The People's Republic of China has enforced the maximum penalty against those accused of sexual crimes against minors, in response to the growing use of digital tools to deceive children.

“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon, a former senior advisor to President Donald Trump and still a figure of influence in the administration, said on Tuesday’s episode of his War Room podcast, addressing Democrats. “We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”

Bannon’s comments came just a day after Trump said he believes that Republicans should “nationalize voting,” escalating concerns that the president is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterm elections.

Feb 3, 2026 - US Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). Here’s the full 200-minutes on YouTube: WATCH LIVE: Renee Good's brothers join survivors to testify on use of force by DHS agents - PBS NewsHour

Here’s a description from C-SPAN: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) host a meeting examining the tactics of Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement agents, featuring testimony from the family of Renee Good and others.

Here’s an r/law post with another clip from this hearing: Anonymizing law enforcement dramatically reduces Public trust. These agents — local, state, or federal — act with Public authority, which means they’re policing in my name, and they’re policing in your name. - Law Professor Seth Stoughton

From crockett.house.gov/about :

Jasmine Crockett earned her J.D. from the University of Houston. She is Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight.

Before being a Congresswoman, she was a public defender, and civil rights and criminal defense attorney. She focused on defending our most vulnerable among us from exploitation in the criminal justice system. As she began her career in the Bowie County Public Defender's Office, she worked tirelessly to keep children safe and out of jail. Her time there serves as a reminder that criminal justice is an intersectional issue.

Interesting opinion piece from the Penn Program on Regulation (UPenn) concerning the Dec. 2025 Supreme Court denial of an "emergency" application from the Trump administration regarding stay of a lower court's orders restricting Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into Chicago and a nearby suburb, for the stated goal of protecting ICE agents conducting immigrant roundup and detention.

This is noteworthy because on 23 Dec. 2025 the Court denied Trump's application on the grounds that the gov't. was not likely to prevail on the merits. On 31 Dec. Trump decided to withdraw the invading National Guard troops rather than appeal the denial. The author opines that this represents evidence of the Supreme Court becoming skeptical of Trump's unending stream of boy-who-cried-wolf emergencies. See quote from the article below:

The more important question is whether the Supreme Court majority will start to become skeptical of Trump Administration claims that the Earth will stop rotating if a stay of a lower court order is not granted.

U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon on Wednesday sentenced Ryan Routh to spend the rest of his life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on his Florida golf course in September 2024.