Trump-Appointed Judge Orders Alabama To Stop Effort To Remove Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls

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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Alabama officials to stop a program meant to remove non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls, dealing a blow to local efforts to prevent non-citizen participation in elections.

Alabama and the Alabama Secretary of State must cease efforts to remove non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls between now and the Nov. 5 election and must also give guidance to counties in the state to quickly restore many of the voters who have already been taken off, according to an order issued by U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco of the Northern District of Alabama. Manasco had been appointed to the court by former President Donald Trump in May 2020.

“This action sends a clear message that the Justice Department will work to ensure that the rights of eligible voters are protected,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division stated in a press release. “The Justice Department remains steadfast in our resolve to protect voters from unlawful removal from the registration rolls and to ensure that states comply with the mandate of federal law.”

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, announced in August that his office had identified 3,251 individuals who were registered to vote in the state but had also been issued non-citizen identification numbers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Allen at that time instructed county officials to immediately take the necessary steps to remove all non-citizens from voter rolls. (Read more from “Trump-Appointed Judge Orders Alabama To Stop Effort To Remove Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls” HERE)

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Fox News Claims Harris Campaign Tried to Steal Time From the Interview — Then Had VP Show Up Late

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Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier claimed Wednesday that Kamala Harris’ campaign team pared down the allotted time he had with her just before a highly anticipated interview — and then had the vice president show up late.

Baier, a veteran political journalist, compared the Harris campaign’s tactics to a football team “icing the kicker” before an important field goal attempt.

“So, we were supposed to start at 5 p.m. — this was the time they gave us, originally. We’re going to do 25 or 30 minutes,” the host explained.

“They came in and said, ‘Well, maybe 20 [minutes]. So, it was already getting whittled down,” Baier added.

“And then the vice president showed up at about 5:15 [p.m.].” (Read more from “Fox News Claims Harris Campaign Tried to Steal Time From the Interview — Then Had VP Show Up Late” HERE)

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Workers Forced to Stay at Factory Drowned During Hurricane Helene — While CEO Snuck Out and Survived: Scathing Lawsuit

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The family of a Tennessee factory worker who was killed during Hurricane Helene is suing the company and its CEO — claiming that the bosses sneaked out of the factory to escape catastrophic weather conditions while they ordered employees to stay.

Johnny Peterson, 55, was one of two workers at Impact Plastics who are now confirmed dead in flooding that engulfed the factory in the rural town of Erwin on Sept. 27. Of 11 employees who were swept away, five were rescued and another four remain missing, according to reports.

According to an explosive lawsuit filed by Peterson’s family on Monday in Tennessee state court, the facility’s managers denied employees’ pleas to leave work as the hurricane bore down on the area.

That’s despite the fact that workers began receiving notifications from the National Weather Service around 10 a.m. urging all who could to evacuate to higher ground, according to the suit.

Around 10:30 a.m., company managers told employees to move their cars because the parking lot was flooding, the suit claims. (Read more from “Workers Forced to Stay at Factory Drowned During Hurricane Helene — While CEO Snuck Out and Survived: Scathing Lawsuit” HERE)

Far-Left Article Says Trump Supporters ‘Infected’ With ‘Dangerous and Lethal…Disease’

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Donald Trump has been nearly assassinated twice, but that didn’t stop the far-left Salon from claiming Trump and his supporters are “infected” with a “contagious disease” called “Authoritarian Violence Disorder” and that Trump “is a massive superspreader.” (I don’t link fake news meant to inspire assassins, which is what this obviously is.)

Welcome to the Democrat party’s latest edition of assassination porn…

Under the headline, “‘Brain flaws’: Understanding MAGA as an epidemic disease” and the subheadline, “Epidemiologist Dr. Gary Slutkin: MAGA is a ‘dangerous and lethal syndrome’ of ‘Authoritarian Violence Disorder,’” we are told Slutkin is “a distinguished epidemiologist, formerly with the World Health Organization.” And under the guise of stopping violence, he fires off this Nazi-style propaganda to inspire violence against Trump and his “diseased” supporters.

