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S2 E35 Madam Secretary Bob Cutler welcomes Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to the Bistro for a convo about Real ID, the switch from Maine's Chickadee to the Pine Tree license plate, and America's upcoming 250th birthday celebrations. Bellows provides insight into Maine's stance on privacy, the regulation of vanity plates, and the importance of bipartisan community efforts. They discuss Paul Revere's ride, Maine's role in early American history, and a new cocktail featuring local ingredients that could officially represent the state! Key Topics Maine's Real ID Transition and License Plate Changes and the impact of federal regulations and how Maine is adapting. Historical Commemorations and Maine's Role in American History, including Paul Revere's ride to Benedict Arnold's march and how Maine's rich past plays into its present. Crafting the Ultimate Maine Cocktail: Exploring how local flavors can define what Bob think should be Maine's official drink. Episode Index [00:02:30] – Real ID and Maine's Resistance Bellows explains Maine's historical opposition to Real ID due to privacy concerns, how federal pressure led to compliance, and what Mainers need to do before the May deadline. [00:10:45] – Taming Naughty License Plates Maine is retiring the chickadee plate, replacing it with a pine tree version, and enforcing stricter vanity plate regulations, sparking mixed reactions among residents. [00:20:10] – Paul Revere and America's 250th Birthday Statehouses nationwide will commemorate Paul Revere's ride by lighting two lanterns on April 18th, tying Maine into the broader national celebration. [00:32:15] – The Power of Community and Bipartisanship Bellows and Bob discuss how Mainers work together beyond party lines, emphasizing shared goals like education, infrastructure, and local business support. [00:40:50] – Creating Maine's Signature Cocktail Bob and Bellows brainstorm a drink that captures Maine's essence, considering ingredients like Blue Baron gin, Wyman's blueberry syrup, and fresh lemon juice.  

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows discusses top issues, from voter ID to Real ID

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine Production Assistance: Linda Washburn, Amy Browne Discussion held on Saturday, September 28, at the Moore Center in Ellsworth by the League of Women Voters – Downeast. Audio by Linda Washburn Democracy Forum: Participatory Democracy, encouraging citizens to take an active role in government and politics. This month: Answering questions about the many ways in which Maine has excellent pro-voter election laws that are well administered and free from fraud, etc. Guest/s: 1. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows 2. Joann Bautista, Deputy Secretary of State – Policy Advisor 3. Bangor City Clerk, Lisa Goodwin 4. Moderated by Ann Luther, League of Women Voters Downeast/ To learn more about this topic: Visit LWVME.org About the host: Ann Luther currently serves as Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Maine and leads the LWVME Advocacy Team. She served as President of LWVME from 2003 to 2007 and as co-president from 2007-2009. The post Democracy Forum Special 10/23/24: Voting Rights and the Integrity of Elections in Maine first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins the show to discuss the history of Maine's state flags as voters decide whether to bring back the old "Pine Tree" flag.

Election season is just around the corner, and our host and public policy director Cate Blackford connected with Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to help educate folks on their voting rights. Bellows also offers an inside look of the electoral security process that ensures all votes are counted accurately. Listeners can ask a question… The post Podcast: Exclusive interview with Secretary Shenna Bellows on voting rights, election protections first appeared on Maine Beacon.

As early voting begins, we discuss election matters with Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. She answers questions about absentee ballots, voter registration, ranked choice voting, election security and more. She also addresses motor vehicle questions and other issues that she oversees.

Former President Donald Trump, hot off his New Hampshire primary victory, heads to a Manhattan federal court today for the ongoing defamation case with writer E. Jean Carroll. At the heart of the trial, Carroll accuses Trump of defamation following his 2019 remarks about her. Trump's defense team argues that Carroll saw financial gain from her public accusations. The courtroom drama is not his only challenge. His behavior has previously drawn a judge's warning for potential ejection due to misconduct. Simultaneously, Trump's political future faces scrutiny as Maine's Supreme Judicial Court ruled he can stay on the state's primary ballot pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision on a related case. This stems from Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' attempt to block Trump's candidacy under the 14th Amendment, citing the former president's alleged involvement in the January 6th Capitol attack. As he navigates these legal battles, the implications for Trump's 2024 presidential run are profound, with the Maine primary decision adding another layer of uncertainty to an already tumultuous campaign season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Jan. 25 at 7 a.m. CT: Parts of the nation will experience severe weather as well as unseasonably warm weather on Thursday. AL-MAZRA'A ASH-SHARQIYA, West Bank (AP) — The passenger in a pickup truck where an American-Palestinian was fatally shot in the occupied West Bank says the shooting was unprovoked. Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Salameh tells The Associated Press that apparent Israeli fire hit the back of the vehicle on a dirt road. Seventeen-year-old Tawfic Abdel Jabbar was killed in Friday's shooting. Israeli police are investigating, with an initial statement citing a weapons discharge by an Israeli soldier, an off-duty law enforcement officer and a civilian targeting people “purportedly engaged” in stone-throwing. Salameh denies they were throwing stones. AP has seen at least 10 bullets in the truck, most in the back. Abdel Jabbar's father say that even if the teens had thrown rocks, they posed no imminent threat driving through the brush. TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The former leader of separatist rebels in Ukraine and a woman convicted of a bomb attack which killed a pro-war blogger were jailed by Russian courts Thursday. The Moscow City Court has convicted a former Ukraine rebel leader who called President Vladimir Putin cowardly of extremism and sentenced him to four years in prison. Igor Girkin supported launching Russia's war in Ukraine, but sharply criticized authorities for being inept and indecisive in carrying out the fight. Darya Trepova was seen on video presenting Ta bust to blogger Vladen Tatarsky moments before the blast. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's top court is declining to weigh in on former President Donald Trump's ballot status, keeping intact a judge's decision that the U.S. Supreme Court must first rule on a similar case in Colorado. Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows concluded last month that Trump didn't meet ballot qualifications under the insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution, but a state judge put that decision on hold pending the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Colorado case. Bellows was ordered to await the outcome before withdrawing, modifying or upholding her original decision to keep Trump off the ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the Colorado case on Feb. 8. Federal officials are clearing the ways for grounded Boeing planes to resume flying. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it approved an inspection and maintenance process that the planes must go through. After that, they will be allowed to carry passengers again. Meanwhile, Congress is getting involved in examining safety at Boeing after a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner in midflight this month. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state says Boeing leadership must put safety ahead of profits. She plans Senate hearings. ELY, Nev. (AP) — Back in the 1800s, white attackers turned a lush high desert oasis in eastern Nevada into killing fields. They massacred hundreds of Native people there — a horrific history once retold in hushed tones behind closed doors. That was until tribal members reluctantly found themselves defending the valley's historical significance in state hearings. In the 2000s, they shared their painful past with authorities weighing whether to divert substantial amounts of groundwater that feed the valley their relatives have long considered sacred. Now they want to tell their story on their own terms. A three-tribe coalition representing about 1,500 enrolled members is lobbying the federal government to designate nearly 40 square miles as a national monument. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will attempt to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas, a never before used execution method that the state claims will be humane but critics call cruel and experimental. Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to die Thursday night for his conviction in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett. This is Alabama's second attempt to execute the 58-year-old. His 2022 lethal injection was called off at the last minute because authorities couldn't connect the IV line. The execution will be the first attempt to use a new execution method since lethal injection was introduced in 1982. WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump White House official who was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack is set to be sentenced. Prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Peter Navarro on Thursday to six months behind bars. He was the second Trump aide to face contempt of Congress charges, after Steve Bannon. Navarro was found guilty of defying a subpoena for documents and a deposition from the House Jan. 6 committee. Navarro has vowed to appeal the verdict, saying he couldn't cooperate with the committee because Trump had invoked executive privilege. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has picked up the endorsement of the United Auto Workers. The Democratic president addressed the powerful union's political convention in Washington on Wednesday. He told a cheering crowd, “I'm honored to have your back and you have mine.” Biden is pushing to sway blue-collar workers his way in critical auto-making swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin. Biden is hoping to cut into the advantage Republican former President Donald Trump has enjoyed with white voters who don't have a college degree. Labor experts say the UAW usually endorses candidates later, as it contains a mix of Democratic, Republican and unaffiliated voters. ROME (AP) — Pope Francis recalled the extermination of millions of Jews in calling Wednesday for the upcoming Holocaust Day of Remembrance to reaffirm that war can never be justified. At the end of his weekly general audience, Francis referred to Saturday's commemoration, which has become fraught this year given Israel's military campaign in Gaza and a rise in antisemitism in Europe and around the world. Italy's Jewish community has denounced a rise in antisemitic sentiment, including what leaders call the improper use of terms like “genocide,” following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in southern Israel and Israel's military response in Gaza. EL MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Southern California say six people have been found dead in a remote area of the Mojave Desert. San Bernardino County Sheriff's spokesperson Mara Rodriguez says deputies responding to a request for a wellness check found five of the bodies Tuesday night along a dirt road off Highway 395 near El Mirage. A sixth body was found Wednesday morning. An SUV with a blown-out passenger window was found at the crime scene. The department's specialized investigations division is conducting the homicide investigation. The bodies have yet to be removed as they search for evidence. A Boeing 757 jet operated by Delta Air Lines lost a nose wheel while preparing for takeoff from Atlanta. Delta Flight 982 — headed to Bogota, Colombia — was taxiing for departure at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport when the incident took place around 11:15 a.m. Saturday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which is investigating the incident. The plane is 32 years old and is not the same model as the 737 Max that has raised safety concerns in recent years. Jim Harbaugh is headed back to the NFL, Doc Rivers will be the Bucks' next coach, Devin Booker scores 46 in a Suns win, and NHL scoring leader Nathan MacKinnon scores four goals for the Avalanche. Also,  the Titans hire Bengals offensive coordinator Brian Callahan as their head coach and five players from the 2018 Canada world junior team take a leave of absence from their clubs. NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Jon Stewart is rewinding the clock, returning to “The Daily Show” as a weekly host and executive producing through the 2024 U.S. elections cycle. Comedy Central on Wednesday said Stewart will host the topical TV show every Monday starting Feb. 12. A rotating lineup of show regulars are on tap for the rest of the week. Stewart first hosted from 1999 to 2015. Over the years, “The Daily Show” has skewered the left and right by making the media a character and playing it absolutely straight, no matter how ridiculous. The show has not had a permanent host since Trevor Noah left last year.       —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. Lee Enterprises produces many national, regional and sports podcasts. Learn more here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Day in Legal History: Paris Peace ConferenceOn this day, January 18, in 1919, a significant chapter in international legal and political history began with the opening of the Paris Peace Conference at Versailles, France. This conference, convened in the aftermath of World War I, was a monumental gathering of the victorious Allied Powers, setting the stage for negotiations that would profoundly reshape the geopolitical landscape of Europe and lay the groundwork for modern international law.Over six months of intense deliberations followed, marking one of the longest and most complex diplomatic events in history. The primary objective was to establish a lasting peace and prevent the recurrence of such a devastating conflict. The leaders of the 'Big Four' – Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy – played pivotal roles in shaping the Treaty of Versailles.The Treaty of Versailles, signed on June 28, 1919, dramatically redrew the borders of Europe. It imposed severe reparations and territorial losses on Germany, an aspect later criticized for possibly sowing the seeds of World War II. The treaty also resulted in the disbandment of empires, the creation of new nations, and significant territorial adjustments.A landmark outcome of the conference was the establishment of the League of Nations, an intergovernmental organization aimed at ensuring world peace and cooperation. Although the League ultimately failed to prevent another world war, it represented a groundbreaking step towards the development of international organizations and international law.The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles had far-reaching legal implications. They introduced principles of self-determination, held nations accountable for aggression, and set precedents for international diplomacy and conflict resolution. While the conference's decisions were controversial and its impacts debated for decades, its role in shaping the 20th-century legal and political order remains undeniable.On this day, as we reflect on the 105th anniversary of the Paris Peace Conference, we recognize the complex legacy of these efforts to create a lasting peace and their profound impact on international law and global relations.Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, is likely to face additional claims in a lawsuit concerning its Facebook "pixel" tracking tool. This tool is alleged to have violated the health-care privacy of millions by tracking and sharing protected health information without consent. The plaintiffs, anonymous Facebook users from various U.S. states, argue that Meta encouraged health-care providers to install the pixel on their websites, thereby violating federal and state laws. The tool reportedly matches collected information with Facebook user IDs for targeted advertising.Judge William H. Orrick of the US District Court for the Northern District of California found the plaintiffs' invasion of privacy claims under the California Constitution and common law to be plausible, considering the privileged relationship between patients and health-care providers. He also acknowledged potential injuries related to common law trespass to chattels and violation of the California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act.In a previous ruling, Orrick had dismissed several claims in the plaintiffs' original complaint but rejected Meta's motion to dismiss five other claims. These included breach of contract, breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing, unjust enrichment, and violations of specific privacy acts.During a hearing on Meta's motion to dismiss the amended complaint, Meta's attorney argued that the content of the plaintiffs' website searches did not reveal sensitive health information sufficient for an invasion of privacy claim. This was based on a Ninth Circuit ruling in a similar case. However, the plaintiffs' attorney countered, citing the Federal Trade Commission's broader definition of health information, which includes data that can infer a consumer's health status.Furthermore, Meta's attorney argued that the intrusion by the Facebook pixel was not significant enough to support the plaintiffs' trespass claims, stating that the alleged harms were minimal. Conversely, the plaintiffs' attorney maintained that under California law, any measurable harm to a computer system can be grounds for a compensable trespass injury, as demonstrated in previous legal cases.The lawsuit, representing a proposed class, includes several law firms on both sides. The case, In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation, continues in the Northern District of California, with ongoing debates over the scope and nature of the alleged privacy violations and damages.Meta Likely to Face Additional Claims in Pixel Health-Care SuitThe Maine State Superior Court has delayed a decision regarding former U.S. President Donald Trump's eligibility for the state's Republican primary ballot, pending a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on a similar case in Colorado. The court's directive, issued by Judge Michaela Murphy, orders Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to reassess her decision to disqualify Trump within 30 days following the Supreme Court's verdict.Bellows, a Democrat, had determined in December that Trump was ineligible to hold office under a U.S. Constitution provision barring individuals who have engaged in "insurrection or rebellion" from holding office. This decision was based on the allegation that Trump incited an insurrection in an attempt to retain power following his defeat in the 2020 election, highlighted by the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Trump's spokesperson criticized the disqualification as a "bad-faith sham," while Trump himself appealed the ruling, arguing that Bellows was biased and that he was denied a fair opportunity to defend himself. He has consistently denied engaging in insurrection.The upcoming Supreme Court ruling, with oral arguments scheduled for February 8, is expected to be politically significant. It could potentially clarify the role of state officials and courts in handling ballot challenges under the U.S. Constitution and might resolve the issue nationwide.Maine and Colorado are currently the only states to have disqualified Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Courts and election officials in several other states have rejected similar challenges to Trump's candidacy. Proponents of Trump's disqualification argue that enforcing the constitutional provision supports democratic values, while Trump and his supporters view these efforts as undemocratic election interference. Maine's primary is set for March 5, adding urgency to the Supreme Court's impending decision.Maine court puts Trump ballot decision on hold until after Supreme Court acts | ReutersThe U.S. Justice Department is set to release a report on the delayed police response to the 2022 Uvalde, Texas school shooting, which resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers. Initiated at the request of Uvalde's mayor just days after the tragedy at Robb Elementary School, this report is part of the department's "Critical Incident Review." The police response faced severe criticism for the officers' prolonged wait in a hallway while the gunman was active in a classroom, despite receiving desperate 911 calls from students.In July 2022, a report by Texas lawmakers described an "atmosphere of chaos" at the scene and criticized law enforcement for not prioritizing the lives of victims. The Justice Department's review, led by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services with support from external experts in emergency management and school safety, aims to provide an independent analysis and draw lessons for future mass shooting responses.Attorney General Merrick Garland and other top Justice Department officials visited Uvalde on Wednesday, touring a mural memorializing the victims ahead of the report's release. This report is expected to shed light on the law enforcement actions during the shooting and offer insights for handling similar incidents in the future.US Justice Dept to release report on Uvalde school shooting response | ReutersApple Inc. announced that it will remove the blood oxygen monitoring feature from two of its flagship Apple Watch models in the U.S., the Series 9 and Ultra 2, as a result of an ongoing legal battle over patent infringement with medical technology company Masimo. This decision comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against Apple selling these models. The issue stemmed from a December decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), which ordered a halt to the imports of the devices following a complaint by Masimo.Masimo accused Apple of stealing its pulse oximetry technology and poaching its employees to use in Apple Watches. The ITC initially imposed an import ban on the affected Apple Watch models, but the Federal Circuit briefly lifted this ban while considering Apple's request for a long-term pause. Apple resumed sales of the smartwatches shortly after the temporary lift of the ban.Apple has expressed strong disagreement with the ITC's decision and is seeking to reverse it. Meanwhile, existing Apple Watches and devices sold outside the United States are not affected by the order. The Series 9 and Ultra 2 models sold in the U.S. from Thursday will still display an app icon for the blood oxygen features, but upon accessing, users will be informed that the feature is unavailable.The legal dispute is expected to take months to resolve, during which time Apple has requested the ban be kept on hold. The company argues that maintaining the ban would harm not only Apple but also its suppliers and the public. Apple's wearables, home, and accessory segment, which includes the Apple Watch, is a significant part of its revenue, making the outcome of this legal battle crucial for the company.Apple to sell some watches without blood oxygen feature after US court ruling | Reuters Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

