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Legal Expert: Don Lemon’s Legal Battle Could Have Devastating Unintended Consequences for Abortion Clinics

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In an expletive-filled rant on Monday, Don Lemon sounded off on white men, calling them “lazy,” “dumb,” and “broken.”

In an expletive-filled rant on Monday, Don Lemon sounded off on white men, calling them “lazy,” “dumb,” and “broken.”

In a move that may draw the ire of abortion facilities, it appears that progressive journalist Don Lemon is taking a peculiar approach to his ongoing legal issues.

In January, Lemon made waves when he joined a mob that crashed a Minneapolis church service, causing all sorts of chaos — and legal fallout.

Lemon and his posse interrupted the congregation, and for his actions, the former CNN host would find himself charged with civil rights crimes.

This would all eventually come to a head on Aug. 7, when Lemon had his day in court.

Perhaps unsurprisingly to his critics, Lemon made sure to tell the judge all about how unfairly he was being treated and how his indictment should be thrown out.

Part of that defense strategy, however, could have disastrous and unintended consequences for Lemon’s progressive, pro-abortion allies, at least according to one legal expert who spoke with the Daily Signal.

Part of Lemon’s defense aims to overturn part of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, also known as the FACE Act.

The FACE Act is a law that protects both abortion clinics and churchgoers from outside harassment, especially the physical blocking and disruption of the facilities.

Lemon specifically wants the church protections overturned as part of his defense strategy.

Jeremy Dys, senior counsel at First Liberty Institute, tells the Daily Signal, however, that if the court overturns the church protections of the FACE Act, it actually opens up a legal avenue for the entire act — abortion facility protection and all — to be challenged.

And the irony is not lost on Dys, who noted that should Lemon’s motion succeed, “It would be one of the greatest ironies of the universe that it was Don Lemon that was responsible for invalidating the very law that was put in place to protect abortion clinics in this country.”

“I’m surprised that he would want to inflict that damage to a law that has protected abortion clinics around the country,” Dys added.

Critics of the FACE Act may actually welcome Lemon’s motion — even if they would rather he not get off — because many legal pundits believe that the FACE Act can largely be weaponized by whatever administration is in power.

Former President Joe Biden’s pro-abortion administration, for example, almost exclusively used the FACE Act to target pro-life advocates and sidewalk counselors, while ignoring church and pregnancy center harassers who could’ve easily also been prosecuted under the FACE Act.

The attempts to overturn part of the FACE Act are not the only defense in Lemon’s back pocket.

According to CBS News, Lemon’s legal team is claiming that his indictment should be tossed because it was targeted harassment from President Donald Trump’s administration.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Judge Dismisses Nevada Trump 2020 Alternate Electors Case After Years of Lawfare

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Nevada electors sing the National Anthem on January 6, 2021.

Clark County Judge Mary Kay Holthus on Thursday once again dismissed the Nevada 2020 alternate electors case after years of lawfare.

Nevada’s Democrat Attorney General Aaron Ford is expected to appeal.

In December 2020, Republican electors in Nevada cast ballots for Donald Trump.

Nevada cast procedural votes for President and Vice President to preserve the Trump campaign’s legal challenges.

The Trump campaign asked Trump electors to cast their votes as litigation makes its way through the system, as we saw in the 1960 election with Nixon vs Kennedy.

In 2024, Judge Mary Kay Holthus dismissed the case against the 6 Nevada GOP electors.

The judge said Clark County was not the appropriate venue to bring the charges against the electors. The judge agreed that the case should have been brought in Carson City.

The Nevada Supreme Court last year revived the Trump 2020 alternate electors case days after President Trump issued sweeping pardons of allies and attorneys.

In a unanimous 6-0 decision  the Nevada Supreme Court overruled the lower court’s decision and revived the Trump electors case.

Nearly three years ago, Nevada’s Democrat Attorney General Aaron Ford announced charges against 6 Trump 2020 alternate electors.

When the Democrats cast alternate electors, it’s called ‘dueling electors.’ When the Republicans cast alternate electors, it’s called ‘fake electors’ and indictments come down from crooked Democrat attorneys general.

Six Trump electors were indicted on felony charges by a grand jury in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Nevada.

