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House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Southern Poverty Law Center
The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET on May 20 on the Southern Poverty Law Center. Witnesses: Tyler O’Neil — senior editor, The Daily Signal Carol Swain — author, commentator, former professor at Vanderbilt University Additional witnesses may be announced.
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House Passes Key Housing Affordability Bill
Supporters say the legislation will help increase the number of new homes and lower costs. The bill now heads to the Senate.
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Abigail Spanberger’s Semi-Auto Ban Hits Another Bump In Road
‘She knew it banned popular hunting guns’
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FBI announces US violent crime rate plummeted by fastest rate in nearly 90 years…
“The 2025 crime data in this report shows the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937 – as well as huge decreases across the board in terms of aggravated assault, rape, and robbery,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.
The findings come from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which collected data from over 17,000 law enforcement agencies.
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.
Appeals Court Strikes Down New York’s Concealed Carry Law for Private Property
The Second Circuit upheld the state’s ban on guns in public parks but rejected a rule covering private businesses open to the public.
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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.”