SGT BETSY BRANTNER SMITH JOINS DAWN LIVE! BETSY EXPANDS ON THE STATE OF PHILADELPHIA LEADERSHIP AS NEW MAYOR CHERELLE PARKER SETS A POLICE PRESENCE IN INFAMOUS KENSINGTON DISTRICT... HOW CAN KEVIN BETHEL AND PARKER FIND A WAY TO ENFORCE LAW & ORDER... BETSY ALSO EXPANDS ON THE RECENT TREND OF "SWATTING" AND FINDING A WAY TO COMBAT THIS PROBLEM THAT WASTES TIME, EFFORT, AND RESOURCES FROM MANY POLICE DEPTS NATIONWIDE...  According to Morning Brew, incidents of swatting involving politicians and judges are on the rise across the U.S.On Sunday, swatters targeted Tanya Chutkan, the federal judge presiding over the case concerning Donald Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election, claiming there was a shooting at her house (there wasn't). And she's just the latest in a recent wave of swatting—a form of harassment that involves calling the police under false pretenses to send a SWAT team to someone's home. Federal lawmakers including Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, New York Rep. Brandon Williams, and Florida Sen. Rick Scott have been swatted recently.Jack Smith, the special counsel who's prosecuting former President Trump in two cases, was swatted on Christmas Day.A 911 caller pretended to have broken into the home of Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows the day after she disqualified Trump from being on the state's primary ballot...The fake calls often claim a bomb threat, murder, or burglary, creating a dangerous situation as law enforcement arrives prepared to deal with potentially armed criminals... What's being done about it: Multiple politicians have called for legislation that would make it easier to identify those responsible for swatting and levy stronger penalties. For now, no arrests have been made in connection with these crimes as the callers almost always use fake caller ID or phone spoofing software to remain untraceable. For perspective on what can be done to stop this, turn to a 29-year law enforcement veteran who now trains officers around the world. Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith (Ret.) is spokesperson for National Police Association, a non profit that supports law enforcement officers across the U.S. She began her career as a police dispatcher at age 17 and has held positions in patrol, investigations, narcotics, juvenile, hostage negotiation, crime prevention, K-9 and field training. She has been a law enforcement trainer for over 20 years.  Tune in 10 AM - 12 PM EST weekdays on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT; or on the Audacy app!

Jen Psaki is joined by Congressman Jamie Raskin to discuss the Supreme Court's decision to take up the case surrounding Donald Trump's ballot eligibility after his role in the insurrection. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows also joins Jen to talk about her ruling that bars Trump him from the state's primary ballot. Plus with voters in Iowa days away from the caucuses, Jen talks to Sarah Longwell, who has been conducting focus groups of GOP voters, for some insight into what's on their minds. And Jen breaks down the legacy of embattled NRA leader Wayne LaPierre on the heels of his resignation. Check out our social pages below:https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsakihttps://www.instagram.com/InsideWithPsaki/https://www.tiktok.com/@insidewithpsakihttps://www.msnbc.com/jen-psaki

