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Lots of “Never-Trump” Republicans are going to be upset that the overturning of Roe v. Wade could very well be his legacy. They mocked him as “unfit” and “too immoral” to be president. But his Supreme Court Justices just landed one of the biggest conservative Christian wins in ages. It was a bad day for Moloch. ***** The following States have outlawed abortions, effective immediately: Arkansas, Alabama, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. ***** American Indie star Phoebe Bridgers shouted “F*** America: to the crowd during her concert at a festival in England on Friday in response to Roe v. Wade being overturned,

***** Fourteen House Republicans voted for a gun control bill: Steve Chabot, Liz Cheney, Brian Fitzpatrick, Tony Gonzales, Anthony Gonzalez, Christopher Jacobs, David Joyce, John Katko, Adam Kinzinger, Peter Meijer, Tom Rice, Maria Elvira Salazar, Michael Turner, and Fred Upton. Three Republicans didn’t vote; 193 voted against it. Fifteen Senate Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, voted for it: Roy Blunt, Richard Burr, Shelley Moore Capito, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, John Cornyn, Joni Ernst, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, Mitt Romney, Thom Tillis, Pat Toomey, and Todd Young (Ind.). Two Republicans didn’t vote; 33 voted against it. Blunt, Burr, Toomey and Portman aren’t running for reelection. The rest probably shouldn’t.

Stung by gun and abortion rulings, Biden undermines Supreme Court in ways unlike predecessors

By John Solomon

Two months into his presidency, as he did often on the campaign trial, President Joe Biden asked America to embrace the legitimacy of government.

“Put trust and faith in our government to fulfill its most important function, which is protecting the American people,” the 46th president implored his country in a March 2021 speech on the anniversary of the COVID19 lockdowns.

On Friday, after being stung by abortion and gun rights rulings by the Supreme Court that he disagreed with, the president changed his tune and launched a verbal assault on America’s judicial branch of government and its iconic marbled court of nine justices.

The president took a blowtorch to the Supreme Court in language clearly designed to undermine its legitimacy. He accused the justices of waging a “deliberate effort over decades to upset the balance of our law" and decried their “extreme and dangerous path", as he insisted the nation’s highest court had made the “United States an outlier among developed nations” by reversing the half-century -old Roe v. Wade decision.

A day earlier, he slammed the court’s verdict that the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms extended to carrying in public, calling that decision “unconstitutional.” In so doing, Biden trampled his own promise to embrace government and the rule of law. He also veered from the civility most presidents and senior political leaders have shown the court, even when it ruled against their wishes. stance, didn’t like the famed Heller gun ruling in 2008 that overturned DC’s restrictive handgun laws, but issued a statement that suggested good people could find common ground in it.

“I will uphold the Constitutional rights of lawabiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen,” Obama said. “I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne. We can work together to enact common-sense laws.” George W. Bush showed the same deference when the justices rejected his arguments that Guantanamo Bay terrorist prisoners didn’t deserve full rights in the courts. “We’ll abide by the court’s decision,” Bush said. “That doesn’t mean I have to agree with it.” Likewise, Al Gore upheld the legitimacy of the legal system after losing the 2000 election in an epic Supreme Court ruling: ““I accept the finality of the outcome … And tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession,” the thenvice president said.

Biden’s angry strike at the court’s legitimacy drew a rebuke from many corridors, including from a famed liberal law professor who voted for him.

“I am concerned about that,” Harvard University law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told "Just the News, Not Noise" television program Friday night when asked about Biden’s reaction.

Dershowitz said Democrats have a legitimate gripe that Republicans blocked a Democrat nominee to the Supreme Court in the 2016 election year but approved their own nominee in 2020, but said that did not warrant assaulting the legitimacy of a court that for two-plus centuries has kept law and order in the country while disappointing both parties over its history.

"The Supreme Court itself is a legitimate institution. And we should not undercut it,” he said. “It's done a lot of good for civil liberties, for human rights, for civil rights. It's also done some bad like any other institutions in government. It has a mixed record. And we should try to work within the institution of the Supreme Court.” Adding to many concerns, prior presidents who showed deference to justices didn’t have the backdrop of Biden’s last year, in which a deranged assassin plotted to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh while Democrats legitimately considered packing the court just to change its ideological makeup.

“I think the worst thing we could do is try to pack the court,” Dershowitz said.

Biden’s anti-court rhetoric was shared across the Democratic spectrum, a display worrisome to those who don’t believe a legal loss should be used to undermine an entire court system.

Rep. Maxine Waters, DCalif., a party elder, called on Americans to ignore the court’s authority.

“The hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them,” she said, adding a twist of race to her argument. “Women will be in control of their bodies. And if they think Black women are intimidated or afraid, they got another thought coming."

