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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene , a Georgia Republican, vowed to "remove" GOP senators from office for backing the bipartisan gun bill, describing the 15 lawmakers as "sellouts." The Senate passed the bipartisan legislation late Thursday in a 65-33 vote, marking the most significant step toward gun reform from Congress in nearly three decades. Fifteen GOP senators , including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , voted in favor of the bill, despite the strong opposition of former President Donald Trump . Because the House is controlled by Democrats and needs only a slim majority for legislation to pass, the bill is expected to be approved by that chamber as well. President Joe Biden has urged the House to pass the legislation swiftly and plans to sign it. Greene, a staunch Trump loyalist, shared a video to Gettr on Thursday attacking the legislation and ripping the Republicans who support it. "To the Republican senators who are helping Biden take away … [Read more...] about Marjorie Taylor Greene vows to “remove” GOP senators who backed gun bill

Governor-in-her-own-mind Stacey Abrams (D-GA) says she wants to give cops raises while she currently sits on the board of an organization calling to defund and abolish the police. No, really. This shameless grifter, who has already lost one gubernatorial bid to turn Georgia into Detroit, is way behind sitting Gov. Kemp in the polls. So now she’s running to the propagandists at the far-left Axios with the laughable claim she wants to “fund the police.” That’s the Axios headline : “Stacey Abrams wants to fund the police.” The “exclusive” story is dictation… “As the second prong of a public safety and criminal justice reform platform first shared with Axios,” Axios dutifully gushes, “Abrams is proposing to raise the base pay for Georgia state troopers, adult and juvenile correctional officers and community supervision officers to $50,000 per year.” Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is seen taking a selfie after a rally in Reynolds, Georgia as she campaigns … [Read more...] about Nolte: Stacey Abrams Claims Cops Underpaid While Sitting on #AbolishThePolice Board

An attorney who has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court said that former President Donald Trump is not only unfit to be president, but he's unfit "to be in this country." Former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal told MSNBC 's Deadline White House on Thursday that the fifth day of hearings by the House Select Committee investigating January 6, 2021, had painted a picture of Trump as a "third-rate dictator." The committee heard from former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue on Thursday, who alleged Trump had pressured the Department of Justice (DOJ) to declare the 2020 presidential election "corrupt." MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace asked Katyal for his reaction to the testimony on the fifth day of hearings. Katyal said that Donoghue's testimony was "the soul of the Justice Department. It's not political," and pointed out that he had personally worked for two attorneys general who pursued both Republicans and … [Read more...] about Donald Trump “not fit… to be in this country”: U.S. Supreme Court lawyer

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said this week that Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene 's alleged request for a pardon from then-President Donald Trump is an "admission of guilt." The House of Representatives' Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots named Greene among a number of Republican lawmakers who allegedly sought pardons last year. Greene, who represents Georgia's 14th congressional district, denied she had requested a pardon and called the claim "gossip and lies" in a tweet about the hearing on Thursday. Kirschner, a legal analyst with NBC News and MSNBC , also took to Twitter on Thursday and suggested Greene's reported request for a pardon could bolster the case to prevent her from running for re-election in November. "Seems Marjorie Taylor Greene's request for a pardon for her role in the insurrection - being an admission of guilt - should help in the litigation to disqualify her from holding office," … [Read more...] about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s pardon request an “admission of guilt”—Kirschner

After the committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots has held five hearings, there is still a question as to just how much damage the hearings will actually do to former President Donald Trump . The House Select Committee, which has spent a year investigating the events which led up to the Capitol riot, had been building up to proceedings in the weeks and months before the first live televised presentation, promising to deliver evidence that some hoped would force the Department of Justice to act and charge the former president. However, there is no guarantee that Attorney General Merrick Garland will take the unprecedented step and charge the former president with a crime over his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election results or incitement of his supporters to storm the Capitol as a last-ditch attempt to hold onto power. Even if no charges are brought against Trump or any of his allies, there is still hope from the panel that their findings … [Read more...] about Have the Jan.6 Hearings Hurt Donald Trump?: Analysis

