A Wisconsin school denied extra reading help to a white dyslexic student because of his race, according to a conservative legal firm. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) said this week that a young boy attending King Elementary School in Green Bay was discriminated against because of a policy that prioritized literacy help to black, Hispanic, and American Indian students. WILL says that the policy, found in its “school success” plan, violates federal civil rights law and should be scrapped. The policy in question details that part of the school’s action plan should be “intentional work educating our focus students, prioritizing additional resources to First Nations, Black, and Hispanic students.” Colbey Decker told WILL that when she attempted to get extra reading help for her son because of his dyslexia, he was put on a waiting list for almost a year before he got help as part of a group. WILL says that Decker’s child would have been given individualized help if he had been black or Hispanic. “The school implied to me that my child would already be receiving one-on-one reading support if he were Black, Hispanic, or First Nation,” Decker said after reaching out to the school’s principal about the policy. “I was speechless. I think we need to help every student in need, and using the guise of ‘diversity’ simply creates more division and hurts all students.” In a letter to the Green Bay Public School District, WILL called for the policy to be ended. “This policy, while purporting to address disparities, discriminates against students of other races who are equally in need of support,” WILL lawyers Cory Brewer and Dan Lennington wrote. “Race is used both as a negative and as a stereotype, in violation of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. The district’s policy fails to treat students as individuals and disregards their unique needs.” Brewer told The Daily Wire that the firm was considering different legal responses to the policy, including filing a lawsuit or federal complaint. She said that the best-case scenario would be that the policy is rescinded and replaced with a colorblind standard that treats every student equally. “The school where our client’s son attends has a written plan that explicitly says additional resources will be prioritized to certain students based on race,” she told The Daily Wire. “Obviously, that means that other students are considered not a priority.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The school district denied that the race-based policy was in place at the district level in a statement to Fox. “The District received the letter from WILL yesterday and we are investigating the allegations. However, we can state unequivocally that the District does not have a policy that includes the language included in the letter,” the district said. “All District policies must be approved by the Board of Education and no such policy language exists.” Brewer told The Daily Wire that she was optimistic that the federal civil rights laws would be able to be applied to similar cases with the incoming Trump administration. “With the Trump administration coming in, we hope to have an opportunity for Title VI to be enforced in a way that ensures all individuals, such as our client’s son, to be treated as individuals and for students who need help to get help without regard to race,” she said.

President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview this week that Vice President Kamala Harris’ biggest mistake of the election was “taking the assignment” of running for president in the first place. Trump made the remarks in an interview with TIME that was published when the magazine announced that it had named Trump the “Person of the Year.” He said that it was a mistake because it’s important for people to “know what you’re good at.” “I think that when she wouldn’t talk to anybody, it shone a light on her,” Trump said. “In other words, if she would have gone out and just did interviews where they’re comparable to Steve, if there is anybody comparable, would say, could you do an interview here? An interview there? You know, she didn’t do anything.” “And people said, is there something wrong with her?” he continued. “Why would they? I mean, I’m doing this interview with you. I did interviews with, if I had the time, anybody that would ask, I’d do interviews. I think the Joe Rogan interview, you know, that went on for almost three and a half hours.” Trump said her campaign “made a big tactical mistake by literally not talking to the press, even if [it was] a really friendly” publication. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “They turned everybody down. They wouldn’t do the basic,” he said. “And people, including me, would start to say, is there something wrong with her? What’s wrong? Why wouldn’t you do some basic interviews?” “And then she had some pretty failed interviews, and maybe it was highlighted more than it would,” he added. “In other words, if she did those same interviews, but she did another 15 interviews, you know, you wouldn’t have really noticed it that much.” He said that she put such a high emphasis on performing extremely well in only a few interviews that when they didn’t go well, she was unable to recover from the fallout.

