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The Constitution provides that the federal judiciary determines what is the law in America, after it is passed by Congress and signed by a president.

It is the president who is given the authority to run the Executive Branch, make national policy and determine international policy.

Yet since President Donald Trump look office in January, dozens of judges have assumed the role of the president, determining what should be national and international policy, insisting that they can control events, even jetliners, that are not even in America.

They have decided against removing terrorists from America, against cutting jobs that the bureaucrats added to their legal duties, ordered billions of dollars of tax money handed out to foreigners, and more.

Trump, whose agenda to eliminate waste, fraud and corruption across the American government has been successful so far at eliminating thousands of jobs and tens of billions of dollars in tax spending, now has lost patience.

He's warning that those judges, pursuing their own political ideologies with their court rulings that included nationwide injunctions, purporting to control, from a district judge's gavel, an entire nation, are actually a threat to the existence of the United States.

That would put it just beyond the "constitutional crisis" that many observers have called the rogue activism by judges.

"Unlawful Nationwide Injunctions by Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country!" Trump warns on social media.

"These people are Lunatics, who do not care, even a little bit, about the repercussions from their very dangerous and incorrect Decisions and Rulings."

He continued, "Lawyers endlessly search the United States for these Judges, and file lawsuits as quickly as they find them. It is then the obligation of Law abiding Agencies of Government to have these 'Orders' overturned. The danger is unparalleled! These Judges want to assume the Powers of the Presidency, without having to attain 80 Million Votes. They want all of the advantages with none of the risks.

"Again, a President has to be allowed to act quickly and decisively about such matters as returning murderers, drug lords, rapists, and other such type criminals back to their Homeland, or to other locations that will allow our Country to be SAFE. It is our goal to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and such a high aspiration can never be done if Radical and Highly Partisan Judges are allowed to stand in the way of JUSTICE.

"STOP NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!"

It is the Federalist that confirmed in a report "Rogue judges are turning judicial review into judicial rule."

"President Donald Trump made headlines this week by continuing deportation flights of illegal immigrants, including members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang, despite a federal judge's ruling that attempted to halt the practice," the report said. "U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, issued an order barring the administration from carrying out deportations to El Salvador. The White House called the decision 'lawless' and said the order was moot because the flights had already left and crossed into international waters. It has stopped further such flights for now."

Trump repeatedly has been attacked by leftists in the judiciary for doing his Executive Branch responsibilities. "As an attack on the rule of law," the report said.

"But the real assault is coming from the courts themselves. For too long, judges have operated under the assumption that their authority is limitless, that elected officials must bow to their rulings no matter how far they stray from the Constitution. Boasberg's ruling is not judicial review, but judicial rule — a clear case of a court attempting to override a core executive power in the name of politics."

The report warns that courts have become "de facto rulers in black robes. The Constitution and Congress grant courts the authority to review executive actions, but not to dictate governance. When judges take issue with the legitimate exercise of executive power, they don't defend democracy — they undermine it," the report warned.

It explained, "Boasberg's ruling is just the latest example of a judge substituting his own political preferences for executive decision-making. Immigration enforcement is a core constitutional power of the executive branch. The president has the legal and constitutional authority to direct deportations and manage foreign relations. A district court judge does not."

Other subjects on which judges have attacked Trump for doing his duty include birthright citizenship, ending taxpayer money for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, managing the federal workforce and more.

"When a judge blocks a policy because he personally opposes it, rather than because it violates the Constitution, he is no longer functioning as a neutral arbiter. That's exactly what Judge Ana Reyes did when she turned a courtroom into a political spectacle, using a hearing on Trump's military readiness executive order to mock the government's legal arguments and ridicule a Department of Justice attorney's religious beliefs. Instead of engaging in legal analysis, she signaled her disdain for the administration's policy positions in open court. Judges like Boasberg and Reyes aren't interpreting the law — they're rewriting it."

The report noted, too, that the lower courts are so engrossed in their political ideologies that they have ignored a warning from the Supreme Court that they "do not have the authority to micromanage national security decisions made by the executive."

"The real threat to democracy isn't an executive who enforces the law against a judge's wishes. It's a judiciary that believes it alone has the right to decide what the law is," the report found.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that launched the cancellation of the Department of Education.

