A Supreme Court showdown over climate change lawsuits could leave oil companies bankrupt, gas stations facing financial ruin and Americans paying more at the pump if the justices allow cities and states to pursue billions in damages against the fossil fuel industry, energy policy experts warn.

"You would see mass exodus and that would create more scarcity with fuel, more so than we're seeing already today, higher prices," Jason Isaac, CEO of American Energy Institute, told Fox News Digital. "And that's really what this is about. It's about controlling these companies and stopping the use of hydrocarbons."

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Suncor v. Boulder, a dispute over whether federal law prevents cities and states from suing oil companies under state law for alleged climate damage linked to emissions that cross state borders.

During oral arguments, Justice Clarence Thomas pressed Boulder's attorney, Kevin Russell, on whether the legal theory could expose businesses beyond oil producers to similar lawsuits, including large retailers.

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"Nothing in our theory prevents that," Russell acknowledged, although he noted that state tort law could impose additional limitations.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh separately raised concerns about the potential financial consequences of widespread litigation, warning that enough lawsuits could "bankrupt" defendants and questioning whether virtually any manufacturer or business could face similar claims.

The city and county of Boulder, Colo., sued oil giants ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy in 2018, accusing the companies of knowingly contributing to climate change while misleading the public about the alleged dangers of fossil fuels. The municipalities are seeking damages to help cover the mounting costs of climate-related harms. There are roughly 30 similar lawsuits pending in jurisdictions across the country, including cases in Portland and Baltimore.

Boulder's lawsuit alleged ExxonMobil and Suncor knew for decades about the climate risks associated with fossil fuels but misled the public about those risks. The complaint pointed to a 1977 internal memo from ExxonMobil that circulated among the company's highest-level managers. The memo reported that "current scientific opinion overwhelmingly favors" that fossil fuels contribute to the rise in CO2 emissions.

David Bookbinder, who previously served as counsel of record for Boulder but is no longer involved in the case, described the lawsuit as a way to implement an "indirect carbon tax" during a Federalist Society forum last year.

But Boulder has maintained that the case is not an attempt to regulate national climate policy, arguing instead that Colorado has the authority to hold companies accountable under state law for alleged harms suffered within its borders.

"Since the founding, states have had the power to provide tort remedies for injuries occurring within their borders even when the conduct causing those injuries occurred elsewhere," Russell told the justices.

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O.H. Skinner, executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, argued that the lawsuits are an attempt to accomplish through the courts what climate advocates have been unable to achieve through Congress.

"When you really boil it down, and you separate it from all the legal arguments, the advocates who push these cases are very clear," Skinner told Fox News Digital. "That it's an effort to get a backdoor carbon tax, because carbon taxes have never passed in Congress, or to bankrupt the energy industry."

Justice Samuel Alito has recused himself from the case without providing an explanation.

Isaac warned that a Supreme Court ruling in Boulder's favor could open "Pandora's box," allowing thousands of jurisdictions to pursue similar lawsuits. He said a 4-4 split could have a similar practical effect by leaving the lower court's ruling in place, although a tie would not establish nationwide precedent.

"There are over 90,000 levels of government — government entities just in the United States alone — that could also begin lawsuits against energy companies," Isaac told Fox News Digital. "Driving up cost to consumers because the cost to defend those would be astronomical."

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Skinner argued that who could be sued could extend beyond oil producers to businesses across the energy supply chain, including gas stations, automakers and utilities that sell or use fossil fuels.

"From Boulder's perspective, anybody who's contributed to climate change would reliable, any sort of company, big or small, and the problem here is that to the left, climate change is everything and everything is climate change," Skinner told Fox News Digital. "So it's very hard to find a line for who isn't contributing to climate change."

But Isaac said the case is different from lawsuits against tobacco or opioid companies because greenhouse gas emissions come from countless sources around the world and cross state and national borders, making it difficult to isolate responsibility for climate-related damage.

