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For months, even years, leading Democrats across America have demanded that voters "save democracy" by voting for Democrats.

They charge others, and especially President Donald Trump, are a threat because they disagree with some points of Joe Biden's agenda, such as his enthusiastic promotion of transgenderism and abortion.

But now they're even going after liberals if that person could somehow be in opposition to Biden, and that has constitutional expert Jonathan Turley accusing the Democrats of now actually 'limiting democratic choice."

The renowned law professor at George Washington University Law School online discussed the move by the Democratic National Committee to block third-party candidates.

"The contradiction is stunning as these groups raise money to 'save democracy' by limiting democratic choice," he explained.

"The last time that the Chicago Democratic Convention was held in Chicago in 1968, the resulting riots led to one of the greatest Freudian slips in American politics. Mayor Richard Daley declared 'the policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder,'" he noted.

"The Democratic National Committee has now added its own gem: the Democratic Party is not here to preserve democracy, it is here to prevent democracy."

DNC targets now appear to be Robert Kennedy Jr., Cornell West, and Jill Stein, all "liberal and considered a threat to Joe Biden."

Apparently the Democrats not only will use a public campaign against the alternative candidates, but "legal action" too.

"To solve the problem by denying voters a choice."

Turley noted, "The media does not appear at all alarmed or critical of the effort to limit democratic choice. The Washington Post stated clinically 'Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time.' Taking it seriously appears to mean using legal means to keep them from the ballots."

He said it's striking that such a message is coming from the DNC, which is "raising money on the 'save democracy' narrative."

He said, "The contradiction is spellbinding. On the same sites promising to oppose the third party candidates, the DNC and other groups push the narrative that only the Democrats are working to protect the right to vote."

Turley himself explained that years ago he decided he would no longer vote for "the lesser of two evils" and would cast his vote for the best in the race, even if that was a third-party candidate.

While the DNC, and its supporting cast, work "to limit the choice of voters," "the effort continues in Florida, Georgia, Washington, and New York to keep Trump in court until the election, including a possible trial running up to or even through the election."

So Democrats winning now actually calls on denying voters "any other choice," he said.

"It appears that the last thing that democracy needs is free democratic choice."

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The abortion drug mifepristone already takes the life of an unborn baby when it is used, and the chief of the National Right to Life says the least the Supreme Court can do is reinstate safety protocols that might provide the mothers some protection.

"We hope that the justices will reconsider the approval of this dangerous drug or at least reinstate the long-standing safety protocols," said Carol Tobias. "Tragically, every mifepristone abortion takes the life of an unborn baby and places her mother in harm’s way.

"Bowing to pressure from the abortion industry, the FDA loosened the safety requirements of mifepristone which still has a black box warning," she explained. "Drugs that come with black box warnings have the most dangerous side effects and safety concerns, yet the FDA is okay with mifepristone being prescribed and even mailed to women without an in-person exam."

The comments came just after the justices heard arguments in a court case that seeks to restore safety protocols that the Food and Drug Administration abandoned.

The consolidated cases the court heard are FDA, et al. v. Alliance Hippocratic Medicine, et al. and Danco Laboratories, L.L.C. v. Alliance Hippocratic Medicine, et al.

Right to Life explained, "According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the government agency that tracks the nation's abortions, approximately 56% of all abortions are done using chemical abortion methods like mifepristone and misoprostol. In a recent report, the Guttmacher Institute, a research arm of the abortion industry, claimed that this number has risen to 63%."

"Mifepristone abortions by telehealth and third-party online sites are like the Wild West with a network of suppliers who are willing to break the few rules that exist," Tobias explained, "The current Wild West of abortion drug distribution is the direct fault of the Biden administration and its allies who have pushed for fewer and fewer rules and safety precautions for the abortion drugs."

Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon, director of education and research for the national organization, said, "When hundreds of thousands of women take these pills, even a couple of percentage points of women hemorrhaging, dealing with infections, or ectopic pregnancy, means thousands of women desperately seeking emergency treatment, which may or may not be nearby. The FDA itself warns that these abortion drugs have the potential to send one out of every 25 women to the emergency room. In studies from other countries that track complications, unlike the FDA, the number of women who go to the emergency room after taking these drugs is estimated to be as many as one out of every 10."

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As New York City tries to cope with the flood of illegal aliens that have arrived in the city under Joe Biden's open borders policies, authorities are trying to save money while handing it out.

That is, they're trying to find more efficient ways to disperse tax money to those illegals, and one of their ideas is to hand out cash cards, rather than food.

Then the illegals need to purchase their own food.

A report from Fox News said the pilot program, to test the idea, is being launched with $53 million.

