Supreme Court gives Trump massive victory on restricting mail-in voting

The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with President Donald Trump against a collection of Democrat-controlled states who sued to oppose his executive order restricting mail-in ballots.
The highest court of the land found in a partisan 5-3 ruling that the states did not have standing to sue against the president's order and overturned a lower court order to block the restrictions in 23 states.
'Only Democrat politicians and operatives would be upset about lawful efforts to secure American elections.'
"This internal directive does not regulate the States' voter registration processes," read the order from the Supreme Court. "Nor does it impinge on the States' authority 'to create and enforce a legal code' for elections."
However, the majority ruling warned that not all measures taken by the executive to implement the order will be necessarily lawful.
"On that score, time will tell," the majority said.
The court's three liberal justices dissented from the ruling.
The executive order from March directed the Department of Homeland Security to tabulate a list of citizens eligible to vote. It then called on the U.S. Postal Service to only accept ballots from people on the list.
U.S. attorneys general from several Democrat states sued to stop the order on the basis that it would disenfranchise some voters who could vote lawfully.
"Only Democrat politicians and operatives would be upset about lawful efforts to secure American elections and ensure only eligible American citizens are casting ballots," read a statement from White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson in April.
In her dissent Monday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the president of seeking to "foment chaos ahead of the November elections."
Justice Sonya Sotomayor said the ruling only "postpones" the adjudication of the president's order.
"Today's decision does not address whether the President's attempts to interfere with States' administration of the November 2026 elections are lawful," wrote Sotomayor in a dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan.
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"Nor does it suggest that the Executive Branch has any constitutional or statutory authority to implement the President's directives," they added.
New York Attorney General Letitia James agreed with Sotomayor in her own statement on the ruling.
"This decision is a painful setback, but it will not be the final word," she wrote. "The right to vote is sacred, and no administration should be allowed to put that right in jeopardy by making it harder for eligible voters to cast their ballots."
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Anti-white agitpropist Karen Attiah appears to have gotten the last laugh with the Washington Post, despite dancing on the grave of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated last September.
A private labor arbitrator, Sarah Miller Espinosa, has ordered Jeff Bezos' newspaper not only to hire back Attiah but to compensate her with back pay and lost benefits.
'We cannot tolerate the risk your performance poses to The Post.'
According to the Sept. 11, 2025, termination letter that Attiah shared online, the Washington Post fired Attiah for "gross misconduct."
"Your comments on social media regarding the death of Charlie Kirk violate The Post's social media policies, harm the integrity of our organization, and potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff," said the letter. "Among other requirements, the Company-wide social media policy mandates that all employee social media postings be respectful and prohibits postings that disparage people based on their race, gender or other protected characteristics."
The paper flagged two posts Attiah made on the liberal X knockoff Bluesky just hours after Charlie Kirk's death.
In the first, she wrote, "Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is.... not the same as violence." In the second, she wrote, "Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence."
Attiah also wrote: "For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on"; and "If anything, the rush to coddle violent white men is self-protective — that we know they are not used to feeling vulnerable and mortal — and will react violently out of fear. And we will all suffer."
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"The poor judgment exhibited by your public comments regarding Charlie Kirk arise against the backdrop of documented performance concerns, which have been raised with you," said the Post's termination letter. "Given these concerns, and in light of your recent unacceptable Bluesky posts, we cannot tolerate the risk your performance poses to The Post."
When faced with potential consequence over her actions, Attiah masqueraded as a victim.
Attiah claimed in a Substack post that she was fired for "speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns."
After suggesting that she was "being silenced" for doing her job, the agitpropist proceeded to smear Kirk again, accusing the dead father of two of, among other things, attacking black women "as a group" and endangering academics by "putting them on watch lists."
Attiah, a member of the Washington Post Guild, filed a challenge to her firing and retained the representation of the Democracy Defenders Fund, co-founded by former Obama official Norm Eisen. Eisen and the rest of the legal team claimed in a Sept. 24 letter to the Post that Attiah "spoke truthfully and forcefully about matters of vital public concern, and her performance is worthy of praise — not condemnation — for speaking difficult truths at a challenging time."
The matter was ultimately decided on Aug. 20 in arbitration.
Espinosa, the arbitrator, stated that the interpretation that Attiah's posts disparage white men "is unsupported by the actual words, as well as the context, of the Grievant's posts"; that "the Washington Post failed to establish the Grievant engaged in gross misconduct"; and the paper lacked a good and sufficient cause to fire Attiah.
