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Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to defend against the “assault on the rule of law” by President Trump, who he accused of “targeting his adversaries.”A federal judge warned of an “existential threat to democracy” in a searing first-person essay published on Sunday, saying he had stepped down from the bench to speak out against President Trump. He accused Mr. Trump of “using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment.”The judge, Mark L. Wolf, wrote in The Atlantic magazine that...

Far-right influencers have been hinting in recent weeks that they have finally found a venue — Miami — and a federal prosecutor — Jason A. Reding Quiñones — to pursue long-promised charges of a “grand conspiracy” against President Trump’s adversaries.Their theory of the case, still unsupported by the evidence: A cabal of Democrats and “deep-state” operatives, possibly led by former President Barack Obama, has worked to destroy Mr. Trump in a yearslong plot spanning the inquiry into his 2016 campaign to the charges he faced after leaving office.But that narrative, which has been promoted in general terms by Mr. Trump...

A Virginia woman is in a whole lot of trouble with the law after she allegedly harassed the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller, and his family. The woman reportedly distributed flyers in their neighborhood that labeled him a "Nazi," causing the Millers to move into military housing for protection. But wait, you haven't heard the best part. It turns out this woman, Barbara Wien, is a retired university professor of peace studies. Yes, you read that correctly.(snip) According to court documents, Wien allegedly posted fliers in Miller's neighborhood that included not...

A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, was unconstitutional. On Sunday, US District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, temporarily extended an order blocking the administration from deploying troops to The Rose City, saying the government failed to justify the move. In the Sunday evening order, Immergut temporarily blocked “Defendant Secretary of Defense [Pete] Hegseth from implementing” memorandums that authorized the federalization and deployment of National Guard members from Oregon, Texas and California into Portland. The injunction remained in effect until Friday. Friday’s 106-page ruling makes the...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani wasted no time calling out President Donald Trump, formally kicking off the battle that will likely define relations between the 34-year-old mayor and the president whose celebrity is tied to the city. "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up!" Mamdani, a Democrat, said during a Tuesday night speech to a raucous crowd of supporters shortly after being declared the victor.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurling a sandwich at a federal agent was an act of protest for Washington, D.C., resident Sean Charles Dunn. A jury must decide if it was also a federal crime.“No matter who you are, you can’t just go around throwing stuff at people because you’re mad,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Parron told jurors on Tuesday at the start of Dunn’s trial on a misdemeanor assault charge.Dunn doesn’t dispute that he threw his submarine-style sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent outside a nightclub on the night of Aug. 10. It was an “exclamation point” for...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., claimed in a new interview that the Trump administration is being "cruel" pushing for SNAP beneficiaries to work in order to receive public assistance. **SNIP** The Trump administration reportedly agreed on Monday to allocate billions of emergency dollars to partially fund SNAP benefits this month in response to a federal judge’s order. This comes amid a larger debate about SNAP programs and their beneficiaries, particularly as the Trump administration claims such public funds are being abused by illegal immigrants. After playing a clip of Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins talking about the Trump administration’s plans to...

Former Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., condemned President Donald Trump as a "vile creature" and the worst person on the planet in an interview with CNN published Monday. "He’s just a vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the earth," she said. "You think he’s the worst thing on the face of the earth?" interviewer Elex Michaelson asked. "I do, yeah. I do," Pelosi affirmed. Voting is underway for California’s Proposition 50, in a special election that will have a significant effect on next year's battle for the U.S. House majority. California voters are deciding whether to pass the proposition...

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Pakistan-born Mussab Ali is seeking to become mayor of Jersey City, running on a Democrat platform that includes affordable housing for artists, pushing for "economic equity," free buses, and funding "legal defense for immigrants facing deportation." In a recent campaign video posted to social media, Ali said he was the "black Zohran Mamdani." Ali was born in Pakistan in 1997 and came to the US at the age of three with his family. Ali was the youngest elected official in Jersey City’s history at the age of 20 and was the youngest Muslim in elected office at the time. Ali...