Florida's esteemed Governor, Ron DeSantis, in his commitment to uphold the principles of sovereignty and national security, recently expressed that he might contemplate the exclusion of Joe Biden from the Florida ballot. This comes as a response to Biden's evidently insufficient response to the substantial influx of unauthorized immigrants on the southern frontier, a number surging to an estimated eight million individuals. Speaking to the press after a vigorous campaign event in Iowa, Governor DeSantis explained his conviction that the US Supreme Court will have to consider this matter of utmost importance. The court is expected to accept this pressing issue for deliberation as early as February. As DeSantis perceptively pointed out, due to the immense differences of opinion on this subject, judicial overview is indispensable. Deeply concerned about the escalating crisis at the border, DeSantis underlined that his administration is thoroughly deliberating the prospect of making a plausible legal argument pertaining to this 'invasion'. With an unwavering devotion to the rule of law and national security, DeSantis thinks it crucial to examine whether Biden's handling of the border crisis could allow for a possible legal case. Defending the democratic right to candidacy, Governor DeSantis expressed his disagreement with barring any candidate from election ballots. This instinctive inclination towards fairness and democracy, however, does not undermine his resolve to counteract unfair tactics that are increasingly being employed by left-wing political figures. As DeSantis rightly declared, standing up against such tactics is imperative. Adopting an assertive stance, the Florida Governor pledged to uphold the same rules imposed on his party by the opposition. In his words, 'Whatever the rules applied to us, we're prepared to contest them and employ a similar strategy'. There's a certain parity in his approach - a refusal to be embroiled in a fight with a proverbial hand tied behind the back. Further revealing his future plans, DeSantis advocated boldly against the increasingly common politicization and misuse of the justice system by the Democrats. He reassured his supporters, emphasizing a better, fairer approach that doesn't involve such controversial and divisive tactics when he assumes office. 'You know, we've found a more promising course. We're not going to be concerned with these dubious issues. As president, I'll be equipped to deal with all the politicization, and we'll put an end to this once and for all,' he declared, offering a reassuring vision of a well-regulated, balanced, and disarmed justice system. Intriguingly, a recent lawsuit in Wisconsin suggests a brewing push to keep former president Trump off the state's Republican primary ticket. It is the brainchild of Kirk Bangstad, owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company, while potentially employing a similar strategic model used in comparable lawsuits across various states. This development surely resounds the echo of a Colorado Supreme Court verdict, which favored a lawsuit of a similar nature. The United States Supreme Court, respecting the gravity of these concerns, has agreed to listen to an appeal in the case. It underscores the necessity for a national discourse on this highly contentious issue. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has passionately seized on the opportunity to proscribe Trump from the Republican primary ballot in her jurisdiction. This move has notably caused the uniformly spirited former president to file an appeal against her decision on Tuesday. The aforementioned lawsuits critically refer to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, established after the Civil War. It is these litigations' claims that former President Trump is 'ineligible' to hold office for participating in an 'insurrection,' regardless of the fact that he has neither been officially accused of nor placed on trial for such a charge. In this intricate weave of legal and political tactics, it is clear that understanding constitutional constructs and their implications are crucial for a robust democratic structure. On one side stands Governor DeSantis, keen to ensure a secure border, while on the other, there exists an orchestrated effort to disqualify former President Trump from future electoral considerations. Like threads in a complex political tapestry, the actions of DeSantis, Bellows, and Bangstad all intersect, providing fertile ground for the Supreme Court's upcoming calendar. The nation waits, and watches closely, as these legal actions unfurl themselves in unpredictable and fascinating ways. Amidst these nuanced political maneuverings, what remains clear is the unwavering commitment to uphold the democratic process and the rule of law. It is essential now, more than ever, that discourse and debate build understanding and unity in these turbulent times. While expressing their unique standpoints in the political landscape, these events inherently underline a shared commitment to sustaining America's constitutional legacy. They highlight the resilience of democratic mechanisms in these unprecedented times, allowing for contrasting perspectives to emerge, flourish, and compete in the very spirit of democracy. All eyes remain set on how these developments unfold in the coming times and this forthcoming Supreme Court argument will likely ignite a vigorous debate on an array of constitutional issues and their effective application in contemporary politics. 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We've seen this movie before: some government official, some prosecutor, some law enforcement agent does something to hold Donald Trump accountable for his crimes, and Trump posts things about the person designed to inspire his supporters to threats and violence against that person. Most recently, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows followed Maine's elections laws and her oath of office, and disqualified Trump from the Maine ballot. So, of course, Trump posted Secretary Bellows' bio and the threats started pouring in. Trump is on pretrial release in four felony cases. The law provides that, when there is clear and convincing evidence that a person under felony indictment poses a threat to the community or any person in the community, that defendant is to be detained pending trial. Glenn says it's long past time that the institutions of government apply the nation's pretrial detention laws to Trump as those laws are applied to every other person who is pending trial in a felony case. Trump should be detained pending trial.If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts and mission, you can becoming a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner For our Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise visit:https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkir...Check out Glenn's website at glennkirschner.comFollow Glenn on:Threads: https://www.threads.net/glennkirschner2Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/glennkirschner2Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glennkirschner2Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkirsch...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Friday, January 5th, 2024. Download our new app!: You guys are aware that we have a new app right? If not you should download it right now! Head on over to your app store, and type in “CrossPolitic”, “Fight Laugh Feast”, or “PubTV”. Once you find the app, you may need to update your app, or if you have a droid phone, you may need to delete your current FLF app, and re-download it! Once downloaded you’ll be able to view or listen to our content right on your mobile device! As always, if you’d like to sign up for a pub membership, you can head on over to fightlaughfeast.com… that’s fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-investigating-active-shooter-scene-high-school-perry-iowa Multiple people injured in shooting at Perry, Iowa, high school Multiple people were injured in a shooting at an Iowa high school on Thursday morning, authorities said. At approximately 7:37 a.m., police received reports of an active scene at Perry High School in Perry. Officers responded within seven minutes of the active shooter alarm, Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante told reporters. The total number of victims and their status have not been confirmed. Infante said authorities are working to determine that information and that there is no further danger to the public. "The community is safe," the sheriff said. "We're just now working backwards, trying to figure out everything that happened and make notifications. There will be another update later on today." The Associated Press reported two gunshot victims were taken by ambulance to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in the state capital of Des Moines. A law enforcement source told the AP the suspect in the shooting has died of what investigators believe is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Infante said the shooting happened before school began. "Luckily, there was very few students and faculty in the building, which I think contributed to a good outcome in that sense," he said. Zander Shelley, 15, was in a hallway waiting for the school day to start when he heard gunshots and dashed into a classroom, his father, Kevin Shelley, told the AP. Zander was grazed twice and hid in the classroom before texting his father at 7:36 a.m. Kevin Shelley, who drives a garbage truck, told his boss he had to run. "It was the most scared I’ve been in my entire life," he said. Rachael Kares, an 18-year-old senior, told the AP she was at jazz band practice when students heard what sounded like four gunshots, spaced apart. "We all just jumped," Kares said. "My band teacher looked at us and yelled, ‘Run!’ So we ran." Kares said students and faculty ran out past the football field, with people yelling, "Get out! Get out!" as they ran. She said she heard additional shots while she fled, but was most concerned about getting home to her 3-year-old son. "At that moment I didn’t care about anything except getting out because I had to get home with my son," she told the AP. The sheriff's office, Perry Police Department and multiple federal agencies also responded to the shooting. Authorities have identified a suspect but have not released their name at this time, the sheriff said. Multiple EMS vehicles were sent to the scene at 1200 18th Street, according to public safety radio traffic. Federal agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) also said they were on the ground. Perry High School belongs to the Perry Community School District, about 25 miles northwest of Des Moines. About 1,785 students are enrolled in the school district, according to its website. Thursday was the first day of school after the winter break, according to the school's calendar. "Our hearts are broken by this senseless tragedy. Our prayers are with the students, teachers & families of the Perry Community," Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement. "I have been in contact with law enforcement agencies & am continuing to monitor the situation. I will be joining their press conference today." https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-dismisses-trump-ballot-disqualification-case-with-prejudice-5558227?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Ballot Disqualification Case ‘With Prejudice’ A federal judge in California on Jan. 3 dismissed a lawsuit that sought to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 Republican primary ballot in that state. District Judge David Carter granted a motion to dismiss the lawsuit “with prejudice,” which means that it can’t be submitted to the same court again, according to court papers. A plaintiff attempted to argue that they suffered “emotional injury” as a result of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while watching the events unfold on television, on the radio, and in various publications. They then argued that the incident caused them “severe emotional distress” and then filed a lawsuit to keep the former president off California’s ballot. However, the judge wrote that because the events occurred “more than two years before the plaintiff” filed suit, it was outside of the two-year statute of limitations. The decision by Judge Carter, a Clinton-appointed jurist who has ruled against President Trump in a separate case, was posted online by former Republican National Committee for California Chair Harmeet Dhillon. “The remnants of the last California case to keep President Trump off the ballot here were dismissed today by Judge David O. Carter!!” she wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Jan. 3. In recent days and weeks, a number of lawsuits have been filed in different states seeking to bar President Trump from appearing on the ballot ahead of the 2024 election. Those suits have claimed that the former president engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States under an interpretation of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment’s Section 3, which was written in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. At least two of those challenges have seen some success in Maine and Colorado, although there has been widespread speculation that higher courts or even the U.S. Supreme Court will strike those rulings down. Days before Christmas, Colorado’s highest court ruled to keep the former president off the primary ballot in the state, which was promptly appealed to the Supreme Court. Last week, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, unilaterally decided to keep President Trump off the ballot, which also has been appealed. Ahead of the Supreme Court appeal, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said that “unsurprisingly, the all-Democrat-appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, supporting a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden by removing President Trump’s name from the ballot and eliminating the rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice.” Legal analysts have suggested that the U.S. Supreme Court would take up those two cases and likely would rule against the plaintiffs at least on procedural grounds. However, it isn’t clear whether the court will take up the more thorny questions presented under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause. “It seems a certainty that SCOTUS will have to address the merits sooner or later,” Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California–Los Angeles, wrote on his website last month, referring to the Supreme Court. Several other federal judges have also dismissed attempts to block the former president from appearing on ballots. In a ruling issued in late December 2023, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema wrote that the plaintiffs—two activists—who filed suit against President Trump in Virginia to keep him on that state’s ballot lacked standing. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/01/03/trans-murderer-sent-to-womens-prison-n602445 Trans Murderer Sent to Women's Prison In 2012 and 2013, a man named Steven Buchanan murdered two handymen he had hired to do some labor around his farm in Oregon. After killing them, he fed their corpses to his pigs. He was eventually discovered and arrested for the crimes. In 2015 he was convicted, with the judge telling him that he was “a cold-blooded killer” who “valued pigs more than you value human life.” Buchanan was sentenced to fifty years in prison. But then things reportedly took a turn for the strange. The killer was no longer Steven Buchanan. Instead, he was “Susan Monica,” claiming to be a transgender woman. As our colleague Madeline Lessman reports this week at Townhall, Monica nee Buchanan is now being housed at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison located in Wilsonville, Oregon. A “transgender” biological male who was convicted of murdering two men is serving a 50-year sentence in a women’s prison, according to a report from Reduxx. The prisoner, Steven Buchanan, who goes by “Susan Monica,” dismembered the bodies of his victims and fed them to pigs on a 20-acre farm he owned in Oregon, Reduxx noted. Buchanan bought the farm in 1991 and killed two handymen in 2012 and 2013. In 2015, he was reportedly sentenced to a minimum of 50 years behind bars. “You shot two people and fed them to your pigs,” Judge Tim Barnack told Buchanan during sentencing. “I don’t know how else I can put it. You valued pigs more than you value people. It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer.” By this time, we’ve covered enough of these transgender prisoner stories that you should have already noticed a pattern emerging. There are men behaving badly who never seemed to have any problem living as men. Then, why they are facing the possibility of a long stretch in the Crowbar Motel, they suddenly “realize” that they are actually women trapped in men’s bodies and they demand special accommodations. And if they live in a blue state on the West Coast, those demands are almost always met. If the details of those two killings don’t do enough to send chills down your spine and make you realize how dangerous this guy almost certainly is (even at the age of 75), there is more. During court proceedings, the lead detective in the case told the judge that Buchanan had said he was worried that if police found “the other seventeen” bodies on his farm, he might never get out of jail. Police searched and did some digging, but additional bodies were not located. That doesn’t mean they’re not there, though. This guy is a certifiable lunatic who told the police “I do not value human life very much.” This is the sort of person we’re putting in a women’s prison? I’m sure some of the actual females at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility did some bad things to wind up there, though hopefully not involving feeding body parts to swine. But do they deserve to be exposed to a proven homicidal maniac who is pretending to be a woman? Townhall has been covering stories like this for a while and it never seems to end well. One trans inmate in New Jersey wound up impregnating two female inmates. (His own mother said that the trans thing was a scam allowing him access to women.) Another inmate was sexually assaulted by a trans inmate.. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/03/sweden-records-coldest-january-evening-in-25-years/ Sweden Records Coldest January Evening in 25 Years Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in western Europe caused flooding and at least one death. Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Nordic region for a second day in a row Wednesday. In Kvikkjokk-Årrenjarka in Swedish Lapland, the mercury dropped to minus 43.6 C (minus 46.5 F), the lowest January temperature recorded in Sweden in 25 years, Sweden’s TT news agency reported. Extremely cold temperatures, snow and gale-force winds disrupted transportation throughout the Nordic region, with several bridges closed and some train and ferry services suspended. Several schools in Scandinavia were closed. Police across most of Denmark urged motorists to avoid unnecessary trips as wind and snow battered the northern and western parts of the country. Mild but wet and windy conditions prevailed further south, where a storm wreaked havoc in parts of western Europe. In Britain, a driver died after a tree fell on his car in western England. Gloucestershire Police said the man died in the incident near the town of Kemble on Tuesday afternoon. The storm, which has been named Henk by the official weather services of Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands, has caused power cuts, transport troubles, property damage and disruption across the U.K. More than 300 flood warnings were in place across England and Wales on Wednesday, while 10,000 homes remained without power. A severe flood alert, meaning a danger to life, was announced for the River Nene in Northampton in central England. Several residents were evacuated from houseboats and caravans at the nearby Billing Aquadrome. The U.K.’s rail network was hit by flooding and power cuts, with many operators reporting ongoing issues for the Wednesday morning commute into work. The strongest gales in the U.K. were recorded on the Isle of Wight, just off the coast in southern England, where wind speeds reached 94 miles per hour (151 kilometers per hour). In the Netherlands, police near the city of Eindhoven said strong winds may have played a role in the death of a 75-year-old man who fell off his bicycle late Tuesday as high winds lashed much of the country. Parts of Germany were also grappling with flooding, which could be aggravated by more rain falling in the worst-affected northwestern state of Lower Saxony. https://www.boundingintosports.com/2024/01/aaron-rodgers-says-jimmy-kimmel-is-worried-about-the-jeffrey-epstein-files-suggests-nfl-is-rigged/ Aaron Rodgers Says Jimmy Kimmel Is Worried About The Jeffrey Epstein Files, Suggests NFL Is Rigged If you thought New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers had any designs on pulling back on his opinions in the new year, think again. During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, the 40-year-old future NFL Hall of Famer suggested late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel might be nervous about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Oh, and he also floated the idea that the NFL is rigged. Aaron Rodgers kicked off a segment with the host by embracing a conspiracy theory that the Super Bowl logo features the colors of the teams that eventually end up playing in the game. An X post by NFL Memes in September included an image that explained the theory and showed recent examples. The group also predicted that based on this theory, the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers would be facing each other in Super Bowl LVIII. “If the Super Bowl Baltimore and San Fran, I’ll tell you what, that Super Bowl 59 emblem better have Jet green on it,” Rodgers said. “I know you’ve seen that one … that’s a real interesting one,” Rodgers said of the conspiracy theory. https://twitter.com/i/status/1742256969883492467 - Play Video

