California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced Wednesday morning that the state filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to end the administration’s “unlawful” tariffs.

The complaint aims to prevent Trump from imposing increased tariffs against Mexico, China, and Canada and establishing a baseline 10% tariff on all countries.

‘His plan levels the playing field for businesses and workers to address our country’s national emergency of chronic trade deficits.’

Newsom claimed that Trump lacked the authority to enact the fees.

According to the lawsuit, while the administration is relying on the International Economic Emergency Powers Act to implement the changes, that law has never previously been used to justify tariffs. The complaint contended that only Congress can approve such action.

Newsom’s office said, “The IEEPA gives the President authority to take certain actions if he declares a national emergency in response to a foreign national security, foreign policy, or economic threat. The law, which was enacted by Congress in 1977, specifies many different actions the President can take, but tariffs aren’t one of them. In fact, this is the first time a president has attempted to rely on this law to impose tariffs.”

The administration has stated that increasing tariffs aligns with Trump’s “America First” agenda by boosting the economy and ensuring fair treatment for the U.S. in global trade.

Newsom, who has set aside $50 million to challenge the Trump administration, claims that the tariffs are hurting Americans. Meanwhile, California has asked the federal government for $40 billion in wildfire recovery aid, while it is borrowing billions of dollars to fund Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, after it was expanded to provide coverage to illegal aliens.

“President Trump’s unlawful tariffs are wreaking chaos on California families, businesses, and our economy — driving up prices and threatening jobs. We’re standing up for American families who can’t afford to let the chaos continue,” he stated.

The governor insisted that the tariffs amounted to a tax increase on the American people. Under Newsom, California has the highest taxes in the nation.

Bonta claimed that Trump’s tariffs would have “very real consequences for Californians across our state.”

“I am proud to go to bat alongside Governor Newsom to fight for California’s vibrant economy, businesses, and residents,” he said.

White House spokesman Harrison Fields responded to Newsom’s lawsuit announcement.

“Never Trumpers will always oppose him, but President Trump is standing up for Main Street by putting an end to our trading partners — especially China — exploiting the U.S. His plan levels the playing field for businesses and workers to address our country’s national emergency of chronic trade deficits,” Fields said.

On Tuesday, Trump posted on social media, “The United States is taking in RECORD NUMBERS in Tariffs, with the cost of almost all products going down, including gasoline, groceries, and just about everything else. Likewise, INFLATION is down. Promises Made, Promises Kept!”

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Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday that he will prevent the Senate from advancing President Donald Trump’s nominations.

Schumer argued that Trump intends to use the justice system for political gain, despite the president himself being the target of government weaponization for the last decade.

Since Schumer lacks enough senators to block nominees through a vote, he will instead invoke a lesser-known tactic.

“Donald Trump has made clear he has no fidelity to the law and intends to use the Justice Department, the U.S. attorney offices and law enforcement as weapons to go after his perceived enemies,” Schumer said in a statement. “Such blatant and depraved political motivations are deeply corrosive to the rule of law and leaves me deeply skeptical of Donald Trump’s intentions for these important positions.”

Although Schumer has decided to lead the charge and thwart Trump’s nominees, the Democrats have not yet been successful in their efforts. Thanks to the Republican majority, all of Trump’s nominees have been confirmed, even those who were subjected to aggressive backlash and behind-the-scenes lobbying campaigns.

Since Schumer lacks enough senators to block nominees through a vote, he will instead invoke a lesser-known tactic.

Senate leaders like Schumer typically rely on senators to approve confirmations for judicial nominees from their states, waiting to advance the confirmation until they receive a “blue slip” signaling the senator’s approval.

Schumer, who represents New York, will refuse to return the “blue slips,” which would allow the confirmation process to begin for Jay Clayton, who was nominated to serve as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph Nocella Jr., who was nominated to be lead prosecutor in the Eastern District.

Republicans are now forced to weigh their options. In the past, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, abandoned the “blue slip” practice for circuit court nominees during Trump’s first administration. Since then, the Senate has upheld the practice for other nominees, and Grassley has signaled that he will honor the precedent for U.S. attorney nominees.

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Police charged a Washington State University instructor as well as a college staff member with assaulting a MAGA hat-wearing student of color on Feb. 28, according to a video report from Turning Point USA’s Frontlines.

