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A war is developing over local judges across the country, who are assigned to handle cases in their own districts, suddenly deciding they are able to make decisions reserved for the executive branch, in fact, President Donald Trump.
They do this through taking a local case, one often that has been presented to them by plaintiffs who know the judge's political agenda and like it, and issuing injunctions that cover the entire nation, not just their district.
Now there's a warning the Democrats may not like the results of the fight they are pursuing. It's through a series of appeals by the administration of President Donald Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court, where there's now a majority that is considered on the conservative side of the political spectrum.
One of those, Justice Samuel Alito, noted in an earlier case that it was frustrating for those local judges to be able to control the federal government and its actions.
"Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars?" he challenged when the court allowed that order to stand.
Trump had suspended those payments through USAID because of the massive questions about the political and ideological agenda being pushed by the agency with tax dollars, programs that, in fact, often worked against the priorities of the United States.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt offered a very simple solution available to those judges.
Her comments came after a Clinton-aligned judge ordered the Trump administration to re-hire thousands of federal employees who had been dismissed under Trump's cost- and fraud-cutting programs.
"A single judge is attempting to unconstitutionally seize the power of hiring and firing from the Executive Branch," she said. "The president has the authority to exercise the power of the entire executive branch – singular district court judges cannot abuse the power of the entire judiciary to thwart the president's agenda."
She turned to mockery: "If a federal district court judge would like executive powers, they can try and run for president themselves."
The Washington Examiner reported the judges ruling against Trump's agenda so far have been in "strategically chosen courts."
And Trump has gone to the Supreme Court, challenging lower courts' decisions on his birthright citizenship issue and other issues.
"Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the start of the current administration," acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris explained, among the more than 100 lawsuits against Trump's agenda already.
One of the latest flareups happened when a judge in California, William Alsup, picked by Bill Clinton, "issued a sweeping order requiring six federal agencies to reinstate immediately thousands of probationary employees fired by the administration last month."
The report noted five years ago, Justice Neil Gorsuch warned nationwide injunctions create an "asymmetric" legal battlefield in which any policy can be halted by one judge, even if others would uphold it.
In fact, judges, such as Adam B. Abelson, have gone so far as to expand their authority to rule on all of Trump's cleanup plans for the corrupt DEI practices across all agencies.
One case already before the court offers the chance for the Supreme Court to undermine the political activism by district judges.
The report explained, "The case centers on a Texas judge, Amos Mazzant, an appointee of former President Barack Obama who ruled that a federal law requiring businesses to disclose ownership information was unconstitutional. But Mazzant went further — he issued a nationwide injunction preventing the government from enforcing the law at all."
The end result, ultimately, could be for "trial judges to issue more targeted orders that apply solely to the plaintiffs involved," the report said.
"When a single judge can grant a nationwide preliminary injunction, it makes it easier for parties to identify the very few outlier judges who do rule more predictably," an expert explained.
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A legal group is urging government officials to investigate an Ohio college it says is violating a state law and federal Title IX by forcing female students to share restrooms with men.
America First Legal, or AFL, has written to both the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, asking them to investigate Kenyon College, a private school located in Gambier, Ohio.
AFL notes that on Feb. 12, Kenyon President Julie Kornfeld and top administrators issued a statement saying, "[t]he law prohibits Kenyon from knowingly permitting members of the 'male biological sex' to use multi-occupancy student restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms or shower rooms designated for use by members of the 'female biological sex,' and vice versa."
Kornfeld, however, says that no changes would be made to multi-occupancy restrooms in administrative and academic buildings on campus, claiming that these restrooms "are not considered student restrooms within the meaning of the Ohio law, as they are not, and cannot be, designated for use exclusively by students."
America First Legal asserts, "Kenyon's policy forces women to share intimate facilities in all academic and admissions buildings on campus with men."
According to AFL, the new law, signed by Gov. Mike DeWine in November, "explicitly prohibits academic institutions from constructing, establishing, or maintaining a multi-occupancy restrooms that are not designated for either men or women."
