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Two trans-identifying men file lawsuit against ‘dehumanizing’ Kansas law that invalidated their driver’s licenses
A Kansas law that invalidated about 1,700 driver’s licenses over the mismatch between birth gender and gender identity is being challenged in court by two transgender-identifying males.
The law invalidates birth certificates and driver’s licenses where the sex does not match the one assigned to the individual at birth. Invalidation notices were sent to trans-identifying persons this week.
‘This legislation is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans.’
Republicans argued that the law was necessary to protect women and girls, but the lawsuit claims that it is unconstitutional and “dehumanizing.”
Other states have similar laws, but Kansas is the only state that invalidates documents that were previously changed.
“The Kansas Constitution prohibits the Kansas Legislature’s targeting of transgender individuals for this discriminatory and dehumanizing treatment,” the lawsuit reads.
The two males are represented by attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union and are only identified under the pseudonyms Daniel Doe and Matthew Moe. They want to remain anonymous out of fear of discrimination, harassment, and violence.
A statement from the ACLU says the law “violates the Kansas Constitution’s protections for personal autonomy, privacy, equality under the law, due process, and freedom of speech.”
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About 1,800 birth certificates were also invalidated. The law was passed after the legislature overturned a veto from Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat.
“This legislation is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans,” reads a statement from ACLU Kansas legal director Monica Bennett. “It undermines our state’s strong constitutional protections against government overreach and persecution.”
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Whitlock: Kevin Durant and Stephen A. Smith play ‘the race card’
NBA superstar Kevin Durant accused critics of American basketball culture of taking indirect shots at black athletes under the guise of praising European player development — arguing that the criticism is simply masking frustration at black Americans dominating the sport.
Stephen A. Smith then backed Durant’s take on “The Stephen A. Smith Show,” claiming that globalization efforts are attempting to “whiten” the sport as a whole.
“I just don’t like the talk around the USA versus European style of how you approach the game. All I hear is, ‘AAU is destroying the game; the Euros do it right while the Americans do it wrong,’” Durant said in his rant.
“It’s a lot of bulls**t with that. I can read between the lines on that. It’s a shot at black Americans. We’re controlling the sport. They’re tired of us controlling the sport. ‘France is coming for you.’ Really? We smacked them boys,” he added.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m here to tell you I’m ten toes down on this with Kevin Durant. He’s a thousand percent right. America, when you talk about globalizing the sport, certainly money has everything to do with it,” Smith responded.
“But the other part in globalizing your brand is whitening the sport, too.”
While Smith agreed, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock couldn’t agree less.
Whitlock tells Jay Skapinac on “Fearless” that Smith appears to be arguing that “white fans wouldn’t watch the NBA unless … these white Europeans were here.”
“I think that’s B.S. I don’t think white fans were crying out for these foreign-born players to come whiten up the league,” he says.
“Generally, it’s the people that are playing the race card and trying to race-bait, they’re actually the racist ones,” Skapinac chimes in.
“Like Kevin Durant has to talk about Euros versus Americans like it’s black and white, but he’s the one that’s making it that way. … He is the one that is invoking the race card and race-baiting,” he adds.
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Cardi B and Kamala Harris endorse Jasmine Crockett for pivotal US Senate race in Texas: ‘Okurrr’
The U.S. Senate seat campaign for Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett (Texas) got a significant boost from a popular rap artist and the last Democratic candidate for president Friday.
Both Cardi B and Kamala Harris announced their endorsements for Crockett in the primary election against James Talarico, a former middle school teacher and state representative.
‘Y’all heard my good sis!!! She’s on a SOLD OUT tour and still took a minute to tap in.’
The rapper, whose legal name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, posted a video endorsement to her millions of followers on social media.
“Listen up, y’all. Early primary voting is happening right now in Texas, and we need Jasmine Crockett to win. She is running for U.S. Senate,” Almánzar said.
“And if you want somebody that’s going to fight for your right,” she added, “if you want somebody to fight for your community, if you want somebody that’s going to go up there and represent you and represent your issues, please vote for my sister, Jasmine Crockett, because one thing about it, she’s going to fight her best. She’s going to fight whoever she has to so your voice and your problems could be heard.”
Crockett reposted the video on her account.
“Okurrr,” she wrote. “Y’all heard my good sis!!! She’s on a SOLD OUT tour and still took a minute to tap in. We’ve got 2 days of Early Voting left. Let’s gooooo!!!”
Harris also dropped an endorsement in the high-profile race.
“Texas has the chance to send a fighter like Jasmine Crockett to the United States Senate,” said the failed presidential candidate in a robocall message. “Jasmine has the experience and record to hold Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies accountable.”
Whoever wins the nomination will go against the Republican candidate, which will be decided between Attorney General Ken Paxton, incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, and Rep. Wesley Hunt. If Republicans are unable to defeat the Democratic candidate, it may lead to their loss of control of the U.S. Senate.
One poll shows Crockett leading Talarico with 56% to 44%.
The primary race between the two Democrats made national headlines after Stephen Colbert claimed that new FCC rules led to his canceling the broadcast of an interview with Talarico.
Crockett surprisingly came out in defense of the Trump administration and pointed out that Colbert had been given other options to meet the FCC standard and declined.
She has also said she entered the race because she wanted to be a part of “karma” payback against Republicans for redrawing district lines in the state.
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Illegal alien transvestite prostitute jumped from hotel’s second floor while trying to flee from police: Report
A 23-year-old man identified by police as a transvestite prostitute was reportedly arrested after trying to escape a Texas police sting.
An undercover officer of the Irving Police Department Vice Unit contacted a person advertising escort services on an online website and arranged for sexual services on Feb. 10, according to an Irving Weekly report.
