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Bruce Springsteen used a concert stage in Minneapolis to deliver a blunt warning about the state of America, leading critics to label the musician a “traitor.”Springsteen unleashed four pointed political speeches during the opening night of his “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour” on Tuesday.”We are living through some very dark times,” he told the crowd mid-show, according to Variety. “Our American values that have sustained us for 250 years are being challenged as never before. We’ve got our young men and women’s lives at risk in an unconstitutional and illegal war. This is happening now.”There are immigrants being held in detention centers around the country and being deported without due process of law to alien countries and foreign gulags. This is happening now.”BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN DOUBLES DOWN ON ANTI-TRUMP, ANTI-ICE STANCE, SAYS ‘BLOWBACK IS JUST PART OF IT’After criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department, Springsteen focused his comments on the White House.Springsteen said, “While working Americans struggle, our president and his family enrich themselves by billions of dollars trading on the people’s office in corruption unmatched in American history. This is happening now.”This White House is destroying the American idea and our reputation around the world,” he added. “To many, we are no longer looked upon as an often imperfect but strong defender of democracy standing for the global good. We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are now, to many, America the reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation. That is this administration’s and this president’s legacy. This is happening now.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSSpringsteen’s remarks quickly reverberated beyond the arena, sparking sharp criticism from some fans and social media users who took issue with both his message and his platform.”What a [sic] elites self righteous POS,” one user wrote on X. “I regret ever buying this lowlifes music. He talks about the middle class as his roots while living and acting as the ,’KING’. Go kiss Bidens a– traitor…””I’ve seen Bruce 10x I can’t support any of this message when tickets are 1,000 dollars,” another user commented. “Get over yourself man.””Billionaire who charges $800 for concert tickets claims to represent working class Americans,” another user wrote.”Another concert, another political rant. People came for the music, not a lecture.”CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERWhile many criticized Springsteen, admirers hailed the rock singer for using his stage to deliver an unflinching message and stand by his convictions.”Bruce Springsteen, tonight in Minneapolis, was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. A true American rock star. Grateful to have been here,” journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on X.”When Bruce Springsteen speaks, it’s not just music; it’s conviction,” another user praised. “You don’t have to agree, but you should respect the courage to call out power in real time. Free speech isn’t comfort; it’s confrontation.””Cue incoming MAGA with their feelings hurt,” another added.

A suspect has been indicted in the decades-long “Texas Killing Fields” cold case 40 years after two women found dead in an area where about 30 bodies were found along a Lone Star State roadway over the years.James Dolphs Elmore Jr., 61, is charged with manslaughter and felony tampering with evidence in the death of Laura Miller, along with an additional charge of tampering with evidence in the murder of Audrey Cook, according to FOX 26. The charges stem from the infamous “Texas Killing Fields” murders, in which the bodies of 30 women – including Audrey Cook, Laura Miller, Donna Prudhomme and Heidi Fye-Villareal – were found near the intersection of Calder Road and Ervin Street in League City between 1984 and 1991. ‘LOVERS’ LANE’ MURDERS SUSPECT NABBED DECADES AFTER COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN CARFor several years, Texas authorities have worked to crack the case surrounding who is responsible for the murders. In 2022, William Reece pleaded guilty to murder stemming from the deaths of Laura Smither, Kelli Cox and Jessica Cain, FOX 26 reported.Over the last 40 years, authorities have pointed to Clyde Hedrick as the prime suspect in the murders of numerous women in Calder Road Field, according to the outlet. REALTOR’S COLD CASE MURDER FINALLY SOLVED AFTER 15 YEARS, POLICE SAYHedrick was reportedly convicted of abuse of a corpse relating to the death of Ellen Beason in 1986.Beason vanished around the same time as Fye-Villareal and Miller, leading authorities to believe the disappearances were connected. In 2013, officials reopened the investigation and Hedrick was indicted for Beason’s death.MAN ONCE EYED IN DISAPPEARANCE OF MISSING CALIFORNIA TEEN NOW CHARGED WITH MURDERHe was convicted of manslaughter one year later and received the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, but was released on parole after spending just eight years behind bars, FOX 26 reported.However, in 2024, the Galveston County District Attorney’s office began reexamining the case as part of a renewed effort to bring justice for the roughly 30 women found dead in the infamous “Texas Killing Fields.”FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XThe investigation led authorities to seek grand jury indictments against Hedrick for the deaths of Cook, Fye-Villareal, Miller and Prudhomme, along with additional indictments against Elmore for alleged offenses stemming from the deaths of Miller and Cook. SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERAlthough Hedrick died before the charges could be presented to a grand jury, the indictment was still shown to maintain transparency and provide closure for the victims’ families.SEND US A TIP HEREShortly after, Elmore was indicted for his alleged role in the deaths of both Miller and Cook, FOX 26 reported. LISTEN TO THE NEW ‘CRIME & JUSTICE WITH DONNA ROTUNNO’ PODCASTElmore was subsequently taken into custody and later denied bond Tuesday evening.LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? FIND MORE ON THE TRUE CRIME HUBThe arrest was made with the help of multiple agencies, including the League City Police Department, Hitchcock Police Department, Galveston County Sheriff’s Office and FBI. The Galveston County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.Fox News Digital’s Adriana James-Rodil contributed to this report. 

