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“There is no hunger strike at Delaney Hall. There are no subprime conditions or abuse at the facility,” Lauren Bis, acting assistant DHS secretary said as the Department of Homeland Security pushed back against New Jersey Democrats accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement of mistreating detainees at a Newark detention center.

Bis accused Democrats of spreading “falsehoods” and “smears” about the Delaney Hall ICE facility during Memorial Day weekend demonstrations outside the center.

“These sanctuary politicians should be thanking ICE law enforcement for removing murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers from their communities,” Bis said.

When the accusation is sexual assault or rape, the rights of the accused go out the window.

President Trump knows that firsthand — and he’s asking the US Supreme Court to remedy it.

Prosecutors and plaintiffs’ lawyers can drag in character assassins who know nothing about the alleged assault, but instead make their own claims — without proof — that they too were victims of the accused, often years or even decades earlier.

That’s what happened to Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case, and why he’s appealing the jury’s decision.
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A New York jury awarded Carroll $5 million in 2023 after finding Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman lingerie dressing room years earlier.
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Men accused of sexual assault have essentially lost their right to a fair trial due to misguided changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence that Congress made in 1995 — solely for such cases.
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Federal Rules 413, 414 and 415 allow prosecutors in criminal cases, or the plaintiff’s lawyer in a civil case, to drag in past accusers voicing their own grievances against the accused, no matter how unsubstantiated.

Their testimony is meant to convince a jury that the defendant has a “propensity” to sexually assault women.

And when real evidence is lacking, it makes swaying the jury much easier.

Carroll couldn’t remember what year Trump supposedly assaulted her, never reported the incident to police, and couldn’t produce store camera footage or witnesses who saw it happen.   

Though she boasted that she had Trump’s DNA on her dress, she declined in court to permit a DNA test and moved to exclude DNA evidence from the trial.

What’s her lawyer to do when there’s no evidence to prove her implausible claim?

Drag in “propensity” witnesses — in Trump’s case, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff.

Leeds accused Trump of groping her on an airplane 37 years earlier, though she couldn’t remember the precise date, where she was flying or on what airline.
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Stoynoff claimed that in 2005, Trump suddenly grabbed her and kissed her without her consent at Mar-a-Lago.

She, too, offered no corroborating contemporary evidence of the alleged behavior.

WASHINGTON — A sex therapist who vowed to force “American Zionists” into federal immigration detention centers — where many, who she claimed are also “pedophiles,” would be castrated — was soundly defeated in a Texas Democratic primary on Tuesday.

Maureen Galindo, whose “insane, antisemitic views” were denounced by members of her own party, lost to opponent Johnny Garcia in the Lone Star State’s 35th Congressional District runoff, 59.5% to 40.5% when the Associated Press called the race at about 10:40 p.m. EST.

I have probably written too much about Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara over the past few years. I thought he willfully sold out his department in the various pattern-and-practice civil rights cases brought against it by the state and federal government. He agreed to absurd consent decrees that followed on those cases, although the Trump administration nixed the federal consent decree. To top it off, he supported Deputy Chief Katie Blackwell in her self-immolating defamation lawsuit against Alpha News while trashing Alpha News in the process.

Yesterday O’Hara resigned as chief ahead of his firing by the mayor who has stood by him through all of the above. O’Hara was found to have interfered in an investigation of his alleged sexual misconduct. The details of the sexual misconduct are vague. A friendly source has kindly forwarded a copy of the investigative report as redacted.

I thought that O’Hara was a spineless weasel. The department remains far short of the legally required number of officers. Who in his right mind would go to work for the department?