• Bolton’s home raided: This morning, the FBI raided the Bethesda, Maryland, home of Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton. FBI Director Kash Patel sent the following message on X as the raid began: “NO ONE is above the law… FBI on mission.” Bolton, who has increasingly become a critic of Trump, specifically regarding his foreign policy decisions, had been accused by the Trump administration during the president’s first term of leaking classified documents related to his 2020 book The Room Where It Happened. At the time, a probe was launched, only to be later shut down by the Biden administration. This raid comes the day after Patel revealed that former disgraced FBI Director James Comey authorized the leaking of classified documents.

• The Supreme Court continues to muddy the waters: The Supreme Court did little to clarify executive authority or to exercise leadership over the judiciary. Thursday’s decision (paywall) allowed the National Institutes of Health to terminate certain DEI grants but limited its ability to stop new DEI grants from going through. Earlier, District Judge William G. Young had ruled that the NIH failed to properly define DEI, which ran afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act’s stipulation that agencies cannot be capricious. Young had therefore halted the new anti-DEI guidance and ordered that canceled grants be restored. In examining the case, the Supreme Court split 4-4. Justice John Roberts and the leftists would have upheld Young’s ruling, while Justice Neil Gorsuch and the conservatives would have overturned the ruling entirely. Justice Amy Coney Barrett split the difference, finding that Young had authority over the guidance but not over the terminated grants.

• Newsom signs gerrymander: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the gerrymander introduced in opposition to the Texas redistricting plans into law Thursday. The new congressional districts will now be voted on at a special election on November 4. Newsom insists that his actions are merely an attempt to neutralize the GOP gains in the proposed Texas maps, but he has moved beyond his claims that California would back off if red states do. California’s action overturns state law that appointed an independent commission to draw redistricting maps. James Gallagher, the Republican leader in the California Assembly, opposed Newsom’s decision to “fight fire with fire,” which he believes will lead to burning it all down.

• No more truck-driver visas: Work visas for commercial truck drivers are on pause for the time being, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last night. The announcement comes after the tragic incident in Florida, in which Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien with a California commercial driver’s license, killed three people while making an illegal U-turn. Rubio cited the increasing danger to American lives from foreign drivers and the economic harm to American truckers. California Gov. Newsom and Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin have sparred on X over who is responsible for Singh, with Newsom asserting that the Trump administration approved his work order. McLaughlin set him straight, pointing out that the first Trump administration rejected his work order, only for the Biden administration to grant it in 2021.

• Activist judge orders Alligator Alcatraz closure: U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams of Southern Florida has ordered Alligator Alcatraz closed within 60 days after ruling that it failed to conduct an environmental-impact review. The Trump administration argued that this was a state project and therefore not subject to federal environmental laws. The decision orders the fencing, lighting, generators, and sewage facilities removed, along with the paving. Judge Williams’s preliminary ruling is expected to be stayed on appeal. Similar migrant detention centers are popping up across red states, with Indiana’s Speedway Slammer, Florida’s Deportation Depot, and Nebraska’s Cornhusker Clink under construction, while Texas’s Lone Star Lockup has already opened its doors.

• Boston getting an ICE tsunami: The immigration fight is coming to sanctuary cities, with AG Pam Bondi saying on Monday that noncompliant cities would see federal funding cut off and law enforcement sent in just like in LA and DC. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu held a press conference on Tuesday, accusing the administration of attempting to use its law and order stance as a cover-up for its supposed failures. Wu incorrectly asserted that Boston “follows the law” and dubiously claimed it was the safest city in the country. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said Wednesday that ICE would “flood the zone” in Boston. Lyons added that while Boston’s Trust Act bars law enforcement from aiding ICE, local police are defying that law to provide surreptitious support.

• Russia’s increased aggression, and a Nord Stream arrest: Russian President Vladimir Putin, just days after his summit meeting with Donald Trump in Alaska, is showing that he apparently has no intention of giving up on his goals for Ukraine. In one of the largest strikes to date, Russia launched a barrage of 614 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles against Ukraine. In the attack, an American-owned electronics company known as Flex Ltd was hit. Some of the damaged areas were just 30 miles from the NATO countries of Hungary and Slovakia. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian national was arrested in Italy. German authorities have charged him with bombing the Nord Stream pipeline back in September 2022. The pipeline ferried natural gas from Russia to Germany.

• Federal Work-Study political activism axed: Taxpayers dollars will no longer be used to fund political activism on college campuses. The Department of Education announced that it was ending funding of Federal Work-Study (FWS), a Biden-era taxpayer-funded program that effectively paid students who engaged in political activities. According to Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent, work-study programs are “meant to provide students opportunities to gain real-world experience that prepares them to succeed in the workforce, not as a way to fund political activism on our college and university campuses.” Back in April 2024, 16 Republican attorneys general sent a letter to the DOE noting that FWS violated federal law by allowing taxpayer funding of political activism. The Trump administration has now remedied the Biden administration’s disregard of the law.

Headlines

• Trump admin to review all 55 million U.S. legal immigrants to see if they should be deported (NY Post)

• Minnesota Democrats revoke mayoral endorsement for self-proclaimed socialist Omar Fateh (National Review)

• Ex-Biden White House spokesman says he only saw 46th president twice in two-plus years of service (NY Post)

• New record: Border Patrol seizes fewest illegal immigrants in one day (Washington Examiner)

• In historic shift, National Endowment for the Humanities funds academics with conservative ties (Washington Examiner)

• Trump admin finds George Mason University unlawfully discriminated with DEI hiring practices (National Review)

• Trump delivered strategic blow to Iran regime with bold Azerbaijan-Armenia pact (Fox News)

• School districts revert to diesel because Biden’s electric buses can’t be repaired (Washington Free Beacon)

• UK free speech crackdown sees up to 30 people a day arrested for petty offenses (NY Post)

• Humor: Trump orders Smithsonian to display exhibit of old Cracker Barrel logo (Babylon Bee)

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