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  • State Court Finds Trump Engaged in ‘Insurrection,’ Agrees to Hear Case to Remove Him from 2024 Ballot

    The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals from a judge’s verdict against a petition to keep former President Donald Trump off the state ballot in 2024 on Tuesday.

    Both Trump and Colorado voters filed appeals, claiming he is unable to serve in office. Trump disputed the state judge’s judgment that he “engaged in insurrection,” while voters disagreed with the ruling that the constitutional provision about ineligibility does not apply to the president.

    State Judge Sarah B. Wallace last week had dismissed a legal challenge brought by a group of Colorado voters represented in Washington by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, who argued Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and his behavior surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, rendering him ineligible for office.

    Wallace concluded Trump “engaged in insurrection” in her opinion on Friday, but stated the Constitution’s bar on insurrectionists holding office did not apply to Trump since the language in question specifically includes all federal elected offices except the presidency.

    Sean Grimsley, an attorney representing the voters who brought the legal challenge, applauded the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case.

    “We look forward to presenting arguments on the one legal question at issue — that an insurrectionist former president can and must be disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,” Grimsley said in a statement.

    According to Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson, the judge went too far.

    “The district judge rightly rejected the far-left’s efforts to keep President Trump off the ballot, but she then went out of her way to wrongly criticize the President. We’ve asked the Colorado Supreme Court to strike her wrong-headed speculation, because it goes far beyond her jurisdiction,” Cheung said in statement.

    The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on December 6 in Denver, less than a month before Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold must certify votes for the state’s March 5 primary.

    Similar legal efforts to ban Trump from running for president in Minnesota and Michigan have recently been denied by those states’ courts. Michigan petitioners have filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court.

    The Colorado district judge ruled that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection on January 6th, but did not remove him from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. This is the first time a presidential candidate has been found guilty of “insurrection,” and it was discovered following a full evidentiary process.

    However, there is no evidence that Donald Trump had authorized unarmed extremists to disrupt the Electoral College objections on January 6.

    The former president gave a commonplace political speech, in which he urged protesters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard.

    In the early afternoon after the rioting began, Donald Trump called for protesters to “go home,” and then issued a statement after the election certification on January 7 that he would step down.

    Donald Trump, therefore, did not illegally challenge the 2020 election. He filed legal challenges in court and exercised his right to dispute the election results, just like Democratic Party officials had done in the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections.

    The claim that Donald Trump engaged in “insurrection” is a Big Lie being used in an effort to deprive tens of millions of Americans of their right to vote for him in the 2024 election.

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  • 73-year-old jailed in son-in-law’s murder; Arrest in hockey player’s fatal throat slit – TCD Sidebar

    In this episode of True Crime Daily The Sidebar Podcast: Jonna Spilbor joins host Joshua Ritter to break down the biggest cases making headlines across the nation. They discuss Kaitlin Armstrong’s conviction in the murder of her boyfriend’s pro cycling mistress, the arrest of a 75-year-old grandmother in a family murder-for-hire-plot, and a man arrested after a hockey player’s throat was slit with a skate in an on-ice incident.

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    YouTube: 73-year-old jailed in son-in-law’s murder; Arrest in hockey player’s fatal throat slit – TCD Sidebar

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  • Gov. Kathy Hochul Unveils ‘Ministry of Truth’ For Students In New York

    NY Governor Kathy Hochul

    New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced that she is forming an Orwellian Truth Ministry for public school students where they will learn how to hunt down so-called “misinformation.”

    The Democrat governor declared Tuesday: “Today, I’m directing the Director of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to develop media literacy tools for K -12 in our public schools”

    She added: “This will teach students and even teachers to help understand how to spot conspiracy theories and misinformation, disinformation and online hate”

    “Start talking about what we’re seeing out there. Give the teachers the tools they need to help these conversations in school. And by teaching younger New Yorkers about how to discern between digital fact and digital fiction, we can better inoculate them from hatred and the spread of it.”

    Infowars reports: This marks the Democrat governor’s latest effort to shape the views of the people of New York using Israel’s war against Palestine as the pretext, with Hochul earlier this month saying she’d implement a surveillance grid on social media to monitor “hate speech.”

    “…We’re very focused on the data we’re collecting from surveillance efforts, what’s being said on social media platforms, and we have launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people,” Hochul said.

    “When we see hate speech being spoken about on online platforms, our media analysis, our social media analysis unit has ramped up its monitoring of sites to catch incitement to violence, direct threats to others.”

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  • Delaware man accused of beating elderly victim with baseball bat and fleeing

    EDGEMOOR, Del. (TCD) – Police have arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting an elderly victim with a baseball bat this week, causing critical injuries.

