Democrats attempt to smear anybody who goes against their agenda as a &#8220;MAGA&#8221; extremist — even if those individuals are liberal members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States Supreme Court</a>.
For example, this week, the Supreme Court released a unanimous 9 &#8211; 0 decision against the Environmental Protection Agency and the Biden administration, thereby drastically cutting back the federal government&#8217;s overreach. So, what did Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) do? Well, he threw them all under the bus with a warning to Americans.
&#8220;This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws,&#8221; Schumer tweeted. &#8220;Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands. We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters.&#8221;
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This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws.
Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands.
We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters. <a href="https://t.co/wlp1LTvZJB">https://t.co/wlp1LTvZJB</a>
&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1661764643692462082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Dan McLaughlin of National Review summed up how ludicrous Schumer&#8217;s claim was.
&#8220;Unanimous SCOTUS decision written by George W. Bush appointee. Outcome joined by GHW Bush appointee, 2d GW Bush appointee, 2 Obama appointees, &amp; a Biden appointee. The 3 Dems joined a concurring opinion written by a Trump appointee,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Chuck Schumer: That&#8217;s so MAGA!&#8221;
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Unanimous SCOTUS decision written by George W. Bush appointee. Outcome joined by GHW Bush appointee, 2d GW Bush appointee, 2 Obama appointees, &amp; a Biden appointee. The 3 Dems joined a concurring opinion written by a Trump appointee.
Chuck Schumer: That&#39;s so MAGA! <a href="https://t.co/oL6Ugjfvu3">https://t.co/oL6Ugjfvu3</a>
&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1661786325735944228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Four of the justices — the three liberals and Justice Brett Kavanugh — disagreed over the limits the EPA is afforded by Congress.
&#8220;All nine justices rejected the standard proposed by the EPA,&#8221; he further explained. &#8220;The 5-4 split was over less expansive readings of the statute.&#8221;
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All nine justices rejected the standard proposed by the EPA. The 5-4 split was over less expansive readings of the statute. <a href="https://t.co/1Oi9L9AGj8">https://t.co/1Oi9L9AGj8</a>
&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1661877784174632961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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For his part, Kavanaugh <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/supreme-court-epa-water-pollution.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “By narrowing the act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands, the court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States.&#8221;
Readers should keep in mind that Kavanaugh is one of the justices who Schumer threatened in 2020.
&#8220;I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh — you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,&#8221; he said in front of a raging crowd at the Supreme Court building in D.C.  &#8220;You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.&#8221;
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Wow:
Chuck Schumer to Justices Gorsuch &amp; Kavanaugh:
“You have released the whirlwind &amp; you will pay the price.”
“You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these decisions”
Can you imagine the media outrage if McConnell said this about RBG?
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&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1235290061568192518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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So Schumer has a long history of revving up his base with fear-mongering and demagoguery. This is exactly his goal in labeling the High Court a &#8220;MAGA Supreme Court.&#8221; He, and other Democrats, want the American people to believe that it is somehow &#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/may/21/supreme-court-expansion-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegitimate</a>&#8221; and dangerous.
Despite his qualms about former President Donald Trump&#8217;s supposed undermining of norms and democracy, he does not hesitate to sow distrust of any institution that stands in his party&#8217;s way for power.
Schumer is one of the party&#8217;s top leaders. There is no appeasing the Left — they will always paint you in the worst light possible so that they can gain more power.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. 

Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvey-weinstein-linked-biden-adviser-liberal-group-created-maga-smear-during-six-month-research-project-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvey Weinstein-Linked Biden Adviser, Liberal Group Created ‘MAGA’ Smear During Six-Month Research Project: Report</a>

WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 24: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference about abortion rights outside the U.S. Capitol January 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. The group of Senate Democrats held the news conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.

