As Singham faces federal probe, wife marches in anti-Israel protest led by groups he funded
NEW YORK — A network funded by Neville Roy Singham, a communist tech tycoon living in Shanghai, mounted a coordinated anti-Israel protest through Midtown Manhattan Thursday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations, deploying field marshals, pre-made signs, banners, megaphones, drums, portable sound equipment and a stage for a four-hour demonstration. At 3:40 p.m. Thursday, field marshals and foot soldiers from the People’s Forum Inc. connected to their “comrades” in the Singham network at the steps of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue. Fox News Digital watched the operation unfold from setup to breakdown. At the center of the protest was Jodie Evans, Singham’s wife, a longtime leader at the People’s Forum and the co-founder of CodePink — a nonprofit that has operated within the broader pro-communist activist network funded by her husband. As Fox News Digital first reported, the Justice Department’s U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York opened a grand jury investigation into alleged money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud by Singham and his network. Singham and the organizations he has funded haven’t been charged with any crimes. As the march moved through Manhattan, self-declared “comrades” of the Revolutionary Communists of America chanted, “Long live the intifada,” while Evans and activists from other organizations within the Singham network marched alongside members of the Democratic Socialists of America. “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the intifada!” the crowd shouted, chanting the term used by Palestinian militants to violently oppose the existence of the state of Israel. FROM AUSTIN TO NEW YORK, PRO-CHINA NETWORK FUELS WEEK OF ANTI-US PROTESTS AS XI MEETS TRUMP Earlier, police arrested actress Susan Sarandon, a regular speaker at People’s Forum events and protests, after demonstrators blocked First Avenue in an anti-Israel sit-in. CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and actress Cynthia Nixon were also among the protesters. The demonstration included activists from Jewish Voice for Peace, another partner of the Singham network whose leaders have advocated replacing Israel with a state called “Palestine.” By the end of the evening, at 8:08 p.m., Fox News Digital observed the protesters rolling their carts back to the People’s Forum Inc., the network’s Midtown headquarters on W. 37th Street and a key organizing hub for the Singham network’s street demonstrations on issues from Israel to anti-American tech. Congressional lawmakers, the Justice Department and federal, state and local policymakers have criticized the groups as antisemitic, anti-American and “Trojan horses” for the Chinese Communist Party. WATCH: Revolutionary Communists of America march at anti-Netanyahu protest in NYC The day’s events, documented in real time by a Fox News Digital investigative team, provided a rare, on-the-ground view of the infrastructure behind the network’s protests. The operation involved assigned marshals, paid nonprofit staff, pre-made signs, portable sound equipment, rolling wagons, a stage, coordinated slogans and a media team producing content for online distribution. While not every group participating in the demonstration was directly funded by Singham, the personnel and logistics showed how organizations with overlapping leadership, funding and messaging can operate together to turn a political flashpoint into a professionally-managed street campaign. WATCH: Singham-linked Party for Socialism and Liberation activists roll in stacks of protest signs at Bryant Park SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST GROUPS COORDINATE, PROMOTE ‘SPONTANEOUS’ ANTI-ICE PROTESTS IN AUSTIN The appearance of Singham’s wife alongside leaders and activists from the People’s Forum, BreakThrough News, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Palestinian Youth Movement and a “Shut It Down for Palestine” campaign provides visible evidence of the Singham network’s central role in organizing and promoting anti-Israel protests, particularly in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel. The coordinated signage and equipment revealed an organizing and logistics infrastructure that moved people, messaging and materials through the city for three hours. Fox News Digital has observed the same materials at a number of separate protests, targeting not only Israel but rallying support for the Islamic Republic of Iran, the communist