A recent poll from Reuters/Ipsos revealed that President Donald Trump's poll numbers are trending positive, Fox News reported. The president gained two percentage points this week, reversing the downward trend since January.
In a poll conducted on May 12 and 13, Trump had 44% approval and 52% disapproval. This is an increase over the 42% approval Trump garnered last month, though it is within the poll's margin of error.
The increase is no doubt at least in part due to his handling of the economy. The poll shows Americans are more confident in key indicators, including the stock market, inflation, and recession.
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In April, Trump imposed tariffs on nations throughout the world, including some of America's adversaries. The plan was off to a bumpy start as investors got nervous and a Wall Street selloff began.
However, there are signs of improvement both in the implementation and in their perception this month. The stock market rallied this week over news that China reached an agreement with the U.S. over tariffs, as did other nations.
The worries about recession have subsided with the changes, and the poll reflects that reality as well. In April, 76% of voters polled were concerned about the possibility of a recession, and now that number is just 69%.
Colin Reed, a seasoned GOP strategist, said that Trump has made it clear "that you are going to have to break some eggs to make an omelet and his voters will give him the latitude to do so," he told Fox News. It seems that the American people have taken that into consideration.
"Weâre still less than 150 days in, heâs got some time to make the hard calls that have to be made and still give the economic plane runway to take off ahead of the midterms, which is when all of these early decisions will be graded," Reed said. However, the news hasn't been all positive.
Trump fought hard to get back into the White House in the 2024 presidential election, and his voters were behind him through it all. He promised big things, many of which he has achieved in a short time.
However, on the economic front, Trump has yet to truly tackle inflation as promised and as many people had hoped. Even with the slight bump this month, Trump is still experiencing more disapproval than approval, and political scientist and New England College president Wayne Lesperance believes it's due to the disparity between expectations and reality.
"Trumpâs return to office did not begin as he and his supporters had hoped. Campaign promises about inflation and interest rates appeared deferred while the daily news coverage focused on the many distractions plaguing the White House," Lesperance said.
Still, Lesperance believes "signs of progress may be emerging" that could give Trump a boost. "Possible trade deals with Britain, China, and India are providing hope that some good may come from his tariff strategy. Add to that a rebounding stock market and lower gas prices at the start of summer vacation season, and the president may see some calming of public nervousness."
Trump is doing a great job, but he can't do everything he wants to right out of the gate. Voters will have to trust that Trump will deliver for the American people just as he did during his first term as president.
Tiffany Trump, the youngest daughter of President Donald Trump, gave birth to a baby boy on Thursday, the UK Daily Mail reported. The president became a grandfather for the 11th time as the family welcomed Alexander Trump Boulos.
As announced in a post to social media, Alexander was born at 4:44 a.m. on Thursday. This is the first child for Tiffany Trump, 31, and husband Michael Boulos, 27.
"Welcome to the world our sweet baby boy, Alexander Trump Boulos. We love you beyond words! Thank you for coming into our lives! 5.15.2025," Tiffany Trump captioned the baby's photo in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on his birthday.
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Marla Maples, Tiffany Trump's mother and Donald Trump's second ex-wife, was elated for her only daughter. "No greater joy in the world," Maples reacted to her daughter's social media post.
"Michael and Tiffany this Gran Mar Mar loves you all so much!! You rocked it, my girl," Maples wrote.
Her father was also happy for the new grandchild, so much so that he had accidentally spilled the beans about her pregnancy last year. Tiffany Trump confirmed the pregnancy in December after her father let it slip publicly.
The Trump siblings also celebrated the new baby in the family. Just last month, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's other daughter he shared with the late Ivana Trump, threw a lavish baby shower for her half sister.
It was Peter Rabbit themed after Beatrix Potter's famous children's book series, and Ivanka Trump shared photos with a sweet caption. "'Tiff, you're going to be the most wonderful mama. Your baby boy is already so loved - and so lucky to have you! Love you!"
Donald Trump is a blessed man with five grandchildren through his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. He has another two through his next eldest son, Eric Trump, and three through his eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump.
