JD Vance moves to potentially jail blue state governor: 'Must face justice'

Albany erased ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from state law. Here’s what that really means

On June 2, the New York State Legislature passed bill A8382A/S9316 and sent it to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY). The legislation systematically removes the words “mother” and “father” from New York’s Family Court Act, domestic relations law, child support statutes, and education law. It replaces them with the clinical terms “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.” […]

MAGA does backflips over potential jailing of Dem governor: 'Lock them up!'

Conservatives, GOP lawmakers and MAGA followers were ecstatic Tuesday following the announcement that Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz was among those named in a criminal referral forwarded to the Justice Department (DOJ) by Vice President JD Vance.“Lock them up!” wrote Abdul-Rahman Magba-Kamara, a conservative political activist and commentator, echoing the chants heard during President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign targeting former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.On Monday evening, Vance announced that he had sent the DOJ a criminal referral naming Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison regarding allegations of “widespread fraud in federally funded social services programs in the state.” Allegations of systemic fraud in Minnesota received renewed attention last year in the wake of the controversial fraud investigation by influencer Nick Shirley into Somali daycares.While the announcement was met with scrutiny by some critics, including from journalist Marcy Wheeler, who called the referral “an attempt to distract from far bigger right-wing crimes, especially by Trump” – conservative onlookers couldn’t contain their excitement with the news.“Let’s go!!” wrote Andrew Kolvet, spokesperson for the conservative youth outreach and advocacy organization Turning Point USA.“I voted for this,” wrote Dustin Grage, a Republican political strategist and conservative commentator based in Minnesota.Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) thanked Vance for having made the criminal referral, and proclaimed that “accountability is coming.” Anthony D-Esposito, a former lawmaker currently serving as Trump’s inspector general for the Labor Department, echoed Emmer’s remarks.“Anyone who facilitated fraud, misled investigators, or retaliated against whistleblowers should be held fully accountable,” D-Esposito wrote Tuesday in a social media post on X. “Let’s. Go.”I voted for this. https://t.co/F1VWbCLGUO— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) June 9, 2026

Vance refers Walz and Minn. attorney general to DOJ for fraud investigation

Vice President JD Vance has decided to refer Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for a criminal fraud investigation after the House Oversight Committee published its findings from an investigation.

JD Vance refers Tim Walz and Keith Ellison to DOJ for criminal investigation into alleged fraud

'Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimidated whistleblowers, they must face justice'

Vance referring Walz, Ellison to DOJ for criminal fraud investigation

Vice President Vance said late Monday that he will refer Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and state Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Justice Department (DOJ) for a criminal fraud investigation prompted by findings from a House Oversight Committee report.  The report says Walz and Ellison were aware of widespread fraud and government failures that…

JD Vance Isn’t Handling Republicans’ Defeat in Los Angeles Very Well

Vice President JD Vance is echoing his president’s false claims of election fraud in the Los Angeles mayoral race.Vance went on Fox News to carry water for the baseless theory after Republican Spencer Pratt was defeated by progressive Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who will face incumbent Karen Bass in the general election.“They are still counting the votes [in California]. Do you trust this election?” Fox News host Jesse Waters asked the vice president on Monday night.“Fundamentally the problem here with this whole thing is: How is it that you had Karen Bass was in first place, Spencer Pratt was in second place, and then this other woman was in third place. You would expect these mail-in ballots to kind of meet that same basic pattern,” Vance said. “But somehow we find ourselves in a situation where number one—they’re still receiving ballots, not just counting ballots. And number two—the way they’re coming in just so happens to work out such that the Republican is getting kicked out of the final two, so it’s a Democrat-versus-Democrat runoff.“That seems pretty shady to me, especially when you add on top of the fact that in California you are prohibited from asking for somebody’s identification before they vote,” he added.JD Vance says it's "shady" for California to count all of the legally cast ballots pic.twitter.com/zCjQ5yRgvA— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 9, 2026This is the vice president of one of the most corrupt administrations in history talking about what’s “shady.” Los Angeles has over two more million more registered Democrats than Republicans. It is also common knowledge at this point that liberal and progressive voters are more likely to vote by mail than conservatives, especially since President Trump has wrongly railed against it as corrupt for years. Now, Republicans are reverting back to this tired argument because their chosen candidate lost—not because of fraud, but because voters rejected him.

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3-time Trump voter fears one recent move shows he's 'burning it all down'

A three-time Donald Trump voter expressed concern that the MAGA movement he built won't last beyond him.Melik Abdul, a D.C.-based public affairs professional and Republican strategist, published a column for Newsweek sounding the alarm on a recent move made by the 79-year-old president he supports that threatens his political movement and the GOP itself."Watching him hand the nation’s spy agencies to Bill Pulte this week, a housing official with no intelligence background, I keep landing on a harder question: What’s left of Trump's legacy if he’s willing to burn it all down?" Abdul wondered. "That’s the part getting lost. Trump wasn’t elected only to win. He was elected on the promise that a working-class, multiracial coalition could outlast him and remake the Republican Party for good."Abdul argued that Trump was the first generational figure the GOP has produced since Ronald Reagan, but he expressed doubts that his MAGA movement would endure for decades the way the 40th president's conservatism defined the party until Trump came on the scene."The trouble isn’t that the base has soured. It hasn’t," he wrote. "The trouble is that the administration has turned inward, chasing fights that thrill the faithful but build nothing durable. Renaming the Kennedy Center. A transgender service ban. Tariff brinkmanship. These play well with the people who were never going anywhere. They’ve done little for others in that 77 million Americans who actually put Trump back in office, most of whom don’t treat any of it as an existential crisis.""That’s the cost of governing by applause," Abdul added. "You spend capital on symbols and end up with a second term carrying more asterisks than the first."Most of those fights have ended in losses, Abdul pointed out, and he flagged other "self-inflicted damage" the president has caused."Voter ID and proof of citizenship are genuinely popular ideas. But Trump turned the SAVE Act into a loyalty test he knew the Senate would never pass," Abdul wrote. "There were never 60 votes, and no appetite to end the filibuster to find them. It was red meat. And it helped end John Cornyn’s career. Cornyn’s sin wasn’t disloyalty; he co-sponsored the bill. His sin was not being MAGA enough, fast enough."Trump punished the GOP incumbent by endorsing his scandal-plagued rival Ken Paxton, throwing the Senate race into doubt for November, and he may have stalled his agenda by engineering primary losses and adding more members to the pool of lame-duck Republicans who have no reason to stick with him."A lame-duck senator who’s been told he isn’t wanted owes the White House nothing," Abdul wrote. "That isn’t loyalty. It’s leverage, and Trump just handed it away."Pulte is the most glaring example, Abdul wrote. His resume might qualify him to run a housing agency, which he currently does, but he lacks even the most marginal background in intelligence or national security, and Trump must spend massive political capital to get him confirmed as director of national intelligence."Movements built entirely around one man don’t survive him," Abdul wrote. "A movement that can’t name a successor isn’t a realignment. It’s a personality. And personalities expire."Trump's coalition appears unlikely to survive him, Abdul warned, because he has shrunk the GOP down to himself and his personal grudges and priorities."You don’t protect a legacy by burning down everything around it," Abdul wrote. "You protect it by naming an heir—and so far, the only one Trump has named is himself."