Month: April 2024

Democrats are ‘freaked out’ over the possibility that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will take votes away from Joe Biden and ultimately help Trump win the 2024 election, according to a new report from NBC News.

Dems are terrified of a repeat of the 2016 election, where Green party candidate Jill Stein took votes away from Hillary Clinton in states like Wisconsin.

Isn’t that just democracy? Don’t Democrats care about democracy? That’s what they’ve been telling the country for five or more years now.

From NBC News:

‘Freaked out’ Democrats mobilize to stop RFK Jr. from cutting into Biden

In fall 2016, a Hillary Clinton staffer stationed in the Upper Midwest got a call from the campaign’s headquarters in Brooklyn telling him to delete a joke he had tweeted about then-Green Party nominee Jill Stein…

This year, though, Democrats have adopted a radically different strategy on independent and third-party candidates. They’re waging an open war on the likes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom they view as mortal threats to President Joe Biden’s re-election.

There are brand new super PACs — plural — devoted to crushing third-party candidates. Democratic National Committee mobile billboards troll Kennedy at events. And party donors are funding legal efforts to try to keep him off the ballot…

“Everyone thinks this is going to be decided on the head of a pin, so people are freaked out like never before,” said one senior Democrat, granted anonymity to speak candidly.

Democrats have grown increasingly alarmed by Kennedy’s strength in polls, especially since he named Silicon Valley philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Not only could she fund the cash-strapped campaign, but her selection and the way the campaign introduced her signaled that Kennedy is positioning himself more on the left in the 2024 campaign.

RFK recently appeared on the Jesse Watters’ show and commented on what the Democrats are doing.

RFK Jr. on Democrats’ plan to “strip” his name off the ballot : “The Democratic Party is doing everything it can to disenfranchise people and make sure that people can’t vote for who they want to”

MORE: https://t.co/1CGlAfDzW7 pic.twitter.com/zxnyf9KNru

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 29, 2024

It’s almost like the Democrats don’t actually care about democracy. Almost.

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Donald Trump is closing in on Joe Biden in blue New Jersey, according to new polling from Emerson College and The Hill. The race is within single digits.

Democrats will lose their minds if Trump takes Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania, but that will be nothing compared to the absolute meltdown we will see if Trump takes New Jersey.

Months ago, the Trump campaign said that they were going to make a serious play for New York and New Jersey. It looks like it will be worth their time to do some campaigning there.

Breitbart News reports:

Poll: Donald Trump Within Single-Digits of Joe Biden in Blue New Jersey

Former President Donald Trump is within single digits of President Joe Biden in blue New Jersey, the latest survey from Emerson College Polling/PIX11/the Hill found.

The survey asked respondents, “In a hypothetical 2024 Presidential match-up between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who would you vote for at this time?”

Less than a majority, 46 percent, said they would vote for Biden, followed by 39 percent who said they would support Trump. This puts Biden’s lead in the single digits in New Jersey — a difference of seven percentage points between the two. Another 15 percent remained undecided.

Biden’s lead shrinks even further when third-party candidates are thrown into the mix. In that scenario, 41 percent support Biden, followed by 36 percent who support Trump — a difference of five percentage points.

See the breakdown below:

New Jersey GE: Emerson/The Hill

Biden 46% (+7)
Trump 39%
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Biden 41% (+5)
Trump 36%
RFK Jr 8%
West 1%
Stein 1%
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Job approval
Booker: 41-34 (+7)
Biden: 40-47 (-7)
Menendez: 14-62 (-48)
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538: #9 (2.9/3.0) | D38/R24/I38https://t.co/oOTPR1QOZl pic.twitter.com/UVfexPxtmV

— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) April 2, 2024

Some people seem very convinced about Trump’s chances in New Jersey.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

President Trump WILL win New Jersey.

Our grassroots group, the America First Republicans of NJ, have held 15 Rallies across the state for The President so far, and have drawn big crowds every time.