Critics of the move immediately promised court challenges, like the more than 100 other challenges that have been brought to mostly left-leaning judges trying to halt Trump's agenda to clean fraud, waste, and corruption out of the federal government spending.

A report at Fox News said Trump's signature fulfilled a campaign promise to return control of education policy to the 50 different state education departments.

Actually, local school districts are run by local school boards in conjunction with state standards and requirements, which was one of the reasons for dismantling the federal bureaucracy.

The order actually is expected to scale down federal operations significantly, but it would be up to Congress to actually end the department.

On the campaign trail, Trump expressed a plan to "stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America's youth." In fact, many of the federal programs do take the positions of far-left advocates which become policy and practice for states then.

Indoctrination into various ideologies, like "diversity, equity and inclusions" is the result.

On Thursday, Trump explained, "Everybody knows it's right, and we have to get our children educated. We're not doing well with the world of education in this country, and we haven't for a long time."

Actually, despite massive hikes in spending for schools, student test scores have been plunging.

Fox reported, "A White House fact sheet on the executive order said, the directive aims to 'turn over education to families instead of bureaucracies,' and instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to 'take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.'"

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt explained Pell Grants and student loans still will be managed by the remaining department.

The report noted a Gallup Poll from last month confirmed "Americans' satisfaction with education has dropped significantly in the past decade. The poll found that only 24% of Americans are satisfied with the quality of education in the U.S. as of January 2025, in comparison to 37% in January 2017."

The bureaucracy was created in 1979.

Already, plans were announced to reduce the staffing in the ranks of the department by half, from 4,000 to about 2,000.

National Education Association President Becky Pringle claimed with the changes, college would become more costly for families and that students with disabilities would suffer.

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An often-criticized precedent from the Supreme Court 20 years ago that gives local governments permission to literally confiscate a landowner's property and give it to someone else who may have more political influence could be overturned through a new case pending before the justices.

It is the Institute for Justice that has been fighting on behalf of Bryan Bowers, a New York landowner whose property was "seized" by a local government agency.

It was then given to his competitors.

The precedent that soon could be doomed is the Kelo decision from 2005 in which the court redefined "public use."

That's the standard that courts must use to determine whether governments can take over private property without the owner's consent, and it often is associated with the construction of roads and bridges and such.

In Kelo, a single-vote on the court claimed that creating jobs or increasing tax revenue was just that "public use."

Dissenters, including a left-leaning Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that now the government "has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more."

The IJ described the Kelo precedent as "one of the most reviled decisions in recent decades."

The new case will be presented to the court in a conference in the coming days.

"State legislatures, state high courts, and American voters amending their own state constitutions have all rejected Kelo because it is simply wrong to let the government take one person's property away in order to hand it to another private owner with more political power," said IJ Deputy Litigation Director Bob McNamara. "This case gives the Supreme Court the opportunity to say the same."

The case earlier was considered at the court's Feb. 21 conference, when the justices told the New York state court to provide the record on appeal. That now has been provided.

The IJ noted, "Bowers' case was supported by a brief from the Cato Institute and George Mason University (Scalia Law School) Professor Ilya Somin and a brief from the Buckeye Institute. Cato and Somin write about the widespread confusion Kelo created in lower courts while the Buckeye Institute shined a light on the injustices of eminent domain and frequently failed promises of redevelopment."

The out-of-sync ruling in 2005 triggered 45 states to change their own laws to prevent what the 5-4 Kelo decision said could be done to property owners.

Bryan Bowers and his business partner Mike Licata purchased property across the street from a new hospital in Utica, New York, but then lost it when the Oneida County Industrial Development Agency took it by eminent domain and handed it over to their potential competitors to be used for parking.

The Fifth Amendment allows private property to be taken for "public use" with "just compensation" and in addition to roads, has been used for schools and other infrastructure.

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'When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of honest and hardworking people'

A new report from Joel Gilbert, a Los Angeles-based film producer, is suggesting New York Attorney General Letitia James lied on various forms to obtain favorable real estate mortgage terms on a building she owns.

James was the state prosecutor who created a real estate fraud case against President Donald Trump, in which she claimed fraudulent activities in the valuation of his properties and his work to obtain various loans for his real estate business.

