7. Texas looking to ship illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C.
- While the pandemic is not over for student loan borrowers, it will soon be declared over at the U.S./Mexico border, and a flood of illegal immigrants is expected to flow into border states like Texas. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that if illegal aliens are released by federal agents, they will be offered voluntary transport to Washington, D.C.
- Although this all seems too good to be true, Abbott said his state was prepared to do something no other state has ever done and is preparing to evacuate these individuals from his state. How this will work is unknown because it is expected that tens of thousands of illegal immigrants will cross the border when the Biden administration ends the Trump-era Title 42 program that turned away illegal immigrants.
6. Marshall didn’t say Biden was ‘duly’ elected, and he’s standing by that
- Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall testified against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson last month, and during this time he was asked by U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) if President Joe Biden was “duly elected” in 2020, but Marshall would only answer, “He is the president of this country.”
- Marshall has further explained his comment and reason for not agreeing that Biden was “duly elected,” and said he “didn’t want to acknowledge specifically what [Whitehouse] was attempting to do was somehow or another legitimize that everything that took place in the 2020 election was appropriate.” Marshall added, “If they want to play political games that’s fine with them. I was there to talk about the specifics of why I objected to her testimony, or why I objected to her confirmation, and if he wants to have those other discussions then bring it on.”
5. Barfoot defends the ‘divisive concepts’ bill
- Legislation by State Representative Ed Oliver (R-Dadeville) focuses on preventing any prejudiced teaching of events where a religion, race or gender is made superior to others. Democrats and others have said that the bill would prevent historical teachings, but this is being denied by proponents of the bill.
- State Senator Will Barfoot (R-Pike Road) has defended the bill by saying, “[S]ome people have referred to it as a Critical Race Theory, or CRT, bill. It’s interesting to note that the words Critical Race Theory or CRT are not found in the bill. The bill itself has nine divisive concepts…I think even some of the Democratic members of the committee acknowledged that, by themselves, those concepts, nine divisive concepts… is something we shouldn’t be teaching or pushing on our kids.”
4. Tuberville will vote against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
- Both U.S. Senators Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) have announced that they will not vote to confirm U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, referencing her record on sentencing.
- In Tuberville’s meeting with Jackson, he asked about her previous record and said that her “answers to my questions were thoughtful but did not relieve my concerns about her sentencing record, particularly her record on sentencing of criminals who preyed on young children.” He advised, “We should do all we can to ensure our communities are safe and are safe places for them to grow up. That means holding criminals accountable to the full letter of the law. In listening to the calls I’m getting from the folks back home, Alabamians agree. So, I will vote no on Judge Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court later this week.”
3. Atrocities in Ukraine were likely deliberate and premeditated by Russia
- A senior defense official recently spoke with reporters about the atrocities coming out of Bucha and said that the events seem “deliberate” and “premeditated.” The official detailed, “Just looking at the imagery, when you see individuals with their hands tied behind their backs and evidence of being shot in the head – that certainly appears to be premeditated.”
- The official went on to add, “It appears to be planned. It certainly appears to be very, very deliberate. Clearly, the message was sent to the world of Russia’s brutality, and that’s a message that should not be forgotten here.” Details continue to be released from Bucha, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the entire thing “genocide.” President Joe Biden has called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be put on trial for war crimes.
2. Leaders respond to Jefferson County Schools’ failure to face down anti-religious activists
- In reaction to the news that Jefferson County Schools decided they would crumble under the weight of a strongly worded letter from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation and canceled pre-football game prayer to please them, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) tweeted, “At Auburn, I hired a team chaplain because I knew the positive impact it would have on my players. We need more God in our lives, not less.”
- Gubernatorial candidate Tim James released a statement directly responding to the issue at hand, saying, “[A]ctivist judges at both the federal and state level have overshot their constitutional bounds.” He suggested individuals should still gather to pray at these games and cited a case going before the Supreme Court that could impact these decisions as well.
1. Mike Durant’s campaign is taking some hits
- Spokesman for the Katie Britt U.S. Senate campaign Sean Ross recently criticized U.S. Senate candidate Mike Durant for his past comments on disarming citizens and alleged that Durant was not actually as conservative as his campaign made him appear, but Durant has said that the portions of his 2011 speech have been “mischaracterized.” Ross argued that even in Durant’s defense, “He doubled down on that argument that ‘no I don’t believe in it because it’s hard.’ That’s not the right answer. You shouldn’t believe in it because it’s not right and it’s unconstitutional. Not only is it unconstitutional, but we conservatives believe that rights like that to protect our families, to protect ourselves, to protect our homes, those are inalienable rights handed down by God.”
- Additionally, former U.S. Representative Parker Griffith (D-Huntsville) appeared on “The Jeff Poor Show,” where, according to the host, he diagnosed Mike Durant with PTSD and made “Hitler and Mao comparisons.” Griffith, a medical doctor, has run for multiple political offices as Democrat, Republican and independent and has been a regular critic of U.S. Representative Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) after losing to him in a GOP U.S. House primary in 2010.
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