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Government Corruption
Miranda Devine: How the Biden admin ‘weaponized' the justice system against Trump aide Peter Navarro
2025-07-07
[NYPost] Former first lady Jill Biden’s factotum Anthony Bernal refused to testify before Congress last week for a scheduled interview about the President Joe Biden autopen scandal.

Now Bernal will be subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to compel his testimony about who was really running the White House during Biden’s term — or face potential criminal charges of contempt.

That’s a real possibility for Bernal and other former White House officials implicated in the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline, considering that the Biden administration broke all norms when it jailed President Trump’s White House adviser Peter Navarro and former adviser Steve Bannon last year for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas to testify before Nancy Pelosi’s star chamber investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

What goes around comes around.

Navarro, 75, was the first White House official in history to be imprisoned for a contempt of Congress conviction.

He served a four-month sentence in a federal prison in Miami last year.

DEM DOJ’S PRECEDENT
By contrast, the very Department of Justice that set a chilling precedent with its prosecutions of Navarro and Bannon (who also served four months in a federal prison in Connecticut last year) gave itself a pass when then-Attorney General Merrick Garland similarly was held in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena to hand over embarrassing audio recordings of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

As a senior White House adviser on Jan. 6, 2021, Navarro’s conviction should have had a higher bar than Bernal’s or any other former adviser’s.

But the Biden DOJ and one of its pet DC judges, President Barack Obama-appointed District Judge Amit Mehta, ignored Navarro’s legitimate concerns about executive privilege and punished him for his loyalty to his boss, Trump.
Related:
Anthony Bernal 06/26/2025 Biden aide ditching House Oversight probe on his mental decline
Anthony Bernal 06/14/2025 Tim Walz Stuns Critics by Calling China the World's 'Moral Authority' Amid Rising Tensions Over Iran
Anthony Bernal 06/12/2025 Embattled DNC vice chair [David Hogg] decides not to run after diversity re-vote called

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Peter Navarro 05/04/2025 Britain is ‘compliant servant of communist China', says Trump's tariff chief
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Peter Navarro 12/18/2024 Stick without carrot. Kyiv is being prepared for decisions that are better not to be rejected

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Steve Bannon 06/22/2025 Obama Demands A Ministry Of Truth
Steve Bannon 06/21/2025 'It will require some government': Obama demands censorship of speech
Steve Bannon 06/03/2025 Steve Bannon Says Lindsey Graham Should Be Arrested Over Ukraine Support

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-War on Police-
North Texas police officer shot in the neck by a pro-illegal alien radical
2025-07-06
[X]

PJ Media adds:
The policeman injured in the clash was treated at a Fort Worth hospital and subsequently released, which is excellent news.

CBS claimed that a “federal law enforcement source” had told the outlet a total of eight individuals were arrested, including many with body armor. The suspects reportedly launched fireworks as an apparent lure to draw law enforcement to the area where the shooting occurred.

The source told CBS News that early reports indicate that more than a dozen masked individuals dressed in black arrived at the Prairieland ICE detention facility late Friday night and vandalized vehicles and security cameras in the parking lot.
Related:
Alvarado: 2025-05-16 Georgetown University student, whose father-in-law worked with Hamas authorities in Gaza, released from US immigration detention
Alvarado: 2025-03-16 US Justice Department probing whether Columbia University hid ‘illegal alien’ students
Alvarado: 2025-02-09 Germany Protests Against ‘Far-Right' Being Funded by Left-Wing Government: Report
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
WATCH ‐ ‘F**k Him Up!': Men Rescue Woman from Suspected NYC Subway Attacker
2025-07-06
[Breitbart] A male suspect was charged after an incident at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday in which a 20-year-old woman was targeted, resulting in several Good Samaritans stepping in to rescue her.

The suspect, 42-year-old Fredrick Marshall, allegedly began trying to argue with the woman, then grabbed her and locked her in a bear hug, at which point she screamed, the New York Post reported on Thursday

Marshall was reportedly a stranger to the woman and followed her onto the J train platform at Norwood Avenue in Cypress Hills on Sunday morning. Tensions escalated when he allegedly began arguing with her.