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Friday, January 5th, 2024. Download our new app!: You guys are aware that we have a new app right? If not you should download it right now! Head on over to your app store, and type in “CrossPolitic”, “Fight Laugh Feast”, or “PubTV”. Once you find the app, you may need to update your app, or if you have a droid phone, you may need to delete your current FLF app, and re-download it! Once downloaded you’ll be able to view or listen to our content right on your mobile device! As always, if you’d like to sign up for a pub membership, you can head on over to fightlaughfeast.com… that’s fightlaughfeast.com. https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-investigating-active-shooter-scene-high-school-perry-iowa Multiple people injured in shooting at Perry, Iowa, high school Multiple people were injured in a shooting at an Iowa high school on Thursday morning, authorities said. At approximately 7:37 a.m., police received reports of an active scene at Perry High School in Perry. Officers responded within seven minutes of the active shooter alarm, Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante told reporters. The total number of victims and their status have not been confirmed. Infante said authorities are working to determine that information and that there is no further danger to the public. "The community is safe," the sheriff said. "We're just now working backwards, trying to figure out everything that happened and make notifications. There will be another update later on today." The Associated Press reported two gunshot victims were taken by ambulance to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in the state capital of Des Moines. A law enforcement source told the AP the suspect in the shooting has died of what investigators believe is a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Infante said the shooting happened before school began. "Luckily, there was very few students and faculty in the building, which I think contributed to a good outcome in that sense," he said. Zander Shelley, 15, was in a hallway waiting for the school day to start when he heard gunshots and dashed into a classroom, his father, Kevin Shelley, told the AP. Zander was grazed twice and hid in the classroom before texting his father at 7:36 a.m. Kevin Shelley, who drives a garbage truck, told his boss he had to run. "It was the most scared I’ve been in my entire life," he said. Rachael Kares, an 18-year-old senior, told the AP she was at jazz band practice when students heard what sounded like four gunshots, spaced apart. "We all just jumped," Kares said. "My band teacher looked at us and yelled, ‘Run!’ So we ran." Kares said students and faculty ran out past the football field, with people yelling, "Get out! Get out!" as they ran. She said she heard additional shots while she fled, but was most concerned about getting home to her 3-year-old son. "At that moment I didn’t care about anything except getting out because I had to get home with my son," she told the AP. The sheriff's office, Perry Police Department and multiple federal agencies also responded to the shooting. Authorities have identified a suspect but have not released their name at this time, the sheriff said. Multiple EMS vehicles were sent to the scene at 1200 18th Street, according to public safety radio traffic. Federal agents from the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) also said they were on the ground. Perry High School belongs to the Perry Community School District, about 25 miles northwest of Des Moines. About 1,785 students are enrolled in the school district, according to its website. Thursday was the first day of school after the winter break, according to the school's calendar. "Our hearts are broken by this senseless tragedy. Our prayers are with the students, teachers & families of the Perry Community," Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement. "I have been in contact with law enforcement agencies & am continuing to monitor the situation. I will be joining their press conference today." https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-dismisses-trump-ballot-disqualification-case-with-prejudice-5558227?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Ballot Disqualification Case ‘With Prejudice’ A federal judge in California on Jan. 3 dismissed a lawsuit that sought to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 Republican primary ballot in that state. District Judge David Carter granted a motion to dismiss the lawsuit “with prejudice,” which means that it can’t be submitted to the same court again, according to court papers. A plaintiff attempted to argue that they suffered “emotional injury” as a result of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, while watching the events unfold on television, on the radio, and in various publications. They then argued that the incident caused them “severe emotional distress” and then filed a lawsuit to keep the former president off California’s ballot. However, the judge wrote that because the events occurred “more than two years before the plaintiff” filed suit, it was outside of the two-year statute of limitations. The decision by Judge Carter, a Clinton-appointed jurist who has ruled against President Trump in a separate case, was posted online by former Republican National Committee for California Chair Harmeet Dhillon. “The remnants of the last California case to keep President Trump off the ballot here were dismissed today by Judge David O. Carter!!” she wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Jan. 3. In recent days and weeks, a number of lawsuits have been filed in different states seeking to bar President Trump from appearing on the ballot ahead of the 2024 election. Those suits have claimed that the former president engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States under an interpretation of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment’s Section 3, which was written in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. At least two of those challenges have seen some success in Maine and Colorado, although there has been widespread speculation that higher courts or even the U.S. Supreme Court will strike those rulings down. Days before Christmas, Colorado’s highest court ruled to keep the former president off the primary ballot in the state, which was promptly appealed to the Supreme Court. Last week, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, unilaterally decided to keep President Trump off the ballot, which also has been appealed. Ahead of the Supreme Court appeal, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said that “unsurprisingly, the all-Democrat-appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, supporting a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden by removing President Trump’s name from the ballot and eliminating the rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice.” Legal analysts have suggested that the U.S. Supreme Court would take up those two cases and likely would rule against the plaintiffs at least on procedural grounds. However, it isn’t clear whether the court will take up the more thorny questions presented under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause. “It seems a certainty that SCOTUS will have to address the merits sooner or later,” Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California–Los Angeles, wrote on his website last month, referring to the Supreme Court. Several other federal judges have also dismissed attempts to block the former president from appearing on ballots. In a ruling issued in late December 2023, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema wrote that the plaintiffs—two activists—who filed suit against President Trump in Virginia to keep him on that state’s ballot lacked standing. https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/01/03/trans-murderer-sent-to-womens-prison-n602445 Trans Murderer Sent to Women's Prison In 2012 and 2013, a man named Steven Buchanan murdered two handymen he had hired to do some labor around his farm in Oregon. After killing them, he fed their corpses to his pigs. He was eventually discovered and arrested for the crimes. In 2015 he was convicted, with the judge telling him that he was “a cold-blooded killer” who “valued pigs more than you value human life.” Buchanan was sentenced to fifty years in prison. But then things reportedly took a turn for the strange. The killer was no longer Steven Buchanan. Instead, he was “Susan Monica,” claiming to be a transgender woman. As our colleague Madeline Lessman reports this week at Townhall, Monica nee Buchanan is now being housed at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison located in Wilsonville, Oregon. A “transgender” biological male who was convicted of murdering two men is serving a 50-year sentence in a women’s prison, according to a report from Reduxx. The prisoner, Steven Buchanan, who goes by “Susan Monica,” dismembered the bodies of his victims and fed them to pigs on a 20-acre farm he owned in Oregon, Reduxx noted. Buchanan bought the farm in 1991 and killed two handymen in 2012 and 2013. In 2015, he was reportedly sentenced to a minimum of 50 years behind bars. “You shot two people and fed them to your pigs,” Judge Tim Barnack told Buchanan during sentencing. “I don’t know how else I can put it. You valued pigs more than you value people. It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer.” By this time, we’ve covered enough of these transgender prisoner stories that you should have already noticed a pattern emerging. There are men behaving badly who never seemed to have any problem living as men. Then, why they are facing the possibility of a long stretch in the Crowbar Motel, they suddenly “realize” that they are actually women trapped in men’s bodies and they demand special accommodations. And if they live in a blue state on the West Coast, those demands are almost always met. If the details of those two killings don’t do enough to send chills down your spine and make you realize how dangerous this guy almost certainly is (even at the age of 75), there is more. During court proceedings, the lead detective in the case told the judge that Buchanan had said he was worried that if police found “the other seventeen” bodies on his farm, he might never get out of jail. Police searched and did some digging, but additional bodies were not located. That doesn’t mean they’re not there, though. This guy is a certifiable lunatic who told the police “I do not value human life very much.” This is the sort of person we’re putting in a women’s prison? I’m sure some of the actual females at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility did some bad things to wind up there, though hopefully not involving feeding body parts to swine. But do they deserve to be exposed to a proven homicidal maniac who is pretending to be a woman? Townhall has been covering stories like this for a while and it never seems to end well. One trans inmate in New Jersey wound up impregnating two female inmates. (His own mother said that the trans thing was a scam allowing him access to women.) Another inmate was sexually assaulted by a trans inmate.. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/03/sweden-records-coldest-january-evening-in-25-years/ Sweden Records Coldest January Evening in 25 Years Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in western Europe caused flooding and at least one death. Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Nordic region for a second day in a row Wednesday. In Kvikkjokk-Årrenjarka in Swedish Lapland, the mercury dropped to minus 43.6 C (minus 46.5 F), the lowest January temperature recorded in Sweden in 25 years, Sweden’s TT news agency reported. Extremely cold temperatures, snow and gale-force winds disrupted transportation throughout the Nordic region, with several bridges closed and some train and ferry services suspended. Several schools in Scandinavia were closed. Police across most of Denmark urged motorists to avoid unnecessary trips as wind and snow battered the northern and western parts of the country. Mild but wet and windy conditions prevailed further south, where a storm wreaked havoc in parts of western Europe. In Britain, a driver died after a tree fell on his car in western England. Gloucestershire Police said the man died in the incident near the town of Kemble on Tuesday afternoon. The storm, which has been named Henk by the official weather services of Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands, has caused power cuts, transport troubles, property damage and disruption across the U.K. More than 300 flood warnings were in place across England and Wales on Wednesday, while 10,000 homes remained without power. A severe flood alert, meaning a danger to life, was announced for the River Nene in Northampton in central England. Several residents were evacuated from houseboats and caravans at the nearby Billing Aquadrome. The U.K.’s rail network was hit by flooding and power cuts, with many operators reporting ongoing issues for the Wednesday morning commute into work. The strongest gales in the U.K. were recorded on the Isle of Wight, just off the coast in southern England, where wind speeds reached 94 miles per hour (151 kilometers per hour). In the Netherlands, police near the city of Eindhoven said strong winds may have played a role in the death of a 75-year-old man who fell off his bicycle late Tuesday as high winds lashed much of the country. Parts of Germany were also grappling with flooding, which could be aggravated by more rain falling in the worst-affected northwestern state of Lower Saxony. https://www.boundingintosports.com/2024/01/aaron-rodgers-says-jimmy-kimmel-is-worried-about-the-jeffrey-epstein-files-suggests-nfl-is-rigged/ Aaron Rodgers Says Jimmy Kimmel Is Worried About The Jeffrey Epstein Files, Suggests NFL Is Rigged If you thought New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers had any designs on pulling back on his opinions in the new year, think again. During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, the 40-year-old future NFL Hall of Famer suggested late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel might be nervous about the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Oh, and he also floated the idea that the NFL is rigged. Aaron Rodgers kicked off a segment with the host by embracing a conspiracy theory that the Super Bowl logo features the colors of the teams that eventually end up playing in the game. An X post by NFL Memes in September included an image that explained the theory and showed recent examples. The group also predicted that based on this theory, the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers would be facing each other in Super Bowl LVIII. “If the Super Bowl Baltimore and San Fran, I’ll tell you what, that Super Bowl 59 emblem better have Jet green on it,” Rodgers said. “I know you’ve seen that one … that’s a real interesting one,” Rodgers said of the conspiracy theory. https://twitter.com/i/status/1742256969883492467 - Play Video

