SCOTUS issues shocking ruling about 'racial gerrymander' map
The Supreme Court issued a shocking ruling on Wednesday about a congressional map in Louisiana that was drawn to give black voters a boost in representation.
The case, Louisiana v. Callais, involved a challenge by Louisiana voters in a congressional district that was redrawn after the 2020 census. The Supreme Court struck the map down, concluding it is an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander" that cannot be justified under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
'That map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.'
Justice Samuel Alito penned the majority opinion of the court and was joined by his five fellow conservative justices. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in which he was joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch.
The Supreme Court decided that the "time had come" to deliver a clear answer on what for 30 years had simply been assumed about Voting Rights Act case law.
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Succinctly put, the opinion of the court, stated in the syllabus, holds: "Because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8, and that map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander."
Justice Thomas, in his concurring opinion, went farther, arguing that the prevailing wisdom of the last 30 years of VRA case law and districting practices has been fraught with error. The court "led legislatures and courts to 'systematically divid[e] the country into electoral district along racial lines,'" thus rendering Section 2 "repugnant to any nation that strives for the ideal of a color-blind Constitution," he wrote.
Thomas concluded his concurring opinion with the proclamation: "No §2 challenge to districting should ever succeed."
The liberal justices of the Supreme Court lamented the decision and its implications for Section 2: "The consequences are likely to be far-reaching and grave. Today’s decision renders Section 2 all but a dead letter."
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon celebrated the decision of the court on social media: "Extremely gratified to see this decision we’ve been waiting for! I was proud to co-author the brief for the United States as amicus in this important case, perhaps one of the most important developments in decades in Voting Rights Act jurisprudence!"
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John Eastman Disbarred For Doing His Job While Felon Who Faked Russia Hoax Docs Got Wrist Slap
The “two-tiered system of justice and of bar discipline” has struck again, as former Trump official Jeffrey Clark put it, with the corrupt courts in California disbarring constitutional lawyer John Eastman for representing his client. Clark himself has been the target of that same system in Washington, D.C., where the “two-tiered” nature may be the […]'H-1B workers ONLY': DOJ punishes company Sara Gonzales exposed for illegal hiring practices
As many journalists and concerned citizens continue to raise the alarm about the rampant H-1B fraud and abuse endemic to our system, the Department of Justice has started to deliver some results. This week, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales proudly claimed another scalp for her role in exposing a company for discriminating against Americans.
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice announced that it had reached a settlement with New Jersey-based Compunnel Software Group Inc. for illegal hiring practices.
'The DOJ has taken action against at least one of the companies I exposed.'
According to the settlement, Compunnel signaled its intent to hire employees based on citizenship status, specifically favoring H-1B visa holders or related temporary employment-based visa holders. One email sent to the "charging party" indicated that the company wanted "only" temporary visa holders for a particular position.
Gonzales, host of "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered" on BlazeTV, touted this settlement as a win after covering this story in February.
"The DOJ has taken action against at least one of the companies I exposed," Gonzales said on X. "Compunnel Software Group, Inc now has to cough up $313,420 after some of its recruiters posted job advertisements for positions in the United States that were offered to H-1B workers ONLY."
"For too long, these scammers have felt comfortable blatantly breaking the law in broad daylight and stealing American jobs. I commend the DOJ for this swift resolution, and I am hopeful there will be more action in the future. We must take our country back from those who have come here with the intention of defrauding us while taking advantage of our resources," Gonzales told Blaze News.
Compunnel has agreed to pay $58,000 in back pay to the U.S. citizen who was discriminated against in the hiring process. It has also agreed to pay $255,420 in civil penalties to the U.S. Treasury.
“Employers cannot exclude U.S. workers from the labor force by discriminating against them based on their citizenship status. Employers must design recruitment, training, and compliance practices to ensure adherence to federal civil rights laws," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
“It’s illegal to discourage U.S. workers from applying for American jobs,” she said.
