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'Stuff of nightmares': Federal authorities reveal new details in Minnesota lawmaker shootings
KARE 11
Jun 16, 2025

Vance Boelter Trump Supporter
by Google AI
6/15/25

Vance Luther Boelter, the suspect in the Minnesota lawmakers' shootings, was described by his best friend and roommate, David Carlson, as an avid supporter of former President Donald Trump and had voted for the Republican candidate in past elections.
Despite being a Trump supporter, details about his specific political motivations remain unclear. However, law enforcement officials believe the attacks were politically motivated, and a list of targets, including several [Seventy/70!] Democratic lawmakers and abortion rights advocates, was found in his possession.

Boelter's connection to conservative politics was further highlighted by his anti-abortion stance, which his roommate noted was a significant part of his beliefs.

Additionally, his work history included roles in security services, and he was associated with Praetorian Guard Security Services, a company that provided "police type vehicles" and uniformed security.


Federal law enforcement officials reveal Boelter stopped at two other lawmakers' homes on the night of the shooting.

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[JOSEPH THOMPSON, ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY] Against Vance Luther Boelter for his horrific attack on our state and our elected representatives. Political assassinations are rare, they strike at the very core of our democracy. But the details of Boelter's crime are even worse. They are truly chilling. It is no exaggeration to say that his crimes are the stuff of nightmares. Boelter stalked his victims like prey. He went to their homes, held himself out as a police officer, and shot them in cold blood.

Now there's been a lot of information and misinformation out there about Boelter's crimes. We have filed a detailed 20 page complaint and affidavit that sets forth what happened in this case. I'd like to share some of that information with you now.

In the early morning hours of June 14th. Boelter went to the homes of 4 Minnesota state politicians with the intent to kill them.

Boelter first traveled to the home of Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlain, Minnesota. Boelter arrived at the senator's home disguised as a police officer. He arrived in a black SUV with emergency lights turned on, and with a license plate that read "POLICE". Boelter wore a black tactical vest and body armor. He carried a flashlight, and a Baretta 9 millimeter handgun. He also wore a hyper realistic silicon mask.

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Senator Hoffman had a security camera. I've seen the footage from that camera, and it is chilling. Boelter knocked on Senator Hoffman's front door and repeatedly shouted, "This is the police. Open the door." Senator Hoffman and his wife Yvette came to the door. When they opened the door, Boelter shined the flashlight in their faces, and said there had been a shooting reported in the house. Boelter asked if they had any weapons. When Boelter lowered his flashlight, which he had shined in their face, they realized that he was not a police officer. They shouted out, "You're not a cop, you're not a police officer." Boelter then announced, "This is a robbery", and forced himself into their home. When Senator Hoffman attempted to push Boelter out and stop him from entering his home, Boelter shot him repeatedly. Boelter then shot Miss Hoffman repeatedly. Boelter fled the scene, and the Hoffman's daughter called 911. Fortunately, the Hoffmans survived, although they remained hospitalized.

After shooting Senator Hoffman and his wife Boelter traveled to the home of another Minnesota state representative in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Video surveillance showed that Boelter rang the doorbell at the state representative's house at approximately 2:24 a.m., on Friday night. Again, he was dressed as a law enforcement officer, wearing a tactical vest and body armor, carrying a handgun and a flashlight, and wearing that same hyper realistic silicon mask. Again, the images, as you can see on the screen are haunting. Fortunately, the state representative was not home. She and her family were gone on vacation, and so Boelter left.

Boelter then traveled to the home of a Minnesota state senator who lived in New Hope, Minnesota. He parked in the street in that same black SUV with the police license plate.

At about 2:36 a.m. on Friday night, after learning of the shooting of Senator Hoffman, New Hope police dispatched an officer to conduct a wellness check on the state senator who lived in New Hope. When the New Hope officer arrived at the scene, she saw Boelter's black SUV parked down the block with the lights on. The New Hope police officer believed that Boelter was a police officer who had been dispatched to the scene to check on the status of the state senator. The New Hope police officer pulled up next to Boelter in his car, rolled down her window, and attempted to speak with him. Boelter did not respond. According to the officer, he just sat there and stared straight ahead.


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So the New Hope police officer, who had been dispatched to the scene, proceeded to the state senator's home. And she waited for other law enforcement to arrive. When they did, by the time they did, Boelter had left the scene.

Boelter then traveled to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota and the home of Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman. At approximately 3:30 a.m., Boelter arrived at Representative Hortman's house in his black SUV with the police license plates. He parked in the driveway, and left the emergency lights on his SUV flashing, as if he was a police officer. Boelter approached Representative Hortman's home again dressed as a police officer, wearing the tactical vest and body armor and wearing that hyper realistic mask. He was armed and carrying a flashlight. Before he entered the home, 2 Brooklyn Park police officers arrived at the scene. They too had been dispatched to check on Senator and Representative Hortman after learning of the shooting of Senator Hoffman. When they arrived at the scene, they saw Boelter's black SUV parked in the driveway with the emergency lights flashing, and they saw Boelter standing in front of the house, several feet from the door. When Boelter saw the officers get out of the car, he drew his weapon and began firing. He rushed into the house through the front door, firing into it. He repeatedly fired into the house, and when he entered, he murdered Representative Portman and her husband, Mark. The Brooklyn Park police officers fired at Boelter as he rushed into the home, but he escaped into the home, and out the back.

Officers recovered Boelter's 9 millimeter Baretta, along with the body armor and the mask, behind the home, along his path of flight when he fled on foot. They later searched Boelter's car, where they found 5 more firearms, including assault style rifles and a large quantity of ammunition. Boelter also had in his car notebooks containing a list of more than 45 Minnesota state and federal elected officials, including Representative Portman.


Now Boelter planned his attack carefully. He researched his victims and their families. He used the Internet and other tools to find their addresses and names, the names of the family members. He conducted surveillance of their homes, and took notes about the location of their homes. He also prepared in other ways. He concealed himself as a police officer outfitting his black SUV with police lights and a police license plate, wearing a black tactical vest and body armor, carrying a police flashlight, and a handgun. And of course, he wore that hyper realistic silicone mask. That's seen on the surveillance videos. The video of his arrival and shooting of Senator Hoffman is truly chilling. Again, it's no exaggeration to say this is the stuff of nightmares.

There's a photo of the firearms found in Boelter's abandoned SUV. Based on these crimes, we brought a federal complaint charging Boelter with an array of federal charges. Counts 1 and 2 charge him with stalking. Count one charges them with stalking Representative Melissa Hortman using interstate facilities, and that's Title 18 United States Code 2261. The statutory penalties there are life in prison. Count 2, similarly, charges him with stalking state senator John Hoffman using interstate facilities. The statutory, the maximum penalty of that count is 20 years in prison. Counts 3 and 4, charged Boelter with the murder of Melissa, and the Hortmans, using a firearm in violation of 18 USC 924J. And these are punishable by term of life imprisonment or even death. And counts 5 and 6 charged him with shooting the Hortmans and the Hoffmans using a firearm, and both of those counts also carry maximum sentences of life in prison.