We've seen this movie before: some government official, some prosecutor, some law enforcement agent does something to hold Donald Trump accountable for his crimes, and Trump posts things about the person designed to inspire his supporters to threats and violence against that person. Most recently, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows followed Maine's elections laws and her oath of office, and disqualified Trump from the Maine ballot. So, of course, Trump posted Secretary Bellows' bio and the threats started pouring in. Trump is on pretrial release in four felony cases. The law provides that, when there is clear and convincing evidence that a person under felony indictment poses a threat to the community or any person in the community, that defendant is to be detained pending trial. Glenn says it's long past time that the institutions of government apply the nation's pretrial detention laws to Trump as those laws are applied to every other person who is pending trial in a felony case. Trump should be detained pending trial.If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts and mission, you can becoming a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner For our Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise visit:https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkir...Check out Glenn's website at glennkirschner.comFollow Glenn on:Threads: https://www.threads.net/glennkirschner2Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/glennkirschner2Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glennkirschner2Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkirsch...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Cate and Ben talk about this week’s encampment sweep in Portland and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to bar former Pres. Donald Trump from appearing on the Maine primary ballot and the predictable right-wing backlash. They also talk about this week’s gun safety rally at the State House, and the four big… The post Podcast: Gun safety advocates rally in Augusta, Shenna Bellows' decision, homeless encampment sweep in Portland first appeared on Maine Beacon.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (01/03/2024): 3:05pm- Stefanos Chen and Jeffery C. Mays of The New York Times write: “Hundreds of migrants bound for New York City took a detour in New Jersey over the holiday weekend, in an apparent attempt to bypass a city order that seeks to limit the chaotic flow of arrivals…The surge in New Jersey arrivals appears to be an end-run around an emergency executive order last week by New York City's mayor, Eric Adams, requiring charter bus companies to provide 32 hours' advance notice of the arrival of migrants and restricting the times of day when they can be dropped off.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/nyregion/ny-nj-migrants-buses.html 3:15pm- While speaking with WABC in New York, the Democrat Mayor of Edison, New Jersey Sam Joshi said that migrants arriving in his township via buses sent from Texas posed a “major security risk” because “they couldn't be identified.” Additionally, officials were unable to determine whether the people on the buses were carrying weapons, according to Mayor Joshi.   3:20pm- Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas basely blamed the migrant crisis at the U.S. Southern border on Texas Governor Greg Abbott—failing to accept any blame for the Biden Administration's relaxed border security policies. 3:30pm- CNN reports that the House Committee on Homeland Security is expected to formally begin impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for his failures to secure the U.S. Southern border. 3:40pm- On Tuesday, Cherelle Parker was sworn in as the 100th Mayor of Philadelphia. On her first day, she signed an executive order declaring a public safety emergency—calling for the development of a strategy that will reduce the unmitigated violence and open drug use currently plaguing the city. But can Mayor Parker's plan be effective while Larry Krasner remains the city's District Attorney? 4:05pm- A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll indicates that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently has greater support within the Hispanic American community than does President Joe Biden—39% to 34%. In 2020, Biden won that demographic by 33%—65% to 32%. You can read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/news/shock-poll-biden-who-won-the-hispanic-vote-by-33-points-in-2020-now-trails-trump-by-5-among-hispanics/ 4:10pm- Despite polling that indicates his reelection hopes are in jeopardy, President Joe Biden spent seven days vacationing in the U.S. Virgin Islands—flying back to Washington D.C. on Tuesday with noticeable sunburn. 4:15pm- Andrew Mark Miller writes, “A Georgetown University professor who spent 12 years as a CIA intelligence analyst is warning that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts and the overall politicization of the intelligence community have become a ‘significant' problem and that he is confident those agencies will attempt to interfere with the 2024 election similar to their efforts in 2020.” You can read the full article here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-cia-analyst-says-intel-agencies-politically-active-again-2024-election-significant-problem 4:35pm- Disney has announced a new director for its Star Wars franchise—Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Obaid-Chinoy has won two Academy Awards for short-films examining injustice in Pakistan, but does that make her the ideal selection for a sci-fi franchise? Obaid-Chinoy said that her goal as a filmmaker has been to “make men uncomfortable,” but aren't most Star Wars fans just looking for an enjoyable two-hour movie? 5:05pm- Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that the U.S. Constitution bars Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot—citing his involvement in riots outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In her 34-page decision, Secretary Bellows accuses Trump of engaging in insurrection and, consequently, determines he is ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment. Interestingly, despite calls from the Lieutenant Governor to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the former president would remain on the state's primary ballot. Trump has officially appealed Maine's decision. 5:10pm- Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas basely blamed the migrant crisis at the U.S. Southern border on Texas Governor Greg Abbott—failing to accept any blame for the Biden Administration's relaxed border security policies. 5:15pm- Speaking to the press on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that H.R.2- Secure the Border Act of 2023, which has passed in the House, will not pass in the Senate. 5:20pm- CNN reports that the House Committee on Homeland Security is expected to formally begin impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for his failures to secure the U.S. Southern border. 5:25pm- During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich grilled Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over the Biden Administration's failed U.S. Southern border policies which have resulted in a record number of unlawful border crossings. 5:40pm- Shauneen Miranda of Axios wties: “A federal judge will unseal hundreds of court documents from a lawsuit related to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday…Those documents include over 150 names deriving from a civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced last year to 20 years in prison on sex trafficking and other charges for helping Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.” You can read the full article here: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/02/jeffrey-epstein-list-names-court-documents-associates 6:05pm- Wadi Gaitan—Communications Director for the LIBRE Initiative—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to react to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll indicates that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently has greater support within the Hispanic American community than does President Joe Biden—39% to 34%. In 2020, Biden won that demographic by 33%—65% to 32%. 6:30pm- Fox News has announced a new show—“Fox News Saturday with Jimmy Failla.” It is set to debut on January 13th. 6:35pm- Virginia Kruta of The Daily Wire writes: “A Tuesday segment on MSNBC's “Deadline White House” got awkward when new allegations surfaced against embattled Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ)—and his daughter was guest-hosting the show. Alicia Menendez was sitting in for regular host Nicolle Wallace, and just before the show went to a commercial break, she announced that a breaking news update was imminent. ‘We have to take a quick break. And we'll be back with some breaking news right after this,' she said. When they returned, however, MSNBC host Ari Melber was in the anchor's chair to deliver the news.” You can read the full story here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-segment-goes-sideways-new-menendez-allegations-surface-while-his-daughter-is-guest-hosting 6:40pm- While appearing on Newsmax, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem said it would be a mistake for Donald Trump to select Nikki Haley to be his Vice President.

Maine Rep. John Andrews joins the show to discuss the impeachment of Secretary of State Shenna Bellows after her egregious action to take Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot in Maine.

Trump's defense submitted their final reply in the J6 immunity appeal before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that Trump has broad immunity for conduct related to the "outer perimeter" of his Presidential duties.Former AG Ed Meese submitted a second amicus brief to the D.C. Court of Appeals, arguing Jack Smith and the Office of the Special Counsel are illegitimate and are only operating now based upon a perverted and unconstitutional interpretation of the law.Trump's team filed a lawsuit against Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows in Superior Court asking for a review of her "decision" removing Trump from the state's ballots.

Shannon Bream, Host of FOX News Sunday, joins the Marc Cox Morning Show to discuss Maine Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows who barred Trump from ballot said voter ID laws are rooted in white supremacy

In the final hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show: Fred Bodimer stops by the studio to talk about going into the  St Louis Media Hall of Fame Shannon Bream, Host of FOX News Sunday, joins the Marc Cox Morning Show to discuss Maine Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows who barred Trump from ballot said voter ID laws are rooted in white supremacy Attorney Jane Dueker joins the Marc Cox Morning Show to discuss the recently released crime statistics here in St Louis. Thanks for listening!!

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Jan. 4 at 7:30 a.m. CT: NEW YORK (AP) — A winter weather system moving through the U.S. is expected to wallop the East Coast this weekend with a mix of snow and freezing rain. But forecasters say it's too soon to say which areas will get snow and which will get rain and how much. The Pacific system is moving through Western and Southern states before moving up the East Coast this weekend. Major U.S. cities accustomed to white winters didn't receive much snow last year due to a lack of cold air. The National Weather Service in New York City said this week that 2023 would go down as the city's “least snowiness” year, with just 2.3 inches measured in Central Park. DENVER (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado ruling that bars him from the state's ballot over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The Republican presidential candidate on Wednesday appealed the Colorado Supreme Court's finding that an insurrection clause in the Constitution's 14th Amendment renders him ineligible. The Colorado court's December ruling was the first time in history a court disqualified someone from running for the White House for having “engaged in insurrection." Trump's appeal comes a day after his legal team asked the Maine Superior Court to review a ruling by Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows that Trump cannot be on that state's ballot. BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say an airstrike on the logistical support headquarters of an Iran-backed militia in central Baghdad has killed a high-ranking militia commander. Thursday's strike comes amid mounting regional tensions fueled by Israel-Hamas war and fears that it could spill over into surrounding countries. The Popular Mobilization Force - a coalition of militias that is nominally under the control of the Iraqi military - announced in a statement that its deputy head of operations in Baghdad, Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi, or “Abu Taqwa,” had been killed “as a result of brutal American aggression.” SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A pilot accused of threatening to shoot a commercial airline captain who wanted to divert a flight to get medical attention for a passenger is set to make his first federal court appearance. Former Delta Air Lines pilot Jonathan J. Dunn was indicted Oct. 18. He is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday in Salt Lake City. Dunn was charged with interfering with a flight crew and could face up to 20 years in prison. The captain had proposed diverting to Colorado if a passenger's condition worsened. Prosecutors say Dunn objected and threatened multiple times to shoot the captain. Delta says Dunn no longer works for the airline. DETROIT (AP) — American consumers bought 15.6 million new vehicles last year. The numbers indicate car buyers were undeterred by high prices, rising interest rates, autoworker strikes and a computer-chip shortage that slowed assembly lines. The tally is 12% more than in 2022, and the biggest increase in more than a decade. Yet sales still haven't returned to the 17 million rate in the years before the pandemic, and there are signs of a cooling market as supplies grow on dealer lots and prices start to fall. Average auto sales prices peaked in December of 2022 just over $47,300. Data from J.D. Power show that average prices in mid-December were down 2.7% from the peak to around $46,000. Analysts expect more discounts through the year. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has coordinated with Israel, Egypt and others in rescuing the mother of a U.S. serviceman and her American brother-in-law who were pinned down during heavy fighting in Gaza City. News of the rescue, in the only known operation of its kind, came Wednesday from a U.S. official. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to confirm the rescue, which had been kept quiet for security reasons. The official said Zahra Sckak made it out of Gaza on New Year's Eve, along with her brother-in-law. Her husband had been shot earlier as the family fled from a building hit by an airstrike. He died days later. One of her three American sons is an Army infantryman. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve's policymakers concluded last month that inflationary pressures were easing and that the job market was cooling. In response, the officials chose to leave their key interest rate unchanged for the third straight time and signaled that they expected to cut rates three times in 2024. According to the minutes of their Dec. 12-13 meeting, Fed officials indicated in their own interest-rate forecasts that a lower benchmark rate “would be appropriate by the end of 2024" given the steady progress toward taming inflation. But they ”stressed the importance″ of remaining vigilant and keeping rates high “until inflation was clearly moving down sustainably″ toward their 2% target. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new law that would allow police in the state to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally. The lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses Texas of violating the U.S. government's authority over immigration enforcement. Under the Texas law, migrants could either agree to a Texas judge's order to leave the U.S. or be prosecuted on misdemeanor charges of illegal entry. Migrants who don't leave could face arrest again under more serious felony charges. The lawsuit asks a court in Austin to declare the Texas law unconstitutional, alleging that it would frustrate immigration operations and interfere with the federal government's right to regulate foreign commerce. The law is set to take effect in March. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is starting the campaign year by evoking the Revolutionary War to mark the third anniversary of the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection and visiting the South Carolina church where a white gunman massacred Black parishioners. The Democratic president is seeking to present in the starkest possible terms an election he argues could determine the fate of American democracy. Biden is kicking off 2024 in Pennsylvania by delving into some of the country's darkest moments rather than an upbeat affirmation of his record. Former President Donald Trump is the heavy favorite to win the Republican nomination. Trump's team argues Biden is threatening democracy because of the indictments brought against the former president. EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has led about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit to the Mexican border. And Johnson is expressing serious doubts about whether he'd support a bipartisan compromise. He's also suggesting he could use a looming government funding deadline as further leverage. Their trip Wednesday to Eagle Pass, Texas, comes as they are demanding hard-line immigration policies in exchange for backing President Joe Biden's emergency wartime funding request for Ukraine. Senate negotiators in Washington are plugging away in hopes of a bipartisan deal. Johnson says he's holding firmly to the policies of a bill passed by House Republicans in May without a single Democratic vote. Biden has threatened a veto WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers posted 8.8 million job openings in November, down slightly from October and the fewest since March 2021. But demand for workers remains strong by historical standards. The number of job vacancies dipped from 8.9 million in October. And the number of people quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in the labor market — fell to its lowest level since February 2021. The number of quits is now roughly where it stood before the pandemic erupted. Job openings dropped by 128,000 in transportation, warehousing and utilities and by 78,000 at hotels and restaurants. The federal government reduced job openings by 58,000. By contrast, openings in construction rose by 43,000 and in retail by 42,000. Officials say a New Jersey imam was shot multiple times and killed outside his mosque Wednesday, and authorities continue to search for the shooter. Essex County Prosecutor Ted Stephens said Imam Hassan Sharif was in his car when he was shot more than once near the Masjid-Muhammad Mosque in Newark. Attorney General Matt Platkin says authorities are still searching for a shooter, but there's no evidence indicating the shooting was related to anti-Muslim bias. Platkin says law enforcement has stepped up outreach to houses of worship, acknowledging the unfolding tensions amid the Israel-Hamas fighting in Gaza. Newark's public safety director says Sharif had been a resident imam at the mosque for five years. SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A father and son in Texas have been charged in the killings of an 18-year-old pregnant woman who disappeared before Christmas and her boyfriend. The arrests announced Wednesday night by San Antonio police come more than a week after the bodies of 18-year-old Savanah Nicole Soto and 22-year-old Matthew Guerra were found in the parking lot of an apartment complex. San Antonio police say the couple was fatally shot over an apparent drug deal before their bodies were moved and left in a car. Police charged a 19-year-old with capital murder and his 53-year-old father with abuse of corpse for allegedly helping his son move the couple's bodies. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel is suing a police investigator and the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, more than five years after his murder conviction was overturned. Skakel was found guilty in 2002 of the killing of Martha Moxley in their Greenwich neighborhood in 1975 when they were both 15. He served more than 11 years in prison before the state Supreme Court overturned his conviction. Skakel's lawsuit alleges malicious prosecution, civil rights violations and other wrongdoing. Skakel says the police investigator, Frank Garr, withheld key evidence that favored Skakel. The state attorney general's office, which is representing Garr, declined to comment. A lawyer for Greenwich did not return a message seeking comment. Plenty of offense in the NBA, Auston Matthews becomes the NHL's first 30 goal scorer, nine Niners make the Pro Bowl rosters and two ranked teams play and lose in college basketball. Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes will sit the  regular-season finale, firefighters put out a large fire at the home of Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill and Scottie Scheffler wins player vote as PGA Tour player of the year over Jon Rahm. WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is confident Palestinian militant groups used Gaza's largest hospital to hold hostages seized during their bloody Oct. 7, 2023, attack and to house command infrastructure. That's according to an American intelligence assessment declassified Tuesday and shared by a U.S. official. The assessment offers the firmest U.S. support for Israeli claims about the Shifa hospital complex, which was raided by Israeli forces in November in an operation decried by global humanitarian organizations and some members of President Joe Biden's party. Yet the information released doesn't fully back some of Israel's most significant allegations the hospital served as the central node for activities by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. JERUSALEM (AP) — The chief of Israel's Mossad has vowed the intelligence agency will hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no matter where they are. David Barnea spoke a day after the deputy head of the Palestinian militant group was killed in a suspected Israeli strike in Beirut. Israel has refused to comment on reports it carried out the killing, but Barnea's comments appeared to be the strongest indication yet it was behind the blast. Israel was on high alert Wednesday for an escalation with Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah militia after the strike in the Lebanese capital killed Saleh Arouri, the most senior Hamas member slain since the war in Gaza erupted nearly three months ago. COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Queen Margrethe rode through Denmark's capital in a gilded, horse-drawn coach as she concluded her last New Year celebrations before her Jan. 14 abdication after 52 years on the throne. Thousands braved the biting cold Thursday to cheer the popular queen in what is to be her last public appearance as monarch. The 83-year-old Margrethe, who is Europe's longest reigning monarch, will hand over the throne to her oldest son, Crown Prince Frederik in the first such resignation in Europe's oldest ruling monarchy in nearly 900 years. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukrainian authorities say that 230 Ukrainian prisoners of war returned home in the first exchange in almost five months. Russia's Defense Ministry says that 248 Russian servicemen have been freed under the deal sponsored by the United Arab Emirates. The Foreign Ministry in the UAE has attributed the successful swap to the country's friendly ties to both Russia and Ukraine. The UAE has maintained close economic ties with Moscow despite Western sanctions and pressure on Russia after it launched its invasion in 2022. —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. 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Former President Donald Trump has asked a Maine court to overturn the secretary of state's decision to remove him from the 2024 primary ballot there because of his role in the U.S. Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins Anderson to talk about Trump's appeal. Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joins Anderson to discuss Trump's legal fight in Maine, the state of play in the 2024 GOP primary, and the new charges against New Jersey Democratic Senator Menendez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that the U.S. Constitution bars Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot—citing his involvement in riots outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In her 34-page decision, Secretary Bellows accuses Trump of engaging in insurrection and, consequently, determines he is ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment. Interestingly, despite calls from the Lieutenant Governor to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the former president would remain on the state's primary ballot. While appearing on CNN, David Axelrod—former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama—said “I do think it would rip the county apart if [Trump] were prevented from running because tens-of-millions of people want to vote for him.” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said that Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows barred Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot based on “things that would never pass the bat in a normal court”—like relying on YouTube clips. A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll indicates that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently has greater support within the Hispanic American community than does President Joe Biden—39% to 34%. In 2020, Biden won that demographic by 33%—65% to 32%. You can read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/news/shock-poll-biden-who-won-the-hispanic-vote-by-33-points-in-2020-now-trails-trump-by-5-among-hispanics/

