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Pictured: Left-wing suspect on left/ Conservative victim on right. Credit: Charlie Kirk X

The greatest threat America faces is from radical leftists within our nation determined to shut down conservatives by any means necessary. Just ask a young right-wing activist who was viciously assaulted at a Turning Point USA event at a Pennsylvania college today.

TPUSA founder and executive director Charlie Kirk revealed that just before an event featuring conservative activist Chloe Cole at West Chester University, an unnamed lunatic assaulted a TPUSA chapter leader. Kirk revealed that the leftist ran up to the young man, spat on him, and then slugged him multiple times in the face.

Campus police quickly chased after the thug and were able to apprehend him.

While video footage of the assault was not captured, the police running after the perp and then arresting him was.

WATCH:

BREAKING: One of our chapter leaders at West Chester University was just assaulted on campus in advance of an event featuring Chloe Cole.

The individual ran up to him, spit on him, and then punched him multiple times in the face.

He is alright, thank God. He is pressing… pic.twitter.com/5zXp0lv4wJ

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 24, 2025

Kirk said the innocent student leader is okay following the attack and will be pressing charges against his tormentor. He also urged Americans to pray for the TPUSA students and to reach out to them.

This is far from the first attack targeting conservative college students on campus. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, a transgender loon beat the tar out of a female TPUSA Chapter President with a bike lock at the University of Texas at Dallas last month.

The attacker was later identified as Liam Thanh Tam Nguyen—an Asian male who reportedly goes by the alias “Alyssa.” Nguyen now faces a laundry list of charges that expose the true nature of this deranged individual.

Earlier this month, masked Antifa vandals violently attacked TPUSA staff at a tabling event at UC Davis on Thursday while police did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING as the students were beaten to a pulp.

The leftist agitators also completely destroyed</> TPUSA’s “Prove Me Wrong” tabling event with former police officer Brandon Tatum.

They stole the tent, ripped down the TPUSA banners, and tried to steal the TPUSA staffer’s iPad and electronics.

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He’s cheated death.

He’s overcome insane and criminal vote rigging.

And he’s survived every indictment and impeachment thrown at him.

But mark my words…

Trump’s next move could make him a legend – and perhaps the most popular president in U.S. History.

For one reason…

Trump is on the verge of accomplishing something no President has ever done before.

And if he’s successful, we believe he will kick off one of the greatest wealth booms in history.

Former Presidential Advisor, Jim Rickards, says Trump could “rewire our economy and hand millions of Americans a chance at true financial independence in the months ahead.”

We recently sat down with Rickards to capture all the key details on tape.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth participates in a live virtual interview with “Fox and Friends” from the Pentagon, Washington, D.C. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

Another day, another leak.

Anonymous sources have once again leaked information about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the double-encrypted app Signal to the fake news media.

The attacks against Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal began last month after Jeffrey Goldberg, the anti-Trump editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed he was accidentally added to a secure Signal group chat where top Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

Three Hegseth aides placed on leave amid a probe into leaks were officially fired last Friday.

Following the terminations, contents of another Signal group chat with Pete Hegseth were leaked to The Wall Street Journal.

And the leaks keep coming.

According to the latest leak to the Washington Post, Pete Hegseth installed Signal on his desktop at the Pentagon as a way to circumvent ‘the lack of cellphone service’ in the Pentagon.

Hegseth’s spox Sean Parnell hit back and told WaPo the Defense Secretary “has never used and does not currently use Signal on his government computer.”

The Washington Post reported:

The defense secretary installed the encrypted-but-unclassified messaging app on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office to work around restrictions that prevent him from using personal devices to communicate with people outside headquarters.

Three sources told The Washington Post that Hegseth effectively “cloned” the Signal app from his personal phone, following a discussion with his aides about how they could circumvent the lack of cellphone service in most parts of the Pentagon so that they could coordinate with the White House and other Trump officials quicker.

Hegseth also reportedly had Signal installed on a second computer in his Pentagon office, and expressed an interest in installing a program that would allow him to send conventional texts from his perch.

Other Hegseth aides, including his recently-resigned chief of staff Joe Kasper, were also keen on using Signal on Pentagon computers, though The Post’s sources were unclear on how widespread the practice became across Hegseth’s team.