Maybe Mike Rowe can help a Left Coast comedian grasp reality.
In a lengthy social media post published Sunday, the champion of skilled blue-collar labor and former host of the shows “Dirty Jobs” and “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” host and champion of skilled labor, hit back at late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel for Kimmel’s snide putdown of President Donald Trump’s new secretary of Homeland Security.
And he did it the way only Mike Rowe can.
With the measured logic of a master craftsman, Rowe summed up Kimmel’s by-now infamous, snearing condescension toward Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s background as a plumber, delivered as part of his monologue March 24.
To the laughter of the kind of people who would actually attend an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (lives that empty are more to be pitied than scorned), Kimmel had mocked Mullin as a former mixed-martial arts fighter who was also a plumber.
“That’s right, we have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now,” Kimmel said.

Jimmy Kimmel is now insulting DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin because he used to work as a plumber.
As if you couldn’t hate elitist Hollywood leftists any morepic.twitter.com/NAa21bgKKR
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 25, 2026

In short, to Kimmel and his audience, a man who worked with his hands and built up a successful business is an object of ridicule, not admiration.
Rowe, however, had a different take entirely.
Mullin, Rowe wrote, “was a private citizen who mastered an essential skill and then turned that skill into a multi-million-dollar company that employed a lot of people and served a lot of customers. That gave him the freedom to do other things with his life, including a career in public service which got him into Congress, where he’s spent the last eleven years doing whatever Congressmen do. Now, he has a very consequential position in the Cabinet of the current administration.
“Is that not the embodiment of the American Dream? I get that Jimmy Kimmel might have a problem with Mullin’s politics, but what possible objection could he have about the trajectory of his career, or his desire to do more than one thing with his life?
“The only sensible thing to do in the wake of a moment this tone deaf, is remind America that the skills gap is wide, and getting wider.”

The credential is the foundation. Mullin built his plumbing business, mastered the licensing exam, got the contractor’s license — and that platform gave him every career move that followed. That’s the actual path. The license doesn’t cap you. It launches you.
— Trade Ready HQ (@TradeReadyHQ) March 30, 2026

And how would Kimmel’s resume compare Mullin’s business and political accomplishments?
Kimmel is a college dropout who’s spent an entire adult life in show business, including the past 23 years as host of his eponymous (and insulting, and grating) show on ABC.
There’s no denying he’s been a success in his efforts — he’s achieved wealth and influence wholly out of proportion to any contribution he’s made to the country or the world.
For a supposed “comedian” he’s not even funny, for crying out loud. Even the benighted souls who attend his show aren’t laughing at his jokes so much as they are virtue-signalling their support for his politics.
He’s an “entertainer” whose form of entertainment for years has consisted of convincing liberals, progressives and leftists that they’re just as smart as they think they are — and that their fellow Americans are stupid.
When he was hit with backlash about belittling Mullin’s background, Kimmel tried to explain that he wasn’t putting plumbers down and complained that critics were trying to “twist” his words.
“I wouldn’t put a plumber in charge of Homeland Security for the same reason I wouldn’t call a five-star general to pull a rat out of my toilet, OK?” Kimmel told his audience on Thursday. “We all have our areas of expertise.”
Again, the condescension is almost unbearable — and this was Kimmel talking about himself — in his own defense.
For the record, Mullin built a small, family-owned plumbing business into an empire in Oklahoma that is diversified into construction and real estate as well, according to Inc. magazine.
He’s an accomplished businessman was well as a successful politician who happens to have roots in one of the most demanding and necessary professions there is. The kind of people who think plumbers aren’t important has never thought about the water they drink, the showers they take or the toilets they flush. (They probably think electricity comes from an outlet in a wall, too.)

