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Victory for Election Integrity: Maryland Court Rules Against State Overreach in Landmark Voter Rights Case

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The United States District Court for the District of Maryland struck a blow for election integrity by siding with plaintiffs Katherine Strauch Sullivan and David Morsberger in their legal battle against Maryland State Board of Elections officials.

The court’s ruling dismantles overreaching state-imposed restrictions that had prevented access to critical voter registration data, thereby championing the cause of transparency and accountability in the electoral process.

The plaintiffs, both registered Maryland voters, argued that the state’s regulations unjustly restricted their ability to use the voter registration list to investigate potential inaccuracies and irregularities—a right that they claimed was safeguarded under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

The crux of the controversy centered around a state regulation that explicitly banned the use of these lists for investigations into past elections, which the court found to be preempted by federal law.

The court’s memorandum opinion, penned by Judge Matthew J. Maddox, decisively affirmed that such state-imposed restrictions were incompatible with the NVRA’s objectives. The ruling emphasized that the federal act was designed to enhance voter participation while simultaneously ensuring the accuracy of voter rolls—goals that Maryland’s restrictive measures directly undermined.

Read the press release below:

Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (“RITE”) won a major victory for election integrity and transparency in federal court that ensures the public access to critical tools for holding election administrators accountable to their obligation to maintain clean, up-to-date, and accurate voter rolls.

RITE sued Maryland in January of 2024 on behalf of two citizen activists, challenging a State Board of Elections (“SBE”) regulation that stopped them from conducting investigations into whether the state was removing non-residents, the deceased, and duplicate registrations. RITE’s suit alleged Maryland’s law violated the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”), a federal law that requires states to provide the public access with records that reveal whether they are maintaining accurate and current voter registration records.

Plaintiffs’ investigative canvassing had revealed multiple anomalies within the state’s voter records, findings consistent with a recent legislative audit. Rather than direct their efforts to promoting free and accurate elections, SBE responded by enacting a regulation that sought to shut down plaintiffs’ work. SBE restricted plaintiffs’ access to and use of state records, including voter history information, a key record for determining whether a state is removing non-residents from its voter lists as required by federal law. RITE sued on their behalf, and today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland delivered a resounding and complete victory in RITE’s favor. The court held that the SBE had violated federal law and enjoined its unlawful effort to suppress the plaintiffs’ work. In doing so, the court fully endorsed RITE’s position that the NVRA requires that states make voter history information available to the public, the most direct ruling from any court in the country on that issue to date.

RITE’s win on behalf of plaintiffs will help ensure the public has access to important records that allow them to evaluate whether states are removing dead voters, non-residents, non-citizens, and other ineligible voters.

“RITE’s win today is a significant victory for election transparency and the rule of law. RITE warned Maryland that its regulation limiting public access to key registration records was illegal – and it is,” said RITE’s President & CEO Derek Lyons. “Today’s ruling enables citizens across the country, and in Maryland in particular, to conduct important investigative work that promotes clean voter rolls and safe, secure, and accurate elections.”

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Black Lives Matter Activist in Boston Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges – Scammed Donors to Fund Her Lifestyle

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A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston named Monica Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty to federal charges this week, admitting that she scammed donors and used their money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Cannon-Grant was previously held up as an admired figure. The city of Boston named her the Bostonian of the year at one point for her ‘social justice activism’ and she was even recognized by the Boston Celtics basketball team for her efforts.

She is now facing a minimum of two years in prison.

The New York Post reports:

BLM-linked activist admits conning donors to fund her lavish lifestyle

A once-celebrated Boston social activist has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors — including Black Lives Matter — out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggy bank.

Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to 18 counts of fraud-related crimes that she committed with her late husband while operating their Violence in Boston (VIB) activists group, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

The activist scammed money — including $3,000 from a BLM group — while claiming it was to help feed children and run protests like one in 2020 over the murder of George Floyd and police violence.

Cannon-Grant also conned her way into getting $100,000 in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits — which she used to pay off her personal auto loan and car insurance policy.

But she has now confessed to transferring funds to personal bank accounts to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon — and even a summer vacation to Maryland.

Just amazing.

Here’s a local video report:

She should pay back every penny.

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Keith Olbermann Backpedals Furiously With Apology for Threatening CNN’s Scott Jennings – Jennings Responds (VIDEO)

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As the Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, former MSNBC host and generally unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann, appeared to threaten CNN’s conservative pundit Scott Jennings on Twitter saying, ‘You’re next motherf**ker.’

Well, Olbermann may have gotten a phone call or a visit from the FBI because today he walked back those comments with a full-throated apology.

RedState has an update:

To quickly recap, Scott Jennings, a Salem Media Network radio host and conservative CNN political commentator, reacted to breaking news on Monday that Kimmel had been reinstated by tweeting, “So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive pr**k, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it.”

This enraged Olbermann, who proceeded to tweet what many, including Jennings, perceived to be a threat. “You’re next, motherf**ker. But keep mugging to the camera.” Jennings tagged Patel and included a screengrab of the tweets in response.

Though the FBI hasn’t commented as to whether an investigation was launched, Olbermann ostensibly appears to have thought twice about what he tweeted and deleted, apologizing profusely in tweets posted on Tuesday and claiming what he wrote was “misinterpreted”:

See Olbermann’s tweet below:

Scott Jennings, always a class act, offered this hilarious response:

Keith Olbermann really needs help. The guy is just so out of control.

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Where is Lance Twiggs? Kirk Assassin’s Transgender Lover Has Vanished

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Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson and roommate Lance Twiggs

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner – a male-to-female trans named Lance “Luna” Twiggs.

The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify that Robinson was the assassin. Lance Twiggs has not been charged with any crime; however, federal authorities are still investigating.

Last week, Utah authorities released the text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs, sent shortly after Kirk’s assassination.

Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray announced seven charges against Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. They will also be seeking the death penalty.

Robinson was charged with:

– Count 1: Aggravated murder (capital offense)
– Count 2: Felony reckless discharge of a firearm causing bodily injury
– Count 3: Felony obstruction of justice for hiding the firearm
– Count 4: Felony obstruction of justice for discarding the clothing he wore during the shooting
– Count 5: Witness tampering for asking roommate to delete incriminating messages
– Count 6: Witness temperating for demanding trans roommate stay silent, and not speak to police
– Count 7: Commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child

Jeff Gray released the chilling texts between Tyler Robinson and his “love” Lance Twiggs.

Read the text exchange here:

Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 1
Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 2

Lance Twiggs was reportedly cooperating with the FBI, however, according to the Daily Mail he has seemingly vanished.

“If [Lance Twiggs] ever comes back, it will be in a body bag,” a neighbor said to the Daily Mail. “That’s not a threat – I’m just saying that there are so many people who want a piece of him he’d be mad to show his face in public again. This was a generational event.”

The Daily Mail reported:

The Trans boyfriend of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin has fled their former lovenest – and locals tell the Daily Mail they never want to see him again.

Lance Twiggs, 22, was led away for questioning when police swooped on the smart three-bed condo he shared with accused gunman Tyler Robinson, 22.

Shaken neighbors say the part time plumber has not been back to the $320,000 property in St. George, Utah – one declaring: ‘Good riddance. I never want to see either of them again.’

His beaten-up Infinity compact is still parked in his space with his work gear tossed across the back seat and a sandwich wrapper and a drink on the front passenger seat.

Upstairs lights have been left on for more than a week and notes and Amazon packages are piling up outside the home owned by Twiggs’s devout Mormon family.

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