We will continue…and W IN! pic.twitter.com/xp0EizjR3d

— Mike Crispi (@MikeCrispiNJ) April 3, 2024

I had the honor of personally filing President Trump’s nominating petitions in Trenton this week – with the America First NJ team

Trump filed with over 8,100 signatures

Biden filed with barely 3,000

A tremendous showing for President Trump in New Jersey

Trump will WIN NJ! pic.twitter.com/HdW31BCZqO

— Michael Casey (@MichaelCasey_) March 28, 2024

Can you even imagine the reaction from Democrats and the media if Trump pulls this off?

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The Biden administration has been floating a ban on menthol cigarettes for months. Now they are apparently thinking of putting off the ban until after the election because they are worried about losing the support of black voters, although that is already happening.

It’s just one more reminder that this administration, and Democrats on the whole, care only about politics and retaining power. Everything they say and do is motivated by poll numbers and who they can manipulate into voting for them.

Not only that, but isn’t it a little bit racist to assume that only black people smoke menthol cigarettes?

The Washington Examiner reports:

Biden delays menthol ban amid 2024 concerns over black support

A two-year-old proposal to ban menthol cigarettes may be delayed until after the 2024 election as President Joe Biden weighs a move that could risk eroding his support within the black community.

The Food and Drug Administration first proposed banning menthols and flavored cigars in April 2022 but has since missed two deadlines for finalizing the rule, the second of which expired at the end of March.

“The FDA remains committed to issuing the tobacco product standards for menthol in cigarettes and characterizing flavors in cigars as expeditiously as possible,” the agency said in a statement, noting that the process is in its final stage. “As we’ve made clear, these product standards remain at the top of our priorities.”

But some observers say other priorities are behind the delay, namely the lack of support for the idea as the election sharpens into view.

It’s such a cynical and purely political move.

ELECTION: Biden has lost 20% of Black voters. To stem the tide he’s delayed his ban on menthol cigarettes until after the election. h/t @michaeljknowles pic.twitter.com/itGlcfJgqb

— @amuse (@amuse) April 5, 2024

ILLEGALS Bringing in Fentanyl is FINE But YOU Better NOT Smoke a Menthol Cigarette… https://t.co/qVCOCWhyrL

— (@Emilio2763) April 4, 2024

The nanny state will let children change genders but won’t let adults smoke what they want.

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A federal appeals court blocked one of Joe Biden’s student loan bailout programs.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday blocked Biden’s plan to cancel loans for borrowers who claim they were victims of ‘misleading information’ by colleges.

A three-judge panel – one Reagan appointee and two Trump appointees – said Biden’s program was ‘almost certainly unlawful.’

ABC News reported:

A Biden administration plan to provide student debt relief for people who say they were victims of misleading information by trade schools or colleges is “almost certainly unlawful” a federal appeals court said in a ruling blocking enforcement of the policy against a group of privately owned Texas institutions.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal ruling, dated Thursday, came in a court challenge filed by Career Colleges and Schools of Texas. The panel sent the case back to a lower court, saying the judge should issue an injunction against enforcement while the appeal continues.

At issue are rules that broadened existing policy, affecting students who borrowed money to attend colleges and universities that are determined to have misled them on matters such as whether their courses would actually prepare them for employment in their field or the likely salary they would earn upon obtaining a degree. According to the opinion, if a federal student loan is discharged under the policy, the government can seek reimbursement from the school accused of the misleading practices.

Biden has used a series of workarounds to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his student loan bailout program.

Last year the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against Joe Biden’s student loan relief program so the Department of Education rolled out a workaround forbearance program to cancel $39 billion in student loans by counting non-payments as payments for a period of time.

Only it isn’t your typical forbearance program. Borrowers won’t have to pay back ‘missed’ payments or make up the difference of ‘reduced’ payments. No interest will accrue on any of the missed payments.

