An Obama-appointed judge just sided with criminals over Americans—again. Judge James Boasberg—from our District Court in D.C.—tried to block the deportation of Venezuelan nationals with suspected ties to violent crime syndicates, despite President Trump’s clear authority under the Alien Enemies Act. This law, on the books since 1798, allows the President to remove foreign nationals from hostile nations. But Boasberg decided that keeping potential gang members—like those from Tren de Aragua—inside our borders was somehow the better call.

Like so many others in the activist bench brigade, this judge is playing politics with our security. He should be overruled immediately—and frankly, impeached for this disgraceful stunt.

America deserves judges who uphold the Constitution, not wannabe lawmakers in black robes.

This will not stand. The appeals court will ensure that. And if not, the Supreme Court certainly will.

This isn’t justice. It’s insanity. And if we don’t stop it, America won’t just have open borders—we’ll have open season on law-abiding citizens.

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The Democrats are struggling to find their political footing. From their behavior at President Trump’s congressional speech to silly social media videos, they’re flailing and failing.

The whole left-wing project has been like a three-legged stool with three main sources of support: legacy media, government-funded nonprofits, and the politicians themselves.

But now, trust in legacy media is at a fifty-year low. Americans have new sources of information, with new voices setting the narrative.

Thanks to DOGE, we’ve learned that lots of our tax money has gone to nonprofits pushing the leftist agenda. Cutting off those funds eliminates a key source of Democratic support.

That leaves the just politicians. And now that they’re on their own, it’s clearer than ever just how much the media and taxpayer-funded nonprofits propped up the American left.

It’s not a pretty picture.

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In this episode, Seth Leibsohn welcomes Andrew C. McCarthy, a respected legal educator and former federal prosecutor, to discuss the case of Mahmud Khalil, a former Columbia student facing deportation for alleged terrorist activity. McCarthy argues that Khalil's actions, such as mediating between protesters and the university, go beyond protected free speech and may constitute extortion or material support for terrorism, providing legal grounds for deportation despite claims of First Amendment protections.

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The House has now passed the “Continuing Resolution” unveiled by Speaker Johnson and President Trump endorsed this past weekend.

Bravo.

I don’t know about all that’s in the 99-page bill save for the beginning of a defense build-up, but it will allow the government to stay open while Donald Trump and the GOP in the House and Senate figure out the budget and reconciliation package or packages—there can be one or two. I am in favor of whatever the GOP passes just as I will support the president’s approaches on trade and peace negotiations for at least year one.

Because I’m a party man. Always have been. Always will be. Parties are the only way to advance political agendas and, in the end, the Republican Party is the only way to protect the Constitution as the Democrats want to pack the Supreme Court and crush the rule of law in the process of doing so.

The Senate should now move quickly to pass the CR and keep the government open.

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“Fight for another day,” Donald Trump announced, “when the timing is right.” When one of the most pugnacious presidents of modern American history urges strategic patience, we should listen.

Republicans hate continuing resolutions. They want to return to regular-order budgeting and real spending cuts. All of that is understandable, but we should look for the best ground on which to fight – and a midyear budget fight that stalemated months ago isn’t it.

The better ground will come as soon as this budget gets finished. Unlike last year, Republicans have control of both chambers of Congress and the White House. They also have the opportunity in the next budget to use reconciliation bills to achieve real reductions, both through DOGE and closing out those spending programs that Congress must approve. This CR does offer a token reduction of spending, plus increased funds for the Pentagon and ICE’s efforts to ramp up deportations of criminal illegal aliens.

In short, the only way to lose is to fail to unite. Pass the CR and prepare for the real fight ahead.

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Two points of pride come from reading a recent profile of Sebastian Gorka in the Free Press. Dr. Gorka is the Senior Advisor for counter-terrorism at the National Security Council and, like President Trump on so many issues, has hit the ground running.

• Point one: Dr. Gorka was selected by a president who was elected to better protect America, Americans, and her allies. And:
• Two: Dr. Gorka entered this role after years of writing and thinking through issues of American security and terrorism, and most immediately from Salem radio.

Dr. Gorka’s position is that of Richard Clarke’s, subject of fawning attention under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, in the late ’90s and early 2000s. It’s too much to expect the same level of admiration for Dr. Gorka from today’s media—but he more than deserves it.

Already, with Gorka’s guidance, the US has removed 23 terrorists from the earth, including an al-Qaeda leader in Syria. He is changing our national security modus operandi from monitoring to action, making us, and the world, a safer place.

Thank you President Trump and Dr. Gorka.

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Ever since its founding, Israel has never been allowed to actually finish a war to the point of ultimate surrender from its enemies. Even after the Six-Day War in 1967, the Arab League—unlike the Axis after World War II—refused to surrender: the League issued the famous “Three Nos,” no peace, no negotiations, and no recognition with Israel.

Donald Trump broke that irredentism with the Abraham Accords, only to see it set aside by the Biden administration.

In her fighting for her very survival, Israel has too often succumbed to world pressure, thinking that if it did let up on its ultimate campaigns for the destruction of its enemies, opinion would swing its way.

But Israel will be hated by implacable enemies and their leftist, Islamist, and other radical supporters regardless of what it does, unless or until it disappears, from the River to the Sea. Israel needs to stop thinking world opinion will support it if it engages in half-measures. It hasn’t and won’t.

Israel just needs to win the war to an unconditional and permanent surrender.

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The House Judiciary Committee just held hearings on so-called “Sanctuary Cities,” bringing in various mayors trying to justify their policies

I say “so-called sanctuary cities” because that is the Orwellian term for what should be called “nullification cities.” These mayors are nullifying federal law. Liberals used to oppose such doctrines in the name of protecting all of our civil rights—recall Martin Luther King specifically denouncing Alabama Governor George Wallace in his “I Have a Dream” speech for exactly that. In our republican form of government, localities don’t get to veto federal law, not on behalf of racial segregation and not on behalf of illegal immigrants thwarting the law. James Madison called this “a fatal inlet of anarchy.”

Mayors deciding which federal laws to enforce, and which to stymie, is just that: anarchy.

If they don’t like the federal law, their duty is to try and change it, not stand in the way of enforcing it. These mayors are not heroes, they are anarchists proving to be little more than a law unto themselves.

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