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Sen. Blackburn to Newsmax: Americans See ‘Two Tiers of Justice’


By Sandy Fitzgerald    |   Thursday, 22 June 2023 11:03 AM EDT

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People want everyone to have “equal access, equal opportunity, and equal justice under the law,” but that isn’t happening with federal agencies showing one approach to “the elites” and another to conservatives, Sen. Marsha Blackburn said Thursday on Newsmax.

“Two tiers of justice, that is what Tennesseans are saying,” the Tennessee Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “I’m hearing it every single day, whether it’s the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the EPA, OSHA, or any of the other agencies, they feel as if there is one approach that is shown to the elites to the Bidens, the Clintons, and their cronies.” 

Blackburn added: “There is another that is shown to conservatives and other individuals who are not part of the privileged or the elite, and people are really frustrated with this. … They want our country to be a nation known for abiding by the rule of law.”

Blackburn said the way President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and their family are being treated is “of tremendous frustration because they see the way President [Donald] Trump is treated. They see the way people who are not part of the elite are treated, and they know it is not equal.”

Meanwhile, Biden defended his son in a recent MSNBC interview, and Blackburn said on Newsmax that “everybody knows that Hunter Biden has been treated differently,” including with his plea deal to tax charges. 

“The FBI has slow-walked this investigation,” Blackburn said. “We’re hearing that they just never even looked at the laptop. And isn’t it interesting that even with the IRS charges, the tax charges that are there, there is no question about where this money came from? How did you end up with this money that you did not pay taxes on? It’s very interesting how they have approached this.” 

Blackburn said she’s being asked how President Biden couldn’t be aware of what his son or his brother were doing, and “how they are influence-peddling or trading on his name.”

“How could he not have been aware of that?” asked Blackburn. “These individuals came to his office. He is shown in pictures with them. But yet you have a DOJ that is chosen not to investigate this.”

Blackburn also discussed special counsel John Durham’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, including his comments about the political weaponization of the FBI and the DOJ, saying she agrees that there are “good men and women” who work in the federal law enforcement community.

“They desperately want to see the political cabal inside the DOJ and the FBI dealt with,” said Blackburn. “They want to see this defunded and, hopefully, we’ll see some changes.”

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Sens. Cruz, Blackburn Press FBI Deputy on Biden Document


By Brian Freeman    |   Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:27 PM EDT

Read more at https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ted-cruz-marsha-blackburn-press-fbi/2023/06/13/id/1123446/

Republican senators had heated exchanges with FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate at a Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday over the existence of an FBI document with allegations that President Joe Biden and his family took $5 million in bribes during his time as vice president, The Columbia Bugle reported. When Texas Sen. Ted Cruz asked if it is true that the FBI has a report making those allegations, Abbate responded that “I’m not going to comment on that, Senator.”

When pressed further on the matter about why he won’t answer the question, Abbate insisted that “this is an area that I’m not going to get into with you.”

Cruz responded by stating that “I understand you don’t want to, and that’s why people are mad at the FBI. Because you are stonewalling and covering up serious allegations of evidence of corruption from the president.”

The frustrated senator said, “You’re not going to say whether you did your job” when Abbate refused to answer if the FBI investigated in any way the allegations against the Bidens.

After the FBI deputy director replied that “we do our job to the very best of our ability,” Cruz answered, “Well not here! You’re not answering a single question to the American people. And you may think this is esoteric, I promise you millions of Americans are concerned.’

“You know who isn’t concerned? Not a single Senate Democrat. We’re going to go through this whole hearing, not one Democrat will ask a question about this. You know who else isn’t concerned? The corporate media who is joining with the Democrats in covering up the evidence.”

When Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn grilled Abbate over reported recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden with a Ukrainian executive who allegedly paid $5 million in bribes, the FBI deputy director said that “we often redact documents to protect sources and methods … the document was redacted.”

Blackburn said that “there is only one conclusion that any serious person could draw: There is a two-tiered system of justice under this administration. The American people know that, if they aren’t loyal to Washington’s liberal political elite or if their last name doesn’t happen to be Biden or Clinton, they are at risk of being targeted.”

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn Introduces Bill To Harden Private Schools Like Covenant With Enhanced Security, Armed Officers


BY: JORDAN BOYD | MARCH 30, 2023

Read more at https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/30/sen-marsha-blackburn-introduces-bill-to-harden-private-schools-like-covenant-with-enhanced-security-armed-officers/

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Mere days after a shooter killed three 9-year-old students and three staff members at a private Christian school in Nashville, Republican Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee introduced a new bill that would funnel $900 million worth of taxpayer dollars to both public and private schools to hire armed security and “harden” classrooms with enhanced physical defenses.

The Securing Aid for Every (SAFE) School Act, if passed, will give states financial leverage to establish training and licensing programs for veterans and former law enforcement officers to protect private and public schoolchildren from threats like shooters. It will also offer grants to schools to install surveillance cameras, metal detectors, alarm systems, and locks in hallways and classrooms.

“Schools should be places where children are safe to learn, play, and be children. And every parent should have the confidence that when they send their children off to school, they will return home safely. We must work together to protect our children at school and that means increasing security,” Blackburn said.

Unlike government schools which already receive taxpayer dollars to harden their buildings, private schools are often left to find and fund school resource officers (SROs) on their own. Historically speaking, that means schools like Covenant, which did not have an armed security guard at the time of the tragedy, are the kinds of soft targets murderous shooters seek.

Data shows good guys with guns and strict physical security measures deter and stop bad guys. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed this not just with officers’ rapid and effective response but when it revealed that the suspect planned to hit another location but was discouraged by “too much security.”

Yet, both public and private Christian schools have difficulty affording and retaining school resource officers.

More and more states including Tennessee want to mandate that schools hire armed guards to patrol campus during educational hours but Democrats have repeatedly rejected legislation designed to sponsor and codify security overhauls that would keep American students from being sitting ducks. Their activist allies, similarly, say no one including teachers should carry in the classroom.

Proponents of hardening schools say Congress should act swiftly to pass this legislation so that lives across the nation will be saved from future tragedies.

“We can’t predict where or when the next school shooting will happen, but we know how it will be stopped: by a security officer with a gun,” Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland victim Meadow Pollack, said. “The police reacted bravely in Nashville, but in a shooting every second matters and the SAFE School Act will save lives by ensuring that more schools are guarded by armed security officers.”

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.

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