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A longtime Christian ministry that sparked a large negative reaction when it adopted an outside organization's LGBT "training" scheme for its staff members only two years ago has decided to drop that programming, instead setting up its own advice for workers dealing with LGBT-identifying individuals.
It is Cru, formerly Campus Crusade for Christ, which was involved in a scandal for adopting the use of curriculum from Compassionate and Faithful, a product that relies heavily on podcaster Preston Sprinkle.
Sprinkle has chosen to follow several beliefs that are controversial for Christian organizations, including supporting "pronoun hospitality" and "teachings that same-sex attraction is not sinful unless acted upon," according to a report from World.
The report noted Keith Johnson, who is the group's chief of theological education and development, confirmed to staff during a meeting leaked on a podcast that the plan is to integrate "our LGBT+ equipping into existing developmental venues."
He said, "Going forward, we think it's increasingly important for us to speak in our own theological voice," so the use of "external communicators" will be reduced.
The organization was criticized for his decision two years ago to move into the outside curriculum when both current and former staff members, as well as prominent evangelical authors and speakers including Rosaria Butterfield, Christopher Yuan and Allie Beth Stuckey, objected.
The charge was that the lessons fell short of biblical teachings including standards for sexuality, gender and God's design for men and women.
Cru simply declined to respond to concerns, and, in fact fired employees who raised concerns outside of channels the company allowed.
The details come from a meeting recording that was released Oct. 2 on author Jon Harris' podcast.
Johnson told World the Compassionate and Faithful materials were used to provide clarity, but, World confirmed, "For some staff, the ministry's mandatory rollout of the curriculum did the opposite."
The report cited longtime staff members Uriah and Marissa Mundell, who were fired for objecting to the teachings.
Johnson said, "What divides us from many of our critics at the end of the day, isn't our view of sexuality and gender. It's our vision for cultural engagement."
Harris pointed out, however, there remain many questions about the direction being adopted.
"For Cru staff who are entering … what's that going to look like? Is it going to be the same kind of teaching … it's just more hidden?"
The World report itself noted Cru has "criticized the Mundells for being public, yet Cru is a public ministry supported by donors. Cru leadership has chosen, and is choosing, to be evasive and not disclose what is happening while expecting us to donate money."
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The American Bar Association, caught imposing racial quotas on participants of a special clerkship program that can give new lawyers a massive boost in their law careers, now is backing away from its racial agenda.
A report from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty explains it was the Judicial Clerkship Program that abruptly was altered.
"All law students deserve an equal shot to compete for prestigious post-law school employment," explained WILL lawyer Skylar Croy. "No one should assess them based on the color of their skin – especially not the ABA and especially not judges. Instead, they should be considered based on their individual talents and knowledge of the law. We will continue to challenge race-based programs to reach WILL's goal of complete race neutrality."
"Previously, each law school was required to 'send (and underwrite the costs for) four to six law students who are from underrepresented communities of color.' Similarly, judges selected to participate were 'asked to make a commitment to strive to hire at least two minority judicial law clerks over the next five years.' Both quotas are now gone," the WILL team explained.
The ABA promotes its schemes as providing law students with access to "Article III judges" and "state supreme court justices."
Judges often hire recent law school graduates as clerks.
"These jobs are often considered a golden ticket to a successful legal career. For example, six of nine current U.S. Supreme Court justices once clerked for the court," WILL explained. "Since at least 2001, the ABA's Judicial Clerkship Program has helped some law students secure clerkships. The program is essentially a job fair where law students can meet judges, including federal judges and state supreme court justices."
"WILL initially filed a Title VI complaint against the ABA and three participating universities—South Texas College of Law Houston, the University of the Pacific, and Willamette University—all receive federal funds," the team said.
Title VI prohibits federal fund recipients from discriminating on the grounds of race, color, or national origin. WILL also filed a judicial misconduct complaint against Magistrate Judge Leo I. Brisbois, a federal judge in the District of Minnesota, for his involvement.
The ABA Journal said the ABA claimed the "description" of the program, which included the quotas, was "inaccurate."
ABA spokeswoman Annaliese Fleming said, "some language" was removed for not accurately reflecting "the operation of the program."
She said the agenda still includes "enhancing diversity."
"The new wording says law schools 'are encouraged to select a diverse group of students using criteria aligned with the ABA's Goal III objectives.' It also says judges from across the country participate in the program but says nothing about judges striving to hire at least two minority law clerks," that report said.
