The conservative justices on the Supreme Court appear to be poised to deal a fatal blow to the incredibly flawed Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais, and it appears that the court is leaning towards striking down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans "racial gerrymandering when it dilutes minority voting power."
Gerrymandering is a frowned-upon but legal act except in this one specific exception, thanks to the Voting Rights Act. It essentially creates a requirement that certain Congressional districts favor minority voters to "ensure representation."
While the left has framed this court battle as the Supreme Court ending minority representation, this is actually an opportunity for the Supreme Court to end a law that has overtly written racial preferences into American law.
Of course, the GOP has a ton to gain as this case could lead to significant redistricting efforts that could net Republicans over a dozen House seats.
Without Section 2, it's estimated that 30% of the Congressional Black Caucus and 11% of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus's seats could be wiped out.
Of course, the only reason these seats exist is because of an arbitrary and racist requirement that Congressional maps specifically carve out districts that would advantage minority candidates. Racial demographics should never have been a factor in writing district maps.
States like Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi would have a massive GOP shift with Section 2 being struck down.
These overwhelmingly conservative states have Democrat enclaves thanks to Section 2, requiring racial district maps that favor Democrats and preserve their existence in states where they would otherwise be voted out easily.
Predictably, Democrats are in full panic mode and are busy screeching about democracy and about the "corrupt" Supreme Court. Corruption is when a properly installed Supreme Court makes rulings that don't benefit Democrats.
Fair Fight Action CEO Lauren Groh-Warg issued a statement saying, "The only way to stop it is to play offense — aggressively redraw maps wherever possible, focus relentlessly on taking back Congress, and be ready to use that power to pass real pro-democracy legislation and hold this corrupted Court accountable."
The Supreme Court has been on a tear these past few years, taking a sledgehammer to decades-old legal mistakes ranging from 2nd Amendment rights to election laws.
The Supreme Court has been ruled by leftist ideologues who believe the Constitution is a living document and can be adjusted with the times at will. This new regime of conservative justices believes in a more rigid originalist interpretation and is working hard to shore up rights that have been torn down.
The Voting Rights Act was a well-intentioned piece of legislation, but it was deeply flawed, and it's good to see that this Supreme Court may have the courage to finally reform the Voting Rights Act, which has been overtly favoring Democrats for decades.
The Cabinet of President Donald Trump broke out in spontaneous applause on Thursday afternoon when he signed a proclamation honoring Christopher Columbus for Columbus Day on Monday.
"Today we have your Columbus Day proclamation for Monday, which we're signing a bit early," White House staff secretary Will Scharf told Trump before the customary monthly Cabinet meeting.
"Columbus, obviously, discovered the new world in 1492. He was a great Italian explorer. He sailed his three ships, the Nina, the Pinto and Santa Maria, across the Atlantic Ocean, and landed in what's today the Caribbean. And this is a particularly important holiday for Italian Americans who celebrate the legacy of Christopher Columbus, and the innovation and explorer zeal that he represented," he continued.
"In other words, we're calling it Columbus Day," Trump quipped as the Cabinet applauded.
"We're back, Italians," he went on, as the applause continued. Trump himself is not Italian; he is German and Scottish.
Later, Trump claimed that it was the press applauding when he made the remarks, but that seems unlikely.
Columbus Day has become something of a flashpoint between conservatives and liberals, with liberals choosing to call the day "Indigenous People's Day" because of a belief that Columbus contributed to "genocide" of Native Americans.
Given that the press is notoriously liberal, it doesn't seem like they would clap for Columbus unless most of them are Italian.
The day has only been a federal holiday since 1971, although Italian-Americans celebrated it on their own before that.
Trump also signed a proclamation honoring Leif Erikson as the first explorer to set foot on North American soil on October 9.
If a case the Supreme Court is looking at goes Republicans' way, it could lead to 19 more solid GOP seats in the House, almost guaranteeing a Republican majority for the foreseeable future.
