Texas can keep arresting illegal migrants while Biden challenge proceeds, Abbott says
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday stood by his state’s efforts to control illegal immigration, blaming a Biden administration he says has left the southern border wide open, and promising to continue arresting illegal immigrants. Abbott addressed the Texas Public Policy Foundation after oral arguments had finished at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case challenging S.B.4 – Texas’ anti-illegal immigration law signed in December which allows police to arrest those suspected of entering the U.S. illegally. Abbott said that, even with that law on ice, Texas can still arrest those coming into the U.S. illegally. BIDEN ADMIN, TEXAS HEAD BACK TO APPEALS COURT OVER ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LAW, HOURS AFTER SCOTUS RULING “Even without S.B. 4, Texas has the legal authority to arrest people coming across the razor wire barriers on our border, and we will continue to use our arrest authority and arrest people coming across the border illegally,” he said, adding that Texas’ Department of Public Safety (DPS) has already arrested more than 40,000 for crossing illegally. The Biden administration sued over the law in January, which it said crossed into federal authority on matters related to immigration enforcement. “[Texas’] efforts, through SB 4, intrude on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens, frustrate the United States’ immigration operations and proceedings, and interfere with U.S. foreign relations,” the Department of Justice said in its January lawsuit. But Abbott has argued that the law is necessary because the Biden administration is not doing its job of securing the border. Abbott noted not only S.B. 4, but also moves by Texas to erect a border wall, razor wire and other barriers along its border. “Number one, we are facing such dangerous situations. And number two, Joe Biden, through his actions, is violating the laws of the United States of America,” he said. MEXICO SLAMS TEXAS OVER IMMIGRATION LAW, WON’T ACCEPT REPATRIATIONS FROM STATE AFTER SCOTUS RULING The Fifth Circuit of Appeals had blocked the law from going into effect. The Supreme Court on Tuesday evening, not ruling on the merits of the case, allowed the law to go into effect and kicked it back to the Fifth Circuit. Hours later, the Fifth Circuit again put the law on hold, ahead of oral arguments on the merits of the case on Wednesday. Abbott described it as “like watching a tennis match” and noted that stay on the law from the Fifth Circuit was still in place. Texas and the administration have been locked in a number of battles over the border. In January, Texas seized Shelby Park – a key area of Eagle Pass for migrant crossings – and refused to allow federal officials into the area. The two sides have also fought in the courts over the construction of razor wire by Texas and the establishment of buoys in the Rio Grande. GOVERNOR WHO CLASHED WITH OBAMA OVER ATTEMPTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN REACTS TO SCOTUS TEXAS RULING Abbott said on Wednesday that he had no intention of backing down in the face of the legal challenge. Texas DPS on Wednesday announced that this week it had arrested 17 illegal immigrants for unlawfully entering private property along the Rio Grande, enforcing state law for criminal trespass. It said the nationals were from Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua and Honduras and were jailed at a state facility. “We will continue to build those border barriers, keep the buoys in the water, build a Texas border wall, doing everything we can to protect the sovereignty of the state of Texas and the United States of America,” Abbott said.
