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PALM BEACH, Florida – The nation's top cop says the highest court in America will "get involved" in the cases of "out-of-control" federal judges who are working to thwart the agenda of President Donald Trump.

Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said concerning U.S. District Judge James Boasberg halting deportation flights of violent criminals, "The Supreme Court will get involved."

"This is an out-of-control judge, a federal judge trying to control our entire foreign policy and he cannot do it."

"He is trying to ask us about national security information, which he is absolutely not entitled to, We are appealing. We will be in court on Monday again. We will win. We will prevail.

"There are 261 reasons why Americans are safer today and that's because those people are in an El Salvador prison."

"They're not immigrants. They're illegal aliens who are committing the most violent crimes you can imagine on Americans. Murder, rapes.

"Ask the parents of all of these young women who have been violently strangled, raped and murdered. And we are going to continue to make America safe again because that's President Trump's agenda."

"These judges are out of control. We are going to fight back but we are going to win," she added. "The Supreme Court will be ready to hear these cases."

When asked about Trump's use of a 1798 law to deport the criminals, Bondi explained: "The Alien Enemies Act applies today really more than ever. Really, old law is often the best law if you think about the laws that have bene on the books for a very long time.

"We are in modern-day warfare. They have invaded our country, TDA, Tren de Aragua. They are organized. They have a command structure. They are sending money to each other throughout the country and out of the country back to support their terrorist actions."

Regarding sanctuary cities in the U.S., Bondi said: "We're going to pull their funding we're going to continue to sue them."

"I truly cannot comprehend how these states, these governors, want to protect these criminals over the rights of their own citizens."

Concerning the recent spate of attacks against Tesla dealerships and Tesla owners due to opposition to Elon Musk, Bondi said, "This is domestic terrorism."

"We are looking at all of these cases across the country, we have a dedicated task force."

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Daily Wire staffer Luke Rosiak has posted a series of social media statements about "the most DOGE-able agency of all time."

That would be the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, which is supposed to offer voluntary mediation between unions and managers.

There's nothing like the original, so here is the string, which was spotted and collated by Twitchy.

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An American who was abducted by the extreme Islamists in the Taliban in Afghanistan two years ago, and has been a hostage ever since, has been released and is returning to the U.S.

George Glezmann is the third hostage to be released by the Taliban since January, according to a report at Just the News.

He was taken by the Taliban in 2022 while traveling through the Middle East as a tourist.

According to the State Department, his release was negotiated by U.S. and Qatari officials, and he's being accompanied back to the U.S. by Adam Boehler, who was appointed by President Donald Trump to free Americans held hostage around the world.

According to a report at Fox News, Glezmann left the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport late Wednesday local time en route to Doha.

The release came after Boehler met with officials from the Afghan foreign ministry, the report said.

It explained Glezmann was seized by the Taliban's "intelligence services" and Qatar was involved because it has diplomatic relations with Afghanistan while the United States does not.

Earlier this year, before he left office, Joe Biden struck a deal to give the Taliban a member in U.S. custody in exchange for American hostages Ryan Corbett and William Mckenty.

Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of State, said, ""George Glezmann is free. George was wrongfully detained in Afghanistan for two and a half years, but now he's on his way to be reunited with his wife Aleksandra. Welcome home, George!"

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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.

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.

Violent gang members deported from the United States arrive in El Salvador on Saturday, March 15, 2025

"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.

"May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States."

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.

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."

"Heck, my opponent—whom I beat by 50 points—raised several hundred thousand dollars on ActBlue, despite having zero chance of winning. If you ranked the races from 1 to 435, hers wouldn't even be in the top 400 in terms of competitiveness. Yet she was still getting all these mysterious donations. You had House candidates whose campaign budgets were 80% funded by anonymous small donors on ActBlue,"

Eventually, his staffers found "several hundred" such reports from banking institutions.

Under President Trump, he's hoping for more details now.

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