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Court tosses out Ohio legislative maps for fifth time as primaries loom

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"The skirmish between the high court and the commission prompted the state to postpone its primary date for state House and state Senate races due to the impasse. Primary elections were supposed to have taken place on May 3 alongside the congressional primaries but have been kicked to Aug. 2. Meanwhile, a panel of three federal judges has eyed the stalemate and appears poised to enact GOP-friendly state legislature maps similar to the ones the state court has routinely rejected."

 

A legislative move in Ohio consistent with the Trump trend of restricting voting.


Ohio House approves proposed constitutional amendment to ban voting by non-citizens

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"The Ohio House has given the green light to a proposed constitutional amendment that, if passed by the Ohio Senate, would allow the state's voters to cast ballots this November to determine whether to prohibit non-U.S. citizens from voting in all elections held in Ohio.

It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in state and federal elections but it is not as clear cut for local areas.

The Ohio Constitution provides home rule authority to municipalities and chartered counties. In 2020, the Ohio village of Yellow Springs adopted an ordinance allowing non-citizens to vote. At that point, Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, ruled non-citizens in that community could neither register to vote nor vote.

Backers of this proposed amendment said the concern is that a future secretary of state might view the issue differently. This proposed constitutional amendment is meant to take local control away from that situation.

House Majority Leader Rep. Bill Seitz (R-Green Township) is one of the bill's sponsors. He said this bill is needed to make sure only citizens can cast ballots.

“With our vote today, we are giving Ohio’s voters a very clear choice,” Seitz said. “They can either decide that Ohio should imitate New York and San Francisco by allowing non-citizens to vote, or that Ohio reserves its voting rights only to qualified citizens. I am confident in their judgement,” Seitz said."

 

Ohio House approves proposed constitutional amendment to ban voting by non-citizens

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"Democrats, like Rep. Michele Lepore-Hagan (D-Youngstown), said this is an effort by majority Republicans to put a hot-button issue on the ballot in November to turn out their voters by stoking unfounded fear that there is something wrong with Ohio's elections.

“It’s an effort to promote a narrative that our elections are faulty. It’s also an effort to tap into fear and it’s a political game," Lepore-Hagan said.

Democrats said attempts to put issues they support on the ballot have faced opposition from majority Republicans who control the Ohio Legislature.

Rep. Joe Miller (D-Amherst) said it would have been nice for Republicans, who made it easier to get this proposed amendment on the ballot by passing it in the legislature first, could have done the same for some issues Democrats would like to put up for a statewide vote.

"I mean it's a great ‘get out the vote’ strategy and I was hoping you could give us something like a ‘get out the vote’ for our side, like some good common-sense gun reform or maybe some real ‘don't tread on me and my bodily rights’ would have been nice but we understand where we are at here,” Miller said."

 

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Two men, including GOP elected official, charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

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"A pair of York County men have been charged by the FBI with participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Brian Korte, of York Haven, and Lynwood Nester, of Dillsburg, are charged with violating a statute that makes it a crime to knowingly enter or remain in any restricted building with the intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business, according to a U.S. Justice Department complaint filed May 11.

The two were also charged under a statute that makes it a crime to participate in disorderly or disruptive conduct or utter loud, threatening or abusive language on the grounds of the Capitol buildings."

 

Jim Jordan wants documents from Capitol riot panel after subpoena

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"Rep. Jim Jordan has asked the House Select Committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot to turn over all documents, videos and other material where his name is mentioned as he mulls a subpoena issued to him earlier this month.

In a six-page letter sent Wednesday, Jordan (R-Ohio) blasted the panel over the decision to subpoena him, saying it “violates core Constitutional principles, disregards House rules and precedent, and fails to address the concerns I raised to you about the Select Committee’s abusive tactics and pattern of due process violations.”

Jordan was subpoenaed May 12 for failing to appear before the committee voluntarily earlier this year along with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)

At the time, Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) claimed the Republicans “have information relevant to our investigation into the attack on January 6th and the events leading up to it.”"

 

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Movie Chain Owned By Trump Donor Releases 'Documentary' Promoting Trump's Big Election Lie Around The Country

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"One of the country's largest movie theater chains Cinemark became the only major chain to show the documentary 2000 Mules, a film by far-right propagandist Dinesh D'Souza that promulgates former Republican President Donald Trump's "Big Lie."

The film has sparked widespread controversy for its easily disproven and absurd conspiracy theories alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, for which there is no evidence.

The film's name derives from a conspiracy theory pushed by D'Souza and a Texas non-profit that claims 2000 so-called "mules" for the Democratic Party stuffed ballot boxes in 2020 in order to win the election for Democratic President Joe Biden.

There is of course no truth to this theory.

But Cinemark's CEO Lee Roy Mitchell, a long-standing donor to the Republican Party aligned with the Koch Brothers, has chosen to push it out to Cinemark locations across the country anyway."

 

Reagan and D'Souza

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Maybe a bunch of little red hat people will show up with their guns and have a shoot out... like the "good ol' days"

 

We haven't heard much from these shit bags in a long time, I wonder where they are throwing their money today..

