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NOLA Archdiocese Served With Sex Trafficking Warrant

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: Driving marked police cruisers and dressed in business attire, Louisiana State Police agents arrived at the headquarters of the Archdiocese of New Orleans to serve an unprecedented search warrant that demands officials turn over all records related to a decades-long clergy sex abuse crisis. Three investigators from the agency’s Special Victims Unit entered the Walmsley …

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Trump Deletes All Nine Posts Cited In Contempt Ruling

The Hill reports: Former President Trump deleted social media posts that a judge determined violated a gag order in his criminal hush money trial, just before a Tuesday deadline. Judge Juan Merchan fined Trump $9,000 and held him in contempt nine times early Tuesday over the posts on Truth Social and his campaign website, which included attacks on prospective jurors …

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Fox Deletes Hunter Biden Series After Lawsuit Threat

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News appears to be taking Hunter Biden’s lawsuit threat quite seriously. The network has quietly pulled down its six-part “mock trial” series from its digital streaming service Fox Nation after lawyers for the presidential scion warned the network of their intention to sue for defamation. Besides quietly taking down The Trial of Hunter Biden from …

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DeSantis Claims NYC, LA, Denver “Reek Of Marijuana”

“Look what’s happened in Denver, Colorado. Look what’s happened in Los Angeles, New York City. You know, I’ve talked to people that have moved from New York and they’re like, they used to have, you know, an apartment somewhere and it used to smell differently. “Now, what does it reek of? It reeks of marijuana. I don’t want the state …

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Trump Campaign Contradicts Trump’s Latest Vow To Pardon All Rioters: “It Will Be On Case-By-Case Basis”

NBC reports: Former President Donald Trump, who is currently facing felony criminal charges in connection with Jan. 6, said that, if elected, he’d “absolutely” consider pardoning every single one of the hundreds of criminals convicted in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol. But Trump’s campaign, in a statement to NBC News, said such pardons would be “on a …

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Trump Issues Money Beg After $9000 Contempt Ruling: “They Want To Silence And Bleed Me Dry, Shut Me Up”

Politico reports: Donald Trump’s campaign immediately sought to capitalize after the judge in his New York criminal trial ruled him in contempt of court — the latest example of how the former president’s campaign has flipped negative legal developments into a financial boost for his reelection bid. “A Democrat judge JUST HELD ME IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!” read a Tuesday …

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DEA To Reclassify Weed As Less Dangerous Drug

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country. The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would …

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Trump Lawyers Force C-Span Archivist To Testify That Clip Of 2016 Rally Speech Seen By Millions Is Authentic

The Meidas Touch reports: A witness for the prosecution was Robert Browning, who is the custodian of records for the C-Span archives. Normally testimony from a witness like this, who is just here to authenticate a videotape, is not necessary because the defense would stipulate that the video is authentic. But Trump’s lawyers would not agree to do that so …

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SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To Texas Porn/Age Law

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users. The justices rejected an emergency appeal filed by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry. The provision of House Bill 1181, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, remains in …

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Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint Against Jack Smith

Fox News reports: House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is filing an ethics complaint against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, accusing him of violating Department of Justice (DOJ) standards and trying to tip the election against former President Trump. In a letter sent to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility, Stefanik urged the government watchdog to investigate Smith …

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