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An Indiana doctor who performed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> on a 10-year-old girl and then shared details about the procedure with the media has been reprimanded by the state medical board.
The Indiana State Medical Licensing Board <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-doctor-reprimanded-performing-10-year-olds-abortion-telling-reporter-egregious-violation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> Thursday to reprimand Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis doctor, and fine her $3,000, saying she violated privacy laws and medical ethics standards, Fox News reported.
Bernard was also accused by Indiana&#8217;s Republican attorney general, Todd Rokita, of violating state law by not reporting the 10-year-old&#8217;s pregnancy as evidence of child sexual abuse, but the medical licensing board rejected that accusation.
The attorney general called Bernard an &#8220;abortion activist acting as a doctor&#8221; and also wanted the board to suspend Bernard&#8217;s license, but they refused to do so, according to Fox News.
Deputy Attorney General Cory Voight spoke to the board and argued Bernard committed an &#8220;egregious violation&#8221; of patient privacy by <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/07/01/indiana-abortion-law-roe-v-wade-overturned-travel/7779936001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sharing</a> details about the child&#8217;s situation with the media. Also, Bernard&#8217;s failure to report the child abuse immediately to police or Indiana&#8217;s child protective agency resulted in &#8220;a child returning to live with her rapist for five days in Ohio,&#8221; Voight said.
&#8220;Everyone – the country – learned about her patient. Learned a 10-year-old little girl was raped and had an abortion,” Voight <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2023/05/26/indiana-abortion-doctor-violated-privacy-law-medical-board-rules/70259794007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, adding that &#8220;no physician has been as brazen in pursuit of their own agenda.&#8221;
Bernard accused the deputy attorney general of pulling a &#8220;political stunt&#8221; with the situation.
Bernard insisted she had followed Indiana&#8217;s reporting requirements, notifying an Indiana University Health social worker and confirming the child abuse was already being investigated in Ohio, where the girl lived.
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The 10-year-old traveled to Indiana from Ohio for the abortion <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/25/caitlin-bernard-indiana-abortion-rape-victim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">less than a week</a> after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in June last year. The court&#8217;s decision triggered a six-week abortion ban to take effect in Ohio, and the girl was reportedly six weeks and three days pregnant.
The girl&#8217;s family initially <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2022/07/01/indiana-abortion-law-roe-v-wade-overturned-travel/7779936001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took her</a> to an Ohio doctor, who called Bernard and asked if Bernard could help by performing the girl&#8217;s abortion in Indiana instead.
Bernard&#8217;s legal team argued that she did not give identifying information about the girl to the Indianapolis Star reporter who wrote the initial story about the 10-year-old&#8217;s abortion. She and her legal team emphasized that Bernard did not expect the story to go viral in the way it did.
Asked why she had shared details of the girl&#8217;s situation with the reporter, Bernard said, &#8220;I think that it’s incredibly important for people to understand the real-world impacts of the laws of this country about abortion.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it’s important for people to know what patients will have to go through because of legislation that is being passed, and a hypothetical does not make that impact,&#8221; Bernard said.
The president of the medical licensing board, Dr. John Strobel, called Bernard “a good doctor” during the 14-hour board hearing. He said he is &#8220;certain that Dr. Bernard has learned a lot about privacy.&#8221;
Besides being an OB/GYN, Bernard is an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