"Emissions are a global phenomenon," Isaac told Fox News Digital.

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ExxonMobil and Suncor argue that because greenhouse gas emissions travel globally, Colorado cannot use state law to hold companies liable for emissions originating outside its borders. The companies contend that such disputes should instead be governed by federal law.

Meanwhile, other states such as Utah have barred these types of state tort lawsuits from being pursued.

"If the energy companies were to lose and Colorado were to win, this would in effect drive up the prices of gas all across the country," Utah Attorney General Derek Brown told Fox News Digital. "And so those kind of decisions ultimately, it's the province of Congress."

Boxing legend Mike Tyson is backing President Donald Trump’s political corner ahead of November’s midterm elections.

The former heavyweight champion visited the White House on Friday and offered a brief prediction when reporters asked how Republicans would fare in the midterms.

"I believe Donald Trump is gonna win it," Tyson said at the West Wing briefing room before accompanying the president to a rally in Syracuse, New York.

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Before their departure, Trump joked about standing alongside one of boxing’s most feared fighters.

"I won’t be fighting him today," Trump told reporters, adding, "We’ve been friends for a long time."

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Their relationship dates to the 1980s, when Trump hosted boxing events featuring Tyson in Atlantic City. Their connection has since extended into cannabis advocacy.

Tyson’s cannabis advocacy has become another connection in his decades-long friendship with Trump. In June 2025, Tyson joined Kevin Durant and other athletes in urging the White House to pursue federal marijuana reform.

Their requests extended beyond rescheduling: They sought clemency for nonviolent marijuana offenses and changes to banking restrictions affecting cannabis businesses.

Tyson told Fox News Digital rescheduling was his top priority, expressing disappointment with former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s handling of cannabis reform..

"It was a letdown, but you have to respect they were in power. You have to respect that," Tyson said. "We have a different president now, so we're talking to him. So, it seems to be a lot different talking to President Trump than with the other guy. And, like I said before, that's their agenda. This is our agenda right here."

Tyson added he believes the rescheduling of marijuana is the top priority in his federal reform goals. On top of that, he and his supporters want to see mass clemency for nonviolent marijuana offenders.

Trump took a step toward that goal in December 2025, signing an executive order directing the attorney general to expedite marijuana’s proposed move from Schedule I to Schedule III. The order instructed officials to complete the federal rulemaking process; it did not itself finalize the change.

Tyson welcomed the order while urging Trump to go further.

"Clemency and federal legalization are the next important steps," he wrote on X.

Democrat socialist Abdul El-Sayed has made a lot of braindead comments regarding football over the years, and throughout his campaign for state senator in Michigan.

El-Sayed once connected American football to toxic masculinity and the transatlantic slave trade, but he's also pandered by embracing the NFL and Detroit Lions in his campaign messaging. In a 2021 essay in response to then Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden, El-Sayed wrote, "The toxic masculinity at the heart of America's most popular sport — and men's sports culture more generally — is way deeper than a few emails."

In separate remarks, he referenced Manifest Destiny, the destruction of Native American communities, and the transatlantic slave trade before saying, "And all of this, like a lot of these narratives, you kind of see echoed in the ethos of football."

On Friday, he took a shot at voters who support the University of Michigan football team.

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El-Sayed and former senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) met with Michigan farmers to discuss issues affecting the industry. They spoke about President Trump's tariff policy, the trade war with Canada, the Iran War, and ICE.

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At the end of the event, El-Sayed pleaded with the farmers to speak with friends and neighbors on the other side of the political aisle, who "made a different political choice" in the last election. He told the few people in the audience to not "indict" those folks for a "bad decision that they can't take back."

He encouraged them to maybe even ditch talking about politics and have a conversation about the weather or "Will (the University of) Michigan ever win a football game without cheating," El-Sayed said with a chuckle in the midst of a couple awkward laughs.

As you can imagine, the internet didn't take too kindly to a Michigan Senate candidate making comments like this.

