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On April 22, the Biden-Harris administration announced a Final Rule entitled, “HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy,” which will prohibit the disclosure of protected health information (PHI) related to so-called “lawful reproductive health care in certain circumstances.” Pro-life groups, including Florida Right to Life, are warning that the new rule will specifically protect abortion businesses and abortionists who deliberately interfere with state laws aimed at protecting the lives of preborn children from abortion. “The Biden administration is attempting to use a new interpretation of the decades-old Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to shield...

CV NEWS FEED // Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a pro-abortion campaign speech in downtown Jacksonville, FL Wednesday – the same day Florida’s pro-life law protecting most unborn children after six weeks gestation went into effect. During her remarks, she repeatedly referred to the “heartbeat” law – and other state’s pro-life laws – as a “Trump abortion ban.” Florida voters are set to decide the fate of Amendment 4 – a measure that seeks to add a so-called “right to abortion” into the state’s Constitution – on November 5, the same day as the presidential election. In her speech, Harris...

Michelle Herczeg was temporarily removed from her duties last Wednesday after she assaulted a superior officer at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where she was waiting for Harris’ departure. The Dallas PD colleague exclusively told The Post they’re gobsmacked that Herczeg was picked for the vice president’s detail as in their experience, she was not the type of person suited to law enforcement. “I wouldn’t have allowed this person to supervise my dog, much less the vice president … Somebody dropped the ball on this one,” the former colleague said. Herczeg previously sued the city of Dallas in 2016 for...

Kamala Harris has been dispatched on the campaign trail to convince black men that they are better off under Joe Biden amid fears they are abandoning the Democrats. The vice-president’s multi-state “economic opportunity tour” kicks off in the critical battleground of Georgia on Monday and heads to Michigan next week. Her office said Ms Harris will highlight the administration’s commitment to “underserved entrepreneurs”, and how the White House’s economic policies have created “a small business boom”. A White House official privately indicated a major focus of the tour will be engaging black men, with polls suggesting they have become disillusioned...

Major DEI fail. Who vetted this agent? As previously reported, an armed Secret Service agent assigned to Kamala Harris got into a physical fight with other agents at Joint Base Andrews on Monday morning. According to reports, the problem agent, identified as Michelle Herczeg, began acting aggressively, speaking gibberish and shouting incoherently at other agents while they were near the lounge at JBA. Herczeg reportedly threw menstrual pads at another agent before getting into a brawl a JBA. RealClearPolitics reported that Herczeg grabbed a male agent’s personal cell phone and began deleting apps on it before she completely melted down....

An incident involving a physical attack by a female Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris is raising questions about whether the agency had thoroughly vetted her during her hiring and whether an ongoing push to increase the numbers of women in the service and boost overall workforce staff played a role in her selection. The Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris was removed from her duties Wednesday after physically attacking the commanding agent in charge and other agents trying to subdue her, according to an agency spokesman and knowledgeable Secret Service sources. Several...

An armed U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris‘s protective detail fought unarmed with other detail agents on Monday morning. The incident occurred at the Washington, D.C.-area Andrews Air Force Base, before Harris arrived, and after the agent suffered what the Secret Service has characterized as a medical incident. The Washington Examiner is aware of the agent’s name and specific detail responsibilities but is withholding those details for privacy reasons. The Washington Examiner understands that the agent became aggressive with other agents. When the special agent in charge and a detail shift supervisor attempted to calm the...

Vice President Kamala Harris continues trying to demonstrate her professed love for Gen-Z and young people on the campaign trail as she tries to reboot her image for the 2024 election. The Vice President tried to soften the administration’s support of a bill that would ban TikTok, and took a delicate approach to antisemitism among college pro-Palestinian protests and even filmed a Buzzfeed video about her 'hair journey.' Harris claimed the Biden administration did not want to ban TikTok even though she said the president would ‘absolutely’ sign the foreign aid package that includes the measure would ban TikTok if...

The Democratic National Committee has conducted focus groups on Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new CNN report, to understand why voters do not like her. Some voters in the focus groups said they did not like Harris, specifically citing her laugh for criticism. Others questioned whether Biden even likes her. Harris' approval rating continues to rest somewhere in the mid-30s, according to polls, a historic low for the modern vice presidency as she spent the first three years in office struggling with bad headlines.

No one wants Kamala Harris to run for president, or to take over for Joe Biden, recent focus groups in Arizona and California have confirmed. Who could possibly listen to that wretched laugh or listen to her incomprehensible word salads for four years. This confirms something that the Democrats have been struggling with for months now. Harris is even less popular than Joe Biden. This is why she can’t ride in to their rescue in the 2024 election. FOX News reports: Focus group of voters offer ‘brutal’ take of VP Harris: Not ‘someone I want running my country’ Multiple voter...

