Government Impact Team – Update July 26th
Election Reminder
- Please remember that the primary elections are open until August 2nd. It is our Biblical duty to be informed citizens and vote in our elections. Last couple newsletters provide all the info. you need to vote. Election Day is officially this Tuesday August 2nd. Please Vote.
- If you have not registered to vote yet, you can still register for the General Election. You must register at least 29 days prior to November 8th when the General Election will be held, so I recommend you register by Oct 7th to be sure your registration is received in time.
The Arizona GOP has released terms surrounding two $50,000 rewards for information or evidence of “vote buying” in the 2022 Primary Election.
- They are offering brave citizens a large sum of money to say something if they see something!
Supreme Court sides with Texas Judge and blocks the Biden Administration
- The Supreme Court decided 5-4 to leave in place a Texas judge’s block on a Biden Administration policy restricting the deportation of some illegal immigrants. Full details are at this link.
- Of particular note to me was the argument in favor of this policy by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He claims we must focus on illegal aliens who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security because with so many millions here, we don’t have the resources to deport them all just for being here illegally.
- In short, they opened the border, and now they want to be allowed to shirk their duty to remove illegal immigrants because there are too many of them.
- Government must be the only place where you can use your own willful refusal to do your job as an excuse to keep on not doing your job. In any other field, you’d be fired immediately.
Republican AGs warn Google
- A number of Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to Google, warning the search giant to stop discriminating against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in search results. This comes about a month after Congressional Democrats pressured Google to purge pro-life groups from searches for reproductive health care by falsely branding the truth and facts that they offer as “misinformation.” See more details here.
- Republicans need to use the many areas of government that they control to make life hard on tech giants that are using the false flag of “misinformation” to censor viewpoints the left doesn’t like and facts that it finds inconvenient. They seem to forget that under that law that’s been completely ignored since the Dems took full power in 2020, they are required to act as neutral platforms, and if they act as publishers with editorial control, then people should be allowed to sue them, but they still maintain protection due to lack of action by our government to recognize this or take action.
- I think it’s time that law and our Constitutional rights started being enforced again, and even strengthened.
California Governor signs anti-gun law modeled after Texas anti-abortion law
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an anti-gun law modeled after Texas’ abortion law that allows private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, sells, transports or distributes illegal “assault weapons and ghost guns” and collect $10,000 in damages. Follow this article for more details.
- Newsom said it sends a message that criminals who spread illegal weapons have no safe harbor in California (he’s specialized in making all parts of California unsafe.) Critics called it “nothing but vindictive” and say it will result in a tsunami of lawsuits and legal gun owners being targeted and harassed. They also expect it to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
- Incidentally, to those who claim it’s constitutional because the SCOTUS didn’t overturn the Texas anti-abortion law it’s based on: The right to own guns is the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights. The right to abortion is not in the Constitution at all.