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Former Attorney General Eric Holder warned on Monday that the United States is "slipping into" a "political apartheid system" because conservatives have greater influence than their numbers would suggest.

During an interview with Washington Post Live, Holder said he was concerned that gerrymandering allows politicians to pick their voters instead of voters making the choice.

"We are in danger of slipping into what I would call a political apartheid system, where a minority of the people in this country will have disproportionate amounts of power," Holders said, "and be able to put in place things that are not supported by the majority."

The former attorney general pointed to the expected loss of abortion rights as one example.

"The minority [of voters] will be represented by the majority that was put on the Supreme Court by two presidents who did not win the majority of the vote because of our Electoral College," Holder explained. "[Conservative justices] will have the ability to foist on the nation a policy with regards to reproductive rights that is not supported by the people of this country."

"A whole range of things where the American people are essentially together," he added. "And yet, we don't see our laws, our regulations, our policies reflected of what in a lot of places is consensus on the part of the American people."

The infamous apartheid policy of South Africa was used to give the country's white minority power over its non-white majority. The policy was denounced by countries around the world and was eventually overturned in the 1990s.

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The man on trial for the murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle was absent from court Tuesday after he suffered a beating in jail, a report said.

Eric Holder, 32, was attacked by two inmates after he was transported back to the facility after he left court around 4 p.m. on Monday, his public defender, Aaron Jansen, told Rolling Stone.

Jansen said Holder, who required medical treatment for his injuries, was cut to the back to his head with a razor.

His face is swollen and his eye is swollen, Jansen told the magazine.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jack told jurors Tuesday the days session was canceled due to unforeseen circumstances, and asked them to return Wednesday unless they hear otherwise.

Defense attorney Aaron Jansen told the magazine outside of the courtroom that the delay was medical related, but was not due to COVID-19.

Its not clear exactly where the accused killer was attacked. Holder has been ordered to be kept separately from other inmates when hes being transported, Rolling Stone reported.

Holders murder trial began earlier this month, over three years after he allegedly gunned down Hussle whose real name is Ermias Joseph Asghedom outside of his Los Angeles clothing shop, The Marathon, in May 2019.

He allegedly walked up to Hussle, 33, while he was speaking to a group of men and opened fire with an automatic handgun, hitting him 11 times and injuring two other people. Video shows Holder kicking Hussles head while he was on the ground bleeding.

Jansen admitted in his opening remarks that his client did shoot Hussle, 33, but denied that it was premeditated.

This is a case of heat of passion, Jansen told jurors. Hussle, he said, made an accusation against Mr. Holder that he was a snitch.

Both men grew up in the same neighborhood and were affiliated with the same street gang the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips in South Los Angeles.

Ten minutes before the shooting, Hussle and Holder had a short conversation in which the rapper warned him of a rumor circulating that he had been cooperating with law enforcement and giving up names, Hussles close friend Herman Douglas testified.

Holder didnt seem upset when Hussle told him about his concerns, he said.

Holders former gal pal Bryannita Nicholson testified last week that she had driven Holder to a restaurant in the same shopping complex as Hussles store.

Nicholson said she heard Holder say to Hussle in a loud voice, Did you say I snitched, before walking away from the rapper and two other men. After Hussle and Holder talked, Holder got back in the car and asked Nicholson to drive around the block twice.

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After passing the store a second time, he began loading his gun inside the car, she said. He told her to park in an alleyway, took two bites of chili cheese fries and walked in the store.

Moments later Nicholson said she heard gunshots and debated fleeing but was worried that Holder was hurt. He got back in the car and yelled at her to drive away from the alley and saw him put two guns in a bag.

Nicholson, who was intimate with Holder but had only known him for a month, said she didnt realize Holder mightve been involved with the shooting until after he spent the night and saw news reports of Hussles death.

Holder faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted.

When court resumes, Holders defense is expected to call two witnesses to the stand and take less than a day before closing arguments, Rolling Stone reported.

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A judge issued a warrant Thursday for an eyewitness to the shooting death of rapper Nipsey Hussle for failing to appear to testify at the trial of the man charged in the slaying, and in his absence, a police detective testified about the reluctance of witnesses that has marked the case.

Evan "Rimpau" MacKenzie, a close friend of Hussle's who was a pallbearer at his funeral and was standing next to him when he was shot, has repeatedly ignored subpoenas ordering him to appear and testify for the prosecution, resulting in Judge H. Clay Jacke II issuing the bench warrant with $500,000 bail.

"Mr. MacKenzie, did he express a reluctance to testify?" Aaron Jansen, attorney for defendant Eric Holder, asked Los Angeles police Detective Cedric Washington, who answered that MacKenzie had said as much in phone conversations.

The taboo against "snitching" has pervaded every part of the trial of Holder, who is charged with first-degree murder in the 2019 death of Hussle and with attempted murder because two bystanders were struck with gunfire.

It was a conversation between Holder and Hussle on the subject in which Hussle told Holder there were rumors of "paperwork" suggesting he'd been talking to authorities that prosecutors peg as Holder's motive for returning minutes later to gun Hussle down.