In January Biden unilaterally canceled another $5 billion in student loan debt for 74,000 borrowers in his latest vote-buying gimmick.

“The latest round of student debt cancelation brings the total amount canceled under Biden to $136.6 billion for more than 3.7 million Americans, according to the Department of Education. It comes after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Biden’s initial student loan handout last year, which would have cost more than $400 billion.” Fox Business reported.

Joe Biden also announced he would cancel student loans for borrowers who took out less than $12,000 and have been in repayment for 10 years.

Biden recently bragged about forcing hardworking middle-class Americans to pay for other people’s student loans.

Biden falsely claimed his debt cancellation is free during a campaign in Vegas earlier this year.

Anybody with a basic understanding of economics knows this is a lie.

“It’s not costing people,” Biden said.

This is a lie. The debt is transferred to hardworking Americans who didn’t take out student loans.

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The United Nations has selected a new ‘youth adviser’ named Ayisha Siddaqa. She is openly socialist and Marxist and blames climate change on capitalism and white men.

In other words, she is a perfect fit for the UN.

Siddaqa is from Pakistan. Has she ever examined the pollution created by her neighboring nation of India?

The New York Post reports:

UN adviser says the ‘white man has brought life as we know it to the verge of extinction’: ‘Racial harmony is fallacy’

A United Nations youth climate adviser has a history of social media posts that call for the destruction of capitalism, claim “terrorism” is used as a Western smear to justify its imperialism and attack White people for purportedly fueling humanity’s extinction vis-à-vis the climate crisis.

The United Nations’ Secretary-General António Guterres personally selected Pakistani-American Ayisha Siddiqa as one of his advisers to help “accelerat[e] the implementation of his climate action agenda,” a 2023 UN announcement stated. Siddiqa was a Time Woman of the Year in 2023 who has co-founded two youth climate activist organizations…

Siddiqa attributes a simple cause to climate change – White people.

In March 2021, she posted, “[T]he white man has brought life as we know it, to the verge of extinction.”

“The white man sits at the highest level of power in the world, the same way he has killed, looted and abused black and brown people for profit so has he the earth,” she posted in May 2022…

“We’re allowing White people to have too much space,” she said. “[W]hite people have absolutely no prerogative or authority to lead the movement.”

So she is openly racist?

Meet Ayisha Siddiqa (@Ayishas12), a climate adviser for the UN. She claims the “white man” and “capitalism” are responsible for bringing life to “the verge of extinction” and calls white men k*llers, looters, and abusers.

Her account is filled with hateful anti-white posts.… pic.twitter.com/jSbkVnW7KN

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 2, 2024

It appears Ayisha Siddiqa (@Ayishas12) is a blatant racist as well as a climate adviser for the UN. https://t.co/R4KFRMnaoC

— Caleb Parke (@calebparke) April 2, 2024

Why are we even funding the UN?

(Image:Source)

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This article originally appeared on WND.com

Guest by post by Bob Unruh 

Investigation sought for event that gave extremist UCLA stage

First-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles have been ordered into a mandatory “structural racism” indoctrination with a guest speaker who has praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorism in Israel and demanded they bow down to “mama earth.”

It is the Washington Free Beacon that obtain a recording of parts of the speech by Lisa Gray Garcia:

She claimed Hamas’ terrorism against Israel actually was “justice,” and led the class in what she called a “non-secular prayer” to “the ancestors,” the report said.

Attendees were ordered to “get on their knees and touch the floor – ‘mama earth,’” the report said.

The activist had been invited to speaking about housing and the “justice” issues involved, and she thanked “tribes” for “what the settlers call L.A.,” the report explained.

She also addressed the needs of “black,” “brown” and even “houseless” people.

“Mama earth,” Gray Garcia told the kneeling students, “was never meant to be bought, sold, pimped, or played.”

The stunt has generated calls for an investigation of why this speaker was given the stage at the “elite medical school,” the report said.

