Judge halts Trump’s voter citizenship verification system
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The latest in judicial activism found a Biden-appointed judge seemingly declaring the country “belongs to any random alien on planet earth” after blocking an executive order. “We […]
The secrets Stephen Miller has kept about his role in the Trump administration may finally be revealed after a judge was handed a key FBI report.Miller, President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff, has long shielded his White House communications from disclosure under executive privilege. Now, a court filing in federal court in Alabama threatens to crack that wall open.The Southern Poverty Law Center — a civil rights organization the Trump administration indicted on fraud charges — obtained the FBI report through the normal discovery process. It shows the government's case against the SPLC appears to trace directly back to Miller.The report reads almost word-for-word like a letter conservative groups sent Miller complaining about the SPLC's "Hate Map," which tracks hate groups across America. Six passages match so closely they're sometimes identical.Miller's ire at the SPLC dates back to 2019, when the organization published a series of pieces on hundreds of emails Miller sent to Breitbart News showing he had promoted white nationalist websites and literature.After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Miller vowed to use "every resource" at the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to "identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy" liberal activist networks. Federal agencies then piled onto a local investigation of a retired activist who had posted flyers near his Arlington home. His communications about that were kept secret under executive privilege.National security journalist Marcy Wheeler wrote on Emptywheel that the government handed SPLC — represented by attorney Abbe Lowell — proof that "Stephen Miller's grievance about being exposed as an extremist somehow led a prosecutor to test a theory whether pointing that out is itself inherently fraudulent."The SPLC's lawyers are now asking the court to hand over all communications between Miller and the Justice Department about the organization.
A federal judge quashed an attempt by the Justice Department to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other top officials in the state, alleging that it was an attempt to harass political rivals.
Marjorie Taylor Greene attempted to drive a wedge between a MAGA voter bloc that once counted her as an adherent and President Donald Trump.The former Republican congresswoman posted a video Tuesday morning revealing the lengths taken by the Trump campaign to stifle QAnon conspiracists at campaign rallies, even as the 80-year-old president continues to court their support with social media posts winking and nodding in their direction."You know, I used to follow Q back in 2017, when those posts were actually made," Greene said. "The whole 'trust the plan' thing, the White House is posting Q propaganda on its social media accounts, and I want you guys to know something, I think you should know this.""Back during the 2020 campaign and the 2024 campaign, where, by the way, I spoke at more Trump campaign rallies than any other elected Republican," she added.Greene was one of Trump's strongest allies in Congress until she broke with him over the Jeffrey Epstein files and foreign policy, and she warned after retiring from the House that the president shows no loyalty to his allies. "The Trump team would throw out people, any rally attendee," Greene said, "if they had a Q shirt, QAnon, 'storm has arrived,' 'where we go one we go all' – if they were wearing a shirt, a hat, a button or had a flag or anything – they were kicked out or they were made to change their shirt, take off that hat. During a Trump speech in 2024, when it was the nation in decline part of the speech, with the really sad music, any time these attendees would put their finger, like, make a number one and they pointed it to the sky, security was sent around and they were forced to take their finger down and told not to do that. You want to know why?""Because Trump team didn't want to be associated with the QAnon crowd and they were embarrassed of the Q people and embarrassed of all of that, and that's how they treated them," Greene added. "But now flash forward to 2026, when it's Trump himself that has betrayed the America first wing of MAGA and turned MAGA into Israel first, and he has totally flipped on a bunch of his campaign promises, well, now they're trying to throw out the Q slop and propaganda to get you guys sucked back in, to get you guys sucked back in. Never forget how you were treated – never forget."