Trump campaign responds in force after Biden cracks down on gas cars, vows ‘Day One’ reversal
FIRST ON FOX: Former President Trump’s campaign heavily criticized the Biden administration’s newly finalized regulations targeting gas-powered cars Wednesday, vowing to overturn the action. In a statement to Fox News Digital, the Trump campaign said the climate regulations – unveiled by the White House and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday – would force Americans to buy expensive electric vehicles (EV) and reduce consumer choice. The campaign further vowed that Trump would immediately strike down the regulations if he bests President Biden in their election rematch later this year. “Joe Biden’s extreme electric vehicle mandate will force Americans to buy ultra-expensive cars they do not want and cannot afford while destroying the U.S. auto industry in the process,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital in a statement. “This radical policy is anti-jobs, anti-consumer and anti-American.” “It will destroy the livelihoods of countless U.S. autoworkers while sending the U.S. auto industry to China. President Trump will reverse Joe Biden’s extreme electric vehicle mandate on Day One.” VULNERABLE HOUSE DEM BUCKS PARTY ORTHODOXY, BLASTING HIS STATE’S PROPOSED EV MANDATE The statement comes months after Trump took aim at the Biden administration’s climate agenda over its impact on blue-collar rank-and-file autoworkers. During the United Auto Workers strike last year, the former president said the best interests of American workers were his “number one concern,” and that a forced EV transition would destroy the U.S. auto industry. VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS UPHOLD STATE’S EV MANDATE DESPITE GROWING OPPOSITION: ‘DEFY COMMON SENSE’ Meanwhile, under the regulations unveiled Wednesday, the federal government will enforce the most stringent tailpipe emissions restrictions ever finalized beginning with model year 2027 light-duty and medium-duty vehicles. Those regulations are slated to progressively ramp up through 2032, forcing most new car purchases to be battery electric and plug-in hybrid within that time frame. In one “low cost” model EPA outlined in the rule, administration officials said automakers would be forced to ensure 56% of light-duty car sales are battery electric and another 13% are hybrid by 2032, meaning nearly 70% of new cars would be zero-emissions or low-emissions by then. “Three years ago, I set an ambitious target: that half of all new cars and trucks sold in 2030 would be zero-emission,” Biden said in a statement after the regulations were posted Wednesday. “I brought together American automakers. I brought together American autoworkers,” he said. “Together, we’ve made historic progress. Hundreds of new expanded factories across the country. Hundreds of billions in private investment and thousands of good-paying union jobs. And we’ll meet my goal for 2030 and race forward in the years ahead.” 130+ HOUSE, SENATE REPUBLICANS JOIN FORCES IN OPPOSITION OF BIDEN’S UPCOMING EV MANDATE The EPA regulations, though, were immediately blasted by the energy industry, farm groups, consumer advocates and Republican lawmakers who vowed to pursue legislation aimed at overturning the rules. According to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an association that represents major automakers, 9.3% of total car purchases in the U.S. last year were electric or plug-in hybrids – up from 7% in 2022. That uptick was driven largely by purchases in California and urban areas where the majority of EV purchases are made. At the same time, EVs remain far more expensive than traditional, gas-powered cars. Even factoring in generous federal and state subsidies, the average cost of an EV is about $52,500, while the average subcompact car costs $24,000. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by Fox News Digital.
‘Fiscal sanity’: GOP House budget proposal emphasizes US energy production
FIRST ON FOX: The House Republican Study Committee (RSC), which is tasked with guiding GOP policy on key issues, issued its lengthy 2025 budget proposal, which has a special emphasis on shoring up domestic energy production. The RSC’s budget, titled, “Fiscal Sanity to Save America,” includes sweeping energy policies that the group said would help unleash America’s “vast reserves of energy and mineral resources.” Pursuing such policies, they said, would reduce inflation, promote job creation, and decrease dependence on foreign oil, while assisting allies seeking to reduce reliance on adversaries for energy needs. “The future of our nation is dependent on our ability to strengthen our domestic energy supply,” RSC Chairman Kevin Hern, R-Okla., said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “The Biden administration has dismantled and destroyed all the progress we made under President Trump.” “Our budget attacks the Biden agenda head-on, unleashing American energy production to lower costs for Americans and end our dependence on foreign adversaries.” BIDEN FINALIZES CRACKDOWN ON GAS CARS, FORCING MORE THAN HALF OF NEW CAR SALES TO BE ELECTRIC BY 2030 The budget proposal includes a multipronged approach to energy, rolling back environmental regulations, promoting greater oil and gas production, curbing executive agency regulatory powers, cutting so-called “wasteful” programs, reversing some of the Biden administration’s climate policies, nullifying vehicle emission rules, and boosting mining production. Overall, the RSC budget endorses dozens of bills that would help achieve its energy production and regulatory goals. BIDEN ADMIN FUNNELS $1 BILLION FOR CLIMATE PROGRAMS AT BORDERS AMID ONGOING MIGRANT CRISIS For example, it includes the American Energy First Act, put forth by Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., which