regimes of Venezuela and Cuba, and fighting data centers and American AI. That infrastructure helps explain how the same network has repeatedly transformed breaking news and political flashpoints into large, highly-coordinated anti-Israel protests across the country. The protest’s visible organization reflected the scale of the financial network behind some of its leading participants. After his wedding to Evans in 2017 and the sale of ThoughtWorks, the technology company he founded, Singham directed $285 million to nonprofits and media organizations, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. The People’s Forum received $22.4 million from Singham, while CodePink received $1.33 million. BreakThrough BT Media Inc., which operates BreakThrough News, received $1.098 million, according to tax filings. POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: HOW A TYCOON AND ACTIVIST BUILT A ‘REVOLUTIONARY BASE’ AT THE HOUSE OF SINGHAM DOJ LAUNCHES GRAND JURY PROBE INTO MARXIST MOGUL NEVILLE ROY SINGHAM’S FUNDING OF LEFTIST GROUPS In his United Nations address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the demonstrators “phony human rights protesters” who have been silent in speaking out against atrocities by the Islamic Republic of Iran against its citizens. Evans’ presence also offered an unusually direct view of the people behind the anti-Israel protest machine that has mobilized repeatedly across New York and other American cities against Israel. At about 4 p.m., Manolo De Los Santos, executive director at the People’s Forum, arrived and moved near the anti-Israel signs his foot soldiers had rolled onto the steps of the New York Public Library. A lieutenant handed out signs calling for sanctions against Israel and declaring, “WAR CRIMINALS NOT WELCOME” and “NEW YORK REJECTS ZIONISM.” At the bottom, the signs carried the branding of a communist group that the People’s Forum works with closely: the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which doesn’t publicly disclose its finances. Beside De Los Santos stood Layan Fuleihan, a controversial fixture in anti-Israel protests. Fuleihan, a Palestinian American, spoke at an Oct. 8, 2023, protest that the People’s Forum organized, supporting the Hamas attack on Israel and saying, “Yesterday, the world woke up to incredible news. The media will tell
Leftist protester disrupts Climate Week event by ranting against US military
A member of Code Pink, the far-left group known for confronting elected officials, disrupted a Climate Week event in New York City Thursday, blaming the U.S. military for its perceived role in the climate crisis. The disruption targeted an event hosted by The Nature Conservancy, which the group claims refuses to address the U.S. military’s “massive carbon footprint and massive environmental degradation from U.S. military bases and U.S.-driven wars and occupations.” “There is an elephant in the room that The Nature Conservancy does not want to address,” said a man identified by Code Pink only as Aaron, the campaign organizer for the group’s War Is Not Green initiative. “It is destroying ecosystems. It is destroying fish. It is destroying the world.” $54M CODEPINK-LINKED FOUNDATION SHUT DOWN IN CALIFORNIA POPS UP AT RAMSHACKLE MIAMI HOME He also pointed to the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget and the U.S. military’s role in environmental destruction, asking why The Nature Conservancy, with a budget of over $2 billion and a mission dedicated to protecting land and water, refuses to address it, the group said. Code Pink said it was present at NYC Climate Week to insist that any serious climate conversation must include the military-industrial complex, which it argued contributes significantly to global warming. INSIDE THE FAR-LEFT’S ANTI-DATA CENTER PUSH AND WHAT EXPERTS SAY IS DRIVING IT: ‘PLAYBOOK WE’VE SEEN BEFORE’ Code Pink demanded that The Nature Conservancy and other environmental groups “publicly acknowledge the U.S. military as a leading institutional polluter,” “refuse partnerships or funding tied to the military-industrial complex” and “use their platforms to demand cuts to the Pentagon budget and an end to wars that devastate ecosystems.” “You cannot claim to protect the land and waters while ignoring the largest institutional polluter on Earth,” Aaron explained after the disruption. “The Nature Conservancy has a $2 billion budget and a global platform. It has a responsibility to name the war machine as a driver of climate destruction. Silence is complicity.” Fox News Digital has reached out to The Nature Conservancy.
