• The deportation fight: Meddlesome District Judge James Boasberg is angry about the Trump administration’s efforts to expel Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, and he’s calling their “state secrets” response to his questions about those efforts “woefully insufficient.” As such, he’s giving Trump prosecutors until Tuesday to file a better submission. Specifically, the despotic judge wants to know when and from where the deportation plane took off, when it left U.S. airspace, and when it landed and in which countries. Boasberg thinks he’s being either stonewalled or misled or that the administration has a double standard regarding deportations. As Trump’s senior adviser, Stephen Miller, said, “The district courts of this country do not have the authority to direct the functions of the executive branch, period.”

• EU tariffs delayed: When Donald Trump raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, the European Union responded by raising in-kind tariffs on U.S. metals and promising to raise more tariffs against a slew of U.S. goods, specifically targeting agriculture and household tools. Trump responded by threatening to raise a 200% tariff against all EU alcohol products. The EU had slated the first week of April to enact its new tariffs. However, EU Trade Commissioner Marcos Sefcovic noted that the European Commission decided to postpone the tariffs another two weeks with the hopes of working out a deal with America. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explained that Trump’s objective with the tariffs is to build the steel and aluminum business here in America. “He cares about America,” Lutnick stated, “and he wants to take care of Americans.”

• Domestic terrorism and Tesla: The Trump DOJ calls it “domestic terrorism,” and Attorney General Pam Bondi is acting accordingly. Three people — one each in Colorado, Oregon, and South Carolina — now face up to 20 years in prison for destroying Tesla cars and charging stations. “The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” Bondi said. Incidentally, we wonder if any of these global warmists-turned-terrorists have given any thought to the carbon emissions of a roaring Tesla inferno. For that matter, we wonder why the mainstream media is assiduously avoiding any mention of the hard-left political bent of these thugs. Actually, we’re not wondering at all. This is par for the course, just like it was with the domestic terrorists of antifa and Black Lives Matter.

• Smearing Trump’s cabinet on Wikipedia: It’s discouraging to consider the continuing influence of Wikipedia, especially given that the rank leftism of the online encyclopedia was exposed years ago. Now, for those too dull to know better or too lazy to look elsewhere, Wikipedia has trained its sights on Donald Trump’s cabinet members. The website’s entries for FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were “updated” recently to call attention to their confirmation battles and the negativity that those battles entailed. Instead, it might be helpful to learn about, you know, their qualifications and their plans for fixing the incompetence of the previous administration.

• More academic deportations: First, it was Mahmoud Khalil. Now, following the deportation of a pro-Hezbollah Lebanese professor who was teaching at Brown University’s medical school, the Trump administration has been temporarily stopped from deporting a teaching fellow at Georgetown University by another activist judge. Indian national Badar Khan Suri was arrested this week and accused by DHS of fomenting “Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media.” Suri has been in the U.S. since 2022, but his visa was revoked, and he is at a detention center in Louisiana awaiting deportation. The issue is how free speech protections apply to foreign nationals legally living in the U.S. The Trump administration has cited the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, which permits the government to remove lawful foreign residents if they are deemed to be a security risk.

• Noncitizens can’t vote in NYC: On Thursday, New York’s highest court shot down New York City’s infamous law that gave non-U.S. citizens the right to vote in city elections. By a 6-1 vote, the Court of Appeals ruled that the law passed by the City Council in 2021 violated the Empire State’s constitution. “Whatever the future may bring,” the majority said, “the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens.” The dubious law never actually went into effect, as it was immediately challenged. Therefore, no noncitizen ever legally cast a vote in city elections. Republicans on the City Council objected to the law at the time, and they were proven correct for doing so. Had the law been allowed to stand, it would have given some 800,000 legal foreign NYC residents voting rights.

• Under Biden, most new jobs went to illegal immigrants: Joe Biden fancied himself a “jobs” president, and there’s some truth to that. Unfortunately, the whole truth is that nearly all the new job growth under Biden was among illegal immigrants, not American citizens. “If you look at the net new job creation during the Biden administration,” said Trump senior trade adviser Peter Navarro, “and I was surprised that the Biden regime even published it, virtually all of the new jobs were taken by illegal [immigrants]. And virtually all the people who lost their jobs, because it was a net, net kind of thing, were American citizens. I mean, that is freaking insane.”

• Major sponsors pull out of San Fran Pride festival: After the fallout from Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney debacle, as well as the election of Donald Trump, a growing number of businesses and corporations have been ditching the woke crusade after realizing that DEI is bad for business. In more heartening news, several major companies are pulling their sponsorship from San Fransisco’s coming 2025 “Pride” celebrations. These companies include Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, La Crema, and Diageo. The companies all cited a lack of funds as their rationale for withdrawing, but it says a lot that sponsoring the Rainbow Mafia is a lousy return on investment. As the city’s Pride executive director, Suzanne Ford, observed, “I just interpreted that companies are making decisions that at this time it’s not good to be sponsoring Pride.” Not sponsoring blatant sexual deviancy and debauchery is a good thing.

• Average Planned Parenthood CEO earns $350K: The American Life League has released a report on Planned Parenthood CEO pay. “In the US, the average salary for a nonprofit CEO is roughly $117,000 a year,” says the report. However, the average Planned Parenthood CEO salary has increased from $317K to $352K since 2020. That’s a strong incentive to keep the abortion business booming. Pro-life advocate Lila Rose reports that awards are being given for exceeding abortion quotas. In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Planned Parenthood received $699.3 million in federal funding, about 34% of its annual revenue. Taxpayer money isn’t supposed to pay directly for abortions, so lavish salaries are one place to fudge that money.

• Federal probe launched into Illinois school girls’ locker room scandal: The Illinois Department of Education and Deerfield Public Schools District 109 are being investigated over a mother’s allegation that her daughter and other middle school girls were forced to change into their gym clothes in the presence of a middle school boy pretending to be a girl. The mother says four adults employed by the school entered the locker room and insisted the girls change in the presence of the “transgender” student. Deerfield Public Schools deny this, and Democrat State Representative Bob Morgan calls the accusation a lie, though he’s very proud of his community for sticking up for boys dressed as girls. Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor is leading a probe to find the truth of the situation.

Headlines

• Trump rescinds order targeting Paul, Weiss law firm after securing commitments (Just the News)

• Pentagon announces $580 million in cuts to grants, contracts deemed “wasteful spending” (Just the News)

• American Heart Association retracts opposition to barring soda, candy from food stamps (Daily Wire)

• ABC News retracts claim that Israeli “occupation forces” dropped “harrowing” leaflet in Gaza (Washington Free Beacon)

• Canada outraged after four citizens executed by China over drug charges (NY Post)

• Humor: Eight more rulings being handed down by federal judges (Babylon Bee)

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