WILL said it would continue to monitor the situation, to make sure future actions don't violation the federal code.
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A property management company in Colorado has gone online to deliver the truth about a war a Venezuelan gang has brought to its doorstep.
The issue arose some weeks ago, as gang members were caught on video in Aurora, Colorado, apparently taking over an apartment building, including collecting rent from tenants for apartments in a building they didn't own.
It's a direct result of the massive open door policy the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime has imposed on America at its southern border, with millions of immigrants, including a significant criminal element, entering the U.S. at will.
Leftists and others tried to suggest the Aurora situation was not as bad as portrayed. So the building managers, Cbz Management, took to social media to explain how not only did the gang take over, but the company essentially was abandoned by the powers that be – almost all Democrats in the governor's office and state legislature.
As WND reported, Martha Raddatz at leftist ABC News tried to downplay the threat.
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Her comments left Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance challenging, "Martha, do you hear yourself? Only 'a handful of apartment complexes' in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris' open border? Americans are so fed up with what's going on, and they have every right to be and I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting, because you seem to be more focused [on] nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs."
Raddatz had claimed, "The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes — apartment complexes and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns."
Cbz had another story:
The corporation statements continued, explaining illegal tenants and squatters apparently did pay rent, to the gang members.
"To address this entity (gangs) we contacted every city official we could think of for help with the problem. Unfortunately, none were willing to take meaningful action. Meanwhile, our CBZ representative continued receiving threatening messages, in which these criminals revealed his home address and his spouse's name. Finally, the APD, FBI and Homeland Security informed us that those sending the messages and controlling our buildings were part of the notorious Tren De Aragua gang from Venezuela. They also mentioned that our situation was just 'a blip on the radar,' as this gang is causing significant problems nationwide. Two days after our FBI meeting, the gang confronted our on-site manager, asserting control over all three properties. They offered an ultimatum: share rental income 50/50 or lose the buildings permanently. They also threatened to harm him and his family. For the safety of our management team and their families, we withdrew them from the properties and focused on seeking help from government agencies."
The company had expected help, "perhaps even from the National Guard."
"That never happened. Instead, we were left helpless, watching as violence, bullets, and destruction overtook our buildings. Many of our legitimate tenants fled out of fear. Despite the obvious crisis, several city officials refused to acknowledge the reality. Instead, they blamed us, citing 'code violations' as the reason for shutting down our property—violations we couldn't resolve for tenants who weren't even ours," the company said.
The company said it was speaking up because "many still deny the reality of the situation, sometimes using us as scapegoats. That's why we are no longer staying silent. We will continue to counter falsehoods with simple facts and evidence.
"Yes, gangs did take control of our apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado, and the government did nothing. That is the real story."
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JERUSALEM – The Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, released footage Sunday of a significant captured Hezbollah weapons cache. The other – perhaps more consequential factor – was not so much what was found, but rather where the Israeli soldiers found it, namely a few dozen meters from a United Nations International Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) outpost.
This weapons store is not the first the IDF has encountered since it began what was supposed to be a limited incursion into Lebanon, although at least two divisions have been added to its fighting strength since that time. The presence of Hezbollah weapons caches pockmarks much of southern Lebanon's terrain, and much of it was successfully carried out under the watchful eye of the very peacekeepers who are supposed to be both disarming the Iranian proxy and ensuring against their encroachment south of the Litani River.
At least according to the U.N. Resolution 1701, this was the plan. It is likely the sheer scale of the weapons found were meant to be used in an Oct. 7-style infiltration into Israel's Galilee region, led by Hezbollah's commando Radwan force, as per seized documents and equipment, which show this to have been in an advanced stage of planning. As in Gaza, significant weapons stores have been found in civilian homes.
It is impossible to escape the realization that under both the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza, and UNIFIL in Lebanon, genocidal jihadist Islamist organizations – both of which Iran trains and funds – have been able to arm themselves to the point where Hamas, in the case of Gaza could storm across Israel's border, and Hezbollah in Lebanon has been able to fire missiles, rockets, and drones – the most recent of which killed four Israeli soldiers on Sunday – for more than a year. When is it permissible to ask what good these U.N. bodies, which not only fail – seemingly deliberately – to fulfill their actual mandates but facilitate the terrorism against which the IDF is fighting?
