Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered an icy rebuke of Hillary Clinton in a wide-ranging interview.
Barrett was part of the conservative majority that voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, ending decades of precedent upholding a constitutional right to an abortion. Democrats, including Clinton, have said the Supreme Court's move unsettled the legal foundations of other rights that were established by the courts, such as same-sex marriage.
The Supreme Court has faced mounting criticism as it has turned to the right since Trump's first term, when Barrett was seated along with two other conservatives. Democrats, the media, and the court's own liberal justices have accused the Supreme Court of acting as a rubber stamp for Trump and his supposed war on "our democracy."
In a new CBS interview promoting her book, Barrett emphasized that the court's role is to interpret the law, regardless of what the public wants - even famous people like Clinton.
"So when Hillary Clinton, for example, says what’s next, she said, ‘my prediction is the court will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion,’'" interviewer Norah O'Donnell said.
"I think people who criticize the court who are outside say a lot of different things, but again the point that I make in the book is that we have to tune those things out," Barrett replied.
Some conservative justices on the Supreme Court have shown interest in revisiting Obergefell v. Hodges, the historic 2015 ruling that established a right to same-sex marriage nationwide. Critics of the ruling have said it short-circuited the democratic process and effectively fashioned a new legal right without any basis in the Constitution.
The late Justice Antonin Scalia, who Barrett clerked for in the past, famously said at the time that Obergefell replaced actual legal analysis with the "mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie."
Justice Barrett cited Scalia's vigorous approach to his job as she discussed her own recent smackdown of liberal colleague Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Barrett had accused Jackson of departing from "more than two centuries' worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself" in an opinion that drew wide attention. Quoting Scalia, Barrett said, "I attack ideas. I don't attack people."
"That is the spirit in which, you know, I write my opinions," she said.
Defending her role in overturning Roe, Barrett argued the decision did not make abortion illegal but instead gave power back to the people to decide an important question.
"You know, the court was in the business of drawing a lot of those lines before, and what Dobbs says is that those calls are properly left to the democratic process. And the states have been working those out. There's been a lot of legislative activity and a lot of state constitutional activity since the decision in Dobbs was rendered," Barrett said.
Barrett clearly has no apologies about ending Roe, and she did not seem to rule out the chance - however remote it may seem - of Obergefell being overturned, too.
We wager that Clinton will not be thrilled with Barrett's comments in this interview.
President Trump was greeted with cheers and jeers in his hometown of Queens, New York on Sunday during his appearance at the U.S. Open final, where he became the second U.S. president in history to attend the event.
Leftist media outlets rated the crowd's reaction as mostly negative. A pool report from the Independent completely failed to mention that Trump received cheers at all.
"Sgt. Maj. Carla Loy stepped out and began the anthem at 2:31 p.m,” the report said. “Trump’s face appeared on the big screen at 2:32 p.m. in the stadium, promoting a wave of boos during the anthem.”
Trump was shown twice on the stadium's screens during Sunday's match at Arthur Ashe Stadium, eliciting strong reactions from inside the 24,000-seat venue, one of the largest in tennis.
The president was joined by members of his inner circle Sunday, including attorney general Pam Bondi, special envoy Steve Witkoff, press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner.
Trump was first shown on the big screens during the National Anthem, as he saluted to a mix of boos and applause.
Before the match ended, Trump was also seen tossing signed MAGA hats to supporters of his and cheering for Carlos Alcaraz, who beat Jannik Sinner in four sets.
The White House ripped "Fake News" reports that suggested Trump was not welcome.
“All these Fake News Losers do is lie because their pea-sized brains have been irreversibly destroyed by TDS,” the White House's Rapid Response account wrote in reply to the pool report. “This is how it aired on TV. Note the cheers.”
The president has made a regular habit of attending major sporting events, where his presence invariably becomes its own spectacle.
Trump's attendance at Sunday's match marked the first time he has been to the U.S. Open in a decade.
Despite the negativity from some spectators at Sunday's match, Trump had a warm response when asked about it on his return to Washington D.C.
“They were really nice — the fans were really nice. I didn’t know what to expect,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. “Usually, you would say that would be a somewhat-progressive — as they say nowadays — crowd.”
“But they were great. The fans were great,” he added.
