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Takeaways from Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing for attorney general

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Todd Blanche remained composed throughout the hours-long hearing, but faced several testy moments during questioning as he seeks to win the support of all Republican senators on the committee.

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WATCH: “He’s Tormenting His Own Citizens” – Netanyahu Slams Mamdani in Response to Arrest Threats, Says He Will Attend UN General Assembly in New York

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WATCH: “He’s Tormenting His Own Citizens” – Netanyahu Slams Mamdani in Response to Arrest Threats, Says He Will Attend UN General Assembly in New York

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on Sunday to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's threats to enforce an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against him when he lands in New York for the UN General Assembly. The Prime Minister is traveling to the United States this week for an eighth sit-down with President Trump at the White House. The post WATCH: “He’s Tormenting His Own Citizens” – Netanyahu Slams Mamdani in Response to Arrest Threats, Says He Will Attend UN General Assembly in New York appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Todd Blanche doesn’t deserve to be attorney general

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Todd Blanche doesn’t deserve to be attorney general

Those who most covet the job of attorney general may not be worthy to have it. The best candidates are willing to resign from the department in its defense.

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Blanche-led DoJ likely to derail Epstein survivors’ pursuit of justice, experts say

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Blanche-led DoJ likely to derail Epstein survivors’ pursuit of justice, experts say

Lawyers predict ‘more suppression and no active investigations’ but victims’ groups determined to continue fightAs Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer Todd Blanche appears poised for confirmation as attorney general, numerous Jeffrey Epstein survivors have sounded the alarm that a US justice department helmed by him would derail their pursuit of justice.In a letter urging Republican senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn to reject his nomination, these survivors said that Blanche’s handling of the Epstein case as acting attorney general was characterized by misstep after misstep. Continue reading...

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Top election predictor confirms it: Republicans are in a rough spot

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Top election predictor confirms it: Republicans are in a rough spot

President Donald Trump is going to be the main issue in the 2026 midterms, but experts disagree as to whether the impending electoral disaster will be experienced by the Republicans or the Democrats. Now an election expert is shedding light on the situation.“It’s a competitive situation in both the Senate and the House,” DDHQ’s chief elections analyst Geoffrey Skelley told The Hill's Julia Mueller on Sunday. He later added that “the big question is: will the Iranian conflict … will people being concerned about that ratcheting up, is that going to create reverberations in things like the generic ballot that signal ‘OK, Democrats’ advantage is growing again’?”Skelley also pointed out that Democrats’ lead increases when there is bad news about Iran and gas prices go up, but shrinks when the conflict subsides and gas prices drop.“The challenge for Republicans is the Iranian conflict is heating up again,” Skelley argued. Mueller reported, “Democrats are favored to win the House but are slight underdogs in the fight for the Senate with 100 days to go before the midterms, according to the latest forecast from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).”She added, “Both parties are dealing with headwinds as they head into the home stretch of the high-stakes election.” While Republicans are worried about the Iran war, oil prices and lingering high inflation, Democrats have their own internal issues with which to grapple.“Wins by democratic socialist and antiestablishment candidates in House primaries across the country have sparked concerns from centrists that their party will be characterized as too extreme,” Mueller reported. “It’s a line of attack being emphasized by President Trump and GOP leaders in Washington working to convince voters not to hand power to the Democratic Party.”She continued, “The result is a situation 100 days out that gives both parties reasons to be hopeful and worried.”The polls are similarly concerning for the Democrats.“At this point in the 2018 cycle, when Democrats won big in the so-called blue wave, the generic ballot showed Democrats up by an average of 7 points or 8 points, DDHQ said, which is double the current edge,” Mueller wrote.She added, “With just more than three months until Election Day, the tight forecasts make races like the Michigan Senate fight must-wins for both parties, adding urgency to the handful of toss-up contests that could decide control on Capitol Hill.”The New York Times similarly reported on Democrats’ perceived incompetence on Sunday.“At the center is Ken Martin, the 53-year-old party chairman, who has found himself increasingly isolated, gripped by the fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts, according to interviews with more than two dozen Democrats, including current and former D.N.C. officials and members,” wrote The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher and Reid J. Epstein on Sunday. “Most of them spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the party’s troubled state of affairs.”Goldmacher and Epstein continued, “Mr. Martin’s fraying nerves are showing. In a pique of frustration in early July, he threw his phone at the desk of a junior aide while upbraiding the person. The phone-tossing incident resulted in a formal complaint to the D.N.C.’s human resources department.”