would reform the onshore and offshore energy leasing and permitting processes to reduce delays. It also endorses the Energy Permitting Certainty Act and Utah Republican Rep. Blake Moore’s Promoting Energy Independence and Transparency Act, both of which streamline energy project permitting. Other bills included in the budget would restore the Keystone XL pipeline’s permits, support continued operation of the Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, block the creation of the carbon tax and allow states to develop on federal lands within their borders. “President Biden’s energy policies represent a direct assault on America’s energy independence, crippling our economy, inflating energy costs, and undermining the livelihoods of hardworking American families,” Rep. Ben Cline, R– Va., the RSC’s Budget and Spending Task Force chair, told Fox News Digital. “Our budget has commonsense solutions that bolster American energy independence and support American workers, not restrictions that make us dependent on foreign adversaries.” GOP LEADERS CONFRONT BIDEN’S NEW CLIMATE CZAR ON KEY SECURITY RISKS LURKING IN GREEN AGENDA In addition to policies boosting energy production and promoting pipeline projects, the RSC budget includes a wide range of bills that would further prevent the president from declaring a national “climate emergency,” prevent federal bans on natural gas stoves, repeal green energy subsidies in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, and reform the current federal critical mineral permitting process. The budget finally lists a series of clean energy and climate loan programs that the Biden administration has created, which the RSC would seek to defund. And the budget would also curb funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “The Biden Administration is working to implement the most radical environmental agenda in the history of the country,” the RSC budget states. “These regulations will cost jobs, reduce wages and force middle-class Americans to pay higher prices for energy. “This budget would significantly reduce the EPA’s funding, rolls back the regulatory excess of the Biden Administration, and returns the agency to its much more limited original purpose,” it adds. “This will save the taxpayers billions of dollars per year while significantly reducing wage-lowering regulations.” While the RSC budget provides a conservative counter to President Joe Biden’s recently-unveiled budget, it remains unclear the extent to which its proposed policies will be adopted in future spending packages.
Disagreement and confusion on display in hearing over Texas’ new immigration law
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments about whether to allow back into effect a law allowing state and local authorities to deport migrants.
Bipartisan senators share TikTok concern following ‘powerful’ national security briefing
A bipartisan group of lawmakers left a national security briefing regarding TikTok on Wednesday with “deep concern” as the Senate waits to consider a House-passed bill to force the social media app to divest from China. “We had a full hearing room in the classified briefing and there was deep concern about the threat from TikTok on both sides of the aisle,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas described. “The threats that are posed are significant,” he stressed. NATIONAL SECURITY GROUP LAUNCHES 7-FIGURE AD CAMPAIGN TARGETING TIKTOK The briefing followed the House’s recent bipartisan passage of a bill that requires TikTok to either be sold to a non-Chinese company or see itself banned in the U.S. HOUSE UNANIMOUSLY VOTES TO KEEP SENSITIVE AMERICAN DATA OUT OF HOSTILE COUNTRIES’ HANDS Chairman of the Intelligence Committee Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., remarked that it was “a very powerful briefing.” He also said he hopes to declassify much of the material senators were able to review. “I think there was a reason why, when this brief was given on the House side to the Energy and Commerce Committee, afterwards they voted 50 to nothing to move the legislation forward,” he added. TikTok’s CEO Shou Chew has spent time in the last couple of weeks meeting with senators on Capitol Hill, urging them against supporting the measure. Warner told Fox News Digital last week he isn’t concerned about colleagues meeting with Chew, but said he wants senators to also receive the necessary national security briefings. IRANIAN THREATS TO US HAVE ‘METASTASIZED’ AS PROXIES EMPLOY TACTICS TARGETING HOMELAND: HOUSE HEARING “The reality is, we have that entity having that much personal data access to and that much potential to manipulate on a platform that a lot of young people look to as their number one news source. That’s a national security concern,” he said on Wednesday. As for how quickly he expects the House’s bill to move through the Senate, Warner said, “I don’t have the foggiest idea.” Cruz, the ranking member on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, said he urged Chairwoman Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., to move “expeditiously” in scheduling a mark-up for the TikTok legislation, emphasizing its importance. BIDEN FINALIZES CRACKDOWN ON GAS CARS, FORCING MORE THAN HALF OF NEW CAR SALES TO BE ELECTRIC BY 2030 The bill was referred last week to the committee, rather than being expedited for a vote in the upper chamber. Cruz explained his preference for the bill’s trajectory through the committee, saying, “The precise language of this bill is still very much open to discussion. I think members on both sides may have amendments, may have suggestions for how to alter the language.” Cantwell’s Commerce Committee office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital regarding the status of mark-up scheduling.
