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The DOJ says it will enforce the Supreme Court's ruling against racist gerrymanders- - which means they'll sue the states to comply.

Missouri GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt asked the Justice Department earlier Thursday to enforce the Supreme Court ruling nationwide, noting it had the power to do so.

"Senator -- we are ON IT!" Dhillon replied on X. "The [Justice Department] under [Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche] continues to prioritize equal protection of the laws for ALL Americans, be it in employment, housing, education -- and voting."

This may make it easier for weak-sister red states like Indiana to redistrict. Indiana's currently resisting doing so, but if the DOJ says it has to....

Surprise! Biden's IRS sued conservative-leaning churches for bringing up political topics during sermons, but let all of their liberal black pastors preach the Democrat Gospel as much as they liked.

A new report released Thursday by the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias reveals what investigators describe as a "stark contrast" and a systemic double standard in how the Biden Internal Revenue Service policed American churches.

"The Biden IRS ... [opened] multiple investigations into Christian churches focused on the content of their sermons. The IRS asked these churches for detailed information about their operations, not just about the alleged violations," the task force wrote.

"But during the same time, when other houses of worship gave sermons that reflected different scriptural interpretations on culture war issues, or prayed for Democrat candidates, the Biden IRS appeared to take no action," the group added.

The task force, which was established by President Donald Trump in an executive order last year, reviewed internal administration discussions, case files and prosecutorial decisions from the Biden administration across 17 federal agencies.

Beyond the IRS's apparent targeting of conservative Christian churches, the task force concluded that the Biden administration's prosecution strategy, internal policies and practices demonstrated an overall anti-Christian bias that permeated throughout the federal government during that period.

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The task force determined that the Biden administration used the Johnson Amendment -- a 1954 provision added to the tax code which prohibits 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates -- to probe churches that hold traditional Christian teachings, arguing those positions amounted to political support for Republican candidates.

Though the amendment, in theory, limits what pastors whose churches have 501(c)3 nonprofit status can say in evaluating candidates running for political office, it has only been "sporadically enforced," according to the Justice Department.

For example, under the Obama administration, when 30 pastors instructed their congregations in 2008 on how to vote according to their interpretation of scripture, the IRS appears to have only opened an investigation into one pastor. Even then, the IRS dropped the investigation and took no enforcement action.

But, the Biden administration was different. The Justice Department task force documented several investigations opened by the administration into Christian churches for possible violations of the Johnson Amendment.

Pressure grows to prosecute Fauci now that his co-conspirator in the Wuhan Cover-Up has been charged.

The indictment of Dr. Anthony Fauci's former adviser David Morens Tuesday revived calls for the Justice Department to prosecute Fauci himself for allegedly lying to Congress about funding risky research in China before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just two weeks remain before the five-year legal deadline on May 11 to indict Fauci for denying under oath that he funded "gain of function" experiments that modified bat coronaviruses in the same city where the pandemic started.

Morens, 78, was charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations and two counts of concealment, removal, or mutilation of records relating to the origins of COVID-19. He faces up to 51 years in prison.

Critics say Fauci, 85, bears the most responsibility and that he should be hauled into court.

Trump told The Post in a phone interview on March 31 that he intended to "look into" Fauci's status and Republicans say they believe acting attorney general Todd Blanche, who is seeking the role permanently, might be willing to test Trump's assertion that former President Joe Biden's preemptive autopen pardons, including for Fauci, are invalid.

"99% of this country has no idea who Morens is," said Oversight Project President Mike Howell.

"It's Fauci that they will blame for one of the worst government catastrophes in history in America. And so the test is Fauci. The Morens indictment is great, and we applaud it. But there are a lot of people out there that want to see Fauci held to account for the damage he wrought."

Howell, whose group sent the Justice Department a draft indictment for Morens last year, believes the adviser's actions were closely linked to his boss.

"[Fauci] lied about one of the most damaging events in American history routinely and was behind a massive coverup of the key factors," Howell said.

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"On Anthony Fauci's case, we think lying to Congress is one felony," Paul said in an interview on Tuesday.

"We also think that destroying federal records and advising others to destroy federal records is also a felony. So I think there's opportunity there... There was a vast both organized and unorganized conspiracy to cover up the fact that the US government was funding the research that led to the pandemic."

Trump said in December that Biden was so mentally diminished that he was either unable to authorize autopen pardons or that his staff did so without his knowledge -- setting the stage for potential legal test-cases. Biden claimed to the New York Times last year that he was aware of them.

To determine the validity of those pardons, "you would have to indict somebody who's been pardoned. And I think it's worth a challenge," Paul said.

