Jerome R. Corsi's Blog, page 32

WATCH Tucker Carlson: Is there a Christian revival going on in America?

Is there a Christian revival going on in America? Cliffe Knechtle would know. He’s been preaching on college campuses for 45 years.

(0:00) Moral Relativism Is Running Rampant
(8:23) The Tragedy of Transgenderism
(17:54) Protestantism vs. Catholicism vs. Orthodoxy
(25:12)… pic.twitter.com/nUIjY7LHRf

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 25, 2025

‘Bring wisdom’: School district goes to court to demand restoration of opening prayer at meetings

You just can’t stereotype California. In a state known derogatorily as the land of “fruits and nuts,” where anti-Christian agendas are common, where faith often is considered a defect, one school district has gone into court to restore opening prayer to its board meetings.

Joel Oster, of Advocates For Faith & Freedom, said in an interview with CBN that the dispute centers around the Chino Valley Unified School District.

It believes an injunction from the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals barring those invocations is wrong.

And the ban should be removed, the case argues.

“About 10 years ago, a lawsuit was filed against Chino Valley claiming that their practice of opening up a school board meeting with prayer violated the Establishment Clause, and the Ninth Circuit agreed and entered an injunction, and they based that injunction on what is called the Lemon Test,” the lawyer explained in the report.

However, that “Lemon test” standard later was abandoned, in the Joe Kennedy case, by the Supreme Court.

“The Supreme Court has now overturned the Lemon Test and said it’s not good law. It doesn’t respect how the Establishment Clause should be enforced [and] should be interpreted,” Oster explained.

That provides the foundation for the Chino Valley’s argument that the 9th Circuit’s old decision was wrongfully decided, and it should be thrown out.

The CBN report explained why he believes it’s permissible to begin school board meetings with prayer, noting it all comes down to history and legality.

“Prayer before school board meetings … is something that has been going on in our nation’s history since before the Constitution was even drafted,” he said. “And prayer has … been used to start deliberative bodies for centuries. There’s been a congressional prayer …for as long as there’s been a Congress.”

And, he noted, it’s just wrong to tell religious people they’re “not welcome.”

“Whenever you do open up a deliberative session with a prayer, it just helps to bring solemnity,” Oster said in the CBN report. “It helps to bring wisdom to an event, helps to focus people on the task at hand, and, so, for that reason, the Supreme Court has said that prayers are allowed, they are constitutional to open up deliberative body sessions.”

He said he believes Chino Valley will succeed, and courts will see that opening prayers are not a constitutional violation.

Obama judge temporarily blocks Trump from deporting MS-13 gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda

Kilmar Abrego Garcia

U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee on Monday set an evidentiary hearing for this Friday after MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia filed a lawsuit to block his deportation to Uganda.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ordered to be deported to the East African country of Uganda after a judge released him from a Tennessee prison last week.

Abrego Garcia was an illegal alien residing in Maryland when he was deported to his home country of El Salvador earlier this year and placed in the notorious CECOT prison, however, radical left-wing judges ordered him to be returned to the US.

The wife beater and gang member was previously ordered deported by an immigration judge but he was not to be sent to his home country of El Salvador so the Trump Administration decided to send him to Africa.

Abrego Garcia immediately put up a legal fight to stop his deportation.

“I fear persecution in Uganda on account of my race, nationality, political opinion, and membership in a particular social group. I also fear torture by or at the acquiescence of a public official in that country,” Abrego Garcia said on Saturday.

On Monday, Judge Xinis temporarily blocked the Trump Admin from deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia and set an evidentiary hearing for this Friday.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Xinis is leaning toward issuing another restraining order to block Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s immediate deportation to Uganda at least through this week — she wants an evidentiary hearing on Friday.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 25, 2025

Judge Xinis also ordered Abrego not be moved from his detention facility in Virginia.

XINIS orders that Abrego not be moved from his detention facility in Virginia, in order to ensure he has access to counsel.