This has serious real-world consequences, not least because there is currently an extensive diplomatic dispute between Israel, the United Nations, and countries whose troops make up part of the UNIFIL mission.
In Israel, which considers it to be fighting an existential war for its survival, there is a sense the UNIFIL soldiers have had it good for too long; they have turned a blind eye – and who knows, may even have profited from doing so – to Hezbollah's flagrant contravention of the U.N. resolution they are supposed to uphold.
On Sunday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed directly to the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, requesting – rather than demanding as Irish president Michael Higgins suggested about the Irish contingent – that UNIFIL troops be moved away from "Hezbollah strongholds and the firing zone," according to an official readout.
"The IDF has requested this repeatedly and has met with repeated refusal, which has the effect of providing Hezbollah terrorists with human shields. Your refusal to evacuate UNIFIL soldiers has turned them into hostages of Hezbollah. This endangers both them and the lives of our soldiers," he added.
UNIFIL has accused the IDF of deliberately hitting several posts, including the Naqoura HQ. At least five UNIFIL soldiers have been wounded in a spate of recent incidents that have also included shootings which the UN neither attributed to the IDF or Hezbollah, which reading between the lines, almost certainly means it was the Lebanese-based terrorists.
Netanyahu said Israel "regrets the injury" to the peacekeepers, and it is doing whatever it can to prevent such incidents.
"But the simple and obvious way to ensure this is just get them out of the danger zone," the prime minister added. Indeed, according to the IDF, some 25 attacks against Israel have been launched from the vicinity of UNIFIL posts.
Meanwhile, in the wake of the deadly drone strike on an army base in Israel's Binyamina region on Sunday, the Israeli Air Force has made it a top priority to eradicate Hezbollah's 127 Unit, which is responsible for UAV production and operation. Earlier on Monday, the IAF eliminated the head of the Radwan anti-tank missile unit, Muhammad Kamal Naim, in the southern Lebanese area of Nabatieh.
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An old man, a Democrat, standing at a McDonald's counter was all the evidence a clerk needed, apparently.
"You Joe?" the clerk asked … of Bill Clinton.
Clinton was making one of his famed stops at a McDonald's when he approached the counter and a couple of workers in the background ignored him. Two clerks standing by the desk glanced at him, continued chatting, and then glanced again.
The clerk's question was "You Joe?"
The clerks were much happier to find it was Clinton, not Joe, stumping for the leftist Kamala Harris campaign this year.
A Gateway Pundit commentary pointed out that Clinton suffered "embarrassment" when "NO ONE" in the shop recognized him.
"Former President Bill Clinton suffered an embarrassing blow to his huge ego when a photo-op at an old favorite eatery backfired. As 11 Alive News reported, Wild Bill was campaigning for Kamala Harris in Albany, Georgia on Sunday as part of his desperate attempts to persuade rural voters to support her. During his travels, Clinton stopped by a McDonald's for a photo-op, believing the workers would erupt in cheers upon being 'graced' with his presence. But he gets a surprise when he ventures up to the counter."
The report said: "The female workers briefly turn to each other as if trying to figure out what a 78-year-old man is doing in their establishment. Clinton then moves over and comes face-to-face with one of the women, who looks confused."
It explained, "How humiliating it must have been for Clinton to be compared to the dementia patient residing in the White House."
Identifying himself as Clinton, the workers cheered up and "embraced him."
The report noted McDonald's "has special significance" for Clinton, since he often stopped their earlier in his political career.
So important were those stops that Saturday Night Live created a skit poking jest at Clinton.
The report pointed out President Donald Trump's visits to fast-food eateries often are different from Clintons:
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Taxes and death once were called the only things that are inevitable.
Now a court has ruled that even for governments, taxes aren't something that can be avoided.
The ruling comes out of Wyoming, where the Cowboy State Daily reported on a ruling from the state Supreme Court that the state owes Uinta County more than $8,000 in property taxes for a 3.3-acre parcel of state land there.
The taxes were triggered because the state makes a profit off the land, leasing it to a truck stop company and that's considered a non-governmental use
So pay up, the court ordered the state.
The fight is over at the Pilot Travel Center in Evanston, which is on state land but is a commercial enterprise.
The county assessor determined that $8,160 in taxes were due and billed the state, which argued it shouldn't be told to pay taxes.
The land, managed by the state Board of Land Commissions, is assigned to be used to raise funding for the state hospital.