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Michigan superfan & founder of Barstool Sports, Dave Portnoy said, "This guy really is a terrorist."

El-Sayed's opponent Mike Rogers responded to the controversy, quoting Portnoy's post saying, "@StoolPresidente is exactly right."

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Others mentioned El-Sayed's comments were unforgivable for a Michigan alum. Some said he "lost votes."

My advice to El-Sayed: Please keep talking about football. It's great for Rogers' chances.

New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James went silent for several seconds when asked to name a former state attorney general she admired during Thursday's New York attorney general race debate.

"Tick tock," Errol Louis of Spectrum News 1, one of the moderators said to James, prompting laughter from the Attorney General.

The attorney general's race in New York comes against the backdrop of James' ongoing dispute with President Donald Trump, who called James "a Complete and Total Disaster" and accused her of leading a "WITCH Hunt" against him in his endorsement of James' Republican challenger, Saritha Komatireddy, in August.

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The pause from James drew immediate criticism from Komatireddy, a former federal prosecutor and chief of staff for the Drug Enforcement Administration, who quipped from the podium that James "only admires herself."

"An absolutely devastating moment for Tish James," conservative communications strategist Steve Guest wrote on X. "'She only admires herself' is a debate zinger for the ages."

"No, no, no, no, we admire others," James said. "I admire all of the past attorney generals because it is a difficult job and you've got to stand up."

When asked the same question, Komatireddy named Dennis Vacco, who served as the state's attorney general from 1995 to 1998. Like Komatireddy, he was also a former federal prosecutor.

James then said that she admired former Democratic Attorney General Bob Abrams, who served from 1979 to 1993.

The exchange, which came in the final moments of Thursday's debate, led critics to question whether James knew of other New York attorneys general.

"Very telling moment," Steve McLaughlin, Rensselaer County executive, wrote on X. "James went completely blank because she's A: dumb as a rock B: has no idea who any former AG is because she's not doing the job and never has been."

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"She's a mouthpiece," McLaughlin continued. "Zero institutional knowledge."

"Letitia James doesn't know the plural form of 'Attorney General,'" another Twitter user wrote.

Nicole Kiprilov, a spokesperson for Komatireddy, echoed the candidate's comment on the debate stage.

"Letitia James can’t name a single former Attorney General she admires because she’s too busy admiring herself. She’s turned the Attorney General’s office into her own political stage and ignored the safety of the state," Kiprilov said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "New Yorkers deserve a real prosecutor, not a joke like her!"

But James' campaign pushed back on Komatireddy's characterization of James and how she runs her office.

"Attorney General Letitia James spent much of the debate teaching her opponent how the Office of the Attorney General actually works, and she was happy to name former Attorney General Bob Abrams as someone she respects,"  a spokesperson for James said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

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James' attorney general's office has been thrust into the national spotlight after New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed James as special investigator to examine an alleged gang rape that occurred at Cornell University in October 2024. The renewed attention comes in response to a recent lawsuit filed by the alleged victim, Jane Doe, against the university, the alleged perpetrators, her sorority and a bar that allegedly served her alcohol while she was underage.

But James has faced calls from an attorney for one of the defendants to recuse herself from the case over social media posts showing support for Jane Doe before James was appointed special investigator.

A House Democrat accused a Republican rival of "living the good life" on donor money after her campaign reported Disney World spending, and she was allegedly seen returning from the theme park around the same time. 

But Democratic Texas Rep. Vicente Gonzalez's own records show nearly $20,000 in campaign spending around the same time on international and domestic trips with his wife, including his own visit to Disney World, a five-star hotel stay on the beach in the UAE and a Michelin-starred restaurant bill in Zurich.

Gonzalez made the jab at Republican Mayra Flores in October 2025, months after posting photos documenting his own two-day Disney World trip with his wife and several other associates on social media in April. The social media posts coincided with payments Gonzalez's campaign made to the Florida theme park and resort around the same time, totaling more than $1,100. 