She brought the lawfare case against Trump and obtained a fraud judgment against him from a left-leaning judge who imposed damages of hundreds of millions of dollars even though witnesses during the trial testified Trump paid off every loan in full and on time, they did not lose any money and they wanted to do business with him again.

That judgment and penalty, from Arthur Engoron, now is on appeal.

But James' involvement in real estate transactions and her own activities were profiled in a report published at the Gateway Pundit, which noted that for more than two decades, James has "repeatedly claimed her Brooklyn apartment building was a four-unit property on mortgage applications – despite official records proving it had five."

The report explained, "This may seem a minor discrepancy, but misrepresenting the unit count enabled her to secure more favorable loans, including a 2011 Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) loan that saved her tens of thousands of dollars annually."

The report includes online postings of various documents, including a Brooklyn Department of Buildings Certificate of Occupancy for the address that shows one family residence in the basement, one the first floor, one on the second, and two on the third.

That makes five residences.

But James repeatedly has described it as a four-unit building in mortgage applications.

The report said the difference "is critical."

"Properties with four or fewer units qualify for more favorable 'residential' interest rates, while those with five or more are classified as 'commercial' properties—often subject to higher rates," the report confirmed.

The report described how, in 2005 with an adjustable-rate mortgage likely rising to a cap of more than 10%, "James sought relief from HAMP – a federal initiative under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) designed to assist homeowners at risk of foreclosure."

"HAMP, however, had strict eligibility requirements. According to its official Making Home Affordable Program Handbook, 'Eligibility is limited to owner-occupied properties with no more than four units.' The reasoning was clear: the program aimed to assist regular homeowners and not landlords of multi-family rental apartment businesses," the report said.

In her HAMP application, James said the property had four family apartments.

Further, James is on record with a "financial hardship statement," declaring, "I am experiencing a financial hardship, and as a result, (i) I am in default under the Loan Documents, and (ii) I do not have sufficient income or access to sufficient liquid assets to make the monthly mortgage payments now or in the future."

But, Gilbert said, "Public records indicate that in 2011 Letitia James earned at least $126,390. Of that total, $122,500 was from her position on the City Council of New York City, and another $3,890 from her work at CUNY. She also earned rental income from her building. … Given James was a single woman with no children, with a high salary and rental income, her claim of 'hardship' was suspect at best."

The report charges that James obtained the HAMP benefits, giving her a mortgage rate of $2.7% and saving her "at least $44,000 per year."

Gilbert noted, when she obtained a real estate fraud judgment against Trump, she said, "When powerful people cheat to get better loans, it comes at the expense of honest and hardworking people. Everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage to buy a home. No matter how big, rich, or powerful you think you are, no one is above the law."

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PALM BEACH, Florida – Members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet are firing back defiantly against a federal judge's order to block deportation of dangerous Venezuelans who are members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang.

D.C. District Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, ordered Saturday an immediate stop to deportation flights for TDA members, and even demanded planes already in flight turn around and return the violent criminals back to America.

"Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States however that is accomplished," Boasberg said, according to Politico.

"Make sure it's complied with immediately."

Despite the ruling, officials in the Trump administration refused to comply.

On Sunday morning, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained: "We have sent 2 dangerous top MS-13 leaders plus 21 of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador.

"Also, as promised by @POTUS, we sent over 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars.

"President @nayibbukele is not only the strongest security leader in our region, he's also a great friend of the U.S. Thank you!"

Saturday night, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted a statement indicating: "Tonight, a D.C. trial judge supported Tren de Aragua terrorists over the safety of Americans.

"TdA is represented by the ACLU. This order disregards well-established authority regarding President Trump's power, and it puts the public and law enforcement at risk.

"The Department of Justice is undeterred in its efforts to work with the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and all of our partners to stop this invasion and Make America Safe Again."

El Salvador is apparently thrilled to have the criminals being deported back to its country, as President Nayib Bukele posted a video of their ignominious return, saying: :Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).

"The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.

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"Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year.

"On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization's highest structure.

"This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors.

"As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action.

Trump reposted the deportation video Sunday afternoon, and said: "These are the monsters sent into our Country by Crooked Joe Biden and the Radical Left Democrats. How dare they!

"Thank you to El Salvador and, in particular, President Bukele, for your understanding of this horrible situation, which was allowed to happen to the United States because of incompetent Democrat leadership. We will not forget!"