Kimmel’s comments just how small and inadequate his view of the world is. While he is thinking of house toilets and sinks…the limited view he has, plumbing is far far more than that. It’s the very basis of our modern comfort after shelter. Access to clean water and sanitation…
— Leevon Grant (@LeevonGrant) March 30, 2026

Chances are Kimmel or his writers know the truth about Mullin’s work,  and the chances are they disregarded it because it didn’t fit their narrative.
The fact that Kimmel is dishonest is not even in dispute. When he was called on the carpet about his comments blaming the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on “the MAGA gang,” (a falsity he almost certainly knew was false at the time), he proceeded to lie on national television about what he’d actually said.
And he presumes to lecture the country about the failings of a man who was just confirmed to head one of the most important posts in the president’s Cabinet?
Not on Mike Rowe’s watch.
“I get that Jimmy Kimmel might have a problem with Mullin’s politics, but what possible objection could he have about the trajectory of his career, or his desire to do more than one thing with his life?” Rowe wrote.
The answer to that is simple. Jimmy Kimmel, like far too much of the hopelessly leftist entertainment establishment, is too afflicted with hatred of President Donald Trump to see reality as it’s lived in the United States.
Fortunately, the country has Mike Rowe to set the record straight when it needs to be.
It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s gotta do it.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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It should be “a slam-dunk” for the Supreme Court to rule against birthright citizenship – if it rules based on the original meaning of the text of the U.S. Constitution and the history of the 14th Amendment – Constitutional Scholar and conservative commentator Mark Levin says.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a birthright citizenship case concerning whether anyone born on U.S. soil, such as the child of an illegal immigrant, has automatic U.S. citizenship.

Levin discusses the case and the issue of birthright citizenship in a clip from his Liberty’s Voice podcast posted on social media Wednesday.

“It’s a fraud,” Levin says of the concept of birthright citizenship, noting that it’s not in either the U.S. Constitution or any federal law:

“It’s completely made up; it’s a fiction.”

As an example, Levin cites tourists from other countries who give birth in the U.S.:

“The country from which the tourist comes doesn’t recognize that child as an American citizen. They recognize them as, for example, a citizen of France or Britain and so forth.

“So, how can it be that an illegal alien comes across the border, they have a child, and that child is automatically an American citizen?

“Nobody, no court has ever ruled that. Nobody, nobody has ever passed legislation saying that. And, yet, that is the way it is treated.”

Levin details how the history and original intent of the 14th Amendment also belie the case of those who cite it as justification for granting birthright citizenship.

So, while the justices will be subjected to “different kinds of arguments that will be mostly political dressed up as legal or potentially constitutional,” ruling against birthright citizenship should be easy, Levin says:

“Because, if this decision is made based on the text, that is the original meaning, the original meaning of ‘jurisdiction,’ if it’s based on the history surrounding the amendment, if it’s based on the history leading up to the amendment and that civil rights law, it’s a slam-dunk case against birthright citizenship.”

“I’m hoping that birthright citizenship is ruled unconstitutional, but that might be a bridge too far for this particular court,” Levin says. “I’m hoping that at least they rule that it is not compelled by the Constitution.”

Fear of threats – and of being criticized by leftist media like The New York Times – could end up influencing some of the justices, Levin cautions:

“I think some of the justices, well, they don’t like being threatened. They don’t like people with bullhorns in front of their homes, as in the Dobbs decision. In other words, they don’t want history to write very negatively of them through The New York Times and the Left, which controls so many of our institutions.

“It’s just easier to go along. So, I think for some of the justices, perhaps, perhaps that will be in the back of their minds, too.”

