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January 9, 2025
Lawfare

Judge Orders Fani Willis to Pay THOUSANDS in Fees.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been ordered to pay $21,578 in attorney’s fees following her office’s noncompliance with Georgia’s Open Records Act (ORA). The ruling results from a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch—a legal watchdog group—after they filed an open records request regarding Willis’s communications with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots. Initially, Willis’s office claimed no such records existed.

However, the court discovered that Willis had withheld key documents, including a letter she sent to the chair of the January 6 committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). Under legal pressure, she acknowledged the documents’ existence but insisted they were exempt from disclosure, a claim the court dismissed.

Judge Robert McBurney, who issued the ruling, criticized the DA’s office, pointing out that the records request was ignored until Judicial Watch’s lawsuit. He asserted that the “Records Custodian’s own admission” highlighted this noncompliance. McBurney noted, “No one searched until prodded by civil litigation.”

In his decision, Judge McBurney revealed the extent of the violations, mandating that Willis’s office cover Judicial Watch’s legal fees. Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch’s President, criticized Willis for her actions, stating the court was correct in penalizing her and demanding the payment. He emphasized that the ultimate goal was to uncover what he described as Willis’s “political collusion” with the January 6 committee, allegedly aimed at targeting President-elect Donald J. Trump. The payment must be made by January 17, 2025.

Meanwhile, in December last year, a Georgia appeals court removed Willis from her prosecution of President-elect Trump. The appellate judges ruled that an earlier decision by a lower court to allow Willis to remain as prosecutor failed “to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety.”

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been ordered to pay $21,578 in attorney’s fees following her office's noncompliance with Georgia’s Open Records Act (ORA). The ruling results from a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch—a legal watchdog group—after they filed an open records request regarding Willis's communications with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots. Initially, Willis's office claimed no such records existed. show more
January 9, 2025
Lawfare
News
Politics

Glum Garland Wraps Crooked Counsel’s Trump Lawfare Probe.

President Joe Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, has formally notified Congress that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into President-elect Donald J. Trump are concluded. While the formal Department of Justice (DOJ) notice is usually accompanied by a report on the investigation, Garland states that he is currently restricted from releasing the document by order of U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon. The court order stems from questions over the legality of Smith’s appointment to special counsel and, thus, the legitimacy of his investigation.

According to Garland, once the ongoing litigation surrounding Smith is settled—and if permissible—he intends to publish Volume One of the investigative report covering allegations that President-elect Trump attempted to interfere with the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. However, additional volumes of Smith’s investigative report will likely be tied up in legal limbo for some time.

The volume dealing with Smith’s classified documents investigation into Trump is unlikely to be seen by the public even if the DOJ is able to overcome Judge Cannon’s ruling that Smith was unlawfully appointed as special counsel. Even if published, the volume is governed by provisions for the closed-door review of the investigation dealing with the case regarding Trump’s handling of classified documents. This volume will be made available to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, pending authorization from the 11th Circuit.

Following Trump’s landslide 2024 election victory, Jack Smith quickly moved to dismiss both federal prosecutions. “It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President,” he wrote in a filing to U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan.

In total, Smith’s investigations cost American taxpayers over $50 million.

DHS photo by Tia Dufour.

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President Joe Biden's Attorney General, Merrick Garland, has formally notified Congress that Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigations into President-elect Donald J. Trump are concluded. While the formal Department of Justice (DOJ) notice is usually accompanied by a report on the investigation, Garland states that he is currently restricted from releasing the document by order of U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon. The court order stems from questions over the legality of Smith's appointment to special counsel and, thus, the legitimacy of his investigation. show more
January 9, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
Immigration
World

Syrian Who Sexually Assaulted 12-Year-Old Only Has to Pay $100 in Compensation.

A Syrian migrant who forced a 12-year-old girl to perform sex acts on him will not receive any prison time. A court in Vienna, Austria, only asked him to pay the family of his victim a paltry €100 (~$100) in compensation.

The court decided the Syrian, supposedly 15 at the time of the attack, may not have understood his pre-teen victim was not consenting. They conceded she may have said “no” but insisted that people sometimes say “no” and then “allow themselves to be persuaded by affection.”

