Federal Court Orders Are Why Biden Didn’t Release Epstein Files

The reason that Joe Biden did not make the Epstein files public while he was president is straightforward; Federal judges sealed them to protect victims and because the law requires it. Until those judges lift the seals, no president can release those documents no matter who is named in them.

While a President can certainly request the unsealing of federal court records, they cannot unilaterally order it. 

Despite the conspiracy theories spreading online, there is no evidence that Biden intentionally kept Epstein’s documents hidden, therefore it’s not a “Democratic hoax” as Trump claims.

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82 Year Old Legal Permanent U.S. Resident Taken By ICE At Green Card Appointment - Matt Mikalatos Substack

When Luis Leon arrived at his green card appointment, he was handcuffed by ICE and taken away.  His family couldn't find him for a full month.  The family called local prisons, hospitals, and even morgues but couldn’t find anyone who knew where Luis was.

Luis Leon came to the US 38 years ago. He had been tortured in his native Chile by the administration of the dictator Augusto Pinochet. The US gave him political asylum and he came legally to the United States in 1987.

In June he lost his wallet, which had his green card in it. Luis and his wife made an appointment to get it replaced, but when they arrived for the appointment, Luis was handcuffed by ICE and taken away.

His family couldn’t find him for a full month.  The family called local prisons, hospitals, and even morgues but couldn’t find anyone who knew where Luis was.

A relative in Chile called the family recently to let them know that 82-year-old Luis was now in a hospital in Guatemala; apparently deported to that country by the US government, though ICE still won’t even confirm that Luis showed up for his green card replacement appointment, let alone that they had him in custody and deported him.

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MAGA’s Plan To Ban 69 Million Women From Voting - The New Republic

The Republican SAVE Act would require documentation - such as a passport or birth certificate - which matches a person’s current legal name to allow a person to register to vote.

Since 8 in 10 married women in U.S. opposite-sex marriages took their spouse’s last name, the bill would disenfranchise over 69 million married U.S. women voters whose names do not match their birth certificate.

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Transphobia Is A White Supremacist Legacy of Colonialism - Michael Paramo

Even though Transgender and non-binary people have existed for centuries among cultures across the globe, White Colonial Supremacism placed Indigenous people in fixed and transhistorical categories. 

This willfully obscuried a reality of cultural dynamism and physical movement in a bid to contain, control, and - if necessary - destroy Native people. 

White Colonizers marked Indigenous gender and sexual variance as inferior for the purposes of asserting their white cisgender heterosexual manhood as the pinnacle of human existence.

Read more here:

https://lithub.com/how-indigenous-societies-fought-to-preserve-their-blended-gender-identities-in-the-face-of-colonialism/

https://tinangata.com/2023/03/25/transphobia-is-settler-colonialism/amp/

Historical Pattern That Trump's Criticism Of Rev Mariann Budde Falls Into - Jeff Wiersma

On June 28, 1933, with Hitler’s authorization, Ludwig Müller, a fervent Nazi, took over chairmanship of the council of the Federation of the 27 regional Protestant churches. A new constitution established a single “Protestant Reich Church.”

Restrictions were immediately placed on the clergy. They had to be “politically reliable.” and were pressured to expel Jewish Christians from ministry. The Nazi “Führer Principle” was to be adopted by the churches, which was a claim that Hitler was “lord” over the German church.

Some German Protestant pastors, led by Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), stood in opposition. Their Barmen Declaration was written in direct opposition to the national church government — the “Faith Movement of the German Christians” — rather than against the Nazi regime itself. It challenged Christians who were attempting to bring the Protestant church into line with the nationalistic ideals and aspirations of Nazi rule.

However, since the “German Christians” were a proxy for the Nazi state, the Declaration became also a condemnation of Hitler’s totalitarian rule.

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