Pro-life CEO predicts Trump FDA nominee could bring renewed scrutiny to abortion drug risks
The chief executive of America’s oldest pro-life organization told Fox News Digital that President Donald Trump’s FDA nominee, Dr. Heidi Overton, could bring renewed scrutiny to mifepristone, the abortion drug at the center of an ongoing federal safety review. John Mize, CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), said he has had five or six conversations with Overton, who is known for her pro-life views. She currently serves as Trump’s deputy assistant for domestic policy. “I think she’s going to bring objectivity to the issue of mifepristone in a way that will expose this drug for the damage it causes women,” Mize said in an interview on Friday, adding that his organization is “optimistic” that Overton will be a “pro-life FDA commissioner.” Overton’s nomination comes just weeks after an 18-year-old woman in North Carolina was accused of using mifepristone and misoprostol to terminate a pregnancy at 31 weeks, well beyond mifepristone’s FDA-approved limit of 10 weeks. HAWLEY INTRODUCES BILL TO STRIP FDA APPROVAL FROM ‘INHERENTLY DANGEROUS’ ABORTION PILL Mize has led AUL for two-and-a-half years, but the nonprofit has advocated against abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide and other practices it considers threats to human life since its founding in 1971. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Mize said he believes Overton is the “right candidate” to lead the FDA, citing her experience in government, clinical medicine and medical research. If confirmed, Overton would take the reins of the agency responsible for regulating abortion medication, including mifepristone. Mifepristone carries an FDA boxed warning, the agency’s strongest safety warning, for the risk of serious and sometimes fatal infections or bleeding. Prompted initially by COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, the FDA stopped enforcing the drug’s in-person dispensing requirement in 2021 and later removed it permanently after reviewing the available safety data. Under current FDA rules, patients do not necessarily have to see a physician in person before receiving a prescription, allowing mifepristone to be prescribed after telehealth visit and mailed by a certified pharmacy. Mize wants those rules tightened. SUPREME COURT TEMPORARILY BLOCKS APPEALS COURT RULING ON ABORTION PILL, RESTORES WIDER ACCESS TO DRUG “Dr. Overton and I share a very similar perspective that the drug is dangerous, particularly in an unregulated way for women,” Mize told Fox News Digital. “I firmly believe she understands the clinical implications of taking a drug with a black box warning and now shipping it in the mail.” Overton has publicly criticized mifepristone and other abortion drugs, which accounted for about 65% of clinician-provided abortions in 2023, according to the Guttmacher Institute, up from 53% in 2020 before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In a February 2023 policy brief for the America First Policy Institute, a MAGA-aligned think tank where she previously served as chief policy officer, Overton denounced federal policymakers for expanding access to abortion pills. She also accused the Biden administration of using the COVID-19 pandemic to wrongly justify allowing mifepristone and misoprostol, a drug that induces early labor, to be sent to patients through the mail. FIRST ON FOX: TOP REPUBLICANS TAKE ABORTION PILL FIGHT TO SUPREME COURT, CITING COERCION AND SAFETY RISKS Taken together, the two drugs terminate early pregnancies: mifepristone blocks progesterone, a hormone needed to sustain the pregnancy, while misoprostol causes contractions that expel the fetus. “Abortion is corrosive to children, women, and society broadly because it devalues and extinguishes innocent human life,” she wrote at the time. “America First policies should focus on immediately halting the effort to normalize abortion-on-demand and on broadly recognizing the evidence of the risk posed to women.” Mize pointed to a 2025 study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank, that analyzed insurance claims from 865,727 mifepristone abortions between 2017 and 2023 and found a serious adverse event rate of nearly 11%. This included conditions such as hemorrhaging, sepsis or infection. The study received immediate pushback, with the medical community saying it used a flawed methodology. The paper was also not peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal, factors Mize said Overton is aware of. HAWLEY SENDS CRIMINAL REFERRAL OF ‘LEFT-WING DARK-MONEY’ GROUP OVER MAILED ABORTION DRUGS “It’s not the whole picture, and Dr. Overton would say that,” Mize said. “But it’s an important indicator as to what’s happening in the real world. So I believe she will do a really good job of evaluating the study.” Mize said he hopes Overton will impose tighter restrictions on mifepristone after reviewing the evidence, potentially restoring a requirement that women see a doctor in person before receiving a prescription. He described Overton