Suppressors have crossed into “common use” territory—and that has serious implications for the NFA.

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Roughly 34,000 deceased people were discovered to still be on voter rolls in North Carolina, the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced.

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An advocacy group is asking Congress to investigate the tax-exempt status of one of the largest health care systems in New York City, pointing to massive executive pay hikes and a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit.

Save Our States Executive Director Trent England asked House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., to probe the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital system.

“All these facts suggest a pattern of NewYork-Presbyterian taking taxpayer dollars and other government benefits and focusing on maximizing revenue and executive perks rather than on serving their patients,” says England’s letter to the House committee, shared with The Daily Signal.

In March, the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against the hospital, citing “anticompetitive contract restrictions that deny New Yorkers the choice of lower cost healthcare options.”

Save Our States also launched a new digital ad campaign titled “Patient Betrayal,” critical of the hospital, its spending, and its tax-exempt status.

The nonprofit hospital system includes facilities at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Save Our States noted that the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital CEO’s compensation jumped from $8.9 million to more than $23 million in a two-year period. Shortly thereafter, it reduced its workforce by about 1,000 employees due to “anticipated financial challenges.”

“The American people deserve transparency and accountability in healthcare, especially from systems that benefit from taxpayer subsidies,” the letter continues.

The ad and the letter highlight a $750 million settlement that the hospital and Columbia University paid to hundreds of women who sued, alleging they were sexually abused by a doctor, as reported by The New York Times.

NewYork-Presbyterian did not respond to email and phone inquiries from The Daily Signal on Monday and Tuesday.

However, the hospital has previously said the Justice Department antitrust lawsuit was “without merit” and said it “complies fully with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations.”

“We do not seek to exclude any other hospital from any insurer’s network. Nor do we require more favorable treatment than any other hospital,” the hospital said in a statement to Fierce Healthcare.

“In our contract negotiations with insurers, we seek to maximize access to the highest quality of care,” the hospital continued. “Insurance companies hold the market power and use it to restrict patient choice. The obligation of insurance companies is to their shareholders, while ours is to our patients.”

The nonprofit hospital system lists more than 10,000 affiliated physicians and 50,000 employees, with more than 2 million visits annually. 

Gill pressed Democrat witness Jessica Waters and visibly rattled her with the gruesome details of abortion procedures during a hearing about the Biden administration's weaponization of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

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Jewish groups have used paid informants to protect synagogues from antisemitic violence, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has claimed that it was funding KKK members for similar reasons, but a group that represents 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is crying foul.

Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for sending money to members of the very white supremacist groups the center claims it exists to dismantle. The SPLC did not deny funding members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations, but insisted the funds were part of an informant program that it used to prevent violent attacks.

The Forward, a Jewish news outlet, cited multiple Jewish organizations condemning the indictment and featured historian Steven J. Ross, whose book “The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy” was published Tuesday. Ross’ book covers the history of Jewish groups embedding informants in white nationalist organizations.

Yet Rabbi Yaakov Menken, executive vice president of the Coalition for Jewish Values, insisted that any tie between the history of Jewish groups using informants to prevent violence and the SPLC’s defense of funding KKK members is “ludicrous.”

“It’s a ludicrous comparison, for the simple reason that not all transactions are created equal,” Menken told The Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday. “Infiltration and use of paid informants have been used throughout history to learn enemies’ intentions and capabilities. The SPLC is accused of advising and funding hate in America in order to have causes against which to fundraise. If true, this is simply reprehensible.”

A History of Private Informants

Ross defended the practice of nonprofit organizations hiring informants to defend against violent threats.

“If a government cannot protect the lives of its citizens, it is up to the citizens to protect their own lives,” the author told The Daily Signal in a Tuesday interview.

Ross’ earlier book, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America,” outlines the history of the informants hired by the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League from the 1930s into World War II. “The Secret War Against Hate” covers the end of the Second World War to Jan. 6, 2021.

The AJC maintained informants until the 1960s, the Anti-Nazi League maintained them until the 1970s, and the ADL still maintains them, Ross told The Daily Signal. Neither the AJC nor the ADL responded to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.

He said most organizations require paid informants to sign a document stating something to the effect of “I will not pretend to be a government authority, nor will I break any law.”

“They want you to go undercover, find out what’s going on, if you can accumulate evidence, and then report it back,” and they would forward that information to law enforcement, Ross explained.