The shooting took place in a predominately Black South Los Angeles neighborhood where both men and most of the witnesses grew up, and where mistrust of police and courts runs deep. Even Hussle's friends and fans, and people hit by Holder's gunfire, have been reluctant to talk in the public venue.

"I don't know nothing, don't see nothing," Kerry Lathan, who was wounded in the shooting, said on the stand last week, refusing to identify himself in surveillance video that was played for jurors. He then declined to identify Holder as the shooter.

"You don't want to testify about what happened?" Deputy District Attorney John McKinney asked him.

"That's right," Lathan replied.

On Thursday, Jansen sought to pin the hesitancy on Holder and Hussle's ties to the Rollin' 60s street gang.

"Typically in gang cases is there a reluctance to testify?" Jansen asked.

"I wouldn't limit it to gang cases," Washington replied.

"I'm asking about gang cases," Jansen said.

"I do believe it is common, yes," Washington said.

Jansen continued, "Several witnesses in this case have said they did not want to come to court, and they felt that their families would be in danger, right?"

Washington conceded that there were.

In follow-up questions from prosecutors, Washington downplayed the gang aspect.

"I've investigated many cases that are outside of the scope of gang cases. I've found that a majority of people are reluctant to come to court or talk to law enforcement," Washington said. "Everybody seems to think that from coming to court, they are going to be subject to retaliation."

"Has there been any threat to any witness in this case that accused them of snitching?" McKinney asked. "Do you know of any harm that came to anyone in this case for being a witness or talking to police?"

Washington said no to both questions, acknowledging there was a threat made last week by an anonymous caller to Bryannita Nicholson, who testified for the prosecution that she had acted as Holder's unwitting getaway driver.

Nicholson, who was given immunity in exchange for her testimony, had her identity kept secret when she testified before a grand jury in 2019.

Last week, after her identity was revealed but before she took the stand, she received the phone call.

"A male voice was heard saying something to the effect that 'You had Nipsey Hussle killed,'" Washington said. "Bryannita hung up."

McKinney emphasized that the threat was not about her testifying, but about her role in Hussle's death.

Nicholson was given extra security, and was escorted through a special entrance for her two days of testimony this week, in which she appeared to speak freely and confidently, showing no reluctance.

Others have been far more hesitant and tight-lipped on the stand, though several eyewitnesses have identified Holder as the shooter, making it unlikely the absence and silence of other witnesses will do much damage to a powerful prosecution case.

The defense has acknowledged that Holder shot Hussle, but says there was no premeditation and he is not guilty of first-degree murder.

Prosecutors have just one more witness before they rest their case, and the jury could have it soon.

"Unless Rimpau gets picked up," McKinney said after court.

Last week, Nipsey Hussle's brother, Samiel Asghedom,sat down with CBS Los Angeles to reflect on the past and the road ahead. Although he was aware of his brother's impact on the world, especially on people, Asghedom didn't realize how far it spread.

"We knew the impact," he said. "We just didn't know how wide it was."

Murals of Hussle have become a staple of Los Angeles, including one in Canoga Park which serves as the backdrop of the grand opening of the Marathon Collective a licensed marijuana shop.

"Just being able to open a legitimate shop being able to see it through it was good for the whole family," said Asghedom.

Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, was a self-described marijuana connoisseur. He grew weed and sold it to fund his recording endeavors, which ultimately led to platinum records and Grammy Awards. However, the early pot deals also led to a lot of trouble.

"Marijuana, a lot of times people were going to jail," Ashgedom said. "Once it started legitimizing, it was a goal... We got to get into this legitimately."

The family decided to stay away from the courtroom as Hussle's murder is laid bare in graphic detail during his alleged murderer Eric Holder's trial.

"I will say that I got somebody there on our end," said Ashgedom. "A lawyer just kind of sending me the feedback so I can stay on top of what's happening day-to-day. My mother and grandmother will ask me questions so I'll give them the feedback."

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Last month, former assistant Treasury Secretary Monica Crowley predicted the November midterm elections would be an extinction-level event for Democrats.

Shes right and the party knows it.

Because theres simply no defense for their epic abuse of power and the damage it has caused, party leaders have once again tapped the ageless wisdom of the late communist Saul Alinsky. In his well-known book Rules for Radicals, he instructs followers to accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt.

The Democrats new message? Republicans are undermining our democracy and pose the greatest existential threat to Americas future.

Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most corrupt woman in American politics, warned a Financial Times reporter on Friday, We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy.

Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, agreed, telling late-night host James Corden last week, I actually think theres a fair chance that we could completely lose our constitutional democracy for a couple of decades if we keep making if we make bad decisions. ... But Ive never before been as worried about the structure of our democratic form of government.

This talking point is the centerpiece of the Democratic Partys deliberate, coordinated propaganda campaign, and its intended to distract voters from the enormous harm their far-left policies have inflicted upon the country.

But this isnt the first time Democrats have launched a dishonest propaganda campaign with the hope of distracting from their own failures.

The effort to portray then-candidate Donald Trump as an agent of Russia began with Yahoo writer Michael Isikoffs late September 2016 report that U.S. intelligence officials were investigating ties between Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page and the Kremlin. Soon, a second article appeared in Mother Jones. And just before Election Day, the New York Times published another damaging story.