Video footage shows the suspect, wearing white, as he held onto her and tried to move her down the platform. Several people watched in disbelief as she screamed and others followed the pair as they moved away from another train and near the tracks.

Someone is heard shouting “Let her go!” repeatedly until the suspect finally does release her. However, when she tries to run away, the suspect grabs her again and they fall to the ground. Several men then drag the suspect off of the woman and appear to kick him.

“Fuck him up!” one man is heard saying as the group holds him down. The distraught woman then gets to her feet and runs away from the scene.

As one of the men walks away, he says to the suspect, “Somebody try to tell you to something, chill the fuck out! Now you got it”:

Law enforcement said medical personnel treated the woman at the scene for shoulder pain and minor injuries, adding that Marshall was arrested and officers found a knife and blackjack on his person.

According to the Recoil website, a blackjack is a short, weighted, concealable weapon that can be used to bludgeon a person.

The Post reported, “He was charged with third-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree attempted assault and second-degree harassment, according to a criminal complaint.”

“Marshall — who cops say has no prior arrests — was granted supervised release during his arraignment the next day, as the charges are not bail-eligible, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office,” the report added.
Suicidally nuts.
Social media users were quick to respond to the Post‘s story, specifically about the men who stepped in to rescue the victim. One user commented, “Justice served fast and fierce.”

In late 2024, crime prevention activist and New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said his public safety organization known as the Guardian Angels would return to the city’s subways, the news coming after a horrific arson murder of a sleeping passenger, per Breitbart News.

“We’re going to have to increase our numbers, increase the training and increase our presence as we did back in 1979,” Sliwa explained.
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Home Front: WoT
US reportedly cancels probe into pro-Qatari lobbyist and Qatargate suspect Footlik
2025-07-05
It looks awfully byzantine…
[IsraelTimes] Israeli officials involved in investigation said to be left in dark over why it was nixed, though suspect it may have to do with ongoing efforts with Doha to reach hostage deal

The US Department of Justice has canceled a judicial inquiry into pro-Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i American lobbyist Jay Footlik, who is suspected of directly financing Qatargate suspect Jonatan Urich’s alleged activities, Hebrew media reported Thursday.

The inquiry was to take place in the US in coordination with the Israel Police, and was expected to bring Sherlocks and prosecuting attorneys one step closer to deciding whether or not to indict Urich, a close aide of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is suspected of being paid to boost Qatar’s image while in his employ.

According to i24 news, however, the US Justice Department informed Footlik Thursday that it had cancelled the July 9 inquiry, without offering any explanation as to why.

Israeli officials involved in the investigation have also been left in the dark as to why it was canceled, Hebrew media outlet Ynet reported.

They suspect, however, that it may be due to the personal and political considerations of US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
, i24 said, as both Qatar and the US are major players in the efforts to forge a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
Urich, together with Netanyahu’s former military affairs spokesperson Eli Feldstein, is suspected of multiple offenses tied to their alleged work for a pro-Qatar lobbying firm. They are suspected of contact with a foreign agent and breach of trust, due to what prosecutors believe was their work to improve Doha’s image as a hostage negotiation mediator while simultaneously working as advisers to Netanyahu.

The investigation has broadened, and several former security bigshots are suspected of involvement in helping transfer money from Doha to Urich and Feldstein.

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara indicated last month that she would soon file an indictment against Urich.

i24 also reported that Baharav-Miara will request that Serbia extradite Yisrael Einhorn, a former Netanyahu aide who is also involved in the affair due to his public relations firm Perception, which he ran alongside Urich.

The two spearheaded a pro-Qatari campaign to cast the Gulf state in a positive light ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, hosted in Doha, according to Hebrew media reports at the time.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
High Court freezes IDF order to demolish 104 buildings in West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp
2025-07-05
[IsraelTimes] The High Court of Justice freezes a military order to demolish 104 civilian buildings, including some 400 housing units, in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank.

The residential buildings are home to approximately 2,000 Palestinians, the Adalah civil rights organization says.