The high court plans to rehear Louisiana v. Callais, a case that challenges section 2, the provision that prevents racial gerrymandering if the result would dilute minority votes in that district.
In other words, it's currently illegal to redistrict a majority Black or Hispanic district so that it stops being a majority district for that race. It's a form of affirmative action for voting, so that's why liberals are worried the court will rule to strike it down.
Most majority Black or Hispanic districts vote Democrat, so the provision benefits Democrats.
If it is struck down, experts estimate that Republicans will net 19 House seats, which could be enough to keep them in the majority in 2026 and beyond.
The court probably won't rule on the case before primaries for the midterms in 2026, so changes will have to wait until after that.
But there's a chance the ruling could come that soon, and Republicans will be ready to jump on it if it does.
Other redistricting could give Republicans about eight more seats, but the party in power generally loses seats in the off-year, so we will have to see what happens.
Democrats are already talking about a "one-party system" if their fears come to fruition, but whose fault do they think that is?
Maybe if the party hadn't lurched so far to the left in the last few elections, they'd still be relevant and wouldn't be bleeding minority voters who don't want to see their taxes skyrocket and their world turn woke while inflation makes their dollars worth less every year.
If Democrats spent as much time listening to the concerns of their voting bloc and figuring out what the majority of their members really want as they do trumpeting soft socialism and transgender surgeries for minors, they might not be in this mess in the first place.
For Republicans' part, if they can avoid shooting themselves in the foot long enough, they might just be able to regain some of the strength they had in the 1980s, like in 1984 when Ronald Reagan won 49 states.
Trump has managed to turn much of the economy around in just a few months, and if he can keep control of Congress, he could do even more during the rest of his term.
Let minorities get elected due to their platform and positions, not their skin color.
The Texas National Guard deployed 200 troops to Illinois to protect federal property and personnel from anti-immigration protesters, with troops arriving in the state on Tuesday, according to the Pentagon.
The mobilization will be for an initial 60-day period, with any further deployment to be decided later.
The troops are there "in support of the Federal Protection Mission to protect federal functions, personnel, and property," the Pentagon statement read.
Some of the troops arrested about a dozen protesters near an ICE facility in Broadview, where they have gathered for several days.
News footage on Tuesday afternoon also showed several troops outside the Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, just south of Joliet.
Troops are "on the ground and ready to go," Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) said on X. "They are putting America first by ensuring that the federal government can safely enforce federal law."
Officials in the state continue to be opposed to the deployment of any National Guard troops in the state, even after a DHS vehicle was hemmed in by about 10 cars and rammed by one or more of them on Saturday.
"The Trump administration must end the war on Chicago," the city's Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) said during a news conference Monday, calling the deployment "illegal, unconstitutional, dangerous and wrong." "The Trump administration must end this war against Americans. The Trump administration must end its attempt to dismantle our democracy."
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) filed a lawsuit to keep the Guard troops out of the state, but it hasn't yet been heard.
Johnson signed an executive order on Monday that created "ICE-free zones" in the city and said that ICE personnel cannot use city-owned property for its operations to enforce immigration laws.
How crazy is American politics when cities make laws that try to prevent others from making sure laws are followed?
That should not be happening, but it's the status quo in numerous sanctuary cities all over the nation.
As long as they can characterize Trump as a dictator and a "bully," these groups feel justified to protest and try to bully everyone else into not following the law along with them.
Meanwhile, people are getting hurt by the violence and illegal immigrants continue to commit crimes, take American jobs, and create a drain on services.
President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs asked him for a pardon after being sentenced to more than four years in prison for charges related to prostitution.
“I have had a lot of people ask me for pardons," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
“I call him Puff Daddy. He has asked me for a pardon," Trump added.
The clip of Trump's comments was brief and didn't address whether Trump planned to grant the pardon.
It was only three days ago that Combs was sentenced to four years and two months in prison, which was a much lighter sentence than the 11 years prosecutors were seeking.
Combs was also acquitted by the jury on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, the most serious charges he faced.
