Monday, November 3, 2025
Good morning, and welcome to RedState's "Morning Minute" โ a brief glimpse at which stories are trending at the moment and a look ahead at what the day may bring. Consider this your one-stop shop for news to kickstart your day.
TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
Ted Cruz Has a Good Guess As to When the Schumer Shutdown Is Likely to End, and Why
The whole point of this exercise seems to have been to juice the leftist base, to try to appeal to them that somehow the Democrats were "fighting" for them.
Hegseth Replaces Two More Senior Pentagon Generals As He Continues to Reshape the Military Hierarchy
Hegseth and Cain have not been reticent about reshaping the military leadership.
College Football Highlights From Week 10 and the New AP Top 25
It is November. Things are supposed to be settled in, the playoff picture coming into focus, and postseason plans could at least be penciled in. Not in the NIL era.
Trending Across Townhall Media
The Hidden Question for SCOTUS in Its Newest 2A Case
Don't get me wrong; I'm glad the DOJ is restarting the 925(c) process after more than 30 years. It does nothing, though, to address the constitutionality of these statutes and whether or not people should be charged and convicted for violating them going forward.
Another Democrat Postmortem Arrives at Shocking Conclusion
Platner has been running as a working-class Democrat, but scratch the surface and you get an Antifa socialist who wears Nazi tattoos.
I'm Sorry, But HOW MANY Illegals Get Food Stamps?
It only makes sense if you're trying to take the most productive and self-reliant people in history and turn them into something else.
The main challenge for the Democrats is that they hate the people they want to appeal to.
To get the full video of the Harris interview released was like pulling teeth (because they knew it would be obvious that it was deceptively edited to help her out heading into the election) but Team Trump immediately put out the full interview with no cuts:
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
We're at Day 34 (I think) of the Schumer Shutdown. There's some speculation that, perhaps getting past Tuesday's elections will prompt some Democrats to relent, though no one should be holding their breath.
SEE: Ted Cruz Has a Good Guess As to When the Schumer Shutdown Is Likely to End, and Why
No hearings or meetings set for Monday, but the Senate will be voting late in the afternoon to invoke cloture on Eric Chunyee Tung to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit.
White House What's Up
President Donald Trump is participating in a Virginia tele-ralley, followed by a New Jersey tele-ralley, on Monday evening in an effort to help the GOP candidates in their last push to the finish line on Tuesday.
On Friday, Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha celebrated Halloween with their kids.
VP Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance, and the kids celebrated Halloween at the Vice Presidentโs Residence last night๐ธ pic.twitter.com/kLPl3lmQ4d
โ Vice President JD Vance (@VP) November 1, 2025
Keeping Up With the Cabinet
Sec. Veterans Affairs - Doug Collins โ Collins recently highlighted the impact the Schumer Shutdown is having on VA employees.
Nearly 37,000 @DeptVetAffairs employees are going without pay due to the Democrat shutdown, leaving Veterans without access to key benefits, including career counseling services. Learn more here: https://t.co/1z7KcnK2UY pic.twitter.com/BQogsxSRIh
โ VA Secretary Doug Collins (@SecVetAffairs) November 2, 2025
Full Court Press...
The Supreme Court is back to hearing oral arguments on Monday. Two cases start the week off:
- Rico v. United States โ Whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release.
- Hencley v. Fluor โ Should Boyle be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the FTCA's combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a government contractor for conduct that breached its contract and violated military orders?
The courts were busy on Friday, too, issuing several notable rulings:
- โ Alawieh v. Noem (habeas/removal of protesters) โ Judge Leo Sorokin (Massachusetts) enters judgment dismissing plaintiff's case.
- โ Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. USDA (SNAP benefits) โ Judge Indira Talwani issues a non-TRO, quasi-TRO.
- โ Rhode Island State Council of Churches v. Rollins (SNAP benefits) โ Judge John McConnell Jr. GRANTS plaintiffs' motion for TRO.
- โ City of Seattle v. Trump (denial of federal grants) โ Judge Barbara Rothstein (Western District of Washington) GRANTS plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction.
- โ LULAC v. Executive Office of President/DNC v. Trump & RNC/League of Women Voters v. Trump & RNC (EOs re: election law) โ Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (D.C.) GRANTS plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment; GRANTS in part/DENIES in part defendants' cross motion for summary judgment.
- โ Noem v. Ellis (outgrowth of Chicago Headline Club v. Noem (immigration enforcement) โ 7th Circuit Court of Appeals GRANTS admin's petition for writ of mandamus (IOW, tells district court judge to slow her micromanaging roll).
READ MORE: 7th Circuit Puts the Kibosh on Judge's Micromanagement of ICE Operations in Chicago
New: Judge Blocks Trump's Executive Order on Proof of Citizenship for Voting in Fed. Elections
MORNING MUSING
As noted above, we're on Day 34 of the Schumer Shutdown. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) continues to lead his caucus in refusing to fund and reopen the government, famously asserting that "Every day it gets better for us." He's being shored up by his House colleagues, like Minority Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05), who, in one breath, acknowledged the suffering the shutdown is causing families, and in the next, noted that said suffering was "one of the few leverage items we have."
I'm not sure who's advising Schumer on this, or what they laid out as the end game here, but holding the American people hostage over a clean continuing resolution for over a month has to be about the most tone-deaf, callous, out-of-touch move I've seen โ and I've been living, breathing, and eating politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, as the saying goes.
Then again, this is the same guy who thought plunking a slice of cheese down on a raw burger would somehow help burnish his image, so...maybe he's just not all that swift. At minimum, he's cast himself as the Marie Antoinette* of the Senate โ I don't think this is going to work out well for him.
The cruelty of you trying to serve people raw burgers is unparalleled. pic.twitter.com/x05N3P2Hq5
โ MIKฮ STAHL (@mikeastahl) March 13, 2025
*I recently learned that the quote, though attributed to Marie Antoinette, likely pre-dated her. But it's most closely associated with her, so...I'm going with it.
LIGHTER FARE
Yup โ that's about right!
Siblings at birthday parties be like..๐๐พ๐๐ pic.twitter.com/XxvGxFZ2FX
โ ๐oฬดgฬด (@Yoda4ever) November 2, 2025
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