Tag: Constitution
Coalition of Republican Senators Urge Biden Admin to Not Give WHO Authority Over US
By CBN News Talia Wise
A coalition of U.S. senators is demanding the Biden administration withdraw its support of two international agreements that would grant greater authority to the World Health Organization (WHO) and potentially weaken America’s sovereignty.
As CBN News reported, the White House submitted 13 amendments for a pandemic-related treaty last May that essentially give the WHO the right to tell the U.S. what to do in a pandemic. Opponents warn the treaty essentially gives up control of the country’s health care system.
The treaty, which includes 300 proposals to increase the WHO’s emergency powers, is being considered later this month during the World Health Assembly (WHA).
The treaty would allow the W.H.O. to declare a health emergency in the United States, require the U.S. to report to an international “Compliance Committee” on whether it was obeying W.H.O. directives, and would create an enforcement mechanism to essentially punish nations that don’t follow the W.H.O.’s directives.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and a host of other Republican senators and pointed out the organization’s response to the pandemic was “abysmal.”
“The WHO’s failure during the COVID-19 pandemic was as total as it was predictable and did lasting harm to our country,” the letter reads.
“The United States cannot afford to ignore the latest WHO inability to perform its most basic function and must insist on comprehensive WHO reforms before even considering amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) or any pandemic-related treaty that would increase WHO authority,” the group warns.
Idaho Senator Jim Risch outlined in another letter the specific missteps taken by the WHO.
“(Their) track record over the last three years is nothing short of abysmal. When the Chinese government lied to the world in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO parroted and praised China’s officials,” he explained.
“When it became clear China was covering up truths about the deadliest health emergency in a century, the WHO did nothing to hold it responsible,” he added. “The WHO has failed in its core mission to protect global health time and again.”
The senators concluded, “Should you ignore this advice, we state in the strongest possible terms that we consider any such agreement to be a treaty requiring the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senate under Article II Section 2 of the Constitution.”
The W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has denied the arguments that the organization is trying to gain power, adding that the W.H.O. could not override the sovereignty of member nations.
“W.H.O. is an expression of member states’ own sovereignty and W.H.O. is entirely what the sovereign 194 member states want W.H.O. to be,” Tedros said.
Travis Weber, vice president for Policy and Government Affairs at the Family Research Council, told CBN News that even if the International Health Regulations had a treaty to enforce their rule, the U.S. Constitution should have the final say in how America responds in another pandemic and not the W.H.O.
“That means even with a treaty that we are party to that the Senate has given advise and consent to, it does not trump the Constitution, even in the case of a treaty. It’s similar to a statute passed by Congress in its level of authority,” Weber told CBN News. “The Constitution still trumps that.”
This would be the final straw against the sovereignty of our great nation to allow a socialist organization to be able to supersede American laws and the Constitution. Please, please call your Senators and representatives to tell them to stop this egregious move on our freedoms! Rh.
The Betrayal of Speaker Johnson
State AG: Why many are refusing to follow Biden’s abortion agenda
Bob Unruh WND
Steve Marshall serves as the attorney general for the state of Alabama, and in an interview with the Washington Stand is explaining why his state, and more than a dozen others, are refusing to go along with Joe Biden’s latest abortion promotion.
In this case, the Biden administration has actively hijacked a definitively pro-life law and turned it around to direct support to the nation’s lucrative abortion industry.
Marshall, joining “Watchington Watch,” explained the law involved is the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which was written to protect expectant mothers from unfair discrimination.
But Joe Biden’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has added to the congressional action a rule that turns it into a scheme that benefits abortionists.
He explained the original bill, bipartisan in its support was to “make sure that we accommodate pregnant women in the workplace because we want to have healthy pregnancies and children that come to birth.”
The EEOC then pushed forward an abortion rule that would “make sure that states like Alabama would have to violate state law to somehow or another accommodate a woman who wants an abortion.”