But instead of considering that he got off easy, he has persisted in saying he shouldn't have been prosecuted at all and is looking to get off scot free.
Combs was accused of holding sex parties at his home and pressuring some who attended to engage in sexual acts with male and female prostitutes.
There was also testimony that he sexually assaulted several underage boys and girls, but that testimony was part of several civil suits against Combs, not part of his criminal trial.
It would be a mistake for Trump to pardon Combs, based on the accusations against him that are still unresolved.
Trump recently pardoned Todd and Julie Chrisley from the reality TV show, "Chrisley Knows Best."
The Chrisleys were convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud, and were serving long prison sentences for their crimes.
They quickly revived their reality show and went back to business as usual, although let's hope they pay their taxes from this point forward.
The pardon didn't really make sense for Trump, so who knows what he'll do about Combs' request.
FBI Director Kash Patel vowed Sunday that there would be "justice" for those who rammed a DHS agents' vehicle in Chicago on Saturday.
Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz were arrested after the incident. Martinez, who was armed with a semiautomatic rifle, was shot by agents defending the scene, treated for injuries, and released from the hospital into federal custody.
"They have been charged for assaulting federal officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon," Patel said. "Attack our law enforcement, and this FBI will find you and bring you to justice."
An FBI source told Fox News Digital that the bureau is treating the cases as AFOs, or assaults on a federal officer. The officers in the vehicle were not seriously hurt when their vehicle was hemmed in by multiple vehicles, then rammed.
Both suspects have been described as domestic terrorists, and Martinez has a history of doxxing federal officers.
According to a DHS news release, the scene became "increasingly violent as more domestic terrorists gathered and began throwing smoke, gas, rocks, and bottles at DHS law enforcement."
"Another domestic terrorist was arrested for assaulting CBP at the scene," the statement added. "Following JB Prtizker’s refusal to allow local police to help secure the scene, Secretary Noem has deployed special operations teams to restore law and order."
Two other suspects were arrested on Friday in the Chicago area for a similar attempt at ramming ICE officers' vehicles.
Miguel Escareno De Loera and Widman Osberto Lopez-Funes both face charges of weaponizing their vehicles in "deliberate attempts to ram and injure" ICE officers, Fox Digital reported.
Chicago has resisted attempts by the Trump administration to lower crime by using federal officers.
Both Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) have ordered local police not to assist federal agents in apprehending those breaking the law, including illegal immigrants in the city.
On Sunday night, President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago, prompting officials there to file a lawsuit to prevent the deployment.
A judge on Sunday blocked a similar deployment of troops to Portland, Oregon as protesters have surrounded an ICE building there.
What are we to conclude from these actions by Democrats to side with criminals against law enforcement but that they want crime in their cities? No wonder people are fleeing the party in droves.
A federal appeals court has ruled against President Donald Trump's order ending birthright citizenship in a major setback for the Trump administration.
The three-judge panel issued an injunction that will block Trump's executive order, issued in January, from going into effect. Birthright citizenship has long been abused by illegal immigrants to gain a path to citizenship, and this appeals court seems content to allow such abuse to continue.
In a 100 page ruling, the panel wrote, "The ‘lessons of history’ thus give us every reason to be wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one’s parents rather than, in all but the rarest of circumstances, the simple fact of being born in the United States."
The notion of birthright citizenship is utterly insane and entirely derived from a twisted interpretation of the original Constitutional wording that the left is eager to uphold.
Without birthright citizenship, there would be no way for illegal immigrants to gain a path to citizenship by birthing children in the United States. And without a steady supply of dependent voters, the left wouldn't have power.
This decision to uphold birthright citizenship is setting the stage for a massive battle at the Supreme Court, where the hope is that the conservative justices will rule to finally put an end to birthright citizenship and its decades of abuse.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is leading the charge against Trump's order, reacted to the decision by saying, "Today’s decision upholds a nationwide injunction in our lawsuit challenging the President’s attempt to end, with the stroke of a pen, the constitutional right to birthright citizenship."
