Republican Congressman Considers Suit Over ‘Unconstitutional’ House Gun Ban

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Rep. Chip Roy (R., Texas) said he is weighing whether to take legal action against the “unconstitutional” metal detectors and fines instituted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) to stop members from carrying guns on the House floor.

“It’s an outrage. I believe it deprives us of our Second Amendment right to defend ourselves,” Roy said. “On January 6, I was sitting on the floor of the House of Representatives. The only thing between me and an angry mob was a handful of Capitol Hill police officers who had their hands full.”

He said the deadly violence of that day demonstrates the need for members to be able to protect themselves even on the House floor. He disputed the notion that the metal detectors were a safety measure. The new system, he argued, will make it harder to defend the building because it directs police resources to target representatives rather than protect them. “This isn’t making us safer,” Roy said. “This is a political show.” . . .

“This is an unconstitutional deprivation of my right to defend myself. Period. Full stop,” Roy said. “I do not care what Speaker Pelosi says about it. I do not care what anybody says about it. That is what the Second Amendment means. That is why it is there.” (Read more from “Republican Congressman Considers Suit Over ‘Unconstitutional’ House Gun Ban” HERE)

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WATCH: Dem Congresswoman Has Meltdown During AOC-Organized House Therapy Session

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A tearful Rep. Rashida Tlaib could not hold back her emotions during a speech on the House floor on Thursday night during a Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-organized session of lawmakers sharing their thoughts about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, some of whom told of their own experiences of that day.

“I asked to go last,” Tlaib said, already choking up and unsuccessfully attempting to hold back tears, “because this is so personal.” . . .

“More came later, uglier, more violent. One celebrating in writing the New Zealand massacre and hoping that more would come. Another mentioning my dear son Adam,” she paused, tears coming through, “mentioning him by name. Each one paralyzed me each time.” . . .

Tlaib said that she was not in the Capitol on Jan 6. during the breach. “All I could do is thank Allah that I wasn’t here.”

“The trauma from just being here, existing as a Muslim, it is so hard,” she said, adding that she worries about her staff. “I ask my colleagues to please try not to dehumanize what’s happening. This is real.” (Read more from “WATCH: Dem Congresswoman Has Meltdown During AOC-Organized House Therapy Session” HERE)

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Promised a Wall, Given a Gap: Border Rancher Fears Biden Order Will Funnel Illegal Aliens Through His Land

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A fourth-generation rancher who once viewed the border wall project as a blessing now faces a nightmare after construction was stopped 1 mile before being finished, leaving a hole right in his backyard through which he fears immigrants will be funneled.

A wall project originating near El Paso, Texas, came to an abrupt end last week near Hermanas, New Mexico, less than a mile short of where it was slated to connect to another wall. Landowner Russell Johnson said President Biden has set his family up as the first spot in the 90 miles to El Paso where people will try to sneak into the country, and Johnson is scared for his wife and kids.

For decades, Johnson’s parents, grandparents, and great grandparents have dealt with the realities of living with nothing more than a barbed wire fence dividing both countries. He is gravely concerned now, having already started to see an uptick in people crossing along his 8.5 miles of border-front property over the past several months.

“Traffic has been picking up,” Johnson told the Washington Examiner during a tour of the land. “Even as the wall construction was happening, it’s been funneling traffic as they keep closing the wall up.” (Read more from “Promised a Wall, Given a Gap: Border Rancher Fears Biden Order Will Funnel Illegal Aliens Through His Land” HERE)

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WATCH: Joe Biden Revives Controversial Claim That He Was ‘Shot at’ Overseas

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President Biden on Thursday told State Department employees he was “shot at” overseas — reviving a claim that previously stirred controversy.

“You have great personal courage. I’ve been with some of you when we’ve been shot at,” Biden told a group of diplomatic aides in Washington. . .

Biden said during a CNN-hosted Democratic presidential debate in 2007 that he was “shot at” inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone.

He later revised the claim, saying that in fact, “I was near where a shot landed.” (Read more from “WATCH: Joe Biden Revives Controversial Claim That He Was ‘Shot at’ Overseas” HERE)

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WATCH: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Warns Fellow GOP Members Over ‘Betrayal’

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed the 11 Republicans who voted to boot her off the House committees at a press conference Friday outside what she dubbed the “House of Hypocrites.”

The outspoken Georgia congresswoman warned her GOP colleagues that their decision on Thursday to remove her from the Education and Budget committees may come back to bite them — and the party as a whole.

“That really is a big betrayal that could cost us the majority in 2022,” she said. “I hope that my Republican colleagues really think about what they’ve done. I’m sure they’re going to hear from their voters.”

The House held the vote on Greene’s committee assignments over her past support of conspiracy theories, including the QAnon movement and saying that mass shootings were “false flag” operations carried out by gun control advocates.

(Read more from “WATCH: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Warns Fellow GOP Members Over ‘Betrayal’” HERE)

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POLL: Over Half of GOP Would Leave if Trump Founded Third Party

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Most Republicans would quit the GOP and join a hypothetical third party started by former President Donald Trump, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds.

According to the survey, 64% of registered Republicans said they would join a new political party if Trump founded one. No less than 32% said they would be “very likely” to join a Trump party.

Just 36% of Republicans opposed leaving the GOP for a party founded by Trump.

But it’s not just Republicans who could be swayed to a third-party movement. The survey found 28% of self-identified independents and 15% of Democrats said they would be likely to join a Trump party.