Now, before I finish my remarks, I want to say a little bit about law enforcement and the manhunt that we've heard about the last two days.
Over the past 48 hours, federal, state, and local law enforcement from throughout the state of Minnesota
have worked together to carry out the largest manhunt in Minnesota history.
Now a lot has been said about law enforcement in recent weeks, but make no mistake.
The men and women of our federal, state, and local law enforcement put their lives at risk
and on the on the line to keep Minnesota safe. They worked tirelessly day and night to make
sure that the tragic events of Friday night ended without further violence or bloodshed.
We owe them all a debt of gratitude and they will forever have my respect and admiration.
I turn it over to Special Agent Alvin Woodson from the FBI.
Thanks. Thanks, Joe.
Good morning. My name is Alvin Winston, and I served as the special agent in charge
of the FBI Minneapolis Field Office, which covers the states of Minnesota,
North Dakota and South Dakota. I want to begin by
extending my deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the community
that has been shaken by this devastating act of violence. Our thoughts remain
with those who are grieving and all who have been impacted by this tragedy.
Over the weekend, the people of Minnesota and the nation have been watching closely
as this case has unfolded. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
provided a detailed update yesterday, so I won't repeat those specifics.
This was a targeted attack against individuals who answered the call
to public service. The FBI's role in moments like this
is clear. To stand alongside our partners,
bring federal resources, intelligence capabilities and reach to the effort
not just to apprehend the individual responsible but to understand
the full scope of the threat. That work continues.
This case became the largest coordinated manhunt in Minnesota's history.
We are proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with our law enforcement partners across the state.
No single agency could have done this alone. And because of that unified effort,
a dangerous individual was taken into custody.
Let me say this clearly. Political violence
has no place in this country. The FBI
alongside our partners will remain focused on the work ahead and on ensuring
justice is served and with that I'll hand it over to you.
Uh, thank you, uh, with those comments, and, uh, we're thankful today
to see these charges filed. Early on with our partners from the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and other federal partners from the ATF, United States Marshal Service, and others,
they provided assistance to the team of local investigators from the Brooklyn Park Police Department,
Henenburg County Sheriff's Office, and the BCA that were working on this right to begin with, along with all the other hundreds of people
that stepped up with Champlain Police Department as well in this to pursue this justice.
You might be asking because we see it a lot of times these cases, you know, go in various orders when they are,
but this is an indication that the United States Attorney's Office stands along with us in the state of Minnesota
that when somebody and an evil individual decides to move this and create fear.
In our communities and commit evil acts that we will pursue every possible charge that we can
from the state charges that you've learned about today to these federal charges that were discussed early on and I'm grateful for the leadership
of the United States Attorney's Office and the FBI for helping us move that forward so quickly in a coordinated approach.
We do that because as SAC Winston said. In situations like this,
we have individuals that step up to serve their communities. They are elected officials across our state,
and when an individual chooses to target them. For their role in representing all of us,
it's an incumbent upon all of us to put all the resources forward to hold that individual accountable to seek justice and
to make sure that we are working together to show the community across Minnesota
and the United States that political violence is never OK.
We as a country are formed on the basis that we have political discourse and that we
have debates ongoing on what we do and that we elect people day in day out to represent us.
And when somebody tries to undermine that it's important for all of us to hold that person accountable
so that we can move forward as a country and have a system in place that a representative government and that
we provide the protections for those individuals and their families moving forward and so I'm thankful for these uh charges today
uh to move this forward and the the great work of the United States Attorney's office uh partnering with us to to move forward on
this and with that they'll take some questions.
Why is it not a terrorism charges the question, you know, we brought the charges that we think are appropriate right now. Obviously these crimes are
about 48 hours old, so we have an ongoing investigation, and I can't comment as to what other charges may or may not be brought in the future.
Lou, thank you for the question. Um, will we see the death penalty it's too early to tell that is one of the options for several of the charges though.
Did Mr. Boelter have any assistance? Are you looking into whether he may have had assistance? And if he did,
what are the potential consequences for anybody who may have assisted him either before or after these tragic shootings?
Our investigation remains ongoing in several areas including whether or not he had anyone helping him, assisting him in either carrying out these attacks or fleeing from them.
I can't comment on that at this time. There's nothing in the complaint suggesting that someone did,
but the investigation is ongoing. In fact, it's just in its infancy. It's been 48 hours, most of which we are primarily focused on finding
him.s cameras in Minneapolis shortly after these crimes occurred. Do we know how he got from Brooklyn Park to Minneapolis?
Was it on foot? I, I don't know the answer to that. -- Can -- we talk for clarity about
the state charges concurrent with the federal charges? How does that all work? Does this?
No, you know, the state charges or the state, it does not nullify the state charges.
They remain in place today. He was brought into federal custody. He'll make his initial initial court appearance in federal court over in
Saint Paul at 1:30 Central time this afternoon, and my expectation based on prior cases is the federal case,
the federal charges will be litigated first. But the state charges won't necessarily go anywhere. Can you speak to why investigators believe he carried out this attack
and for how long he may have been planning these attacks? Well, it's pretty clear from the evidence that he's been planning these attacks for quite some time.
There's voluminous writings as you've seen in the reporting that were found both in his car and his house
about his planning lists of names and individuals, um, in terms of the why it's unclear.
interaction with the police. What had law enforcement been told at that point? Were they aware to be on the lookout for a dark SUV that resembled a police vehicle?
I don't know. I can turn that. I don't know if one of my colleagues here know. I know that they had heard about the shooting of Senator Hoffman and,
and being the diligent law enforcement, they were knowing that they had elected officials living in their communities.
They went on to do a wellness check. I don't know more than that. You know what I, what I can say, and as you can, I don't know the specifics of the question that's what,
uh, on that, whether it is what I will tell you is that and. law enforcement working together at that time knew of
that and so as the different jurisdictions on duty, some of them did proactive, you know, as we've heard you've heard from Chief Broly on this in Maple Grove,
for example, or in Brooklyn Park, I'm sorry, for example, they went out proactively to check on the status and the well-being and
that's how we encountered this and prevented additional attacks which we believe certainly could have occurred from occurring.
So we don't know the specifics on the new Ho as to what they were doing, but they were tracking the shooting that happened and so several of them were being.
Proactive and checking on various people that they knew resided in their city. the officers in Brooklyn or the Brooklyn Park officers that responded at them or was
he shooting into the house and they kind of like chased him into the house. My understanding is it's unclear at the moment whether or not he shot at them.
It's possible that he did. It's not clear. was a chaotic scene.
-- The officer interacted -- with him. I believe he was, although I can't say for certain.
I, I've not seen evidence of that. It's hard to say what his plan was. Obviously he went to the homes of no less than 4 elected officials.
He had a list of other elected officials, their home addresses. So to make sure that we connect the dots.
Properly, could you name the other two officials? You know, I, we can't at this time. I, I wouldn't surprise me if they publicly identify themselves,
but it's not really my place to do that if they want to protect their own privacy. Message to Minnesotans who may get a late night knock on
the door from police if something's going on in their communities. I mean, can you just speak on that?
I'm gonna let law enforcement handle that one. I don't know. Someone use your shirt, please. Good morning, uh, police Chief Mark Brewley Brooklyn Park Police Department.
Great question. Um, like we send out a message to our community when this first occurred is you always can call 911 and verify if the person at your door is a police officer.
If they are a working police officer, they will be connected to a dispatch center that can validate that. So the first thing I would do is if you're concerned about it,
um, is call 911. Um, obviously there's a lot of different uniforms and it's never wrong to do that.
Can you clarify the uh the shootings stuff because we were told, I believe.
That uh The person in custody did shoot at police at the Portman residence.
That's an important detail. Yeah, so I'll answer this again that's part of the investigation,
and I know there's been a lot that's going on, but as any time law enforcement uses deadly force, there's a walled off separate investigation to examine that.
At that time, I will tell you we still work through. We are gathering evidence when we go through this happened incredibly fast.
What I can tell you is the police officers that were there on scene. That while they were assessing the situation
that the gunfire erupted and we're still working through and reconstructing that crime scene we've
gathered all of the evidence related to that and what was said there is that this is definitely
happening very quickly and we definitely know that he began. Uh, shooting at the Hortmans as will be detailed in this information
immediately once the officers were assessing the situation, whether or not uh that the gunfire was returned at the officer or not,
we are working through that and we need to recreate the crime scene itself identify the motive and I should say I want to say like in that process
that the gunfire was erupting in such a way all around that that is partly why the the the reasonable interpretation on
some of those is where that that came from initially. The potential motive here, it has been widely reported that
the list his hit list contained names of people who are abortion rights supporters.
And also, can you please uh release the names of the two other targeted victims who were
-- to get away as -- I said with respect to the other two potential victims, I think it's up to them whether they want to publicly identify themselves.
As I said, it wouldn't surprise me if they do. They're elected officials, but that's their right, obviously they may have families and home and children and privacy interests that.
They needed to sort through so I'll let them do that um with respect to the potential motive,
let me say this there's been a lot of press coverage and speculation and discussion about manifesto
I've seen nothing. Like a Unabomber style manifesto in his writings,
he had many, many notebooks full of plans, uh, lists of names,
surveillance efforts that he took to surveil and locate the home addresses and family members'
relationships with these elected officials, but I have not seen anything involving some sort
of political screed or manifesto that would clearly. Um, identify what motivated him.
Obviously his primary motive was to go out and murder people. Now they were all elected officials,
um, they were all Democrats. Beyond that, I think it's just way too speculative for
anyone that's reviewed these materials to know, um, and to say what was motivating him in terms of ideology or specific issues.
There's a lot of there were some abortion rights supporters I believe on the list,
but again there was dozens and dozens and dozens of names on, you know, hundreds of pages of documents that were recovered
with his writings on that last night.
I'm not gonna comment on that uh at this time. -- Can -- you talk about how long this creep uh planning and surveillance went on?
Do you have any idea? Here's what I've gone on for an extensive period of time. I think it's unclear. The writings appear
to have been, uh, done at various times, um, over the course of at least months I would say,
but beyond that it's speculative. Did he, did he give any um two kind of two questions that go towards the same thing.
He appeared to be involved with some kind of a home security or professional security operation.
I wonder if you have any details into that and was he familiar to law enforcement even though he didn't appear to have any kind of serious criminal record in the state?
I, I, I've seen the press reporting on his security company. I don't know anything beyond that or any involvement that that would have in this case,
and I have no knowledge of his interactions with law enforcement prior to this. Can you at all about,
you know, his car, the light pack, the license plate, maybe a bit of a badge sniffer.
Was he obsessed with police? I have no idea that I think I skipped over the slide.
The police license plate wasn't an official looking police license plate as you can tell uh it said I believe it was like a reflective black
things that you would buy to put on like a mailbox, um, like your address on a mailbox. Was he a bit obsessed with the I have no idea.
-- There been -- reports that his wife was detained at a stop uh rest stop in Onania,
uh, and that in her car was found weapons, passports, and a lot of cash.
She was also with three children. Is that true? -- And is the wife being -- investigated?
Go ahead. I'll defer to law enforcement on that one. Yeah, I can answer the question. So when you know the the question was detained obviously
um when an individual commits these you know heinous acts and we knew he was the suspect in this case,
we're gonna want to talk to the family. Um, you know, at this point in time this is, you know, under active prosecution and so we want to be careful about what we say.
She was cooperative with us at that time. There were, um, a firearm in the vehicle,
um, at the time, um, had valid reasons for her to,
she was legally in possession, I should say that. At this time and there were other items that were recovered, but we're gonna leave that to some of the prosecution as we work this out so
we're not gonna comment on all of it as this is still continue to be part of the active investigation we need to figure out exactly what all this means in relation to this.
To be clear, there's not going to be a first appearance in district court then today and then where is he being held?
There'll be uh initial appearance in federal court over in Saint Paul, Minnesota at 1:30 central time this afternoon.
I do not anticipate there will be an appearance in state court today. Just one more question on the on the the hit list that you.
You said 45 names and we've seen more than that. It was there more than 45?
-- There there's -- lots of it. I mean, yeah, and I think it can help. I mean just there's a lot of names that we're working together right now, so the FBI,
there are some, and we've mentioned this, that there are some other names that are from out of state. They have been working through the through
our Fusion Center network across the United States and then our partners at the FBI are helping coordinate with that,
uh, in that process. The question is a good one. Part of what we're looking through the names, the numbers that you're.
Conferencing they are was names in multiple notebooks. Some of them are redundant so I don't have a
total number of of people that were in there because some of them are overlapping on multiple uh lists and
again I do want to continue to clarify this is not a list of people that was in a numerical order
in some sort of ranking these are names that are being developed as we are looking at this across multiple writings
in terms of that just to be clear about it. And what
what's in there I believe it was where is he being held? Right now I think he's in the custody of the United States Marshal Service over at the Saint Paul Federal courthouse.
Beyond that, I'll defer to the marshals on where he'll be held, assuming he's held in custody pending trial.
It it'll be an initial appearance because he's only charged by complaint. He has not yet been indicted,
so he'll, uh, have an initial appearance as all defendants do before a federal judge where he,
he'll be asked to identify himself. The court will appoint a lawyer to represent him or
he can retain one and have a lawyer represent him and then, uh, the court will ask whether or not we will move to seek his detention pending trial,
which we obviously will, and then the court could set a detention hearing and a preliminary hearing. To assess whether or not there's probable cause to charge him by complaint,
how much of that will happen actually today is unclear. We'll see at 1:30. It's at the Warren Eberger Federal Building,
and that's the only court hearings today. Correct. Thank you. For Superintendent Evans yesterday, the way that things played out yesterday when you
came up for the 5:30 or so press conference, did you know that he was close to being caught at that point,
or did it come as a surprise when you got the.
So that you know we as noted we still had belief um that is in County when we held that we did not know the information specifically that it
was there based on the overall investigative that was still our belief there but the specific information that led to his arrest at that time we were not tracking yet
so I mean and I I assume that's related to the timeline. These teams and the law enforcement teams acted very quickly when they had
a specific lead that led us to know he was in that area and so it was a relatively short period of
time where they converge and we're able to do that. You have told us is even worse.
Where does this rank in terms of the attacks that you know of, uh, across the United States and,
and what you address some of your reaction, but can you?
Look, I mean, this was a political assassination. Which is not a word we use very often
in the United States, let alone here in Minnesota, it's a, it's a chilling attack on our democracy,
on our way of life. It's only the most recent example. A violent political extremism in this country and that's a trend
that's been increasing over the in recent years and that's unfortunate. And I hope it a wake up call
to everyone. That people can disagree with you without being evil
or needing to be killed or hurt. You mentioned that multiple different aspects of this
investigation were found in multiple different notebooks. um, how many were discovered or were they all in his vehicle?
Some my understanding is some notebooks were recovered from his vehicle and others from his house, although obviously there was a lot of there was
law enforcement literally from all around the state. I couldn't begin to identify all of them representatives of many of those or some of those agencies are here,
but far more were involved, um, and so I all I can say there was many notebooks recovered from multiple locations and part of it's.
-- Makes -- sense about him going back home like what was he thinking? did he say he was trying to get back to his house?
I mean it's, it's odd I guess you could say. I, I can't speculate as to what was in his mind.
He obviously went on a murderous rampage on Friday, so I think I'm not aligned with this thought process.
Winston, you talk about is there any sort of um. Attention being paid to what kind of safety needs
to be given to politicians at this time, or is this a space where people feel like any threat that has.
OK, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna of course take these threats uh as serious as possible and throw all available resources towards these threats.
We are in lockstep with the Capitol police on a regular basis and we're continuing to have those conversations about threats towards,
uh, politicians. -- Thank you for that -- question. Maybe one more question here before we wrap up.
Chief Foley, just wanted to wrap it back to, uh, hoping you can speak to just how pivotal pivotal it is
that your officers acted proactively stopping by the Wortman's house. And
likely stopping more. Yeah, great question. Just for everybody in the room. Question is,
um, how important was it that the police officers stopped at, uh, Representative Hartman's house, which,
which really, uh, foiled this entire plan. It's incredibly important, um, that started with a sergeant who was actually off duty,
was walking out of the building and had heard that there was a shooting in another community at Senator, um, Hoffman's house,
um, being alert, uh, seeing two officers in the police department said, Hey, drive by Melissa Hartman's house and just check on the house,
would you? And that's essentially what they pulled up and found that in the driveway was the car and.
Essentially, um, the criminal act was occurring as they pulled up,
um, had they not foiled the plan. You know, essentially took his vehicle away from him which involved all his
maps, all his, uh, names, all his weaponry. um, I would be very scared what it would look like
over the next few hours had we not done that. And just to clarify, did your sergeant know about the new Hope and Maple Grove incidents or just the one?
He only knew about the one that occurred in Champlain.
So the officer, the, the other officer that. Came upon him at the 2nd house
and saw him sitting in a vehicle. Did, did she realize, like, did, did she report that and they they try to chase,
did she realize that was suspect? I don't, I don't think she did. She knew something was awry and then he left and proceeded to Brooklyn Park,
um, and carried out the next shooting, so it got lost in the chaos of the event, not lost in the chaos of events, but,
um, there was a new shooting shortly thereafter. It really is remarkable to the question earlier how.
He went to 4 houses that night and then 3 of them, or 2 of them, he encountered law enforcement at uh the 3rd and 4th
1 and the second one was home at all. It's, it's remarkable how diligent law enforcement was at 2:30,
3 o'clock, and 3:30 in the morning on a Friday night that they were responding to just to do wellness checks on our politicians.
It's a testament. The last 48 hours have been an incredible testament to the professionalism and dedication and commitment
of our federal, state, and local law enforcement. Thank you all.
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Re: Anti-Anti-Nazi Barbarian Hordes are Knocking Down the Ga

Postby admin » Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:47 pm

Minnesota shooting suspect found in field and crawled to police, ending manhunt
8 hours ago
by James Chater and Mike Wendling
BBC News, Sydney and Minneapolis
June 16, 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5v5l4eylyo

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Police said suspect Vance Luther Boelter was armed at the time of his arrest

A man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband, after a two-day manhunt in the US state of Minnesota.