New Jersey Lt Gov Dale Caldwell resigns after sexual harassment investigation
Democrat New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell resigned Friday after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and ethics violations against him, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced. “The investigation found that the lieutenant governor failed to uphold the responsibilities of his office, and he demonstrated a pattern of behavior that does not meet the standards of this administration,” Sherrill said during a news conference in Trenton. “The report documents serious, repeated violations of state policy, including ethical lapses and a substantiated finding of sexual harassment. “I gave the lieutenant governor until today to resign. He submitted his resignation to me this afternoon, which I accepted.” NEW JERSEY GOV MIKIE SHERRILL CALLS ON LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TO RESIGN AFTER SEXUAL HARASSMENT INVESTIGATION Sherrill named state comptroller Shirley Emehelu as acting secretary of state, a role Caldwell also held. Sherrill said filling the post immediately was critical with the midterm elections 39 days away. “It is of paramount importance that our elections run smoothly, and that New Jerseyans have confidence in the officials overseeing them,” Sherrill said. Sherrill had given Caldwell until Friday to resign. FEDERAL ILLEGAL VOTING ARREST BECOMES LATEST FLASHPOINT IN SHERRILL’S BATTLES WITH TRUMP ADMINSTRATION The report found Caldwell told a female staffer that “you young women are looking for young sperm” after she told him her younger friend was not interested in a romantic relationship with him. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Investigators concluded the remark constituted sexual harassment and found Caldwell’s denial that he made it was not credible. Caldwell previously denied wrongdoing, calling the allegations false and misleading and saying he believed the facts would exonerate him.
Federal illegal voting arrest becomes latest flashpoint in Sherrill’s battles with Trump administration
Federal law enforcement arrested a Senegalese immigrant in New Jersey accused of illegally voting in multiple elections, injecting a new flashpoint into Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s escalating fights with Washington over immigration enforcement and election integrity. The case comes as Washington and Trenton battle over immigration enforcement and election administration, with the Trump administration challenging Sherrill over state policies affecting federal law enforcement while also pressing New Jersey for access to its voter rolls. Sanata Coulibaly, a Senegalese national, was arrested when DHS and FBI agents jointly executed a criminal warrant in Hudson County, which stretches from West New York to Bayonne across the Hudson River from Manhattan. FOUR NONCITIZENS CHARGED WITH ILLEGALLY VOTING IN 2020, 2022 AND 2024 FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN NEW JERSEY “This alien from Senegal has been charged with procurement of citizenship or naturalization unlawfully and voting by an alien after allegedly voting in three general elections in New Jersey,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said. “Sanctuary politicians can try to claim that this kind of voter fraud isn’t happening, but it’s very real and is a serious threat to our country.” WATCH: TRUMP DOJ VOWS TO PURSUE ‘EVERY SINGLE’ VOTING VIOLATION AFTER NJ ROLL SHOCKER Mullin said DHS and the Trump administration would continue efforts to protect election integrity. The arrest comes after Sherrill revealed in July that a software error in New Jersey’s motor vehicle system had improperly registered roughly 6,600 people who identified themselves as noncitizens. The state later determined that fewer than 400 of those newly registered because of the error had voted. After that revelation, New Jersey resisted federal demands to turn over voter rolls while pursuing its own investigation. Fox News Digital reached out to Sherrill for comment. According to the criminal complaint, Coulibaly cast ballots in the November 2018 midterm election, the July 2020 primary, the November 2020 general election and the 2024 general election while she was not a U.S. citizen. Coulibaly registered through a paper application submitted to the Hudson County superintendent of elections in Jersey City, falsely certifying that she was a U.S. citizen, the complaint said. She first came to the U.S. from Senegal on a B-1 nonimmigrant visa in approximately 1993 and later became a lawful permanent resident, according to the Justice Department. SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER Prosecutors allege Coulibaly later applied for U.S. citizenship and falsely stated on her N-400 naturalization application that she had never registered to vote or voted in a federal election. Coulibaly’s case is part of a broader federal election-integrity push, with the Justice Department announcing election-related charges against 16 people across several states this month.