Abortion is likely to become illegal in about half of U.S. states after the U.S. Supreme Court voted to strike down Roe v. Wade , scrapping the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy that had endured for almost 50 years. The high court on Friday overturned the landmark 1973 decision in a ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , meaning the legal status of abortion will now be left up to individual states to decide. It comes after Republicans in the Senate in May blocked an effort to codify the right to abortion in federal law. What Does Overturning Roe v. Wade Mean? Researchers say that without Roe , abortion will probably become illegal in about half of the country , primarily in Southern and Midwestern states. Twenty-five states are likely to prohibit abortion without Roe , according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. They are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, … [Read more...] about Is abortion illegal? Your rights in every state as Roe v. Wade overturned

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz had been "personally pushing" for a broad presidential pardon from Donald Trump before and after the January 6 attack, the House Committee investigating the riot revealed. One of the biggest revelations from Thursday's hearing was testimony from White House officials naming six GOP lawmakers —Gaetz, Andy Biggs (Arizona) Louie Gohmert (Texas) and Scott Perry (Pennsylvania) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia)—who sought clemency from Trump before he left office. Additionally, Alabama Representative Mo Brooks is alleged to have sent an email on January 11, 2021, seeking "all purpose" pardons for every lawmaker who objected to electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. In a statement to AL.com, Brooks cited the email in saying that there was "concern Democrats would abuse the judicial system by prosecuting and jailing Republicans who acted pursuant to their Constitutional or statutory duties under (federal election law)." Former … [Read more...] about Matt Gaetz mysteriously sought Trump pardon way before Jan. 6—committee

ATLANTA — The impact was immediate: the moment the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe vs. Wade , Robin Marty, the operations director of the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, told nurses, desk staff and a doctor on Friday they could no longer provide abortions. “I can’t believe they f—ing did it,” she said via phone. “You have to stop now!” Just as Roe was a landmark case for women’s rights in 1973, its reversal Friday is a resounding, if expected, ruling that will again reshape abortion in this volatile and divided nation. It left millions of women in conservative states wondering what their options are. Marty’s clinic staff had to tell more than 20 patients in their waiting room that they could continue their ultrasounds and counseling, but could not have their abortions. Then they began calling up about 100 patients, one by one, to cancel appointments and refer them to a clinic about 200 miles away in Atlanta, where the procedure is still legal. But the Atlanta … [Read more...] about Where is abortion legal? In red states, women navigate a chaotic abortion landscape

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s ruling allowing states to set their own abortion laws will immediately halt the procedure in several states and thrust the issue of reproductive rights into this fall’s midterm elections. The decision will also put significant pressure on President Biden — a late-comer to the modern abortion rights movement — to take steps to fortify abortion access, even though it is unclear what executive action is available to him. Social conservatives who have been trying to reverse the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling for decades promised to build on their efforts by pushing for abortion bans in every state or antiabortion legislation at the federal level, particularly if they make gains in Congress in November’s elections. Former Vice President Mike Pence said social conservatives in the post-Roe era “must not rest and must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the land.” Politics In … [Read more...] about With Roe dead, Republicans call for abortion bans in all states

The manager of a small-town Michigan hotel is offering a free room for women looking to get abortions, particularly from states that have recently restricted or banned access. Shelley O’Brien, the manager of the Yale Hotel in Yale, Michigan, posted the offer on Facebook in May. The post offers several free nights at the hotel plus a transportation service to and from the abortion for women in states that have recently made measures to ban abortion. The offer also “extends to anybody” trying to get an abortion who may need help, which includes people from Michigan, O’Brien told the Detroit Free Press . There are not abortion services in the town of Yale, but there are some about an hour away. “This is important,” O’Brien said according to the Free Press. “This is my line. There’s no coming back from this. You start taking away the right for women to control their own bodies, and we’re done for as a civilization. I can’t stop what’s happening, but I have the resources to maybe … [Read more...] about A Michigan Hotel Wants To Help Out-Of-State Women Get Abortions