Let’s go over some of the news in Minnesota and there is some big news.
Some activist group is suing the Trump administration for one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of. Let’s see if the activists can find the right judge.
And I have a couple of examples of what Democrats think of law and order.
Updates from Minnesota
Here are some updates from Minnesota after the Alex Pretti killing:
- The Trump administration will partially remove Border Patrol from Minnesota.
- Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino has been relieved.
- There are major divides of the mass deportations within the Trump administration. There are call for Kristi Noam to resign or be fired.
- Tom Homan is in Minnesota to tell the governor and mayor Jacob Fry the government will lower the number of federal officers if, and only if, local law enforcement helps.
- Homen has a meeting with Jacob Fry this morning.
- The Trump administration picked up a legal win on Monday after the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked a Biden-appointed judge’s restrictions on federal immigration agents’ tactics in Minnesota while it appeals the decision.
- A three-judge panel said a ruling from District Judge Kate Menendez limiting how ICE officers could respond to protesters in Minnesota was “too broad” and “too vague,” temporarily pausing her order that barred agents from retaliating against anyone engaged in “peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” and from stopping vehicles without “reasonable articulable suspicion that [the occupants] are forcibly obstructing or interfering with” immigration enforcement operations.
- The Trump administration is preparing to pull funding from Minnesota and other “sanctuary” cities and states.
- The activism goes way beyond the citizens of Minnesota.
- The teacher’s union in St. Paul has walked out of the classrooms to protest ICE.
- ANTIFA has been setting fire to hotels they think ICE agents are inhabiting.
- There are multiple apps and social media groups that are tracking ICE and organizing protests. Apps that both Greg Prezzi and Rachel Good were using.
So Dumb
According to Fox News:
President Donald Trump said Sunday that it was “too late” to halt construction of a new ballroom at the White House, despite a newly filed lawsuit challenging the project.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump described the ballroom as “a GIFT (ZERO taxpayer funding) to the United States of America,” estimating its cost at $300 million and saying it was financed through private donations.
Trump said the lawsuit was brought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, criticizing the group for filing it after construction was already underway.
“Why didn’t these obstructionists and troublemakers bring their baseless lawsuit much earlier?” he wrote.
Trump added that the East Wing was “changed, built and rebuilt over the years” and that “it bore no resemblance or relationship to the original building.”
On July 31, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the planned construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom. The sprawling ballroom will accommodate approximately 650 seated guests and will stay true to the classical design of the White House.
The White House does not have a formal ballroom, and the new ballroom will take the place of the current East Wing of the White House.
Since his return to office, Trump has wasted no time in reshaping the look and feel of the White House and the National Mall.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-is-too-late-stop-white-house-ballroom-construction
Dumbass of the Day
These Guys Are For Law and Order?
According to the New York Post:
A New Jersey mom convicted of burning her two young children to death could soon walk free thanks to now-former Gov. Phil Murphy, who sparked outrage by commuting her sentence as he left office this week.
Maria Montalvo was serving a 100-year prison term after she was found guilty of murdering her 18-month-old daughter and 28-month-old son in 1996 – but under Murphy’s direction the 61-year-old Union Beach woman will have a chance at parole, according to reports.
Montalvo will continue to seek a new trial to get her conviction overturned even though she has a pathway to release, her lawyer, Josh Hood, told NJ.com.
Without Murphy’s intervention, she would not have been eligible for parole until 2054 when she was 90 years old, according to the Asbury Park Press.
Now, she’ll be able to argue her case to the state parole board potentially within months.
Later in the article:
Montalvo had baby Zoraida-Angelin Aponte and her older brother Rafael-Louis Aponte in her Volkswagen Jetta when she swung by a gas station to fill up $3 of gas in a plastic container in February 1994, said Santiago.
She then reached her in-laws’ home in Long Branch, where she “doused her children with the gasoline, and ignited it, killing them both,” he added.
The gruesome arson case was spurred by Montalvo’s husband telling her he wanted to end their relationship just days before, prosecutors reportedly argued at the time.
Santiago’s defense insisted the fire was an accident after the mother tried to light a cigarette in the car, which inadvertently lit up vapors that leaked from the gas can, according to the Asbury Park Press.
The parent also suffered severe burns across part of her face and body during the inferno.