This is the ninth settlement the DOJ has delivered since the revival of its Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative in 2025 to enforce the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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'I think it's time': The 4 words that reportedly fired Bondi, and Trump's possible picks to replace her
President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on a short ride to the Supreme Court on Wednesday with just four words, a report says, and now rumors about her potential replacement are swirling around Washington.
Trump reportedly told Bondi, "I think it's time," to notify her of her firing the day before formally announcing her removal in a Truth Social post. Trump later announced her departure on Thursday, calling her a "Great American Patriot and a loyal friend" but reportedly privately expressing frustration with the lack of prosecutions against Democrats and her botched handling of the Epstein files.
'I'm not going anywhere.'
Needless to say, Bondi had become a sore spot for the administration, prompting her to become the second departure from Trump's Cabinet following former Department of Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem.
Trump has since announced that Todd Blanche, Bondi's former deputy, would temporarily step in as attorney general while the president continues weighing his options to fill the slot long-term.
Trump's top pick continues to be EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who met with the president on Tuesday, according to one administration official. The meeting was about an unrelated topic, but the official told Blaze News that Trump floated the idea of Zeldin replacing Bondi. The next day, Trump informed Bondi of her firing.
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While Zeldin is widely regarded to be the top choice, Trump has not yet made a formal announcement.
Other names have been circulating, although most of them would be considered long shots. Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas had been floated by onlookers, both of whom would likely sail through Senate confirmation. Critics quickly called out anonymously cited senators endorsing Lee for the role, saying they just want to get rid of one of the most conservative lawmakers.
"Senators who prefer working two and a half days a week are probably Lee’s biggest cheerleaders in taking another job," a senior Republican source told Blaze News.
Lee later set the record straight in a post on X, saying, "I'm not going anywhere."
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Another rumored candidate to be top cop has been Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is currently running a fierce campaign to oust Republican Sen. John Cornyn. The two have been facing off in a high-stakes primary that Trump was expected to weigh in on but so far has not done so.
Although Paxton is popular with the base, he would have to first be approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on which his opponent sits. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina would also be a challenging committee vote to secure, not to mention Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, who have known to defect on key floor votes.
Other possible candidates are some of Bondi's top DOJ officials, including Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and even Blanche. While Blanche has assumed the role in the interim, he has shut the door on any future Epstein investigation, telling Fox News that "it should not be a part of anything going forward."
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Trump administration levels up war on woke Harvard over anti-Semitism failures
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Harvard on Friday, accusing the Ivy League school of discrimination.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon posted a video on social media announcing the legal action. She claimed that Harvard tolerated “significant and onerous racial and ethnic abuse against Israeli and Jewish students on the campus in the wake of the horrific Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.”
'When institutions take taxpayer dollars, they accept a duty to protect civil rights.'
She noted that the school allowed "pro-Palestinian protests" to “take over” its campus, blocking Israeli and Jewish students from getting to class.
“Harvard has rules about how students should conduct themselves, but it relaxed those rules when it came to these particular protesters,” Dhillon stated.
“Every American university that takes federal funding must comply with federal law.”
The DOJ accused Harvard of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allowing anti-Semitic “mobs of students, faculty, and visitors” to assault, harass, and intimidate Jewish and Israeli students.
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“Since October 7, 2023, too many of our educational institutions have allowed anti-Semitism to flourish on campus — Harvard included,” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated. “Today’s litigation underscores the Trump administration’s commitment to demanding better from our nation’s schools and putting an end to discriminatory behavior that harms students.”
The DOJ noted that Harvard is slated to receive $2.6 billion in taxpayer funds under active grants from the Department of Health and Human Services.
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“Every student deserves to learn without fear of harassment or exclusion,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. “When institutions take taxpayer dollars, they accept a duty to protect civil rights. We hold Harvard accountable on the principle that anti-Semitism has no place in any program funded by the American people.”
In October, Harvard issued a financial report that showed a $113 million deficit for fiscal year 2025, marking its first operating loss since 2020. This report followed Trump’s decision to withhold federal research funding from the school after he claimed it “repeatedly” failed to address anti-Semitic harassment.