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The Disney payments and photos were just one piece of a broader travel and hospitality spending trail from Gonzalez’s campaign reviewed by Fox News Digital. His campaign reported thousands of dollars in expenses at upscale restaurants and hotels from Washington and Texas, to California and Europe, alongside campaign spending on multiple overseas trips during which Gonzalez's wife accompanied, or appeared to accompany, the congressman, according to posts Gonzalez shared on social media.

During one 2024 trip to the UAE that utilized campaign funds and coincided with social media posts in the same location posted on Gonzalez's Facebook, more than $13,000 in airfare and hotel expenses were spent. Gonzalez described apparent photos of the trip on social media as an "after campaign break," and his posts showed the congressman with his wife doing various sightseeing activities and one photo from a bed inside a top-floor luxury hotel room next to the beach.

The fifth-term Democrat representative is fighting to hold his South Texas seat against Republican Eric Flores in November after the GOP candidate defeated Mayra Flores and a crowded Republican field earlier this year. The race has drawn national attention as both parties battle for the district and Gonzalez enters the final stretch with a significant campaign cash advantage.

Gonzalez took aim at rival Mayra Flores in 2025, suggesting she was potentially using campaign funds to travel to Disney World with her kids. In an October 2025 social media post, Gonzalez shared a photo of her at Dallas Love Field Airport with two young family members, a Disney World bag and stuffed animals. Gonzalez captioned the photo "living the good life on donor's resources again" and cited a report that found payments to Disney World from her campaign around the same time as the photos.

But federal campaign finance records show Gonzalez's own campaign reported a combined $1,122.76 went to Walt Disney Resorts on March 24, 2025, and May 27, 2025, around the same time he posted photos on social media from a two-day trip to Walt Disney World with his own family on April 26, 2025. 

"DC to Disney! What a fantastic 2 days," Gonzalez posted on Facebook alongside a photo of himself, his wife and several others.

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Federal campaign finance rules do not prohibit campaigns from paying travel expenses simply because a candidate's spouse or children accompany them. The FEC allows campaign funds to cover travel for candidates, their spouses and minor children when the trip is directly related to campaign activity or the candidate's official responsibilities as a federal officeholder. 

Campaign funds cannot, however, be used to pay for personal vacations or other family expenses that would have existed regardless of the candidate's campaign or official duties. When a trip mixes campaign or official business with personal activities, the campaign must be reimbursed for the costs attributable to the personal portion.

"Every dollar this campaign spends is legal and publicly disclosed, and these reports come straight from our own FEC filings," Gonzalez's campaign manager, Alex Philley, told Fox News Digital in a statement when asked about the campaign spending. 

"The spending South Texans are worried about is their own on higher costs driven by Trump's agenda that Eric Flores would proudly rubber-stamp."

Gonzalez's FEC filings identify two $561.38 Disney payments, one from March 2025 and another from May 2025, only as "travel expenses," leaving unclear from the public disclosures what campaign or official activity the expenditures were connected to. 

When asked specifically about this trip, Philley said it was tied to "a very important Financial Services trip" with Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., the Republican chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, of which Gonzalez is a member.

Philley said the campaign's spending on international trips where Gonzalez's wife was present had been tied to official business as well, including a visit with the Pope, although he did not address each trip separately when asked about them.

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For example, Gonzalez traveled with his wife to Morocco in mid-2019 under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, or MECEA, which allows members of Congress to accept travel from foreign governments for approved cultural exchanges. 

Campaigns are allowed to pay for their spouses to join them, but only if the spouse is performing bona fide official responsibilities. Diplomatic and ceremonial protocol for certain events or campaign office functions like managing travel logistics are often cited as reasons for why spouses need to attend.

Gonzalez's campaign reported paying $4,767.53 for his "spouse travel expense" in connection with the 2019 MECEA trip to Morocco, according to FEC records.