as “measured” and “methodical” while cautioning that pro-life advocates should not expect her to pursue immediate, sweeping changes at the FDA. “I don’t get the sense that she’s gonna move quickly on issues,” Mize said. SUPREME COURT KEEPS BROADER ACCESS TO ABORTION PILL MIFEPRISTONE IN PLACE WHILE LEGAL FIGHT CONTINUES Dr. Marty Makary, the previous FDA commissioner, resigned in May after clashing with Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers. He also drew criticism from pro-life activists, who accused the agency under his leadership of slow-walking its safety review of mifepristone. If confirmed, Overton would inherit the review, which was formally announced in September 2025 and does not have a scheduled completion date. The FDA has noted these types of studies typically take a year or longer to conduct. After that review is completed, Mize said the next step for Overton, ideally, would be “a longer term, deep dive evaluation on this medication to determine if it should even be on the market.” Mize acknowledged that not all the evidence is in yet but made clear that his preference would be to take mifepristone off the market. “From my perspective, any medication that denies someone the opportunity to live and kills a human being shouldn’t be something that we’re promoting amongst the FDA,” Mize said. “Ultimately, I would love to see this drug removed from the market
DOJ sues to stop Ohio court blocking courthouse arrests
The Justice Department sued an Ohio court Tuesday over a new rule blocking federal immigration arrests at or near the courthouse, accusing local officials of unlawfully interfering with federal enforcement and forcing ICE agents to make arrests in potentially riskier settings. At issue is a Franklin County Municipal Court rule, which bars civil arrests at the courthouse unless officers have a judicial warrant. The DOJ argues the rule conflicts with federal immigration law, which allows ICE agents in certain circumstances to make arrests with administrative warrants or no warrant at all. “This type of rule obstructs federal law enforcement and facilitates evasion of federal law by dangerous criminal aliens, despite Congress’s direction that federal agents detain and remove them,” said Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division. “Throughout the country, and including in this courthouse specifically, federal agents have routinely and safely conducted arrests. The Department of Justice is committed to protecting that important federal prerogative.” Those arrests can be less predictable and more dangerous because they may take place at homes, workplaces or other public locations, according to the complaint. Two Columbus ICE officers have been hospitalized after encountering violence during at-large arrests in the past three months, DOJ says. The complaint does not identify the officers or provide details about the incidents. ICE has also had to conduct longer surveillance and field operations to find people away from the courthouse. DOJ says an arrest at a jail or courthouse may require two officers, while an arrest in the field typically requires four to six. This is a developing news story; check back for updates.
‘Not 1984’: Flock cameras watching millions of Americans spark bipartisan revolt
There’s a new frontier in the national privacy debate that’s uniting people on the right and left, and it’s a tool that millions of Americans encounter every day without even realizing it. Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies have been brought under scrutiny by lawmakers in Washington as privacy hawks warn that the growing sophistication of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is testing the bounds of what ALPR devices can legally learn about drivers on the road. One company in particular, Flock Safety, has been taking hits in the media and political sphere as news of Flock cameras’ misuse — and occasional success — dominates headlines. “There’s cameras everywhere, people know that, but if law enforcement has the ability to monitor the comings and goings of citizens, I think that’s wrong. I mean, we’re not the CCP, we’re not 1984 and an Orwellian society, and Americans have rights,” Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital. LICENSE PLATE CAMERAS ARE TRACKING DRIVERS EVERYWHERE He pointed to a recent incident in his district where a now-former Sarasota police officer was fired and arrested after being accused of misusing Flock camera technology, using it to spy on one particular license plate over 300 times. FLOCK SAFETY CAMERAS NEED CONSTITUTIONAL GUARDRAILS BEFORE FURTHER DEPLOYMENT, TENNESSEE MAYOR ARGUES “I don’t think you’re gonna be able to stop these cameras from being out there, but at the very least, there should be some type of legal parameters put in place to protect people’s Fourth Amendment rights,” he said. ALPRs automatically capture and analyze vehicle and location data on public roads without drivers’ consent. Supporters have argued that it’s a critical tool for public safety that only collects minimal information, while opponents