“I think the court may look for an off-ramp. I don’t know what is. I hope they don’t find it,” Levin says:

“I hope they rule straight-up that the Constitution does not compel this, that no federal law compels this.”

“But, we’re about to find out,” Levin says.

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— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 1, 2026

How much does ABC News hate Donald Trump and his administration? And how far will they go to show they don’t want viewers to care about anything except hating Trump?

On the day of perhaps the most important moment in U.S. space history since 1972, Wednesday’s Good Morning America took over 15 minutes and seven anti-Trump team reports before it finally started covering in earnest the possible launch of NASA’s Artemis II on a flight around the moon.

It began with co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos trying to scare Americans over Trump’s “massive statement” to The Telegraph in an interview posted just prior to the show that, for the umpteenth time, he’s mulling the idea of withdrawing the U.S. from NATO.

Chief Washington correspondent and four-time anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl similarly huffed that Trump has the country mired in “a war that most Americans say they do not support” but has nonetheless “threatened a major escalation of U.S. attacks on Iran.”

Here was the start of the 12 minutes and 36 seconds of Trump bashing Wednesday on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ before they actually covered the upcoming NASA launch (which they had only teased for a few seconds prior)
George Stephanopoulos *really* wants you to be scared to… pic.twitter.com/q5693SnoZ3
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 1, 2026
On Trump’s latest prediction the war would end soon, Karl scoffed “many” of these statements have been uttered throughout the war, but “have come and gone without consequence” and thus prolonged “the pain of war” Americas have felt at the gas pump with gas “nearly $6 a gallon in California.” Of course, ABC would never explain why California gas is so expensive.

The end of Karl’s segment was just as bad as he said Trump’s primetime address on Iran would happen “as a new Ipsos poll out this week shows 60 percent of Americans disapprove of U.S. military strikes on Iran, and that nearly two thirds of Americans want to see the U.S. — to — work to end the conflict quickly.”

After Stephanopoulos wanted to dwell on the NATO comments, Karl and Stephanopoulos seemed a combination of befuddled and disgusted how calm Trump came off in a phone chat with Karl (click “expand”):

The end of the Karl-Stephanopoulos chitchat was just as bad.
Karl came off as disgusted that President Trump, in a phone interview with him yesterday, came off as “somebody who doesn’t have a concern in the world” and “extremely confidence” in taking on Iran pic.twitter.com/OuXswHihWM
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 1, 2026

KARL: Yeah. Look, I have to say one thing that struck me. I spoke to him for about 20 minutes, yet — in the middle of the day, in the middle of the work day, he seems like somebody who doesn’t have a concern in the world. He seems extremely confident that the war is going to be just fine, that Americans will turn around and support it. The prices will come back down. He spent a lot of time, George, talking not just about Iran, but about the ballroom that he is building, which was stopped yesterday, about the fact that his signature is going to be on the dollar bill, that they’re renaming the airport in Palm Beach. Even talking about plans for the library that his son Eric is working on in Florida. He really seemed like a man that was not troubled at all by what was going on.

STEPHANOPOULOS: In the middle of the war.

KARL: All in the middle of the war.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Yeah. Jon Karl, thanks very much.

ROBERTS: That says a lot.

Next, correspondent Matt Rivers delivered the ABC’s dose of negative nellies from the Middle East.

.@MattRiversABC reports from Qatar with the latest on the war with Iran. pic.twitter.com/yIcNgw0gna
— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 1, 2026
The focus then returned to the mainland and more Stephanopoulos pontificating: “And we’re going to get the latest now on President Trump’s attempts to interfere with the midterm elections, signing an executive order on mail-in voting. The critics are preparing to challenge in court, calling it unconstitutional.”

“Interfere” in an election? The gall of these people never ceases to amaze.

IRONY ALERT: ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Mary Bruce argue President Trump’s executive order on voter integrity is a new chapter in “President Trump’s attempts to interfere with the midterm elections,” “sow distrust,” and “undermine confidence in the nation’s elections” pic.twitter.com/Q3bPGjOmIZ
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 1, 2026
Chief White House correspondent and Biden regime apple polisher Mary Bruce followed in Stephanopoulos’s footsteps by calling President Trump’s executive order to protect voter integrity “just the latest in a series of actions taken by the President to undermine confidence in the nation’s elections ahead of the midterms” through “false claims” about the electoral system.

