Arizona Judge Recuses Himself From Election Audit Case To Be Settled in the Morning After Democrats Shop Around and Hire New Attorney Who Previously Interned for Judge

Remember with Democrats it’s always about power and they will do anything to obtain and keep it.

This evening in Arizona, the Maricopa County Superior Court Judge, Christopher Coury, who oversaw the case related to the Democrats’ challenge to the audit currently going on in the county, recused himself from the case. The reason is that the Democrats shopped around and found an attorney who interned with Judge Coury and hired him. When the new attorney was introduced today for the first time the Judge was forced to resign from the case.

Judge Coury reported that a new attorney announced today in the case, Chris Viskovic, used to intern for him so he recused himself from the case.

On Thursday the Democrats filed their suit just as the audit was scheduled to begin. This isn’t the first suit Maricopa County Board of Supervisors raised in an attempt to stop the audit. This last-minute case was heard by Judge Coury on Friday. He ordered that the audit be stopped until Monday but when the Democrats wouldn’t post a bond for $1 million, he then ordered that the audit could continue.

After Judge Coury ordered the halt to the audit and before the Democrats responded to his mandate of putting the $1 million bond down, the Arizona Senate took their case to the Arizona Supreme Court. But then Judge Coury ordered the audit could continue because the Democrats refused to pay the $1 million bond.

The Supreme Court Judge Bolick took the Republicans’ grievance and agreed with Judge Coury’s actions and set up Tuesday for the deadline for the Republicans to lay out their grievances about the Democrats’ last-minute effort to stop the audit. He ordered the Democrats to respond by Wednesday to document the Republicans file on Tuesday, and then he offered the Republicans Thursday to respond to the Democrats’ response.

Judge Coury had asked for the parties to be ready on Monday morning at 11 to provide documents. Now a new judge will have to be assigned. Stay tuned.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/breaking-arizona-judge-recuses-election-audit-case-settled-morning-democrats-shop-around-hire-new-attorney-previously-interned-judge/

I'm going to TELL GRETCHEN': Michigan lawmaker threatens to call governor, punish police for busting him after drunken crash

Newly released dashcam footage shows Michigan lawmaker Jewell Jones trying to wield his political influence, even threatening to call Governor Gretchen Whitmer, as state troopers try to arrest him after an alleged drunken crash.

"I'll call Governor Whitmer right now," the 26-year-old Democrat from suburban Detroit is heard saying on the video. He added, "When I call Gretchen, I'll need y'all IDs and badge numbers, everything," and later said, "If you abuse me, I'm going to get upset. I'm going to tell Gretchen . . . and I'm going to get you all on desk duty, bro. I'm telling you."

The incident occurred earlier this month, after Jones allegedly crashed his sport-utility vehicle into a ditch while traveling on Interstate 96 toward the state capital. Police allege that he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.19%, more than twice the legal limit, and that he resisted arrest. Police also found a Glock pistol in the SUV's cupholder.

Jones' apparent attempts to leverage his political influence didn't stop at threatening to call the Democrat governor. "It's not going to be good for you, I'm telling you," he told two troopers as they struggled to handcuff him on the ground. "I run you all's budget, bro."

The state lawmaker accused police of harassing him all the time and abusing him because he's black. "You all don't know who you all dealing with, bro," he said.

When dropping Whitmer's name apparently didn't persuade officers to let him go, Jones invoked the name of Michigan State Police director Joe Gasper. At one point, he said he wanted Gasper to handle the arrest. "If someone else take me in, I'm going to be upset, and I'm going to come at you all," he said.

Later, when he was handcuffed and sitting in the back of a police vehicle, Jones told a trooper to call Gasper. "Tell Joe who you got and call fking Joe," he said. "I'm not sure whether he's up or not. If he's not up, wake him up. Tell Joe who you have, tell Joe who you have handcuffed, OK? . . . Let him know that I would like to go home. After that, let me go fking home."

Jones then offered to make the call to Gasper. "You want me to call him?" he asked. "I've got like 10 troopers around me. I'll call him myself. I'll call him and tell him I would like to go home."

Jones was tasered twice and hit with pepper stray while allegedly resisting arrest. However, his lawyer told NBC News that his client was "fully cooperative" with troopers and only wielded political influence "to stop them from using excessive force."

https://www.rt.com/usa/522093-michigan-lawmaker-arrest-whitmer/

Peru’s impeached ex-president, accused of jumping vaccination queue, says he’s tested positive for Covid-19

Former Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra has said he has Covid-19 and is symptomatic, nearly two months after provoking a major political crisis after it was revealed he’d received the jab as part of a clinical trial.

“Despite the necessary precautions to avoid bringing the virus home, my wife and I have tested positive for COVID and are symptomatic,” Vizcarra announced on Twitter on Sunday.

Peruvian president until November, Vizcarrra was ousted by the parliament over “moral incompetence” as Peru’s GDP plummeted amid the pandemic that saw the South American country reporting one of the highest Covid-19 death rates in the world.

It later turned out that Vizcarra’s fall from grace only began with his impeachment. In February, the ex-president was accused of using his position to enroll into the clinical trial of Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine. While Vizcarra insisted that it was “brave” of him and his wife to volunteer for the experiment, a doctor, who was in charge of the trial, later testified that Vizcarra knew he was getting the real deal, and not a placebo.

The scandal rattled the government, prompting resignations of Peru’s then health minister Dr. Pilar Mazzetti and Foreign Minister Elizabeth Astete. The latter admitted that she had been vaccinated in January, weeks before the launch of the country's vaccine rollout on February 9, that prioritized healthcare workers.

