TV star “Judge Judy” Sheindlin slammed New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg for trying former President Donald Trump in the hush-money case. During Sheindlin’s appearance on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” in an episode that streamed on Friday, Wallace asked the judge what she thought about the trial, and she said Bragg only tried Trump for his own selfish reasons, something for which she resents him. “I would be happier, as someone who owns property in Manhattan, if the district attorney [Alvin Bragg] of New York County would take care of criminals who are making it impossible for citizens to walk in the streets and use the subway,” the judge said. Judge Judy: “As a person who owns property in Manhattan I would be happier if Alvin Bragg took care of criminals who make it impossible to ride the subway or walk the streets, than spending $10 million of taxpayer money trying Donald Trump on nonsense.” pic.twitter.com/YBD2uBEub8 — Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) June 21, 2024 “To use those efforts to keep those people off the street, than to spend $5 million or $10 million taxpayers’ money trying Donald Trump on this nonsense,” she added. “That’s my view.” “I, as a taxpayer in this country, resent using the system for your own personal self-aggrandizement,” the judge continued, saying that’s exactly what she thinks Bragg did by trying Trump. “You have to twist yourself in a pretzel to figure out what the crime was. He [Bragg] doesn’t like him [Trump]. New York City didn’t like him [Trump] for a while.” When pressed by Wallace on what she personally thought of the former president, the judge said that she thinks Trump “was a good businessman, a real estate guy. And he was certainly terrific on ‘The Apprentice.'” However, when asked her thoughts about Trump’s presidency, she made it clear she didn’t think he should be in the highest office in the land. “I don’t think that Donald [Trump] ever should have been president,” Sheindlin said. “And I don’t think that even Donald thought he was going to be president.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The former president was recently found guilty on all 34 counts by a New York jury in the hush-money trial. The guilty verdict in Trump’s New York trial marks the first time a former U.S. president has been convicted of a crime, as previously reported. At the heart of the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg were 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal damaging information around the 2016 election as part of a “catch-and-kill” scheme. Prosecutors accused Trump of improperly masking reimbursements to repay his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence on an alleged extramarital affair by classifying them as legal expenses. Trump has denied that the affair with Stormy Daniels ever happened and pleaded not guilty to the charges. His lawyers argued there was no intent to defraud or influence the 2016 election. Daniel Chaitin contributed to this piece.

The transgender-identifying shooter who killed six at a Christian school last year confessed her homicidal urges to personnel at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, but personnel there may not have taken steps to prevent the tragedy, according to a new report. The Tennessee Star reported Wednesday that it has obtained a file called “Vandy Psych” consisting of notes taken by a police officer who reviewed documents from the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital about the shooter’s treatment after the tragedy. The patient was reportedly seen by mental health doctors at Vanderbilt for 22 years. “Thoughts of killing Dad in and struggles with mental health,” the document says. “Recent thoughts of going into a school and shooting a bunch of people… Homicidal thoughts with a plan. Misunderstood and felt like she needed to prove a point.” Tennessee State Code 33-3-206 requires mental health professionals to “warn of, or take precautions to protect the identified victim from the service recipient’s violent behavior” if “a service recipient has communicated to a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim” and is “likely to carry out the threat.” The specificity of the shooter’s admissions was not clear from the reported sections of the document. The Star said a source told it that Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake privately said he believes a violation occurred. The Tennessee statute at the time carried no criminal penalty, but victims could seek money from the healthcare providers in court — except that the statute of limitations may have already passed, The Star said. Tennessee has since passed a stricter law requiring mental health personnel to alert police of threats. Drake broke a promise to release the transgender killer’s manifesto as the FBI pressured it to conceal it, according to an FBI memo also obtained by The Star. Meanwhile, officials said the shooter — who The Daily Wire is not naming — was not politically motivated, and the FBI did not consider it domestic terrorism. “The Covenant matters remains under investigation and detectives are working to bring it to a conclusion,” a police spokeswoman told The Daily Wire on Thursday. The Daily Wire obtained portions of the manifesto that undercut those claims, suggesting she was motivated by grievances about transgenderism and laws passed by Republicans. The writings even said she’d “kill” to obtain puberty blockers. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) figures prominently into the debate over transgender treatments for Tennessee youngsters. In a 2018 video exposed by The Daily Wire in 2022, VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor told young doctors “female-to-male bottom surgeries” were “huge money makers” that could bring in “up to $100,000” for the hospital, while health law expert and pediatrician Ellen Wright Clayton said “If you don’t want to do this kind of work, don’t work at Vanderbilt.” Tennessee lawmakers banned sex-change treatments for minors in response, but federal judge Eli Richardson issued an injunction partially pausing enforcement. In his ruling, he noted that “Dr. Pinson, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Health System Officer at VUMC, has testified that ‘[s]hould enforcement of [SB1’s] provisions prohibiting Hormone Therapy be deferred, delayed, or enjoined, VUMC would continue to provide Hormone Therapy consistent with the prevailing standards of care for persons with gender dysphoria to those minor patients of VUMC.’” However, an appeals court then undid Richardson’s ruling. John Howser, a spokesman for VUMC, told The Daily Wire that “under federal (HIPAA) and state privacy rules and regulations, without permission, VUMC is not in a position to confirm or deny that any particular individual presently receives or previously received health care from VUMC.” “Additionally, VUMC follows all applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Under Tennessee law, gender-affirming care involving puberty-blocking drugs, hormone therapy, and surgical gender transition is prohibited for any patients under age 18,” he added. In 2023, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s office was investigating potential medical billing fraud in relation to transgender treatment by the hospital.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office dropped the majority of criminal charges that were filed against pro-Hamas extremists earlier this year after they stormed Columbia University. Bragg — who prosecuted former President Donald Trump in a highly controversial case because he claimed that no one is above the law — dismissed the trespassing charges against 31 of the 46 defendants. His office claimed that there was a lack of evidence to tie the suspects to the takeover of the Ivy League school’s Hamilton Hall, which garnered significant national news coverage. “This is turnstile justice,” Michael Nussbaum, a 25-year member of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, told the New York Post. “This a green light for chaos, a green light for destroying property.” Police sources raged at the move by Bragg, who is backed by Democrat megadonor George Soros, telling the publication that the decision to toss out the charges was outrageous. “Lack of evidence?” one police officer responded. “Apparently body-worn camera wasn’t enough?” Another said: “We have a DA giving them what amounts to a mandate to push the envelope further now.” A popular conservative attorney responded to the news by posting on X that it was “impossible to ignore the fact that his office pursues political vendettas while giving actual criminals a pass.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Senior CNN political commentator Scott Jennings highlighted the contrast in how Bragg decided to go after Trump vs. the pro-Hamas extremists. “Trump – filed the wrong sex paperwork / 34 felonies!” he posted on X. “Vandals and terrorist sympathizers – meh, go about your business.” Trump – filed the wrong sex paperwork / 34 felonies! Vandals and terrorist sympathizers – meh, go about your business. https://t.co/jRHZNHJIkL — Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 20, 2024

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News The Wives The Wives: Jennifer Lawrence to Star in Real Housewives-Inspired Murder Mystery Wouldn’t it be cool if she got to play the murderer, though? By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 21, 2024 Credit: 20th Century Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: 20th Century Studios Jennifer Lawrence is attached to produce and star in a murder mystery feature called The Wives. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence, after a “competitive situation,” is partnering with A24 and Apple Original Film to bring the project into development. This will be the second team-up of Lawrence and the studios after the 2022 movie, Causeway. We don’t have details on the plot yet, other than that the script, co-written by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, is in the vein of the reality series, Real Housewives, where a bunch of rich, “real” housewives in a certain city or town tend to treat each other awfully (though not so awfully that someone gets murdered… yet). There’s no director yet attached to the project. And there are also no details on who Lawrence will play, though odds are good she’ll be playing a well-to-do housewife that gets entangled in a murder. Lawrence’s previous credits, of course, include The Hunger Games movies where she played the lead, Katniss Everdeen; a handful of X-Men films, where she played Mystique (pictured above); and a part in the 2022 climate change satire Don’t Look Up. No news yet on when the film will go into production, much less make its way to a screen near you. [end-mark] The post <i>The Wives</i>: Jennifer Lawrence to Star in <i>Real Housewives</i>-Inspired Murder Mystery appeared first on Reactor.

