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Another 20 House Republicans have been added to an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton aimed at overturning the results of the presidential election, a sign of the enormous political pressure on GOP lawmakers to back President Trump’s long-shot legal efforts. The 126 lawmakers join 17 Republican state attorneys general who filed their own amicus brief supporting the lawsuit, 6 of whom are seeking to join the case and 10 of whom met with Trump at the White House on Thursday.

The Attorney General of the United States appears to have taken the active step to assist the Joe Biden presidential campaign by hiding details of an investigation into his family from the American public. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night: Attorney General William Barr has known about a disparate set of investigations involving Hunter Biden’s business and financial dealings since at least this spring, a person familiar with the matter said, and worked to avoid their public disclosure during the heated election campaign. Republicans and President Trump have pressed Mr. Barr for months to pursue Mr. Biden, especially as...

Impeachment Star Witness Was Aware of Burisma Corruption Ex-Con Hired by D.C. as ‘Violence Interrupter’ Charged with Murder Judicial Watch Confronts the Election Crisis President Trump Echoes Judicial Watch Concerns about Dirty Voter Rolls Turns out that one of the Democrats’ star witnesses in their sham impeachment of President Trump – former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch – seemed to have been shading the truth. Are you at all surprised? We just received 210 pages of records from the State Department showing that Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings. However, during...

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is now one of 126 House Republicans who have signed on to back Texas’ lawsuit attempting to overturn the results of the presidential election. Many Republicans are signing onto the case. The suit from the Texas attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, demands that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin be invalidated. The Texas lawsuit claims that the authority to hold an election comes from the U.S. Constitution and therefore any election practice that violates the constitution (such as equal protection) is not permissible. At least 18 different states are...

Finally docketed in US Supreme Court!https://t.co/Dpay3svFwP— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 11, 2020 Here’s the SCOTUS link… Read the case — Wood v Raffensperger

Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly hid two federal probes involving Hunter Biden for months. The Wall Street Journal reported that Barr has known about the probes since at least the spring and worked to avoid their public disclosure during the election campaign.

MSNBC host Al Sharpton said on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the 17 state attorneys general and Republican lawmakers who support his lawsuit to contest the presidential election results of four battleground states were involved in “a clear racist attempt to disenfranchise black voters.” Anchor Joy Reid said, “This is nothing short to me of white nationalism in action in our political system. It’s anti-democracy.”

press_release_translation.pdfCOLUMBUS, Ohio – A former Dublin, Ohio man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to conspiring to steal exosome-related trade secrets concerning the research, identification and treatment of a range of pediatric medical conditions.Yu Zhou, 50, also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud.Zhou admitted to conspiring to steal scientific trade secrets related to exosomes and exosome isolation from Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Research Institute for his own personal financial gain in China.“The Chinese government has created a large-scale, sophisticated system to steal American ingenuity,” U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers said. “We hope this conviction demonstrates that we will...

Put on mask and now take off mask. It's all theater Freepers. https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1337490117116760064

Idaho's attorney general says he's declining to join a lawsuit filed by Texas seeking to overturn the outcome of the presidential election by invalidating the results in four battleground states Donald Trump lost. Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden in a statement Thursday said the decision is necessary to protect Idaho's sovereignty. Here is the full statement: "I've spent substantial time reviewing Texas's Bill of Complaint so I could fully understand and consider the legal arguments being made. After doing so, I am declining to join this effort. As I have done since the day I took my oath of office...

A Texas man released from prison after his sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama has again been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges, according to Department of Justice officials. Hilario Nieto, 41, of San Antonio, is among eight people indicted on charges of conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine and heroin in the San Antonio area, federal officials announced Thursday. -snip Nieto was sentenced in 2004 to more than 20 years in federal prison on drug charges, according to the federal officials. He was scheduled for release in 2021. Obama commuted Nieto's sentence in 2016, the Justice Department...

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is opposing a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas challenging the 2020 election results in four states. Bullock filed a brief, docketed late Thursday, in support of the defendant states—Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin—arguing that the Supreme Court should reject Texas’s request to sue. Montana is one of the states in which President Donald Trump won by a large margin in the November election. Bullock, a Democrat, argued that Montana, like the four defendant states, had expanded mail-in voting in the 2020 election, which means the outcome of the Texas case would impact the results...

The Texas case against Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia has exploded. Now nearly the entire country is picking sides. The whole country knows now that the state of Texas sued Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Monday night in the US Supreme Court challenging their unlawful election procedures. ....... Snip...... Now blue states and a couple of territories have gotten involved and have joined Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin. They are fine with massive corruption as long as they gain power:

Oh!!! Well now that we know THAT... https://twitter.com/MAJTOURE/status/1337201375151874049

Hollister police arrested an alleged team of catalytic converter thieves early Wednesday. Two men and a woman, all from Bakersfield, were arrested after a resident called police after seeing suspicious police, police reported. Officers responded to the report around 12:10 a.m. when they pulled over the reported vehicle with its three occupants. Inside the vehicle they found cutting tools, power tools, saws and two recently removed catalytic converters. A K-9 search of the vehicle led officers to find methamphetamine and the vehicle itself was later determined to have been stolen. All three occupants were arrested and have since been released...

Federal prosecutors on Friday announced charges against a Pasadena man accused of using stolen identities to obtain state unemployment benefits from the CARES Act to purchase a luxury Maserati SUV. Robert Sloan Mateer, 30, was named in a five-count indictment from a federal grand jury on Dec. 2, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release. He’s been charged with the following: aggravated identity theft; possession of at least 15 unauthorized access devices with intent to defraud; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine; having a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; and being a felon in possession...

@jennfranconews BREAKING: The Senate passes the National Defense authorization Act (NDAA) in a vote of 84-13. The measure now heads to President Trump who is threatening to veto the bill because it fails to clamp down on big tech companies. @ScottWaller10 No votes on NDAA Braun (R-IN) Cotton (R-AR) Cruz (R-TX) Hawley (R-MO) Kennedy (R-LA) Lee (R-UT) Markey (D-MA) Merkley (D-OR) Paul (R-KY) Sanders (I-VT) Warren (D-MA) Wyden (D-OR) Not Voting - 3 Graham (R-SC) Loeffler (R-GA) Rounds (R-SD)

The Trump administration is moving to broadly raise the standards for individuals to receive asylum status in the U.S., a step that critics are calling the biggest crackdown of this presidency on those seeking a haven in this country. A new, 419-page rule by the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice would create additional bars to asylum eligibility and limit the circumstances in which individuals can qualify for protection, changes that the administration says "are likely to result in fewer asylum grants annually." "This is the most sweeping attack on asylum that we have seen under the Trump...

The controversial ban on outdoor restaurant dining, part of an effort to break the back of California’s coronavirus surge, has clearly touched a nerve. Lawsuits have been filed seeking to overturn it in Los Angeles County. Celebrity chef Guy Fieri urged an end to the ban, tweeting, “We gotta keep Flavortown open for biz!” Restaurants have argued that public health officials have not provided evidence that outdoor dining spreads COVID-19 significantly and that they have taken precautions to make eating outdoors safe. They say they are being treated unfairly, especially considering that shopping mall remain open as well as many...