The Daily Populous

Monday December 5th, 2022 night edition

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Republican Ohio Rep. Dave Joyce said Sunday that he didn't want to be drawn into commenting on Donald Trump's recent call to suspend the Constitution over baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

"You just said you'd support a candidate who's come out for suspending the Constitution.".

So you got to [separate] fact from fantasy -- and fantasy is that we're going to suspend the Constitution and go backwards.

Elsewhere in the interview, he told Stephanopoulos that with a newly-won Republican majority in the House, the group that he leads will focus on kitchen-table issues.

He said the spending bills in a Republican House will be "lower than what's happened in the last four years.".

Echoing Jeffries, he played down the possibility that some Democrats would join Republicans in backing an alternative to McCarthy.

"And I think, at the end of the day, Kevin will be the next speaker of the House. »

Huge bear caught sleeping on front porch of Florida home

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What would you do if you opened your front door and saw a bear sleeping on your front porch?

Hours later, his neighbor sent him a text letting him know that there was a "big bear" in his front yard.

When asked what he thought when he first saw the bear, he jokingly said he hoped the bear was comfortable. »

'Holi-Drag Storytime' for children canceled because of right-wing protesters

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Members of Ohio's Proud Boys organization and other right-wing groups made good on promises to make waves outside the venue Saturday.

More than 50 demonstrators, including members of the Proud Boys, gathered near the church Saturday morning and shouted, chanted and held up signs.

The Proud Boys has been described by the FBI as an "extremist group with ties to white nationalism.". »

Donald Trump's Call to 'Terminate' Constitution Sparks Fury

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Donald Trump has sparked a furious backlash after he called for the "termination" of parts of the Constitution to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Rep. Ritchie Torres tweeted: "Donald Trump wants to suspend the Constitution in the name of protecting the Constitution, just like he perpetrated election fraud in the name of preventing election fraud.".

Donald Trump wants to suspend the Constitution in the name of protecting the Constitution, just like he perpetrated election fraud in the name of preventing election fraud. »

Supreme Court weighs ‘most important case’ on democracy

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FILE - Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 16, 2022.

“This is the single most important case on American democracy — and for American democracy — in the nation’s history,” said former federal judge Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative who has joined the legal team defending the North Carolina court decision.

But the Supreme Court has never invoked what is known as the independent state legislature theory. »