labeled it an alarming expansion of the mass surveillance state. LICENSE PLATE CAMERAS AT HOME DEPOT AND LOWE’S SPARK PRIVACY FEARS Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital, “These cameras are well beyond an automated license plate reader today. AI has made them so capable that they are now capable of facial recognition, of seeing what you’re doing inside your car. So it’s well beyond the license plate reader…that’s the problem. Technology has moved these beyond just looking at the back of a car.” On the other side of the aisle, a spokesperson for progressive Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., pointed Fox News Digital to her recent comments responding to news that Flock was updating its oversight standards. Ramirez wrote on X, “Private tech companies have amassed record-breaking profits off our pain and the use of technology for mass surveillance is a threat to our democracy, civil liberties, and privacy. Congress must stop the ever-expanding surveillance state.” ‘DARTH VADER’ USES DARK SIDE TO MOCK CONTROVERSIAL SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS: ‘THE EMPEROR IS A FAN OF FLOCK’ The debate even exploded onto the campaign trail ahead of November’s midterm elections, where ALPRs join AI data centers as Big Tech’s big boogeymen. “I oppose Flock’s mass surveillance technology, and I’ll stand with anyone in Congress, regardless of party, who wants to put limits on unchecked mass surveillance on the American people,” Will Lawrence, a Democrat running for the House in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital. DSA CANDIDATE PUSHES FEDERAL AI DATA CENTER MORATORIUM WITH MICHIGAN EARLY VOTING UNDERWAY Abdul El-Sayed, the insurgent progressive Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, accused his opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., of supporting Flock cameras in a campaign video released on X. “There’s been this mass proliferation of black cameras, any and everywhere, little cameras, watching your every move to collect information about you without you even noticing,” he said in the video. “If you believe, like me, that you shouldn’t just be surveilled because you’re driving along the street, then I hope I can earn your support.” A spokesperson for Rogers told Fox News Digital that he “vehemently opposes unchecked use of Flock cameras to track law-abiding citizens. Security and liberty aren’t enemies. Good government protects both.” Back on Capitol Hill, the furor over these cameras has prompted a flurry of legislative pushback. Self is among the House lawmakers pushing bills aimed at the issue, along with Reps. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky. Steube told Fox News Digital that he’s also “looking at filing something at the national level,” and is sending a letter to Sarasota, Florida, officials threatening to withhold federal funding absent a promise of “reasonable restrictions” to “prevent the abuses that have happened right here in our backyard.” Privacy and misuse concerns have sparked efforts across the country to cut ties with Flock specifically, from Lansing, Michigan, to Bernadillo County, New Mexico. Flock is just one company of several that operate ALPRs, some of which have been used for years. But the technology does have its benefits and has been used to stop crime. Flock Safety founder and CEO Garrett Langley told Fox News’ “Saturday in America” that his technology has helped police find missing children at least twice, including after a recent carjacking in Atlanta. Flock has also said it does not use facial recognition and recently introduced new safety controls in response to the public backlash. “When I think about legislation that calls for an outright ban, that’s like banning vehicles. That would never have made sense. Instead, what we did is we introduced laws against drunk driving. We introduced laws around seatbelts, laws around airbags,” Langley said. “What happens if law enforcement abuses this powerful technology today? It is too often that in Flock and in other technologies, there’s no regulation, there’s no accountability. And we think that’s wrong.” Supporters of ALPRs like Flock cameras have held them up as a key crime-fighting tool, while agreeing that guardrails to prevent abuse would be helpful. “I think it’s definitely a net positive. And I think that’s a very easy call… the use cases and the documented cases of these things being effective tools, I think, vastly outnumber the handful of cases of abuse and misuse that we’ve seen,” Rafael Mangual, a senior
Dem House hopeful defended music video showing woman restrained, groped and killed