The handout of the prepaid cards was begun this week, Mayor Eric Adams told Fox News Digital.

The money cards are going to families housed in hotels.

The report said the mayor explained the agenda will give migrant families of four, with two children under 5, up to $350 each week until the end of their stay.

Hundreds of people are expected to be set up in the cash delivery system within a few weeks.

Fox explained, "The prepaid cards may only be used at bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets, and convenience stores. Migrants eligible for the program must sign an affidavit stating they will only spend the funds on food and baby supplies, or else they could lose access to the funds," according to procedures outlined by Adams.

City officials released a statement explaining the new program is supposed to be a "cost-saving measure" and it should replace the city's current plans of providing non-perishable food boxes to illegals.

"A large part of our success is due to our constant work to find new ways to better serve the hundreds of individuals and families arriving every single day, as well as the longtime New Yorkers experiencing homelessness who are already in our care," the city statement said. "That is why we are excited to launch an innovative, cost-saving pilot program with Mobility Capital Finance to distribute pre-paid cards to migrant families to purchase only food and baby supplies."

The cash-card handouts are intended to provide migrants to ability to buy food "for their culturally relevant diets and the baby supplies of their choosing."

In New York, the program would give illegal aliens more in weekly benefits than low-income and elderly residents get under SNAP benefits. which amount to $291 a week.

The mayor, in a statement, said, "We found that the food delivery service that we set up during the emergency – we could find a better way to do it in our belief that we want to cut 20% of the migrant costs. So we have a pilot project with 500 people that we are giving them food cards, so instead of a debit card, instead of having to deliver food, and have people eat food — we were seeing wasting food — they’re now able to get their own food, that is going to be spent $12 a day."

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Over the last few months, especially in light of record-setting numbers of illegal aliens entering the U.S. under Joe Biden's open borders policies, even White House officials were beginning to think that they may have to crack down on the criminal activities on the border.

That's no longer a priority.

A report at Daily Caller News Foundation notes that Biden is thinking about granting amnesty to illegal aliens.

"Biden and his administration are weighing several ideas to take a tougher stance on the southern border crisis and illegal immigration amid criticisms he has thus far failed to act on either," the report said. "The administration could start doling out green cards to illegal immigrants who have long stayed inside the United States, thereby giving them amnesty to stay in the country, three people familiar with the planning told Politico."

This plan would give aliens who have been living in the U.S. for more than 10 years access to the cancellation of a removal program provided that they have relatives who would suffer if they were deported, the report said.

Then Biden would give out green cards, which grants permanent residency permission.

Three officials reported, in a Politico report, that would represent a larger effort by Biden to take action on behalf of illegal immigrants who have long stayed inside the U.S., similar to Barack Obama's highly controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals agenda.

The Politico report noted that Biden had been discussing executive actions on the border "to curb migration."

However, Biden did nothing and that's about what should be expected in the future, the report said.

"Inside the White House, aides do not feel a sense of urgency like they did before, even as the issue of immigration remains a chief concern for voters," the report said.

"The administration’s change in posture is owed, in part, to the downtick in migration numbers following a record-breaking number of illegal crossings in December. There remain questions about whether any action taken by the White House would pass legal muster. But while internal conversations around policy moves have continued, Biden aides also note that media coverage is less intense than it was earlier this year."

One source told Politico, "They’re in that pretty classic mode of, nothing is on fire right now."

Politico noted Biden still could move forward, but no specific action that previously was considered has yet been confirmed – or ruled out.

But the attitude now, the report said, is that Biden "has some space to deal with the matter."

The speculation by observers is that Biden's team thinks the politics turned in their favor by the rejection in Congress of a border deal, and the House focus on the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the report said.

The invasion by illegal aliens, however, remains a hot topic in this 2024 election year, with large numbers of Americans putting that as their biggest concern.

Republicans have pointed out that Biden deliberately opened the border, and then publicized his plans to accept all illegals who arrived when he took office and canceled President Donald Trump's mostly effective security measures.

They point out that if Biden wanted a secure border, he simply could restore those programs.

Biden has claimed Congress has to act before he can do anything.

The Daily Caller News Foundation report said Biden also has been considering more support for states and cities that have seen hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens dumped on their streets.

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It took only hours after a terror group attacked Russia, killing more than 100 people at a concert venue, for multiple American lawmakers to warn that such an atrocity is possible on American soil.

"It's sort of like we're going back to that old playbook where history repeats itself," explained Rep. Mike McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "And that's why the fall of Afghanistan, the way it was done, and the way we left it with no ISR capability, that intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, puts us in danger, where this is a new battleground training group for ISIS."