His youngest son, Barron Trump, whom Donald Trump shares with first lady Melania Trump, is just 18 and recently finished up his first year at New York University. Tiffany Trump was the latest to add another in-law to the family after her Mar-a-Lago wedding in November 2022.
It's clear that the Trump family is a tight-knit clan as Donald Trump's grown children have worked for him and helped him throughout his first presidential campaign. In July 2024, Donald Trump's granddaughter, Kai Trump, became the first of the next generation to do so.
"To me, heâs just a normal grandpa. He gives us candy and soda when our parents arenât looking. He always wants to know how weâre doing in school," Kai Trump said at the Republican National Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about her grandfather, USA Today reported.
It's always a precious miracle when a family adds a new baby, especially for a proud grandparent like Donald Trump. Unlike his predecessor, Donald Trump is a wonderful grandfather who dotes on and acknowledges all of his grandchildren.
President Donald Trump has successfully brokered an "economic exchange" deal with Qatar worth $1.2 trillion, Breitbart reported. Trump signed several agreements in Doha with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Wednesday.
The two nations have had a fraught relationship, including during Trump's first term. However, Trump was ready to make a deal this week during a Middle East trip that also included a stop in Saudi Arabia.
The White House touted the recent agreement in a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. "THE TRUMP EFFECT. $1,200,000,000,000. President Donald J. Trump Secures Historic $1.2 Trillion Economic Commitment in Qatar," the post said with an accompanying photo of the historic signing.
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The agreement includes a boon for several American companies totaling at least $243.5 billion. It includes a contract for Qatar Airways to purchase "210 American-made Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft powered by GE Aerospace engines" from Boeing and GE Aerospace, totaling $96 billion.
Not only is this a good deal, but it's also record-breaking for the Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer. "This is Boeingâs largest-ever widebody order and largest-ever 787 order," the White House noted.
"This historic agreement will support 154,000 U.S. jobs annually, totaling over 1 million jobs in the United States during the course of production and delivery of this deal," the White House explained. The agreement also included $97 billion to the Virginia-based Parsons Corporation, a defense, intelligence, and engineering firm.
In a joint venture with Al Rabban Capital and Quantinuum, they have agreed "to invest up to $1 billion in state-of-the-art quantum technologies and workforce development in the United States." In addition, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed onto a joint defense agreement.
Qatar will purchase $1 billion in anti-drone technology from Raytheon and another $2 billion for General Atomics' MQ-9B "remotely operated aircraft." Despite the good news, not everyone was happy with all of the winning.
Trump is unique among modern American leaders in that he seems eager to make deals rather than drop bombs. Just this week, Trump brokered a $142 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
Still, even some in his own party are upset with how he's handled relations with Qatar in light of its previous friendliness to terrorists. "Qatar is not, in my opinion, a great ally," Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) said Tuesday to reporters, according to Fox News.
"I mean, they support Hamas. So what I'm worried about is the safety of the president," Scott added.
Despite Scott's concerns, the nation has become more friendly to the U.S. and its allies in recent years. In fact, Qatar has attempted to negotiate a peace deal and hostage exchange in the war between Israel and Hamas.
Trump is a gifted businessman and is applying those skills to furthering America's interests. This new deal with Qatar represents another profound move towards friendly relations through an innovative strategy, regardless of what critics say.
A Nevada man was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for threatening to kill U.S. senators in a series of profane rants.
John Anthony Miller, 44, received 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release for making violent anti-Semitic threats to Democratic Senator Jackie Rosen (NV) and others. The man pleaded guilty to one count of threatening a federal official and two counts of influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official by threatening a family member.
Between October 11, 2023, and October 25, 2023, Miller left several voicemails for two senators, including Rosen.
In some of those messages, he called Rosen, who is Jewish, "subhuman" and threatened to "finish what Hitler started."Â Miller also aired grievances about the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank by Israeli settlers.
The threats came days after Hamas' deadly assault on Israel on October 7, 2023.
"You f****** piece of s*** un-human, subhuman, you're vermin, b****, and we're gonna finish what Hitler started," he said in one of the messages.
"You're gonna burn in f****** hell for your f****** crimes ... You're gonna burn in hell, b****, and me and Jesus are gonna piss on you b****," he said in another.