Xinis asks Ensign if her oral order is enough — knowing Ensign has previously argued that only written orders count. Ensign says the oral order is fine(!)

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) August 25, 2025

CNN reported:

A federal judge said Monday that she will order officials to keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia in the United States while she weighs a new legal challenge from him over the Trump administration’s plans to quickly deport him to Uganda.

US District Judge Paula Xinis said during a brief hearing Monday afternoon that she’s planning to stretch out an existing hold on Abrego Garcia’s removal so she can more fully consider whether officials are violating his due process rights, including by deporting him to Uganda even after he said he fears being persecuted or tortured in the African nation.

Last month, a Tennessee-based federal judge previously ordered the release of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia – and a Maryland judge, appointed by Barack Obama, immediately blocked ICE from detaining Abrego Garcia.

A federal grand jury in Tennessee recently indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”

He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.

This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.

Authorities raid clinic committing illegal abortions

Authorities in India have reportedly raided a medical facility in Wazirabad where they allegedly found a number of tools and instruments used to commit illegal abortions.

Key Takeaways:Authorities in India raided an optical and dental store that was allegedly illegally committing abortions.The owner of the store was reportedly in the process of committing an abortion at the time of the raid, and is still on the run.Abortion is allowed in India, but sex-selective abortions are prohibited.The Details:

According to the Indian Express, officials in the health department of Gurgaon district, India, raided Abha Homoeo Optical and Dental Hygiene last week after learning that it was illegally selling “abortion kits” and committing abortions without a valid medical license.

“A search of the premises uncovered MTP kits and surgical instruments used for pregnancy termination stored in a blue plastic drum at the back of the store. No MTP registration or retail/wholesale drug licence was found. The seizure was videographed, and the recovered MTP kit strips confirmed their use on the premises for performing abortions,” a spokesperson for the district administration said in a statement.

“Inside, we found a blue drum filled with medical abortion kits, including 10 unopened packs containing Mifepristone and Misoprostol, two partly used kits, and one used kit. Speculums, dilators, and curettes were also recovered,” a health official said, according to the Times of India.

The store’s owner, Nani Sarkar, fled the scene at the time of the raid and has not yet been apprehended. Two other men who were inside the store at the time told authorities that Sarkar had been in the process of committing an illegal abortion before he fled the premises.

“The clinic had no MTP registration or drugs license, and the man running it was only a certified dispensing optician,” officials said.

Why it Matters:

According to the Times of India, abortion is legal in India for many reasons, but sex-selective abortion is prohibited. The country, and particularly the state where this “store” is located, is a region where abortions have been prevalent among people who would prefer to have baby boys instead of girls. One paper published in 2021 found that an estimated that 13.5 million or more baby girls were aborted in sex-selective abortions in India between 1987 and 2016.

Although authorities haven’t offered a motive for why Sarkar was committing illegal abortions, The Times of India says authorities in the region try to crack down on illegal abortion rings in order to fight the gender imbalance.

The Bottom Line:

Abortion — whether legally or illegally committed — is never a safe option for the woman or her preborn baby. As reports out of the United States demonstrate, women are routinely injured at facilities that have the full backing of the law, though many of those stories are often kept from the public’s eye. If women are regularly harmed in abortion facilities, they are all the more at risk in clinics that have no medical standing at all.

A procedure in which a woman’s health is jeopardized, while her child is killed, is never safe.

[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by Live Action News.]

‘We could’ve done a better job’: Cracker Barrel makes big admission after going woke with new logo

As Americans express outrage at Cracker Barrel for removing “Uncle Herschel” and his barrel from its logo, the restaurant chain is now admitting it “could’ve done a better job sharing who we are and who we’ll always be.”

The company issued a statement Monday, indicating: “If the last few days have shown us anything, it’s how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel. We’re truly grateful for your heartfelt voices.

“You’ve also shown us that we could’ve done a better job sharing who we are and who we’ll always be.”

