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Two former White House aides say top Secret Service official defending Trump on Jan. 6 has history of lying Josh Meyer and Ledyard King, USA TODAY Sun, July 3, 2022 at 5:00 AM Two former Trump White House aides are accusing a top Secret Service official and key defender of the then-president's actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection of being a political loyalist with a history of lying. Former aides Olivia Troye and Alyssa Farah Griffin have criticized the Secret Service official, Anthony Ornato, amid reports he is disputing that an angry Donald Trump grabbed the steering wheel of his presidential SUV limousine and lunged at a Secret Service agent in the front seat that day. Those explosive allegations were leveled last week by another ex-Trump aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, before the Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack. Hutchinson testified that Trump wanted to join thousands of his followers who marched up to the Capitol after a speech he gave near the White House, and that he became "irate" after his Secret Service detail told him he had to be driven back to the White House for security reasons. On the way back, Hutchinson testified, the president physically accosted an agent and tried to turn the limo toward the Capitol, according to what Ornato told her immediately after the incident. Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in before testifying before the House Jan. 6 committee on June 28, 2022. At the time, Ornato was the White House deputy chief of staff in charge of operations. Trump had personally appointed Ornato to that position in December 2019, an apparent first for a Secret Service official, because of his loyalty to the President. A 25-year veteran of the Secret Service, Ornato is now back at the agency as its assistant director in charge of the Office of Training. Hutchinson's testimony came under scrutiny last week after both Ornato and Robert Engel – the agent who was allegedly accosted by Trump – told the Secret Service the president did angrily demand to be taken to the Capitol but that he never grabbed Engel or the steering wheel. Hutchinson testified that Engel, who was in charge of Trump's protective security detail, also was in the room at the White House when Ornato recounted the story and never tried to correct his version of events. Troye, the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor to then-Vice President Mike Pence, told USA TODAY Saturday that Ornato has a history of changing his story when it becomes politically troublesome for Trump. More: Trump's rage over election led to dish-throwing, assaulting Secret Service agent, aide says 'There seems to be a pattern here' "There seems to be a pattern here of conversations that happen that are inconvenient conversations for Tony and then he comes back and says that they never happened," Troye said. "That really speaks to Tony's character and credibility, and whether he has a history of doing [Trump's] bidding, and then denying it to protect him." In riveting testimony last week, Hutchinson – a former top aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows – said Trump wanted to let armed supporters into his rally because he knew 'they're not here to hurt me.' " She also disclosed for the first time that Trump demanded to be driven to the Capitol, and said it was because he allegedly wanted to give a second speech outside the Capitol or perhaps inside the complex while lawmakers were certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. President Donald Trump addresses his supporters at a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as president in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. When Engel first told him no, Trump yelled, "I'm the effing president, take me to the Capitol now," Hutchinson quoted Ornato as telling her. . When he was again told they were returning to the White House, "The President reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel," Hutchinson testified. "Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel. And when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles," describing a choking motion. Denying the story of Trump's alleged confrontation Although Hutchinson's testimony was full of other similarly explosive disclosures, the image of Trump physically assaulting a top security aide in an effort to get to the Capitol immediately went viral. Within hours, though, Secret Service officials began telling reporters that Ornato and Engel were both denying part of Hutchinson's account of the events. Both are prepared to testify that Trump did, in fact, demand to be taken to the Capitol, a Secret Service official told USA TODAY. But that official also said both men would deny that Trump grabbed Engel or the steering wheel in an attempt to change course. Neither Ornato nor Engel have spoken publicly yet, and the Secret Service official suggested that they – and the Secret Service itself – would reserve comment until both officials could speak "under oath and on the record" before the committee. Hutchinson, and a committee spokesman, have stood by her comments. Trump himself has denied most if not all of Hutchinson's testimony. And many of his supporters have used the controversy to try and undermine the overall credibility of her as a witness. More: Miss Day 6 of the Jan. 6 hearing? Trump knew mob was armed and dangerous, bombshell witness says One former Trump White House official, retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, came to Ornato's defense on Twitter: "Regarding 6 January and for the record. I was privileged to know USSS Special Agent in Charge Tony Ornato. Like all USSS Agents, he was highly professional, circumspect in everyday action and trusted. I would take his sworn testimony to the bank." But in social media posts, both Troye and Farah said it was Ornato's credibility that should be questioned. And they said he should testify under oath about what happened inside the presidential limo and about the Secret Service's actions that entire day. "Tony Ornato sure seems deny conversations he's apparently had," including one cited in a 2021 book about the Trump White House, Troye tweeted. In that episode, Ornato was planning to have the Secret Service move Pence out of the Capitol on Jan. 6 as rioters came looking for him, only to be told Pence needed to stay and complete the vote certification, according to the book “I Alone Can Fix It.” Ornato, through a spokesman, denied having that conversation with Kellogg, who was Pence’s national security advisor, according to one of the book’s co-authors, Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig. And "now he's denying the story he told Cassidy Hutchinson," Troye said. Ornato 'should testify under oath' "Those of us who worked w/ Tony know where his loyalties lie. " Troye added. "He should testify under oath." Soon after, Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House communications director, weighed in with her own tweet. "Tony Ornato lied about me too. During the protests at Lafayette sq in 2020, I told Mark Meadows & Ornato they needed to warn press staged there before clearing the square," she said. "Meadows replied: “we aren’t doing that.” Tony later lied &said the exchange never happened. He knows it did." Olivia Troye, a director of Republicans for Voting Rights. More: Jan. 6 takeaways: An angry Trump pushed to go to Capitol, counsel warned of 'every crime imaginable' On Saturday, Leonnig also questioned Ornato's truthfulness when it comes to incidents involving Trump. She said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Ornato lied to her and other reporters about the incident at Lafayette Square, saying Trump aides did not clear the crowded park so he could walk to a nearby church and do a photo op with a Bible in his hand. “That's not true. He was at the center of that,” said Leonnig, who also wrote the best-selling 2022 book, “Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service.” “This is a person who worked as President Trump's security detail leader, the number one guy protecting the boss, and the boss liked him so much he installed him in a political White House job,” Leonnig said. “That broke every Secret Service tradition in the book, because he stayed as a Secret Service employee, but Trump essentially had him directing the Secret Service to make sure that all of his campaign events, all of his photo ops, everything he wanted to do to get reelected, went off without a hitch.” And while most Secret Service agents leave their politics behind when protecting the President and other top officials, Leonnig said Saturday of Ornato, “Trump White House staffers and Secret Service agents have told me repeatedly he's a Trump acolyte. He will defend the president to the end, and he remains in contact with Trump world.” "So I want to stress that also, Tony Ornato has indicated to his bosses that this story Cassidy Hutchinson told didn't happen. Well, Tony Ornato has said a lot of things didn't happen," said Leonnig. . President Trump and Communications Director Alyssa Farah at the White House Both Ornato and Engel already have testified in private before the House committee but the complete details of what they said have not been disclosed. On Saturday, Troye said both of them should testify in response to Hutchinson's allegations so that the committee – and the American public – can understand what they know about happened on Jan. 6. "What really matters is not whether he actually lunged and touched the steering wheel or not," Troye said. "What keeps getting lost in this is that nobody's disputing that the President wanted to go to the Capitol and that he felt safe going even though all of these people had weapons." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Two former White House aides say top Secret Service official may be lying to protect Trump