Harvard released a statement responding to the lawsuit.
“Harvard cares deeply about members of our Jewish and Israeli community and remains committed to ensuring they are embraced, respected, and can thrive on our campus,” the school said. “Our actions illustrate this. Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of anti-Semitism and actively enforces anti-harassment and anti-discrimination rules and policies on campus. We also have enhanced training and education on anti-Semitism for students, faculty, and staff and launched programs to promote civil dialogue and respectful disagreement inside and outside the classroom. Harvard’s efforts demonstrate the very opposite of deliberate indifference.”
“We will continue to prioritize this important work and will defend the university against this lawsuit, which represents yet another pretextual and retaliatory action by the administration for refusing to turn over control of Harvard to the federal government,” the statement read.
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'Outstanding': Harmeet Dhillon brings down the hammer on remainder of Minnesota church-storming suspects
Weeks after Don Lemon and dozens more agitators allegedly stormed a church service in Minnesota, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon made a much-anticipated announcement.
On Wednesday, Dhillon announced that all 39 individuals suspected of disrupting the church service had been arrested as of Monday, adding an intriguing detail about a couple of the arrests.
'Outstanding work by DOJ. You don't get to terrorize churchgoers in America.'
"As of Monday, all 39 individuals indicted in the attack on Cities Church in MN had been arrested, two of them while abroad," Dhillon wrote on X.
"We @CivilRights look forward to bringing justice to the victims of this attack and demonstrating our commitment to justice for all!" she continued.
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Activists stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 18.
Apparently among them was ex-CNN talking head Don Lemon, who previously pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to violate someone's constitutional rights and violating the FACE Act.
Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) praised the DOJ's persistence in this case: "Outstanding work by DOJ. You don't get to terrorize churchgoers in America."
Likewise, BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre lauded the arrests, noting how easily the case could have disappeared in the news cycle.
"I appreciate the follow-through on this. Many people predicted that the administration would do nothing and with all of the other news it would have been easy to let this quietly drop out of the cycle. But they didn't, they charged them all," MacIntyre said.
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Harmeet Dhillon is going to WAR against DEI
A major philosophical shift is under way inside the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division — and much of it is thanks to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.
Dhillon tells BlazeTV hosts Christopher Rufo and Jonathan “Lomez” Keeperman on “Rufo & Lomez” how she’s moving the agency away from diversity, equity, and inclusion-driven enforcement and toward a return to colorblind equality under the law.
“You’re bringing a totally different theory of civil rights law to the Department of Justice,” Rufo tells Dhillon. “This can’t be easy.”
“It is a very daunting task and, frankly, when I raised my hand in response to the president’s request to do this job, I knew it was going to be one of the more difficult jobs here in the DOJ because historically the Civil Rights Division has been a place that doesn’t really change very much from administration to administration,” Dhillon says.
The reason, Dhillon explains, is that “the lawyers who choose to make their careers doing civil rights work typically, historically, have been from a leftist perspective.”
“And that isn’t necessarily bad. I mean, there was a point in time in our country when we passed a lot of these civil rights laws in the 1960s, where we had rampant discrimination against African-Americans and other people and even against women to a degree,” she tells Rufo and Lomez.
“But way past the time that many of these historical ills have been corrected by our society, with or without the intervention of the Civil Rights Division, people have viewed it as their mission to continue to push the boundaries further and further out to the left,” she says.
This has posed one of the biggest issues for Dhillon in her war against DEI.
“The truism from the Reagan era is that personnel is policy. And so one of the biggest challenges we had here was, how are we going to implement the president’s agenda with personnel who don’t want to do that,” she explains.
“I actually had ... a relatively smooth transition into our mission because early on ... I issued memos to all the different sections here in the Civil Rights Division ... letting them know that we are going to be changing our focus here to implementing the president’s agenda, consistent with the civil rights statutes in the Constitution,” she continues.
“And that simple step, sometimes just one or two paragraphs of a memo to a few dozen lawyers, caused more than half of them to quit right away,” she adds.