It has been confirmed that Trump will host a UFC cage fight on the lawn of the White House next year. The over-the-top display is bound to send Trump's critics into hysterics.
Republicans came at Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) hard after he mocked the idea on Wednesday that individual rights come from God, rather than government.
"The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Sharia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities," Kaine said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
"They do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling," he added.
Our rights don’t come from government or the DNC.
They come from God. @timkaine, I suggest the Dems go back and read the words of our Founding Fathers. pic.twitter.com/QRmhTcbbOH
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 3, 2025
The comments went viral on social media and drew criticism from Senate colleague Ted Cruz (R-TX) and others who reminded him about what our Founding Fathers said when the country was created.
"If believing rights come from a higher power is 'troubling,' then Kaine’s quarrel isn’t with Ted Cruz. It’s with Jefferson, Madison, the Declaration, and America herself," Cruz wrote on X.
The hearing, which was to vet Riley Barnes, President Donald Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, saw Barnes agreeing with recent comments by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Rubio stated that the U.S. was founded on the principle "that all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our Creator; not from our laws, not from our governments."
If Kaine thinks the majority of Americans agree with him, he is sadly mistaken.
A Napolitan News poll taken by Scott Rassmussen last June showed that 78% of voters believe individuals have "natural rights" and that the government cannot take them away.
Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) chimed into the conversation to quote the Declaration of Independence to Kaine.
"Tim Kaine should remember the very state he represents gave us Thomas Jefferson who put it simply when he penned these words in the Declaration of Independence: 'unalienable rights endowed by their creator.' Today’s Democrats want us to be wholly dependent government so they can control us," she wrote on X. "Our rights are GOD-GIVEN, and as your voice in Congress, I will always fight to protect them!"
The problem with Kaine's comments is that he doesn't understand the Christian God followed by the founding fathers at all. Unlike the theocratic regimes he mentioned above, America has never used its faith in a creator as a reason to take people's rights away.
Exactly the opposite--rights granted by God cannot be taken away by a government.
Kaine's lack of understanding of this basic American principle begs the question of how he can even represent Americans in its government at all. It's easy to see why there is such chaos in the government today when its leaders don't even understand its founding or fundamental principles.
In trying to explain the latest comments by President Donald Trump about Jeffrey Epstein, Speaker Mike Johnson shocked the country on Friday by claiming that Trump was an "FBI informant" on Jeffrey Epstein.
After fielding press inquiries about his statement all weekend, Johnson clarified his statement to say that Trump helped authorities who were investigating Epstein, but backed off from his earlier "informant" statement, which implied a formal relationship between Trump and the FBI on the investigation.
What Johnson was trying to do with his original comment was explain an earlier comment by Trump that the Esptein saga was a "hoax."
The comment prompted cries of outrage by alleged victims of Epstein, but Johnson said Trump wasn't referring to Epstein's crimes as a hoax.
Instead, Trump was saying the narrative that he was involved in any of Epstein's illicit activities, which had been put forward by his political enemies, was a hoax.
To bolster his argument, Johnson said that Trump was an FBI informant.
But what he meant was that Trump had helped the FBI investigate Epstein when no one else was offering to do so.
“The Speaker is reiterating what the victims’ attorney said, which is that Donald Trump — who kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago — was the only one more than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein for being a disgusting child predator,” a statement from Johnson’s office read.
Democrats in Congress, and a few Republicans, are livid that Trump is backtracking on the release of the Epstein files, and speculation has been rampant for why.
Some say Trump is guilty of the same kind of conduct as Epstein and that he wants to hide his involvement, while others think he's covering up for some of his friends.
For my part, I think he has his reasons for keeping it quiet. As Johnson and others have pointed out, Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago and cut ties with him years before his first arrest for sex trafficking.
Why would he suddenly want to protect him?
But the public has the need to be titillated by the release of all the information on Epstein, so it will kick up a fuss.
Democrats want to force Trump's hands, but they should be careful about what they wish for. The information could hurt them a lot more than it would Trump, and then where will they point the finger?
Two of President Donald Trump's top economic officials clashed at a posh private dinner on Wednesday, with one official threatening to punch and beat up the other amid ongoing conflicts, according to Politico.