In December 2024, the campaign reported $12,810 to Emirates Airlines and $359.27 at a luxury five-star Abu Dhabi hotel called Emirates Towers in "officially connected" CODEL expenses. While the campaign funds for the trip did not explicitly name Gonzalez’s wife, photos from Gonzalez's social media page showed several images of him and his wife in Abu Dhabi around the same time as his campaign's payments, including a photo from the top floor of what appeared to be a luxury, beachfront hotel. The pair also appeared in photos exploring the city and sightseeing around the time of the payments.

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"Finally, an after campaign break!" Gonzalez captioned the photos, one of which showed him holding an exotic bird. Other photos posted around that time by Gonzalez's campaign page showed him visiting U.S. troops in the Middle East and meeting with other officials. Other photos showed Gonzalez and his wife at the "4th largest and most modern Mosque in the world" in Abu Dhabi.

The international travel continued in August 2025, when Gonzalez posted a photo with his wife in Zurich, Switzerland. Campaign records subsequently showed a $566.67 expense to Swiss Air and another $395 "Travel Expense" at La Rôtisserie in Zurich, a one-Michelin-star restaurant. The records did not explicitly indicate the expenses were used to pay for Gonzalez’s wife.

Weeks earlier, Gonzalez appeared to engage in international luxury travel paid for by his campaign. FEC records for Gonzalez's campaign reveal a $442.41 "Travel Expense" at the five-star luxury Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel in Rome the same week he posted a photo of himself on social media meeting with the Pope in 2025.

"This was not a vacation," Philley said in a statement to Fox News Digital about the trip. "You may want to ask the committee why they booked this hotel. This was not the congressman’s choice; he only had to pay for it."

Between 2024 and 2026, Gonzalez's campaign also reported thousands of dollars in expenditures at upscale restaurants, hotels and resorts around the country, including around $4,000 at The Capital Grille in Washington, D.C., along with spending at Eddie V's Prime Seafood in Houston and several other high-end D.C. restaurants.

Recently, Gonzalez's campaign reported a $1,019 expense at California's Ojai Valley Inn, a Forbes Travel Guide-recognized luxury resort sprawling across 220 acres with a spa, four pools and a championship-caliber golf course and more than $1,400 at Pennsylvania's Omni Bedford Springs Resort & Spa, an AAA Four Diamond property featuring a 30,000-square-foot spa, golf course and indoor and outdoor pools.

Virginia sports betting has been live online since Jan. 1, 2021, when the Virginia Lottery licensed its first online operators. Bettors in the state can now choose from over a dozen legal sportsbook apps. 

Sports betting is legal in Virginia for any person physically located in the state and 21 years of age or older at the time the wager is placed. Sports betting in Virginia is regulated by the Virginia Lottery.

With over ten different apps for users to choose from in Virginia, picking a sports betting app can be a challenge for residents. We’ve tried to help you make an informed decision about what app to use for sports betting in Virginia with some highlights and downsides about the apps. 

Welcome offers provide a nice way for new sports bettors to get in on the action. Virginia sportsbooks tend to offer new users one of three formats: deposit match, profit boosts, or bet-and-get formats for their reward. A deposit match will give a new user bonus cash matching at 100% or lower for their initial deposit. Profit boosts are provided to give you a chance at more winnings if you hit your first bet. A bet-and-get offer usually requires a new bettor to wager a small amount and receive bonus funds in their account.   

Sports betting has been legal in Virginia since April 22, 2020, when Governor Ralph Northam signed House Bill 896 into law. The online market launched before retail spaces, with the first mobile sportsbook live on January 21, 2021. The first retail location opened July 8th, 2022. 

Virginia does not have any professional sports teams and is the most populous state without a major sports franchise. They do have some popular college teams like Virginia, Virginia Tech, and even smaller schools such as George Mason or Liberty. 

Betting on college sports is legal in Virginia, but you cannot bet on any in-state team or player props in any state. 