"Since 1999, the state has leased that land to Pilot Corp., which operates a truck stop there. The Uinta County assessor didn't try taxing the land until 2021. The state grudgingly paid that tax bill, having missed its window to challenge. But when Uinta County Assessor Lori Perkins again taxed the state in 2022, the state challenged the $8,160 bill for that year by going to the County Board of Equalization, which is a tax-reviewing iteration of the board of county commissioners," the report said.
The board sided with the state, the Board of Equalization sided with the assessor, and the district court did too.
Then came the state Supreme Court's decision, which said the state will pay up.
The state claimed its "fiduciary duty" to the hospitals means it is exempt.
But the county said a truck stop isn't a "governmental purpose."
"The Wyoming Constitution exempts government property from taxation based on how that property is used, not based on the governmental entity that owns or manages it," the court said.
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Global trade could be at risk if tensions continue to escalate in one of the world's busiest shipping waters – the South China Sea.
China has been ramping up its aggression toward its neighbors in the South China Sea as it lays claim to almost the entire area. Cordial relations with the Philippines are rapidly deteriorating and recently Chinese Coast Guard ships violently attacked fishermen on a vessel from Vietnam.
According to a report from CNBC, some experts are claiming global markets should be on high alert after the recent clashes between China and its Southeast Asian neighbors, because of how important the shipping lanes are to global trade.
Marko Papic, chief global geo-macro strategist at BCA Research, said the risks to global shipping are obvious. as that industry is essential for Chinese commodities and input goods that travel through these South China Sea shipping lanes.
"The South China Sea is the most valuable shipping lane in the world in terms of the value of trade that transits through it," Papic told CNBC.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Thursday in response to the Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. stating there needs to be a code of conduct for the South China Sea that China welcomes dialogue, but will not tolerate encroachment into its "territories."
"China firmly opposes any infringement activities and provocations, and firmly safeguards its own territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests," Mao said.
However, China breaches the economic exclusion zones of other nations repeatedly; using violence, intimidation, and underhanded tactics, while depleting fish stocks, and simultaneously gaslighting the world into believing it is somehow a victim, according to analysts.
The U.N. Trade and Development estimates at least a third of all global trade goes through these shipping lanes in the South China Sea, with 60% of all maritime trade, first passing through Asia.
While China has become the bully of the South China Sea, Chinese fishing vessels are illegally fishing in waters thousands of nautical miles away from mainland China in the East of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru – driving up squid prices for locals and costing the industry millions.
China has invested heavily in infrastructure in Peru over the past decade with a reported $24 billion already spent on developing Peruvian mines, its power grid, transportation, and hydroelectric power generation.
Peru has some of the world's largest copper deposits, and China is now South America's largest trade partner and consumer of copper, soy, and corn. According to Reuters, China has doubled its trade with Peru over the past ten years to $33 billion annually.
On Peru's coast, in the town of Chancay around 70 miles from the capital of Lima, China has invested billions of dollars into a deep sea mega-port as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative. This allows China better access to the Pacific Ocean, speeding up maritime trade by up to 12 days. Locals are voicing concerns about the social and environmental impact of the port, and are worried they will be cut off from accessing fishing grounds and beaches.
In May, the Chinese state-owned company Cosco, which is based in Hong Kong, muscled itself into a position of power by insisting the Peruvian government stick to agreed terms after Peru's National Port Authority granted the Chinese company exclusive rights to run Chancay Port and local officials pushed back.
According to Yale Environment 360, a 2020 study published by the Yale School of the Environment, China's habit of illegal fishing even extends to its purported ally, North Korea. The report notes China's fishing fleet, which is the largest in the world with over 500,000 fishing vessels, quickly is depleting the fish stocks of other nations, like North Korea and Peru.
North Korean stocks had become so dire, that Japan announced it was finding North Korean fishermen washed ashore after being forced to search further for their catch and not surviving.
"China is sending a previously invisible armada of industrial boats to illegally fish in North Korean waters, forcing out smaller North Korean boats and leading to a decline in once-abundant squid stocks of more than 70 percent. The North Korean fishermen washing up in Japan apparently ventured too far from shore in a vain search for squid and perished," the report states.
China has also been caught illegally fishing in the waters of Australia, and New Zealand, and off the coast of Africa in the waters belonging to Kenya and Tanzania.