“When the efforts to undermine faith in our democracy began after the 2020 election, I made it clear that I would do everything in my power to defend the institutions of our nation and our state,” Aaron Ford said in a statement. “We cannot allow attacks on democracy to go unchallenged. Today’s indictments are the product of a long and thorough investigation, and as we enter into litigation, I am confident that our judicial system will see justice done.”

“Among those charged are some of the top officials from the Nevada Republican Party, including Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald, Nevada Republican Party National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Clark County Republican Party Chairman Jesse Law, and Storey County Clerk Jim Hindle, as well as Republican operatives Shawn Meehan and Eileen Rice.” ABC News reported.

“Each of the defendants have been charged with felonies including offering a false instrument for filing, offering a forged instrument, and offering a false instrument titled “Certificate of the Votes of the 2020 Electors from Nevada” to the President of the Senate; the Archivist of the United States; the Nevada Secretary of State; and the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.” the outlet said.

On Thursday, Judge Mary Holthus agreed with the defendants and ruled that is was their right to challenge the official election results.

The judge said that the defendants did not intend to deceive government officials.

“The fact that Defendants openly announced both their actions and their asserted purpose, rather than concealing their conduct or attempting to secretly induce governmental reliance, weighs against a reasonable inference that they acted with fraudulent intent,” Holthus wrote in her ruling.

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul BRAGS About Spending Millions of Tax Dollars on Legal Bills for Illegal Immigrant Children

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The New York Post just did a story about how New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is spending upwards of $7 million in taxpayer dollars on the legal bills of illegal immigrant youths in the state.

When the Post promoted the story on Twitter/X, Hochul jumped in and bragged about it.

Why is it that every single Democrat is so determined to let the public know that they care more about people in the country illegally than they do about American citizens?

This is the story from the New York Post:

Hochul shells out over $7M to cover legal bills for 1,400 migrant children in NY

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the Empire State will be shelling out over $7 million to cover the legal bills for more than 1,000 unaccompanied migrant children across New York.

The $7.25 million in funding will cover an estimated 1,400 migrant kids facing removal proceedings, including about 250 in detention, the governor said at a press conference in Manhattan alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state Attorney General Letitia James.

The announcement came after the Trump administration let its contract with a network of about 100 providers working with migrant kids nationwide lapse in July.

“It’s cruel. It’s illegal. And for nearly two decades our federal government required by law that these children be protected when they cross the border,” Hochul railed.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, passed during President George W. Bush’s tenure, required the US government to provide legal representation for kids in deportation proceedings.

Children caught crossing into the US alone are generally entrusted to the federal government and placed in the care of an adult sponsor, typically a parent, relative or family friend by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

So the New York Post tweeted this story out:

And Hochul retweeted it, commenting, “Damn right I did.”

Democrats do this every time.

Democrats sure love to be generous with other people’s money.

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Supposed ‘Comedian’ Margaret Cho Says if You Make Jokes About Trans People, Trans People Die (VIDEO)

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Margaret Cho is one of those stand-up comedians who has become less funny as she has gotten older and more woke, which is a shame because she wasn’t too bad back in the 1990s.

Today, she comes off as a humorless scold, and a far left one, naturally.

During a recent appearance on a podcast, she talked about how if you make jokes about trans people, trans people die. The host doesn’t challenge her on this at all, he just nods along, as if what she is saying is completely normal. It isn’t.

Breitbart News has details:

Comedienne and actor Margaret Cho attacked policies aimed at curbing transgender ideology, even going as far to say we are in a “trans genocide.”

Cho shared her thoughts on the issue during an appearance on the Who’s With Me? podcast.

“It’s really scary and the way our government treats trans lives. You know, insane bathroom laws and identity laws, or taking people’s driver’s licenses,” she said. “It seems endless whether it’s re-legalizing conversion therapy. Supreme Court on down. You have all of these things that, you know, we’re in the middle of a trans genocide, and we have to do anything that we can to stop it. We have to make sure that trans people are safe and then start working on restoring equality to their lives.”

In the same interview, she took other comedians to task for cracking jokes about transgender ideology.

“I think trans lives has become a very big thing in comedy, because they want to contest it. They don’t understand that when you take trans lives lightly in a comedy routine, trans people die, and they don’t have that understanding. There are real consequences to your actions, because they don’t affect you personally, but this will affect a trans person’s life,” Cho said.

