Virginia Judge Blocks Democrats' Redistricting
Push Ahead Of Midterms
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 1/28/2026 12:18:02 PM
A Virginia state judge on Tuesday blocked plans by the state's Democratic lawmakers to use a new map this year before November's midterm elections, objecting to the redistricting push on procedural grounds. (snip) State law requires a constitutional amendment to be passed in the state legislature twice, with an election intervening between the sessions, in order to go before voters. But Hurley ruled that the first passage of the amendment did not take place before the state's 2025 elections because early voting had already begun.
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Another government shutdown looks increasingly likely by the end of the week. Democrats are demanding that major changes to Department of Homeland Security enforcement policy be written directly into the budget agreement. Those changes would largely shut down President Trump's deportation efforts. (snip) They want to require judicial warrants for immigration arrests, force ICE agents to be readily identifiable and grant states the authority to conduct their own investigations of federal ICE agents. Democrats have also demanded body cameras for ICE agents, even though the current budget proposal already funds them. (snip) Democrats have one goal in mind: Stop Trump from deporting illegal aliens.
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Slouching Toward Fort Sumter?
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Minnesota Cops Beg Walz, Pols To Let Them
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Work With ICE, Say They Could Have Prevented Shooting 10 replies
The head of a major Twin Cities police union slammed local officials for blocking cooperation between local cops and ICE and Border Patrol agents -- saying if they were involved, "there would be no loss of life." (snip) Since the Republican National Convention was held in St. Paul in 2008, Minnesota law enforcement has undergone extensive training in mobile field force configurations and crowd management for major events. And because of that, I think we're in the best position to deal with that," Ross said. "Unfortunately, our local politicians would not allow us to do that," he added.
Legal Analyst Says New Video Shows Alex
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Pretti's "State Of Mind" Before Fatal
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Newly released video that appears to show Alex Pretti spitting at federal agents and damaging a government SUV days before he was fatally shot by U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis "shows his state of mind" leading up to his death, Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett said Wednesday."He was an angry person who is expressing his rage with assault. Spitting at an officer is assault, obviously attacking a federal vehicle and destroying the property, and then he seems to resist, to some extent, the arrest. It tells you a lot about his mindset" (snip.)
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And Scammed American Citizenship For Up
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Republican Rep. Mike Lawler is breaking from the Trump administration on its deportation push, calling for leniency for some illegal immigrants in an essay for The New York Times. “The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this month were tragic and preventable,” Lawler, R-N.Y., writes in an essay published Tuesday. “No matter where you stand on immigration enforcement, the shootings show that what the country has been doing is not working.”
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Fiscal Crisis’ 20 replies
NYC $12B Deficit Budget: NYC Facing ‘Serious
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New York City (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani cast blame on former NYC Mayor Eric Adams for the city’s $12 billion deficit budget, stating that the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis.”
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Clergy In ‘Abolish ICE’ Shirts Plot
Nationwide Resistance Network At Minneapolis
Training Camp 20 replies
Nationwide Resistance Network At Minneapolis
Training Camp 20 replies
Leftist religious leaders are planning to export Minnesota’s anti-ICE activism to congregations nationwide.
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The European Union has agreed to open its borders to mass immigration from India as it signed the bloc’s largest free trade agreement.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a press conference in New Delhi alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday that the bloc has agreed to a “mobility” scheme to allow for the influx of “students, researchers, seasonal and highly skilled workers” from India into Europe.
The EU chief also said that Brussels will open a “Legal Gateway Office” in India to help facilitate migrants’ move to Europe.
“This is good for our economies. This is good for the friendship between our people. This openness benefits us all,”
Hunter Biden says it doesn’t matter that he has “ghosted” his 7-year-old daughter with ex-stripper Lunden Roberts because he never agreed to be a part of her life, according to a stone-hearted new legal filing. The 55-year-old former first son argued Tuesday in new court papers that the contentious Arkansas child support case for daughter Navy Joan Roberts shouldn’t be reopened after he and his baby mama settled in 2023. But Roberts, 34, earlier this month said Hunter should be jailed for failing to uphold his end of the bargain, claiming he’s refusing to talk to Navy and not giving her pieces of his artwork before it dramatically plunged in value
Alex Pretti Broke Rib in ‘Physical Encounter’
During Anti-ICE Protest a Week Before
He Was Shot 18 replies
During Anti-ICE Protest a Week Before
He Was Shot 18 replies
Alex Pretti was “known” to federal law enforcement before he was fatally shot, and had broken a rib during a physical altercation with ICE agents a week before he was killed by a Border Patrol official on Saturday, sources say. Pretti “had a physical encounter with federal agents about a week before he was shot and killed by law enforcement,” CNN reported Tuesday. The incident unfolded after Pretti stopped his car upon observing ICE agents chasing a family on foot and got involved by “protesting their attempt to detain other individuals,” the outlet reported.
He was then tackled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents —
Hillary Clinton took to social media to express support for the rioters in Minneapolis even as the disgraced former candidate and her husband were dodging a congressional subpoena looking into their relationship with family friend and Clinton Foundation co-founder Jeffrey Epstein.
After condemning the Trump administration’s push to deport illegal alien criminals from Minneapolis, despite the obstruction of violent leftist rioters who had tried to murder federal law enforcement agents and bit off an agent’s finger, Clinton urged directing funding to the rioters.
“In Minnesota, scores of ordinary people are bravely looking out for their neighbors, defending their communities, and protesting lawless violence,” she tweeted. “Here’s how to stand with them.”
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Virginia Democrats are "hoist with their own petard" since they are responsible for Virginia's lengthy early voting period. They are appealing this decision, likely to a "federal judge north of Richmond."