Legal Thursday

David | February 5, 2026 | 0 Comments

Seems a teacher in Nebraska is in hot water for student canoodling – with a girl who had already graduated.

Nebraska schoolteacher Cody Pester, 26, and an 18-year-old female allegedly entered an intimate relationship two months after she graduated from high school.

The met while she was in school, but didn’t start communicating/texting until she had graduated. Over the statutory age of consent (16) by 2 years, no longer a student – you would think they would be okay, right? Nope.

Unlike other states however, a teacher is still in violation in the state of Nebraska if they engage in intimate relations with a student in the 90 days after they leave or graduate from the school system. People

This seems to fall under the “consenting relationship” category to me, and the law seems a bit of an overreach. In every way that girl is not a student -you would think the law would have been challenged? The judge probably should dismiss charges with a warning… BUT if convicted, Mr. Pester is looking at a potential twenty year sentence.

Ryan Routh, the clown who was going to try to kill Trump on the golf course a year and a half back, has drawn a life sentence. His defense was that he “cared too much” and “to merely have a weapon in the presence of another is not intent” – well, when you’ve setup a little sniper hide when the President is approaching – yeah, that’s intent. His attorney was hoping for a 27 year sentence. Hope he collected his fees in advance . USA Today

Eric ~~Swallowswell~~ Swalwell is back in the news. Allegedly, he spent over $200,000 of campaign cash on child care. Seriously.

A significant portion of those expenses, over $22,000, from his most recent House and gubernatorial campaign filings were for just three months of childcare from October to December 2025. The three payments on his gubernatorial campaign filing for “childcare” are made out to his wife, Brittany Swalwell, and total over $6,000.

The FEC filings show that the campaign dished out over $102,000 to an individual named Amanda Barbosa in Dublin, California, between 2021 and 2025, a Fox News Digital review found.

$57,324.40 was paid to Bambini Play & Learn Child Development Center, a Spanish immersion daycare and preschool in Washington, D.C., between 2023 and 2025. The monthly tuition for the child development center is between $2,520 and $3,280, according to Bambini’s website.

Never seen a nanny written off to the taxpayers before, but in 2022 (note who was HMFIC then!) the Federal Election Commission approved using campaign funds to pay for overnight child care if someone was campaigning. Does Bambini do overnight care? not of they close at 6 M-F per their website.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Allen Mendenhall, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies and a senior advisor at Capital Markets Initiative, said the FEC’s decision is problematic because childcare is an “inherently personal” expense.

He believes this “opens the slippery slope” for a whole set of costs that could be conceivably justified as campaign expenses, such as clothing, grooming and beyond. Fox

Didn’t recall Swalwell campaigning continuously for 4 years, me. Too, the chutzpah of paying your wife to take care of her own kids is breathtaking.

In election tit-for-tat, the Supreme Court has refused to hear the administrations plea to block California’s redrawn Congressional map in the 2026 elections. In effect, this cancels out Texas’ redistricting which led to a potential 5-seat GOP gain.

Conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote in December that it appeared both states had adopted new maps for political advantage, which the high court has previously ruled cannot be a basis for a federal lawsuit. AP

Gonna close with a NOLA case – ICE arrested a Cameroon immigrant January 28th who was going through the New Orleans police academy, just one week before graduation. 46 year old Larry Temah had already been issued a gun.

Temah entered the U.S. legally in 2015 on a visitor visa and was granted conditional residency the following year after marrying a U.S. citizen, ICE said.

In 2022, his application for permanent residency was denied due to fraud.

Temah was ordered to appear in immigration court three times but failed to appear, resulting in an immigration judge ordering him removed from the country in absentia, ICE said.

All makes sense so far, right? Illegal alien and gun bad, right? The ICE spokeslady even called NOLA a sanctuary city, which ruffled some feathers.

“The New Orleans Police Department verified Mr. Temah’s employment eligibility through ICE’s E-Verify system prior to hiring and was never notified of any ICE detainer,” the spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “New Orleans is not a sanctuary city, and NOPD does not control jail operations or detainer decisions, which fall under the Sheriff’s Office.” Fox News II

Does this sound familiar? Should – TAH just reported last summer about a reserve cop in Maine who was arrested for trying to buy a gun – the Maine police said he was OK’ed by the ICE database, too. (He voluntarily left the country, if anyone is curious.) Sure hope someone in N’orleans kept a record of Temah’s clearance.