Bruce giddily proclaimed: “Election experts say the order is unconstitutional and not enforceable. Democrats labeling it illegal and a blatant, unconstitutional abuse of power. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying bluntly: ‘See you in court. You will lose.’ Top election officials in Oregon and Arizona — states that rely heavily on mail in voting — already vowing to sue.”

She derided the subject of protecting the electoral system as ludicrous, arguing Trump “has increasingly sought to sow distrust in the nation’s elections” and “railed against mail-in voting, claiming without evidence that it leads to ‘cheating,’ but cases of fraud involving mail-in ballots are extremely rare”

Bruce threw in a mention of the SAVE America Act as well: “And for weeks, the President has been pushing for Congress to pass the SAVE Act, which would impose new restrictions on voting in mail-in ballots. But, George, that bill has no clear path forward.”

Skipping past another Stephanopoulos-Bruce segment about a federal judge ruling against the President’s ballroom project, chief global affairs anchor Martha Raddatz joined the fray to knock Secretary of War Hegseth intervening in the bizarre incident with Kid Rock and an Apache helicopter crew:

Secretary Pete Hegseth announced there will be “no punishment” for the pilots involved in the flyby of two Apache attack helicopters near Kid Rock’s Nashville, Tennessee home. @MarthaRaddatz reports. pic.twitter.com/KiEEOC7vqs
— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 1, 2026
Hegseth received a second negative report as correspondent Elizabeth Schulze gushed over House Oversight Committee Democrats looking to investigate him over a story in the Financial Times alleging, in her words, “a broker for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to make a multi-million dollar investment into a fund with defense stocks weeks before the Iran war.”

Democratic lawmakers are launching an investigation after a Financial Times report claimed that a broker for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tried to invest in a fund holding defense stocks weeks before the Iran war. @eschulze reports. pic.twitter.com/DpJ7lIZt7s
— Good Morning America (@GMA) April 1, 2026
The final Trump administration hit piece was perhaps the dumbest.

“Going to turn now to a federal judge in Philadelphia allowing the Trump administration to collect information about Jewish people on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, over the objection of student and faculty groups,” co-host Robin Roberts began.

You see, dear readers, the implication is the administration are the real anti-Semites!

Before finally covering NASA, the final anti-Trump hit piece on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ was perhaps the dumbest one of all in which ABC argued it’s the Trump administration who are the REAL anti-Semites.
Why?
Because they’re seeking the names of U-Penn Jewish students so… pic.twitter.com/NietSevuOz
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 1, 2026
Chief investigative correspondent Aaron Katersky solemnly divulged a “judge in Philadelphia ordered the University of Pennsylvania to turn over a list of Jewish employees so the Trump administration can investigate claims of anti-Semitism,” but the school will appeal because doing so “evoked the tactics of Nazi Germany before the Holocaust.”

“The judge calling that comparison unfortunate and inappropriate. And though he conceded the administration’s subpoena was ineptly worded, he ordered Penn to comply. The judge saying the administration had an understandable purpose to find out if Penn’s Jewish community experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism in the workplace,” he added.

Katersky put his thumb on the scale with the declaration that doing so “raises serious privacy and First Amendment concerns.” Unsurprisingly, Roberts agreed, saying “it does.”

CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today didn’t have this problem of deciding on what the real top story is as they placed NASA on the front burner with multiple lead-off reports.

To see the relevant ABC transcript from April 1, click here.

Trump May Pull Out Of ‘Paper Tiger’ NATO After Starmer Stiffs Strait Support

In a blistering exclusive interview with The Telegraph, President Trump has declared he is “strongly considering” pulling the United States out of NATO, branding the 77-year-old alliance a “paper tiger” after European allies – including the UK under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer – refused to join America’s military campaign against Iran or help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump told the newspaper the decision was now “beyond reconsideration,” adding: “I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.” He singled out Britain, mocking its naval capabilities and Starmer’s green-energy focus: “You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work… All Starmer wants is costly windmills that are driving your energy prices through the roof.”