The Syrian, now said to be 17, arrived claiming to be a refugee during the migrant crisis in 2016. He met the girl on the social media platform Snapchat, agreeing to meet at a park. The girl was later taken to a parking garage, where she was forced to perform sexual acts. Several others, including a 19-year-old, have been charged but still await trial over the incident.

A lawyer representing the victim and her family said the verdict showed “boundless contempt” for the victim and called the $100 payment a “mockery.” The acquittal is not final and may be appealed. The case is just the latest involving migrants sexually abusing an underage girl in Austria. In one case, a 13-year-old girl named Leonie was not only drugged and sexually abused but died at the hands of several Afghans, who were later convicted for her murder.

The populist, anti-mass migration Freedom Party placed first in the European Union country’s recent elections and is currently attempting to form a government.

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A Syrian migrant who forced a 12-year-old girl to perform sex acts on him will not receive any prison time. A court in Vienna, Austria, only asked him to pay the family of his victim a paltry €100 (~$100) in compensation. show more
January 8, 2025
Crime
News

Death Row Inmates Reject Biden’s Clemency to Fight for Innocence.

Two death row inmates have rejected President Joe Biden’s offer to commute their sentences as he prepares to leave the White House, stating they are intent on proving their innocence instead. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, are refusing to accept the change from the death penalty to life in prison, citing the legal advantages they possess while on death row, according to court documents.

Agofsky and Davis filed emergency motions in federal court on December 30 seeking to block the commutations. They argue that accepting commutation would eliminate the “heightened scrutiny” that accompanies death penalty appeals.

This heightened legal review ensures that cases involving the death penalty are examined closely for errors, given their life-or-death nature. Agofsky, convicted of orchestrating the robbery and murder of an Oklahoma bank president in 1989 and later of killing a fellow inmate, claims the commutation interferes with his ongoing legal battles.

Davis, convicted of orchestrating the murder of civil rights complainant Kim Groves in 1994, contests the validity of his federal civil rights offense trial. Like Agofsky, Davis argues that the removal of death sentence scrutiny would impede his legal efforts.

Historically, a 1927 Supreme Court decision established that presidential reprieves require no consent from the individual. Agofsky and Davis, both maintaining their innocence, did not petition for commutation.

President Biden has also issued a large number of presidential pardons since President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the November elections. Pardons include his son, Hunter Biden, despite previous promises that he would not pardon him.

Others, including Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), former chair of the House Democrats’ January 6 Committee, have expressed interest in getting pardons from Biden before he leaves office, allegedly fearing reprisals from President-elect Trump.

Image by Angie.

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Two death row inmates have rejected President Joe Biden's offer to commute their sentences as he prepares to leave the White House, stating they are intent on proving their innocence instead. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, are refusing to accept the change from the death penalty to life in prison, citing the legal advantages they possess while on death row, according to court documents. show more
January 8, 2025
Economy
News

Major US Banks Exit ‘Net Zero’ Alliance Ahead of Trump Inauguration.

The six largest banks in the United States have abandoned a climate change “alliance” just ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. In early December, JP Morgan joined Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs in distancing themselves from the United Nations-supported Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA).

Paddy McCully from Reclaim Finance described the banks’ withdrawal as a calculated move to sidestep challenges from Trump. McCully noted that while climate commitments were previously emphasized, with changing political winds, such priorities seem less central.

The NZBA aims to align financial practices with a goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century. Citigroup, a founding member, and JP Morgan both claim they will continue independently pursuing low-carbon technologies, but from outside the organization. The NZBA’s membership count still stands at 141 banks after the departures, with significant participation from European banks.

The American banks are just the latest companies to abandon leftist policies after President-elect Trump’s victory last November. Over the last year, several other major companies have abandoned woke policies related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and climate change.

In October, Democrats attempted to preserve DEI initiatives, telling corporations not to abandon them despite public and shareholder backlash.

Image by SeniorLiving.Org.

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The six largest banks in the United States have abandoned a climate change "alliance" just ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. In early December, JP Morgan joined Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs in distancing themselves from the United Nations-supported Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). show more
January 8, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
War
World

Ukrainian Soldiers Desert By the Dozens in France.

Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers undergoing training in France have reportedly deserted. The desertions come as the Ukrainian military is currently struggling to hold back Russian advances.

