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-Land of the Free
CTH Opens Pandora's Box For Dems-Jury Duty Non-Citizens Exemptions Hint At Extent Of Illegals On Registered Voter Roles-And Consequences Of Jury Service By Illegals
[ConservativeTreehouse] In most states the jury duty summons process comes from registered voter rolls. As a consequence, when a person is called for jury duty and is then disqualified as a non-citizen, we have another way to judge the scale of non-citizens on the voter rolls.

Reviewing lists of disqualified non-citizen jurors is now taking place in many counties led by citizen inquiry. The disqualification records, “non-juror” lists are public records in many states and counties. These reviews are turning up tens-of-thousands of non-citizens who are on juror lists, which means they are also on voter rolls.

(New Jersey Globe) – About 75,000 noncitizens are summoned for jury duty in New Jersey each year, based on data from three state government agencies, including the Motor Vehicle Commission — a stunning figure that widens the scope of a growing controversy over government databases that may incorrectly identify noncitizens as eligible voters and jurors.

While the number is alarming, there’s no indication that noncitizens have served on a jury since the judiciary implemented additional guardrails to prevent it.

“Prospective jurors are asked about their citizenship and other qualifications when they complete the mandatory juror qualification questionnaire,” said Pete McAleer, a spokesman for the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts. “Those who advance are reminded of the eligibility requirements during jury orientation and are directly questioned about their citizenship during jury selection by the judge and, as permitted, the attorneys.”

In between, potential jurors watch a training video that includes the citizenship requirement.

The revelation of noncitizens making their way into jury pools comes three days after Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed that an alleged software glitch at motor vehicles led to the inclusion of roughly 6,600 noncitizens on New Jersey’s voter rolls; Sherrill blamed the vendor, IDEMIA, and said less than 400 noncitizens have voted in recent elections.

According to McAleer, the judiciary processes more than one million summonses annually for potential jury service and randomly selects records provided from the Division of Elections, the Division of Taxation, and the MVC. (read more)

That 75,000/yr number are just those summoned people who disqualified themselves by being truthful about their status. I firmly believe the average non-pretending American will soon to realize/admit that many non-citizens actually remained on juries and passed judgement during trial.

Illegal aliens voting in elections is happening, we all know it and even though the media is still trying to retain their lies, you can tell that stance is softening against the reality. However, illegal aliens sitting as jurors in trials, will create a big-time constitutional mess that is something the communist left and media will never admit.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/30/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [470 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  It would be interest to know what the party breakdown is of the juror exemptions.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/30/2026 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  About 75,000 noncitizens are summoned for jury duty in New Jersey each year,

That's enough votes to sway a statewide election and could even mean the difference in the Electoral College.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/30/2026 11:27 Comments || Top||

#3  The hidden timebomb, is discovering those juries that had illegals serving on them. If there is even a relatively small number of discoveries, the expense alone of retrials, exploration, review of every jury trial in tht jurisdiction, all will freeze and bankrupt the court systems affected.

Lawyers, especially the liberal ones, could not pass up the goldmine of billable hours and trial prep even if it politically destroyed the illegal alien racket.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/30/2026 14:25 Comments || Top||

#4  In a "out of the frying pan into to the fire moment" in my state, the officials administrating jury trials figured out people were avoiding duty by not registering to vote, so they turned to the driver license rosters by county.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/30/2026 15:35 Comments || Top||

#5 

WAIT FOR IT.

Persons convicted that had Illegal NON-CITIZENS Jury members judging them, to file for retrial, and/or $$$$$$compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/30/2026 16:25 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ This
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2026 18:49 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Bombshell FBI raids target SoCal officials as investigators probe Chinese foreign influence in California
[NY Post] The FBI launched a sweeping Southern California corruption probe this week, raiding properties tied to three local political figures and a Chinese-language media executive as federal investigators examine possible foreign influence concerns.

Agents executed search warrants involving San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman, Ontario Councilmember Alan Wapner and attorney Frank Lizarraga, the main targets of the investigation.

James Su, chief executive of Chinese-American media company EDI Media, is a secondary target in the probe.

Federal agents searched homes and offices across Southern California, including locations connected to Hagman, Wapner, Lizarraga and Su.

Investigators also searched EDI Media’s West Covina offices, a Beverly Hills mansion and obtained records connected to Ontario International Airport.