‘Red carpet for a despot’: Trump’s lavish Xi welcome collides with GOP anti-communism message
As President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping comes to its end, some Republicans aren’t happy with the red carpet treatment the face of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) received. “Quite frankly, had the White House asked me for advice, I would have suggested the president not invite Xi Jinping to Washington for such a lavish welcome here in the United States of America, based on all of the troubling issues we have with President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party,” Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said. Wicker, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been one of the more vocal Republicans about his disdain for the meeting, which kicked off Wednesday afternoon when Trump met Xi at Joint Base Andrews — the first time a president has met with a foreign dignitary there since 2015. BIPARTISAN DUO WANTS TO REMIND CONGRESS, TRUMP OF CHINA’S ‘ATROCITIES’ AHEAD OF XI VISIT The White House argued in a statement to Fox News Digital that Trump was returning the sentiment to Jinping after his visit to Beijing earlier this year. “President Xi hosted President Trump in China for a historic summit this summer, and President Trump is reciprocating his hospitality by welcoming the Chinese delegation for a reciprocal visit this week,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said. “The President will forge relationships with anyone in order to advance our national interests and make good deals for the American people.” It comes as Republicans are running to hold onto power in the Senate. They departed their midterm convention in Dallas earlier this month with a rallying cry: “Common sense versus communism,” as progressive candidates surge across the country. The convention was designed to remind voters that while his name is not on the ballot, Trump’s agenda is. But his meeting with Xi, optically, runs afoul of that. “I mean, the president campaigned on an anti-China policy,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said. “You go look at those MAGA rallies and look at everybody cheering when he said he’s gonna take it to China.” “Any time we roll out the red carpet for a despot from Russia, or a despot from China, I feel the same way,” he continued. “It’s kind of not good.” GOP FACES BRUTAL MIDTERM HEADWINDS AS REPUBLICANS PAINT ELECTION AS ‘COMPETITION WITH COMMUNISM’ Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he was not “enthusiastic” about the summit, and said that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea were an “axis opposed” to the U.S. “I hope the president’s clear-eyed about who he’s dealing with,” Cornyn told Fox News Digital. “I mean, he tends to call some of these dictators friends, and they’re no friend. I can guarantee.” Some Republicans are willing to accept that a meeting between Trump and Xi is a necessary step in building a relationship between the two superpowers, even with the lavish nature of the summit. “I think there’s value in being able to talk with your adversaries,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital. “And I think, in this case, you know, our two countries, the biggest economies in the world, have a symbiotic relationship.” Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., was invited to attend the dinner after spending years working in China before running for office. Daines told Fox News Digital that he understood his colleagues’ apprehension, but that the U.S. and China, and particularly Trump and Xi’s relationship, had to work. TRUMP-XI SUMMIT COULD HOLD KEY TO LOWER GAS PRICES, GOP CHAIRMAN SAYS “This relationship is too big to fail, and it’s only appropriate that President Trump and his team extends respect to Xi Jinping, and it’s really reciprocal to what they did for President Trump back in May when they showed him great respect when he showed up in Beijing,” Daines said. Still, that doesn’t mean Republicans have to like it. “It is one of his strengths, his ability to sort of win individuals over with hospitality,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told Fox News Digital. “He’s in the business. So I don’t, again, I’m not gonna second guess it. You know, I hate seeing it at a personal level, but I trust his instincts on it.” Lawmakers hoped that the two-and-a-half-day summit would yield deals on the artificial intelligence (AI) race, trade deals that would end the trade war between the U.S. and China and for Xi to use his influence to get oil and natural gas flowing through the Strait of Hormuz again. Trump kept tight-lipped about the nature of their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday, but so far, Xi has promised two new pandas while the president is mulling allowing Chinese electric vehicles to be built in the U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., took no issue with the meeting, but hoped that Trump would see through any smokescreen Xi deployed. “I just suggested, and I don’t think he will — the president’s a pretty good judge of character — not to believe President Xi’s bulls—, because he’s lying. Particularly about helping Iran, and Xi could get the Strait open immediately if he wanted,” Kennedy told Fox News Digital.
