Missouri AG sues New York over ‘reprehensible lawfare’ against Trump: ‘Poisonous to American democracy’
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against the state of New York, alleging it violated Missourians’ First Amendment right to hear from former President Trump during the 2024 presidential election. Bailey’s lawsuit alleges New York’s “illicit prosecution, gag order, and sentencing” of Trump has undermined his ability to campaign for president, sabotaging Missourians’ ability to hear from him and cast a fully informed vote for a presidential candidate mere months before the election. His lawsuit petitions the Supreme Court to declare that New York’s restrictions on President Trump’s ability to campaign unlawfully interfere with the presidential election, to remove any gag orders against the former president and to halt his pending sentencing until after the presidential election. “Right now, Missouri has a huge problem with New York. Instead of letting presidential candidates campaign on their own merit, radical progressives in New York are trying to rig the 2024 election by waging a direct attack on our democratic process,” said Bailey. MISSOURI AG TO SUE NEW YORK OVER ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWFARE’ AGAINST TRUMP: ‘TIME TO RESTORE THE RULE OF LAW’ “I will not sit idly by while Soros-backed prosecutors hold Missouri voters hostage in this presidential election. I am filing suit to ensure every Missourian can exercise their right to hear from and vote for their preferred presidential candidate.” The lawsuit alleges three specific violations, including interference with the presidential election in other states, violation of the First Amendment and the unlawful change of election rules in the months leading up to an election. It comes just one month after New York’s Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, won a guilty verdict against Trump. GOP AG LAUNCHES NEW PROBE INTO COMMUNICATIONS FROM DOJ AND TRUMP PROSECUTORS Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts. Each count carries a maximum prison sentence of four years. Trump faces a maximum sentence of 136 years. “This lawfare is poisonous to American democracy. The American people ought to be able to participate in a presidential election free from New York’s interference. Any gag order and sentence should be stayed until after the election,” Bailey said. In the lawsuit, Bailey lays out the timeline of how Bragg brought charges against Trump, alleging he did it to boost President Biden’s campaign and keep Trump out of the White House. Bailey noted Bragg was previously involved in a lawsuit against Trump while working for the New York Attorney General’s Office and then campaigned for his current position by promising to use that experience to prosecute Trump. BRAGG DOES ‘NOT OPPOSE’ TRUMP REQUEST TO DELAY SENTENCING; AWAITS JUDGE MERCHAN’S APPROVAL Additionally, Bailey pointed out that Bragg hired the third highest-ranking member from Biden’s Department of Justice, Matthew Colangelo, to lead the prosecution against Biden’s political opponent. His lawsuit also alleges Judge Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump’s New York criminal trial, violated state judicial ethics rules by donating to the Biden campaign. Bailey called it “reprehensible lawfare” against the former president. Bailey filed a motion of preliminary injunction, asking the court to immediately halt any further action in the New York case until after the American people have had their say at the ballot box. “Radical progressives in New York are trying to rig the 2024 election. We have to stand up and fight back,” Bailey previously told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. Trump on Monday moved to overturn his criminal conviction in the Manhattan case after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a former president has substantial immunity for official acts committed while in office. He also requested to delay his sentencing, which was scheduled for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention, where he will be formally named as the 2024 GOP presidential nominee. Bragg said Trump’s request to toss the verdict was without merit, but he did not oppose the request to delay sentencing. Merchan on Tuesday afternoon delayed Trump’s sentencing date to September 18 at 10 a.m. Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants aren’t under federal supervision: analysis
