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Recently, a California man seeking to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh was found hiding outside the judge's home with a pistol, a knife, and an array of tactical gear. After being taken into custody, the man claimed he was planning to assassinate the justice in response to the recently leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization. This near-tragedy is a predictable endpoint of Democrats yearslong campaign to undermine the independence of the court through fear, coercion, and intimidation.

For several years, Democrats have threatened both individual justices and the court as a whole. In March 2020, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sought to stir up a mob against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh ahead of the decision in another abortion-related case, saying, I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You wont know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. The would-be assassin took Schumers words to heart.

Since the May leak of the Dobbs opinion, Democrats have become even more reckless. Liberal groups published the home addresses of conservative justices online and encouraged protesters to gather there. Washington Democrats didnt even feign concern: Then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to condemn this dangerous behavior, expressing sympathy for those who were targeting justices residences and saying that she [didnt] have an official U.S. government position on where people protest. It was a new low for the White House: They plainly refused to speak out against protests that sought to interrupt the work of another branch of government.

In response to rapidly multiplying threats after the Dobbs leak, the Senate quickly passed a bill authorizing additional security for Supreme Court justices. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to move on it the bill has sat on her desk for over a month. Her motive is clear: She is supportive of Democrats who tried to exert pressure on Supreme Court justices in the hopes that one of them would change their vote in Dobbs. She gleefully encouraged the tactics of intimidation and fear that culminated in the assassination attempt against Justice Kavanaugh. Even after the killers plot was foiled, she claimed that Supreme Court justices were safe and not under threat. A credible threat against the life of a justice evidently was not cause for Speaker Pelosis alarm.

Encouraging threats against individual justices is just one front in the Democrats yearslong pressure campaign against the court. They are willing to blow up the Supreme Court as we know it to ensure that it will not stand in the way of their radical agenda. Many Democrats have come out in favor of court-packing, seeking to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court so that Democrats are able to appoint a majority of justices. President Joe Biden, notably, has refused to come out against such an idea and appointed a presidential commission to study such a proposal. And the Dobbs leak itself, presumably intended to ignite liberal outrage and pressure conservative justices not to overturn Roe, is a brazen attack on the courts institutional norms. The Democrats goal is clear: Do whatever is necessary to ensure that the court will not stop its constitutionally dubious schemes.

Take all of these together individual threats against justices, a refusal to provide additional security resources for them, talk of court-packing, and the Dobbsleak itself and it becomes clear that Democrats are engaged in a systematic campaign to bend the court to their will. An independent and strong Supreme Court plays a vital role in our constitutional system of government. It is the protector of our constitutional rights and a bulwark for liberty. Attacks on the court are attacks on the very foundations of our nation. It is deeply disappointing, if not surprising, that Democrats have gone to great lengths to sully such a venerable institution. Perhaps Wednesdays attack will chasten Democrats who have taken part in this un-American behavior. But I wont be holding my breath.

Harmeet Dhillon became the RNC committeewoman from California in 2016. Prior to that, she was the vice chairman of the California Republican Party and chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party.

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To the editor:

You want to know whos pro-life? Democrats.

Dont confuse forcing girls and women to give birth with measures that help all Americans live and thrive.

American life expectancies continue to fall. Americans live shorter lives than residents of all European countries, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Chile and dozens more. High homicide rates, lack of universal healthcare, and high COVID deaths contribute to our lower life expectancies.

Democrats are PRO all the things that would allow Americans to live longer and healthier lives. They are PRO universal healthcare, PRO childhood immunizations, PRO COVID vaccines, PRO clean air and clean water. They are PRO gun safety regulations, assault weapon bans and safer schools.

Americans can choose longer, healthier lives for themselves and their children at the ballot box.

Susan McGuire

Bokeelia

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An effort to be more inclusive or the federal government being too nosy? Democrats and Republicans took starkly contrasting views Tuesday of proposed legislation that would put voluntary questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on federal demographic surveys.

