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  • Supreme Court debates if religious parents can opt kids out of LGBT school lessons

    04/22/2025 7:30:40 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 04/22/2025 | Michael Gryboski
    The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing the extent to which parents can opt their children out of public school instruction in which LGBT-themed books are read as part of the curriculum. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday morning in the case of Mahmoud, Tamer, et al. v. Taylor, Thomas W., et al. The case centers on whether public school parents in Montgomery County, Maryland — the state's largest school district — have a constitutional right under the First Amendment to exempt their children from lessons that feature LGBT ideology. Eric Baxter of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty...
  • BREAKING: Colorado Biden Judge Bars Trump Admin From Deporting Venezuelan Illegals Under Alien Enemies Act

    04/22/2025 2:30:34 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 95 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 22, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    On Tuesday, a federal judge in Denver, Colorado, blocked another round of potential deportations under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). US District Judge Charlotte Sweeney, a Biden appointee, granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the removal of aliens from the district of Colorado. The anti-American ACLU and the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network said during a hearing on Monday that two Venezuelan illegals were facing deportation to El Salvador’s CECOT prison under the Alien Enemies Act. ..... Snip..... The judge also said the Alien Enemies Act doesn’t apply to this case because the United States is not at war...
  • Justice Kavanaugh Shocked State Founded On Religious Liberty Now Won’t Let Parents Opt Kids Out Of LGBTQ Storybooks

    04/22/2025 1:46:05 PM PDT · by CFW · 47 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 4/22/25 | Katelynn Richardson
    Justice Brett Kavanaugh expressed surprise Tuesday that schools in a state founded on religious liberty are now banning parents with religious objections from opting their young children out of LGBTQ storybook lessons. In Mahmoud v. Taylor, a majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready to side with parents who want to opt their children out of Montgomery County Board of Education’s mandated storybook readings involving pronouns, transgender children and pride parades. “I guess I am a bit mystified, as a lifelong resident of the county, how it came to this,” Kavanaugh said during oral arguments. “Can you just tell us...
  • “When Must We Kill Them?”: George Mason Student Captures the Growing Violent Ideation on the Left

    04/22/2025 6:57:08 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 112 replies
    jonathanturley.com ^ | 04 19 2025 | Jonathan Turley
    There is controversy at George Mason University after Nicholas Decker, an economics PhD student published an essay asking “When Must We Kill Them?” in reference to Trump and his supporters. The essay captures the growing violent ideation on the left, fueled by rage rhetoric from politicians and commentators. The danger is that, for some on the extremes of our society, the question is not “when must we kill them?” but “when can we kill them?” On his Substack “Homo Economicus,” Decker warns that “evil has come to America” and that Trump is “engaged in barbarism” and seeking “to destroy the...
  • Republicans In Congress Look To Stop ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat

    04/22/2025 6:46:28 AM PDT · by george76 · 67 replies
    Federalist ^ | April 21, 2025 | M.D. Kittle
    Bills would check district courts from issuing nationwide injunctions like those issued against President Trump’s executive orders.. In the opening three months of President Trump’s ambitious “flood the zone” second term, we have witnessed activist federal courts issue a tsunami of national injunctions against the executive branch. Rep. Bob Onder, R-Mo., recently described the third branch’s overzealous blocking of Trump’s executive orders as a “judicial coup d’etat.” The Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports there had already been at least 17 national injunctions against the Trump administration between Inauguration Day and March 27 — on everything from the firing of federal...
  • JUST IN: More Info on Hegseth Signal Chat Leaked to Fake News Media

    04/22/2025 11:16:04 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 57 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | April 22, 2025 | Staff
    Another day, another leak. More information on the second Hegseth Signal chat group was leaked to NBC News. As previously reported, three Hegseth aides placed on leave amid a probe into leaks were officially fired last Friday. Following the terminations, contents of another Signal group chat with Pete Hegseth were leaked to The Wall Street Journal. “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created a Signal chat with his wife, his personal lawyer and others, and posted sensitive military information into it, people familiar with the matter said Sunday, a revelation that has added to the increasing scrutiny of the novice leader,” The...
  • Stephen Miller: Democrats Defend ‘Infinity Process’ for Illegal Migrants