The chase came to an end in a wooded rural area west of Minneapolis, where he surrendered peacefully and ended up crawling towards officers, police said.

Vance Luther Boelter, 57, is charged with killing Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota Democrat, and her husband Mark. State Governor Tim Walz called it a "politically motivated assassination".

He is also alleged to have shot and wounded Democratic State Senator John Hoffman, and his wife Yvette, who are both now awake in hospital.

Mrs Hoffman said on Sunday that both felt "incredibly lucky to be alive", as they had been hit by 17 bullets between them.

She and her husband had been "gutted and devastated" by the Hortmans' deaths, Mrs Hoffman added in her statement. "We have no words," she wrote. "There is never a place for this kind of political hate."

Mr Boelter faces two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree attempted murder. He is due to appear in court in Minneapolis at 13:30 local time (14:30 EDT; 18:30 GMT) on Monday.

The suspect is a former political appointee and was once a member of the same state workforce development board as John Hoffman. However it is unclear if they actually knew each other.

Police have not suggested what the alleged killer's motive might have been, but US senator Amy Klobuchar has joined Governor Walz in suggesting the attacks were politically motivated.

Officials said on Sunday that Vance Luther Boelter was detained after investigators found a car he had used in Sibley County, about 50 miles (80km) from the murder scene in Brooklyn Park.

Air and SWAT teams were deployed to arrest the suspect, following a huge manhunt that was described as the largest in Minnesota's history.

No police officers were injured during his apprehension, and officials said they were not looking for any other suspects. Mr Boelter's wife was earlier detained in a traffic stop, but was released because she co-operated with investigators.

Speaking at a press conference with other local officials on Sunday night, Governor Walz said the attack was an "unspeakable act" that had "altered the state of Minnesota".

"This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences," Walz said.

Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey praised the "skill and bravery" of law enforcement agencies following the suspect's arrest. "Political violence is abhorrent," he added.

Vance Luther Boelter is accused of impersonating a police officer to carry out the attacks on Saturday, before exchanging fire with police officers and fleeing from the suburban area.

Melissa Hortman had served in the Minnesota House of Representatives for 20 years, and was speaker of the chamber from 2019 to 2025.

As well as having some political involvement, Mr Boelter is a security contractor and religious missionary who has worked in Africa and the Middle East, his online CV says. According to Facebook photos, he once preached as a church pastor in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Investigators reportedly found a list of "targets" in the vehicle that he is thought to have driven for the alleged shootings.

Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, told reporters that he would not describe the notebook found in the car as a "manifesto" as it was not "a treatise on all kinds of ideology and writings".

Local media have reported that the names included Governor Walz, congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and state Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

During Sunday's press conference, Mr Evans did not specify who was featured on the list, but said that state officials had contacted authorities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska and Iowa so that they could "notify individuals that were on that list".


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Melissa Hortman

Mrs Hoffman's statement on Sunday also offered an update on her husband's condition. "John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods," she wrote.

The attacker is thought to have first targeted the Hoffmans - at their home in Champlin, at around 02:00 local time on Saturday.

A Facebook post from someone identifying as Mrs Hoffman's nephew said that she had thrown herself on her daughter during the assassination attempt, "using her body as a shield to save her life".

Soon after the attack on the Hoffmans eight miles away, the Hortmans were shot and killed at their home in Brooklyn Park.

Locals told the BBC of their shock. Taha Abuisnaineh, who lives across the street, said he and his wife had known the Hortman family for more than 20 years.

"They were very nice neighbours in a very quiet neighbourhood," he said. "You don't see police activity in this neighbourhood. We are very shocked."

Another resident said she and her husband had received an annual Christmas card from the Hortmans.

"What a big loss for Minnesota," she said.

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BREAKING: Trump announcement draws FIVE ALARM FIRE response
by Brian Tyler Cohen
Jun 16, 2025 Democracy Watch with Marc Elias

Democracy Watch episode 324: Marc Elias discusses Trump's latest ICE announcement.



