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I can't help but feel deeply frustrated by this recent Supreme Court decision, where a slim 5-4 majority has given the green light to federal agents to cut the razor wire installed by Texas along the US-Mexico border. It's not just about the wire; it's about the fundamental responsibility of those in power to ensure the safety and well-being of American citizens. The decision seems to undermine the very essence of border security, and it leaves me questioning the commitment of our leaders to enforce the laws that are meant to protect us. The border is not just a line...

What happened to the 1995 ruling my client won in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña? .. The corporate media are just now discovering what I learned in 2015, that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), under the direction of President Barack Obama, hires air traffic controllers (ATC) on the basis of race. Of course, President Biden, as part of his commitment to “equity,” took it further. His FAA “identified” certain disabilities as deserving of “special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” including “epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, [and] psychiatric disability.” How in the world did it come to this? Twenty-nine years ago this...

More than half of black Americans approve of the Supreme Court striking down race-based admissions, according to a Tuesday Gallup poll. The Supreme Court ruled in June that race-based admissions in two separate cases at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) violated the Equal Prote...

The Supreme Court declined to rule on two court cases Monday involving energy development, while a federal appeals court blasted the Biden administration’s appliance efficiency standards. Home appliances The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday sided with 11 red states that sued the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) over its promulgated efficiency standards for dishwashers and washing machines, ruling that “it is unclear the DOE has any statutory authority to regulate water use in dishwashers and clothes washers.” The court also stated in its opinion that, even if it does have that authority and the agency had...

The U.S. Supreme Court granted on Friday an emergency request allowing Idaho to enforce its near-total abortion ban in hospital emergency rooms, which temporarily denies a Biden administration effort to force hospitals to perform abortions. The Court agreed to hear arguments in Idaho v. United States in April 2024 to decide whether the Biden administration’s new “guidance” of a 1986 federal law requires abortions in certain emergencies and thus supersedes Idaho’s law that criminalizes most abortions in the state. Liberty Counsel will file an amicus brief next month in this case. Idaho’s “Defense of Life Act” was enacted in 2020...

Hundreds of cases, including Trump’s, will be affected if the top court strikes down the government’s use of an ‘obstructing an official proceeding’ charge. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Supreme Court will strike down the use of a key federal law in the Biden administration’s ongoing prosecutions of Jan. 6 defendants and in the process shut down the government’s case against hundreds of defendants, legal experts predict. If the top court finds an Enron-era obstruction law—18 U.S. Code Section 1512(c)—is being used improperly against the defendants, their charges are likely to be thrown out. At issue is the evidence-tampering provision that appears in...

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said on Sunday that U.S. Supreme Court justices appointed by former President Trump don’t owe him “one thing” and should not treat him differently when they hear arguments in his appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court decision removing the former president from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court announced late Friday it would hear Trump’s appeal of the Colorado decision, which affirmed a lower court ruling that Trump engaged in insurrection but ruled that meant, under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause,” Trump could not hold public office again.

The Republican National Committee joined 27 GOP state attorneys general to file briefs Friday urging the Supreme Court to strike down the Colorado High Court's recent decision to keep Trump off the primary ballot because of dubious claims he violated the 14th Amendment and incited an "insurrection" on J6. As we reported earlier, on Friday afternoon SCOTUS agreed to hear the case, which is expected to be ruled on relatively quickly.READ: BREAKING: SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Trump Colorado Ballot Ban CaseThe RNC filed a 34-page amicus brief, while the state AGs filed a 22-pager of their own. The RNC warned...

The Supreme Court will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off state presidential ballots after the Colorado Supreme Court found he had violated the Constitution’s so-called “Insurrection Clause.” In a brief order Friday evening, the high court announced it will hear arguments Feb. 8 in the 77-year-old’s challenge to the Centennial State ruling, which temporarily removed from the state’s March 5 Republican primary ballot. With voters already casting ballots in primaries and caucuses across the country by the time the case is heard, a decision is likely to follow quickly. The Colorado decision, handed down Dec. 19,...

President Trump’s attorneys on Thursday asked the Court to hold Special Counsel Jack Smith in contempt for violating Judge Chutkan’s order staying all proceedings in the January 6 case against Trump. “President Donald J. Trump respectfully moves this Court for an order to show cause why prosecutors Jack Smith, Molly Gaston, and Thomas Windom (collectively, the “prosecutors”) should not be held in contempt for violating the Court’s order “stay[ing] any further proceedings that would move this case towards trial or impose additional burdens of litigation on Defendant.” Doc. 186 at 2 (the “Stay Order”).” “The Stay Order is clear, straightforward,...