When officers confronted him, the man initially raised his hands but then fled with police chasing after him.
Police said that during the initial escort call, their officer was quoted a price of $300 for sexual services.
In subsequent messages, the officer negotiated specific services to be performed without a condom, and the man agreed to them for $400. Police indicated that these negotiations are undertaken to reassure the target that they’re not dealing with police.
Then the officer arranged to meet the escort at the Red Roof Inn on Airport Freeway in Irving.
When the man arrived, officers texted him the number of a hotel room that was part of their police operation. They observed a white Kia vehicle park in front of the room and saw a man exit the vehicle and approach the room.
When officers confronted him, the man initially raised his hands but then fled with police chasing after him.
He then ran to the second floor of the hotel and jumped out of the building onto concrete on the ground, according to police.
Police were able to apprehend him despite his allegedly locking his arms and refusing commands.
The man was identified as Fernando Jose Ortiz-Gutierrez of Arlington and was booked on one count of prostitution, one count of evading arrest or detention, another of resisting arrest, and one count related to an outstanding confirmed regional warrant.
Law enforcement authorities then determined that Ortiz-Gutierrez was an illegal alien, and a detainer was ordered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He has since been taken into ICE custody.
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Retired Air Force major allegedly trained Chinese military fighter pilots — and is linked to spying, hacking network
A former Air Force major was arrested for allegedly training Chinese military pilots in a scheme arranged by a Chinese national who admitted stealing U.S. military secrets.
65-year-old Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. flew to China in Dec. 2023 to train pilots and returned in February of this year, according to the Dept. of Justice. He was arrested on Feb. 18 and charged with providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese pilots without U.S. government authorization.
‘He broke that oath and betrayed the country, jeopardizing the safety of our service members and allies.’
More significantly, Brown is also allegedly linked to Stephen Su Bin, a Chinese man who pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring to hack into U.S. defense contractors’ computer networks and steal sensitive military data for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
Su Bin was sentenced to four years in prison, and he was placed on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Entity List in 2014, along with his company PRC Lode Technology Company.
The DOJ says Brown answered questions about the U.S. Air Force for about three hours on his first day in China and then presented a brief for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force on the second day.
The U.S. has warned that China is actively targeting Western countries in spying operations.
“China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) continues to target current and former military personnel from North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations and other Western countries to help bolster the PLA’s capabilities,” read a warning in a joint 2024 statement from the U.S., the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
Brown was known by the call sign “Runner” during his 24 years in the U.S. Air Force. He could face significant prison time if convicted.
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“As an Air Force Officer, Brown took an oath to defend our nation against all enemies foreign and domestic. He broke that oath and betrayed the country, jeopardizing the safety of our service members and allies,” said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro about the case.
“We will hold Brown, and anyone conspiring against our nation, accountable for their actions,” she added. “The Department of Justice and my prosecutors are steadfast in our commitment to use every lawful tool available to keep American military expertise where it belongs — here in America.”
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Democrats’ silence spoke loudest at Trump’s State of the Union
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is fairly certain that President Trump’s State of the Union address will go down as one of the best presidential speeches of our time — though some of the Democrat lawmakers in attendance made it clear they did not think so.
“I just love that the speech was so good. It was just such a positive, uplifting, incredible speech that even CNN had to admit it. They released a poll right after the speech: 64% of people had a positive reaction, compared to 36% having a negative reaction,” Gonzales says.
“They keep trying to tell you that everyone hates Donald Trump. They keep trying to make you feel like you are in the minority. They want you to think that you are in the minority if you appreciate this president following through on his promises,” she continues.
And while 36% had a negative reaction, Gonzales believes those are the same people who would have sat with the Democrats when Trump gave them a chance to publicly, and literally, stand for what’s right.
“If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens,” Trump said, as the Republican side of the chamber all stood.
“You don’t think that your job is to protect American citizens over illegals? What the hell are you doing in Congress? In fact, I think that that alone is enough to just expel you from Congress. Like that’s kind of like the whole thing. That’s kind of your one job. You swear an oath that resembles, ‘Hey, I’m going to stand up for American citizens,’” Gonzales comments.
“And then to sit down — how absolutely disrespectful. Not even to the president, but to your American citizens and constituents that you claim to represent,” she adds.
Even when President Trump brought in the U.S. men’s hockey team — who just won gold at the Olympics — some of the Democrats stayed seated.
“That’s the first time I’ve ever seen them get up. And actually, not all of them did get up,” Trump said after introducing the team.
“And that is where I think that they have just really shown you their true colors. They don’t actually care about this country. They’re not patriots. They’re not patriotic. They don’t have a sense of patriotism when they think about this country. They actually think this country is bad,” Gonzales says.
Even when Trump paid tribute to the life of Iryna Zarutska, a young Ukrainian woman who was brutally stabbed to death while sitting on a train — as her mother cried in the audience — the Democrats stayed seated.
“That’s unspeakably evil. It’s almost like they want the violence and the carnage,” Gonzales says.
“I think that this is why the polls said the people overwhelmingly responded positively. They are tired of this anti-American rhetoric. They were happy that President Trump was actually calling them out on their bulls**t,” she adds.
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The unlikeliest person may have just defended Trump about Epstein — under oath
Former President Bill Clinton stated during his Friday deposition that President Donald Trump never gave him any indication he was involved with convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).
The committee deposed his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the day prior. During her testimony, she seemed to throw Bill Clinton under the bus by deferring most of their questions to her husband, lawmakers reported.
‘I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong.’