In a 2016 interview, Latin Grammy Award-winning artist and Democratic congressional candidate Bobby Pulido defended a fellow singer against criticism for a graphic music video that depicted acts of sexual violence and murder. In the video production of “Fuiste Mía” or “You were mine” by Gerardo Ortiz, a singer walks in on his girlfriend cheating on him. After shooting her lover, he then handcuffs her to a pole, blindfolds her, and gropes her before putting her in the trunk of his car and setting it on fire. In response to backlash, Pulido defended Ortiz, calling the video a matter of artistic direction. “I’ve made videos with suggestive images; some have stayed, others have been edited, and still others were never used. That’s the decision of the artist and their team,” Pulido said in response to public backlash for the production. Pulido’s resurfaced response to the music video is the latest in a series of controversies Pulido has tried to downplay as he pursues a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 15th Congressional District — one of the country’s most competitive seats. FORMER DISNEY TEEN STAR EXPOSES CHILLING WARNING SIGNS OF PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN HOLLYWOOD Pulido is best known for Tejano, or Mexican–Spanish folk-style, songs like “Desvelado” and “Se Murió de Amor,” and received five nominations for a Latin Grammy Awards, winning Best Tejano Album in 2025 and 2022. He filed to run for Congress in Texas’ 15th district, challenging Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas. A two-term incumbent, she last won election to the district in 2024 in a 57.1% to 42.9% victory over Democratic nominee Michelle Vallejo. Along the way, Pulido has drawn scrutiny for a resurfaced history of posting links to explicit websites on his personal X account — as well as for a social media post of what appeared to be him urinating on President Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Pulido has shrugged off criticism for both, stating in 2024 that it’s “it’s impossible to have Twitter and not watch porn,” and that he had only poured water on Trump’s star as a joke. More notably, Pulido has also had to fend off criticisms of bringing a registered sex offender to a Texas middle school benefit concert in 2018. DEM TIED TO CARTEL OPERATIVE SAYS ‘WHITE NATIONALISTS’ JOINING IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT TO ‘HUNT DOWN PEOPLE’ In that case, Pulido denied knowledge of his associate’s status at the time and has dismissed coverage of it as a “nothing story,” according to Axios. Similarly, in his defense of Ortiz, Pulido downplayed the music video, arguing that viewers had become accustomed to increasingly graphic images. “What happens when there’s a [car] accident?” Pulido asked, comparing the music video to real-life instances of tragedy. “Traffic doesn’t flow because people slow down or even stop to see what happened; something similar happens with the regional Mexican genre when these kinds of incidents occur.” At least one Republican onlooker is left unconvinced by the defense of the music video — and defenses of other past behaviors. “Bobby Pulido has spent his entire adult life defending perverts and predators while lashing out at members of law enforcement who keep Texans safe. He is a truly sick individual who is morally rotten,” Zach Kraft, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee (RNC), said in a statement to Fox News Digital. DEM RIPPED FOR ‘DISGUSTING’ ABSENCE ON BILL TO PUNISH VIOLENT CRIMINALS AFTER GIRL STRANGLED IN GRISLY KILLING The Pulido campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about his defense of the video and whether he had a track record of downplaying potentially problematic conduct.
Jeffries brags about Dem obstruction against Trump as he defends Kushner meeting
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said in a video issued on Monday that he accepted President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s request for a meeting. The congressman said he “took it to discuss the affordability crisis that exists that is not a hoax.” Jeffries issued the video after reports of a meeting between him and Kushner sparked some left-wing backlash. They reportedly talked about possible issues of common ground JEFFRIES’ REPORTED MEETING WITH KUSHNER ABOUT POSSIBLE TRUMP COOPERATION DRAWS LEFT-WING BACKLASH “No one is going to get a pass. We’re gonna hold every single member of the Trump cartel accountable beginning on day one,” he said. Jeffries also touted House Democrats’ efforts to fight the Trump administration. KUSHNER GIVES HAMAS STARK ULTIMATUM: DISARM OR ISRAEL GETS US BACKING TO ‘FINISH THE JOB’ “We’re gonna follow the facts, apply the law, and be guided by the Constitution, beginning on day one, and hold the crooks accountable. And that’s what we’ve done as House Democrats from the beginning of this Congress,” he said, listing battles against the Trump administration regarding “tariffs,” “Medicaid,” “Epstein,” “nutritional assistance,” Obamacare, the Iran war, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) funding and “unprecedented corruption unleashed on the American people.” Fox News Digital reached out to the White House on Tuesday. SOCIALISM SURGES AMONG DEMOCRATS AS PARTY LEADERS REJECT DSA AGENDA: ‘PACK OF FOOLS’ While Republicans currently wield the House speaker’s gavel, if Democrats win the House majority during the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, Jeffries would be a prime candidate for the role.
Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks embedded across Canadian institutions, new report alleges
A new report is warning that networks aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood have become deeply embedded in Canada, raising concerns that Islamist influence taking root north of the border could pose a broader threat to the U.S. and Western democracies. A report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) revealed ties between Muslim Brotherhood-aligned groups and Canadian democratic institutions, civil society, electoral politics and higher education, demonstrating similarities with other activist movements in the West, a phenomenon some analysts have described as the “red-green alliance.” “Canada’s challenge is not simply the presence of individual extremist voices or isolated institutional weakness. The report maps how interconnected ideological networks acquire legitimacy, institutional access, public funding, political influence and protection from scrutiny,” Charles Asher Small, the research institute’s executive director, told Fox News Digital. TURKEY’S NATO ROLE UNDER SCRUTINY AMID NEW REPORT ON HAMAS, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TIES Small warned that Canadian democracy traditionally has been rooted in openness, notions of citizenship, civil liberties and public trust but has since faced a dynamic of malign foreign influence that could promote ideological entryism, antisemitism and efforts to weaken democratic accountability. The roughly 200-page report, titled, “Assault on Democratic Values and Principles: How Islamist Entryism Weakens Civil Society and Higher Education in Canada,” claimed “numerous apparent links” between the Muslim Association of Canada, a nonprofit based in Mississauga, Canada, and the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization established in Egypt in 1928 by ideologue Hasan al-Banna as part of a wider vision to create a global Islamic caliphate governing nations with rigid interpretations of Islamic law, rules and regulations from the majority Sunni sect. WATCHDOG UNLEASHES DATABASE TO EXPOSE ‘LOOPHOLES’ AS $5B IN FOREIGN CASH FLOODS US NONPROFITS The report alleged that leaders of the Muslim Association of Canada, one of the largest Muslim charitable organizations in Canada, operating mosques, community centers, schools and educational programs, were “directly or indirectly” associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and that those relationships could influence the charitable organization’s activities. “The ISGAP report is nothing more than recycled Islamophobic tropes dressed up as research. It is a biased, unsubstantiated hit piece that relies on discredited allegations that were themselves challenged by the Ontario Superior Court for their apparent bias,” the Muslim Association of Canada told Fox News Digital in a statement. “The CRA audit has been completed. Preliminary questions raised around any links to the Muslim Brotherhood were dismissed from the CRA’s final conclusion,” the statement added. “MAC is a solely independent Canadian organization. The ISGAP report amplifies narratives designed to fuel Islamophobia and sow division within Canadian society.” Canadian tax authorities clashed with the Muslim Association of Canada in a 2023 audit, saying that there were indications of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The association denied these claims, citing systemic bias and “Islamophobia.” HOUSE COMMITTEE PASSES FOREIGN FUNDING TRANSPARENCY ACT TO EXPOSE FOREIGN DONATIONS TO NONPROFITS The Canada Revenue Agency ultimately did not revoke the Muslim Association of Canada’s tax-exempt charitable status. The report alleged that Canadian groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood assisted in influencing Canada’s election system, noting how a coordinated “Vote Palestine” campaign secured endorsements from 344 candidates across four political parties in Canada in the 2025 cycle. Fox News Digital sat down with Small, who said the report’s findings served as a warning sign for potential influence in the U.S. “The radical left wants to weaken Western or American hegemony, as does radical political Islam,” Small explained. “Radical political Islam wants to rid the Islamic world of any influence of the United States, of Europe, of Christianity, of Judaism in its region to ethnically cleanse it.” ‘LEFT-WING EXTREMISTS,’ CARTELS MOVE INTO CROSSHAIRS IN TRUMP TERROR SHIFT BEYOND ISIS “I think we look back to the Iranian Revolution where the radical left and the Islamists joined together to replace the Shah, and “replace the influence of the United States,” he said, referencing the 1979 Iranian Revolution. “It’s the same playbook. They’re using the same strategy in Europe and now into Canada.” Fox News Digital spoke this past May with Dalia Ziada, a Muslim scholar who was forced to flee Egypt after criticizing Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. She said that the nexus of radical Islamism with the radical left in the red-green alliance threatened the U.S., American politics and Western society. RUBIO PUTS ENTIRE WORLD ON NOTICE AGAINST RISE OF ‘POISONOUS’ FAR-LEFT TERROR ‘MASKED AS EQUALITY’ “For five or seven years now, we have been seeing some kind of a ‘sinful marriage’ between the radical left and radical Islamism, the groups that hate Western liberal democracies and desire to destroy them,” she told Fox News Digital. A Fox News Digital investigation found roughly 425 organizations spanning communist groups, Muslim advocacy organizations and anti-Israel activist coalitions are part of a coordinated transnational protest network that collectively brings in about $1 billion in annual revenue. ELITE UNIVERSITIES FACE FEDERAL CASH SQUEEZE OVER MILLIONS TIED TO CHINA-LINKED