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(FOX NEWS) – A Democrat-led bill meant to protect prisoners from sexual violence while incarcerated in California state facilities by addressing issues related to sexual abuse could wind up reducing violent criminals’ sentences altogether, state Republicans warn. SB 898, authored by Berkeley Democrat state Sen. Nancy Skinner, aims to enhance protections for individuals incarcerated in California state facilities by addressing issues related to sexual abuse and expanding opportunities for legal relief. But Republicans say that a little-known provision in the bill would enable inmates serving sentences of 15 years or more to seek resentencing or release if there have been changes to sentencing guidelines since…
US former President Donald Trump has denied using Arlington National Cemetery’s visit as a political stunt and said that he doesn’t need this. Trump Faces Big Security Scare Weeks After Kill Bid; Man ‘Storms Stage, Then Tries To…’ | WatchWhile addressing a rally in Pennsylvania, on Friday, Trump said, “I don’t need publicity. I get a lot of publicity. I would like to get a lot less publicity … I would hire a public relations agent to get less publicity.”This came after the US army accused Trump campaign officials for transforming the event which was meant to commemorate the deaths…
Macie Kelly/ Houston Public Media State Rep. Shawn Thierry, of Texas House District 146, speaks during a news conference in 2020. Houston Democratic state Rep. Shawn Thierry announced Friday she plans to leave the party and begin affiliating as a Republican. Thierry was unseated from the Texas House District 146 position in a runoff election against challenger Lauren Ashley Simmons in May. She made enemies within the political party last year after supporting Republican-backed legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors. In a statement, Thierry said she can no longer support the Democratic party that has “veered so far left, so…
Donald Trump has claimed that when he was president he wanted to appoint his daughter, Ivanka, as America’s ambassador to the UN but she opted to instead to work on job creation and hired “millions of people”.The Republican nominee for president in 2024 made the bizarre comments during a “fireside chat” on Friday night in Washington at the annual gathering of Moms for Liberty, a national nonprofit that has led efforts to get mentions of LGBTQ identity and structural racism out of classrooms.In a long, zigzagging and at times incoherent conversation, Trump ricocheted between topics including his parents’ marriage, Scotland,…
Democratic lawmakers with the House Oversight Committee sent a letter Friday to the U.S. Army requesting a report into an altercation earlier this week involving an Arlington National Cemetery employee and Trump staff who brought campaign photographers to the cemetery. In the letter, the committee’s ranking member, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, wrote to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth that he was “hopeful you can provide the Committee with a full account” of Monday’s incident. Former President Donald Trump visited the cemetery to take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to commemorate three years…
For my Washington Monthly column today, I argued Kamala Harris should make a campaign promise to include a Republican in her Cabinet. My reasoning? It’s the best way to amp up her outreach to on-the-fence Republicans and right-leaning independents (i.e. Nikki Haley voters) and offer an example of how she would differ from Joe Biden, without making any policy concession that could rattle the Democratic base. And historically speaking, a little bipartisanship in the Cabinet is quite common. Every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama had at least one cross-over Cabinet member for part of his administration. I don’t think Harris should commit to name any specific person to…
Less than a day after saying the state’s six-week ban is “too short,” Trump has bent the knee anti-abortion leaders After months of Donald Trump attempting to repaint himself as a moderate on abortion issues — despite the former president bragging that he killed Roe v. Wade — he has finally bent the knee to anti-abortion leaders. On Friday, Trump declared that he would vote against a ballot measure in Florida that would expand access to abortion. The news arrived just a day after he told NBC News that the state’s current six-week ban is “too short” and that “there…
Texas state representative Shawn Thierry announced on Friday that she is joining the Republican Party following her defeat in the Democratic primary earlier this year for her Houston seat. Thierry announced her decision of leaving Democratic Party on X: “I am leaving the left because the left has abandoned Democrats who feel betrayed by a party that has lost its way, lost its commitment to hard working families.”Thierry, who has represented House District 146 for four terms, is becoming a Republican following her loss to challenger Lauren Ashley Simmons.The state representative criticised the Democratic Party for moving too far left…
Donald Trump has denied exploiting a controversial visit to soldiers’ graves at Arlington national cemetery for political ends by saying he does not need the publicity.The US army publicly rebuked Trump campaign officials for turning a ceremony on Monday to mark the deaths of American soldiers in Afghanistan into a photo opportunity for the Republican presidential candidate. The army accused two campaign workers of pushing aside an official at the cemetery who told them that it was not permitted to take photographs at the graves of recently deceased soldiers.Trump was pictured giving a thumbs up with family members amid the…
Democrats are trying to turn Donald Trump’s clash with staff at Arlington National Cemetery, the hallowed final resting place of America’s war dead, into a broader election issue by highlighting it as an example of his history of disrespecting military veterans.Congressional Democrats with military records and liberal-leaning veterans groups say the episode is consistent with past instances of the Republican presidential nominee flagrantly denigrating service in the armed forces.They also see it as an opportunity to turn the tables on Republican efforts to undermine the record of Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who has come under fire for a…