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This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/targets-stock-market-value-takes-6-billion-hit-since-backlash-over-pride-collection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Target Market Value Down Big</a>
Target has seen an 8.5% drop in its market value over the past week — equaling $6 billion in market capitalization. This comes as the national retailer faces a boycott from conservative and Christian groups over its controversial “Pride collection” featuring an array of products targeting young children.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/05/25/biden-veto-policing-disapproval/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden Vetoes A Bipartisan Police Bill </a>
President Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill on Thursday which would have nullified the Washington, D.C., Council’s 2022 criminal justice reform act. Senate critics say that the D.C. act is soft on crime and weakens police power while endangering Americans who visit D.C. The Senate recently voted 53-46 to nullify it and keep in certain police protections and criminal punishments. However, the president’s veto of that Senate bill now allows D.C.’s reform amendment to proceed. In a statement sent to The Daily Wire, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio blasted the president, saying that residents, tourists, and D.C. metro police “deserve far better,” while adding the veto “is a shame.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-lawmakers-demand-fbi-share-findings-in-d-c-pipe-bomb-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress Demands Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Info From FBI Director </a>
Congressional Republicans have called upon FBI Director Christopher Wray to brief them on the progress of the investigation into the January 6 pipe bomber. The letter indicates that FBI whistleblowers believe that the bureau has information relating to a metro swipe card used by the alleged bomber, as well as a potential license plate number. One former FBI agent told Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) that it just “doesn’t add up” why the federal government has not identified this man yet.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-rating-agencies-threaten-u-s-with-credit-downgrade-over-debt-limit-chaos-even-if-a-deal-is-made" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Debt Deal Update</a>
The credit of the United States is in danger of being downgraded. Two credit rating agencies placed the U.S. on a “negative watch” over the debt ceiling negotiations between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Fitch Ratings, considered one of the three most influential credit rating agencies in the nation, said Wednesday evening that the triple-A rating currently held by the U.S. could be reconsidered because of “increased political partisanship that is hindering reaching a resolution to raise or suspend the debt limit.” The firm did say it anticipates that the debt ceiling will be amended before the estimated deadline.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-slashes-biden-epas-power-over-water-bodies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Major SCOTUS Decision Curtails EPA Power</a>
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 9 &#8211; 0 decision today that restricts the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to control underground water. A couple in Idaho argued that they should have the right to construct a home on an empty lot near a lake. After a 15-year battle with the EPA, the high court agreed that the EPA does not control underground water and wetlands that are not contiguous with permanent standing bodies of water. This effectively ends the Biden administration&#8217;s definition of “waterways,” which was first implemented by President Barack Obama, only to be repealed by the Trump administration.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oath-keepers-leader-gets-longest-january-6-sentence-to-date" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oathkeepers&#8217; Founder Gets 18 Years in Prison</a>
The founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his actions relating to the January 6 riot. Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy on November 22. Federal prosecutors originally asked for 25 years. Authorities have now charged <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/25/1165022885/1000-defendants-january-6-capitol-riot#:~:text=Nick%20McMillan-,1%2C000%20people%20have%20been%20charged%20for%20the%20Capitol,Here%27s%20where%20their%20cases%20stand&amp;text=Department%20of%20Justice-,A%20selection%20of%20the%201000%20people%20who%20have%20been%20charged,the%20U.S.%20Capitol%20in%202021.">more than 1,000 people</a> over the riot.
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-94-year-old-minneapolis-woman-condominuim-taken-unpaid-tax-bill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SCOTUS Sides With Minnesota Property Owner</a>
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Geraldine Tyler, a 94-year-old Minnesota grandmother who claims the state seized her condo and sold it for a profit over an unpaid tax debt. Tyler owed the government 15k in property taxes plus interest and penalties. The state seized and sold her home for 40k, pocketing the proceeds, a maneuver that civil rights activists call “equity theft.” The Court unanimously sided with Tyler.
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> on Thursday slashed the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s (EPA) regulatory control over water bodies in a win for conservative critics who argued the agency wielded too much power.
The court ruled that the 1972 Clean Water Act, which allows the EPA to regulate wetlands, only applies to wetlands that are obviously connected to larger regulated water bodies.
The case arose from a situation of an Idaho couple, Michael and Chantell Sackett, who wanted to build a home on land that the EPA considered a protected wetland.
The EPA argued the &#8220;wetlands&#8221; on the Sacketts&#8217; property should be classified as &#8220;waters of the United States&#8221; because they were near a ditch that fed into a creek, which fed into Priest Lake, according to court documents.
In the court&#8217;s <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-454_4g15.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion</a>, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that a protected wetland must have a &#8220;continuous surface connection&#8221; to a larger body of water. An underground connection that is not obvious does not give the EPA regulatory power, the court ruled.
&#8220;In sum, we hold that the [Clean Water Act] extends to only those &#8216;wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in their own right,&#8217; so that they are &#8216;indistinguishable&#8217; from those waters,&#8221; Alito wrote.
The Clean Water Act is meant to allow the EPA to regulate pollution in &#8220;waters of the United States,&#8221; but it does not define &#8220;waters of the United States,&#8221; which allowed the EPA leeway on the definition.
The previous standard was <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-strips-federal-protections-from-some-wetlands-boosts-property-rights#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">determined</a> by former Justice Anthony Kennedy, who ruled that wetlands had to have a &#8220;significant nexus&#8221; to a nearby regulated body of water.
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Thursday&#8217;s ruling overturns a federal appeals court ruling, which ruled <a href="https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2021/08/16/19-35469.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in favor</a> of the EPA in 2021.
Justice Elena Kagan, considered to be one of the court&#8217;s more liberal justices, concurred with the judgment, but criticized the court for appointing &#8220;itself as the national decision-maker on environmental policy.&#8221;
&#8220;Because that is not how I think our Government should work — more, because it is not how the Constitution thinks our Government should work — I respectfully concur in the judgment only,&#8221; she wrote in a concurring opinion.
In 2017, Rep. John Duarte (R-CA) <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/14/obama-is-gone-but-not-his-administrations-crusade-to-crush-a-farmer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid</a> $1.1 million in civil penalties for plowing 22 acres of his farm that the government deemed wetlands near the Sacramento River.
&#8220;They’re going after us because we didn’t get a permit to plow, even though the Clean Water Act says no permit is needed and indeed no permit has ever been required or issued to a wheat farmer ever before; and we didn’t avoid some small wet spots in our field, even though they’re similar to many others commonly farmed through by farmers all over the US (and those seasonal wetlands are still present on our property, as they were before our plowing),&#8221; Duarte <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/14/obama-is-gone-but-not-his-administrations-crusade-to-crush-a-farmer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in an op-ed at the time.
&#8220;It will destroy an important California family business and many jobs,&#8221; he said of the financial penalties. &#8220;It will also give the federal government unlimited power to extract wealth from family farms and rural communities nationwide.&#8221;
Duarte&#8217;s farming business, Duarte Nursery, Inc., <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/14/obama-is-gone-but-not-his-administrations-crusade-to-crush-a-farmer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">employed</a> 500 people at the time.