Illinois GOP Rep. Bost fends off formidable primary challenge, is nominated for 6th term
U.S. Rep Mike Bost has won the Republican nomination in southern Illinois after a hard-fought primary battle with former state Sen. Darren Bailey. Bailey, the 2022 GOP nominee for Illinois governor, challenged the five-term incumbent, claiming he was not conservative enough for the district that encompasses virtually the entire bottom one-third of the state. He sought the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, but Trump chose Bost. ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES FIGHT FOR FAVOR OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS Bost thanked Trump during a speech to supporters late Tuesday where he claimed victory. He emphasized the need for party unity. “I don’t compromise my morals, but this nation is built on finding common ground,” he said. Bailey, 57, attempted to capitalize on the shift to the right in the 12th District after the 2020 Census. A Marine Corps veteran, the 63-year-old Bost is chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and has seats on the Agriculture and Transportation and Infrastructure committees. He made the case that seniority, know-how and relationships he’s developed allow him to provide better constituent service and move legislation helpful to the district more readily than a newcomer who needs “on-the-job training.” Bost is widely expected to win in November when he will face Democrat Brian Roberts, a Carbondale attorney.
Biden censorship case has historic implications for the future of free speech, state AG says
A case at the Supreme Court alleging “collusion” between President Biden’s administration and Big Tech companies to silence specific speech on social media platforms is the “most important First Amendment suit in this nation’s history,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Fox News Digital. On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri. The case originated from a lawsuit filed by state attorneys general from Missouri and Louisiana accusing senior government officials of colluding with major social media companies to counter misinformation. The lawsuit alleged that this collaboration ultimately led to the censorship of speech on various topics, including Hunter Biden’s laptop, the origins of COVID-19 and the effectiveness of face masks. “This is the most important First Amendment suit in this nation’s history,” Bailey told Fox News Digital in an interview in late February. “We’ve uncovered a relationship of coercion and collusion between the Biden White House across a spectrum of federal bureaucratic agencies targeting free speech for censorship at the government’s demand on Big Tech social media platforms.” JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON RAISES EYEBROWS WITH COMMENT THAT FIRST AMENDMENT ‘HAMSTRINGS’ GOVERNMENT “We’ve got to build a wall of separation between Big Tech and state to protect our First Amendment right to free speech,” Bailey said. “To that end, we went to court back in May and asked the United States District Court for a nationwide injunction to lay that first brick in the wall between tech and state.” “The court granted the injunction on the Fourth of July – on the celebration of this nation’s founding – and we’ve successfully defended that injunction twice at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.” Bailey added that the score is “Missouri three, Biden zero in the fight for free speech.” He said they’re “excited to continue to fight to protect Americans’ right to free speech on Big Tech platforms.” The arguments for the case have garnered eyebrow-raising headlines, particularly from Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson, who commented that the First Amendment hamstrings the government. On Monday, the Supreme Court debated whether the Biden administration’s efforts to reach out to private companies crossed a constitutional line. The discussion focused on whether these efforts amounted to permissible persuasion or encouragement or unlawful coercion and threats of retaliation. GOP SENATOR WAVES AWAY WORRIES ABOUT SKEPTICAL JUSTICES IN CENSORSHIP SUPREME COURT CASE “It’s got these big clubs available to it, and so it’s treating Facebook and these other platforms like their subordinates,” Justice Samuel Alito said. Brown Jackson, meanwhile, took a different approach. “Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the federal government in significant ways in the most important time periods,” she told the lawyer representing Louisiana, Missouri and private plaintiffs. “The government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country… by encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information,” she said. Reports have indicated that a majority of the court appeared doubtful about the lawsuit, asking questions suggesting they may disagree with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana. A decision on the case is expected this summer. The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