 

Trump-endorsed MI state house candidate says she would ban birth control.


Michigan GOP House candidate says birth control should be banned, blasts sex outside marriage

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"A former President Donald Trump-endorsed GOP candidate for a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives says if elected, she will work to ban all forms of birth control.

In an interview with the far-right website Church Militant, Jacky Eubanks said that if it ever came to a vote in the Michigan Legislature, “I would have to side with it should not be legal,” adding that birth control “gives people the false sense of security that they can have consequence-free sex, and that’s not true and that’s not correct. Sex ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of marriage.”

The issue of contraceptive freedom, seemingly long-settled with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1965 landmark Griswold v. Connecticut decision, has come into the fore of Republican politics with the anticipated overturning of 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. That ruling firmly established a constitutional right to privacy, which if overturned would place in jeopardy related decisions on contraception and marriage equality.

In Michigan, all of the Republican candidates for attorney general — Michigan GOP-endorsed Matthew DePerno, former House Speaker Tom Leonard and Rep. Ryan Berman (R-Commerce Twp.) — earlier this year expressed a willingness to overturn the Griswold decision, saying it was wrongly decided and should be left up to each state to decide."

 

Father and son charged for involvement in Trump's insurrection.


https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/matthew-bokoski-bradley-bokoski-charged-capitol-
riot-breach-insurrection/

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"CHICAGO (CBS) -- A Chicago man, caught on camera wearing a "Trump 2020" flag as a cape, and his father, who is from Utah, have been arrested for entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Matthew Bokoski and his father, Bradley Bokoski, both have been charged with misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building; entering and remaining in a restricted building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the Capitol."

 

The usual duck, dodge, and hide by politicians.


Uvalde’s GOP Congressman Won’t Answer Why 18-Year-Olds Can Buy Assault Rifles

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"The Republican congressman representing Uvalde, Texas simply wouldn’t answer a reporter’s repeated question on why teenagers can legally buy assault rifles.

Instead of answering NBC News correspondent Garrett Haake’s queries, Rep. Tony Gonzales persistently dodged the question, leaning on highly generalized talking points like “we have to be unified” and “there’s so much rhetoric and hate.”

Salvador Ramos, the gunman who killed 19 young children and two school teachers in the horrific Uvalde shooting on Tuesday, legally purchased two AR-15-style assault weapons after he turned 18 this month. He also bought 375 rounds of 5.56 rifle ammunition. He would later post pictures of his “gun pics” on social media.

As conservatives suggest everything from booby traps to door control to address the uniquely American problem of mass shootings, the vast majority of Americans support a variety of comprehensive gun reform measures. That would include 67 percent of the public that approves of an ban on so-called “assault weapons.”"

 

That one might sound fictitious but it isn't.


Lawyer argues 19-year-old Capitol rioter's brain isn't fully matured in bid to avoid jail

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"The attorney for Leonard Ridge, a Capitol rioter accused of bragging about his involvement, is asking a judge to assert less blame on his client than older defendants because some studies indicate his brain may not have been fully matured.

Ridge is one of the youngest defendants in the Capitol riot cases and his attorney Carina Laguzzi is hoping to keep him out of jail when he is sentenced on Tuesday. Ridge is accused of breaking down the doors to Senators Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi's offices and bragging that he "made history" on January 6.

The now 20-year-old was only 19 at the time of the insurrection and Laguzzi is asking Judge James Boasberg to factor his youth into his sentencing. Ridge is facing up to a year in prison after pleading guilty to entering or remaining on restricted grounds and Laguzzi is hoping for probation."

 

Georgia investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election ramps up

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"ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is stepping up the pace of her investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, questioning a wide array of witnesses and preparing a rash of subpoenas to top Georgia state officials, state lawmakers and a prominent local journalist for testimony that will start next week.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who won a surprise victory against a Trump-backed opponent in Tuesday’s Republican primary, is slated to be one of Willis’s lead witnesses when he appears before the grand jury next Wednesday, sources confirmed to Yahoo News.

“Based on her pugnacity, it looks like it’s full steam ahead,” said one lawyer representing a client who has been contacted by Willis’s team of investigators and prosecutors. “She’s much more aggressive and determined than I expected.”":

 

But he could buy an AR-15 in Texas....

 

NY DJ who smoked pot during Capitol riot sentenced to 3 years

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"A Long Island DJ who recorded himself smoking pot while storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to three years and five months in prison Thursday.

Greg Rubenacker, 26, in February pleaded guilty to all 10 charges he faced – including civil disorder and committing an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds – for his part in the insurrection.

At a hearing in Washington, DC, federal court, Chief Judge Beryl Howell sentenced the Farmingdale man to 41 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release and a $2,000 fine in restitution, prosecutors announced.

During the riot, Rubenacker recorded videos on Snapchat including one video of himself puffing on a marijuana joint while declaring, “Smoke out the Capitol, baby,” prosecutors said.

“This is history! We took the Capitol,” he proudly stated in another."