Everybody's tabbing for the weekend ...
Mistakenly deported Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on his way back to the United States where he will face criminal charges for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., according to sources familiar with the matter.
More than two months after the Trump administration admitted it mistakenly deported Abrego Garcia from Maryland to his native El Salvador, a federal grand jury has indicted him for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the United States, ABC News has learned.
Ed: Be careful what you wish for! The FBI may not have taken an interest in human trafficking in the Merrick Garland/Joe Biden era, but they take an interest in it now -- and the statute of limitation left some time on the clock.
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BREAKING 🚨Kilmar Abrego Garcia is coming back to America to face criminal charges of transporting illegal immigrant aliens within America
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) June 6, 2025
HE NEEDS TO BE RE DEPORTED AGAIN
El Salvador will gladly have him back pic.twitter.com/mSYBcDWYcb
Ed: Eventually he will be, but not before doing a few years behind bars here in the US. His next ticket to El Salvador will not have a return ticket on it. In fairness, though, a court will look at his return now and conclude that the administration could have brought him back at any time. Judge Boasberg will not be amused.
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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Friday sniffed he could care less about Elon Musk — who once mocked him as “dumber than a sack of bricks.”
“I’m not glad or whatever,” Navarro told reporters when asked about Musk’s new persona non grata status with the Trump administration. “People come and go from the White House.”
Ed: Usually not so noticeably, though. Navarro tried to make it all about business, but the two of them went after each other on personal terms a couple of months ago, and Navarro has to be somewhat amused at the change in fortunes at the White House.
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.@benshapiro on the straw that broke the camel's back between President Trump and Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/Lfaar5ZZBj
— The Ben Shapiro Show (@BenShapiroShow) June 6, 2025
Ed: *sigh* I could understand Musk's frustration with the lack of progress on DOGE in the reconciliation bill and more generally on rescissions. Anger on that score, while somewhat misplaced, would be nonetheless principled. But flipping out over not getting your crony appointed to a government position and then going the full Epstein files over it? Come on, man. Even if Isaacman is that good of a choice, that's nuts.
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In a stunning reversal of last year's misguided attempt to overthrow the Electoral College, Maine’s House of Representatives recently voted to withdraw the state from the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). Three Democrats and two Independents joined Republicans in the vote for withdrawal.
The NPVIC is an agreement among member states and the District of Columbia to award their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote once states with a majority of electoral votes join. Democrats created it after George W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but beat Al Gore in the Electoral College, assuming the popular vote would continue favoring Democrats, and the Electoral College would continue favoring Republicans. However, Democrats might reconsider this scheme, considering their party's increasing unpopularity.
Ed: That withdrawal would still have to pass the state senate, which has a more significant Democrat majority. Are Democrats willing to give up on this project after just one popular-vote presidential loss in 20 years? Color me skeptical.
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This is embarrassing.
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) June 6, 2025
Liberal public safety minister Gary Anandasangaree is now in charge of the Liberal gun ban and “buyback” program.
He has zero understanding of the basics and had to be passed a note.
pic.twitter.com/suCFXIInUW
Ed: The spirit of Joe Biden lives in Canada! I see Canadian gun-grabbers are just as well informed as their American cousins.
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A pair of bills cracking down on sanctuary cities passed the House of Representatives this week — with the support of multiple Democrats.
On Thursday, the House passed a bill to withdraw Small Business Administration (SBA) services from jurisdictions that shelter illegal immigrants.
The legislation passed the House in a 211 to 199 vote, with five Democrats joining the GOP: Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Laura Gillen of New York, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington.
Ed: At least a few Democrats have learned a lesson, although Cuellar and Golden already were smart enough to know that sanctuary cities are a really stupid idea in an electorate furious over Joe Biden's open borders. But even that has only produced five Democrats willing to go on the record to oppose it.
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This Isn’t “Free Speech.” This is Terrorism on Campus. @TheTonus
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) June 6, 2025
A Columbia protester indicted on 3 federal hate crimes wasn’t just anti-Israel—he had ties to Hamas’ Al Qassam Brigades.
Tarek Bazrouk, who called himself a “Jew hater,” allegedly plotted to set a student on fire… pic.twitter.com/psfe4DDjKP
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In an emergency appeal filed Friday morning, Solicitor General John Sauer asked the high court to lift a preliminary injunction a federal judge in Boston issued last month after determining that such sweeping staffing cuts would cripple the agency’s ability to carry out functions assigned to it by Congress. ....
Sauer said Boston-based U.S. District Judge Myong Joun’s order was part of a pattern of federal judges overstepping their proper role and second-guessing executive branch decisions.
The Constitution “does not empower district courts to presume that all 1,400 employees must be reinstated to their previous jobs and functions based on anecdotal speculation about impairment of some of the Department’s services,” Sauer wrote, adding: “The Department remains committed to implementing its statutorily mandated functions.”
Ed: And ONLY those functions. That's all they are required to do, and judges don't have any standing to force the executive branch to do anything else.
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We've already perished from net neutrality so no worries. https://t.co/cAmMM2uoV6
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 6, 2025
Ed: OMG, Jeffries did the meme! Never go Full Remy, man. From seven years ago, Reason TV's Remy perfectly nailed this kind of demagoguery.
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