The decision of the federal court to reject the effort to enjoin the immigration operations means that Attorney General Keith Ellison could not come up with a single cognizable claim of illegality to shoulder this burden... ...Now that a Biden appointee judge has rejected this meritless effort, will Gov. Walz, Attorney General Ellison, and Mayor Frey finally come clean and admit that these operations are lawful? One can disagree with them, but they are solidly within federal law...

Gov. Walz is again inflaming the mob. He is effectively declaring this to be the murder of a citizen who had a permit to carry this weapon. He is saying that the state not the federal government will control the investigation. He does not have that authority... ...The state can clearly have a parallel investigation and the federal government can do a joint investigation. However, he cannot dictate how or who will conduct the investigation...

Frey is again denouncing the officers in the latest shooting before any investigation into the shooting. Gov. Walz preceded him. Frey just said "your children will ask you what side you are on" and "what did you do?" Those words will be taken as a license for escalating these confrontations... ...Many of us have watched this videotape. The view of the hands of the suspect are not clear. We hear the shoot followed by a series of shots. We need to know if the suspect had pulled the gun or the reason for the officers to use lethal force. That would not seem an unreasonable expectation before public condemnations from the governor and the mayor...

Now in control, Virginia Democrats have pursued a radical agenda from a host of new taxes to rent control measures. jonathanturley.org/2026/01/23/wit… Now they are threatening one of the oldest institutions, the Virginia Military Institute, over DEI policies... foxnews.com/us/virginia-de… ...After running as a moderate, Gov. Abigail Spanberger has moved to reverse efforts to moderate Virginia universities, including the appointment of former Gov. Ralph Northam to the VMI board...

Rep. Onder just body slammed Smith on his effort to give Trump's legal team little time to read millions of pages of documents. Smith's response was that he wanted to be sure that Trump got a speedy trial, even though the Trump team was trying to slow down the trial to review his document dump... ...It was a strikingly dishonest moment from Smith, who was clearly pushing for a trial before the election in the view of many of us. Smith insisted that the speedy trial is a public right, but it is not a right that has seemed to motivate him in the past in seeking such a rushed schedule...

The hearing has started with Jack Smith in the Judiciary Committee... ...Smith is giving his opening statement. He stated that he did not consider the upcoming election in his actions. That is hard to square with the extraordinary efforts before the election by Smith, including filings clearly designed to impact voters in the view of many of us...

After taking control of the Virginia government, Democrats unleashed a torrent of new tax proposals and other controversial measures. It is becoming a fringe frenzy, including a bill that would make it more difficult to find federal fraud by nonprofits...foxbusiness.com/politics/somal… ...With billions being investigated for fraud, Virginia Del. Jessica Anderson is pushing HB 1369 bar agencies from requiring recipients to supply federal eligibility information for funds. It appears part of a new state motto: Virginia is for Defrauders. lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/2…

Don Lemon did his best to perfect the case against the protesters in the Minneapolis Church as targeting the congregants over their faith. In what sounds like a pitch for prosecution under the FACE Act, Lemon zeroed in on the religious values of the congregants in a new tirade... ...The former CNN host dismissed criticism for storming a church gathering, explaining "I think people who are, you know, in the religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled, and that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a White supremacy"...

We are 15 minutes away from the oral argument in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. I will be on X and Fox News with the coverage... ...Notably, Lindsay Hecox does not want the Court to hear her case. This may reflect the fact that the Court is likely to not just rule against the claims under the Equal Protection Clause but establish historic new precedent...
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The criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell raises legitimate concerns over retaliation. There was no referral from Congress (as is usually the case in alleged false statements in hearings). There are equally legitimate concerns over the soaring costs, but that is hardly unknown in Washington... ...President Trump has insisted that he did not order the criminal investigation, but the concern is that this is a Becket-like circumstance where associates respond to the implied question of "who will rid me of this meddlesome fed?'