WSU junior engineering student Jay Sani — a conservative and big supporter of President Donald Trump — said in the clip that WSU instructor Patrick Mahoney and staff member Gerald Hoff ambushed and physically attacked him outside of the Coug, a campus bar. The attack was captured on surveillance video and is included in the Frontlines video report, which you can view here.

‘To make it clear, I hate to say this, but I’m brown, but forget it. I’m an engineering student that wants to get the degree and move on. So what if I like someone that you don’t like. We have the 1st Amendment, and it’s not okay that just because you don’t like that person, I should be attacked for it. You had a chance in November to oust [Trump], but you didn’t.’

Sani said he was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat at the time of the attack and that Mahoney “ripped the hat off my head.” In a Facebook post describing the attack, Sani said Mahoney “crumpled” up the MAGA hat and “threw it into the street, and yelled … words to the effect of ‘go get it bitch.'”

Sani said he threw his food at Mahoney’s face but that Mahoney and Hoff ganged up on him, saying Mahoney “grabbed my chest and slammed it on the concrete as I was falling” and “punched me a bunch of times on the back” and that Hoff “kicked me a bunch of times, too.”

The Frontlines report includes images of Sani’s “multiple scrapes and bruises” resulting from the two-on-one beatdown.

Caught and cuffed

The video report also shows Pullman police catching up with Mahoney and Hoff on bodycam video timestamped in the early morning hours of March 1, just hours after the attack.

“I seen this guy f**king on campus before,” Mahoney says on police bodycam video in reference to Sani. “I know he’s, like, [a] f**king right-wing dude.”

Mahoney also tells police, “I, like, grabbed his hat, threw it, and said, like, ‘go get it.'” Hoff admits to police that “we did grab him and bring him to the ground.”

However, Mahoney is heard actually telling cops that he didn’t hit Sani and that “I don’t think I did f**king something illegal, right?”

A voice — presumably an officer — is heard saying on the bodycam clip that “it’s unwanted touching,” after which Mahoney says, “It’s unwanted touching. I don’t know what that is, right?”

Mahoney adds on the bodycam clip that Sani “wanted to fight” and “f**king got what was coming to him, right?”

The video notes that Mahoney and Hoff were arrested and charged with fourth-degree misdemeanor assault. The WSU student newspaper, the Daily Evergreen, confirmed their arrests and charges.

The Frontlines video report said Mahoney is a WSU graduate student and instructor who teaches a freshman-level political science class — and is a “notorious far-left activist who hates conservative values and is a regular at pro-Hamas protests in the city.”

Mahoney also “has strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, progressive pro-labor groups, and is someone who publicly touts his admiration for the communist party,” the video report adds, citing Sani. The video also points out a hammer and sickle pin seen on Mahoney’s jacket lapel in his WSU headshot:

Patrick MahoneyImage source: Washington State University website

The Frontlines video report adds that WSU temporarily suspended Mahoney from classes and teaching duties. The Daily Evergreen confirmed Mahoney’s suspension.

However, the video report said Sani is speaking up because Mahoney could be reinstated and that his victim doesn’t want that to happen. “He shouldn’t be teaching here in my opinion, because if you can’t tolerate different opinions, then what’s the point?” Sani said in the video.

In reference to Sani’s skin color, he added in his Facebook post, “To make it clear, I hate to say this, but I’m brown, but forget it. I’m an engineering student that wants to get the degree and move on. So what if I like someone that you don’t like. We have the 1st Amendment, and it’s not okay that just because you don’t like that person, I should be attacked for it. You had a chance in November to oust [Trump], but you didn’t.”

The Frontlines video report said WSU leaders wouldn’t comment on the situation, citing student privacy laws, and that a Frontlines reporter knocked on Mahoney’s door to inquire if he wanted to comment on the assault but that he replied, “No, go away,” from behind the closed door.

The Frontlines video report added that “we were unable to reach Hoff to get his side of the story, but found his LinkedIn account indicating that he’s employed at WSU. Again, the school would not comment on Hoff’s status, either.”

The video report added that WSU is preparing for a Thursday event featuring TPUSA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk and that the event “is already drawing online chatter from violent militant groups like Antifa and other left-leaning students who are promising to disrupt and cause chaos.”

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A New York-based activist group
successfully pushed in 2023 to have a historic painting depicting Jesus Christ covered up at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, where it had been proudly displayed for 76 years without incident. The alleged motivation behind this act of iconoclasm, which resulted in the painting’s exile to the building’s flood-prone basement, was to create “a welcoming environment.”

When Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy signaled earlier this month that the painting might soon make a triumphant return, Mikey Weinstein, the head of the iconoclastic activist group, let his mask slip, revealing there might be some prejudices lurking behind his iconoclastic campaign.

Weinstein, the president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, whom Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) previously
dubbed an “anti-Christian activist,” viciously attacked Duffy, Trump supporters, and midshipmen supportive of the painting’s return in a statement shared with the Christian Post and the Daily Kos.

“tRump’s [sic] Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is clearly bereft of any semblance of morality, ethical standard, or constitutional legality (obviously required with all MAGA filthy, ignorant, hateful, bigoted scum) and is merely throwing rotting dripping, fetid, red meat to the Christian Nationalist MAGA fascists in America, who are clearly sprinkled among the USMVA midshipmen, staff and faculty,” wrote Weinstein.

The activist, whose demand in 2023 USSMA Superintendent Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan apparently took seriously, added, “Duffy is simply a stray, feral dog, lifting his leg and urinating a rancid fundamentalist Christian fealty on what MAGA fascists now apparently view as a front yard lawn toy rather than an honored cornerstone of the defense of our constitutionally created secular democratic republic.”

The painting

The painting that has Weinstein all bothered is a heritage asset under the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration titled “Christ on the Water.”

According to the USMMA, the 10’x19′ painting “depicts an image of Jesus and merchant seamen adrift in a lifeboat, presumably after being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean during World War II.”

‘The painting is perfectly in keeping with the Establishment Clause.’

It was painted on sail canvas by Lt. Hunter Wood in 1944 as a tribute to all merchant seamen.

Wood joined the U.S. Coast Guard with the rank of chief boatswain’s mate 10 days after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. He saw action during the invasion of North Africa in late 1942. Wood subsequently served as an artist in the Coast Guard Combat Artist Unit. He later joined the U.S. Maritime Service, with which he remained until the end of the war, advancing to lieutenant commander.

Wood’s painting hung for seven decades in the Elliot M. See Room of the USMMA’s Wiley Hall, which served from 1942 to 1961 as an interfaith chapel.

The complaint

The academy
indicated that in early January 2023, it received a complaint about “Christ on the Water,” suggesting it somehow sent an “improper message of preferred faith in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution.”

Weinstein, claiming to represent 18 midshipmen, faculty, staff, and graduates at the academy, demanded in a Jan. 10 letter
obtained by the Christian Post that Nunan “expeditiously remove a massive, sectarian painting illustrating the supremacy of Jesus Christ.”

“The outrageousness of that Jesus painting’s display is only further exacerbated by the fact that this room is also used regularly for USMMA Honor Code violation boards where midshipmen are literally fighting for their careers, and, often even more, as they face the shameful ignominy of potential expulsion with prejudice if found guilty of USMMA Honor Code violations,” wrote the activist.

Initially, the academy decided to keep the painting up but discontinue use of the room for official business. Accordingly, members of the community interested in viewing the painting were free to do so. Those who shared Weinstein’s hostility were free to avoid the painting altogether.

On Jan. 26, 2023, the academy — which supplies some officers to the U.S. military, at least
70% of which is Christian — announced that it had chosen to cover the painting with curtains and install a plaque describing the work’s history.

“The curtains will remain closed when official Academy meetings and events are conducted,” said the statement. “This solution balances legal requirements with the concerns of those who have an interest in the painting.”

The decision to oblige the iconoclasts prompted a
petition and letters to Nunan from various lawmakers, including Banks and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) demanding the painting’s unveiling.

Cruz
noted:

The relevant constitutional question is whether the Academy’s display of the painting meets the requirements of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. As a long-standing display that is consistent with the history and tradition of the United States and its Maritime Service, it clearly does. Under the Supreme Court’s standard for long-standing government displays, the painting is perfectly in keeping with the Establishment Clause.

Banks similarly underscored the lawfulness of hanging the painting in the academy, referring to a
2019 Supreme Court ruling that “historic displays with religious symbolism are not a violation of the Constitution.”

‘Let’s let him out! Bring him up!’

Despite the backlash and indications that the removal was wholly unnecessary, multiple sources
told Fox News Digital that the painting was moved to a chapel basement prone to flooding.

The return

During his April 4
visit to the academy, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy addressed a room full of midshipmen. During his speech, he signaled support for the painting’s return, stating, “Can we bring Jesus up from the basement?”

The audience burst into cheers, while scores of midshipmen leaped to their feet, applauding.

