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It is President Trump who is defending democracy by ending these government attacks on freedom of speech. It is the Democrats who are the threat to democracy due to their attacks on free speech, both in America and overseas.

Commented: Sunday, March 16th, 2025 @ 9:54 am By: Steven P. Rader

Something needs to be done about these highly politicized Obama and Biden judges who abuse their positions for partisan political reasons. Those who want to see them jailed or even swinging from a lamppost are certainly not going to see that happen. Even those in Congress preparing impeachment proceedings against several of the more blatant partisan hacks are not going to get a 2/3rds vote in the Senate, even if richly deserved, again for partisan political reasons.

What can be done? One big reform would be to not allow one district court judge to issue a nationwide injunction or restriaining order. The Supreme Court, or Congress could shut that down, but again getting that past a senate fillbuster would be problemaic due to partisan politics. A rational restraint on district court judges would be to require Supreme Court approval for one district court judge to issue such an order that had effect beyond their own district.

Another is to change ethics standards to require recusal of a judge in a politically colored case if the judge has a history as a political party contributor or official. An ethics challenge to a judge on political bias should not be heard by the challenged judge but by a panel of judges such as two registered Republican and two registered Democrat.

We badly need to get the politics out of our courts, and sadly, we have too many judges who seem to lack the personal intergrity to do that. The politization of our courts seen in the recent Democrat lawfare against Trump and others has seen public trust in courts as shown in the polls decline dramatically.

Commented: Saturday, March 15th, 2025 @ 7:02 pm By: Rino Hunter

Freedom of speech is a fundamental Constitutional right under the First Amendment, also known as a civil right. There is a federal felony statute for conspiring against someone's civil rights. It would seem to me that everyone, in and out of government who is involved in this network conspiring against people's freedom of speech ought to be indicted under that statute and arrested. Someone should suggest that to Pam Bondi.

Commented: Saturday, March 15th, 2025 @ 11:19 am By: Conservative Voter

Cox is not the most qualified candidate for Sheriff. In addition to his questionable ethics concerning party disloyalty, he abused his authority while serving as a member of the Beaufort County Sheriff Department when he was employed there. It is easy to see that he is only seeking office for personal gain or other personal reasons. He is not a person of the high moral fiber or character that we expect, not only of our elected officials, but also of the law enforcement officers we count on to keep us safe. That is NOT the type of leadership we need in law enforcement in our county! I would not recommend or endorse him for Sheriff.

Commented: Friday, March 14th, 2025 @ 3:41 pm By: John Heermann