A source close to the investigation characterized it as a public corruption probe with a possible foreign influence component.

The FBI confirmed the addresses where warrants were carried out but the agency has not disclosed the nature of the allegations being investigated.

The search warrant affidavits remain sealed, and federal officials declined to comment on the case.

No arrests have been made.

The raids come as US authorities continue investigating concerns that the Chinese government has sought to cultivate influence among American officials and institutions.

Hagman and Wapner both serve on the Ontario International Airport Authority, with Wapner serving as president.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller confirmed that a related search warrant was served at the airport, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Investigators also subpoenaed records from Ontario City Hall.

Lizarraga is a prominent civil litigator, a University of La Verne trustee and a former Ontario planning commissioner.

He previously worked for the Southern California Association of Governments, a regional planning organization representing six counties.

The FBI operation follows the guilty plea of former Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang, who admitted to accusations that she was directed by the Chinese government to promote propaganda in the United States.

Prosecutors alleged Wang helped operate US News Center, a website that portrayed itself as a news source for Chinese Americans while carrying out directives from the Chinese government.

Su’s EDI Media donated $500 to Wang’s campaign on Oct. 10, 2022.

Andrew Cowan, an attorney for Su, said his client is an American citizen who has donated to political campaigns across the political spectrum and does not know why the FBI searched properties connected to him.


Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2026 06:38 || Comments || Link || [285 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  How about starting with the Bidens?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/30/2026 10:03 Comments || Top||

#2  OK, go after the Bidens. But then go for Disney.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/30/2026 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Me, I would be happy to see that something is being done about the DSA - the current danger.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/30/2026 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Now that Mitch is on his way out, there will be no protection for the corrupt Chinese...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/30/2026 14:39 Comments || Top||

#5  No protection, 49 Pan, or just less protection? It seems to me Senator Mitch McConnell is not the only one with a purchased fondness for the CCP…
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/30/2026 20:12 Comments || Top||


Senator Blumenthal accuses Rand Paul of pursuing McCarthy-style campaign against Fauci
[JTN] Da Nang Dick
The Democratic senator said two of the GOP committee chairman's social media posts over the years imply that the hearing is simply an attempt to criminally prosecute Fauci.

A Democratic senator accused the GOP committee chair of employing similar tactics to former Sen. Joseph McCarthy, known for leading aggressive anti-communist investigations, at a contentious hearing with former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci on Tuesday.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., cited two X posts by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., from December of 2024 and 2025 that were mentioned in a statement by Fauci’s attorney, David Schertler, after being thrown out of the Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing for trying to make a statement as his client repeatedly invoked the 5th Amendment to avoid answering questions.

Paul's posts read: “the power of some of us must be used for good, like putting Fauci in jail,” and “I want to give him a subpoena and a jail cell.”

Blumenthal said both statements foster a “well-founded fear” that the hearing is an effort to “trap Dr. Fauci in some kind of criminal wrongdoing,” which is not a congressional hearing’s purpose to him.

“During some of the dark days in this body, under Senator Joe McCarthy, it became standard operating procedure to seek that kind of prosecutorial objective,” Blumenthal continued.

McCarthy was known for his aggressive and unproven accusations against government officials, specifically during 1954's Army-McCarthy hearings. He ultimately faced a Senate censure — a formal, public statement of disapproval that reprimands unacceptable behavior — and died in 1957.
On the other hand, history has shown that Senator McCarthy may been overly blunt for those with elevated sensibilities, but he turned out to be right.
“We should not be part of a rerun of that kind of effort,” Blumenthal said.
Are you sure? If he was right then, should we not choose to be right now?
The Democratic senator then read aloud a statement issued by Schertler, clarifying that it was in reference to Paul, and asked it to be included in the record:

“This year's-long public crusade against Dr. Fauci makes one thing clear: this is not a serious effort to seek information from Dr. Fauci in a transcribed interview for a valid legislative purpose. You are single-mindedly fixated on seeing Dr. Fauci prosecuted for imaginary crimes, and you are so invested in that outcome that you have created a personal brand around it.”
Somebody definitely is a member of Team Fauci/Facts Be Damned. This is going to be fun.
Fauci has "saved lives," Blumenthal continued. He noted that Republicans are eagerly rebranding the former NIAID director, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right during the hearing to decline answering questions, as a villain to distract from "their own failure to protect Americans from soaring healthcare costs."

