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FBI Director Wray and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas refused to testify publicly before the Senate regarding threats to our national security and border vulnerabilities. We don’t have a president, an FBI, or a Homeland Security Chief who is answerable to the people. Committee Chairman Gary Peters said Mayorkas and Wray’s refusal to appear is […] The post FBI Dir. Wray and DHS Secretary Mayorkas Refuse to Testify Publicly appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Incoming GOP Freshman Tom Barrett celebrated the bipartisanship from members of Congress after he was able to take over the same office his great grandfather occupied nearly a century ago. Earlier this week, the Republican — who flipped Michigan’s 7th Congressional District seat left open from Democrat Elissa Slotkin — sent out a letter to his new colleagues ahead of the freshmen lottery held in Congress that determines a new Representative’s office space, The Hill reported. “I’ve shared with several of you that my great-grandfather, Louis Rabaut from Michigan, served here in Congress and was first elected 90 years ago in 1934,” the letter from Barrett, posted on social media, read. “He died in office in 1961, long before I was born, so I never had the opportunity to meet him or ask him about his time in Congress, but his legacy is something my whole family is very proud of,” it added, noting that his family member occupied three different spaces in the Longworth House Office building. We got it! Appreciate everyone who followed along and showed their support. Thank you to my Freshman colleagues, Republicans AND Democrats, who were kind enough to allow me to select the office once occupied by my great grandfather. https://t.co/yKSDOJUcmu — Tom Barrett (@tombarrettmi7) November 21, 2024 “If one or more of them become available I would deeply appreciate it if you could afford me the opportunity to select one of them,” Barrett’s letter continued. “Perhaps 90 years from now one of your descendants will be asking their colleagues to hold your office available for them to occupy.” A while later, Barrett confirmed he had indeed gotten one of the spaces and was very appreciative to his colleagues. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “We got it! I appreciate everyone who followed along and showed their support,” Barrett wrote on X. “Thank you to my Freshmen colleagues, Republicans AND Democrats, who were kind enough to allow me to select the office once occupied by my great grandfather,” he added. Hours earlier Barrett shared a photo on his X account talking about his experience at orientation. “As New Member Orientation comes to a close, I wanted to congratulate my friend and future colleague, @lisaforcongress, on becoming Chair of the House Republican Conference,” the Congressmen-elect wrote. “She will be a fierce leader for the @HouseGOP and I look forward to working with her to return meaningful results for our state and our country.” He also made a post with a picture of the freshmen class on the steps of the Capitol that read, “Freshman class photo of the 119th Congress.”

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) announced Thursday evening that he has conceded the Senate race to Republican Dave McCormick after contesting the results of the election for two weeks. McCormick beat Casey by a narrow margin, just a little over 16,000 votes, according to the latest figures from the Associated Press. The margin was well within the 0.5% margin required to trigger an automatic recount. “I just called Dave McCormick to congratulate him on his election to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate,” Casey said in the statement. “As the first count of ballots is completed, Pennsylvanians can move forward with the knowledge that their voices were heard, whether their vote was the first to be counted or the last.” “This race was one of the closest in our Commonwealth’s history, decided by less than a quarter of a point,” he added. “I am grateful to the thousands of people who worked to make sure every eligible vote cast could be counted, including election officials in all 67 counties.” During my time in office, I have been guided by an inscription on the Finance Building in Harrisburg: “All public service is a trust, given in faith and accepted in honor.” Thank you for your trust in me for all these years, Pennsylvania. It has been the honor of my lifetime. pic.twitter.com/RSXEFwdge8 — Bob Casey Jr. (@Bob_Casey) November 21, 2024 McCormick’s victory in the state was one of several seats that Republicans flipped this cycle that gave the party a 53-47 majority in Congress’ upper chamber for the 119th Congress. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ Senator-elect McCormick thanked Casey for his “career to bettering our commonwealth.” “Dina and I want to extend our sincere gratitude to Senator Casey, Terese, and their family for their decades of service, hard work, and personal sacrifice,” he said. “I am so honored to represent every single citizen in Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and will fight for you every day. Thank you!”

