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Newsom ordered to pay $1.35M to LA church over coronavirus shutdown
California Governor Gavin Newsom is $1.35 million in the hole after a judge ordered the state pay Harvest Rock Church of Pasadena back for attorney costs and fees in a lawsuit the church brought against the state last summer.
The settlement also prevents Newsom’s administration from implementing any further restrictions against houses of worship in the state, as reported by Fox News and Pasadena Now.
Mat Staver is the founder of the group that defended the church, the Liberty Counsel, and said in terms of religious freedom, Newsom is “the worst governor in America.”
“The church stayed open [during the lockdown], and the pastor and parishioners were threatened with daily criminal charges that were up to a year in prison,” he said, as reported by Fox News.
The settlement is forcing the state to pay for the church’s fees pertaining to the lawsuit.
“After nearly a yearlong battle defending our religious freedoms, our lawsuit has reached a permanent settlement in our favor,” the founder of the church Rev. Ché Ahn said. “I am thrilled to see the complete reversal of the last discriminatory restrictions against churches in California.”
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In a clever reaction to President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, fact-checkers on Elon Musk’s X are flagging Biden’s old post stating “no one is above the law.” Biden’s old post, shared in May, was written as an attack on now-President-elect Donald Trump, but the tables have turned on Biden as he is being heavily criticized for his hypocrisy in placing his son “above the law.”
The New York Post reports:
“It now has a community warning readers: ‘President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for crimes covering nearly 11 years of ‘offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”
After that, Musk added his own proposed note calling out the president, writing: “By pardoning his son Hunter, not merely for a single crime, but for actual or potential crimes he may or may not have created over an eleven-year period, Joe Biden has made clear that some people are, in fact, above the law.”
According to the New York Post, “Hunter Biden, 54, pleaded guilty in September to nine counts tied to bilking Americans of $.1.4 million in taxes and was found guilty of three federal gun charges in June after he was charged with possession of a firearm while addicted to illegal drugs.”
Biden is not only being criticized for pardoning his Hunter, but for going back on his vow that he would not pardon his son. Biden argued in his defense that Hunter was “singled out only because he is my son,” The Post reports. Biden is hitting back saying that critics are only trying to break Hunter’s sobriety.
Musk shared a screenshot on X of his own fact-check with a statement saying “Community Notes slays.” Community Notes is a feature on X that allows users to flag false or misleading content, according to The Post, leaving the fact-checking up to its users rather than staffers.
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