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 My son has narrated the last book I wrote. Please consider listening to it and encouraging others to do so too. (Click HERE) World & Nation 'Denied': Justice Thomas flatly turns away Florida AG's demand to halt federal judge's injunction he was held in contempt for defying  Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas and at least four of his colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, though it's unclear how many, unceremoniously declined to disturb a federal judge's order blocking enforcement of SB 4-C, a law that created state criminal penalties for illegal immigration in Florida. The Wednesday denial of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's application for a stay of U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams' preliminary injunction pending appeal in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was only one line, containing no further explanation or reasoning from SCOTUS. "The application for stay presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied," the order said. In April, Williams, a Barack Obama appointee, sided with the plaintiffs, the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Farmworker Association of Florida, granting the temporary restraining order and the injunction they requested. Williams was persuaded by the argument that SB 4-C amounted to an unconstitutional state assertion of immigration enforcement powers that belong to the federal government. Texas business community joins hands after devastating floods  Communities and major industries in Central Texas were recently hit hard by deadly flash flooding. As the area starts working to recover from the disaster, the local business community and others have been turning out to help. Areas in Central Texas faced severe flooding during the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, which was brought on by heavy rainfall, devastating residents and businesses alike. At least 119 people have died. AccuWeather reported Monday that the damage and resulting economic loss from the flooding could be in the $18-22 billion range overall. Tom Homan rips violent clashes at California pot farm where illegal minors were working, blames Dems’ ‘Nazi’ rhetoric  Border Czar Tom Homan on Friday angrily condemned the violence at a California pot farm as proof anti-ICE protests will turn deadly, blaming the inflammatory rhetoric of Democrats comparing agents to Nazis. Homan spoke out the morning after protesters were seen hurling rocks — and one even appeared to fire a gun — at agents stamping down on a massive marijuana operation where they found 10 illegal-migrant juveniles, eight of whom were there without an adult. “What happened in California is just another example of protesters becoming criminals, and they’ve been emboldened by even members of Congress who compare ICE to Nazis and racists and terrorists,” Homan said on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning. “I said months ago, it’s going to end up with a loss of life — and we had one the other day in Texas, and it’s not over,” he said, referencing the gunman who opened fire on border patrol agents walking into work in McAllen Monday. California clinic staffers seek to shield ICE agents from detaining Honduran landscaper  Staff at a California surgical center were captured on video trying to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting a Honduran landscaper this week, with one telling a federal officer "you don’t even have a warrant for him." The tense scene unfolded Tuesday at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center, located about 30 miles east of Los Angeles. "Get your hands off of him," one staff member in blue scrubs is heard saying, shielding the man from an immigration agent. "Let him go. You need to get out." The Department of Homeland Security said on X that ICE officers "conducted a targeted enforcement operation to arrest two illegal aliens" and "Officers in clearly marked ICE bulletproof vests approached the illegal alien targets as they exited a vehicle." Federal Grand Jury Indicts Democratic Congresswoman  Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver of New Jersey has been indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts of “forcibly impeding and interfering” with federal law enforcement officers over a confrontation outside an immigration detention center. The incident unfolded at Delaney Hall, a privately run United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark during a congressional delegation visit that included McIver, fellow Democratic lawmakers Bonnie Watson Coleman and Rob Menendez and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Knewz.com has learned that the group’s arrival coincided with a protest against the Donald Trump administration’s immigration crackdown that was taking place outside the facility. According to an indictment, tensions escalated after a Department of Homeland Security special agent informed Mayor Baraka that he was not authorized to enter a secured area and attempted to arrest him for trespassing. Prosecutors allege that McIver intervened to prevent the arrest, first shouting “Hell no!” and then physically obstructing the officer. She is accused of using her forearm to strike one officer and attempting to restrain him during a second arrest attempt. She also allegedly pushed past an ICE deportation officer, striking him with her forearms. A press release from the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office alleged, “During her continued attempts to thwart the arrest, McIver slammed her forearm into the body of one law enforcement officer and also reached out and tried to restrain that officer by forcibly grabbing him. McIver also used each of her forearms to forcibly strike a second officer.” 