'Like it’s a purge': Fear grips Black residents in Indianapolis ahead of new gun law Brandon Drenon, Indianapolis Star Fri, July 1, 2022 at 7:13 AM After record-breaking homicide years in Indianapolis in 2020 and 2021, overwhelmingly endured by Black neighborhoods, Indiana state legislators voted in March to pass a bill easing gun control restrictions. Signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcomb the same month, House Bill 1296 – dubbed the "permitless carry bill" – removes the requirement of otherwise legal gun carriers in the state to have a handgun permit. The law becomes effective Friday. Knowing that violent crime disproportionately impacts Black neighborhoods, residents worry these relaxed gun laws may only make the problem worse. Many said they await this day with anxiety. And fear. - ADVERTISEMENT - When the city counted its 100th homicide in June, 81% were a result of gunshots, according to Indianapolis Metropolitan Police data, and 74% of those killed were Black. This tracks with data from 2020, where 183 Black victims accounted for 74.69% of total homicides. Dynel Fitzpatrick talks to Dynel Fitzpatrick while making t-shirts June, June 24, 2022, in Indianapolis. Fitzpatrick works for a Indy youth program, and worries the new gun law will effect those in his communities and the children he works with everyday. Nearly 40% of Indiana's Black residents live in Indianapolis according to Census data. Many told IndyStar they feel the new gun law is another grim example of state legislators' disregard for Black Hoosiers' wellbeing. They remain uncertain about what comes next. “It’s scary,” said Dynel Fitzpatrick, a life coach through the Office of Public Health and Safety’s violence reduction team. “This new law is sending the signal to our city, to the ones who don't have guns, ‘hey, go get a gun.’” Fitzpatrick, 46, opposes the law, even though he was once arrested for carrying a gun without a permit 20 years ago. He called it counterproductive to his current goal of keeping guns off the streets. Through his work with OPHS, he councils those who’ve either faced gun charges or experienced gun trauma and steers them away from violence. More: How Indianapolis police used the license to carry law after governor signed bill to end it Dynel Fitzpatrick helps Joseph Abernathy, 15, off screen, do computer work while Joseph Williams, background, also works on a computer June 24, 2022, in Indianapolis. Fitzpatrick leads an educational workshop through his program Fresh Start Resource Indy, working to improve the lives of the city's youth. “The old me,” Fitzpatrick said, “I would’ve been happy.” But now, he's concerned at the frightening joyfulness rising in the streets ahead of Friday. "I'm actually seeing that a lot of teenagers (18 and 19-year-olds) are actually eager for July 1," Fitzpatrick said. "They’re waiting." Fitzpatrick said he’s not only concerned for his safety and his family’s but for the lives of “everyone.” This includes police officers, who will potentially be forced to encounter more armed men; and the men carrying those guns, who will potentially be heightening the alarm of police more apt to shoot in self-defense. “It’s about to be a mess for the whole entire city, man,” Fitzpatrick said, “one big mess.” A grieving grandmother called new gun law 'the worst decision' by lawmakers Just over four weeks after Holcomb signed the permitless carry bill into law, 18 Hoosiers were shot and killed. Among the dead, 15 were Black victims. Terry Allen’s 19-year-old grandson was one of them. She recalled that fateful April evening painfully, having arrived at the scene of the crime after his body was already gone. “A part of my life, a part of my heart, is gone,” Allen, 53, said. “I’ll never be able to see his beautiful smile ever again.” Terry Allen, 53, poses for a portrait on Monday, June 27, 2022 in Indianapolis. Allen wears a t-shirt in remembrance of her Grandson Jamal Houston, 19, who was murdered this past April on. This has made Allen even more worried about the new Indiana gun law, which she believes will effect her community in Indianapolis. He was her firstborn grandson but not the first family member Allen said she’s lost to gun violence; experiences that have her in shock over the state’s decision to ease gun access. “It scares me,” Allen said. “I think it’s one of the worst things they ever came up with. It seems to me like it’s a purge.” More: Not everyone can carry a firearm starting July 1 in Indiana. Here's what remains illegal Indiana had the third-highest death rate for Black homicide victims in the U.S. in 2018, according to an analysis last year by the Violence Policy Center. Many of those were linked to guns. The impact of the new law on the state’s future ranking is dismal in Allen’s view. She fears less gun control means more lives lost and more families subject to tragedy. Terry Allen, 53, poses for a portrait on Monday, June 27, 2022, in Indianapolis. Allen wears a t-shirt in remembrance of her grandson Jamal Houston, 19, who was murdered this past April. These events make Allen even more worried about the new Indiana gun law, which she believes will effect her community in Indianapolis. “You never want to bury your family. You never want to bury your children. You never want to bury your grandchildren. And definitely,” Allen said, “you don’t want to go through it through gun violence.” Community activists feel lawmakers are working against them Aaron Green is the director of street outreach at VOICES, a local non-profit serving at-risk youth and the founder of his own non-profit, Struggle Made Us. He’s working to reduce the number of grieving grandmothers losing grandchildren to gunfire and the number of sorrowful sons watching fathers go the same way, like Green’s dad did. He said his father was shot and killed when Green was just 17 years old. “I wanted revenge,” Green said, “worse than anything in the world.” Permitless carry gun bill, vaping tax and more: What Indiana laws go into effect July 1? Green, 31, thanks God he never got the revenge he sought. But with the men he works with today, those that “have gun charges, have been shot or have had to shoot,” he sees similar angst. As he draws from his own pain to help rewrite the narratives of would-be shooters, he feels state lawmakers are working against him. A significant gun control measure has been eliminated simultaneously as homicides from shootings in Indianapolis have increased, from 73.84% in 2019 to 88.57% in 2021, according to IMPD data. “They got a new, big jail,” Green said, referring to the city's $589-million criminal justice campus built last year. “It seems to me like they’re trying to fill it up.” Aaron Green talks to his mentee Jesse Rollins, 14, while working at his clothing line store called "Struggle Made Me," June 28, 2022, in Indianapolis at Circle Center Mall. Green runs a non-profit called "Struggle Made Us," which is aimed at providing mentorship to at-risk youth around Indianapolis. He is part of a large number of Black Hoosiers who are fearful of the impact new constitutional carry laws will have on gun violence in their communities. He doesn’t believe permits have any impact on the number of guns on the street, which he said are already here in abundance, but he does think it will embolden gun carriers to tote them more freely. “There's a certain level of fear in the community as far as what this means," Green said. "This just feeds right into the constant trauma that we already experience.” Moving forward, Green said he’ll have to work harder to emphasize anger management and impulse control among those he works with; an added challenge, Green said, in the face of poverty and other obstacles riddling Black neighborhoods. New gun law a 'slap in the face' to Black communities Black Hoosiers aren’t the only ones concerned about permitless carry. Most law enforcement from across the state agree that it could be dangerous for police officers and also could jeopardize Hoosier safety. Indiana State Police Superintendent Douglas Carter offered sharp criticism of Republicans who endorsed the bill, before it was signed into law. IMPD officers say eliminating permit requirements removes a reliable measure for police to identify who is and isn’t lawfully carrying a handgun and that it restrains their ability to seize guns potentially connected to other crimes. Republican supporters of permitless carry like Rep. Ben Smaltz, R-Auburn – the bill's author – pushed it forward despite concerns. They believed handgun permit requirements were an unnecessary burden to constitutional rights. "(The law) simply allows law-abiding Hoosiers who are legally allowed to possess a handgun to carry without a government-issued permit," Smaltz said in an emailed statement. "Previously, the state issued permits to anyone who was eligible and applied, but could include long delays. I strongly believe that lawful citizens should be able to use their constitutional right to self-defense, because criminals are not waiting on a government permit." Smaltz did not respond to additional questions from IndyStar about the law's impact. Chair of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus, Rep. Robin Shackleford, D-Indianapolis, partly agrees, with one notable caveat. She told IndyStar permitless carry not only enables those that should have guns but also those that shouldn’t. Teddy bears are displayed in memory of someone who passed away from gun violence Monday, June 27, 2022, in Indianapolis. The memorial is outside of Terry Allen, 53, neighborhood. “People are frustrated and they're fearful,” Shackleford said, “because they don't know how you're going to differentiate.” Without the requirement of a permit, she said, people will be left to self-regulate. The law does still have restrictions on who can carry a handgun. And, the option to obtain a gun permit still exists, which experts encourage. Shackleford called the law a “slap in the face” to Black communities where she said residents have been asking and advocating for solutions to decrease the presence of guns, but instead were handed the opposite. “They feel like they totally have not been heard,” Shackleford said, “like there’s no care for our community and our kids that have been victims of homicides.” Shackleford said the state’s recent signal of apathy toward Black communities follows a common pattern of neglect: economic disinvestment, crumbling infrastructure, low employment, underfunded schools and scarce health services. The compound effect of which Shackleford said is likely to increase crime. “The law can always be changed,” Shackleford said, with a dose of fleeting optimism. “But I don't know how feasible it is with the current Republicans having a supermajority. ”I do believe it’s going to take more deaths to get them to change their mindset.” For more information about what the new law means, go here. Contact IndyStar reporter Brandon Drenon at 317-517-3340 or BDrenon@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter: @BrandonDrenon. Brandon is also a Report for America corps member with the GroundTruth Project, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to supporting the next generation of journalists in the U.S. and around the world.