He further added, "We will continue to oppose this executive order until the President’s attempt to unmake the Constitution is blocked completely," in acknowledgement of the future battle at the Supreme Court.
The left truly believes that any illegal immigrant who illegally crosses the border or even overstays a visa and gives birth in the United States confers citizenship to that child. It's long past time for the Supreme Court to deal a fatal blow to this absurd legal thinking.
Prior to this ruling, the Department of Justice had already asked the Supreme Court to review Trump's order, and it is expected that this will be one of many major cases that the court will oversee in its next term.
Immigration fraud comes in many different shapes and sizes, but the "anchor baby" strategy is one of the more common forms of fraud and abuse that foreigners exploit to gain citizenship.
The Trump administration has recognized the need to end birthright citizenship in order to put an end to these many types of immigration fraud and get a handle on America's out-of-control immigration crisis.
Hopefully, the Supreme Court will review this matter sooner rather than later. This litigation has dragged on for far too long, as this executive order was originally issued nearly a year ago.
President Donald Trump has achieved a major breakthrough in achieving peace between Israel and Gaza.
On Friday, the terrorist organization Hamas announced that they had accepted major portions of Trump's peace proposal. Most importantly, Hamas agreed to release the remaining 48 hostages, around 20 of them believed to be alive.
Hamas has also supposedly agreed to give up power and disarm in return for Israel withdrawing the IDF in stages from the Gaza strip.
However, not everything is set in stone yet as Egypt and Qatar, who are acting as intermediaries, have confirmed that there are still minor issues that need further negotiation.
Minor details and negotiations aside, this is the closest that Israel and Hamas have come to agreeing on a peace deal since this devastating war started on October 7th, 2023, when Hamas launched a brutal terror attack.
This announcement of Hamas accepting the major points in Trump's peace deal represents a giant victory for Trump's international diplomacy and a delivery on his promise to bring an end to this war.
Of course, there is still a lot of pressure on Hamas, as Israel has accepted the deal despite the major concessions they were forced to make. The international community has also rallied behind this agreement.
Trump took to Truth Social, warning Hamas, "An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time. Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER."
Essentially, Hamas has absolutely no choice and this peace deal represents both the best deal they can get and a deal that they really don't deserve.
Hamas's barbaric terrorism is well documented, and they really should be annihilated, but concerns about innocents caught in the crossfire are being weighed heavily.
The people of Gaza have been savaged by this war between Israel and Hamas and the death toll, though greatly exaggerated by Hamas, is undoubtedly brutal. Furthermore, millions are suffering famine and deprivation as a result of the blockade.
Trump has forced Israel to make painful concessions to achieve peace, but if Hamas backs out, total annihilation and the deaths of more innocents will undoubtedly follow.
Some have complained that this deal still favors Israel too strongly but that ignores the reality that Israel holds all the cards in this situation. It is Hamas who has been holding the people of Gaza hostage as human shields for the past two years.
Trump seems confident that common sense will win out in the end even as Sunday's deadline rapidly approaches. Should this go off without a hitch, it will represent a giant accomplishment for the Trump administration.
It was under a year ago that Democrats screeched about Trump's supposed inability to navigate international diplomacy even as former President Joe Biden watched this devastating war rage with no significant action to end it.
Hopefully, wrapping up the war in Gaza will allow the Trump administration to focus on the brutal war between Russia and Ukraine that has also raged on for far too long.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gave a dire warning to her fellow Democrats about what she thinks will happen if they give in to Republicans to end a government shutdown without having their demands for $1 trillion in new spending on healthcare met, saying on MSNBC that "there are going to be people that are going to die" without the spending.
Warren threw out a litany of scenarios that she believes would happen under the Republicans' spending plan, which the party called a "clean continuing resolution" that would maintain current spending levels.
She said,
They’re trying to find anything to talk about around the shutdown, to blame it on Democrats so they don’t have to talk about the two thirds of seniors who are in nursing homes, a lot of them with serious health problems, half of them with Alzheimer’s, who can just be pushed out on the street under the Republican bill.