Recent polling suggests that Virginia could prove unusually competitive in the November election pitting President Joe Biden against former President Donald Trump, raising the stakes on the security of elections there. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, signed an executive order June 7 directing state agencies to share more data with the Virginia Department of Elections to help determine the eligibility of individual voters.  However, some question whether the governor’s order is sufficient this close to the Nov. 5 election. Last year, the Virginia Department of Elections released revealing findings on election data. The agency, which the state refers to as “ELECT,” says it addressed voter registration problems in the past year.  “In 2023, the Virginia Department of Elections (ELECT) examined its data-sharing relationship with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH),” Andrea Gaines, external affairs manager for the elections agency, told The Daily Signal in an email. She added: After ELECT requested a review of all VDH death records going back to 1960, VDH discovered death records that had not been previously shared with ELECT. After additional data analysis by ELECT staff, 18,990 records of registered voters were identified and sent to local registrars for processing. Last July, the Virginia Department of Elections mailed the U.S. Postal Service’s “national change of address” forms to about 115,656 registered voters who apparently had moved to a different jurisdiction than the one reflected on the voter rolls.  “Approximately 39,437 cancellation request mailers were sent to voters’ out-of-state addresses,” the Department of Elections report says. “As a result of the confirmation mailing process, approximately 172,501 voters were classified as ‘Inactive’ in February 2023 and 88,152 voters were classified as ‘Inactive’ in August 2023. The total number of voters classified as ‘Inactive’ from September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2023, were 260,653.” Youngkin’s executive order directs the state Department of Elections to provide “lists of individuals who voted in primaries and elections, where available, to and from other states.” This, the governor’s order says, will “identify duplicate registrations, voters who no longer reside in the commonwealth, and other persons who are no longer entitled to be registered, to maintain overall accuracy of the voter registration system.” But Virginia is just three months away from early voting, so the timeline for implementation should be expedited, according to a report from The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.  “The American people deserve transparency on elections, election data, and whether or not illegal aliens are registering to vote at the state level,” Colin Aamot, an investigator for Heritage’s Oversight Project, told The Daily Signal.  “It’s 2024. It’s beyond time for states to get their act together without further excuses towards cleaning voter rolls of ineligible voters,” Aamot said. “Further, the federal government has become an impediment, not a transparent partner, in sharing citizenship data with the states in order to facilitate the removal of ineligible voters from voter rolls.” The news site RealClearPolitics now classifies Virginia as a “tossup” between Biden and Trump, despite the state’s reputation as reliably Democrat-leaning in presidential elections since 2008.  An Oversight Project issue brief contends that Youngkin’s executive order came too late and should be expedited. It says, in part: Timeliness: with early voting approximately 3 months away, this effort is too late, or at best has too long a timeframe for it to make a difference and impact the upcoming election cycle.  None of the points addressed are new, and such an EO [executive order] could/should have been executed long before June 2024. Consider rescheduling of the timelines (expediting) for compliance to enable reform in this election cycle. Youngkin’s order also calls for creating an Interagency Data Review Work Group. Its purpose would be “to examine and make recommendations regarding the quality, accuracy, sharing, and security of commonwealth data provided to the Department of Elections for use in the existing Voter Election Information Registration System in support of conversion to the new statewide voter registration system scheduled for implementation in mid-2025.” To achieve more accurate voter rolls, the work group will include representatives of the state’s Health, Motor Vehicles, and Elections departments, as well as Virginia State Police.  “The interagency working group created by Gov. Youngkin’s executive order is currently working to strengthen Virginia’s voter rolls and ensure better data accuracy, while safeguarding Virginians’ confidential data,” Youngkin press secretary Christian Martinez told The Daily Signal.  In a public statement on his order, Youngkin said: “As we transition to a new statewide voter registration system, it is imperative that every state agency provides accurate and valid data. This executive order continues our improvements to list maintenance processes, providing a reliable election system for voters.” Virginia’s work group should include a “citizen participant” who isn’t affiliated with any party or organization, the Oversight Project’s brief says, also contending that all the group’s sessions should be “public meetings.” Virginia was among nine states to withdraw last year from the Electronic Registration Information Center, a coalition of states established in 2012 to cross-check data and avoid duplicate voter registrations. States that withdrew noted that the system didn’t flag noncitizens and shared voter data with third-party organizations.  Virginia has a score of 63 on The Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard, achieving the rank of 23 in the top half of states.  Virginia ranks high for accuracy of voter registration, for reasons that include state election officials running data comparisons between the statewide voter registration list and the DMV; running data comparisons between that list and Social Security Administration death records; using the U.S. Postal Service system to find voters who have moved from registered addresses; and ensuring that voter registration forms ask registrants to identify their previous registered address. A report last year from election experts at The Heritage Foundation and Public Interest Legal Foundation said the Electronic Registration Information Center should reform itself for states still participating in the coalition. Their report also called for states that departed ERIC either to start their own agreements for data sharing with other states or begin an alternative national group free of partisan politics.  “These changes must also ensure that ERIC provides more accurate information to member states, attracts additional member states, bolsters participating states’ confidence in its work, eliminates unlawful actions, and prevents partisanship to guarantee that it functions at the highest standard to ensure election integrity,” says the April 2023 report, authored by Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at Heritage, and J. Christian Adams, president of Public Interest Legal Foundation.  “Otherwise,” the report says, “state election officials need to consider forming an alternative organization that accomplishes these objectives without ERIC’s defects, which will require financial capital, development time, and a dedicated commitment from state officials.” The post Election Integrity Stakes Grow for Virginia, Now a ‘Tossup’ State appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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