Hegseth spokesperson Sean Parnell said the defense secretary “has never used and does not currently use Signal on his government computer.”

On Tuesday, additional information on Hegseth’s Signal chat group was leaked to NBC News after Hegseth attacked the leakers while attending the White House Easter Egg Roll earlier this week.

According to the leak, the information Hegseth shared in the Signal chat group came from a top general who leads US Central Command.

Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla sent Hegseth the ‘sensitive’ information over secure system. According to the latest leak, Hegseth shared some of the information in the Signal chat group.

Hegseth went on Fox & Friends on Tuesday and attacked the leakers.

“I’m here because President Trump asked me to bring war-fighting back to the Pentagon every single day,” Hegseth said on Fox & Friends on Tuesday.

“If people don’t like it, come after me, no worries. I’m standing here, the warfighters are behind us, our enemies know they’re on notice, our allies know we are behind them, and that in this dangerous world, for the American people, is what it is all about.”

“What was shared over Signal, then and now, however you characterize it, was informal, unclassified coordinations for media coordination, other things. That’s what I’ve said from the beginning,” Hegseth said.

WATCH:

MUST WATCH: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth IS ON FIRE

“I’m here because President Trump asked me to bring war-fighting back to the Pentagon every single day.

If people don’t like it, come after me, no worries. I’m standing here, the WARFIGHTERS are behind us, our enemies… pic.twitter.com/AN5WaSwExc

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 22, 2025

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OMG State Farm VP

Detectives came to the home of an O’Keefe Media Group undercover journalist following a criminal complaint filed by a former State Farm VP.

Recall that last month OMG released undercover footage of a State Farm VP attacking Los Angeles fire victims and admitting State Farm is excluding white people from employement.

State Farm VP of Innovation and Venture Capital Haden Kirkpatrick told an OMG undercover journalist that, “Areas like where the Palisades are, there should never be houses built in the first place…it’s a tinderbox.”

Kirkpatrick also said he wants to reshape the workforce at State Farm to include more Latinos – he also admitted State Farm is excluding whites from employment.

“I personally, I task my HR team, finding me… the perfect profile of the workforce of the future,” Haden Kirkpatrick said. “I want the 2040 workforce. So go find me the demographic profile of America in 2040: more Hispanic and Latinos.”

When questioned about whether this preference related to race applied to his personal life, Kirkpatrick doubled down: “Away from my own kind” – meaning whites.

“People want to build in areas where they want to have, like, natural areas around them for their ego. But it’s also a f*cking desert. And so, it dries out as a tinderbox.” He also acknowledged that wildfires in these areas are not surprising to insurance professionals, claiming, “Climate change is pushing these seasons.” He explained, “If you’re an insurance professional, it’s predictable.”

Kirkpatrick also admitted State Farm’s to pull out of the California market was a calculated move: “Our people look at this and say, ‘Sh*t, we’ve got, like, maybe $5 billion that we’re short if something happens.’ We’ll go to the Department of Insurance and say, ‘We’re overexposed here, you have to let us catch up our rate.’ And they’ll say, ‘Nah.’ And we’ll say, ‘Okay, then we are going to cancel these policies.’”

Kirkpatrick was fired after OMG released the undercover footage.

James O’Keefe said detectives showed up to the home of an O’Keefe Media Group undercover journalist to intimidate them over their footage exposing the State Farm VP.

WATCH:

JUST IN: Detectives Come to Home of O’Keefe Undercover Journalist Following Criminal Complaint Filed by Former State Farm VP pic.twitter.com/7ijY0veN72

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 24, 2025

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Cardinal Becciu is appealing the 4,5 years prison sentence for fraud.

As late Pope Francis’ body lies in state, drawing tens of thousands of faithful to the Vatican ahead of Saturday’s funeral, the political wheels are in motion for the upcoming conclave that will choose the next spiritual leader of the Catholic Church – and there’s already drama going on.

A cardinal convicted of fraud and embezzlement is demanding to participate in the choosing of the next pontiff, even though he has been designated as a ‘non-elector’.

New York Post reported:

“Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, 76, was investigated for taking part in an investment scheme involving a property in London, which wound up costing the church tens of millions of dollars.

