E. Jean Carroll and Presidential Immunity

Trump petitions Supreme Court to overturn $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation judgment

President Trump's legal team has asked the Supreme Court to throw out the $83.3 million defamation judgment won by writer E. Jean Carroll, arguing the Second Circuit ignored presidential immunity protections the high court itself established.

Attorneys Robert J. Giuffra of Sullivan and Cromwell and Michael C. Martinich-Sauter of the James Otis Law Group filed the petition on July 28, contending that Trump's 2019 statements denying Carroll's allegations were made from the White House in response to press questions and therefore fall squarely within the scope of official presidential conduct.

The filing invokes the Supreme Court's 2024 landmark ruling on presidential immunity, a decision that recognized broad protections for a president's official acts, and argues the Second Circuit refused to apply it.

The petition puts a stark question before the justices: Can a sitting or former president face tens of millions of dollars in civil damages for statements made in an official capacity? Trump's lawyers say the answer, under the Court's own precedent, is no.

Trump's lawyers call the judgment unprecedented in American history.

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Top Democrats turning against Mamdani

Clinton and Obama veterans Kal Penn and Rahm Emanuel turn on NYC Mayor Mamdani over taxes and Israel

Two heavyweight Democratic strategists from the Clinton and Obama eras are publicly rebuking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, one over a property-tax plan that could hit nearly a million homeowners, the other over the mayor's inflammatory rhetoric on Israel.

Mark Penn, the longtime pollster and adviser to President Bill Clinton, and Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's former White House chief of staff and a former mayor of Chicago, each went after Mamdani this week in pointed, separate broadsides that landed on social media and a podcast.

The criticisms cut across two of the self-described democratic socialist mayor's most controversial moves: a proposed pied-à-terre tax backed by a searchable public database of property owners, and Mamdani's past use of the phrase "from the river to the sea."

Fox News Digital reported that none of the three principals, Penn, Emanuel, or Mamdani's office, responded to requests for comment before publication.

The twin attacks matter because they come from inside the Democratic house. Penn and Emanuel are not Republican operatives. They are veteran party figures who helped elect two Democratic presidents.

When they publicly break with a sitting Democratic mayor, it signals that Mamdani's brand of progressive governance is alienating even the party's own establishment wing.

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Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act passes Senate

Senate advances Lindsey Graham's Russia sanctions bill hours after his funeral

The U.S. Senate cleared a major procedural hurdle on the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act with an 86, 12 vote, just hours after lawmakers attended the late senator's funeral at Washington National Cathedral.

Senators filed from the cathedral to the Capitol on Tuesday and did something rare in modern Washington: they voted overwhelmingly, across party lines, to advance a sweeping sanctions package that the late South Carolina Republican had spent his final days pushing toward the finish line.

The 86, 12 tally was not close. It was a statement.

The bill bearing Graham's name targets Russian oil and gas exports, extends existing sanctions on Iran's energy and weapons sectors, and hands President Trump authority to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on the five largest purchasers of Russian crude, a provision aimed squarely at China and India.

It also imposes primary and secondary sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs, their family members, Russian banks, and the so-called Russian Shadow Fleet of tankers used to skirt existing restrictions.

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Dr. Fauci to be investigated by State of Florida

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier to investigate Fauci

He announced Wednesday that his office is opening an investigation into former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, hours after Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during a contentious Senate hearing on the federal government's COVID-19 response.

"Fauci's lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable," Uthmeier wrote on X shortly after the hearing ended.
"My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It's past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID."

On his final day in office, former President Joe Biden granted Fauci a full and unconditional pardon covering any federal offenses committed in connection with his government service between Jan. 1, 2014, and Jan. 19, 2025.

While that pardon shields Fauci from federal prosecution for covered conduct, it does not prevent state-level investigations or prosecutions, making Uthmeier's inquiry the first announced by a state attorney general.

Florida AG to investigate Fauci

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Florida may be lining up the Fauci prosecution the federal system keeps dodging. Good.

Attorney General James Uthmeier says his office will investigate Anthony Fauci after Fauci took the Fifth before the Senate.

That matters because Biden’s pardon, if valid, protects only federal exposure—not state accountability. DeSantis saw the opening early, and Uthmeier now appears ready to test it.

Once again, Florida is showing what real executive muscle looks like while Washington performs another useless morality play for cameras, donors, and press clips. [Mike Huckabee]

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Illegals and voter registrations

🤡Jeffries dodges noncitizen voting question on live TV, pivots to accusing Republicans of voter suppression

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries dismissed New Jersey's disclosure that roughly 6,600 noncitizens were registered to vote as a "modest or minor" challenge, then quickly changed the subject to attacking Republicans.

CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed Jeffries on the issue during a Sunday appearance on "State of the Union," pointing to what she called one of the most significant disclosures of noncitizen registration on record.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, announced the previous week that a "serious software error" had registered approximately 6,600 noncitizens as voters between June 2023 and June 2024. Fewer than 400 of them actually cast ballots.

Bash's question was blunt: "Democrats have repeatedly said that non-citizen voting doesn't happen. It happened. Is this a problem?"

Jeffries did not say yes. He did not say no. He talked about confidence in state and local authorities, called the New Jersey situation a voluntary disclosure that was "immediately corrected," and then steered the conversation toward President Trump and the GOP.

Jeffries called 6,600 illegal registrations a "modest" problem, then blamed Republicans.

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"Dear Diary" Fifth Amendment

Dr. Fauci Hearing Drama

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped into the Anthony Fauci hearing drama with a short message and a meme that quickly got attention online.

Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most visible faces of the federal COVID response, appeared Wednesday morning under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The hearing was titled “Testimony of Anthony Fauci” and was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. ET on July 29 in Room SD-342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, according to the committee notice cited in the report.

Sen. Rand Paul has been one of Fauci’s fiercest critics for years. The hearing followed Paul’s release of what has been described as Fauci’s “Diary Package” over the weekend. Critics say the material shows Fauci’s concern with his public image during the pandemic era.

Once the hearing began, Fauci reportedly refused to answer questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment. That move immediately fueled fresh criticism from conservatives who have long argued that Fauci has never been fully held accountable for his role in COVID policy, government messaging, and the broader pandemic response.

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Trump keeps warning Iran

Trump Warns of Strong Military Action if Iran Diplomacy Fails

President Trump announced the U.S. is in very deep talks with Iran while warning that strong military action remains on the table if negotiations fail to produce results.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the United States is engaged in "very deep talks" with Iran, while warning that "strong military action" remains on the table if diplomatic efforts fail to produce results. The comments came as U.S. forces observed a pause in strikes against Iranian targets.

Trump addressed reporters during a press availability, emphasizing that military pressure had forced Tehran to the negotiating table. "The only reason they want to meet is because we've been hitting them very hard," the president said. "They understand now that we are serious."

The remarks coincide with a fragile diplomatic pause in the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict that began in late February. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz confirmed that the administration had halted strikes to give diplomacy more time, though he stressed that military readiness remained intact.

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It seems as if negotiations have been going on forever.

Two disgruntled Republicans holding up Todd Blanche's Nomination

Senate panel delays vote on Blanche's nomination as key Republicans withhold support

Todd Blanche's nomination to become attorney general stalled Wednesday as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote after key Republicans demanded more assurances about the settlement of President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 15. During Blanche's tenure as acting Attorney General the Justice Department has been under scrutiny for pushing President Trump's 1.8 billion dollar "anti-weaponization" fund and its handling of the Epstein files.

Law Takeaways from Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing for attorney general:

The Senate Judiciary Committee had been expected to vote Thursday on whether to advance Blanche's nomination to the full chamber. But resistance from two Republican senators on the committee who could block Blanche's nomination threw his confirmation into doubt.

A spokesperson for the committee said in a statement Wednesday night that the vote would be postponed "as work continues to secure sufficient support." The delay came after hours of negotiations between the Justice Department and Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis over the controversial settlement that afforded Trump and members of his family protection from tax audits.

Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have thrown the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche into serious doubt by forcing a last-minute delay of a critical Senate Judiciary Committee vote. Why?

Because Cornyn was not endorsed by Trump and Tillis was called a "loser" by Trump, both senators are retiring and not returning to Congress next year. They are acting independently of party leadership to demand written guarantees from the Trump administration regarding a controversial Justice Department settlement.

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Trump now may withdraw the Blanche nomination until Cornyn and Tillis are out of office.

Mamdani: "We should reconcile and repair this legacy of slavery, stolen wealth and discrimination.”

Mamdani Won’t Rule Out Cash Reparations For New Yorkers

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is leaving the door wide open to taxpayer-funded reparations for slavery in America’s largest city.

The democratic socialist mayor refused to rule out cash payments when pressed during an interview with The Root’s Charles Blow, instead saying he would wait for the recommendations of an ongoing city study.

Blow asked Mamdani directly whether he would support cash reparations if the commission endorsed them.

“First, I want to say that I stand by what I submitted. It’s the truth. It’s not a personal assessment,” Mamdani responded, according to an official City Hall transcript.