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This is Democracy Watch mark we've got a
chilling new announcement from Donald
Trump so I'm going to read a small
section of this and then get your
reaction to it and that is uh Trump went
to Choose Social and wrote "We must
expand efforts to detain and deport
illegal aliens in America's largest
cities such as Los Angeles Chicago and
New York where millions upon millions of
illegal aliens reside these and other
such cities are the core of the Democrat
power center where they use illegal
aliens to expand their voter base and
cheat in elections." and he goes on to
speak about more but what did you take
out of this um of this paragraph in
particular because Donald Trump does
invoke this idea of undocumented
immigrants and uh and cheating in
elections yeah look this is chilling
because Donald Trump is laying the
groundwork to prevent us from having
free and fair elections look we're going
to have elections okay so no one should
think that Donald Trump can cancel
elections he can't and states run
elections but what he can do is put
himself and the federal government in
between voters and their ability to cast
ballots that that count now this is not
a new thing for Donald Trump remember uh
after he won the election in 2016 that's
right after he won the election he
actually said that uh illegal immigrants
cost him the popular vote which by the
way he lost by two million votes he
actually said he would have won uh
California which I believe he lost by
four million votes in 2020 when we saw
him uh contest the outcome of that
election Rudy Giuliani was dispatched to
claim that there was fraud in big cities
and in Arizona he said that Donald Trump
lost because of hundreds of thousands of
noncitizens voting okay this has been
Donald Trump's playbook from the
beginning and also remember after the
2020 election he mused about whether he
could send the military uh to interfere
with the counting of votes he wanted the
Department of Justice and the FBI to
potentially seize voting equipment this
is serious stuff and this is Donald
Trump's way of of making of using the
immigration issue as not just a way to
you know trample on civil liberties not
just in a way to trample on federalism
not just in a way to flex his dictator
and authoritarian uh wannabe streak but
also to put in place the the the next
steps if he wants to and feels like he
needs to to prevent uh free and fair
elections
well building on that if he is trying to
um enact this plan where he gets the
military in place so that he can then
have those people there if he wants to
you know uh federalize these voting
machines or do every whatever he
whatever it is he wants to do is he kind
of enacting this plan too early because
isn't there some some limit on how long
he could keep the National Guard or
American troops in these cities before
they have to before their their time
runs out look I think Donald Trump's
view of executive power is that he is
the president and the entire executive
branch has to answer to his beck and
call regardless of what the law is right
i'm sitting here deferring to like well
won't he listen to the norms won't won't
he defer to the law this is a guy who's
broken the law god knows how many times
and he views himself as the the
commander-in-chief and therefore the
military does whatever he wants if he
wants a parade that rips up DC streets
that no one attends he gets his parade
if he wants to send Marines into Los
Angeles i mean just just let's not let's
not pass over just how absolutely
outrageous that was and that is that
Marines are sent to a city in in uh in
California the largest city in
California the second largest city in
the country uh uh and and you know we've
the legacy media has kind of like moved
past it i mean that's you know we've
moved past the national the federalizing
the national guard and move past the
Marines and so will by the time we get
to a year from now will it be now just
kind of like oh well yeah there are
there are active duty military in in
cities or there are uh national
guardsmen or there are ICE agents and
FBI agents you know uh doing this like
it is remarkable how quickly the legacy
media normalizes this kind of activity
all right so given how important it is
that we're able to to prevent his
ability to send the National Guard to
all of these other cities because again
he's going to use this as a pretext to
be able to use them to do whatever
meddling he wants to do in the 2026 or
2028 election um can you speak about the
importance of the ongoing lawsuits right
now gavin Newsome had gotten a temporary
restraining order in the trial court
that that uh TTRO was was stayed in the
appeals court but now we're waiting for
some decision from the appeals court uh
panel which is two Republicans to one
Democrat but it's also worth noting that
the ninth circuit court of appeals if
they do seek onbunk review regardless of
what happens with the panel that is 16
to 13 Democrat to Republican and so it
is a more favorable um full full bench
if they do seek uh an appeal there yeah
look that case is critical because
Donald Trump's view if it is allowed to
go forward has no limiting principle i
mean if if ultimately the president of
the United States can declare a
rebellion or an insurrection or the need
of uh to deploy uh uh federalize the
National Guard or deploy the US military
and it is not reviewable that it's just
basically whatever he thinks well that
just has no limiting principle can do
that in every community in this country
i mean you know Brian I don't want to
turn this back on you because you're
here to interview me but you know you
live in Los Angeles and I've talked to a
lot of people uh from California from
Los Angeles and the level of disruption
both in terms of number of people and
geographic is so small relative to the
total size of LA and the ability of the
Los Angeles Police Department to handle
it it's not like the LAPD feels like
outgunned or pinned down or you know is
like the governor is calling up this the
the the president being like "We can't
handle this." I mean the way this is
described to me is this is like one
small dot in in in an enormous city in
an enormous state yeah and that's
exactly right i mean the notion that
this is any more significant than than
any other protest uh is a complete joke
i mean it is it is a couple of city
blocks downtown where the vast majority
of Angelinos don't live anyway i mean we
have the most sprawling city we have the
most sprawling big city in the country i
mean this is this is a it will take you
hours to get from one end to the to the
next it's not like New York where it's
just a you know a couple miles from top
to bottom and really all of this is
concentrated in just one area and you
don't even have to take my word for it
because the the the police chief for the
LAPD himself has said that that there
was no need for the National Guard or
certainly the US Marines to be able to
be sent in that that was a last resort
and we're nowhere near there and look
the police chief for the LAPD is no uh
crunchy liberal like he's not there uh
you know he he's not uh he's not out
there marching alongside the the BLM
protesters right and yet even he was
able to come out and say that there was
no need for the National Guard to be
federalized and for the US Marines to be
able to to be uh uh sent in and yet and
yet here we are yeah and I think it's
not a surprise that he started with Los
Angeles because like I said you know
going back to 2016 he was obsessed with
the fact that he believed that that he
lost California because he believed
falsely I mean crazily falsely that
there were all of these illegal ballots
cast in California particularly in the
big city uh Los Angeles and other
Democratic controlled areas of the state
and we saw that play through in 2020
like I said not just in Arizona with
Rudy Giuliani who by the way was
disbarred in part because of the lies he
told about uh uh non-citizen voting but
remember all the crazy allegations they
made about uh Philadelphia and voting
there uh and Detroit and voting there
and so Donald Trump has has viewed
cities as his political achilles heel
and he is terribly worried about what it
means in 2026 if Democrats take control
of Congress whether it's the House the
Senate or both they are he is frantic
about that and so I don't think this is
an accident that this appears in this
social media post and after watching him
in Canada it's clear it wasn't an
accident yeah and we're going to get to
the Canada clip in in just a moment but
one one quick note on what you on what
you said um you know even leading up to
the election Donald Trump had spoken
about uh his plan for schedule F and
Project 2025 and his ability to be able
to turn um uh civil servants in the
government into political appointees and
so my worry was that okay now all of
these lifelong career prosecutors who
who um populate the DOJ and the FBI the
folks who would normally investigate
election crimes um in the in the FC and
whatever it may be those people are all
there and and their their adherences to
the Constitution and to the law when
he's able to to kick those people out
and replace them with political
appointees who who are loyal not to the
Constitution but rather to Donald Trump
my worry is that when we have some bogus
claim of election fraud pop up in
Milwaukee or Detroit or Philadelphia to
your exact point like we saw in 2020
that instead of being able to write this
stuff off as nonsense as the nonsense
that it is Donald Trump will now have
people in place to be able to to
validate these bogus claims and say you
know what there was fraud in the uh in
in you know the main voting center in
Detroit there was fraud in Philadelphia
there was fraud in Milwaukee and now not
only will he have political appointees
in place via schedule F but he'll have
the military in place by virtue of being
able to deploy them under under the
pretenses of of there being some like
rebellion or invasion or whatever you
know whatever excuse he uses to do that
and so do you have do you have any
concern here that it's not just the fact
that schedule F employees will validate
these bogus claims of election fraud
from the inside of the government but
that he'll actually have forces in place
to execute his plans inside of the
states i do i do and I like I said I
think that that this is his earliest uh
for this term his earliest manifestation
of that uh but I don't think it's his
last manifestation of it and and like I
said this is what he wanted to do in the
aftermath of the 2020 election but but
he was told no by the likes of Bill Barr
of all people you know who by the way
was himself no walk in the park uh he
was a pretty partisan Republican but
even he reached his limit and and but
the Jeffrey Clarks of the world remember
were will Jeffrey Clark wanted to send a
letter that you know would have caused
enormous amount of trouble well now
without any of those guardrails around
him without any uh protection from uh
from from his worst impulse in fact
surrounded by enablers uh and and this
issue that Steven Miller you know cares
so much about uh you know you have this
confluence of events that I think is
quite the powder cake and it may not be
the worst of the worst right it may not
be you know like I said we're going to
have elections so I'm not I'm not
suggesting that he's going to undo
election he's going to be able to run
elections but you know even without the
worst of the worst just imagine what
happens if the military decides to block
off streets or to make it impossible to
get to where polls are easily or there
are ICE doing raids and you have people
with guns cordoning off areas like you
know you or or or he declares as you say
that you know the the the people handing
out food and water in line or or pizza
the pole you know an event where people
are are getting free food declares those
to be a rebellion or insurrection right
you could imagine all and now instead
instead of relying on on on police
forces that that that you know will
listen to a Democratic governor or or a
Democratic state legislature now you've
got forces in place who are who are
there just you know that take their
orders from the commander-in-chief right
and that's why this this lawsuit that
you mentioned that Gavin Newsome has in
California is so important because it's
not limited to the excuse that Donald
Trump has come up with in this one
instance which has to do with um uh you
know illegal immigrants uh in this
country right once you open the door
that he can that he can simply decree
that there is that there is a threat
that requires the deployment of federal
resources and the military and the
nationalizing of the guard like that
doesn't have a limiting principle at the
other end and Donald Trump is the is is
the person who will take something
beyond what people think it will be and
when there's no limiting principle then
you are akin to just having a
dictatorship right and I and I actually
do think the the one of the most
worrisome parts for me is that he's
actually being strategic about how he
deploys this because he mentioned New
York Los Angeles and Chicago these are
all big blue cities within big blue
states so nobody is going to get you're
not going to have any um opposition from
within his own party look if he deployed
ICE to to Miami or or Austin you know
those are those are blue cities but
they're within red states and so you
know if you start to mess with um mess
with folks who are going to be you know
uh uh building houses or or working in
the agriculture sector that's going to
upset people even in red states because
this is all a very unpopular agenda that
he's executing right now as it relates
to these immigration raids but he's he's
just focusing it solely on places where
he's not going to wrankle any feathers
of any Republicans and so it's only
Democrats who are going to be impacted
here he's not going to he's not going to
impose his unpopular policies on anybody
within the Republican party he's
focusing solely to impose these policies
on on Democrats here and so once he's
able to effectively deploy these troops
to to you know these these blue bastions
in New York and LA and Chicago well now
then he has there is some precedent to
be able to do it in other places because
if he hasn't been shut down in a quick
enough time in LA New York and Chicago
well then he kind of will view that as
uh de facto permission to be able to
expand this policy elsewhere right and
again look at what he wrote he describes
this as democratic power centers now why
if what he's interested in is enforcing
immigration laws does it matter that
they are Democratic power centers then
he goes on to say that that that
Democrats are using these uh these uh
non-citizens to quote expand their voter
base and cheat in elections again not
about immigration not about you know the
worst of the worst not around crime
right this is about saying that he wants
to expand these federal operations in
these blue cities because that is the
heart of Democratic power and because
that's where Democratic votes are and I
don't think it is I don't think it is a
coincidence that in his mind those two
things are connected i want to throw a
clip from the G7 today onto the screen
last night where he said he want ICE to
really target Democrat yeah i want them
to focus on the cities because the
cities are where you really have what's
called sanctuary cities and that's where
the people are i look at New York i look
at Chicago i mean you got a really bad
governor in Chicago and a bad mayor but
the governor is probably the worst in
the country Pritsker but I look at how
that city has been overrun by criminals
and uh you know New York and LA look at
LA la those people weren't from LA they
weren't from California most of those
people many of those people and yeah I
that's that's a focus uh Biden allowed
21 million people to come into our
country of that vast numbers of those
people were murderers killers people
from gangs people from jails they
emptied their jails out into the US most
of those people are in the cities all
blue cities all Democratun cities and
they think they're going to use them to
vote it's not going to happen so Mark
what do you make of the fact that even
at the G7 where this should have nothing
to do with internal politics within the
United States this is still the idea
that he was focused on and and a message
that he was trying to perpetuate yeah
yeah look once again he is connecting
the the um the what he says are 21
million it's not 21 million but whatever
the influx of migrants in this country
he is connecting that not to immigration
not to you know uh whatever other
policies uh that Steven Miller may want
but rather he is saying that these
people are in blue cities Democrat-run
cities and they think they're going to
use them to vote and then ominously he
ends by saying not going to happen well
I ask you this in our country elections
are decided are run by states uh the
constitution gives states and localities
the authority to run elections okay in
every state it is illegal for
non-citizens to vote in federal
elections it's actually a matter of
federal law that it's illegal and every
state prohibits it from happening so
that is a state function what does
Donald Trump mean when he says not going
to happen he means that he the president
of the United States using the tools
available to him are going to prevent it
from happening now I will tell you he
tried to do this through an executive
order a few months ago and my law firm
and I we sued and we won to prevent him
from trying to impose his will by
executive order on on uh states running
elections the Democratic Attorney
General brought a similar lawsuit and
they won uh last week a similar case but
he's not done trying to project power
onto our midterm elections and so it is
time that everyone starts to focus on
this i know it feels like they're really
far away i know it feels like there's a
lot of time to worry about it but Donald
Trump and the Republican voter
suppression war machine is grinding away
day after day after day and we cannot
dismiss this you know I feel like Brian
a lot of people when you and I were
doing videos you know said "Oh it won't
be as bad you know Donald Trump you know
he we survived the first term and you
know he he tempers and you know he's
calmed or remember the narrative after
the assassination attempt he seems like
a new person you know he's and and and
here we are you know we were sounding
the alarm and now people are are are
waking up to it i'm telling you this is
going to be a real thing
so I I want to finish off with this um
because I know that people are going to
watch this and this is chilling stuff i
mean this is you know the the thing I
was most afraid of as we headed toward
November of 2024 was the prospect of
schedule F being enacted because that
really that really allows him to attack
the the the foundation of future
elections and and without some
foundation of free and fair elections
then then that's how democracy falls and
so people are going to see this in an
instance where you know not only is he
able to enact schedule F and he's trying
to do that right now and granted there's
some some injunctions and and whatnot
preventing him but ultimately he is
moving forward with his plan now he'll
also have a literal army in place to be
able to execute it in the states if he
needs to and so for folks who are
watching who are I think justifiably
concerned about this what is your
message to everybody watching what can
we do um as this process continues to
play itself out yeah so look the most
important thing we can all do is to pay
attention to it and speak up you know on
on Saturday uh you know millions of
Americans showed up and peacefully
protested across the country and if you
think that doesn't matter then you are
mistaken there is no politician on earth
who is not sensitive to to mass uh mass
uh turnout and protests like that and
there is certainly no politician in
American politics today who is and you
know who's the most sensitive you know
who is the person who has the thinnest
skin and actually cares the most about
public approval it's Donald Trump
himself so the first thing we can all do
is we need to stand up and be be strong
and be loud and be peaceful but to make
our voice heard that this is not okay
number one number two we need to make
sure that the the the that the
normalizing of this does not take place
you know the legacy media is in full
normal normalization mode i mean I was I
was reading some of the coverage about
the military parade and the no kings
protests in in some of the legacy news
outlets and I was just thinking you know
I I I I just I'm almost ready to give up
on them i mean I don't know why I don't
know why I read them sometimes just just
to have them present things in a way
that is as both sides sanitized as
possible so so we we we cannot let this
be normalized but most importantly you
know we need to have confidence in the
legal system you know we need to have
confidence that the litigation that's
being brought the kinds of lawsuits that
the governor has brought the lawsuits
that I've been involved in lawsuits that
lots of others have been involved in are
going to protect our free and fair
elections and I have confidence that
they will like I keep saying we are
going to have elections don't worry the
question is how free or fair they are
and part of that is up to each one of us
as citizens part of it is up to uh uh
part of it is up to the lawyers and the
courts uh but I have a lot of confidence
that if we all do our part we will have
free and fair elections in 2026 and
Democrats will gain control of Congress
well look I I think um it's important to
be cleareyed about the risks that we're
facing right now and to your exact point
the legacy media has been virtually
silent about the risks that are posed by
Donald Trump being able to send in the
military you know into American cities
uh you haven't you have been speaking
out about this and I think this video
right here is a testament to exactly
that so for everybody watching one more
step that we can all take to make sure
that we are that we are focused on the
issues that actually matter is to
subscribe to Mark's YouTube channel and
that is Democracy Docket i'm going to
put the link right here on the screen
and also in the post description of this
video his and his teams are the voices
that we need to elevate right now
because they are the ones focused on the
issues that are most pressing uh like
the ones that we just spoke about so
again if you're not yet subscribed
please make sure to subscribe the link
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Nobody Enjoyed Trump's Stupid Parade | Drunk On Fox | No Kings: The Biggest Protest In U.S. History
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Jun 16, 2025 #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue



President Trump's birthday parade featured low turnout and squeaky tanks, the champagne was flowing over at Fox News, and over five million Americans hit the streets to protest against the president's despotic behavior.



Transcript

Welcome one and all to the Late Show, I'm your host Stephen Colbert. And folks, I gotta tell you, I am in a great mood tonight, because this weekend was Father's Day, and Daddy got just what he wanted. No one came to Trump's big stupid birthday parade. Isn't that pleasant?

So no one came, though of course the White House claims that 250,000 people attended, so now apparently a quarter of a million people looks like this:

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They must be really good at hide-and-seek. Maga stands for make America grass again. I guess it was so. It was so sparsely attended that these poor troops were forced to march past empty bleachers. "Uh, you guys, I don't think our parents came to our show."