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A group advocating for an overhaul of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> may have torpedoed its own organization after one of its staffers accidentally emailed its donor list to the press.
Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, an activist organization linked to ongoing efforts to reform the Supreme Court, sent confidential tax forms to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/supreme-court-dark-money-group-leaked-fix-court-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a> after an inquiry into a previous failure of the organization to file its Form 990 in 2021. Roth said that he had “misunderstood the filing instructions” and sent the outlet copies of the organization’s Schedule B 2021 and 2022 forms.
Almost immediately, Roth realized his mistake.
&#8220;S***, I&#8217;m not legally allowed to send you those,” Roth replied one minute later. “I really messed up. Can you call me now?&#8221;
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NEW: Fix the Court, an Arabella Advisors-linked group demanding Supreme Court &quot;transparency&quot; for financial disclosures, is in complete disarray after unwittingly leaking its donors to <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dcexaminer</a> 
&quot;I just fucked up,&quot; its director Gabe Roth tells me. <a href="https://t.co/L5MCNIAyFE">https://t.co/L5MCNIAyFE</a>
&mdash; Gabe Kaminsky (@gekaminsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/gekaminsky/status/1658911383583432707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to several tax lawyers, it is not, in fact, illegal to disclose donor lists to the public.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a mistake,” Alan Dye, an attorney who has specialized in nonprofit tax law since 1975, said. “It&#8217;s been made before by a lot of organizations. Overdisclosure is not a crime.”
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According to their website, <a href="https://fixthecourt.com/fix/term-limits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fix the Court</a> advocates for 18-year term limits for Supreme Court Justices and for greater transparency and accountability at the highest court in the land. The organization circulated <a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/someone-bought-brettkavanaughcom-to-help-sexual-assault-survivors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spurious</a> sexual assault claims against then-prospective Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, and reportedly purchased the domain names Brettkavanaugh.com and Brettkavanaugh.net for that purpose. Fix the Court has also blasted Justice Clarence Thomas for not formally disclosing certain gifts he received from billionaire Harlan Crow.
The forms revealed that the group brought in $290,000 in revenue in 2021, primarily from two other left-leaning non-profit organizations: the New Venture Fund and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
&#8220;As you can see if you&#8217;ve reviewed the forms, I&#8217;m not a good fundraiser,&#8221; Roth said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a good CPA. I&#8217;m a klutz.”
Roth was paid $162,138 by Fix the Court in 2022.
“I have only two foundations that give me money, and if their names become public, they&#8217;re never going to talk to me again,” Roth lamented. “Fix the Court is over. My screwup this morning probably cost me my job.&#8221;
Roth also told the Examiner that he &#8220;wanted to fix the mistake as soon as possible&#8221; as his &#8220;donors don&#8217;t want their names out there.&#8221;
Parker Thayer, investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, a conservative think-tank, said that Roth’s reaction reveals that his group is “not serious about transparency.”
&#8220;They have attempted to smear honorable men like Justice Thomas over his own financial disclosures but are apparently terrified at the thought of someone obtaining their own,&#8221; Thayer said.

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The U.S. Supreme Court turned down the National Association for Gun Rights and a firearms retailer&#8217;s Second Amendment emergency appeal on Wednesday to block Illinois&#8217; new gun control law.
&#8220;The application for a writ of injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Barrett and by her referred to the Court is denied,&#8221; the Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/051723zr_3314.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an unsigned order with no dissents about the National Assn. for Gun Rights v. City of Naperville case.
Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-becomes-9th-state-in-union-to-ban-dozens-of-firearms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Protect Illinois Communities Act</a>&#8221; in January, which immediately banned the manufacture or possession of dozens of rapid-fire rifles and pistols, .50-caliber guns, and some attachments.
Illinois enacted the legislation after the Highland Park July 4 parade mass shooting, in which a gunman killed seven victims and wounded dozens of others. The gunman used a Smith &amp; Wesson M&amp;P15 semi-automatic rifle he legally purchased in 2020 despite the alleged killer&#8217;s documented history of threatening and suicidal actions.
According to the bill, the law requires Illinoisans who already own such firearms to register them with the state no later than January 1, 2024. Gun makers can only sell firearms to suppliers in other states, and owners of the newly-banned guns in the state can still keep the devices on their private properties.
Illinois residents possessing unregistered firearms listed in the new law could face a misdemeanor charge on the first offense and a felony charge for subsequent offenses.
Robert Bevis, the owner of Law Weapons &amp; Supply gun store in Naperville, and the gun rights group challenged Naperville&#8217;s ordinance, arguing that it violates the Second Amendment.
&#8220;The challenged laws ban arms commonly possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,&#8221; lawyers for Bevis <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22A948/264471/20230426135957029_Motion%20in%20S%20Ct.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judges last month.
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Bevis&#8217; attorneys referenced a 2008 ruling by the Supreme Court on the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller case, which found that a categorical ban on arms held by law-abiding citizens is unconstitutional.
&#8220;One would suppose that the district court would apply the Heller test or, failing that, at least explain why it believed the test is not applicable,&#8221; the attorneys wrote. &#8220;The district court did neither. It erred when it simply ignored Heller&#8217;s central holding. Nowhere in its opinion does it apply, or even acknowledge, Heller&#8217;s holding in this regard.&#8221;
The National Association of Gun Rights echoed similar points in its application, citing the Supreme Court decision to strike down New York state&#8217;s concealed carry law in the New York State Rifle &amp; Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen case.
&#8220;This is an exceedingly simple case,&#8221; the group wrote. &#8220;The Second Amendment protects arms that are commonly possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, especially self-defense in the home. In the teeth of this Court&#8217;s precedents, the district court refused to address the evidence that the arms banned by the challenged laws are held by millions of law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes.&#8221;
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago will reportedly hear arguments on the case in June. For now, Illinois law will remain in place following the Supreme Court&#8217;s order.

