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The Department of Justice is asking the Supreme Court to review – and decide – the birthright citizenship case this term.
The fight is over whether the 14th Amendment grants American citizenship to the children of illegal aliens who have broken U.S. laws to enter then give birth inside U.S. borders.
President Donald Trump contends that's not what the writers of the Constitution intended, even though that's been the practice for a good many years already.
A report at the Washington Examiner explained the Trump administration filed two petitions seeking the review soon.
The petitions, filed Friday, appeared on the court's public docket Monday.
The cases were launched by Democrat-run states and groups of people who might be affected.
When the issue originally arose, Trump commented:
Experts have contended that the 14th Amendment never was intended to create massive grants of citizenship to children of illegal aliens.
The Examiner report said the fight stems from Trump's order in January that said the amendment does not include children born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
"The issues in this petition are unquestionably cert-worthy," the DOJ said. "The government has a compelling interest in ensuring that American citizenship — the privilege that allows us to choose our political leaders — is granted only to those who are lawfully entitled to it."
The filing noted a lower court ruling against the president actually causes problems, invalidating "a policy of prime importance to the President and his Administration in a manner that undermines our border security. Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people."
Earlier this year, the high court addressed the issue, but did not decide the core question.
The fight was the vehicle for the Supreme Court to put a limit on nationwide injunctions that were commonly being used by lower court judges to control the president's international policies, economic policies and much more.
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The rage that fills the current Democrat political agenda in America is dangerous, according to a constitutional expert.
It is Jonathan Turley, whose career includes not just teaching the Constitution, but advising Congress on its requirements and even representing members in constitutional disputes, who said, "Rage gives people a license to say and do things that they would not otherwise say or do. It is addictive, it is contagious, and it is dangerous."
Yet, he pointed out in a recent column, Democrats returned to that agenda almost immediately after the tragic assassination by a reportedly rage-filled radical of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.
Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law and George Washington University, explained in his column that now a prominent Democrat is calling for more rage.
"Let your rage fuel you," were the words coming from Abigail Spanberger, who is running for governor as a Democrat in Virginia.
Turley recalled the words, in a Star Wars movie, from the series-long bad guy, Darth Sidious , the evil emperor, who said, "Give in to your anger. With each passing moment, you grow stronger."
Turley noted, "There was barely a respite from the rage rhetoric after the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the sniper attack on the ICE facility. Gov. Gavin Newsom is back this week to calling his opponents 'fascists' while other Democratic politicians are back to calling ICE 'fascists.'"
He warned, "Across the country, politicians and pundits are fueling rage, encouraging voters to embrace it."
And he said, "Rage, however, comes at a cost in politics."
"We are seeing the result of rage rhetoric all around us. That includes the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the sniper attack on ICE agents in Texas this week, in addition to violent protests around the country. Rage allows you to deny the humanity of those you disagree with. Recently, two sisters were caught on video destroying a memorial to Kirk. Kerri and Kaylee Rollo were later arrested. However, they immediately opened a GoFundMe site to call for donations for 'fighting fascism' and Kaylee wrote 'my sibling was fired from their job.' Hundreds of donors gave the sisters thousands of dollars as a reward for the latest such attack on a Kirk memorial," he explained.
He said there have been warnings that violent rhetoric "was crossing over into political violence."
"Democratic politicians have spent months ratcheting up the rhetoric against ICE agents, who have suffered more than a 1,000 percent increase in attacks, including the recent sniper attack."
He cited Newsom's repeated calls for the use of rage rhetoric.
Others joined, he noted.
"Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who has used violent rhetoric in the past, declared that ICE agents were acting like 'slave patrols' in hunting down immigrants in the streets. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) used a commencement address to denounce 'Donald Trump's modern-day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons… just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.'"
And Boston Mayor Michele Wu claimed ICE officers are Trump's "secret police."
Such rhetoric has been "adopted by a wide range of Democratic politicians," he said.
"Rage is a powerful narcotic. The problem is when it becomes an addiction. There is always a certain percentage of the population that will believe such hyperbolic claims," Turley warned.
