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... Killa sat for a deposition conducted by the House Judiciary Committee on December 17.Other aspects of the deposition have given rise to minor news stories, but I want to concentrate on just one point: Smith’s determination to send Trump to prison for his actions relating to the January 6 protest in Washington. I don’t think Trump covered himself in glory that day, but what did he do that was a crime? He said that he thought the election had been stolen. So what?QuoteQ But the President’s statements that he believed the election was rife withfraud, those certainly are statements that are protected by the First Amendment, correct?A Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and they are made with knowing falsity, no, they are not. That was my point about fraud not being protected by the First Amendment.Q I mean, there is a long list of disputed elections, I mean, the election of 1800,1960, year 2000, where candidates believed they were wronged by the — you know, because they lost. And there’s a long history of candidates speaking out about they believe there’s been fraud, there’s been other problems with the integrity of the election process. And I think you would agree that those types of statements are sort of at the core of the First Amendment rights of a Presidential candidate, right?
Q But the President’s statements that he believed the election was rife withfraud, those certainly are statements that are protected by the First Amendment, correct?A Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and they are made with knowing falsity, no, they are not. That was my point about fraud not being protected by the First Amendment.Q I mean, there is a long list of disputed elections, I mean, the election of 1800,1960, year 2000, where candidates believed they were wronged by the — you know, because they lost. And there’s a long history of candidates speaking out about they believe there’s been fraud, there’s been other problems with the integrity of the election process. And I think you would agree that those types of statements are sort of at the core of the First Amendment rights of a Presidential candidate, right?
Jack Smith admitted that judges were not told his team was seizing the phone records of Republican congressmen when asked to sign off on nondisclosure orders for associated subpoenas, according to a transcript of the ex-special counsel's deposition obtained by the New York Post on Wednesday.Smith told members of the House Judiciary Committee in his testimony on Dec. 17 that keeping the subpoenas — which were part of the FBI's investigation into 2020 election interference — hidden was necessary to avoid a "grave risk of obstruction of justice."Asked by a Judiciary Committee member whether judges who approved the subpoenas knew they were demanding that AT&T and Verizon hand over the call logs of lawmakers, Smith said, "I don't think we identified that, because I don't think that was department policy at the time."
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams shared on Thursday that his radiologist gave him a dire prognosis during an episode of “Coffee with Scott Adams.”Adams, who first announced his prostate cancer diagnosis during a May episode of his show, has recently dealt with complications like constipation and lower-body paralysis, which led to a brief hospitalization in December. He suggested on Thursday that January may be his final month of life.
Back in May, I told y'all about a Texas oil company that had rebuilt three oil platforms off the California coast, repaired and updated a previously blown-out oil pipeline, and was close to being able to pump that black gold back onshore for the first time in over a decade....And it sure looked like another case of DOA as soon as the governor, the state, and the enviro-whackos got a load of what Sable had done and was in the middle of doing....In October, at the same time that the Santa Barbara District Attorney filed felony criminal charges against the company for pollution, a judge in San Francisco sided with the cultists and issued an injunction against Sable, blocking the restart of the Santa Ynez pipeline....Sable's entire business model is built around this pipeline-platform rejuvenation plan, so they weren't taking it sitting down, and now they also had a fossil fuel-friendly administration willing to go to bat for them. The company filed a counterlawsuit against the state, asking for $347M in damages due to the delays, and said as much, telling the state to suck a stone over the pipeline. Sure, it would have been nice to have it, and Sable thought California would benefit from the oil being brought in to what few refineries they had left.But no skin off their noses if CA chose to act like a spoiled princess who found a pea under the mattress. They'd turn off the pipeline and transfer to oil tankers directly from the platform. See, the beauty of it is that California has a claim to the first three miles of ocean water offshore. The Sable platforms sit anywhere from five to ten miles offshore, conveniently, in federal waters....In a remarkable turnabout, it seems an ocean fill-up won't be necessary afterall....QuoteThe Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration just gave Sable Offshore Corp. a Christmas present: Sable can begin pumping oil from its three platforms off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., after a federal appeals court allowed the restart of a contested pipeline, Bloomberg Law reported.“Environmental groups lost their bid at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to stay enforcement of the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s emergency special permit for the Las Flores Pipeline System,”
The Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration just gave Sable Offshore Corp. a Christmas present: Sable can begin pumping oil from its three platforms off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., after a federal appeals court allowed the restart of a contested pipeline, Bloomberg Law reported.“Environmental groups lost their bid at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to stay enforcement of the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s emergency special permit for the Las Flores Pipeline System,”
Oil giant Chevron will begin purchasing oil from Sable Offshore Corp., the Houston-based company announced Tuesday. The dramatic move comes amid a legal battle between California and the Trump administration.The petroleum corporation plans to purchase an initial 20,000 barrels of oil per day from offshore platforms near Santa Barbara, just weeks after the federal government approved the restart of production, Bloomberg reported.The move is a boost for Sable, which has faced strong environmental opposition to resuming operations in California waters.“We’re going to run Sable’s crude at El Segundo in April,” Chevron executive Andy Walz told the outlet, adding that the Los Angeles-area refinery — which can process about 269,000 barrels per day — is set to handle the supply.