Vice President Kamala Harris canceled her scheduled appearance with Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, with plans to attend a campaign event instead. The vice president was scheduled to appear on the show Tuesday which films in the afternoon. She and her staff publicly gave no reason for canceling here appearance, according to Deadline.

(Apr. 8, 2024) — by Joseph DeMaio The writer first presents text from Paul Clement and Neal Katyal’s 2015 subject essay followed by his own commentary in bold, indented text. Page breaks in the original C&K text are indicated in brackets.] Deep Dive Part 3 “While the field of candidates for the next presidential election is still taking shape, at least one potential candidate, Senator Ted Cruz, was born in a Canadian hospital to a U.S. citizen mother.15 Despite the happenstance of a birth across the border, there is no question that Senator Cruz has been a citizen from birth...

Kamala Harris' heavily tattooed stepdaughter, Ella Emhoff, is selling her knitted art pieces for more than $5,000 each at her exhibition in a New York City cannabis store. Emhoff, 24, debuted her textile exhibition this week at Gotham NYC, a 'woman-owned legal cannabis concept store' on the city's Lower East Side. The vice president's daughter is asking $5,500 for a textile of her self-portrait, featuring her bright red nose and freckles on her forehead. Another piece, featuring two light-blue Gucci hair clips with a backdrop of red, comes with an eye-watering $4,500 price tag. 'This new art form kind of...

(Apr. 2, 2024) — Introduction In 2015, two former high officials in the Office of the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice – Messrs. Paul Clement, a Republican, and Neal Katyal, a Democrat – jointly authored an article on the Constitution’s “natural born Citizen” term (hereafter, for brevity, “nbC”). Entitled “On the Meaning of ‘Natural Born Citizen,’” the article appeared in the March 2015 edition of the Harvard Law Review Forum (128 Harv.L.Rev.F. 161), which describes itself as the “the online companion to the print journal (i.e., the Harvard Law Review) and where “[i]t hosts scholarly discussion of...

Islamabad — The leader of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban government has said it is determined to enforce the Islamic criminal justice system, including the public stoning of women for adultery. "Our mission is to enforce sharia and Allah's Hudud [law]," said Hibatullah Akhundzada in an audio clip Taliban officials said was from his latest speech. They did not say where the reclusive leader spoke, but Akhundzada lives in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar and rarely leaves what is known as the Taliban's historical birthplace and political headquarters. He primarily addressed Western critics of the Taliban government, which Akhundzada is effectively...

VIDEOYou know how you can tell if a public official is SERIOUS about stopping the Biden Open Border Policy? If that official actually says the word "illegal" or "illegally" when referring to the the illegal aliens who cross our open borders. One such person who does not shy for saying "illegal" is Ohio Senator J.D. Vance who used the terms "illegal" and "illegally" FORTY times in a recent one hour speech on the subject of the Biden Open Border Policy. In this video I present the highlights of Vance saying "illegal" and "illegally" in that speech. Oh, and Vance most...

A drag star feted by Kamala Harris at the Biden White House and Vice President’s residence has been accused of multiple sexual assaults between 2012 to 2020.Darius Jeremy “DJ” Pierce, better known as “Shangela,” has appeared on numerous television series and is best known for competing on RuPaul’s “Drag Race” and Dancing With the Stars.The accusations are described in sordid detail in a Rolling Stone exposé following a 16 month investigation researching the allegations, reviewing court documents, and interviewing several accusers.\BREAKING: Drag Queen 'Shangela' who was invited by Kamala Harris to the White House to celebrate Pride Month was just...

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff angrily condemned former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling him 'anti-Semitic' for claiming that Jews who vote for Democrats 'hate Israel.' Trump criticized the Biden administration and Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer during an interview with former White House advisor and now-radio host Sebastian Gorka. 'I really believe they hate Israel,' the former president said about the Democrats. Emhoff addressed Trump's comments during a campaign visit to Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday. 'This is a disgusting, toxic, antisemitic thing to say by anyone, let alone a former president of the United States,' said Emhoff about Trump's...

Donald Trump will not pick a hardline pro-life candidate as his running mate over concerns that it would be electorally unwise, according to latest reports. NBC reported on Sunday that Trump has been asking about the positions of various potential vice-presidental picks on the issue, with particular concerns raised about Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. “The president understands it as a treacherous issue — one that you can actually trip up and fall on your face with,” said a source close to Trump. “He’s concerned it will have a drag on the ticket if they’re...

The stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris has been raising funds for a U.N. agency that employed Hamas operatives that carried out the deadly attack against Israel on October 7, 2023. Ella Emhoff, who solicited funds from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), came under fire when the agency’s role in the attacks was exposed. Emhoff used META-owned platforms like Instagram to solicit donations for the UNRWA, which in turn funded HAMAS terrorists.