Virginia does have multiple retail sportsbook locations, with most of them located at casinos or racetracks. There are electronic betting kiosks or actual humans taking the wagers for you at the locations. 

Licensed Retail Locations:

Caesars Virginia (Caesars Sportsbook) – Danville

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol (Hard Rock Bet) – Bristol

Rivers Casino Portsmouth (BetRivers Sportsbook) – Portsmouth

Yes, sports betting is legal in Virginia for any person over 21 and physically in the state at the time of placing the bet. 

The best sportsbook in Virginia is whichever one you enjoy using the most. There are dozens of apps and all have their benefits and drawbacks, so give them all a try!

You must be at least 21 to place a wager on sports in Virginia.

Yes, you can bet on college sports in Virginia, but you cannot bet on any in-state school or collegiate player props in any state. 

You do not need to be a Virginia resident to bet there, but you do need to register and physically be located inside the state when you place the wager. 

There are over a dozen legal mobile apps to bet on sports in Virginia. 

Yes, you can bet on sports in Virginia without an app at retail locations, mostly located inside of casinos.

Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich says her organization feels "vindication" after a new Justice Department report revealed the FBI opened dozens of assessments involving parents following a controversial Biden-era directive targeting threats against school officials, including an investigation stemming from a tip that cited one mother's membership in a "right-wing mom’s group."

"My reaction and our reaction at Moms for Liberty is vindication," Descovich told Fox News Digital. "We feel… we're finally being heard."

Descovich said parents involved with her organization became fearful of speaking publicly after the Justice Department and FBI's response to heated school board battles beginning in 2021, claiming some received calls asking about their mental health and whether they had weapons in their homes.

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"Parents were afraid to show up," Descovich said. "They were afraid to lose their jobs. They were members of our organization, sometimes privately and silently standing with us, but too afraid to speak out because of what our government did in the United States of America. We need to not forget where we were in 2021 as we go into these midterm elections."

The Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group reported Monday that the FBI opened 25 "Guardian assessments" involving parents following then-Attorney General Merrick Garland's Oct. 4, 2021, memorandum addressing threats against school officials.

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The report says an FBI whistleblower disclosed that one mother was investigated following a tip that noted she was a gun owner and belonged to what was described as a "right-wing mom's group." A separate joint DOJ-Education Department release identified that organization as Moms for Liberty.

"We have known since 2021 that the DOJ and the FBI under the Biden administration were basically enemies to parents and to Moms for Liberty," Descovich said. "Our parents were getting phone calls after attending school board meetings asking if they had mental health problems, if they had weapons in their home. They were given case numbers and file numbers. And this latest report that's come out and press release from the DOJ and the DOE acknowledging that fact and declaring that, officially, parents are not domestic terrorists. It's almost ridiculous. It's absurd that that's happened in America and that has to be the headline today that we're actually returning to normalcy."

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The press release from the Department of Justice reported that personnel internally called the effort "ridiculous," raised First Amendment concerns and said it appeared political, but that emails show Attorney General Garland issued the memo, persuaded by the Biden White House officials.

The Working Group found that the memo, according to the DOJ press release, "was the product of pressure exerted by the White House and wrongly weaponized the Department of Justice against parents."

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"The effect of Merrick Garland and the DOJ and the FBI under the Biden administration issuing a threat tag, that was founded on the basis of using the Patriot Act against parents in this country that were showing up at school board meetings. It sent a chill through the country," Descovich said.

She continued to say that parents "need to not forget where we were in 2021 as we go into these midterm elections."

"There needs to be accountability to a government that was out of control," Descovich added. "The first step of accountability was losing their power and their election, and we need to continue that through the midterms, because we cannot give power back to the people that weaponized the government against citizens, against ordinary parents. Beyond that, I really hope the current administration will take further steps to hold the individuals accountable that were driving these attacks against its citizens."

Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI and the White House for comment. The Department of Education deferred to their press release and letter on the matter.