"Those are the people who end up trying to kill jurists like Justice Brett Kavanaugh or politicians like Trump. It was also seen in the assassination of Democratic politicians earlier this year in Minnesota," he said.
And he noted like all addictions, the solution comes only after the addicted wants out, a move he said is not yet evident.
"This fever will only break when voters clearly reject the politics of rage," he said.
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Some of the money given to officials in Pennsylvania as part of a settlement with opioid makers is being used to take children to LGBT indoctrination classes.
It is a report in the Free Beacon that explains how Democrat House candidate Bob Harvie, a county commissioner, manages a local fund distributing money from the drug makers settlement.
"While the money is supposed to go toward 'Prevention, Treatment and Recovery' services, Harvie used some of it to transport kids as young as 14 to an 'LGBTQ-youth' center that offers 'medical transition' seminars," the report said.
It was the Bucks County commissioners, a board headed by Harvie, that handed out $13,500 to Planned Parenthood Keystone for "Expanding Services and Transportation" to the Rainbow Room, a local center that caters to gay and trans youth, the report said.
The Delaware Journal said the cash handout was actually used to take students to Rainbow Room events.
The report noted that such facilities promote events about the "Fun facts, weird history, busting myths, breaking stigma" on topics like "SEX ED NIGHT MASTURBATION."
"The Rainbow Room hosted a 'Queer Prom,' where attendees as young as 13 were given goody bags with condoms, lubricant, and dental dams, used to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases during oral sex," the report explained.
Just recently it promoted a seminar "meant to teach kids as young as 14 'the basics of transgender identities, social transition, medical transition, and more!'"
Harvie currently is a Democrat candidate running against Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who won his last race by 10 points.
Further complicating Harvie's legitimacy as a candidate is the fact he and other Democrat Bucks County officials voted last year to defy state law and count invalid mail-in ballots during an election recount.
"The Rainbow Room's sexually explicit programming has been a hot-button issue for years in Bucks County, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. In addition to local news coverage of its controversial activities, state senator Doug Mastriano (R.) proposed a bill in 2023 to classify drag shows as an 'adult oriented business' after learning the Rainbow Room hosted a drag show for children," the report said.
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The man suspected of shooting up a Mormon worship event in Michigan on Sunday, killing at least four and leaving the structure burned out, "hated" people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon church.
That's according to Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for President Donald Trump.
Trump earlier decried the additional attack on "Christians" in America, and society in general puts the organization and its members among the widely considered "Christian" church.
He said, "This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America. The Trump Administration will keep the Public posted, as we always do. In the meantime, PRAY for the victims, and their families. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END."
Some leaders of other Christian groups, however, point to the extra-biblical teachings adopted and accepted by the Mormons to challenge that assumption.
Christianity.com has posted a response to that exact question with a blunt answer.
"The answer to that question is easy and straightforward: 'no.' Nevertheless, even as the question is clear, the answer requires some explanation. The issue is clearly framed in this case. Christianity is rightly defined in terms of 'traditional Christian orthodoxy.' Thus, we have an objective standard to define what is and is not Christianity," it wrote. "We are not talking here about the postmodern conception of Christianity that minimizes truth. We are not discussing Christianity as a mood or a sociological movement. We are not talking about liberal Christianity that minimizes doctrine or sectarian Christianity that defines the faith in terms of eccentric doctrines. We are talking about historical, traditional Christian orthodoxy.
"Once that is made clear, the answer is inevitable. Furthermore, the answer is made easy, not only by the structure of Christian orthodoxy (a structure Mormonism denies) but by the central argument of Mormonism itself – that the true faith was restored through Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century in America and that the entire structure of Christian orthodoxy as affirmed by the post-apostolic church is corrupt and false."
It is suspect Thomas Jacob Sanford, a Marine veteran who served America's military in Iraq, who was shot and killed by police to end the attack in
Detectives said the still were documenting what could have been a motive in the violent attack in which the suspect rammed the church with a truck, then shot up parishioners and even lit the building on fire.