In his declaration Saturday relying on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, Trump said: "I find and declare that TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States."

The judge's temporary restraining order expires in 14 days, which Boasberg indicated would be sufficient time to litigate the legality of Trump's declaration.

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A prominent Democrat who has been in leadership circles for years said not long ago that his party should just sit back and watch because the support for President Donald Trump, who won landslides in the Electoral College and popular vote in November, soon would collapse.

It hasn't happened. At least not yet.

A report from the Washington Examiner reveals Trump's approval rating tracked by Rasmussen Reports was at 52% on Friday, the same as Thursday.

That's actually the president's highest approval since Democrat analyst James Carville forecast that support for the president would "crater" this month, the report said.

Carville, Feb. 21, claimed, "I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days, is in the midst of a massive collapse, and particularly a collapse in public opinion."

His party, he urged, should "play possum" and then enjoy the "easy pickings here in six weeks."

Mark Mitchell, at Rasmussen, said so far there's no evidence of that trend.

And the polling shows that plunge may never come.

Trump has been battling leftovers from Joe Biden's administration since he took office: inflation, an open southern border, terrorism, radical body mutilation agendas, and much more.

Of course as transitions are made, there are impacts on costs, taxes, inflation and more.

The report noted Trump has been urging Americans to wait through what he suggests is temporary "because he and his team believe it will lead to an economic and stock market boom later this year," the report said.

Mitchell cited Trump's "strong approval" rating from the GOP at 68%, which is "astronomical."

"The takeaway is GOP strong approval is near record highs, and he's maintaining it way better than the first time around. Republicans like what they see."

Actually, Carville has gone way, way further in his claims about Trump. Some are suggesting too far.

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ActBlue is a fundraising operation that has raised, literally, billions of dollars for Democrats in recent years.

It also could be one of the biggest money-laundering schemes ever assembled, and there could be charges coming.

That's according to multiple reports that have confirmed an investigation currently under way in Congress.

"We're investigating ActBlue the same way we investigated the Bidens," explained Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chief of the House Oversight Committee.

"We're starting with the suspicious activity reports — bank violations that flag financial crimes. And let me tell you, the evidence is overwhelming."

Multiple Democrat fundraisers have been investigated in recent years, including video reports that confirm some of those organizations have been benefiting from thousands of donations from individuals who have confirmed they were unaware of those donations running under their names.

The suggestion has been money-laundering, with massive amounts of cash being funneled, sometimes from overseas, into Democrat campaigns in America.

BREAKING: Rep. James Comer and the FBI to bring CRIMINAL CHARGES against those behind ActBlue, The Largest Money Laundering Scheme in U.S. history:

"We are going forward with our investigation. Their lawyers are leaving… This will be the end of the Democratic Party." pic.twitter.com/6OOXyGjyr4

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 13, 2025

It is the Gateway Pundit that published a transcript of an interview with Benny Johnson in which Comer "laid out a damning case against the far-left fundraising juggernaut, accusing it of funneling billions in suspicious cash – potentially from foreign adversaries – into Democrat coffers under the guise of 'grassroots' donations."

The report said the investigation is being accompanied by "chaos" inside ActBlue, where "key executives are resigning, lawyers are jumping ship, employees are getting locked out of their computers…."

Johnson, a conservative commentator, pointed out, "When the lawyers flee, you know you're cooked."

Comer's committee actually started investigating "after discovering a flood of small-dollar donations from untraceable sources, many from elderly Americans who were unaware their names were being used to funnel cash into the Democrat machine," the report said.

Comer said his work had been obstructed under the Joe Biden administration by his appointee, Janet Yellen, who "would not reply to my request" for information about "suspicious activity reports."

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Evidence 'he believed he did not have to abide by classification and document handling regulations'

A new report confirms that there was a "security risk" that developed when materials during Barack Obama's term in the White House were sent to Joe Biden's private and personal email account.

Biden, of course, was found later to have concealed classified government documents in piles of paperwork in his offices and the garage at his home, but never was charged for the violations of federal law.

A new report at Just the News explains the information included "briefing memos, sensitive foreign conversations, " "subjects and times for White House Situation Room meetings" and other "fallout from leaked National Security Agency intercepts."

The details come from a recent set of emails released by the National Archives.

