BREAKING CHRISTIAN NEWS – March 04, 2024

Trump had been kicked off the ballots in Colorado, Maine, and Illinois, but all three rulings were on hold awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision.

[Newsmax.com] The US Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.

The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states…

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The University of Florida is one of the first higher education institutions to eliminate and defund all of its DEI positions in response to a state law approved last year by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

(Gainsville, Florida) – [LifeSiteNews.com] A memo released by the University of Florida on Friday announced that it has terminated all of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) employees, in accordance with state law. (Image via Unsplash)

The move comes after the Florida Board of Education announced in January that taxpayer dollars would no longer be allowed to fund DEI-related positions.

“Higher education must return to its essential foundations of academic integrity and the pursuit of knowledge instead of being corrupted by destructive ideologies,” state education commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said at the time.

The policy applies to all 28 publicly funded colleges in the Sunshine State, but the University of Florida, which will reallocate the $5 million it had been spending on DEI initiatives into a faculty retirement fund, appears to be one of the first institutions of higher education to comply with it.

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis took a victory lap by issuing a celebratory post on X. “DEI is toxic and has no place in our public universities,” he declared. “I’m glad that Florida was the first state to eliminate DEI and I hope more states follow suit.”

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“If it’s a short ceasefire in order to get hostages, that’s something that can be done. But anybody who says permanent ceasefire, it’s basically saying to Israel, ‘Israel, you should lose the war’ and we’re not going to lose the war. We’re going to win decisively against Hamas.” -Avivi, founder of the Israel Defense and Security Forum

[CBN News] Amidst heightened tensions, Israel and several nations are air-dropping aid into Gaza to directly assist Gazan citizens, who the UN reports are on the verge of starvation. The IDF asserts that Hamas is confiscating much of the land-based aid, a situation that serves Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s propaganda objectives. (Screeengrab Image)

Ceasefire talks in Cairo are stalled as Hamas withholds information on the well-being of the hostages, a key demand by Israel. Kamala Harris insists on Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire, stating, “Let’s get a ceasefire, let’s reunite the hostages with their families.”

Harris has also called for humanitarian aid convoys to be protected, “let’s provide immediate relief to the people of Gaza.”

The IDF denies targeting Gazans after it reviewed last week’s deadly incident involving an aid convoy. During delivery 100 people were reportedly killed.

“The IDF has concluded an initial review of the unfortunate incident where Gazan civilians were trampled to death and injured as they charged to the aid convoy. Our initial review has confirmed that no strike was carried out by the IDF towards the aid convoy. The majority of Palestinians were killed or injured as a result of the stampede,” said IDF spokesman, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.

Retired General Amir Avivi tells CBN News the war is at a critical moment. “Because Hamas retreated to Rafah. All the leadership is there. The hostages are there. And now this is the decisive moment when the IDF will go into Rafah, this will be the defeat of Hamas.”

Avivi, founder of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, warns against a permanent ceasefire saying, “If it’s a short ceasefire in order to get hostages, that’s something that can be done. But anybody who says permanent ceasefire, it’s basically saying to Israel, ‘Israel, you should lose the war’ and we’re not going to lose the war. We’re going to win decisively against Hamas.”

In the meantime, war cabinet member Benny Gantz traveled to Washington and is expected to meet with Kamala Harris.

Gantz’s unexpected visit to Washington is seen by some as an attempt to influence Prime Minister Netanyahu’s stance, while rallies in Jerusalem highlight the plight of the hostages, calling for global support for Israel as a fight between good and evil.

Prime Minister Netanyahu criticized Gantz, reminding him that there is only one prime minister and instructed Israeli officials in DC not to meet with Gantz. The unexpected visit is perceived by some as an effort to weaken Netanyahu and to push him towards more concessions to the US.

In hopeful news, students have begun to return to the southern community of Sderot after the Hamas massacre on October 7th. Signaling a return to normalcy after living in hotels for five months.

“Look at the joy. If we were looking for a symbol of victory, so look around, this is the symbol of victory of Sderot, this is the symbol of victory of the people of Israel.”

“Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi abused proxy voting under the pretext of COVID-19 to pass this law, then Biden signed it, knowing they violated the Constitution. This was a stunning violation of the rule of law. I am relieved the Court upheld the Constitution.” -Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

[MRCTV.org] House Democrats used an unconstitutional ploy to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill signed by Joe Biden in December of 2022, a federal court ruled on Tuesday.

Ruling on a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, federal Judge James Hendrix agreed that House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), did not have a constitutional quorum present needed to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 on Dec. 23, 2022.

In a scheme to circumvent the constitutional requirement that a majority of House members be physically present in the chamber, Democrats counted “proxies,” where representatives who were present voted multiple times – once for themselves, then again for absent members.

The “quorum clause” in Article I of the Constitution states that a majority of members must be present in order to achieve the quorum required to conduct official business in either chamber:

“Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.”

