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So much for the Left’s trope that election fraud is a myth. Enter the chairwoman of the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, who openly advocated for Pennsylvania election officials to violate the law by counting illegal ballots in the U.S. Senate contest between challenger Dave McCormick and the incumbent Bob Casey, although every major media outlet has declared McCormick to be the winner.  Pennsylvania election officials should not take legal advice from Ellis-Marseglia, who is a social worker by education and training, as they are violating state and potentially federal law.  And yet Philadelphia and two other counties, Centre and Montgomery, are apparently following her down the road to perdition. The U.S. Senate’s Role And what did Ellis-Marseglia actually say?  “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country… People violate laws anytime they want.  So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention.”  ? Outrageous: A Democrat Bucks County Commissioner openly admits to violating state law by counting undated ballots, blatantly disregarding the PA Supreme Court's clear ruling. Her excuse? She doesn't care because "precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country, and… pic.twitter.com/ZrRKqP4d9Q— Dan Meuser (@Meuser4Congress) November 15, 2024 Her “precedent doesn’t matter anymore” is likely an allusion to (and a statement of her disapproval of) the Supreme Court’s 2022 opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the abortion precedent Roe v. Wade (1973). Courts will, no doubt, “pay attention” to her defiance of the law, but not for the reason she had hoped.  Even the left-leaning Washington Post editorialized that Democrats like Ellis-Marseglia are “thumb[ing] their nose at the rule of law.” The Post added that “elections need rules, established in advance of the voting, and those rules must be applied equally and consistently.” This defiance of the law and our legal system is “corrosive to democracy.” The Post is correct.  The U.S. Senate should use its power under the Constitution to prevent corrupt officials in Pennsylvania from stealing the Senate election, defying the law and our democratic process. No matter what happens in a dishonestly conducted recount in Pennsylvania, the Senate should not accept such behavior. As Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) warned Bob Casey and his lawyers and reminded his colleagues, under Article 1, Section 5 of the Constitution, “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members.” In other words, it is the Senate that has the ultimate power to judge who won the Pennsylvania Senate race when it convenes on Jan. 3, 2025, not Commissioner Ellis-Marseglia and her fellow conspirators.  It is not as if the Senate hasn’t used this authority in the past. In 1975, for example, it had to deal with two different election contests. One involved a race in Oklahoma between former Sen. (and former governor) Henry L. Bellmon, a Republican, and challenger Rep. Edmond Edmondson, a Democrat, in which Bellmon defeated Edmondson by 3,835 votes. The second involved a race for an open seat in New Hampshire between Rep. Louis Wyman, a Republican, and Insurance Commissioner John Durkin that was decided by 355 votes. The key point to note from both of these cases is that it is the Senate that has the final say on who won an election, and it can conduct a full investigation of everything that occurred, from the behavior of election officials to an examination of the ballots cast. In fact, in the Wyman-Durkin contest, which involved multiple recounts and both state and federal court decisions, the Senate committee assigned to investigate the case had 3,500 disputed ballots transported from New Hampshire to Washington, D.C., where “they were kept under guard” so that each one could be individually reviewed and the Senate could decide whether they should be counted or not. Prosecution by Local District Attorneys Furthermore, election officials openly defying the ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that provisional ballots must be signed in two places and that mail-in votes must be signed and dated could be prosecuted by local district attorneys for violating state criminal law.  Under Pennsylvania law, election officers commit felony fraud, punishable by up to seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine, if they “certify as correct a return of ballots in the ballot box which he knows to be fraudulent,” or if they “make any false entries in the district register,” or if they register “fraudulent votes upon any voting machine or of aiding in the perpetration of any such fraud,” or if they engage in a dozen other activities meant to count fraudulent votes. On top of that, the statute makes it a crime for anyone “who shall conspire with others to commit any of the offenses herein mentioned, or in any manner to prevent a free and fair primary or election.”  The Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, in collaboration with the state’s Office of Attorney General, published a guidance document for all elected district attorneys outlining the jurisdiction and criminal laws applicable to offenses arising under the state election code. There are dozens of state criminal statutes that cover the waterfront of election-related activities, many of which could possibly apply to election officials openly defying the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and intentionally and knowingly violating state law.  So, despite the ignorant comments from Ellis-Marseglia encouraging others to violate the law, election officers who are, or are considering, following her outrageous advice may want to think twice. There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania, each of which has an elected district attorney. Any election official in a county who is taking legal advice from a social worker and is violating the criminal law of the state by thumbing her nose at the state Supreme Court and applicable state law could be prosecuted by the local district attorney and, if convicted, spend time in prison.  