The criticism of the way Joe Biden abandoned Afghanistan, leaving hundreds of Americans in the hands of terrorists there, as well as tens of billions of dollars worth of American war machinery, followed on the heels of an attack by ISIS-K, an offshoot of ISIS, on a Russian concert hall, leaving at least 137 dead.

McCaul made his comments even as Russian officials hunted for bodies still remaining in the hall outside Moscow where four armed gunmen shot and killed civilians, before setting the building on fire.

And McCaul was not the only one concerned, according to a report from Just the News.

Asked whether a similar attack could happen in America, McCaul said, "I think so," and then noted there is concern over such attacks in Europe, too.

On Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said during a network interview that FBI Director Christopher Wray "confirmed to him that a trafficking network exists that smuggles illegal aliens with ties to the Islamic State into the United States, raising the threat of a Moscow-style attack here."

Critics of Biden's open borders policy long have criticized it for leaving America vulnerable to terror attacks. Literally, millions of illegal aliens have entered the U.S. since Biden took office and canceled a long list of security measures, including a border wall, put in place under President Donald Trump.

"They’ll do it here in the homeland," Rubio said in the report. "I think we should be very concerned as the FBI director confirmed to me that there is a wing – there is a trafficking network out there that specializes in moving people. They do it for profit, moving people and migrants around the world, including across our southern border, who have links to ISIS."

The senator noted, "I think common sense tells you, if they run a trafficking network of people, they would most certainly use it to move operatives into the United States. So, I’m not claiming there’s an imminent threat to the U.S., but I am saying that border situation and that existence of that network is a threat to the United States."

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The president of Mexico, in an interview, has confirmed what essentially appears to be his attempt to blackmail the United States into paying billions of dollars, or else the "flow of migrants will continue."

report at Fox News reveals that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador earlier demanded a series of actions by the United States for him to try to cut off some of the millions of illegal aliens coming from Mexico into the United States across its southern border.

Then just days ago, he said in an appearance on 60 Minutes that if the U.S. fails to meet his demands, "The flow of migrants will continue."

The report said Obrador, in recent weeks, has demanded that the U.S. give $20 billion a year to Latin American nations, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo, and give legal status in America to the millions of Mexicans who already have entered illegally.

Fox reported that the original demands, which have been described by critics as "blackmail," came in January when he made the demands regarding billions in cash, amnesty, and more.

"Mexico has reportedly taken some state-level action to curb mass migration at President Biden’s request, making crossings drop, however, the number of migrants began to rise again in February, with Border Patrol expecting another surge in the spring," the report said.

Interviewer Sharyn Alfonsi asked, "Everybody thinks you have the power at this moment to slow down migration. Do you plan to?"

He responded that the "root causes" must be addressed.

"Your critics have said what you’re doing, what you’re asking for to help secure the border, is diplomatic blackmail. What do you say?" Alfonsi asked.

He later seemed to contradict himself, confirming that even if those things don't happen, he will continue to try to help secure the border because the relationship between the nations is important.

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Democrats have orchestrated a full-scale war on President Donald Trump, taking him into court on a wide range of classified papers, business dealings, and speech issues, aiming to make sure he cannot beat Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election.

Now Al Franken, the ex-senator who left Congress in a sex scandal, has offered a morbid desire.

He wants Trump to testify in court in the cases, and he wants to see a Bible "burst into flames" when Trump touches in while being sworn in.

The comment came during an interview with Jen Psaki, a former Barack Obama spokeswoman, who now appears on the leftist MSNBC.

She was asking him about the Democrats' schemes to try to take Trump down – even remove him from the 2024 ballot and deprive voters of an opportunity to make their own choice.

She said, "As you're watching this, and you see all the different messages the Democratic party is throwing at him there's a lot of material there, there's no question, there's (sic) the legal cases, obviously his threat to abortion rights, (and) the threat to the Affordable Care Act. What should people be doing? There's (sic) almost too many to pick from. What is the right approach, in your view."

The expert opinion she was seeking, according to RedState.com, was from a comedian and former senator who quit Congress amid accusations from multiple women that he groped and forcibly kissed them.

Franken has said he remembers those encounters differently.

Franken's response to Psaki?

I think that as these cases unfold, and thank God, we actually have one coming to trial. I think it'll be very clear. You started your show talking to Michael Cohen. I think it's pretty clear that this case was exactly that, a hush-money case. You know I'm looking forward to – I don't know whether he will testify, I know his lawyers know that he lies a lot, but I hope he testifies because when he puts (his) hand on the Bible, I want to see it burst into flames.