During the dinner for 30 people at the exclusive Georgetown club Executive Branch, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suddenly shouted at housing finance official Bill Pulte, “Why the f**k are you talking to the president about me? F**k you. I’m gonna punch you in your f**king face.”
Others at the party included Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler, Medicare and Medicaid chief Mehmet Oz, as well as venture capitalist David Sacks and MAGA-friendly podcaster Chamath Palihapitiya, who was celebrating a birthday.
Those who witnessed the tirade by Bessent disagreed on which of them started the altercation, but it became clear that Bessent had heard from several people that Pulte had recently been bad-mouthing him to Trump.
Pulte looked blindsided by Bessent's tirade, and club owner Omeed Malik stepped in to try to calm things down.
Bessent tried to get Pulte kicked out of the event. “It’s either me or him,” Bessent said to Malik. “You tell me who’s getting the f**k out of here.”
"Or," he said to Pulte, "we could go outside."
“To do what?” Pulte responded. “To talk?”
“No,” Bessent replied. “I’m going to f**king beat your a**.”
At that point, Malik took Bessent to another part of the club to calm down.
Bessent then came back and was seated at the other end of the table from Pulte, and the dinner continued without further incident.
In May, Bessent, Pulte and Lutnick were put on a team to privatize mortgage giants Freddie and Fanny Mac, which Pulte oversees.
Insiders told Politico that the arrangement has produced conflict, with Bessent viewing Pulte as inserting himself into economic matters beyond his purview, while Pulte feels threatened by the partnership and its influence over his area.
To complicate matters, Lutnick and Pulte are close, while Bessent and Lutnick don't really get along after competing for the Treasury position.
Normally, Bessent is soft-spoken and avoids drama, so he must have been very put out by Pulte's behavior. Let's hope from here on out, the three of them can do their jobs and work together for the good of the U.S. economy.
The Los Angeles Police Department ended its special protection services for former Vice President Kamala Harris this past Saturday, marking a significant change in security measures for the high-profile political figure, ABC 7 reported.
In a controversial decision, former Vice President Kamala Harris saw her LAPD protection withdrawn days after President Donald Trump rescinded her Secret Service detail.
President Trump, who defeated Harris in the November 2024 election, ordered an end to her Secret Service protection effective September 1. This move set the stage for local and state law enforcement to temporarily step in.
Rising to the occasion, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass requested that the LAPD provide interim security for Harris. This decision came after Trump's unexpected rescission left Harris without federal protection.
The California Highway Patrol, along with specialized units from the LAPD’s Metropolitan Division, quickly assumed responsibility for Harris’s safety. These units were tasked with a temporary security role until a more permanent solution could be implemented.
Mayor Bass emphasized that this security arrangement was always intended to be temporary, expressing gratitude for the LAPD's flexibility in her official statement.
The LAPD's interim role was not without its detractors. Members within the Metropolitan Division, responsible for crime suppression across Los Angeles, voiced concerns about being redeployed to protect Harris, citing a strain on resources that could have been directed towards ongoing crime issues in the city.
Amid these internal criticisms, the LAPD's special protection for Harris became a subject of broader public debate. The Los Angeles Police Protective League openly criticized the decision, arguing that the responsibility for Harris's security should not fall on the shoulders of L.A. taxpayers.
Following this debate, the protection was withdrawn, and the LAPD officers returned to their regular duties, a decision met with approval from many within the department keen to return to their primary roles.
The decision to cease LAPD’s protection was welcomed by the Los Angeles Police Protective League. They suggested that Harris, a former California senator and attorney general, could seek alternative means to fund her protection, including potentially launching a GoFundMe campaign.
This suggestion, made somewhat facetiously, highlights the ongoing discussion around the funding and provision of security for public figures who no longer hold office but who may still be at significant risk.
The issue of protecting public figures after their term has ended remains contentious, with varying opinions on who should bear the responsibility and cost of such security measures.
Traditionally, former vice presidents receive Secret Service protection for six months after they leave office. However, Joe Biden had extended Harris’s service to 18 months, a term that concluded earlier this year when he left office.
The discontinuation of Harris's Secret Service detail by President Trump, therefore, marked an unusual deviation from the norm which continues to stir controversy and discussion about the security protocols for former national leaders.