The row erupted after Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz – through which 20 per cent of the world’s oil flows – in response to US-Israeli strikes launched on February 28. Allies have been reluctant to deploy warships, prompting Trump to accuse NATO of operating a “one-way street.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed the president on Fox News, warning that America would have to “re-examine” its NATO membership once the Iran conflict ends. “If Nato is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, that’s not a very good arrangement,” Rubio said. Trump later told The Telegraph he was “glad” Rubio had spoken out.

Starmer Fires Back: “This Is Not Our War”

Starmer moved quickly to reaffirm Britain’s commitment to NATO while drawing a firm line on the Iran conflict. “This is not our war, and we’re not going to get dragged into it,” he told The Telegraph, describing the alliance as “the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen.” He signalled a pivot toward closer European cooperation “whatever the noise” from Washington.

Absolute humiliation for the White House. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer publicly brushes off Donald Trump’s threats to leave NATO. He explicitly states that despite massive pressure from Washington, Britain will never be dragged into this disastrous war on Iran. pic.twitter.com/vkniEBVSW5
— Furkan Gözükara (@FurkanGozukara) April 1, 2026
The UK’s military vulnerabilities have only added fuel to the fire. On Tuesday, the First Sea Lord admitted the Royal Navy was not ready for war. Four of Britain’s six destroyers were out of service at the conflict’s start, forcing London to borrow a German warship to meet NATO obligations in the North Atlantic.

Any formal US withdrawal would require Congressional approval under 2023 legislation co-sponsored by Rubio himself. However, experts note Trump could still gut American participation by pulling troops, bases, and command support – effectively hollowing out the alliance without a full exit.

Trump is expected to deliver a national address on Wednesday evening outlining the Iran war’s status and, according to Reuters sources, to voice further disgust at NATO’s lack of reciprocity.

As oil prices spiral and recession fears mount, the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz has exposed raw fractures in the Western alliance. Whether Trump’s latest broadside is negotiation theatre or the beginning of America’s strategic retreat from Europe remains to be seen — but the “paper tiger” label has already left its mark.

Tyler Durden
Wed, 04/01/2026 – 12:20

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Solicitor General John Sauer Credit: C-SPAN screenshot
President Trump’s solicitor general made the so-called ‘smartest’ liberal Supreme Court Justice look like a complete fool after she tried to school him on the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship.
As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, Trump is attending oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court concerning birthright citizenship, becoming the first sitting president in American history to attend oral arguments.
As TGP readers know, Trump issued an executive order last year that proclaimed that children born to illegal alien parents in the United States or temporarily present are not American citizens. But black-robed tyrants masquerading as judges have blocked the order, even after the Supreme Court rejected nationwide injunctions by rogue leftist judges at the time.
In July 2025, two rogue federal judges and a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
During the hearing, Kagan tried to corner Solicitor General John Sauer for agreeing with Justice Alito that birthright citizenship should not apply to children of illegal aliens.
Kagan went on to say that historical texts, including the Constitution, do not support Sauer’s argument that the term “jurisdiction” requires complete allegiance to the United States rather than to foreign powers.
Instead, she said Sauer was relying on obscure sources to advance a more ‘esoteric’ interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
But Sauer blew up Kagan’s argument with a major truth nuke: he pointed out several examples from the Founders and those involved in the drafting of the 14th Amendment who said that temporary visitors and those not domiciled with full loyalty to America were never intended to pass on automatic citizenship to their children born here.
Talk about a huge backfire by Kagan.
LISTEN:

Justice Kagan tried to pin Solicitor General Sauer into a corner during arguments over birthright citizenship, suggesting the challengers’ position relied on some esoteric theory rather than the plain text.
Sauer dismantled that by going straight to the source. The men who… pic.twitter.com/TZZsqdssFZ
— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) April 1, 2026