They don’t want to talk about those brand new babies and their mamas who will lose access to health care. They do not want to talk about your neighbor who counts on a home health aide, and who counts on having a wheelchair in order to try to live independently and can lose all of that.
They don’t want to talk about the tens of millions of families who are receiving notices this month saying, here’s where your health care premiums were already too high. Here’s where they’re going to be, thanks to the Republicans.
In reality, Democrats are demanding that $1 trillion in cuts enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July, which was done as a budget reconciliation without Democrat support, be reversed.
The cuts from the OBBBA prevented illegal immigrant asylees and parolees from getting health care subsidies and Medicaid, which was happening before that bill was passed. This is what Republicans mean when they say that Democrats are demanding that illegal immigrants get health care, and they are not wrong about that--it would happen if Democrats get what they want.
Because of some delays, some of the cuts from the OBBBA have only taken effect on October 1, which is why Democrats are claiming that they are new cuts (they are not).
Of course, Democrats in their usual fashion have tried to muddy the waters enough that the average American voter has a hard time understanding the issue, since they don't want to be blamed for shutting down the government over their demands, which are unreasonable for a party out of power.
Warren continued,
They’re going to be people who are going to have to make decisions about whether to make rent or pay for health insurance. They’re going to be people who are just going to let their health insurance go. They’re going to be people who are going to die because of these decisions. And that more than anything else, the Republicans don’t want to talk about. They rather shut down the government than help Americans who are just trying to get their costs under control. I think that is a fight worth fighting, and the Democrats are organized to do it right now.
Warren is not wrong that costs have gone up for some people under the OBBBA. It's possible that it could result in someone's death if they can't get treatment because they can't afford health insurance.
This has been a problem long before the OBBBA. It's an ongoing debate whether health care should be paid for by private citizens and businesses, or provided by the government at a huge cost in taxes. The current system is pretty generous in providing for those in need, but won't satisfy those who think health care is a universal right.
The bottom line here is that Democrats are trying to advance their agenda despite having very little power--a result of the will of the people in the last election. We will see who blinks first, but right now it doesn't look like either side is willing to budge an inch.
President Donald Trump put forward a 20-point plan for peace in Gaza that has been approved by not only the Muslim and Arab world, but the Palestinian Authority, with the only holdout being Hamas.
The plan would free all remaining Israeli hostages, disarm Hamas and remove it from power in Gaza, and even allow a Palestinian State if Hamas and the Palestinian Authority fulfill conditions it sets.
If Hamas does not agree to the plan, it will find itself without much if any support in the region and Israel will continue to fight against it in Gaza.
Trump spent much of his time at the UN General Assembly meeting last week gathering support for the plan.
After he held a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar, and Egypt released a joint statement that affirmed Trump's efforts and pledged their support in implementing the plan.
Turkey and the Palestinian Authority, both of which opposed Trump's peace plans previously, also indicated that they were on board with the plan.
So far, Hamas has said it rejected the demand for it to disarm, but has not responded to the plan as a whole.
Trump would like to expand the Abraham Accords to develop Gaza into a hub of trade and commerce similar to Dubai, if investors get involved in the region.
After two-plus years of bombardment from Israel, the area will need a lot of rebuilding.
According to Axios, the peace plan grew out of a failed attack by Israel on Doha, Qatar in order to assassinate Hamas leaders there.
The attack drew outrage from the Arab world at first, but Trump advisors Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff noticed the unity among the Arab nations and wondered if that could turn into an impetus for ending the war.
At a summit in New York the week before the UN General Assembly meeting, the Arab nations slammed Israel, but their ire cooled when Witkoff presented the peace plan.
The next step was for Israel to get on board. After Netanyahu balked at first, Trump reportedly told him to "take it or leave it," but if he didn't take it, he would lose U.S. support for the war.
The details of the agreement are not yet set in stone, but Israel agreed to it with a few changes and now it's up to Hamas to do the same.