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It's not fair to the soldiers. They've got to be there. It wasn't just the low turnout, it also lacked a certain showmanship, which is surprising, because we heard it had tanks and stuff, but in reality this is what you got.

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We may have won WW2, but this weekend we lost the battle of WD40. There you go; there you go. I love that sound though. That tank was so slow it was later lapped by a tumble weed,

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and then by Joe Biden.

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[Applause]

After that the parade took to the sky -- I'm sorry, took to this "guy" holding a drone.

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It is going to blow his mind when he finds out that that thing can fly.

A parade this big might sound like a giant waste of taxpayer money, but the White House did find a way to make a teeny bit of that cash back.

[Narrator] Special thanks to our sponsor Lockheed Martin. Special thanks to our sponsor UFC. Special thanks to our sponsor Coinbase.


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Now some people have said that's in bad taste, but remember our military has always had sponsorships. Who can forget FDR's speech after Pearl Harbor, on December 7th 1941, a date that is brought to you by Farmers Insurance. "We are Farmers, Bum Bum Bum World War II."

Yeah, good folks at Farmers. Very good folks at Farmers.

The parade's corporate sponsors included the new energy drink Phorm, who handed out cans of their new flavor Screaming Freedom, which contains 200 mg of caffeine, and an additional 100 mg of whole coffee extract.

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I don't know about the freedom part, but if you drink that, I guarantee you at least one of your orifices will be screaming. "Orphice, Orifi, Orphases."

Also, if you're tempted to have a taste, please be aware Screamin' Freedom is not recommended for children, people sensitive to caffeine, pregnant women, or women who are nursing. In fact, if you drink Screamin' Freedom while you're nursing, your baby actually pops off your breast and flies around the room like a balloon.

[Music]

I looked like nobody was having a good time with this thing. Not even Donald Trump. Here he is celebrating his birthday.

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That is one sad sack of potatoes. I know this is exactly the birthday I wanted: a hot, wet, empty lawn,with a band playing my favorite tune. Crank it up.

[Dances like Trump to Squeak music]

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At one point, the president tried to get a little birthday loving from his wife,

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... and rejected! He tries a little, he tries a little pinky. He tries. That is risky of her not to respond to his pinky, because as commander-in-chief, he could have declared a thumb war.

[Applause]

Oh my god, it was wonderful. It was such a long day that the birthday boy seemed to fall asleep during the fireworks. You know what he needs? A little some screamin' freedom, some screamin' freedom.

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Let's crack that open. Oh!

[Applause]

Have that stored in a well ventilated room. Of course, as reported on Fox News, the parade was a glorious patriotic display of America's most powerful sauntering. But their celebratory broadcast went off the rails when Fox brought on military expert Rebecca Coughler who appeared to have recently been defeated in the Battle of Sauvignon blanc.

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[Fox News host] Rebecca, what are your thoughts tonight on the incredible symbolism, and the messaging that we saw here tonight from the commander-in-chief on the Army's 250th birthday?

[Rebecca Coughler] I am so excited, uh Emily, and Lucas Tomlinson.


[Stephen Colbert] You're not supposed to be sloshed when you call into Fox News. You're supposed to be sloshed when you host Fox News.

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[Applause]

And here's what happened when Coughler tried to give a shout out to the president.

[Rebecca Coughler] Because of the mismanagement of the uh, the administrative states, they've been fighting these foreign wars, but with our new chief Donald Jane Trump --


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[Stephen Colbert] Did she just say Dolly Jane Trump?

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It is so sad folks. You send your little President to the military parade -- a beautiful boy -- and he comes back a Dolly Jane!

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[Applause]

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Oh, oh! I wish I was breastfeeding.

[Applause]

[Laughter]

After that footage went viral, Coughler denied being drunk, tweeting "Truth: audio video during #military parade were corrupted due to intermittent slow internet connection."

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No no, she's right. We checked uh the BiOS website and it said there was indeed a blackout in her area.

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I'm in an xfinity man myself.

So the crowd was a little sparse down in DC, but you know where people did show up? Everywhere else in America!

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Because an estimated 5 million people protested the Trump administration's corruption and overreach at "No Kings" marches all across the country.

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Look at that man. That is beautiful. That's beautiful. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. More like that. Hell yeah. That was beautiful to behold.

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But it got to be a rough birthday for him. "Sorry Billy, no one RSVPd for your party. Maybe we could stop over at the neighbors. They got a ton of kids jumping into the pool yelling, "We hate Billy."

Attendance was so huge on Saturday, the experts are saying, "No kings was the biggest protest in US history."

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History.

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This is history. History. This means, that means biggest biggest in history of America. It means that more people came together at the "No kings" rally than back when this country was actually fighting against kings. So officially, officially, Americans are more against the red hats than the red coats.

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It was great. It was great. And it was everywhere. Here in New York, despite a rainy day, an estimated 50,000 people marched down Fifth Avenue.

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Wow! Yeah. 50,000. Mhm, that's not too shabby. Usually to get that many people in New York lined up in the rain, you've got to invent a cross between a brownie and a bagel. Some say it's just a brownie with a hole in it, but I say it's a brownal. It costs $40, and the line starts in Queens, back there. Get in line.

The Philadelphia march ended on the famous Rocky steps ...

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.. which is perfect, because Rocky movies are all very political. We all remember Ivan Drago's speech about cutting funding for Medicare.

"If he dies, he dies."


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And it wasn't just out there in the sort of the typical liberal cities. There were over 10,000 folks marching in downtown Dallas...

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people filling the streets in Bowling Green, Kentucky,  

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Protesters in Tucson, Arizona ...

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and in Utah, residents of a senior home hit the streets.

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Thank you seniors. That is a serious threat, cuz any one of those seniors is fast enough to catch a parade tank!

And the people, the people, the folks out there, they brought their creative energy. There were tons of fun signs like Nationally Guard Deez Nuts,"

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"You sucked in Home Alone 2"

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and "This president is the Nastiest Skank Bitch I've ever met. Do not trust him. He's a Fugly Slut."  

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That's harsh. Those are harsh words.

Even more impressive the sign was being carried by Melania.

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‘My duty is to call it out’: Judge accuses Trump administration of discrimination against minorities. The Reagan-appointed judge ordered the NIH to restore funds for research related to racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people.
by Kyle Cheney and Danny Nguyen
Politico
06/16/2025 04:53 PM EDT
Updated: 06/16/2025 04:54 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/1 ... s-00409095

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69835536/american-public-health-association-v-national-institutes-of-health/
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION; IBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE, AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS (UAW); BRITTANY CHARLTON; KATIE EDWARDS; PETER LURIE; and NICOLE MAPHIS
Plaintiffs,
v.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH; JAY BHATTACHARYA, in his official capacity as Director of the National Institutes of Health; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; and ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR., in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services,
Defendants.

Case No. 1:25-cv-10787-BEM

COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

....G. President Trump Issues Executive Orders that Ignite Chaos at NIH

80. Starting on January 20, 2025, President Donald. J. Trump issued a series of executive orders broadly seeking to end all efforts related to “equity”—including specifically with respect to any federal grants. Even after being enjoined, these executive orders nonetheless prompted Defendants to issue the unlawful Directives at NIH.

81. Executive Order No. 14151, dated January 20, 2025 and entitled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” instructs the Attorney General and others to “coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility’ (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear.” Additionally, it directs each federal agency head to “terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all… ‘equity-related’ grants or contracts” within 60 days.69

82. The next day, on January 21, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order No. 14173, entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” To address the purported “immoral race- and sex-based preferences under the guise of so-called [DEI] or [DEIA],” the order requires the Director of OMB to “[e]xcise references to DEI and DEIA principles, under whatever name they may appear, from Federal acquisition, contracting, grants, and financial assistance procedures” and to “[t]erminate all ‘diversity,’ ‘equity,’ ‘equitable decision-making,’ ‘equitable deployment of financial and technical assistance,’ ‘advancing equity,’ and like mandates, requirements, programs, or activities, as appropriate.”70 Provisions of this executive order and Executive Order No. 14151 were enjoined between February 21 and March 14, 2025.71

83. On January 20, 2025, President Trump also issued Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” directing that “federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology,” instructing federal agencies to revise grant conditions accordingly, and defining “gender ideology” as a “false claim” that “replaces the biological category of sex with an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity,” and that “includes the idea that there is a vast spectrum of genders that are disconnected from one’s sex.”72 Provisions of this executive order were enjoined on February 28, 2025.73

84. On January 27, 2025, OMB issued a memorandum directing all federal agencies— including NIH—to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and all other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by,” among others, “[Executive Orders above], including, but not limited to, financial assistance for… DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.” Provisions of this memorandum were enjoined on January 31, 2025.74

_______________

Notes:

69 Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing, 90 Fed. Reg. 8339 (Jan. 20, 2025).

70 Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity, 90 Fed. Reg. 8633, 8634 (Jan. 21, 2025).

71 See Nat’l Assn. of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Trump, No. 25-cv-0333-ABA (D. Md. Feb. 21, 2025) ECF No. 45 (preliminarily enjoining provisions requiring agencies to terminate equity-related grants); Nat’l Ass’n of Diversity Officers in Higher Educ. v. Trump, No. 25-1189 (4th Cir. Mar. 14, 2025), ECF No. 29 (staying preliminary injunction pending appeal).

72 Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, 90 Fed. Reg. 8615 (Jan. 20, 2025).

73 Washington v. Trump, No. 2:25-cv-244-LK (W.D. Wash. Feb. 28, 2025) ECF No. 50 (on February 28, 2025, preliminary enjoining sections that condition, withhold, or end federal funding in Plaintiffs states Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington); PFLAG, Inc. v. Donald J. Trump, No. 8:25-cv-00337-BAH (D. Md. Mar. 4, 2025) ECF No. 116 (on March 4, 2025, preliminarily enjoining the same nationwide).

74 New York v. Trump, No. 25-cv-39-JJM-PAS (D.R.I Jan. 31, 2025), ECF No. 50 (preliminarily enjoining federal agency defendants from “pausing, freezing, blocking, canceling, suspending, terminating, or otherwise impeding the disbursement of appropriated federal funds to the States under awarded grants, executed contracts, or other executed financial obligations,” based on both the OMB directive and Executive Orders, including the DEI and Gender Ideology executive orders).


A federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan on Monday accused the Trump administration of “appalling” and “palpably clear” discrimination against racial minorities and LGBTQ+ Americans.

“I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said U.S. District Judge William Young, a Massachusetts-based jurist who took the bench in 1985.

Young’s sweeping rebuke during a court hearing was a reference to two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that led the National Institutes of Health to rescind funding for research related to racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people. Though Young said he was uncertain whether he had the power to block the executive orders themselves, he declared the NIH cuts Monday to be “illegal” and “void,” and he ordered the NIH to immediately restore the research funds. An appeal is likely.

“I am hesitant to draw this conclusion — but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it — that this represents racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community,” the judge said. “That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out.“


Young’s commentary was an extraordinary departure for a federal judge of any era, even at a moment when Trump’s policies have been facing stiff resistance in the courts.

Trump swept into office in part on his promise to withdraw government support for programs he deems supportive of “diversity, equity and inclusion” initiatives as well as any he claims support “gender ideology extremism.” The orders led to a governmentwide crackdown on funding for programs and research related to minority communities — and has spawned a long list of lawsuits calling the abrupt cuts illegal.

Young isn’t the first Reagan-appointed judge to take issue with the Trump administration. Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to relocate transgender women to men’s prisons, and he has used his perch to defend the courts against criticisms from Trump and his allies. In similarly memorable remarks from the bench, Judge John Coughenour, based in Seattle, accused Trump of viewing the rule of law as an “impediment” to his priorities.

Trump allies have brushed off the judges’ critiques as relics of an earlier age of establishment-led government. And the White House blasted Young’s commentary as an indication of bias.


