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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A federal appeals court has ruled police can shoot hostages — even intentionally — if they fear for their lives or to stop a fleeing felon. The case is more than just a legal footnote to Don Davis. The Georgia truck driver was shot nine times by troopers and deputies who were trying to stop a murder suspect holding Davis hostage in his truck. While the shooting occurred in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court just this week let stand a federal court ruling that police owe the hostage nothing for his medical bills or...

Gov. Brian Kemp will sign a measure Friday to create a state commission with powers to investigate, sanction or oust local prosecutors, part of an intensifying campaign by state Republicans to punish district attorneys they see as soft on crime. The second-term governor was one of the chief advocates for the GOP-backed measure, which was approved mostly along party lines by supporters who cited embarrassing examples of “rogue prosecutors” they say neglected their duties. It will be signed by Kemp despite objections from Democrats and prominent prosecutors who view it as a power grab by empowering a new panel to...

On April 26, 2023, Governor Gianforte (R) of Montana signed bills HB 356, SB 359, SB 400, and HB674 into law. HB356, known as the FIND Act, prevents state agencies from doing business with financial institutions which discriminate against the firearms industry. SB 359 prevents financial institutions from requiring the use of firearms codes by retailers. SB 400 increases the term of a concealed carry permit from four to five years. SB 674 is a moderately complicated bill that sets up an enhanced Montana carry permit. It is designed to meet the requirements for five states’ reciprocity requirements, but there...

Fox News last month agreed to fork over nearly $800 million in its settlement of a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion claimed Fox defamed the company with supposed disinformation about its role in the 2020 election. The lawsuit was set to go to trial before Fox settled in fear of an even larger judgment and the negative publicity of Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson, and Sean Hannity testifying in open court. The lawsuit possibly influenced the network to cut ties with Carlson over fears of future litigation. The whole affair demonstrates how conservatives can be sued for dubious reasons...

In 2013, the Arkansas legislature passed, and a Democrat governor signed a bill that reformed Arkansas’s gun law. That bill created the same conditions as had existed in Vermont for 90 years: Constitutional Carry. In 2023, the Arkansas legislature passed an apparent and clear, in-your-face, straight-up Constitutional Carry bill, given the obvious success of the 2013 law.In 2013, the AR legislature passed HB1700. Democrat Governor Mike Beebe immediately said he had no idea he was signing a Constitutional Carry bill. Part of the reform, which went into effect on August 16, 2013, was a change in the definition of what...

See if you can spot what these two stories have in common. Saratoga County Woman Killed After Turning into Wrong Driveway – Albany Times Union 84-Year-Old Is Charged in Shooting of Black Teenager Who Went to Wrong House – New York Times The media, by which I mean the Left, has with utter racist predictably begun waving the bloody shirt about the second case. The tawdry movement is cheerfully organizing a lynch mob for an 84-year-old man, not on the merits of the case, but because of the racial identity markers in that headline. Had the races been reversed or...

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it’s a squirrel. That seems to be the logic Democrats have when it comes to their own corruption. A man can literally be caught red-handed stealing luggage from a woman at an airport, wear her clothes around in full view of the public, and lose his federal job as a result of it, but if he’s a Democrat then he need not worry. His felony will be reduced to a mere misdemeanor. As Bonchie reported earlier, this is exactly what happened to “non-binary” former Assistant...

The Supreme Court on Friday dealt the administrative state another blow with a 9-0 decision holding that individuals and businesses harpooned by an independent agency don’t have to suffer a torturous government adjudication to challenge its constitutionality in federal court (Axon Enterprise v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran).

“I’ve got documents from the NIH – from 2002 – talking about integrating vaccines into foods,” announced attorney Tom Renz. “They’ve been working on integrating these [gene therapies] into our food supply. They’ve been working on it for at least two decades,” he stated in an eye-opening interview with Dr. Naomi Wolf. “Gates, the WHO, a ton of these universities: they’re all talking about including mRNA vaccinations as part of the food. They’re gonna modify the genes of these foods to make them mRNA vaccines,” he warned. Missouri HB 1169 seeks to counter such an effort. It’s been described as...

At issue is a provision in the bill that would impose, per the legislative text: "criminal penalties for persons who knowingly and willfully violate, or who reasonably should know and who violate, certain provisions relating to the transporting into or within this state, or the concealing, harboring, or shielding from detection, or the attempt thereof, of individuals who entered the United States unlawfully and without inspection by the Federal Government."Violators could be charged with a second-degree felony under the bill, which in Florida is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The bill is also opposed by the ACLU,...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough declared Wednesday on his show “Morning Joe” that Republicans were “the enemy of the rule of law” when discussing mass shootings and former President Donald Trump. Scarborough said, “The vast majority have been whipped into a frenzy by paranoia that has been fed by the NRA to raise money and for gun manufacturers to make tons of money. Again, this is so important. This is a choice Republicans have made over the past 25 years.” He continued, “That’s where we are as a society, and it is sick. And I swear to God, sometimes, we’re going...