“What has not changed, and what will never change, are the values this company was built on when Cracker Barrel first opened in 1969: hard work, family, and scratch-cooked food made with care. A place where everyone feels at home, no matter where you’re from or where you’re headed.”

JUST IN: Cracker Barrel releases statement following the backlash to their new logo, says they appreciate how much people “deeply care” about them.

Cracker Barrel admitted they “could’ve done a better job sharing who we are and who we’ll always be.”

Here is the full statement:… pic.twitter.com/nXQPHp1O7r

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 25, 2025

The company says “the things people love most about our stores aren’t going anywhere: rocking chairs on the porch, a warm fire in the hearth, peg games on the table, unique treasures in our gift shop, and vintage Americana with antiques pulled straight from our warehouse in Lebanon, Tennessee. We love seeing how much you care about our ‘old timer.’ We love him too.”

“While our logo and remodels may be making headlines, our bigger focus is still right where it belongs … in the kitchen and on your plate: serving generous portions of the food you crave at fair prices and doing it with the kind of country hospitality that brightens your days and creates lasting memories.”

Is the news we hear every day actually broadcasting messages from God? The answer is an absolute yes! Find out how!

The company says it wants to be certain “Cracker Barrel is here for the next generation of families, just as it has been for yours. That means showing up on new platforms and in new ways, but always with our heritage at the heart.

“We take that responsibility very seriously. We know we won’t always get everything right the first time, but we’ll keep testing, learning, and listening to our guests and employees. At the end of the day, our promise is simple: you’ll always find comfort, community, and country hospitality here at Cracker Barrel.”

Also on Monday, reports emerged that one of Cracker Barrel’s board members, Gilbert Davila, has been pushing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for years, including as vice president of Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development at the Walt Disney Company.

Meet Gilbert Davila, one of the board members for Cracker Barrel. He’s led a DEI strategy firm since 2010 AND he was a VP working on “Diversity” at Disney. That’s his experience.

He also pushes for DEI in advertisements.

Cracker Barrel is infested with DEI & wokeness. pic.twitter.com/j0ryQskAQk

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 21, 2025

As WorldNetDaily reported last week, Cracker Barrel “shed almost $100 million in market value after its stock plunged … following the release of a new logo,” according to CBS News.

DEI claims another victim, and the old white guy gets lost in the significance of the passage of time.

Bring the cracker back. The barrel, too, while you’re at it. AND the decor. We go to #crackerbarrell for home style southern food and americana nostalgia, not to feel like… pic.twitter.com/N5139x1RHz

— Atheen – God Bless America! (@Atheen_) August 22, 2025

Follow Joe on X @JoeKovacsNews

‘Marketing misstep’: Going ‘woke’ delivers $100 million hit to once-popular Cracker Barrel

/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document);

WATCH: DNC opens summer meeting in most virtue-signaling way possible

Lindy Sowmick

The Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting opened Monday, with one of the first items on its agenda being a “land acknowledgement.”

The DNC’s meeting comes weeks after a Quinnipiac poll showing only 19% of respondents approved of the party’s congressional leadership was released, while the party also dealt with infighting and difficulty meeting fundraising goals. After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and brief remarks from the pastor of Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota’s church, DNC Chairman Ken Martin introduced the next speaker.

WATCH:

“Now please welcome a friend of mine from the Minnesota DFL, the treasurer, her name is Lindy Sowmick, who is from the Saginaw Ojibwe Nation and she’s going to deliver our land acknowledgment today,” Martin said.

Land acknowledgements are often used to acknowledge “indigenous peoples” who allegedly “owned” the land where an event is taking place, according to PBS.

“Good morning, DNC members, friends and relatives, let’s talk about the land for a second. The DNC acknowledges and honors the… Dakota people, who are the original stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis. The Dakota cared for the lands, lakes and the… great river, the Mississippi River for thousands of years before colonization,” Sowmick said. “This land was not claimed or traded, it’s part of a history of broken treaties and promises, and in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress indigenous peoples’ cultural and spiritual history.”