RedState explained that Franken, a "disgraced" former senator, actually suffers from "Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome," and turned to MSNBC to "sneer" about Trump.

The report added a note that Psaki refused to ask Franken questions about "the Biden Family Business, the multitudinous lies Joe Biden has told about it and the strong sworn testimony of former Hunter Biden business partner, Tony Bobulinski."

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A new report suggests a deal is in the works that would free about 40 Israeli hostages still held by the terrorists in Hamas, who abducted them at the same time they butchered some 1,200 civilians during an invasion of Israel last Oct. 7.

A report from JNS explains that the cost to Israel would be the release of some 800 terrorists, including about 100 convicted of murder.

The reports of the possible agreement come out of truce talks that are taking place in Doha, Qatar.

Axios journalist Barak Ravid cited two Israeli officials with a report that the inmates demanded by Hamas include 100 serving life sentences for murdering Israelis.

"Ravid reported that the number stands at 700, while an Israeli official briefed on the Doha talks told Reuters the figure could reach as high as 800," the report said.

The report said the exchange plan, still a proposal, would happen during a six-week ceasefire that the United States and others have proposed.

Israeli officials, however, repeatedly pledged to finish the war by eliminating the terror threat from Hamas.

Hamas, which dispatched terrorists to commit atrocities against Israelis, including burning whole families alive and beheading babies, is demanding now that Israeli troops be pulled from the Gaza Strip, the report said.

About 250 Israeli hostages were taken initially in the Oct. 7 war launch, and about 134 remain prisoners of Hamas.

Mossad director David Barnea has been leading an Israeli delegation in Doha to discuss ceasefire plans.

The release of about 400 inmates was originally mentioned, but Ravid’s reporting explained Israel "became more flexible with the number of prisoners based on mediation by CIA director William Burns, and Qatari and Egyptian mediators."

Hamas has declined so far to confirm it would accept the plans.

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Officials in the city of Milwaukee have decided to grab $1 million Zuckerbucks just as voters in the state of Wisconsin are considering whether to make that move a violation of the state constitution.

Zuckerbucks are a reference to the $400 million plus handed out by Mark Zuckerberg during the 2020 election. It was turned over to elections officials – outside of any election reporting system – and they often used it to recruit Democrat voters.

It is thought to be one of two significant vote influence operations that affected the 2020 results, the other being the FBI's interference when it told media corporations to suppress accurate reporting about Biden family scandals documented in a computer abandoned by Hunter Biden.

A report from Just the News said "the Milwaukee Election Commission and the Milwaukee Public Library received a $250,000 grant, while the commission received a separate $785,850 grant from the nonprofit Cities Forward for election administration.

Milwaukee also took and spent Zuckerbucks during the 2020 race and took the new money just as voters – in just weeks – will decide on a constitutional amendment that would ban such private money in elections.

Just the News reported, "In November, the Wisconsin state legislature passed a resolution to amend the state constitution to ban the private funding of election administration, which voters will decide whether to approve on April 2. Louisiana is the only other state to have banned 'Zuckerbucks' via constitutional amendment."

Among the foreboding details of the grant projects is that the city took nearly $38,000 for a text messaging service that will let officials warn voters about "misinformation."

That, of course, is subject to a political slant because a Democrat official's perspective on "misinformation" might be based solely on political considerations, not facts.

"Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall told Urban Milwaukee earlier this month that the text messaging service is for the election commission 'to make sure any information anyone in the city is having about voting is accurate and broken down in a way that anyone can understand,' and that well-intentioned groups can still provide guidance that is inaccurate or difficult to understand," the report warned.

The report noted this private funding is similar to what the Center for Tech and Civic Life did in 2020 across the nation.

A House investigation of the 2020 Zuckerbucks revealed not even 1% of the funds were spent on personal protective equipment, even though the idea was to make voting safer during COVID.

"Most of the funds were focused on get-out-the-vote efforts and registrations. Controversy ensued in part due to the disproportionate private funding 'Zuckerbucks' funneled to Democratic jurisdictions," the report said.

Since then, 27 states have restricted – or banned – the injection of private money into elections.

In 2020, out of the $10 million in Zuckerbucks given to Wisconsin cities, $8.5 million went to five Democrat cities.

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A bond demanded by a leftist judge in New York who decided in a case that had no victims that President Donald Trump committed fraud and should be fined almost half a billion dollars has been slapped down by an appeals court.

The Daily Caller News Foundation reports the ruling means the court will block the collection of Engoron's judgment, a punishment demanded by New York Attorney General Letitia James as the answer to her campaign promise to "get" Trump if Trump's companies can post a bond of $175 million in 20 days.