Ex-Dem insider blows lid off fundraising ‘gimmicks’ during 2024 election: ‘Pyramid scheme’
Lindy Li, a former Democratic fundraiser who switched her party affiliation over unheeded warning signs of President Joe Biden’s decline in the 2024 election, believes the party badly misallocated its fundraising, misled donors and rewarded party operatives who propped up Biden’s image. “It was: ‘maintain this very obvious lie in return for access,’” Li recalled in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, referring to assertions that Biden was not experiencing cognitive decline. “And whoever maintained, whoever was most strident in propounding that lie got the most access. And whoever subverted it or dared to ask questions would see their access quickly diminish.” Li herself would find her access completely cut off after she began questioning Biden’s physical ability to serve another four years as president. But before leaving, Li became a top operative and is now chronicling the months leading up to Biden’s withdrawal from the race in her new book, “Unburdened.” Her revelations include what then-Vice President Kamala Harris did with a historic, billion-dollar war chest. NANCY PELOSI DENIES KNOWING ABOUT BIDEN’S DECLINE, CLAIMS THOSE WHO KNEW ‘SHOULD HAVE ACTED’ For starters, Li believes that the numbers themselves weren’t what they appeared to be from the outside. “I sincerely believe it’s a pyramid scheme,” Li said. She explained how fundraisers would sometimes take credit for each other’s work. In some cases, top recruiters could effectively double-dip on work that their subordinates had done. “When you recruit somebody, you can claim up to $250,000 of what they raise,” Li said. “In fact, you could poach other people’s donors and move money around. And that is how some people reach like $10 million without actually raising a thing. It’s like accounting gimmicks and machinations rather than real money. I know there were people who were double counted.” As a top fundraiser for both Biden and Harris, Li worked closely with top donors, high-profile members of the party and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Li described how she had a front-row seat for many of the party’s spending decisions. Li recounted that most of the Harris campaign’s spending went through four large media contracting companies. These contractors, Li said, collected enormous fees and received over half a billion dollars. The companies that were listed in her book included Media Buying & Analytics, Gambit Strategies, Bully Pulpit Interactive and Dupont Circle Strategies. CARVILLE SHREDS DEMS’ 2024 AUTOPSY, SAYS HARRIS CAMPAIGN WAS ‘MOST INEFFECTIVE $2 BILLION EVER SPENT’ “This tsunami of money represented about 70 percent of the campaign’s expenditures in the final days, enriching a handful of well-connected consultants while the broader effort collapsed,” Li wrote. In interviews with Fox, Li described how the payments to the firms came partially as off-the-top fees. “The vast majority of the money raised went into TV ads. And so… You know, people talk about 10% for the big guy. Okay, but I actually think the bigger grift is 15% for the big grift for these media people. They get 15%, 15 points off of hundreds of millions of dollars. You can do the math,” Li said. “The consultants get the money, the consultants that are hired by the campaign, and they’re friends of the candidate or friends of Jen O’Malley-Dillon. It’s a very incestuous process,” Li said, referring to the Harris campaign chair. In addition to the media companies and the lucrative contracts they paid out, Li believes that the party focused too much on expenses that didn’t advance the campaign while, in her view, neglecting strategic opportunities. “$350,000 a night slapping her face in the Las Vegas sphere, spending that money on Gulfstream so they wouldn’t have to fly commercial, spending it on Ritz-Carlton hotels. I mean, that definitely happened because the National Finance Committee was hosting its final meeting there. Spending its money on tote bags,” Li said. “None of that in Philadelphia,” she added, referring to the critical electoral center in Pennsylvania — a state that had been projected to be a pathway to victory in 2024. HARRIS BACKS RELEASING DNC’S 2024 ELECTION AUTOPSY DESPITE LEADERSHIP BURYING REPORT Part of what shocked Li was how brazen the party had been with the money she helped raise. She also expressed disbelief at the message the party spun to voters who had contributed their earnings in hopes of “saving democracy,” a refrain Biden used to convince voters to side with him over President Donald Trump. “Some people forked over their life savings. Like people were liquidating their savings on the hope that they were saving the country. They absolutely did, and I truly believe that they donated $2.5 billion over seven weeks, not so much primarily because of Kamala’s strength as a candidate, but rather their hatred for Trump and their fear of Trump,” Li said. “Everyone knew, everyone played along.”
