In an incident that left one person dead, a Kentucky sheriff was arrested after shooting a judge at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky. According to The Mountain Eagle, Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines, a Democrat, is accused of shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins, District Judge of the 47th Judicial District, in his office. Mullins served as the assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Letcher County before being appointed as a district judge by Democrat Governor Steve Beshear in 2009. According to the profile of Mullins for the Cocaine, Meth & Stimulant Summit in November 2022: Judge Mullins has set forth to implement practices that promote substance use treatment for justice-involved individuals and has successfully helped 971 residents of Letcher County (population 22,000) enter inpatient residential treatment. Likewise, the program developed on August 14, 2018, by Judge Mullins and Matt Brown with Addiction Recovery Care to offer peer support services within the courthouse and courtrooms has been adopted in 50 counties across the Commonwealth helping 16,510 individuals into inpatient residential treatment. Judge Mullins served as a founding member of the Responsive Effort to Support Treatment in Opioid Recovery Efforts (RESTORE) Leadership Team. Judge Mullins’ participation on the RESTORE initiative led to his appointment to the Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health. Letcher County Central High School in Whitesburg locked down; the school wrote on Facebook: Parents and Community: After a call from Kentucky State Police, we were ordered to go into a mandatory lockdown because of an active shooting in downtown. Your children are safe. The shooter has been apprehended, but KSP has not released us to come out of lockdown. Your children were never in a concerning situation. Please give us time to work with KSP to figure out our next steps. The coroner confirmed one person was killed, but did not identify the dead person as Mullins.

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On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we take a closer look at the fake high of the U.S. stock market after a slight rate reduction from the Federal Reserve. At last, we scrape the bottom of the barrel in this election cycle as both candidates pull out all of the stops for the voters beginning to receive absentee and mail-in ballots. Bill Wirtz from the Consumer Choice Center joins us to talk about former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the populist energy he’s bringing not only to the Trump/Vance campaign but possibly a new presidential administration. What would his policies mean for U.S. agencies and the citizens’ lives their regulations restrict? Rebecca Downs from Townhall.com stops by to give us the down low on the U.N.’s latest condemnation and tut-tutting from anti-Western nations and radical Islamic terror groups. What would we do with the U.N. building were the United States to pull out of the organization? What constitutes a human rights violation in international law? Jerry Lopez, @IndySpanglish on X, joins us for another exciting segment of “Awful Tweets,” in which we take social media posts sent in by you and mock them live on the air. If you thought the September before the most consequential presidential election would bring reasonable social media interactions—this week will surely prove you wrong. Submit screenshots of the worst social media posts you can find here! Catch the live radio show and livestream weeknights at 7 p.m. EDT on The Daily Signal’s YouTube, X, or Facebook—and subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode or exclusive interview! The post WATCH: Harris Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel appeared first on The Daily Signal.

It’s back to the drawing board for House Speaker Mike Johnson. On Wednesday, the House failed to pass the continuing resolution spending bill, with the SAVE Act attached, that would have funded the federal government beyond the end of the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 and through March. Wednesday evening’s vote failed 202-220. Three Democrats—Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state, Jared Golden of Maine, and Donald Davis of North Carolina—joined 199 Republicans in voting for the stopgap spending bill. Perez’s and Golden’s seats are among the most vulnerable for Democrats in the upcoming election cycle. Despite those Democratic votes, Republican defections—14 “no” votes and two “present” votes—ultimately resulted in the measure’s failure. “Now we go back to the playbook. We’ll draw up another play, and we’ll come up with a solution,” Johnson said after the continuing resolution failed. “I’m already talking to colleagues about their many ideas. We have time to fix the situation. And we’ll get right to it.” Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky, was one of the Republicans who voted “present” on Johnson’s continuing resolution. “The [Safeguard American Voter Eligibility] Act is a good thing that seeks to prevent illegals from voting, but it’s not worth keeping our country on a collision course with insolvency,” Massie wrote in a tweet, explaining why he withheld his support from Johnson’s plan. “If the speaker would put a one-year CR on the floor instead of a six-month CR, an automatic 1% cut to spending would kick in on April 30th. We should do that, but too many Republicans in Congress don’t want to cut spending.” It’s a 6 month Continuing Resolution (instead of 12 separate bills) with the SAVE Act attached. The SAVE Act is a good thing that seeks to prevent illegals from voting, but it’s not worth keeping our country on a collision course with insolvency. I also suspect our Speaker isn’t…— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 9, 2024 Johnson is left with little time and few options. Just 12 days remain before government funding runs out in fiscal 2024 and a government shutdown ensues—a scenario especially dangerous politically on the eve of a presidential election. Now that the six-month continuing resolution with the SAVE Act attached has failed, Johnson could double down and attempt to attach some sort of immigration or election integrity concession to the continuing resolution that’s popular enough with the GOP conference to pass through the House on Republican votes alone. The more likely scenario, however, is pivoting to a “clean” continuing resolution with a March deadline, thereby empowering the next Congress to determine government spending levels and make government spending a major issue in the final weeks of the election cycle. The rightward flank of Johnson’s party—some of whom reject ever voting for a continuing resolution on principle and others who care more about passing the SAVE Act than funding the government—likely would be very unhappy with that scenario. The speaker would have to rely on a coalition of mostly Democrats and middle-of-the-road Republicans to pass the government funding mechanism out of the House. Yet another instance where the speaker has to rely on mostly Democratic votes to get legislation out of the House could severely harm his prospects of continuing to lead the House GOP moving forward. It has been reported that Johnson is talking with former President Donald Trump on the House GOP’s next steps. Nevertheless, even Johnson’s detractors in this scenario might be pleased to avoid another Christmastime omnibus negotiated by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has once again put Johnson in a three-on-one situation vis-à-vis the other major congressional leaders, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. “One thing you cannot have is a government shutdown. It would be politically beyond stupid for us to do that right before the election, because certainly we’d get the blame,” McConnell told members of the media Tuesday. “I’m for whatever avoids a government shutdown, and that’ll ultimately end up, obviously, being a discussion between the [Senate] Democratic leader and the speaker of the House,” McConnell added. Schumer was quick to make use of McConnell’s talking points in a Sept. 17 speech on the Senate floor. “I urge [Speaker Johnson] to drop his current plan, and to work together to reach a bipartisan agreement with the other leaders—Leader McConnell, Leader Jeffries, and myself, as well as the White House. We do not have time to spare,” he said. With Johnson’s hand seriously weakened, Schumer has decided to play his. The New York Democrat is taking the first procedural step toward passing a mechanism to fund the government. “I will file cloture on a legislative vehicle that will enable us to prevent a Trump shutdown, in the event Speaker Johnson does not work with us in a bipartisan, bicameral manner,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. But if Schumer has his way, the next funding deadline would be December, not March, which would mean the current Congress could seek to hamstring a future Republican House, Senate, and Trump administration from enacting policy changes once in office. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., was among the members who voted for Johnson’s continuing resolution with the SAVE Act attached. In an email to The Daily Signal, Norman wrote, “the worst thing we can do is a CR through December and give the checkbook directly to Schumer for a year-end, lame duck omnibus.” “Right now everything is up in the air,” Norman added. “We will see how strong Speaker Johnson will stand against the Senate, right up against a possible government shutdown.” The post What’s House Speaker Johnson’s Next Move in Spending Fight? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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