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- House Democrat Tells CNN Her Side Is Missing ‘Nuance’ in Its ‘Rush to Mora...
Democrats are missing “nuance” in the “rush to moralize” the conversation about transgender athletes in girls’ sports, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) told CNN anchor Pamela Brown Wednesday. Gluesenkamp Perez said the “rush to moralize is not necessarily productive,” after the Supreme Court ruled upheld a ban on transgender athletes in Idaho and West Virginia. The ruling holds implications for the 25 states that currently have similar laws. Twenty-three states in the U.S. do not have any laws on the inclusion of transgender athletes. “I got a lot of people angry at me when I voted against the bill that would have allowed for genital inspection of student athletes,” Gluesenkamp Perez said. “And at those town halls, what I saw was that the people who were most upset, a lot of them had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice, and they view their best shot of their student getting a college education as an athletic scholarship.” “And so when we rush to moralize and be like, this is all about love versus hate, I think we miss some of the nuance that people are seeing in this,” she added. “And I think we can put up walls where there don’t necessarily need to be them.” In his majority opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that states “may maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females,” but they cannot completely exclude transgender athletes. “No student-athlete on either side of the issue, whether a biological female or transgender, deserves to be ostracized or vilified,” he added. The Congresswoman also questioned the cost of college and athletics as a viable path. “I’m a big supporter of the trades. I ran an auto repair shop, and there’s the question of, ‘Why does everyone need to get into college?’ [about] the sort of paper ceiling of a degree. [There’s] also the question of why has college tuition increased?” Watch the clip above via CNN.The post House Democrat Tells CNN Her Side Is Missing ‘Nuance’ in Its ‘Rush to Moralize’ on Transgender Athletes first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.30 mins ago - Trump’s Acting AG Says There Are ‘Other Things’ Government Can Do to Squas...Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said even though the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on birthright citizenship, the Justice Department still has a few tricks up its sleeve to block foreigners from coming to the U.S. in order to give birth. Blanche discussed the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling from a day earlier during a press conference on Wednesday. He was asked what “options” the DOJ has to crack down on what President Donald Trump has called “birth tourism” — where foreigners travel to the U.S. strictly to give birth to kids who are automatically American citizens. The Supreme Court ruled that was perfectly legal on Tuesday. “Well, from a Department of Justice standpoint it’s obviously focusing our prosecutors and our law enforcement partners on birthing tourism,” Blanche said. “It’s a booming industry and it will continue [to be], given the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday.” He continued: There’s other things that DHS can do and the federal government can do in the visa process and the application process to try to minimize or limit the opportunity of folks coming here not to visit, not to do what they’re saying on their tourist visa, just to have a baby that can be a U.S. citizen. From our standpoint, it’s focusing on what is improper. Everybody should agree that it’s a violation of our laws if your intent in coming here, if you’re pregnant, is to have a child to become a United States citizen because of our laws. Blanche’s answer followed the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld birthright citizenship. “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights— to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “We keep that promise today.” Trump had argued the Fourteenth Amendment aimed to ensure the kids of slaves became citizens, but that the amendment had since morphed into a “great scam.” The president criticized the birthright citizenship ruling on Tuesday, but also said the court had been “very fair” to Republicans overall. He then sardonically congratulated China on the ruling. Other conservatives were even more upset. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh branded Justice Amy Coney Barrett a “DEI Hire” for ruling against Trump once again, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he was “very disappointed” by… [TheTopNews] Read More.36 mins ago
- ‘Nobody’s Perfect’: JD Vance Reveals Whether He’s ‘Angry’ with Justi...Vice President JD Vance was asked on Wednesday whether he is “angry” at Justice Amy Coney Barrett as many other conservatives are after recent Supreme Court rulings. While speaking with reporters, Vance focused on the Supreme Court’s ruling rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. Barrett has earned the ire of some conservative commentators for voting with the court’s liberal judges on affirming birthright citizenship. Asked if he was “one” of the conservatives “angry” with Barrett, Vance said he believes the Supreme Court made a mistake and insisted it can still be corrected. The vice president said: Well look, do I think she made a mistake in the ruling? I do. I don’t know how anybody can say that if a person who is an illegal alien or a person, for example, who’s pregnant and comes to the United States on a vacation, they have a baby and all of a sudden their entire family gets the benefits of American citizenship. I don’t think that’s what the framers of the 14th amendment had in mind. I think it’s the right case. But look, it was 5-4. Sometimes the Supreme Court makes mistakes. We’re going to try to correct that mistake, but nobody’s perfect, including the Supreme Court. See you guys. Have a happy Fourth if I don’t talk to you. Trump has pushed Congress to act on ending birthright citizenship since the ruling. Vance, meanwhile, argued on Fox News that the close vote (5-4) shows that the birthright citizenship law is “hanging by a thread.” “I know a lot of conservatives, Laura, certainly the people that I’m talking to, are extremely disappointed,” Vance told Laura Ingraham. “I do think there is a big silver lining here and that’s the simple fact that a lot of legal experts expected this case to go in the wrong direction by 7-2 or even 8-1. The fact that this case was a 5-4 decision effectively means that the concept of birthright citizenship, which is an absurdity to the 14th Amendment, that concept is hanging by a thread.” Watch above via CSPAN.The post ‘Nobody’s Perfect’: JD Vance Reveals Whether He’s ‘Angry’ with Justice Amy Coney Barrett first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.51 mins ago
