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The man who tackled Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in 2017 in anger over Paul piling yard waste near their shared property line will serve another 14 months behind bars or on home detention. A federal judge initially sentenced Rene Boucher to 30 days in jail for the attack, along with 100 hours of community service and a $10,000 fine. Prosecutors argued that sentence was unreasonably light given Paul’s injuries, which included six broken ribs. Prosecutors won the right to try to get a longer sentence for Boucher. U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Leitman imposed the additional punishment in a...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — At first, the cheers for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz were louder than those for the man he came to stump for Friday morning, but that changed. Cruz, R-Texas, came to Knoxville in support of Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Dr. Manny Sethi and a crowd of nearly 200 people crammed inside a dining room of the Southern Rail Station to hear from the two as Sethi attempts to go toe-to-toe with Bill Hagerty, the former U.S. ambassador to Japan. The race has both tightened and gotten uglier in recent weeks ahead of the August 6 Election Day. Both...

(CNN) President Donald Trump's endorsed candidate in the US Senate race in Tennessee has suddenly found himself in an increasingly competitive primary fight that has divided top Republicans and prompted anger over one GOP senator's tactics. Bill Hagerty was expected to coast to his party's nomination after the President endorsed him a year ago. But with less than two weeks to go before the Republican primary election, Trump's former US ambassador to Japan is facing a fierce challenge marked by a late infusion of ad spending, high-profile endorsements and rallies crisscrossing the state. Dr. Manny Sethi and Hagerty traded attacks...

Federal prosecutors have renewed a push for a 21-month sentence for the man who tackled and injured U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in November 2017. Rene Boucher deserves to spend more time behind bars because of the serious injuries Paul sustained, including six broken ribs that left him in intense pain and led to bouts of pneumonia and damage that ultimately required removing part of Paul’s lung, Assistant U.S. Attorney Bradley P. Shepard said in a memorandum filed Monday. Shepard also argued that the initial 30-day sentence against Boucher wasn’t enough to deter other potential assaults on members of Congress. “Aggressive...

Rand says Cuomo’s nursing home debacle was 'the worst public policy and public health decision in a century'Sen. Rand Paul said on Thursday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be impeached for what he sees as a mishandling of the state's coronavirus response. “What you found in New York is that we ended up having horrendous death,” Paul told “America’s Newsroom.” Paul, R-Ky., said that New York had a death rate of 1,600 per million people, which is the highest in the country.” “Eight times worse than Florida, 10 times worse than Texas, even now with the surge in...

The debate over the size of the next coronavirus relief bill is reopening the same divisions within the Republican Party that spawned the Tea Party movement more than a decade ago, putting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in a delicate spot. McConnell is up for reelection this fall in Kentucky, a state that has been a hotbed of Tea Party activism over the past 10-plus years. His home state colleague, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a Tea Party favorite, is taking an outspoken stand against another large federal relief package. The situation is eerily similar to 2008, when McConnell was...

Sen. Rand Paul, a long-time critic of Rep. Liz Cheney, joined the conservative pile-on of the Wyoming Republican, saying on Wednesday: "I don't think she's good for the country" and accused her of trying to "sabotage" President Donald Trump's foreign policy. Paul, a libertarian-minded Republican, has long sparred with Cheney, who supports hawkish views on national security. And asked about House conservatives lashing out at Cheney behind closed doors, Paul joined in on the criticism in an interview with CNN. "I mean she tries to sabotage everything he tries to do in foreign policy, so I don't know whether she's...

The time came when the emperor decreed: “The people are in need; a plague is upon the land. I will give them money.” The people had been made to believe that paper was money. So, the emperor ordered that paper bearing the government insignia be printed and distributed to the people. Now, the people had been trained to accept paper as money, but they still hung onto the belief that even paper money required work to be considered valuable. But the emperor reassured them that paper is money backed by the full faith and credit of government (aka paper money...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called Wednesday for the impeachment of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) over his handling of the state's coronavirus outbreak, saying, "The people we are lauding are actually making catastrophic decisions." "I think Gov. Cuomo should be impeached ... for the disastrous decision he made to send patients with coronavirus back to nursing homes. ... Virtually half his people who died were in nursing homes," Paul said on Fox News's "Rundown" morning podcast. Earlier in the show, Paul called in to question the pandemic lockdown imposed in New York in March, referencing the surge of cases...

