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Case Against Trump a ‘Legal Disaster’: Jenna Ellis

March 30, 2023
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The Manhattan district attorney’s case against former President Donald Trump is a “legal disaster” that has far-reaching legal ramifications, according to his former lawyer Jenna Ellis. “The case against Donald Trump is a legal disaster, a weaponizing the justice system against a political opponent,” Ellis, a former attorney for Trump’s 2020 campaign, told The Epoch…

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House Committee Probes ‘Voter Suppression’ in Pennsylvania County

March 30, 2023
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After a three-hour congressional hearing and the testimony of two panels of witnesses, nobody seems to know for sure who failed to order enough ballots for the 2022 midterm election in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. One thing is certain. Republicans are still hopping mad about it. Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) opened the hearing by stating…

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GOP Lawmakers Outraged Over Trump Indictment, Decry ‘Weaponization of Justice System’

March 30, 2023
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A bevy of Republican lawmakers responded to the news of former President Donald Trump’s indictment, largely offering support for the former party leader following news that he is the first former president to be indicted after leaving office. Republicans and Trump have characterized the prosecution by the Manhattan district attorney’s office as a partisan witch…

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McCarthy Vows to Hold Manhattan DA Accountable for ‘Unprecedented Abuse of Power’

March 30, 2023
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has railed against the indictment of former President Donald Trump, pledging to hold the Manhattan district attorney in charge of the case to account. A New York grand jury voted to indict Trump on March 30 over his alleged role in the payment of hush money to adult film actress…

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GOP Candidate Responds to Trump Indictment: ‘Dark Moment in American History’

March 30, 2023
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Vivek Ramaswamy described the indictment of Donald J. Trump as a “dark moment in American history” on March 30, warning that “we’re skating on thin ice as a country.” “It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals.,” said Ramaswamy in a post on Twitter. Ramaswamy, a biotech…

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House Minority Leader Accuses ‘Extreme MAGA Republicans’ of ‘Hiding’ Stance on Gun Control

March 30, 2023
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) accused “extreme MAGA” House Republicans of “hiding” their position on gun control on March 30, challenging them to bring related legislation to the House floor. “We have a gun violence epidemic in America that is unacceptable, unconscionable, and un-American,” Jeffries asserted at his weekly press briefing. “Children being slaughtered…

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North Carolina to End Pistol Purchase Permit System After GOP Lawmakers Override Democrat Governor’s Veto

March 30, 2023
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Republican North Carolina lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill repealing the state’s pistol purchase permit system, enabling the repeal effort to proceed. The Republican-controlled North Carolina House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 41 earlier this month. The bill, which passed in both the House and Senate on party-line votes, repeals a…

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Experts Advocate Eventual End to Single-Use Plastics, but Composites May Be Safe

March 30, 2023
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A Senate hearing on March 30 underscored the widespread concern about single-use plastics, as experts and lawmakers discussed plastics pollution, plastic recycling, and the potential hazards of outsourcing plastics production to China. Hota GangaRao, a composites specialist and professor at West Virginia University, and Chelsea Rochman, an ecologist and professor at the University of Toronto,…

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White House Won’t Say Whether Biden Supports Gun Confiscation

March 30, 2023
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In a press briefing on March 29, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would neither confirm nor deny that President Joe Biden’s proposed “assault weapons” ban could involve gun confiscation. The comments came two days after a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville,…

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Former GOP Candidate Wants Answers After Air Force Improperly Released His Military Records

March 30, 2023
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In J.R. Majewski’s telling, the conditions were perfect for a mixup. “I was in the car on my way home from Washington, DC, driving with one of the folks who worked for me,” he said in a March 23 interview with The Epoch Times. It was late September 2022, and the Republican running to fill…

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