Pailin gets a second chance. LM Otero / Associated Press.
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Appeals Court Revives Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times.
I’m sure you heard where Palin lost a case against the NY Times. What you didn’t hear was that the sitting judge dismissed the case while the jury was deliberating the case. The jury was given the judge’s decision and guess what? They ruled against Palin. But not the end of the case.
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit held Wednesday that Rakoff had acted improperly and ordered a new trial.
We first reinstated the case in August 2019 following an initial dismissal by the district court (Rakoff, J.) under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Palin’s claim was subsequently tried before a jury but, while the jury was deliberating, the district court dismissed the case again—this time under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50. We conclude that the district court’s Rule 50 ruling improperly intruded on the province of the jury by making credibility determinations, weighing evidence, and ignoring facts or inferences that a reasonable juror could plausibly have found to support Palin’s case.
A Department of Justice attorney has been caught admitting in an undercover video that the FDA’s campaign against the use of ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment was not only misguided but also an overreach of its authority.
In December 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a stern warning to Americans: “Never use medications intended for animals on yourself or other people. Animal ivermectin products are very different from those approved for humans. Use of animal ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in humans is dangerous.”
This statement, which came during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, was not only controversial but also deeply flawed, as the FDA had previously praised the drug in other contexts.
Ivermectin, a drug that had been safely used in humans since 1966, had been vilified by the FDA during the pandemic, despite its earlier successes in treating various diseases and even being administered to African migrants by the agency itself back in 2015.
Yet, in the face of mounting evidence—105 controlled studies showing a 61% lower risk in early COVID-19 treatment—the FDA clung to its erroneous position, interested in promoting its agenda than in protecting public health.
A group of courageous doctors, refusing to be silenced, filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FDA, challenging the agencies’ unlawful attempts to block ivermectin’s use in treating COVID-19.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Southern District of Texas in Galveston, asserts that the FDA overstepped its authority and interfered unjustifiably with medical practice.
Among the plaintiffs were Drs. Mary Talley Bowden, Paul E. Marik, and Robert L. Apter, who accused the FDA of launching a campaign of misinformation. The doctors pointed out that while the FDA had approved ivermectin for human use long before the pandemic, the agency suddenly began spreading falsehoods about its safety when COVID-19 struck.
They argued that this shift in narrative was part of a broader strategy to promote unproven vaccines while suppressing effective treatments.
During the court proceedings, the FDA’s lawyers shockingly admitted that the agency’s recommendations against Ivermectin were only advice and were not mandatory when they told people to “stop” taking Ivermectin for COVID-19.
Isaac Belfer, a lawyer representing the FDA, said, “The cited statements were not directives,” said Isaac Belfer, one of the lawyers. “They were not mandatory. They were recommendations. They said what parties should do. They said, for example, why you should not take ivermectin to treat COVID-19. They did not say you may not do it, you must not do it. They did not say it’s prohibited or it’s unlawful. They also did not say that doctors may not prescribe ivermectin.”
“They use informal language, that is true… It’s conversational but not mandatory,” he continued.
The lawsuit resulted in a significant victory for the doctors, with the FDA being forced to remove its social media posts and consumer advisories against the use of ivermectin for COVID-19.
Belfer, caught on undercover camera by Project Veritas, confessed that the FDA’s actions were an overreach.
“So, what the agency has done… [is] unquestionably beyond its authority. Making a recommendation of what drugs to take or not to take, that’s the practice of medicine. And FDA can’t practice medicine,” Belfer told Project Veritas.
“I think going forward they’ll [FDA] probably be a bit more careful. They [the doctors] got an opinion that was good for them. That kind of limited FDA’s authority. It’s not okay to… actually tell people, ‘You should not take this drug,’” he added.
Drs Apter and Bowden told Project Veritas that suppression of ivermectin led to a prolonged pandemic, and potentially millions in excess COVID deaths.
Apter: “It’s not unreasonable to think that there have been a million unnecessary deaths from COVID in the United States because of the public health agency suppression of effective early treatment with repurposed inexpensive medications.”
Bowden: “If more people had access to early treatment in the form of ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies, hydroxychloroquine… we could have nipped the pandemic in the bud.”
Undercutting a President and a political challenger.
Former Ohio congressman and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich told Newsmax that “people from inside the government were trying to undercut” former president Donald Trump’s presidency in a way that was “un-American.”
“Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or independent, when someone is elected president, the country is supposed to get behind him or her. And that didn’t happen,” Kucinich, former campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recently suspended campaign, told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”
Kucinich said Kennedy, who endorsed Trump after suspending his campaign Friday, tried to run inside the Democratic Party.