Every Democratic leader gleefully ran with the narrative that Trump had been an agent of Russia and that he colluded with the Kremlin to steal the 2016 presidential election. These allegations were baseless, as several lengthy investigations have confirmed. Yet that didnt stop Democrats and their allies in the media from using the Russian collusion narrative to hamper Trumps presidency and damage the GOP as much as possible.

Heading into the midterm elections, Democrats strategy is the same though the narrative is slightly different.

The truth, however, is that the most serious threat to our democracy is the Democratic Party itself, which has brought the United States closer than ever before to becoming a socialist state.

The Biden administration has run roughshod over the Constitution, and weve witnessed the gradual erosion of our civil liberties.

Examples include the failure to enforce federal laws (particularly immigration laws), the FBIs targeting of parents who object to the teaching of critical race theory, the firing of healthcare workers and first responders who rejected the COVID-19 vaccine, and the denial of due process to Jan. 6 protesters. Anomalies? Or deliberate attempts to change America as we know her?

During a 2008 campaign rally, then-candidate Barack Obama told supporters, We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America. The crowd roared. Those werent mere words. The junior senator from Illinois was deadly serious. It began with a determined effort by then-President Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, to fill the government and its agencies with as many liberals as they possibly could, politicizing them.

Federal law prohibited the administration from basing hiring decisions on political affiliation, but they found ways around that.

In 2010, PJ Media filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the resumes of attorneys hired into the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.

The following year, Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and attorney J. Christian Adams published a special investigation series titled Every Single One, which drew some frightening conclusions.

The resumes obtained through the FOIA request revealed that Obamas Civil Rights Division was engaging in politicized hiring in the career civil service ranks and that it had been unprecedented in scope.

At the time of Holders resignation in September 2014, Spakovsky wrote that he was responsible for spearheading an unprecedented politicization of the Justice Department. ... In clear violation of civil service rules, Mr. Holder filled the career ranks of the Justice Department with political allies, cronies and Democratic Party donors.

[Holder] corrupted the law enforcement duties of the Justice Department to carry out the political objectives of President Obama, Spakovsky concluded.

If this was happening with impunity at the DOJ, we can assume similar hiring practices were adopted by other government agencies. This would explain how the once highly revered FBI was able to carry out its bogus investigations of former President Donald Trump and members of his campaign. By the time Trump took office, most DOJ employees were Democrats.

The corruption that began in the Obama administration has deepened and accelerated to a dangerous extent in the Biden administration. Were experiencing the consequences of this corruption now.

So when Democrats try to convince voters this fall that Republicans are a threat to democracy as we know it, remember that a more insidious enemy, one that masquerades as a political party and controls the White House and both chambers of Congress, is leading an assault on America from within.

Elizabeth Stauffer is a contract writer at the Western Journal.Her articles have appeared on many conservative websites, including RedState, Newsmax, theFederalist,Bongino.com, HotAir, MSN, andRealClearPolitics. Follow Elizabeth onTwitterorLinkedIn.

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In 1838, Britains Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

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In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Major General George G. Meade the new commander of the Army of the Potomac, following the resignation of Major General Joseph Hooker.

In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were shot to death in Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip an act that sparked World War I.

In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending the First World War.

In 1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service with a flight that departed New York for Marseilles, France.

In 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Alien Registration Act, also known as the Smith Act, which required adult foreigners residing in the US to be registered and fingerprinted.

In 1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.

In 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued hed been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton became the first chief executive in US history to set up a personal legal defense fund and ask Americans to contribute to it.

In 2000, seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.

In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that Americans had the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they lived.

In 2012, the Affordable Care Act narrowly survived, 5-4, an election-year battle at the US Supreme Court with the improbable help of conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting Cabinet member held in contempt of Congress, a rebuke pushed by Republicans seeking to unearth the facts behind a bungled gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious. (The vote was 255-67, with more than 100 Democrats boycotting.) Katie Holmes filed for divorce from Tom Cruise after five years of marriage.

In 2013, the four plaintiffs in the US Supreme Court case that overturned Californias same-sex marriage ban tied the knot, just hours after a federal appeals court freed gay couples to obtain marriage licenses in the state for the first time in 4 1/2 years.

In 2017, Republican donors paid $35,000 apiece to hear a familiar message from President Donald Trump: that the media, particularly CNN, kept trying to take him down, and yet Republicans just kept on winning elections. ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the network over its reports on a beef product that critics dubbed pink slime.

In 2019, avowed white supremacist James Alex Fields, who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., killing a young woman and injuring dozens, apologized to his victims before being sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.

Last year, temperatures in parts of the Pacific Northwest wiped out records that had been set the day before, with Seattle reaching 108 degrees by evening; meteorologists said the record-breaking heat was caused by a dome of high pressure, and worsened by human-caused climate change. Big-wave surfer Greg Da Bull Noll died at 84; hed become a surfing legend by combining an outsized personality with the courage and skill to ride bigger, more powerful waves than anyone had attempted before.

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