    04/22/2025 10:44:39 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 36 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 22 Apr 2025 | Neil Munro
    Democrats are trying to prevent immigration enforcement via “an extraordinary amount of individualized adjudication” at a level that “no American citizen” receives, President Donald Trump’s top aide Stephen Miller said.“This isn’t due process — this is called ‘infinity process’ to keep you here forever!” Miller told Newsmax on April 21.Miller’s “Infinity Process” comments echoed President Trump’s message:How can Biden let Millions of Criminals into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted, with no Legal authority to do so, yet I, in order to make up for this assault to our Nation, am expected to go through a lengthy Legal process, separately,...
  • Week 13 Wins: President Trump’s Relentless Pursuit of Prosperity, Opportunity

    04/22/2025 9:38:50 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 30 replies
    Whitehouse.gov ^ | April 18, 2025 | The White House
    Another week of successes for the American people is in the books as President Donald J. Trump continues to deliver on his promises.Here is a non-comprehensive list of wins in week 13:Americans continued to see early results of President Trump’s commitment to American manufacturing and job growth.Abbott Laboratories announced it will spend $500 million on its Illinois and Texas facilities.NVIDIA announced it will manufacture its AI supercomputers entirely in the U.S. as part of its pledge to produce $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the U.S. over the next four years.Honda Motor Co. announced plans to shift production of the...
  • Rubio Announces Major State Dept Reorganization

    04/22/2025 8:23:23 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 30 replies
    Newsmax ^ | April 22, 2025 | Rooters Sewer Service
    The Trump administration is reorganizing the State Department to eliminate offices it considers redundant and cut some programs it says do not align with U.S. interests, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday. "This approach will empower the Department from the ground up, from the bureaus to the embassies," Rubio said in a statement, describing the moves as part of President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda. "Region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality, redundant offices will be removed, and non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America’s core national interests will cease to exist," Rubio said. Work that fell to...
  • Trump mulls $5K ‘baby bonus’ for moms in bid to reverse declining birth rates: report

    04/22/2025 8:12:40 AM PDT · by thegagline · 66 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 04/22/2025 | Isabel Keene
    The Trump administration has been mulling ways to get more Americans married and having kids — including a $5,000 “baby bonus” for every new mom after delivery, according to a report. White House officials have recently been brainstorming plans to tackle the declining birth and marriage rates — and push more Americans toward the traditional family values of Trump and his allies. Policy experts and advocates for boosting the birth rate have been meeting with White House aides to come up with plans to convince more women to have babies, four people who have been part of the meetings told...
  • Supreme Court Opinions - [April 22, 2025]

    04/22/2025 6:48:33 AM PDT · by CFW · 31 replies
    scotusblog ^ | 4/22/25 | staff
    This morning at 10:00, the Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions from cases from the October 2024 term.A list of those cases can be found here: October 2024 casesScotusblog will be live-blogging the opinion release and we will be following along.
  • RESTORING AMERICAN SEAFOOD COMPETITIVENESS

    04/21/2025 11:02:55 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 24 replies
    Whitehouse.gov ^ | April 17, 2025 | The Whitehouse
    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Background. The United States controls one of the largest and most abundant ocean resources in the world, with over 4 million square miles of prime fishing grounds. With this vast resource and centuries of hard work from American fishermen, our Nation has the greatest seafood in the world.Most American fish stocks are healthy and have viable markets. Despite these opportunities, seafood is one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the United States. Federal overregulation...
  • 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

    04/21/2025 11:00:48 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 6 replies
    Whitehouse.gov ^ | The Whitehouse
    By the President of the United States of AmericaA ProclamationTwo and a half centuries ago, a small band of minutemen answered the call of freedom in the legendary Battles of Lexington and Concord, an epic tale of American strength and the first major armed conflict of the Revolutionary War. We honor the memories, remember the sacrifices, and summon the courage of every hero of liberty who gallantly shed his blood for the cause of independence on April 19, 1775.After years of intensifying frictions and escalating hostility between the British Crown and the American Colonies, all avenues to peace and diplomacy...
  • Post Falls woman files tort claim with Kootenai County clerk over town hall removal (Idaho)