“He began his campaign as a Democrat — a Kennedy Democrat, nonetheless. The minute that he said that roadblocks were put in his way, the DNC [Democratic National Committee] immediately moved the Biden headquarters into the DNC headquarters,” he said.
“And I will tell you, one of the landmark decisions that is reverberating through this whole election, the DNC decided in the primary there wouldn’t be any debates.”
Kucinich said that decision was in response to the known weaknesses of President Joe Biden.
“They knew he was done. They knew the weaknesses. And so what happened is they scheduled a debate before the convention, so that he could be pushed aside.”
“Now, this whole process was aimed at blocking any real competition inside the Democratic Party,” Kucinich said, calling the ways the DNC blocked Kennedy and other candidates from getting on the ballot “unbelievable.”
So why is Harris’s so much more? She also adds raising the Minimum wage to $20.00 federally. But yet she bragged about casting the tie breaking vote that added IRS agents to track tip workers who Harris and Biden claimed were tax cheats.
FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris cast the decisive vote to strengthen tax enforcement on gratuities in the hospitality industry, resulting in the IRS implementing a tip reporting program. Now, she champions a "No Tax on Tips" initiative, echoing a proposal originally made by President… pic.twitter.com/mMiYI0g6X9
Why is Trump’s plan revenue neutral? The removal of the undocumented meaning no more paying for their children’s education and no more social benefits or free medical and housing.
The scar that Harris and Biden left on this country. No compassion for the legal worker and family in the U S A.
I guess this started when Biden decided to go total lock down during his COVID pandemic. True that Trump lost 22 million jobs, BUT HE GOT BACK 10 MILLION IN A FEW SHORT MONTHS.
Joe Biden took almost three years to recover the other 12 million. Why so long? His 6 trillion in new spending that caused inflation. Going up to almost 10% under his administration.
But the opening of the southern border was the killer. We hear anywhere from 10-20 million undocumented flooded our border. And where were they going to work?
I saw a leftist cry out that we needed to show compassion for these folks. A small number were fearful of government persecution. But most came for the jobs. Where was the compassion for the American workers and legal immigrants who had to compete against these interlopers?
Where was the compassion for the hundred thousand deaths a year because of the drugs brought in from the southern border? Excuse me for not caring about folks who brought unemployment and death upon those born here and those here legally.
No court changes in our lifetime. Jacquelyn Martin/Getty Images
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Biden’s new Supreme Court reform proposals are mostly useless. Two things we know for sure. No changes this year for the Supreme Court. Odds are it won’t even come up for a vote. And next year the Republicans will control the Senat for sure. So forget about it.
The ethics code would be unenforceable. Biden forgets that there’s a thing called seperation of powers. Even the fanatics at VOX agree.
Joe has called it quits. Who will the White and Black Supremacist Progressives pick next? Actually, the all-white power brokers plus the House Boy Obama will do the actual choosing.
Biden announced Sunday that he will suspend his 2024 re-election campaign amid mounting pressure from his Democratic colleagues on Capitol Hill, top donors and Hollywood stars after a disastrous debate performance last month.
The unprecedented announcement came as an increasing number of Democrat lawmakers had begun to publicly call for Biden to step aside and the party’s leadership reportedly was engaged in efforts to convince Biden, 81, he could not win in November’s general election against former President Trump, the 2024 GOP nominee who Biden defeated four years ago to win the White House.
The federal jury found the firing of the Blue Cross employee, Tanja Benton, who cited religious beliefs against the vaccine mandate, to be an unjustifiable decision.
Blue Cross Blue Shield failed to “prove by a preponderance of the evidence either that it had offered a reasonable accommodation to Plaintiff or that it could not reasonably accommodate the Plaintiff’s religious beliefs without undue hardship,” the court stated.
Tanja Benton was a bio statistical research scientist at BCBS for 17+ yrs before they fired her for refusing the vaccine.
Incredible. A Federal Jury has determined that Blue Cross BlueShield of Tennessee must pay $700,000 to an employee that was fired for refusing the COVID vaccine.
Tanja Benton was a bio statistical research scientist at BCBS for 17+ yrs before they fired her for refusing the vax.… pic.twitter.com/OPRDvaB2Rt
Former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on May 20.Dave Sanders / Pool via AP
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THIS IS A BREAKING STORY!
At a Philadelphia rally for president Trump shots were heard and I personally saw a clip where, right before he dropped to the stage there was a gunshot and he reached up for his neck. The Left is now so desperate to stop Trump that they have brought in their hired assassins.
Instead, they just guaranteed his election.
Wanna bet the shooter will be killed before he can talk?
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