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U.S. Supreme Court Turns Down Emergency Appeal To Block Illinois Gun Control Law

Gun Control

Illinois

J.B. Pritzker

MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/my-money-is-on-the-disney-lobbyists-honey-symone-sanders-says-florida-wont-go-after-disney-finds-out-seconds-later-they-already-did" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Symone Sanders</a> gave a dire warning to her followers on Saturday, claiming that the Supreme Court was poised to make a series of radical decisions — ranging from outlawing Black History to allowing daycares to refuse Jewish children.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/symone-sanders-trump-engaging-in-russian-misinformation-if-he-amplifies-smears-against-biden-and-his-surviving-son" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sanders</a>, who served as a prominent member of Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign before becoming the chief spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris, argued that it was &#8220;not hyperbole&#8221; to suggest that the current court might use the cases before it to do these things and worse.
&#8220;Last summer, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision, and that was just the opening act for the assault on our fundamental rights and freedoms,&#8221; Sanders <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/uncategorized/this-is-not-hyperbole-symone-warns-supreme-court-could-make-black-history-illegal-and-refusing-to-serve-black-people-legal/">began</a>, and then she went on to lay out some of the cases and extrapolate their potential repercussions.
Referencing the cases brought by the organization Students for Fair Admissions, Sanders noted that the Court was set to weigh in on whether or not race should be considered as a factor when making college admissions decisions.
&#8220;But this court has a habit of overreaching. So, these two cases could actually upend affirmative action across the board,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;If the Supreme Court decides that race conscious decision-making and policies are unconstitutional, then everything from special government contracts and programs for minority owned businesses to targeted corporate recruitment at HBCUs would all be in jeopardy &#8230; Lawmakers, they could argue that specialized disciplines like African American or Latin American history are race conscious and therefore, illegal.&#8221;
Sanders then brought up Moore v. Harper, a case focusing on state legislatures&#8217; power to set federal election laws in their own states — up to and including the power to draw congressional maps.
&#8220;So, goodbye to fighting partisan, gerrymandering in state and federal court or a gubernatorial veto. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund or Marc Elias, they won’t win any more voter suppression cases because they won’t even be allowed to sue. Sayonara to mail-in ballots if the state legislature thinks they’re unnecessary,&#8221; Sanders said.
Despite the fact that the Constitution already gave the states <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S4-C1-2/ALDE_00013577/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that power</a> according to Article I, Section 4 — and gave Congress the power to check states that abused their responsibilities.
Sanders went on to argue that the court could use a case about business owners who did not want to be forced to bake wedding cakes or build wedding websites for same sex couples — if that did not align with their religious beliefs — to say that business owners should be allowed to refuse service to anyone.
&#8220;By the way, companies could use the ruling to legally deny service to anyone, not just members of the LGBTQ plus community. So that daycare, you like, it could assert their First Amendment rights to not take Jewish families or black children. A locally owned restaurant could put restrictions on who they allow inside,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Given the track record of this court, you all, this is not hyperbole. Dr. Maya Angelou said, when people show you who they are, believe them the first time,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;We have seen the damage that this conservative Supreme Court majority can do, so brace yourselves, folks, the decisions are coming.&#8221;

Black Girls Rock! 2018 – Red Carpet

‘Brace Yourselves, Folks!’: Former Biden Aide Predicts SCOTUS Could Outlaw Black History