Leavitt explained, "From what I understand based on my conversations with the FBI director, all they know right now is that this was an individual who hated people of the Mormon faith. And they are trying to understand more about this, how premeditated it was, how much planning went into it, whether he left a note, all of those questions have yet to be answered, but certainly will be answered by the FBI."
At least four people died in the attack and at least eight others were hurt.
The attacker died when he engaged police in gunfire.
Christianity.com also added, "Christians do respect the Mormon affirmation of the family and the zeal of Mormon youth in their own missionary work. Christians must affirm religious liberty and the right of Mormons to practice and share their faith."
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With the threat of a looming government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel to discuss whether a shutdown can be avoided.
After meeting with President Trump, Speaker Johnson said the president has asked Mike Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to "stop playing political games."
Regarding the national debt, Johnson said: "What's really important to point out here … the statutes in federal law require Congress to do 12 separate appropriations bills every year. That's the only way to ensure stewardship of taxpayer funds – to spend less money and make government more responsible. The problem is, as you and I both know … Congress hasn't really worked that way in a long time. Typically what we hae instead is a giant omnibus spending bill at the end of the year because the can is kicked down the road all the way to that point."
Johnson stated that the Trump administration is "forcing the muscle memory back" and have gotten "Congress to work again."
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Two people have reportedly been killed and seven injured after a gunman crashed a truck into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints during services in Grand Blanc, Michigan. The wounded include three children. The gunman then opened fire and set the church ablaze using a "flammable accelerant." At this time, the suspect has been "neutralized" by an off-duty police officer who had been attending the service, and there is no danger to the public.
According to Cedar News, Marcus Hale, a 42-year-old Grand Blanc resident and former Army veteran, has been officially identified as the gunman. Local police, FBI investigating. The FBI is on scene and will be leading the federal investigation into the incident, providing support to state and local officials. Genesee County Sheriff's Office calls the Grand Blanc scene "dynamic" as the entire Mormon Church remains on fire.
Cedar News reports:
"Marcus Hale was a former U.S. Army service member with a documented history of mental health struggles, including PTSD. According to law enforcement, he had expressed anti-Mormon rhetoric online, and investigators are now exploring whether the attack was motivated by religious bias or personal grudges.
"Authorities have not recovered a manifesto, but Hale's digital footprint and personal connections are now under intense review. His online posts reportedly targeted the LDS Church, raising concerns about ideologically driven violence."
CNN reports children are among the victims of the shooting. Scanner reveals authorities removed an IED from the truck that crashed into the building.
Fox News reports, "A spokesperson for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said early indications show the gunman in Sunday's Michigan church shooting does not appear to have any connection to the congregation."
President Trump says this appears to be another targeted attack on Christians in the United States. The incident highlights rising church attacks, prompting urgent calls for enhanced security measures.
President Trump responds to the church shooting and attack in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
The fire has been contained.
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Law enforcement investigators digging into the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility this week, allegedly by the now-dead Joshua Jahn, 29, say he had threatened federal officers with "real terror," had an affinity for video games and specifically was targeting law enforcement when he killed and injured detainees.
Handwritten notes found after the suspect's death revealed he, at one point, threatened, "Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, 'Is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?'"
Reports also confirm he had spent thousands of hours, a total of about 17,500, playing video games.
And he searched for details on "Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management" and watched the "Charlie Kirk Shot Video."
Jahn was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after three detainees were gunned down at the facility used by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. No officers were injured, but authorities say that's who Jahn allegedly was aiming at.
A report in Time said he had been firing "indiscriminately" at officers when he hit the detainees.
"While authorities have yet to state an official motive, they also said that they found bullets inscribed with the words 'ANTI-ICE' near Jahn's body, prompting President Donald Trump and administration officials to call the shooting an attack on the institution over his hardline immigration agenda," the report said.
It describes a suspect who had two siblings and lived with his parents as recently as a few months ago.
Online resources said his father retired in 2020 after 36 years working at an elevator firm.
"Speaking to a local NBC News outlet, Jahn's brother Noah said he and Joshua were Boy Scouts who grew up in Allen, a northern Texas suburb. Jahn was unemployed but had taken an interest in coding, his brother added," the report said.
