effort within the Obama Justice Department to undermine President Trump.”

Other top GOP leaders echoed similar sentiments, including Reps. Mark Meadows, R-NC; Doug Collins, R-Ga.; and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, head of the Senate Finance Committee.

Most praised Horowitz and his team for their efforts to seek the truth regarding the origins of the Russia scandal and the FBI’s role in it.

“I’m grateful to Inspector General Horowitz for his characteristically thorough and professional work,” said Collins, the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee.

“… This further cements the need for us to get to the root of how the Russia investigation began,” Collins continued. “It’s time to restore Americans’ confidence that federal law enforcement is committed to justice and free from political gamesmanship.”

Feds Raid Top UAW Officials in Probe Reminiscent of Teamsters’ ‘Devil’s Pact’ w/ Mafia

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‘We have a very anti-union federal government that’s very much out to get them as much as they can…’

FBI officials raid the home of UAW President Gary Jones in Canton Township, Mich. / IMAGE: WDIV via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A four-year investigation into racketeering and corruption involving the United Auto Workers labor union and Fiat Chrysler reached new levels Wednesday with raids on the residences of top UAW officials.

Among the five homes and offices raided Wednesday were those of current UAW President Gary Johnson and prior President Dennis Williams.

The probe, which already has netted eight convictions, may result in the federal government assuming oversight of the country’s sixth-largest union, The Detroit News reported.

“This is the nuclear option,” former federal prosecutor Peter Henning, now a Wayne State University law professor, told the paper.

Such a move would likely indicate criminal culpability for the Michigan-based union with deep ties to Democratic politicians including House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and House Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings.

In the 2018 election cycle alone, it spent roughly $4 million on contributions to Democratic candidates and political-action committees, as well as another $4 million in lobbying, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Not surprisingly, noted the Media Research Center, two of the three major network news broadcasts completely ignored the story. Although CBS included it in Wednesday’s coverage, neither ABC nor NBC reported on it.

Meanwhile, some liberals went so far as to appear to rally behind the allegedly corrupt union and blame the investigators.

“Federal oversight completely and profoundly changes the direction of the union,” UC-Berkeley economist Harley Shaiken told The Detroit News. “The fact that it is even being discussed is disturbing news. One would need to see evidence of sustained institutional malfunction.”

Arthur Wheaton, an automotive industry specialist at Cornell University, doubted it would reach the level of a government takeover but said the raids showed that the Justice Department meant business..

“We have a very anti-union federal government that’s very much out to get them as much as they can,” Wheaton said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they really tried to take it to them.”

The case resembles one brought against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in the 1980s that resulted in 25 years of oversight after U.S. Attorneys charged that the union had a “devil’s pact” with the Mafia.

Although the government monitoring was fazed out starting in 2015, it resulted in the removal of more than 200 officials—including 50 chapter presidents—and more than 600 disciplinary charges.

Henning said the move to an oversight consent agreement likely meant the current leadership of the union was refusing to cooperate and that removal was the only option.

“Maybe the U.S. Attorney’s Office feels it has reached a dead-end and they’re not getting cooperation, that they’re getting stonewalled,” he told The Detroit News. “A trustee or monitor could come in and open up the books and make them available to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”

Obama’s Gerrymander Group Launches Activist Training Campaign to Flip Red States

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‘There is a fundamental structural barrier that prevents progress: manipulated electoral maps drawn … by politicians to preserve their party’s political power…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Former President Barack Obama‘s failures in leadership led to one of the most significant electoral “shellackings” against his party in modern political history.

Now, he has made it his priority to flip the script, claiming that the midterm elections of 2010 and 2014—which together yielded a loss of 90 Congressional seats—were part of yet another ‘vast right-wing conspiracy.’

Obama this week announced via Twitter the rollout of a new re-education program to “train volunteers, give them the tools to impact the redistricting process in their state … and empower them to be leaders in the movement for fair maps,”according to the web page for his Redistricting U.