    04/21/2025 10:15:42 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 18 replies
    Coeur d'Alene Press ^ | April 21, 2025 | Bill Buley
    An Idaho woman filed a notice of tort claim Monday with the Kootenai County clerk saying county officials and others violated her constitutional rights when she was removed from a town hall meeting in February. “Town halls are intended to foster conversation and discourse across the aisle, which is why I am deeply alarmed that private security dragged me out of the public meeting for simply exercising my fundamental right of free speech,” Teresa Borrenpohl said in a press release. The tort claim says Borrenpohl is seeking damages of at least $5 million. Wendy Olson, an attorney for Borrenpohl, said...
  • The More Christian That America Is, The Better Off American Jews Will Be

    04/21/2025 5:22:04 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 04/21/2025 | Josh Hammer
    If wokeism, Islamism, and global neoliberalism are to be decisively rejected, then Americans should support fortifying the Christian church.This is an adapted excerpt from Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West by Josh Hammer. Used with permission from Radius Book Group, a division of Diversion Publishing.In June 2024, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law making his state the first to mandate display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms from kindergarten through university. As Landry, himself a Catholic, said before signing the bill, “If you want to respect the...
  • Left-wing cofounder of group targeting conservative media ‘stepping down’ after funding, legal challenges: ‘Marketer at heart’

    04/21/2025 4:48:41 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 21, 2025 | Josh Christenson
    The left-wing cofounder of a group that received gushing coverage for its efforts to “defund” conservative media will step away from the advocacy organization at the end of next month, The Post can reveal, following a legal challenge and attempts to rebrand in the wake of President Trump’s return to the White House. Nandini Jammi — whose Check My Ads Institute seeks to yank advertiser funding from right-wing figures and outlets purportedly spreading “disinformation” — announced on her LinkedIn “with enormous pride” that she was “stepping down.” The move comes on the heels of a funding shortfall amid impending legal...
  • The Great Consternation

    04/21/2025 2:14:13 PM PDT · by little jeremiah · 14 replies
    Clusterf**k Nation ^ | Apr 21, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler
    “Due process is when only one side has to follow the law and if you point out that this is a suicidal standard you’re a fascist” — Auron MacIntyre A great consternation boils and bubbles across the land as the sinister forces of Jacobin lawfare keep up their legalistic battery against the nation. You better believe that the country will not stand for much more of this lunatic judicial coup aimed at wrecking the authority of law itself, and with that, any chance for sane management of our affairs. On Saturday, the activist org Indivisible, sponsored by Linked-In billionaire Reid...
  • Habeas Corpses

    04/21/2025 1:52:03 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 23 replies
    Coffee & Covid ^ | April 21st 2025 | Jeff Childers
    The U.S. Constitution mentions an archaic, oddly-named privilege called the writ of habeas corpus in its Article I, Section 9, Clause 2. Let’s read Clause 2 together: “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” President Lincoln partially suspended the writ in certain key military corridors during the Civil War. It led to a showdown with the Supreme Court in a famous case called Ex parte Merryman. Merryman, who lived in Maryland, was arrested by the U.S. military in May, 1861, for...
  • More congressional Democrats go to El Salvador over deportation of Abrego Garcia

    04/21/2025 8:41:17 AM PDT · by bitt · 38 replies
    https://justthenews.com/ ^ | April 21, 2025 | Charlotte Hazard
    The House members are Reps. Robert Garcia, of California; Maxwell Frost, of Florida; Maxine Dexter, of Oregon; and Yassamin Ansari, of Arizona. Four House Democrats have traveled to El Salvador to, in the words of one member, remind Americans that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran migrant who had been living in Maryland, was wrongfully deported to his home country. “While Donald Trump continues to defy the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held illegally in El Salvador after being wrongfully deported,” said California Rep. Robert Garcia, one of the four. “That is why we’re here – to...
  • Chicago’s ‘sanctuary city’ policy causes harm to other states, 23 attorneys general say in letter seeking to have policy struck down

    04/21/2025 5:53:49 AM PDT · by Salman · 10 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | April 20, 2025 | Tim Hecke
    Attorneys general representing 23 states have joined forces in opposition to Chicago and Illinois “sanctuary” laws that prohibit local law enforcement officers from helping with the enforcement of federal immigration statutes. In an amicus brief filed in support of the federal government’s lawsuit against the city and state, the group argues that Illinois and Chicago are causing harm to their states by obstructing the enforcement of immigration law. “The national immigration crisis has rendered ‘every state … a border state,’” Ohio Solicitor General T. Elliot Gaiser wrote in a letter signed by 22 colleagues, including attorneys general from Indiana, Missouri,...