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https://nypost.com/2025/11/07/us-news/fbi-informant-jailed-for-biden-bribe-claim-released-on-medical-furlough-lawyer/

The FBI informant who set off a firestorm by alleging that Joe and Hunter Biden took $10 million in bribes has been released from prison on medical furlough, his attorney tells The Post.

Alexander Smirnov pleaded guilty in December and received a six-year prison sentence for fabricating the story about the then-US president as well as a separate charge of tax evasion.

“Since Mr. Smirnov’s arrest, he has required crucial eye surgery which was denied to him for an extended period of time, which only exacerbated an already serious condition,” his lawyer David Chesnoff said.

Smirnov’s tip about the Bidens involved the Ukraine-based energy company Burisma, which paid Hunter Biden a salary of up to $1 million to serve on its board as his then-VP dad led the Obama administration’s policy toward Kyiv.

The allegation, aired by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ultimately undermined the House Republican case to impeach then-President Biden for his many documented interactions with his son Hunter and brother James Biden’s foreign patrons in countries such as China, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

“The interesting thing to me about that election too is that, if you believe the exit polls, the majority of the people who actually voted for Mamdani in the New York mayoral race were young women… now ladies, we have work to do because unfortunately, the democrats think that we are susceptible to all of their crazy ideology and we gotta turn that around. We gotta bring the ladies over to the conservative side of the aisle and show them that God is where it’s at, family is where it’s at, having kids is where it’s at, and as my husband pointed out earlier, you can have that all and a career. We have to start doing better with speaking to everyone out there including young women around this country but the thing with that race that scares me is that that is the beginning and that is the new face of the Democrat party if you think they’re going to stop at New York you are kidding yourself. It will be all over the United States of America which is why we are going to have to fight even harder going forward from here on out because we we cannot let this happen ever again in the United States.” - Lara Trump

Do you think they can succeed in converting young women to conservatism?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y08.Dy9M.ZdMazry8agHP&smid=nytcore-android-share

The key question for the justices on Wednesday was whether the president exceeded his authority when he used the 1977 emergency statute. Past presidents have relied on the law to impose sanctions or embargoes on other countries, but Mr. Trump is the first to use it to impose tariffs.

The conservative majority speakers suggested the administration’s position could represent an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the executive branch that would be difficult for Congress to reclaim. Justice Gorsuch warned of “a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives” in Congress.

The justices grappled with a doctrine favored by the conservative legal movement. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority repeatedly relied on the “major questions doctrine” to invalidate many of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s key initiatives, including his student loan forgiveness program. The doctrine says presidential initiatives with “vast economic or political significance” must be clearly authorized by Congress.

The Trump administration has proposed or issued tariffs that cover roughly a third of U. S. imports under a nonemergency provision related to national security.

If the justices were to rule against Mr. Trump, the administration says it would be forced to unwind trade deals with other countries. The government might also have to pay billions in refunds to importers.The result could lead to economic ruin akin to the Great Depression. "It’s simply implausible” that Congress had “handed the president the power to overhaul the entire tariff system and the American economy in the process, allowing him to set and reset tariffs on any and every product from any and every country, at any and all times.”