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Karen Bass refuses to give ‘yes or no’ answer on whether noncitizens should vote in LA: ‘It depends’

Los Angeles mayoral candidates clashed Wednesday night when a simple yes-or-no question on whether noncitizens should be allowed to vote in local elections exposed a sharp divide.

During a debate hosted by NBC4 and Telemundo, moderator Enrique Chiabra pressed candidates for a yes-or-no answer. Democrat Mayor Karen Bass declined to do so, while Republican challenger Spencer Pratt responded flatly, “No.”

Bass instead said, “It depends,” adding, “It’s not a yes or no.”

The exchange comes as a Los Angeles city councilmember has renewed debate on the issue and is pushing to put the question before voters on the November ballot.

While federal law bars noncitizens from voting in federal elections, some U.S. cities — including a few in California — allow limited forms of noncitizen voting in local races.

When explaining her answer, Bass said the term “noncitizens” can include legal residents.

“Well, first of all, when you say noncitizens, it doesn’t mean they’re here illegally. It doesn’t mean they’re undocumented. They can have green cards. They could be here perfectly legal,” Bass said. “And there’s a lot of states and cities that do that on very, very local elections. We have to see what the councilman is proposing.”

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Gov. Whitmer-Appointed Judge Forces Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson to Stop Hiding Critical Voting Data from the Public

In yet another major victory for election integrity warriors and government transparency, the Michigan Court of Claims just slammed the brakes on the Michigan Bureau of Elections’ blatant attempt to hide how voters actually cast their ballots.

In an Opinion and Order Granting Summary Disposition to Plaintiff, Court of Claims Judge Christopher P. Yates ruled in favor of longtime election integrity advocate Phani Mantravadi, Founder of Check My Vote,  in his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

The fight was over the Bureau’s sudden decision in March 2024 to begin redacting the all-important “Voting Type” column from the Qualified Voter File (QVF). This column shows whether each voter cast their ballot on Election Day (ED), Early In-Person (EV), or by Absentee ballot (A).

For years, this critical information was publicly available. Then, under Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Bureau quietly started stripping it out — claiming it was necessary to protect the “secret ballot.”

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Barack Obama Complains About ‘Politicization’ of DOJ — Then Encourages Stephen Colbert to Run For President!

Former President Barack Obama is complaining about the “politicization” of the Department of Justice, a topic about which he himself is very well versed.

During his pre-recorded appearance on the soon-to-be-canceled Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Obama went after Trump for allegedly targeting his enemies via the DOJ.

“We can’t overcome the politicization of our justice system, the awesome power of the state,” Obama complained.

“The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted.

”The AG is the people’s lawyer, it’s not the president’s consigliere.”

“You can’t have a situation in which whoever is in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies or reward their friends.”

This is particularly ironic given the Obama and Biden DOJ’s extensive record of targeting conservatives and their political opponents, most notably in the wake of the January 6th protests.

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Supreme Court Denies Civil Rights Group’s Motion to Recall Louisiana Redistricting Judgment

The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a civil rights group’s motion to recall the Louisiana redistricting judgment.

The Supreme Court last month declared Louisiana’s newly-drawn Congressional map an unconstitutional gerrymander.

The high court issued the ruling 6-3.

Liberal justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson dissented.

The case, State of Louisiana v. Phillip Callais (and the related Press Robinson v. Phillip Callais), stems from Louisiana’s woke lawmakers caving to left-wing judges and creating a second “majority-minority” congressional district.

Louisiana delayed its May 16 House primaries last Thursday after the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ruling.

“Yesterday’s historic Supreme Court victory for Louisiana has an immediate consequence for the State. The Supreme Court previously stayed an injunction against the State’s enforcement of the current Congressional map,” Governor Landry said last month.

“By the Court’s order, however, that stay automatically terminated with yesterday’s decision. Accordingly, the State is currently enjoined from carrying out congressional elections under the current map. We are working together with the Legislature and the Secretary of State’s office to develop a path forward,” he said.

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WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Can’t Prove They’re Citizens

Not a single Democrat in the Senate is willing to support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, and a new op-ed from The Washington Post might just explain why.

The SAVE America Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) to require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and voter ID to cast a ballot in federal elections. The current “safeguard” preventing noncitizens from registering to vote and voting is a tiny square box on the federal registration form asking applicants to attest they are telling the truth about their citizenship status. In other words, the honor system.

The legislation passed the House (with a single Democrat voting alongside Republicans) but has stalled in the Republican controlled Senate, with a few RINOs and the entire Democrat apparatus opposing the election integrity legislation.

But perhaps Democrats are opposed to the common sense election integrity measure because the legislation would endanger New Mexico and turn the battleground of Nevada into a solid Republican state, according to analysis from Yale Law School Professor Ian Ayres and Yale research fellow Jacob Slaughter.

The two explain in their op-ed that they estimate at the national level, “89 percent of Democrats and 90 percent of Republicans hold qualifying citizenship documents, a difference that is not statistically significant.”

That seemingly meaningless 1 percent difference, however, would actually be state-flipping, according to Ayres and Slaughter.

“But because the composition of the electorate varies across states, national parity masks meaningful state-level variation — and what we find, looking state by state, is that the bill may significantly advantage Republicans in a few key ones.”