Former Biden Aide Simone Sanders Predicts SCOTUS Could Outlaw Black History

Black History Month

Courts

Symone Sanders

Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-chris-murphy-claims-there-have-been-frank-camp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Murphy</a> (D-CT) claimed over the weekend that the American people would &#8220;revolt&#8221; if the United States Supreme Court continued to block new gun control laws.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-chris-murphy-outlines-all-the-ways-some-gop-senators-are-cracking-on-gun-control" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Murphy</a> made the comments to NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd during Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; — after which he dug in even further, going on to attack the credibility and legitimacy of the current court.
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Murphy referenced a 2022 Supreme Court decision — authored by Clarence Thomas in the 6-3 majority — that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-scotus-strikes-down-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions-restrictions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struck down</a> New York&#8217;s restrictions on concealed carry, along with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-strikes-down-law-requiring-people-to-be-21-to-buy-handguns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more recent decision</a> from Virginia District Court Judge Robert Payne. Payne ruled that a ban on gun sales for 18-20-year-olds would effectively impose restrictions on certain citizens that &#8220;do not exist with other constitutional guarantees.&#8221;
Complaining that the courts had often halted any progress toward stricter gun control measures by interfering in anything legislators were able to get done, Murphy said, &#8220;If the Supreme Court eventually says that states or the Congress can’t pass universal background checks or can’t take these assault weapons off the streets, I think there’s going to be a popular revolt over that policy.&#8221;
The Connecticut Senator then turned his attack on the Supreme Court directly, adding, &#8220;A court that’s already pretty illegitimate, is going to be in full crisis mode.&#8221; He went on to promise that legislators would continue to &#8220;regulate who owns weapons and what kind of weapons are owned&#8221; — with or without pushback from the courts.
&#8220;We broke a 30 year logjam last year by passing the first major gun safety initiative. You’re seeing Republican states like Tennessee looking at red flag laws, Texas considering raising the age to buy assault weapons. I think our movement is in a position to win,&#8221; he told Todd during Sunday&#8217;s broadcast.

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Democrat Senator Says People Will ‘Revolt’ If Supreme Court Blocks Gun Control

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy Says People Will 'Revolt' If Supreme Court Blocks Gun Control

Chris Murphy

Connecticut

Gun Laws

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> issued a decision Thursday in a case dealing with an illegal migrant&#8217;s transgender identity that recognizes the migrant&#8217;s preferred gender pronouns.
The court overruled a lower court&#8217;s decision against Leon Santos-Zacaria, a Guatemalan native and trans-identifying man who goes by Estrella. Santos-Zacaria wants to stay in the U.S. because he says he would be persecuted in Guatemala for his transgender status.
Critics noted that the opinion recognizes Santos-Zacaria&#8217;s preferred female pronouns despite the fact he is a biological male.
&#8220;Petitioner Leon Santos-Zacaria (who goes by the name Estrella) fled her native Guatemala in her early teens. She has testified that she left that country, and fears returning, because she suffered physical harm and faced death threats as a transgender woman who is attracted to men,&#8221; begins the opinion.
The Supreme Court ruled in Santos-Zacaria&#8217;s favor on a procedural question, making it easier for a migrant to challenge a Board of Immigration Appeals ruling by getting rid of the requirement that he exhaust administrative remedies first.
&#8220;We vacate the portion of the judgment of the Court of Appeals dismissing Santos-Zacaria’s petition for review and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion,&#8221; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote.
The decision was approved by all nine Supreme Court justices. The <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1436_n6io.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion</a> was written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. A concurring opinion was filed by Justice Samuel Alito and joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.
Santos-Zacaria was removed from the U.S. in 2008 after he fled Guatemala, where he reportedly faced physical harm and death threats over his transgender status and same-sex attraction. He returned to the U.S. illegally in 2018 and was apprehended again. A second removal order was issued for him, but he challenged the removal order, appealing to his status as a trans-identifying person.
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Critics on social media expressed alarm over the Supreme Court appearing to subtly taking a stand on the contentious debate around gender identity.
&#8220;This is not a good thing, though! The highest court in the land should not be using pronouns that are at odds with reality! I’m a whole lot more interested in the Supreme Court getting basic truths right than supposedly countering a narrative of right-wing dominance, actually,&#8221; one Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/tkdylan/status/1656702021989289984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1656702021989289984%7Ctwgr%5Eaa18be08058c5f4f5e2ca4209eb22906fdd8da16%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fsupreme-court-ruling-puts-spotlight-transgender-pronouns-1799805" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
The debate over gender ideology has ramped up over the last few years, particularly in the health care and education sectors.
Parents especially have expressed concern about their gender dysphoric children being medically transitioned through hormone treatments and surgeries. &#8220;Detransitioners&#8221; who medically transitioned as youths have since come out and said publicly that they regret it.
Other parents have sounded the alarm about their children being exposed to the concept of gender identity and transition in school through curricula and school library books.
Now, critics worry that all nine Supreme Court justices have just suggested they are willing to use someone&#8217;s preferred pronouns, which could come into play if the Supreme Court hears high-profile cases dealing with gender identity in the future.