KAGAN: You can’t be arguing in the way Justice Alito suggests…Your whole theory of the case is built on that group; you don’t get to talking about undocumented persons until much later. So, you can’t really be going with Justice Alito’s theory; you must be saying that there is a principle that was there at the time of the 14th Amendment.
Isn’t that right?
SAUER: We agree there is a principle there at the 14th Amendment. The term jurisdiction means allegiance, as strongly reflected in 19th-century sources…The allegiance of an alien present in another country is determined by domicile.
That’s the principle that applies here.
KAGAN: Where does this principle come from? Allegiance, I think you point to a Lincoln funeral speech as your primary example of where this principle comes from. It’s not what we think of when we think of the word jurisdiction.
The text does not support you. What you’re looking for is some more esoteric meaning…You’re using some pretty obscure sources to get to this concept.
SAUER: Take it straight from the Framers’ mouths. Senator Trumbull was asked What is jurisdiction?’
He said it means not owing allegiance to anybody else.
Senator Bingham, the original author of the 14th Amendment, said that within the jurisdiction of the United States, a parent must not owe allegiance to any foreign sovereignty.
There are over a dozen sources that specifically address temporary sojourners within the five decades, and they say that temporary sojourners’ children are not included.
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Eric Swalwell and Christine Fang (Facebook)
U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is known basically for two things: his virulent hatred of and opposition to anything connected to President Donald Trump, and his “relationship” with Christine Fang, who has been described as both a Chinese spy and an intimate acquaintance of Swalwell.
Victor Davis Hanson, on the other hand, is acknowledged as a military historian, a conservative political commentator, an expert of modern and ancient warfare and professor emeritus of classics at California State University-Fresno.
His writings have been in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Washington Times and more.
He’s also the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at the Hoover Institution, and visiting professor at Hillsdale College and has been awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush.
So when the one, Hanson, describes the second, Swalwell, as a “stupid, narcissistic idiot,” many people take note, including Californians who are being asked by Swalwell to make him their governor.
Victor Davis Hanson
The comments are in the headlines because the FBI has proposed releasing the files it gathered about Swalwell and “Fang Fang” to the public and Swalwell, who when other people are named in FBI files has demanded their release, insists in his case that shouldn’t happen.
His lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter to FBI Director Kash Patel demanding that they agree, in writing, not to release the files about him.
“The congressman has never been accused of wrongdoing in that matter and your attempt to release the file is a transparent attempt to smear him and undermine his campaign for governor of California,” lawyers Norm Eisen and Sean Hecker threatened. “Your actions threaten to expose you, others at the FBI, and the FBI itself to significant legal liability.”
It was reported earlier the FBI was working to release the investigative file about Swalwell and Fang, who reports said, “allegedly sought to develop ties to politicians in California and elsewhere.”
Here are Hanson’s comments about Swalwell, from before the latest dispute involving Swalwell’s secret FBI file, arose:

VDH: Eric Swalwell wasn’t the only one Fang Fang approached in CA — he was just the one stupid enough to fall into the trap.
“I wrote some critical things of China, and Fang Fang came to see me.”
“The way she changed accents and how she was dressed, you would have to be a… pic.twitter.com/DPtVFJdpym
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 1, 2026

Hanson described how Swalwell wasn’t the only target for “Fang Fang.”
When Fang visited him, he said, “The way she changed accents and how she was dressed, you would have to be a stupid, narcissistic idiot to fall for that.”
A commentary at Twitchy said, “Ever since Kash Patel announced that the FBI would be releasing files related to Swalwell’s past inappropriate relationship with Chinese spy Fang Fang — and, more importantly, his alleged leaking of classified information to her in return for campaign fundraising — the Congressman and would-be California governor has been in non-stop damage control mode, not to mention full-on panic mode.”
The commentary also noted, “Back in 2023, Swalwell urged us to ‘trust the FBI’ when it comes to taking his word about having done nothing wrong with a Chinese spy. Last year he said the American people deserve transparency, but this was about the Epstein files: When it comes to the Fang Fang files Swalwell doesn’t seem to be such a big fan of transparency.”
He told MS NOW the FBI “basically exonerated him” and to release files now to “be smearing himn.”

What a video. Can’t make this up.
2023. Swalwell says not to take his word that he didn’t do anything wrong with the Chinese spy, but instead to take the FBI’s word for it.
Hey Swalwell, if the FBI doesn’t have anything, what are you fighting to stop them from releasing? pic.twitter.com/9I91GmItRm
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 1, 2026

Lilly says Foundayo was approved to treat obesity and can lead to long-term weight loss, alongside diet and exercise.

It seems the government is putting all its eggs in the basket of a favorable, conclusive judicial interpretation of what ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ means.