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President-elect Donald Trump wasted little time in naming another attorney general Thursday after former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida withdrew his nomination earlier in the day. Trump nominated Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and prosecutor for nearly 20 years. “I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next Attorney General of the United States,” Trump posted Thursday night on his social media platform Truth Social. “Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on Violent Criminals, and made the streets safe for Florida Families.” “Then, as Florida’s first female Attorney General, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country,” Trump added. “She did such an incredible job, that I asked her to serve on our Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission during my first Term—We saved many lives!” The president-elect specifically hailed Bondi as a force against the weaponization of the federal government against conservatives. “For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans — Not anymore,” Trump wrote. “Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again. I have known Pam for many years — She is smart and tough, and is an AMERICA FIRST Fighter, who will do a terrific job as Attorney General!” Gaetz, Trump’s first pick for attorney general, withdrew his nomination in a surprise move Thursday amid sexual assault claims. The Justice Department previously investigated the claims against Gaetz and declined to press charges. Gaetz resigned from Congress after Trump nominated him, so his resignation brought an end to a congressional ethics investigation. Bondi, a prosecutor in Hillsborough County, Florida, served as Florida’s 37th attorney general from 2011 to 2019. She was the first woman to serve in that role. Bondi was one of Trump’s lawyers during his first impeachment trial in early 2020. Earlier this year she led the legal arm of the America First Policy Institute, the think tank started by veterans of the first Trump administration. This is a breaking story and will be updated. The post BREAKING: Trump Names Another Attorney General After Matt Gaetz’s Withdrawal appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Over 30 lawsuits, modeled after the tobacco cases of the 1990s, have been filed by state, county, and city attorneys against energy companies seeking damages for the alleged effects of greenhouse gas emissions. An important factor in these lawsuits is the role of third-party funding and nonprofit activists working behind the scenes to shape the litigation and influence the courts. One such organization that has taken center stage is the Environmental Law Institute’s Climate Judiciary Project, which claims to educate judges on climate science and related legal issues. According to the institute’s website, the project’s goal is to “provide neutral, objective information to the judiciary about the science of climate change as understood by experts.” Since 1990, the Climate Judiciary Project says it has trained more than 3,000 judges across 28 countries. But judges are supposed to be disinterested arbiters of the facts and the law—and critics point out that on climate issues, the Climate Judiciary Project is anything but neutral. In a 12-page report, the American Energy Institute accuses the Climate Judiciary Project of “teaching judges about debatable climate science” and compares it to “working over the referees before the game even starts.” The American Energy Institute contends that the so-called “objective” materials used by the CJP are crafted by activists who either advise the plaintiffs in these cases or support their claims through legal briefs. The American Energy Institute also claims that the CJP has ties to many of the plaintiffs suing energy companies. The CJP denies these allegations, telling RealClearPolitics that it “does not participate in litigation, provide support for or coordinate with any parties in litigation, or advise judges on how they should rule in any case.” Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Energy Alliance, also criticized the CJP’s efforts to influence judges before they rule on climate-related cases. She told RealClearPolitics that the connection between nonprofit groups, judges, and attorneys involved in these cases forms a “tangled web” of “foundation activist groups, law professors, and judges attempting to use lawsuits to enact climate change policy.” “The Environmental Law Institute, through its Climate Judiciary Project, is trying to control the entire process—from who’s suing, what they’re suing for, to what judges think about it,” she continued. In some cases, there are close connections between the CJP and the judges handling these lawsuits. One of the judges presiding over City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP, Hawaii State Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald, disclosed that he presented at a CJP course in April 2023. Shortly afterward, Recktenwald authored an