ENTITIES U.S. government officials in the Trump administration repeatedly have been critical of the Muslim Brotherhood. Back in January, the Treasury Department designated Egyptian and Jordanian branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. In July, the Trump administration sanctioned a senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood official who the Treasury Department alleged helped finance Hamas’s military wing. “The Trump administration will relentlessly pursue terrorists and those who finance them,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement in July. “Whether operating under the guise of charities, businesses or underground financial networks, those who enable Hamas will be exposed, sanctioned and held accountable.” The ISGAP report called on the Canadian government to make policy changes to reduce the influence that groups aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood have had in the election system and traditional institutions. The Embassy of Canada to the United States in Washington did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
Clinton’s eyebrow-raising socialism take sparks brutal mockery: ‘Definition of insanity’
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the Democratic Party’s current “experiment” amid the rise of democratic socialist candidates “healthy,” drawing swift conservative backlash from critics who accused her of embracing the party’s socialist wing. “The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment, like who can actually respond particularly to young people’s very real concerns about where they are at this point in their lives and what kind of future do they have for themselves? I think that is healthy,” said Clinton. Clinton, a matriarch of the Democratic Party, defeated democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary. Her remarks come as socialist candidates increasingly challenge establishment-backed Democrats in races across the country. Clinton spoke Monday in conversation with the Hamptons Institute, weighing in on the Democratic Party’s ideological direction as it searches for ways to connect with younger voters while democratic socialist candidates have increasingly notched wins during the primary season. SHOCKING PERCENTAGE OF DEMOCRATS IDENTIFY AS ‘DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS’ ACCORDING TO NEW POLL: ‘TOXIC POLICIES’ The moderator asked Clinton where she sees the future of the Democratic Party as it undergoes a “major upheaval between center-left and democratic socialists” during their conversation on diplomacy, national security and global leadership. Conservative critics seized on Clintons’ remarks, accusing her of embracing the Democratic Party’s socialist wing and invoking her failed 2016 presidential campaign. “INSANE Hillary Clinton says the Democrat Party is ‘going through an experiment’ to see if far-Left, socialist candidates — who want to abolish prisons and borders — can win over young voters,” the Republican National Committee posted on X. “Run again in 2028. Do it,” social media influencer Jack Posobiec posted. “Easy for her to say when she has her own security team,” said Heritage Foundation media fellow Tim Young. “Hillary Clinton believes Democrats are “going through an experiment” to see if a new crop of further-left candidates can actually win young voters. The problem? Dems who want to abolish prisons and borders. She’s watching her own party test how far left it can push before the rest of the country walks away. It’s basically a live experiment with the electorate at this point,” X user Mario Nawfal posted. DEMOCRATS LURE ‘POLITICALLY HOMELESS’ GEN Z TOWARD SOCIALISM — A COUNTERATTACK IS TAKING SHAPE “The Democrats only want to win, no matter the cost! If their actions of going far, far left send the country into ruins, they don’t care! They know that socialism has never worked, nor ever will work. Hillary may be a lot of things (a lot of which I can’t say on here), but she will pull out all stops to try and win. It doesn’t always work, like in 2016, but she will try anything to win…..no matter the consequences,” said one user. “Say WHAT?! Hillary Clinton says the Democrat Party is ‘going through a kind of experiment’ by embracing socialist candidates to see if it will bring in younger voters – say it’s ‘healthy’ This is the definition of insanity,” the Conservative Brief posted. During her remarks, Clinton also turned the socialism charge back on President Donald Trump, accusing his administration of practicing what she called “socialism for the rich.” “I get very amused when I hear Trump and his people talking about socialism and communism. The way he’s behaving is socialism for the rich. It is the most ridiculous administration when it comes to doing everything possible to avoid risks and loss for people who are already doing them and to use the power of the government to benefit himself and his cronies and his allies,” said Clinton. SOCIALIST SURGE: MAMDANI FLEXES GROWING POLITICAL MUSCLE AS HE TAKES ON DEM ESTABLISHMENT Trump has increasingly used the rise of democratic socialists as a midterm attack line, labeling recent left-wing Democratic winners “hardcore, godless communists.”He separately warned in June that New York City Mayor and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani‘s rent-freeze policy would cause New York apartment buildings to deteriorate into “ghettos and slums.” “President Trump is creating good-paying jobs, securing trillions of dollars in investments, and positioning our country to dominate the remainder of the 21st century,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital. “Meanwhile, Crooked Hillary Clinton is still whining about her spectacular 2016 election defeat. It’s time for Hillary to move on,” Ingle added.