On October 18, 2023, Miller appeared at the Lloyd D. George Courthouse in Las Vegas and said he was there to see Rosen. A security guard asked to have a closer look at his ID card, but Miller refused. After he was barred entry, he stormed out of the building and began shouting profanities, like "kill every last Israeli terror-*******rist" while walking down Las Vegas Boulevard.
Miller also threatened the families of two U.S. senators on October 24 and October 25.
Miller's lawyer calling the sentence "harsh" and said his client was addicted to meth.
"I felt the sentence was a little harsh for a nonviolent offender with a minimal criminal record, but we respect the courtâs ruling and look forward to John moving forward and dealing with his addiction,â Jess Marchese, the lawyer, said to the AP.
The feds say the sentence sends a strong message about intimidating public officials.
"Violent threats against any individual are unacceptable," said Spencer Evans, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI Las Vegas Division. "But when they are directed at elected officials and their family members, threats have the potential to impact democracy itself by silencing those chosen to represent the American People."
President Trump said there is "something wrong" with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after he threatened to stonewall Justice Department nominees over Trump's acceptance of a free luxury jet from Qatar.
The White House has noted that the opulent gift is being donated to the Department of Defense and not Trump personally, although it would be transferred to Trump's presidential library at the end of his term.
As Trump traveled to Qatar for the second stop on his Middle East tour this week, which also brought him to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, he was asked about Schumer's threats to block Justice Department nominees.
Trump remarked that Schumer, who is Jewish, has "become a Palestinian" and suggested the longtime senator from Trump's home state of New York had "something wrong" with him.
"Schumer is Schumer," Trump said. "You know, he's become a Palestinian. Something wrong with him? I don't know, I've known him a long time and there's something wrong. He's lost his confidence, totally. And there's something wrong with him. I don't know what it is with Schumer."
Trump's remark that Schumer has "lost his confidence" would be seconded by many Democrats who say the senator has been timid about stopping Trump's sweeping agenda.
Schumer seized an opportunity to quiet his critics by pouncing at Trump over his "corrupt" foreign gift.
"News of the Qatari government gifting Donald Trump a $400 million private jet to use as Air Force One is so corrupt that even Putin would give a double take. This is not just naked corruption, it is also a grave national security threat," Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
Trump has said he would be foolish not to accept the Boeing 747 jet, estimated to be worth $400 million, while Boeing works on replacing Air Force One. The current fleet is over 30 years old, and Trump has complained about the slow pace of Boeing's progress.
"We're very disappointed that it's taking Boeing so long to build a new Air Force One," Trump said Monday morning. "You know, we have an Air Force One that's 40 years old. And if you take a look at that, compared to the new plane of the equivalent, you know, stature at the time, it's not even the same ballgame."
While opposition to Qatar's gift has come mostly from Democrats, Republicans in Congress have also expressed caution about the arrangement. Critics have speculated that Qatar is trying to buy influence, while some have raised concerns about possible espionage.
Trump traveled to the Gulf states this week to secure investments in the U.S. and promote his vision for peace and stability in the Middle East. It was his first major foreign trip since returning to the White House.
The president was lavishly entertained by his oil-rich Arab hosts, with a parade of camels greeting his motorcade in Qatar after he touched down. "We appreciate those camels," Trump said.
While in Qatar, Trump announced that Boeing had secured a record order of 210 jets from Qatar Airways for $96 billion. The White House estimates the sale will generate 154,000 jobs in the U.S. annually.
President Trump's pick for Surgeon General endorsed controversial psychedelic therapy in her book, urging others to consider magic mushrooms for personal healing.
A proponent of alternative medicine, Casey Means is a leading influence in the "Make America Healthy Again" movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In her 2024 book Good Energy, Casey Means recounted a transformative experience with psilocybin, or magic mushrooms.
âIf you feel called, I also encourage you to explore intentional, guided psilocybin therapy,â she wrote. âStrong scientific evidence suggests that this psychedelic therapy can be one of the most meaningful experiences of life for some people, as they have been for me.â
Psilocybin is illegal under federal law, although some Democratic states and cities have taken steps to legalize it. Some cities in Oregon walked back the trend in November, voting to ban the Schedule 1 drug, which has "no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse," according to the federal government.
