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RFK Jr: HHS Became A “Collaborator In Child Trafficking” Under Biden

RFK Jr: HHS Became A “Collaborator In Child Trafficking” Under Biden

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Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday that HHS is no longer facilitating child trafficking in the United States and is instead “very aggressively” searching for the hundreds of thousands of migrant children lost by the Biden administration. “We have ended HHS’s role as the principal vector in this country for child trafficking,” Kennedy said during a White House Cabinet meeting with President Trump and other top administration officials to mark the first 100 days of the president’s second term. “During the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and for slavery, and we have ended that,” RFK Jr. declared. In November 0f 2022, an HHS volunteer came forward to accuse the Biden regime of knowingly participating in the sex-trafficking of minor children after observing how it processed unaccompanied migrant children at an HHS Emergency Intake Site in Pomona, California. The whistleblower, Tara Lee Rodas, went to Project Veritas with her first hand account of how the Biden regime’s corrupt child sponsorship program exploited and …

Why Dana Carvey skipped the SNL 50 special despite recent appearances as Joe Biden

Why Dana Carvey skipped the SNL 50 special despite recent appearances as Joe Biden

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Dana Carvey last year returned to Saturday Night Live to play President Joe Biden and revive his Church Lady character. The 69-year-old comedian and actor was an SNL cast member from 1986 to 1993, yet he was notably absent from this weekend’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Variety reports that Carvey came down with a “bad flu” and was too sick to attend. Other notable former cast members who missed the star-studded event were Bill Hader, who reportedly had a “longstanding scheduling conflict”, and Dan Aykroyd, who also had “prior commitments.” Aykroyd did praise the event on X, writing: “Cracking a Head with pride at having been a co-founder of SNL along with everyone we were together with in those four years, five decades ago. “This telecast is as historical as the next moon landing. Comedy stars of our age all gathered under the aegis of America’s greatest …

Biden pardons Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Milley, Jan. 6 committee members

Biden pardons Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Milley, Jan. 6 committee members

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U.S. President Joe Biden reacts as he speaks from the Roosevelt Room about the jobs report and the state of the economy at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 10, 2025.  Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Joe Biden on Monday issued pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, members of Congress who investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and others who he said are under threat of being “baselessly” targeted for political purposes. The spate of preemptive pardons came hours before President-elect Donald Trump — who has called for some of his political foes to be jailed — takes office. “These public servants have served our nation with honor and distinction and do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions,” Biden said in a press release. “I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics. But these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing,” he said. The departing Democratic president also said he is pardoning staff who served on the House Jan. 6 …

No, Biden Can’t Change the Constitution

No, Biden Can’t Change the Constitution

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The president’s declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land” doesn’t make it so. Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: Allen J. Schaben / Getty and Bettmann / Getty. January 17, 2025, 3:08 PM ET Presidents typically spend their final days in the White House taking care of odds and ends: issuing pardons, signing some last executive orders, thanking staff. Joe Biden is doing all of those things—and also trying to change the Constitution on his way out the door. This morning, Biden declared on X that “the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.” Well, there you have it: The Constitution has a 28th amendment, and women’s rights have been enshrined across the country. Or not. Biden can’t change the Constitution, because the Constitution doesn’t allow him to. The fight for the ERA is older than the 82-year-old president, and it did not end with Biden’s social-media proclamation. The suffragist Alice Paul first proposed an equal-rights amendment in 1923. Nearly a half century later, in …

Pardon who? Hunter Biden case renews ethical debate over use and limits of peculiar presidential power

Pardon who? Hunter Biden case renews ethical debate over use and limits of peculiar presidential power

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(The Conversation) — The decision by President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, despite previously suggesting he would not do so, has reopened debate over the use of the presidential pardon. Hunter Biden will be spared potential jail time not simply over his convictions for gun and tax offenses, but any “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period Jan. 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.” During his first tenure in the White House, Donald Trump issued a total of 144 pardons. Following Biden’s move to pardon his son, Trump raised the issue of those convicted over involvement in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, raising expectations that he may use the pardon in their cases – something Trump has repeatedly promised to do. But should the pardon power be solely up to the president’s discretion? Or should there be restrictions on who can be granted a pardon? As a scholar of ethics and political philosophy, I find that much …

Biden administration races to approve clean energy loans before Trump takes over — here’s who is benefiting

Biden administration races to approve clean energy loans before Trump takes over — here’s who is benefiting

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The Department of Energy (DOE) is on a loan-approval spree in the lead-up to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the winners are all companies manufacturing clean energy solutions on U.S. soil. Companies like Stellantis and Samsung, Rivian, and most recently, EVgo. Trump has promised to cancel any unspent federal dollars under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a bipartisan climate law that allocated billions to building a domestic supply chain for clean energy. The IRA spurred a flurry of private investment as well. In particular, automakers and battery manufacturers have collectively invested or promised to invest around $112 billion in building domestic cell and module manufacturing plants for electric vehicles. Those factories have largely benefited Republican-led communities.  The fresh loans come from two DOE loan programs — the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program and the Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program — that the IRA revived and expanded, respectively. The ATVM program in particular, which went dormant under Trump’s first administration, once provided a much-needed $465 million loan to Tesla in 2009, …

Faith leaders, activists, the pope urge Biden to empty federal death row before Trump term

Faith leaders, activists, the pope urge Biden to empty federal death row before Trump term

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(RNS) — A group of faith leaders, activists, law enforcement officials and families of murder victims has called on President Joe Biden to spare the lives of about 40 inmates currently on death row in federal prisons. The campaign is prompted by concerns the Department of Justice will lift a moratorium imposed by the Biden administration in 2021 and begin to execute prisoners after President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Thirteen federal prisoners were executed during the first Trump administration — more than four times as many as under all the presidents combined since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988. Among those asking Biden to commute the sentences of death row inmates is the Rev. Sharon Risher, whose mother, Ethel Lance, was one of nine church members killed in the 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Risher cited Trump’s promise to restart executions in urging Biden to act. “It is vital that you deny him that opportunity by commuting every death sentence remaining on federal and military …

Durbin on Hunter Biden pardon: ‘If I have to have a bias in this area, it’s a loving parent who wants to protect his child’

Durbin on Hunter Biden pardon: ‘If I have to have a bias in this area, it’s a loving parent who wants to protect his child’

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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Sunday noted the past trauma in President Biden’s family when talking about his recent pardon of his son Hunter Biden. “This is a man who loves his children and has gone through quite an ordeal, having lost a former wife and child in [an] automobile accident, and seeing the two… Source link

The Hunter Biden Pardon Is a Strategic Mistake

The Hunter Biden Pardon Is a Strategic Mistake

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter is a done deal. The president has not only obviated the existing cases against Hunter; the sweep of the pardon effectively immunizes his son against prosecution for all federal crimes he may have committed over the course of more than a decade. This pardon is a terrible idea—“both dishonorable and unwise,” in the words of the Bulwark editor Jonathan Last—and, as my colleague Jonathan Chait wrote yesterday, it reflected Biden’s choice “to prioritize his own feelings over the defense of his country.” But it was also a tremendous strategic blunder, one that will haunt Democrats as they head into the first years of another Trump administration. The Constitution vests American presidents with the power to pardon anyone for crimes against the United States. (They cannot pardon people for offenses at the …