Duffy, a devout Catholic, continued, “Let’s not put Jesus in the basement. Let’s let him out! Bring him up!”

Since the USMMA falls under Duffy’s purview, he is apparently able to restore the painting to its rightful place in the academy — something his predecessor, Pete Buttigieg, proved unwilling to do.

The academy’s Christian Fellowship Club
launched a petition on April 7 to permanently move the painting into Ackerman Auditorium.

‘I think we’re returning to objective truth.’

The petition notes that “moving the painting to the Museum damns it. It declares, ‘This is who the Merchant Marine used to be once upon a time long long ago.'”

“We declare to you, faculty and staff, that this painting represents the Regiment of Midshipmen today more so than ever before,” said the petition. “Here us now: We identify with those sailors.”

The tantrum

Unlike those gathered at the academy, Weinstein responded poorly to Duffy’s remarks, going so far as to dehumanize midshipmen who dared signal support for the painting’s return.

“To the cheering robustious throngs of Christian Nationalist midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant of Venice Academy, and to their dear MAGA fascist cheerleader Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, MRFF commands: ‘Side Step HARCH!,’ you stinking piece-of-s**t Christian Nationalist insects,” wrote the activist.

Weinstein added in his statement that the return of the painting would “spark WORLD WAR 8.”

The activist continued ranting in an
unhinged YouTube video, where he suggested that midshipmen’s cheering of Duffy was a “despicable, shameful disgrace of [their] oath to the U.S. Constitution” and characterized their support for the DOT secretary’s remarks as cowardly.

“Jesus Christ represents ideals that are not specific to one group of people or another,” Jackson Tolle, a midshipman in USMMA’s class of 2026, told the Christian Post. “Ideals of sacrifice, ideals of love, compassion, and empathy; these are ideals and traits that we, as a culture, need to return to.”

“Moral relativism has failed the country and the world, more so than any belief system ever really has,” continued Tolle. “I think we’re returning to objective truth.”

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An Australian woman who advocates for women’s sports to remain female-only is facing two legal criminal accusations of “misgendering.”

Kirralie Smith, an activist, has had two Apprehended Violence Orders filed against her by two male athletes posing as females and was accused in court of “deliberately misgendering.”

Dennis was then listed as a 6’2″ athlete who broke the leg of a girl who is 5’6.”

While an AVO in Australia is typically reserved for domestic violence, it can be filed by any person who feels they are a victim of “physical assault, threats of physical harm, stalking, intimidation or harassment” and believes the threats will continue, according to New South Wales Police.

One of the claims came from a soccer player named Riley Dennis; Blaze News reported in 2024 that this individual was accused of injuring a female soccer player and sending her to the hospital. Dennis plays for the Flying Bats, a football club for “self-identified women and non-binary people.”

Dennis was then listed as a 6’2″ athlete who broke the leg of a girl who is 5’6″ and spawned two dozen other females to quit because they did not want to play against the transgender-filled team. Yahoo Sports reported that the injured girl’s leg was broken in two different places.

Activist Sall Grover was reportedly present during Smith’s court proceeding on Monday and claimed a barrister asked Smith if she would call Dennis “she/her,” to which the defendant said “no.”

Smith was also allegedly asked if not using the pronouns is “mean,” to which she replied that it would be mean to expect her to lie.

“Is it because she doesn’t like trans people?” Grover wrote about the court proceeding. “No. It’s a fact based statement,” Smith reportedly answered.

Sky News Australia described the court proceeding as having “dramatic scenes” and said the “entire case” centers around “a couple of tweets Kirralie Smith posted back in 2023.”

This was the second time Smith appeared in court for an AVO, however. Reduxx reported that Smith was accused by another male player, who goes by Stephanie Blanch, of holding unacceptable views. Blanch reportedly told a court he felt “threatened” by the idea that Smith did not think men should be in women’s sports.

Blanch’s supporting documentation included an X post by Smith about “a bloke on the women’s team in Wingham,” the team on which Blanch plays.

In December, an Australian court acknowledged that Smith “repeatedly referred to” Blanch as a “male, a man, a bloke” and “he.” A local judge declared that Smith indeed was “deliberately misgendering” Blanch, which was “stirring up controversy.”

Blanch was awarded what essentially amounted to a restraining order against Smith, which required Smith to refrain from contacting Blanch as well as not “nam[ing] or identify[ing] the Appellant by her name Stephanie Blanch or by [name redacted].”

The order ends in December 2026.

