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Appeals court revives Biden vaccine mandate for federal employees By Tierney Sneed CNN April 8, 2022 (CNN)The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday revived President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal executive branch employees, lifting a district court’s January injunction that had halted the requirement and ordering the lower court to dismiss the case. The majority on a three-member panel said that under the Civil Service Reform Act — which Congress passed in 1978 to streamline the process of settling workplace disputes brought by federal employees — the lower court did not have jurisdiction to…
By Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney POLITICO April 7, 2022 A judge has issued the first outright acquittal of a defendant charged in the Capitol riot. Following a two-day bench trial in U.S. District Court in Washington, New Mexico engineer Matthew Martin was acquitted Wednesday on four misdemeanor charges by U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden. Martin claimed that he thought the police had allowed him into an entrance near the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021. McFadden said that, based on video of the scene, that assertion was at least “plausible” and that prosecutors failed to prove the case…
Ukraine president asks Jewish people around world to speak against Russia By Shaun Walker the Guardian April 7, 2022 Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has appealed to Jewish people across the world to speak out against the Russian assault on his country, a day after a missile hit close to a Holocaust memorial site in the capital, Kyiv. The missile strike on Tuesday hit Kyiv’s television tower, reportedly killing at least five people. The tower is located close to the memorial site of Babyn Yar, the ravine where Nazi soldiers massacred up to 150,000 people during the second world…
Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories Abound Around Russian Assault on Ukraine Anti-Defamation League April 7, 2022 Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, extremists and antisemites across the ideological spectrum have used the war as fodder for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. Emanating from classic antisemites and white supremacists, as well as QAnon influencers and Proud Boys acolytes, classic tropes of Jewish power, financial control and “abuse” of the Holocaust narrative abound online. In just a few short weeks, tens of thousands of social media users have been exposed to these dangerous lies. Continue Reading…..
Chief Justice Roberts joins with liberals to criticize ‘shadow docket’ as court reinstates Trump-era EPA rule By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter CNN April 7, 2022 (CNN)A 5-4 Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era rule Wednesday that restricts the authority of states to reject federal permits under the Clean Water Act in another ruling putting the court’s emergency docket in the spotlight. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s liberal justices in dissent, arguing that the court’s majority had “gone astray” by granting an unwarranted request on its emergency docket. Continue Reading…..
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Secret Service renting $30,000-a-month Malibu mansion as part of Hunter Biden detail: report The Hill April 6, 2022 The Secret Service is spending more than $30,000 each month renting out a Malibu mansion in California to protect President Biden’s son Hunter Biden, according to a new report by ABC News. Hunter Biden, who is under federal investigation for his foreign business dealings, has been staying in Malibu throughout his father’s presidency, spending $20,000 of his own wealth each month to rent out a mansion, according to the report. The Secret Service, the agency responsible for protecting the president…
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Man photographed ‘chugging wine’ in the US Capitol on January 6 sentenced to jail time By Hannah Rabinowitz CNN April 5, 2022 (CNN)A Navy veteran and possible congressional candidate who drank a bottle of wine and stole a book on Senate procedure during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was sentenced on Monday to serve 90 days in jail. Jason Riddle of New Hampshire had pleaded guilty to theft of government property and illegally protesting inside the Capitol — both misdemeanors. Riddle was also sentenced to three years of probation and will pay more than…
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