‘Squad’ members descend on Columbia encampment, offer 'support' for anti-Israel agitators

Columbia encampment visits by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., come one day after Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. dropped in

 By Kyle Morris Fox News

Published April 26, 2024 3:07pm EDT

New York Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman, both members of "The Squad," were seen Friday mingling with anti-Israel agitators at Columbia University, where "support" was offered to those in the encampment established to protest the Israeli military's actions in Gaza.

In one video shared on social media, a smiling Ocasio-Cortez is shown speaking with those inside the encampment and offering her "support" for those who have become engaged in the protest.

Photographs of Bowman also circulated on social media, showing the cheerful New York Democrat listening to those who were taking part in the encampment protest. His appearance at the school came after he reportedly attended a Thursday evening Biden campaign fundraiser in Westchester County, where he was recognized for his attendance by the president.

The visits by Ocasio-Cortez and Bowman to Columbia's campus in New York City came one day after Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar – another prominent member of the "The Squad" – traveled to the school to show her support for the students who are taking part in a group of encampments on the main lawn in protest of Israel's war against Hamas.

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The attack occurred before U.S. personnel began constructing the floating pier, the official said, noting that “there will be no U.S. forces on the ground in Gaza.”

So will they be walking and working on the water?

RFK Jr. says Biden refuses to offer protection despite death threats and break-ins

RFK Jr. says Biden refuses to offer protection despite death threats and break-ins
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Luke Gentile
April 26, 2024 1:03 pm
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he is afraid innocent lives will be harmed if President Joe Biden’s administration continues to refuse him Secret Service protection despite a myriad of death threats and multiple break-ins to his home.

“I provided them 68 pages of material death threats of, you know, actual incidents where people coming with guns to my events and trying to get into my green room with hidden weapons,” Kennedy told author and journalist Raymond Arroyo.

Several of these potential assassins carried fake identification and fake federal identification, he said.

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https://twitter.com/RaymondArroyo/status/1783836127826477504

Justice Samuel Alito Questions if Criminal Prosecution of Former President ‘Destabilizes the Functioning of Our Country’

Hannah Knudsen 26 Apr 2024

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday questioned if the criminal prosecution of an incumbent — who narrowly lost an election — could lead to the destabilization of the country as a whole as opposed to the incumbent knowing he could leave office peacefully.

Alito made the remark on Thursday, as the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Trump is immune from prosecution on charges of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It appears, during the arguments, that a majority of Supreme Court justices agreed with former President Donald Trump’s attorneys’ arguments.

“If a president has the authority to pardon himself before leaving office and the D.C. Circuit is right that there is no immunity from prosecution, won’t the predictable result be that presidents on the last couple of days of office are going to pardon themselves from anything that they might have been conceivably charged with committing?” Alito asked the government’s Michael Dreeben.

Dreeben said he doubted that, asserting that it “presupposes a regime that we have never had except for President Nixon and as alleged in the indictment here.”

“Presidents who are conscious of having engaged in wrongdoing and seeking to shield themselves, I think the political consequences of a president who asserted a right of self-pardon that has never been recognized, that seems to contradict a bedrock principle of our law that no person shall be the judge in their own case. Those are adequate deterrents, I think, so that this kind of dystopian regime is not going to evolve,” he continued, prompting Alito to pose the following question regarding the consequences of not allowing the departing president to exit office peacefully.

“Let me end — end with just a question about what is required for the functioning of a stable democratic society, which is something that we all want,” Alito said.

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As an aside...this was my retirement song.