Eisen said of the order, "The Post tried to pass off retaliation as discipline, but the rule of law has exposed it for what it truly is: wrongful termination. This is a landmark decision for every journalist who refuses to be silenced."
Attiah said, "This decision confirms what we’ve said from the start: I was doing my job as an opinion journalist, and doing that job is not misconduct."
A spokesperson for the Post told Blaze News that the paper respects the arbitration process and declines to comment further.
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RACISM blamed for Indiana residents being without power after storms — ignoring that thugs are shooting at utility workers

Some residents of Gary, Indiana, have been without electricity for weeks, and many in the black community are rushing to blame racism and discrimination.
Deadly storms knocked over electricity poles and brought damaging flooding to northeast Indiana, including Gary, and initially knocked out power for about 300,000 residents.
'It's full of black people. We the blackest city out here, so they don't want to check on us.'
While the Northern Indiana Public Service Company has been working to return power to customers, it has been hampered by violence targeting utilities workers.
On Aug. 14, restoration efforts were paused after a utility truck was damaged by gunfire. No injuries were reported.
"These aren't simple repairs,” said Melody Birmingham, an executive at the parent company of NIPSCO. "These are lines that ordinarily take us, and systems that ordinarily take weeks or months that we are trying to accomplish in days or weeks."
She rejected accusations that NIPSCO was neglecting the city because a majority of its population is black.
"We have areas that are probably affluent where we still have customers out as well. ... This has nothing to do with race or any type of division," said Birmingham, who is black. "It’s really a matter of where the storm hit."
Among the most prominent voices blaming racism are Dr. Bernice King, the daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr.
"What is happening in Gary, Indiana, raises a deeper question about whose communities are treated with urgency," she wrote on social media Monday.
"Black communities have too often been expected to endure neglect, absorb the consequences, and keep surviving," she added. "No community should have to prove that its families are worthy of immediate care. Our communities deserve more than survival. Black communities deserve to be valued."
Others are speaking out to the media.
"We know why they not coming out here though. I mean it's obvious, you know, it's obvious" said one resident named Amara to BreakThrough News.
"It's full of black people. We the blackest city out here, so they don't want to check on us."
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Some residents signed onto a class-action lawsuit against the company for allegedly neglecting the area and setting up the conditions for far worse damage from the storms.
Six adults and one boy were killed as a result of the storms, according to the state Department of Homeland Security.
NIPSCO indicated that it was close to returning power to most Gary residents sometime this week.
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Trump SLAMS Canada with MASSIVE tariffs over rejected trade deal — and Canada responds defiantly

President Donald Trump has threatened to punish Canada with 50% tariffs on automotive and steel imports after the country's leaders rejected his trade deal offer.
In a post on Truth Social on Monday, he cited Canada's tariffs on farms and said the situation was no longer sustainable. The new tariffs will go into effect on New Year's Day, 2027, the president said.
'We’re all in ... everyone’s in for an economic war.'
"On January First, 2027, Tariffs on all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel, will be increased to 50%. Build in the U.S. and there are ZERO TARIFFS," wrote the president.
"Canada will be treated like a State no longer!" he added. "On Trade, and in other ways, also, they are among the worst Nations in the World to deal with. They feel entitled, and yet, WE DON’T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!"
Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded defiantly to the tariffs.
"He underestimates Canada. We’re all in,” Ford said. “Up here, we’re at a fever pitch, everyone’s in for an economic war. They know they’re going to have to sacrifice."
On Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from talks with the Trump administration on trade, and the U.S. responded on Saturday by immediately imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products.
Carney said Canada would retaliate with reciprocal tariffs beginning Sept. 8.
Ford went on to threaten to cut off energy and materials from Ontario to the U.S.
"I’ll cut them off," Ford said in reference to critical minerals. "You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario."
He noted that Canada provides electricity for about 1.5 million homes and businesses.
"He can kiss my ass as far as I'm concerned," Ford added.
"We need to throw everything and the kitchen sink at him. He's arrogant, he's cocky."
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Canada is one of the largest trading partners of the U.S., but the U.S. depends far less on Canadian imports than our neighbor to the north depends on U.S. imports.
About 59% of Canada's imports come from the U.S., while only 12.6% of U.S. imports come from Canada.
The Trump administration also launched a new campaign Monday to cripple Iran through economic sanctions in order to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz completely.
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James Talarico shamelessly politicizes Amazon worker's tragic death to attack capitalism

The Democrat candidate for one of two U.S. Senate seats for Texas was seemingly caught spreading misinformation about an emergency incident at an Amazon warehouse.
