02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

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Excerpt from legalinsurrection.com

The left never admits it, but this is kind of the whole point of DEI policies.

The New York Post reports:

Cornell University using DEI policy to reject faculty candidates for not ‘conforming,’ group claims

Cornell University is “corrupting” its science, math and engineering programs by using its “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” policy to reject a huge portion of candidates for faculty jobs because their views are deemed counter to the school’s left-leaning “ideological orthodoxy,” a merit-based campus advocacy group alleged after reviewing bombshell leaked documents.

A report by the Cornell Free Speech Alliance cities “smoking gun” evidence that the “DEI Statements” of prospective professors were used to reject 21% of applicants in a recent faculty search in a hard science field.

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The Dutch government has relaxed its “assisted suicide” laws to begin euthanizing young and physically healthy citizens.

The move came after officials in the Netherlands received an application from doctors to euthanize a 29-year-old Dutch woman who was suffering from depression but otherwise healthy.

Rather than attempt to treat her condition, doctors have been pushing to put Zoraya ter Beek through the nation’s euthanasia program.

Ter Beek’s doctors first applied for “assisted suicide” in 2020, as Slay News previously reported.

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The Colorado and South Dakota secretaries of state recently announced they had approved pro-abortion Constitutional amendments for inclusion on their respective states’ November 5 ballots.

The two states currently have diametrically opposed laws regarding abortion.

Colorado is one of only a handful of states that allow abortion up until birth – including late-term abortions. South Dakota on the other hand has enacted a pro-life law that protects almost all unborn children in the state.

Although Colorado has already completely legalized abortion, its pending initiative would formally “enshrine the right to unlimited abortion in the state constitution and would also override a 1984 measure that prohibits health insurance from covering abortions for public employees and those on public insurance,” Breitbart reported.

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(Live Action) — Legislation seeking to allow assisted suicide in New Hampshire reached an end last week after lawmakers in the Senate voted 17-7 to send the bill for further study, which reports say “essentially kills” the legislation.

House Bill 1283 would have permitted physician-assisted death to a terminally ill person who is mentally competent and projected to die within six months. There was no residency requirement for the bill, leading some lawmakers to express fear that the state would become a “death magnet.” Similar legislation has been considered multiple times in the state since 2010 and has failed each time, though this was the first year such legislation passed the House and moved on to the Senate.

Many gathered at the state Capitol building to lobby against the bill, including a physician who said the state needs better palliative care resources, not an easier way for people to end their lives. “We need to move the needle back towards more palliative care,” said Jonathan Eddinger, a cardiologist at the Catholic Medical Center. “[Support] people while they’re living, not facilitate their death, we need to not abandon them at the end of life.”

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Excerpt from redstate.com

 

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has been at the forefront of the legal war against efforts to use the government to force progressive gender ideology on the public. Currently, the organization is fighting back against the Biden administration’s revamping of Title IX rules to redefine the definition of “sex.”

The organization recently filed a motion to stay and a preliminary injunction with a federal district court in the case of State of Tennessee v. Cardona. The legal action was filed on behalf of a high school athlete in West Virginia and Christian Educators Association International. The organization’s attorneys are demanding that the court halt the White House’s effort to reimagine Title IX to include “gender identity.”

This move comes after the organization found that a biological male athlete in West Virginia defeated female competitors over 700 times in track and field events. This story, along with many others, highlights the ongoing debate over gender identity and women’s sports.

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Harrison Butker, a devout Catholic and professional kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, has stirred up a major controversy with remarks made during a commencement address at Benedictine College, a small Catholic institution located in Atchison, Kansas.

In his speech, steeped in traditional Catholic beliefs, Butker took aim at a variety of untouchable tenets of liberal orthodoxy — including “Pride Month,” which he called a “deadly sin,” while warning about the threat from “dangerous gender ideologies.”

After praising his wife, Isabelle, stating that she “would be the first to say that her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,” he had the gall to suggest that the women in the graduating class could also aspire to assume “one of the most important titles of all, homemaker,” instead of climbing the corporate ladder.