Earlier this month, lawmakers voted to ban Vizcarra from holding public office for 10 years, while Mazzetti was banned for 8 years, and Astete was handed out a one-year ban for their role in the so-called “VIP Vaccines” affair.

Peru is using a number of different jab in a bid to stop the spread of the virus. Apart from Sinopharm, AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines have been deployed in the immunization drive. Last week, Peru’s ambassador to Russia, Juan Genaro del Campo Rodriguez said that Peru is poised to sign an agreement for the supply of Russian Sputnik V vaccine as well.

Peru reported over 1,7 million cases, including nearly 60,000 deaths from the virus, as of Saturday.

https://www.rt.com/news/522094-peru-president-coronavirus-vaccine/

New Mexico nixes capacity restrictions on indoor church services

While the order permits full capacity services, it states that religious institutions are "are strongly encouraged" to have decreased capacity levels for indoor services.

New Mexico on Friday eliminated coronavirus-related capacity restrictions on religious services.

A revised public health order issued by the state's health secretary permits houses of worship to have full-capacity indoor services, while previously, New Mexico religious institutions had faced capacity caps that ranged from 25% to 75%.

While the order permits full capacity services, it states that religious institutions are "are strongly encouraged" to have decreased capacity levels for indoor services.

"This change was made in light of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that enjoin states from enforcing capacity limits on churches that are more restrictive than other entities like factories and schools," press secretary to the governor Nora Meyers Sackett wrote in a statement from Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's office, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News. "Nonetheless, houses of worship are strongly encouraged to protect their congregants and communities by enacting social distancing measures to bolster public health and minimize risk of viral spread of their own accord," she noted.

https://justthenews.com/nation/religion/new-mexico-nixes-capacity-restrictions-indoor-church-services

Growing number of black leaders embrace voter ID, reject Biden's Jim Crow claims

From sports to politics to business, black leaders are beginning a counteroffensive against Stacey Abrams' views on voting

Mark Robinson knows a thing or two about the political appeal of voter ID. After all, he became North Carolina's first ever African-American lieutenant governor last November running as a Republican who vowed to restore voter identification for the state's elections.

And he won, even as the GOP's top of the ticket fell to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

So Robinson chafes when he hears national Democrats like Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams claim that asking for an ID to vote is as disenfranchising as the voter suppression tactics of the Jim Crow era.

"That black people can't get an ID to vote — and quite frankly, a free ID, which the government has offered, to vote — is just absolute nonsense," Robinson told Just the News earlier this month. "And I reject that wholeheartedly. And I believe most of the people of North Carolina do as well."

It isn't just North Carolina. Voters nationwide overwhelmingly support voter ID as an election integrity measure.

A Just the News-Scott Rasmussen poll in January found a whopping 77% of Americans support mandatory voter ID, including 70% of Democrats and 72% of African-Americans.

Ken Blackwell, Ohio's first African-American secretary of state, said the news media and some corporations have wrongly twisted the narrative and made something that is popular in Georgia's new election integrity law look racist. But he predicts it will backfire.

"You have the mainstream media, you know, initially trying to gaslight the American people, making those of us who see this as a very common-sense practical policy and procedure to be somewhat crazy or racist, and we're not buying it," Blackwell told Just the News.

"And look, this is what Major League Baseball, Coca Cola and Delta need to understand — that the American people are not going to sit back and take … the labeling of common-sense practice and ordinary hard-working people as being racist," he added. "Too many people have put too much on the line to make sure that the integrity of our election system is in fact protected."

Former NFL star Burgess Owens, now a freshman congressman from Utah, testified last week before the Senate, fighting back against President Biden's claims that voter ID laws are "Jim Crow in the 21st century."

"What I find extremely offensive is the narrative from the left that Black people are not smart enough, not educated enough, not desirous enough of education to do what every other culture and race does in this country: get an ID," Owens testified. "True racism is this: It's the projection of the Democratic Party on my proud race. It's called the soft bigotry of low expectations."

After Georgia's election integrity law was first passed, Democrats led by the likes of Abrams blitzed the public with claims the law was racist. The initial blowback forced Major League Baseball to move its all-star game from Atlanta in protest.

But that move has boomeranged as it became clear the decision cost $100 million in revenues to Atlanta's mostly black business community.

On Monday, a billboard will confront MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred with a demand to return the game to Atlanta and criticizing baseball's initial move as "all strikes & no balls."

Meanwhile, African-American leaders who support voter ID have belatedly ramped up their own voices to counter the liberal criticisms and defend laws like Georgia's.

Former football star Herschel Walker — viewed by some as a possible 2022 Senate candidate in Georgia — joined the chorus, saying the focus should be on getting black voters ID and not on criticizing the law.

"My grandfather today, if he was alive, would be 117 years old," Walker told Just the News last week. "He had a driver’s license. In today's world, you have to have an ID to do anything."

One of the biggest pushbacks came last week in an op-ed published by Real Clear Politics in which a half dozen African-American leaders claimed the black community supports voter ID but the issue has been hijacked by white liberals.

"The data seems clear: A majority of Black Americans support voter ID laws," the op-ed argued. Yet, they claim, "opportunistic activists like Stacey Abrams pretend the entire Black community stands behind them and the radical Democrat Party," crafting a narrative in which black people "are either opposed to voter ID or, even more offensively, that Blacks are incapable of obtaining IDs."

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/growing-number-black-leaders-embrace-voter-id-reject-bidens-jim-crow