Trump revives Supreme Court immigration showdown after Hochul pardon torpedoed first case
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to revive a major immigration fight over whether criminal aliens can be held without bond throughout removal proceedings or are entitled to a hearing when their detention drags on. Solicitor General John Sauer asked the Supreme Court on Monday to take up Genalo v. D.C., reviving a constitutional fight the justices had been set to hear this term in Genalo v. Black before New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pardon rendered that case moot. At the center of the dispute is D.C., a Dominican national who is facing removal after a criminal history that includes drug trafficking and domestic violence charges. He had previously been removed from the United States on six occasions, according to ICE. Federal law requires certain criminal aliens to remain in custody while their deportation cases play out. But the Second Circuit has ruled that if they are detained for too long, they are entitled to a bond hearing at which the government must make the case for keeping them in custody. BLUE STATE GOVERNOR’S PARDON OF CONVICTED FELON TORPEDOS A MAJOR SUPREME COURT IMMIGRATION FIGHT Other appeals courts have taken different approaches, leaving the Supreme Court with a nationwide split over what constitutional protections apply. “So the rights of these criminal aliens who were being detained, whether or not they’re entitled to a bond hearing as of right now depends on which jurisdiction they happen to fall in,” Michael Morley, a Florida State University law professor, told Fox News Digital. “And so the government is asking the Supreme Court to set one uniform interpretation for the entire country.” The Trump administration’s petition is procedurally unusual because Genalo v. D.C. is still pending before the Second Circuit. Sauer is asking the Supreme Court to intervene before the appeals court issues its decision. “Rather than making the court go through those motions, you just hear this case now, hear this case directly, even before the Second Circuit has had the opportunity to rule,” Morley told Fox News Digital. The legal dispute could also determine who carries the burden when a bond hearing is required. Under the Second Circuit’s approach, the government must show that a detainee poses a flight risk or danger to the community. The administration argued that if the Constitution requires such hearings, the burden should instead fall on the detainee seeking release. Lawyers supporting the administration argue that some detainees could delay their removal cases, then use the length of their detention to seek release on bond. “The biggest issue that happens here is gamemanship,” Chad Mizelle, chair of litigation at the America First Policy Institute and a former acting associate attorney general, told Fox News Digital. “A lot of times these aliens will file multiple applications for asylum, withholding removal. They’ll get new attorneys, switch out attorneys, ask for continuances, ask for delays,” Mizelle said. “So all of a sudden they’ve been in detention now, six, seven, eight months, completely of their own making.” FEDERAL APPEALS COURT DEALS BLOW TO TRUMP DEPORTATION AGENDA Mizelle argued that if prolonged detention eventually gives a detainee the right to seek bond, it could create an incentive to stretch proceedings long enough to reach that point. “They would switch out attorneys. They would make frivolous filings regarding asylum, regarding withholding of removal. They would ask for delays and continuances upon delays and continuances,” Mizelle said. “They’ll do everything they can to try to stretch this out, six months, seven months, eight months, file a habeas petition, say that they’re entitled to a bond hearing, and then if they are released, abscond.” Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, similarly described the additional litigation as “a foot dragging, sand in the gears exercise.” “This is attempting to stall, attempting to run out the clock or just, you know, the question is whether there even is a clock,” Severino told Fox News Digital. She pointed to cases such as Demore v. Kim, in which detainees themselves sought additional time during proceedings before later challenging the length of their detention. OBAMA, BIDEN JUDGES DRAW FRESH FIRE AS TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION COURT CLASHES HEAT UP: ‘ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE’ SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER “So, it’s often a situation where people are playing both sides of it,” Severino said. “But they’re asking for more time on different things, but then at the same time complaining that the whole process is taking too long.” However, Severino cautioned that she could not speak to the motivations of every detainee. The Supreme Court has previously upheld mandatory detention during removal proceedings, but Morley said the high court has left open the constitutional question now at the center of the administration’s petition. “This is a question that the [Supreme Court] itself went out of its way, you can say, to leave open for adjudication in a future case,” Morley said. The administration is now asking the justices not to wait for another one. “You wanted to resolve this case. Here’s another case that presents the same exact question that lets you resolve the circuit split this term,” Morley said. “So basically, substitute this case for the moot case.” Fox News Digital reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
Liberal justice hammers Supreme Court for fast-tracking emergency docket cases