According to Adalah, the IDF claimed the demolitions were needed for “military-operational purposes,” although it did not provide evidence for the claim.

In response to Adalah’s legal challenge to the demolitions, the IDF cited general concerns about “terror infrastructure” and “security needs.”

The court issued an interim injunction on Wednesday, freezing the demolition orders, and gave the state until September 2 to submit a detailed response to Adalah’s petition.

“The interim decision marks a rare acknowledgment by the court of the severity of the demolition orders and the urgent need to give the affected families a meaningful opportunity to defend their right to remain in their homes,” says Adalah’s legal director, Dr. Suhad Bishara.

“As Adalah argued in the petition, over the past year, the Supreme Court has repeatedly approved mass demolitions—endorsing acts that amount to grave breaches of international law—and has handed the military near-blanket authority to issue and implement sweeping demolition orders without due process,” Adalah says. “To fulfill its legal obligations, the Court must go beyond temporary injunctions and strike down these unlawful orders outright.”
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Tulkarem: 2025-05-24 As IDF demolishes hundreds of houses in West Bank camps, residents are determined to return
Tulkarem: 2025-05-22 West Bank: Hamasnik killed Saturday confirmed murdered pregnant mom headed to hospital, his busy cell arrested along with a mastermind and an ISIS cell
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Africa Subsaharan
ECOWAS team leaves Guinea-Bissau after threat of expulsion
2025-07-05
[AFRICANEWS] A mission from the West African Regional bloc, ECOWAS, has left Guinea-Bissau saying the president had threatened to expel it.

The team was sent to the country last month to help it reach a ''political consensus'' on how to conduct elections this year.

It said it had "prepared a draft agreement on a roadmap for elections'' and had started presenting it to the stakeholders for their consent.

But the team decided to leave early on Saturday morning after President Umaro Sissoco Embalo's threat.

It says it will now present its report to the ECOWAS president, including a proposal for an agreement leading to "inclusive and peaceful elections".

Embalo has not responded to the bloc's accusation.

There has been heightened tension in the country over when his five-year mandate ends.
"It's five-ish"
The opposition say his term as president expired last week, but the Supreme Court of Justice ruled that it ends on 4 September.

A new round of general elections was due to take place last November, but Embalo postponed them and has since announced they will take place on the 30 November this year.

The opposition has opposed the delay.

Guinea-Bissau has experienced several military coups since independence in 1974, and there have been two attempts to overthrow Embalo, the latest in December 2023.

This led him to dissolve the opposition-dominated parliament.

The opposition last Thursday called for a nationwide strike, on the day they said the president's term was expiring, with the government deploying security forces across the capital.

Embalo travelled to Moscow the day before where he held talks with Russia President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
, reportedly discussing developing cooperation between the two countries.
Related:
ECOWAS: 2025-06-10 ECOWAS team leaves Guinea-Bissau after threat of expulsion
ECOWAS: 2025-04-16 Boko Haram, ISWAP are on their last legs, Information Minister boasts of diminishing terrorism
ECOWAS: 2025-02-28 How the leader of tiny Guinea-Bissau took a special place in relations with Russia
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Guinea-Bissau: 2025-06-10 ECOWAS team leaves Guinea-Bissau after threat of expulsion
Guinea-Bissau: 2025-05-16 Russian and NATO fighter jets clash as allied forces try to board Moscow oil tanker in high-stakes naval showdown off the coast of Europe
Guinea-Bissau: 2025-03-22 Cornell student who praised Oct. 7 told to surrender to US immigration authorities
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Umaro Sissoco Embalo 06/10/2025 ECOWAS team leaves Guinea-Bissau after threat of expulsion
Umaro Sissoco Embalo 12/16/2023 Senegal: 4 soldiers killed in the explosion of an anti-tank mine in Casamance

Umaro Sissoco Embalo 12/07/2023 Sierra Leone arrests ex-president's guard over failed coup


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-Land of the Free
Who Counts? Trump Poised To Try To Remove Noncitizens From Census
2025-07-04
[JOHNKASSNEWS] Editor’s note:

The corrupt Biden administration opened the borders to millions upon millions of illegal migrants. Biden himself called on illegals to "surge" our borders. Some 20 million illegal migrant invaders—including the vicious and violent Tren de Aragua and other gangs—surged the border. Many were given housing and other government benefits courtesy of American taxpayers as American citizens watched helplessly. Many of the illegal migrants committed violent crimes against Americans. This is the Democrat policy of replacement.

