The Supreme Court has again rebuffed lower courts seeking to block executive actions, from immigration to the downsizing of government. In the latest victory for the Trump Administration, the Court reversed decisions of a federal district court judge and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to enjoin new ICE raids in California.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other Democrats proceeded to attack the Supreme Court justices as political hacks. Newsom declared on X that “@realDonaldTrump’s hand-picked SCOTUS majority just became the Grand Marshal for a parade of racial terror in LA.”
U.S. District Judge Maame E. Frimpong, a Biden appointee, in Los Angeles, had found a “mountain of evidence” that enforcement tactics were violating the Constitution. She found that ICE was racially profiling suspects in the operation. The Ninth Circuit upheld the controversial ruling.
An estimated over seventy percent of undocumented immigrants are hispanic.
The Supreme Court summarily tossed the injunction. While the order was issued without an opinion, two justices squared off on the looming issue in the case.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion arguing that race can be one of the factors used by ICE for the reasonable suspicion to stop a person and inquire about their immigration status: “To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court’s case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered along with other salient factors.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissent that called the raids troubling and then added “we should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.”
Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.) beat the drum of dictatorship in a posting to X: “This is blatantly illegal, yet the Supreme Court is allowing it to happen while the case proceeds. When the history of this country’s rapid descent into dictatorship is written, Republicans in Congress and the Roberts Court will have been its primary enabler.”
There was a time when the Court could disagree on the legality of a search without instantly being declared the handmaiden of tyranny. This is clearly not that time. However, the escalating rhetoric on the left is fueling the violence that is rising in cities like Portland.
As I noted this week, there is an emergence of a new Jacobin class of establishment figures and intellectuals seeking to ride the wave of rage on the left. Even a cursory review of French history shows that such enablers are rarely immune from the mob justice that accompanies the rhetoric of rage.
It is a pattern we can see now.
We know Trump is building a wall on the border.
And he is building a different wall. Trump has the patience and cunning to build a wall of legal precedents that helps clarify the executive authority and shape the diminished remains of what leftist judges imagined their authority was.
Rather than ignore radical judges he complies and appeals.
It’s a brilliant strategy.
Another example:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/appeals-court-allows-trump-defund-planned-parenthood
But I still think Congress should trim some of the jurisdictional and equitable powers of the lower courts…and abolish or shrink the DC courts. It’s time hubris exacts its penalty from those over-mighty, robed DC tyrants.
Too bad Guv Newsom’s “Super Citizens” are getting the boot! But their absentee ballots will live forever.
Anybody here seen my old friend Charlie?
Can you tell me where he’s gone?
He freed a lot of people
But it seems the good, they die young
I just looked around and he’s gone
Unfortunately, it looks the shooter is going to get away with it.
Patel and Bondi have gotten rid of all of FBI most senior and most experienced investigators.
The FBI is basically just the Keystone Cops now.
Experienced at going after MAGA-TRUMP-SCHOOL PARENTS-PEOPLE PRAYING AT ABORTION CLINICS
Magats: please accept my sympathy for your loss today. Turns out all the barely subtextual gun threats you’ve pulled for years on this blog can be turned against you just as easily.
However, this could just as easily be a coordinated kristalnat set up. Not a very easy shot + effective escape plan = trained shooter likelihood.
Magats? So original-MORON.
How many judges have been threatened after ruling against trump?
Magots? yea, seems to fit.
Get lost LOSER!
Charlie Kirk never threatened anybody. He just tried to engage your side with debate and logic. And for that your people shot him.
Ready, fire, aim! Not only is your response incipient, it’s aged like an avocado in the Texas sun.
“…I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights….”
April 2023, Charlie Kirk.
RIH Charlie Kirk, You will have plenty of company after living your hate filled life.
RIH ANON MORON!!
Charlie Kirk never said a hateful thing against anybody. He simply pointed out the facts if you found those facts hurtful then that’s on you.
So all those saying Democrats are cheering. Get a life. Democrats have come out calling the killing of Kirk despicable, horrific, terrible, not how we deal with people we disagree with. Are there people cheering? Yes, Are they elected officials? Don’t think so. Newsom, Obama and many others have condemned this shooting.
The right on the other hand, gave pardons to 1000 people that ransacked the Capitol Building in the hopes of intimidating Congress to giving trump the election he lost.
Do not spread falsehoods like Kirk did. Did he deserve to die? Nope, Are Democrats cheering? Nope, Violence is not the answer, tell that to trump.
Charlie Kirk is dead.
“Left-wing violence is out of control, and it’s not random,” former Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters tweeted.
Yea, blame the left, Who was it that ransacked the Capitol Building on Jan 6, 2021? Who was given pardons after beating Capitol Police? Yea, 100% of them were right wing.
Wake up you idiots, The right and trump in particular is the cause of the violence.
I recall you blaming a woman for getting raped because her skirt was too short.
Why do you make crap up. Show me the link. Idiot.
I thought that might happen. You’re too dull to understand my comment.
The only person who got killed on January 6 was an unarmed lady stepping through a window that was already broken. Out of all those rioters,nobody killed anybody. The vast majority of those arrested, simply walked through open doors and barricade that had been removed.
John. I am so done with the violence. I left the Democratic Party after decades because of the garbage. Dammit Democrats won’t even Condemn the fact that Charlie Kirk was always the voice of reason You may disagree with him, but he was never mean he was logical. as far as I’m concerned anyone who votes in contravention to me will be always welcome in my office and that my dinner table, but if you countenance all of this violence which started with the massive protest and burnings five years ago, I’ll kick your ass out of my house. I’m done and I will never go back
Allie, a friend of mine has a son at a liberal college in Boston, and he is now his parents that his fellow students are celebrating. Despicable.
Oldman–
Yes, despicable and sickening. We wouldn’t celebrate the murder of someone who simply voices different opinions. This is mostly an ugly disease of the shameless Left.
High profile Dem politicians are pundits blaming the victim:
https://nypost.com/2025/09/10/us-news/ghoulish-dems-liberals-are-blaming-charlie-kirk-for-his-own-assassination/
Gotta love the NYP – headline says Dems blame Kirk for his assassination and then the story is about one person who made an insensitive on air on far left MSNBC. However, it then says he apologized soon thereafter along with the president of the network.
Of course it fails to quote the apology, which directly undermines the title’s premise.
Dowd wrote on Bluesky, “My thoughts & prayers are w/ the family and friends of Charlie Kirk. On an earlier appearance on MSNBC I was asked a question on the environment we are in. I apologize for my tone and words. Let me be clear, I in no way intended for my comments to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack. Let us all come together and condemn violence of any kind.”
Real impressive, NYP.
You left out Governor Pritzger, who was also part of the article.
Also, stories like this are widespread, involving many other liberals. I mentioned in another comment my friend whose son at a liberal college in Boston is reporting that his fellow students are celebrating Kirk’s death because they disagree with his conservative views.
Plus Dowd’s apology is NOT accepted. He is a despicable human being at the same level as the demon who assassinated Charlie. He said what he meant and it is in the internet’s memory forever. He pretended to apologize in an effort to keep his job, which he has now lost. You can’t say such monstrous stuff like that and then think an apology is going to make it okay. So f—k off Dowd, apology not accepted.
Young, House Dems reject moment of prayer for Charlie (one yelled “pass some gun laws laws” because the gunman was a law abiding citizen so a gun law would have stopped him).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15086223/democrats-reject-prayers-charlie-kirk-house-shouting.html
Oldman–
I saw that and it added to my sense of disgust and grief today. Still, it is consistent with the behavior of many Democrats.
On a different but similar note I see that Senator Gallegos is trying to block military honors for Babbitt. How very small his soul must be.
Oldman–
I think the Democrats have lost the very concept of dignity, never mind the exercise of it.
Oldman–
Just a very rough thought, but it seems conservatives have essentially inherited the Enlightenment and the left from the French Revolution.
What happened to all those Jan 6 rioters? They ransacked the Capitol building?
Remember that? 100% of them were right wing. How many? Oh about 1,000.
Yea, blame the left.
None of them killed anybody, and the vast majority of those simply walked through open doors and barricades, and it had already been removed. The only person killed wasn’t an unarmed Air Force vet, stepping through an already broken window. But that is Still a minuscule number compared to the tens of thousands at the 543 riots from the summer of love. all of those were left-wingers. And the damage they did the buildings and businesses far outstripped anything at the capital on January 6.
Charlie Kirk wasn’t always the voice of reason. He had many times been proven wrong many times when he debated adults instead of students.
That’s not true. And a good thing about it is even when he disagreed,he didn’t try to shut up the other side.
OT
Caught!
Fortunately Utah has the death penalty.
Too bad it isn’t breaking on the wheel.
Thay caught the perp who assassinated Charlie Kirk? Really? Accurate information is so passé
The Wikipedia page has been updated.
Some of the government workers who Timothy McVeigh killed were probably Democrats.
The assassinations of the two Kennedys also killed Dems, same with the attempt on George Wallace, and we cannot forget the assassination of MLK. But dude, all of those were more than 30 years ago. Modern times are a bit more relevant to the discussion, IMHO.
Ok. Fair enough.
Some of the WACO children Janet Reno and Bill Clinton ordered the ATF to kill never got the chance to decide.
Obama has tweeted, condemning the assassination of Charlie Kirk. He leads with “we don’t know the motivation of the shooter.” While true, I dunno, seems kinda tacky to lead with that. Like defensive or something.
https://x.com/BarackObama/status/1965889591090753651
OldmanfromKansas, we shouldn’t be jumping to conclusions. Nobody knows who the shooter is or what motivated him. These kinds of assumptions and accusations is what leads others to get into angry fits of rage looking for someone to blame and accuse. That’s exactly what leads to escalation and more violence down the road. We should be letting things play out before making any assumptions or conclusions.
I don’t disagree. I admitted that Obama’s assertion was true. My only point is that it seemed tacky for him to lead with that.
Tacky or not, we should be resisting the temptation to cast aspersions until all the facts have been laid out.
Ugh, really? The only fact relevant to my comment is the text of Obama’s tweet, which is not in dispute. Suppose someone you love gets murdered, and you’re grieving, and then someone else leads their condolence message to you with “we don’t yet know the motivations.” True, perhaps, but I bet you wouldn’t find it very sincere if the LEAD with that assertion. People are grieving. That seems to be lost on Obama.
I think the point Obama is making is that the world automatically assumes it was political violence because of who the victim is. But we shouldn’t make that assumption. Could have been a Subway sandwich employee who he pissed off at lunchtime.
It would be like assuming the killer of the Charlotte light rail woman was Russian because the victim was a Ukrainian refugee.
It would be like assuming the killer of the Charlotte light rail woman was Russian because the victim was a Ukrainian refugee.
Anonymous – if you really believe those two things are alike, then there is little hope for you.
Actually I doubt Obama knows what a motive is, OMFK.
X, great post. Everyone should just cool it and let things play out.
Paid assassin. One shot. Nothing left behind.
“President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book’. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.”
– Susan Rice, January 20, 2017