Epstein reportedly visited the White House 17 times during the Clinton administration. Flight logs revealed that Bill Clinton took 26 flights on Epstein’s plane, including international trips to Bangkok, Rwanda, Russia, and China. Clinton’s last known documented trip on Epstein’s plane was in November 2003.
Ahead of Friday’s hearing, Clinton shared his opening statement to the public.
“As someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing — I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals,” he wrote.
Clinton advocated justice and healing for the “girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed.”
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He framed his relationship with Epstein as a “brief” acquaintanceship that “ended years before his crimes came to light.” He claimed he “never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on,” insisting that he “had no idea of the crimes Epstein was committing.”
“I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” Clinton wrote.
The former president warned in his opening statement that he would often answer lawmakers’ questions with, “I don’t recall.”
“That might be unsatisfying. But I’m not going to say something I’m not sure of. This was all a long time ago,” he stated.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) responded to Clinton’s opening statement in a post on X, writing, “We’ve added a new question for former President Bill Clinton to the top of the list: Do you suffer from dementia or memory loss?”
Clinton was impeached by the House in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice. In a 2001 statement, Clinton confessed to providing false testimony under oath and acknowledged violating a judge’s discovery orders. He conceded that he had “tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely,” admitting that some of his responses “were false.”
RELATED: Hillary Clinton’s Epstein deposition goes off the rails after leaked photo triggers meltdown
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During a break in Clinton’s Friday deposition, Chairman Comer addressed reporters to share a comment the former president made. Comer explained that Clinton stated President Donald Trump “has never said anything to me to make me think he was involved” with Epstein.
“I know there’s a lot of curiosity about President Trump. I thought that was an interesting thing that President Clinton said,” Comer stated.
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Pam Bondi drops hammer on 30 more anti-ICE agitators accused of storming Minnesota church
The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on Friday charging 30 more people who allegedly stormed Cities Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, last month.
The arrests are related to an incident that occurred on January 18, when anti-immigration enforcement protesters entered the church, disrupting its Sunday service and intimidating the attendees.
‘The First Amendment does not give anyone — regardless of profession, prominence, or politics — license to storm a church.’
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she instructed federal agents to apprehend 25 of the newly indicted individuals, vowing that more arrests would follow.
“YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us — we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you,” Bondi wrote in a post on social media. “This Department of Justice STANDS for Christians and all Americans of faith.”
FBI Director Kash Patel revealed additional details about the indictment, stating that the individuals had been charged under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, commonly known as the FACE Act.
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Patel explained that the FBI had carried out a joint operation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations to arrest the suspects. He also noted that there would be additional arrests.
“This makes 39 indictments in the Cities Church case total so far, including the arrest of Don Lemon and multiple alleged leaders of the riot last month,” Patel stated. “Let it be known: This FBI will never tolerate anyone who targets, intimidates, or attacks Americans peacefully exercising their right to worship freely.”
Lemon was arrested on January 29 and released the following day. He pleaded not guilty to violations of the FACE Act and conspiracy to violate another’s constitutional rights. The other original eight defendants in the case also pleaded not guilty.
Kash Patel. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
True North Legal, the law firm representing Cities Church, responded to the superseding indictment and additional arrests in a Friday statement.
“The indictment of 30 additional people for their involvement in the invasion of Cities Church sends a clear message: Houses of worship are off limits for those who would use chaos and intimidation to advance a political agenda,” Doug Wardlow, director of litigation for True North Legal, stated. “The invasion of Cities Church was a planned, coordinated effort to disrupt a worship service and interfere with religious exercise that placed congregants, including children, in fear for their lives. The First Amendment does not give anyone — regardless of profession, prominence, or politics — license to storm a church and intimidate, threaten, and terrorize families and children worshipping inside.”
“Cities Church is grateful for the Department of Justice’s continued commitment to enforcing federal law to protect churches and other places of worship. The Department’s aggressive prosecution of this case affirms a foundational principle: In the United States, the sanctuary remains a sanctuary,” Wardlow added.
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Would Iran strikes 2.0 exhaust America’s munitions?
Military officials, defense analysts, and critics have issued numerous warnings in recent years about the state of America’s military readiness.
While the Trump administration has taken steps to address some of the problems identified by scrutineers, there is at least one outstanding issue that could impact America’s ability to wage a protracted ballistic war against its adversaries, namely its depleted stores of critical munitions.
‘I don’t want our adversaries to think for a second that we don’t have enough resources.’
Two U.S. military officials recently told the New York Times that the Department of War presently lacks the requisite forces and munitions for an extended bombing campaign against Iran.
One of the officials suggested that the American forces presently positioned in the region could continue strikes in the region for only seven to 10 days.
Christian Brose, the president of the American defense firm Anduril, similarly suggested earlier this week in a piece for the Wall Street Journal that “in a conflict with China, the U.S. would run out of critical munitions in days, according to the results of war games.”
Amid such chatter and mounting concerns over what America’s stockpiles might look like in the wake of a lengthier conflict with Iran, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement to Politico, “The Department of War has everything it needs to execute any mission at the time and place of the president’s choosing and on any timeline.”
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The Pentagon’s confidence notwithstanding, some American officials and analysts are worried about how America’s stockpiles will look after a potential conflict with Iran.
After all, by arming Ukraine for its ongoing war with Russia, bombing Houthi terrorists in Yemen, vaporizing numerous alleged Venezuelan drug-runners, and helping to protect Israel — which has its own sophisticated albeit depleted missile defense system — from regional threats, the U.S. has reportedly burned through a great many Patriot missiles, Standard Missile-3s, and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors.