The French army admitted that dozens of the 2,300 soldiers undergoing training in the country had deserted but claimed the figure was small in comparison to the number of troops that had been trained. As such, desertion is not considered a crime in France; none of the men who fled the Ukrainian army will face any criminal repercussions while in the country.

The soldiers all belong to the brigade “Anna of Kiev,” named after the second wife of France’s King Henry I. Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov claimed that 50 soldiers deserted in France and that, overall, 1,700 have fled before being sent to the front. Notably, Ukrainian land forces commander Mykhailo Drapatyi was confronted by the reports on January 6. He simply stated that he would not refute them.

Russian forces are currently advancing toward key cities and towns like the logistics hub Pokovsk. According to some estimates, as many as a million soldiers have been killed or seriously wounded in the war since it began in February of 2022.

Former North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said as far back as last May that Ukraine was clearly losing the war on the ground. As a result of heavy losses and desertions, including men fleeing the country, the Ukrainian military has begun kidnapping people from nightclubs and other venues and sending them into combat.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is also being pressured by the outgoing Biden-Harris regime to lower the conscription age to 18 to bolster troop numbers.

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Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers undergoing training in France have reportedly deserted. The desertions come as the Ukrainian military is currently struggling to hold back Russian advances. show more
January 8, 2025
Crime
Immigration
UK

British Lawmakers Reject Proposal for Muslim Rape Gangs Inquiry.

The British Parliament has shut down efforts to launch an inquiry into predominantly Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs preying on predominantly white working-class girls after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party voted against them. The Conservative Party’s reasoned amendment to Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill calling for an inquiry was decisively rejected, 364 votes to 111, with only Conservative and Reform Party lawmakers voting in favor.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch argued for the inquiry during Prime Minister’s Questions, warning of potential perceptions of a “cover-up” and accusing the government of avoiding scrutiny of Labour figures potentially involved. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer responded, misleadingly, that multiple inquiries into grooming gangs had already taken place—however, none of these were national in scope, and none have resulted in public officials who enabled or turned a blind eye to the abuse facing criminal sanctions.

The reasoned amendment would have stopped the progress of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, urging the Labour government to instead “develop new legislative proposals for children’s wellbeing at the same time as establishing a national statutory inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation, focused on grooming gangs.”

Following reports that Labour’s Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips, had refused to approve a local inquiry into grooming gang abuse in Oldham, England, tech billionaire Elon Musk began pressing the issue on his X platform, causing Britain’s right-leaning press and politicians to take up the issue.

Labour threatened to cut security ties with the United States this week unless President-elect Donald J. Trump distances himself from Musk’s views, given he is set to join the administration as a co-leader of the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.

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The British Parliament has shut down efforts to launch an inquiry into predominantly Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs preying on predominantly white working-class girls after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party voted against them. The Conservative Party's reasoned amendment to Labour's Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill calling for an inquiry was decisively rejected, 364 votes to 111, with only Conservative and Reform Party lawmakers voting in favor. show more
January 8, 2025
Jack Montgomery
News

LA Fire Dept Blew Seven-Figure Sums on DEI Before Deadly Wildfires.

The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) allocated huge sums of money to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the months and years leading up to the wildfires currently gripping Los Angeles County, rapidly devastating thousands of acres of land while claiming two lives and around a thousand properties and counting as of the time of publication.

City budget documents covering the 2022-23 fiscal year show a $673,810 operational request for “Equity and Inclusion Staffing,” allocated to “a new Human Resources Bureau to implement a strategic diversity and inclusion plan, mediate conflict, mitigate complaints, grievances, lawsuites [sic], and facilitate a positive work environment.” Another operational request for “Diversity in Recruitment” allocates $418,778 for “the targeted recruitment of women and members of underrepresented groups.”

City documents covering the 2024-25 fiscal year also show an approved $1,777,715 operational request for “Equity and Inclusion Staffing,” allocated to “Continue funding and resolution authority for nine positions consisting of one Fire Deputy Chief, two Fire Battalion Chiefs, one Management Analyst, one Fire Assistant Chief, and four Fire Captain[s] to mediate conflict, implement a strategic diversity and inclusion plan, mitigate complaints, grievances, and lawsuits, and facilitate a positive work environment.”

