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Biden Admin Used ‘Benghazi’ to Hide $90M to Planned Parenthood. Senator Wants DOJ to Probe
Biden administration officials may have sought to dodge public records laws and congressional oversight by classifying taxpayer-backed loans to Planned Parenthood as “Benghazi,” according to findings by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. Ernst, chairwoman of the Senate Small Business Committee, has been investigating Small Business Administration loans to the nation’s largest abortion provider under the Paycheck…
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Biden officials used codeword to hide loans to major abortion provider…
Top officials, including Biden SBA Administrator Isabella Guzman, concealed their maneuvering on the topic by substituting the words Planned Parenthood with “Benghazi” in emails, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who chairs the committee that oversees the agency, revealed Monday.
More than 90 Republican members of Congress wrote to the agency, noting that “under the rules of the CARES ACT, a nonprofit that exceeds 500 employees, as Planned Parenthood did, was not a small business and should be deemed ‘disqualified from PPP loans.’” Under SBA rules, entities that are “affiliated” with a larger entity aren’t small businesses.
U.S. Supreme Court upholds Texas’ newly redrawn congressional map…
The effort drew significant pushback, including from state House Democrats, who left Texas to temporarily deny the chamber the headcount needed to pass the map.
Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, saying the temporary ruling “disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge — that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right.”
Former FBI Director Indicted for ‘8647’ Post; King Charles Addresses US Congress | Capitol Report
Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with threatening the president. How does the case hinge on an Instagram post showing the phrase “8647”? The UK’s monarch makes a state visit touring Washington Tuesday—from the White House to Capitol Hill. What is he saying, and how are lawmakers interpreting it? President Donald Trump says […]
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to In-House Tribunals at the Labor Department
A federal appeals court ruled the internal adjudication system violates the Constitution.
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Police Have Reportedly Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 14 Times in Recent Years
Across the United States, communities are rethinking their use of Flock cameras and other automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems, and in many cases ending […]
The post Police Have Reportedly Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 14 Times in Recent Years appeared first on Institute for Justice.
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Former Fauci Aide Charged With Conspiring to Destroy Records
Dr. David Morens has acknowledged deleting records.
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