Only citizens can vote in America. But now comes another question: Should the illegals be counted in the U.S. Census for the purposes of apportioning Congressional districts and continue illegals having an impact on our politics? Is this what the American founders envisioned?

On this Independence Day, you’re busy. I know that. But you’ve got a phone. So you might take a few minutes between grilling your hot dogs and other goodies and drinking a few icy cold beers to consider this thought provoking article by Benjamin Weingarten for Real Clear Investigations, "Who Counts? Trump Poised to Try to Remove Noncitizens From Census"

It is still your country, isn’t it? Caring about your country isn’t some else’s responsibility. It’s yours.

Thank you Real Clear Investigations.

—John Kass


[RealClearInvestigations] Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally fraught practice: counting illegal aliens in the U.S. census.

President Trump tried to end the practice during his first term, but President Biden overturned his predecessor’s policy before it was implemented. Now, buoyed by red state attorneys general and Republican legislators, the second Trump administration is determined "to clean up the census and make sure that illegal aliens are not counted," White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said last month.

What Miller didn’t mention are the political implications of the administration’s move. It could have significant political implications because the census count is used to apportion House seats, determine the number of votes each state gets in the Electoral College for selecting the president, and drive the flow of trillions of dollars in government funds.

Some immigration researchers project that including noncitizens in the census count disproportionately benefits Democratic states with large illegal alien populations. A recent study counters that, based on 2020 census figures, there would have been a negligible shift to the political map had the U.S. government excluded noncitizens from that count. But looking backward, those researchers found, red states would have benefited under the administration’s desired census counting shift. Had authorities excluded such migrants from the 2010 census, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and North Carolina all would have gained one seat in the House, while California would have lost three seats, and Texas and Florida would have each lost one seat — with the total number of Electoral College votes allotted each state changing accordingly.

Since the first census in 1790, the nation has counted not only citizens but also residents to determine such representation. In addition to citing its long history, defenders of the practice say it is only fair that states should be given the power and resources to represent and serve everyone within their borders.

Critics contend the government’s powers come from "We the people" — citizens or eligible voters — a government established before tens of millions of migrants resided in the country illegally. They also say the practice dilutes the representation of American citizens while incentivizing localities to promote illegal immigration.

Trump’s first term hints at what is to come if his administration vigorously pursues a citizen-centric census policy. In July 2020, when the president issued a memorandum to exclude illegal migrants from the census, blue states and immigration groups challenged it in court almost immediately.

Those challenges rose all the way to the Supreme Court. But it did not rule on the merits — whether all residents must be counted and if the president has the authority to exclude nonresidents — setting the stage for a battle over immigration and presidential power.

THE MEANING OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT
The census issue hinges on the Constitution’s language, which calls for apportioning House seats among the states "according to their respective Numbers." Those "Numbers" originally included "free Persons" and "three-fifths of all other Persons" — namely slaves, a result of the states’ compromise. The framers excluded "Indians not taxed" — Native Americans who were members of sovereign tribal nations, not citizens — from the count.

After the Civil War, Congress passed the 14th Amendment to recognize the rights of the formerly enslaved. It states that congressional representation "shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State," again excluding Indians not taxed. Under the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, this population would be granted citizenship.

Congress tasked the secretary of commerce with carrying out the census "in such form and content as he may determine." The president receives that data, is responsible for carrying out the apportionment calculations, and transmits the information to Congress.

Echoing arguments against birthright citizenship, critics on the right say that the 14th Amendment aimed to address the status of former slaves, not masses of illegal migrants. They assert that including this population in the census artificially skews political power, effectively disenfranchises citizens, and incentivizes states to adopt sanctuary policies protecting people here illegally.