- ‘Darkest Times of My Life’: Pete Buttigieg Speaks Out for First Time on Fals...Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg opened up for the first time on Wednesday about his heartbreak after he was separated from his twins by Child Protective Services after the agency received a false report that the kids were at risk. Appearing on Good Morning America, Buttigieg was asked by George Stephanopoulos to recount the situation, during which the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor was separated from his 4-year-old twins, Penelope and Gus, for 24 hours. Buttigieg, who first revealed the startling situation in a Substack post on Friday, said he was in his study inside his South Bend home when he saw a police officer and a CPS worker at his door. The pair informed Buttigieg that there was an allegation against him that they couldn’t discuss. “They told me that I couldn’t be around my children unsupervised until my children were interviewed,” He said. “During that questioning, no one in the family could be present. And the next 24 hours are some of the darkest times of my life. I don’t know how to describe it.” When Stephanopoulos asked how his kids were doing, Buttigieg replied: “They’re 4 years old. As a family, we’re just trying to put this behind us. I don’t know how much of this they’re going to remember. I know I will. It’s one of the most awful moments of my life and something I wouldn’t wish on anybody.” He said that the response since he came forward, including from some former political foes he’s previously campaigned against, has been “really extraordinary.” “We have got to be able to agree as a country on at least this fundamental principle: that you do not go after peoples’ families,” Buttigieg said. “That whatever you think of somebody’s politics, however you wanna argue or fight about political issues, you leave somebody’s children alone.” When asked if Buttigieg had any information about where the hoax call came from or who would commit such a crime, he said: “We’re looking into whether it’s possible to find and prosecute the person who did this.” One thing is for certain, according to Buttiegieg: “We just cannot allow our politics to keep moving in this direction.” He added: “This can’t be treated as something that is just something you accept, or something you take on when you get int0 pubic service — who would go into public service if things keep… [TheTopNews] Read More.54 mins ago
- BREAKING: Daredevils Climb Empire State Building to Fly Banner About ‘Love’A pair of daredevils climbed the Empire State Building Wednesday, putting on a dramatic display while they embraced — and apparently got engaged. The scene was captured live by CNN, where the anchors marveled at the chutzpah of the trespassers and predicted they’d be “under arrest” soon. Below is a transcript of their exchange: DANA BASH: Well, you can see that, um, there was, uh, that they put it looks like a selfie stick up there. Um, yeah. Yeah. Okay. It looked like there was just a proposal. Yeah. Okay. JULIETTE KAYYEM:That’s exactly right. This is, this is, um, this is E generation that cannot do anything without everyone watching. DANA BASH: Can we just stop for a second? Hold on one second. Juliet. So we saw a selfie stick. Clearly looks like a selfie stick go up. He goes on. Or somebody went on one knee. I don’t know what the gender of these individuals went on. One knee looked like a proposal. They hug and it looks like it’s just being captured by somebody’s cell phone. They’re they’re. KAYYEM: “Getting it’s probably streaming somewhere. Yeah, it’s probably streaming somewhere live right now. I’m not, I’m not able to access it. I’ve been given some links about who they are. Um, but we’ll let the reporters figure out who they are. But, um, yeah, I mean, this is performative. Um, uh, and, and, you know, I, I, I am all for love. I am all for romance. Let me just tell you, um, this is egregious for about 10,000 reasons. And these people will end up in jail for their wedding, as they should.” The New York Post reported the woman was wearing a cat mask. Watch above via CNN.The post BREAKING: Daredevils Climb Empire State Building to Fly Banner About ‘Love’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Ex-Trump Spox Says It ‘Seems’ He Wants to ‘Tank Republicans’ Chances’ ...Former White House spokesperson Sarah Matthews, who worked for President Donald Trump from June 2020 to January 2021, says it “seems” her former employer “is doing everything in his power to tank Republican chances in the midterms.” In a segment on MS NOW, Matthews explained to correspondent Antonia Hylton that Trump’s fixation on the SAVE America Act could cost him, and the Republican Party, dearly this fall. “I think that if President Trump was doing everything in his power to tank Republicans’ chances in the midterms, he wouldn’t be doing anything differently,” she said. “That’s what it seems like. It seems like he does not care about the party, which he never has, to be fair. He has never cared about what is good for the betterment of the Republican Party. He has only ever cared about himself and accumulating as much power as possible.” The president refocused his attention on the SAVE America Act this week after the Supreme Court ruled that states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after an election. “In light of the tremendous loss in the Supreme Court today concerning Voter’s Rights, and the fact that ‘people’s’ votes are allowed to be counted LONG AFTER an Election is over, it is more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. But voters have more urgent concerns, Matthews added. “He doesn’t care about affordability. He’s called it a hoax, said that Democrats have created it. He obviously doesn’t care about housing, called this unimportant,” she added. “And I know that that had a lot of Republicans on the Hill who were wanting to bang their head against the wall when they heard him say that. Because, look, when you look at something like housing, that is a big deal for voters, especially of my generation, where affording a home and buying a home is out of reach for most of us.” The president has so far refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill that would make it easier to build homes across the country, and went so far as to refer to the topic as being of “minor importance.” “And so then when there is this bipartisan bill, that is an easy win for Republicans in the midterms to point to as a tangible thing that they did to address the affordability crisis, Trump has to immediately make… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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