James Talarico was campaigning at a church when he referred to an incident at an Amazon warehouse in which an employee died.
'Lying isn’t very Christian. And that’s what you’re doing here because that’s not what happened.'
He posted a video of his comments to social media on Sunday to spread the message against corporate greed.
"An Amazon worker died in one of Amazon's warehouses. And as he lay dying, management told the other workers: 'Turn around. Don't look. Get back to work.' Get back to work? That was a human being. That was a child of God," Talarico claimed.
"Sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed," he added.
An Amazon employee did die after collapsing at an Oregon facility in April in Troutdale, Oregon, and that story has been used by Democrats and other activists to attack capitalism, though Amazon has specifically denied allegations about it.
Amazon responded to a Blaze News request for comment by directing to a previous statement about the incident, denying the "misinformation" being spread online.
"Sadly, one of our teammates collapsed during his shift from what we now understand as a pre-existing medical issue. When our onsite team was notified, three CPR certified team members, including two from our on-site safety team, provided CPR and deployed an automated defibrillator until emergency medical services (EMS) arrived shortly after."
The statement went on to say that the area was cordoned off while the company's safety teams and EMS cared for the worker. Unfortunately, the employee passed away.
And in contrast to criticism casting Amazon as cold and heartless in its response, the company outlined steps taken to protect the man's privacy and to care for the other workers at the warehouse.
"Shortly after this event occurred, employees were sent home with pay for the rest of the day," they added. "When we resumed operations the following day, any employee who requested time off was given that time, and onsite grief counselors were provided to anybody who chose to come to work and needed them."
Many online found Talarico's politicization of the man's death to be inappropriate and crass, especially as the Democrat regularly cites Christianity in his campaign.
"Lying isn’t very Christian. And that’s what you’re doing here because that’s not what happened," said one critic.
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"Total LIE about the actual events. Do you EVER tell the truth??" said another.
"You don’t turn someone’s distress into a sideshow Talarico," responded one detractor. "You allow medical personnel and others qualified to handle the situation and ask everyone else to leave the scene. And it’s also exactly what the first responders tell you too. And another reason you are unfit to serve in our senate."
Amazon has been hounded by critics pointing out that its workers are twice as likely to be injured as non-Amazon workers. Another report found that Amazon warehouses had 30% more injuries than the industry average in 2023.
The company responded to the criticism by noting Amazon had invested $2.5 billion in increased safety standards.
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Anti-Islam activist thrown out of church, assaulted by black-clad suspects

Right-wing activist Eoin Richard was carried out of a church over the weekend after an anti-Islam protest ended in chaos.
Richard intended to launch his Take Back L.A.: Free Speech Rally on Sunday at the Islamic Center of Southern California, but he ended up at Precious Blood Catholic Church after claiming to have received death threats. He was quickly outnumbered by counterprotesters, chased through the church, and assaulted at a nearby Starbucks.
‘We aren’t going to be able to march to the Islamic Center due to threats on our lives.’
In videos posted to Instagram, Richard and at least one supporter are seen fleeing into Precious Blood Catholic Church while agitators follow closely behind.
After being picked up and removed from the church, Richard is cornered at a nearby Starbucks along with his companion. The activist group shouted that he is a “Nazi," a "piece of s**t," and a "terrorist."
"JIHADISTS and ANTIFA storm CATHOLIC CHURCH and abduct EOIN RICHARD after mass," Richard's Instagram caption reads.
Masked assailants later poured blue paint all over Richard and his companion. Eventually, Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived to escort the men from the store. They did not appear to make any arrests.
A day prior to the confrontation, multiple Islamic organizations drew attention to Richard’s event.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations Los Angeles, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California condemned Richard’s rally in a press release Saturday.
“ICSC has served as a place of worship, community, and belonging in L.A. for generations. Attempts to bring hate, intimidation, or fear to the doorstep of any house of worship have no place in our city,” ICSC spokesperson Omar Ricci said in a statement. “We will not allow those who seek to divide our communities to define who we are or how we respond.”
MPAC even provided its followers with detailed background information on Eoin Richard, sometimes referred to as Eoin Richard Connolly, and his activism.
“There is no identified public evidence that Connolly has explicitly called for violence against the Islamic Center, Muslims, or event participants,” MPAC admitted in its community alert and threat assessment posted to Facebook.
MPAC did, however, warn its followers that Richard’s flyer combined “explicitly Christian mobilization with Crusader-associated symbolism” and that he had “documented relationships with activists involved in confrontational protests.”