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Israel/Middle East Morning Brief
Hezbollah drone strike on army base kills 4 IDF soldiers, wounds dozens more
Sgts. Omri Tamari, Yosef Hieb, Yoav Agmon, Alon Amitay were all 19 years old and were trainees in the IDF's Golani infantry brigade. The army is investigating how the drone was able to penetrate the country's air defenses and strike the base seemingly undetected.
Watch: IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon find massive weapons cache a few hundred meters from UNIFIL watchtower
@UNIFIL_ it's indeed a joke.A very expensive one. Half a billion dollars annualy, 143 USD coming from the US.
Don't u wanna find out,through a historic audit,how the hell UN is fooling the entire world to finance…NOTHING ?!
"UNIFIL was established in 1978 to end war, restore… pic.twitter.com/EHixCXz4O1— miha schwartzenberg (@mihaschw) October 13, 2024
Saudi Arabia criticizes Israel's expropriation of UNRWA's Jerusalem HQ, plan to turn land into apartment complex
Riyadh condemns "in the strongest possible terms" Israel's decision to expel UNRWA from its Jerusalem headquarters and repurpose the land for much-needed apartments.
Rumors IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi assassinated circulated on X
At the same time Israel was attempting to deal with the fallout from the Hezbollah drone attack on a northern army base, which left 4 young soldiers dead and dozens wounded, rumors began circulating on X that the IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi was killed in the strike.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hezbollah of using UNIFIL soldiers – who are supposed to have stopped the terrorist group rearming – as human shields as they battle IDF troops attempting to clear them out of the border area.
U.S. Defense Secretary Austin calls for Israel to end Lebanese operations
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin upped the pressure on Israel to 'pivot from military operations in Lebanon to a diplomatic pathway,' particularly in the shadow of wounded U.N. peacekeepers.
Hamas preventing Gazan civilians leaving Jabaliya following IDF calls to evacuate
The IDF's 162nd Division is currently conducting operations against Hamas targets in the Jabaliya, after the terrorist group attempted to reorganize there. There are reports ordinary Gazans have been prevented from leaving the area after Hamas operatives beat them with sticks, following IDF calls to evacuate.
Iranian ballistic missile attack caused at least $40 million worth of damage to Israel
Despite reports Iran's Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack did little-to-no-damage to Israel, it is now estimated the 181 projectiles – many of which were intercepted – actually caused between $40 and $53 million. It is not thought the damage to air force bases in Israel's north were included in this estimate.
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Democrats long have claimed they are trying to "save democracy" in their attacks on President Donald Trump and his campaign to be returned to the Oval Office in this election.
They've made wild claims that he would never leave office, that he would become a dictator, that he would charge his political opponents with crimes, a practice they've actually used against him repeatedly. They all are allegations based on few facts other than the one that he likely would not do what they want him to do if he's in office.
But as the Kamala Harris campaign sinks lower as election day in November gets closer, they now have revealed how far they will go to "save" democracy. They would destroy it.
"With the end of the Biden administration in sight, liberal pundits seem to be striving to prove that the only difference between a lawbreaker and a law-abiding citizen is the ability to get away with the crime. Popular figures on the left from Michael Moore to Keith Olbermann are calling on President Joe Biden to commit overtly unlawful acts in his final 100 days in office, including targeting his political opponents. In one of the few statements of Moore with which I agree, he stated that this is 'no joke.' It certainly is not," explained constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who not only has testified before Congress on the fine points of the Constitution but also has represented members in court in those disputes.
"In a posting on Substack, Moore told Biden that it was time to yield to temptation and check off a liberal 13-item 'bucket list' of demands, tossing aside questions of legality or constitutionality in the process," he explained.
Moore's demand to Biden was: "You're not done. You've still got 100 days left in office! And the Supreme Court has just granted you super powers — AND immunity! You don't answer to anyone. For the first time in over 50 years, you don't have to campaign for anything…'You have full immunity! No kidding! No joke! That's not hyperbole! You can get away with anything! And what if anything means everything to the people?'"
Turley explained, "The list includes emptying death row, canceling all student and medical debt, halting weapons shipments to Israel, ending the death penalty, declaring the Equal Rights Amendment a constitutional amendment, and granting clemency to nonviolent drug offenders. … Other pundits have pushed Biden and Democrats to take some of the actions on Moore's list before the end of the administration."
But he said such "constitutional looting would endanger not just the Constitution but the country as a whole if Biden were to heed this advice."