The Democratic-controlled U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform approved a bill requiring federal agencies that collect demographic data through surveys to ask about sexual orientation and gender identity, but no one would be required to give the information nor would they be penalized for refusing to do so.

Supporters of the legislation said it could help provide much better data about the LGBTQ population nationwide at a time when views about sexual orientation and gender identity are evolving and as right-wing extremists are firing up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the committees Democratic chair, said the measure would help make data collection as inclusive as possible.

By including this, we can ensure that our policies are more equitable and inclusive of the constituents we serve, said Maloney of New York.

Republican committee members called the measure government intrusion and overreach at its most personal.

We should be alarmed by this attempt by the federal government to gather such sensitive data, said Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona.

Republican committee members proposed amendments that would require the legislation to offer a definition of sex, only allow people to answer such questions about themselves and would limit the questions to adults only. Biggs also proposed an amendment that would require data collection of people in the U.S. illegally, in a discussion that referenced then-President Donald Trumps failed effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

All of the Republican amendments were voted down.

The legislation was debated at a time when the Census Bureau separately is requesting $10 million to study over several years the best ways to ask about sexual orientation and gender identity for its annual American Community Survey, and as President Joe Biden declared June as LGBTQ Pride Month. It also is taking place as some Republican-dominated state legislatures have restricted what can be discussed about sexual orientation and gender identity in schools and banned transgender girls from competing in girls sports.

Some federal agencies already ask about sexual orientation and gender identity, but they are limited primarily to health and criminal justice surveys. The once-a-decade census and several Census Bureau surveys give same-sex couples a chance to answer if they are in a marriage or domestic partnership. But that omits LGBTQ people who are single or not living in the same household with their partner, and for the gender question, male and female are the only options.

The online Household Pulse Survey is the only Census Bureau survey that asks these questions, but it is categorized as experimental and may not meet some of the quality standards for the nations largest statistical agency.

Several Democratic House members on Tuesday also urged the directors of the Office of Management and Budget and the Census Bureau to add a category of Middle Eastern and North African, also known as MENA, for the once-a-decade census and other federal surveys.

The Census Bureau recommended adding a MENA category to the 2020 census, but the idea was dropped by the Trump administration.

Decades-old Office of Management and Budget standards have designated Middle Eastern and North African residents as white. Adding a separate MENA category would help guarantee that residents with roots from this region get federal resources and produce more accurate data, said the letter to OMD Director Shalanda Young and Census Bureau Director Robert Santos.

Since members of the MENA community trace their roots to either the Middle East or North Africa, OMBs standards fail to capture the lived experience of many community members, the letter said.

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President Joe Biden recently flew off to Taiwan to assure our allies there that he will fight for them. And a couple of weeks later he was winging off to Saudi Arabia, intending to "repair ties" with that repressive monarchy.

A major reason for pessimism about the party's November chances is that its top leaders have decided their candidates can't win in rural areas and smaller factory citiesso they've quit trying.

In terms of international realpolitik, this flurry of foreign travel might be strategically important, but there's a strategic political reality right here at home that calls for a different presidential itinerary: Our country's midterm congressional elections are less than five months away! Taiwan and Saudi Arabia don't get to vote, but Texas and South Carolina do. So, how about spending a bit more time flying, driving or even whistle-stopping to such places, where many hard-hit working-class families are feeling ignored by the national Democratic Party? They'd like to see President Joe fight for and repair ties with them.

In fairness, Biden came through for such families early in his tenure, and his proposals to do more have been deliberately gummed up by such congressional blobs of do-nothingism as Sens. Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin. But blaming them isn't winning any points for himor helping the families now struggling with baby formula shortages, $5 gasoline, continuing farm and factory depression, housing evictions, etc.

President Joe Biden recently flew off to Taiwan to assure our allies there that he will fight for them. And a couple of weeks later he was winging off to Saudi Arabia, intending to "repair ties" with that repressive monarchy.