According to the Justice Department indictment, the SPLC was paying some of the same activists it highlighted in “extremist profiles.” Ross said that “isn’t odd.”

“If you want to give somebody legitimacy within that group, the fact that they are put on a most wanted list by the Southern Poverty Law Center only strengthens their position within that group,” he argued.

All the same, he said neither the ADL nor the AJC nor the Anti-Nazi League ever engaged in that kind of behavior, to his knowledge.

Ross condemned the indictment against the SPLC, saying, “I think this is a harassment case. To my mind, it’s not a legitimate case.”

He condemned what he called the “hypocrisy” of the FBI working with the Justice Department to bring charges against the SPLC when the FBI also pays informants.

Are They Really Informants?

The indictment suggests the recipients of SPLC cash were more than mere informants, however. The indictment claims the SPLC supervised the “racist postings” of an organizer of the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, for instance.

Critics have long faulted the SPLC for placing conservative and Christian nonprofits that do not advocate for violence on a “hate map” alongside Klan chapters. The SPLC bills the map as revealing the “infrastructure upholding white supremacy.”

The indictment suggests that the funding to members of the KKK has more to do with propping up a false “hate” threat to use in fundraising than to actually combat violence.

Menken, the leader of the Coalition for Jewish Values, accused the SPLC of effectively abetting antisemitism.

“We have long pointed out that the SPLC is itself acting as a hate group,” he told The Daily Signal. “Not only does it vilify those with biblically based viewpoints on family values, it also calls out causes as ‘anti-Muslim’ for opposing radical Islamic groups which ally with designated foreign terror organizations and engage in antisemitic expression.”

First Lady Melania Trump's supporters are organizing a grassroots boycott of advertisers for ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" amid a report saying that Disney is "ready to pull" the plug following the left-wing TV host's comments fantasizing about President Donald Trump's death just days before the third documented assassination attempt on his life.

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One might think that being caught on camera having a scandalous extramarital affair would preclude you from being named for any honors or awards. Well, not if you're in Boston.

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A majority of justices, though sympathetic, seemed reluctant to allow members of the Falun Gong movement to sue a U.S. tech firm they accused of assisting the Chinese communist government of “aiding and abetting” in torture.

In the case of Cisco v. Doe, the Supreme Court is considering a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed the lawsuit against Cisco to proceed.

“This case is about the systematic persecution of a religious minority by Chinese authorities and Cisco’s partnership in that persecution,” Paul Hoffman, lawyer for the plaintiffs, said during his argument.

“Each of the plaintiffs was tortured or killed by Chinese authorities because of their religious beliefs. Cisco provided substantial assistance to this persecution from U.S. territory by providing a customized surveillance system designed to identify Falun Gong believers to Chinese authorities for detention and forced conversion through torture and other barbaric treatment.”

The Falun Gong spiritual movement spread in China in the 1990s, but the Chinese Communist Party banned its practices in 1999. The lawsuit against Cisco commenced in 2011.

Most of the conservative-leaning justices on the court expressed concerns that opening up a new avenue for lawsuits could pose foreign policy and separation-of-powers problems.

The question before the court is whether two statutes, the 18th-century Alien Tort Statute and the 1991 Torture Victim Protection Act, provide a cause of action to sue. But several conservatives asked why Congress didn’t specify the right to sue in the law.

“The job for creating causes of action because of foreign policy concerns, as sympathetic as this particular case certainly is, that the responsibility for creating causes of action generally lies not with judges but with Congress,” Justice Neil Gorsuch said.

During arguments by Cisco attorney Kannon Shanmugam, Justice Sonia Sotomayor spent the most time questioning him.

“It is alleged that by its internal and public statements it [Cisco] knew that those people would be tortured,” Sotomayor asked. “So, what is the problem with how that fits into any conscious aiding-and-abetting statute, including our own domestic one that requires active inducement and active participation.”

Shanmugam said, “With regard to the allegations in this case, Justice Sotomayor, it will not surprise you to learn that Cisco vigorously disputes those allegations.”

He also argued Cisco cannot be held responsible for torture, as it didn’t commit the acts.

“That is a form of secondary liability. It’s not full-fledged aiding-and-abetting liability,” he said. “And that just underscores that when Congress acts, it often acts in a restricted fashion with regard to secondary liability.”

Republican Steve Hilton leads in a poll of California voters in a crowded race for governor, according to a new poll. Hilton, a former Fox News host, has only 16 […]

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