Our Nation's Judiciary is chaotic when Judges rule on politics instead of the law.

 

1st Circuit Halts Rogue Judge’s Bid To Stop Trump’s ‘Third Country’ Deportations

By: Shawn Fleetwood  March 12, 2026 thefederalist.com

In a win for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked a lower court ruling on Wednesday that sought to hinder the government’s deportation operations.

In its short order, the three-judge panel for the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals placed an administrative stay (“pause”) on a recent decision by District Judge Brian Murphy. The Biden appointee issued a ruling last month declaring the administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens to “third countries” (nations other than the individual’s country-of-origin) to be unlawful and blocked its enforcement.

The 1st Circuit panel of two Biden appointees and a Bush 43 appointee determined “[a]fter careful review” that an administrative stay temporarily pausing Murphy’s order “is appropriate.” The judges further indicated their intent to “promptly” issue a complete ruling on revoking the lower court’s blockade.

The appellate court’s decision authorizes the Trump administration to move forward with its deportation policy as litigation on the matter continues.

Wednesday’s ruling comes as another humiliating moment for Murphy, who has a history of openly defying the U.S. Supreme Court on the matter.

The nation’s highest court temporarily stayed (6-3) a preliminary injunction issued by Murphy last year on the administration’s “third country” deportations. Not to be outdone, the Biden appointee issued a directive to the federal government hours later, in which he claimed that his initial block on the policy was not affected by the Supreme Court’s ruling.

The Trump administration subsequently asked the Supreme Court to clarify its order. This time, in a 7-2 decision, the high court affirmed that its ruling did, in fact, cover Murphy’s initial injunction.

The incident prompted stinging criticisms from Associate Justice Elena Kagan. In a statement concurring with the high court’s clarification, the Obama appointee noted that while she disagreed with the Supreme Court’s initial decision to block Murphy’s injunction, she does “not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this Court has stayed.”

The legal battle over the Trump administration’s deportation policies is one of many playing out in federal courtrooms across America, as left-wing activists wage a full-throated judicial coup against the sitting president.

Filing lawsuits in district courts dominated by Democrat-appointed judges, these leftists have sought to weaponize the legal system to grind the administration’s policy agenda to a halt. And in many cases, these rogue judges have played along with such a strategy.

Just last week, a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals shot down a request by the government to freeze a lower court blockade on its revocation of Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian nationals residing in the United States. The Department of Justice appealed the decision to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

 

Selective law enforcement is worse than no law enforcement. Sanctuary policies disrupt law enforcement.

 

Florida Attorney General threatens to remove Tampa Mayor Jane Castor over TPD’s ‘sanctuary policies’

By WTVT Web Staff  March 11, 2026 fox35orlando.com

The Brief

• Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to Mayor Jane Castor accusing the Tampa Police Department of violating state law by enacting ‘sanctuary policies’.
• The Attorney General is upset the department is not disclosing immigration backgrounds for witnesses and victims.
• Castor responded saying the city will review the concerns and evaluate the policies and procedures.

TAMPA, Fla. - State Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to Tampa Mayor Jane Castor accusing the Tampa Police Department of violating state law by enacting "sanctuary policies." 

What we know:

In the letter, he said that a sanctuary policy means a law, policy, practice, procedure or custom adopted or allowed by a local governmental entity that prohibits or impedes law enforcement agency from communicating or cooperating with a federal immigration agency.

He claims in the letter that the department illegally restricts how officers cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

 His biggest issue is that he says the department isn't disclosing immigration backgrounds for witnesses and victims. In the letter he said, "TPD ostensibly supports these policies because they do not want ‘illegal aliens’ to be concerned with immigration consequences by cooperating with law enforcement."

READ: Florida woman nearly drowned by illegal immigrant who smoked pot, drank alcohol after ‘violent’ attack: MCSO

He said the law is clear and that sanctuary policies are prohibited in Florida, and he wants Castor to reverse the policies by March 31. If the policies aren't reversed, Uthmeier said it would "risk the enforcement of all applicable civil penalties," which would include removing Castor from her office as Tampa's mayor. 

The other side:

Castor then released a statement in response to the letter. 

"In light of the Attorney General’s letter today, the City of Tampa will review the concerns raised and evaluate our policies and procedures to ensure that we use best efforts to support the enforcement of federal immigration law.