The program is one of several being run through All On The Line, a supposed nonprofit “social welfare” advocacy campaign underwritten by the National Redistricting Action Fund that, nonetheless, reserves the right to “engage in grassroots electoral work,” according to the website.

Blaming the Maps

Obama and Holder Team to Take Out Walker in 2018, Flip Ryan's Seat
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Although Obama and his flunkies—including Eric Holder, his self-declared wingman, former campaign bundler and disgraced ex-attorney general—have long claimed that unfair electoral maps were created during the 2011 redistricting, when Republican legislatures dominated many states, the bulk of his losses came prior to that.

After Obama forced his disastrous signature healthcare legislation through Congress by a party-line vote on Christmas Eve 2009, the next year’s election netted six gubernatorial gains for the GOP and 20 state-legislature turnovers (699 total seats) on top of 63 U.S. House and six Senate losses for the Democrats.

Ignoring the clarion-call for bipartisanship, Obama pressed forward on his unilateral, auto-pen agenda, with many of his executive actions later being ruled unconstitutional.

Democrats reclaimed 10 congressional seats during the 2012 election but lost 21 in 2014, for a net loss of 80 during Obama’s presidency.

It was reportedly during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that party elites including then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe—a longtime Clinton stooge—hatched a plan to scapegoat the centuries-old, bipartisan practice of gerrymandering for their political failures.

Not long after, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, led by Holder, came into being—first as a nonprofit, but later boasting its own political-action committee and fundraising operations.

As the All On The Line website noted, one of the top obstacles for far-left Democrats has been facing the political backlash of efforts to enact their radical agenda.

“Whether you care about making sure everyone has access to quality, affordable health care, achieving equal pay, reducing the gun violence that plagues our schools and communities, protecting voting rights, or dealing with the urgent threat of climate change,” said the website, “there is a fundamental structural barrier that prevents progress: manipulated electoral maps drawn with surgical precision by politicians to preserve their party’s political power and silence the will of the people.”

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Earlier this year, Obama folded his own campaign organization, Organizing for Action (formerly Obama for America) into the NDRC, adding to its massive network of resources and political infrastructure, with speculation that it may be part of a behind-the-scenes prelude to a presidential run by former First Lady Michelle Obama.

For now, though, its main focus is on legal battles and activism to coerce states into making their districts more favorable to Democrats—often employing a “Sue til Blue” strategy that relies on favorable decisions from activist liberal judges.

In one case, even though a liberal candidate for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court had denounced the funding and support of outside interest groups, Holder and the NDRC continued to run ads and campaign heavily on her behalf.

Despite a setback when the U.S. Supreme Court this year ruled that partisan gerrymandering was outside the purview of federal judges, the NDRC network has pressed onward in its mission of targeting red states in the hope of flipping legislatures, state courts and other key positions prior to the next round of redistricting so that they, themselves, may gerrymander the districts to favor their party.

They have succeeded already in using court orders to force the redrawing of several crucial swing states—including Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

This contributed to some of the pickups that Democrats flaunted in the 2018 midterm election—where they had a net gain of 41 U.S. House seats and seven governorships.

Even with those advances, though, the “fairness” that the Left seeks will not be achieved until it has secured permanent legislative majorities for Democrats.

In North Carolina, for instance, after the state was forced to redraw its maps due to what the courts determined was race-based gerrymandering, Democrats still were unable to flip the state legislature and are now suing again, claiming the redrawn maps they approved were unfair.

Sore Losers, Soros and Secretaries of State…

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Stacey Abrams / IMAGE: Late Night with Seth Meyers via Youtube

The Obama–Holder juggernaut is not the only left-wing group seeking to manipulate election outcomes through backdoor efforts to redraw the maps.

Stacey Abrams, whose failed gubernatorial campaign in Georgia last year was backed by billionaire investors like Tom Steyer and George Soros, has announced her plans to flip the conservative legislature in her home state.

Her Fair Fight 2020 PAC is also targeting at least 19 other “battleground” states in a multi-million-dollar campaign before next year’s election.

