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The long-running saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia continues, as two Obama-appointed judges on Wednesday ordered the MS-13 gang member to be released while precluding ICE from arresting him.
Bill Melugin of Fox News reported: "Maryland federal judge Paula Xinis has just issued an order that will block ICE from arresting 'Maryland man' Kilmar Abrego Garcia upon his release on bail in Tennessee for his federal human trafficking charges.
"Judge Xinis is also ordering a 72 hour pause on any effort to deport him to a third party country without 'sufficient notice' and 'due process.'
"Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran illegal alien alleged MS-13 gang member and alleged repeat wife beater, is facing federal human smuggling charges in Tennessee, and a judge there is deciding whether to release him pending trial. The government had indicated it would take him into ICE custody in Tennessee if he was released pending his federal case.
"Judge Xinis has now blocked the Trump administration from taking him into ICE custody upon his release."
"WTF?!" exclaimed online journalist Nick Sortor in reaction to the news.
"They're forcing a FOREIGN MS-13 WIFE BEATER back onto our streets. IGNORE THE COURT! ARREST HIM!"
CBS News reported: "The Tennessee judge, Waverly Crenshaw, denied the Justice Department's request to revoke the magistrate judge's order allowing Abrego Garcia to be released while awaiting a criminal trial, writing that the government 'failed to carry its burden of showing that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure Abrego's appearance or the safety of others.'"
"These rulings are a powerful rebuke of the government's lawless conduct and a critical safeguard for Kilmar's due process rights," Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, an attorney for Abrego Garcia, said.
"A federal judge has now barred ICE from taking him back into custody and ordered that any future deportation attempt must come with advance notice. After the government unlawfully deported him once without warning, this legal protection is essential."
A federal grand jury in Tennessee had indicted Garcia for "transporting undocumented migrants within the United States."
He and co-conspirators from El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala and America are accused of trafficking illegal immigrants from 2016 through 2025.
Garcia pleaded not guilty last month to charges of human trafficking.
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A horror story worthy of Edgar Allen Poe or Stephen King has been documented by Lila Rose, the noted pro-life activist who runs Live Action, among other endeavors.
It involves two homosexual men who contracted with a surrogate for a baby, but when she needed to deliver early because of a cancer diagnosis, they insisted that their "property" die.
A report at Not The Bee explained the sequence of events triggered by a gay duo who "boldly nominated themselves for the Most Hideously Evil Monsters of the Year Award."
It documented how the homosexuals could not force the surrogate to abort, but once the baby was born, it became their "property." They simply allowed no life-saving efforts at all, and the baby died.
The surrogate tried a number of solutions, offering to adopt the baby, but the duo demanded "a death certificate."
The report noted, "The couple, who had 'paid' for the surrogate mother's baby, refused to accept the child due to the increased risk of health problems. Instead, they wanted him to die. And with life-saving care withheld, the baby boy did die shortly after he was born."
Rose explained surrogacy, "enables people to act as if they are entitled to other people's reproductive abilities – the body of the woman whose womb they are renting. It also treats children like property to be bought, sold, and killed."
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U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., is now officially gone from the House of Representatives as Sunday was his last day on the job, leaving 219 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the chamber.
In June, Green announced he would be leaving the House, saying: "It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up."
"As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package."
Journalist Nick Sortor noted: "He just ran for re-election months ago, and is now resigning because he wants a different job. These people are incredibly selfish. We need a STAUNCH MAGA Republican in this seat!"
Green called serving the Volunteer State's 7th congressional district "the honor of a lifetime."
"They asked me to deliver on the conservative values and principles we all hold dear, and I did my level best to do so. Along the way, we passed historic tax cuts, worked with President Trump to secure the border, and defended innocent life. I am extremely proud of my work as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and want to thank my staff, both in my 7th District office, as well as the professional staff on that committee," Green said.
The Republican also noted he had previously prepared to depart in the last Congress, but then changed his mind.
"Though I planned to retire at the end of the previous Congress, I stayed to ensure that President Trump's border security measures and priorities make it through Congress," he explained.
"By overseeing the border security portion of the reconciliation package, I have done that. After that, I will retire, and there will be a special election to replace me."
Green last week endorsed Matt Van Epps to replace him in the House, telling Fox News Digital: "Matt Van Epps has my complete and total endorsement."
He revealed he served in the same U.S. Army special operations unit as Van Epps, which he called "a brotherhood that cannot be replicated anywhere else."
"Congressman Green has left some very large shoes to fill, but I'm ready to step in and continue his work on behalf of Tennesseans," Van Epps told Fox News.