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Several radicals descended Tuesday on a town hall hosted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in Cobb County, Georgia. Some protesters fought with police while others repeatedly screamed out in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran MS-13 member deported on March 15 by the Trump administration.

The disruption did not go in the protesters’ favor.

The radicals — at least one of whom came from outside the district — not only failed to intimidate Greene, who laughed off their protest and underscored her support for the president, but were unceremoniously shown the way outside or, in some cases, to the ground by police officers who proved unwilling to tolerate leftist violence.

Footage shows one particularly unruly protester violently grab a police officer by the collar near a gaggle of journalists and cameramen. Additional cops can be seen rushing in to help march the protester toward the exit. A second camera captured footage of the same protester thrashing and lashing out at officers until one officer gives the order: “Put your hands behind your back.”

An officer can be seen drawing his taser, then lighting up the protester.

‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’

Greene, still at the podium, can be heard saying in response to the tasing, “There ya go!” as members of the audience cheered.

One of the protesters who decided to walk out without attacking police repeatedly screamed, “Free Kilmar!” in reference to Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien who was found by more than one immigration court to be a “danger to the community.”

Another cried out, “Free Garcia.”

Greene noted on X Wednesday morning, “For anyone questioning or criticizing the police at my townhall last night, the GREAT police officers conducted themselves in textbook fashion and protected every single person there by keeping the peace!”

“These protestors were deranged and aggressive and lost control of themselves the second the townhall started,” continued Greene. “Police officers should make more money, have better pensions, and deserve everyone’s gratitude and respect!!! Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God.”

The Acworth Police Department indicated in a release that while preparing for the event, crime analysts discovered posts online indicating that radicals had something planned for the town hall at the Acworth Community Center.

“Sadly, as soon as the Congresswoman began her presentation, several members of the audience became disruptive and created an imminent public safety threat for all in attendance,” stated the APD, which worked in conjunction with the Cobb County Police Department, the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office, the Kennesaw Police Department, and the Georgia State Patrol. “Their intentions were clear, to place the members of our beloved police department in a no-win situation in front of numerous media outlets.”

The APD indicated that six protesters were ultimately removed from the town hall without issue. Another three were arrested, two of whom were subdued with the aid of tasers.

‘I’m not intimidated by the Democrats who tried to shut down my town hall tonight.’

Andrew Russell Nelms, 40, of Atlanta and Johnny Keith, 45, of Dallas were both charged with simple battery on a law enforcement officer and obstruction of a law enforcement officer. Kiyana Name Davis of Dallas was cited for vulgar language.

Police indicated that in the process of removing the radicals from the event, officers “were threatened, physically resisted, and harmed.”

Greene stated, “I’m not intimidated by the Democrats who tried to shut down my town hall tonight. I refused to tolerate their selfish attempts to disrupt an event that was for all of my constituents, not just the ones who could make the most noise.”

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Back in December 2024, Phil Robertson, the revered patriarch of Duck Commander, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The condition exacerbated other ailments, including a blood disorder and fractured vertebrae. His sons, Jase and Al Robertson, have been candid with the “Unashamed” audience about the ups and downs their dad has experienced since leaving the podcast. Earlier this month, Jase described Phil’s condition as “not good.”

Their mother and Phil’s wife, Miss Kay Robertson, has also faced her own health challenges. In February, she sustained a severe fall that resulted in an infected cut. The injury required surgery and 11 days in the hospital.

Between Kay’s time in the hospital and Phil’s professional care, the beloved Duck Dynasty couple has been separated.

However, in a recent episode of “Unashamed,” Jase and Al shared a heartwarming update: Phil and Kay have been reunited in a care facility.

While both parents are still struggling with their physical health, their reconnection is doing wonders for their spirits.

Jase celebrates their reunion as “fantastic”; Al agrees, calling it “a game-changer.”

“My dad’s not doing great overall, and my mom is not doing great physically,” but “she’s helping his morale” and vice versa,” says Jase.

“He’s been so much calmer since she came back in,” Al adds.

While the reunion has been sweet, it’s also posed some challenges. Phil and Miss Kay alike are adored people. Their family is big, and their friend group is even bigger.

“The challenge has been we have so many people coming up there, we’re being disruptive,” laughs Jase, noting that they’re working on solving the problem.

But being so loved and supported that you can’t accommodate everyone who wants to visit is no doubt a good problem to have.

To hear more about Phil and Miss Kay, watch the episode above.

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