Abrams, who refused to concede the governor’s race to her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp, has insisted that voter suppression was the cause of her loss—even as the state made substantial gains in minority voter participation while Kemp was its secretary of state.

In addition to her own adocacy group, Abrams is supporting an initiative led by the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State to flip the state-level offices charged with certifying elections—as well as other down-ballot races, like district attorneys and state attorneys general.

Soros previously funded a similar campaign, the Secretaries of State Project.

“We looked at the states that are going to have the strongest impact, based on the margins of victory or loss from the 2016 election and also [the] 2018 [midterm elections],” Abrams told NPR’s “On Point” in an interview broadcast Tuesday, revealing the sheer political motives of the group’s activism.

“We looked at states where we have Senate elections that will help determine control of the Senate for 2020, and we looked at states that have [secretary of state] races, but also states that have chambers that may flip and influence who controls redistricting for 2021 and beyond,” she said.

Far-Left Activists Propose Plan to Put More Socialists on Judicial Benches

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‘Our overall mission is not to get any one person nominated. It’s to get judicial issues more into the marrow of Democratic activists…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Following in the footsteps of President Donald Trump—only backward—activist Democrat organizations have begun compiling their wish-list of future judicial nominees that will help advance a partisan agenda.

For some of the Left’s leading social engineers, that means fewer judges from corporate law firms and more from pro-bono advocacy outfits that value their own ideology over an impartial interpretation of law.

Ironically, noted The American Prospect, activists like Obama-era legal advisers Brian Fallon and Christopher Kang benefited from precisely the sort of cronyism and good-old-boy networking that they claim to be fighting against.

After launching their careers as leading staffers for high-profile Democrats including Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, former Attorney General Eric Holder and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the pair went on to found the group Demand Justice, where they helped to orchestrate the “resistance” against Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination.

Noting their backgrounds, the magazine said, “These are not résumé items you would typically associate with people who want to burn down the dominant frameworks for judicial nominations.”

But the two radicals claimed their effort to politicize the judiciary is a necessary quid-pro-quo since appointing lawyers who built their careers representing corporate clients “tilts the federal bench in favor of corporate interests.”

The two Demand Justice co-founders penned a piece in the far-left Atlantic that laid out their “provocative” proposal, Fallon said, in order to begin “socializing the concept” among the Left’s radical-progressive base.

Invoking the coded dog-whistle language of the Left, Fallon claimed that it was not an anti-capitalist agenda he was seeking to unleash on the judiciary; rather, it was in need of more “diversity.”

“[T]here’s a widespread recognition of the lack of professional diversity,” he said. “… We felt the need to get a little bit more intense about it, and put it in starker terms. If you want to put the onus on people to look at different types of nominees, you need to put firmer point on it.”

Yet, Fallon was also candid about his eventual goal of using the judiciary to force the Left’s socialist lurch into the mainstream by seeking the “AOC equivalent of a federal judge.”

He acknowledged that liberals from the Obama administration and earlier had succeeded in doing similar things for social causes like abortion, but said even the current left-leaning judicial philosophies remained too moderate.

“[T]he courts are a theater where this war is being contested and there’s no one on the battlefield,” he said. “It’s a place to advance the interests as well.”

Fallon urged Democrats to cull their nominees by consulting with groups—like the Open Market Institute—that are working to unseat centrist Democrats in districts where more radical representatives are needed.

Likewise their congressional counterparts who still value antiquated notions of bipartisan compromise, the traditional concept of jurisprudence that many judges base their decisions on is inadequate to enact the new world order envisioned by Demand Justice.

“Our overall mission is not to get any one person nominated,” Fallon said. “It’s to get judicial issues more into the marrow of Democratic activists. People must center the courts as a needed element of the movement’s activities and goals.”

