Senate Republicans blasted acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Thursday over the Trump administration’s proposal to set up a $1.8 billion fund to compensate MAGA allies prosecuted by the Justice Department and made it clear that a budget reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement won’t move until their concerns are resolved. GOP senators pressed Blanche during… […]
Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,Europe is the ‘jungle’ now. No garden left to speak of.Josep Borrell is a Spanish socialist who held several high-ranking positions in the European Union. Until 2024, he was a vice-president of the European Commission and the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy. In that capacity, […]
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Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said if Democrats win control of “one or both Houses of Congress” in the midterm elections, they could bring a lawsuit to stop the Department of Justice’s so-called anti-weaponization fund. Blumenthal said, “I think that Trump may have taken the Republicans in the Senate a ballroom too […]
House Republicans are seething at the Senate’s decision to push back a vote on an immigration funding package until next month, steamrolling over President Trump’s self-imposed June 1 deadline to get the bill to his desk. The decision to punt action on the package, which Republicans are hoping to pass without Democratic votes through a… […]
A long-tenured sheriff in Lee County, Alabama lost his primary re-election bid last night after notably opposing the Trump Administration on immigration policy. Jay Jones, a 30-year incumbent, lost re-election to Cameron “Cam” Hunt, a former deputy who narrowly defeated his former boss with roughly 51 percent of the vote. The outcome marked the first […]
Iran has been seeking to significantly expand the area around the Strait of Hormuz over which it claims military control by this week advancing the newly-created government agency of the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority”.The agency quickly published a map proclaiming “Iranian armed forces oversight” across more than 22,000 sq km (8,800 sq miles) of the […]
USAO Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, announced the initial fraud indictments for the first set of fraudsters operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota. McDonald emphasized this is only the beginning of the arrests in Minnesota as the fraud is beyond a scale that can be appropriately explained. Together with HHS […]
The top NATO general who is now the President of the Czech Republic has warned Europe that peace “can no longer be treated as the default state of affairs”, but also warned against fantasists trying to build a European Union army to rival America. Czechia President Petr Pavel, a former intelligence officer who rose to […]
The Trump administration this week onboarded more than 80 new federal immigration judges, in its latest push to expedite deportation cases and further its government-wide crackdown on illegal immigration, Justice Department officials said Thursday.The Justice Department, which oversees the U.S. immigration court system, swore in 77 permanent immigration judges and 5 temporary immigration judges, a […]