The report said the self-described “poverty scholar” also led students in a “Free, Free Palestine” chant.

The result of the event was that the students were “intimidated” into taking part in a “religious service in derogation of their own personal beliefs,” according to a statement from the Jewish Faculty Resilience group.

The group asked Chancellor Gene Block for a review.

Copyright 2024 WND News Center

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A Washington, D.C., jury convicted Rebecca Lavrenz of Falcon, Colorado, known on social media as the “J6 Praying Grandma,” of four federal misdemeanor charges Thursday related to her participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, incursion of the U.S. Capitol.

The 71-year-old faces up to a year in prison and more than $200,000 in fines, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.

According to federal court documents, Lavrenz’s crimes were entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a restricted area, disorderly conduct in the Capitol Building, and parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol.

Federal prosecutors said in a court filing that cellphone data and video footage showed Lavrenz entered the Capitol at approximately 2:43 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, about 90 minutes after the conclusion of then-President Donald Trump’s speech on the Ellipse.

She then walked to the Capitol Rotunda and exited the building at approximately 2:53 p.m.

So Lavrenz had been in the Capitol for about 10 minutes. The DOJ did not accuse her of engaging in violence or destroying any property.

The Biden DOJ wants to throw 70-year-old grandmother Rebecca Lavrenz in jail for a year and hit her with $210,000 in fines.

Her crime?

Praying in the Capitol for 10 minutes on January 6th.

Meanwhile illegal aliens not only go unpunished for their crimes, but are rewarded… pic.twitter.com/7d6uhaZCYg

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 4, 2024

Lavrenz told the Gazette she was surprised by Thursday’s verdict, but she believes “God wanted it to turn out this way so my voice could be amplified. We have to wake up our country.”

Unlike many Jan. 6 cases with short jury deliberations, the 12-member jury at the federal court in the District of Columbia deliberated her case for 26 hours.

“The deliberation was good because obviously at least one person on the jury was fighting for me, and many people have been convicted in the first hour,” Lavrenz said.

She recounted to the Gazette that she felt led by God to drive across the country to attend the “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, to protest the irregularities of the 2020 presidential election.

“The whole reason I went to the Capitol was to pray,” Lavrenz said. “I didn’t get into this for myself. I was there to stand up for my country. God led me to go there and into the building to stand up for my First Amendment rights to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

While in the Capitol, she “felt God’s presence on me,” she said.

In an emotional video posted to social media last month ahead of her trial, Lavrenz said, “My own country is treating me like a criminal just because I believe that they stole my rightful president.”

“And just standing up for my country makes me a criminal, and it’s not right. It feels so weird to be here,” she added in the video, which she made in D.C.

In tears as I drive by the Capitol for the first time since January 2021.

My own country is treating me like a criminal. I’m here because I love my country. America is worth saving and I won’t give up.#j6trial #j6prayingrandma pic.twitter.com/hpW2MVOVJd

— Rebecca Lavrenz (@j6prayingrandma) March 20, 2024

The Gazette noted that if Lavrenz had been acquitted, she would have been the first Jan. 6 defendant to have been.

In January on the third anniversary of the Capitol incursion, U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves gave an update on the prosecutions.

“An important note when it comes to our prosecutions about those who remained outside the building: We have used our prosecutorial discretion to primarily focus on those who entered the building or those who engaged in corrupt conduct on Capitol grounds,” he said.

But he added any who entered the Capitol grounds might yet be prosecuted.

1) people walk all over the capitol grounds every single day. Treating it as illegal for a single day is anarcho-tyrannical. 2) I covered the event. I witnessed zero visual or audio indication that capitol grounds themselves were deemed off-limits. https://t.co/T0vL2Kp5wc

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 7, 2024

The Department of Justice said in a news release at the time more than 1,265 defendants had been charged in nearly all 50 states and D.C.

Of these, 1,186 had been charged with entering a restricted area.

