FIFTH CIRCUIT RULES AGAINST TRUMP ADMIN ON ITS USE OF AEA TO REMOVE TDA MEMBERS:

Late Tuesday evening, the 5th Circuit handed down its decision in the case now styled W.M.M. v. Trump (previously styled as A.A.R.P. v. Trump) regarding the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to remove purported Tren de Aragua (TdA) members from the U.S. To cut to the chase, the court held that the administration improperly invoked the AEA to justify removing the purported TdA members because “we find no invasion or predatory incursion.”

This case has had a complicated procedural history that’s involved several notable decisions and a foray to the Supreme Court, which resulted in a surprising Easter weekend ruling that sent the case back to the 5th Circuit to determine two things:

(1) all the normal preliminary injunction factors, including likelihood of success on the merits, as to the named [Petitioners’] underlying habeas claims that the AEA does not authorize their removal pursuant to the President’s March 14, 2025, Proclamation, and (2) the issue of what notice is due, as to the putative class’s due process claims against summary removal.

Note that the following is still satire — at least for the moment:

ROBERT SPENCER: Trump-Hating Judge Makes Stunning Ruling in the Case of a Woman Who Wants to Murder Trump. “On Tuesday, a notorious Trump-hating judge helped remove any lingering doubts that all too many leftists want to see Trump die in office when he ordered a woman who wants to murder Trump to be freed from custody. What could possibly go wrong?”

THAT LACK OF UNDERSTANDING WAS HOW THEY GOT INTO THIS PROBLEM: 51% of students oppose new student loan laws, but only 20% say they ‘fully understand’ the rules.

WHEN YOU’RE AN UBER-PROGRESSIVE BLUE-STATE DEM AND YOU’VE LOST MORNING JOE…: Even ‘Morning Joe’ Is Turning Against JB Pritzker For Defying Trump On Response To Rampant Crime.

LIGHTNING DEAL: ThermoPro Temperature Gun, Infrared Thermometer Gun. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Are Super Upset That Trump Gets Rid of Bad Guys. “Some might say that the Dems have always been this bad deep down, that Trump has merely exposed the ugliness that has been there all along, but even I’m not that dark and cynical. I will, however, go so far as to say that they took a wrong turn when His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama was in office and just kept heading to a bad place.”

ORWELL NAILED IT: Fight Over ‘Correct’ Historical Memory Permeates China’s War Anniversary Commemorations.

When Beijing’s leaders—such as President Xi Jinping—talk of “safeguarding” the “victory” of World War II, then, they’re talking about defending the idea of the Communist state as the only legitimate inheritor of “China’s victory”—as well as the idea that China, as a victor of the war, enjoys a naturally superior status to Tokyo, the instigator and loser. At home, it means a history that ignores all the messy horrors of the war, and instead tells a safe, party-approved story of moral triumph.

Chinese sacrifices in the war against the Japanese, of course, were enormous. But there’s one particularly thorny problem with Beijing claiming that wartime victory gives it carte blanche: The Nationalist Party did most of the sacrificing. While many communist guerrillas fought heroically, the Communist Party used the opportunity to rebuild itself in its mountain fastness of Yan’an.

Commies lie.

CHARLES COOKE: England’s Arrest of Graham Linehan Was an Act of Calculated Tyranny.

The nature of his arrest renders the contrast as clear as it could possibly be. Yesterday, Linehan was in the United States — living his life, sharing his opinions, enjoying his independence. Today, he is in England — under observation, subject to surveillance, at liberty only if he vows not to speak where people might hear. This is not, I’m afraid to say, one of those questions of taste: In this matter, America has got it right, and England has got it wrong. What was done to Graham Linehan was an act of calculated tyranny of the sort to which the British have become far too accustomed in recent decades. In other circumstances, they would be likely able to see this. Were an Englishman to fly to Russia and be arrested for making jokes or pointed comments, the contours would at once seem familiar. But with transgenderism as the topic, “hate” as the justification, and the United States as the foil, a myopia descends.

I cannot quite put my finger on why, but, all in all, it seems to me wholly appropriate that, immediately after Linehan was arrested for speaking, he was taken to an NHS-run hospital to recover. That, evidently, is the new British mode. In the year 2025, Britain has a parliament that can meet to help you kill yourself, but not to protect your speech; an exchequer that can pluck the population’s feathers from 9,000 different angles, but that has no interest in generating wealth; and a network of police forces that are incapable of solving the most sordid crimes imaginable, but that are sufficiently well-staffed to guarantee that if an outspoken Irish comedian steps off a plane from Arizona, he will be met by enough lawmen to fill a small office. During the worst days of Covid-19, the British government instructed the population to sacrifice every last human desire it had to ensure the survival and comfort of their state-provided nurses. Mercifully, that virus has mostly disappeared. Regrettably, it has been replaced by another one — and, this time, there is no antidote available but sustained mass revolt.