    According to a news release from the New Castle County Police Department, on Monday, Nov. 20, at approximately 6:30 a.m., officers responded to the Lighthouse Hill Apartments on the 1200 block of Westlawn Court in reference to a possible assault near a bus stop. Once there, police found a 64-year-old male victim who had sustained multiple upper body injuries.

    Officials transported the victim to Christiana Medical Center. As of Monday, Nov. 20, the victim’s condition was listed as critical but stable.

    Police learned that the suspect, Rafael Murillo, had fled the scene on foot and was reportedly traveling toward Governor Printz Boulevard. They eventually found Murillo a short distance away and apprehended him without incident. Police also recovered the baseball bat believed to have been used in the assault.

    Murillo faces charges of attempted murder and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony. He was arraigned and booked into the Howard Young Correctional Institution on $90,000 bail.

    The investigation is ongoing.

    MORE:

    • County Police Investigate Assault – New Castle County Police Department

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  • New York Appeals Court Reinstates Hochul’s Quarantine Camp Regulation

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    New York Gov Kathy Hochul’s quarantine camp regulation has been restored.

    The regulation that would allow the seizure and indefinite detention of anyone suspected of exposure to a communicable disease, was restored on Friday by the New York Appellate Division’s Fourth Judicial Department.

    The Appellate Division overturned a lower Court’s decision issued last July by Judge Ronald Ploetz who had voided the Governor’s rule.

    Activist Post reports: The Appellate Division panel of judges asserted that the plaintiffs, several current and former New York State legislators and a citizen’s group, did not have legal standing to sue the State, arguing that none of the plaintiffs had sustained personal injury as a result of the regulation.

    The panel dodged the substantive Constitutional issues raised by the plaintiffs and affirmed by the lower court. Hochul’s regulation radically diverges from the written letter of the law regarding quarantines to such an extent that the plaintiffs argued that the regulation amounts to any entirely new law imposed by the Governor without action by the legislature.

    Hochul’s regulation would allow public health officers to arrest people suspected of having been exposed to a communicable disease, which in the age of COVID means everybody at anytime, with no need for proof of infection, no hearing, no magistrate, and no legal counsel for the accused, no due process, all explicitly required by the quarantine law. The accused could be held for an indefinite period at the health department’s discretion contrary to the law’s requirement that quarantine can only last as long as a person is actively infectious. In the original trial before Judge Ploetz, counsel for the State admitted that once arrested there is no mechanism under the regulation to compel the state to release a detained person other than the detained person hiring a lawyer and suing the state.

    Bobbie Anne Cox, attorney for the plaintiffs, has already announced that she will file an appeal with the New York Court of Appeals, the State’s highest court. See her statement on the new court decision here.

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  • 4 charged after missing Alabama teen is found dead in shallow grave

    HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TCD) — Four people have been arrested on various charges after a 15-year-old disappeared in late September and was found dead last week.

    A family member reported Ja’Marious Logan missing to the Huntsville Police Department on Sept. 27 and said he was last seen on the evening of Sept. 25 wearing gray sweatpants, a blue sweatshirt with yellow writing, and black and white Nike Jordan sneakers.

    On Nov. 16, officials located human remains they are confident are those of Logan in Sylacauga. The U.S. Marshals Service’s Gulf Coast Regional Task Force pinpointed the main suspect, Latorrie Gaddis, and arrested him in Alexander City on a charge of capital murder. Huntsville Police said he already had a warrant out for his arrest for two counts of second-degree assault.

    Huntsville Police also arrested 37-year-old Latoya Wells and 33-year-old Corie Wilson on kidnapping charges, as well as 34-year-old Deserea Pilar Cunningham for hindering prosecution. Cunningham is Gaddis’ wife.

    In a press conference, Huntsville Police officials said the medical examiner still needs to conduct an autopsy, but officials are certain they found Logan’s body. There is also a strong likelihood of additional arrests. Logan and Gaddis reportedly knew each other.

    WHNT-TV reports Logan’s found was found “badly decomposed” in a shallow grave close to an abandoned home.

    Logan’s loved ones reportedly referred to him as June and he attended Lee High School, where he was a sophomore.

    MORE:

    • Missing Child, 9/29/2023 – Huntsville Police Department
    • Major Crimes Unit arrest – Huntsville Police Department
    • HPD Provides Update on Ja’Marious Logan Case – Huntsville Police via WHNT
    • Huntsville Police says four arrested in kidnapping, death of Ja’Marious Logan – WHNT

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  • UK’s Former Chief Scientist Says Future Lockdowns Must Be ‘Harder and Earlier’

    Patrick Vallance

    The UK should have gone into lockdown at least a week before it happened, Sir Patrick Vallance has told the UK’s Covid Inquiry

    The Inquiry also heard that Vallance privately referred to his colleague Sir Chris Whitty as “a delayer” after a “palpable tension” between the two scientific advisers emerged about lockdown policy.

