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Marjorie Taylor Greene busted for not reading firearm background check bill before attacking it incorrectly
March 08, 2021
In a video posted to Twitter, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attacked H.R. 8, the firearm background check bill before Congress. According to her, the bill would create a "National Gun Registry," which is false.
"We all know that gun registration leads to gun confiscation," said Greene. "We need to stop that one ASAP."
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</div><p>As Igor Volsky, co-founder of Guns Down America, explained, the text of the bill "literally states" that there isn't a registry. </p><p>"Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, shall be construed to authorize the establishment, directly or indirectly, of a national firearms registry," it says on page 5. <br/></p><p>Greene was removed from the committees she was appointed to about a month ago on Feb. 4. Presumably, her lack of committee assignments would have given her time to read the first five pages of the legislation. </p><p>Greene said another bill, H.R. 1446, would prevent people from owning guns permanently. In fact, it was crafted to close the "Charleston Loophole," which is when a firearm is transferred to someone if the background check goes through within three days. Gun activists complain that all the government would have to do is delay the background check for more than three days to stop all gun trades between individuals. </p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e09f10d90edb7cccb2ee114145687f84" id="7ba02">
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We just received another sign the GOP will continue to push itself closer to Trump: analysts
March 08, 2021
This Monday, Missouri GOP Sen. Roy Blunt announced that he would not be seeking reelection in 2022, leaving his Senate seat open for the taking.
According to political analysts cited by The Week's Tim O'Donnell, former president Donald Trump's popularity in Blunt's state will give a Trump-endorsed candidate the "inside track" to replace Blunt.
<p>O'Donnell also points out that Republican senators are bailing on their seats in North Carolina, Ohio, Alabama, and Pennsylvania, meaning the GOP could run "as many as five Senate candidates from the so-called 'Trump wing' of the party next year."</p><p>While Blunt's seat would have been more competitive in normal circumstances, that just not the case in a post-Trump world, O'Donnell writes. </p><p>"So, all things considered, it appears Blunt's retirement is another sign the GOP will continue to push itself closer to Trump."</p>
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Judge denies pre-trial release for QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley after 60 Minutes interview backfires
March 08, 2021
A federal judge on Monday refused to release self-styled "QAnon shaman" Jacob Chansley prior to the trial for his role in a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
In his 32-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth pointed to a recent 60 Minutes interview with Chansley as evidence that the defendant does not understand the severity of his actions. In the interview, Chansley claimed that his actions had been peaceful and that he had prevented other rioters from stealing muffins.
<p>"Defendant's perception of his actions on January 6th as peaceful, benign, and well-intentioned shows a detachment from reality," Lamberth wrote, citing the <em>60 Minutes</em> interview. "If the defendant does not understand the severity of the allegations against him, the Court finds no reason to believe he would not commit the same or similar actions again."</p><p>The judge also blasted Chansley's defense attorney, Albert Watkins, for "squandering" time with his client on the <em>60 Minutes</em> interview.</p><p>"Such media appearances are undoubtably conducive to defense counsel's fame," Lamberth observed. "But they are not at all conducive to an argument that the only way defense counsel could privately communicate with his client is if defendant were temporarily released. Given defense counsel's decision to use what could have been a confidential videoconference on a media publicity stunt, that argument is so frivolous as to insult the Court's intelligence."</p><p>Read the entire ruling <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20507832/3-8-21-jacob-chansley-opinion.pdf">here</a>.</p>
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