Numerous Republicans have already tossed their hat into the ring for the congressional seat, including U.S. Army veteran Jonathan Thorp, Montgomery County Commissioner Jason Knight, Mason Foley of Main Street Health, and state Reps. Jay Reedy, Lee Reeves and Jody Barrett.
Fox News Digital noted: "Even with Green's departure from Congress, it's a safe bet to assume his House seat will stay in Republican hands.
"The district voted for Trump by more than 20 percentage points over former Vice President Kamala Harris last year."
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Sunday "there must be indictments" in connection with a "treasonous conspiracy" by President Obama and his officials to thwart President Donald Trump in the aftermath of Trump's first White House victory in 2016.
"There must be indictments, no matter how powerful they were at that time," Gabbard said on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel regarding "manufactured intelligence" by Obama officials suggesting there was Russian collusion to impact the race. "They all must be held accountable."
"We are referring all of the documents we have uncovered to the Department of Justice and the FBI for criminal referral," she added.
While noting she was not a lawyer, Gabbard expressed confidence in criminal prosecutions of the perpetrators.
"In my view, we have the evidence to move forward and indict and prosecute those responsible," she said.
"The implications of this are frankly nothing short of historic. Over 100 documents that we released on Friday really detail and provide evidence of how this treasonous conspiracy was directed by President Obama just weeks after he was due to leave office after President Trump had already gotten elected."
Gabbard noted this is not a Democrat or Republican issue.
"This is an issue that is so serious that it should concern every single American because it has to do with the integrity of our democratic republic," she said.
"We had a sitting president of the United States and his Cabinet and leadership team quite frankly who were not happy with the fact that President Trump had won the election."
"They decided that they would do everything possible to try to undermine his ability to do what voters tasked President Trump to do.
"So creating this piece of manufactured intelligence that claims that Russia had helped Donald Trump get elected, contradicted every other assessment that had been made previously in the months leading up to the election that said exactly the opposite that Russia had neither the intent nor the capability to try to 'hack' the election for the presidency of the United States.
"The effect of what President Obama and his senior national security team did was subvert the will of the American people, undermining our democratic republic, and enacting what would be essentially a years-long coup against President Trump who was duly elected by the American people."
Gabbard explained once the manufactured intelligence was created after Trump's election in November 2016, "There was a shift in early December."
"Russia did not attempt to affect the outcome of the American election. That was never published. Hours before it would have gone into President Obama's president's daily brief, it was pulled by a senior-level intelligence official saying that they had to pull it because they had received new guidance.
"The very next day, this meeting was called, a National Security Council meeting, bringing all the senior members of President Obama's Cabinet, and the topic that was put forward was a sensitive matter.
"The tasks that came out of that meeting was coming from President Obama directing the intelligence community then Obama's ODNI Director [James] Clapper to produce a document, to produce an intelligence assessment that detailed not if, but how Moscow had affected the outcome of the election that had already occurred electing Donald Trump to the presidency. This document that they published in January of 2017 was the foundational groundwork that they continued reference over and over and over again to enact this years-long coup against President Trump."
Gabbard indicated "more detailed information about how exactly this took place" will be released next week.
"Accountability is essential for the future of our country, for the American people to have any sense of trust in the integrity of our democratic republic," she concluded.
"Accountability, action, prosecution, indictments for those who are responsible for trying to steal our democracy is essential for us to make sure that this never happens to our country again, about how exactly this took place."
President Trump amplified Gabbard's message, posting clips of Gabbard on his Truth Social page.
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A member of Parliament from East Wiltshire, Danny Kruger, has delivered a stunning call, to an empty chamber, for the nation to return to Jesus Christ:
A report at Not The Bee said, "It's 10 minutes long, but perhaps the best thing you will listen to today."
Kruger said, "Last month, in the space of three days, in one infamous week, this house authorized the killing of unborn children, 9 month old babies, and it passed a bill to allow the killing of the elderly and disabled. And I describe those laws in these stark terms not to provoke further controversy but because those are the facts. We gave our consent to the greatest crime – the killing of the weak, the murder of defenseless human beings – it was a great sin."
He explained, "This nation … was founded, created consciously on the basis of the Bible and has story of the Hebrew people. And in that sense, England is the oldest Christian country and the prototype of nations across the West. The story of England is the story of Christianity operating on a people to make the institutions and a culture that has been uniquely stable, uniquely successful. The Western model was forged and refined in England over a thousand years …"
He said, "So through all these long years, from the time of Alfred to the time of Victoria it was assumed that a nation was a community of common worship and that our community – this country – worshiped the Christian God. Then in the 20th Century another idea arose. That it is possible for a country to be neutral about God. That the public space, the public square was empty of any metaphysics. That the route to freedom lay through the desert of materialism, individual reason. 'No hell below us, above us only sky."