Just as Adolf Hitler used “experts” to dehumanize Jewish people as genetically inferior and a dangerous disease, so does Salon use Slutkin…

“I understand MAGA as an epidemic disease, infecting many through what I call brain flaws.’” Slutkin explains. “It is not their fault. There are brain pathways for copying and following others — in the cortex, dopamine system, and pain centers, to motivate conformity and violence.” (Read more from “Far-Left Article Says Trump Supporters ‘Infected’ With ‘Dangerous and Lethal…Disease’” HERE)

Liz Cheney Contacted Controversial J6 Witness on Encrypted App Behind Lawyer’s Back, Messages Show

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While vice chairwoman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former Rep. Liz Cheney used an encrypted phone app to directly and indirectly communicate around defense counsel –and possibly ethical rules — with a witness who would later change her testimony in shocking fashion, according to evidence obtained by congressional investigators and Just the News.

Cheney’s Signal communications with witness Cassidy Hutchinson on June 6, 2022 and her friend, Alyssa Farah Griffin, were recently obtained by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee that has identified significant problems with the original Democrat-run inquiry into the Jan. 6 incident.

The communications are now raising fresh concerns about the ethical conduct of that Democrat-run investigation. At the time of the communication, Hutchinson was represented by attorney Stefan Passantino, who told Just the News he did not authorize the contacts with Cheney and was not aware of them until contacted by Just the News.

Cheney is a licensed lawyer in Washington D.C. where the DC Bar rules state unequivocally that “a lawyer shall not communicate or cause another to communicate about the subject of the representation with a person known to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the prior consent of the lawyer representing such other person or is authorized by law or a court order to do so.”

Loudermilk told Just the News that the communications indicate that Cheney defied her ethical responsibilities and may have influenced a witness outside of her lawyer’s presence, eventually causing Hutchinson to switch lawyers. (Read more from “Liz Cheney Contacted Controversial J6 Witness on Encrypted App Behind Lawyer’s Back, Messages Show” HERE)

Notorious January 6 Defendant Confronted by Ashli Babbitt Pleads With Judge After Conviction

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One of the most active and visible rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, who smashed windows and taunted police in the lobby where Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot, is asking a federal judge to sentence him to time served so he can get mental health treatment and not risk “further radicalization” in the federal prison system.

Zachary Jordan Alam asked U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich to depart downward from federal sentencing guidelines and order him to serve no more than 40 months in prison for his conviction on six felony and three misdemeanor charges. Alam has been in custody for 45 months.

Prosecutors recommend Judge Friedrich depart upward from guidelines and sentence Alam, 33, of Centreville, Virginia, to more than 11 years in prison at his Oct. 16 sentencing hearing in Washington, D.C.

Alam’s sentencing has been repeatedly delayed since a jury found him guilty of 10 charges on Sept. 12, 2023. The most recent delays were caused by new information from Alam’s mother on his history of family trouble and mental instability — including a suicide attempt while he was in medical school in 2015.

Alam’s Aug. 14 supplemental sentencing memo was heavily redacted and filed partly under court seal. Defense attorney Steven Metcalf II attributed his client’s criminal behavior on Jan. 6 to emotional instability rather than a “specific criminal intent.” (Read more from “Notorious January 6 Defendant Confronted by Ashli Babbitt Pleads With Judge After Conviction” HERE)

Too ‘Religious’: State Under Fire for Discriminating Against Christians

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A state has taken upon itself to determine whether colleges, and college programs, are too “religious,” and if so, prevent students there from participating in a statewide program that offers financial help. . .

The Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom has gone to court with a civil rights complaint challenging the practice in the state of Georgia for officials to determine the religiosity of a school, and then ban its students from a statewide financial aid plan.

“By unlawfully discriminating against Luther Rice’s religious beliefs, Georgia officials are ultimately hurting the state’s students,” explained lawyer Ryan Tucker, of the ADF.

“Georgia high school students can’t receive dual credit by taking classes at Luther Rice; college students who choose Luther Rice are denied much-needed financial aid available to students at other colleges. On behalf of all Georgia’s students, we are urging the court to uphold Luther Rice’s constitutional protections by guaranteeing that the school can fully participate in student aid programs while still adhering to its religious beliefs, character, and exercise.”

