The Supreme Court handed the First Choice pro-life pregnancy center a huge victory Wednesday, ruling that it can challenge a New Jersey investigation seeking its private donor information. In a […]

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Study finds a majority of young Spaniards perceive mass migration as a "real threat" and associate it with rising crime.

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While Democrats want Americans to believe the Virginia redistricting fight is a minor technical dispute over maps, ballot language, and procedure, it is much more than that. Virginia is the test case for whether Democrats can redraw the political battlefield before the midterms while surviving legal challenges and calling it democracy.

To be clear, the state’s redistricting referendum passed by a narrow margin of roughly 51% to 49%, allowing a map that would change Virginia’s current 6-5 Democrat congressional split to a 10-1 Democrat advantage. This is a massive attempt to load the battlefield in the House before the midterm elections.

This case is now tied up in court battles, making it politically explosive. A Virginia circuit court blocked certification of the referendum, and the Virginia Supreme Court later allowed that block to remain in place for now. On appeal to the Virginia high court, the justices heard arguments on April 27 on whether the redistricting measure can stand. The court focused on whether Democrats complied with the Virginia Constitution’s procedural requirements for advancing the referendum.

Republicans had argued that Democrats used a special session originally called for another purpose and rushed the amendment through on a timeline that violated Virginia’s safeguards for constitutional amendments. This case has turned into a legitimacy story, with the courts weighing in on whether Democrats lawfully changed the rules or moved ahead without regard to the rule of law.

As usual, Democrats are arguing with the language of reform, fairness, and representation, but when you look at the actual politics, it is clear this was a power grab now facing serious constitutional scrutiny.

The Democrat Party has spent years lecturing Americans about “defending democracy,” but when it suspends a legal process to give itself four extra House seats, it is fair for any voter to ask how this better represents them instead of simply expanding Democrat control.

This move by Virginia Democrats is bigger than one state map. It is a new midterm template: change the rules in the middle of an election cycle, force Republicans to sue, and bet that the political upside arrives before the legal consequences do.

The gamble is all about timing. Democrats know courts often move slower than elections. If litigation drags past key ballot deadlines, candidate filing deadlines, or printing deadlines, they can argue it is too late to change course.

Even if the map is later struck down, a key part of the election cycle may already have been held under disputed lines. That is the real power play: win the advantage first, litigate the matter later.

The bigger irony is impossible to ignore. Democrats spent years telling Americans that democracy dies when rules are manipulated, norms are bent, and institutions are used as tools for political convenience. Now they are asking courts to bless a referendum that could radically tilt representation in their favor just months before the midterms.

Even media outlets and Democrat-aligned voices are acknowledging that the Virginia redistricting fight is not a neutral reform effort. CBS called it part of a nationwide battle for an advantage in 10 House districts. The Washington Post described it as a national redistricting war. Even Democracy Docket admitted that Virginia became the second Democrat-controlled state to approve a new redistricting plan in response to Trump-backed mid-decade gerrymandering in other states. That is not reform. It is retaliatory escalation, and voters can see it.

If the courts allow this maneuver, Democrats will have proved that legal process can be bent into a pre-November power grab. If the courts strike it down, they will expose something even more damaging: the party that speaks loudest about protecting democracy is the quickest to manipulate it when power is at stake.

That is why Virginia is no longer a map fight, but a legitimacy fight.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Shortly before the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling on Louisiana's proposed redrawing of its congressional map, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reportedly asked fellow Justice Clarence Thomas if it was too late to ask who this "Gerry Mander" person was.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has revealed that his home was targeted in a firebombing attack in the latest example of political violence directed towards the Brexit leader.

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NEW YORK CITY, NY — Facing a significant budget crisis, Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed he had called his mother to ask if he can borrow $4 billion.

The United States and several U.S.-allied Latin American and Caribbean nations on Tuesday released a joint statement in support of Panama amid the Chinese regime's ongoing retaliatory campaign after Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison lost control of two key Canal ports.

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Disney, the corporate giant that owns and regulates ESPN, the largest sports programming network in the world, has decided to keep ESPN, for now.

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A former college football national champion pleaded guilty to involvement in a $19.8 million fraud scandal for impersonating NFL players—wearing wigs and makeup in some cases to fool lenders—according to the Justice Department.

Luther Davis, 37, of Roswell, Georgia, was a defensive tackle for the Alabama Crimson Tide when the team won a national championship in 2010.

He and CJ Evins, 29, of Johns Creek, Georgia, pleaded guilty Monday to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

“Using fake documents, bogus corporations, wigs, and makeup, Davis and Evins convinced lenders they were NFL players, obtained millions of dollars in fraudulent loans, and used the proceeds of their crimes to purchase real estate and luxury items,” said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg of the Northern District of Georgia in a public statement.

“This scheme highlights that anyone can be a target of identity theft, and my office will vigorously investigate and prosecute swindlers who steal identities to defraud others,” Hertzberg continued.

The Justice Department did not release the names of the victims impersonated, but The Guardian first reported that the three NFL players were Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Penix Jr., former Cleveland Browns tight end David Njoku, and Green Bay Packers safety Xavier McKinney. None authorized Davis and Evins to obtain loans in their names.

Sentencing for Evins is scheduled for Aug. 4, and for Davis on Oct. 8, both before U.S. District Judge Steven D. Grimberg. The two were charged in March.

The Justice Department says that between at least May 26, 2023, and Oct. 25, 2024, Davis and Evins secured millions of dollars in loans while claiming to act on behalf of professional athletes they falsely said they represented.

Davis and Evins registered companies with names closely related to the impersonated athletes’ names or initials, opened bank accounts for the fictitious companies, provided false financial statements, created fraudulent email accounts, and obtained fake driver’s licenses and identification cards in the athletes’ names.

After obtaining the loans in the players’ names, they used the proceeds to pay off previous loan balances and to fund purchases and refinancing of real estate, jewelry, and watches, according to the Justice Department.

As they sought higher-value loans, lenders required borrowers to appear on camera at loan closings. That is when the defendants posed as the borrowers by impersonating several professional athletes, including wearing wigs and makeup and signing loan paperwork in the athletes’ names, according to the Justice Department.

The scheme was uncovered by a union representing professional athletes, according to the Justice Department. It did not identify whether this was the NFL Players Association.

The shots that rang through the ballroom at the Washington Hilton last week bounced off the same walls as when President Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed 45 years ago. But the reaction to the two events shows how much our culture has degraded.

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