Appeals court rules against Trump administration in abortion 'gag rule'

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled against a Trump administration rule denying federal funds to family planning clinics that refer patients for abortions. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling blocks the enforcement of the federal rule in Maryland, but is likely to set up a Supreme Court challenge. The appeals court, based in Richmond, Va., said the Trump administration's rule revision "failed to recognize and address the ethical concerns of literally every major medical organization in the country." The panel also said the government "arbitrarily estimated" what clinics would have to spend to comply with the rules, which includes, in some cases, constructing new facilities to separate abortion services from other medical services.

The Department of Health and Human Services issued the revised rule in 2019, banning family planning providers that receive Title X funding from abortion referrals. Opponents, including Planned Parenthood, likened it to a "gag rule." The government it would require "clear financial and physical separation" between Title X-compliant facilities and those that provide abortions or abortion referrals. In February, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Trump administration in a challenge by Planned Parenthood, saying the rule allows family clinics to mention abortion but not to refer or encourage it, a "reasonable interpretation" of federal law which is not "arbitrary and capricious" as plaintiffs argued.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/09/03/Appeals-court-rules-against-Trump-administration-in-abortion-gag-rule/5711599176203/

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, v. ALEX M. AZAR, II, in his official capacity as the Secretary of Health and Human Services; DIANE FOLEY, M.D., in her official capacity as the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Population Affairs; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES; OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS,

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/191614.P.pdf

HHS unveils policy blocking Title X funds to abortion providers, referrers

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/02/22/HHS-unveils-policy-blocking-Title-X-funds-to-abortion-providers-referrers/3081550874854/

>>10521211

Bakerjust completed a through search using different search terms on the the post from last bread regarding :

Report: DOJ to File Antitrust Charges Against Google in the Coming Weeks

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/03/report-doj-to-file-antitrust-charges-against-google-in-the-coming-weeks/

I am not finding that this was posted as stated, which leads me this, One of us is mistaken..here are my search results. Before I post articles I usually check to avoid duplication.

>>10521323

>How much have they spent trying to rebuild our cities?

Georgia absentee ballots never arrived in mail, hundreds of voters say: report

Nearly 3,000 voters in Georgia have filed complaints with voting officials, claiming they never received absentee ballots for the state’s Aug. 11 primary runoffs, according to a report. A photo obtained by Atlanta’s FOX 5 showed some of the ballots still inside a post office Aug. 12 – the day after the runoffs – meaning the undelivered ballots were no longer usable by voters if they eventually received them. Because the ballots went undelivered on time, some voters complained to voting officials and to the station that they ended up not participating in the runoff elections. “I feel upset that I didn’t get the chance to vote in, like, the way that was supposed to be legally available and easy,” Georgia resident Matthew Britton told FOX 5. “I thought I did everything right, as far as I know, and yeah, I’m pretty upset about that.” The news from Georgia came amid a continuing national debate on whether absentee ballots, or mail-in ballots, are reliable enough to be used for November’s presidential election. President Trump warned last month of a potential mail-in ballot “disaster,” claiming that security concerns regarding the ballots meant the nation could have “a rigged election waiting to happen.” Trump said that with millions of mail-in ballots distributed, it could become impossible to know if the returned ballots were filled out by the intended recipient. “You can't send out 16 million mail-in ballots … who knows who's getting them?" the president told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “The mailmen are going to get them, people are going to just grab batches of them and you talk about China and Russia, they'll be grabbing plenty of them. It's a disaster. It's a rigged election waiting to happen.”

A week after the president’s comments, the Trump 2020 Campaign sued New Jersey, claiming Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s executive order for sending mail-in ballots to all voters was illegal and would open a path for voter fraud. Murphy, who had argued that mail-in ballots were needed to help protect residents from the coronavirus by allowing them to avoid crowded polling stations, responded to the Trump campaign’s lawsuit the following day, accusing the Trump campaign of “weaponizing” the U.S. Postal Service to discourage people from voting. Murphy and other Democrats have claimed mail-in ballots are safe to use, citing a litany of studies that show mail-voting fraud is rare in the U.S. and that some states have successfully run elections with universal mail-in voting in the past.

In Georgia, one postal-workers union official told FOX 5 she was shocked by the number of undelivered ballots in that state. “That’s too many,” Sabir Brown, president of American Postal Workers Local 32, said when told that nearly 3,000 voters had complained about undelivered absentee ballots. She suggested that some workers disgruntled by recent changes ordered by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy may have been to blame. “Because the machines are missing,” Brown said, referring to mail-sorting machines recently removed from some Postal Service locations. One Georgia voter, Lynda Brown, told the station about her experience in not receiving the ballot she was expecting. “I never did get it,” she said. “I never did get it.” FOX 5 told Lynda Brown her name was seen on one of the unmailed ballots that appeared in the photo the station received from a Postal Service whistleblower. “Very frustrating,” Brown said of the situation. ”Because you know, our voice, everybody has a voice and everybody’s voice should be heard. You know, that was my voice that was missed.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-absentee-ballots-never-arrived-in-mail-hundreds-of-voters-say-report

Trump Administration May Use Mafia Law on Protesters

The Trump administration is considering invoking a law normally used to prosecute members of the Mafia to crack down on violent protests gripping the nation. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the demonstrations and has even dispatched the National Guard and federal agents to help quell the unrest after the death of George Floyd on Memorial Day. Now, the administration is talking about using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to prosecute the people behind the protests. The Daily Beast noted that Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf raised the idea during an interview earlier this week. "Well, this is something that I have talked to [Attorney General William Barr] personally about. I know that they are working on it," Wolf said. Under investigation are "the heads of those organizations and the people "paying for individuals to move across the country," he added.

Trump and Republicans often float the theory that backers with deep pockets, such as George Soros, are financially supporting the protests. Barr said Wednesday, however, "I've talked to every police chief in every city where there has been major violence and they all have identified Antifa as the ramrod for the violence. They are flying around the country. We know people who are flying around the country." Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called for the Department of Justice to investigate the "organized" protest effort and determine who is funding it. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called the violent protests "organized terror attacks."

The RICO Act reads, in part, "It is unlawful for anyone employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt."

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ricoact-mafia-protests/2020/09/03/id/985271/

109. RICO Charges

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-109-rico-charges

>>10521676

Concur anon..your statements are why most of us are here in the first place.