Wednesday, February 4, 2026
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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
The Knives Are Out for Tulsi Gabbard As She Closes in on 2020 Election Fraud
The fact that Gabbard was on the ground for the FBI, serving a search warrant, points to a significant intelligence problem alongside the raw criminality. The reaction indicates there is more of this to come.
Anti-ICE Crew Is Not Happy at All About What Just Happened to Their 'Checkpoint' in Minneapolis
They said that it would take almost no effort to set up another "filter blockade," and they need to build momentum to have more of them. It's so dumb, and then the police can rip it down again. ICE can just take a detour around them. So all they're doing is likely annoying people who have to go through the area, which will turn them off from the anti-ICE effort.
DHS Slams KTLA’s 'Dishonest' Spin on Chase of Previously Deported Illegal at Church Food Drive
They accused the local news station, known as "Los Angeles's Very Own," of omitting an official DHS statement that was provided before the outlet promoted a sympathetic story about a man arrested on church grounds.
Trending Across Townhall Media
Pirro Attempts Damage Control After Controversial Carry Comments
No one takes issue with Pirro's statements about going after criminals who want to use guns to victimize law-abiding citizens. The problem is that she didn't confine her remarks to those individuals.
WSJ Editors: Say, The Epstein Files Release Was a Bad Idea, Huh?
"This isn't justice," the WSJ's editorial board laments. That's because it was never about justice at all.
An L.A. Eviction Lawyer Has a Message for Billie Eilish, and I Can't Stop Laughing
So imagine you're one of the remaining 3,900 or so Tongva people native to the Los Angeles basin and Southern Channel Islands, who had everything stolen from them by nasty white people just like Billie Eilish, including their language.
Justice must be served, I say!
How This Black ICE Agent Reacted to This Unhinged Mob of White Leftists Was Gold
Giving these losers the middle finger while leaving was just the perfect ending.
Troll Kings! Conservative Group Sends San Fran Lefties Into a RAGE With ICE Super Bowl Billboard
NFL teams can't win without defense. Neither can America.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
The big news, of course, out of the Hill on Tuesday was the House's passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act. This move "reopened" the government (though few realized it was partially closed) and gave Congress until next Friday to come up with a solution for funding the Department of Homeland Security.
READ MORE: Shutdown Shut Down: House Agrees to Senate Package to Reopen Government
'A Great Victory for the American People': Trump Signs Consolidated Appropriations Act Into Law
On Wednesday, there are several hearings/meetings set, including:
- House Judiciary — “Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II”
- House Financial Services — The Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council
- Senate Environment and Public Works — Hearings to examine identifying and addressing cybersecurity challenges to protect America's water infrastructure
- Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Hearings to examine the future of self-driving cars
- House Education and Workforce, Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee —"Runaway College Spending Meets the Working Families Tax Cuts"
- House Foreign Affairs, Africa Subcommittee — Defending Religious Freedom Around the World
- Senate Judiciary, Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee — Hearings to examine fighting fraud in Minnesota and beyond
White House What's Up
President Trump signed the aforementioned Consolidated Appropriations Act into law on Tuesday afternoon. On Wednesday, he'll participate in a TV interview at 11:00 AM Eastern. Later in the afternoon, he's got a policy meeting set in the Oval Office.
First Lady Melania is set to meet with freed American-Israeli Hostage Keith Siegel in the Blue Room in the early afternoon.
Keeping Up With the Cabinet
Sec. Homeland Security - Kristi Noem — Noem has announced that all immigration officers working in Minneapolis will start wearing body cameras, effective immediately.
READ MORE: Media’s Bogus Minneapolis Narrative About to Be Nuked As DHS Turns on the Cameras
Full Court Press...
Oral argument in New York v. Trump (regarding the removal of the New York criminal case against the president to federal court) is set for today before Judge Alvin Hellerstein. This is Hellerstein's re-look at the issue after the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals vacated his prior ruling on the matter.
There were some interesting decisions handed down on Tuesday, including:
- ↔️ Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends v. DHS (immigration enforcement - schools and places of worship) — Judge Theodore Chuang (Maryland) partially GRANTS admin's motion to dismiss (but also partially denies it).
And then there was this rather odd nugget from Judge Ana Reyes, whose ruling in the case involving TPS for Haitians we reported on yesterday.
⚖️ 'Scuse me, what? In Lesly Miot v. Trump (TPS - Haiti), Judge Ana Reyes (D.C.) gives AUSA Dhruman Sampat a special shoutout for his work on the matter.
— Susie Moore ⚾️🌻🐶 (@SmoosieQ) February 3, 2026
🧐 pic.twitter.com/7guf2h1K0d
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Winter Games, baybee — some of the events, like Curling, are starting today.
MORNING MUSING
I happened upon this story yesterday, and it caught my attention.
SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9
— Paul Blume (@PaulBlume_FOX9) February 3, 2026
I feel for Le. I've been at that point of frustration and overwhelm before — one of the last trials I had tested my very last nerve, and I know there was a time or two where I shared my frustration with the judge (not at her) as we (my team) tussled for the eleventy billionth time with obnoxious opposing counsel. The issue there, though, was, as you might have gleaned, opposing counsel's obnoxiousness.
What Le is describing is system overload. The volume of habeas cases being filed in the wake of Operation Metro Surge is proving too much for the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis to keep up with. It occurs to me that that is precisely the point.
After President Trump was reelected, we saw a blitz from his team to line things up during the transition and hit the ground running upon inauguration — think of all the executive orders he signed that very first day. For a time, it seemed like the opposition was back on its heels. The Democrats didn't seem to know what hit them, and they were reeling.
They no longer had control of the White House or Congress. So, eventually, they pivoted, and they've been using/abusing the court system ever since. Their best hope is to overwhelm the administration, so that it backs down or craps out. Kind of like the initial move to open the border and allow millions of illegal aliens to flood into the country.
I guess that leaves us with the question of who/which side will ultimately prevail? I wouldn't bet against President Trump or his administration.
LIGHTER FARE
They need popcorn!
Their favorite show is on..🐕🐾🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/HBiBFZlHao
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) February 3, 2026
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