DEA Administrator Blames Social Media Companies For Fentanyl Crisis Infecting U.S.

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said over the weekend that Congress needs to pass some sort of legislation to crack down on social media companies for allegedly not doing enough to stop the sale of fentanyl on their platforms.

Milgram told NBC News’ Chuck Todd on “Meet The Press” that social media is what she calls “the last mile.”

“The border’s an important part of this conversation because most of the fentanyl that we see coming into the United States is coming in through the southwest border,” she said.  “Social media is also a vital part of the conversation. It is what I call the last mile. Because what the cartels need – they’re selling the deadliest poison we’ve ever seen – they need that to … be able to expand and sell more, they need to be able to reach people at massive rates. And that’s what social media’s doing.”

When asked if social media companies were cooperating with federal law enforcement in trying to fix the problem, Milgram said, “We have not, until recently, gotten nearly as much cooperation as we need.”

“We’ve been in conversations with the social media companies. The Deputy Attorney General convened all of us in April of this year and made it very clear, number one, that the companies have to comply with their own terms of service, which say, ‘This is illegal. You cannot be selling fake pills. You cannot be selling drugs on social media websites’.”

She also said that law enforcement needs to be able to get information from the social media companies.

When asked if there was something the DEA does not have that Congress could give them that would help them address the issue, she said, “So we talk a lot with Congress about social media. We talk a lot about the need for these platforms – essentially, one of the main ways we see Americans dying right now is through social media, the purchase of pills, fake pills on social media. So, again, if we’re after, how do we stop 110,000 Americans from dying?”

She said Congress was “a place to start.”

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Chris Christie Torches Justice Sonia Sotomayor Over Dissent In Christian Web Designer Case

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie slammed leftist Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Sunday for her dissent in the Court’s ruling last week that a Colorado law that would have required a Christian graphic designer to design a website for a same-sex wedding was illegal.

In a 6-3 decision in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the Court cited the First Amendment in ruling that Lorie Smith could not be forced by state civil rights law to design websites that run counter to her sincerely-held religious beliefs.

Christie was asked where he stood on the ruling during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Dana Bash.

“I stand with Justice Gorsuch,” Christie said. “Look, and the thing that’s bad about the dissenting opinion is that it mischaracterizes the decision. This business has no right not to serve people of a protected class. But, by the same token, the government doesn’t have the right to tell a business the nature of how they need to use their expressive abilities.”

“And so the fact is that this — this business can’t deny LGBTQ people, couples from coming in and trying to access this business. That’s not the case at all. It’s a mischaracterization of it,” he explained. “What concerns me the most is that, for decades and decades, the Democratic Party cheered a Supreme Court that went outside the Constitution, made extraconstitutional decisions, in my opinion, because the decisions went in a philosophical direction that they liked.”

“Now, when the court makes decisions that they don’t like, all of a sudden, the court is a not-normal court, according to President Biden,” he continued. “This is a results-oriented type of judgment. Instead, what they should look at is the way they analyze the law. And as a lawyer and someone who’s watched this for a long time, I think Justice Gorsuch made a decision that protects all of our First Amendment rights.”

Christie said that if Democrats “were being ordered by a state to do something that they felt restricted their rights, they’d be angry about it, and should be. We should not be restricting people’s First Amendment rights.”

Christie then took specific aim at what Sotomayor said when asked if the decision could be used in a more expansive way.

“Look, what Sonia Sotomayor, the justice, Sotomayor, was saying in her opinion was that they could — that this decision could be used to deny people of LGBTQ backgrounds the ability to access this business. That’s simply not true,” he said. “They can access this business. They can access this business. They just can’t force the owner to do something that is against her personal religious beliefs. And so if they want to come in and they want a web design for their business, they want a web design for a charity, they want a web design for anything else that they’re doing, they could certainly do that.”

“And she knows that’s true. But she’s trying to inflame people with this decision,” he continued. “And it is a very narrow decision. And, no, I’m not concerned that it would, because I will tell you what would happen. If someone tried to do that, people in that particular state would be into court immediately if they were trying to go beyond this decision.”

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