“It is appalling that a federal judge would use court proceedings to express his political views and preferences,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement. “How is a judge going to deliver an impartial decision when he explicitly stated his biased opinion that the Administration’s retraction of illegal DEI funding is racist and anti-LGBTQ?”

Judges have routinely and repeatedly found that the administration’s race to terminate contracts, dismantle agencies and deport immigrants has been tainted by illegality and violations of due process, but few have mounted such a broad-based rejection of the administration’s policies themselves.

“You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” Young said. “The Constitution will not permit that. … Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?”


The Justice Department has contended that its efforts to cut research grants — and many other programs and agencies — were simply a reflection of the new Trump administration’s policy priorities, reflected in Trump’s executive orders and unreviewable by the courts. They say the president should have broad latitude to set priorities and pause funding for programs that no longer align.

But Young said the administration made virtually no effort to push back on claims that the cuts were discriminatory. “We’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community,” he said. “That’s appalling.”

Young’s comments came after he ordered the Trump administration to restore hundreds of scientific grants the National Institutes of Health terminated earlier this year. His order came as part of a lawsuit from more than a dozen state attorneys general and advocacy groups for public health researchers that alleged the grant terminations were haphazard and discriminatory.


The Department of Justice, which defended NIH, argued the terminations align with congressional mandates to “improve research.”

“Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans. Many such studies ignore rather than seriously examine biological realities. … It is an improvement to eliminate these,” DOJ lawyer Thomas Ports Jr. said during the hearing.

Young pressed the DOJ for an explanation: “Where’s the support for that? … I’m asking you [to] just explain to me ‘often used to support unlawful discrimination.’ I see no evidence of that.”
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New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested at immigration court. Lander, also the city’s comptroller, was ‘arrested for assaulting law enforcement’, says DHS
by Jenna Amatulli
The Guardian
Tue 17 Jun 2025 15.25 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... omptroller



Brad Lander, New York City’s comptroller and a mayoral candidate, was arrested by masked federal agents while visiting an immigration court and accompanying a person out of a courtroom.

In a statement to the Guardian, assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin from the Department of Homeland Security said Lander “was arrested for assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer”.

“Our heroic Ice law enforcement officers face a 413% increase in assaults against them – it is wrong that politicians seeking higher office undermine law enforcement safety to get a viral moment,” said McLaughlin. “No one is above the law, and if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will face consequences.”

On Tuesday, Lander appeared at 26 Federal Plaza to observe immigration hearings involving individuals marked for potential deportation.

Lander reportedly told an AP reporter that he was there to “accompany” some immigrants out of the building. Tuesday’s trip to an immigration court was Lander’s third over the last month.

He was arrested, according to video footage of the incident, as he and his staff walked with an immigrant who had their case dismissed pending appeal earlier in the day, per AMNY.


Lander can be seen and heard in videos of the incident asking the immigration officials if they have a judicial warrant. Additional footage of the arrest shows Lander telling the officials: “I’m not obstructing. I’m standing right here in the hallway. I asked to see the judicial warrant."

Lander appears to be holding onto the immigrant’s shoulder as the officials move him towards an elevator.

“I will let go when you show me the judicial warrant,” says Lander. The officials, two of whom were wearing masks, then pinned Lander to a wall and put him in handcuffs.

“You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant,” Lander can be heard saying.

Immigration lawyers told the New York Times that officials do not need judicial warrants to make arrests in immigration courts because they are public spaces.

Lander’s wife posted an update on her husband’s X account less than an hour after the incident took place.

“Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad’s wife,” she wrote, adding: “While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.”

Lander’s team echoed the remarks from Barnette in a statement to the Guardian.

Immigration and Customs enforcement (Ice) did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.

In a news conference after the arrest, Barnette said she was “extraordinarily proud” of her husband and told reporters: “What I saw was shocking and unacceptable. What I saw today was not the rule of law.”

“This is a place where the rule of law is supposed to work. I was able to call our attorney and retain him immediately for Brad,” she continued.

“Because we have the connections and the means to do so. Nobody else in those courtrooms has that. I am confident that Brad’s going to be out soon … This is just one more example of Brad’s values in actions. He doesn’t just talk the talk. He walks the walk. He cares about what happens to people.”


Masked agents from several federal agencies were seen lining the halls of 26 Federal Plaza on Tuesday morning, including Ice, Enforcement and Removal Operations, the FBI and the treasury department, according to reporters on the scene from the City.

Video and news of the arrest made the rounds on social media almost immediately after it happened.

Zohran Mamdani, a mayoral candidate who also cross-endorsed Lander, called out the arrest on X: “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.”

Julia Salazar, a New York state senator, called the arrest “more evidence that Ice agents are flagrantly breaking the law”.

“[Lander] knows his rights, and he was speaking up for the rights of others. Ice agents responded by unlawfully arresting him and refusing to answer basic questions,” she said.

Andrew Cuomo, former New York governor and Lander’s mayoral opponent, wrote on Twitter/X that the arrest is “the latest example of the extreme thuggery of Trump’s ICE out of control – one can only imagine the fear families across our country feel when confronted with ICE. Fear of separation, fear of being taken from their schools, fear of being detained without just cause. This is not who we are. This must stop, and it must stop now.”

Mamdani also appeared at the aforementioned pop-up press conference that Barnette spoke at, telling the crowd: “We have to be clear that, in [Lander’s] ask and in their response, we saw that Ice has no interest in the law, it has no interest in order.

“[Ice] only has an interest in terrorizing people across this country. In this exact moment, New Yorkers and Americans are looking to leaders to meet this moment, to showcase the courage that is necessary … He showed us what leadership can look like and for that he was arrested,”
he said, before adding:


“We have to be clear about this. This is not about an election. This is about ensuring that we protect the city and the country that we love. This is about ensuring that immigrant New Yorkers who come here for regular check-ins do not need to fear being separated from their families in the most brutal and cruel ways imaginable. We know that today’s arrest is but one example of what Ice is doing every single day across this country.”

A demonstration broke out outside 26 Federal Plaza on Tuesday afternoon, with a crowd of supporters shouting “free Brad Lander”.

Protesters held up placards saying “fascist minion” and “immigrants are New York” while surrounded by a tight cordon of police and metal barricades. Public entry to the building was closed despite it being a public building.

New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, called the arrest “bullshit” in a separate press conference on Tuesday afternoon. She said she will call Lander when he’s out of detention and added: “But what about all the people who don’t have that high-profile position?”


Lander’s arrest comes as federal immigration officials continue to make arrests outside immigration courtrooms across the US. As the Guardian reported on Sunday, between early January, right before the inauguration, and June, there has been an 807% increase in the arrest of immigrants with no criminal record.

The arrest also bore similarities to that of Alex Padilla, a Democratic California senator and vocal critic of the Trump administration’s immigration polices, who was forcibly removed and handcuffed as he attempted to ask a question at a press conference held by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, in Los Angeles last week.

Much like the criticism of Lander’s arrest, Padilla’s arrest was widely lambasted, with Kamala Harris, the former vice-president, calling the incident “a shameful and stunning abuse of power”.

Lander’s arrest was also just one week before the Democratic primary for mayor. His opponents include Cuomo, Mamdani Adrienne Adams, Scott Stringer, Michael Blake and others. Along with Mamdani, Hochul, Stringer, Blake and Adams showed up to support Lander at the site where he was arrested.

Hochul was later seen inside 26 Federal Plaza seeking answers from Ice about the arrest.

“How long is this going to take, I don’t think he has a long rap sheet,” she reportedly said to agents.


Ed Pilkington contributed reporting
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ALL OUT WAR in Court as Trump TARGETS DEM Leader
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Jun 17, 2025 The Intersection with Michael Popok

Trump continues to go out of his way to arrest his political rivals, now adding NYC Comptroller and Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander, who joins a growing list of Democrats targeted by Trump. Popok calls out this assault on our democracy in his latest hot take.



Transcript

No one is safe from Donald Trump's abuse
of power and his show of excess force in
order to retaliate and to chill first
amendment expression now add to that
growing list yet another elected
official this time Brad Lander who's not
only the New York City controller
basically this chief financial officer
for New York but he's a leading
candidate for the mayor of the city and
all he was doing was go down to
immigration court federal immigration
court to escort people for their
hearings he got taken away by masked ICE
officers whisked away in handcuffs and
arrested for resisting arrest donald
Trump has let it be known that no one is
safe from his retaliatory grasp and I'm
legal af i'm Michael Popac let's get
down to the latest in a long list of
abuse of power
by Donald Trump what happened brad
Lander now joins a hall of fame or a
hall of shame for Donald Trump first you
had well not in any particular order but
first you had Hannah Dugan Wisconsin
Milwaukee trial court judge arrested
because she wouldn't allow her courtroom
to be the scene of an ICE effectively a
warrantless arrest in her courtroom she
was arrested she was perp walked and she
is up on two federal charges as a
sitting judge in Milwaukee moving
forward you've got a at least one US
congressperson arrested along with Mayor
Baraka of Newark when they went down
just to watch what was happening at a
new federal immigration detention center
in Newark New Jersey the mayor of Newark
New Jersey and a potential future
candidate for the presidency Baraka
President Baraka arrested his charges
were dropped against him but he was
handcuffed and taken away the ones
against the um the member of the House
still stand then you have Alex Padilla
alex Padilla a United States senator the
senior senator from California all he
was doing was asking a question of
Christine Gnome during a press
conference in a federal building in
California during the Trump siege he got
hog tied tackled brought to the ground
and put in and put in um in restraints
a sitting United States senator and did
Donald Trump apologize for any of these
things Christy Gnome or Tom Hman the
borders are or Pam Bondi of the
Department of Justice no they instantly
make press releases you know they do a
press release and a social media tweet
to try to embarrass Hannah Dugan and
make sure there's no more Hannah Dugan
standing up to this administration they
do the same with Alex Padilla donald
Trump actually said out loud "Well he
looks like an immigrant."
That's what they thought you know 6'2"
in
Latino guy um you know that they didn't
recognize even though he's a United
States senator from California
they don't apologize they issued a press
release off of Brad Lander being
arrested the controller of New York City
saying he obstructed justice he
interfered what interfered he was
escorting somebody i got the clip you be
the judge play the clip have a judicial
warrant
do you have a judicial warrant can I see
the judicial warrant
can I see the warrant i will let go when
you show me the judicial warrant where
is it
you don't have the authority to arrest
US citizens sir you don't have the
authority to arrest US citizens
you don't have I'm not obstructing i'm
standing right here in the hallway i
asked to see the judicial warrant by
asking the for a judicial warrant
you don't have the authority to arrest
US citizens asking for a judicial
warrant
this is we keep saying it is
unacceptable but haven't we in our own
way accepted what's happening on a daily
basis this is the same week
that a crazed gunman I don't care what
party he was part of a crazed gunman
obviously seething because of the
actions of the Republican party and
Donald Trump took matters and a gun and
went door todo shopping for elected
officials to shoot and kill and found a
few of them home
and what did the Democrats do instantly
came out to try to pull the country
together what did the Republicans do
they blame the Democrats they try to
politicize the assassination of elected
officials
we didn't do that we would never do that
so against that backdrop against the no
kings protest you have um the arrest and
apparently still in custody maybe just
released of Brad Lander i know the guy
i've met him before major position to be
the CFO effectively of all of New York
City it's it's sometimes a stepping
stone to to higher aspirations higher
positions like the mayoralty i don't
think he's going to win this time but he
certainly didn't deserve to be uh
kidnapped by masked ICE agents in a
federal building as an elected official
the Trump administration knows no
boundaries it does it on purpose it's
not that they don't have an excuse for
it it's because they have told ICE
arrest everybody and purposely seek out
elected officials on the Democratic side
with a D next to their name and put them
in custody
we're watching a president arrest his
political rivals i don't know how to put
this any any better or differently we're
watching a president arrest his
political rivals
or attack them and threaten to arrest
them like Gavin Nuome who we all know is
Donald Trump in the Republican party's
leading political rival coming out of
California and right now if I was a
betting person one of the leading
candidates to become the president in
2028 baraka another one Lander trying to
be the head of New York
have we ever witnessed such abuse of
power as going after your political
rivals
no Democrat would want to be tagged with
that but Donald Trump sees it as a badge
of honor i'll reverse it on him i see it
as a badge of honor for anybody running
for higher office that they've been
arrested by the Trump administration
that shows your bonafides as a Democrat
in the resistance keep it up don't let
it chill First Amendment expression
don't let it stop the protest on the
streets during No Kings and the next No
Kings the next Hands Off and the next
rule of law day
the people have to be have to have to be
heard there is no more important entity
in our democracy than the citizen and
their first amendment rights
right to petition the government for
redress of grievances to assemble
peaceibly to express themselves in first
amendment expression even if it makes
the government uncomfortable because it
makes the government uncomfortable that
is the foundation of our freedom of our
democracy it's been hijacked by Donald
Trump rebranded our patriotism rebranded
by Donald Trump the shrinking heart the
heartbeat of America has been shrink
wrapped in some thing called MAGA I
don't recognize as being an American
i'm going to continue to report i used
to report about every day on the arrest
andor conviction of a Jan 6
insurrectionist because I thought it was
important to make a legacy to make a
history a recorded history of what they
did and how they did it and I'm going to
do the same thing here every time an
elected official or leading candidate
for office for the Democrats is arrested
by the Trump administration arresting
his rivals instead of having a
government of his rivals I'm going to
report on it right here on Legal AF i
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Sen. Alex Padilla breaks down in tears on Senate floor recounting Noem news conference removal
CBS News
Jun 17, 2025