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Judge's 'unexpected' Epstein files demand reveals dark truth about Todd Blanche: expert

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Judge's 'unexpected' Epstein files demand reveals dark truth about Todd Blanche: expert

A federal judge's “unexpected” demand to Attorney General Todd Blanche regarding the Epstein files proves a bedrock judicial principle is “on life support," a legal expert argued Sunday.Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan gave Blanche five days to provide the court with unredacted versions of certain Epstein-related files for private review as it litigates a lawsuit filed by lawyer and media figure Katie Phang. Phang sued Blanche for allegedly violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act by unlawfully redacting certain files.Blanche provided the court with an explanation as to why certain files were redacted, but Sullivan, doubting Blanche’s explanation, demanded he provide proof supporting his claims. Such a demand, as noted by Joyce Vance, former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, demonstrated how the Trump administration had all but gutted the key judicial principle known as the “presumption of regularity.”“It was commonly used to advance the idea that in the absence of evidence to the contrary, courts should presume government employees, including DOJ lawyers, acted properly in the execution of their duties. Now it’s on life support and Judge Sullivan’s order is another nail in its coffin,” Vance wrote in an analysis published Saturday on her Substack.“This most recent order suggests that Judge Sullivan doesn’t believe the government when it says something is the case, even when that ‘something’ is as simple as the identity of the person in a ‘to’ line in an email. But the government has acted like it has something to hide, even after Congress passed the Transparency Act and Trump signed it into law.”Specifically, Phang has raised doubts that redacted names on a handful of Epstein-related files were lawfully withheld. The Justice Department (DOJ) has claimed the redactions in question were permitted under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but Sullivan is refusing to take the DOJ at their word.“So the Judge isn’t accepting what the government has represented to it as truthful, and is requiring documentation to support its claims,” Vance wrote.“Under any other president, the Attorney General would have been disturbed by the suggestion prosecutors couldn’t be trusted. There would be disciplinary review. But here, the acting Attorney General is the defendant in the case. It’s paradigmatic of how far DOJ has fallen.”

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MUST WATCH: Attorney for Shiloh Hendrix ERUPTS After Verdict and Sentencing, Vows Appeal — ‘This Whole Thing is F’ing Bullsh-t!’

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MUST WATCH: Attorney for Shiloh Hendrix ERUPTS After Verdict and Sentencing, Vows Appeal — ‘This Whole Thing is F’ing Bullsh-t!’

Defense attorney Brian Karalus absolutely unloaded on the media outside the courtroom late Thursday night after a Minnesota jury returned a split verdict in the case of Shiloh Hendrix, the Rochester-area mother whose viral playground confrontation last year ended up with a disorderly conduct prosecution. The post MUST WATCH: Attorney for Shiloh Hendrix ERUPTS After Verdict and Sentencing, Vows Appeal — ‘This Whole Thing is F’ing Bullsh-t!’ appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Here's what you missed from Trump's first WHCA Dinner as president: 5 takeaways from his night with the press

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Here's what you missed from Trump's first WHCA Dinner as president: 5 takeaways from his night with the press

Trump roasted Robert F. Kennedy, Kaitlan Collins, and Bari Weiss while sharing rare warm words for journalists at the historic dinner event.

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Attorney general fights back after Biden judge halts pro-life law

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Attorney general fights back after Biden judge halts pro-life law

An attorney general running for Congress is fighting back after a Biden-appointed federal judge temporarily blocked his state’s law banning advertisements promoting abortion. South Dakota’s law, which […]

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