Police say the repeal of Indiana's handgun permit law means someone openly carrying a gun can be on a sidewalk eyeing a school but cops can't legally ask them what they're doing Hannah Getahun Sat, July 2, 2022 at 8:35 PM Getty Images The Indiana State Legislature's repeal of gun permit requirements went into effect Friday. The repeal makes it harder to screen for dangerous individuals with weapons, police say. The law's exceptions include individuals with felonies or restraining orders against them. Indiana repealed a law requiring handgun owners to carry a permit — and police say it will make their job more difficult by removing checks against individuals who commit crimes with weapons. House Bill 1077 was passed in March by the state legislature, took effect on Friday, and allows those over 18 to carry a handgun without a permit. The law's exceptions include individuals with felonies, restraining orders against them, or a mental illness that makes them dangerous, the Associated Press reported. Police advocates told the AP that permits helped to screen for dangerous individuals with weapons. "We have to go through another step or two in order to be able to run a criminal check," state police spokesperson Capt. Ron Galaviz told the AP. "We won't necessarily be able to do it there on the side of the road." Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin told WDRB the law would make people fearful in public. "A guy can stand out there — or a girl or whoever with a rifle, an AR-15 or a handgun — and stand there on a sidewalk looking at the school," Goodin told WDRB. "The difference is this: We can't even stop and ask them what they're doing because of this law." Across the country, conservatives have renewed attention to laws that protect the right to carry guns. Some of the laws, like Louisiana's and Ohio's bills to allow teachers to carry weapons, were proposed and passed in the wake of the Robb Elementary school and TOPS grocery store shootings in May. Conversely, the shootings galvanized legislators in Congress to pass more federal gun restrictions. The restrictions include an end to the "boyfriend loophole," red flag laws that allow authorities to take guns from individuals deemed a threat to the public, and enhanced background checks for those under 21 looking to purchase a gun. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the US Constitution protected the right to carry guns outside of the home. The law struck down a New York state law that required individuals who registered to carry guns outside of their homes to provide a proper cause for doing so. Indiana State Police did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Read the original article on Business Insider

