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Alabama Senate Passes Bill to Ban Nearly All Abortions By Kim Chandler Newsmax May 15, 2019 Alabama’s state Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would outlaw nearly all abortions, creating exceptions only to safeguard the health of the mother, as part of a multistate effort to have the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion. The bill was previously approved by the Alabama House of Representatives and will now go to Republican Governor Kay Ivey, who has withheld comment on whether she would sign it but generally is a strong opponent of abortion.…

Barr throws curveball into Senate GOP ‘spying’ probe By Jordain Carney TheHill May 15, 2019 Attorney General William Barr’s decision to tap a U.S attorney to dig into the origins of the Russia probe is throwing a curveball into investigative plans on Capitol Hill. Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney in Connecticut with the responsibility of examining the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign, a move long clamored for by President Trump and his conservative allies. But the decision comes as a trio of high-profile Senate Republicans are planning their own investigations into “spying” on…

Geraldo Rivera Tears Into Fox News Colleagues for ‘Cheap Politics’ Over Rashida Tlaib By Justin Baragona The Daily Beast May 15, 2019 Things got heated Tuesday night on Fox News’ Hannity when Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera blasted his colleagues for engaging in “cheap politics” by misrepresenting Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) recent comments on the Holocaust, claiming they were vilifying the Palestinian-American congresswoman. Tlaib has been bombarded with conservative outrage and accusations of anti-Semitism after saying in a Yahoo News podcast earlier this week that she had a “kind of calming feeling” when thinking about her Palestinian ancestors…

WND May 15, 2019 A lawyer for former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was pardoned by President Trump for his conviction in a racial-profiling case, says Democratic Congress members trying to reverse the pardon are posing arguments that are “wholly without merit” and “unconstitutional.” Larry Klayman charged the “frivolous” claims are based on the Democrats’ “prejudicial, political agenda” and a “deep-seated hatred of Arpaio and the president of the United States.” More than 20 Democrats have filed a brief asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the pardon. Continue Reading…..

Judicial Watch Head: Russia Hoax Prosecutions More Important Now Than New Investigations www.theepochtimes.com May 14, 2019 WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr should focus on initiating prosecutions of Russia Hoax ringleaders like former FBI counter-espionage agent “Peter Strzok and people of that ilk who quite obviously abused their offices for political purposes,” Tom Fitton, president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, said Tuesday. “The fact they have an attorney general and a U.S. attorney looking at these issues is a positive development,” Fitton told The Epoch Times. “And the reaction of the Left to it tells you why it…

Karl Rove says John Durham could probe Comey, McCabe, Strzok role in Russia probe origins By Sam Dorman Fox News May 14, 2019 Fox News contributor Karl Rove praises Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, U.S. Attorney John Huber and U.S. Attorney John Durham. Fox News political contributor Karl Rove said Tuesday that U.S. Attorney John Durham could extend the investigation into the Russia probe’s origins well beyond the scope of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s powers. “Durham allows you to get to people who have left the government like a [former FBI Director James] Comey, like…

Washington Examiner May 14, 2019 Israeli scholars have blasted Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan congresswoman and Democrat, for her comments that her Palestinian ancestors provided a “safe haven” for Jews during the Holocaust. “Rashida Tlaib is either completely ignorant of the history or is a deliberate liar,” professor Benny Morris, a leading scholar of British Mandatory Palestine and the formation of the country of Israel, told Haaretz. He added that Palestinians “did nothing to alleviate the suffering of the Jews at Nazi hands. Rather the opposite: The Arabs of [British Mandatory] Palestine, during the whole period — and supported by…

Rosenstein slams Comey for becoming a ‘partisan pundit’ By Caitlin Oprysko POLITICO May 14, 2019 Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein criticized former FBI Director James Comey for becoming a “partisan pundit” in the two years since he was fired by President Donald Trump. In some of Rosenstein’s first extended remarks since leaving the Justice Department last week, the former deputy attorney general called Comey’s dismissal, which set off a firestorm in Washington and resulted in the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, “reasonable under the circumstances,” citing Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Rosenstein, who…

(San Francisco, California, May 14, 2019). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch and a former prosecutor of the U.S. Department of Justice, filed on behalf of his client Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a motion to sanction Democrat congressmen including but not limited to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler and presidential candidate Eric Swalwell, as well as leftist Arizona congresspersons Ruben Gallego and Raul M. Grijalva for filing a wholly frivolous and politically motived amicus brief in the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit over President Trump’s pardon of…

BREAKING: AG Barr Appoints U.S. Attorney To Investigate Origins Of Russia Investigation Daily Wire May 14, 2019 Attorney General Bill Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation and to determine if the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016 was legal. The Associated Press reported that a source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that Barr “appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to conduct the inquiry.” “The inquiry will focus on whether the government’s methods to collect intelligence relating to the Trump campaign were lawful and…