“We often think about slavery and the complicity in slavery as being exclusively to certain geographic areas of the country,” he continued. “Here in New York City, we were very complicit. And so I look forward to whatever those findings are.”

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Rand Paul kicked out Fauci's attorney from Senate hearing

Capitol Police Remove Fauci Lawyer from Senate Hearing

Capitol Police escorted Dr. Anthony Fauci’s attorney out of a fiery Senate hearing Wednesday after Sen. Rand Paul accused him of repeatedly disrupting the proceedings.

The dramatic removal came as Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times and faced warnings that Congress could pursue contempt charges over his refusal to answer questions.

Defense attorney David Schertler sat beside Fauci throughout the nearly four-hour Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing. Schertler repeatedly attempted to intervene after Paul warned that Fauci could face consequences for refusing to testify.

Paul told the attorney several times that he was not authorized to speak during the hearing. When Schertler continued addressing the committee, Paul ordered Capitol Police to remove him.

“Security, please remove him from the room,” the Kentucky Republican declared.

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Criminal shot to death after stabbing police officer

ABC News Just Buried a Wisconsin Cop’s Stabbing to Protect a Suspect’s Image

Pierre Thomas Waits 103 Seconds to Mention the Knife

A Madison officer was stabbed Wednesday while trying to arrest a man caught prowling parked cars. The criminal, Corey Ruiz, 38, was taken to a hospital after the shooting and died there.

ABC World News Tonight anchor Linsey Davis opened with "growing outrage" over the shooting, without once mentioning that an officer had been stabbed.

NBC alone told viewers that public records showed criminal Ruiz with at least 40 criminal convictions, several of them for resisting or fighting officers. Court filings reviewed by CNN show Ruiz pleaded guilty since 2021 to charges including resisting police and battery against an officer.

Bystander video verified by NBC News captured people screaming "he's got a knife" seconds before the shots were fired.

Correspondent Pierre Thomas then spent a minute and forty-three seconds walking through video before he mentioned the officer's injury at all. Even then, Thomas buried it inside a sentence built to protect the suspect, not inform the viewer. He told America that "authorities claim the officer who fired the shot was injured by the knife."

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Democrats have become radicalized

Ted Cruz predicts AOC presidential bid and Mamdani Senate run as Democrats lurch left

Sen. Ted Cruz says the Democratic Party's future belongs to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and he's warning that the country will pay for it.

Cruz laid out his case this week on Fox News and on his X account, pointing to fresh polling data and the party's leftward drift as evidence that Ocasio-Cortez will seek the presidency.

The Texas Republican framed both predictions not as idle speculation but as the logical result of a Democratic Party that has handed its energy, its money, and its direction to its most radical members.

The senator's second prediction was sharper and arguably more consequential. Cruz told Fox News that Mamdani, who was elected mayor of New York City in November, will be the next Democratic senator from New York.

He called Mamdani "the single most powerful Democrat in the country", a label that skips past every governor, every committee chair, and every party leader still clinging to the old guard.

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A Cart of Anti-ICE Signage and a Bucket of Gasoline

Tom Homan Stopped Democrat Attackers Cold After the NYC Firebombing With One Warning for Mayor Mamdani

A man armed with axes, a machete and gasoline tried to burn down the federal building that houses ICE in New York City Monday.

Tom Homan skipped past the axes and the gasoline and blamed the people who armed that man with an excuse.

Andrew Arrabaca showed up outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan Monday morning hauling a cart marked with anti-ICE signage. He lit a firework packed inside a canister, fired five to seven rounds from an airsoft rifle at the building, then dumped a bucket of gasoline and set the entrance ablaze.

Federal investigators later found two axes, a machete, three knives and a hammer stashed in his gear.

PJ Media reported Homan has spent recent weeks warning on air that the hostility built up against ICE was about to boil over into real violence.

"There's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted," Homan told Fox News before the NYC attack even happened.

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Communist Fool Hasan Piker

Hasan Piker Goes Full Mao in a Literal Dictator Suit as the Left-Wing Civil War Turns Ever More Frightening

Sitting Congressman Shared The Stage With Piker's Communist Cosplay

Hasan Piker is not some random voice screaming into the internet void. He commands roughly 10 million followers across the internet.

On July 18, he took the podium at the College Democrats of America summer convention in Washington, D.C. He wore a suit styled after Mao Zedong, the communist dictator whose policies historians blame for tens of millions of deaths.

Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin addressed the same two-day convention. So did gun control punk activist David Hogg.