Sen. Alex Padilla broke down in tears while he spoke on the Senate floor about his forced removal from news conference held last week by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. See Padilla's remarks.



Transcript

RIGHT NOW ON THE
SENATE FLOOR, CALIFORNIA SENATOR
ALEX PADILLA, GIVING REMARKS.
LISTEN.

>> MEETING IN A BRIEFING WITH
GENERAL, THE FOUR STAR GENERAL
IN CHARGE OF U.S. NORTHERN
COMMAND, MANY OF YOU KNOW HIM.
THE BRIEFING WAS SCHEDULED AT
THE FEDERAL BUILDING IN WEST LOS
ANGELES, WHERE THEY'RE
OVERSEEING THESE MILITARY
OPERATIONS. NOW, COLLEAGUES,
WHEN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY
IS DEPLOYED DOMESTICALLY, WHEN
OUR TROOPS ARE DEPLOYED AGAINST
THE WISHES OF THE GOVERNOR FOR
THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1965,
AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE LOCAL
MAYOR AND EVEN AGAINST THE
WISHES OF LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT,
BOTH THE POLICE CHIEF AND THE
SHERIFF. WE ARE IN UNCHARTED
TERRITORY. SO IN MY EFFORT TO DO
MY DUTY TO CONDUCT CONGRESSIONAL
OVERSIGHT AND TO TRY TO GET
ANSWERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE THAT STATE AND LOCAL
OFFICIALS WERE NOT RECEIVING, I
WENT TO THE FEDERAL BUILDING IN
WEST LOS ANGELES. I WAS MET AT
THE ENTRANCE AT THE ENTRANCE BY
A NATIONAL GUARDSMAN AND AN FBI
AGENT WHO ESCORTED ME THROUGH
SECURITY SCREENING AND UP TO A
CONFERENCE ROOM FOR MY SCHEDULED
BRIEFING. WHILE WAITING FOR MY
SCHEDULED BRIEFING WITH GENERAL
GUYOT, I LEARNED THAT HOMELAND
SECURITY SECRETARY NOEM WAS
HOLDING A PRESS CONFERENCE
LITERALLY JUST DOWN THE HALL,
AND THAT PRESS CONFERENCE WAS
CAUSING MY BRIEFING TO BE
DELAYED. THE THOUGHT OCCURRED TO
ME THAT, WELL, MAYBE I COULD
ATTEND THIS PRESS CONFERENCE AND
LISTEN IN, JUST LISTEN IN THE
HOPES OF HEARING SECRETARY NOEM
PROVIDE SOME NEW INFORMATION
THAT COULD HELP US MAKE SENSE OF
WHAT WAS HAPPENING. I DID JUST
GET UP AND GO. I ASKED AND WAS
ESCORTED BY THE NATIONAL
GUARDSMEN AND THE FBI AGENT INTO
THE PRESS CONFERENCE. THEY
OPENED THE DOOR FOR ME. THEY
ACCOMPANIED ME INTO THE PRESS
BRIEFING ROOM AND THEY STOOD
NEXT TO ME AS I STOOD THERE FOR
A WHILE, LISTENING, AND AT ONE
POINT. THE UNITED STATES
SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
SAID THAT THE PURPOSE OF FEDERAL
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE PURPOSE
OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY
WAS TO, QUOTE, LIBERATE LOS
ANGELES FROM OUR GOVERNOR AND
OUR MAYOR TO SOMEHOW LIBERATE US
FROM THE VERY PEOPLE THAT WE
DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED TO LEAD
OUR CITY AND OUR STATE.
COLLEAGUES, LET THAT
FUNDAMENTALLY UN-AMERICAN
MISSION STATEMENT SINK IN. THAT
IS NOT A MISSION FOCUSED ON
PUBLIC SAFETY, AND THAT SIMPLY
IS NOT AND CANNOT BE THE MISSION
OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT. AND
THE UNITED STATES MILITARY. TO
MY COLLEAGUES ON BOTH SIDES OF
THE AISLE, ARE WE TRULY PREPARED
TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE
PRESIDENT CAN DEPLOY THE ARMED
FORCES TO DECIDE WHICH DULY
ELECTED GOVERNORS AND MAYORS
SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO LEAD THEIR
CONSTITUENTS? IS THAT REALLY THE
PRECEDENT THAT WE'RE OKAY WITH
SETTING? AS SECRETARY NOEM
HERSELF SAID LAST YEAR WHEN SHE
WAS GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA AT
THE TIME, SHE SAID, QUOTE, IF
JOE BIDEN FEDERALIZED THE
NATIONAL GUARD, THAT WOULD BE A
DIRECT ATTACK ON STATES RIGHTS
THAT WAS GOVERNOR NOEM, NOW,
SECRETARY NOEM. NOW, THROUGHOUT
THIS COUNTRY'S HISTORY, WE'VE
HAD CONFLICT. WE'VE HAD TUMULT,
BUT WE'VE NEVER HAD A TYRANT AS
A COMMANDER IN CHIEF. AND THAT
IS NOT BY COINCIDENCE. IT'S
BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE
ALWAYS BEEN WILLING TO SPEAK UP
AND EXERCISE THEIR FIRST
AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO PROTEST,
ESPECIALLY WHEN OUR FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS HAVE BEEN THREATENED. AND
AS THE PROUD SON OF IMMIGRANTS
FROM MEXICO, IT'S THAT SAME
RIGHT THAT I CAME TO REVERE WHEN
MARCHING THROUGH THE STREETS
WITH MY FAMILY AND MY FRIENDS IN
1994, IN LOS ANGELES, PROTESTING
AGAINST THE VILE ANTI-IMMIGRANT
RHETORIC THAT WAS GROWING IN
CALIFORNIA AT THAT TIME, IT WAS
THAT YEAR THAT A REPUBLICAN
GOVERNOR WAS UP FOR REELECTION
AND WAS DOWN IN THE POLLS, AND
HE TURNED TO SCAPEGOATING
IMMIGRANTS TO TRY TO IMPROVE HIS
POLITICAL STANDING AND HIS
REELECTION CHANCES. THAT FIGHT
IS WHAT INSPIRED ME TO LEAVE AN
ENGINEERING CAREER BEHIND AND
DEDICATE MYSELF. TO TRYING TO
INFLUENCE OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR
POLITICS. SO I'VE SEEN THIS
BEFORE. CALIFORNIA HAS SEEN THIS
BEFORE. SO LAST WEEK WHEN I
HEARD SOMETHING SO BLATANTLY
UN-AMERICAN FROM THE SECRETARY
OF HOMELAND SECURITY, A CABINET
OFFICIAL, OF COURSE, I WAS
COMPELLED BOTH AS A SENATOR AND
AS AN AMERICAN, TO SPEAK UP. BUT
BEFORE I COULD EVEN GET OUT, MY
QUESTION, I WAS PHYSICALLY AND
AGGRESSIVELY FORCED OUT OF THE
ROOM, EVEN AS I REPEATEDLY
ANNOUNCED I WAS A UNITED STATES
SENATOR. AND I HAD A QUESTION
FOR THE SECRETARY AND EVEN AS
THE NATIONAL GUARDSMEN AND THE
FBI AGENT WHO SERVED AS MY
ESCORTS AND BROUGHT ME INTO THAT
PRESS BRIEFING ROOM, STOOD BY.
SILENTLY KNOWING FULL WELL WHO I
WAS. YOU'VE SEEN THE VIDEO. I
WAS PUSHED AND PULLED, STRUGGLED
TO MAINTAIN MY BALANCE.
AND AS I WAS HANDCUFFED. AND
MARCHED DOWN A HALLWAY.
REPEATEDLY ASKING WHY AM I BEING
DETAINED? NOT ONCE DID THEY TELL
ME WHY. I PRAY YOU NEVER HAVE A
MOMENT LIKE THIS. BUT I WILL
TELL YOU IN THAT MOMENT A LOT OF
QUESTIONS CAME TO MY MIND. FIRST
OF ALL, WHERE ARE THEY TAKING
ME? BECAUSE I KNOW I'M NOT JUST
BEING ESCORTED OUT OF THE
BUILDING. AM I BEING ARRESTED
HERE? AND WHAT WILL A CITY
ALREADY ON EDGE FROM BEING
MILITARIZED THINK WHEN THEY SEE
THEIR UNITED STATES SENATOR
BEING HANDCUFFED JUST FOR TRYING
TO ASK A QUESTION? AND WHAT WILL
MY WIFE THINK? WHAT WILL OUR
BOYS THINK? AND I ALSO REMEMBER
ASKING MYSELF IF THIS AGGRESSIVE
ESCALATION IS THE RESULT OF
SOMEONE SPEAKING UP AGAINST THE
ABUSES AND OVERREACH OF THE
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. WAS IT
REALLY WORTH IT? BUT COLLEAGUES,
HOW MANY AMERICANS IN OUR
NATION'S HISTORY HAVE MARCHED?
HAVE PROTESTED, HAVE SHED BLOOD,
EVEN LOST THEIR LIVES TO PROTECT
OUR RIGHTS? HOW MANY AMERICANS
HAVE SERVED IN WARS OVERSEAS TO
PROTECT OUR FREEDOMS HERE AT
HOME AND HOW MANY AMERICANS IN
THE YEAR 2025 SEE A VINDICTIVE
PRESIDENT ON A TOUR OF
RETRIBUTION? UNRESTRAINED BY THE
MAJORITY OF THIS SEPARATE AND
CO-EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT,
AND WONDER IF IT'S WORTH IT TO
STAND UP OR TO SPEAK OUT. A
UNITED STATES SENATOR BECOMES
TOO AFRAID TO SPEAK UP. HOW CAN
WE EXPECT ANY OTHER AMERICAN TO
DO THE SAME?


