Kanter Freedom Puts the Rulebook on the Table Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom lit up social media after announcing that he plans to identify as female and declare for the 2027 WNBA Draft. Kanter Freedom, a Turkish player who spent 11 seasons in the NBA and played for five franchises, said Friday that he and his lawyers reviewed the WNBA’s current eligibility language and believe he qualifies under the league’s self-identification standards. That is quite a way to read the fine print. Most people use lawyers for contracts. Kanter Freedom appears to be using them to ask whether the rulebook means what activists and league officials say it means. He Says This Is About Equal Application In his video statement, Kanter Freedom said he was “officially declaring” himself a WNBA prospect and claimed that if declaring who you are is enough, then he meets the requirements to compete. He also said his team had examined the league’s eligibility criteria and governing framework around self-identification and inclusion. Kanter Freedom added that he was “not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices.” His stated point was narrower: if these are the rules, he wants them…

The Muskegon case may not have been a one-city problem A new report from The Gateway Pundit claims evidence shows GBI Strategies, also known as Empower Michigan, sent more than 104 packages filled with Michigan voter registrations to 68 cities. The article argues Muskegon was not the whole story, but the place where the operation was caught. That is a serious claim, and it centers on a voter-registration fraud probe that began just weeks before the November 2020 election. The report also criticizes major Michigan media outlets for downplaying the investigation and accuses Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson of helping keep the full scope out of view. In the grand tradition of election bureaucracy, the people responsible for guarding the front door were allegedly not told much about who was jiggling the lock. Clerks were already angry over signature guidance The report says Michigan clerks were frustrated with Benson before the election because of her guidance on absentee-ballot envelope signature matching. The article alleges clerks were told to ignore signature matching, and it describes that guidance as contrary to election law. At the same time, according to the source, clerks were not being fully briefed on what it calls the…