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CDT readers Fri, July 1, 2022 at 5:00 AM Roe a matter of religious rights for Jewish women Attention Jewish women! Assert your religious rights! In Jewish law, the fetus is regarded as a physical part of the mother’s body, not separate from the mother, and not yet having life of its own or independent rights. Looking at abortion as viewed in the Old Testament, abortion is permitted, even required should the pregnancy endanger the physical or psychological life of the mother. Judaism values life and affirms that protecting existing life is paramount — and supersedes that of the fetus. The decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was pushed through by the Court’s self-avowed “originalists” who believe that because abortion wasn’t specifically mentioned in our 236-year-old Constitution, there is no constitutional right to one. When the Supreme Court narrowly ruled in 2018 that a Christian baker, opposed to gay marriage for religious reasons, could not be forced to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, the ruling was considered a victory for religious freedom. Religious freedom!? What about the religious freedom of Jewish women? That life begins at conception is a Christian notion. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is, therefore, a de facto declaration that this is a Christian nation. The signers of the U.S. Constitution sanctioned a secular republic, not a Christian nation. And according to our First Amendment, individual citizens are free to bring their religious convictions into the public arena, but the government is prohibited from favoring one religious view over another. Let’s test religious freedom regarding abortion. Marilyn Goldfarb, Boalsburg A destructive Republican Party Not your dad’s Republican Party? It’s not just Trump’s autocratic destruction of democratic principles. It’s also that the Republican Party has been taken over by libertarians, led by a massive infusion of funds over decades. The Koch brothers and a cadre of millionaires and billionaires have funded numerous organizations and they believe they have the right to do whatever they want without government interference. They are incrementally destroying peoples’ confidence in government, unions and collective bargaining, science and the press in order to destroy women’s rights, sexual preference rights, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protection, and any other program that entails costs for themselves. They control the Republican House and Senate members through threat of being primaried, massive reelection support for those who cooperate and through “economic liberty” education. Where economic “freedom” for themselves trumps all other rights. It is a key reason why so few stood up for fair democratic elections, added to Trump’s veiled threats. This “education” has been done stealthily, not only to those congressional members but to lawyers and judges, including the Supreme Court judges with the results just beginning to be seen. Over 40% of the judiciary has now been indoctrinated. They take this approach because they know the public would not support these ideas. Rule by majority is anathema to these people. They have been working to affect and install state Republican leaders to enact their ALEC group measures as well. It will mean servitude for most and no democracy. Read “Democracy in Chains.” Doug Keith, State College Apply SCOTUS’ ‘twisted reasoning’ further So six unelected ideological extremists on the Supreme Court — most of them nominated by Presidents who received a minority of the popular vote, and holding lifetime appointments making them utterly unaccountable to the public in our supposed democracy — have told us that individual states will decide whether or not you can get an abortion. Why didn’t they take this idea further? Why didn’t they decree that each individual congressional district can make that decision on behalf of the women who live there? Or why not individual counties? Or make it even more democratic. Let each town and city decide whether or not abortion will be legal there? Or better yet, each ZIP code? In fact, let’s take the twisted reasoning of the six Supreme Court radical ideologues to its logical conclusion: Let each individual woman decide whether or not she wants an abortion! Howard Bond, State College