“As Democrats, I ask of every one of you to not allow land acknowledgments like these just simply be the checking of a box,” Sowmick. “Be curious, ask questions, ensure our native neighbors are heard and work in partnership with your indigenous communities. Honor the legacy of this land and its people by engaging today with each other with honesty, humility, respect and compassion. Thank you so much.”

Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.

Lifeguard kicks Joe Biden’s secretary of state off the beach

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual roundtable with local media from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 2022. (State Department photo by Freddie Everett)Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken exited a beach at the behest of a lifeguard on Friday after it had been closed due to hurricane conditions.

Photographs showed Blinken, who served under former President Joe Biden’s administration, relaxing on Georgica Beach in East Hampton, New York, alongside a friend, the New York Post reported. A lifeguard and parked patrol vehicle drove up alongside Blinken and his friend, and photos showed them both packing up their belongings and leaving the beach.

The beaches reopened a day later on Saturday, Fox News reported. Georgica Beach, along with many other beaches in the East Hampton area, had been closed for several days due to the hazardous conditions caused by Hurricane Erin.

NEW – Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off from East Hampton’s Georgica Beach — New York Post pic.twitter.com/0NGHImdh4A

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 23, 2025

Ex-Biden Sec’y of State Antony Blinken kicked off Hamptons beach.
The ex-Biden official and a pal were on the sand Friday when they were ordered to get out by a lifeguard patrol. pic.twitter.com/C26vdriEDl

— Blanche Victoria (@tammytabby) August 24, 2025

The beach opened for “foot traffic” on midday Friday after the tide had waned out, a spokesperson for East Hampton Village’s Main Beach Office told Fox News. Photographs showed large waves crashing against the shore behind Blinken and his friend.

Hurricane Erin became the first Atlantic storm of 2025 and became a Category 5 storm with sustained winds of 160 mph on Aug. 16. Waves measured 15 to 20 feet on the East Coast and battered beaches and surrounding areas.

Blinken has received scrutiny in the past for his leisure time. In 2021, he vacationed in the Hamptons just hours before the Taliban took over Kabul, Afghanistan, following the U.S.’ withdrawal from the area. The former secretary of state also played a guitar at a bar in Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2024 as war waged on there against Russia.

Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.

‘Runs on secrecy’: Tech consultants claim Walmart firings involve H-1B visa scandal

The American program to issue H-1B visas to overseas workers with so-called “expertise” unavailable in American workers has been mired in scandal for weeks and months already.

Now a report from a Swiss tech consultancy organization, CTOL, charges that a Walmart executive was dismissed and some 1,200 tech contractors were locked out of their programs because there had been kickbacks of up to $30,000 a day involved in the dealings.

Under the program, foreign workers are granted special permissions to work in the U.S. or for U.S. companies if they have qualifications and skills for technical jobs that cannot be filled by American workers.

The upside for corporations is that they have been shown to be essentially concealing their job postings, then claiming there are no available Americans, then going with overseas workers under contract who are paid only a fraction of what American workers would make.

The latest scandal to hit took aim at Walmart, with CTOL alleging 1,200 “technology contractors found themselves locked out of their systems, their access badges deactivated, their projects suspended indefinitely.”

The report, which revealed there was no confirmation from Walmart on the events, said the mass termination was because of a “corruption scheme that reached into the highest echelons of Walmart’s Global Tech division.”

It cited “sources” in charging, “The retail giant’s abrupt severance of ties with Caspex-sourced contractors followed the firing of a Global Tech vice president who had been orchestrating an elaborate kickback operation. Daily payments starting from $30,000 flowed from contracting agencies seeking preferential treatment in Walmart’s vast technology ecosystem.”

CTOL charged, “The Walmart case exemplifies a pattern that has emerged across the technology sector’s staffing ecosystem since 2023. Layered vendor relationships—where prime contractors sublease work to secondary vendors, who in turn engage tertiary providers—have created opaque financial structures that obscure accountability while enabling systematic exploitation.”