According to American Enterprise Institute fellows Mackenzie Eaglen and Todd Harrison, the U.S. expended over 150 THAAD anti-ballistic missile interceptors defending Israel in June 2025 during its 12-day conflict with Iran.
That’s reportedly nearly 25% of its total number of THAAD interceptors and reportedly three times the average annual procurement since 2010.
Each THAAD interceptor is valued at approximately $12.7 million.
The AEI duo noted that during the same conflict, the U.S. also launched over 80 Standard Missile-3 interceptors.
According to a December report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the SM-3 missiles fired last June — which range in cost from around $9.6 million to $27.9 million — represented nearly one-fifth of the military’s stockpile at the end of 2025.
“If the Iranians can deplete 25% of America’s THAAD stocks and a significant portion of our SM-3 magazines in a few days, the Chinese can and will exhaust them in a few hours,” wrote the AEI duo, who proposed that the military “regain its ability to compete at scale.”
American forces in the Red Sea have also expended a significant number of munitions battling Houthi terrorists in recent years.
Stars and Stripes reported last month that Navy forces had fired over 200 missiles and 150 artillery rounds in response to Houthi attacks since November 2023.
Vice Admiral Brendan McLane, commander of Naval Surface Forces, told Stripes that over the past 15 months or so, the Navy had fired 120 SM-2, 80 SM-6, and 20 Evolve Sea Sparrow and SM-3 missiles.
SM-2 and SM-6 missiles roughly cost $2.1 million and $3.9 million each, respectively.
While Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) acknowledged to Politico that munitions scarcity was “not a secret,” he indicated that assembly lines for air defenses such as THAAD systems and Patriot interceptors have been “set up, and they just have to maximize, with double or triple shifts.”
“I don’t want our adversaries to think for a second that we don’t have enough resources,” Calvert added. “We do.”
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Team USA players interrogated by woke Canadian media over Trump call — ‘Why would you laugh?’
A Canadian sports reporter blamed the internet for backlash she received over her questions to American hockey players.
Members of Team USA men’s Olympic hockey team have been lectured by media members for days now after laughing at a joke made by President Trump over the phone.
‘If we were to do it again, I think we wouldn’t do that, and we made a mistake.’
Trump called the team in the locker room after their gold medal win on Sunday and made a joke that has offended woke reporters, seemingly worldwide.
“We’re going to have to bring the women’s team,” the president joked about the Team USA women, who also won gold. He added that he “probably would be impeached” if he didn’t.
For daring to laugh, U.S. players have been subjected to struggle sessions in their individual markets from hockey reporters. Seemingly the worst of such examples has come out of Canada’s capital, where Americans Jake Sanderson and Brady Tkachuk play for the Ottawa Senators.
Both players were given a browbeating from TSN reporter Claire Hanna, a Canadian who lists her pronouns as “she/her” on her X page.
Sanderson told reporters that while he thought things had been “blown out of proportion a little bit,” he still thought it was a “mistake” to laugh at the president’s joke.
“We have nothing but the utmost respect for the women. We had a lounge in the village that we were hanging out with them all the time, watching other events,” Sanderson said.
That answer was not good enough, though, and Hanna sought further clarification.
“Do you understand in the moment how much it could hurt a team to hear them kind of just be put down that way?” the female reporter asked.
“If we were to do it again, I think we wouldn’t do that, and we made a mistake. But again, I think it kind of got blown out of proportion a little bit,” Sanderson answered.
The scrum of reporters was incessant with questions about the Trump call and the players’ subsequent visit to the White House and State of the Union address.
Tkachuk was not spared from these queries, explaining that only 15 minutes after leaving the ice with the gold medal, “You have the president of the United States calling you. You just can’t really believe [it].”
“You’re still riding the high of being a world champ, and for the president to take time and call …,” Tkachuk trailed off before sharing a memory from the Olympics.
Still, no amount of positive reinforcement about the women’s team could save Tkachuk, as Hanna soon asked, “Do you understand how they could feel pretty put down by that moment?
“I get it,” Tkachuk replied. “I have no really other comments other than, you know, for the things that we can control, and that was, you know, we supported them, they supported us. Can’t control what other people say. That’s just kind of life itself.”
With Tkachuk praising the women’s team and saying they were clearly the best squad in the tournament, most would think that Tkachuk had touched on the narrative enough, but Hanna again pressed forward.
‘”So then why would you laugh when they got invited?” the reporter asked.
“I don’t really have an answer, honestly,” an exhausted Tkachuk stated. “It was just a whirlwind of a moment that you can’t really control what somebody says, and I guess caught off guard a little bit. “
The American reiterated, “When you’re talking to the president 10 minutes after you just achieve your dream, it’s just the fact that you’re talking to him. It’s just, you can’t really believe where your life’s at, that you’re talking to the president of the United States after you just won a gold medal.”
Hanna, seemingly shrugging off a bevy of backlash, wrote on X, “I see the internet is angry today.”
This only garnered more disgruntled fan remarks.
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US Catholic bishops call on SCOTUS to shut down Trump birthright citizenship order and protect ‘human dignity’
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an argument in opposition to President Donald Trump’s order against birthright citizenship, calling it “immoral.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up an appeal from the Trump administration of a lower court ruling siding with a class-action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
‘It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community — whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children.’
The bishops filed an amicus brief with the court to argue that shutting down birthright citizenship violated the “God-given human dignity” of children of migrants wanting to come to the U.S.
“Children do nothing wrong by being born in the United States,” the bishops wrote in the brief. “Yet, this executive order renders them stateless. Depriving an innocent child of his citizenship based upon his parents’ immigration status would be an especially outrageous punishment — one that this court has rejected as punishment even for people who have been proven guilty.”
