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May 20, 2025 • 14 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
🚨Biden's Disinformation Governance Board was one of the darkest inventions of the Biden censorship regime.

Today, I grilled DGB's co-chair, Jennifer Daskal, on her assault on our freedom of speech.

She lied. Under oath. Repeatedly.

We have receipts. đź§µ
She lied under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee, repeatedly.

My first question was simple: Did you co-chair the Disinformation Governance Board?

Her Answer: "No"
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas himself testified to Congress that she was the co-chair.
Not only that, but Daskal herself authored a memo creating the Disinformation Governance Board with her co-chair Robert Silvers. Image
She even called herself the co-chair in FOIA'd emails with colleagues.

So why did she blatantly lie under oath? Because she panicked — she wasn't expecting to be confronted on her wrongdoings today. Image
Also, do you remember Nina Jankowicz? She was the self-described "Mary Poppins of disinformation" and the Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board.
Daskal claims to have not have been the "hiring authority" of Jankowicz but was "aware" she would be hired.
Under the charter Daskal wrote, she, as co-chair, was one of the two people with a substantive role to hire the Executive Director.

Another lie? Image
Jankowicz even testified to the House Judiciary Committee that she had a "substantive interview" with Daskal and that she worked closely with her. Image
I asked her if it was appropriate for the government to work with social media companies to censor differing points of view.

Daskal had the gall to say the government shouldn't censor speech. She was co-chair of the Disinformation Governance Board!
Is this the end of the story? No.

We are going to keep fighting to get to the bottom of the Censorship Industrial Complex. If anything. I'm just getting started.
In 2022, as AG of Missouri, I sent a letter to Sec. Mayorkas promising to fight the Disinformation Governance Board "every step of the way." And I'm not done yet. Image
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I will be working with DHS Sec. Noem to ensure the thousands of pages of documents that the Biden Administration redacted under FOIA are brought to light.

They may be dormant now, but if we don't rip them out at the root, our leftist censors will return sooner than you'd think.
As for Daskal? She lied under oath in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, likely multiple times.

The D.C. Bar, @VenableLLP (her new employer), and the DOJ need to look into what appropriate action might be for something like that. I'm happy to serve as a witness.

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Jun 9
Authorities busted a massive fake-degree racket: 100k+ counterfeit certificates seized from 28 “universities” in India.

One mill sold 36k fakes for as little as $1,400 each.

This would violate 18 USC 1546(a). It's time to prosecute those who broke the law. đź§µ Image
India takes ~70% of H-1B filings. H-1B requires a real specialty degree.

Fake the credential = fraudulent visa from day one.

It's alleged that up to 90% of those Indian visas are fraudulent. American workers are displaced by paper mills instead of proven talent. Image
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This isn't surprising. Manav Bharti University sold ~36,000 bogus degrees while issuing far fewer real ones.

Biden's USCIS admits: It didn't track how many H-1Bs went to “graduates” of this mill. No systematic verification for many foreign credentials.

Unacceptable. Image
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Jun 9
The Trump Administration just declared the EEOC’s disparate-impact regime unconstitutional.

Disparate impact forced employers to trade neutral standards for racial quotas.

This is a direct strike on one of the Left’s favorite tools for forcing racial outcomes through law. Image
For decades, disparate impact let our managerial elite treat neutral standards as suspect if they produced the “wrong” racial numbers.

It banned things like background checks, aptitude tests, knowledge exams, hiring screens, and merit-based selection.

That regime is over.
OLC’s conclusion is clear: EEOC’s Title VII guidelines are unconstitutional because they impose liability based on disparate outcomes alone and pressure employers into race-based decision making. Image
Read 7 tweets
May 12
J.B. Pritzker called Callais an “abomination.”

No wonder. Illinois built one of the clearest race-based redistricting regimes in the country.

Just filed: the first major post-Callais lawsuit—and Illinois is the target. Time to enforce Callais nationwide. Image
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According to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, its client is challenging the Illinois Voting Rights Act of 2011’s redistricting mandates under the Fifteenth Amendment and federal Voting Rights Act.

That is exactly the kind of litigation Callais invites. Image
Illinois did not hide the ball.

When Gov. Pritzker signed the maps, he invoked the Illinois Voting Rights Act and praised redistricting plans designed to preserve “clusters of minority voters” with “collective electoral power.”

That is race-conscious districting by design. Image
Read 10 tweets
May 8
Virginia's map just got struck down. Is California next?

California's "mapmaker" drew its new maps to "ensure" that racially gerrymandered "VRA seats are bolstered in order to make them most effective." That's illegal under Callais.

@AAGDhillon: Here's how we can do it. đź§µ Image
California state law requires an "independent" Commission to draw its district maps.

But Newsom and state Legislature Dems overrode the Commission last year to gerrymander.

That meant hiring a "mapmaker"—Paul Mitchell—to do it.

But he drew an illegal racial gerrymander. Image
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Before SCOTUS's recent Callais decision, courts interpreted the VRA to effectively *require* racial quotas in gerrymandering.

As Justice Thomas explained, that was “repugnant to any nation that strives for the ideal of a color-blind Constitution.” Image
Read 11 tweets
May 5
H-1B fraud is a scam on American workers.

I just received the official USCIS FY2025 H-1B report. Over 406,348 approvals.

What I found is a flood of foreign labor. Sovereignty, security, and basic morality be damned. đź§µ Image
62% of all H-1B approvals? Tech-related occupations.

Over 252,000. Over 60% of ALL approvals were for tech and IT roles Americans already fill.

Big Tech uses this program to import cheap replacements while laying off U.S. workers. Disgraceful. Image
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While Washington pats themselves on the back, American workers are told to “upskill” or get replaced by H-1B hires.

The entire system is designed to let companies take advantage of the law.

While American grads and workers pay the price.
Read 8 tweets
Apr 30
Today—as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution—I urged @DAGToddBlanche and @AAGDhillon to act on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais.

DOJ has the power to enforce this decision nationwide and must use it to end illegal racially-gerrymandered districts. Image
My Subcommittee has oversight responsibility for constitutional rights, civil-rights enforcement, and DOJ's Civil Rights Division.

We are going to use it.

It's time to enforce our laws and our color-blind Constitution. We must undo prior race-based actions.
The Supreme Court has now made clear: "Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act . . . was designed to enforce the Constitution—not collide with it."

That means DOJ cannot keep treating Section 2 as a license to force States to sort Americans into districts by race. Image
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