Upon his conviction by a Vatican tribunal of judges, he was ordered to serve a five-and-a-half-year jail sentence, and personally ordered by the late Pope Francis to resign the ‘rights and privileges’ of his position in 2020, according to CNN.”

Becciu is accused of bribing witnesses to lie against his rival Cardinal Pell (pictured).

Powerful Becciu, the Holy See’s Secretariat of State has become the first cardinal ever to be convicted by the Vatican’s own criminal court.

He is also accused – with robust evidence – of a crime that is even worse than fraud.

“After his conviction, Becciu was also accused of using Vatican funds to bribe witnesses in the sex-abuse trial of his rival, Cardinal George Pell, whose conviction was overturned in 2020 after spending 13 months in prison in Australia.”

Prosecutors accuse Becciu of wiring over $800,000 to tamper with the testimony against Pell.

Francis’ funeral will take place Saturday.

“Although the Holy See’s press office now designates him as a ‘non-elector’, Becciu claimed ‘there was no explicit will to exclude me from the conclave nor a request for my explicit renunciation in writing’ in an interview with a Sardinian newspaper, the outlet writes.”

Francis’ funeral will be held on Saturday at 10am local time (4am ET) in St. Peter’s Square, after which he will be interred at the basilica of St. Mary Major near the Vatican.

Read more:

In Vatican Rumors and on Social Media, Support for a Conservative as Next Pope Is Surging – But Francis Installed 80% of ‘Progressive’ Cardinals Who Will Vote in the Conclave

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Image: @RapidResponse47/X

Wounded veterans visited President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and an funny incident had those in attendence in hysterics.

The President meets with the veterans for the signing of Executive Orders signings.

Trump told the group, “There’s no group of people more important than the people in this room… and they’re going to be taken really well cared of — It’s really important to me.”

Trump was asked to sign one of the men’s prosthetic leg, when a sticker caught his eye.

He asked, “Who’s that picture?”

The veteran answered, “That is Joe Biden — and it says ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’”

The room erupted in laughter.

President Trump took out his pen to sign over the image, saying, “I can’t stand this guy. You know why? Because he did a rotten job. He should have never been president.”

After he signed it, he quipped, “With this pen, it will never, ever, come off.”

“I put it right over his mouth, which he didn’t use very much.”

Watch:

.@POTUS: “Who’s that picture?”

VETERAN: “That is Joe Biden — and it says ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’”

pic.twitter.com/gyiwVXeZyn

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 23, 2025

When a wounded vet asked Trump to sign
his prosthetic leg… he didn’t just sign it. He sealed it — right over a ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sticker. ‘That’s never coming off.’
GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP pic.twitter.com/JQB6ViJFM6

— G-PA (@IndianaGPA) April 24, 2025

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A federal judge on Thursday partially blocked President Trump’s executive order on election integrity, including the requirement to add proof of citizenship to federal voter registration forms.

President Trump’s March 25 Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections executive order mandates voter ID and documentary proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, audits and improves the security of voting machines, and orders the DOJ to enforce the law against states that count mail-in ballots received after Election Day. It also prioritizes the enforcement of laws preventing foreign money from influencing elections and federally funded organizations from lobbying or supporting candidates.

Additionally, the order includes a provision that “the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the DOGE Administrator, shall review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities as required by 52 U.S.C. 20507, alongside Federal immigration databases and State records requested, including through subpoena where necessary and authorized by law, for consistency with Federal requirements.”

Far-left nonprofit groups such as the Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to block the election integrity order. The DNC and other Democrats also filed suit.

Democrats don’t want voter ID or proof-of-citizenship requirements because it makes it harder for them to cheat and steal elections.

On Thursday, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a radical Clinton appointee who previously mocked an elderly Catholic woman as she threw the book at her for praying at an abortion clinic, sided with the far-left nonprofit groups.

Judge Kollar-Kotelly partially blocked Trump’s executive order, including proof of citizenship.

The judge did not block Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots received after Election Day.

AP reported:

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form.

President Donald Trump had called for that and other sweeping changes to U.S. elections in an executive order signed in March, arguing the U.S. “fails to enforce basic and necessary election protections” that exist in other countries.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sided with voting rights groups and Democrats to grant a preliminary injunction to stop the citizenship requirement from moving forward while the lawsuit plays out.