Elitist DC Attorneys Fight Dems’ Political Battles for Free to Boost Prestige

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‘The popularity of the lawsuits … appear[s] to be perceived as a boon for various firms’ reputations…’

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House Counsel Doug Letter and his team of DC attorneys parade to the courthouse for a lawsuit over subpoenas of Trump’s tax returns. / IMAGE: Ruptly via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) One of the primary plans of attack for Democrats in the Trump era has been legislation by lawsuit.

No matter the cause, from immigration to school lunches and everything in between, lawyers have clogged the legal system with spurious suits and injunctions that will delay the president’s agenda and pose unprecedented checks on executive authority.

According to The National Law Journal, bias within the ranks of attorneys is helping the left-wing politicians run interference.

Along with Douglas Letter, the general counsel for the Democrat-led House of Representatives, a legion of activist lawyers is coordinating with the Left to undermine Trump. Fortunately, they aren’t charging taxpayers to do it, since many work for free.

By contrast Republicans had to pay top dollar to wage legal defenses against the Obama administration, with some attorneys charging upward of $500 an hour.

President Barack Obama’s disregard for the rule of law may have resulted in a record number of policies deemed unconstitutional under what most agree to have been an ideologically balanced Supreme Court.

Even so, the GOP’s own counsel during the Obama era, Kerry Kircher, admitted that high-powered D.C. lawyers were more “aroused” by aiding the Left’s agenda and less interested in fighting it.

“It wasn’t like I could have gotten top-notch representation on a pro bono basis to do that,” he told the NLJ‘s Law.com.

While the precise reasoning for the leftward lean of attorneys is not easy to nail down, the American Bar Association has historically given to Democrats in political races much more than to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

On one hand, the very basis of the Left’s philosophy—an increase in regulatory and oversight practices—favors the legal industry, which needs more laws to make more money. Thus, throwing charity work to radical lawmakers may be something of a loss-leader.

Cronyism within the industry may also play a role, as is the case in academia and other fields where powerful influencers rely on virtue-signaling to steer the success of their anointed proteges and weed out ideological diversity.

In that sense, the elitist lawyers make up in social capital among their like-minded peers what they forgo in actual revenue.

“[T]he popularity of the lawsuits—and in some cases the novelty of the lawsuits—also appear to be perceived as a boon for various firms’ reputations,” noted the legal blog Law & Crime.

AOC Taunts Right in Latest Push to Abolish Electoral College ‘Scam’

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‘If the GOP were the “silent majority” they claim, they wouldn’t be so scared of a popular vote…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) After claiming last week that the U.S. Constitution was a scam, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-NY, raised the stakes by saying her Republican detractors were too chicken to abolish it.

Specifically, Ocasio–Cortez was referring to the Electoral College, the process outlined by the 12th Amendment for determining proportional representation among each state polity in the national presidential election.

Without evidence, the race-baiting freshman congresswoman alleged last week that the system inherently suppressed minority votes.

“Due to severe racial disparities in certain states, the Electoral College effectively weighs white voters over voters of color, as opposed to a ‘one person, one vote’ system where all our votes are counted equally.”

Following push-back over her outlandish rhetoric, she followed up with a tweet on Friday.

Critics have pointed out that a popular-vote method would leave the door wide open for corrupt blue states with lax election laws to commit widespread voter fraud.

A study released this month found that a majority of states had counties with more registered voters on their rolls than residents, resulting from failures to enforce voter-registration procedures required by the Bill Clinton-era “Motor Voter” law.

In California alone, a recent audit turned up 84,000 duplicate voter records, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Additionally, several major “sanctuary cities” allow non-citizens to vote in local elections and provide them with government-issued identification cards that closely resemble driver’s licenses.

Many on the Left insist that verifying voter identity at the polling place is also “racist.”

While Ocasio–Cortez’s tweet claimed to be calling the GOP on its bluff about the ‘silent minority,’ left-wing activists fought tooth-and-nail to prevent a comprehensive census count from determining what proportion of the population comprised illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Supreme Court determined the Trump administration’s citizenship question to be valid, but due to a relatively minor procedural issue it remanded the case back to a lower court in New York, where a liberal judge threatened to delay congressionally mandated printing deadlines for the decennial population count.