Dem who urged scandal-plagued candidate to quit now mourns his downfall in pivotal Maine race
Maine’s newly anointed Democratic Senate nominee wished “nothing would have happened” to his predecessor, Graham Platner, whose campaign was torpedoed by sexual assault allegations last month. Troy Jackson, a former logger and Maine state Senate president, slid into the role as Democratic nominee after Platner’s insurgent campaign rapidly unraveled as scandal after scandal piled up, culminating in a sexual assault allegation from his ex-girlfriend that he has since denied. Jackson had previously run in Maine’s gubernatorial contest, finishing third in the primary earlier this summer. Once Platner exited the race in July, he was quickly chosen by Maine Democrats to succeed him to take on longtime incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in a race that could define the balance of power in the Senate. BERNIE-BACKED MAINE DEMOCRATIC SENATE HOPEFUL SQUIRMS OVER PAST GRAHAM PLATNER SUPPORT But Jackson never really wanted to run for the Senate, the Midcoast Villager reported, but felt it was important to pick up the mantle of progressive politics that Platner had suddenly dropped. “I wish nothing would have happened with Graham,” Jackson said. “I wish, you know, things would have continued like all that. It would have been much better. But when it did, I just didn’t want to see all these people that are looking for somebody to fight for them go away once again broken and hopeless.” Jackson, a fellow progressive who had previously worked on the presidential campaigns of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had campaigned alongside Platner and was endorsed by him in his bid for the governor’s mansion. PLATNER DROPS OUT OF CRUCIAL SENATE RACE AFTER BOMBSHELL RAPE ALLEGATION TORPEDOES CAMPAIGN When the final allegation hit, he, like several other Democrats both in-state and across the country, called on Platner to exit the race. “The allegations against Graham Platner are serious, credible, and deserving of full accountability — they cannot and must not be ignored,” Jackson said in a statement on X at the time. “There is a powerful movement of working-class people in the state of Maine,” he continued. “For the sake of that movement, and the millions of Americans who have put their trust in it, Graham must now step down.” Jackson has had his own scandals, however. He has most recently come under scrutiny for his temper following a water bottle-throwing incident while he served in the Senate, and after the discovery of a 1988 police record in which Jackson was alleged to have assaulted a man and pushed his longtime partner, Lana Pelletier, who according to records is his second cousin, during a late-night confrontation. SUSAN COLLINS DROPS BRUTAL REMINDER OF DEM RIVAL ROCKED BY ACCUSATIONS Collins declined to weigh in on the police record when asked by Fox News Digital earlier this month, arguing that was up to Jackson. “But I will say that, based on widespread reporting, it appears that he struggles to control his temper,” Collins said. Meanwhile, there’s an effort afoot to get Platner to register as a write-in candidate in Maine. The deadline to do so is Aug. 25. A website, writeingrahamforme.com, was launched as op-eds by Scott Niemi have made the rounds in local newspapers in Maine pushing for Platner to submit himself as a write-in, given that under Maine law write-in votes for an undeclared candidate don’t count. Niemi argued in the Bangor Daily News that writing in Platner would prove to establishment Democrats that they don’t get to “overrule the will of Maine voter,” and that because of Maine’s ranked-choice voting system, they could rank Jackson second to “keep the seat competitive.” “If Graham does not have enough votes to advance during tabulation, those ballots are not wasted, they transfer over to Jackson in the next round if he is ranked second,” Niemi wrote. “I believe it is a mathematically solid plan to defeat Collins come election time.”
El-Sayed’s ‘ding-a-ling’ defense of child sex changes becomes instant attack magnet: ‘Not the same, Abdul!’
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is catching flak from across the political spectrum for comparing circumcision to child sex changes during a Monday night appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “So you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?” Watters asked El-Sayed. “Are you circumcised?” El-Sayed asked Watters. ABDUL EL-SAYED GRILLED ON PAST STATEMENTS ON SHARIA LAW AND WHITE SUPREMACY, TAXING THE RICH “Circumcision’s different than castration,” Watters responded. “It’s a problem that you think you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor and a patient,” El-Sayed went on. “I’m just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.” Even some on the left didn’t buy into El-Sayed’s attempt to compare sex changes with circumcision. “This talking point isn’t it,”Ryan Grim, a co-founder of the left-wing outlet DropSite News, wrote in response to a clip of the exchange. SOCIALIST INSURGENTS EYE MIDWEST GAINS AS DEM CIVIL WAR THREATENS MUST-HOLD SENATE SEAT “I’m actually agreeing with Jesse Waters…” Andrew Laufer, a New York-based civil rights attorney, posted. “Abdul El-Sayed just compared circumcision to chopping a kid’s entire penis off. Circumcision and castration are not the same, Abdul! Play this on repeat through November,” Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet wrote. “He might be worse than Kamala Harris,” conservative pundit Benny Johnson posted. “Holy crap, Abdul El-Sayed said circumcision is similar to sex change operations on minors,” OutKick founder Clay Travis wrote. Others took opportunities to poke fun at El-Sayed for asking a news host about his penis during a nationally televised interview by making puns. “Interested to see El-Sayed’s