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Former clients sue Todd Blanche over malpractice and forgery claims: report

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faces a malpractice lawsuit filed by twins Adam and Daniel Kaplan, alleging he forged their signatures on an engagement letter and dramatically over-billed them. The Kaplans hired Blanche at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in 2022 for financial fraud defense, expecting discounted rates. Instead, the firm's first bill totaled $677,925, and by November 2022 they had paid $1.65 million with additional bills pending. Blanche allegedly billed approximately 2,475 hours at roughly $1,000 per hour —far exceeding promised discounts— before suspending work over unpaid bills. A handwriting expert backed up the signature forgery allegations. The Kaplans also claim Blanche withheld evidence aiding their defense. Blanche and Cadwalader denied all allegations and countersued for $1.2 million in unpaid bills. Both twins were subsequently indicted on money laundering and wire fraud charges, with one convicted and imprisoned.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.

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Pam Bondi returning to the Trump admin — to work in wildly different role: report

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Pam Bondi returning to the Trump admin — to work in wildly different role: report

President Donald Trump's disgraced former attorney general, Pam Bondi, is coming back to the Trump administration — only this time, she's working in a very different role.According to Axios, "Bondi, whom Trump ousted as AG last month, will be on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The panel is chaired by former White House AI adviser David Sacks and White House science adviser Michael Kratsios. It also includes more than a dozen tech executives, including Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison."Per the report, Bondi's role on the panel will be to mediate between the White House and the tech billionaires serving on it.Announcing the move, Vice President JD Vance proclaimed, "Pam has been an enormously valuable asset to the president's team, and I'm thrilled for her and for all of us that she's going to remain involved in confronting some of the most important issues the administration faces."This comes despite the fact that Bondi was unceremoniously fired by Trump earlier this year.Sources at the time indicated Trump had a long list of frustrations with Bondi, including her failure to manage the public furor over the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case files, and the fact that under her watch, several politically-motivated prosecutions of Trump's enemies ended in failure and sometimes even the removal of prosecutors.

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Republican voter claims he switched sides in Texas primary after Trump endorsement

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Republican voter claims he switched sides in Texas primary after Trump endorsement

A Republican voter in Texas claimed on Tuesday that he had stopped supporting MAGA front-runner Ken Paxton in the state's Senate primary race after President Donald Trump endorsed him. "I made one vote, and that was for [Sen. John] Cornyn," Rodney Hall, a Republican voter, told CNN's Arlette Saenz. "And why is that?" she asked. "Primarily because he's not supported by Trump. I think he's ruined my Republican Party," Hall said. Hall's comments came as voters anxiously awaited the results of the bruising Texas Senate primary race. Both Cornyn and Paxton have been at each other's throats during the campaign, with Cornyn playing up Paxton's numerous scandals in his ads and Paxton hitting back with unsavory attacks of his own. Seven out of the top 10 public polls compiled by The New York Times had Paxton besting Cornyn on Tuesday. The voter's comments about Trump also happened at a time when Trump's support within the Republican Party appears to be fading. A new poll had Trump's approval rating at around 36%, which is where former President Joe Biden was ahead of the 2022 midterms.

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Cook Political Report shifts Texas Senate rating toward Democrats after Paxton runoff victory

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Cook Political Report shifts Texas Senate rating toward Democrats after Paxton runoff victory

The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report shifted its rating of the Texas Senate race toward Democrats on Tuesday, from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican,” after state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) defeated Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) in the marquee race’s GOP runoff. Paxton, who enjoyed a last-minute endorsement from President Trump, defeated the senior GOP senator. The…

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Todd Blanche's fawning over Trump may land him in legal jeopardy: ex-prosecutor

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Todd Blanche's fawning over Trump may land him in legal jeopardy: ex-prosecutor

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's gushing comments about Trump have an ex-prosecutor sounding the alarm and suggesting it could land Blanche in legal trouble.In early April, Blanche said he would tell Trump, "Thank you very much. I love you, sir," if the president passed him over for the permanent AG role and kicked him out of the White House.Glenn Kirschner, a former prosecutor, said on the Jim Acosta Show on Tuesday that those comments could be a problem for Blanche. "From this old prosecutor's perspective, he'll need to be criminally investigated beginning in January of 2029," Kirschner said, referring to when Trump's term is supposed to end. "The minute I heard him say ... 'Thank you, sir. I love you.' You can't make that up. And why would any self-respecting government official say that?"Along with the ongoing case against former FBI Director James Comey, Kirschner sees plenty of evidence that Blanche "was willing to do anything and everything to try and keep his job," he said. Kirschner said Blanche is aggressively "abusing the rule of law and the constitutional rights of targets of Donald Trump's wrath." Kirschner then pointed to the Richard Nixon administration and the criminal conviction of four dozen of his officials and associates. "I'll bet they all felt untouchable. I'll bet they felt like, 'No way the rule of law is coming for us,'" Kirschner said. "What happened? Forty-eight of them were criminally convicted, and thirty of them went to prison. This is what awaits, I believe, Todd Blanche and the rest of Trump's cabinet."