The original deadline for the bond was Monday. And Trump's lawyers already had offered to post a bond of $100 million to appeal Engoron's punishment.

Trump said, "Judge Engoron has refused to obey the decision of the Appellate Division relative to the Statute of Limitations. This is a confrontation between a Judge and those who rule above him - A very bad situation in which to place New York State and the Rule of Law!

"Engoron has disrespected the Appellate Division and its very clear and precise ruling. He should be made to do so, and at the same time, release the GAG ORDER. This is the 5th time in this case that he has been overturned, a record. His credibility, and that of Letitia James, has been shattered.

"We will abide by the decision of the Appellate Division, and post either a bond, equivalent securities, or cash. This also shows how ridiculous and outrageous Engoron’s original decision was at $450 Million.

"I DID NOTHING WRONG, AND NEW YORK SHOULD NEVER BE PUT IN A POSITION LIKE THIS AGAIN. BUSINESSES ARE FLEEING, VIOLENT CRIME IS FLOURISHING, AND THIS MUST BE RESOLVED IN ITS TOTALITY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU!"

Earlier in the case, Trump, and many other experts in real estate, guffawed when Engoron claimed Trump's Mar-a-Lago property in Florida was worth only $18 million. In reality, real estate values in the exclusive neighborhood could make it worth 50 times that much, or more.

"How did the Attorney General of the State of New York force this Corrupt Judge to do that to help her narrative - AND WHY?" he posted.

Trump has reported nearly $500 million in cash. Fox News reported his company, Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, is set to become public after a merger on Monday. The company will trade on the Nasdaq as "DJT." Trump owns more than 78 million shares of the stock, valued at nearly $4 billion."

Engoron's decision came without any jury after months of James' claims about activities that commercial real estate brokers have described as ordinary.

Trump and his companies have denied any wrongdoing. The appeals decision will allow him to continue running the company, something James opposed, while the appeal is being considered.

"Trump's defense also brought in expert witnesses, including New York University accounting professor Eli Bartov, who reviewed the Trump financial statements at issue in the case and said he found no evidence of accounting fraud," the report said.

Trump's lawyers had explained a week ago bonding companies were unable to consider a bond of that magnitude.

There also had been arguments against Engoron's financial demands based on the constitutional principles against excessive punishment, and equal access to the courts, meaning Engoron's demands might have been established simply to prevent Trump from being able to appeal his ruling.

The report noted that legal analysts had predicted James "will most likely move to seize former President Donald Trump's bank accounts" without a bond being provided.

They said the bank accounts likely would be more readily seized than property, with its complicated ownership status.

WND reported earlier that a commentary published at the Washington Examiner warned the agenda pursued by James and Engoron was turning America into a "3rd World" country with their attack on Trump.

They worked together to come up with a $450 million penalty for Trump and his business through an archaic fraud law – despite the fact there were no complaints against Trump, no one lost any money, all the loans were repaid, and the factors involved essentially included routine real estate deal procedures.

"The biggest casualty of this grotesque abuse of prosecutorial power will be America. We are losing the one thing that separates us from Third World countries: equal justice under the law," explained Elizabeth Stauffer, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation Academy and a contributor to multiple publications.

She pointed out that James repeatedly has threatened that if Trump cannot pay the fine plus interest, she will move to seize his New York assets.

The appeals court's decision to suspend Engoron's decision and allow a bond means Trump's case then can be heard by appeals judges.

The commentary pointed out, "Not only was this a victimless crime, according to George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, but during the trial, 'witnesses [loan officers] testified that they wanted to do more business with Trump, who was described as a ‘whale’ client with high yield business opportunities.'"

And the ramifications already have started, with Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary perceiving the Democrats’ abuse of the legal system against Trump as an "attack on America."

"The reason this is the No. 1 economy on Earth is because we have laws and we have due process. And we have property rights. It attracts capital from all around the world. All of that is being shaken to the core here. It has absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump at this point, in my view, and it is completely bipartisan. This is an attack on America. No one is going to put any money to work in New York in these amounts until this thing settles down. The whole world is watching, and everybody’s waiting for one thing we haven’t got yet: adult supervision," he said.

Stauffer suggested given the goals established by James and Engoron, "What investor, foreign or domestic, would risk buying property in New York? Or in any other Democratic-run U.S. city? James is going for immediate gratification here and ignoring the unintended medium- and long-term consequences that will surely follow. "

"O’Leary is right. Love him or hate him, this is bigger than Donald Trump. The biggest casualty of this grotesque abuse of prosecutorial power will be America."

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