Summary Tear gas, car chases. The immigration crackdown in Chicago grows increasingly heated In Chicago neighborhoods, locals keep vigil for ICE operations Sounding the alarm on immigration crackdown by whistle and messaging apps CHICAGO, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The immigration agents' tear gas grenades clinked and then exploded against the concrete, shrouding the block in plumes of white gas. The dozen or so residents at the scene only screamed louder."We don't want you here," yelled Rae Lindenberg. The 32-year-old, who works in marketing, ran out of her apartment when she heard the shrill sound of whistles. "Get out of...

A former teaching assistant who was fired by Illinois State University was arrested in a joint operation by FBI and Secret Service agents on Tuesday. Derek Lopez, 27, has been charged with threatening President Donald Trump, according to the bureau. "The arrest follows a month-long investigation coordinated with the above agencies, which also included the Illinois State University Police Department, regarding Lopez's online and in-person activities," according to an FBI memo obtained by Fox News Digital. "Lopez is alleged to have recently made threats against a sitting President, which prompted the current federal charges." "The threats against President Trump allegedly...

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby Zohran Mamdani’s intern Arzoo Malik is calling for a Holy War through Jihad and martyrdom: “This is all jihad, this is all ibada, and this is all counted for by Allah. How committed am I to this? What am I willing to sacrifice for this noble cause?”

The first immigration case NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani may have to confront if elected could be his own – as two House Republicans push the Justice Department to probe his path to citizenship and possibly boot him from the US. Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) last week demanded the feds “review every naturalization of the past 30 years – starting with Mamdani.” “I just think we need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens, and if there is any fraud or any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport,” Fine told the Post.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville caused outrage and renewed partisan tensions this week after remarks in which he described a “fantasy” scenario of public humiliation for supporters of President Donald Trump and institutions that align with him. The comments came during an appearance on the podcast Politics War Room with co-host Al Hunt, and quickly drew attention for their provocative imagery and historical reference points. Carville accused Trump of being a “tin-pot tyrant” with “no use for democracy” and warned that companies, universities and law firms who “bend the knee” to his agenda will face more than political consequences —...

In a reckless and malicious move that’s drawing fire from conservatives, Illinois State Representative Margaret Croke sent out an email on Friday listing detailed descriptions of vehicles suspected to belong to ICE agents operating in Chicago neighborhoods. The flyer, titled “Updated List of ICE Vehicles Seen Today,” includes make, model, color, and partial license plate info for cars believed to belong to agents working in the area. Croke urged recipients to report suspicious activity to hotlines, claiming that ICE actions are “unlawful and undemocratic” and offering resources to connect illegal aliens with attorneys or social services. Conservatives, including the popular...

They should be put in orange pajamas, and they should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. And the public should be invited to spit on them."Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville is fantasizing about having President Donald Trump’s “collaborators” publicly humiliated and paraded in the streets — and he says that “the public should be invited to spit on them.” Carville, the brains behind former President Bill Clinton’s “it’s the economy, stupid,” was speaking with Al Hunt on his “Politics War Room” podcast when he laid out what he referred to as a “fantasy dream” sequence of events that he’d like to...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” DNC Chair Ken Martin stated that the Democratic Party’s job right now is to win elections, and if “we are truly in a dictatorship and an authoritarian regime here has completely shredded the Constitution, then party doesn’t matter, and then elections don’t matter and then the resistance looks completely different” “and we may be nearing” that moment, but for now, their job is winning elections. Martin said, “[L]et me say to you, what is the role of the Democratic Party in this moment? Our job is to win, to win elections. That is...

(ZeroHedge)—Los Angeles schoolteacher and prominent anti-ICE activist Ron Gochez has suggested that if the Trump administration continues to round up illegal aliens, they may wind up on the receiving end of a bullet. “This is South Central Los Angeles,” Gochez told a crowd at a Tuesday evening anti-ICE protest. “They are not the only ones with guns in this city. They’re not the only ones and don’t forget that.” Click here for video.

Bill Nye warned No Kings protesters they are facing a possible “end of our republic” thanks to President Donald Trump and his “group of confederates.” Nye was one of the speakers at a Washington, D.C. No Kings rally. The former host of the educational series Bill Nye the Science Guy received big applause from the crowd when he was introduced at the anti-Trump event, and he went on to accuse the current administration of not accepting “scientific fact.” “We are confronting the possible end to our republic,” Nye told the crowd.