State Roundup
A Ford worker called out Trump. The president flipped him off. Now, he’s been suspended.
By BEN SOLIS
Ohio Capital Journal
A union-backed auto worker at Ford Motor Co. was caught on video heckling President Donald Trump as a “pedophile protector” when he visited a Dearborn factory on Tuesday ahead of his address to the Detroit Economic Club. The video that has now gone viral shows Trump responded in kind by mouthing an expletive at the worker, twice, and displaying a middle finger as he walked away.
Now, the union says the worker has been suspended while Ford looks into the matter and a Gofundme page was started.
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Yost rejects pot law referendum
By Megan Henry
Ohio Capital Journal
COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost rejected summary language Tuesday for a proposed referendum that would overturn a law that will change Ohio’s voter-passed recreational marijuana law and ban intoxicating hemp products.
Ohioans for Cannabis Choice filed a petition for a referendum to repeal Ohio Senate Bill 56, which is set to take effect March 20 after Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bill into law on Dec. 19. The referendum was filed with Yost’s office on Dec. 29.
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Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act and deploy military in Minnesota
By Ashley Murray
Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday morning to send the military into Minnesota to stop protests, following another shooting by immigration agents that injured one person, seven days after an agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis.
Writing on his own social media platform, Trump said he would invoke the Insurrection Act, a 19th-century law empowering the government to deploy the military domestically to “repress insurrections and repel invasions.”
“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State. Thank you for you attention to this matter! President DJT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The law grants an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the military from performing domestic law enforcement.
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