“We aren’t going to be able to march to the Islamic Center due to threats on our lives. But we’re still having our rally here, rallying with Christians and Catholics here in L.A.,” Richard said in an Instagram story filmed outside of Precious Blood.
Richard, Precious Blood Catholic Church, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, MPAC, the LAPD, CAIR-LA, and the ICSC did not respond to requests for comment.
It is unclear who removed Richard from the church.
Richard was previously a candidate for Los Angeles mayor, according to the L.A. Times.
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'I can't control myself': Karmelo Anthony's attempt to undo his conviction runs into obstacle — his past

Karmelo Anthony, who savagely murdered 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet last year, appealed to have his conviction and corresponding 35-year prison sentence thrown out.
Anthony's attempt to forgo the legal consequences of his actions is off to a rocky start.
'Im gonna lick there blood off the blade.'
After District Judge John Roach Jr. — who presided over Anthony's trial — was recused last week from overseeing subsequent steps of the case, Anthony's lawyers made their play for a new trial before retired Judge Michael Chitty, who replaced Roach.
With the push for a new trial came new character evidence about the killer and his victim — evidence from police reports, school records, and cellphone data that was previously withheld owing to what prosecutor Bill Wirskye referred to as a "gentleman's agreement" between prosecutors and the defense.
According to court documents referred to in court and reviewed by CBS News, hours before killing Metcalf, Anthony allegedly sent a text message stating, "I'm lowk on the verge."
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That same morning, the killer's ex-girlfriend notified a staff member at Centennial High School that Anthony was "engaging in stalking behavior, to include, but not limited to, driving by her home and refusing to allow her to end their relationship," said prosecutors.
Prosecutors also highlighted text messages where Anthony allegedly admitted to punching girls in the face and committing burglaries; discussed robbing someone for $300; threatened to vandalize a house because of a "grudge"; and told a friend, "Imma shoot the school up tmr" "with my blick."
According to a message thread between Anthony and his ex-girlfriend presented in court, Anthony allegedly wrote, "I like punching people"; "when get mad I see red"; "when I get mad I blackout"; and "when I get mad I can't control myself."
Prosecutors also alleged that Anthony had not only repeatedly threatened to murder his ex-girlfriend but in one instance allegedly texted her, "When I stab sb im gonna lick there blood off the blade," reported KXAS-TV.
This sharing exercise was a two-way street, and some allegations about Metcalf and his brother were likewise revealed.
Metcalf and his twin brother, Hunter, were once caught spray-painting racist remarks and sentenced to 12 months of juvenile probation. The documents also raised allegations about Metcalf using racial slurs in school, swearing at a teacher, discussing bringing a gun to school, bullying at least two other students, and texting provocative statements.
On Saturday, Judge Chitty denied the defense's retrial without elaboration.
"Our commitment to our client has not changed," said Russell Wilson, an attorney for Anthony, reported the Associated Press. "We will continue to advocate vigorously on his behalf through every lawful avenue available."
The defense will reportedly continue an appeal in the Fifth Court of Appeals.
Blaze News did not immediately receive a response from Wilson.
Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis stated, "We respect, and expected, the court’s decision denying the motion for a new trial."
"The jury’s guilty verdict stands, and we remain confident in the process. Every defendant has the right to appeal, and our thoughts and prayers remain with the Metcalf family in the painful wake of last week’s hearing," added Willis.
The Stand With Karmelo Coalition said in response to the ruling,
We continue to maintain that serious constitutional and legal errors denied Karmelo Anthony the fair trial to which he was entitled. The restrictions placed on public access to his trial raised fundamental Sixth Amendment concerns. The defense made consequential decisions throughout the trial in reliance upon an agreement with the State concerning the evidence that would — and would not — be introduced, only to have the State change its position at a critical point in the proceedings. And we maintain that errors in the jury instructions impaired the jury’s consideration of the issue at the very heart of Karmelo’s defense: whether he acted in self-defense.
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Woke American Bar Association 'confident' it will fend off Trump's fight to strip it of law school accreditation 'monopoly'

The days of the American Bar Association overseeing the accreditation of law schools may be numbered.
The ABA has enjoyed the authority to accredit law schools since 1952. This authority is vested in the ABA Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, which is supposedly independent.
'It should not have any role, much less a monopoly role, in law school accreditation.'
However, critics have suggested that the ABA is insufficiently independent of the institutions and profession it is overseeing.
Currently, the ABA's legal ed council fully or provisionally accredits nearly 200 law schools.