Eight activists convicted of terrorism-related charges and rioting for their role in a noise demonstration outside an ICE facility, at which a local police officer was shot, face up to life in prison when they go before a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, for sentencing on Tuesday.Another, the last of the nine convicted in March, will be sentenced on July 1.The Trump administration has hailed the case as a watershed in its campaign to dismantle “antifa” as a domestic terrorist threat. But as they await sentencing, the defendants are seeking to overturn the convictions based on the claim that the government suppressed evidence showing that the officer drew first, and based on potential juror misconduct.Defendants have also argued that they should be acquitted or granted new trials because the evidence shows they went to the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on July 4 last year to set off fireworks and cheer up the detainees. They argue there was no riot and no violence, with the exception of one or two individuals who committed vandalism at their own initiative — and the exchange of gunfire when the police showed up.“They weren’t doing anything wrong," Amber Lowrey, the sister of one of the defendants, told Raw Story. "They’re just human beings. Some of them knew each other, and some didn’t. They did similar volunteer work. People say, ‘It won’t happen to me, because I’m not involved with groups like that.’ Oh, but it will!"The first to respond to the scene when detention officers called to report a disturbance with fireworks on July 4, 2025 was Lt. Thomas Gross with the Alvarado Police Department. Gross’ dash camera, which was reviewed by Raw Story, shows him accelerating down the lane towards the facility. As he approaches the entrance, two figures in black can be seen running past the guardhouse, which is defaced with graffiti reading, “F--- ICE.”“Hey, stop!” Gross yelled.His body-worn camera video shows that he jumped out of his car and pursued the individuals on foot.Almost immediately, gunfire erupted and a bullet grazed Gross’ neck.“F---!” he said as his body landed on the wet pavement. “I’m hit.” Additional footage shows Gross seated in the back of a police vehicle as other officers arrive on the scene. “I’m hit — my back,” Gross says as another officer renders first aid.Later, as Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene and searched defendant Meagan Morris’ car, they discovered a rifle and ammunition.“This is like a straight coordinated terror attack on Prairieland,” one of the officers commented.One of the first of the protesters to be arrested was Nathan Baumann, one of the men Gross had seen running past the guardhouse.“If there’s anything y’all need, like, listen, I’m all for peaceful protest — if you want me to point out people’s vehicles to you, anybody doing dumb s---, I got you, sir,” Baumann said as an officer adjusted his handcuffs and detained him in the back seat of a cruiser.The charges against defendants linked to the noise demonstration initially focused on the shooting, although the shooter remained at large.Benjamin Song, a former Marine who provided firearms training to left-wing activists in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, would not be apprehended for another 11 days.The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 — more than two months later — brought the government’s case into focus.Later that month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order naming “antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization, followed by National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-7, which described “antifascism” as an “umbrella” for “recurrent motivations and indicia uniting” a “pattern of violent and terrorist activities.” The memo runs down a laundry list of characteristics commonly associated with the left, including “support for the overthrow of the United States government” and “extremism on migration, race and gender.”The Prairieland defendants, who were protesting federal immigration policies and two of whom are transgender, appeared to present the Trump administration with an embodiment of the new threat straight out of central casting.When a new indictment was returned in October 2025, it described the defendants as members of an “antifa cell” and “militant enterprise.”As evidence that the defendants were planning violent action at the ICE facility, the government highlighted a statement by Song in a Signal planning chat: “Cops are not trained or equipped for more than one rifle so it tends to make them back off.”Last week, when the White House announced an indictment against 15 “antifa” defendants in Minneapolis for conspiracy to obstruct immigration enforcement, it cited the Prairieland case as part of its “relentless campaign to eradicate Antifa’s domestic terrorism threat.”The indictment against the Minneapolis 'antifa' defendants reflects a precedent set by the Prairieland case, Xavier T.
The growing list of issues surrounding the renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is creating an unwelcome distraction for President Trump as he seeks to complete beautification projects in Washington ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary next month. Clumps of algae appeared on the floor of the pool within days of the iconic landmark…
President Donald Trump remains fixated on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, angrily berating "stupid" GOP senators for not passing the voting bill. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) and other Republican lawmakers are saying that the votes to pass it simply aren't there — and that Trump should be focusing on the economy instead. But conservative David M. Drucker, in a Bloomberg News column, stresses that Republicans who hope Trump will change course and "pivot" to the economy are dreaming."For Republicans in Congress who've been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections," Drucker argues, "their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real. The same day Trump reaffirmed support for an agreement with Iran to end the war, he turned his attention to Capitol Hill. Did he demand or introduce legislation addressing voters' No. 1 priority, what they believe is an unacceptably high cost of living? No. Rather, the president revived his push to strongarm how the 50 states and Washington, DC administer elections — an issue that barely registers on voters' radar, outside of MAGA social media circles."Trump, according to Drucker, is so obsessed with the SAVE America Act that he is "holding hostage renewal of crucial government spying tools, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" — much to the frustration of GOP senators."Of course, the president could be focused on more than one issue at a time; that goes with the job," Drucker writes. "But he still refuses to acknowledge that any aspect of the economy is underperforming on matters related to affordability or otherwise."In a June 21 post on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, "Our Country is doing GREAT. Record Jobs Numbers and Stock Market. BEST ECONOMY EVER! We are WINNING on all fronts. WINNING LIKE NEVER BEFORE." And he recently told reporters, "The word 'affordability' is a fake word, made up by the Democrats."Such messaging, Drucker notes, is frustrating GOP lawmakers and is "just not reality.""Inflation has spiked since Trump launched the Iran war on February 28, with the Consumer Price Index climbing 0.5 percent from April to May — and a whopping 4.2 percent since the same period in 2025, according to the Labor Department," Drucker observes. "That was the highest rate of inflation since the 4.9 percent during the year that ended April 2023, as Bloomberg reported this month. Theoretically, there's still time for Trump to address the economy to improve his party's prospects in the midterms, still more than five months away…. If Trump's ratings go up, so, too will the GOP's chances of preserving its roughly 10-seat House majority and defending its three-seat Senate advantage. Absent that, Democrats are poised to have quite a bit to celebrate on the evening of November 3."