The Hindustan Times reported that Walmart later confirmed the firings “had nothing to do with H-1B visas.”

Walmart said, “Following an investigation, Walmart recently terminated one vendor and a small number of U.S.-based associates. This investigation had nothing to do with H1B visas.”

Even so, the report said, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, suggested it may be time to pause H-1B visas.

The report continued, “Walmart, earlier this year, had announced plans to lay off 1500 workers, which was part of its restructuring efforts. Although this had nothing to do with H-1B workers, there was backlash on social media that the layoffs were being orchestrated to replace U.S. workers with H-1B holders.”

Comments on the issue at Revolver included, “The H-1B visa system is a scam, plain and simple. What started decades ago as a ‘temporary work program’ to fill supposed gaps in specialized fields has turned into a full-blown racket that sells out American workers and ships our middle class right out the window.”

The commentary charged, “U.S. corporations are gaming the system, replacing qualified Americans with cheaper foreign labor, all while patting themselves on the back for being ‘innovative’ and ‘diverse.'”

And it went on, “For years now, corporate elites and their buddies in The Swamp have locked Americans out of good jobs by rigging the hiring system so cheap foreign labor can help line their pockets. They’ve built an underground pipeline that pretends to ‘recruit’ U.S. workers while actually funneling the positions to cheap H1-B workers. The whole scheme runs on secrecy, red tape, and the government’s flat-out refusal to enforce the law.”

Nonprofit files complaints against Trump attorneys but agenda produces literally no results

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a National Day of Prayer event, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in the White House Rose Garden. (Official White House photo by Molly Riley)

(The Center Square) – Two nonprofits run by an attorney with long-time Democratic connections have been filing ethics complaints against lawyers who represented Trump officials or issues, seeking to get them disbarred or disciplined.

But an investigation by The Center Square found nearly all of the attorneys the groups targeted received no public discipline years after the complaints were filed.

Critics and documents also raise questions about the group’s nonprofit status, lack of transparency and connections to other nonprofits who claim to avoid political issues.

Utah attorney Michael Teter, who worked for the Democratic party and ran Democratic campaigns, is managing director of The 65 Project and executive director of the Legal Accountability Center. Both groups’ websites talk about holding accountable attorneys who filed lawsuits challenging the 2020 presidential election results and supported other “anti-Democratic activity,” charging the lawyers violated their oaths by knowingly filing false lawsuits and supporting disinformation.

But a Center Square review of nearly 80 complaints filed against attorneys by The 65 Project between 2022 and 2023 in various states show only three resulted in public discipline against the attorneys, and it is not clear whether the nonprofit’s complaints prompted the actions. Two disciplines came after criminal convictions and one was initiated by the California bar six months after The 65 Project complaint.

Last year, America First Legal, a nonprofit law firm that supports right of center issues, filed an ethics complaint against Teter in Utah for The 65 Project’s actions, but the Utah State Bar association does not show any action was taken on the October 2024 complaint.

“For too long, ‘lawfare’ like that undertaken by The 65 Project and other, similarly motivated groups, has chilled attorneys across the country from representing clients or advancing certain lawful positions for those clients,” the firm’s executive director Gene Hamilton said in a news release on their website. “Seeking the personal destruction and financial ruin of another lawyer – simply because of the client he represented or the cause he took up – runs counter to not only the letter and spirit of the law governing the activities of lawyers…

“We seek a return to a world in which lawyers can be lawyers, zealously advocate for their clients, and strive for a better future without fear of harassment or intimidation simply because of the clients or causes they take up,” he added. “The abuses of the system must stop.”

The Teter-run groups repeatedly ignored requests by The Center Square to document their accomplishments and comment on their tactics.

The Center Square attempted to find discipline against the attorneys on the bar association websites of the jurisdictions where the complaints were filed and reached out to bar associations that didn’t clearly provide the information online. Most of the attorneys that The 65 Project filed complaints against two or three years ago showed no public discipline on the bar websites though that leaves open the possibility of confidential private discipline.