The organization also appealed to President Trump's executive order "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," which establishes that there are only two sexes, male and female, and that intimate spaces are determined by biological sex, not by "identity," and must be designated accordingly.
Will Scolinos, AFL counsel, stated, "Ohio law is clear: multi-occupancy restrooms must be designated for either men or women. Schools of higher education should focus more on educating students rather than re-educating them into radical gender policies that require students, men and women, to share the same restrooms. It is not normal. America First Legal will to stand up for the rule of law for all Americans – the fight requires undoing the damage caused by radical administrators at institutions of 'higher education' and making common sense common again."
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Janet Mills, the Democrat governor of Maine who openly defied President Donald Trump's executive orders regarding men who say they are women and insist on competing in sports events reserved for women, now is facing a recall effort.
She earlier was targeted by the Department of Education for apparently violating Title IX laws after she slashed with Trump at a meeting of the National Governors Associatin.
The fight was over Trump's landmark executive order signed on February 5, which provided that biological men could not compete in women's sports. States that allow it will be subject to losing federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
Mills issued a statement publicly that she was refusing the president's order.
Now a report from the Center Square explains a recall campaign has been launched against her.
The report notes that it appears unlikely that the recall to remove her from office would succeed in the Democrat-majority state, but an online petition already has gathered some 30,000 signatures in just a week.
"The petitioner, Melissa Moulton, said she is 'deeply disappointed' in Mills' policies and the governor's pushback on President Donald Trump's efforts to prohibit transgender males from competing in women's sports," the report explained.
"I believe strongly that her policies are not in alignment with the wishes and values of the majority of Mainers," Moulton explained. "The feeling of disconnect between the populace and leadership is palpable and widespread."
The dispute is happening more and more often these days as advocates for the transgender lifestyle choice have been getting more and more aggressive.
They claim that it's discrimination to refuse permission for a man who says he is a woman to compete in women's sports. Actually, that argument ignores the rights of women in those sports, including the rights to privacy in intimate settings like showers and locker rooms.
The report noted, "Trump has vowed to withhold federal funding from any states that fail to comply with his executive order banning transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports."
Her response to the president was, "See you in court."
The report noted the investigation, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, determined that the Maine Department of Education is in violation of Title IX, a 1972 civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools that receive federal funding.
Attorney General Pam Bondi has the option of taking the state to court over the violations.
In Maine, while the law allows lawmakers to remove the governor by petition, it does not give the same right to citizens. And the Maine legislature is dominated by leftist Democats.
The report said Moulton wants residents to sign anyway, to "voice our collective dissent" to Mills' agenda.
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PALM BEACH, Florida – President Donald Trump believes there's "something wrong" with Democrats in power and the party itself is in serious trouble, possibly becoming a "minor party" in American politics based on their recent actions.
Trump appeared on "Sunday Morning Futures" on the Fox News Channel, and host Maria Bartiromo asked the president about the Democrats' behavior at his joint address to Congress last Tuesday.
"They're gonna sit there angry, insolent," Trump said.
Bartiromo noted: "I was surprised at the Democrats' behavior the other night because you delivered among the most diverse, expanded audience – Republicans, Democrats, Independents. Is it just that the Democrat leadership that does not see that?"
"There's something wrong with them," Trump replied. "I can't even believe it. They lost an election in a landslide. They were talking about men playing in women's sports."
"I made a speech, the Republicans were going wild and the Democrats were having their little signs up … and I said it's unbelievable."
"They don't get it, they don't get it now. And I think they're gonna end being a minor party if they keep going like this, 'cause people don't want to hear about these stupid issues that they have.
"Transgender for everybody. And again, the men in women's sports. What is that, a 90-to-10 [percent] deal? I don't even know who the 10 would be. But they're in there fighting for it.
"And I try to say to myself 'cause you always like to understand where your opponent is, whether it's in business or anything else. Is there something I don't understand? But we don't understand it."
Bartiromo also asked Trump about his "smackdown" of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying, "It looked really rough."