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Paul said it's also possible that Fauci committed crimes after Biden's pardon and that "it might involve the question of conspiracy charges."

The Supreme Court is deciding a very difficult question: is the temporary protective status granted Haitians actually temporary or is it actually, secretly permanent? Is it all just a con on the rubes so they'll be tricked into accepting mass permanent immigration by fiat?

The high court held oral arguments on Wednesday in a pair of consolidated cases known as Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, which center around Trump's revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 6,000 Syrian and 350,000 Haitian nationals, respectively. Both groups of migrants are currently living in America under the TPS program, which may be used by the executive branch to offer temporary residency to foreign nationals from countries experiencing natural disasters, violent conflicts, and other "extraordinary and temporary conditions."

The Trump administration's efforts to end TPS for the aforementioned groups were halted by lower courts. This was done despite SCOTUS previously pausing similar injunctions in a separate TPS case involving Venezuelan nationals.

Arguing on behalf of the Trump administration, U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer contended that a provision within the Immigration and Nationality Act that governs TPS prohibits any form of judicial review "of any determination by the [DHS] secretary with respect to the designation or termination or extension of a designation of a foreign state for Temporary Protected Status."

"That provision means what it says ... [and] bars judicial review of both the secretary's ultimate decision whether to designate, extend, or terminate, and of each antecedent step along the way to that determination," said Sauer, who added that "even if [challengers'] claims are not barred [by judicial review], they are meritless."

The solicitor general's biggest pushback came from the court's more outspoken Democrat appointees.

Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson kicked off the inquisition by pressing Sauer on what, if any, executive actions regarding TPS are reviewable by federal courts. The Biden appointee's back-and-forth with the solicitor general ultimately prompted Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor to join the fray and pile on with questions about the scope of judicial review as it relates to the TPS program.

Sotomayor's refusal to allow Sauer to respond one of her queries on the issue prompted Chief Justice John Roberts to interject and permit Sauer to answer. It was sometime after this exchange in which Sotomayor and Jackson referenced President Trump's past "sh-thole countries" remarks to push the narrative that, as the former put it, "a discriminatory purpose may have played a part" in the administration's decision to end TPS for the various groups in question.

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The conservative justices' more pressing concerns, however, seemingly came during their questioning of the attorneys representing the respondents, Ahilan Arulanantham (Syrian case) and Geoffrey Pipoly (Haitian case).

Both lawyers argued that the legal provisions governing TPS do not bar courts from reviewing an administration's actions on the program and that the government is required to undertake certain steps (ex. consultation and assessment of a country's conditions) before implementing such policies. They further claimed that the Trump administration did not adhere to this purported process, with Pipoly separately arguing that the president's decision to end TPS for Haitians was racially motivated.

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Los Angeles Controller Kenneth Mejia says they've found fraud and abuse

- A single homeless service provider gave fake documents and invoices, stealing $23 million for taxpayers

- Another nonprofit named the Skid Row Housing Trust that managed 29 buildings was letting the properties rot. This ended up costing the city of Los Angeles $30-$40 million dollars in repairs

He says the have a batch of 800 more cases and they're "going to be expensive"

The fraud and money laundering is insane

Did the SPLC stage a hate crime in Wisconsin?

The circumstantial evidence is suggestive. Two groups, Moms for Liberty and Gays Against Groomers, protested "Blessings of Liberty," aka drag queen story hours. The SPLC rushed to smear them, adding them to its "hate map."

And then, suddenly, out of the blue -- almost as if they are Rent-A-Racists paid to do so -- "neo Nazis" started showing up at Moms for Liberty and Gays Against Groomers events to discredit them.

Viral video shows the true face of "progressivism:"

At one point, the drugged-out humans begin to sway and move a bit, as Smith tells one of them to pull their pants up.

Drug use can be seen throughout the clip, with one person holding a glass pipe, stating that they were using fentanyl and crystal to get high.

Smith also spoke to one of the people who said they were from Sacramento and came to SF because "the dope is cheaper" and better there.

People on social media reacted to the clip and said it looked like "the start of the apocalypse."

The videographer says the video is from "November or December." SF Police are lying, as usual, claiming it's from years ago, because the government won't admit what they've done.

Speaking of the apocalypse:

A Green Party socialist said airily that Jews were attacked in the UK because "racial hatred" is on the rise. A man in the audience repeatedly asked where -- from which groups -- this racial hatred is coming from, and she repeatedly pretended to not understand the question.

Ultimately, she claimed that racial hatred against Jews is caused by... high food prices.

I wonder if she means Jewish market-owners have brought this on themselves?

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:15 PM

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