He explained even Democrats noted that the idea wasn’t to promote abortion.
“One of the Democratic sponsors of this bill made it very clear on the floor of the Senate that this bill had nothing to do with abortion [and] assured his colleagues on both sides of the aisle the intention of this bill. And yet, despite its clear language, what we see is [the] Biden administration co-opting a valid, appropriate law to be able to enforce this pro-abortion agenda.
“I know we shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s one of the reasons why I’m so proud of my colleagues across the country on many pro-life issues, because we’re standing in that gap that we need in this country to make sure that we can push back on an administration that’s just simply gone too far,” he told the Stand.
There are 17 AGs who have joined in a lawsuit over Biden’s newest abortion plan, opposing the bureaucrats in the EEOC.
“This is an unelected, unaccountable group. … We’ve seen this on multiple fronts with this administration, whether it be attacking pro-life states like Alabama. We’ve seen it with this radical gender ideology that’s being pushed through multiple federal programs. It’s why, uniquely, attorneys general in this important time in our nation have the opportunity to be able to hold [the administration] in check.”
Arizona rancher will not be retried for murder following hung jury in deadly shooting of illegal alien: ‘Nightmare is over’
Cortney WeilSr. Editor, NewsCortney Weil is a senior editor for Blaze News.
The elderly Arizona rancher whose murder trial recently resulted in a hung jury will not be retried, prosecutors said.
In January 2023, 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, a Mexican national who had been deported from the U.S. multiple times after he crossed the border illegally, was found shot to death on the property of 75-year-old George Alan Kelly. Kelly owns 170 acres of land near Nogales, Arizona, which is across the border from Nogales, Mexico.
Kelly was the person who found Cuen-Buitimea’s body and called police to report it. Kelly admitted to firing several warning shots into the air earlier that day after he spotted a group of men armed with AK-47s invading his property but insisted that none of the warning shots could have possibly hit anyone, Daniel Horowitz, host of “Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz,” reported shortly after Kelly’s arrest.
Kelly was ultimately charged with second-degree murder. He had previously refused a plea deal that would have convicted him of one count of negligent homicide.
At Kelly’s trial earlier this month, his attorney, Brenna Larkin, noted that the bullet which killed Cuen-Buitimea was never recovered and argued that Cuen-Buitimea’s unzipped backpack and broken buckle suggested that he had been the victim of robbery gone wrong, the Arizona Daily Star reported.
Most jurors seem to have been persuaded by Kelly’s defense. After two days of deliberations, they could not come to a unanimous decision in the case, and on April 22, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink officially declared a mistrial. Of the five men and three women on the jury, seven had voted to acquit, leaving “one, lone holdout” voting to convict, a statement from Kelly’s defense team said.
Outside the courthouse, Kelly told reporters the “nightmare is over” and expressed condolences to Cuen-Buitimea’s loved ones.
Finally justice has been served. We must be allowed to protect our property and our lives from illegals coming into our country. Rh
Democrat Representatives Wave Ukrainian Flags on House Floor After Voting to Give Them Another $60.8 Billion
By Cassandra MacDonald Apr.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told the Democrats who were kissing up to Ukraine and waving foreign flags on our soil after unanimously voting to send Ukraine another $60 billion to “put those damn flags away” on Saturday.
As The Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday, The House of Representatives passed three bills to hand out money to Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and other non-U.S. involved conflict zones around the world — with nothing for Americans.
All of the 112 “Nay” votes came from Republicans. Every single Democrat voted to send an additional $60 BILLION of taxpayer money to secure a foreign border.
The Democrats then began to pledge their allegiance to Ukraineupon passage, waving a foreign flag in the United States House of Representatives and chanting for “UKRAINE!”
This prompted Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to seek recognition and exclaim “put those damn flags away!”