The school, in Atlanta, is a private, Christian nonprofit that offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral-level degree programs. It offers three undergraduate degree programs: an Associate of Arts in General Studies, a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. (Read more from “Too ‘Religious’: State Under Fire for Discriminating Against Christians” HERE)

Survey Uncovers the Single Group in America That Would Push Transgenderism on Children

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. . .Members of “every race, sex, age, ethnicity, income, region, educational status, and political viewpoint” agree: that the administration of transgender-pushing chemicals and bodily mutilations on minors should be banned.

[But the] party of Kamala Harris, Tim Walz [and] Joe Biden [continues to] push to impose such ideological agendas on those too young to defend themselves.

The Washington Stand reported, “If the government passed a bill banning pediatric gender clinics from inflicting so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ on everyone under 18, every demographic group in the United States would favor it – except registered Democrats.” . . .

Nearly six of 10 said the government should ban the transgender industry from pushing any drug or doing any body-modifying surgery on minors. (Read more from “Survey Uncovers the Single Group in America That Would Push Transgenderism on Children” HERE)

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Kamala Harris Accused of Plagiarizing in 2009 Book About Being ‘Smart on Crime’

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Vice President Harris is being accused of plagiarizing from several sources in her 2009 book on policing that was released while she was district attorney of San Francisco.

The book, “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer,” was co-authored with Joan O’C Hamilton.

The so-called “plagiarism hunter,” Austrian professor Stefan Weber, found 27 times that Harris, the 2024 Democrat nominee for president, and her co-author allegedly committed some form of plagiarism.

He found that “24 fragments are plagiarism from other authors, [and] 3 fragments are self-plagiarism from a work written with a co-author.”

Manhattan Institute senior fellow and conservative activist Chris Rufo first reported on the allegation on Monday, pointing to multiple examples from Harris’ book in which entire sentences and phrases were apparently lifted from other sources without the use of quotations, though in some cases a footnote cites the source. (Read more from “Kamala Harris Accused of Plagiarizing in 2009 Book About Being ‘Smart on Crime’” HERE)

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Maricopa Elections Chief Enlisted Foreign Censorship Group in War on Disapproved Speech

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Maricopa County Recorder Steven Richer turned to the left-leaning States United Democracy Center and an overseas group bankrolled by the State Department to help his office target election speech that’s disapproved of by the government, according to emails obtained by The Federalist.

Richer thanked States United for offering to let his office “piggy back” on the group’s anti-speech operations, which he described as “deep scanning” the internet for “disinformation,” a term often invoked to censor speech the government disagrees with. States United is a left-wing election law group that consistently opposes Republican election integrity legislation like voter ID laws and supports Democrat attempts to diminish election security, according to InfluenceWatch. The group has praised the weaponization of the justice system against Trump, and was described by The New York Times as part of a “coalition” preparing to “push back” against a potential Trump victory with “extraordinary pre-emptive actions.”

According to email records, States United set up a call with Richer’s staff and the global censorship group, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). ISD is a London group that has been accused of wrongly labeling “mainstream views” as “misinformation” and subsequently censoring conservative opinions online, according to InfluenceWatch. The group was the recipient of a 2021 grant sponsored by the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which “fund[s] the development of censorship tools,” as The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland has reported. The ISD works with governments, leftist 501(c)(3) groups, and Big Tech companies as well as some of the left’s biggest financial backers.

Richer later suggested Arizona State University officials should fire Faculty Associate Aaron Ludwig for retweeting election concerns, apparently looping States United in on the process. . .

“Thanks very much to States United for the kind offer to let us piggy back on some of the deep scanning you’re contracting for election threats and disinformation,” Richer emailed then-States United Senior Counsel Bo Dul on June 17, 2022. Richer indicated his office and “some … partners at the county” do some of this work already, but that he would “love to fill any holes” with the offer from States United. (Read more from “Maricopa Elections Chief Enlisted Foreign Censorship Group in War on Disapproved Speech” HERE)

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