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that the U.S. Constitution bars Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot—citing his involvement in riots outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In her 34-page decision, Secretary Bellows accuses Trump of engaging in insurrection and, consequently, determines he is ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment. Interestingly, despite calls from the Lieutenant Governor to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the former president would remain on the state's primary ballot. Trump has officially appealed Maine's decision. Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas basely blamed the migrant crisis at the U.S. Southern border on Texas Governor Greg Abbott—failing to accept any blame for the Biden Administration's relaxed border security policies. Speaking to the press on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that H.R.2- Secure the Border Act of 2023, which has passed in the House, will not pass in the Senate. CNN reports that the House Committee on Homeland Security is expected to formally begin impeachment proceedings against Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for his failures to secure the U.S. Southern border. During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich grilled Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over the Biden Administration's failed U.S. Southern border policies which have resulted in a record number of unlawful border crossings. Shauneen Miranda of Axios wties: “A federal judge will unseal hundreds of court documents from a lawsuit related to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday…Those documents include over 150 names deriving from a civil lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced last year to 20 years in prison on sex trafficking and other charges for helping Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.” You can read the full article here: https://www.axios.com/2024/01/02/jeffrey-epstein-list-names-court-documents-associates

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (01/02/2024): 3:05pm- Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that the U.S. Constitution bars Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot—citing his involvement in riots outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In her 34-page decision, Secretary Bellows accuses Trump of engaging in insurrection and, consequently, determines he is ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment. Interestingly, despite calls from the Lieutenant Governor to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the former president would remain on the state's primary ballot. 3:20pm- While appearing on CNN, David Axelrod—former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama—said “I do think it would rip the county apart if [Trump] were prevented from running because tens-of-millions of people want to vote for him.” 3:25pm- A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll indicates that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently has greater support within the Hispanic American community than does President Joe Biden—39% to 34%. In 2020, Biden won that demographic by 33%—65% to 32%. You can read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/news/shock-poll-biden-who-won-the-hispanic-vote-by-33-points-in-2020-now-trails-trump-by-5-among-hispanics/ 3:40pm- Stefanos Chen and Jeffery C. Mays of The New York Times write: “Hundreds of migrants bound for New York City took a detour in New Jersey over the holiday weekend, in an apparent attempt to bypass a city order that seeks to limit the chaotic flow of arrivals…The surge in New Jersey arrivals appears to be an end-run around an emergency executive order last week by New York City's mayor, Eric Adams, requiring charter bus companies to provide 32 hours' advance notice of the arrival of migrants and restricting the times of day when they can be dropped off.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/nyregion/ny-nj-migrants-buses.html 3:50pm- According to a Fox News report, migrants who have entered the United States illegally are currently lined up in New York City to receive taxpayer-funded housing. New York City, which previously declared itself a “sanctuary city,” guarantees free housing to migrants. 4:05pm- Claudine Gay has resigned as President of Harvard University—making her the shortest tenured president in the school's nearly 400-hundred-year history. Last month, Gay testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee. During one noteworthy exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Gay refused to say calls for the genocide of Jews is speech that is violative of the school's code of conduct. Gay also faces dozens of credible plagiarism allegations. 4:15pm- In a recently surfaced video, former Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins conceded that the federal government made mistakes with its public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He explains, “if you're a public health person…you attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people's lives, ruins the economy.” In November of 2021, Dr. Collins, who is now serving as an advisor to President Joe Biden, infamously performed “Somewhere Past the Pandemic”—an original song to the tune of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Rich, Matt, and Henry will find any excuse to play it. 4:35pm- On Monday, Rich appeared on Fox News to preview the 2024 presidential election. The clip went viral on social media, but Matt didn't include it on today's cut sheet! 4:50pm- Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that the U.S. Constitution bars Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot—citing his involvement in riots outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In her 34-page decision, Secretary Bellows accuses Trump of engaging in insurrection and, consequently, determines he is ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment. Interestingly, despite calls from the Lieutenant Governor to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the former president would remain on the state's primary ballot. 5:05pm- Congressman Guy Reschenthaler— U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 14th Congressional District & House Republican Chief Deputy Whip—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Claudine Gay's resignation as President of Harvard University making her the shortest tenured president in the school's nearly 400-hundred-year history. Last month, Gay testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee. During one noteworthy exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Gay refused to say calls for the genocide of Jews is speech that is violative of the school's code of conduct. Gay also faces dozens of credible plagiarism allegations. Will this resignation have an impact on the radical leftist teaching agenda at America's oldest university? 5:25pm- The New York Times reports: “Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey—already accused of using his political influence to benefit Egypt—was newly charged on Tuesday with using his power to help the government of Qatar.” You can read the full report from Tracey Tully, Benjamin Weiser, and Nicholas Fandos here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/nyregion/robert-menendez-qatar-influence.html 5:40pm- Anna Betts of The New York Times writes: “Al Sharpton, the civil rights leader, expressed disappointment in Claudine Gay's resignation in a statement to CNN, blaming a relentless campaign against her led by the financier Bill Ackman. ‘This is an attack on every Black woman in this country who has put a crack in the glass ceiling,' Sharpton said, adding that his organization, the National Action Network, would picket outside Ackman's New York office on Thursday.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01/02/us/claudine-gay-harvard/404581e4-b049-5652-9b24-3bc104a53fe5?smid=url-share 5:50pm- The Pop-Tarts Bowl vs the Duke's Mayo Bowl: which college football game was weirder? 6:05pm- Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that the U.S. Constitution bars Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot—citing his involvement in riots outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In her 34-page decision, Secretary Bellows accuses Trump of engaging in insurrection and, consequently, determines he is ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment. Interestingly, despite calls from the Lieutenant Governor to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the former president would remain on the state's primary ballot. 6:15pm- While appearing on CNN, David Axelrod—former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama—said “I do think it would rip the county apart if [Trump] were prevented from running because tens-of-millions of people want to vote for him.” 6:30pm- CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said that Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows barred Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot based on “things that would never pass the bat in a normal court”—like relying on YouTube clips. 6:45pm- A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll indicates that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently has greater support within the Hispanic American community than does President Joe Biden—39% to 34%. In 2020, Biden won that demographic by 33%—65% to 32%. You can read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/news/shock-poll-biden-who-won-the-hispanic-vote-by-33-points-in-2020-now-trails-trump-by-5-among-hispanics/

Today on America in the Morning   Gay Resigns Harvard President Claudine Gay has resigned amid allegations she committed plagiarism and following Congressional testimony in which she refused to outright say anti-Semitic protests were against school policy. John Stolnis has the details.     Trump Appeals Maine Ballot Ruling Donald Trump has appealed a Maine ruling keeping him off the state's presidential primary ballot, and is likely to also challenge a similar ruling made by Colorado's highest court. As Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports, the former president wants the decisions to be reversed, but as Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows told TV station WGME, she believes there is a precedent in this case.     New Troubles For Menendez Democrat Senator Bob Menendez is facing new allegations of corruption related to a second nation in the Middle East. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.      Record Debt It's an important topic of the 2024 election, and it just reached a milestone. Correspondent Norman Hall reports the U.S. national debt has hit a record $34 trillion dollars.     Business News The annual airline report from Cirium (pronounced SEER-ee-um) found Air Canada had the worst on-time performance among large North American carriers. Delta Airlines led the list for North America's punctuality with over one point six million flights arriving on time 85 percent of the time. Here's CNBC's Jessica Ettinger with Wednesday business.      House Majority To Narrow The already slim majority held by House Republicans will become razor-thin in about two weeks, as Ohio Congressman Bill Johnson announced he's leaving two months earlier than planned.      Pill Stockpiling New research shows that thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them.  Correspondent Shelley Adler reports.       Iowa Campaigns Ramp Up We are now 11 months away from the 2024 election, and presidential campaigning is ramping up ahead of the Iowa caucus, scheduled for later this month and an important first-step for candidates who want to lead the GOP against President Biden. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.      Terrorism Not Considered In NY Crash Police and the FBI are looking for a motive behind a deadly crash by a man driving an SUV full of gas canisters as a New Year's Eve concert in Rochester, New York was ending.  The latest from correspondent Julie Walker.     Court Rules Clerk Must Pay For Denying Marriage Licenses A federal judge has ruled that a former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex applicants must pay the legal fees of one of those couples. The details from correspondent Pamela Furr.      No Fries With That A man has been arrested at a McDonald's in North Carolina. As correspondent Rita Foley reports, that man – a pastor – attempted to push a cook's head into a deep fryer.     Tech News The SEC could approve new Electronic Traded Fund applications to sell Bitcoin futures as soon as this week, which has sent cryptocurrency prices soaring.  Here's Chuck Palm with today's tech news.     Sports – Robert Workman  Basketball and more.      Finally  The earliest version of Mickey Mouse is officially in the public domain, and two horror films based on him are now in the works.  Entertainment correspondent Margie Szaroleta has more.      Warren Buffett tops a list of charity donors in 2023.  Ed Donahue reports.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President and likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been kicked off primary ballots in Maine and Colorado. His name on the ballot is being challenged in several other states across the country. All the challenges are based on the insurrection clause in the 14th amendment and stem from Trump's involvement in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. Trump is appealing the Maine decision, and is expected to appeal the Colorado decision.Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a democrat, told All Things Considered that Trump's actions on January 6th are what drove her decision to remove him from the ballot. NPR's Juana Summers, talks to Senior Editor and Correspondent Domenico Montanaro about the decisions to remove Trump, whether they'll stand, and what these challenges could mean for the outcome of the Presidential election.Email us at considerthis@npr.org