pole numbers after this,” Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross quipped. Some, however, took a more serious tone. “Sex-rejecting surgeries are not comparable to circumcision, and everyone on this planet knows that, including El-Sayed,” the senior policy director of the right-of-center organization Do No Harm said. “Candidates who choose to die on this hill will deserve their election losses.” VETERAN PEDIATRICIAN HAILS MEDICAID SHIFT ENDING YOUTH SEX-CHANGE TREATMENTS: ‘THIS IS NOT DENIAL OF CARE’ “El-Sayed obviously knows the difference between circumcision and castration,” Singaporean journalist and activist Melissa Chen wrote. “He just can’t say it out loud without pissing off the trans activists who make up his base now … Because he is locked into defending every absurd piece of gender ideology, he can’t actually answer Jesse Waters’ simple question of whether he supports gender-affirming care for under 18 year olds.” Circumcision is an elective surgical procedure that is generally performed on infants, though some medical experts and critics have raised concerns about consent, medical necessity and the risks associated with the procedure. The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
Jackson rips into Supreme Court colleagues’ ‘serious legal error’ on Trump mail-in voting order
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply rebuked her colleagues’ decision allowing the Trump administration to move forward with parts of its mail-voting executive order, warning that the ruling could create election chaos and leave states trapped between filing legal challenges too early or too late. “This ruling violates well-established precedents concerning this Court’s equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections,” the court’s junior liberal justice wrote in a 23-page dissent Monday. Jackson said the decision “lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating for certain plaintiffs who seek to bring election-related challenges.” The court granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower-court injunction that had blocked implementation of portions of President Donald Trump’s March executive order in 23 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia. TRUMP SCORES SUPREME COURT WIN ON MAIL-IN VOTING RESTRICTIONS BEFORE MIDTERMS The unsigned majority opinion did not decide whether the executive order itself is lawful. Instead, the court concluded that the administration was likely to prevail on its argument that the states’ challenge was premature because they had not yet suffered a sufficiently concrete injury. “The Court’s disposition of this application does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful,” the majority wrote. “On that score, time will tell.” Jackson took aim at that reasoning, arguing that the states were already confronting election-planning costs, threats of prosecution and uncertainty over possible changes to mail-ballot procedures. JACKSON PUBLICLY AIRS GRIEVANCES WITH CONSERVATIVE COLLEAGUES OVER TRUMP-ERA RULINGS She accused the majority of embracing what she called a “Catch-Me-If-You-Can approach” that could make it difficult for states to determine when an election-related challenge is ripe for judicial review. The court has previously warned against courts changing election rules too close to Election Day. Jackson argued Monday’s decision creates the opposite problem by telling states that some challenges can also come too early. “The Court does a disservice to all concerned by distorting Article III standing and ripeness principles to issue a ruling that contributes to pre-election chaos instead of quashing it,” she wrote. Jackson also accused the majority of a “lack of situational awareness,” arguing that the administration was seeking emergency relief while simultaneously maintaining that the consequences of the executive order remained uncertain. Trump’s March 31 executive order directs the Department of Homeland Security to take steps toward compiling state-specific lists of U.S. citizens and instructs the attorney general to prioritize certain investigations and prosecutions involving allegedly ineligible voters. The order also directs the U.S. Postal Service to pursue rules governing mail-in and absentee ballots, including ballot-envelope requirements, tracking barcodes and state-specific voter lists. FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS POSTAL SERVICE FROM CARRYING OUT TRUMP MAIL-IN BALLOT ORDER The Postal Service outlined plans last week for implementing portions of the order, according to The Associated Press, though the approaching election calendar could limit how much can take effect before November. North Carolina is scheduled to begin sending ballots to military and overseas voters Sept. 4, with other states following soon afterward. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a separate dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan, arguing that the states already faced sufficiently concrete and imminent injuries to bring their challenge. The litigation will continue in the lower courts. The Supreme Court’s order stays the Massachusetts injunction while the administration’s appeal proceeds in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and potentially returns to the Supreme Court. Jackson closed her dissent by calling the case “not a close call,” and arguing that allowing the administration to proceed risked confusion and last-minute disruption ahead of the midterms. “When the Government’s obvious goal is to interfere with the Plaintiff States’ practices and prerogatives in a manner that the Constitution does not authorize,” Jackson wrote, “it is both a serious legal error and a grave misuse of our equitable emergency powers to let the Executive proceed even one step further.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.