Many of the bar associations The Center Square contacted refused to provide any additional information about the nonprofit’s complaints.

“The State Bar generally does not confirm the existence or status of a grievance against a Georgia-barred attorney,” wrote Georgia bar spokeswoman Jennifer R. Mason after The Center Square inquired about the status of a half dozen complaints from The 65 Project. “We are unable to comment further.”

The group of about 80 attorneys with complaints filed against them includes 15 former and current Republican state attorneys general, but they all remained in good standing and with no public discipline in their states.

The State Bar of Nevada, however, confirmed The 65 Project complaint filed there was quickly dismissed for lack of evidence.

The “case wasn’t strong enough to meet our clear and convincing standard,” wrote Nevada Bar Counsel Daniel M. Hooge in an exchange with The Center Square. “It involved subjective claims of frivolity and dishonesty. Because they are subjective, we would need some support either from a general community consensus, prior cases creating clear controlling precedent, or judicial action. We didn’t have those in this case.

“It was divided along political lines, there was no prior case law that clearly addressed the same issues, and the judges in the cases did not sanction Mr. [Jesse] Binnall,” he added. “This case had little to no chance of success at hearing.”

Binnall, a Virginia attorney who The 65 Project complaint says joined in a Nevada lawsuit to substitute Biden electors with those who supported Trump, did not respond to requests for comment.

The group also filed a complaint in Massachusetts against renowned Harvard Law professor and constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz, charging he knowingly filed a false lawsuit to “discredit elections and voting procedures.”

But Dershowitz said he received no discipline, and the Massachusetts bar website shows no discipline against him.

The “frivolous and politically motivated complaint was dismissed, as it should have been,” Dershowitz wrote in a brief email exchange with The Center Square.

The 65 Project complaint notes that a judge sanctioned Dershowitz for signing a complaint he should have known was frivolous – called a Rule 11 violation. But the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the judge’s decision, writing “this court has not previously clearly articulated the rule that of-counsel attorneys may be sanctioned under Rule 11, the panel declined to give its holding retroactive effect.”

Neither The 65 Project nor the Legal Accountability Center make their tax returns public as is required of most organizations with federal nonprofit status. In exchange for privileges like not having to pay taxes and donors getting a tax write off, nonprofits must let the public see how much money they collect and what they spend on salaries, fundraising and other expenses. Nonprofits are required to provide those returns to anyone who requests them and most are on websites that track nonprofit activity.

A search of databases for The 65 Project and Legal Accountability Center 990 tax returns produced no results so The Center Square contacted the IRS and the nonprofits. The IRS did not respond.

The 65 Project public relations person Eddie Vale responded to a request for the group’s 990s by saying the group does not have its own tax returns.

“The 65 Project is a fiscally sponsored project of Global Impact, so the relevant 990s belongs to the fiscal sponsor,” he wrote in response to The Center Square’s request to see the groups tax returns as federal law requires.

While Global Impact’s tax returns are available online, they do not specifically provide income, spending and pay data for either of Teter’s organizations.

Vale didn’t respond to repeated follow up requests asking for an interview with Teter, and no one from LAC responded to repeated requests for 990s or interviews with staff.

LAC website says they are a 501c(4), which allows them to do campaigning though it is not their primary activity. A web link that has since been taken down connects them to the Democracy Fund, but the Fund’s nonprofit tax returns do not mention the LAC. No one from the Fund responded to requests for comment.

LAC has filed three complaints against Trump Department of Justice attorneys and is also representing California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a $787 million defamation complaint against Fox News. The complaints against the DOJ attorneys were all filed July 31 and there is nothing about them on the District of Columbia bar website.

Fox News is disputing Newsom’s libel claim but did not provide a comment about the LAC’s involvement in the case.