In a free society, citizens should be able to easily distinguish between civilian law enforcement tasked with keeping the peace in our communities and the armed forces tasked with protecting our country from foreign adversaries. Unfortunately, thanks to the federal government flooding our neighborhoods with billions of dollars of military equipment and property over the years, the line between peace officer and soldier of war has become increasingly blurry. Police officers have an incredibly difficult and often thankless job where they lay their lives on the line every day. Without the rule of law, a civilized society cannot exist, and...

Senator Rand Paul reacts exclusively to Dr. Anthony Fauci's latest round of comments regarding virus death rates and case numbers across several states, his take on a 'one size fits all' approach to pandemic response, a possible 'immunity' that has been reached in certain regions, the legislative struggle over reopening schools, and more...

@RandPaulJust came from Progressive Democrat, whoops, I’m mean Republican caucus: They’re going to spend $105b more on education, more than we spend every year on the Dept of Education. Anyone remember when Reagan conservatives were for eliminating the Federal Dept. of Education? @RandPaulThe majority of Republicans are now no different than socialist Democrats when it comes to debt. They simply don’t care about debt and are preparing to add at least another trillion dollars in debt this month, combined with the trillions from earlier this summer.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday spoke out against federal officers “rounding people up at will” in Portland, Ore., saying the handling of unrest there should be left to local law enforcement. “We cannot give up liberty for security. Local law enforcement can and should be handling these situations in our cities but there is no place for federal troops or unidentified federal agents rounding people up at will,” Paul tweeted Monday.

United States Senator Rand Paul says he is not in favor of another stimulus package to provide checks to Americans. Senator Paul said he is opposed because he does not think our country needs to continue borrowing more money. Paul said a better solution is getting people back to work in Kentucky. The Senator says although COVID-19 case numbers are increasing, the trend appears to be toward less vulnerable populations. Paul adds it is important to reopen the economy, but also protect at-risk groups. Paul also discussed the politics surrounding the COVID-19 virus and provided other updates to the News...

Ultimately, perhaps we will all hunker down in our own ideological space, hoping to find respite from the mob, whether it be the metaphorical cancel culture, the CNN mob, or the real-life mobs running loose in our cities. Why confront mindlessness when it’s safer & less painful to avoid it? But for now, let’s suppose there are some thoughtful individuals left. A CNN opinion maker recently accused me of making wildly inaccurate comments about a coronavirus vaccine. My supposed sin was saying the left wing mob would likely forcibly vaccinate even individuals who already have immunity like myself. CNN argues...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the nation reimagines the criminal justice system following widespread protests over the deaths of Black Americans in police custody, Kentucky's junior senator Rand Paul (R) is reintroducing several policy proposals concerning civil liberties. Among them is the issue of civil asset forfeiture. "The government can accuse people of a crime and take their stuff," he lamented as part of a lengthy speech on the Senate floor in May 2015. "Turns out that most people having their stuff taken are poor, often African American, often Hispanic but for the most part poor," he added. Senator Paul has...

(CNSNews.com) - As congressional Democrats push another multi-trillion coronavirus relief package, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is warning we've run out of money. "Well, we have no money, Neil," Paul told Fox News's Neil Cavuto on Tuesday. "There's no rainy day fund. There's no savings account. It's not like we go over to the Federal Reserve, open the safe, and we find out, oh, we have all this money we can give to people. "The $3 trillion we have already sent to people because of this government-mandated depression has been borrowed. Where are they going to get another trillion dollars? They're...

Senator Rand Paul provides exclusive commentary on his late June line of questioning to Dr. Anthony Fauci, and why he has concerns about Fauci's terms of reopening schools in the fall, and establishing a return to normalcy for businesses across the country. - with Newsmax TV's Greg Kelly Click Excerpt Link For Video [7:35] ...

@RandPaulHey Andrew, that mountain in your poster represents 30,000 dead people, including over 10K dead as a result of your decision to send COVID + patients back to nursing homes - hardly seems worthy of a celebration.

The killing of George Floyd and the subsequent nationwide uproar has rightfully forced needed conversations about law enforcement and the criminal justice system. While Congress has so far fumbled on working toward tangible, passable legislation, Sens. Rand Paul, R–Kentucky, Mike Lee, R–Utah, Mike Crapo, R–Idaho, and Angus King, I–Maine, have reintroduced legislation to limit the use of civil asset forfeiture. Through the practice, law enforcement is able to seize cash and other assets from individuals suspected or accused of criminal activity without so much as a criminal conviction or even bringing criminal charges. The practice of civil asset forfeiture in...