"...[R]espect for the law and protection of the integrity of the democratic process warrant the exclusion of illegal aliens from the apportionment base, to the extent feasible and to the maximum extent of the President’s discretion under the law," President Trump wrote in the 2020 memorandum.

The first Trump administration argued that the "persons in each State" that the 14th Amendment refers to had long been interpreted to mean "inhabitants." Inhabitants, it asserted, do not include "every individual physically present within a State’s boundaries at the time of the census," noting that past administrations had excluded temporary aliens and foreign diplomatic personnel for apportionment.

The administration also argued that the Constitution and relevant law authorize the executive branch to determine who is to be counted as an inhabitant in the census. The president, therefore, had discretion to omit "persons with debatable ties to a State," like "aliens living within a jurisdiction without the sovereign’s permission to settle there."

The administration pointed to Franklin v. Massachusetts to support its claims. There, the Supreme Court held that the President George H.W. Bush administration could include Defense Department employees deployed overseas in the census. Then, the Court found that the president’s duties in the census process are not solely "ceremonial or ministerial," and that federal law "does not curtail the President’s authority to direct the [Commerce] Secretary in making policy judgments that result in ’the decennial census.’"

In testimony at the Democrat-led July 2020 House Oversight Committee hearing on the Trump memorandum, Republicans tabbed the head of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, John Eastman, to defend it. The conservative legal scholar, much-maligned by the left for the counsel he provided President Trump regarding challenging the 2020 election, recently told RealClearInvestigations that the Declaration of Independence’s "consent principle" — the concept that government derives its power from the American people — "compels that only citizens be counted for purposes of reapportionment," and that the principle "is actually codified in the Constitution by excluding ’Indians not taxed.’" In Eastman’s view, that language signifies that the founders sought to omit "those who are not part of our political community, from the apportionment for representation."

"President Trump would be on solid ground, therefore, were he to direct that the census either not count illegal aliens at all, or at the very least record citizenship status so that a proper apportionment of citizens could be conducted," Eastman said.

The plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration contended that the 14th Amendment’s "persons" includes all residents irrespective of their immigration status; that the president lacked the discretion to deem otherwise; and that the process the administration had put in place to exclude illegal aliens was legally deficient. The president had issued a July 2019 directive in advance of his memo instructing the Census Bureau to collect citizenship data from various federal agencies, which would have been used to exclude illegal aliens from the apportionment count, raising additional legal questions.

Testifying opposite Eastman at the committee hearing, former Census Bureau directors warned that the president’s memo would spook potential respondents and suggested the memo would minimally create the appearance of politicizing the census.

Trump’s action reflected an "illegal desire of only counting citizens," said Vincent Barabba, former Census Bureau director under the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. "[H]is real objective...is to make sure less people will be counted in states with large minority populations which did not support President Trump or the positions he has taken."

When litigation over the Trump census policy reached the Supreme Court, it punted. In December 2020, the justices held by a 6-3 margin in Trump v. New York that the plaintiffs lacked standing, and that the case was not ripe for adjudication — with Justices Steven Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissenting.

Upon taking office, President Biden issued a first-day executive order revoking both of Trump’s policies. Excluding people based on their immigration status "conflict[s] with the principle of equal representation enshrined in our Constitution, census statutes, and historical tradition," Biden wrote. "Reapportionment shall be based on the total number of persons residing in the several States, without regard for immigration status."

STATES PROVIDE A BACKUP PLAN
The first Trump administration lost a related case at the Supreme Court. In 2018, the administration reinstated a question on the decennial survey about the citizenship status of respondents — a move that likewise came under furious legal challenge.

The Commerce Department stated that it reinstated the question at the behest of the Justice Department, which was seeking superior data on voting-age citizens necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act. Critics sued the administration, saying that including the question, which administrations had dropped after 1960, would chill immigrant respondents, leading to an unconstitutional undercount.

In June 2019, the justices found that while reinstating such a question was legal, the process by which the president sought to do so was invalid, since the Commerce Department’s rationale for including it was "contrived" and "pretextual" — in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.