That ideology gave the world "the horrors of the 20th Century," he said.
"And now new threats, ugly and aggressive are arising because we have found that in the absence of the Christian God we do not have pluralism and tolerance, everyone being nice to each other in a godless world. Because all politics is religious, and in abandoning one religion we simply created space for others to move into as dominant faiths," he said, identifying Islam and "wokeness."
He said either society owns Christianity, or repudiates it.
One on social media said, "More and more, I'm wondering if Christianity is the reason for the success of Europe and America. Should we be leaning back into religion to bring us back to our roots. Put more focus on building families and less on multiculturalism. Christian values and ethics built the West!!"
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A police department's open promotions of and advocacy for the LGBT lifestyle choices successfully undermined the public's trust that the agency could be neutral in its enforcement of laws.
That's the verdict from a high court in the United Kingdom in a fight between Linzi Smith and the Northumbria police agency.
Smith, a Newcastle United fan, was investigated by Northumbria police because she expressed gender-critical view over the department's promotions of the lifestyle choices.
Justice Linden, from the court, ruled the chief constable's "participation" in various pro-LGBT campaigns, "was likely to be seen, and may well have been intended to be seen, as expressing the support of the head of the force for the views and the cause which that [LGBT] march sought to promote."
The ruling said, "institutional support for gender ideology and transgender rights" was further expressed by uniformed police officers marching with the "Police Pride" flag, while a static display "included the Northumbria Police badge and the blue, pink and white of the transgender flag."
Those actions, the court ruling said, impacted the public's trust in police abilities to "fairly and impartially" handle clashes between those declining to adopt the leftist agenda, and those who actively promote it and want others to follow their lead.
Christian Institute Ciaran Kelly explained, the decision "struck a major blow against the capture of the police by LGBT ideology and could spell the end for 'rainbow' vehicles and other LGBT branding."
Smith explained, "It is terrifying to live in a community where the police have abandoned their duty of impartiality and embraced a highly controversial political cause. I've experienced first-hand what happens when the police forget their duty of impartiality."
She said the court's decision that police acted unlawfully when they investigated her social media comments about the reality of biological sex gives her hope the agency will change its ways.
Smith still is challenging the decision by the Newcastle United Football club's decision to suspend her membership.
She was targeted by police for her criticisms of the department's "openly supporting 'trans causes.'"
Police claimed her social media statements on the controversial issue were "malicious communications."
Smith was backed by the Free Speech Union and confirmed, "This has all happened purely because I hold views that other people don't agree with."
A lawyer representing her, Paul Conrathe, explained, "By marching at Pride, wearing rainbow lanyards and driving rainbow painted police cars the police have plainly breached their statutory duty of impartiality."
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Sounding like a polished preacher expounding on the words of Jesus, U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., Wednesday used words of the Savior on the Senate floor as he argued against $9 billion in federal budget cuts the upper body was debating.
Coons solemnly intoned the shortest verse in the Bible, "Jesus wept," and insisted that is exactly what He will do should Republicans succeed in cutting a fraction of 1 percent of the mammoth federal budget.
Reaction on X were swift and creative:
"Crazy how many Democrats suddenly become Christian Nationalists and start piously quoting scripture when their 'transgender tampons for Bangladeshi toddlers' programs are on the line."
"The separation of church and state people are asking 'What would Jesus do?' again."
"Jesus says marriage is between a man and a woman, Chris. He's got much more to cry about with you."
"Someday [Coons] can ask Jesus if he wept for the LGBT programs that were defunded. But I don't think that will be top of mind on that day."
The recission legislation Congress is considering would cut specific foreign aid programs as well as PBS and NPR, government-funded media outlets.
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The White House North Lawn is back open after a 30-minute lockdown Tuesday as someone threw an object over the fence, prompting security to order news reporters inside the president's residence for their own protection.
It turns out the object thrown over the fence may have been a cell phone.
White House correspondent Kimberly Halkett cited White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying: "Someone (presumably a tourist) threw their phone over the fence (of the White House)."
The Daily Mail reports: "The Secret Service quickly called a lockdown of the park and White House and closed off Pennsylvania Avenue.
"Agents ushered press standing outside into the briefing room without providing further details at around 11:30 a.m. ET.
"The Secret Service declared an all-clear order roughly 30 minutes later, allowing reporters back onto the North Lawn."