"Many of these items could only be fulfilled by knowingly gutting the Constitution and assuming the powers of a monarch. That includes just canceling all student and medical debt in defiance of both the courts and Congress," he noted.
Another leftist cited for his advocacy for illegality was Olbermann, who wants Biden to take into custody his political enemies and send them out of the country.
"If we can't do that by conventional means, President Biden, you have presidential immunity. Get Elon Musk the F out of our country and do it now," he said.
The leftists' claims that the president has "immunity" comes from the fact they lost a Supreme Court ruling in one of their lawfare cases against President Trump. The high court said a president does have some immunity, but not in every case, a middle-ground decision that provides protection for official acts, but not every act.
The "disregard" for the law previously was voiced by "liberal academics like Harvard Professor Lawrence Tribe. Indeed, his past 'just do it' approach was not dissimilar in advice to Biden. For example, the Biden administration was found to have violated the Constitution in its imposition of a nationwide eviction moratorium through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Biden admitted that his White House counsel and most legal experts told him the move was unconstitutional. But he ignored their advice and went with that of Harvard University Professor Laurence Tribe, the one person who would tell him what he wanted to hear," Turley's commentary noted.
Turley said the fact that that pundits and law professors are repeating the "clearly erroneous" claim about immunity "is a measure of the triumph of rage over reason today."
He cited the court's ruling on immunity, where it "found that there was absolute immunity for actions that fall within their 'exclusive sphere of constitutional authority' while they enjoy presumptive immunity for other official acts. They do not enjoy immunity for unofficial, or private, actions."
He noted that should a president like Biden actually deliberately violate the Constitution, courts would act quickly.
"Figures like Moore suggest that it would not matter. If so, Biden would not only flagrantly violate the Constitution, but then defy the authority of the federal courts. That includes unilaterally declaring an unratified amendment as ratified based on a meritless claim by the far left," he wrote.
He warned the situation "shows how the line between tyranny and democracy can be lost in an age of rage."
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A major scandal that enveloped Colorado's social services industry for years already – Robin Niceta's criminal actions – had not even fully died down when another hit – this time a social worker who handled cases for years but was indicted for fraudulently claiming she was qualified for the work.
The Niceta case still is reverberating, as she recently was sentenced to prison for four years for her guilty pleas to faking cancer to try to get out of her case, as she was found guilty of felony attempt to influence a public service and false reporting of child abuse.
Her case got its start when she reported, falsely, a city councilwoman for child abuse. The councilwoman's offense had been to criticize Niceta's then-lesbian partner, a police officer, publicly.
Now a report at a CBS affiliate has outlined the latest scandal.
That would be the indictment of Shannon McShane on charges of forgery, perjury, attempt to influence a public servant and retaliation against a witness – all felonies.
The case alleges that McShane, who worked as a child and family investigator and parental evaluator in child-custody cases, apparently used false credentials to obtain her state license.
The state attorney general recently filed a 15-count indictment against her, and the report confirms the state may never have discovered the problems except for the diligent detective work of an anonymous parent who ran up against her agenda in a divorce dispute.
The report confirmed, "McShane testified under oath in Colorado court cases that she earned PhD in Psychology from the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. She stated the same on employment applications for employment with the Colorado Department of Corrections and the Colorado Department of Human Services."
The father then contacted state officials, the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.
He pointed out she actually was involved in a Texas school at that same time. the report said.
Startlingly, the report confirmed, "During this time, McShane allegedly contacted the father's employer – despite the anonymously filed complaint. The indictment does not elaborate on how McShane obtained the father's personal information. But it does describe how McShane complained to the father's employer about the father 'cyberstalking' her on company time."
She already had been under review by the state because of a complaint filed by a judge in Morgan County, who subsequently removed her from the list of eligible family investigators in the district over her "one-sided report" in a family dispute.
State officials now confirm McShane has relinquished, permanently, all her state licenses.
She was jailed on the indictment, but released on bond, the report said.
The McShane case follows even as the Niceta case reached its culmination, her sentencing to prison. She formerly was a social worker in Arapahoe County, but pleaded guilty to multiple charges.
She had accused Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky of child abuse after Jurinsky criticized Niceta's former partner — ex-Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson — on the radio in January of 2022, the report said.
She falsely claimed she had "personally observed" incidents of Jurinsky committing child abuse, before an investigation confirmed there was no evidence of that.
Niceta, besides being jailed on the criminal counts, was ordered to pay $3 million in damages to Jurinsky.