Here’s the video:

Wokeism is the death of comedy. These comments from Margaret Cho are proof.

Once a comedian starts thinking this way, it’s over.

Can you even imagine someone like George Carlin or Richard Pryor talking this way? It’s impossible.

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BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Delivers Massive Win For Trump in Alien Enemies Act Case

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A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered a huge win for President Trump in a key Alien Enemies Act lawsuit.

The en banc panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (a decision from the court’s entire slate of judges) ruled that a key lawsuit is moot because the three men who brought the case have been deported.

“The Supreme Court remanded this case to us when the three named petitioners were still in the country. But we have since learned that the government has removed them. Given this change, we conclude that the appeal is moot,” the judges wrote.

“Given the lack of any named petitioners to whom we could grant relief in this appeal, and given that this case has never and does not now feature any class, we conclude that the appeal is moot. We therefore DISMISS the appeal for lack of jurisdiction,” the judges wrote.

Judge James Ho, a Trump appointee, wrote a blistering concurring opinion backing President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.

President Trump last year invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport dangerous Venezuelan gang members.

Although several district court judges have ruled against President Trump’s decision to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan aliens, a federal judge in Pennsylvania became the first to say Trump can invoke the AEA to deport Tren de Aragua gang members.

Last year, the US Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from deporting dangerous Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.

In an unsigned order, the high court said the Trump DOJ did not give the Venezuelans enough time to challenge their removals.

“Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster,” the unsigned decision read.

The Supreme Court punted the case back down to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Last year, a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted down Trump’s invocation of the AEA.

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Dearborn Police Chief BEGS Residents to “PLEASE STAY HOME!!” Ahead of Aug. 18 Council Meeting as Fed-Up Americans Plan to Confront Islamic Stronghold

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Police Chief Issa Shahin

Dearborn, Michigan police are in full panic mode.

Police Chief Issa Shahin released a desperate video message urging residents to stay away from Tuesday’s Aug. 18 city council meeting because “anti-Islam protesters,” including activists planning a “Christian Crusader March” to “Stop Islamification,” are expected to show up and exercise their First Amendment rights.

“Please stay home,” Shahin said.

Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin says individuals and organizations from outside the community may travel to the city for an anti-Islam demonstration. Police will deploy an “enhanced presence” and have prepared what the department describes as a comprehensive security plan.

Shahin claims the expected demonstrators are coming to provoke residents, manufacture a confrontation and generate publicity.

Shahin: “Individuals and groups from outside our community may come to the Dearborn City Council meeting on Tuesday, August 18th. We’ve been monitoring the situation closely and coordinating with our state and federal partners. We have a plan in place, and you will see an enhanced presence of police officers.

But here’s my direct ask of our residents: Please stay home.

These groups that are coming here are coming for one reason, and that’s to provoke a reaction and generate attention. If nobody shows up to react, they have nothing. The most powerful thing that this community can do is refuse to give them an audience.”

WATCH:

Dearborn has become ground zero for the demographic and cultural transformation of America. The city is now majority Arab and heavily Muslim. Outdoor Islamic calls to prayer blast through neighborhoods.

Mayor Abdullah Hammoud previously told a Christian resident he was “not welcome” in the city.

Pro-Hezbollah and Iranian-linked imagery has appeared at local processions. And just weeks ago, activist Jake Lang was attacked during the city’s massive Arbaeen procession, an event that featured flags of U.S.-designated terrorist groups according to monitoring organizations.

Related stories:

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Five Current and Former Texas City Officials – Including the Mayor – Arrested For Fraud

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Five current and former Refugio, Texas, city officials were arrested on Wednesday for fraud after they allegedly mishandled hundreds of thousands of dollars that spanned 19 transactions.

Refugio Mayor Wanda Dukes was charged with misapplication of fiduciary property, a first-degree felony, for misusing funds from the Refugio Economic Development Corporation between October 2023 and October 2025.

City Secretary Callie Shreckengost was also charged with misapplication of fiduciary property.

Current City Council Ixtlazihuatl Vasquez, former City Council Frank Hosey, and former City Council Michael Rocha were all hit with third-degree felony charges of abuse of official capacity.