Republican Governors across the country signed onto a statement pledging their support for President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. The statement, led by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, comes as Trump has promised to enact the largest mass deportation campaign in American history. “As Republican governors, we stand united in support of President Donald Trump’s unwavering commitment to make America safe again by addressing the illegal immigration crisis and deporting illegal immigrants who pose a threat to our communities and national security,” the statement from the 26 Republican governors reads. The statement continued to provide support for Trump’s deportation agenda, specifically honing in on illegal aliens who are believed to be engaged in violent criminal activity. “Republican governors remain fully committed to supporting the Trump Administration’s efforts to deport dangerous criminals, gang members, and terrorists who are in this country illegally,” the statement says. “We understand the direct threat these criminal illegal immigrants pose to public safety and our national security, and we will do everything in our power to assist in removing them from our communities.” Recent polling indicates that Trump’s deportation agenda enjoys support among a significant majority of the American public. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The Republican governors went on to offer their state law enforcement and National Guard to assist in the deportation effort. “We stand ready to utilize every tool at our disposal—whether through state law enforcement or the National Guard—to support President Trump in this vital mission.” Multiple Democrat officials have pledged to oppose, and perhaps even obstruct, Trump’s attempt to conduct deportations and enforce federal immigration law. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said that state police will “absolutely not” cooperate with federal law enforcement agents as they attempt to carry out the mass deportation agenda. Her statements came just before ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations agents in the state arrested three illegal aliens who each allegedly raped children, including one who was freed by a local police department after the department allegedly flouted an immigration detainer request from ICE. Democrat Mayor of Denver, Colorado, Mike Johnston similarly said that he would resist attempts from the president to enforce federal immigration law. He even indicated that he would use the city’s police to attempt to prevent federal agents from entering the county. “More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston threatened. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.” The comments from Johnston came right as an illegal alien was arrested after allegedly raping the 14-year-old daughter of his boss, who was allowing the illegal alien to stay at his house. “Castillo forced himself on the 14-year-old daughter of the homeowner, sexually assaulting her. He left the residence before deputies arrived,” the local sheriff’s office said of the illegal alien’s alleged crime.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A new letter from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., puts federal health agencies on notice that he plans to subpoena unredacted records withheld by the Biden administration on potential adverse effects of the COVID-19 vaccines.  “It appears that even in the waning days of the Biden administration, your agencies will remain defiant in providing the public with complete information about the COVID-19 vaccines,” writes Johnson, incoming chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Select Subcommittee on Investigations, in the Dec. 5 letter shared with The Daily Signal. “If it becomes necessary to subpoena these and other requested records in the next Congress when I become chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, I will do so,” the Wisconsin Republican adds.  Johnson’s letter went to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra; Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf; and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Mandy Cohen. (CDC and FDA are agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services.) All three public health officials likely will be replaced shortly after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.  In 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Health requested data from officials with the CDC and FDA about adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines. Israeli health officials cited their concerns about heart conditions, myocarditis, and pericarditis in individuals who got a shot.  However, government documents released on the matter have been heavily redacted. “As a result of your agencies’ excessive redactions and incomplete productions, the complete account of how your agencies reviewed and analyzed the concerning health information from the Israeli Ministry of Health remains unclear,” Johnson writes in his letter to the HHS, CDC, and FDA officials.  The senator requested unredacted documents regarding the Israeli officials’ concerns as well as data on the COVID-19 vaccines.  “Your agencies’ lack of transparency is unacceptable,” Johnson tells the three Biden administration officials in the letter. “The public deserves the complete truth about your agencies’ awareness of and lack of response to the glaring health risks associated with the COVID-19 vaccines.” Johnson’s nine-page letter includes images of records and over 40 pages of enclosures demonstrating the heavily redacted documents he seeks information about. JohnsonLetter-2024-12-05 RHJ to HHS FDA CDC re COVID-19 vaccine documentsDownload After Republicans won a majority in the Senate in the Nov. 5 election, Johnson wrote to request that the three public health agencies produce other documents by Dec. 3. The agencies ignored his Nov. 19 request, perhaps because Johnson was still a ranking GOP member in the Democratic majority and not a chairman with the authority to compel production of records.  Spokespersons from the HHS, CDC, and FDA did not respond to inquiries from The Daily Signal for this story.  