The debate around former Vice President Kamala Harris's security arrangements underscores the complexities and political nuances of providing safety nets for individuals who have served at the highest levels of government but are no longer in the immediate public eye.
One of the biggest arguments as to why America should crack down on illegal immigration is the effects it has on the American workforce, especially in the labor sector. The ranks of those jobs are full of illegals, which arguably takes away opportunities from U.S. workers.
According to Breitbart, President Donald Trump's aggressive and systematic approach to quashing the hordes of illegals rushing into America, like what happened under former President Joe Biden, is paying off for the U.S. labor workforce.
New reports indicated that the number of foreign-born workers within the United States has plummeted by nearly 1 million since Trump took office earlier this year.
The move is a massive victory for Americans seeking opportunities that they might not have had the chance to pursue under Biden or other open-border Democrats.
The new data, released by Trump's Labor Department, is a massive win for the administration as it continues to push forward with bold immigration and border policies.
Breitbart reported:
The foreign-born population dropped by 1.9 million people between January and August, from 50.4 million to 48.5 million, while employment among foreign-born workers fell by 1 million over the same period, government data show. The decline represents a stark turnaround from 2024, when the foreign-born workforce expanded by more than 2 million people.
The outlet noted that Trump's border "policy changes are reshaping the composition of the American workforce in ways that could have lasting economic implications."
In 2024, foreign-born workers were the driving force behind labor force growth.
Breitbart noted:
The timing of the workforce shift aligns closely with Trump’s inauguration and the implementation of stricter immigration policies. Since taking office, the administration has increased deportations, expanded workplace enforcement, and tightened rules for asylum seekers and temporary workers.
Since the beginning, the Trump administration has insisted that cracking down on illegal immigration will have measurable effects on the U.S. labor workforce.
The report also indicated that average hourly earnings have increased, giving consumers more purchasing power as the increase was more than the price increase of goods.
Breitbart noted:
Meanwhile, average hourly earnings have risen from $35.87 in January to $36.53 in August, a gain of 1.8 percent over seven months that annualizes to roughly 3.1 percent wage growth.
Clearly, the Trump administration is working overtime to undo some of the damage done to the country and the economy by Biden's open borders.
Hopefully, this trend will continue and give American workers more opportunities than ever before.
With President Donald Trump likely finishing out his second term in the White House by 2028, short of congressional action that would possibly extend that, all eyes are on his replacement as the next Republican MAGA leader.
Most believe that will undoubtedly be Vice President J.D. Vance, who remains extremely popular with the MAGA base and has the full support and vote of confidence from his boss, President Trump.
According to Fox News, VP Vance stopped just short of announcing his intentions to run in 2028, saying that the job simply won't be "given" to him while adding that he prefers not to speak on the subject while there's still so much to do now.
While Vance is humble regarding the subject, Trump has recently hinted that his VP will likely be next in line for the Republican Party to back for the White House.
During an interview with Laura Trump on "My View," the vice president hinted at the possibility of running in 2028, adding that if he performs his job well, "the politics will figure itself out."
VP Vance admitted that he "doesn't like thinking about" running for the presidency and would rather focus on the tasks at hand that he deal with on a daily basis as vice president.
"If we do a good job in 2025 and 2026, then we can talk about the politics in 2027," Vance said. "I really think the American people are so fed up with folks who are already running for the next job, seven months into the current one."
I love this answer from .@VP JD Vance regarding running for the presidency in 2028.
A man of sound character! pic.twitter.com/RxSD6GUVWA
— Erica 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@EricaRN4USA) September 7, 2025
The vice president also admitted that if he does decide to run, it won't be easy, or "given" to him, noting the talent pool on the Republican Party side is deep and worth of competition.
"There are a lot of great people," Vance said.
"If I do end up running, it's not going to be given to me—either on the Republican side or on the national side. I'm just going to keep on working hard.… [This] may be the most important job I ever had, outside of being a father to those three beautiful kids. So I'm going to try to do my best job, and I think if I do that, the politics will figure itself out."
Users across social media reacted to Vance's comments about a 2028 presidential run.
"He is a great role model. I love this man," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "JD has such a sound character. His leadership brings comfort in these crazy times."
President Donald Trump has not been shy about touting the success of his federal crime-fighting takeover of Washington, D.C., though it appears that the initiative is poised for something of a transition in the coming days.