Former President Donald Trump claims that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has “dropped” an investigation into him over the “hush money” payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump, 76, made the assertion while speaking to reporters on his jet Saturday night after a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, Axios reported. “I think they’ve already dropped the case,” Trump said. “It’s a fake case. Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing.” Trump didn’t say what led him to believe he was off the hook. A spokesperson for Bragg, a Democrat, declined to comment Sunday on Trump’s remarks but pointed to an...

Former President Donald Trump is not expected to be arraigned until next week if he’s indicted over an alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, according to a report. A law enforcement source told Fox News on Monday that the Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence against the 76-year-old former president has another witness slated to testify on Wednesday and that Trump’s arraignment, if he were to be indicted in the case, would not be expected until next week. It is unclear who will be testifying on Wednesday. Trump declared in a post on his Truth Social account over the...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is being accused of violating the U.S. Constitution and Florida law by former Judge and Fox News Contributor Andrew Napolitano. Judge Napolitano made the accusation against Gov. DeSantis on Twitter and Tik Tok after a video was posted by conservative activist and journalist Laura Loomer showing herself and a group of Trump supporters from TheVillages being told to leave the parking lot of the bookstore where DeSantis was having his book signing event. “That’s absolutely prohibited by the Constitution of the United States. Moreover, Florida has a public accommodation law,” said Napolitano. After posting the video...

It would be interesting to see a “moderate Muslim” spokesman in the West, one of the legion who hoodwink conservatives by claiming that Islam, rightly understood, is peaceful and benign, discuss or debate these assertions with Islam Behery, or try to refute what he says here. Instead, they will ignore it. Now, why is that? “Egyptian Researcher Islam Behery: Mainstream Islamic Scholarship Is Radical, Leads To Terrorism – It Seeks To Wage Jihad, Spread Islam,” MEMRI, January 29, 2023: https://www.memri.org/tv/egyptian-researcher-behery-islamic-jurisprudence-needs-reform-terrorism-jihad Egyptian researcher Islam Behery said in a January 29, 2023 interview on Sky News Arabia (UAE) that like other fields...

Former President Donald Trump has never been in more serious — and fast-approaching — legal jeopardy. A Georgia grand jury has apparently already recommended Trump’s indictment in a 2020 election interference case. The Atlanta prosecutor handling that case told a judge that decisions on charging him and others are “imminent.” Special counsel Jack Smith, meanwhile, is showing none of the kid-glove deference to Trump that marked Attorney General Merrick Garland’s handling of the explosive cases. Moving at the legal equivalent of lightning speed, Smith is gathering evidence against the former president on two fronts: his taking a cache of classified...

Freepers, this is a big deal. Those of you with a legal background. Appreciate your thoughts. Foundedonpurpose Supreme Court Refused to Hear the Brunson Case As Expected Blog/Rule of Law Posted Feb 22, 2023 by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty, you understand markets and the legal system. You were right again. The Supreme Court rejected the Brunson case. KQ REPLY: As I wrote before, this was an interesting argument, but it will be even more “earth-shattering if the Supreme Court actually takes the case and rules on the validity of taking an oath of office.” How can you support, and defend,...

As you kind people know, I have been writing about the moronic ban on fracking that Mr. Biden promised to impose on our nation almost the moment he was inaugurated. This measure would have cut domestic oil and gas production by more than 35 percent since early 2021. It has caused oil and gas prices to skyrocket as oil and gas became in short supply. We would have to beg countries that hate us for oil. We are already draining our strategic petroleum reserve — a life/or/death military asset — at an alarming rate. As it happened, Mr. Biden “walked...

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there was no “law that can stop that evil” when asked about the death of Tyre Nichols. Host Chuck Todd asked, “Let me start with what we saw. Senator Tim Scott said, ‘We’ve been here too many times before. We cannot continue down this path. America cannot stand silent. Let it serve as a call to action for every lawmaker in our nation at every level.’ What action would you like to see, Congressman?”

Hollywood celebrity Rob Reiner, who vigorously campaigned for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, is now helping to perform damage control for the president in the wake of damaging revelations that Biden kept classified documents from his time as vice president in unsecured locations, including his Delaware car garage next to his prized Corvette. In a tweet on Sunday, Rob Reiner declared that President Biden is a “decent law abiding person,” comparing him unfavorably to former President Donald Trump, whom he called a “pathologically lying criminal.”