Young firebrand Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortes, D-N.Y., protested outside the court by repeatedly chanting the justices were “illegitimate” while urging Americans to take to the streets.

Such attacks carried to the media, where Bloomberg columnist Noah Feldman penned an article declaring the abortion (Continued on page 14)

Liz Cheney's campaign is encouraging Wyoming Democrats to switch parties, vote for her

By Sophie Mann

Embattled Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney is urging Democrats in her state to switch parties to support her August 16 primary reelection bid.

Cheney, who is polling far behind her Trumpendorsed primary challenger, sent out campaign mail last week to Wyoming voters with instructions on how to change their party affiliation to vote for her.

Her campaign website also now has a link to a form for changing parties.

According to The New York Times, Wyoming Democratic Party Chairman Joseph Barbuto was among those who received the instructions.

Barbuto also says his social media feeds have been flooded with Democratspostingaboutreceiving the Cheney mailers.

"Even if every Democrat in the state switched over, I don't think it'd be enough to help her," he said about the stronglyRepublican state, which has only one House member.

In November 2021, the Wyoming Republican Party voted in favor of no longer recognizing Cheney as a member of the GOP in its second formal rebuke for her criticism of Trump. Cheney also is the vice chairwoman of Democrat-led committee investigation the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

In February, Cheney said she was not planning on recruiting Democrats to switch parties ahead of the primary.

"That is not something that I have contemplated, that I have organized or that I will organize," she told The Times.

On Thursday, Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler told the news outlet that Cheney is "proud to represent all Wyomingites and is working hard to earn every vote."

The campaign manager for Harriet Hageman, Cheney's Trump-backed opponent, told the Times, "Liz Cheney told The New York Times that she wouldn’t be encouraging Democrats to raid the Republican primary, but I guess the drive to hold onto power is just too strong for her to keep her word.

What Cheney doesn’t understand is that Democrats will drop her like a bad habit after she’s no longer useful to them on the Jan. 6 committee."

Troubling calls for Clarence Thomas’ assassination spread across social media after Roe reversed

By The Center Square Staff

after he issued a separate concurring opinion on Friday in a ruling that struck down Roe v. Wade.

Individuals have been calling on social media for the assassination of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Abortion activists have also published his home address, and others have called to burn down the (Continued on page 14)

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Gaslighting: How media's 'fact-checks' have led public to distrust the press

By Natalia Mittelstadt

The mainstream media's fact-checking track record has led to public distrust, as the American people have often learned the truth about so -called conspiracy theories before the press finally had to admit their veracity.

There have been several major instances where the media fact-checks a claim as false, only for evidence to later show that it was true from the beginning. In some cases, the media has had to issue corrections as a result, or at least acknowledge the updated evidence.

The repeated mistakes appear to favor the Democraticnarrative,which may be why a Trafalgar poll from December found that 76.3% of Americans believe the mainstream media's primary focus is on advancing its own political agenda.

Last October, Gallup found that just 36% of Americans trust the media, the second-lowest reading on record, with the worst being 32% in 2016.

With COVID-19, to take one example, the media repeatedly denied the likelihood that the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded gain-of-function research conducted there. The efficacy of lockdowns, wearing masks, and the COVID vaccines were pushed by the media. Lockdowns were supposed to be “15 days to slow the spread,” masks were to be worn to prevent the spread of COVID, and vaccines are “safe and effective.” The lab-leak theory was “often dismissed as a xenophobic right-wing conspiracy theory,” noted The Intercept, an outlet that has provided evidence that COVID likely came from the Wuhan lab. Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned two landmark abortion cases, Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, returning the legality of abortion to the states. Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority and Justice Thomas wrote a solo concurring opinion in which he argued that the Supreme Court should also reconsider rulings on contraception, same-sex relationships and marriage.

Since then, individuals on social media have called for Thomas to be assassinated. This comes after one California man who attempted to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested and charged.

It also comes after other groups have called for violence to be committed against pro-life groups, individuals and churches. In response, the FBI announced it was investigating such threats and Congress passed a bill that President Joe Biden signed into law extending protections to members of the justices families.

On Friday, Thomas wrote the court “correctly holds that there is no constitutional right to abortion. Respondents invoke one source for that right: the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee that no State shall ‘deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” He issued a separate opinion, he explained, “to emphasize a second, more fundamental reason why there is no abor-

Health Organization (WHO) is recommending further investigation into the lab-leak theory and other “reasonable hypotheses,” CBS News reported. Hence, mainstream media outlets are acknowledging that COVID originating in the Wuhan lab is “something once dismissed by some as a conspiracy theory but since taken seriously by some experts and officials,” according to NBC News.

Evidence has also come out that the NIH apparently funded gain-offunction research.