What’s more, of those House members who actually were physically present, a majority voted against the bill (113 nays to 88 yeas), The Federalist’s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland explains:

“While the votes of those physically present totaled 88 yeas and 113 nays, the House clerk recorded that the bill passed by a margin of 225 yea, 201 nay, and 1 present, relying on a rule originally adopted in May of 2020 that allowed members to ‘designate[] another Member as a proxy’ to ‘cast the vote’ of the designating Member if ‘a public health emergency due to a novel coronavirus is in effect[.]'”

Because the House proxy rule violated the quorum clause of the Constitution, the Consolidated Appropriations Act never became law, Judge Hendrix ruled. The Biden Administration is expected to appeal.

“Congress acted egregiously by passing the largest spending bill in US history with fewer than half the members of the House bothering to do their jobs, show up, and vote in person,” Attorney General Paxton said in a statement reacting to the ruling:

“Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi abused proxy voting under the pretext of COVID-19 to pass this law, then Biden signed it, knowing they violated the Constitution. This was a stunning violation of the rule of law. I am relieved the Court upheld the Constitution.”

While nothing can be done about the $1.7 trillion that has already been spent, Judge Hendrix’s ruling does negate, and prevent the Biden Administration from enforcing, a provision of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 against the State of Texas that was proved to impose unjust cost burdens on the State.

The Court’s ruling grants a permanent injunction of the Biden Administration’s enforcement of The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which is a piece of permanent legislation included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. Since the PWFA imposes new permanent burdens on Texas that are not contained in any piece of legitimately-passed state or federal law, Texas cannot be compelled to suffer them, Judge Hendrix ruled.

Despite the limited initial impact of the ruling, it does open the door for other states and employers to challenge additional permanent provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, based on the quorum deficiency, if they can prove both standing and harm.

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[DailyWire.com] A judge in California threw out charges against two far-right political agitators, saying the federal government engaged in “selective prosecution” by charging right-wing rioters but not the far-left agitators they fought against, and who did the exact same thing … “No individuals associated with the left, who engaged in anti-far-right speech and violently suppressed the protected speech of Trump supporters, were charged with a federal crime for their part in starting riots at political events. That is textbook viewpoint discrimination,” [Judge Carney] wrote. “Most telling in this case is the government’s silence as to why it never pursued a case against a single member of Antifa or related far-left groups with respect to their violent conduct at pro-Trump events”… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here. Click Here to read.

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“I was so deeply moved by it that every take, I realized, oh, there’s a new way of acting for me, which is, trusting—instead of having to rely too much on myself…” -Elizabeth Tabish

[DailySignal.com] When actress Elizabeth Tabish learned she got the role of Mary Magdalene in “The Chosen,” she says, the series “was not the show we know it is today.”

Initially, the show was going to be released on an app and was only set to release the first four episodes of Season One. “It felt more like a pilot,” Tabish says, adding that as an actress she knew many shows never went past their pilots, so she was trying to keep her “hopes in check.”

Up until receiving the role in “The Chosen,” a multiseason series that depicts the life and ministry of Jesus and the Twelve Apostles, Tabish was struggling in the industry and says she was “trying to quit acting.”

“I just was not very successful,” she explains. “So, I was like, I need to do something more practical. So, it was sort of like the last audition that I was going to do, and when I got the scripts for the audition, I think that’s when I knew … this is different. There’s something really special about this.”

Since Tabish joined the cast and was a central part of the first four episodes that were released in 2017, “The Chosen” has garnered more than 200 million viewers, is in its fourth season, and it not only streams on multiple platforms, but also released the first episodes of Seasons Three and Four in theaters.

For Tabish, the series has even changed her method of acting.

“Earlier on in the seasons,” Tabish says, she “really relied on some old habits of acting, techniques which were a little self-abusive and a little, like, you have to put yourself in a bad emotional state in order to portray … I guess that would be a sort of method acting.”

But the actress says she can remember the exact moment on the set of “The Chosen” when something clicked and changed in her.

In Season Two, Episode Six, Tabish’s character of Mary Magdalene is struggling with her past life of sin. In the show, the Apostles Matthew and Simon search for her and find her drunk in the street and filled with shame.

“I was so nervous about doing that scene,” Tabish says, but explains that as she did it, she was deeply moved by her fellow actors and felt that they were “speaking to me as Liz, as a friend.”

“I realized, oh, I don’t have to hurt myself to do this, I can just rely on the other actors and connect with them and be moved by them,” she says.

“I was so deeply moved by it that every take, I realized, oh, there’s a new way of acting for me, which is, trusting—instead of having to rely too much on myself,” she said. “It’s trusting on, one, God, and the situation that it’s going to unfold the way it’s meant to unfold.”

Tabish joins The Daily Signal’s “Problematic Women” podcast to share her journey as an actress on the set of “The Chosen.”

Also on today’s show, we discuss the effects of the transgender movement on young women with The Daily Signal’s own Mary Margaret Olohan, author of the forthcoming new book “Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult.” Plus, we discuss the true costs of illegal immigration.

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Virginia Allen is a senior news producer and podcast host for The Daily Signal and is the co-host of The Daily Signal Podcast and Problematic Women.