Jan 13 (Reuters) – A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a U.S. law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights.
Ayala, a U.S. Postal Service truck driver in Tampa, had a concealed weapons permit and kept a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun in a fanny pack for self-defense, his lawyers said.
He was indicted after prosecutors said he brought the gun onto Postal Service property in 2012.
Mizelle said that while post offices have existed since the nation’s founding, federal law did not bar guns in government buildings until 1964 and post offices until 1972. No historical practice dating back to the 1700s justified the ban, she said.
Mizelle said allowing the federal government to restrict visitors from bringing guns into government facilities as a condition of admittance would allow it to “abridge the right to bear arms by regulating it into practical non-existence.”
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Jann-Harro Petersen – German Farmer Gives Update on Protests Sweeping Germany
Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross Pushes Legislation to Allow Illegal Aliens to Obtain Driver’s Licenses
Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) has introduced a bill for the second legislative session that would remove the requirement to prove legal presence in the U.S. in order to obtain a driver’s license.
The bill, LD 1138, also proposes removing the requirement that an applicant for a driver’s license provide proof of being ineligible to receive a social security number if they do not provide a social security number on their application.
In cases of applicants for driver’s licenses or nondriver identification cards who are not U.S. citizens and not legal permanent residents of the U.S., Speaker Talbot Ross’ bill would repeal certain provisions that align the expiration of the applicant’s legal stay in the country with the expiration date of their license or card.
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Strong correlations between covid health policies and excess death — Dr Denis Rancourt
Taiwan election: Ruling party candidate wins tightly contested presidential race, upsetting China’s ambitions
Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai, also known by his Chinese name of Ching-te, has emerged victorious after a tightly contested presidential election as the island’s next leader, Fox News Digital confirms.
“The results are in, and Taiwan’s voters stood up to China and all its war talk of recent weeks,” Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow and China expert, told Fox News Digital. “Free people, living just a hundred miles from the menacing Chinese state, refused to be intimidated.”
Lai, defeated his rival, New Taipei City Mayor Hou Yu-ih of the Kuomintang (KMT) party, by just over 7% of the vote after Hou conceded at 8 p.m. local time. Taiwan saw around 69% of voters turnout for the election this year – less than the impressive 75% seen in the 2020 election, which saw 13.6 million people turn out to vote, but more than the 66% that turned out for the 2016 election, according to the Taipei Times.
The victory marks DPP’s third successive win over KMT for the first time since Taiwan began democratic elections over 30 years ago – the first time a party has done so, with parties retaining control for no more than 8 years before switching places as voter sentiment swayed between the two major parties.
‘Every real estate developer everywhere does this’: Kevin O’Leary reacts to Trump civil fraud case
Stephen Miller on Illegals Voting
Surely you cannot be this obtuse. I hope your ignorance is feigned and not sincere.
In all 50 states in America — as a result of preposterous judicial rulings — illegal aliens and millions of other ineligible noncitizens — can register to vote merely by checking a box on a federal form declaring that they are citizens.
This attestation is not validated or verified in any way prior to voting, nor inspected or checked in any way subsequent to voting. It functions entirely on the honor system.
We are expecting the same people who dishonored our sovereign border to honor the integrity of a piece of paper.
In other words, we are to believe that millions of people who have collectively violated the law millions of times (illegal entry, smuggling, harboring, illegal overstay, social security fraud, identity theft, illegal work, failure to pay taxes, etc.) will not check a mere box on a form because that too is illegal! (Knowing full well their assertion will be accepted without any further scrutiny whatsoever).
We are truly the first society in all history with a completely open border combined with no citizenship verification for voting. (Not to mention the ability to vote remotely via mail or drop box for weeks at a time or, in several states, third party collection of mail ballots).
Can you honestly defend such a system?
You know full well these gaping vulnerabilities are all by design: hence the virulent opposition by progressives to any form of election integrity (and ruthless targeting of election integrity advocates).
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Report: American Journalist Gonzalo Lira Has Died While Imprisoned In Ukraine
WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – 55-year-old American journalist Gonzalo Lira has reportedly died in a Ukrainian prison after nearly eight months of imprisonment.
According to the Post Millennial, Lira was arrested by Ukrainian security in May 2023 after he was reportedly critical of President Vladimir Zelensky’s handling of the war being fought against Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine.
Lira’s comments included claims that Ukraine’s efforts to win the captured territory back have gone nowhere and their people are dying for a war that is already lost.
Gonzalo Lira Sr., provided a statement on his son’s death to The Grayzone, saying, “I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, and incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days, and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son. The responsibility of this tragedy is the dictator Zelensky, with the concurrence of a senile American president, Joe Biden.”
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