If the second Trump administration fails to win court approval of its expected effort to exclude illegal migrants, this time around, it will have backup.

Three days before Trump’s second inauguration, Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio, and West Virginia sued the Commerce Department, arguing that its prevailing practice of counting foreigners including illegal aliens at their place of "’usual residence...’ robb[ed] the people of the Plaintiff States of their rightful share of political representation, while systematically redistributing political power to states with high numbers of illegal aliens and nonimmigrant aliens."

They want the federal court, among other things, to vacate this "Residence Rule" to the extent it requires the Census Bureau to "include illegal aliens and nonimmigrant aliens in the apportionment base." And they want to require the Census Bureau to include questions on the survey about citizenship, including one to determine whether non-citizen respondents are lawful permanent residents.

In March, the federal court stayed the case at the Trump administration’s request. The administration said it needed time "to determine its approach to the Residence Rule." The White House and states plan to provide a joint status update on July 1.

The Justice and Commerce Departments did not respond to RCI’s requests for comment.

REPUBLICANS SEEK A LEGISLATIVE FIX
In the interim, Congress has acted. During the last session, Republican members introduced the Equal Representation Act, requiring the census to include a citizenship question and exclude all non-citizens from the census count for apportionment.

Democrats panned the bill, with the then-ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Jamie Raskin, writing in a minority report that "The plain reading of the [constitutional] text is clear as day, and the original purposes have been carefully articulated and never rebutted. For those who like to follow precedent, every apportionment since 1790 has included every single person residing in the United States, not just those lucky enough to have been given the right to vote."

In 2016, the Supreme Court held that a state or locality may draw legislative districts based on total population, irrespective of the fact that some districts may have significantly larger voter-eligible populations than others.

Writing for the majority, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that "we need not and do not resolve whether...States may draw districts to equalize voter-eligible population rather than total population."

Fifty years prior, the Court held that Hawaii could use a registered-voter population base for its apportionment of state legislative seats due to the "large concentrations of military and other transients" in key population center Oahu.

In May 2024, the House passed the Equal Representation Act on a largely party-line vote, but it failed to advance in the Senate.

The current House reintroduced the bill by North Carolina Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards. He told RealClearInvestigations that "Americans deserve fair and equal representation, something that will not be possible until we eliminate the influence of noncitizens in our elections."

The bill must first move through the Oversight Committee, chaired by Kentucky GOP Rep. James Comer. He told RCI that "American citizens’ representation in Congress should not be determined by individuals who are not citizens of the United States."

Comer said his committee plans to move the bill again during this congressional session.

The states suing the Commerce Department are adamant that their view should prevail irrespective of legislative action.

Christopher Hajec, Director of Litigation at the Immigration Reform Law Institute — a legal nonprofit opposed to "unchecked mass migration" that is representing Kansas in the pending states’ suit — told RCI that "Whatever Congress does or does not do, our position is that the Constitution implies that illegal aliens should not be counted in the census for apportionment."
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Cyber
North Korea lashes out after Trump DOJ exposes massive IT infiltration scheme
2025-07-04
[FoxNews] North Korean officials accused the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) of running "an absurd smear campaign" after announcing that it had unraveled several schemes by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) to fund the regime through remote information technology work for U.S. companies.

Earlier this week, the DOJ said North Korean actors were helped by individuals in the U.S., China, the United Emirates and Taiwan to obtain employment with over 100 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 companies.

The scheme allegedly involved the workers getting laptops from the companies that hired them and allowing remote North Korean IT workers to remotely access the computers. In another scheme, North Korean IT workers used false identities to gain employment with a blockchain research and development company in Atlanta, Georgia, and steal over $900,000 in virtual currency.

As part of its announcement about the North Korean scheme, the DOJ unsealed a five-count indictment against Zhenxing Wang, a U.S. national living in New Jersey, who has since been arrested.

Wang and his co-conspirators, the DOJ said, obtained remote IT work with U.S. companies and generated over $5 million in revenue.