House votes to keep sensitive American data out of hostile countries’ hands
The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill blocking the sale of sensitive American user data to hostile foreign countries. The Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act was introduced in this Congress by House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J. It advanced through Rodgers’ committee earlier this month in a unanimous bipartisan 50-0 vote. The bill passed the House on Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 414-0. According to the bill text, its purpose is “to prohibit data brokers from transferring sensitive data of United States individuals to foreign adversaries, and for other purposes.” KEVIN O’LEARY OFFERS TO BUY TIKTOK AND TURN IT INTO A ‘NEW AMERICAN COMPANY’ IF PROPOSED BAN ADVANCES The definition of “sensitive data” includes biometric data, private personal communications, log-in credentials, social security numbers, geo-location data and what, if any, status an individual has within the Armed Forces, among other information. The limitations would apply to foreign governments like Russia, Iran or China as well as individuals and entities they have influence over. It’s part of a recent bipartisan push by Congress to protect American user data from overseas threats. FORMER GOOGLE ENGINEER INDICTED FOR STEALING AI SECRETS TO AID CHINESE FIRMS Last week, the House passed a bill aimed at forcing Beijing-backed tech company Bytedance to divest from TikTok within 165 days or risk the social media platform being banned in U.S. app stores. That bill passed in a decisive 352-65 vote, with one lawmaker voting “present.” The legislation’s authors have said it would also apply to other apps owned by a hostile foreign entity. TikTok’s critics have long called it a national security threat. They have cited concerns about the Chinese government’s ability to leverage its power over Bytedance to access sensitive user data, even in the U.S., something the company has denied. GOP LAWMAKERS PRESS TIKTOK CEO ON ‘DELUGE OF PRO-HAMAS CONTENT’ ON PLATFORM China hawks have also warned that the app’s popularity among young Americans gives the ruling Chinese Communist Party a platform for a mass influence campaign. At the same time, lawmakers who are wary of the push to curb TikTok have cited First Amendment concerns and potential harm to small businesses who rely on it.
House Republicans may invite Netanyahu to address Congress amid rift with Biden, Democrats
House Republicans may invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress in the coming days amid a growing rift between President Biden’s administration and the Israeli government. Israel is sending a delegation to discuss plans for an invasion of Rafah with White House officials. Biden’s administration has repeatedly criticized Israel’s plans, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., publicly disavowed Netanyahu’s leadership in a floor speech last week that drew condemnation from Republican leadership and Israeli officials. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he had a “lengthy conversation” with Netanyahu on Wednesday morning, but he did not confirm plans to invite him to give an address. “We didn’t talk about those logistics, but it’s one of the things that we have in mind, and we may try to arrange for that,” Johnson told reporters. “I think it’s very important for us to show solidarity and support with Israel right now in their time of great struggle. And we certainly stand for that position. We’ll try to advance that in every way that we can.” SCHUMER TRASHED FOR ‘DISGUSTING’ SPEECH CALLING ON ISRAEL TO DUMP NETANYAHU: ‘OUTRAGEOUSLY INAPPROPRIATE’ Relations between the U.S. and Israel reached a low point last week when Schumer called for Israel to hold elections and remove Netanyahu from office. SCHUMER’S ANTI-NETANYAHU SPEECH STRENGTHENS BIBI IN ISRAEL’S WAR TO DEFEAT HAMAS The majority leader said he believed that “Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take the precedence over the best interests of Israel.” Netanyahu responded in a Sunday appearance on “Fox & Friends Weekend.” “I think Schumer’s statements are wholly inappropriate. I think we’re not a banana republic. The people of Israel will choose when they’ll have elections, who they elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted upon us,” he said. “Just imagine that, after 9/11, and when you’re in the midst of fighting al Qaeda, and winning… some Israeli would say, ‘Oh, the right thing to do is not to have new elections in America or have President Bush resign.’ It’s inappropriate. Shouldn’t have been said. It’s wrong,” he added. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Netanyahu’s office was not immediately available for comment.