Opponents of birthright citizenship say the policy depends on a misreading of the 14th Amendment, which goes back to the Civil War era, and argue that ending it would eliminate much of the motivation for illegal immigration.
The bishops addressed this argument in their brief.
“At its core, this case is not solely a question about citizenship status or the Fourteenth Amendment,” they wrote. “It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community — whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children.”
They went on to appeal to the court by citing a biblical parable.
“Migrants often flee war and persecution seeking a better life for their families,” they added. “It is critical that we treat our suffering neighbors not with indifference, apathy, or bias, but instead with the same type of mercy as depicted in the story of the Good Samaritan, whose love transcended the most strident ethnic division of that day.”
Some online noted that the counsel of record listed for the brief is Matthew Martens, a Baptist who says he voted for former President Joe Biden.
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Despite an invite from Vice President JD Vance to the pope for the 250th U.S. celebration, the Vatican said Pope Leo would not be visiting the U.S. this year.
Six of the nine justices on the Supreme Court are Catholic.
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Is this Olympian a designer baby? The gold medalist’s IVF and surrogacy story
Olympic figure skater and gold medalist Alysa Liu has made Americans across the country proud — but BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes there is one thing that needs to be discussed when it comes to Liu’s past.
Alysa’s father, Arthur Liu, fled China as a political refugee and landed in California where he attended law school.
“Now he is the only biological parent that Alysa knows because Alysa was born by surrogacy. He used IVF with anonymous egg donors. This has all been reported publicly,” Stuckey explains.
“And then there’s also something interesting about how Arthur chose the women who were going to be the egg sellers for all of his children. So he specifically chose white women as these egg sellers. I don’t say egg donors because these women are making money from selling their eggs for all of his children,” she continues.
Liu did this because he believed it would give them a “diverse gene pool and reflect his own blend of Chinese and American cultures.”
“That should just kind of make your skin crawl a little bit that you’re creating these designer babies as if out of a catalog. I mean that’s really objectifying these little people,” Stuckey says.
“Arthur has said he doesn’t know the identities of the egg donors or the egg sellers. There are no records available to reveal them, which just again points to something that we need to understand when it comes to egg selling is that we are purposely cutting children off from half of their biological reality,” she explains.
“You don’t get to know the fullness of your medical history. You don’t get to know the fullness of your ethnicity. You don’t get to know the fullness of your origin or your family’s origin. And I think it’s just an innate longing in all of us to know whom we are and from where we come,” she continues.
And Liu’s daughter’s path to the Olympics was no accident either.
In an interview with Liu on “60 Minutes,” he explains that he took Liu to Japan as a child to learn from the top coaches there — spending “half a million to a million dollars.”
“That could probably be said by a lot of these Olympic parents. They invest a lot of time and energy and money into their kids. And I’m not condemning him,” Stuckey says.
“It’s just another opportunity for us to be reminded that yes, while everyone, no matter the circumstances surrounding their conception or surrounding their gestation or birth, are made in God’s image, we are glad Alysa is here, we are glad her siblings are here. It looks like they had a decent upbringing, I hope so,” she continues, though she points out that despite this, no one has a right to a child.
“Children are people. They’re image bearers of God. They’re not something that we are entitled to be able to create by any means necessary,” she adds.
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‘Fight with the devil’: ‘Glyphosate Girl’ sounds the alarm over Trump executive order backing key herbicide
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening domestic supplies of glyphosate-based herbicides — and the co-executive director and co-founder of American Regeneration, Kelly Ryerson, is not pleased.
Ryerson, who is also known widely online as “Glyphosate Girl,” tells BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler that this executive order signals more than just agricultural policy.
“Some of us are feeling a little bit of a breach, a little bit of a betrayal here, because President Trump signed this executive order called ‘Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides,’” Wheeler tells Ryerson.
“My initial reaction to this is, wait a second, wait a second. I believe the evidence shows that glyphosate causes cancer,” she adds.
“Absolutely, it does,” Ryerson responds. “This has been a really long-term debate that really should never have been a debate. This chemical is the most used pesticide of all time globally. So, it is used all over the world.”
Ryerson notes that it’s been known by Monsanto, the manufacturer of the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup, for a long time that it was a carcinogen.
“They went to great lengths since the 1980s to try and hide the fact that this can cause cancer because this is such a blockbuster product for them,” she tells Wheeler, noting that genetically modified organisms were developed to be resistant to the effects of glyphosate.
“So, that means that a farmer can plant this corn or soy, and then they can spray all over that crop, and it won’t die because that has been genetically modified to not be impacted by Roundup,” she explains.
“This was a system called Roundup Ready, and obviously it exploded. This is most of our agriculture in this country now. So, it’s a system that is highly dependent on the use of glyphosate to kill the weeds around those crops,” she continues, noting that our “entire agriculture system” is now built around this system.
Unfortunately, this is why banning glyphosate is not on the table in the eyes of the government.
“If we were to ban glyphosate tomorrow, yes, it would cause an incredible shock to our system. We’re not ready for it. But the idea to make it a national security issue and have a large executive order around it is signaling something much different,” Ryerson says.
“What this looked like to me is that President Trump was signaling to the Supreme Court and to Congresspeople, who are right now — this is another piece of it. … Bayer is trying to get an immunity shield so that we can no longer sue pesticide manufacturers when we get sick from exposure to 57,000 different pesticides,” she explains.
“They told the Supreme Court, ‘Take this case. We think that there should be a liability shield put in place. Americans shouldn’t be able to sue these foreign chemical manufacturers when we get cancer, Parkinson’s, infertility,’” she continues.