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Indiana lieutenant governor claims to be giving people 'permission to hate' Islam: report

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Indiana lieutenant governor claims to be giving people 'permission to hate' Islam: report

Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, a Republican, proclaimed during an interview with the right-wing Christian FlashPoint show that people need "permission to hate" Islam."We're giving people permission to hate again," said Beckwith, a radical Christian Nationalist whose rant was captured in a report by Right Wing Watch. "And I know that sounds harsh at first, but we've seen this movement to eradicate hate in our culture, that is the worst thing we could do. You know, the Bible talks about how God hates certain things, and when we say we want to eradicate hate, think about this, we're actually saying we want to eradicate a characteristic of God.""Hate is not the opposite of love," Beckwith continued. "Indifference is the opposite of love. And so when I talk about this and I say, guys, we need to, in Indiana, we need to hate certain things — if radical Jihadi mindset starts coming into our state, I'm gonna hate it, and I'm gonna hate it with everything that I am, and I'm gonna call on others to hate it.""I hate Islam; it's a demonic death cult," he added. "Now, I love Muslims, because they make great Christians when Jesus gets a hold of them, but I hate Islam."Beckwith has found himself a lightning rod for controversy since taking office.He has praised the Three-Fifths Compromise, cracked tasteless jokes about autism and Down Syndrome, and last year his office came under investigation for "ghost jobs" and the distribution of deepfaked sexual images.

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GOP lawmaker delivers a brutal snub of her Trump-backed ex-husband: report

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GOP lawmaker delivers a brutal snub of her Trump-backed ex-husband: report

Even though a Texas GOP candidate has the president's support, he doesn't have an official endorsement from his wife, according to a new report. Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, a Republican, shared her list of endorsements on Tuesday, and her husband, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, noticeably did not make the cut, according to reporting by The Hill. Trump backed Ken Paxton for the GOP primary, favoring him over Sen. John Cornyn just a week before the election. GOP lawmakers have shaken their heads and rebuffed the endorsement, which caught them off guard. According to The Hill, Angela Paxton "remained neutral" in the Texas GOP Senate primary and didn't endorse Cornyn either. However, she did announce her support for Mayes Middleton, a state senator who's running to replace her husband as the Texas AG. Meanwhile, The Hill noted that the Paxtons' marriage is "estranged," as Angela Paxton filed for divorce from Ken last year, citing "biblical grounds." “I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” Angela Paxton wrote on X. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”

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Former DNC chair accused of 'dismantling ... black political power' over newest announcement

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Former DNC chair accused of 'dismantling ... black political power' over newest announcement

A former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee announced a campaign running for Florida's 20th Congressional District and was immediately accused of "dismantling" black "power."Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) was redistricted out of her previous seat and opted to run in the 20th district, which is composed of about 50% black residents.'DWS is everything that's wrong with the Democratic establishment.' In a statement released Tuesday, nearly all the DNC members from Florida condemned the decision by Schultz."Our party cannot credibly denounce the dismantling of black political power by Republicans while treating one of Florida's few remaining majority-black districts as a political opportunity for an incumbent seeking a safer seat," the statement reads.Schultz, who has been in Congress for more than two decades, would likely win an easy contest in the general election in the left-leaning district. However, other Democrats accused Schultz of using her power to make her campaign easier."Debbie Wasserman Schultz is carpetbagging to FL-20, a black opportunity district instead of running in her own," said Elijah Manley, another Democratic candidate running for Florida's 20th district. "DWS is everything that's wrong with the Democratic establishment. ... I look forward to retiring her from public office permanently." Others like former 2 Live Crew rapper and black activist Luther Campbell, who is also running for the seat as a Democrat, warned Democrats that the black community is taking notice. "To the Florida DNC members who stayed silent — we see you too. We’re taking receipts," Campbell wrote on social media. "Congressional District 20 is not a political opportunity seat. Black representation matters. Lived experience matters. Make sure you're on the right side of history.""This decision reinforces the same message Republicans have pushed for years: that black representation does not matter," the Florida Democrats continued in their letter. "It does matter. Representation matters. Lived experience matters." RELATED: USC accused of racism after minority candidates don't qualify for gubernatorial debate — so USC makes drastic decision Schultz ran the Democratic Party from May 2011 until July 2016, just a few months before President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. The late Harry Reid, a top Democratic leader, blamed Schultz for the devastating loss. "We need a full time DNC chair and what they should do — they can take my model if they want — it's not rocket science," Reid said at the time. "It doesn't take a lot of brain power to figure out what needs to be done." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Supreme Court denies NFL’s bid to keep former Dolphins coach Brian Flores’ discrimination lawsuit from heading to court

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Supreme Court denies NFL’s bid to keep former Dolphins coach Brian Flores’ discrimination lawsuit from heading to court

Justice Brett Kavanaugh dissented from the decision.

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