'I know the names': Former Trump advisor accuses him of suppressing key Epstein documents  Alan Dershowitz, a former Constitutional advisor to President Donald Trump, alleged in a bombshell disclosure that key documents tied to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein are being withheld — not to protect victims, but to shield powerful figures. “I know for a fact [Epstein] documents are being suppressed and they're being suppressed to protect individuals. I know the names of the individuals, I know why they're being suppressed," he said on the Sean Spicer Show in a newly resurfaced interview that originally aired in March of this year. Dershowitz continued: "I know who's suppressing them, but I'm bound by confidentiality from a judge and cases, and I can't disclose what I know." Four signs Iran and Israel risk return to war  Tensions between Iran and Israel remain high following their 12-day war in June—their most direct and destructive confrontation to date. The conflict began on June 13 with Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear and military targets, triggering a major Iranian response involving hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles aimed at Israel. On June 22, the U.S. launched air and missile strikes on key Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran retaliated by targeting a U.S. base in Qatar. Although a ceasefire was reached on June 24, deep strategic and nuclear tensions remain unresolved. Trump Best Friend to Israel Ever in WH  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has never had a friend or supporter to Israel in the White House like President Donald Trump, telling Newsmax on Thursday that the cooperation has been "tremendous." Netanyahu joined "The Record With Greta Van Susteren" at Blair House in Washington, weeks after Israel and the United States coordinated on efforts to bomb Iran's nuclear production sites. "It's extraordinary. We've never had such a friend, such a supporter of Israel, a Jewish state, in the White House," Netanyahu said. "President Trump has been — what can I tell you — tremendous. I mean, and the cooperation is tremendous. Look at what our cooperation produces. Look at what happens when there's no daylight between an American president and an Israeli prime minister." Netanyahu said that the bombings set back Iran's nuclear program "years."
Top US Diplomat Rubio: 'High Probability' Trump, Xi Will Meet  U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said there was "high probability" of a meeting between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, but no date has been discussed. Rubio was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a regional meeting in Malaysia.
DOJ files suit against Minnesota over tuition benefits for illegal immigrants  The Justice Department has launched an investigation into Minnesota "to determine whether it has engaged in race- and sex-based discrimination in its state employment hiring practices." The inquiry is the Trump administration’s latest clash with Gov. Tim Walz’s state following his failed 2024 vice presidential bid. It comes as the Minnesota Department of Human Services is rolling out a new policy demanding supervisors "provide a hiring justification when seeking to hire a non-underrepresented candidate when hiring for a vacancy in a job category with underrepresentation" -- or else they face possible disciplinary action, including termination. "Minnesotans deserve to have their state government employees hired based on merit, not based on illegal DEI," Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement. Charlie Kirk warns ‘Mamdani effect’ metastasizing in the Democratic Party with ‘grievance-based politics’ Turning Point USA founder predicts Democrats will 'double down' on anti-Western agenda rather than moderate positions  Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk sounded the alarm on Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s run for New York City mayor, Friday, and why young people need to choose optimism over "grievance-based politics." Kirk joined "Fox & Friends" where he was asked about Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan who has been tying himself to Mamdani, and what a socialist mayor in New York City would mean for the Democratic Party. "The Mamdani effect is going to metastasize in the Democrat Party. Now, how successful it will be in a general election, I don’t know, I still have my skepticism. But the Mamdani effect is grievance-based politics, playing into people’s bitterness, and also playing into the economic disorder that Biden left us," Kirk said. JONATHAN TURLEY: Justice Jackson plays pundit to dismay of SCOTUS colleagues I wrote recently about the chilling jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has drawn the ire of colleagues in opinions for her rhetoric and extreme positions. Many have expressed alarm over her adherence to what has been described by one as an "imperial judiciary" model of jurisprudence. Now, it appears that Jackson's increasingly controversial opinions are serving a certain cathartic purpose for the far-left Biden appointee. "I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, and that's what I try to do," Jackson told ABC News. Her colleagues have not entirely welcomed that sense of license. The histrionic and hyperbolic rhetoric has increased in Jackson's opinions, which at times portray her colleagues as abandoning not just the Constitution but democracy itself. Fresh proof that America dodged a Kamala bullet despite her kid-gloves treatment from the media In one more telling lowlight of the 2024 campaign, even a TikTok star felt obliged to protect Kamala Harris from … Kamala Harris. Kareem Rahma, host of the TikTok phenomenon “Subway Takes,” just told Forbes that his summer 2024 interview with Harris got so “confusing and weird” that he agreed with her team to scrap the whole thing. In advance, she reportedly said she’d talk about how she doesn’t like to take her shoes off on airplanes, but Rahma says she instead pivoted to a “really, really bad” take that “made no sense”: Bacon is a spice. But everyone will have to imagine that particular word salad for themselves, as Rahma opted not to post the footage for fear he’d get blamed if Harris lost. |
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