Johnson’s Dec. 5 letter includes a detailed timeline noting on Feb. 28, 2021, that CDC and FDA officials were notified about a request from the Israeli Ministry of Health for reports of young people contracting myocarditis after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.  On March 3, 2021, less than two months after President Joe Biden was sworn in, the Israeli Ministry of Health notified CDC again about reports of “a large number of myocarditis and pericarditis cases in young individuals.” The age range later was specified to be 16 to 30. A memo dated March 10, 2021, from Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, a member of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force, says: “The [Israeli] Ministry of Health stated they received reports of around 40 cases of this adverse event. They did not provide additional details about these cases.” The CDC’s March 10 response to Israel’s health officials says adverse conditions were found in only an “estimated 0.7 per million doses of vaccine administered.”  But, the CDC response notes, “limitations of passive surveillance such as under-reporting, lack of a control group, [and] missing and incomplete data make it challenging to assess causation.” By April 2021, the Israeli Ministry of Health had sent slides to the CDC and FDA, stating that “by the end of March 2021, 5.2 million Israelis received the first dose of the vaccine and 4.8 million received a second dose.” The Israeli agency added: “The incidence of myocarditis following dose 1 was 1.1 per million, and 11.7 per million following dose 2—a 964% increase in incidence between the two.” The Permanent Select Subcommittee on Investigations, which Johnson is expected to chair when the new Republican majority takes over Jan. 3, is part of the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee.  Any member of Congress may request documents from an executive branch agency, but only a committee or subcommittee majority has the subpoena power to compel the production of information.  The post EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Johnson Poised to Compel HHS to Cough Up COVID Documents appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Two dozen FBI confidential sources were part of the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and four of those informants illegally entered the building, according to a new report by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General.  Another 13 of the 26 confidential human sources were in restricted areas around the Capitol that day as lawmakers prepared to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, the report by the DOJ’s internal watchdog found.  “None of the CHSs [confidential human sources] who entered the Capitol or a restricted area has been prosecuted to date,” the report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz says. “The WFO [the FBI’s Washington Field Office] did not know that a total of 26 CHSs would be in DC for the events of January 6 because only four field offices had informed the WFO or FBI Headquarters that CHSs under the relevant field office’s jurisdiction—5 CHSs in total—would be traveling to DC on January 6.” The electoral certification of Joe Biden’s win over incumbent Donald Trump in the presidential race was delayed by the Jan. 6 protest when a mob breached the Capitol.  As a result, the Justice Department has prosecuted nearly 1,500 defendants, almost all of whom were charged either with illegally entering the Capitol or entering a restricted area around the Capitol. The Justice Department has said it charged over 500 with assault, resisting arrest, or impeding police officers.  “We determined that of the 26 CHSs [confidential human sources] who were in DC on January 6 in connection with the events of January 6, four entered the Capitol during the riot; an additional 13 entered the restricted area around the Capitol, which was a security perimeter established in preparation for the January 6 Electoral Certification; and nine neither entered a restricted area nor entered the Capitol or otherwise engaged in illegal activity,” the DOJ inspector general’s report says. The IG report comes one day after FBI Director Christopher Wray announced he is resigning from his position before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Members of Congress have raised questions about the roles played by FBI informants leading up to the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, by some of the protesters who walked there after hearing Trump speak on the Ellipse south of the White House.  Marcus Allen, an FBI employee who raised questions about FBI informants at the Capitol that day, was suspended without pay.  The report from Horowitz released Thursday also says that only three of the 26 confidential human sources were authorized by the FBI’s Washington Field Office to attend the Jan. 6 protest.  “In addition to these three CHSs, we found that 23 other FBI CHSs were in DC on January 6 in connection with the events planned for January 6,” the report says. “None of these FBI CHSs were authorized to enter the Capitol or a restricted area, or to otherwise break the law on January 6, nor was any CHS directed by the FBI to encourage others to commit illegal acts on January 6.” The Office of Inspector General recommended that, in the future, the FBI “clearly define a mechanism for making a formal determination whether and what kind of a nationwide intelligence and CHS canvass is necessary and appropriate under FBI policies; and provide sufficient guidance to ensure that relevant intelligence can be timely shared among the relevant FBI components and with non-FBI stakeholders.” The IG’s office announced later in 2021 that it would begin the investigation, but Horowitz said his office “paused” the probe pending the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigations. He said his office reinitiated the probe last year. The FBI did not respond to an inquiry from The Daily Signal for this story.  IG-J6-CHSDownload The post 26 FBI Informants Were at Capitol on Jan. 6, Investigation Finds appeared first on The Daily Signal.