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Disney+ / Screenshot

It doesn’t take a genius to read between the lines of Disney’s latest political stunt.

Disney’s latest Star Wars spin-off series Andor has made an less-than-subtle jab at the conservative right by featuring a scene of “Imperial Officer” trying to rape “undocumented migrant.”

While the incident obviously takes place within the Star Wars universe, it is clearly intended to mirror President Trump’s policy of ending the flow of illegal immigration.

The Hollywood Reporter details:

Yet even by Andor standards, a scene from the second season is leaving fans shocked: An Imperial officer tries to violently rape a Rebel fugitive, Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona), who is hiding out in a farming settlement while Imperial troops are rounding up “undocumented” citizens (read some sample reactions below).

The sequence plays out over the course of the show’s third episode (the first three episodes were released all at once on Tuesday) with the officer’s flirtation with Bix turning growing increasingly persistent and eventually cumulating with a brutal life-and-death struggle.

Bix eventually gets the upper hand and the officer is killed. But Andorboldly leaves zero ambiguity as to what viewers just witnessed as Bix screams, “He tried to rape me!”

Star Wars is a franchise that has never — in film form — shown even consensual sex. During its first season, Andor pushed the envelope with scenes that suggested sex was about to take place, or just had (much like old Hollywood films during the Hays Code censorship era).

Sadly, many illegal immigrants are indeed sexually assaulted as they attempt to cross the southern border, although this is nearly always at the hands of criminal traffickers and those in a position to exploit them.

The political nature of the scene was picked up by those on the left, who described it as the “real world seeping into Star Wars storytelling.”

#Andor dared to go to the darkest places Star Wars could offer. An Imperial Officer abusing his untouchable status to rape an undocumented migrant, while his troops are rounding up other undocumented citizens. This is the real world seeping into Star Wars storytelling; this is… pic.twitter.com/mZGs4HJYwI

— The Sietch of Sci-Fi | ANDOR SPOILERS (@TSoS_) April 23, 2025

Asked about his decision to include the scene in the series, director Tony Gilroy framed it as a reflection of modern warfare rather than anything specific to America.

“I get one shot to tell everything I know — or can discover, or that I’ve learned — about revolution, about battles, with as many incidents and as many colors as I can get in there, without having [the story] tip over,” he explained.

“I mean, let’s be honest, man: The history of civilization, there’s a huge arterial component of it that’s rape. All of us who are here — we are all the product of rape. I mean armies and power throughout history [have committed rape].

“So to not touch on it, in some way … It just was organic and it felt right, coming about as a power trip for this guy. I was really trying to make a path for Bix that would ultimately lead to clarity — but a difficult path to get back to clarity.”



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Political Prisoners at the DC Gulag in Washington DC.

The Fourth Circuit’s recent ruling in Longworth v. Mansukhani shines a damning light on the systemic failures of America’s federal prison system, where vulnerable inmates face horrific abuse with no recourse. The Longworth case exposes sexual abuse and retaliation within federal facilities. It also highlights how prisoners cannot count on the government or the court’s to hold their captors accountable. The broken prison system and the broken judicial system represent a crisis that should be bipartisan and demands urgent attention.

A Vulnerable Inmate’s Nightmare

Justin Longworth, a former inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina (FCI Butner), alleged he was subjected to repeated sexual abuse by a female prison guard, Sherry M. Beck, from 2017 to 2018. According to his complaint, Beck, the Secretary of Facilities, used her authority to coerce Longworth into non-consensual sexual acts, including forced oral sex, groping, kissing, and biting. Longworth, who had a documented history of childhood sexual abuse and mental health issues, including bipolar disorder and PTSD, was particularly vulnerable. Beck’s abuse didn’t stop at physical acts—she allegedly manipulated him through coercion and bribery, even demanding he tattoo her initials on his body.

When Longworth finally reported the abuse, the prison retaliated against him. Prison officials, including wardens Andrew Mansukhani and Anthony T. Scarantino, allegedly punished him by firing him from his work assignment and placing him in solitary confinement. Meanwhile, Beck faced no immediate consequences until an investigation led to her termination—but no further legal or criminal action was taken. Even after her termination, Beck continued to harass Longworth with sexually explicit and threatening letters at his new facility in Petersburg, Virginia.