According to the report, "Security experts and lawmakers, who reviewed the records, said they were disturbed by the nonchalant transmission of sensitive government information to Biden's insecure private email accounts and believed it put national security at risk."

Of course, Hillary Clinton, the Democrats' failed 2016 presidential candidate, was embroiled in her own email scandal just years earlier, when she set up a private server in her home and sent all sorts of government documents to the unsecured location.

"The new set of emails from Joe Biden's time as Vice President are very troubling and are more evidence that Biden believed he did not have to abide by classification and document handling regulations," former CIA analyst and former Trump National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz confirmed to Just the News.

The report said hundreds of pages of emails dated from 2011 to 2015 were given to Just the News and a law firm, Southeastern Legal Foundation, in a Freedom of Information Act case.

The report explained, "They build on prior evidence that then-Vice President Biden was using the pseudonymous accounts for sensitive discussions with close advisors about official business ranging from domestic politics to sensitive foreign policy matters."

Whether any documents were classified hadn't been determined yet, the report said.

"Just like the classified documents Biden stored in his garage and home office, he again proved he didn't care about document security," Fleitz charged. "Biden's use of a gmail alias email address for work-related emails (robinware45@gmail.com) put sensitive government emails on gmail servers where they could easily have been hacked."

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and explained to the publication he'll get to the bottom of the scandal, and find out if laws were broken.

""Over the last several years, Sen. Grassley and I pressed the Biden White House and the National Archives for information and records on Joe Biden's use of pseudonyms and personal email addresses for official government business," he said. "The Biden administration failed to respond to those requests."

It is the Federal Records Act that governs the disposition of government documents of all sorts.

Chris Piehota, of the FBI, explained, "Government policy says you are not supposed to do business outside the government system," and that's for a reason.

"Those systems are not considered secure because they can be attacked from the outside or monitored by the provider. Providers can see anything. These are insecure systems for government business," he said

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'The idea itself is the right one and we definitely support it'

WASHINGTON – Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled Thursday he is open to a ceasefire in Ukraine. This comes as American and Ukrainian representatives met earlier this week in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to discuss a possible peace deal.

Putin made his remarks in Moscow, where American officials currently are meeting with Russians to discuss a peace agreement which Ukrainians have already greenlit.

"The idea itself is the right one, and we definitely support it," Putin said of a potential break in fighting. He also said there are "questions" that need to be discussed before Russia signs on. "I think that we need to talk them through with our American colleagues and partners."

Those questions include the logistics of monitoring the ceasefire, and whether Ukraine will be allowed to stockpile arms during the break in fighting. These things will take a great deal of time to sort out. Still, this first public acknowledgment of a ceasefire by Putin is a major step toward United States President Donald Trump's ultimate goal – stopping the killing on both sides.

Kremlin officials previously had said they would respond to ceasefire talks only after meeting bilaterally with Americans. They wanted more details on the Trump administration's plan for a compromise.

The New York Times and other outlets are reporting that Putin is expected to meet with Steve Witkoff later Thursday. Witkoff – Mr. Trump's Middle East envoy – was instrumental in negotiating the ongoing ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. It is the administration's hope that he can work similar magic in brokering this deal in Eastern Europe.

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is basically "a Palestinian" at this point, due to the Jewish senator's current positions on the Israel-Hamas war.

"Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian," Trump said. "He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian."

Trump was speaking during an Oval Office meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin.

The president also indicated Palestinians will not be displaced from the Gaza Strip while the war zone is rebuilt.

"No one is expelling anyone from Gaza," he said.

The prime minister of Ireland's visit to the White House coincides with the upcoming St. Patrick's Day holiday.

Mr. Martin acknowledged the close ties between the United States and Ireland, even as Mr. Trump – with Martin right next to him – told reporters the country is one of the European Union members who has not been fair to America on trade.

In the same meeting, Mr. Trump was asked if he has plans to respond to the latest round of tariffs imposed by the E.U.

"Of course I will respond," he told reporters.

Tariffs remain top of mind abroad and across North America, as the president walked back 50% tariffs on Canada which were meant to go into effect Wednesday. This came after hours-long phone meetings with top-level officials from both countries.

For now, tariffs remain one of Trump's sharpest negotiating tactics. It remains to be seen whether whiplash over how quickly they are implemented and removed will wear out their usefulness.

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