Then, when an early retirement program at the DOJ was implemented, another several dozen took advantage of the program and quit.
“We were down about two-thirds of the manpower here in the Civil Rights Division. And so, then the challenge became how to do the big job of rightsizing our civil rights agenda and making it consistent with the president’s agenda,” she explains.
While she admits that it was difficult at the outset, she’s “happy to say that we’ve gotten past all of that.”
“We’ve hired a bunch of great people, young and old, here in the Civil Rights Division, who are very willing to work with us in doing the work that you’ve seen in the headlines,” she adds.
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No more 'safe harbor for illegals': Colony Ridge settles with DOJ, Texas
Colony Ridge, one of the most controversial land developers in the nation, has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice and the state of Texas regarding accusations of predatory loan practices, poor living conditions, and incentivizing illegal immigration.
According to a DOJ press release issued Tuesday, the Colony Ridge developer has agreed to pay $68 million to settle the lawsuit. Of that sum, $48 million will be invested in shoring up local infrastructure: $30 million for general infrastructure, and $18 million for drainage systems "to address severe and costly flooding damage to homes."
'Colony Ridge endangered American citizens by allowing illegal aliens to run rampant on its streets, in its schools, and in its community.'
The other $20 million will be invested in improving law enforcement and public safety in the area, including the construction of a new law enforcement facility. The developer also pledged to work with law enforcement to prevent those on a terror watch list and those suspected of transnational gang membership from purchasing property there, the settlement agreement said.
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According to the DOJ, Colony Ridge also agreed to:
- implement stricter underwriting standards that better assess borrowers' ability to repay loans;
- avoid misleading advertisements and instead "truthfully and accurately describe the properties for sale and applicable loan terms";
- work with homeowners to prevent loan default and foreclosure; and
- suspend seeking final approval on plats for direct-to-consumer sales for three years.
As part of the settlement, the Colony Ridge defendants did not admit to any wrongdoing. In fact, the defendants "expressly" denied any wrongdoing and signed off on the agreement "solely for the purpose of facilitating a settlement" with Texas and the DOJ, the agreement noted.
"We're happy to resolve these lawsuits and move forward serving our growing community. The settlement allows us to continue investing in our neighborhoods and supporting the thousands of families who have trusted us to provide a place for them to call home. We're glad that funds from this agreement will be directed back into the community to benefit residents," said a statement from Colony Ridge, according to KTRK.
A sprawling, 33,000-acre development just north of Houston once dubbed "the world's largest trailer park," Colony Ridge first made national headlines more than two years ago after the development was accused of luring mainly Spanish-speakers into loans with exorbitant interest rates, often leading to foreclosure. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton previously claimed that the foreclosure rate at Colony Ridge was 50 times greater than the 2023 national average.
In their respective statements about the settlement, both DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and Paxton drew attention to these disturbing allegations.
"Intentionally targeting vulnerable borrowers with the American dream of home ownership and then trapping them in a predatory scheme is not only wrong, it also violates our civil rights laws. This DOJ will go after all lenders, financiers, and land developers who participate in schemes which ultimately encourage illegal immigration," said Dhillon of the DOJ Civil Rights Division.
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"Under my watch, Texas will never be a sanctuary for illegals. Colony Ridge endangered American citizens by allowing illegal aliens to run rampant on its streets, in its schools, and in its community. Now, it’s time for those responsible to pay a steep cost for their unlawful actions," said a statement from Paxton.
"My office will continue to bring the full force of the law against anyone who threatens the safety of our state or creates a safe harbor for illegals."
A year ago, ICE made over 100 arrests in Colony Ridge as part of "phase one" of a larger area operation. According to an agency X post dated February 25, 2025, 118 people were arrested, including those with charges or convictions for "criminal sexual conduct, homicide, theft, negligent manslaughter, child sexual abuse, crimes of moral turpitude, weapons offenses and drug offenses."
The Blaze Originals documentary "The Real Story of Colony Ridge" explores many of the problems at the development. You can access this and other original content by subscribing here.
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