A relatively small number of illegal immigrants are enrolled in any form of federal supervision, according to a new analysis from a conservative group being shared widely by House Republicans, who are calling for policy changes. The study, produced by the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE), used as a basis a study that found there are 16.8 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. Estimates on how many illegal immigrants are in the country vary considerably, and the 16.8 million figure comes from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. From there, the analysis cites numbers, confirmed by Fox, that the number on the non-detained docket — those not under supervision or detention — is more than 7 million. The remainder include gotaways and visa overstays and others. However, there are only around 41,500 in ICE detention beds, and over 180,000 are being supervised under ICE’s Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. ICE NON-DETAINED DOCKET EXPLODES TO 7.4 M CASES As part of ATD, illegal immigrants are enrolled in the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP), which uses case management and technology, including GPS and ankle monitors, to track them. It means that less than 2% of illegal immigrants are in detention or in ATD. A DHS document in 2022 noted that, at that time, only about 3% of the non-detained docket is enrolled in ATD, but since then, the number of those on the non-detained docket has expanded considerably. DHS did not respond to a request for comment on the analysis. The analysis has been shared by top Republicans in the House and Senate, including Speaker Mike Johnson, and comes as there is a continued fight between Republicans in Congress and the administration over how to tackle the ongoing crisis at the southern border. The administration has repeatedly called for more funding and sweeping reforms to fix what it says is a broken system. It says bills to provide that funding, including a bipartisan Senate bill this year, have been blocked by Republicans for political reasons. The administration has also said it has removed or returned more illegal immigrants in the last year than in multiple previous fiscal years combined and has pointed to its moves, including recent executive action to limit asylum claims when entries have reached a certain level. At last week’s debate, President Biden accused former President Trump of blocking bipartisan legislation for political purposes. “This bipartisan deal, more fentanyl machines to be able to detect drugs, more numbers of agents, more numbers of all the people at the border,” Biden said. “And when we had that deal done, [former President Trump] … called his Republican colleagues (and) said, ‘Don’t do it. It’s going to hurt me politically.’ He never argued it’s not a good bill. It’s a really good bill.” Republicans say those bills would not fix the problem and that Biden’s administration has created the border crisis by ending Trump-era policies and releasing migrants into the interior instead of detaining them. Republicans in the House last year passed their own legislation to stop entries into the U.S. and expand certain funding paths. They have also impeached DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, although articles were rejected in the Senate. “President Biden refuses to detain illegal aliens in accordance with the law. Instead, he honors the wishes of ‘Abolish ICE’ groups who not only oppose custodial detention but call any form of GPS monitoring a ‘digital prison,’” RJ Hauman, president of NICE, told Fox News Digital. “The result? Lawlessness at our border and preventable crime after preventable crime. Sadly, with nearly 99% of illegal aliens currently unsupervised by ICE, there will be more to come. The American people must put an end to it all in November.” House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green told Fox News Digital the administration has “made clear from the beginning that they had no interest in following the laws they swore to uphold, including the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that require the detention of inadmissible aliens.” “This willful and systemic refusal to follow the law is one reason why Secretary Mayorkas is now the only sitting Cabinet official in American history to be impeached. This refusal makes a mockery of our laws,” he said. “We have also seen countless examples in just the last few days that those being released by DHS go on to commit horrific crimes in our communities. The consequences of this lawlessness have become unbearable — except for the open-borders left.”
Hathras stampede: FIR lodged against Satsang organisers as death toll rises to 121
The death toll in the incident on Wednesday rose to 121 with 28 people sustaining injuries according to the information given by the Office of the Relief Commissioner. As per the FIR lodged in the case, the Satsang was held by Suraj Pal.
IMD weather update: Delhi-NCR likely to experience heavy rains, orange alert issued for today
On Monday, IMD announced that it will upgrade its weather forecasting capabilities in Delhi-NCR with the installation of three new Doppler radars over the next two to three years.
Assam flood situation worsens, over 11 lakh people suffering
Lakhimpur is the worst hit with over 1.65 lakh people suffering, followed by Darrang with more than 1.47 lakh people affected and Golaghat with almost 1.07 lakh people reeling under flood waters.
Biden administration proposes rule to protect workers from extreme heat
The proposal comes a year after a new state law ended mandatory water breaks in Austin and Dallas. Last year was the hottest on record in Texas.