people do not give a damn about abortion they want that power. and the harm they intend to do to these children after already being harmed tells me this is the case. and some want to give the rapist power to visit their child in some cases while the baby still belong to the child that was raped. i mean how in the hell did we get here? what happened to common sense? we live in a really unusual time with people believing and doing some really crazy stuff. i always thought and had enough faith in my fellow americans that we would be better than this and instead we have gotten worse. i have gotten to the point where i have to control my fear anymore when i should be relaxing and enjoying the last part of my life. it is really heartbreaking to me. i honestly thought even at our worst we would get better. the trick is on me it seems.

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i know a lady was raped by an uncle from 4 to 16 years of age. she has to have the cartoon network on at night. she has series issues and something like this just would not work.

i think kids ought to be taught the truth in school. when we start rewriting history the ies come out or people use it to their advantage to stoke up hate.

some things never change. most of the southerners fighting in the civil war did not own slaves because mostly all the rich southern cats owned them but the poor had to go fight and suffer those losses. and they owned very few slaves. folks do not know a lot of southerners deserted as well because they did not think it was fair to die protecting some rich cats property. and no it had nothing to do with bravery.

Mississippi lawmaker asked about a hypothetical 12-year-old child molested by a family member says they should have to carry that pregnancy to term Kelsey Vlamis Thu, June 30, 2022 at 9:45 PM·3 min read In this article: Philip Gunn American politician House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, recaps significant legislation that passed this session at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson, Tuesday, April 5, 2022.Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn praised the reversal of Roe v. Wade at a news conference. Gunn said a child victim of incest should carry a resulting pregnancy to term. "I believe life begins at conception. And every life is valuable," Gunn said. Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn said 12-year-old who is impregnated by a family member should have to carry that child to term, bucking incest exceptions to abortion bans. Gunn, a Republican, was speaking during a press conference after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. A Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy was at the center of the Supreme Court opinion that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion. The law includes exceptions for a medical emergency or "severe fetal abnormality," but none for pregnancies resulting from incest or rape. When a reporter asked Gunn about the possibility of an exception in cases of incest, he said he was unsure "what the Legislature's appetite" would be for adding such an exception to the law. The reporter then asked if he thought Mississippi's legislature should take another look at the matter, to which Gunn replied: "Personally, no. I do not." "I believe life begins at conception. And every life is valuable. Those are my personal beliefs," he said. Another reporter pressed Gunn on the point, asking if a 12-year-old child molested by her father or uncle should carry a resulting pregnancy to term. "That is my personal belief," Gunn replied, reiterating his stance that life begins at conception. Gunn added that he wanted the day to be about the reversal of Roe v. Wade. "I want today to be about the fact that we have seen an end to abortion in this country. These other things that y'all are talking about are certainly things we can talk about moving forward. I do not want those things to detract from the significance of this day," he said. An even more restrictive "trigger law" is set to take effect in Mississippi next week after the attorney general certified it on Monday. That law bans all abortions, with exceptions if the mother's life is in danger or the pregnancy is the result of a rape that has been reported. It does not include an exception for incest. Exceptions for rape and incest have long been popular among conservatives. Every Republican president since Ronald Reagan has supported exceptions to abortions bans for cases of rape, incest, or harm to the mother, but that appears to be changing. An increasing number of Republican lawmakers have come out in opposition to such exceptions, including Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts. Of the 13 trigger laws set to take effect upon the fall of Roe, all contain exceptions for the mother's health but most do not include exceptions for rape or incest. Gunn did not respond to Insider's request for comment. this sickens me to no end and i do not care for abortion i just refuse to tell someone what they can and cannot do with their body. and trust me it sickens me some folks use abortion as birth control versus using the pill or the day after pill. there is no way a twelve year old should have to carry. there is no way she is prepared to raise it much less deal with the damage mental and physical done to her. what about her parents? can they assure the child gets the extra care it needs if born handicapped which is one of the main reasons they came down on incest. the royals almost all over the world use to do it to strengthen their blood lines until they found out it made most folks insane and or handicapped. and now some wanker wants to put a little girl through that?