This case is a stark reminder of the crisis in our federal prisons, where inmates are at the mercy of those in power. Yet, Democrat politicians like Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen seem more preoccupied with preventing the deportation of non-citizen criminal aliens to El Salvador than addressing the plight of American inmates suffering under their watch.

Senator Chris Van Hollen during his meeting with Salvadoran national Kilmar Ábrego. / Sourced from Nayib Bukele’s X account

No Accountability from the DOJ

The Longworth case is not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern of unaddressed abuse in federal facilities. In October of 2021, when Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene exposed the horrifying conditions at the D.C. Jail (a.k.a the “D.C. Gulag”) where J6ers and hundreds of others were being held, she forced the U.S. Marshals to conduct an inspection. The inspection revealed shocking human rights violations reminiscent of a third-world country. The November 1, 2021, report documented standing human sewage in cells, water and food withheld for punitive reasons, pervasive drug use, and staff antagonizing detainees. Detainees had observable injuries with no medical records, and the Marshals caught prison staff threatening inmates who wished to cooperate with the Marshals inspections and telling the inmates to “stop snitching.” The irony is that many of the J6ers who were told not to “snitch” to the Marshals were being held pretrial and facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly violating 18 U.S.C. 1512, a witness tampering statute. The Supreme Court found that the DOJ illegally charged the J6ers with that crime, yet their captors at the D.C. Gulag were caught red-handed in clear violation of the very same crime, and yet charges were never brought against them.

Because Rep. Greene forced the issue, D.C. Judge Royce C. Lamberth, no friend of the J6ers, had no choice but to hold the D.C. Jail Warden Wanda Patten and D.C. Department of Corrections Director Quincy Booth in civil contempt. In the same order, Lamberth ordered the DOJ to investigate, but years later, there’s no evidence the DOJ has taken action. There were no consequences for Quincy Booth, Wanda Patten, and the staff that obstructed official proceedings by tampering with witnesses during the Marshals’ inspection. This inaction mirrors the lack of accountability in Longworth’s case, where serious allegations of sexual abuse and retaliation have gone uninvestigated.

A Legal System That Protects the Government

Perhaps the most infuriating aspect of Longworth’s case is how the legal system prevented his claims from ever reaching a jury. Longworth pursued two legal avenues to seek justice: a Bivens action and a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claim. A Bivens claim allows individuals to sue federal employees directly for constitutional violations, like the Fourth and Eighth Amendment violations Longworth alleged against Beck and other officials. An FTCA claim, on the other hand, allows suits against the United States for torts (wrongful acts) committed by federal employees.

Longworth, cautiously, filed both claims to cover his bases. His Bivens suit targeted Beck for sexual assault and the other defendants for deliberate indifference, while his FTCA suit accused the U.S. government of negligence in supervising Beck. Both claims rested on the same facts: Beck’s sexual abuse and the prison’s failure to intervene. But this prudent approach backfired due to a legal trap known as the FTCA’s “judgment bar.”

The district court dismissed Longworth’s Bivens claims, finding they didn’t fit within the narrow scope of Bivens precedent, and later dismissed his FTCA claim for lack of jurisdiction, ruling that the prison official who sexual abused him wasn’t acting within the scope of her employment during the abuse. Longworth appealed the Bivens dismissal, but the Fourth Circuit dismissed the appeal entirely, citing the FTCA judgment bar (28 U.S.C. § 2676). This provision states that a judgment in an FTCA case bars any subsequent action against the employee for the same conduct. Since the FTCA claim was dismissed on the merits, Longworth’s Bivens appeal was barred—despite being filed first.

In plain English, Longworth’s claims of sexual abuse were thrown out because his lawyer made a procedural error when navigating the complicated system. The judge, fully aware of the serious allegations of sexual abuse, cover-up, and retaliation, used a technicality to prevent any accountability through the legal system. It’s as if the court said, “Sorry you were subjected to rape and torture by prison staff, and they may still be abusing others, but you filed the wrong paperwork, so we can’t help you.” This gatekeeping by judges ensures that government institutions like the Bureau of Prisons face no scrutiny, and victims like Longworth, J6ers, and thousands of other abused prisoners, are denied their day in court.

