Taylor Swift is a Mobster.
Utah residents believed they were looking for woman during manhunt for trans killer after reports identified him as 'Mia'
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-utah-residents-believed-they-were-looking-for-woman-during-manhunt-for-trans-killer-after-reports-identified-him-as-mia?cfp
Missouri V Biden: They Want the Deleted Emails
Missouri v. Biden: The plaintiffs filed a motion asking the judge to allow them to file third-party subpoenas prior to a rule 26(f) conference. That conference is where the parties meet to set out a clear plan for discovery. The hope? That they can retrieve emails sent between parties about important issues that the government wanted censored. These issues are crucial to the case, and as the Oversight Committee was able to uncover, certain key players purposefully used private emails to avoid FOIA.
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https://www.uncoverdc.com/2024/06/24/missouri-v-biden-motion-filed
The Amazon Files': House Judiciary Committee assures that the company censored 43 books at the request of the Biden administration
Representative Jim Jordan claimed, in a new installment of "The Amazon Files," that the technology company censored numerous books linked to vaccines during March 2021 at the request of the Biden administration. These included some children's books, others for parents and some more critical of large pharmaceutical companies, as detailed.
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https://voz.us/the-amazon-files-house-judiciary-committee-assures-that-the-company-censored-43-books-at-the-request-of-the-biden-administration/?lang=en
(Turley) The Land that Law Forgot: The Supreme Court and the New York Legal Wasteland
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/06/24/the-land-that-law-forgot-the-supreme-court-and-the-new-york-legal-wasteland/
Catherine Herridge drops her first story as independent journalist
BREAKING: Army and National Guard accused of abandoning 24-year-old soldier with “debilitating heart condition” that internal memo “linked” to COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.
New military records confirm the soldier's heart injury was "In Line of Duty,” and details her account of "complications since receiving the second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine." Moderna did not respond to our questions.
Army Specialist Karoline Stancik now faces over $70,000 in medical debt.
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Illegal migrants lured Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, under bridge, assaulted her for 2 hours before killing her
The illegal Venezuelan migrants accused of murdering Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston lured the 12-year-old girl under a bridge, where they stripped her naked to the waist and assaulted her for two hours, disturbing new court documents allege.
Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, and Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, allegedly bound Jocelyn’s hands behind her back during the brutal assault, then strangled her and dumped her body in a bayou, a Harris County court heard Monday.
Her feet were also bound and her back was covered in cuts, the court heard, according to KPRC.
Pena Ramos also allegedly asked his employer at a construction site for money so he could skip town after the murder, prosecutors said, according to Fox 26 Houston.
Both men are charged with capital murder for Jocelyn’s death. Though the current charges do not carry the possibility of the death penalty, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said prosecutors have not ruled out pursuing it.
Ramos appeared during the Monday hearing, where the judge ruled him a flight risk and set his bond at $10 million – double what prosecutors requested, and ten times the sum sought by the defense.
“Our immigration system is broken and if there was ever a case that reflected that, it’s this one,” DA Ogg said during a press conference following the hearing.
Pena Ramos crossed the southern border illegally at El Paso, Texas, on May 28, The Post first reported last week, telling agents he was going to live with his cousin in Houston.
He was fitted with an ankle monitor that was set to track his location for 21 days – which he cut off two days after Jocelyn’s body was found.
Rangel Martinez entered the country at El Paso on March 14 and was also given an ankle monitor, but had it removed in May after it was determined he had no known criminal history.
Both suspects were seen on surveillance footage entering a 7/11 with Jocelyn on the night of her murder, and then walk down to the bridge where her body was later found half naked and strangled to death.
Jocelyn’s family said she sneaked out of her home the night of her disappearance and at some point met up with the suspects.
Her mother, Alexis Nungaray, spoke alongside DA Ogg Monday, saying her daughter had amazing opportunities in her future that her killers ripped from her.
“She was amazing, I still see her face in the back of my head everyday, all day. I keep getting little signs about her throughout the days and it’s been a very, very hard time for me and my family,” Nungaray said.
“She had such a bright future ahead of her and I knew she was gonna go very far and these monsters took that opportunity from her, from our family.”
https://nypost.com/2024/06/24/us-news/jocelyn-nungaray-murder-suspect-gets-10m-bond/
Michigan Supreme Court to decide on Jocelyn Benson’s restrictions for poll watchers
The Michigan Supreme Court will soon determine whether Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson circumvented the rule making process to impose restrictions on poll challengers.
The case argued before the state’s highest court on Tuesday is only the latest in a string of lawsuits over election rules Benson imposed through a manual issued to clerks in 2022 that has since led to repeated defeats in lower courts.
On Tuesday, arguments centered on instructions for election challengers, which involve a uniform credential form, limits on recordings, and a ban on electronic devices during absentee vote counting, The Detroit News reports.
State and national Republican parties are challenging the rules that did not go through the Legislature’s bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative Rules as required, arguing they violate state election laws.
“Absent compliance with that process, the rules are invalid,” Republican attorney Robert Avers told the court, according to WEMU. “That’s exactly what happened here.”
Republicans filed the case in October 2022, and the Court of Claims sided with them in October 2022, but the Supreme Court suspended the ruling for the 2022 election a month away. The Court of Appeals upheld the Court of Claims ruling last October, sending the case back to the Supreme Court.
“Both of the lower court decisions, the legal maxims discussed by those courts — they’re clear and uncontroversial,” Avers said.
Republican-nominated justices David Viviano and Brian Zahra on Tuesday questioned whether Benson’s vague instructions for clerks give them too much discretion in determining whether challenges can be recorded.
“Where does the secretary find the authority … to have clerks determine which challenges are permissible such that they don’t even have to be adjudicated, much less recorded for future review by anybody?” Vivano asked. “In other words, to act as judge, jury and executioner on whatever is designated as ‘impermissible challenges.’”
Zahra also questioned why Benson did not use the rule making process.
“When we’re looking at express language of the statute that says everything should be recorded, why shouldn’t we conclude that that is a rule rather than an instruction?” Zahra said.
Assistant Attorney General Heather Meingast argued on behalf of Benson that instructions in the elections manual are within the Secretary of State’s authority to set rules for elections.
“Agencies making forms is a pretty routine matter,” she said, according to WEMU. “That’s why it’s exempt from rulemaking for the most part, right? So, this is an innocuous instruction. The plaintiffs haven’t really described how this harms their interests in any way.”
Justices are expected to decide the case soon to set rules ahead of the August primaries.
Tuesday’s hearing came less than a week after Appeals Court Judge Christopher P. Yates ruled that guidelines issued by Benson regarding verification of signatures on absentee ballots violate the Michigan Constitution.
Benson’s guidance suggested “voter signatures are entitled to an initial presumption of validity,” but Yates disagreed and mandated strict adherence to signature verifications in the 2024 election.
“The Secretary of State and the Director of Elections possess powers and duties concerning election procedures, but their powers do not extend to the promulgation of rules that conflict with the Michigan Constitution or statutes enacted by our Legislature,” Yates wrote.
Yates was appointed to the Court of Appeals by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2022.
His ruling last week was only the latest to strike down Benson’s election rules, following successful challenges in 2020 regarding her ban on open carry of firearms at polling places and instruction on verification of absentee ballot signatures, Bridge Michigan reports.
Those cases also centered on Benson circumventing the public vetting process in the Administrative Procedures Act.
https://www.themidwesterner.news/2024/06/michigan-supreme-court-to-decide-on-jocelyn-bensons-restrictions-for-poll-watchers/