In terms of international realpolitik, this flurry of foreign travel might be strategically important, but there's a strategic political reality right here at home that calls for a different presidential itinerary: Our country's midterm congressional elections are less than five months away! Taiwan and Saudi Arabia don't get to vote, but Texas and South Carolina do. So, how about spending a bit more time flying, driving or even whistle-stopping to such places, where many hard-hit working-class families are feeling ignored by the national Democratic Party? They'd like to see President Joe fight for and repair ties with them.

In fairness, Biden came through for such families early in his tenure, and his proposals to do more have been deliberately gummed up by such congressional blobs of do-nothingism as Sens. Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin. But blaming them isn't winning any points for himor helping the families now struggling with baby formula shortages, $5 gasoline, continuing farm and factory depression, housing evictions, etc.

And these are Democrats talking! Even before November's congressional elections are run, too many conventional-thinking Democratic operatives are surrendering to a presumed Republican sweep. You don't need a political science degree to know that if you start out announcing that you'll lose, chances are you will. After all, who wants to vote for a party that shows no fighting spirit, no confidence in the appeal of its own ideas?

A major reason for pessimism about the party's November chances is that its top leaders have decided their candidates can't win in rural areas and smaller factory citiesso they've quit trying. Worse, they blame the voters, claiming that Trumpism, Fox News BS and culture war conspiracy nonsense have poisoned the minds of people "out there." Thus, they've abandoned the countryside to go all out in big urban areas. Democratic congressional leaders even killed their rural outreach programs, and the former Party chairman officially abandoned the turf in 2018, meekly declaring: "You can't door-knock in rural America."

Actually, sir, you can. And if you choose to abandon this whole working-class constituencysurprise!it will abandon you. And the cold fact is that national Democrats didn't just quit going down the dirt roads and factory streets, they've actively been working for several years against families living therethe trade scams that sucked out union jobs; the shameful bailout of Wall Street bankers who crashed our real economy, while ignoring millions of devastated workaday people; protecting drug profiteers who caused the brutal opioid epidemic; doing nothing about the corporate-caused farm depression still ripping across our land; and so many other vivid examples of top Democrats not hearing, seeing or responding to this vital, FDR-ish constituency of millions that they now blithely dismiss as irredeemable.

Did party poobahs think voters wouldn't notice or care how they're being treated? If we want them back on our side, then go to them... and get back on their side!

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Opinion | Can Democrats Save Their Party... From Its Leadership? - Common Dreams

In early May, Newsom asked "Where is the Democratic Party?" in response to a leaked Supreme Court opinion showing that a majority of justices will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. During an interview with Fox 11's Elex Michaelson's "The Issue Is" show last week, Newsom again blasted the national party apparatus as impotent and asleep at the wheel.

"What is going on in the Democratic Party nationwide? I cannot answer that question," the governor said. "I pose that question out of frustration and reflection. Some parts of the Democratic Party were critical of that, but overwhelming response to that statement, I don't have an answer for you. Joe Biden's not the head of the Democratic Party, he happens to be president of the United States, it's not his job to organize at all levels. ... That's the Democratic Party's responsibility."

In the interview, Newsom continued his public spat with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, criticizing him for making the Special Olympics drop a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for athletes. Newsom once again (intentionally or unintentionally) butchered DeSantis' name, calling him "DeSantos" as he did in his original May rant.

The California governor also again exempted Democratic national leadership from criticism. Previously, his criticism of the national Democratic Party was interpreted as a swipe at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, even though he specifically said he thought she wasn't at fault.

"I don't want to take a cheap shot, it's not an individual gripe with anybody, it has nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer, they are not the heads of the party," he said. "But we have a Democratic Party and yeah, where the hell are we as a party to capture the narrative, to capture the imagination of the American people."

When Michaelson pressed Newsom on who, exactly, his complaints are being directed at, the governor said it's about party operatives and strategists.

"We have a party, there is something called the Democratic Party, I've read about it," he said. "I've met a few of these people over the years. It's not even an indictment of the current leadership. It's time to organize guys, bottom-up, not just top-down. Republicans have been organizing bottom-up forever."

Newsom also discussed the Chesa Boudin recall election and the issues of public safety and crime. You can watch portions of the interview from Fox 11.

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