“You were talking earlier about this fight with the devil right now … and just feeling, like, these dark forces,” she adds. “This is a very key part of that for me.”
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‘Ask my husband’: Hillary Clinton throws Bill under the bus during Epstein deposition, reports indicate
During her Thursday deposition, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton distanced herself from Jeffrey Epstein, urging lawmakers to direct many of their questions about the convicted sexual predator to her husband, former President Bill Clinton, whose hearing was scheduled for the following day.
While video and transcript of Hillary Clinton’s deposition have not yet been released to the public, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) stated that she repeatedly claimed she did not remember ever meeting Epstein and deferred the lawmakers’ questions to her husband.
‘I’m not going to do it again.’
“The number of times that she said, ‘I don’t know, you’ll have to ask my husband,’ was more than a dozen,” Comer told reporters after Hillary Clinton’s deposition.
“She said many times under oath that she had never met Jeffrey Epstein,” he explained during an interview with Fox News. “The reason she was asked so many times is, we kept presenting new items of evidence: emails from Epstein where he implied that he was very close with the Clinton family, including Hillary; emails that implied that he set up the Clinton Foundation, that he was one of the biggest donors and one of the main early seed-money raisers for the Clinton Global Initiative.”
Hillary Clinton reportedly denied involvement in the Clinton Global Initiative while she was a U.S. senator. According to Comer, she referred to Epstein as “a con artist.”
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Legal scholar Jonathan Turley reacted to the committee’s reports of Hillary Clinton’s deposition, stating that she “seemed to sort of throw Bill under the bus.”
Members of the committee agreed to hold the closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York, rather than requiring the Clintons to travel to Washington, D.C. This decision came after months of resistance from the couple and a vote finding them in contempt of Congress.
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Despite initially defying congressional subpoenas, the Clintons had pushed for their depositions this week to be held as public hearings, which the committee denied.
Comer previously explained that the initial depositions had to be held in private but that the committee would consider public hearings afterward. However, Comer stated that video and transcript from the depositions would be released to the public.
Following Hillary Clinton’s Thursday deposition, she shut down any future chance of her participating in a public hearing.
“I’m not going to do it again,” she told reporters. “They had a chance to do it in public, and I wish they had done it in public.”
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‘On notice’: Hegseth announces major changes to group formerly known as the Boy Scouts
Once thought to be lost to the harmful ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Scouting America is attempting to make a comeback to common sense, thanks to pressure from the Department of War.
On Friday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Scouting America will be undergoing several changes in order to continue running.
‘A once-great organization became gravely wounded.’
Hegseth’s announcement began by emphasizing the close relationship that the scouting organization has had in the past with the United States Armed Forces. From presidents to astronauts, the Scouts have always been a major feeder organization for positions of service to America.
“After 2012, however, the Boy Scouts lost their way. And a once-great organization became gravely wounded. … DEI crept in. The name was changed to Scouting America. Girls were accepted. The focus on God as the ruler of the universe was watered down to include openness to humanism and earth-centered pagan religions,” Hegseth recounted. “Scouting became an organization that no longer supported and celebrated boys.”
Rather than pull the War Department’s support from the organization, Hegseth explained that he chose to negotiate with the leadership of Scouting. After the talks, Scouting America has agreed to make several reforms to comply with the Trump administration’s vision explicitly laid out in Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”
According to Hegseth, Scouting America has promised to eliminate DEI practices, policies, and language in its communications; eliminate the DEI-related “citizen in society merit badge”; clarify that membership will be granted based solely on biological sex; waive registration fees for active duty, guard, and reserve families; and add a new “military service merit badge” to strengthen the organization’s ties to the military.
Scouting America released a lengthy statement affirming the Department of War’s announcement. The statement makes mention of the executive order, pledging to “comply” with it, but makes no direct mention of DEI. The statement also emphasizes that the organization intends to keep girls as members and to preserve its current name, which has caused some controversy in the past.
Hegseth expressed optimism that Scouting America will make these changes but said his department will be checking in on the organization’s progress in six months to determine whether the department will continue to support the organization. He also expressed hope that “maybe someday” Scouting America will go back to being the Boy Scouts: “a group that develops boys into men.”
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For the first time in decades, more Americans sympathize with Palestinians over Israelis: Poll
Support for Israel has slipped to a historic new low with more Americans sympathizing with Palestine for the first time in decades.
As Israel’s war in Gaza rages on, a new Gallup poll showed that 41% of Americans now say they sympathize more with Palestinians, while just 36% sympathize more with Israelis. These figures indicate a total inversion of public opinion, with 46% of Americans sympathizing more with Israel just a year ago, while Palestinian support sat at 33%.
The real shifting sympathies have been among independents.
Israel’s historic lead in public opinion has been even wider, comfortably polling double digits ahead of Palestine in the past. Between 2001 and 2018, Israel was an average of 43 points ahead of Palestine in terms of favorability.
This trend rapidly narrowed and eventually flipped for the first time around 2019, years before Israel began its war in Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023.
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These sympathies still diverge based on partisanship, with 70% of Republicans supporting Israelis while just 13% support Palestinians. Inversely, 65% of Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians while just 17% sympathize more with Israelis.
The real shifting sympathies have been among independents, who up until 2026 always supported Israelis more than Palestinians.
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Last year, 42% of independents were more sympathetic to Israelis while 34% sympathized more with Palestinians. Now the trend has reversed with 41% sympathizing more with Palestinians while 30% sympathize more with Israelis.
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Teen robbers open fire on victim behind Texas Family Dollar, but victim also has a gun — and turns the tables lethally
Armed teenage robbers opened fire at a victim behind a Family Dollar in Beaumont, Texas, last week, police said.