Ayres and Slaughter estimate that Democrats are 13 percentage points “less likely than Republicans to hold qualifying registration documents” in New Mexico. And while Ayres and Slaughter estimate the passage of the SAVE America Act would only have “modest” consequences for the midterms because those currently registered to vote would be “unaffected,” “as more people would need to register after moving, changing their names or reaching voting age, this document shortfall could flip New Mexico to an electorate where Republicans have a 3.3-percentage-point advantage.”

Ayres and Slaughter see the GOP having a similar advantage in the battleground state of Nevada. Their research shows that Democrats are 5.3 percentage points less likely than Republicans to have the required documents, and they project that passage of the legislation “would push [Nevada] from battleground to comfortably Republican.”

“Nationally, the overall effect leans Republican: Eight of 15 swing states show rightward shifts, and the only statistically significant results favor Republicans,” Ayres and Slaughter wrote.

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Romanian Globalist Government Collapses After Losing No-Confidence Vote in Parliament

Romania gets rid of ‘pro-EU’ government.

The Romanian establishment, with the help of the judiciary, canceled the 2024 Presidential elections led in the first round by Calin Georgescu, arrested and charged him, and it became clear: the re-do of the election had to be won by a Globalist like Nicusor Dan.

But the Brussels-supported government of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan was not to be long-lasting.

Today (5), Romanian lawmakers toppled Bolojan’s government in a no-confidence vote.

Pro-EU outlets say this move ‘puts at risk the country’s sovereign debt ratings, its access to ‌EU funds and the stability of its currency’.

But the truth is that Romanians don’t want to be ruled by Brussels – it’s as simple as that.

Reuters reported:

“Bolojan has led a minority government since late April when the Social Democrats – the largest party in parliament – called for his resignation and then walked out of the four-party coalition and teamed up with the far-right opposition to file a no-confidence vote.

Tuesday’s no-confidence motion garnered 281 votes, ​above the 233 needed to pass, the official parliamentary count showed.

Although a snap election looks unlikely, financial markets are concerned that ​the turbulence could mean Bucharest wavers in its commitment to narrowing the European Union’s biggest budget deficit. Romania’s leu ⁠currency fell to a record low against the euro ahead of Tuesday’s vote.”

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LA Democrats Move to Use Illegal Aliens to Erase Citizens from Their Own Elections

A proposal introduced by Los Angeles City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez would ask voters to grant the City Council authority to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, including races for mayor, City Council, and the Los Angeles Board of Education.

Soto-Martínez, who represents a district spanning Echo Park to Hollywood, released the proposal on Wednesday.

If advanced, the measure would be placed before voters in the Nov. 3 election.

The proposal must first receive approval from the City Council to appear on the ballot.

If voters approve the measure, the council would then need to pass an ordinance revising city election laws to implement the change.

The proposal has been signed by Councilmember Ysabel Jurado and is scheduled to move to the council’s rules committee for consideration.

Soto-Martínez said the measure is intended to address concerns within immigrant communities.

He referenced his own family background while explaining the proposal.

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Does Someone Want to Tell Him? Pete Buttigieg Gets ROASTED as He Forgets An Inconvenient Fact While Calling for Abolishing the Electoral College

Pete Buttigieg likes to fancy himself as a sophisticated and intelligent man, but ended up looking dumb while at a recent town hall event in Oklahoma.

As FOX 23 reported, the former Secretary of Transportation held a “Win the Era” town hall at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma two weeks ago where he discussed a variety of topics including artificial intelligence, LGBTQ rights, and healthcare.

But in a clip that has gone viral today, Buttigieg also pondered how great it would be if just got rid of the ‘pesky’ electoral college and used the popular vote to elect presidents.

This movement has been a Democrat clarion call ever since George W. Bush defeated Al Gore back in 2000 while losing the popular vote.

“One thing that would make a huge difference is if we selected our president by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the national Electoral College,” Buttigieg said to the roughly 2,000 people in attendance.

The audience responded to this by erupting in cheers for several seconds.

“It would be a really good idea,” Buttgieg continued. “Because any Democrat wanting to be president would have to campaign in Oklahoma.”

“By the way, any Republican would have to campaign in Brooklyn! that would be good for our democracy.”

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Do Elections Still Decide? The People of the United States v. Norm Eisen

Democracies do not usually collapse in a single dramatic moment.

They erode over time. Quietly and persistently. Often, through the habit of treating certain electoral outcomes as formally valid, yet morally unacceptable. Outcomes that must be managed, constrained, or corrected through legal, institutional, and media pressure.

No modern figure illustrates this pattern more clearly than Norm Eisen.

Eisen’s public record reflects a near-continuous arc of opposition to Donald Trump and the political movement that elected him.

From the pre-inauguration Brookings Emoluments Clause paper he co-authored, to early litigation through Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, to the 2017 Brookings obstruction report, to his role as special counsel guiding the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment, the effort did not pause.

Eisen’s efforts expanded through books, legal frameworks, advocacy platforms, and coordinated institutional responses.

The work continued through A Case for the American People, the edited volume Overcoming Trumpery, multiple editions of the Democracy Playbook, legal clearinghouses, ballot challenges, and ongoing leadership roles in organizations such as the Democracy Defenders Fund.

These are not isolated actions. They form a sustained ecosystem.

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