Despite its serious health risks, some claim psilocybin has legitimate benefits when used in a guided setting. Some veterans have credited the drug with healing their PTSD.
In her book on metabolic health, co-written with her brother Calley, Casey Means refers to psychedelics as "plant medicine" with an almost magical power. She described psilocybin as a "doorway to a different reality that is free from the limiting beliefs of my ego, feelings, and personal history."
"I felt myself as part of an infinite and unbroken series of cosmic nesting dolls of millions of mothers and babies before me from the beginning of life," she wrote.
Means also credited psychedelics with helping her "create space to find love at 35" in her newsletter.
The Stanford graduate dropped out of her medical residency after becoming disillusioned with the health care industry, going on to become a prominent wellness influencer. She became widely known after an appearance on Tucker Carlson's show with her brother Calley Means.
Calley also supports psilocybin, describing his first trip as "the single most meaningful experience of my life," and he invests in companies that are researching psychedelics. He is working as an adviser to Kennedy, who runs the Health and Human Services Department.
Trump withdrew his initial pick for surgeon general, former Fox News medical contributor Janette Nesheiwat, after her resume fell under scrutiny and some Trump supporters criticized her favorable comments about the COVID-19 vaccine.
Means has also faced backlash from some "MAHA" supporters who say she isn't critical enough of vaccines, while others have cited her inactive medical license as a concern. Trump, after nominating her, said he does not know Means personally but hired her on Kennedy's advice.
Her views on psychedelic therapy are likely to come up during her Senate confirmation hearing, which has not been scheduled.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
On the heels of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling the 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate "unlawful as implemented," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is being strongly encouraged to follow suit.
While the Department of Defense is the agency responsible for overseeing and directing the nation's military forces, the Coast Guard is the only military service within the Department of Homeland Security.
WorldNetDaily spoke to Rocky Rogers, a Coast Guard IT Chief with more than 20 years of faithful service. Rogers fought against the now-rescinded 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate until a pre-approved retirement came to fruition in August 2022.
Mere days after the mandate, said Rogers, the Coast Guard released its first-ever religious accommodation request policy:Â Commandant Instruction Manual (CIM)1000.15.
"In the past, the Coast Guard had always followed Navy medical manuals, so adopting their own policy was a red flag that something was about to happen," he told WorldNetDaily.
His instinct was right. On Aug. 24, 2021, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin mandated that all service members receive the COVID-19 shot. Interestingly, the secretary of Defense is not in the Coast Guard's chain of command, as the nation's maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch falls under the umbrella of DHS. Nevertheless, on Aug. 26, 2021, DHS adopted the same policy as DoD.
"The Coast Guard chose to follow DoD on this mandate, although it had no obligation to do so," Rogers pointed out. "Everybody was scrambling to follow the same agenda, and that's exactly what it was â an agenda."
"Many of us knew it was unlawful at the time, and now America knows it," he said, calling attention to the fact that "Pete Hegseth verbally said it was unlawful [in a video posted to the Secretary of Defense's official X account]."
"Knowing it was unlawful like Hegseth finally admitted," Rogers said, "many of us pushed back against the shot at the time, telling our chain of command they did not have to follow DoD." Their pleas fell on deaf ears, however, and many Coasties were forcefully separated, resigned under duress, or retired from service in the years to follow.
On Jan. 10, 2023, DoD finally rescinded the COVID-19 shot mandate for service members, while the active duty component of DHS's Coast Guard followed suit the very next day. However, Coast Guard Reserve did not rescind the shot mandate until March 16.
As Rogers told WND, "You can see that the Coast Guard chose to follow the SecDef rather than referencing direction coming from the DHS Secretary." For him, it begs the question: "Why did the Coast Guard choose to follow orders by an individual that is not in the Chain of Command of the Coast Guard?"
"All of us who were following Coast Guard policy (CIM)1000.15) to exercise our religious freedoms were referred to as 'insubordinate wrongdoers' by retired Commandant Paul Zukunft," he shared.