As Politico reports, the GOP-led U.S. House of Representatives does not plan to entertain a vote to extend Trump’s initiative before it is set to expire next week.
News that the lower chamber would permit the takeover to lapse was effectively confirmed by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday.
Departing the House floor, Johnson was asked about the status of the temporary arrangement, and he asserted that assurances from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that she was prepared to coordinate with federal law enforcement authorities indefinitely resolved some of the issues that might have prompted an extension.
An absence of action from the House will ensure that the 30-day emergency order initiated by Trump last month will expire on Sept. 10.
Though Bowser last week publicly called for the police takeover to end, and she has continued to lament the deployment of National Guard forces and ICE agents within the District, her resistance to federal assistance has not been universal in nature.
Indeed, Bowser has been welcoming of an infusion of FBI agents and U.S. Park Police, and though she clearly stated her belief that “We don’t need a presidential emergency,” she said the District has “a framework to request or use federal resources in our city.”
Despite her apparent ambivalence about Trump’s focus on D.C., Bowser last week admitted that the law enforcement surge has had a positive impact, as NBC News noted.
“We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city,” Bowser said.
The mayor further pointed to the fact that carjackings, which have been an often-deadly scourge across the nation’s capital in recent years, had seen an 87% year-over-year drop in just the 20-day period since the takeover began.
“We know that when carjackings go down, when use of guns goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer, so this surge has been important to us,” Bowser declared.
Even so, Bowser was met with criticism from members of the D.C. City Council, some of whom decried any outward expression of cooperation with the Trump administration, with at-large member Robert White Jr. saying, “We should not, as the District of Columbia, be giving people the impression that this is a good thing, that we are OK with it, that it is helping the city. It is not doing any of those things.”
For his part, Trump views the results of his initiative as wholly positive, contending that since the takeover, residents and visitors to the District now feel safe and business is booming, saying, “We have no crime. You’re not going to be shot.”
With violent crime surging in other Democrat-led cities across the nation, the only question for the president now is which major metropolis deserves to be next on the list for his federally-aided clean-up program.
Well before he took office for a second term, President Donald Trump made clear his intention to reverse much of his predecessor’s immigration policy, including the expansion of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to migrants from a host of countries.
However, the Trump administration suffered a setback last week when a federal judge appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama blocked its attempt to end TPS for over 1.1 million arrivals from Haiti and Venezuela, as Breitbart reports.
It was on Friday that U.S. District Judge Edward Chen put a halt to the Trump administration’s desired changes to TPS eligibility.
In Chen’s estimation, the administration’s change wrongfully “truncated and condensed” the timeline for curtailing the legal protections and work permits afforded to migrants under the program.
In a 69-page ruling, Chen stated, “This case arose from action taken post haste by the current DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem, to revoke the legal status of Venezuelan and Haitian TPS holders, sending them back to conditions that are so dangerous that even the State Department advises against travel to their home countries.”
He further noted, “The Secretary’s action in revoking TPS was not only unprecedented in the manner and speed in which it was taken but also violates the law.”
Though Chen’s halt on the Trump administration action is only temporary in nature, the judge indicated his belief that impacted individuals can renew their current status while litigation is pending, with eventual Supreme Court review likely.
As Fox News reports, Trump administration officials are speaking out against the ruling, promising that the fight to effectuate the president’s vision on this issue will continue.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News Digital, “For decades, the TPS program has been abused, exploited, and politicized as a de facto amnesty program.”
The representative continued, “Its use has been all the more dangerous, given the millions of unvetted illegal aliens the Biden administration let into this country.”
Pointing to the administration’s next steps, the spokesperson noted, “While this order delays justice, Secretary Noem will use every legal option at the department’s disposal to end this chaos and prioritize the safety of Americans.”
The statement continued, “Under God, the people rule. Unelected activist judges cannot stop the will of the American people for a safe and secure homeland.”
The Trump administration has continued to face court challenges of its immigration agenda, often butting heads with federal district judges who critics suggest are acting more like pro-immigrant activists than fair-minded jurists.
Though the president has seen some success in his appeals of lower court rulings against his immigration-related actions, whether that will be the case when it comes to TPS, only time will tell.