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ripped her colleagues for fast-tracking cases on the high court’s emergency docket, saying “it has been noticeably less restrained, especially with respect to pending cases that involve controversial matters.” The emergency docket, sometimes known as the shadow or interim docket, allows parties to ask the Supreme Court to quickly intervene in lawsuits and temporarily pause lower court rulings. The process can take a couple of days, weeks or months, and is viewed as a much speedier, although temporary, way to secure court relief than when the court fully considers the merits of a case, which can include a long briefing schedule and oral arguments. “Why is it that one party should get a fast pass to the Supreme Court of the United States, when so many other parties are queued up, waiting patiently for the court’s attention?” Jackson said Thursday during a speech at the University of the District of Columbia’s law school, according to The Hill. “If we’re not careful, the emergency docket can and will become an end run around the standard review process, a special avenue that certain privileged litigants can use selectively,” she added. SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO INTERVENE IN CASE OF SURROGATE MOTHER WHO REFUSED ABORTION Jackson’s speech comes as the Trump administration has submitted 40 emergency applications to the Supreme Court since the start of the president’s second term, The Hill reported. Through the emergency docket, the Supreme Court has greenlit Trump’s mass firings of career employees and high-profile terminations of Democratic appointees. It has curtailed nationwide injunctions and cleared the way for controversial deportations and immigration stops. Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has won about 80% of its appeals on the emergency docket, according to Politico. KAVANAUGH THROWS TRUMP ‘A LIFELINE’ ON MAIL BALLOT RULES DESPITE SUPREME COURT LOSS BEFORE MIDTERMS The Supreme Court’s majority has often split along ideological lines and offered little reason for its emergency decisions. This differs from final orders from the court, which can be lengthy and include numerous concurring opinions and dissents. Jackson also said Thursday that parties should be required to prove impending harm in cases that cannot wait for full adjudication by the lower courts, as opposed to the Supreme Court granting stay applications based on whether lower courts could have made mistakes, Courthouse News Service reported. “Significant real-world harms can follow Supreme Court stay rulings, and when the court’s orders do not acknowledge that reality, they seem oblivious and ring hollow,” Jackson was quoted as saying. “We cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we are consistently greenlighting harmful acts that do real damage to litigating plaintiffs without a court decision fully and fairly determining the lawfulness of that challenged conduct on the merits.” Fox News Digital’s Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.
‘Castro’s playbook’: Ex-AG warns dozens of congressional bills are pushing socialist ideas
Federal guarantees for jobs and housing, the elimination of private health insurance, a massive Green New Deal expansion, and new taxes on unrealized wealth are among dozens of current congressional proposals being called out by a national free-market group led by former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares. Miyares, whose family fled Fidel Castro’s communist regime, described the proposed laws seen on Capitol Hill as “straight from Castro’s playbook” in a sit-down interview with Fox News Digital. Miyares recently became the honorary chairman at the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, a conservative trade organization representing American businesses, which just launched a “Socialism Watch” initiative tracking 32 bills that have been introduced on Capitol Hill aiming to implement what the group describes as socialist policy goals across healthcare, energy, labor, housing, taxation and more. “The year Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, Cuba had the same GDP as Greece. The year that he died, too bad the same GDP as Sudan,” Miyares told Fox News Digital. “Socialism doesn’t work. It impoverishes every country that embraces it.” DSA-BACKED CANDIDATES ARE WINNING PRIMARIES AND THEIR VISION FOR AMERICA IS VERY DIFFERENT Among the bills highlighted by Miyares and the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is legislation that would ban fracking nationwide beginning in 2029, prohibit greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants and restrict new liquefied natural gas infrastructure and most U.S. oil and natural gas exports. Others would create government-backed job-guarantee programs offering employment to qualifying applicants, replace private health insurance with a national Medicare for All program and impose annual taxes on accumulated wealth, even when those gains have not been realized through a sale. The group is also zeroing in on a massive progressive push to overhaul American real estate: the “Housing is a Human Right Act.” While supporters pitch the $300 billion bill as a moral crusade to end homelessness, critics like Miyares see it differently. They argue that by officially declaring shelter a government-guaranteed right and pumping billions into “social housing,” the legislation is actively trying to push private landlords out of the market. TODAY’S LEFTISTS ARE DANGEROUSLY WRONG ABOUT COMMUNISM. JUST LISTEN TO THE SURVIVORS Other measures flagged by the group include a proposal to create a quasi-governmental “National Infrastructure Bank” to fund politically favored state projects, alongside a $1.6 trillion “Green New Deal for Public Schools” that the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce warns would hand local school district operations over to the federal government. “These young people are embracing socialism thinking that it leads to helping those that are poor, disadvantaged. The reality is it does the opposite,” Miyares told Fox News Digital. “It actually hurts the very people that it wants to help.” Miyares’ warnings about socialism are rooted in his family’s history in Cuba. His mother, Miriam, fled Fidel Castro’s communist regime in 1965 at 19 years old, arriving in the United States after leaving nearly everything behind. Miyares has said his uncle, an opponent of Castro, was arrested following the Bay of Pigs invasion and subjected to a mock execution, an experience he has said helped drive his mother’s decision to leave the island. “So many young people have forgotten really, really painful lessons of history that you cannot judge a bill or an economic system based on intentions, you have to judge it on results,” Miyares said. “What we’ve seen time and time again is socialism fails everywhere it’s been tried.” But Miyares argued the debate is no longer confined to activists or ideological arguments outside Washington, pointing to the 32 bills tracked through the American Free Enterprise Chamber’s newly launched “Socialism Watch” initiative as evidence that policies associated with the socialist-left have made their way into actual legislation before Congress. “AOC joked that woke one was crazy,” Miyares said. “Well, it’s clear that woke two should belong in an insane asylum because it’s a full-blown embrace of Marxism and socialism.”