trump wanted badly to go to the capital many times. and i agree there are probably folks that would but trump is the pres and he let the whole country down. also i have never wanted to just go out and hurt or kill trump because i do not like him. i am so anti violence i do not even kid on it here because i would never want anyone seriously thinking i would threaten them. the fact is trump is everything we warned you guys about and many of you want to still play dumb.

you should google stuff sometimes about mr trump. yall said he was not racist but he fought to keep blacks out of his rentals. you say he is not violent but he sure talks a lot of violence including to hit a guy again. and of course he never bailed the guy out. as for pence show me where one single time...one.... where trump said we do not want to hurt pence or let pence alone. nothing like that. and with trump really what is out of context? i give it to yall like trump does and you guys get your nickers in a wad but if trump was doing it it was ok because yall certainly did not call him out on one single thing. not one. you know trump raped a kid barely a teenager and it went to court. i read the docs. you identified him. but in all things trump someone threatened the girl and her family and they immediately dropped the charges. go look it up. unless it was removed when trump became pres it is very eye opening. but then you guys all claimed the man that loves to just grab em by the ***** would never do any harm. hell is currently stiffing folks money he owes and you guys proclaimed him the second of jesus which i have found very offensive. but at the end of the day i have never voted for trump and i have never enabled him in any form or fashion. he is a turd and deserves to be flushed. you can take up for the man all you want but with his track record it is a bad look.

sorry but biden is trumps failure. he could not keep his mouth shut and people got tired of it and here we have biden. you know as well as i do if trump was even halfway normal he would still be pres. those little lies{and big ones} are on your guy. he buried himself and the country with his actions.

Auburn’s 2022-23 SEC basketball opponents announced By Tom Green | tgreen@al.com 3 minutes Feb 16, 2022; Auburn, AL, USA; K.D. Johnson (0) reacts with Wendell Green Jr. (1) during the game between Auburn and Vanderbilt at Auburn Arena. Mandatory Credit: Jacob Taylor/AU AthleticsJacob Taylor/AU Athletics The road to a second consecutive SEC regular-season championship is starting to take shape for Auburn. After going wire-to-wire atop the league last season, Auburn found out its opponents for its 18-game SEC schedule for the 2022-23 season on Wednesday, as the SEC announced matchups for all 14 teams in the league. Dates and times for the full SEC schedule will be revealed at a later date, but for now, teams at least know which SEC opponents they will see next season. Auburn will have home-and-home series against Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee and Texas A&M next season. The other eight SEC games will include home games against Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi State and Missouri at Neville Arena, as well as road matchups against Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina and Vanderbilt. The announcement of Auburn’s opponents for the 18-game SEC slate brings further clarity to the Tigers’ full schedule for next season. On top of league games, Auburn has nine nonconference games currently set for 2022-23. The Tigers will open the season at home against George Mason on Nov. 7 before hosting USF at Neville Arena on Nov. 11. Winthrop then visits the Plains on Nov. 15 as part of the on-campus portion of the Cancun Challenge before Auburn heads to Mexico for a Nov. 22 matchup with Bradley in the nonconference showcase, followed by a Nov. 23 meeting with either Northwestern or Liberty. Upon returning from Cancun, Auburn will host Saint Louis on Nov. 27 -- a rare Sunday home game that will come the day after the Iron Bowl during Thanksgiving weekend -- before it embarks on a two-game West Coast road swing. Auburn will visit USC in Los Angeles on Dec. 18 and then travel to Seattle to face Washington on Dec. 21. Auburn will then face West Virginia on the road on Jan. 28, taking a brief break in conference play for the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge. Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group.

i doubt he ever got to the steering wheel but i bet he showed his ass and threatened to. i would like the truth myself as much as i hate to side with you. but even you should be able to understand with all the lies trump has thrown out there his lies have caught up with him and no one believes a word he says because he is such a liar.

if you think he gave a crap what happened to those people on the sixth you are an idiot. no other way to say it. you do not march to the capitol chanting hang mike pence only to show up and buy him a beer. man you people kill me. the man has no decency what so ever and it is all documented but you guys do not care. in fact biden is pres because of trump. tell YOU what YOU prove he did not. how about that? i really want to hear this one. he gassed his own supporters for a phony bible wave. he told members of his rally to hit em again and i will get you out of jail. please i am begging you to tell me how this is wrong. all trump cared about was they were not there to hurt him. so lets here it.....

what is worse is the people that are goper's that see it and and just let it happen.

so how do you tell whom they are? we have intelligent people on here that still love trump. at least jj will admit it unlike many others. and knowing what they know right now they would vote for him again. plus they do not understand when people get tired of someone people like biden get voted in because he is laid back and we need a break so to speak. this is why i voted for biden. am i happy? no. I am however happier than i was when trump was in office.

some people on here get offended if you call the church out on anything when they should be offended at many of the churches actions. I am still waiting for the church to apologize on it's stance on trump but i am not holding my breath. the second coming of jesus was one of my favorites.........

