Senators Fight Harder Against Restitution For DOJ Weaponization Than Against Weaponization Itself

DOJ prosecutor accused of botching anti-ICE protest case ousted by Dem senator

A senator dismissed a Department of Justice prosecutor who led a botched case against six protesters and is now being accused of misconduct, according to new reports. Sheri Mecklenburg is a 20-year veteran DOJ prosecutor, according to Talking Points Memo reporter Josh Marshall. She led the case against the "Broadview Six," a group of protesters who were federally charged after demonstrating in front of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Illinois last year. In February, Mecklenburg suddenly withdrew from the case and took on a temporary assignment with the criminal justice team for Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, according to reporting by NOTUS. "She made no mention that she'd be leaving in a court hearing earlier in Feb. There was really no explanation for the suddenness of the move. Or at least the lack of heads up," Marshall explained in a post on Bluesky. "At the time I figured since the case seemed like such a loser maybe she just wanted out." Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announced on Friday that Mecklenburg was dismissed from that role, according to NOTUS and Talking Points Memo. The decision comes on the heels of courtroom drama related to the Broadview Six case. On Thursday, Judge April Perry ordered DOJ prosecutors to appear in court to explain what she believed was misconduct in how they sought an indictment from a grand jury, and the case came to a swift and sudden end shortly after when a U.S. Attorney dropped all charges days before a trial was set to begin.Perry said she had "never seen the types of prosecutorial behavior" that were on display by DOJ prosecutors, including Mecklenburg, before a grand jury in 2025. According to Marshall's Thursday post on Bluesky, "if you look at the hearing transcript today most or all the alleged misconduct was hers."

Trump says He Gave Up “An Absolute Fortune” for Weaponization Fund, Blasts Thom Tillis and His RINO Friends for “Screwing the Republican Party”

President Trump on Friday nuked RINO Thom Tillis and "his RINO friends" in response to backlash over the $1.776 billion weaponization fund to compensate victims of the weaponized Department of Justice, as lawmakers move to block the fund. The post Trump says He Gave Up “An Absolute Fortune” for Weaponization Fund, Blasts Thom Tillis and His RINO Friends for “Screwing the Republican Party” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Chevron Fights Back Against Radical Left’s Vandalism Campaign – Slaps “Sacramento Policies Did This” Signs on California Gas Pumps After Newsom Tells Californians to Avoid the Gas Company

Oil giant Chevron is refusing to play along with the Democrat blame game and is directly calling out Gavin Newsom and Sacramento Democrats for the insane gas prices crushing California families. The post Chevron Fights Back Against Radical Left’s Vandalism Campaign – Slaps “Sacramento Policies Did This” Signs on California Gas Pumps After Newsom Tells Californians to Avoid the Gas Company appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Reconciliation Bill Funding Top Trump Priorities Can't Reach Floor, Thune Sends Senate on Early Recess

House Republicans rip into Senate for delaying immigration reconciliation package: 'I'm very frustrated'

House Republicans slammed the Senate GOP for kicking the can down the road on voting on a package pertaining to ICE and Border Patrol funding.

Todd Blanche’s DOJ reign 'going to end with his disbarment': journalist

American outrage continues to grow as President Donald Trump's administration moves forward with its nearly $1.8 billion fund that aims to compensate Americans who feel they've been wronged by the government. Speaking on CNN this week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he thinks taxpayers "do want their tax dollars spent on things like that."Journalist John Harwood issued his own warning, "Does Todd Blanche recognize that this disgraceful chapter in American life is going to end with his disbarment?"National security expert Marcy Wheeler similarly commented that, given the frustration from lawmakers on display Thursday, it's entirely possible that Blanche could be removed from office. She shared law school Professor Steve Vladeck's recent post, which argues that the best way to defeat the fund is through politics. However, she doesn't think it's the only way to stop Blanche. "I think you START impeachment with Blanche," she wrote on BlueSky. "25 GOP Senators spoke up (in private) yesterday. 25+47-Fetterman = 71. Better yet, INCLUDE the dismissal of the Sedition verdicts NOW."Blanche only took over the Justice Department after Pam Bondi was fired, serving as acting attorney general.Vladeck's piece recalled that Chief Justice Roberts wrote in his majority opinion of NFIB v. Sebelius (which dealt with the Affordable Care Act in 2012). Roberts "defended the Court’s endorsement of Congress’s power to adopt the individual mandate by noting that it is 'not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.'"He urged, "One can believe in substantial judicial power without believing that literally every political dispute in our country can and should be resolved by unelected judges."Vladeck, too, turned to impeachment, which hasn't proved successful in the ongoing efforts to hold Trump accountable for crimes. He argued that despite the GOP majority, "impeachment itself is feasible in this House ... because forcing every member of Congress to vote on the record whether this brazen, corrosive, and affirmatively dangerous corruption is impeachable is itself a point worth fighting for (and fighting with our friends over)."

Senate Republicans Might Push Back on Two of Trump's Priorities

Trump says he ‘gave up a lot of money’ so ‘anti-weaponization’ fund could help others

President Donald Trump defended his $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund on Friday, despite Republican uproar. “I gave up a lot of money in allowing the just announced Anti-Weaponization Fund to go forward,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAK […]