Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
This Tim Walz Thing Is Starting to Get Weird
Stop doing jazz hands for small crowds and go home.
Whether more troops take the deal remains to be seen—but for now, the door is open, even if the paycheck isn’t quite what they hoped for.
Pete Hegseth Brags That Terrorists Have Had a Bad Three Weeks, Signals It’s About to Get a Lot Worse
Now, Hegseth can confidently report the group's actions have not, in fact, been tolerated, and it's about to get amped up to eleven.
Trending Across Townhall Media
Reactions to ATF Ending 'Zero Tolerance' EXACTLY What You'd Expect
I'm not surprised that anti-gunners are determined to try and present it as so, though. In their mind, no one who owns a gun, much less sells them, is an innocent person.
This Is Britain: Mother Jailed For 2 Years Because of a Tweet She Deleted After 4 Hours
These policies are not outliers anymore. The liberal consensus is now pro-censorship, which is one of the reasons why so many once-liberal journalists have departed from mainstream publications that enforce a narrative and suppress inconvenient facts and opinions.
They Cleared HOW MANY Fake Voters Off the Rolls?
I'm not expecting California to start electing Republicans. Or conservatives, for that matter. But a little election integrity goes a long way toward restoring trust in our institutions.
Yeah, About Those Contempt Hearings Boasberg Was Mulling for Trump Officials...
Congress must move to rein in these judges, either by impeachment or by dissolving the district courts that are knowingly activist.
Dearly Deported: Scott Jennings Schools CNN Dems on Difference Between Citizens and Illegal Aliens
The Democrats and their legacy media mouthpieces have chosen to side with illegal aliens.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
It looks to be quite a busy day on the Hill Tuesday, with the House set to debate the No Rogue Rulings Act and multiple hearings/meetings scheduled, including:
- House Appropriations, National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Subcommittee — Assessing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
- House Transportation and Infrastructure, Aviation Subcommittee — "America Builds: Airport Infrastructure, Safety, and Regulatory Environment"
- House Homeland Security, Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee — “America on the Global Stage: Examining Efforts to Secure and Improve the U.S. Travel System and Prepare for Significant International Events”
- House Agriculture — "The Power of Work: Expanding Opportunity through SNAP"
- House Judiciary, Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee — “A Continued Pattern of Government Surveillance of U.S. Citizens”
- House Small Business — Joint Hearing before the House and Senate: "Prosperity on Main Street: Keeping Taxes Low for Small Businesses"
- House Science, Space, and Technology, Research and Technology Subcommittee — DeepSeek: A Deep Dive
- House Oversight and Government Reform, Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee — “Federal Foreclosure: Reducing the Federal Real Estate Portfolio”
- Senate Finance — Hearings to examine the President's 2025 trade policy agenda — U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer to testify
- House Education and Workforce, Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee — "Game Changer: the NLRB, Student-Athletes, and the Future of College Sports"
- Senate Judiciary — Hearings to examine the Freedom of Information Act, focusing on perspectives from public requesters
- House Foreign Affairs, Oversight and Intelligence Subcommittee — Deficient, Enfeebled, and Ineffective: The Consequences of the Biden Administration’s Far-Left Priorities on U.S. Foreign Policy
White House What's Up
President Donald Trump is set to participate in a "commemorative tree planting" Tuesday morning. In the afternoon, he'll participate in an "Unleashing American Energy Executive Order Signing Event." In the evening, he'll head to the Building Museum to deliver remarks at the NRCC Dinner.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will host a press briefing at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
As for the tree planting referenced above, here's a bit more about that:
The White House announced today that one of the several southern magnolia trees near the South Portico of the White House, commonly known as the “Andrew Jackson Commemorative – Southern Magnolia,” has been removed from the White House Grounds on Monday, April 7, 2025, due to serious safety concerns cited in an official report. A new sapling, which is a direct descendant of the “Jackson Magnolia,” will be planted in its place on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.
(For when the left howls that Trump is killing trees at the White House.)
Full Court Press...
Monday was a busy day in the courts as several significant rulings were handed down by appellate courts, including the Supreme Court:
READ MORE: Update: Appeals Court 'Unfires' NLRB and MSPB Appointees, Sets Up Next Legal Showdown
SCOTUS Hands Trump a Major Win on Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Some Illegals
We can expect a SCOTUS ruling in the Abrego Garcia case fairly soon as well.
Oh, and as of this writing, Judge Boasberg will be holding a hearing Tuesday afternoon in the J.G.G. case — ostensibly to consider whether to hold the DOJ in contempt since his wings were otherwise clipped by SCOTUS on Monday.
Update: Judge Boasberg has now canceled Tuesday's hearing...but we could still hear from him today...
Judge Boasberg cancels hearing for today but doesn't dismiss case...watch for him to drop his decision on show cause hearing today or tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/rdXEOE4qSP
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 8, 2025
COMING ATTRACTIONS
The House will be wrangling with the compromise budget resolution — will Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) be able to herd the cats on this one? Expect a fair amount of drama on that. As noted above, the House is debating the "No Rogue Rulings Act" today, aimed at reining in federal judges.
MORNING MUSING
It used to be we didn't know many judges' names. (By "we," I mean the general public — lawyers, obviously, would have reason to know the ones before whom they practice.) Aside from Supreme Court justices (and likely not even all nine of them), most Americans wouldn't — and shouldn't — know the names of lower court judges because, ideally, judges themselves wouldn't typically be in the news. Yes, there were the rare exceptions with high-profile cases — dancing Lance Ito comes to mind — but overall, the courts went along doing their thing, and the black robes overseeing that thing remained largely anonymous.
That certainly has changed in recent years. Some of that I attribute to the 24/7 news cycle and the internet/social media. We're simply way more dialed in than we used to be — and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But some of it, unfortunately, can be attributed to judges themselves, some of whom have begun to make themselves news, between mugging for the cameras and taking an activist bent. Generally speaking, Americans shouldn't be familiar with the Ana Reyes, Paula Xinis, and James Boasbergs of the world. And yet, here we are. I do think it's a good thing that Congress is reexamining the scope of the federal judiciary and its authority — probably long overdue.
LIGHTER FARE
Friends come in all shapes and sizes...
"That's his chicken" pic.twitter.com/xyoIVqsRIj
— Nature Life Ok (@naturelifeok1) April 5, 2025
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