Teter was deputy finance director for the California Democratic Party in the late 1990s; was campaign manager for U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., and Wisconsin field director for John Kerry’s failed presidential run; and worked at the Democratic Campaign Committee, according to his Linkedin profile.

He also worked at Perkins Coie between 2006 and 2008 – a law firm that was targeted by a Trump executive order to suspend security clearances for their attorneys after Trump determined that the firm worked with Hillary Clinton on the Steele Dossier and discriminated in hiring by implementing DEI programs.

Teter’s nonprofits are clearly designed to make it difficult for Trump officials and issues to get legal representation, according to Tom Jones, executive director of the conservative American Accountability Foundation, and the nonprofit’s own website.

“The complaints are intended to harass attorneys and force them to spend money defending themselves because (The 65 Project and LAC) don’t like the policy,” Jones said.

The 65 Project’s website seems to echo that.

“The 65 Project will work to hold accountable the lawyers who raise fraudulent claims to overturn legitimate elections results, while also creating a rule-based system to prevent future attempts and to strengthen the mechanisms for accountability and deterrence,” according The 65 Project’s website.

One employee anonymously put in much more stark terms in a 2022 Axios story about The 65 Project, which the group’s website said is named after the 65 lawsuits filed by Trump supporters to overturn the 2020 election.

“This is mostly important for the deterrent effect that it can bring so that you can kill the pool of available legal talent going forward,” the story quoted the anonymous source.

This story originally appeared in The Center Square.

‘Separated for a reason’: Female swimmers could be paid damages as school forced male member on their team

An Air Force Academy cadet swims the butterfly stroke in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Dylan Smith)

Members of a women’s swim team at Roanoke College in Virginia could end up being paid damages because the school subjected them, against the law, to having a male member on their team.

That’s according to a ruling from Attorney General Jason Miyares.

Fox News Digital reported there are multiple lawsuits now pending over damages from women or girls on teams for females when the school involved demands they allow a male on the team.

But none has yet reached the stage of determining financial damages.

The Roanoke case may add light to that dispute now.

The report explained Miyares’ investigation followed the school’s demand that a male swimmer, who identified himself as female, be on the women’s team in 2023.

“Miyares concluded that the college denied the female swimmers accommodations, advantages, and privileges on the basis of sex, caused the women emotional, physical, and dignitary harms and violated the Virginia Human Rights Act,” the report explained.

He also suggested the state law allows the women swimmers who were injured to seek financial damages, as the school violated the Virginia Human Rights Act.

“A private complainant who has received a notice of right to file a civil action may file a civil action under the Act for compensatory and punitive damages, as well as injunctive relief,” the report said.

Fox reported it obtained documents confirming that six women on the school’s women’s team “applied for May Term Travel Courses run by the school three days before a press conference took place in which some expressed their displeasure with having a transgender swimmer on their team.”

Miyares noted, “Two weeks after the press conference, the Roanoke professors in charge of the Japan and Greece travel terms rejected the female swimmers’ applications.”

But, the report said, state law bars “unlawful discrimination and retaliation by educational institutions on the basis of sex” and said, “No educational institution may ‘refuse, withhold from, or deny’ any accommodations, advantages, or privileges on the basis of sex.”

The result, the report said, affirmed, that, “Any implementation of a discriminatory policy would be considered discrimination under the law.”

Roanoke’s practice “that forces women participating in sex-separated collegiate sports to compete against individuals with the biological advantages of male puberty deprives those women of accommodations, advantages, and privileges made available to others on the basis of sex and violates the VHRA.”

Miyares, about his report, said, “Men and women in competitive sports are separated for a reason. A male who has undergone puberty has a significant undeniable athletic advantage over females that no intervention can undo… the women’s swim team endured, and is still enduring, emotional, physical and dignitary harm because of Roanoke College’s failure to follow the law.”

School officials at the time claimed they were working on “fairness” in athletics, but also insisted on an agenda of “supporting” the LGBT agenda.

Multiple Roanoke women’s swim team members now are part of a lawsuit over the controversy.