opinion that ruled against the oil and gas companies’ motion to dismiss the case in Hawaii. Before he authored the opinion, Sgamma said that Recktenwald “clearly has a conflict of interest and needs to recuse himself from the case.” Several philanthropists funding the CJP have also poured money into Sher Edling LLP, the law firm representing Honolulu and many other cities and states in lawsuits against energy companies. Sher Edling openly states that its mission is to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for “decades-long deception” about climate change. The law firm’s cases, like the one in Honolulu, argue that these companies misled the public and contributed to climate-related damage. Both Sher Edling and the CJP receive funding from major philanthropic organizations such as the MacArthur Foundation, which supports efforts to address climate change. Other shared backers include the Collective Action Fund and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Another player in this arena is the Climate Accountability Institute, which has played a major coordinating role in climate litigation efforts. In 2012, it hosted a workshop in La Jolla, California, titled “Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control,” which was instrumental in planning climate-related lawsuits. Strategies promoted at the Climate Accountability Institute La Jolla workshop were later applied in lawsuits against energy companies. Chris Horner, a former senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told RealClearPolitics that a key approach outlined in the La Jolla workshop summary involved liberal private attorneys and nonprofits encouraging state attorneys general to probe for internal documents. These documents, they claimed, could potentially show that energy companies were aware of the risks of carbon dioxide emissions but either misrepresented or concealed this information. Horner noted that this bore fruit in 2015 when parties representing the Rockefeller Family Fund successfully urged the New York attorney general to leverage the Martin Act, which grants broad powers to investigate possible “misrepresentation of information” to investors, to “subpoena documents from ExxonMobil.”  Later, the House Oversight Committee also subpoenaed energy company records, which, although never publicly released, appeared in an amicus brief filed by a Rockefeller Family Fund-funded group called the Center for Climate Integrity in one of these state lawsuits alleging that energy companies knew of the risks of fossil fuels but chose not to disclose them publicly. Since then, the Climate Accountability Institute has focused on researching the potential damages of climate change and the accountability of energy companies. One of its largest projects is the Carbon Majors Database, which tracks the 100 largest fossil fuel producers since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The Climate Accountability Institute claims that these top 100 organizations are responsible for 52% of all greenhouse gas emissions. This work was not merely an intellectual exercise; the Climate Accountability Institute argues that staggeringly high “reparations” are warranted. In 2022 and 2023, it spent $55,000 on a paper, later published in the academic journal One Earth, titled “Time to pay the piper: Fossil fuel companies’ reparations for climate damages.” The paper argues that “companies engaged in the exploration, production, refining, and distribution of oil, gas, and coal” bear the primary responsibility for the costs associated with addressing climate harm. The estimated “damages” are substantial. The Climate Accountability Institute’s analysis indicates that cumulative reparations from the top 20 climate-producing companies would total $5.4 trillion for the period of 1988-2022, payable over 25 years from 2025 to 2050. However, the institute states that even if this $5.4 trillion were paid, it would not cover all damages being sought in “climate-related litigation filed in numerous jurisdictions based on varying legal theories against major oil, gas, and coal companies.” Not covered in the paper? Where the money to pay such judgments would ultimately come from. “In gas and oil, if they have to pay an enormous settlement, that gets passed on to the customers,” Peggy Little, senior litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance, told RealClearPolitics. “The settlements are so enormous that they have to have a bearing on the cost of gasoline and fossil fuels, which will hurt the oil and gas companies’ bottom lines, but also the price of filling up a tank of gas and everyday goods.” This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire The post Nonprofits Influence Climate Litigation Against Major Energy Companies appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Democrats are making abortion into a “sacrament” by completely eliminating doctors from the process, glorifying the act, and deregulating the procedure, according to the president and CEO of the world’s largest pro-life organization. Shawn Carney is the president