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Far-left Democratic Representative LaMonica McIver of New Jersey appeared in court yesterday to answer felony assault charges stemming from the rumble in which she participated outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in the Garden State. McIver’s attorney sought a dismissal from U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper. Semper didn’t buy McIver’s argument that she was charged because she is a far-left, hate-Trump Democrat. But the judge also ordered federal prosecutors to produce more videos of the melee. He also told the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case, Mark McCarren, to push the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE’s...

A U.S. district court decided on Wednesday to strike down a 2017 federal regulation that exempted religious employers from the Affordable Care Act’s mandate for employer-sponsored health insurance to cover the cost of contraception. If the ruling holds, religious non-profit organizations such as the Little Sisters of the Poor may now be required to file for an accommodation process with the government that still maintains employees’ access to contraception without the religious organization having to pay. For-profit employers would have access to no religious exemption from the mandate whatsoeve