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A House Democrat just filed articles of impeachment against Trump, and he told Raw America that a third impeachment will happen provided his colleagues simply honor their oath of office. The Department of Homeland Security may have broken state laws while carrying out mass voter roll purges that led to actual U.S. citizens being removed from lists. Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate today, though questions about whether the 84 year-old is still capable of serving still remain. And Donald Trump just endorsed Peter Thiel’s AI-powered Flock cameras just as Americans from both sides of the political aisle are turning against them.
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On Monday, Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas officially introduced new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing the administration of allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to carry out what he calls “unjustified killings” of American citizens.
The resolution specifically names Renee Good and Alex Pretti — who were both shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis earlier this year — as evidence of the administration’s blatant disregard for U.S. citizens as part of its nationwide immigration crackdown.
Green’s resolution also accuses Trump’s ICE of “operating with anonymity” by being allowed to wear face masks while on duty, shielding them from virtually all accountability for their actions. Green is also accusing the Trump administration of attacking the First Amendment by undermining free speech in its crackdowns on ICE protesters across the country, and that it has intentionally circumvented legitimate oversight attempts by the federal judiciary.
While speaking to reporters in Washington on Monday, Green said the pending impeachment vote was a test of whether members of Congress will actually fulfill the oath of office they took upon being sworn in, in which they pledge to defend the Constitution from all enemies of the United States, both foreign and domestic.
“I believe that if we honor our oath of office, every member of Congress will be voting to impeach,” Green told Raw America Capitol correspondent Luke De Cresce during a Monday press conference. “If members who are not denying that impeachable offenses have been committed will but honor their oath of office, he will be impeached.”
Green has been one of the most consistent voices in Congress calling for Trump’s impeachment, and he was famously escorted out of the House of Representatives after interrupting Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this year while holding a sign that read “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES.” Green’s district was part of Texas Republicans’ push to gerrymander Democrats out of power, and he lost a primary earlier this year to freshman Democratic Congressman Christian Menefee for the new 18th Congressional District.
This resolution seeks to impeach Trump for an unprecedented third time. Trump is already the first president to be impeached twice; first for holding U.S. aid to Ukraine hostage in exchange for a political favor from Volodymyr Zelensky’s government, and second time for his role in the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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According to a new whistleblower report, the Department of Homeland Security’s so-called “Unlawful Voter Initiative” is sweeping up American citizens in multiple states.
The New York Times is reporting that agents working on the initiative are expected to conclude at least 40 investigations on every eight-hour shift. If you crunch the numbers, that amounts to around 12 minutes of investigation to decide whether a voter is a potential criminal. The whistleblower sounded the alarm that Trump’s DHS, under the leadership of Secretary Markwayne Mullin, is knowingly including U.S. citizens in its purges of supposedly “unlawful voters.”
That’s not even the most worrying part: federal investigators were apparently using voters’ dates of birth dates and partial Social Security numbers to log into state websites that are exclusively meant to help voters check their own registration status. The whistleblower warned this is likely a violation of state law in multiple jurisdictions.
Lawyers for the DHS reportedly tried to reassure the agents working on the cases that they wouldn’t be personally liable for any missteps, provided there was proper documentation for all of the searches and that they were done in accordance with their official job duties. However, watchdog group Democracy Defenders said that there will almost certainly be legal consequences for any individual agent who accessed those websites, and that the promise of cover from their superiors at DHS won’t save them.
Agents themselves were also apparently alarmed, asking their bosses about how they retrieved the data in question. At one point, DHS officials told agents the data had been supplemented using what they referred to as “magic.” And no, that’s not a typo.
Apparently, the voter data the DHS is combing through includes ID numbers assigned to non-citizens. But those numbers still remain in federal databases even after an immigrant becomes a naturalized U.S. citizen. So if agents are indeed relying on that outdated data, they could end up falsely targeting lawful U.S. citizen voters for removal. The whistleblower went on to suggest that could potentially be viewed as falsifying federal records, which is a federal crime all by itself. Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Alex Padilla of California are now demanding that Mullin shut the entire initiative down.
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The Senate came back from August recess on Monday, and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky 𝕏announced on social media that he would be finally rejoining his colleagues after a three-month absence.
In a post to his official X account, the Kentucky Republican said that he still wasn’t at 100 percent, but assured Senate Majority Leader John Thune that he would do his best to be present for important votes. He didn’t give any explanation for his lengthy absence other than a “bad fall.”
The 84 year-old senator spent weeks in the hospital before being moved to a rehab center, where he was finally discharged in early August. Kentucky’s two-term Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, heaped criticism on McConnell and his office for its slow trickle of information about McConnell’s condition, and the opaque nature of its communications as his constituents wondered if he was still capable of serving.
Beshear pushed McConnell’s office to release a video statement confirming that he was alive and well and able to work, though the senator never once did, nor did he make any calls via remote video or phone to reporters. His return to Washington was a total mystery all the way up until the Senate gaveled in Monday afternoon, and even his own staff would only say they “hoped” he’d be back in time for votes tonight. McConnell issued his statement announcing his return just prior to 6 PM Eastern Time.
The Senate will remain in Washington for three weeks before gaveling out of town again prior to the midterms. The House will be heading out this week for another lengthy recess. That short window of time means that Congress actually passing anything of note is extremely unlikely. What are we paying them for again?
Donald Trump gave reporters his first public endorsement of Flock cameras this weekend, which are the Peter Thiel-funded, AI-powered automatic license plate readers that have become a flashpoint over privacy and Fourth Amendment concerns. Speaking aboard Air Force One, he said he likes them because law enforcement likes them. He acknowledged that while some people see them as an infringement on privacy, he personally doesn’t.
Flock Safety, which is based in Atlanta, now runs more than 120,000 cameras across the country, scanning approximately 20 billion license plates every month. The company argues that the data obtained by its camera network helps solve a million crimes a year.
But public opinion on the ubiquitous cameras has turned hard against the company. A recent YouGov survey of around 20,000 adults found a plurality — 46 percent — oppose having Flock cameras in their communities, while only 38 percent support them. That shift comes as dozens of police officers in multiple states are being charged with or accused of abusing the camera network to stalk people not accused of any crimes or involved in any criminal investigation. Some officers used cameras to track their exes, while one woman from Texas had her movements tracked via Flock’s network as she obtained an abortion out of state. Flock has since announced several changes aimed at curbing abuse, including requiring every search to be tied to an actual criminal case number.
The politics of Flock cameras transcend partisanship. Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has come out against them, along with Republican Congressman Keith Self of Texas, who posted that “Big Brother has no place in the Lone Star State.” Florida’s two-term Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, said Flock cameras are “out of control” and that he doesn’t want the country turning into a surveillance state. Trump is now firmly on the opposite side of that bipartisan consensus.
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