With regard to the months-long lockdowns and mask mandates, studies have found that the public health measures did not aid in slowing the spread, but instead had detrimental effects, such as crippling the economy and negatively affecting the development of children.

As for vaccines, more data continues to come in that people who have been vaccinated are experiencing side effects from the jabs. Between abnormally long blood clots found in people who had been vaccinated, a significant association between COVID vaccination and a 25% increase in emergency medical services for heart problems in people ages 16-39 in Israel, and other reported side effects, it may not be long until the media must change the “safe and effective” narrative.

When it comes to politics, the mainstream media repeatedly claimed that then-candidate Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the White House. The media pushed the Steele dossier and other claims (such as the secret back-channel to the Kremlin through Moscow’s Alfa Bank) that resulted in an FBI investigation and the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but ultimately no evidence of collusion was found. after information related to it was eventually debunked.

Now Special Counsel John Durham is investigating the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia collusion probe, which has resulted in one trial thus far. As Durham's prosecution team showed during the trial of former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann last month, the FBI’s prolonged investigation into the Alfa Bank allegation continued despite a lack of evidence.

Then there is the Hunter Biden laptop. Just prior to the 2020 presidential election, The New York Post published a story on the laptop, focusing on how President Joe Biden’s family has profited from his name, and that Hunter had been in business relations with foreign entities. The story was censored on social media despite there being no evidence that the laptop was Russian disinformation, as many media outlets claimed.

Since March, The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC News have published stories acknowledging the authenticity of the computer.

The Department of Justice is now investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign lobbying and tax affairs.

Trump: SCOTUS abortion decision will return power to the states 'where it has always belonged' Biden

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ruling was “suicidal for the Supreme Court.” Rep. James Comer, RKy., said political leaders have a responsibility to cool tempers and emotions in America's tinderdry political environment.

(Continued from page 13) tion guarantee lurking in the Due Process Clause. … Considerable historical evidence indicates that ‘due process of law’ merely required executive and judicial actors to comply with legislative enactments and the common law when depriving a person of life, liberty, or property.” He also argued that “‘substantive due process’ is an oxymoron that ‘lacks[s] any basis in the Constitution.’” For this and other reasons, he argued, the court should “reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.

Because “any substantiative due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous,” he argued.

In Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), the court ruled in favor of married persons having the right to obtain contraceptives. In Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), it ruled that same-sex individuals could engage in private, consensual sexual acts, and in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. (2015) that same-sex individuals could marry.

Several of the threats posted on Twitter have been taken down; some have not. The Center Square obtained screen shots of the ones listed below; there are others.

One person tweeted, “I’m going to assassinate supreme court justice Clarence Thomas.” Another tweeted, “Today is a great day to assassinate Clarence Thomas.” Still another wrote, “Someone assassinate

"I've been concerned about violence for a long time," he told Just the News on Friday.

"We've got America very divided, deeply divided from a political ideology standpoint. And this division is starting to boil over, and it has been for a long time. There are people on the left and people on the right, who [are] just getting more aggressive in their criticism of public officials, whether they be members of Congress or Supreme Court justices. So, you know, it's certainly a concern. I think that we need to certainly instill a lot of security around Washington DC right now. And hopefully, this will cool down, but the temperature is very high." Clarence Thomas already ffs.” Glasgow writer, Neil Mackay, with a blue check mark, tweeted, “If I was a woman in AmericaI’d burn the Supreme Court to the ground.” Andrew Tarantola, a senior reporter for Endgadget, also called for violence, writing, “Burn down the Supreme Court.” Chairman of Maricopa County Young Republicans Luke Mosiman posted video of abortion activists handing out the personal address of Justice Thomas in Washington, D.C., with the intent to threaten him. In response, Mosiman said, “I hope you all get arrested tonight.” Those making threats of violence against anyone, including a sitting Supreme Court justice, using a range of media, can face felony charges.

“Individuals who communicate a threat to injure another can face federal felony charges if they use a form of interstate commerce, such as email, mail, phone calls, texts, or online messaging, to send the threat,” Criminal Defense Lawyer explains. “This federal offense carries up to 5 years in federal prison. (18 U.S.C. § 875.) Sending such threats repeatedly can lead to federal criminal stalking charges and up to 10 years in prison. (18 U.S.C. §§ 2261, 2261A.) Depending on the circumstances of the threats or the intended recipient, other federal penalties may apply.” Threatening judges is illegal, law scholar James Hirsen explains, “interference with the administration of justice in the manner in which it has recently been occurring is illegal,” pointing to federal statute 18 U.S.C. 1507. Penalty for violating the law results in a fine and/or a prison sentence of up to one year.

Last month, 25 state attorneys general called on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to enforce federal law prohibiting anyone from targeting judges’ homes.