Also charged in the indictment are Chinese nationals Jing Bin Huang, Baoyu Zhou, Tong Yuze, Yongzhe Xu, Ziyou Yuan and Zhenbang Zhou. Taiwanese nationals Mengting Liu and Enchia Liu were also charged in the indictment.

Also indicted was U.S. national Kejia "Tony" Wang, also of New Jersey, who was charged separately.

North Korean news agency KCNA reported that a spokesperson for the DPRK Foreign Ministry lambasted the U.S. judicial system for its actions against DPRK citizens on the suspicion of a cybercrime.

"The recent incident is an absurd smear campaign and grave violation of sovereignty aimed at tarnishing the image of our state as it is a continuation of the hostile move of the successive U.S. administrations that have talked much about the non-existent ‘cyber threat’ from the DPRK," the spokesperson reportedly said. "The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK expresses serious concern over the U.S. judicial authorities' provocation which is threatening and encroaching on the security, rights and interests of our citizens by fabricating the groundless ‘cyber’ drama, and strongly denounces and rejects it."

The spokesperson accused the U.S. of creating "international cyberspace instability," and not the DPRK.

The DOJ said the indictment alleges that from 2021 and through most of 2024, the defendants and other co-conspirators compromised the identities of over 80 people in the U.S. to obtain remote jobs at more than 100 companies. As a result, the victim companies incurred legal fees, computer network remediation costs and other damages and losses to the tune of at least $3 million.

Kejia and Zhenxing, along with at least four other U.S. facilitators, allegedly helped overseas IT workers with various parts of the scheme.

Kejia and Zhenxing allegedly established shell companies with websites and financial accounts to make it appear as though the overseas IT workers were affiliated with legitimate businesses in the U.S. Once established, the two allegedly received money from U.S. companies, and the funds were transferred to co-conspirators overseas.

In exchange for their services, Kejia, Zhenxing and the other four conspirators in the U.S. received at least $696,000 from the IT workers.

The DOJ said one of the companies the schemers allegedly accessed data from was a defense contractor that develops artificial intelligence-powered equipment and technology. By accessing the company’s data, the schemers were privy to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the DOJ said.

The DOJ also announced that the FBI and Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) seized 17 web domains used as part of the scheme, along with 29 financial accounts holding tens of thousands of dollars, used to launder revenue for the North Korean regime.

The DOJ unveiled another part of the scheme, which resulted in a five-count wire fraud and money laundering indictment against four North Korean nationals: Kim Kwang Jin, Kang Tae Bok, Jong Pong Ju and Change Nam II.

The suspects are accused of scheming to steal virtual currency from two companies, with a value of over $900,000 at the time of the thefts, and to launder the proceeds.

All four nationals, the DOJ said, are at large and wanted by the FBI.

Related:
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Fifth Column
4 more Portland Antifa militants charged for criminal offenses carried out during ICE facility occupation
2025-07-03
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Home Front: Politix
Trump's DOJ Just Started Stripping US Citizenship – Here's Who They are Targeting
2025-07-02
Game changing. Next up, Mahmoud Khalil, who definitely acquired his green card, and applied for citizenship, under false pretenses.
[Townhall] The Justice Department is beginning to strip naturalized Americans charged with crimes of their citizenship.

This is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on criminal migrants colonists. The Justice Department issued a memo on June 11 that details a list of priorities — especially concerning denaturalization.

The memo instructs federal attorneys to "prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence." The purpose is to remove individuals who obtained US citizenship through fraud or misrepresentation. This especially applies to those who "committed felonies that were not disclosed during the naturalization process" or "engaged in various forms of financial fraud against the United States."

"The Department of Justice may institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either ’illegally procured’ naturalization or procured naturalization by ’concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.’"

The ten categories of priority targets are individuals connected with national security threats, such as terrorism, espionage, or those who illegally export sensitive technology. Other targets include war criminals, those affiliated with gangs, violent mostly peaceful criminals, and human traffickers.

The memo indicates that the Justice Department plans to apply its civil revocation authority more broadly than past administrations.

About 53 percent of the 46.2 million immigrants colonists residing in the US were naturalized citizens in 2022, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Those seeking naturalization are required to go through a lengthy application process. They must typically have been a lawful permanent resident for at least five years, along with other criteria.