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Supreme Court Decision Recognizes Illegal Migrant’s Gender Pronouns

Supreme Court Decision Recognizes Illegal Migrant's Gender Pronouns

Gender

Illegal Immigration

Immigration

SCOTUS

Harlan Crow, a longtime friend of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas</a>, has rejected a request from Senate Democrats for financial documents regarding Crow’s relationship with the justice.
Crow’s attorney, Michael Bopp, sent Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, a response letter on Monday saying Wyden’s request lacked a proper legal predicate and, instead, is an “attempt to tarnish the reputation of a sitting Supreme Court Justice and his friend of many years, Mr. Crow.”
“The Committee showed no interest in evaluating federal gift tax laws until the April 24 Letter, which came just two weeks after media reports regarding Mr. Crow’s friendship with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and has given no indication of any federal gift tax issues it seeks to investigate beyond those referenced in the Letter,” Bopp wrote in a letter <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23808255-harlan-crow-letter-to-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by CNN. “Given the Letter’s timing and focus, this inquiry appears to be a component of a broader campaign against Justice Thomas and, now, Mr. Crow, rather than an investigation that furthers a valid legislative purpose.”
Crow and Thomas have been friends for more than 20 years. In that time, Thomas and Crow have vacationed together in places such as Indonesia and Greece, and Thomas has on occasion used Crow’s private plane for travel. Crow also bought Thomas’ childhood home with the intention of one day turning it into a memorial or museum for the second black Supreme Court justice in U.S. history. Thomas took a loss on the sale.
Thomas did not report the gifts on his financial disclosures to the Supreme Court because they were not required under the court’s ethics rules.
In response to Bopp’s letter, Wyden accused Crow of “stonewalling.”
“The bottom line is that nobody can expect to get away with waving off Finance Committee oversight, no matter how wealthy or well-connected they may be,” Wyden said in a statement, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/09/harlan-crow-clarence-thomas-gifts-00095967" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>. “I will send a full response to Mr. Crow’s attorney in the coming days.
“The assertion that the Finance Committee lacks a legislative basis for an investigation of the abuse of gift taxes by the wealthy is simply preposterous,” the senator said. “I have used my Chairmanship of the committee to shine a bright light on tax schemes undertaken by the ultra-wealthy, including untaxed transfers of wealth.”
Fourteen Senate Republicans wrote a letter to Wyden on Monday as well, condemning the Democrat’s investigation into Thomas, Crow, and their relationship. The senators accused the Democrat of trying to intimidate the Supreme Court.
“We reject this manufactured &#8216;ethics crisis&#8217; at the Supreme Court as a ploy to further Democrats’ efforts to undermine public confidence and change the makeup of the court,” the GOP senators <a href="https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/2023/5/sens-rick-scott-mike-lee-send-letter-defending-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. They also criticized attempts to withhold $10 million in security funding for the Court. &#8220;It is shocking that the Democrats would try to leverage the physical security of Supreme Court justices and their families to force the Court to bend to its demands.”