The case originated out of the Minnesota federal district. It was one of many such cases seeking the release of one or more illegal aliens detained by ICE.The 2-1 decision by the Eighth Circuit can be read here.The case originated in August 2025 and is captioned Joaquin Herrera Avila v. Bondi. The appeals court reversed the district court judge’s decision to order the release of the illegal alien from ICE custody.Since the beginning of 2026, more than 1,100 such habeas cases have been filed in Minnesota alone....JOHN adds: I believe this means that all of the hundreds of orders issued in Minnesota by Democratic Party judges, ordering the release of illegal aliens in response to habeas corpus petitions, were wrong. It also means that the judges who harassed and threatened to jail lawyers in the U.S. Attorney’s Office were wrong. As were the judges who held hearings over missing shoelaces and the like. All wrong, all reversed.So President Trump, Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and U.S. Attorney Dan Rosen have been, as I read the 8th Circuit opinion, fully vindicated. Perhaps apologies will be forthcoming from the Democratic Party judges who have now been reversed.
According to the outgoing CEO of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian People, Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA is on the verge of collapse....It's about damn time. The UNRWA may not be quite as big a sponsor of terrorism as Iran, but it sure is in spitting distance. The UNRWA is unique; it is the only UN agency dedicated to servicing one group of "refugees," and contrary to your expectations, it does so in many countries throughout the Middle East. Every other group of displaced people is aided by the UN High Commission for Refugees. Why this unique status? It is through UNRWA that the whole concept of "Palestinians" was created and sustained, and through which the terrorist infrastructure that has maintained the Israel-Palestinian conflict for generation after generation. It exists primarily to keep the conflict going, both for ideological and pecuniary reasons....Far from being an aid agency, it teaches terrorists, harbors them in its ranks, allows them to communicate freely and under the auspices of the United Nations, and it helps fund the terrorist infrastructure that has kept the Middle East unstable for decades.QuoteHamas survivor Mia Schem has revealed the horrifying truth about the UN's role in Gaza. She exposes how UNRWA employees, who are Hamas members, were directly involved in her captivity and the broader terror: Hamas moved her in ambulances, hid her in UN facilities, and sheltered in hospitals and schools.
Hamas survivor Mia Schem has revealed the horrifying truth about the UN's role in Gaza. She exposes how UNRWA employees, who are Hamas members, were directly involved in her captivity and the broader terror: Hamas moved her in ambulances, hid her in UN facilities, and sheltered in hospitals and schools.
ADemocrat faces possible expulsion from Congress after federal prosecutors alleged that she stole millions in federal funds and used that money to finance her campaign.The House Ethics Committee will host a public trial for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) on Thursday in connection with the allegations. According to reports, such public trials are rare and signal that Cherfilus-McCormick may be in deep trouble.Indeed, she is already under federal indictment.Back in November, the Department of Justice announced that Cherfilus-McCormick, her brother Edwin Cherfilus, and other co-defendants had been charged after they allegedly bilked millions from a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract.According to the DOJ, Cherfilus-McCormick and Cherfilus' family health care company was given a COVID vax contract in 2021 and subsequently received an overpayment of $5 million from FEMA.The defendants "conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source," the DOJ alleged, adding that a significant portion of the money was allegedly used to bolster Cherfilus-McCormick's 2021 congressional campaign.
