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Jordan: FBI Has ‘Refocused’ Away From ‘Targeting Citizens for Their Beliefs’

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This week, FBI Director Kash Patel appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Judiciary Committee, sparking headlines for fiery exchanges as he defended the bureau from Democrats’ attacks. On Wednesday, Patel appeared before House members, during which House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, had his own memorable moments. During his opening statement at Wednesday’s hearing, Jordan focused in part on how the FBI under then-Director Christopher Wray had been targeting Catholics as well as parents at local school board meetings. Jordan remarked that Patel had “ended the weaponization of…

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How Democrats Tied Their Own Hands on Redistricting

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As New York Governor Kathy Hochul denounced the GOP’s aggressive attempt to gerrymander Democrats into political oblivion this week, she lamented her party’s built-in disadvantage. “I’m tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back,” she told reporters. As political metaphors go, it’s not a bad one. Hochul omitted a key detail, however: Democrats provided the rope themselves. For more than a decade, they’ve tried to be the party of good government on redistricting. But Democrats’ support for letting independent commissions draw legislative maps has cost them…

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Security Experts Are ‘Losing Their Minds’ Over an FAA Proposal

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President Donald Trump’s “golden age of America” has no need for migrant labor. Picking crops? There are 34 million able-bodied American adults on Medicaid who can do that grueling work. Building homes? Native-born Americans will handle those jobs. Meat processing? The country has no use for foreign laborers willing to put in the hours for “slave wages.” When it comes to one of the country’s most sensitive and technically demanding government jobs, however, the Trump administration is quietly humming a different tune. I obtained documents showing that the Federal Aviation…

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