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Mamdani Signs Law Giving Nonprofits First Dibs on Distressed NYC Buildings

DSA Already Embedding Its Political Message in Classrooms

We Are One-Year "Display Ad Free" - First Anniversary Fundraiser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBeCNjEFqzc

Sri Lanka Fears More Islamist Terror Attacks, Bans Burqas and Other Face Covering Items

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 30, 2019 9 Comments

Islamist terrorists could carry out another series of coordinated attacks, this time dressed up as military personnel, warned Sri Lankan security forces following the Easter Sunday's suicide bombings on churches and luxury hotels that killed at least 250 people and injured hundreds. The Sri Lankan government has enforced a new emergency law banning women from wearing a burqa and other types of face covering due to security reasons -- much to the dismay of the local Muslim leaders. "All sorts of face covers that hinders the identification of individuals" have been forbidden, the new presidential order states.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnWfHCtkrro#action=share

San Diego Mourns Loss of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, Synagogue Victim Who Shielded Rabbi

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 30, 2019 14 Comments

San Diego is mourning the loss of Lori Gilbert-Kaye, the woman killed in a shooting at Chabad of Poway near San Diego, as she was laid to rest amid praise for her kindness, faith and sacrifice.

Kaye, 60, died taking bullets for Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was evacuating children from the synagogue after gunfire broke out, Goldstein said.

Beto O’Rourke: Hey, Let’s Spend $5 Trillion Dollars Fighting Climate Change

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 30, 2019 24 Comments

Beto O'Rourke has stagnated in polls and isn't getting nearly as much adoring press coverage as he did just a month ago. Now he's trying to get some notice by advancing his own version of the Green New Deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6OmfxiV9jo

Terror plot targeting Southern California sites foiled by the FBI

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 29, 2019 26 Comments

A Southern California man has been arrested for allegedly planning to detonate improvised explosive devices at several Southern California locations to cause “mass casualties” and avenge recent attacks against Muslims across the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUfYtHfw3A

Deputy AG Rosenstein Resigns

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on April 29, 2019 22 Comments

Monday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein submitted his two-week notice. His last day will be May 11.

TPUSA Members: UT Tyler Attack Reflects Growing Campus Hostility Toward Conservatives

UT Austin Funds Graduate Student Research on ‘Reproductive Justice’

Texas Tech Regents Eliminate Several Race, Gender Studies Courses

Ransomware Gang Claims Credit for Vanderbilt Cyberattack

Occidental College Hosts Transgender Event That Mocks Trump

Franklin & Marshall College Drops Plan to Adopt 'Gender Neutral' Mascot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy3LD5EXQD0

ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Appears in Video, Justifies Sri Lanka Bombings

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 29, 2019 9 Comments

For the first time since July 2014, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has shown his face in a new video, in which he justified the bombings in Sri Lanka and praised those who have joined the terrorist group. Rita Katz, the director of SITE Intelligence, tweeted out the the interpretation of al-Baghdadi's words.

https://twitter.com/Harry1T6/status/1122140959968350209?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Among the far-left, Islamists, and violent white supremacists, anti-Israel antisemitism is the common theme

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2019 35 Comments

It's not like we haven't been warning about this for the ten-plus years Legal Insurrection has been in existence. We have. In posts too numerous to link, we have warned that the anti-Israel movement, including anti-Zionist and far left-wing Jews, has been so relentlessly demonizing and dehumanizing Israel that they were normalizing antisemitism.

Ilhan Omar Laughs Off Meghan McCain’s Anti-Semitism Criticism: ‘Oh, Bless Her Heart!’

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 29, 2019 15 Comments

After 19-year-old John Earnest opened fire on the Chabad of Pomway in California, the anti-Semitism that has plagued America came to the forefront. The View co-host Meghan McCain pushed back against both sides when it comes to anti-Semitism, but she rightfully pointed out Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitism. Omar took a shot at McCain this morning by tweeting, "Oh, bless her heart!" Us in the south know exactly what Southerners mean when they use that phrase.

Kim Foxx Subpoenaed Over Jussie Smollett Case While Judge Slams Her for Double Standard

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 29, 2019 25 Comments

Cook County's State' Attorney Kim Foxx's woes continue as retired appellate judge Sheila O'Brien filed a petition for a special prosecutor to investigate Foxx's office over the Jussie Smollett case. Foxx received a subpoena to appear in court along with her top deputy Joseph Magats. This news comes after one Cook County judge slammed Foxx for her double standards after her office prosecuted one woman for filing a false report. Those are the same charges Foxx's office dropped against Smollett.

Previewing Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College trial: ‘Social Justice’ free speech or defamation?

Posted by Daniel McGraw on April 29, 2019 16 Comments

With Gibson Bros. v. Oberlin College scheduled to start trial this week, there is much back and forth among political and legal analysts as to “what it is” and “what it is not.” For the most part, regardless of the political leanings of the various parties observing from the outside, this is still a basic tort law case involving libel and defamation.

Branco cartoon – Leader of the Pack

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 29, 2019 15 Comments

The oldest hate that's unfit to print....

Kirsten Gillibrand Struggles To Meet Donor Threshold To Make Debate Stage

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 28, 2019 27 Comments

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week as her 2020 presidential campaign team figures out that she may not make the cut . . . for the Democrat presidential debates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4pXtFOU6eY

California’s green governor is mystified by state’s high gas prices

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 28, 2019 31 Comments

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that the 2018 election results in California resulted in both a highly progressive governor and the retention of a gas tax after the repeal effort failed.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/republicans-lose-reagan-country-in-orange-county-1372374083795

In 2020, can California GOP retake seats lost in 2018?

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 28, 2019 30 Comments

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that as mail-in and absentee ballots were counted after the November 2018 election Republicans lost several seats in California districts. The losses include seven in Orange Country, a former reliably red area of the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-VxwtBZpUk&t=1138s

Right-Wing ‘Political Predators Preying on Migration Crisis,’ EU Socialists Complain Ahead of European Election

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 28, 2019 12 Comments

Right-wing parties are using the issue of immigration to mobilize voters ahead of the next month's EU election, the European socialists complain. "Political predators preying on migration crisis," the socialist candidate for the EU's top job, Frans Timmermans, told French TV network EuroNews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-HsoCsVVaU

Joe Biden Gets the All-Important Michael Avenatti Endorsement

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 28, 2019 24 Comments

Just a few months ago, people on CNN and MSNBC were calling Michael Avenatti a contender for 2020. His legal troubles have put an end to that, but Avenatti still wants to be involved so he endorsed Joe Biden. What a great win for Joe.

California Synagogue Shooting Leaves One Dead, Three Wounded; Suspect Apprehended

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on April 28, 2019 16 Comments

A shooting at the Chabad of Poway in California left one dead and three wounded Saturday. The suspect, 19-year-old San Diego resident John Earnest, is in custody. He is reported to have posted an anti-Semitic, anti-Trump manifesto online and is being investigated in connection to a Mosque arson, as well.