Trump responded: "It was like taking candy from a baby, what he did, he's a smart guy and he's a tough guy."
"He took money out of this country under Biden like candy from a baby it was so easy with that same attitude. I just don't think he's grateful."
Regarding gold cards Trump is planning to allow foreigners to purchase a $5 million path toward U.S. citizenship, Bartiromo asked: "How do you know the Chinese are not going to take advantage of it and exploit it. Didn't they do that with student visas?"
"They may, they may," Trump said. "But they don't have to do that. They can do it in other ways."
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'America is an outlier on this – 46 out of 47 countries require proof before you can vote'
Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., held a press conference Thursday addressing election integrity issues.
He was joined by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas in front of the United States Capitol to argue for the passage of the SAVE Act. The acronym stands for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
"We want you to be an American citizen to vote in American elections," Roy said. "This bill, the only thing it would do is prevent illegal aliens and noncitizens in elections."
Roy also addressed allegations the SAVE Act takes away married women's right to vote. Those who believe this to be true point to many who are married no longer having the same last name as on their birth certificate. But the bill allows any "REAL ID compliant" identification to qualify under its requirements. Most state drivers' licenses are now REAL ID compliant.
The SAVE Act would require all applicants registering to vote to present a government ID to prove their citizenship. Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Oka., accused the Clinton administration of relaxing ID requirements which allowed people to "assert" they are citizens, rather than have to provide documentation. Brecheen said that it's time to return to a system that requires proof.
"America is an outlier on this 46 out of 47 countries require proof before you can vote," he claimed.
Founder of the election integrity network, Cleta Mitchell, and famed conservative activist Pastor Lorenzo Sewell also spoke. Mitchell decried inaction in shoring up the security of America's voting process, saying, "We need to save our elections so we can save our country."
Behind the podium – on the front of which a sign read "Election Integrity = Civil Rights" – were surrogates from states such as Georgia and Michigan. It is in those states, many still say, there were election irregularities in 2020, when the United States shifted to a fraught mass mail-in ballot system due to the coronavirus pandemic.
These instances are only the latest in a decades-long erosion in trust in America's elections. In 2000, a Gallup poll found that more Americans thought then-President Elect George W. Bush won that year's race illegitimately rather than legitimately. That came after a hotly contested race in Florida over punch hole ballots was decided by the Supreme Court in favor of Bush.
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Following his campaign promise to "seal the border on Day 1," President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 22 to "suspend the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border."
Then calling upon the U.S. military to help fulfill his promise, over 9,000 U.S. troops were deployed at the southern border. But on March 1, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also ordered the deployment of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team and General Support Aviation Battalion to the southwestern border of the United States. According to Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, these forces will "reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States."
Each Stryker Brigade Combat Team is a mechanized infantry force comprising approximately 4,400 soldiers. The aviation component of the deployment will bring about 650 additional personnel to the region, along with UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for command and medical evacuation, and CH-47 Chinooks for heavy lifting.
"These forces," said Parnell, "will arrive in the coming weeks, and their deployment underscores the department's unwavering dedication to working alongside the Department of Homeland Security to secure our southern border and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of the United States under President Trump's leadership."
WorldNetDaily spoke to Ben Varlese, a global security expert and former Stryker brigade sniper. He described each variant of the eight-wheeled armored vehicle as "phenomenal," noting a number of different variants, ranging from mortar carriers to reconnaissance or infantry carrier vehicles.
Close-up view of the M1126 Stryker and its capabilities:
Most standard Strykers, he told WorldNetDaily, house a crew of 11, to include a driver, vehicle commander and two fire teams. "While I don't think we're calling for fire, mortars or artillery quite yet at the southern border," he noted, "the Stryker is definitely a force multiplier."
While operating from Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq in 2004-2005, Varlese was able to experience the tremendous value of the armored fighting vehicle. "A lot of the terrain was very similar to the southwest U.S.," he said, explaining, "they offer great mobility platforms for not only desert-type environments, but also for urban operations."