and founder of the annual 40 Days for Life campaign, which has just concluded in a record 703 cities around the world. The organization helps end what it calls the “injustice of abortion” by empowering people to take action against abortion on a local level through prayer and community outreach. Its annual 40-day campaign helps accomplish this goal by hosting public prayer vigils outside abortion clinics. ? The largest 40 Days for Life campaign EVER begins TOMORROW in 703 cities worldwide! Join the mission to end abortion where YOU live. Watch our new video, share it with your friends, and spread the word. ? pic.twitter.com/UHplP33t2V— 40 Days for Life (@40daysforlife) September 24, 2024 Carney said Democrats do not want any regulations on abortion. “That’s been the message—that the Democrats are making abortion into a sacrament, and they don’t want any regulations on the sacrament,” Carney told The Daily Signal. “That’s why you see the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] doing things they never would have done before the overturning of Roe v. Wade.” The FDA has removed many abortion pill regulations. It has allowed retail pharmacies, such as CVS and Walgreens, to offer the pills and has allowed the pills to be sent to patients through the mail, with both changes significantly expanding access to abortion. According to The Washington Examiner, Kansas, Idaho, and Missouri are leading a renewed legal challenge against the FDA’s efforts to deregulate mifepristone, one half of the two-drug cocktail that is used to abort children under 10 weeks gestation. Carney also told The Daily Signal that doctors are being removed from the abortion process as many states with more lax abortion laws do not require a doctor to perform the abortion. According to Carney, this is another way of deregulating the process and making abortion more like a sacrament. “It’s really a brave new world when you get away from the original talking point which is, ‘I want this to be between a woman and her doctor,’” said Carney. “The abortionist isn’t her doctor. It’s usually not even an OB-GYN, and now it’s getting more rare than ever to actually see a doctor for an abortion.” Carney also highlighted the fact that a Planned Parenthood in Iowa invented something called a “webcam abortion,” in which an administrator gets on a webcam with a woman taking the abortion pill. Carney also said another way that Democrats are turning abortion into a sacrament by glorifying the act—he explained how left-leaning celebrities such as Alyssa Milano or Chelsea Clinton exalt abortion by invoking religious justifications. “Actress Alyssa Milano articulated her pro-abortion stance, suggested that the decision to have an abortion should involve a woman, her physician, and, you guessed it—God,” Carney wrote in Townhall. “Chelsea Clinton went so far as to say it is downright ‘unchristian’ to overturn Roe v. Wade.” This year’s 40 Days for Life Campaign came to an official close Wednesday evening. In Washington, D.C., organizers hosted a closing event outside a local Planned Parenthood. Organizers of the Washington, D.C., 40 Days for Life campaign outside a Washington, D.C., Planned Parenthood abortion facility on Nov. 20, 2024. (Ann Moreno, The Daily Signal) “Even though the official 40 Days for Life campaign is over, the message was clear,” Michael New, leading coordinator for 40 Days for Life D.C., told The Daily Signal. “Building a culture of life is not a 40 days of the year activity; it is a year-round activity. Attendees left motivated to step up their efforts in preventing abortion and offering meaningful, life-affirming alternatives to women, families, and children.” Carney said that the purpose of the campaign is to empower people on a local level to do something about abortion, to change hearts and minds, and to pray, fast, and call upon God. He also said that, according to ex-abortion workers who have joined his campaign over the years, the “no show” rate for abortion appointments goes up significantly when participants are outside clinics praying. “Many of them don’t show up for their appointments, according to the Planned Parenthood workers who have left,” Carney told The Daily Signal. “They say that, according to Planned Parenthood’s internal number, the ‘no show’ rate for abortions goes up by 75% when we’re out there praying.” This Fall we had 3 abortion workers approach @40daysforlife after having a change of heart and quitting. That’s 266 abortion workers total. God is merciful and good.— Shawn Carney (@CarneyShawn) November 12, 2024 Carney also told The Daily Signal that his campaign includes many women who have had abortions and women who kept their babies because they turned around at the last second due to the prayerful advocates outside the clinics. The Daily Signal reached out to Planned Parenthood, the Biden administration, Chelsea Clinton, and Alyssa Milano for comment, but none have replied as of publication time. The post Pro-Life Leader: 3 Ways Democrats Are Turning Abortion Into a ‘Sacrament’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.