But the victim also had a gun and turned the tables — lethally.
‘I just think that it’s sad that our babies are just dying left and right, and nobody’s doing anything.’
Police said its investigation — helped by witness accounts and video surveillance — determined that Jayson January and Brenden Earnest, both 17, as well as two juveniles acted together in a plot to rob the victim near Avenue B and Harriot last Friday, KFDM-TV reported.
All four suspects attacked the robbery target and fired shots at him, police told the station.
However, the victim also was armed and returned fire at the suspects, KFDM reported.
One of the suspects — January — was hit by gunfire and died in a grassy field near the store, the station said.
KLVI-AM reported Monday that Earnest turned himself in and was charged with aggravated robbery — but the two juveniles, ages 15 and 16, were still at large.
Earnest was being held at the Jefferson County Correctional Facility on a $1 million bond for the aggravated robbery charge as well as a $10,000 bond for unlawfully carrying a weapon, jail officials told KMBT-TV.
By Wednesday, the two juveniles also turned themselves in, police told KBTV-TV, adding that there had been warrants out for them on aggravated assault charges.
Detectives are continuing to investigate and complete their findings so the case can be submitted to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, KBTV said.
One woman reacting to the incident told KFDM during an on-camera interview that “I just think that it’s sad that our babies are just dying left and right, and nobody’s doing anything.” The woman asked, “What are they doing about these kids getting out of school and being in the streets during school times?” She also declared, “Something is not right here. Make it make sense.”
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CNN’s biggest nightmare is one step closer to finally coming true
CNN may be forced to move toward the middle as a result of a likely incoming brand merger.
Netflix has reportedly bowed out of a bidding war in which the company was the final barrier to a takeover of the massive entity that is CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.
‘We have to start by looking honestly at ourselves.’
Paramount Skydance looks poised to take over the Warner company, and that could mean big shake-ups at CNN. Paramount’s gigantic banner controls CBS television networks, including CBS News. News junkies will recall that when Paramount acquired the Free Press, staffers were short-circuiting over reporter Bari Weiss being named editor in chief of CBS News.
If Paramount controls CNN, Weiss or someone similar could be tapped to oversee it.
Weiss’ pro-Israel, anti-child genital mutilation, and billionaire-backed media landscape has upset some of the farthest-left reaches of the news world, though she shares many liberal views. For example, she is pro-gay-marriage, but against men in women’s sports.
Many of Weiss’ disagreements with the neo-left were outlined when she vacated her role at the New York Times. In her resignation letter, she described the paper as becoming a “performance space” where stories are chosen and told in a way to satisfy “the narrowest of audiences.”
Weiss alleged she was called a “Nazi” at the paper despite being Jewish and recalled sample pieces from the Times like one that praised the Soviet Union’s space program for its “diversity.”
Weiss’ outlook on left-wing news would likely ruffle feathers at CNN if she were to take the lead. Brian Stelter, a former CNN anchor and the current chief media analyst for CNN Worldwide, shared remarks to that effect about the likely takeover in a Friday newsletter for the network.
Stelter wrote that CNN employees and viewers have “serious concerns” about whether the network would maintain its “editorial independence” if Paramount takes the reins.
However, Weiss’ approach at CBS News is seemingly noncontroversial.
“We have to start by looking honestly at ourselves. We are not producing a product that enough people want,” she said in January, per Deadline.
She also addressed ideological bias at the company, telling employees their job is to “present people with the fullest picture — and the strongest voices on all sides of an issue — and then trust them to make up their own minds.”
Still this outlook has resulted in further resignations.
Despite getting dirty looks from some liberals, Weiss is not exactly the apple of the right-wing eye, either.
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Weiss claims to be a “centrist,” supported the national anthem protests that occurred in the NFL, and also wants to keep abortion legal. Additionally, she admitted to voting for Republican Mitt Romney as well as Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
The 41-year-old has received significant mockery from comedians over the $150 million purchase of her Substack page, while conservatives like Megyn Kelly have accused Weiss of trying to “create more enemies” by labeling others “anti-Semites.”
At the end of the day, Paramount Skydance’s alleged “superior proposal” to buy Warner Bros. is all but completed, but still not finalized. If and when it is, viewers will find out which direction CNN is truly headed in.
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Tourette advocate’s BAFTA slur gets no empathy from stars
It was a perfect Hollywood moment. Perfectly revealing, that is.
John Davidson, the inspiration behind the film “I Swear,” earned an invitation to the recent BAFTA awards gala. The film chronicles the life of a man suffering from Tourette syndrome, a condition that finds the sufferer sharing cruel, involuntary outbursts.
We don’t want to spoil the film, but it’s likely China and India won’t be name-checked enough in the screenplay.
They. Can’t. Help. Themselves.
Sadly, Davidson’s inability to control his tongue tainted the early moments of the ceremony. His swears could be heard in the venue, even though he wasn’t on the stage at the time.
Host Alan Cumming apologized for Davidson’s comments early in the show, noting the cruel nature of the incurable condition. But when Davidson’s racially charged comments bled into the audio feed while black performers Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo took the stage, the reaction was hyperbolic.
Yes, the “N-word” remains a vile reminder of our bigoted past, an awful word that has earned its toxic brand. But Davidson didn’t mean to utter the foul word. He literally couldn’t help himself.
Yet the same artistic community that pleads for empathy and understanding recoiled at the moment. The story has lingered for days in the legacy media. Jamie Foxx publicly called out Davidson, while one BAFTA judge quit after the incident.