“Approximately 749 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences for their criminal activity on Jan. 6. Approximately 467 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration,” the DOJ said.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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A federal judge on Friday ripped DOJ prosecutors for ignoring Hunter Biden-related subpoenas while pointing out that Trump’s top advisor is in prison for defying a subpoena issued by House members.

In September former Trump advisor Dr. Peter Navarro, 74, was convicted of criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena in Liz Cheney’s January 6 investigation.

Navarro did not comply with the subpoena because he said Trump told him to assert executive privilege.

Hunter Biden blatantly defied a congressional subpoena and nothing happened to him. He is a free man while Navarro sits in prison.

US District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, blasted Justice Department prosecutors for ignoring subpoenas issued to two DOJ lawyers in the tax division over their role in Hunter Biden’s federal investigation.

“There’s a person in jail right now because you all brought a criminal lawsuit against him because he did not appear for a House subpoena,” Judge Reyes said, referring to Peter Navarro. “And now you guys are flouting those subpoenas. … And you don’t have to show up?”

“I think it’s quite rich you guys pursue criminal investigations and put people in jail for not showing up,” but then direct current executive branch employees to take the same approach, judge Reyes said, according to Politico. “You all are making a bunch of arguments that you would never accept from any other litigant.”

Politico reported:

A federal judge tore into the Justice Department on Friday for blowing off Hunter Biden-related subpoenas issued in the impeachment probe of his father, President Joe Biden, pointing out that a former aide to Donald Trump is sitting in prison for similar defiance of Congress.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee on the federal District Court in Washington, spent nearly an hour accusing Justice Department attorneys of rank hypocrisy for instructing two other lawyers in the DOJ Tax Division not to comply with the House subpoenas.

Last month Dr. Peter Navarro reported to prison for his 4-month sentence. He is the first high-ranking Trump aide to be imprisoned by the Biden Regime.

A federal appeals court previously denied Navarro’s request to remain out of jail.

The three-judge panel – all Obama appointees – included Judges Patricia Millett, Cornelia Pillard and Robert Wilkins.

“[T]he argument presupposes that privilege has actually been invoked in this case in some manner by the President,” the judges wrote in a two-page order, according to Politico. “That did not happen here.”

US District Judge Amit Mehta, an Obama appointee, said Peter Navarro must report to prison pending his appeal unless the DC Circuit Court of Appeals blocks his order.

Judge Mehta barred Navarro from making the executive privilege argument after DOJ prosecutors accused the former Trump aide of ‘hiding behind executive privilege claims.’

Biden’s DOJ has abused Dr. Navarro throughout the entire process.

According to Navarro, the feds put him in leg irons and threw him in a cell last year.

Hunter Biden is a free man. He traveled with Joe Biden to Camp David for Easter and enjoyed the White House Easter Egg Roll while Peter Navarro rots in prison.

Here’s a clip of Hunter escorting Joe Biden around today’s White House Easter Egg Roll pic.twitter.com/BirJjOlG1Y

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 1, 2024

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Credit: Yahoo Finance

One of America’s most popular dollar stores is closing its doors thanks in large part to the garbage Biden economy.

As Fox News reported, 99 Cents Only, which has locations across California, Nevada, Texas, and Arizona, will begin shuttering its 371 locations today as the company moves toward total liquidation.

99 Cents Only is considered one of America’s leading dollar store chains, along with Dollar General, Dollar Tree (which owns Family Dollar), and Five Below.

The company released the following statement Thursday announcing the sad news:

99 Cents Only Stores, together with its financial and legal advisors, engaged in an extensive analysis of all available and credible alternatives to identify a solution that would allow the business to continue.

Following months of actively pursuing these alternatives, the company ultimately determined that an orderly wind-down was necessary and the best way to maximize the value of 99 Cents Only Stores’ assets.

