Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohbeger will return to the Latah County, Idaho, courthouse at noon Thursday for a hearing to argue whether his trial venue location should be changed.

His defense team is arguing that a "mob mentality" within Latah County, where Kohberger is accused of brutally murdering four University of Idaho students in their home in November 2022, will result in an unfair jury selection and therefore an unfair trial for the 29-year-old defendant.

"The pressure to convict Bryan Kohberger is so severe that Latah County survey respondents said if he wasn’t convicted: ‘They’d burn the courthouse down. Outrage would be a mild description,’" court filings submitted by the defense last week state, citing quotes from people within the community who were surveyed on the matter. 

"'They would probably find him and kill him.' ‘There would likely be a riot and he wouldn’t last long outside because someone would do the good ole’ boy justice.’ ‘Enraged strong opinions. Firing of officers.’ ‘Riots, parents would take care of him.’"

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Kohberger's defense team is also citing a heavy media presence in Latah County, noting that there are currently 1,300 media stories about the University of Idaho murders. 

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Kohberger — a former criminology Ph.D. student at Washington State University in nearby Pullman, Washington — is charged with four counts of murder and burglary after he allegedly stabbed 20-year-old Xana Kernodle, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves and 21-year-old Madison Mogen with a KA-BAR knife in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022.

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Kohberger was arrested in late December 2022 at his family home in Pennsylvania. His trial is scheduled for no later than the summer of 2025. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

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"The media coverage inundating Latah County does not tell citizens that no evidence has been presented at this time; that there are no facts on the record at this time; that Bryan Kohberger is innocent; that only a jury decides what the facts are and whether the facts show beyond a reasonable doubt [that] a person is guilty," his defense team wrote.

Fox News Digital's Michael Ruiz and Christina Coulter contributed to this report.

In 2008, when Barack Obama was running for president, he flat out lied about opposing gay marriage based on his deep Christian beliefs. We know this because in a book published in 2015, former senior adviser to the president David Axelrod described Obama, after such a speech, complaining to him, "I’m just not very good at bulls---ing."

It turns out he actually was pretty good at it. Today the American people have to ask themselves how good Vice President Kamala Harris is at B.S. as she seeks to transform herself from a San Francisco progressive into a blue-dog centrist Democrat. 

Now, Obama had an advantage here. It was mostly only the gay marriage issue where his pretend conservatism seemed completely out of whack with his history as a progressive community organizer. Harris is seeking to reverse half a dozen positions. 

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If you have been following them as they go by, Kamala has flip-flopped on building a wall, fracking, Medicare-for-all, reimagining the police, and banning gas-powered vehicles. So far, from what we know, she has not officially registered as a Republican.

Voters, especially Republicans and independents, are naturally a bit suspicious about whether Harris really believes any of these things after a decades-long political career of opposing them, and this is where the great lie of Barack Obama can tell us a lot, not just about Harris, but about Democratic voters.

The funny thing about Obama’s weird stance against gay marriage, on which he suddenly evolved in office, is that nobody, especially Democrats, really believed it. I will never forget conversation after conversation with loyal Obama acolytes in which they said, "he doesn’t really think that, he just has to say it to get elected" 

If the past is prologue, it is very likely that many, maybe even most Democratic voters don’t believe Harris has changed all these positions, but they are OK with it so long as she wins and reverts to her progressive self. 

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It reminds me of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138, in which a pair of lovers with an age gap aren’t quite honest with each other about it, but make it work, the final couplet singing:

Therefore I lie with her and she with me,

And in our faults by lies we flattered be.

Put another way, as long as they are in on the prevarication, Democrats will let a few, or in this case, a whole lot of whoppers fly.

And sure enough, when Axelrod penned his memoir he spilled the beans. Of course, Obama never opposed gay marriage, but in the primary he needed to dominate the Black vote, which was resistant to the movement, and in the general he needed religious independents.

One would think that this kind of abject lying to the American people is something one would never speak of again once it worked, but instead, Axelrod brags about it, and hey, it worked, right?

Now think about just how many former Obama aides and officials are crawling around the inner circle of the Harris campaign. It sure looks like they are returning to this duplicitous, say anything playbook to get the new gal over the finish line. 

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It may be that the friendly news media will also give Harris’ merry-go-round of policy positions an uncritical pass as base Democratic voters smile inside, knowing they are also in on the game, but independents and undecideds may not be so unflinchingly credulous.

The question they are asking is not so much why Harris has done this parade of about-faces -- after all, once you lie about a position it is easy to manifest some fake explanation for it -- their reasonable question is, "does she really mean it?"

History tells us that she does not, it tells us that just like Barack Obama before her, she will take any position, no matter how absurdly it conflicts with everything she has ever said, for just a few more votes.

Obama and the Democrats never paid a price for his lie about gay marriage, they even laugh about it. But perhaps the bill has now come due, perhaps the voters remember, and perhaps they will not simply accept this time that Kamala Harris pinky swears that all of her politics have changed in 40 days.

If so, it is a comeuppance sincerely deserved, if somewhat delayed.

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