They ignored the facts of his condition and embraced their victim status, even though Davidson is the ultimate victim. The real villain is the person in charge of the show’s feed who didn’t bleep out the offending words.
May he or she never work an awards broadcast again.
The kerfuffle punished poor Davidson all over again. And instead of basking in a personal triumph — a movie that asked people to understand and forgive his tragic condition — he got a nightmare he’ll never forget …
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Pine-ing away
Imagine watching your Oscar-winning wife star in a rom-com alongside a handsome leading man. That’s the reality Dave McCary faces, and it’s all his fault.
McCary is married to “Bugonia” star Emma Stone, and he’s agreed to direct her in the upcoming romance “The Catch.” Her co-star? None other than Captain Kirk himself, Chris Pine.
It’s unclear if the film will have an “intimacy coordinator” on set, but we image Pine will be more than a little nervous when he goes in for a buss. Hope he sets his phaser on, “Hey, it’s in the script” …
Inconvenient Truth 2: Electric Boogaloo
Remember when “An Inconvenient Truth” forced America to do everything possible to stop global war — we mean climate change? Or when “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Don’t Look Up” did the job? Or the dozen-plus documentaries pleading with U.S. voters to do something, anything, about global apocalypse, economic fallout be darned?
No? That’s OK. Turns out we were all waiting for this movie to change everything.
The project, based on the book “Losing Earth,” is set in 1980 and shows climate expects warning the world that something must be done, or else. Filming is set to begin shortly under director Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight,” “Win Win”).
The cast and crew are a who’s who of Hollywood, including Paul Rudd, John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, Jason Clarke, Tatiana Maslany, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck. The latter two superstars are executive producers on the project.
We don’t want to spoil the film, but it’s likely China and India won’t be name-checked enough in the screenplay, nor any of Al Gore’s “Inconvenient” predictions …
‘View’ boo-boo
“The View” wants to be sued oh, so badly.
The dumber-than-dumb ABC show routinely creeps up to the line, only to read a few “legal notes” later to save its skin. And sadly, their collective TDS appears incurable.
The latest example?
Sunny Hostin read an alleged excerpt from the Epstein files that said President Donald Trump had once sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl. The claim is part of the more preposterous side of the files, wild allegations that have no credibility. Otherwise legacy media outlets would be covering it 24-7 and/or the Biden administration would have leaked it years ago.
How do we know? Later in the show, legal scholar Joy Behar coaxed Hostin to clarify her earlier comments:
I want to be very careful here because these are allegations, and President Trump has consistently — they’re unverified allegations, and President Trump has consistently denied all the allegations and any wrongdoing. BUT there was a presentation made by the FBI, and the witness stated that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Trump, who subsequently forced her head down and punched her in the head in response to something that she did.
Imagine if Hostin had been “very careful” in the first place.
It’s just a matter of time before someone on “The View” gets a tap on the shoulder to find legal documents in their face.
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18-wheeler speeding the wrong direction on highway was driven by — you guessed it
The suspected driver of the 18-wheeler filmed on Wednesday speeding in the wrong direction down a stretch of highway in Missouri has been identified as a Minnesota-based Somali migrant.
Lincoln County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Wood indicated that while he was not immediately taken into custody, Abdiasis Ibrahim Ali, 38, has been charged with driving the wrong direction on a divided highway and operating a motor vehicle in a careless manner.
‘He wasn’t able to read.’
The prosecutor noted further that a no-bound warrant for Ali’s arrest has been requested and that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been notified.
X user MolonLabeBTC shared footage on Wednesday showing a truck barreling southbound down Highway 61 — in one of the northbound lanes. The X user claimed that he began following the “foreign invader” after the truck nearly hit him “head on” and that the incident took place roughly five miles north of Troy.
Sgt. Dallas Thompson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol stated, “We were glad someone saw this yesterday and called it in to try to get resources there to get the vehicle stopped,” reported KMOV-TV.
After the driver crossed over to the southbound lane, a state trooper reportedly stopped him and conducted a roadside inspection.
“During that test, the trooper noticed he wasn’t able to read and comprehend the road signs,” said Thompson.
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Having been found incapable of demonstrating basic reading comprehension and proficiency in English, “the driver was taken out of service,” added Thompson.
After Ali was taken out of service, his co-driver, Abdulahi Abshir Alim — who was apparently in the “sleeper” at the time of the incident — took over, said Wood.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy indicated that despite his apparent inability to read road signs, the driver was in possession of a Minnesota commercial driver’s license.
Duffy noted further that the driver’s carrier, Cargo Transportation LLC, is now under investigation.
Department of Transportation records indicate that Cargo Transportation is based in Hopkins, Minnesota — in what appears to be an apartment complex — and has two drivers who drove over 81,000 miles in 2024. As of Friday, the company’s USDOT status was still listed as “active.”
Blaze News was unable to reach the company for comment.
The trailer apparently hauled by the Somali is owned by Taylor Trucking Lines whose vice president said in a statement obtained by KMOV, “The driver is not an employee or contractor of Taylor Trucking Lines. He is a contractor for Cargo Transportation. The driver was fired shortly after the video was seen.”
The incident took place the day after President Donald Trump called on lawmakers to “pass what we will call the Dalilah Law, barring any state from granting commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.”
The proposed legislation takes its name from Dalilah Coleman, a little girl grievously injured in a car accident that was allegedly caused by an illegal alien from India who reportedly obtained a commercial driver’s license from California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Department of Motor Vehicles.
According to the USDOT, roughly 200,000 truckers hold non-domiciled CDLs, and over 14,000 truckers have been kicked out of service for failing to meet basic language requirements since the department brought back English proficiency tests in May 2025.
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