Tampa is one of the safest cities of our size in the nation because we built trust with our community through collaboration. The Tampa Police Department signed the 287(g) and developed its immigration enforcement policy in consultation with partner agencies and law enforcement associations to ensure all immigration-related actions are carried out according to state and federal law."

Dig deeper:

The Tampa Police Department told FOX 13 on Wednesday that there are six officers and two supervisors from the department who are part of the 287(g) program. 

287(g) programs are mandatory for all 67 Florida county jails and correctional facilities under state law. 

READ: Neighbors urge St. Pete leaders to end police cooperation agreement with ICE

However, they are not mandatory for city-level police departments. But, they are strongly encouraged. 

The Source: FOX 13 gathered this information from a letter sent by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a response from Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, as well as information from the Tampa Police Department.

 

Because of both illegal and legal mass immigration, the U. K. is now a lost cause. Other nations have suffered similar destruction; are we next?

 

Diversity and the Death of England

It’s risky to maintain a friendship with a nation intent on committing suicide.

Jeremy Egerer | March 13, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

The whole point of Impractical Jokers is a few pranksters doing things, on purpose, which violate the norms of our society.  This is what’s known as comedy.  In real life, the whole point of a border is keeping people out who violate the norms of our society by accident.  This is what we know as “having a country.”

Now, we all know that a country can be comical, but things get serious when too many people from too many countries start violating your norms willy-nilly.  For instance, do Americans stand in line or crowd to the front?  Do we throw trash in the garbage bins or on the street?  How loudly can we play our music with the windows open?  And can anybody park on the lawn?

Things get more uncomfortable when you ask, at what age is an impregnable women too young?  And can you just follow one around if she’s alone, or stare at her on the bus?  Do you have to wash your hands before making a stranger a hot dog?  And should people own actual dogs?  And can you blast prayers at six in the morning from the top of a building?  And do you have to hold it all in, or can you just poop on the street?

(Fooled you on that last one.  In San Francisco, almost anyone can fit in except Republicans.)

Some other differences go well beyond laws and affect the norms.  George Patton writes in his memoirs that when he visited the sultan in Morocco, a leopard broke out of its cage and ran straight into the harem.  A lot of screams were heard, and the sultan took off.  And when he came back, he told Patton (with a calm face) not to worry.  It just got one of the concubines in the neck.  The real wives were all safe, so they could carry as usual.

This is the kind of thing that pisses Americans off, but it highlights a crucial difference between American and Arabian society.  In 1942 Morocco, a man of eminence could pile up dozens of women of no eminence, and sometimes they got bled to death by leopards.  In modern America, a woman of no eminence can pile up men of eminence and bleed them dry on her own.  This is what we refer to as “alimony” and “child support,” and if a man tries to escape the harem, we throw him in another one where the sultan is his cellmate.

Thus, so far from being against ethnic diversity, I’m for it — somewhere else.  The great value of having other countries (and dare I say it: other states) is that you can view them from a distance.  The chief benefit of viewing them from a distance is you can find out which things you want to do yourself and which things you want the cops to shoot at.

This is the conservative’s idea of diversity.  It’s a plan where clear distinctions lie between “us” and “them” so we can delineate between the two and plan accordingly.  If you like this sort of thing, you believe deeply in Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  The problem with the leftist’s diversity is that the diversity happens right at home, so by the time you realize you hate something, you’re stuck with it.  Also, you have to like it.  This is the whole point of HR and DIE — not to let anyone at work say, “I really support ICE.”

One country I’m really glad is “over there” is Great Britain — for the simple reason that the British will consider anybody “British.”  And for the additional reason that if you disagree with who can be British in Britain, you can end up in prison.

That’s why more people get arrested in Britain than in Russia for having opinions.  It’s also why Mohamed is the most popular name in the country.  And when Pakis started raping thousands of little girls, it’s the reason police swept the accusations under the rug.  Simply put, Brits wanted to defend everything but Britishness — and that’s why the United Arab Emirates won’t send any students to college in England.  The UAE took one look at the radical Islamists in Oxford and decided that Oxford was too much like Mohamed to let the Islamic students back into Arabia.

Yesterday, our forefathers would have burned the whole world because the British wanted to tax us too much.  Today, our forefathers would burn the whole world because the British tax their citizens to fund all the wrong things.  I include here such laudable expenditures as disarming law-abiding citizens, hiding crime by foreigners, feeding terrorists and layabouts, making a joke out of God, and terrorizing the ethnically British.  Sixty years ago, the whole civilized world was allied against Soviet Russia.  Today we have not just an interest, but a moral obligation to have the whole free world ally ourselves against the general ethos of Great Britain.