Regardless, even if Pennsylvania law enforcement officials refuse to act, the U.S. Senate cannot allow such obstruction of our democratic process to stand, and it has the constitutional authority to stop it. The post Pennsylvania Officials Openly Admit to Trying to Steal Senate Seat appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his secretary of health and human services — and Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” couldn’t be more thrilled, though he does have some suggestions. “I want him to dismantle the money going back and forth from the drug companies, the revolving door,” Glenn tells head researcher Jason Buttrill and Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America.” Why? Glenn explains that this is because the system is corrupt and currently has little to nothing to do with America’s health and much more to do with the pockets of large corporations. “The food company goes to their group of known and trusted scientists and says, ‘We need a study that shows yellow number five is safe,’ and they’re like, ‘Oh, we’re going to do that study, it’s going to be fair and balanced and totally on the up and up,’” Glenn says. “You seem skeptical,” Stu comments, joking. “A little bit, just like I am with studies that are paid for by the people who are going to benefit from that study. It’s not neutral. The FDA then is given that study after it comes back and says, ‘Yellow number five is fine,’” Glenn continues. The FDA then approves the ingredient, but not without significant cost. “Half of the money from the FDA, half of their budget comes from food and pharmaceutical companies,” Glenn says. “Let’s say if you stopped that, you’d cut the FDA in half,” Stu comments. “Yes,” Glenn responds. “I want less input from the FDA, and I want an end to the revolving door and the obvious corruption that’s coming from money.” Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A bullet hit a Southwest Airlines plane near the cockpit as the flight was taxiing for takeoff at Dallas Love Field on Friday night, KXAS-TV reported.An airport spokesperson told the station the gunfire forced an evacuation of the flight, and KXAS added that Dallas Police are looking for whoever pulled the trigger.'The fact that it hit so very close to the cockpit seems too much of a coincidence.'Flight 2494 was struck around 8:30 p.m., KXAS said, citing the Federal Aviation Administration, which added that the plane — which was taxiing for takeoff to Indianapolis — returned to the gate where passengers deplaned.Police told the station they responded to a shooting call around 9:48 p.m., and no one was hurt.The runway was temporarily closed Friday night while police conducted their investigation, KXAS added.A Southwest spokesperson told the station the plane was removed from service. Police said they're leading the investigation, KXAS reported, adding an FBI airport liaison agent has been assigned to work with police "and other federal partners as deemed necessary."'A rattle outside of the plane'The station spoke to Shannon and Jamie Lee who were aboard the flight with two of their children; the couple told KXAS everything seemed normal until they heard the pilot on the loudspeaker. "He said there's a rattle outside of the plane, and they needed to return back to the gate," Jamie Lee recalled to the station.The couple told KXAS the pilot said the plane needed to be checked to determine if it was functional — then added that the front of the plane was damaged, and everyone would have to deplane. The Lees told the station everyone was calm."We had no idea that something happened," Shannon Lee told KXAS. "We thought Southwest had missed something in an inspection or something, you know ... a normal mechanical issue."The couple and their two sons didn't find out about the gunfire until they landed in Indianapolis around 2:30 a.m. and encountered a news crew, the station station said.“I had my son with me. He was sitting in the window seat. ... And we were just in row 13. So, we were pretty close to the cockpit," Shannon Lee added to KXAS. While the Lees told the station they're grateful for the way Southwest handled the initial sharing of information with passengers, they believe they should have been told what happened before getting on another flight."I was surprised that they had shut the runway, not really knowing if there were potentially other shots being fired or where the shot could have even come from," Jamie Lee told KXAS.Had they known the plane was shot at, the couple told the station they likely would have gone home that night and delayed their flight another day — or flown out of DFW International Airport instead."You have to give people a choice, whether they want to put their safety at risk a second time in one night," Shannon Lee told KXAS.The Lees added to the station that they want to find out what investigators uncover and what safety improvements may result before walking away from one of their favorite airports and airlines."We fly quite a bit ... and ... our kids fly on their own," Shannon Lee told KXAS. "So, it is concerning."The station said Southwest sent the Lees an email apology as well as a voucher toward a future flight.'Holy cow'Armen Kurdian — a retired Navy captain and Naval flight officer — told KXAS his "first thought is like, 'Holy cow, somebody just shot a gun, and it hit a commercial aircraft!"Kurdian added to the station that investigators will start by figuring out where the bullet came from: "So, what was the orientation of the aircraft when it was actually hit? How deep did the bullet penetrate? That'll tell you what its speed was. And that'll give you an idea of the range from which it was fired."Kurdian added to KXAS they'll also be looking into whether or not the shot was intentional: "The fact that it hit so very close to the cockpit seems too much of a coincidence. The odds of that happening, I think, got to be really, really high."He also told the station that the damage could be wide-ranging — from something small like an inoperative light switch to something bigger, such as the GPS system not working. "Now, if [the bullet] hits something more vital, say like a hydraulic system, then the pilots would be alerted rather quickly that there would be ... a pressure drop in the hydraulic system," Kurdian added to KXAS. He noted to the station that such airliners have a lot of backup systems, and it's likely a bullet to the cockpit would not have caused a crash — but the whole ordeal presents a security vulnerability."Did this put an idea into, say, a non-state or a state actor as, 'Oh, maybe this is something we can do to disrupt air travel'?" Kurdian wondered to KXAS.He added to the station that it would be wise for the airport and other agencies to look into safety measures. "So, does it mean random sweeps outside of the airport while flight operations are going on?" Kurdian asked the KXAS. "Does it mean that there [are] going to be more physical barricades or basically physical barriers — not just fences but things that you actually can't see through, concrete — around the airport?"You can view a video report here about the incident.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While Call of Duty Warzone prepared for its big integration for Black Ops 6, fan-favorite map Rebirth Island was put on the substitute bench for a short while. Players have been eagerly awaiting its return to the map rotation, and earlier today their prayers were answered. However, after roughly three hours of being part of this week’s Wazone playlist, Rebirth Island has been unceremoniously pulled from the FPS game due to a “map-specific issue.” Continue reading Warzone removes fan-favorite map Rebirth Island just 3 hours after its return MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Warzone loadouts, Best Warzone AR, Best Warzone guns

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