What's more, he told WND, "It's a big green beast, and there's no denying what it is or what it's capable of doing. Its presence alone is a passive deterrent."
With regard to its capabilities, said Varlese, "They often have a free mounted weapon system like a 50-caliber machine gun, Mk 19 (pronounced Mark 19) 40-mm automatic grenade launcher, or a videogame-like Remote Weapon System." Additionally, some also feature the long-range advanced scout surveillance system, or LRASSS, with standard or thermal viewing. And according to Varlese, "You could read somebody's name tape from a kilometer away."
"Remarkably, they're really quiet, too," he added. "We used to be able to pretty much park right in front of somebody's front door, and they didn't even know we were there until they heard the clank of the ramp dropping." Should these Strykers ever be used for conducting raids, the quietness feature is a big benefit.
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A major American grocery chain, Kroger, has had a customer arrested for protesting a terror symbol it allowed an employee to wear while on the job.
The report comes from the RAIR Foundation, which documented the concerns expressed by Jewish journalist Sloan Rachmuth over the threat she perceived at a Kroger subsidiary Harris Tweeter store in North Carolina, and how the corporation responded by claiming her decision to post her concerns on social media turned into a crime.
A video of Rachmuth being told by police that something she said upset someone else, so she was being arrested.
Amy Mek, of the RAIR Foundation, explained Rachmuth was "politically targeted, humiliated, and silenced for daring to object to a U.S. grocery store employee wearing an Islamic terror symbol – exposing a shocking case of corporate complicity, police overreach, and state-enforced antisemitism."
Mek reported the situation developed in Holly Springs, N.C., where Rachmuth was arrested at her home in front of her terrified children.
"Her alleged crime? According to Rachmuth, she objected to a supermarket employee at Harris Teeter wearing the controversial keffiyeh, a political symbol widely associated with Hamas and its ambitions to destroy Israel and the Jewish people worldwide. Rachmuth, an outspoken advocate against antisemitism and a contributor to national media outlets on Middle Eastern affairs, explained to RAIR Foundation in an exclusive interview that she was handcuffed, marched through her neighborhood, and charged with cyberstalking, posting about the troubling incident online," the report said.
The arrest, she said, was based on "an unverified accusation," suggesting "law enforcement's complicity," the report said.
Rachmuth first had notified the store manager of the violation of the company's corporate attire policy, then corporate headquarters.
"Indeed, Harris Teeter allowed an employee to wear a threatening symbol of Islamic and Palestinian terrorism, visibly wrapping it around her head while working with customers," Mek reported.
When Rachmuth asked the employee, identified in the report as Amira M. Fattah, about the symbol, Fattah charged, "It's for a Free Palestine," confirming "she wore the keffiyeh as a political statement rather than for religious reasons."
Rachmuth's concerns to the store manager, Sheronna Irick, prompted a scolding to, "Like it or leave."
She then contacted the store chain's headquarters and posted documentation of the encounter on X.
Then workers at the store called police.
"According to arrest records and law enforcement, store manager Sheronna Irick played a pivotal role in facilitating this retaliation," the report said.
It was Holly Springs police officers Elliott Warren, Benjamin Marino, and Edgar Hernandez who then pounded on Rachmuth's door and arrested her.
Marino told her, "Something you did made her uncomfortable, all right?"
The charges were dropped a day later by Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, a Democrat.
The report warned, "The case raises serious questions about lawfare and the use of activist law enforcement to target political dissenters."
A WND call to Kroger headquarters resulted in a statement that no response to questions about the situation was allowed.
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Officials in the Fresno Unified School District in California, with 71,000 students, have set up a number of academic support programs for them.
Only they are "marketed" only to black students.
Which has prompted the Pacific Legal Foundation to launch a legal challenge to the district for "unlawfully gating" access to the student help programs.
"It is unfair and unconstitutional to gate access to valuable educational programs based on a child's race, regardless of whether the exclusion is explicit or implicit," explained PLF lawyer Wilson Freeman.