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Instead, far-left Democrats, including ‘AOC’ and her fellow ‘Squad‘ members, have been vocal advocates for open borders, comparing detention facilities to Nazi concentration camps, and demanding that illegal immigrants be released into the U.S. without processing or adjudication.

Current efforts to abolish the Electoral College—along with other once-dismissed Democratic agenda items, such as slavery reparations and packing the Supreme Court—promise to figure prominently into next year’s election should one of several socialist-leaning candidates in the presidential primary race be nominated.

Led by top contenders Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., many on the Left have expressed openness to the policies being pushed by the party’s extreme fringe.

Sanders recently acknowledged that energy policies widely supported by Democrats, such as Ocasio–Cortez’s Green New Deal, would require that the entire energy sector be nationalized, much as it was in Venezuela.

It remained unclear whether Ocasio–Cortez planned to follow up on her earlier taunt about the election process by double-dog-daring the GOP to cede private industry to government hands.

ICE-Defying NC Sheriff Blames Opponents, Changes Subject

Ben Sellers
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‘We are so focused on immigration, we have neglected our community…’

Urban Areas Nix ICE Partnerships for Criminal Aliens, As Rural Areas Join Up
Charlotte Sheriff Gary McFadden/IMAGE: Garry Mcfadden 4Sherrif via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Garry McFadden, the sheriff of North Carolina’s Charlotte and the surrounding Mecklenburg County, built his career as a homicide detective and even cashed in with a reality television series.

But now, the controversial lawman is playing the victim while catching political flak for his refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

McFadden is one of several sheriffs in the conservative state’s blue urban centers who have declared their districts to be ‘sanctuary’ locales while running afoul of state lawmakers.

After a second high-profile episode in which McFadden released a dangerous criminal in defiance of a detainer request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Republican-led General Assembly this week passed HB 370, which would have forced the sheriffs to comply or face removal.

However, the bill was vetoed by Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper.

McFadden has pinned the blame on everyone but himself for the failures to protect the community.

He blamed ICE for neglecting to obtain a federal warrant that would have forced cooperation.

He blamed judges for setting the bail and terms of release.

He blamed the conservative politicians, alleging their legislative efforts were racially motivated since the three North Carolina sheriffs in defiance of immigration agreements were all black.

And now, he is blaming the constituents themselves for making their displeasure known.

“It’s very nasty,” he complained to WSOCTV. “It’s a very nasty debate. People fear for their lives.”

McFadden claimed he personally had become a target of abuse and was afraid of what the dangerous criminals at large in the community could do to him.

“I have to be more cautious,” he said. “I get death threats. I get people openly telling me what they want to do to me and my family.”

But still he remained dug into his position on non-cooperation. The debate, he claimed, no longer had anything to do with immigration but was now about his authority as a duly elected public official to decide how to interpret the laws he was paid to enforce.

“Do not erode the powers and duties of an elected sheriff,” he said.

McFadden griped that the political turmoil was distracting him from his ability to conduct business as usual.

“We aren’t even discussing the 70-some murders in Charlotte,” he said. “We aren’t discussing mass shootings. We aren’t discussing school shootings. We are so focused on immigration, we have neglected our community.”

After a mass shooting occurred at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte in May, police were largely praised for their fast response.

However, when some observed that preventative measures like a wall around the campus and tighter enforcement of security would best enhance safety, the proposals were dismissed in short order.

“The open campus is a feature of American higher education that will never go away,” campus security consultant Steven Healy told USA Today. “We want people to be able to freely travel across campus. This is who we fundamentally are, a place for the open exchange of ideas.”

McFadden, for his part, put the blame for the nationwide shooting epidemic on an uptick in “hate,” echoing unsubstantiated talking points from many scaremongering Democrat politicians that “white supremacy” was on the rise.

“I think we need to focus on violence in the schools, mass shootings and the hate that we are now seeing,” he said.

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