Rep. Ruben Gallego said a White House aide's testimony shows police were 'sent to be potentially slaughtered' by Trump Camila DeChalus Tue, June 28, 2022 at 3:23 PM·3 min read In this article: Ruben Gallego American politician Donald Trump 45th President of the United States Rep. Ruben Gallego says police were 'sent to be slaughtered' on Jan. 6 by Trump. An ex-aide testified that Trump knew there were not enough police at the US capitol. Gallego said the testimony of the former WH aide has shown Trump's involvement in the Jan 6 insurrection. Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego said that 'US Capitol Police officers were sent to be potentially slaughtered' on January 6 after a former White House staffer testified that former President Donald Trump knew that protesters were armed and that there was not enough security at the US Capitol building. "If it wasn't because of this brave 25-year-old woman, we wouldn't even know what was happening," the Arizona lawmaker told reporters at the hearing on Thursday, referring to Cassidy Hutchinson. "This is a very sad moment in our country right now." Gallego, a former US Marine who instructed fellow lawmakers in how to don gas masks during the Capitol attack, was one of several witnesses to the attack in the Cannon Caucus room who expressed shock at the aide's sworn account of that day. Video: Biggest reveals from Jan. 6 hearings thus far His remarks came after Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified that Trump and his White House advisers were informed that protesters on the National Mall were armed and heading to the US Capitol building on Jan. 6 where lawmakers were formalizing the victory of Trump's political opponent. In gripping testimony before the House Jan. 6 select committee, Hutchinson testified that Meadows and Trump seemed indifferent about the armed and angry crowd and that Trump was "furious" that the crowd area for his speech wasn't filled with people, which he attributed to metal detectors that would deter people carrying weapons. At one point, she recalled Trump saying, "I don't effing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away. Let my people in; they can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in." During that same period, she also recalled the White House staffers being informed that there was not enough security on Capitol Hill to handle the hundreds of protesters making their way into the building. US Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell told Insider that he felt betrayed after hearing Hutchinson recount how Trump and his staffers knew that the Capitol Police were outnumbered and how Trump wanted to march with his supporters. "Even if you give him the benefit of the doubt that he didn't know, he still didn't do anything to help us," he told Insider. "We wanted to lead the crowd according to the evidence put out today." Gonell was one of the many officers injured during the January 6 insurrection while attempting to stop the pro-Trump supporters from forcing their way into the US Capitol. An Army veteran who served in Iraq, Gonnell testified in 2021 before the same committee thinking, as he struggled to breath from the crowd's press: "This is how I'm going to die." More than 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the insurrection. Read the original article on Business Insider

i wonder how many potheads are still in prison? this is why i do not care as much for state rights over the feds. some states you have no problem with pot. some it is just a fine. some states will lock you up in jail and if you have been caught smoking enough you go to prison. and yet something like alcohol is legal altho it has killed tons of people by destroying their bodies or when they drive. it is stupid.