"Taxpayer-funded academic support programs should be available to all students based on need, not race. FUSD's practices violate multiple legal protections, including the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, the Civil Rights Act, and California's Proposition 209."
The district, in fact, has an "Office of African American Academic Acceleration," to address achievement gaps between black students and others.
That office runs 13 various programs with a $12 million budget, and focuses "on mentoring African American middle and high school students," the legal team explained.
While the programs lack a specific racial requirement, "they are marketed exclusively to African American students," the legal challenge charges.
"Administrators direct teachers to inform only African American parents and students about these opportunities, leaving other students unaware."
The report said Fresno is the state's third-largest school district, and the "acceleration" office was created back in 2017.
It was "started with a $742,000 budget to mentor African American middle and high school students," the report said.
"Academic need doesn't discriminate. It affects students of all races who need extra support to reach their full potential. This includes children whose parents belong to Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER), a nonprofit group that fights for equal treatment under the law," the legal team explained.
"These parents have children in Fresno schools who could benefit from A4 programs but were either kept unaware of the opportunities or, worse, led to believe they weren't eligible because they're not black. The parents are also deeply troubled that the district spends millions in taxpayer dollars on programs that de facto exclude their children for no other reason than skin color."
The lawyers pointed out the Supreme Court has said, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
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President Trump is considering ending shipments of military aid to Ukraine after the heated disagreement he had today with President Zelensky over the war between Russia and Ukraine.
According to a report in the Washington Post, a senior administration official told the paper about the possible retributive action.
If made, the decision would apply to "billions of dollars of radars, vehicles, ammunition and missiles awaiting shipment to Ukraine through the presidential drawdown authority, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic," reported the Post.
The unprecedented dust-up caused the cancellation of a planned news conference and ceremony signing an agreement between the two nations to enable U.S. access to rare-earth minerals in Ukraine.
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Instructions have gone out to U.S. government offices worldwide that men who say they are women and want to compete in athletic events in America are to be denied visas.
And those who are deemed to have misrepresented their birth sex on their applications will be banned from American soil permanently.
That's according to a new report at the Guardian, which explains, "The 24 February state department cable obtained by the Guardian instructs visa officers to apply Immigration and Nationality Act section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) – the 'permanent fraud bar' – against trans applicants. Unlike regular visa denials, this section triggers lifetime exclusion from the United States with limited waiver possibilities."
The Guardian reported the instructions from the administration of President Donald Trump, who earlier declared that the U.S. government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, stated, "In cases where applicants are suspected of misrepresenting their purpose of travel or sex, you should consider whether this misrepresentation is material such that it supports an ineligibility finding."
The guidance was released over the signature of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Trump's own executive order on the topic came Feb. 5, and said simply men are not allowed to compete in women's sports events.
"While signing the order, the president directed the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to deny visas to 'men attempting to fraudulently enter the United States while identifying themselves as women athletes' during the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles – which will take place under Trump's watch," the report explained.
Trump also directed Rubio to inform the International Olympic Committee that the U.S. "will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes."
Officials at the ACLU, who have fought over and over on behalf of special recognition for alternative sexual lifestyle choices, such as transgenderism, said the decision to bar male athletes who claim to be female was "alarming."
Transgenders have, in fact, been allowed to compete in Olympic events in Tokyo and Paris.
"The state department cable instructs consular officers to examine birth certificates when documentation conflicts and mark all cases with 'SWS25' to track enforcement across consular posts worldwide. It also mentions a forthcoming separate guidance from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs that will outline additional actions to 'preclude biologically male athletes from participating in women's sporting events, including sports exchanges in the United States,'" the report noted.
In America, the NCAA already has reversed its position on men in women's sports because of Trump's definitions.
A post at the Post-Millennial said, the permanent ban is available under U.S. law that cracks down on those who try to get a visa by "fraud or willfully misrepresenting a material fact."
Trump has expressed that America "categorically rejects transgender lunacy." He said, "We want them to change everything having to do with the Olympics and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject that we even have to talk about this subject."
In fact, following the science, males do not become females, or vice versa, because being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.