"My case in point is that if, in 2021, the Coast Guard acted on their own to follow the SecDef prior to the DHS Secretary giving direction, wouldn't that classify as insubordinate or defiant?" Rogers asked. "The same Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) articles 90, 91 and 92 that were referenced to force service members into submission are now proven by today's lack of action from the Coast Guard that interpretation precedes the violation of law and policy in our service."
Now that the mandate is no longer in effect, both DoD and DHS under President Donald Trump are welcoming its members to return to service. In an official letter sent from the Coast Guard to those discharged as a result of the COVID-19 shot mandate, an invitation to rejoin the service includes a few perks, including back pay, bonus payments and/or compensation.
According to Rogers, former Coasties are largely ignoring the invitation. "There aren't many that I know who would return. I wouldn't," he admitted. "It would take a lot to change my opinion."
"Trust has been broken, and the Coast Guard is in disarray right now," he explained. "They haven't even chosen a new commandant after the last one was fired." According to a DHS official, Admiral Linda Lee Fagan was firedas a result of "leadership deficiencies, operational failures, and inability to advance the strategic objectives of the U.S. Coast Guard." An "excessive" focus on DEI â Diversity, Equity and Inclusion â policies was also mentioned.
What's more, Rogers pointed out that "some Coast Guard boot camp recruits are still wearing masks that are proven to be ineffective."
"Why would anyone want to join or get back into that?" Rogers asked. "I would encourage that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem make a public announcement to essentially mirror SecDef Hegseth's statements on this unlawful order, as it would bring a lot of peace to those that stood firm."
What's more, he added, "This would also be so beneficial to the members who are still in the service."
The U.S. Coast Guard did not respond to WorldNetDaily's requests for comment.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Ex-CIA chief John Brennan, evidence now shows, suppressed intelligence that Americans should have been given, wildly claimed there was no spying on the 2016 Donald Trump campaign, has been known to unleash untruths, and even was accused by a counter-terrorism expert of treason.
Now, he's gone ballistic over the routine housecleaning decisions being made by President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
It's all from his outrage that she is not keeping in place the intelligence officers who worked for Joe Biden.
Gabbard, in fact, recently announced the firings of Mike Collins, who was on the National Intelligence Council, and Maria Langan-Riekhof, his deputy.
According to reports, both have been named by whistleblowers as having political biases, acting on them, and undermining President Trump.
One Daily Fetched report identified them as "Deep State" operatives. And Fox News had reported they were "radically" in opposition to President Trump and his actions.
Brennan commented on the staff changes in an interview in which he was "visibly angry."
Gabbard's stated goals have been to prevent the politicization of intelligence, which has happened under Barack Obama and Biden.
For example, ex-CIA Director Michael Morrell was accused of helping organization a letter signed by dozens of intel operatives that claimed the scandal-proving laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
Actually, the laptop provided documentation of real scandals involving the Biden family.
And officials knew when they signed the letter that the evidence was factual.
Collins had been accused by whistleblowers of deliberately undermining Trump, and Langan-Riekhof was known for her advocacy for the now-discredited DEI agenda.
On MSNBC, Brennan unleashed his rage:
"This whole thing just makes me livid."
A commentary by David Harsanyi, in fact, discussed the Durham report that reviewed the FBI's political scheme to attack Trump over the "Russia" claims.
The column explained, "The just-released Durham report confirmed that the FBI not only failed to corroborate the Steele dossier, Hillary Clinton's oppo-doc against former President Donald Trump, but it regularly ignored existing, sometimes dispositive, evidence to keep the investigation alive. Some officials were credulous. Others were devious. But no one 'stole' our democracy â other than perhaps intelligence officials and the journalists who helped feed the collective hysteria over Russia.
"John Brennan, Hamas-loving authoritarian and partisan propagandist, almost surely knew it was a con from the start. Yet he spent four years on television sounding like a deranged subreddit commenter. Even after privately admitting he knew there was no collusion, Brennan kept lying and using his credentials to mislead the public."
John Durham, himself, concluded after a years-long investigation of the origins of the FBI war against Trump and the Trump campaign, "CIA Director John Brennan and Deputy Director David Cohen were interviewed by the Office and were asked about their knowledge of any actual evidence of members of the Trump campaign conspiring or colluding with Russian officials. When Brennan was provided with an overview of the origins of the Attorney General's Review after Special Counsel Mueller finding a lack of evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian authorities, Brennan offered that 'they found no conspiracy.'"