Cash Dash: Trump tops Biden in fundraising battle the past three months
Former President Trump’s campaign says it has out raised President Biden over the past three months and showcases that it has more cash-on-hand. Trump’s campaign announced on Tuesday that it and the Republican National Committee hauled in a staggering $331 million during the April through June second quarter of 2024 fundraising, topping the massive $264 million raked in by the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee the past three months. And the former president’s campaign spotlighted that it had $284.9 million in its coffers as of the end of June, compared to $240 million for Biden. BIDEN MEETING WITH DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS WEDNESDAY AS HE TRIES TO SHORE UP PARTY SUPPORT FOR 2024 CAMPAIGN But Biden hauled in $127 million in June fundraising, topping the $111.8 million Trump raised last month. “President Trump’s campaign fundraising operation is thriving day after day and month after month. Winning this quarter brought us a cash on hand advantage, which is punctuated by a Biden burn rate that grows while yielding no tangible results for them,” Trump co-campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles emphasized in a statement. BIDEN TRIES TO FLIP THE SCRIPT ON NEGATIVE NARRATIVE COMING OUT OF DISASTROUS DEBATE WITH TRUMP The Trump and Biden campaign cash reports were released as the president’s campaign tries to flip the script on the brutal narrative coming out of last week’s first debate. Biden, who at age 81 is the oldest president in the nation’s history, is facing the roughest stretch of his bid for a second term in the White House. This, after his halting delivery and stumbling answers at the debate, sparked widespread panic in the Democratic Party and spurred calls from political pundits, editorial writers and some party elected officials and donors for Biden to step aside as the party’s 2024 standard-bearer. A sizable chunk of Biden’s June’s haul was raked in at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles with former President Obama, Hollywood heavyweights George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and late night TV talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. The campaign said after the event that it set a new Democratic Party fundraising record with a $30 million haul. The president also brought in over $8 million a few days later at a fundraiser at the Northern Virginia home of former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, where Biden was also joined by former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State and former Sen. Hillary Clinton, who was the Democrats’ 2016 standard-bearer. NEW POLLS RAISE RED FLAGS FOR BIDEN But boosting the June fundraising to higher heights was the $33 million the campaign says was raised last Thursday through Saturday, the day of the first presidential debate and the following two days. And the Biden campaign showcased that their single best hour of fundraising this cycle came during the 11pm to midnight eastern hour on Thursday, immediately after the end of the debate with Trump in Atlanta, Georgia. But boosting the June fundraising to higher heights was the $33 million the campaign says was raised last Thursday through Saturday, the day of the first presidential debate and the following two days. And the Biden campaign showcased that their single best hour of fundraising this cycle came during the 11pm to midnight eastern hour on Thursday, immediately after the end of the debate with Trump in Atlanta, Georgia. Biden and the DNC enjoyed a large fundraising lead over Trump and the Republican National Committee earlier this year. But Trump and the RNC topped Biden and the DNC in fundraising for the first time in April. And in May, the Trump campaign and the RNC, fueled in part by a fundraising surge following the former president’s history-making guilty verdicts in his criminal trial, combined hauled in a stunning $141 million, easily besting Biden and the DNC. Fundraising, along with public opinion polling, is a key metric used to measure the strength of a candidate and their campaign. Money raised can be used to build up grassroots outreach and get-out-the-vote operations, staffing, travel and ads, among other things. The Biden campaign has been using its funds to build up what appears to be a very formidable ground operation in the key battleground states and announced two weeks ago that they had hired their 1,000th staffer and had opened over 200 coordinated offices in the swing states. The Biden campaign enjoys a large organizational advantage over the Trump campaign when it comes to grassroots outreach and get-out-the-vote ground game efforts in the states that will likely decide the outcome of the election rematch. “Team Biden-Harris grew its historic war chest while also significantly expanding its footprint and operations both in HQ and across the key states – the resources needed to win a close election,” the campaign highlighted in a release. But the Trump campaign argues that Biden’s team has been wasting their money. “Despite Biden spending nearly $120 million on tv, cable and radio alone, polling and voter enthusiasm continue to grow for President Trump. This fundraising momentum is likely to grow even more as we head into a world-class convention and see the Democrats continue their circular firing squad in the aftermath of Biden’s debate collapse,” LaCivita and Wiles argued in their statement. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Hathras Stampede: UP CM Yogi Adityanath likely to visit incident site today after 116 killed
UP CM Yogi Adityanath will visit Hathras following a deadly stampede at a religious gathering, resulting in over 116 deaths.
Weather update: IMD predicts heavy rain, floods in these states; check full forecast
“The southwest monsoon has further advanced into the remaining parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab today. Thus, it covered the entire country on July 2, 2024, against the normal date of July 8,” the IMD said in a statement.
‘This is a horrific hurricane’: Beryl becomes Category 5 storm
NewsFeed Hurricane Beryl has become the earliest ever Category 5 storm to hit the Atlantic. It made landfall near the island of Grenada and is currently on track to hit Jamaica. Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, told Al Jazeera the damage it caused is “horrendous.” Published On 2 Jul 20242 Jul 2024 Adblock test (Why?)