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IRS Barred from Auditing Trump’s Old Tax Returns

The Hill   Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order Tuesday that leaves the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “forever barred” from examining President Trump’s prior tax returns. The memo prohibits the IRS from pursuing claims against Trump, his family or his businesses, saying the agency “releases, waives, acquits” its pending action and is “forever barred and precluded” from pursuing claims against the president. The document comes after the Justice Department and Trump moved to voluntarily dismiss a $10 billion lawsuit against the agency for leaking his tax returns. In exchange, the Justice Department created a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to provide an avenue for individuals who allege they’ve been unfairly treated by previous administrations. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Female Officer Suspended After Objecting to Male in Her Locker Room

When a biological male was allowed to use the women’s locker room and Norfolk Police Department Officer Meghan Grabow objected, the department didn’t protect her – it suspended her, the female officer says.
What’s more, Martin Powers, a male officer who spoke up in support of Grabow, was suspended, then fired.
“I’m completely stripped down to my underwear, and… [in comes] a man,” Grabow told Independent Women’s Features, recalling her first locker room encounter with the male recruit. “Here comes this man in a suit and tie… And [he] just stared at me.”
Grabow said she was told by her superiors that she should just take her gun into the shower with her, if she felt unsafe – and that she must use female pronouns for the biological male recruit and refer to him as “female” and a “woman.” 
The transgender-identified recruit had also been caught deliberately using a female recruit’s shower towel, Powers said, noting that the sole female recruit was forced to change multiple times per day in front of the biological male.
Grabow and Powers tell Independent Women’s that the Norfolk Police Department severely retaliated against them for objecting to the department’s transgender policy:
“Both Powers and Grabow say they paid a steep price for speaking up—faced retaliation in the forms of termination and suspension. Grabow is currently appealing her suspension with the police department, Powers is attempting to exhaust all legal options.”
“The fear of reprisal is so serious” that females in the department are “terrified to even make a complaint about anything because they know what’s going to happen,” Officer Grabow said.
PJ Media notes the irony of the incident:
“The most ironic part is that the transgender-identified recruit ended up dropping out before officially becoming an officer. So Norfolk PD fired an officer of integrity (Powers), still has Grabow on suspension, and managed to drive away their only female recruit, all in order to affirm the mental illness of a man who left claiming he was emotionally traumatized.”

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Indications Mount That Anti-School Choice Campaigns Are Misleading Arizona Voters

Earlier this month, I documented how signature gatherers for two ballot initiatives to curb and regulate Arizona’s education savings account program were caught on camera giving inaccurate information to Arizona voters. A new round of videos confirms that the spread of misinformation is extensive on both campaigns. The entire Arizona school choice coalition opposes both…

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Virginia’s Anti-Gun Laws Under Fire

At the time of passage, Spanberger claimed she wanted more protections for hunters in the bill, but Gallatin posited, “The last thing Spanberger wants to do is sign a law that would motivate the state’s Republicans and independent voters to show up en masse to vote against the gerrymandered map, given that the state is nearly evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.”
In fact, as legal eagle Jonathan Turley predicted, “The governor’s acknowledgment that the law covers common hunting models will likely be cited in Second Amendment challenges.

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Supreme Court Directs Lower Courts to Reexamine Decisions in Voting Rights Act Cases

The high court said vote-dilution claims against Mississippi and North Dakota need to be reexamined after its recent landmark redistricting ruling.

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DC Cracking Down on ‘Teen Takeovers,’ Will Begin Prosecuting Parents

‘These are not kids being kids. This is criminal conduct,’ U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said.

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