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Court: Democrat Secretary Of State’s 2022 Rules For Poll Challengers Violated Michigan Law

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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance burdening poll challengers violates state law, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday.

In a 3-0 decision, the Michigan Court of Appeals determined that guidance issued by Benson, a Democrat, ahead of last year’s Aug. 2 primary elections violated provisions of the state’s Administrative Procedures Act, which outlines rulemaking authority for state agencies. More specifically, the court reaffirmed an October 2022 trial court ruling that Benson’s guidelines “reach beyond defendants’ general supervisory scope” and ordered that they be revised or rescinded.

Plaintiffs in the case include several election challengers from the 2022 midterms, the Michigan Republican Party, two candidates for the state legislature, and the Republican National Committee.

As Victoria Marshall previously explained in these pages, Benson’s updated guidance included regulations mandating individuals fill out a newly devised form in order to become poll challengers, as well as the creation of “an artificial deadline for when poll challengers may be appointed.” The new guidance also included restrictions on “who poll challengers can communicate with” and a prohibition on using “electronic devices in absentee ballot counting areas.”

“Defendants have broad authority to issue binding non-rule instructions on election workers, but not on challengers or other outside observers,” the court ruled. “Instructions directed at [election challengers] thus go beyond defendants’ immediate scope of inherent supervisory authority and instead function as regulations of general applicability, which for that reason must be issued as properly promulgated APA rules.”

After the trial court’s October 2022 decision mandated

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Leftists Decried Comey For Flagging Hillary’s Emails. Now They Love Tanya Chutkan’s Election Interference

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With less than three weeks until Election Day, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed “evidence” Special Counsel Jack Smith submitted to justify his lawfare attempts against former President Donald Trump. It’s certainly not the October Surprise the left was hoping for; the heavily redacted evidence fails to bolster Smith’s dubious claim that Trump should be denied his First Amendment right to question the outcome and administration of an election.

Whether the unsealed “evidence” corroborated Smith’s lawfare matters not. What matters is whether Smith, Chutkan, and the propaganda press can leverage it to undermine Trump’s chances by influencing public perception ahead of Nov. 5 — something that leftists once considered taboo when they thought their candidate was in the crosshairs.

Chutkan ordered the unsealing Thursday night, acknowledging the potential impact that doing so would have on the upcoming election.

“If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute — or appear to be — election interference,” Chutkan wrote. “The court will therefore continue to keep political considerations out of its decision-making, rather than incorporating them as Defendant requests.”

The unsealing comes just weeks after Chutkan unsealed Smith’s 165-page brief, which alleges Trump used “false claims of election fraud to disrupt the electoral process” in 2020. Smith argues that Trump’s “refuse[al] to say whether he would accept the election results” of 2020 (which saw unelected leaders usurp the authority of state

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Ladies, You Don’t Have To Vote For Kamala Harris

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Abortion is the only reason Harris has given women to vote for her — and it’s not enough.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, has given women many reasons to vote for him. This week, for instance, while Kamala Harris was offering pithy and empty condolences to the families of women murdered by illegal immigrants, Donald Trump dedicated an hour to addressing female voters’ concerns.

At a Georgia town hall on Wednesday, Trump tackled questions from an exclusively female audience, addressing their worries about everything from the dangers of illegal immigration to the high cost of food and child care to women’s safety. When one woman asked how quickly Trump could remove the threats that arise in sanctuary cities so women and children could live free of fear, for instance, Trump replied, “We are going to end all sanctuary cities immediately.” 

He also offered more details about how he would be women’s “protector.” As he stated in a speech last month in Pennsylvania: “You will no longer be abandoned, lonely, or scared. You will no longer be in danger. … You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today.”

Trump’s reassurances should be music to women’s ears as they struggle with the devastating effects of the Biden-Harris administration. 

The Effects of Biden and Harris 

For starters, the Biden-Harris administration rewrote Title IX, allowing men to compete in women’s sports and permitting them to infiltrate women’s-only spaces.

This administration’s open border policies have also led to avoidable

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Drones Are Swarming U.S. Military Bases, And Our Incompetent Bureaucracy Won’t Do Anything About It

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If you had told President Dwight D. Eisenhower that the military-industrial complex he famously warned against would find itself repeatedly foiled by an off-the-shelf product available at the grocery store, he probably would not have believed you.

The Oct. 12 story published in The Wall Street Journal, about how mysterious drones over Langley Air Force Base have baffled the best of America’s military and homeland security apparatus, is clearly not intended to leave you with this impression, yet it does. 

The Journal article was likely intended as yet another entry in the now-extensive subgenre of Pentagon reporting that might be called, “What are we going to do about the UFOs?”

In these stories, which seem to regularly appear several times a year (possibly timed with congressional appropriations), military and intelligence officials either publicly or anonymously complain to their regular Pentagon beat journalists about how they are stumped by the mysterious lights in the sky. In 2022, the Pentagon set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to better collect and analyze reports of these UFO sightings. Before AARO was the wordier Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), set up in 2021. Congress has had multiple UFO hearings, ranging from fairly serious investigations into the likely role of Russian and Chinese drones surveilling U.S. national security sites to “X Files”-style hearings with whistleblowers claiming the U.S. has recovered alien corpses — or, as they phrase it, “biologics.”

The Wall Street Journal piece attempted to emphasize how serious the deployment

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