Thirteen of the programs approved and accredited by the ABA are freestanding law schools with no affiliation to a college or university. Their ABA accreditation renders them eligible to participate in federal financial student aid programs.
More consequentially, the Wall Street Journal — which first reported on the proposed termination of the council's accreditation authority — noted that in most U.S. states, law school graduates' ability to take the bar exam is conditional on their school's approval by the ABA.
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The ABA's accreditation authority, last renewed in 2021, comes up for renewal next month.
According to a notice by the Education Department posted in the Federal Register on Friday, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity is scheduled to meet on Sept. 23 and 24 and will discuss the petition for renewal of recognition filed by the ABA's legal ed council.
Daniel Thies, the previous chair of the ABA's legal ed council, will appear as a witness. He declined Blaze News' request for comment.
According to a report made public on Friday, Education Department staff have recommended that the ABA legal ed council be stripped of its oversight and accreditation authority, citing in part the council's insufficient independence from the profession.
An Education Department spokesperson confirmed in a statement to Blaze News, "After reviewing ABA’s accreditation standards, Department staff found the accreditor out of compliance with the agency’s accreditation regulations and recognition standards."
"We will not comment on details, as the process is ongoing and involves multiple stages of review, including by an independent, bipartisan advisory committee in September," added the spokesperson.
Melissa Hart, a Democrat who previously served on the Colorado Supreme Court and now serves as chairwoman of the ABA's legal ed council, figures that the ABA will make a convincing case and ultimately retain its accreditation authority.
Hart said in a statement to the Blaze News, "The Council is confident it complies with the Higher Education Act and with the Department’s requirements for accreditors. We look forward to the opportunity to address any misconceptions and clarify the record at our upcoming hearing before the NACIQI committee next month."
"An initial recommendation from Department staff represents one step in the regular recognition process that the Council and other accreditors periodically complete," continued Hart. "A hearing with NACIQI is the next step in that process, and we’re confident the Council will address any concerns the Department may have at that hearing."
After the meeting next month, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity will issue its own recommendation to Undersecretary of Education Nicholas Kent.
Kent appears keen on accreditation reform. He said in a statement on Wednesday, "The Trump Administration’s proposed changes to the accreditation system are intended to reorient our quality assurance framework so that accreditors prioritize student outcomes rather than bureaucratic processes or the promotion of divisive and unlawful ideological agendas."
"Instead of ensuring institutions offer high-quality educational programs that justify the time and cost of a college education, the antiquated accreditation system has contributed to inflated tuition, administrative bloat, and ideology-driven mandates on college campuses," added Kent.
While the White House did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment, it's clear that the ABA is on the president's radar.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April 2025 tasking Education Secretary Linda McMahon with holding accountable, "through denial, monitoring, suspension, or termination of accreditation recognition, accreditors who fail to meet the applicable recognition criteria or otherwise violate Federal law, including by requiring institutions seeking accreditation to engage in unlawful discrimination in accreditation-related activity under the guise of 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' initiatives."
In the order, Trump called out the ABA's legal ed council for requiring law schools "to 'demonstrate by concrete action a commitment to diversity and inclusion' including by 'commit[ting] to having a student body [and faculty] that is diverse with respect to gender, race, and ethnicity.'"
With its accreditation authority now in the balance, the organization — in an apparent effort to counter claims that the ABA is "ideologically captured" — may be kicking DEI to the curb. The ABA's legal ed council voted in May to eliminate its rule requiring law schools to demonstrate commitment to DEI.
The change was not, however, final. According to the ABA Journal, the final determination on whether to jettison the DEI policy is scheduled for Sept. 8.
Conservative legal scholar John Eastman, founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, is among those who welcome the administration's move to remove the ABA from the law school accreditation process.
"It has long ceased to be a politically neutral professional organization and has instead become a front for the radical wing of the Democrat Party, using its accreditation authority to push radical DEI policies, for example," Dr. Eastman told Blaze News. "I witnessed this firsthand when I was dean at Chapman Law School from 2007 to 2010, as we confronted demands for minority hiring and admissions in order to have our accreditation renewed. And one need not look further than the list of Supreme Court cases in which it has filed amicus briefs to confirm the hard-left bent of this organization."
Eastman added, "It should not have any role, much less a monopoly role, in law school accreditation — just like it was removed from its preferred role in the judicial nomination process by President Bush in 2001 (restored by Obama in 2009, but then removed again by Trump in 2017 and not revived since)."
The ABA did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.
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