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Texas Congressman Tony Gonzalez is facing calls to resign after text messages surfaced allegedly showing him soliciting explicit photos from a former staffer. The scandal is intensified by the staffer's subsequent suicide and has drawn sharp criticism from fellow Republican lawmakers.
A recent attempt by prosecutors to indict six Democratic lawmakers for a video reminding military service members of their duty to refuse unlawful orders has stunningly failed. The prosecution, reportedly led by Janine Piro, could not even name a single crime or statute allegedly broken when pressed by defense attorneys, leading to a grand jury's refusal to indict. This profound incompetence, while initially humorous, is raising serious alarms among commentators who warn against complacency in the face of what they describe as a dangerous abuse of power and an authoritarian threat to democratic norms.