Whether Russia belongs on our team, in the age of China, is a fair question.  Whether the U.K. belongs on it without respecting themselves is obvious.  A country should always question whether its allies are the kind of people who commit murder.  But a country should never ally itself with a country in the middle of a suicide.

Thus, we wish Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain the best of luck.  And if he gets crushed by the DIE machine, we wish Britain itself the worst of it.

 

Wake up America - call your elected leaders and demand they pass the 'Save Act'!

 

We must hang together to save America’s fragile liberty

America has weathered past existential crises by hanging together and fighting. That’s still our job today.

Albin Sadar | March 11, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

America is only a few short months away from celebrating its quarter-of-a-millennial birthday, which is being officially feted as “America 250,” as well as its “Super Centennial.” But can America survive for another fifty years, all the way to its Tri-Centennial Celebration? Even as Trump fights an existential war abroad, there’s one here at home, too.

Without question, the country has had a long and glorious lifespan. However, as the world surely knows, its life has not been without errors when it was navigating rocky roads and dangerous waters, and its survival was iffy, at best. One need only go back 165 years to the Civil War to verify that observation.

Of course, at the moment of our nation’s creation, it experienced multiple “birth pangs.” But the men and women who willingly put their very lives on the line did so despite knowing that the outcome was not guaranteed. The nation could have been stillborn in the earliest days of its fight for survival against the overwhelming might of the British Empire.

Just recently, I was reminded of both the fight for America’s survival during the Civil War years (the nation might not have reached even its Centennial celebration) and its founding conflict, when I took one of my many walks through the famous cemetery in my neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the final resting place of many captains of industry (families such as the Rockefellers and Carnegies), as well as this country’s very first internationally recognized literary giant, Washington Irving.

Within the borders of the expansive cemetery are monuments commemorating both the Civil War and Revolutionary War dead. These landmarks are stark reminders of how fragile a nation’s life can be.

The words carved in stone on the Revolutionary monument remind us:

 

Photo by the author.

1776 - 1783

In Memory

of the

OFFICERS and SOLDIERS

of the

REVOLUTION

who by their valor

sustained the cause of liberty

and independence

on these historic fields.

While we honor the dead, it’s important to remember the raw courage of the living, including those too old to take to the battlefield themselves. When he signed his name to the Declaration of Independence, an act of treason in the eyes of King George III and the British Crown, and therefore a hanging offense, Benjamin Franklin allegedly made this grim observation: “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

That ominous observation recently came to mind when one of Barack Obama’s henchwomen, Susan Rice, laid out the Democrats’ game plan once they regain power. On a recent podcast, she warned that those who “take a knee to Trump” would be getting a reckoning. Rice stated that the Democrats would not be “playing by the old rules” when it came to retribution.

Rice was making it clear: Do not align yourself now with Trump or any of his tens of millions of supporters and followers. Your time is “not going to end well.” We know that’s not an empty promise. Those who ventured to Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, not just because they believed that the 2020 election was stolen, but because they knew it was flipped for Biden...well, they saw that the Democrats excel at revenge.

Rice’s promised “lawfare” will once again be redefined, smashing all previous Funk & Wagnalls definitions (Rowan and Martin will be turning over in their graves).

So, what can derail the Democrats’ destructive engine?

Might “hanging together” in these critical days be strongly advised?

Might “patriotism in action” be the solution?

President Trump has made it abundantly clear that two major standards are needed for defining a nation: secure borders and honest elections.

The border is secure. However, the S.A.V.E. America Act is still twisting in the wind.

Within months of the spectacular celebratory events surrounding July 4, 2026, Americans will once again have the sacred opportunity to head to the polls to choose their leaders. The choices this year could not be more stark. The Democrats will be clearly and unabashedly out for revenge.

Two things are now necessary to—again, in Franklin’s words—keep the Republic: Patriots must maintain the pressure on elected officials to pass S.A.V.E., and then they must vote in overwhelming numbers this November. No one can afford to sit this one out.

These actions will uphold the Republican majority in Washington and assure that President Trump’s impressive and powerful agenda continues to stave off America’s “fundamental transformation.”