>> YOU'RE LISTENING TO REAL
TIME COMMENTS FROM THE SENATE
FLOOR. CALIFORNIA SENATOR
PADILLA SPEAKING THERE.
EMOTIONALLY SPEAKING. FOLLOWING
THAT, DHS PRESS CONFERENCE.
PADILLA'S POSITION IS THAT HE
WAS TAKEN INTO THAT ROOM BY THE
NATIONAL GUARD. OF COURSE, WE
KNOW THAT. KRISTI NOEM SAID THAT
SHE WISHES HE HAD IDENTIFIED
HIMSELF. HE IS MAINTAINING THERE
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RIGHT
THERE FROM THE SENATE FLOOR. I
DID IDENTIFY MYSELF NOT ONLY
GOING THROUGH SECURITY
CLEARANCES, BUT ALL THE WAY UP
AND INTO THE ROOM BY THE
NATIONAL GUARD. WHAT ALSO
STRIKES ME, LIZ, IS THE FACT
THAT RIGHT NOW IN A CALIFORNIA
COURTROOM, THE QUESTION IS BEING
LITIGATED WHETHER GOVERNOR GAVIN
NEWSOM OF CALIFORNIA HAS THE
AUTHORITY TO CALL IN THE
CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD OR
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. SO MUCH
HAPPENING ON THIS STORY, AS WE
SEE SENATOR PADILLA BREAK DOWN
IN TEARS THERE, RETELLING WHAT
HAPPENED.
>> CLEARLY VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT
THAT DAY. AND IT'S INTERESTING
TO FOLLOW WHAT COMES OUT OF
THIS, BECAUSE WE SAW THE BACK
AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO COURTS
ON WHETHER OR NOT PRESIDENT
TRUMP HAD THE AUTHORITY TO SEND
IN THE NATIONAL GUARD OR NOT. SO
WE'RE GOING TO BE WAITING TO
HEAR WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT
COMING
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President and Fellows of Harvard College v. United States Department of Homeland Security (1:25-cv-11472)
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Assigned To: Allison Dale Burroughs
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70 ... -security/

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... 3.73.0.pdf

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE,

Plaintiff,

v.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 1:25-cv-11472

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

The Court hereby grants Plaintiff’s Motion [ECF No. 62] and enters a preliminary injunction order pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(a) against Defendants United States Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Todd Lyons, Student and Exchange Visitor Program, John Doe, James Hicks, United States Department of Justice, Pamela Bondi, United States Department of State, and Marco Rubio (collectively, “Defendants”). Defendants, their agents, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants are hereby:

A. Enjoined from implementing, instituting, maintaining, or giving any force or effect to the May 22, 2025 revocation of Plaintiff’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (“SEVP”) certification, including but not limited to through: the termination of Plaintiff’s SEVIS access; any determination that a visa holder has failed to maintain nonimmigrant status on the basis of the revocation of Plaintiff’s SEVP certification; any adverse action or determination with respect to a visa application on the basis of the revocation of Plaintiff’s SEVP certification; or any denial of admission to the United States on the basis of the revocation of Plaintiff’s SEVP certification.

B. Enjoined from implementing, instituting, maintaining, or giving any force or effect to any purported revocation of Plaintiff’s Exchange Visitor Program designation in the May 22, 2025 Revocation Notice, including but not limited to through: the termination of Plaintiff’s SEVIS access; any determination that a visa holder has failed to maintain nonimmigrant status on the basis of any purported revocation of Plaintiff’s Exchange Visitor Program designation; any adverse action or determination with respect to a visa application on the basis of any purported revocation of Plaintiff’s Exchange Visitor Program designation; or any denial of admission to the United States on the basis of any purported revocation of Plaintiff’s Exchange Visitor Program designation.

C. Enjoined from giving any force or effect to the Department of Homeland Security’s May 22, 2025 Revocation Notice, including but not limited to through: the termination of Harvard’s SEVIS access; any determination that a visa holder has failed to maintain nonimmigrant status on the basis of the Revocation Notice; any adverse action or determination with respect to a visa application or visa holder on the basis of the Revocation Notice; or any denial of admission to the United States on the basis of the Revocation Notice.

D. Directed to immediately prepare guidance to Defendants’ officers, staff, employees, and contractors—including but not limited to those at each consulate, embassy, field office, and port of entry—to disregard the May 22, 2025 Revocation Notice and to restore every visa holder and applicant to the position that individual would have been absent such Revocation Notice. Defendants’ guidance must be issued within 72 hours of the entry of this Order.

E. Ordered to take, in good faith, such other steps as are necessary to prevent the implementation of or the giving of any force or effect to the May 22, 2025 Revocation Notice during the effective period of this Order.

F. Precluded from giving effect to any suspension, withdrawal, revocation, termination, or other alteration of Plaintiff’s SEVP certification or Exchange Visitor Program designation other than through the procedures laid out in 8 C.F.R. §§ 214.3 and 214.4, including as executed by issuance of the May 28, 2025 Notice of Intent to Withdraw (“NOIW”), or in 22 C.F.R. Part 62.

G. Defendants are not precluded by this Order from reviewing Plaintiff’s compliance with the regulations in 22 C.F.R Part 62 as a designated sponsor in the Exchange Visitor Program or from issuing routine requests for information and documents from Plaintiff in order to assist in the regulatory compliance review. Nothing in this Order is intended to prevent Plaintiff from challenging the scope or validity of such actions on any grounds.

H. Ordered to file a status report within 72 hours of entry of this Order describing the steps taken to ensure compliance with this Order and certifying compliance with its requirements.

It is so ordered.

June 20, 2025

/s/ Allison D. Burroughs
ALLISON D. BURROUGHS
U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE

*************************************

Harvard Beats Trump In Court . . . AGAIN!
Glenn Kirschner
Jun 21, 2025 All the "King's" Men: Trump's lackeys and their disservice to America

Donald Trump very likely is setting the record for court losses by a presidential administration. Moreover, Attorney General Pam Bondi seems unable to litigate her way out of a paper bag.

This video discusses the new court ruling granting Harvard University's motion for a preliminary injunction to stop Trump's attempts to ban foreign students from attending Harvard.

This video also discusses how Bondi continues to send DOJ lawyers into court to argue in support of lawless and unconstitutional acts and executive orders by Trump. This is the antithesis of what an Attorney General should do. By comparison, recall how acting AG Sally Yates refused to support Trump's unconstitutional Muslim ban, and Trump fired her for remaining loyal to the constitution.



Transcript

[Glenn Kirschner] Well friends Harvard University just
whooped Donald Trump in court again
So much losing
You know it makes me think that Pam
Bondi is really not very good at this
attorney generaling thing
Let's talk about that because justice
matters
[Music]
Hey all Glenn Kirschner here So friends
because Donald Trump is forever trying
to punish Harvard University
I don't know maybe fueled by an
inferiority complex
Whatever the reason Donald Trump tried
to proclaim that international students
may not attend Harvard
Well that didn't work out so well for
Donald Trump in court But before we turn
to the new reporting if you'll indulge
me just 30 seconds of housekeeping As
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Okay let's turn to the new reporting
This from the New York Times
headline "Judge blocks a Trump effort to
prevent international students at
Harvard." And that article begins "A
federal judge in Boston sided with
Harvard University on Friday and blocked
a Trump administration effort to rescind
the school's right to host international
students
The government's moves against Harvard
have thrown the lives of thousands of
visiting scholars into temporary
disarray But Friday's ruling by Judge
Allison Burroughs allows Harvard's
longstanding participation in the
student and visitor exchange program to
continue at least for now The
administration had sought to exclude the
school from that program which allows
7,000 Harvard students and recent
graduates to study and work legally in
the United States In a three-page
preliminary injunction Judge Burrow said
the government the Trump administration
was forbidden from implementing
instituting maintaining or giving any
force or effect to the Department of
Homeland Security's push last month to
force Harvard out of the International
Student Program The judge also ruled
that the government had to tell American
diplomatic posts and ports of entry to
disregard instructions to restrict
Harvard's participation
David Super a law professor at
Georgetown University said it seemed
that the judge had crafted her order to
try to prevent the Trump administration
from pursuing other tactics to keep
international students from Harvard Now
friends let's have a look at just a
little bit of Judge Allison Burrough's
three-page order granting Harvard
University's motion for a preliminary
injunction
In the case of president and fellows of
Harvard College plaintiff versus
Department of Homeland Security at all
and others defendant order granting
plaintiffs Harvard's motion for a
preliminary injunction
The court hereby grants plaintiffs
Harvard's motion and enters a
preliminary injunction against
defendants United States Department of
Homeland Security Kristy Noem United
States Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Todd Lions Student Exchange
Visitor Program John Doe James Hicks
United States Department of Justice
Pamela Bondi United States Department of
State and Marco Rubio Collectively
defendants
defendants their agents and anyone
acting in concert or participation with
defendants are hereby enjoined from
implementing instituting maintaining or
giving any force or effect to the May
22nd revocation of plaintiffs student
and exchange visitor program SEVP
certification including but not limited
to through the termination of plaintiffs
SEVIS access any determination that a
visa holder has failed to maintain
non-immigrant status on the basis of the
revocation of plaintiff's SEVP
certification any adverse action or
determination with respect to a visa
application on the basis of the
revocation of plaintiff's SEVP
certification or any denial of admission
to the United States on the basis of the
revocation of plaintiffs SEVP
certification
I think it's fair to say that Judge
Burroughs don't play
Can I read you just one more short
passage from Judge Burrough's order
Subsection D
Trump and company are directed to
immediately prepare guidance to
defendants officers staff employees and
contractors including but not limited to
those at each consulate embassy field
office and port of entry to disregard
the May 22nd revocation notice and to
restore every visa holder and applicant
to the position that individual would
have been Absent such revocation notice
defendants guidance must be issued
within 72 hours of the entry of this
order
You know friends if you look up the term
non nonsense in the dictionary you just
might see Judge Allison Burrough's picture
But let's turn our attention to Attorney
General Pam Bondi and her DOJ lawyers
who are going into court in Trump and
Trump related cases and losing 96%
of the time based on a recent
statistical analysis by a Stanford
political science professor 96%
of the time And you know I don't even
blame the lawyers who are going in and
losing in case after case after case Now
I blame them for having
let's call it shallow ethics
because they're going into court and
they're arguing in favor of what is
plainly unlawful and unconstitutional
conduct by Donald Trump That's something
no attorney should do But I blame most
directly Pam Bondi because she's the one
sending them into court
making them insisting that they
directing them to
try to support the unsupportable
unlawful and unconstitutional
acts conduct executive orders by Donald
Trump Remember one one of Donald Trump's
first unconstitutional acts after he was
sworn in He tried to revoke the
constitutional guarantee of birthright
citizenship And what did the federal
judge say about that A Ronald Reagan
appointed judge no less who's been on
the bench for 40 years The judge said
this is blatantly unconstitutional
Where were the lawyers in the room when
Trump was signing this friends That
speaks volumes about what Pam Bondi
should have done She should have
declined to send her DOJ lawyers into
court to defend the indefensible the
unlawful the unconstitutional Friends
remember Sally Yates
during Trump's first administration
Remember what she did more precisely
what she declined to do when Donald
Trump authored a hateful
unconstitutional
Muslim ban his very first attempt at a
Muslim ban Then acting attorney general
Sally Yates said "I will not defend this
in court It's unconstitutional." Of
course she was fired for deciding to do
the ethical thing for remaining loyal to
her oath to the Constitution for
representing the interests of the
American people She was fired But that's
what you do what Sally Yates did You
stand up to unconstitutionality
wherever you find it including perhaps
most importantly in the Oval Office
But Pam Bondi won't do that
She sends her lawyers in on these
suicide missions figuratively speaking
arguing in favor of unlawful and
unconstitutional
conduct acts and executive orders by
Donald Trump
And they're losing 96% of the time You
know friends it reminds me of what I
always told my homicide prosecutors when
I was chief of homicide at the DC US
Attorney's Office I said 'You know never
are we more vital in our role in our
responsibilities as prosecutors
as when we are declining to bring a case
declining to ask the grand jury to
indict somebody
because you have to follow not just the
facts not just the law but the
Constitution
because justice
matters
Friends as always please stay safe
please stay tuned and I look forward to
talking with you all again tomorrow
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