A Bipartisan Crisis Demanding Action

The Longworth case exposes three interconnected crises: a broken prison system, a DOJ that refuses to investigate, and a judicial system shields abusive government officials from recourse or accountability. These issues transcend party lines. No one—left, right, or center—should tolerate a system where inmates are sexually abused, silenced, and denied justice due to legal technicalities. The Trump administration has an opportunity to win bipartisan support by directing the DOJ to investigate federal prison abuses, starting with the D.C. Gulag. The D.C. Gulag’s human rights violations and violations of 18 U.S.C. 1512 were already well documented by the U.S. Marshals. The DOJ should be directed by President Trump to work with the J6ers, who can serve as key witnesses, to bring the perpetrators to justice and stop the abuse that occurred – and may still be occurring – within walking distance of the White House, the Capitol, and the Department of Justice Headquarters.

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Judge Eboni Johnson Rose (Credit: 19th Judicial District Court)

The Louisiana State Supreme Court has officially suspended Democrat District Judge Eboni Johnson Rose for judicial misconduct, handing down a two-month active suspension and two years of probation.

Eboni Johnson Rose is a Democrat judge in Louisiana’s 19th Judicial District Court, elected in December 2020.

Her time on the bench has been marred by a string of egregious blunders that cast serious doubt on both her competence and impartiality—ultimately leading to her temporary suspension by the Louisiana Supreme Court in August 2024.

Among her most notorious errors, Johnson Rose convicted a woman of a lesser charge after a jury had already delivered a not guilty verdict in a case involving a firearm during a flood-related dispute.

She improperly met privately with the jury, coaxing them to change their decision, a move Justice Scott Crichton called a “blatant violation” of judicial protocol.

In another case, she convicted a former Baton Rouge police officer, Donald Steele Jr., of “misdemeanor malfeasance,” a charge that doesn’t even exist in Louisiana law, only to later acquit him after her mistake was exposed.

These rulings, overturned by higher courts, reveal a pattern of legal incompetence that undermines public trust in the judiciary.

Worse still, Johnson Rose has been accused of injecting racial bias into her courtroom. In April 2024, she berated prosecutors, alleging they wanted to “stick every n***** in jail” while handling a case involving a Black defendant.

This inflammatory language, coupled with her claim that the District Attorney’s office was “systematically targeting Black men,” suggests a dangerous politicization of her role.

Her decisions to release violent offenders, like Billy Pettice, who attacked another woman after she removed his ankle monitor, and Luke Simmons, later implicated in a drive-by shooting, further fuel conservative criticisms that she prioritizes ideology over public safety.

On Wednesday, the Louisiana Supreme Court officially suspended Judge Eboni Johnson Rose of the 19th Judicial District Court for misconduct involving egregious legal missteps, courtroom bias, and the use of profane and racially charged language.

The suspension follows a joint petition for consent discipline between Judge Rose and the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana, which confirmed that Rose admitted to violating the state’s Code of Judicial Conduct and the Louisiana Constitution.

The court ordered a six-month suspension, with all but two months deferred, and placed the Democrat judge on two years of probation effective immediately.

The Supreme Court also imposed a financial penalty, ordering Judge Rose to pay $11,196.11 to cover investigative costs and to partially reimburse taxpayers for the cost of bringing in substitute judges during her disqualification. Payments are to be made over an 18-month period.

While the ruling is serious, several members of the state’s highest court dissented, arguing that the discipline didn’t go far enough.

Chief Justice John L. Weimer and Justices Crain and McCallum all issued dissents, signaling their belief that a harsher punishment would have been more appropriate given the severity of Judge Rose’s conduct.

“Since her suspension was imposed over eight months ago, Judge Rose has been paid her usual judicial salary while another judge has been paid to perform her job. This is the equivalent of a paid vacation. Judge Rose’s disciplinary violations warrant that she be suspended without pay,” wrote Crain.

“This case makes it manifestly apparent why the Louisiana constitution should be amended to address the suspension of judges with and without pay to fix this inequitable burden on the taxpayers.”

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