Xi caps Trump state visit with symbolic final stop before leaving Washington
Chinese President Xi Jinping, leader of the country’s ruling Communist Party, will depart the United States today, but not before a final stop at the National Archives. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will first meet President Xi Jinping and his wife, Madame Peng Liyuan, for morning tea at the White House’s Red Room. After that, the couples will head to the National Archives for what the White House describes as a viewing of “a variety of important records and documents significant to the American and Chinese relationship throughout history.” From there, Trump will bid Xi farewell, and the whirlwind two-and-a-half day summit, underscored by a palpable tension, will conclude. The National Archives houses some of America’s most important documents, including the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. TRUMP-XI SUMMIT SHOULD MAKE SURE AMERICAN STRENGTH DELIVERS AMERICAN RESULTS The two heads of state met at the White House on Thursday morning, which began with a state arrival ceremony consisting of military honors, a review of troops, the Chinese and American national anthems and a flyover by a B-2 stealth bomber in formation with four fighter jets. A frenzied press, foreign and domestic, scurried around the White House grounds to catch glimpses of Trump and Xi, who does not often visit the West. Trump and his administration officials held bilateral talks with the Chinese delegation from the late morning into the early afternoon, lasting for several hours. Xi and Trump also spoke behind closed doors in the Oval Office. After the meetings, Trump escorted Xi to the White House’s South Lawn, where the pair viewed Marine One, and the new helipad on which it sits. They also toured the White House ballroom, which is under construction, and Trump showed Xi the Presidential Walk of Fame outside the West Wing, which features headshots of presidents past. Trump installed an image of an autopen in Biden’s place on the Presidential Walk of Fame, a reference to Trump’s repeated attacks on the former president’s use of an autopen while in office. Xi and Trump could both be seen laughing at the image, according to footage on social media. Outside the White House gates, protesters against Chinese oppression could be heard chanting throughout the day of meetings. The protests carried into the evening, with chants of “Free Hong Kong,” “Xi Jinping, you’re not welcome” and “freedom for political prisoners” at times drowning out the state dinner at the White House, Fox News Digital reported. XI CAN’T ESCAPE PROTESTERS’ CRIES AT DEAFENING DINNER DEMONSTRATION A White House official told Fox News Digital before the visit that Trump would explore a wide-ranging deal on possible tariff reductions on non-strategic goods in the meeting with Xi. That official also said the nation’s leaders would discuss rare-earth exports and possible export controls, and that Trump was expected to press China to do more to curb fentanyl precursor chemical exports. Trump called the meeting “great,” but didn’t elaborate and didn’t take questions from the press during the day. China will send two giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, to Zoo Atlanta under a conservation agreement, Xi announced. Xi also invited 100,000 young Americans to visit China for exchanges and study over the next five years. Xi departed the White House for several hours after the meeting, but returned for a state dinner that officially began at 8:00 p.m. Trump kicked off the dinner with a toast to peace and prosperity for both nations. Guests at the dinner included the second family, Cabinet officials and their spouses, and titans of industry in banking and tech. XI PREPARES CHINA ‘FOR BATTLE’ AS EXPERT WARNS OF GRAVE DANGER FACING US AHEAD OF DC SUMMIT Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, SpaceX founder and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser and Apple Board of Directors Chairman Tim Cook were all in attendance. The inclusion of American artificial intelligence leaders was notable, given that the powerful technology was a hotbed summit issue as China and the United States race for AI dominance.