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ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg issued a call to action against President Trump during Tuesday’s episode of The View. She called on Americans to “do something about” Trump before he got the chance to “steal the election” in November. Instead of pushing back, Goldberg received aid in the form of co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin pushing their own claims that the midterm election results couldn’t be trusted if Democrats came up short.

Goldberg’s call to action came in response to Hostin repeating an unsupported accusation she made on Friday, when she asserted that Trump was trying to get ahold of voters’ Social Security Numbers as part of a plot to steal the 2026 midterms:

You might not want to rely on investment advice from the weekly financial and investment magazine Barron’s, judging by its bad market call regarding the expected opening week take of the Melania Trump documentary, which opened on Friday: “The Melania Movie Looks Like a Box-Office Flop. What It Means for Amazon.”

Reporter George Glover tried to project what Melania's expected box office failure might mean for Amazon.com, which paid to distribute and market the doc from director Brett Ratner. But the purported failure chain fell apart when Melania’s opening week busted box-office expectations (which ranged from $3-$5 million) by raking in an estimated $8.1 million, a huge opening for a non-concert documentary, attracting older conservative women despite wicked reviews.

One of the ongoing problems in San Francisco is that even when the police do their job and even when they have a prosecutor who does her job, cases still wind up before judges who often seem more interested in the rights of the accused than the rights of victims.

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Anthony Tartaglio, 39, a workers rights attorney who spent five years as a deputy attorney general, filed paperwork Tuesday morning to challenge Judge Michelle Tong, a frequent target of complaints from the San Francisco district attorney’s office and advocates for tough-on-crime judicial rulings.

“I’m running for Superior Court judge because justice and the rule of law are essential to keeping San Francisco safe and vibrant,” Tartaglio said in a statement.

Tartaglio was inspired to run against Judge Tong by a story he read last year about her handling of a case involving a child abduction. It started with a marriage that had by all accounts turned abusive and violent. Guillaume Garreau and Sana Onayeva married in 2020 and had a son. But by early 2023 Garreau filed for a separation and requested a restraining order against Onayeva. She in turn filed a similar restraining order against him.
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In short, the judge sided with the husband and awarded him custody of their son. The wife was given visitation. Later that year, the wife went back to court to ask for permission to travel to her home country with her son. Enter Judge Michelle Tong who took over the case after the previous judge was transferred to other duties.

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Tong had no experience in family law, having spent most of her brief judicial career in small-claims court. She’d been assigned to the family court just four months prior, most likely because she lacked seniority. It happens all the time.

...In one controversial decision in 2023, Tong denied a restraining order for a teenager who was being harassed by notorious serial stalker Bill Gene Hobbs. Hobbs was later sentenced to prison for a series of sexual assaults and battery on San Francisco women.

Garreau and Onayeva appeared before Tong for the first time in late November 2023. Before the hearing, Tong tentatively granted Onayeva’s request to take Maximilien out of the country.
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“I have full faith and confidence that [Onayeva] will not only go and return; but, secondly, does not want to permanently reside there,” Tong said. “I could be wrong; maybe at some point in the future, but I don’t think it’s now.”

On March 16, 2024, Onayeva left for Kazakhstan with Maximilien. He was 2 years old. They never came back.

California's ban on "materially deceptive" political content didn't last even a month after it was challenged during the 2024 election season, with one federal judge blocking the law as likely unconstitutional and Attorney General Rob Bonta promising another not to enforce it.

Its distant Pacific neighbor Hawaii's similar ban, also challenged by Christian satirists, lasted for seven months of litigation but went down even more spectacularly, with a federal judge this month striking down Hawaii's Act 191 as facially unconstitutional without a trial.

U.S. District Judge Shanlyn Park, nominated by President Joe Biden and reportedly the first Native Hawaiian woman confirmed to the role, issued summary judgment Friday to The Babylon Bee and Dawn O'Brien, a Honolulan who uses memes to mock Democratic Gov. Josh Green.

The ruling spells the end of the law signed by Green in summer 2024, which Park permanently enjoined before it could be enforced against anyone.