Paul has accused Fauci of funding research in China that created the COVID-19 virus, ultimately beginning the pandemic, and then lying about it to Congress. The Kentucky Republican this week published over 1,000 pages of Fauci's notes from the pandemic, which triggered renewed debate over whether his private thinking about the virus's origins differed from public statements.
Posted by: Clyde Thaviling6482 || 07/30/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [341 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Considering this is coming from someone that looks like a walking corpse....
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/30/2026 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps both McCarthy and Paul were/are correct in their assessments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/30/2026 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Praise for...RON PAUL????
Remember when one of his neighbors beat the shit out of him, breaking his ribs and hospitalizing him? Ah, memories.
Posted by: Clyde Thaviling6482 || 07/30/2026 3:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Ron Paul is an error — it’s Senator Rand Paul, who also was the one badly injured by his drunk-on-politics neighbour.

Senator Blumenthal will soon be the oldest in the chamber.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/30/2026 4:12 Comments || Top||

#5  That lil POS smirking gnome wanted power, this is what comes with it. Someone needs to hire Hillary's ppl and not let him die peacefully!
Posted by: chris || 07/30/2026 4:22 Comments || Top||

#6 
When any person takes the 5th during Senate testimony 111 times.
Its would seem to be a clear warning that there are deeper criminal issues and others involved.

The L-S-D's have a lot to hide regarding C-19. So we can expect to see a lot more of these attempts to make the investigators the villains, and make the criminal the victims.

Just look at how the L-S-D's used C-19 to control the 2020 election, implement their agendas and introduce various perversions.

The final proof will be if certain people start falling off of roofs or having "accidents".
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/30/2026 6:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Florida is starting an investigation of Fauci for state crimes.

A poster on Instapundit suggesting investigating Fauci's wifef or potential crimes.
Posted by: Chantry || 07/30/2026 9:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I fear he may suffer a Seth Rich future.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/30/2026 9:46 Comments || Top||

#9  McCarthy tracked down communists. Paul is tracking down one guy. Equating Paul to Ahab might be more accurate.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/30/2026 10:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Scumbag BlumenTALE...Lindsey Graham's best Ukraine bud. The halls of Congress need to be fumigated to rid this country of vermin.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/30/2026 11:43 Comments || Top||

#11  If he's going to take the Fifth on every question why didn't someone ask Fauci about his embroidered "I Luv Mengele" throw pillow?
Posted by: Regular joe || 07/30/2026 13:27 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ I like it!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2026 13:45 Comments || Top||

#13  Yes, very awkward questions, including about bathhouses.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/30/2026 14:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson FIRES Police Chief Shon Barnes Days After He Went Missing in Action During Deadly Bite of Seattle Festival Mass Shooting
Responding to this excitement a few days ago.
[GP] AKA: "White Woman Fires Black Man To Cover Her Lily-White Commie Ass"
Seattle’s far-left Mayor Katie Wilson reportedly fired Police Chief Shon Barnes on Wednesday night, just days after a deadly mass shooting rocked the city and triggered fierce scrutiny of City Hall’s disastrous response.

According to five sources who spoke to FOX 13 Seattle, Barnes began texting people Wednesday evening about his dismissal.

He had been scheduled for one-on-one media interviews that afternoon, but those were abruptly canceled. Barnes appeared at a silent vigil for the victims around 6:30 p.m., placed flowers, then left abruptly for a meeting with the mayor, after which he was told to resign.

According to KIRO Newsradio, Barnes reportedly refused to resign.

Investigative journalist Brandi Kruse reported that, according to her sources, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes has been told to resign or be fired and could be out as early as Thursday, while officers reportedly describe City Hall as being in "absolute, rudderless chaos."

Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2026 13:06 || Comments || Link || [215 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Any firing offense is not mentioned. Being out of town at a conference is not a firing offense. He either lied about something or it is the lunatic mayor.
Posted by: Penguin of the Best Desert || 07/30/2026 20:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Penguin, I vote for the second possibility.

Maybe she should fire the entire police force while she's at it.
Posted by: Rambler || 07/30/2026 20:28 Comments || Top||

#3  She would.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/30/2026 21:28 Comments || Top||



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