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that the U.S. Constitution bars Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot—citing his involvement in riots outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In her 34-page decision, Secretary Bellows accuses Trump of engaging in insurrection and, consequently, determines he is ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment. Interestingly, despite calls from the Lieutenant Governor to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the former president would remain on the state's primary ballot. While appearing on CNN, David Axelrod—former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama—said “I do think it would rip the county apart if [Trump] were prevented from running because tens-of-millions of people want to vote for him.” A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll indicates that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump currently has greater support within the Hispanic American community than does President Joe Biden—39% to 34%. In 2020, Biden won that demographic by 33%—65% to 32%. You can read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/news/shock-poll-biden-who-won-the-hispanic-vote-by-33-points-in-2020-now-trails-trump-by-5-among-hispanics/ Stefanos Chen and Jeffery C. Mays of The New York Times write: “Hundreds of migrants bound for New York City took a detour in New Jersey over the holiday weekend, in an apparent attempt to bypass a city order that seeks to limit the chaotic flow of arrivals…The surge in New Jersey arrivals appears to be an end-run around an emergency executive order last week by New York City's mayor, Eric Adams, requiring charter bus companies to provide 32 hours' advance notice of the arrival of migrants and restricting the times of day when they can be dropped off.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/nyregion/ny-nj-migrants-buses.html According to a Fox News report, migrants who have entered the United States illegally are currently lined up in New York City to receive taxpayer-funded housing. New York City, which previously declared itself a “sanctuary city,” guarantees free housing to migrants.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: Claudine Gay has resigned as President of Harvard University—making her the shortest tenured president in the school's nearly 400-hundred-year history. Last month, Gay testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee. During one noteworthy exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Gay refused to say calls for the genocide of Jews is speech that is violative of the school's code of conduct. Gay also faces dozens of credible plagiarism allegations. In a recently surfaced video, former Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins conceded that the federal government made mistakes with its public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He explains, “if you're a public health person…you attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people's lives, ruins the economy.” In November of 2021, Dr. Collins, who is now serving as an advisor to President Joe Biden, infamously performed “Somewhere Past the Pandemic”—an original song to the tune of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Rich, Matt, and Henry will find any excuse to play it. On Monday, Rich appeared on Fox News to preview the 2024 presidential election. The clip went viral on social media, but Matt didn't include it on today's cut sheet! Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows determined that the U.S. Constitution bars Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from appearing on the state's primary ballot—citing his involvement in riots outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. In her 34-page decision, Secretary Bellows accuses Trump of engaging in insurrection and, consequently, determines he is ineligible to hold office under the Fourteenth Amendment. Interestingly, despite calls from the Lieutenant Governor to “explore every legal option” to remove Trump from the ballot, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber said the former president would remain on the state's primary ballot.

A second state has removed Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, after Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows rules that the Jan. 6 riot was an insurrection. Will the Supreme Court decide this question for good, as other states consider following the lead of Maine and Colorado? Plus, the House passes a bill to increase transparency on foreign money going to U.S. universities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this bonus episode of Trump's Trials, host Scott Detrow is joined by Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.Last week Bellows ruled that former President Donald Trump's name should be removed from the Republican primary ballot in the state, under section three of the 14th Amendment. The Civil War era provision disqualifies anyone who has engaged in an insurrection against the U.S. Constitution from running for office. For now Trump remains on the ballot until a higher court weighs in.Topics include:- Reasoning for this decision- Response to criticism- Need for U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in- Concerns over threatsFollow the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify for new episodes each Saturday.Sign up for sponsor-free episodes and support NPR's political journalism at plus.npr.org/trumpstrials.Email the show at trumpstrials@npr.org.

It's New Year's day, Monday, January 1st, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus Don't abandon Armenian hostages A day after a limited prisoner exchange between Armenia and Azerbaijan took place, a coalition of human rights organizations is urging the United States not to abandon Azerbaijan's remaining Armenian hostages, reports Christian Solidarity International. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Christian Solidarity International, Genocide Watch, Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust, and the Armenian National Committee of America pointed out that dozens more Armenians are still being held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.   These include eight current and former members of the elected government of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh who were kidnapped during Azerbaijan's attack on Nagorno Karabakh in September, during which the entire Armenian population of the region was expelled.   On December 13th, Azerbaijan released 32 Armenian soldiers. In exchange, Armenia released two Azerbaijani soldiers who had been detained after infiltrating sovereign Armenian territory and killing an Armenian civilian.  Please pray for the peace of God which in Philippians 4:7 is described as “surpassing all understanding.” Maine secretary of state disqualifies Trump from primary ballot Last Thursday, Maine's Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said former President Trump is disqualified from holding office and thus she has removed him from the state's primary ballot under section 3 of the 14th Amendment over his role in the January 6, 2021 rally at the U.S. Capitol. In her decision, she wrote, “The U.S. Constitution does not tolerate an assault on the foundations of our government, and Section 336 requires me to act in response.” In an interview with CBS News Thursday night, Bellows further explained her reasoning. Listen. BELLOWS: “I'm mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a candidate of ballot access under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. But no presidential candidate has ever engaged in an insurrection. My job was to evaluate the facts presented at the hearing, the evidence that was produced, and the record graded in that proceeding, and to evaluate that and make a ruling, which is what I did.” Bellows added, “Given the compressed timeframe, the novel constitutional questions involved, the importance of this case, and impending ballot preparation deadlines, I will suspend the effect of my decision until the Superior Court rules on any appeal or the time to appeal … has expired.” The state of Colorado has also removed Donald Trump from the presidential ballot as well. Biden strategy: Distract America from economy, claim Trump threatens democracy In an internal election memo released Thursday, Biden's campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said, “We are treating this election like it will determine the fate of American democracy – because it will,” reports Bloomberg. She also said, “The threat Donald Trump posed in 2020 to American democracy has only grown more dire since then. He is running a campaign on revenge and retribution – and at the expense of Americans' freedoms.” Not surprisingly, the Biden campaign seeks to de-emphasize the economic catastrophe of his first term during which prices have increased cumulatively by 17.4 percent. Instead, they are convinced that the winning political strategy is to put democracy itself at the center of Biden's re-election argument. Right now, in the RealClearPolitics average of eight presidential polls, Trump is beating Biden 46.8% to 45.5%. COVID mask mandates return to hospitals in four states and D.C. Hospitals across the U.S. are reinstating COVID-19 mask mandates as the JN.1 variant becomes the dominant strain spreading throughout the country, reports Newsweek. Hospitals in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Washington D.C. have all brought back divisive rules mandating masks for selected people in medical settings. The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has recorded a 10.4 percent increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations across America in the week leading up to December 16.  Additionally, there has been an increase of 3.4 percent in deaths related to the coronavirus in the same period. Mailman rescues toddler And finally, a Massachusetts mailman, named David Moulton, delivered more than his routine batch of letters. For the first time in eight years of walking his route, he delivered a 3-year-old toddler to safety, reports CBS News. MOULTON: “They say the ways of God are mysterious you know. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.” The boy had managed to somehow leave Salem Community Day Care in Salem, Massachusetts.  MOULTON:  “He ran past me this way for us to the park. I thought he was running to play with kids or something like that. And then all of a sudden, I saw him zip by me again, and I'm like, ‘He's headed to a busy street.'” Unbelievably, the toddler was walking the sidewalks and streets, in the cold, for nearly 30 minutes.   MOULTON: “He's got no shoes and no jacket on. This isn't right. I'm wearing four layers of clothes. He was shaking. He was shivering. He was cold.” Moulton took action. MOULTON: “I have children of my own. I can't just let him head to the street, stand there, and do nothing. I just scooped him up before he got into the street over there.” The postman told reporters that the toddler was about to cross Congress Street, a very busy thoroughfare. MOULTON: “I'm very glad that it ended well. It could have been real bad.” After rescuing him, Moulton called 9-1-1. Thankfully, the medical personnel who arrived determined the boy was just fine. In Matthew 10:29-31, Jesus said a sparrow “does will not fall to the ground outside your Father's care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.” The police have referred the case to the District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts and the Department of Children and Families which are investigating Salem Community Day Care. Close And that's The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this New Year's Day, Monday, January 1st in the year of our Lord 2024. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Another year, another host of cultural moments and phenomena. Some represented not much more than a passing fad, while others could herald a paradigm shift in American society and politics. Judge Stephen Locher, a federal judge in Iowa, blocked a law intended to keep sexually explicit books out of schools and prevent elementary school students from being taught gender ideology in the classroom. A report published by The Daily Caller News Foundation might explain why Governor Mike DeWine vetoed a bill that would have prevented biological males from participating in women's athletics and barred doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children. Maine State Rep. John Andrews has moved to impeach Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows after she announced that former President Donald Trump would be disqualified from her state's presidential primary ballot. Please vote for the "Best of" categories of Tapp into the Truth for 2023.Visit 4Patriots and prepare for whatever life sends your way.The 'Digital Dollar' = Full Government Control. Get your gold from my gold dealer, America's Premiere Conservative Gold Company, Harvard Gold Group.VNSH holster fits 99% of all semi-auto handguns, works without a tactical belt, and carries two fully loaded magazines. Go to http://vnsh.com/tapp to activate a $40 discount today.MyPillow's 20-year Anniversary! Go to My Pillow and use promo code: TAPPA Very Convenient WarmingAssisted Suicide Horror: A Girl Known as STVote for the "Best of" Tapp into the Truth Episodes:1.) Representing ME, the Mysteries of a Manhattan Indictment, & Patriot Music2.) The Great Deception, Pandemonium, and Parents of the World Unite!3.) Rediscovering the American Covenant & GIPPR AI Starts Chatting on TUSK4.) F*** Capitalism and Other Things School Teachers Might Say5.) When China Attacks: A Warning to America & Ramaswamy 2024Vote for the "Best of" Tim Tapp Published Articles of 2023:1.) Biden's ‘Back to Work' Orders Are Too Little, Too Late2.) Legal Standing: Meaningful Legal Principle or Convenient Tool for Activist Judges3.) The Rebranding of ESG4.) Americans Who Need Medication Can't Afford Biden's PrescriptionHero SoapPatriot DepotBlue CoolersFire & FlavorKoa CoffeeBrainMDDiamond CBD2nd SkullEinstokBeanstoxBelle IsleMomento AIHoneyFund"Homegrown" Boone's BourbonIsland BrandsBlackout Coffee Co.Full Circle Brewing Co.Pasmosa Sangria

Another year, another host of cultural moments and phenomena. Some represented not much more than a passing fad, while others could herald a paradigm shift in American society and politics. Judge Stephen Locher, a federal judge in Iowa, blocked a law intended to keep sexually explicit books out of schools and prevent elementary school students from being taught gender ideology in the classroom. A report published by The Daily Caller News Foundation might explain why Governor Mike DeWine vetoed a bill that would have prevented biological males from participating in women's athletics and barred doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children. Maine State Rep. John Andrews has moved to impeach Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows after she announced that former President Donald Trump would be disqualified from her state's presidential primary ballot. Please vote for the "Best of" categories of Tapp into the Truth for 2023. Visit 4Patriots and prepare for whatever life sends your way. The 'Digital Dollar' = Full Government Control. Get your gold from my gold dealer, America's Premiere Conservative Gold Company, Harvard Gold Group. VNSH holster fits 99% of all semi-auto handguns, works without a tactical belt, and carries two fully loaded magazines. Go to http://vnsh.com/tapp to activate a $40 discount today. MyPillow's 20-year Anniversary! Go to My Pillow and use promo code: TAPP

“Nipping at his heels”Symone Sanders-Townsend – in for Nicolle Wallace – is joined by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, Tara Palmeri, Cornell Belcher, Donna Edwards, Harry Litman, General Barry McCaffrey, David Jolly, Paul Butler, Pete Strzok, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Rep. Colin Allred.

Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows refused to recuse herself before issuing an "opinion" despite having a long history open Democrat partisanship and a record of pre-judging Trump as an insurrectionist. Massie has a warning for States engaging in this removal  madness and the Trump campaign responds.Maine State Rep. John Andrews calls for the impeachment of the Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for disenfranchising over 300,000 Maine voters via her "opinion." House Chair Stefanik and Vivek respond.Michael Cohen admits he was responsible for creating the fake case citations that ended up in Court filings. In a new affidavit submitted by his lawyer, Cohen says he didn't know the cases we fake.

Tune in here for the final edition of the Brett Winterble Show in 2023! As we get set to send you off into 2024 Brett talks about Maine removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot for President in 2024 + why he thinks the decision made by Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is ironic.  We also ask for your predictions of what's going to happen in what is an important 2024 + take your calls with thoughts on the Maine decision.  Later in the program Brett talks about GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley's bad answer to a question about the reason for the Civil War + why he thinks she should have been able to handle that situation better. We also take time to remember some of the biggest stories from 2023, from the fall of Crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried to Hunter Biden ignoring a subpoena + talk about what things you're supposed to bring to a New Year's Eve party and about a study showing a growing number of those in Gen Z wanting to move abroad.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KTAR Legal Analyst Barry Markson joins Bruce St. James and Kristin Bentz (filling in for Gaydos & Chad) to discuss how the Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows justified her decision to drop Trump from the ballot in the Maine primary election.

The Czar of Talk, Michael Berry, guest hosts our final show of 2023. What Michael truly believes. Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows in Maine removes Trump from ballot, SCOTUS will overturn it. Bellows sounds like Alicia Silverstone in Clueless. Clay and Buck callers tell us what they truly believe.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Last Word: Maine becomes the second state to bar Donald Trump from the ballot. Plus, Rep. Lauren Boebert switches her House district for the 2024 election. And Audrino Kayipa shares how she's been able to achieve her dreams thanks to the K.I.N.D. Fund. David Blight, Eugene Robinson, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, Barbara McQuade, Glenn Kirschner and Adam Frisch join Lawrence O'Donnell.

Guests: Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, Rep. James Clyburn, Elie Mystal, Joyce Vance, Rep. Maxine Waters, Phillip Atiba Goff, Fernand AmandiTonight: Maine becomes the second state to disqualify Trump from the ballot. Plus, Nikki Haley botches a simple question about the civil war at a crucial point in the campaign swing. Then, what Lauren Boebert fleeing to a redder congressional district says about the 2024 landscape, next. And as the Republican frontrunner complains rising crime rates, the true story about law and order in America. 

Maine's top election official has removed former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 primary ballot, in a surprising decision based on the 14th Amendment's “insurrectionist ban.” Secretary of State Shenna Bellows talks about this decision and how she came to it. And Michael Eric Dyson, distinguished professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University and co-author of “Unequal: A Story of America" talks about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's comments on slavery and the Civil War.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The main secretary of state decided to remove Donald Trump from the ballot. This is treasonous behavior. She is a traitor. She has betrayed the phenomenal people of Maine. She needs to be removed from office immediately!

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows bars former President Trump from the Maine's primary ballot.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has removed President Trump from the state's 2024 Republican primary ballot. What does "Auld Lang Syne" mean? More on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Conservatives we lost in 2023. Josh Hammer's Newsweek piece "A 2024 Wish List: Sanity at Home and Stability Abroad." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the final hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show: Secretary of State Shenna Bellows of Maine has decided to kick Trump off the ballot in that state on her own Jared Halpern of FOX News Radio joins the Marc Cox Morning Show to talk about the impeachment probe into President Biden as GOP lawmakers suggest President Biden may have obstructed justice when his son Hunter defied a Congressional subpoena EJ Antoni, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, talks with Marc & Kim about Bidenomics and what every voter should know. See ya next year!!!

In the 2nd hour of the Marc Cox Morning Show: Secretary of State Shenna Bellows of Maine has decided to kick Trump off the ballot in that state Ashley Hayak, political Strategist, joins the Marc Cox Morning Show to discuss the Colorado GOP asking the US Supreme Court to overturn the ruling disqualifying former President Trump from the 2025 Ballot as well as this happening in Maine now too Nichole Murray gives a market update In Other News with Ethan.  Cher tries for a conservatorship of her son, Dolly Parton calls super fan, Ethan mispronounces Hyundai, and  Ford takes 1st in Truck sales   Coming Up: Jim Carafano and Eben Brown

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has decided to keep former President Donald Trump off the state's Republican primary ballot. Here's why.

Maine joins Colorado in disqualifying Trump from the 2024 GOP primary for his role on January 6. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins to talk about why she made the decision. Plus, CNN exclusively obtains recordings and emails showing how Trump operatives flew fake elector ballots to DC in a final push to overturn the 2020 election. And, damage control on the campaign trail. Nikki Haley now says “of course” the Civil War was about slavery. Also this morning: Russia launches its largest aerial assault on Ukraine since the war began, 30-foot waves pound California, and mushroom hunting brings a spike in poison control calls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Stephen Schmidt from the Gazette Digital News Desk, and I'm here with your update for December 29, 2023.There will be No exciting weather happenings on your last day of the week. According to the National Weather Service it will be partly cloudy in the Cedar Rapids area with a high of around 39 degrees.An investigation has cleared a Delaware County sheriff's deputy who shot and injured an Illinois man who police believe had killed a Fareway employee in Monticello.Delaware County Attorney John Bernau, in a news release, said Deputy Matt Menard's actions “were reasonable and legally justified under Iowa law, and he will face no criminal liability.”Nathan Russell, 39, of East Dubuque, Ill., was charged with first-degree murder, going armed with intent and being a felon in possession of a firearm in relation to the Nov. 7 shooting death of Aaron McAtee, 48, of Monticello. Russell has pleaded not guilty.McAtee worked at Fareway and was outside near the loading dock early that morning when Russell is accused of driving by and opening fire. According to a criminal complaint, witnesses told police that McAtee was shot from a rifle pointed out the driver's window of a black sedan with Illinois license plates.Officers believed Russell was connected with the car because of interactions they'd had with him the night before.After a search was launched, police say Russell fled into nearby Hopkinton, where he was found by Menard. The complaint states the deputy attempted to arrest Russell, but Russell was uncooperative and the deputy shot and wounded him.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis enlisted the help of conservative South Carolina state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, R-Spartanburg, in Iowa as he scrambles to head off Republican presidential rival Nikki Haley.Haley, a former South Carolina governor and former United Nations ambassador, has gained ground in Iowa, the leadoff nominating state, pulling even with DeSantis for second place in recent polling of likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers.DeSantis and Kimbrell stopped Thursday evening at Mr. Beans coffee shop in Marion, where they addressed and took questions from a crowd of less than 100 supporters and media.“The reason I'm here today is because our state is a red state and it's redder because of Gov. DeSantis being governor of Florida than Nikki Haley being the governor of South Carolina,” Kimbrell, who represents South Carolina's deeply conservative Upstate region, told the crowd.The Haley campaign responded with a verbal eyeroll as the candidates continue to bicker as they jockey for a likely second place..“It's sad to see Ron DeSantis stooping to such desperate, lame attacks, but nothing will save his dying campaign,” Haley campaign spokeswoman Nachama Soloveichik told CNN.According to reporting from the Associated Press, Maine's Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot under the Constitution's insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to invoke the 14th amendment to remove Trump from a ballot. The decision by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows follows a ruling earlier this month by the Colorado Supreme Court that removed Trump from the ballot there under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That decision has been stayed until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether Trump is barred by the Civil War-era provision, which prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office.Bellows made the ruling after some state residents, including a bipartisan group of former lawmakers, challenged Trump's position on the ballot.“I

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows bars former President Trump from the Maine's primary ballot.

ABC News National Correspondent Steven Portnoy talks about Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was slated to issue a ruling on Trump 14th Amendment challenges filed through her office last Friday, but the decision was delayed until this week due to technical difficulties and in light of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling on the matter.

ABC News National Correspondent Steven Portnoy talks about Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was slated to issue a ruling on Trump 14th Amendment challenges filed through her office last Friday, but the decision was delayed until this week due to technical difficulties and in light of the Colorado Supreme Court ruling on the matter.

This week we are highlighting one of the conversations from MMA's 87th Annual Convention held at the Augusta Civic Center, October 4 & 5, 2023. This year's convention theme was "Lead, Motivate, Communicate" and featured dynamic speakers like Leila Brammer, Director of Outreach and Instructional Development of the Parrhesia Program for Public Discourse, University of Chicago on "Civic Leadership and the Imperative of Effective Communication" and Yellow Light Breen, President & CEO, Maine Development Foundation on "Leading for Economic Innovation and Prosperity", and an uplifting reminder of why we serve local government and how to not despair in these unprecedented times with a presentation from Ron Holifield, Chief Executive Officer, Strategic Government Resources and former City Manager, "It's Not About Me, It's Not About Now". An elections update session was one of many offered and provided by Julie Flynn, Deputy Secretary of State, Maine Secretary of State.  In this episode we chat with Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows about security issues facing Maine's town and city clerks this election season on the convention floor. The audio quality is not the best, and for this we apologize but the message is still important and one we think is worth a listen. 

In today's episode, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows discusses protecting the win in Maine (ME), handling continuing education of elections and ranked choice voting (RCV), fighting against efforts to repeal RCV in ME, and looking ahead to RCV in 2024. Tune in to learn more! Resources mentioned in this episode: - Resources for RCV page - Maine SOS: https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/rcv.html - A Timeline of RCV in Maine (PDF) - Maine SOS: https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/pdf/RCVpowerpointtimeline.UpdateJAN2021.pdf - Director, Division of Election Audits & Training - Public Service Manager II (job posting) - Maine SOS: https://mainebhr.hire.trakstar.com/jobs/fk0xoib/ - Final Round: Ben & Jerry's RCV Practice Election - Better Ballot VT (VPIRG project): https://www.betterballotvermont.org/ben-jerrys-practice-election

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows answers questions about voting & elections, motor vehicles and more

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows discusses election security, motor vehicles, RealID and other priorities.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows discusses election security, motor vehicles, RealID and other priorities.

In a survey conducted by the Brennan Center last month, three-quarters of local election officials said they think threats against them have increased. One in six say they have personally been threatened because of their work. In Maine, a new law now makes those threats against election workers a misdemeanor. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins William Brangham to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In a survey conducted by the Brennan Center last month, three-quarters of local election officials said they think threats against them have increased. One in six say they have personally been threatened because of their work. In Maine, a new law now makes those threats against election workers a misdemeanor. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins William Brangham to discuss. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

A Maine law banning profanities from personalized license plates went into effect Oct. 18, but removing the obscenities from plates on Maine's roads and highways isn't going to happen overnight in a state where such regulation has been unusually lax. Currently, there are Maine plates with salty language including f-bombs, references to anatomy and sex acts, and general insults. One license plate says simply, “F-Y0U” — except that on the plate, it's plainly spelled out. Now, rule-making is getting underway to ensure the law protects First Amendment rights while getting rid of obscene language. The process could take between two and four months, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said. Requests for so-called vanity license plates that are deemed to be potentially offensive will be on hold in the meantime. Eventually, the state will begin recalling previously issued plates, likely this winter. A majority of states have restrictions on license plate messages that are considered profane, sexually suggestive, racist, drug-related, politically objectionable or religiously offensive. (AP) This article was provided by The Japan Times Alpha.

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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows answers questions about voting changes and motor vehicles

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows answers questions about voting changes and motor vehicles

This week, Alex is joined by Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. Secretary Bellows discusses her past work in Maine politics and nonprofits and her new role as a nonpartisan constitutional officer. Learn more about the Secretary Bellows and her work at SOS: maine.gov/sos Serra Speaks is a production of Serra Public Affairs. If you haven't already, please review us on Apple Podcasts! It's an important way to help new listeners discover the show. Episode transcripts are available on our website. Say hello on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.