Clarence Thomas

Longtime Thomas Friend Hits Back At Democratic Probe Into Financial Records

Longtime Thomas Friend Hits Back At Democrat Probe Into Financial Records

Senate

A sizable portion of students who exited their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university</a> programs would be likely to return if some or all of their student loans are nixed, according to a <a href="https://www.gallup.com/analytics/468986/state-of-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> from Gallup, a finding which comes as a plan from the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> to cancel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/student-loan-cancellation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">student debt</a> for millions of individuals is examined by the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a>.
The policy, which would cancel $10,000 in student loans per borrower earning salaries less than $125,000 as well as $20,000 per borrower who received Pell Grants, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shifting-the-burden-to-taxpayers-biden-slammed-with-lawsuit-against-student-loan-power-grab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enacted</a> via executive order last year. Justices heard arguments in February for two cases against the student loan cancellation policy, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-dismisses-republican-led-challenge-to-biden-student-debt-bailout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one</a> from six Republican attorneys general and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shifting-the-burden-to-taxpayers-biden-slammed-with-lawsuit-against-student-loan-power-grab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another</a> from the Job Creators Network Foundation, and are expected to release a decision next June.
The survey from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation revealed that some 47% of students who “stopped out,” defined as those who are not currently enrolled in degree programs but have some college experience, would be “very likely” to enroll once again if “some or all” of their student loans are canceled. An additional 31% said they were “somewhat likely” to continue their education, while a significantly smaller 22% of students said they were either “not too likely” or “not likely at all” to resume their studies.
Gallup conducted the survey in late October and early November, months after the Biden administration&#8217;s student debt plan was unveiled but well before the Supreme Court heard arguments from opponents of the move.
The average federal student loan balance is $38,000, according to <a href="https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/portfolio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Education Department. Students who disenrolled from their degree programs, a phenomenon which accelerated amid the disruptions caused by lockdowns and virtual learning, said on average that 70% of their outstanding loans must be forgiven to justify a return to the classroom.
Nearly two-thirds of individuals who maintain student loan balances were refraining from making payments at the time of the survey due to ongoing pauses for federal student debt repayment, a measure introduced as an emergency pandemic relief measure.
Willingness among disenrolled students to consider resuming their education as a result of student debt cancellation differed in accordance with racial identification: 57% of black respondents were “very likely” to enroll if “some or all” of their loans are nixed, while 49% of Hispanic respondents and 37% of white respondents said the same.
Critics of the student loan policy note that the measure would increase the national debt: the overall cost of the loan cancellation could reach $400 billion, according to an <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-09/58494-Student-Loans.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimate</a> from the Congressional Budget Office. The policy may cause additional distortions in the postsecondary education market as borrowers consider the likelihood of more bailouts, according to an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-student-loan-cancellation-would-cost-330-billion-and-largely-help-the-wealthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from economists at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, who said that “students might eventually reorganize their financing toward additional borrowing.”
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The lawsuits <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-prepares-to-hear-arguments-about-bidens-student-debt-cancellation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presented</a> before the Supreme Court assert that the policy violates the notice-and-comment processes mandated by the Administrative Procedure Act, which ensures that affected parties can offer comments on federal rules, and contradicts a recent ruling which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-rules-against-bidens-epa-says-agency-does-not-have-authority-to-regulate-carbon-dioxide-emissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">determined</a> that federal agencies cannot assert “highly consequential power beyond what Congress could reasonably be understood to have granted.” Justices who compose the conservative majority of the Supreme Court expressed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scotus-conservatives-cool-to-bidens-student-loan-cancellation-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skepticism</a> toward the federal student debt cancellation plan and appeared to indicate that the White House should receive approval from Congress before attempting to implement the policy.

Biden and Cardona

Student Debt Cancellation May Cause Some Disenrolled College Students To Return: Poll

Student Debt Cancellation May Cause Some Disenrolled College Students To Return

College

Department of Education

Education

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed attempts by Democrats to smear conservative Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas</a> during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week, saying that they were &#8220;engaged in the same despicable tactics&#8221; that then Sen. Joe Biden used back in the early 90s to smear Thomas.
Cruz&#8217;s remarks come after all nine Supreme Court Justices issued a rare joint statement last week, sending the message that it “unanimously rejects legislation proposed by Democrats seeking to impose on the justices the same ethics obligations applied to all other federal judges,” according to the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/9-supreme-court-justices-push-back-oversight-raises/story?id=98917921" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AP</a>.
“Senate Democrats and their lap dogs in the media are engaged in a two-fold political campaign, number one to delegitimize the Supreme Court of the United States because they are angry that there are a majority of constitutionalists on the court,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;But number two, very directly, this is a political campaign designed to smear Justice Clarence Thomas, and the reason is simple. The Left despises Clarence Thomas, and they do not despise him because he&#8217;s a conservative. The Left despises Clarence Thomas because he is a conservative African American. Here&#8217;s what Clarence Thomas said at that confirmation hearing. He said, ‘if you are a free-thinking, African American,’ quote, ‘you will be lynched, destroyed and caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate.’”
“Well, in three decades, that hasn&#8217;t changed. It&#8217;s gotten worse,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And to be clear, here&#8217;s the Left’s view. I point to one article, just three weeks ago: ‘The Democrats need to destroy Clarence Thomas&#8217;s reputation. They&#8217;ll never successfully impeach him.’”
Democrats have tried to portray that a hit piece from a left-wing publication about Thomas&#8217; travels was proof of some type of corruption because he did not report the trips.
The letter from the nine justices last week appeared to address this issue, saying: &#8220;Matters considered here concerning issues such as travel, accommodations, and disclosure may at times have to take into account security guidance.”
Cruz continued by noting that Thomas&#8217; 109 trips since 1991 were less than the number of trips that some liberal justices have taken.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 and she took 157 trips while Stephen Breyer was appointed in 1994 and he took 233 trips.
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Cruz Shreds Democrats’ Smear Campaign Against Justice Clarence Thomas

Cruz Shreds Democrats' Smear Campaign Against Justice Clarence Thomas

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