But Brennan later went on television to insist that he "suspected there was more" to collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian President Vladimir Putin than [special counsel Robert] Mueller had let on."
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The DEI ideology, for "diversity, equity, inclusion," largely was banished by President Donald Trump where he could because it bases hiring or qualification decisions on the sex, race or even "gender identity" of individuals.
Many schools and corporations divested themselves of the concept when Trump took office.
But it is coming back now, little bit at a time, and sneakily, according to a new survey.
Polling by Resumetemplates reveala that one in seven business leaders now sees scaling back the ideological agenda as a mistake, made because of political pressure.
And one in five companies that "rolled back" the race- and sex-based processes are "quietly" bringing them back.
The pollsters explained, "In recent years, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have become highly politicized. What began as a widespread corporate commitment after the 2020 protests has faced growing backlash. Some critics have questioned the effectiveness of DEI efforts, while others have framed them as divisive or exclusionary. Facing political pressure, some companies have scaled back or eliminated their DEI programs."
The backlash from leftists who supported the programs, however, has brought concerns about "consequences" from the effort to minimize the agenda, the report said.
A survey of 750 U.S. business leaders has confirmed the nominal return of the ideologies.
"The plurality of respondents (30%) say the consensus among business leaders at their company is that the decision to scale back DEI was a necessary response to external pressures. Additionally, 23% say they see it as a positive move that aligns with company values, while 18% say the company's leaders overall consider it a neutral decision with minimal impact," the survey found.
But, "Fifteen percent say it's believed to be a mistake that created new challenges. The remaining say the company's leaders are either divided in their perspectives (9%) or unsure (4%)."
The reasons the agendas were ditched include political pressure, public scrutiny, budget limits and leadership turnover.
But two-thirds said they saw various "negative" results, such as damage to brand perception, loss of customers or boycotts, after they ditched the beliefs.
"Consumers, employees, and job seekers are more aware than ever of corporate policies and decisions, and they vote with their dollars and career choices," said ResumeTemplates' Chief Career Strategist Julia Toothacre. "When organizations dismantle DEI efforts, it sends a message that they don't care about being fair and equitable. For many customers and workers, that doesn't sit well. Word spreads fast, especially on social media, and I'm not surprised to see companies now rethinking those decisions."
It also speaks to the power of the leftists who are publicizing issues, spreading information, or disinformation, about the agendas, and those political and media people in key positions who lobby for the agendas.
Significant, 21% of those companies that left the DEI initiatives behind now are "quietly reintroducing or re-expanding them."
Another 12% are doing so publicly.
Just why go back to the sexism and racism?
"Of respondents, 75% say that whether or not their company has a DEI program ultimately comes down to what's best for the bottom line, rather than being rooted in values or social responsibility," the survey organizations said.
Toothacre claimed that DEI programs actually create "a safer, more respectful workplace," and that produces "higher morale, better productivity, and fewer HR complaints."
A report at WTOP said the results also show that companies are bringing back DEI, but are calling it "inclusive culture" or "culture of belonging" to get away from the stigma of DEI.
Also, 40% of companies said they are avoiding new DEI activism.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Sonia Sotomayor, one of the nine members of the Supreme Court bench, long has been known to be demanding.
She's complained that she's traumatized when her liberal agenda doesn't win at the court.
And she's known to try to influence factors outside the court's jurisdiction, recently telling lawyers at a leftist conclave meeting while President Donald Trump is in office that "we" cannot lose the battles "we are facing."
Such a public alignment with one side on multiple cases that will appear before the high court was a stunning alteration to the neutrality expected from judges.
Now, during a hearing on the constitutionality of the 600 federal judges across the nation all having the right to dictate and control executive branch decisions on the management of its agencies, she's even drawn a public reaction from Chief Justice John Roberts.
He had to rein her in, during the hearing that also addresses Trump's interpretation of birthright citizenship to mean that those children born of parents not legally entitled to residency in the United States are not automatically U.S. citizens.