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Excerpt from www.lifesitenews.com

Mon May 20, 2024 – 7:56 pm EDT

(LifeSiteNews) — A gender-confused woman who has undergone a “sex change” and who lives as a “diocesan hermit” with the approval of Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, came out yesterday as “transgender.”

“Brother” Christian Cole Matson, born Nicole Matson, told Religion News Service (RNS) on Friday, “This Sunday, Pentecost 2024, I’m planning to come out publicly as transgender,” adding that she has the permission of Bishop Stowe to publicly share this information.

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Excerpt from www.dailysignal.com

CVS Health Corp. settled with nurse practitioner Robyn Strader after she sued the company after it stopped providing religious accommodations regarding “pregnancy prevention services.”

Strader said she had been granted a religious exemption for six years permitting her to not prescribe contraceptives and filed the lawsuit in January 2023 after having been fired following the policy change in 2021, according to the press release. First Liberty Institute, which represented Strader, announced Monday that CVS had agreed to a settlement of which the terms “were not made public.”

“We are thrilled that Robyn was able to reach a resolution with CVS,” Stephanie Taub, senior counsel for First Liberty Institute, said in the press release. “We are hopeful that companies across the country will recognize the religious liberty of their employees and work to protect those rights.”

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An Oregon city doubled down on its DEI policy after city officials received complaints about people using public restrooms and locker rooms based on gender identity, not sex.

On Monday, Mayor Jan Kaplan and the rest of the Newport City Council addressed the issue during a public meeting. An agenda for the meeting claimed that parks and recreation officials had been “fielding questions” about transgender-related policies.

‘If I see you as a predator, … then I will interpret whatever you do as predatory.’

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Is it antisemitic to point out that the massive, left-wing funding apparatus set up by Hungarian American hedge-fund billionaire George Soros has bankrolled many of the organizations behind anti-Israel protests and riots on college campuses? The Southern Poverty Law Center says that it is, and it smeared Sen. Ted Cruz for citing a Politico report on Soros funding.

Cruz, a Texas Republican, isn’t letting it stand.

“Leftists cannot defend their ideas on the merits, so they instead resort to censorship and cancel culture,” Cruz told The Daily Signal in a written statement Tuesday.

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EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) released an open letter to university presidents on Tuesday expressing his “profound concern” with the wave of antisemitism at college campuses.

University administrators have come under growing GOP scrutiny for their handling of pro-Palestinian protests that have at times devolved into vandalism and acts of harassment against Jewish students. Police have been called in to disband or contain the protests, but the light touch used by some presidents has prompted calls for congressional action.

Scott, who has emphasized support for Israel during his first term in the Senate, said students had “surpassed” their free speech rights and that he would attempt to “rescind every last cent of taxpayer funding of any institution that condones” antisemitism.

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The Defense Department undercounted the number of abortions that it authorized between 2016 and 2020, new data shows.

Following a lawsuit from the Oversight Project, a division of The Heritage Foundation, the Department of Defense said that it had identified a total of 77 abortions performed in military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) during the four-year period between 2016 and 2020. (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)

That number includes 17 abortions that had previously not been included in the DOD’s figures.

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Excerpt from thefederalist.com

Former President Trump and President Biden have set a late June date for their first debate of 2024. On the heels of the second anniversary of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision, which returned the right to protect unborn children to the people and their elected representatives, abortion is guaranteed to be front and center as an election issue.

Biden and the Democrats are spending millions of dollars on attack ads centered around abortion. Vice President Harris travels the country as Biden’s abortion czar and campaigned at an abortion center. Failing on everything else, they think this issue is their silver bullet. They even believe it gives them a shot at flipping Florida blue.

Yet the Democrats have a big vulnerability, one that plays right to Donald Trump’s strengths.

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Excerpt from lidblog.com

 

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is warning state-funded colleges that their funding will be stripped if they don’t protect Jewish students from the attacks and harassment of Nazi Hamas agitators.

Rokita warned state colleges and universities that they better start protecting the civil rights of the jewish students, too, or face the consequences.

Per Just The News:

Rokita sent a letter to university officials earlier this week saying antisemitic attacks that take place “without corrective measures” would allow Jewish students to file lawsuits, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That provision in the historic legislation bans discrimination on the basis of such factors as race, nationality or creed.