Judge won’t sanction Michael Cohen for citing fake cases in AI-generated legal filing
Michael Cohen will not face sanctions after he cited fake legal cases in a court filing generated by artificial intelligence, a federal judge said Wednesday. Cohen, former President Trump’s onetime fixer and lawyer, had pleaded guilty to tax and campaign finance violations and is currently under supervised release. He has repeatedly sought to have his sentence reduced, and in his most recent attempt, Cohen provided his attorney with fabricated case citations he later admitted were generated by Google’s AI chatbot, formerly known as Bard. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said the false citations were “embarrassing and certainly negligent” in a 13-page order that denied Cohen’s fourth motion for early termination of supervised release. But the judge found that Cohen, who had said he misunderstood how AI works and did not intend to cite fake cases, had not acted in “bad faith” and that neither he nor his lawyer, David Schwartz, should be sanctioned. MICHAEL COHEN ADMITS TO INADVERTANTLY CITING FAKE CASES GENERATED BY AI IN LEGAL MOTION “The Court has no basis to question Cohen’s representation that he believed the cases to be real,” Furman wrote. “Indeed, it would have been downright irrational for him to provide fake cases for Schwartz to include in the motion knowing they were fake – given the probability that Schwartz would discover the problem himself and not include the cases in the motion (as he should have) or, failing that, that the issue would be discovered by the Government or Court, with potentially serious adverse consequences for Cohen himself.” Cohen said in his sworn declaration released in December that he had found the phony citations through Google Bard, an AI service that he said he thought was a “supercharged” search engine. “As a non-lawyer, I have not kept up with emerging trends (and related risks) in legal technology and did not realize that Google Bard was a generative text service that, like Chat-GPT, could show citations and descriptions that looked real but actually were not,” Cohen said. “Instead, I understood it to be a super-charged search engine and had repeatedly used it in other contexts to (successfully) find accurate information online.” In 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion, campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, spending more than a year in prison before he was put on supervised release. He was also disbarred as a lawyer. TRUMP HUSH-MONEY CASE: JUDGE PERMITS MICHAEL COHEN, STORMY DANIELS TO TESTIFY Cohen’s latest motion to terminate his supervised release argued there had “been a substantial change in circumstances” from his last following his testimony in Trump’s Manhattan civil fraud trial. Cohen had testified that during his time at the Trump Organization, he inflated the former president’s assets to “whatever number Trump told us to.” Schwartz told the court that Cohen had “endured two days of grueling cross examination” and that his “widely publicized” testimony showed his client’s “willingness to come forward and provide truthful accounts of his experiences.” Schwartz said that by testifying against Trump, Cohen had “demonstrat[ed] an exceptional level of remorse and a commitment to upholding the law that cannot be denied by this Court or the United States Attorney General.” But contrary to what Schwartz had argued, Judge Furman said Cohen’s testimony was “reason to deny his motion, not grant it.” “Specifically, Cohen repeatedly and unambiguously testified at the state court trial that he was not guilty of tax evasion and that he had lied under oath to Judge Pauley when he pleaded guilty to those crimes,” Furman wrote. TRUMP TRIALS; HERE’S WHERE EACH CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT AND PRESUMPTIVE GOP NOMINEE STANDS “This testimony is more troubling than the statements that Cohen had previously made in his book and on television – statements that the Court had specifically cited in denying Cohen’s third motion for early termination of supervised release… because it was given under oath.” The judge said Cohen lied under oath either when he pleaded guilty to tax crimes or in the October 2023 testimony. “Either way, it is perverse to cite the testimony, as Schwartz did, as evidence of Cohen’s “commitment to upholding the law.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “At minimum, Cohen’s ongoing and escalating efforts to walk away from his prior acceptance of responsibility for his crimes are manifest evidence of the ongoing need for specific deterrence,” Furman wrote. Cohen’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.