Overall, 37% of voters said if Trump starts a new political party, they’d be likely to join. (Read more from “Over Half of GOP Would Leave if Trump Founded Third Party” HERE)

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Only 100,000 More Signatures Needed to Recall California Governor

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Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom is less than 100,000 signatures away as of Thursday from being forced into a recall special election.

California state law stipulates that a sitting governor must face a recall special election if 12% of voters from the previous gubernatorial election, in this case 1.5 million California residents, sign a petition to recall the governor. At the time of publication, 1.4 million Californians have signed a petition to recall Newsom.

The recall milestone comes amidst Newsom’s poll numbers hitting historic lows in response to the governor’s controversial COVID-19 policies, according to a report from Politico.

The report indicated only 46% of Californians approve of Newsom’s performance as governor, down from nearly two-thirds back in November of last year.

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UK Working on ‘Vaccine Passport’

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The government is reportedly working on a “vaccine passport” in anticipation that holiday destinations like Greece will demand proof of immunity before granting entry to visitors.

Earlier this week, Denmark became one of the first countries in the world to commit to a government-endorsed immunity certificate. The nation’s Acting Minister of Finance Morten Bødskov said initially the certificates, which could be available by the end of this month, would allow for businessmen to travel overseas but could also be used as “extra security” when reopening Danish society after months of restrictions.

Sources speaking to The Times said the British government was working on similar documentation, as countries like Greece have said they prepare to lift quarantine restrictions for tourists if they can prove they have been inoculated.

A combined effort of the British Department for Health and Social Care, the Department for Transport, and the Foreign Office is working on the options for the “vaccine passport”. British officials have reportedly told Greece that it could rescue the country’s ailing tourism industry if it rolls out the documentation. (Read more from “UK Working on ‘Vaccine Passport’” HERE)

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U.S. Economy Takes Massive Hit With Biden Presidency

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Joe Biden: It Will Take Ten Years to Get Full Employment at Current Job Growth Rate

By Breitbart. President Joe Biden sounded a dark note on the future of the economy Friday, after a bleak jobs report came out.

The United States economy added 49,000 jobs in December with only 6,000 jobs in the private sector, according to the latest report released Friday morning.

“At that rate, it’s going to take ten years to get back to full employment,” Biden said. “That’s not hyperbole, that’s a fact.” (Read more from “Joe Biden: It Will Take Ten Years to Get Full Employment at Current Job Growth Rate” HERE)

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U.S. Economy Adds 49,000 Jobs in January — a Grim Sign for the Jobs Recovery

By CNN Business. America’s jobs recovery has lost steam: Even though 49,000 jobs were added in January, the nation is still down nearly 10 million jobs since before the pandemic.

Friday’s January jobs report also showed that the unemployment rate fell to 6.3%, beating economists’ expectations, marking the first decrease in two months.

The return of some jobs and a lower unemployment rate are definitely good news. But the US labor market needs great news to get out of this crisis. (Read more from “U.S. Economy Adds 49,000 Jobs in January — a Grim Sign for the Jobs Recovery” HERE)

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U.S. Military Ordered to Undergo 60-Day Stand-Down to Weed Out Rightwing “Extremists”

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By Military Times. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has called on the services to conduct a 60-day stand-down on the issue of extremism in the military, prompted by the Jan. 6 attack on the the Capitol and subsequent reports of both active-duty and former service members attending a rally calling to overturn the 2020 election and the riot that ensued. . .

“Even though the numbers might be small, they may not be as small as we would like them to be, or we believe them to be,“ [Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby] said of the prevalence of troops with extremists views, ties or activities. “And that no matter what it is, it is not an insignificant problem.”

“It wasn’t a blithe, ‘Hey, just go talk to your people,’” Kirby said of Austin’s direction to the service secretaries and Joint Chiefs. “He was very clear that he wants commands to take the necessary time. And I didn’t hear him be overly proscriptive about that … to speak with troops about the scope of this problem, and certainly to get a sense from them about what they’re seeing at their level” . . .

Military Times’ own polling has shown that, anecdotally, more than one-third of active-duty troops, and more than half of minority service members, have witnessed signs of white supremacy in their colleagues. Further, survey respondents ranked white nationalism as a bigger national security threat domestic terror groups affiliated with Islam, for instance.

“The events of Jan. 6 served as a wake-up call for this department,” Kirby said. (Read more from “U.S. Military Ordered to Undergo 60-Day Stand-Down to Weed Out Rightwing “Extremists” HERE)

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U.S. Leaders Urge Military to Get Vaccine Shots

By Associated Press. With more than half of America reluctant or flatly opposed to getting a COVID-19 vaccine, a VIP-filled video call on Thursday targeted the nation’s military families with an urgent plea: Get the shot.

“We need your help,” first lady Jill Biden told hundreds of listeners on a call set up by Blue Star Families. ”That’s why we’re encouraging everyone to mask up, socially distance and get the vaccine when it’s your turn.”

The call featured detailed medical explanations from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, who answered questions from the audience, as well as urgings from Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his wife, Hollyanne, who is a nurse. Their pleas underscored the widespread concern about the reluctance among service members and their families to get the vaccine. (Read more from “U.S. Leaders Urge Military to Get Vaccine Shots” HERE)

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DOD Issues Order Requiring Face Masks on All Military Installations

By Fox 13 Tampa Bay. The U.S. Department of Defense announced on Thursday that all individuals on military installations as well as all individuals performing official duties on behalf of the DOD must wear face masks.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin signed the memo Thursday ordering DOD personnel to wear facial coverings in accordance with the most current U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines. (Read more from “DOD Issues Order Requiring Face Masks on All Military Installations” HERE)

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