A new video on the cellphone camera of the shooting officer is now available. That is the video that some of us have said that we most wanted to see. It shows the car driving directly into the officer as the wife of Good taunts the officer... ...The speed of the encounter is captured in the new video and reinforces the argument of the officer under the prevailing legal standard. This does not appear to be something akin to being hit by a refrigerator door, according to Mayor Frey...

Jacob Frey is calling for Minnesota to be part of the investigation. Given his infamous declaration of the officer as a murderer and profane attack on ICE, Frey may be the least compelling person to call for such cooperation... ...Frey is confirming that there are "lies, damn lies, and statistics". He is claiming that ICE is responsible for "fifty percent of the shootings" in the city. It is only January 9th. Two shootings have occurred in the first week...

Mayor Jacob Frey just called the claim of self-defense "b*llsh*t" and said that he watched the video. He apologized to the family and said that ICE is in Minnesota to "literally kill people." This is the type of rhetoric that fuels the rage. Perhaps wait for the investigation?... ...Frey says "let us offer the best version of ourselves . . . show them who we are." He added we will meet this moment "with love" while saying "get the f**k out of Minneapolis."

If Maduro thought the seizure operation was scary, wait until he reads this superseding indictment. He is not just facing documented allegations of his facilitating drug transits, but also potential high-level cooperating witnesses...justice.gov/opa/media/1422… ...The indictment details how this was not just a criminal enterprise but a family enterprise. The socialism shtick concealed an alleged burgeoning narcotics operation. Cartel communism was a market-driven business using state power to enforce monopoly power.

The Senate is moving forward with this resolution to block Trump's use of military force in Venezuela: kaine.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
Sponsor Sen. Tim Kaine undermined his claims by showing a striking misunderstanding of inherent presidential powers this week. x.com/JonathanTurley… ...The Democrats are counting on a handful of GOP senators to join them. One of the most discussed is Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The vote will be particularly interesting since ConocoPhillips is Alaska's largest oil producer and is owed billions for the seizure of its assets...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has asserted that the operation violates Article II of the U.N. charter. However, it will be Article II of the U.S. Constitution that will be the primary focus in any litigation.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/… ...The case could present a collision of international and U.S. law. Clearly, taking out the de facto head of state of Venezuela can be challenged under international law. However, this operation seems well within the navigational beacons laid out in past cases like Noriega...

In the oral argument of Nat'l Republican Senatorial Cmte v. Federal Election Comm., many are waiting for the appearance of Marc Elias, the central figure in the Steele dossier scandal and a lawyer who has attacked the Republican majority. ...jonathanturley.org/2025/12/08/mar… ...That distraction aside, the Administration's argument against the Colorado law limiting coordinated spending is being challenged by the liberal justices as Sarah Harris makes the case...

In the longest legal case of sustained comatose life, the case of Fani Willis was finally put to rest today when the formal declination of Pete Skandalakis, the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia. ...apnews.com/live/trump-new… ...As expected, once a competent prosecutor without a political agenda reviewed the case, it collapsed. Some of us have ridiculed the racketeering case as legal and factually incomprehensible...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) actually attacked EPA head Lee Zeldin for receiving money from one “Jeffrey Epstein"-- the problem was that it was a different Jeffrey Epstein, a NY doctor... ...Zeldon responded.

https://x.com/LeeMZeldin/status/1990993148244312175?s=20

Hunter Biden appears intent on showing that rage can be as addictive as drugs. In his latest profane tirade, Biden viciously attacked journalist Miranda Devine as "horrendously ugly" and a "whore" for exposing his influence peddling and corruption... ...I have previously noted how Devine and her colleagues defied virtually all of the establishment media in doggedly pursuing the laptop story. There will be no Pulitzer for them, of course. That went to the Times and the Post for the debunked Russiagate story...

The acquittal of former Justice Department employee Sean Dunn today seems more like the result of jury nullification than deliberation. Dunn did not deny throwing his sandwich and hitting an officer in the misdemeanor case. ... foxnews.com/us/ex-doj-work… ...His counsel argued that it was all just free speech: "It was a harmless gesture at the end of him exercising his right to speak out." So now citizens can pummel officers with objects as an "exclamation point"?...