The Michigan Supreme Court denied an attempt Wednesday to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot, bolstering the chances that the US Supreme Court will soon hear an appeal of a Colorado ruling that disqualified the former president from that state’s primary. In a brief order, Michigan’s high court said it was “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court” after an earlier appeal sought to make Trump ineligible under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The plaintiffs claimed Trump’s efforts to overturn President Biden’s victory that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol...

VIDEOFirst he wanted the Supreme Court to hear Trump's appeal on presidential immunity on an expedited basis. And now that they refused to hear it before it is reviewed by the DC appeals court, MSNBC's legal analyst Glenn Kirschner is DESPERATE that the Supreme Court NOT hear it at all.Trump's legal strategy of delay, delay, DELAY... until after election day is a beautiful thing to watch. The Democrats, Media, and Deep State thought that by employing Lawfare against the President that would keep him from winning in November 2024. Instead President Trump has turned lemons into lemonade. The more Lawfare...

The amazing thing about Politico's story on Thursday by global editor-in-chief John F. Harris and senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein about a couple of Trump cases heading to the Supreme court is the lack of detailed discussions of the legal aspects involved in "John Roberts, Donald Trump and the ghosts of Bush v. Gore."Why? Because Harris and Gerstein are promoting the highly disingenuous idea that Chief Justice John Roberts, who they claim has a court credibility problem, should steer his fellow justices to deliver a split decision because of PR optics. I kid you not.

VIDEODearest Goddess Gaia! Why has thou forsaken us by NOT fast tracking the Trump appeal as our beloved Jack Smith so desperately desired? As a result of FRUSTRATING delay delay DELAY it now appears as if there will be no J6 trial on March 4 as was originally scheduled. In fact there might not even be a J6 trial BEFORE the 2024 election due to Orange Man Bad pulling out yet more delays out of his bag of tricks. Oh woe is us! We were guaranteed a Trump trial and conviction before the election by the gods of Lawfare! What...

Below is my column in The Messenger on the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election. There are now over a dozen states considering similar demands from advocates to prevent voters from being able to vote for the current leading candidate for the presidency. In California, Lieutenant Gov. Eleni Kounalakis publicly called upon the Secretary of State to “explore every legal option” to follow the same path as Colorado. It is a temptation that is irresistible for Democratic politicians in a race to the bottom of our rage politics. Here is the column: he...

In his book Profiles of Courage, John F. Kennedy discussed figures who answered the call of history and how such defining moments are “an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.” That moment will now be presented to nine justices of the United States Supreme Court after a divided decision of the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald Trump in the 2024 election.The test for the U.S. Supreme Court is not just what they should do, but how they should do it. As an institution, the Court is often called upon to seize such moments to bring...

Greg Kelly weighs in on Colorado eliminating former President Donald Trump from the presidential election ballot, reads the ruling from the case in Colorado, rips apart NYC Mayor Eric Adams, and more on NEWSMAX.

the Trump campaign has weighed in on the Supreme Court’s outrageous ruling. Spokesman Steven Cheung unleashed a fiery response blasting the Court, Biden, and the radical left Soros group who brought the suit. He also vowed the Trump campaign would take the case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Unsurprisingly, the all-Democrat-appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, supporting a Soros-funded, left-wing group’s scheme to interfere in an election on behalf of Crooked Joe Biden by removing President Trump’s name from the ballot and eliminating the rights of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate of their choice....

On Thursday, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a high school teacher who was fired for refusing to use pronouns that didn’t match a student’s biological sex could have his lawsuit against the local school board reinstated. Peter Vlaming taught French in the West Point School District for seven years. A female student claiming to be male had a new preferred name. Vlaming used the new preferred name but simply avoided using the student’s preferred pronouns. The school demanded he use the student’s preferred pronouns, even when the student was not present. [snip] The Virginia Supreme Court agreed that the...

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 As I reported several days ago as we awaited SCOTUS decision on 1512c2—this represents a collision course with Jack Smith. SCOTUS likely will hear oral arguments in March or April—the same time Trump is on trial for same charge. (If March 4 trial date sticks which seems impossible now) But let’s say it sticks. And Trump is convicted by DC jury. Then SCOTUS comes down with decision in June that reverses how DOJ (and Smith) interpreted 1512c2. The same month Judge Chutkan would be prepared to sentence Trump.