Filing Alleges 'Improper' Relationship Between Georgia DA, Top Trump Prosecutor

• Motion filed by defendant Michael Roman in the RICO prosecution in Georgia raises serious concerns about the ethics of the Fulton County prosecutor, Fani Willis, and whether she may have violated state and federal law.
• The motion alleges a romantic relationship between Willis and the private attorney she hired to act as a special prosecutor in her case against Donald Trump and other defendants, including Roman.
• Willis has approved payments of over half a million dollars to that attorney.
• The alleged payment by the special prosecutor for vacation trips for himself and Willis raises questions not only about Willis’s ethics and professional judgement, but whether she engaged in honest services fraud, which makes it a federal crime for a vendor to give kickbacks to an employer.
• The motion also alleges that Willis misled county officials in seeking extra funds to pay the private attorney and never sought the county’s approval to hire him as a special prosecutor, as required by Georgia law.
• Willis was previously cited by a local court for her unethical conduct in publicly disclosing her targeting of a former state senator in this prosecution at a fundraiser for the senator’s opponent in a race for lieutenant governor of Georgia.
• This motion should be heard by the trial judge, possibly investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta for honest services fraud, and/or sent to the State Bar of Georgia’s Office of the General Counsel for possible violation of state ethics rules.

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Powering Human Advancement: Why the World Needs Affordable and Reliable Energy 

• President Biden’s green energy mandates are reducing consumer choice and will have no meaningful impact in reducing carbon emissions.
• First it was your car, then your hot water heater and air conditioner, then your gas stove and dishwasher. Now, President Biden is targeting your refrigerator and freezer with his anti-consumer green energy mandates.
• By restricting consumer choice in quality and affordable electricity and appliances, President Biden is again raising costs on Americans and lowering their quality of living.
• If the U.S. eliminated fossil fuels, it would only reduce global temperatures by 0.2 degrees centigrade by the end of the century.
• The world’s major polluters, China and India, continue to ramp up energy production with dirtier forms of fuel, and without action by them, any efforts to reduce emissions are pointless. 

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Moral Corruption at Community Colleges

• In North Carolina and elsewhere, DEI orthodoxies have reached junior-college campuses.
• At Wake Tech in Raleigh, N.C., the school’s “DEI Council” is creating a course entitled “DEI 100: Introduction Course.”
• The council is working with all of the school’s departments to create DEI goals. They are recruiting DEI speakers to come to campus. The council is revising DEI training for college staff. The office has awarded grants to college faculty, including $5,000 to a professor for a project entitled “Creating an Engaging, Equity-Minded, Fluid and Inclusive Syllabus.” Another $5,000 was awarded to grantees who will host a “Diversity Matters: Informational Interviewing Night.”
• None of these activities will help a student be prepared to tackle chemistry or learn the skills necessary to become an electrician. Indeed, DEI programs, such as diversity training initiatives, interfere with attempts to guide students to pursue truth.
• There is no evidence that DEI programs improve student learning or help community-college students to earn a degree.
• State legislators should defund DEI offices and call on school leaders to report any racist incidents on campus, investigating the events and referring them to the appropriate authorities as necessary.
• Community-college students represent a nontrivial segment of current and future generations of co-workers, neighbors, and public officials. They should learn to succeed, not be fed radical and divisive ideas about racial power struggles that only serve to breed resentment and despair among the country’s students.

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