    Vallance, who was Britain’s Chief Scientific Adviser during the ‘covid pandemic’, said he wanted to introduce the first national lockdown more quickly than Whitty, who was worried about the number of deaths from the knock-on effects of shuttering the country.

    The Telegraph reports: It led to “friction” between the two men, who regularly stood either side of the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson at daily press conferences to keep the public informed.

    Mr. Johnson, who was instinctively against the idea of lockdowns, has been accused by some critics of failing to prevent deaths by reacting too slowly to the emerging threat from coronavirus.

    But the U.K. COVID-19 Inquiry heard that his two most senior scientific advisers did not agree with each other about the best way forward.

    The Inquiry was shown an entry from the diary of Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the SAGE group of scientific advisers chaired by Sir Patrick, in which he talked of the “friction” between the two experts and described “a palpable tension between Patrick and Chris in the early weeks of 2020, particularly given the apparent absence of political leadership in that period”.

    Sir Patrick made an entry in his own diary in February 2021 in which Sir Chris had spoken to him about the inquiry they knew was coming, and whether the lockdown in March 2020 had been imposed too late. He wrote: “He was a delayer of course.”

    Sir Patrick told the inquiry in London that Sir Chris was a public health specialist and was rightly concerned about the impact of what were termed non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as telling people to stay at home. …

    Sir Patrick said he did not personally have the same worry, as: “I was more on the side of we need to move on this, but I think that’s partly why the two of us found it useful to work together… I think sometimes I would want to push and he might not, and sometimes he was right and sometimes I think we should have gone earlier. This was an occasion when I think it’s clear that we should have gone earlier.”

    Separately in his written witness statement Vallance has made clear that “the most important lesson that I learned and stated repeatedly from the first lockdown onwards, in respect to the timing of interventions, was that you had to go earlier than you would like, harder than you would like and broader than you would like”. He added:

    As I mentioned, in the first wave I think we didn’t go early enough and there was a trickling of measures when I think we should have gone with more measures simultaneously. …

    So my rider that it’s ‘than you would like to’ is very clear, and that is because the observation I made was that everyone’s instinct is to not to do any of these things.

    It’s to delay just a bit too much, it’s to argue that the measures shouldn’t be quite as strict at the moment – and we saw this very clearly during October, where every MP argued that their areas shouldn’t be in a higher tier, they should be in a lower tier.

    So, everyone’s arguing to do things just a little bit less than they should do.

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  • Pennsylvania man accused of plotting to kidnap, rape, and kill estranged wife who left him

    KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (TCD) — Police have arrested a 52-year-old man after he allegedly assaulted his estranged wife and wrote a note about his plot to kill her.

    According to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 19, Upper Merion Township Police responded to the Walmart parking lot on North Gulph Road to a report of a man assaulting a female in a Nissan Rogue. Officers found the victim in the parking lot after she escaped the car. Her “soon-to-be ex-husband,” Geoffrey Kay-Conway Sr., had allegedly attacked her and stabbed her in the leg numerous times.

    Police found Kay-Conway in a nearby parking lot and took him into custody. The district attorney’s office said Kay-Conway had a metal pick and black zip ties shaped like handcuffs in his possession. Additionally, police reportedly recovered a black duffel bag from a truck filled with a pepperball gun, two magazines, and three piercing tools, including one that displayed the victim’s name. The duffel bag also reportedly contained a blindfold, duct tape, zip ties, knives, wire cutters, pliers, K-Y Jelly, a protection from abuse court order, and a note from Kay-Conway to his brother.

    According to the district attorney’s office, the court order was regarding Kay-Conway’s stalking arrest on Oct. 31. Kay-Conway reportedly wrote on the bottom of the court order, “I Have 1.5 months to Kill that B–h. Could have Killed her 17 times if i wanted. What a week [sic] system.”

    The district attorney’s office said the note read, “Well by now Michelle and I are both dead. So there really is nothing to worry about. Listen tell everyone, there is nothing anybody could have done. Depending where she parks, some days are more ideal than others. If I cant do it on an ideal day, it will happen the weekend before Thanksgiving somewhere around town.”

    The note continued, “I just have to follow her Sat or Sun morning and grab her when she goes to her car going store 2 store, informing her if she screams, yells or tries to run that I will shoot her in the face. Not a day has gone by since she left that I didn’t think about killing that b–ch.”

    Further investigation revealed that Kay-Conway placed a tracking device in his estranged wife’s car. On the day of the assault, he allegedly followed the victim into the Walmart parking lot, where he later attacked and tried to kidnap her.

    Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele announced Monday, Nov. 20, that his office charged Kay-Conway with attempted murder, attempted kidnapping, attempted rape, aggravated assault, stalking, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, possessing an instrument of crime, and other charges related to the assault.

    Kay-Conway was arraigned Monday, Nov. 20, and denied bail. He remains held in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility and is set to appear in court again on Dec. 11.

    MORE:

    • KOP Man Arrested After Foiled Plot to Kidnap, Rape and Murder Estranged Wife – Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office 

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  • Bill Gates Complains ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Are Making His ‘Super Important Work’ Much Harder


    Unelected world health czar Bill Gates slammed “conspiracy theorists” for making his “super important work” pushing vaccines on children in developing countries “much harder”, during an appearance on Trevor Noah’s podcast Thursday.

    Gates also took the opportunity to deny allegations that he pushed Covid vaccines on the public as part of a plot to depopulate the world, slamming the idea as an “oversimplistic explanation.”

    According to Gates, conspiracy theories that he is engaged in a global scheme to harm the human population for his own benefit are wide of the mark and “kind of shocking.”

    Gates also told Noah a story about a woman who approached him on the streets of Seattle.

    He claims the woman, framed as a “wild conspiracy theorist,” accused him of using mRNA technology to track and control humanity.

    “I looked at her, and I said, ‘Gosh, I really don’t need to track you; I’m sorry. Let me take the chip out of you,’” Gates said as he and Noah roared with laughter.

    Gates then denied allegations that he pushed vaccines as part of a globalist plot to depopulate the Earth, keep tabs on citizens, and alter their DNA.

    The globalist billionaire also appeared to reference “The Real Anthony Fauci,” the bestselling book by presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    “The fact that a book that talks about Fauci and I having an evil plot, killing millions of children with vaccines—the fact that could sell so well, you know, was just another surprise to me about human nature and how having an oversimplistic explanation about what was going on or the motivations, that was kind of shocking,” Gates said.

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    He added that while he was not necessarily concerned about the attitude toward him personally.

    Gates claims that he is worried about the attitude toward vaccines, which he says has been “damning.”

    “Getting kids to take things like the measles vaccine is super important in many countries,” Gates said.

    “You know, that’s the difference between life and death.

    “So, the skepticism about vaccines or medicine is very high and that’s making our health work a lot harder.”

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  • Woman escapes home where she was allegedly held captive and beaten for several days

    GIG HARBOR, Wash. (TCD) — A 66-year-old man was found deceased over the weekend after he allegedly held a woman captive in his home and beat her before she managed to escape.

    According to the Gig Harbor Police Department, on Nov. 18 at 10:03 a.m., the victim went to a home on the 10800 block of Sehmel Drive and informed the residents she “had just escaped a home nearby where she had been held against her will for ‘multiple days.’”

    Police arrived at the residence and she reportedly told them a man picked her up in either King or Thurston County, though she did not know him. The woman purportedly told police she did drugs and also shared details about the home where she had been held captive. The victim, however, did not share many other details because she needed to go to the hospital for treatment.

    Officers went to the residence and reportedly found blood on the porch outside. Pierce County Sheriff’s Office deputies helped Gig Harbor Police contain the scene as they tried finding someone inside the home to speak with. No one answered, and police eventually obtained a search warrant to look through the home.

    While inside, they reportedly discovered a 66-year-old man deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to the statement, evidence at the home showed there had been an attempt to start a fire.

    The victim sought help at Gary and Robin Marcello’s home and rang the doorbell multiple times, according to KCPQ-TV. Gary Marcello told KCPQ he saw the victim in his driveway and she had “blood all over her face.”

    Robin Marcello said the woman repeated, “He’s going to kill me. He’s going to kill me.”

    Robin Marcello told KCPQ the woman said the suspect was “beating her hands, beating her arms, and her head,” which made Robin Marcello believe the victim “must have had her arms up protecting herself.”

    According to KCPQ, Gig Harbor Police Chief Kelly Busey said the suspect allegedly hit her with some furniture as she tried to leave, which left her with cuts on her head.

    The suspect reportedly lived next door to Gary and Robin Marcello. She described him as “a recluse” who “kept to himself a lot.”

    Busey told KCPQ there is a possibility the suspect was a “borderline hoarder” and that he did not have any prior criminal history.

    Gig Harbor Police said in the statement they do not think any other suspects are involved.

    MORE:

    • Female Reportedly Held Against Her Will / Flees Home / Suspect Deceased – Gig Harbor Police Department
    • Police: Woman assaulted and held captive in Gig Harbor house; suspect dead – KCPQ

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