Authorities have searched two homes, one in Fairview, Texas, and another in Durant, Oklahoma.
The suspect apparently had attended some college classes years ago, and had worked for a time with a solar energy company.
A report from a Fox affiliate said evidence found after Jahn's death showed a "high degree of pre-attack planning."
FBI agent Joseph Rothrock said, "Jahn specifically intended to kill ICE agents. He fired at transport vehicles carrying ICE personnel, federal agents, and detainees. He also fired multiple shots into the windows of the office building, where numerous ICE employees do their jobs every day."
"He wrote that he intended to maximize his lethality against ICE personnel and to maximize property damage at the facility. He hoped to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the detainee and any other innocent people," said Nancy Larson, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas. "He also hoped his actions would give ICE agents real terror of being gunned down."
The shooting suspect apparently hauled a ladder atop his car to the scene where he accessed a building roof to carry out his shooting.
Larson added, "I want to address the heroism of our federal agents. Yesterday, while under fire, ICE agents and ATF agents who were also present in the facility, the sally port Area worked together to remove detainees from the vans and get them to safety while the bullets were flying. These agents were heroic, clearly willing to lay down their lives to save the lives of the detainees in their custody. And that's an extremely important point to make at this point in time. I want to express my deepest appreciation for the bravery of these law enforcement officers yesterday and every single day that they go out there to keep us safe."
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The FBI has confirmed that the suspect in this week's sniper attack on a facility used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in Dallas, a suspect now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, had wanted to deliver "real terror" to the federal law enforcement agents.
The confirmation came in a statement from FBI chief Kash Patel about the shooting that left ICE detainees dead and injured, but no federal officers were hurt:
He confirmed the FBI in Dallas and at its headquarters "have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject's person/residence/bedroom."
The suspect has been identified in several documents at Joshua Jahn, 29.
Patel said, "The perp downloaded a document titled 'Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management' containing a list of DHS facilities. – He conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the 'Charlie Kirk Shot Video' between 9/23-9/24. – Between 8/19-8/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents. – One of the handwritten notes recovered read, 'Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, 'is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?" – Further accumulated evidence to this point indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning."
Jahn is thought to have "fired indiscriminately" at the ICE building on Wednesday morning.
ICE detainees were being loaded out of a van when the gunfire erupted, authorities said.
Authorities confirmed one of the bullets left behind by the suspect was engraved with the phrase "ANTI-ICE."
WND had reported the violence follows a months-long campaign by leftist politicians and their supporting media corporations to unleash inflammatory rhetoric about President Donald Trump's agenda for border security and the deportation of illegal alien criminals.
"This vile attack was motivated by hatred for ICE," charged Kristi Noem, Homeland Security secretary. "For months, we've been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed.
"This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences," Noem said.
In fact, on Rumble, a video of leftist California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasting ICE was posted just hours earlier:
The FBI said the attack happened early Wednesday morning and involved multiple gunshots.
Gov. Greg Abbott said his state supports border security and deportation efforts, and the shooting "will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants. We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Department to get to the bottom of the assassin's motive."
Noem chided those in leftist campaigns who demonize immigration authorities.
"Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences," she added. "The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night."
Newsom's state actually launched a campaign to ban ICE agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities – to prevent attacks on their families.
Federal authorities said that since state officials have no authority over federal officers, Newsom's campaign means little.
Activist Laura Loomer confirmed, "I did a background check on Joshua Jahn, the ICE shooter in Dallas, Texas. Joshua Jahn's profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page, per the background check results, reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery. The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and sickle. The text reads GLORIOUS EXPOSITION, COMRADE. He also has a previous conviction for selling Marijuana. Proof this was Leftist political violence against ICE officers.":
The link between leftists advocating for actions against ICE and the shooting, however, was noted over and over.
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A man has been charged with a felony under a federal law that makes it illegal to point a laser at an aircraft.
The reasoning isn't complicated. Lasers, even those hand-held pointer units, can blind a pilot, even injure his eyes, and when the pilot is in control of a jet the consequences can be dire.