Republicans in the House of Representatives led by speaker Mike Johnson are absolutely worthless. Isn’t it time that we did something for the United States of America, but no we send billions of dollars to Ukraine, why I do believe Washington’s ruling class loves Ukraine far more than it loves the United States of America. That’s my tax money!! Rh
Yes!!
Just as separation of Church and State was given to keep government intrusion out of our lives.
Our Constitution was given to us to allow for freedom for the citizens of the United States. We are presently living under a tyrannical government that is unconcerned for the welfare of its citizens. Our very Republic may only be one election (2024) away from being lost forever. RH
Michigan Imam: We Muslims Will Yet ‘Slaughter’ the Jews ‘Like Sheep’ by Joshua Klein Breitbart News
Muslims will yet “slaughter” the Jews “like sheep” when the opportunity arises, according to a Michigan Islamic cleric who appealed to Allah, seeking to become “soldiers” for Islam in any form desired, including death.
In a sermon at the Islamic Center of Warren, Michigan, in January, Imam Abdou Zindani warned of the fate of Jews everywhere, pointing to a Palestinian businessman who told a Jewish New Yorker what Muslims have in store for the Jews.
Unfortunately this is the new America. The Bush promoted religion of peace is now strong enough in America to say the quiet part for all to hear. We are importing our own destruction. Remember the Islamist say “we will come for the Saturday people first (Jews) and then the Sunday people (Christians). Islam is a convert or die movement. RH
“Don’t worry, don’t worry, Jewish man,” he said. “One day will come, and we will slaughter you like a sheep and the stone and the tree will work… undercover for us, [saying:] ‘Hey Muslim, come, there is somebody hiding here, get up and kill him.’”
The Sheikh was apparently referencing a grisly passage in the Islamic text, known as the Hadith, that reads as follows: “Judgement Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say, oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me — come and kill him.” The same excerpt is cited in the Hamas terror group’s charter.
Supreme Court Denies Case of Christian Parents Whose Trans-Identifying Child Was Taken From Them By Talla Wise CBN
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up the case of two Indiana parents who asked the court to intervene after the state’s Department of Child Services took their trans-identifying child away from them due to their Biblical beliefs about sex and gender.
This week the high court denied a writ of certiorari in the case of M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) submitted by Jeremy and Mary Cox.
The Indiana Family Institute along with Becket Law, a non-profit legal group, presented the petition on behalf of the parents who wanted the Supreme Court to hold the state accountable for removing their child from their home.
Our world is becoming increasingly combative against Biblical Family values and parental rights. How can the Supreme Court rule against loving parents who are raising their own children accordingly to their values. Why is evil being accepted and traditional values under attack. Conclusion (IMO) evil and demonic powers are feeding off our immoral society. RH
“No other loving parents should have to endure what we did. The pain of having our son taken from our home and kept from our care because of our beliefs will stay with us forever,” said the couple in a statement after the Supreme Court’s announcement.
“We can’t change the past, but we will continue to fight for a future where parents of faith can raise their children without fear of state officials knocking on their doors and taking their children,” they added.
As CBN News previously reported, DCS initiated an investigation of the Cox’s home because they were not referring to their son with a cross-gender name and pronouns, nor were they endorsing their child’s self-identification as a girl because of their Christian beliefs.
DCS pressed for the child’s removal from the home arguing, “We just feel that at this point in time… she should be in a home where she is [accepted] for who she is.”
A trial court removed the Cox’s son from the home and barred them from speaking to him about the topic of sex and gender.
Court documents contend that the child, identified as A.C., was removed from the home partly because of a severe eating disorder that allegedly could have gotten worse if he had returned home.
Although DCS voluntarily dismissed all allegations that Mary and Jeremy abused or neglected their child, an Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the trial court’s decision ruling the restriction on the parents’ religious instruction was permissible under state and federal constitutions.
The couple was only allowed to visit their son for 2-3 hours a week, but all other contact was limited. He eventually aged out of the foster care system while out of their custody.
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