Mike Simoncic, 99 Cents Only’s interim CEO, called the decision “extremely difficult.” He blamed various factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting customer tastes, inflation, and “other macroeconomic headwinds,” for the demise of the dollar store chain.

Of course, Joe Biden’s big government policies are directly responsible for persistent inflation and an unfriendly business environment.

“This was an extremely difficult decision and is not the outcome we expected or hoped to achieve,” said Simoncic.

“Unfortunately, the last several years have presented significant and lasting challenges in the retail environment, including the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting consumer demand, rising levels of shrink, persistent inflationary pressures, and other macroeconomic headwinds, all of which have greatly hindered the Company’s ability to operate,” he continued.

99 Cents Only was founded in 1982 by David Gold and is currently based in Commerce, California. The company employs approximately 14,000 workers who will now have to begin to search for new employment.

99 Cents Only is famous for humorously advertising that it is open “9 days a week” and often invokes funny commentary on holidays with products sold for 99 cents. It also celebrates the 99th birthday of public figures and names 99-year-old individuals as honorary spokespersons.

Newsnation reports that an official closing date has not been announced by the company yet.

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Here we go.

Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg says Jack Smith is close to using a ‘nuclear button’ to remove Judge Aileen Cannon from the Trump classified documents case over her jury instruction order.

“He is close to pushing the nuclear button,” said Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg, according to NBC News. “It is a high burden to reach, and it is rarely done, but her proposed jury instructions may have pushed him to the breaking point.”

Last month Judge Aileen Cannon issued a jury instruction order in Jack Smith’s classified documents case and the leftist legal analysts went apocalyptic.

Cannon gave two options for jury instructions.

The first option:

In a prosecution of a former president for allegedly retaining documents in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), a jury is permitted to examine a record retained by a former president in his/her personal possession at the end of his/her presidency and make a factual finding as to whether the government has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it is personal or presidential using the definitions set forth in the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

The second option is:

A president has sole authority under the PRA to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency. Neither a court nor a jury is permitted to make or review such a categorization decision. Although there is no formal means in the PRA by which a president is to make that categorization, an outgoing president’s decision to exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration constitutes a president’s categorization of those records as personal under the PRA.

Jack Smith earlier this week threatened to take the jury instruction fight to the appellate court.

On Thursday Judge Cannon declined Jack Smith’s demands of her jury instruction order as “unprecedented and unjust.”

“Separately, to the extent the Special Counsel demands an anticipatory finalization of jury instructions prior to trial, prior to a charge conference, and prior to the presentation of trial defenses and evidence, the Court declines that demand as unprecedented and unjust,” Cannon wrote.

She continued, “The Court’s Order soliciting preliminary draft instructions on certain counts should not be misconstrued as declaring a final definition on any essential element or asserted defense in this case. Nor should it be interpreted as anything other than what it was: a genuine attempt, in the questions to be submitted to the jury in this complex case of first impression.”

Palm Beach County State Attorney David Aronberg and other defense attorneys are now encouraging Jack Smith to go nuclear and remove Judge Cannon from the case.

“Cannon seems to be daring Smith,” Aronberg said, according to NBC News.

Excerpt from NBC News:

Special counsel Jack Smith could soon seek to have the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case recused, prosecutors and defense attorneys warn, describing Smith as being pressed to the “breaking point” over arguments his office said could taint a trial irrevocably.

Smith faulted Judge Aileen Cannon in a scathing rebuke for seeming to take at face value Trump’s “fundamentally flawed” claim around a president’s official and personal records when she asked both sides to put forth competing versions of instructions for jurors in the case and said her request would “distort” the trial. Smith indicated in that filing that if Cannon ruled against federal prosecutors, this could be a trigger for an appeal to the 11th Circuit that could remove her from the case.

But instead of backing away, Aronberg said that Cannon, including in a court filing on Thursday explaining her proposed jury scenarios, has stoked these tensions, so Smith may see no option but to appeal.

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