And one way or another, it’s coming.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The CDC’s in-your-face double standards lost America’s trust — winning it back will be tough.

HMM: Six candidates from Germany’s right-wing AfD party die 13 days apart in lead-up to local elections: reports.

GOOD: Calls To Investigate Trans Domestic Terrorism Escalate After Devastating School Shooting.

C.J. PEARSON: Sorry, White Old Hippies: We Black People Want Safe Streets.

MATT MARGOLIS: We Should Be Very Afraid of What’s Happening in the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party is quietly undergoing a seismic shift that should alarm anyone who still values political sanity in America. The party is transitioning into something younger, even more extreme, radical, and dangerous than what we’ve already endured. The old guard may have been misguided, but what’s coming next promises to be far worse for America.

The latest casualty is none other than Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the Manhattan congressman who just announced his retirement after more than three decades of loyal service to the left’s cause. His exit is just one sign of a dangerous purge inside the party, replacing seasoned lawmakers with a new breed of radical agitators who openly reject America’s political traditions.

This isn’t youthful idealism; it’s a calculated assault on the foundations of our democracy, driven by socialists who see the system itself as illegitimate. What Democrats are dressing up as “change” is in reality a hostile takeover by extremists bent on tearing everything down and remaking the country in their own warped image. And if they succeed, the America that follows will be unrecognizable and far worse for it.

“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people,” Friedman once said. “The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”

I started to say that when Friedman said that, there were many more grownups in Washington. But Friedman apparently first uttered that quote in 1975 or thereabouts, shortly after furious Democrats and their media staged a coup d’état against Richard Nixon. Plus ça change. 

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ICYMI: CNBC Just Spilled the Awful Truth About California.

OUTRIGHT BIGOTRY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: ‘Thieves, Child Killers, Sexual Abusers, Thugs, Criminals’: Syracuse University Scholar, a Pulitzer Prize Winner, Goes on Tirade Against Israeli People.

Epstein Files Drop: The Left’s Trump Smear Campaign Just Collapsed.

DAN LERMAN: The War on Knowledge.

Schools have decided that facts are no longer worth teaching.

In many classrooms today, the very idea of committing information to memory has become unfashionable. As I tour schools for my daughter, we are often assured that facts will surely not be the focus of her education. “We don’t do rote memorization,” teachers proudly declare with a condescending wink. As if memorization were an outdated relic of a less enlightened era.

But without facts, what are students actually learning?

At the progressive Brooklyn private school where I once taught, spelling wasn’t corrected until middle school. Focusing on spelling, we were told, got in the way of creativity.

I then watched smart, curious kids write macien for machine at age 14, then wilt when people involuntarily gasped at their failed spelling attempts. Their writing was often expressive and insightful . . . and incoherent. They probably weren’t even aware of the $60,000 per annum price tag, or they might have raged against that macien.

Math was treated with the same flippancy. Curious about the curiously low standardized test scores, I once wandered into a math classroom where the teacher was barefoot, in a faded Led Zeppelin T-shirt (it was a great shirt). He then drew a circle on the board and announced, “This is not a circle. It’s a representation of a circle.” The lesson, it seemed, was to gain mystique points by using a stoner voice to say something quirky. I couldn’t help but make a connection between that math lesson, and the school’s undying demand for expensive private tutors.

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KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANT:

I am not a Supreme Court justice, but just as a humble citizen I would point out that America has several national police forces — the FBI, DEA, US Marshalls, Secret Service, the entire Department of Homeland Security — and the President is already the chief of all of them https://t.co/BdLasVMW8V

— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) September 2, 2025

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS – IN THE WAR ON DRUGS: Trump Reveals U.S. Military ‘Shot Out’ a Venezuelan ‘Drug-Carrying Boat.’

More here: Video shows lethal U.S. missile strike on Venezuela ‘drug boat’ as Trump reveals 11 Tren de Aragua members were killed.

https://t.co/o5xOQ6HRFg pic.twitter.com/s9ktAlDQUi

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 2, 2025

OLD WHITE LADIES AREN’T THAT EXCITING: The Young Latino Swing to Trump Is Real.

Related:

I've watched the entire Forbes video of the protest against President Trump in Asheville NC.

I could not find a single person of color protesting yesterday. Not one.

At least 90% of the people at the protest are white and over the age of 65…

Why is it only old white people? pic.twitter.com/ro6JkdQk0s

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) September 2, 2025

TRUMP: Mexico Is ‘Scared’ to Let U.S. Troops Clean Up Cartels.

BLUE STATES ARE HARD TO DO ANYTHING IN:  Trump once again moves Space Force HQ from Colorado to Alabama.

SOUNDS FAIR:

Red States reply: “We don’t have a gun problem. Chicago has a thug problem. Here’s the deal: You keep your thugs, we’ll keep our guns. Now shut your stupid mouth.” https://t.co/qvplEN3Oka

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 2, 2025

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