The White House does not have the authority to unilaterally strip a naturalized person of their citizenship. However,
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federal courts can take such an action after the Justice Department initiates civil denaturalization proceedings.

The law requires the government to prove that the individual illegally obtained their citizenship or lied on their applications. A federal judge would assess the evidence and issue a ruling. In this case, the individual can appeal the ruling. Those subject to such an action are entitled to due process and the right to defend themselves against the charges.
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Government Corruption
Trump Eyes Investigation Into Mayorkas''s Border Role / X
2025-07-02
[X] President Donald Trump
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has indicated he is open to an investigation by the Department of Justice into former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. This interest stems from criticisms regarding Mayorkas' handling of border security during the Biden administration, which has seen a significant influx of illegal migrants colonists. Trump's comments were made in response to questions about accountability for Mayorkas' actions.
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Fifth Column
Two Chinese nationals arrested for spying on US Navy personnel and bases
2025-07-02
[FoxNews] Biden's team would have accepted their enlistments.
Two Chinese nationals face serious charges after they allegedly acted as agents of the People's Republic of China’s government to collect intelligence about U.S. Navy service members and bases, while also recruiting other military members to carry out tasks for the country’s main foreign intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Chinese national Yuance Chen, who resides in Happy Valley, Oregon, and Liren Lai, who traveled to Houston on a tourist visa in April 2025, were arrested on Friday. Both individuals face charges of overseeing and carrying out various clandestine intelligence tasks in the U.S. on behalf of the Ministry of State Security.

Along with assisting with the recruitment of potential MSS assets and gathering intel about service members and bases, the two men are accused of facilitating a "dead drop" payment of cash on behalf of the MSS.

The FBI arrested both men on Friday – Chen was arrested in Happy Valley while Lai was arrested in Houston – with help from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).

"Today’s arrests reflect the FBI’s unwavering commitment to protecting our national security and safeguarding the integrity of our military," FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox News Digital. "The individuals charged were acting on behalf of a hostile foreign intelligence service — part of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader effort to infiltrate and undermine our institutions. Thanks to outstanding coordination with our partners, including NCIS, we disrupted those efforts and sent a clear message: the United States will not tolerate espionage on American soil. Our counterintelligence operations remain focused, vigilant, and relentless."

Citing a criminal complaint filed in the Northern District of California, the DOJ said the government of the PRC conducts intelligence activities against the U.S. using various means, including the MSS, which is involved with collecting intelligence on civilians. The MSS is also responsible for foreign intelligence, counterintelligence and political security.

The complaint alleges that Lai recruited Chen to work for the MSS in 2021.

The two men were in Guangzhou, China in January 2022, when they allegedly collaborated to facilitate a dead-drop payment of at least $10,000 on behalf of the MSS. The operation involved working with others in the U.S. to leave a backpack with the cash at a day-use locker in Livermore, California.

Lai and Chen continued working on behalf of the MSS after the cash drop payment and helped with identifying Navy individuals who might be willing to work on behalf of the MSS as well.

The DOJ said in 2022 and 2023, the two visited a U.S. Naval installation in Washington State as well as a Navy recruitment center in San Gabriel, California.

While at the recruitment center, Chen allegedly took photos of a bulletin board that contained the names, programs and hometowns of Navy recruits. The majority of those listed on the board noted that their hometown was "China," and the photos appeared to be transmitted to an MSS intelligence officer in China, the DOJ claimed.

The DOJ also alleged that the MSS gave Chen instructions on what to say to potential recruits when it came to payment that could be made by the MSS, preferred Naval job assignments for potential recruits and methods to minimize Chen’s risk of being exposed.

Chen ultimately began to communicate with a member of the Navy on social media, the DOJ alleges, and arranged for a tour of the USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego with the employee. Chen also sent information about the employee to the MSS, the complaint said.

In April 2024 and March 2025, Chen traveled to Guangzhou where he met with MSS intelligence officers, the complaint alleged, to discuss pay for specific tasks.
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