Alabama prisons overrun by drugs, mental illness: ‘That’s not rehabilitation’ By LJ Dawson Kaiser Health News (TNS) and Tribune Media Services 8-10 minutes Annissa Holland should be excited her son is coming home from prison after four long years of incarceration. Instead, she’s researching rehab centers to send him to as soon as he walks out the gate. She doesn’t know the person who’s coming home — the person who she said has been doing every drug he can get his hands on inside the Alabama prison system. She can hear it in the 34-year-old’s voice when he calls her on the prison phone. Her son is one of almost 20,000 inmates in the Alabama prison system living in conditions the U.S. Department of Justice has called inhumane. In two investigations, it found that the rampant use of drugs causes sexual abuse and “severe” violence in the state’s prisons. The department has sued Alabama, alleging conditions in its prisons violate inmates’ civil rights. According to the Alabama Department of Corrections’ own report, almost 60 pounds of illicit drugs were confiscated from its prisons in the first three months of this year. Even if Alabama’s prisons and jails are especially overrun by drugs, death and violence, their problems are not unique in the U.S. Within three weeks this spring, incarcerated people died of overdoses in Illinois, Oklahoma, New York and the District of Columbia. The alcohol and drug overdose death rate increased fivefold in prisons from 2009 through 2019, according to a recent study from the Pew Research Center — a surge that outpaced the national drug overdose rate, which tripled in the same period. As the opioid crisis ravages America, overdose deaths are sweeping through every corner of the nation, including jails and prisons. Criminal justice experts suggest that decades of using the legal system instead of community-based addiction treatment to address drug use have not led to a drop in drug use or overdoses. Instead, the rate of drug deaths behind bars in supposedly secure facilities has increased. This rise comes amid the decriminalization of cannabis in many parts of the country and a drop in the overall number of people incarcerated for drug crimes, according to the Pew report. “It certainly points to the need for alternative solutions that rely less on the criminal justice system to help people who are struggling with substance use disorders,” said Tracy Velázquez, senior manager for safety and justice programs at the Pew Charitable Trusts. For decades, drug use in America has mainly been addressed through the penal system — 1 in 5 people behind bars are there for a drug offense. Drug crimes were behind 30% of new admissions to Alabama prisons in March. Nationally, they were the leading cause of arrest, and almost 90% of arrests were for possession of drugs, not sale or manufacturing, according to the Pew study. The researchers also found that fewer than 8% of arrested people with a drug dependency received treatment while incarcerated. Velázquez said a lot of drug use is spurred by people with mental health issues attempting to self-medicate. Almost 40% of people in prisons and 44% in jails have a history of mental illness, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Holland said her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia and PTSD six years ago after struggling with drug use since his teens. The son, who asked that his name not be published for fear his comments could jeopardize his release from prison or subsequent parole, said a schizophrenic episode in 2017 led him to break into a house during a hurricane. He said he didn’t realize people were in the house until after he ate a sandwich, got a Coke from the fridge, and looked for dry clothes. They called the police. He was sent to prison on a charge of burglary. “They don’t put the mental health patients where they should be; they put them in prison,” Holland said. She’s not only frustrated by the lack of medical care and treatment her son has received, but also horrified at the access to drugs and the abuse she said her son has suffered in the overcrowded, understaffed Alabama prison system. He told KHN he’s been raped and beaten because of drug debts and put on suicide watch more than a dozen times. He said he turned back to using heroin, meth and the synthetic drug flakka while incarcerated. “We need to really focus on not assuming that putting someone in jail or prison is going to make them abstinent from drug use,” Velázquez said. “We really need to provide treatment that not only addresses the chemical, substance use disorder, but also addresses some of the underlying issues.” Beth Shelburne, who works with the American Civil Liberties Union, logged 19 drug-related deaths in Alabama prisons in 2021, the most she has seen since she started tracking them in 2018. She said those numbers are just a snapshot of what is going on inside Alabama’s prisons. The Justice Department found the state corrections department failed to accurately report deaths in its facilities. “A lot of the people that are dying, I would argue, don’t belong in prison,” Shelburne said. “What’s so disgusting about all this is we are sentencing people who are drug-addicted to time in these ‘correctional facilities,’ when we’re really just throwing them into drug dens.” The corrections department’s reports reveal at least seven overdose deaths in 2021, three of which officials classified as natural deaths. It reported 97 deaths in the first three months of this year that have yet to be fully classified. Though Republican Gov. Kay Ivey recently announced a grant of more than $500,000 for a program to help incarcerated people address drug use disorders, the number of graduates of drug treatment programs in the state’s prison system has plummeted in the past decade to record lows. About 3% of prisoners completed a treatment program in 2021, down from 14% in 2009. In contrast, California reported a 60% reduction in overdose deaths in its prisons in 2020, which state officials attributed to the start of a substance use treatment program and the widespread availability of medication-assisted therapy. Alabama’s system is developing a medication-assisted treatment plan with its health contractor, said Alabama Department of Corrections spokesperson Kelly Betts. Before 2019, medications that curb drug cravings or mute highs were given only to those who could be separated from the general prison population, according to Deborah Crook, the department’s health services deputy commissioner. “The science has changed considerably and there are more medication options that are safer to prescribe — even in general population,” she wrote in a statement. Though prison officials have long blamed visitors for bringing in drugs, the ban on visitation during the pandemic did not lead to a drop in drug use inside. Multiple officers were arrested in Alabama last year and accused of bringing drugs into jails and prisons, and the Department of Justice’s 2019 report found dozens of officers arrested in the previous two years on charges related to drug trafficking and other misconduct. Illegal drugs are “a challenge faced by correctional systems across the country,” Betts wrote in an email. “The ADOC is committed to enforcing our zero-tolerance policy on contraband and works very hard to eradicate it from our facilities.” Betts did not specify how these policies are enforced. The department also refused to respond to a detailed list of questions about drug use and overdoses in its prisons, citing the litigation with the Justice Department. Holland doesn’t know what will happen when her son gets out. He said he hopes he can restart his business as an electrician and provide for his family. But the four years of his so-called rehabilitation have been a nightmare for both of them. “They’re released messed-up, hurt and deeply dysfunctional. What do you do with someone that’s been through all that?” Holland said. “That’s not rehabilitation. It’s not.” ——— (KHN ( Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF ( Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.)

by the way boys they tried the open prayer thing in florida at i believe a grade school. guess who showed up? grins. the satanists with coloring books for the kids. need less to say they backed up quick. another group out west did the same thing and here come those pesky devil worshippers. i was checking out wiccans years ago and they were mostly super nice people. the satanists i never got around to looking into.

i know bubba and rick. hell they stole half my band in the nineties. he used to be one of the funniest cats you would ever meet and just fun to be around. his dad coached at oxford high school and later at jsu as well and he had football stories. hell my new band opened for the first rickhead convention at the convention center at oxford lake. we were setting up a massive PA and he comes walking in with a cheeseburger plate for every single worker there. and he got it free by promising the restaurant a huge shout out for free pub.bubba and his wife changed him. maybe his child drowning in a pool got to him but he really changed. he had the best stage presence i have ever seen not a huge star. his singing was ok and he had a great scream and his fans did not care they loved him anyway.