Fox News noted it was after "repeated interruptions" by Sotomayor of lawyers arguing for the executive branch that Roberts had to interrupt, too.
"Can I hear the rest of his answer?" Roberts added to the conversation.
The report described Roberts has having "reined in" Sotomayor.
"Sotomayor dominated questioning for several minutes at the outset of Thursday's argument after taking over from Justice Clarence Thomas. She pressed U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer for President Donald Trump's administration on several points relating to the authority for federal courts to issue nationwide injunctions, often speaking over the lawyer and interrupting him."
The report said Sotomayor was actually arguing against the executive branch's constitutional authority, insisting that his order invalidating birthright citizenship violated four Supreme Court precedents.
And she was arguing on behalf of the challengers to the president's policy that that justified a federal judge granting an injunction stopping executive branch actions nationwide.
"You are claiming that not just the Supreme Court, that both the Supreme Court and no lower court, can stop an executive from universally violating holdings by this court," she charged.
"We are not claiming that because we're conceding that there could be an appropriate case only in class only," Sauer said.
"But I hear that âŠ," Sotomayor interrupted.
Then Roberts stepped in.
Sauer then elaborated on the president's position that federal courts can intervene on behalf of specific plaintiffs before them, but not nationwide, except that the Supreme Court can do that in some circumstances.
Trump's lawyers have argued nationwide injunctions exceed the authority of the district courts, which are the entry level courts to the federal system.
They violate equitable authority and create a wide range of problems, he said.
Universal injunctions "require judges to make rushed, high-stakes, low-information decisions," Sauer said. "They operate asymmetrically, forcing the government to win everywhere," and "invert," in the administration's view, the ordinary hierarchical hierarchy of appellate review. They create the ongoing risk of conflicting judgments," Fox explained.
The decision in the fast-tracked case, expected in weeks or even days, could impact the more than 310 federal lawsuits that leftists and others have launched against Trump during his second term in office.
WND has reported on Sotomayor's well-established reputation as a leftist on the court, supporting all manner of Democrat causes and opposing Trump.
Her activism moved into new territory recently when she told a leftist conference, "Right now we can't lose the battles we are facing."
Without identifying specific "battles," she said, "In all of the uncertainty that exists at this moment, this is our time to stand up and be heard."
"If you're not used to fighting losing battles, don't become a lawyer. Our job is to stand for people who can't do it themselves," she said.
Actually, according to constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who not only has testified before Congress as an expert on the Constitution but has represented members in court in constitutional disputes, Sotomayor previously has been scorched for "making public comments that some viewed as overly political or partisan."
That topic included her demands that law students organize to support abortion rights, a subject that has been before the court many times and undoubtedly will appear there again.
Turley noted Sotomayor's blasts "presumably" targeted President Trump.
"Sotomayor made a number of inspiring comments to encourage lawyers to pursue justice despite the odds or challenges," Turley explained.
But they "appeared to veer into more partisan territory."
Her reference to "we" was a surprise, he said, and many viewed it as a rallying cry for "the left."
He explained, "Clearly, such comments are subject to different interpretations. Newspapers like the New York Times made the obvious connection, stating that it was made 'against the backdrop of immense stress on lawyers and the legal system from the Trump administration.'"
Leftist lawyer Marc Elias, a key part of the fabricated 2016 conspiracy theory assembled by Democrats that alleged "Russia collusion" on the part of Trump's campaign then, credited Sotomayor with "solidarity" with leftist ideals.
"She understands that while we must bring difficult cases and be willing to lose, we must always fight to win. And by lending her voice in 'solidarity,' she affirmed that it is 'our time to stand up and be heard," he said.
Turley noted that Sotomayor previously lobbied publicly for abortion, telling students, "You know, I can't change Texas' law, but you can, and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don't like. I am pointing out to that when I shouldn't because they tell me I shouldn't. But my point is that there are going to be a lot of things you don't like" and require public action.
He said Sotomayor's calls to "fight this fight" were injudicious.
"The court is set to hear a number of key cases on the Trump policies, including a key argument next week on the rapidly expanding number of national injunctions imposed by district courts. This is not the time to be seen as speaking in 'solidarity' with one side," he said.