In this case, it was President Donald Trump's helicopter that allegedly was the target.
So Jacob Winkler was charged.
But now a magistrate judge, Zia Faruqui, has decided that Winkler doesn't need to be kept in custody.
Investigative reporter Julie Kelly confirmed, "He [Faruqui] just denied Trump DOJ's request to detain Jacob Winkler.
Police reports confirmed, "The red laser beam hit Officer Santiago's eyes and briefly disoriented him. At this time, Marine One flew at a relatively low height and directly above Officer Santiago and [Winkler's] location. Marine One was close enough that the rotor noise was loud, and the aircraft appeared large overhead. Officer Santiago approached [Winkler] after being flashed in the face with the red laser. Upon approach, [Winkler] looked up, oriented the same red laser pointer at the direction of Marine One and activated the red laser beam."
A report at the Gateway Pundit explained the situation.
"Radical magistrate judge denied the Justice Department's request to detain a man who tried to take down Marine One with a red laser pointer."
The federal complaint said Winkler immediately was handcuffed, but it also noted the danger of "risk of flash blindness and pilot disorientation," especially in a presidential helicopter flying at low altitudes.
Winkler was charged with 18 U.S. Code § 39A, a law that prohibits aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
The penalties under the law could be up to five years in prison.
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A man who was sentenced to months in a federal prison for an online joke about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race, which she lost, has been formally cleared.
Douglass Mackey posted on social media the statement "TOTAL EXONERATION" along with a copy of a federal court order declaring, "It is ordered that the defendant is acquitted, discharged, and any bond exonerated."
He was charged, by a Department of Justice weaponized by Joe Biden, with interfering with an election, and convicted and sentenced to seven months in prison. His appeals kept him out, and while the court case was dropped as illegal some time ago, the final ruling just arrived.
He had joked, about Clinton, that her supporters should avoid the lines on election day and vote online.
Leftist prosecutors wildly claimed that Mackey tricked some 5,000 people into voting by text or social, even thought that was impossible, since there is no process for online voting.
It was in 2020, right after Biden moved into the White House, "one of the very first things his weaponized DOJ did was launch a political hit job on Douglass Mackey, a conservative influencer who dared to mock Hillary Clinton with a satirical meme during the 2016 election. The meme was obviously a joke and clearly protected speech. But that didn't matter. What mattered was the message it sent: mock the regime, and we'll destroy your life. So, that's exactly what the Biden regime did," Revolver commented.
That publication contacted Mackey after the court released its order.
He said, "Although personally satisfying, this victory is for the American people. This victory is for all who donated and prayed and lawyered and spread the word to help win this case. It was an honor to stand for free speech," he said. "After pouring many hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars into this case, I look forward to winning a settlement with the Trump DOJ, which is doing a great job righting the wrongs of the last administration."
He cited a lawyer he's retained for those negotiations.
He also said he's excited to have another legal team to pursue "accountability and reforms" inside the DOJ to prevent future weaponization like that which Biden demanded.
WND had reported when he confirmed his plan to seek damages.
It was the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that destroyed the Biden administration's years-long war against Mackey by vacating his conviction.
Revolver reported, "Many also believe the Mackey case was a test run. Because if they could twist a meme into a federal crime and throw a young guy in prison, could they also go after a former president? Turns out, yes. They could. And they did."
Mackey's lawyer said it's a priority to secure compensation for damages Biden's DOJ inflicted.
Also possible? Suing DOJ attorneys in their personal capacity and filing misconduct complaints against them, the report noted.
Also they will work with Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate how the case could come about, "who originated it, and whose heads need to roll for it."
When the Biden DOJ weaponization was at its strongest, Mackey was convicted and sentenced to prison.
He pointed out in his appeal that the government's case, left standing, would criminalize not just political misinformation and satire, but also "lies about also whether and for whom to vote. Such a sprawling political speech code is in the teeth of every applicable canon for reading criminal laws, and grossly offends the First Amendment."
WND also reported that a "progressive activist told Trump supporters to vote by text, but Biden's weaponized DOJ gave her a pass.