Trump Blasts FBI Bias, Felon Voting Prevention in Florida Unconstitutional, French Quarter Strip Club Closures Spark Protests: AM Links
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Jonathan Alpeyrie/Polaris/Newscom President Trump is tweeting angrily about the FBI and Justice Department again this morning, accusing their leadership of having "politicized the sacred investigative process." Yesterday the White House said it would likely release a House intelligence memo Friday that showed the FBI's bias in investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
- A federal judge has ruled that Florida's system for deciding whether people with felony records can vote is unconstitutional. "In Florida, elected, partisan officials have extraordinary authority to grant or withhold the right to vote from hundreds of thousands of people without any constraints, guidelines, or standards," wrote the judge.
- Hundreds of people marched in New Orleans yesterday to protest the recent raids on and closure of French Quarter strip clubs, the second such demonstration this week.
- The plot of this week's Law & Order: SVU, in which a fictional Ann Coulter–like pundit is raped at a rally by either an Antifa protester or a spurned white supremacist, is causing conservative outrage.
- Canada is changing lyrics in its national anthem from "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command."
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