Numerous reporters posted video clips from both outside the White House and inside the James Brady Briefing Room to document the confusion as they were initially left in the dark as to the nature of the situation.
The incident comes just days after the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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The world needs now "to prepare for the regime [in China] to lash out without warning," according to China expert Gordon Chang in a report at the Gatestone Institute, where he is distinguished senior fellow and a member of the organization's advisory board.
He cited "rumors" that Xi Jinping is losing control and will lose both his Communist Party and Chinese government posts in the next few months – as well as those who say "little or nothing is out of place and Xi is fine."
"Whatever the truth," he said, now is the time when Xi may "have reason to take the world by surprise."
"There are clear signs that Xi has lost control of the People's Liberation Army, the most important faction in the Communist Party of China. A series of articles, beginning on July 9 of last year, in PLA Daily, the military's main propaganda organ, praised 'collective leadership,' a clear criticism of Xi's one-man style of rule. At the same time, many of Xi's loyalists were removed from their posts," Change noted.
"The most prominent of those removed was Xi's No. 1 hatchet man, General He Weidong, last seen in public on March 11. Some believe the general, the No. 2 uniformed officer, was 'suicided' in May in the military's 301 Hospital in Beijing, at about the same time that another Xi supporter, General He Hongjun, was also reportedly killed," he said.
Another indicator is that Xi was absent from the recent BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, a first, sparking speculation he needed to stay in Beijing to maintain control, or even that others in leadership prevented his travel.
Significant is that analysts have noted state and party media in recent months have "portrayed Xi in a diminished role."
One comment, from Charles Burton of the Prague-based Sinopsis think tank, noted at a Communist Party symposium just weeks ago Xi was publicly forced to praise "collective leadership."
Others suggest that signs are nothing more than "unsubstantiated rumors" and reveal a "glaring ignorance" of the situation.
One factor is that his powers over some commissions and groups is diminishing, although analysts disagree on whether he's being forced into that position, or whether he promoted it himself.
Burton's conclusion is, "Where there's smoke, there's fire. Xi is obviously in some sort of trouble. The smoke keeps pouring out."
Chang said what it means for the rest of the world is that it is at "great risk" if Xi is "now engaged in no-holds-barred fighting for his political life."
"He could, for example, trigger a confrontation or start a war, not to rally the Chinese people — at the moment China's people do not want war — but to prevent other senior Communist Party figures from challenging him," Chang explained.
He could activate Chinese agents in the U.S. to damage power lines, poison reservoirs bomb shopping centers and start wildfires, using agents that came into America under Joe Biden, Chang wrote.
Whether it's business-as-usual inside China, or the nation is in turmoil, "the U.S. needs to be prepared for China's regime to solve its internal disputes by burning down America — and perhaps the rest of the world."
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An ordinary citizen who would go online with a promotion of the digits "86 47," a reference many understood as a threat to President Donald Trump … to "86" or end the 47th president, they would have come under federal investigation.
And when a former high-ranking federal official, Barack Obama's FBI chief, James Comey, does it, it seems, the treatment is the same, under the Trump administration.
Comey flamboyantly posted the messaging online, and the FBI immediately confirmed it knew all about the apparent threat to Trump from Comey, who quickly canceled his posting.
And it promised an investigation.
Now, according to a report at Just the News, which quoted the New York Times, Comey was, in fact, interviewed, even followed, because of his behavior.
It explained the messaging was a picture of seashells arranged to spell "86 47."
"The first number has roots in the restaurant industry for getting rid of, or no longer having, a certain food. But others say it is a call for an assassination. The second number stands for the 47th president," the report said.
Now three anonymous government officials have confirmed law enforcement in unmarked cars tracked the location of Comey's cellphone the day after he posted online.
Comey, subsequently, had explained, "I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down."
The report noted, "Authorities tailed Comey and his wife, Patrice, as they drove from their North Carolina vacation through Virginia to their home in the Washington, D.C., area, the officials said, citing 'exigent' circumstances for the justification. "
Federal agents also were at his home awaiting his return, monitoring the location of his phone, and he also was interviewed both via telephone and in person in a Secret Service office in Washington, the report said.
Anthony Guglielmi, a service spokesman, explained, "The Secret Service will vigorously investigate any individual, regardless of position or status, that may pose or be perceived as a threat to any of our protectees. To preserve operational integrity, we are not able to comment on specific protective intelligence matters."
WND reported when the story first developed on the reaction.
There also, at the time, was a reminder that President Trump has faced two assassination attempts in just the last year, so the threat is serious.
Trump fired Comey in 2017 while Comey was orchestrating one of the many Democrat lawfare investigations of Trump.