According to the indictment, the state claimed that more than $1 million was misapplied to payments, audit services, garbage collection, and festivals.

KRIS TV reported:

Five current and former Refugio town officials face felony charges after a Refugio County grand jury returned indictments this week following a Texas Rangers investigation.

Mayor Wanda Huff Dukes and Town Secretary Callie Gray Shreckengost turned themselves in at the Refugio County Jail on Wednesday and were later released. Both are charged with misapplication of fiduciary property, a first-degree felony. Bond for each was set at $25,000.

The indictments accuse both officials of misusing funds from the Refugio Economic Development Corporation between Oct. 3, 2023, and Oct. 29, 2025. According to the charging documents, Dukes exercised control over EDC funds as mayor, while Shreckengost had authority to authorize and sign disbursements as town secretary.

The indictments list 19 transactions totaling more than $1 million that the state says were misapplied, including payments for windstorm insurance, garbage collection, water main maintenance, audit services, a police department holiday event and Fourth of July festivals.

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Radical Kansas Dem Gubernatorial Nominee Sparks Fury After Her Very Sacrilegious Post About Jesus Christ Resurfaces

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Kansas State Senator Cindy Holscher. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kansas State Democrats

The Kansas Democratic Gubernatorial nominee is under fire after a disgusting and extremely sacrilegious post she made about Jesus Christ resurfaced this week.

As The Washington Examiner reported on Wednesday, State Senator Cindy Holscher had an exchange she had with a right-leaning user on X. In it, she criticized Senate Bill 149, legislation introduced that year that sought to restrict drag performances accessible to minors.

The argument occurred back on March 7, 2023.

At one point during the exchange, Holscher outlandishly suggested that Jesus Christ, who Christians regard as the Son of God, could have been either gay or transgender.

“I have no idea if Jesus was trans, gay, straight, etc.” Holscher wrote.

“But you seem to imply that a sacred figure is ‘less than’ if they aren’t straight. That’s too bad,” Holscher added.

She then demanded that the user provide “proof that schools are grooming children,” she added.

Credit: Cindy Holscher x screenshot

Suggesting that Jesus Christ could have been transgender is not only a true slap in the face and mockery of the Christian faith, It’s also the dumbest possible statement because 70% of the Kansas adults identify with the Christian faith.

A candidate obviously cannot win a conservative state like Kansas if they mock Christianity.

Social media users responded with disgust after learning what Holscher said.

Holscher’s Republican opponent, Ty Masterson, also issued a scathing response to her remark about Christ in a social media post.

“If anyone needs proof that Cindy Holscher is a radical, here it is,” Masterson wrote on X. “She mocked Jesus Christ to defend drag shows for kids, and she’s so out of touch, that she doesn’t understand why most Kansans find that offensive.”

“That’s not your parents’ Democrat, that’s the most radical liberal nominee in Kansas history,” he added. “This November, the choice could not be clearer for Kansans.”

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UK Emergency Services Working on Site of Train Derailment in Essex – Major Incident Declared – 11 People Injured

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At least two passengers were seriously injured.

UK police and emergency services have converged on the scene of a passenger train derailment in Essex, southern England.

A major incident has been declared.

CNN reported:

“The incident happened around 3:54 p.m. (10:54 a.m. ET) near Lewes railway station in East Sussex, around 45 miles south of London, according to British Transport Police.

Images posted to social media appear to show several train carriages on their sides, with people standing on top of them.

[…] ‘At this stage, we can confirm that two patients have sustained serious injuries and a further nine patients have sustained less serious injuries’, the [South East Coast] ambulance service said in an update. ‘Patients have been assessed and treated at the scene, with some transported to local hospitals for further treatment and care’.”

BBC reported:

“Photos from the site show emergency workers around the train on its side in a field next to the tracks, with one passenger saying the incident ‘felt like a car crash’ and another saying the train derailed from carriage five.

[…] Operator Southern Railway has told passengers ‘do not travel’ in the affected area for the rest of the day, with the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) saying it has deployed a team of inspectors to the site to begin gathering evidence.”

Read more from June:

JUST IN: Two Passenger Trains Collide in Bedford, UK – Multiple Serious Injuries Feared (VIDEOS)

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