USA Today opinion columnist. Also in: Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Times; Guardian; Boston Globe; HuffPost; Hill; NY Daily News, etc. Former federal prosecutor, state prosecutor, and defense attorney for indigent defendants. 🌊 🏳️🌈 #LGBT
Michael J. Stern
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To all the mindless mouthpieces who were going on about how Costello could win the Democratic primary in Maine:
I spent 25 years reading grand jury transcripts. I’m not sure I can get myself to read this.
You know what happened to trans kids under Trump and Republican rule? The Trump Supreme Court held that states can stop all gender-affirming care for trans kids. That real, tangible damage.
So go ahead progressives and refuse to vote for a pro-LGBT Democrat who doesn't check all your boxes. 😠
I presented grand jury cases for the Justice Department for 25 years. This vouching by an AUSA is shocking. It's the type of thing that would get a case dismissed and the prosecutor in deep trouble.
Trump and Republicans did that. The working class put Trump into the White House to make their lives more affordable, and he screwed them up, down, and sideways.
Damn you Democrats. If you're rigging elections, as Trump and the GOP charge, why'd you put a Republican into the California governor's race? 😂
www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/p...
Trump is now weaponizing the US Postal Service. This must be challenged in court.
www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Michael J. Stern
Republican Steve Hilton will advance to the November election in California’s gubernatorial race.
State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.
I can’t stomach the idiocy of progressives trashing Democratic candidates.
Progressives are doing it to Talarico because he doesn’t support surgical gender intervention for minors, which we’re told doesn’t happen anyway.
Put a Republican back in the Senate. See how that works out for trans people.
AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg: "I would never ask you to charge somebody if I didn't think there was probable cause … I don't charge people unless I'm absolutely sure."