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Excerpt from redstate.com

Here’s the thing: The language reflected in the Operations Order and related documents was standard language — the sort of language you’d find in most orders of that nature. Don’t take my word for it — let’s see what those who’ve actually executed such warrants and/or been present at briefings involving them have to say:

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

New documents are set to be released in the Florida case concerning classified files from ex-President Donald Trump, following a deal struck between defense lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith’s team.

Mr. Smith filed a status report on the agreement on Monday.

“The parties hereby file this joint status report providing the parties’ positions … regarding the unsealing of filings,” the Smith team wrote.

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EXCLUSIVE — The National Republican Congressional Committee is brushing off demands from three freshman House Democrats to retract a “tongue-in-cheek” press release claiming the lawmakers supported Hamas.

On Friday, legal counsel from the Elias Law Group representing Reps. Andrea Salinas (D-OR) and Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) and from Olson Remcho LLP representing Rep. Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) sent immediate cease and desist letters to the NRCC, accusing the organization of false statements and defamation after they published several press releases with the headline “allegedly ‘quoting’” the representatives saying “I support Hamas.”

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Excerpt from slaynews.com

Judge Aileen Cannon has the Department of Justice (DOJ) for pushing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s corrupted classified documents case against President Donald Trump.

Smith and the Democrats promised America that they had all of the evidence they needed to convince a judge or jury that Trump is a criminal.

However, they have yet to provide a shred of evidence, despite continued efforts to push politically motivated charges against the 45th president.

Judge Cannon, who is overseeing the classified docs case in Florida, is getting really frustrated at the lack of substance Smith is showing.

Smith’s case is already very flimsy, to begin with, and Judge Cannon.

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Excerpt from trendingpoliticsnews.com

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has won the Democratic primary and will now be standing for re-election in November.

Willis defeated Atlanta attorney Christian Wise Smith in the Democratic primary. Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing Willis’ dubious RICO case against former president Trump, also won his primary over attorney Robert Patillo in a nonpartisan election.

If either Willis or McAfee had lost their respective races, the “election interference” case into former President Trump would have faced further delays.

The case is already nowhere near trial, as Willis has faced numerous efforts to remove her from the case due to noted political bias, as well as a series of allegations of misconduct. Willis has faced credible allegations that she misused county funds while serving as district attorney. She is currently the subject of numerous investigations, both state and federal.

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In another example of the left trying to destroy our system, a left-wing judge in Florida has ruled that illegal aliens and other noncitizens have voting “rights.”

The judge ruled against a state law that bars noncitizens from participating in voter registration drives.

Illegals and even legal noncitizens have NO right whatsoever to engage in our political system. It really is just that simple.

But leftists don’t care about laws and morality. They care only about increasing their power to coerce you to their will.

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will reportedly lose a high-powered trio of top policy staffers barely six months into his speakership.

The influential advisers — Brittan Specht, Jason Yaworske, and Preston Hill — are leaving Johnson’s office at the end of May, Punchbowl News reported. Each of the three previously worked for then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Johnson ascended to the top of House leadership without the existing policy, communication, and fundraising strategy as others who have spent years in leadership. The departure of such an experienced group is likely to sting, particularly as appropriations season kicks into high gear before the end-of-September deadline.

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Once again, the White House has quietly “corrected” a slew of false statements by Biden in an official transcript of a Biden speech… and also once again the media is ignoring these “corrections.”

What other president would the media stand silent as a White House continually makes alterations to hide a president’s false statements on official transcripts?

100 years from now, someone will read these transcripts and have no idea how often Biden has lied in official speeches because the transcripts have been sanitized for the Democrat’s protection.

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Excerpt from www.washingtonexaminer.com

Senate Democrats are looking to put their GOP colleagues in the hot seat with topics they hope will sizzle with voters in November: birth control and in vitro fertilization.

Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade with the 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Democrats have seized on reproductive rights as a topic that motivates voters, with an Alabama Supreme Court decision that declared embryos as children thrusting IVF into the spotlight earlier this year. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is looking to focus on these topics specifically, with votes on legislation that would force Senate Republicans to make a difficult decision regarding popular treatments, according to Axios.