Trump pardoned 11 people July 3, including six Clean Air Act violators he called persecuted—days after a review found 96% of his pardons skipped DOJ vetting. Congress should bar presidents from profiting off pardons, as Rep. Raskin has proposed. https://t.co/E6UEdq8hvA
Republican candidate Ken Paxton has likely committed voter fraud, after using a false address in 6 different elections.
Paxton is campaigning on ending "illegal voting."
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Texas Attorney General, and now Republican nominee for the Texas Senate Ken Paxton gave his friend 28 days in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy.
He does not have to register as a sex offender.
He didn’t even lose his license to practice law.
This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.
This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
REMINDER: Jon Husted BLOCKED legislation that would hold insurance companies accountable for wrongly denied claims. Why? Because he’s collected $679K from the insurance industry.
This is so weird!
Donald Trump says he “had a conversation with former President Teddy Roosevelt” about the Panama Canal.
Teddy Roosevelt has been dead since 1919.
🚨 16 children rescued from “horrific” conditions after being confined to one small room for years in Ohio.
The children, ages 1.5 to 18, were found living in extreme squalor inside a home in Hamden, Vinton County. Officials described them as appearing “almost like feral animals.” Some couldn’t speak, and the 18-year-old reportedly couldn’t even spell her name. The conditions were so bad the children were “literally about to fall through the floor.”
Four family members the parents and grandparents were arrested after a search warrant by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
They face 17 felony counts of child endangering. Several children were hospitalized in serious condition.
Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said he had never seen anything like it. This case shows how long-term, multi-generational abuse inside a family can go undetected for years. What systems need to improve so these situations are caught much sooner?
Sources: Ohio Attorney General’s Office, Vinton County Sheriff’s Office, and BCI.