Local firefighters have struggled to tackle the blazes, which currently remain at zero percent containment after starting Tuesday morning. Waterless fire hydrants and a lack of personnel and equipment have hampered the response to the crisis.

In addition to expending large sums of money on DEI, fire departments in the state have also been giving away allegedly surplus equipment to Ukraine in recent years.

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The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) allocated huge sums of money to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the months and years leading up to the wildfires currently gripping Los Angeles County, rapidly devastating thousands of acres of land while claiming two lives and around a thousand properties and counting as of the time of publication. show more
Trump Border Mass Deportations
January 8, 2025
Immigration

Mexico Prepares ‘Panic App’ for Nationals Facing Deportation Under Trump.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum‘s government is developing strategies to address potential mass deportations and tariffs threatened by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. One such measure is a “panic button” app for cell phones aimed at helping Mexican citizens in the United States signal the nearest consulate and family members in case of detention. The Sheinbaum government also plans to increase legal aid staff at over 50 consulates throughout the U.S., enhancing support for citizens facing deportation.

This response follows Trump’s campaign declarations, which have created widespread concern among Mexican officials, business leaders, and immigrants. Trump has not provided a detailed plan but has indicated a focus on deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records.

Recently, the U.S. House passed legislation entitled The Laken Riley Act targeting illegal immigrants accused of burglary, theft, and other so-called ‘nonviolent’ crimes for deportation. President Sheinbaum, who describes Mexican immigrants as “heroes,” has publicly opposed the deportation policy but has refrained from directly criticizing Trump.

With around 4.8 million illegal Mexicans in the U.S., the largest foreign national group, the Mexican government is emphasizing legal support, engaging over 300 advisors and seeking aid from various law firms.

Critics express skepticism about these initiatives, describing them as superficial. Additionally, doubts persist about the effectiveness of the panic button app and the practical capabilities of Mexican consulates amid budget cuts.

Mexican authorities are also working to support deportees who return to the border, although specific plans have yet to be detailed by Sheinbaum.

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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum's government is developing strategies to address potential mass deportations and tariffs threatened by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. One such measure is a "panic button" app for cell phones aimed at helping Mexican citizens in the United States signal the nearest consulate and family members in case of detention. The Sheinbaum government also plans to increase legal aid staff at over 50 consulates throughout the U.S., enhancing support for citizens facing deportation. show more
January 8, 2025
Christopher Tomlinson
Politics
Religion
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Sen. Warren Suggests Hegseth’s Christian Tattoo Makes Him Potential ‘Insider Threat.’

Far-left Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has complained about President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Defence Secretary pick Pete Hegseth, claiming he may be an “insider threat” because he has a Roman Catholic-inspired tattoo.

In a letter to Hegseth written on January 6, Senator Warren notes that Hegseth, then a National Guardsman, was removed from President Joe Biden’s inauguration because of concerns he was an “insider threat” due to a tattoo on his arm that reads Deus Vult, Latin for “God wills it.”

Warren claims the phrase is linked to “right-wing extremism” and states that “we cannot have a Defence Secretary whose fellow servicemembers feel concerned enough about to report as a potential insider threat.”

The phrase “Deus Vult” is associated with the Crusades and was allegedly shouted by knights in response to a speech by Pope Urban II. In it, the Pope called for Christians in the West to aid the Eastern Roman Empire, which was constantly under attack by armies of invading Muslims.

While not a Roman Catholic, Hegseth also sports a large Jerusalem Cross tattoo on his chest, a symbol of the city of Jerusalem and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Hegseth has previously addressed criticisms of his tattoos, accusing the media of “anti-Christian bigotry” on X last November.

Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, a practicing Roman Catholic, also defended Hegseth and slammed the Associated Press (AP), saying, “They’re attacking Pete Hegseth for having a Christian motto tattooed on his arm. This is disgusting anti-Christian bigotry from the AP, and the entire organization should be ashamed of itself.”

Under the Biden-Harris regime, some Christians have been targeted, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spying on Traditional Catholics across the country. The FBI also used “far-right extremism” as justification for the spying.

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Far-left Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has complained about President-elect Donald J. Trump's Defence Secretary pick Pete Hegseth, claiming he may be an "insider threat" because he has a Roman Catholic-inspired tattoo. show more