A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump Administration from ending protections for 600,000 Venezuelans.

The three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals included: Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw (Clinton), Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. (Obama), and Judge Anthony Johnstone (Biden).

Earlier this year, an Obama-appointed judge in San Francisco ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and ordered a freeze on ending the protections.

The appeals court judges upheld the lower court’s decision to give 600,000 Venezuelans ‘Temporary Protected Status’ (TPS).

“In the TPS context, Plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their claim that Congress has displaced any inherent revocation authority by explicitly providing the procedure by which a TPS designation is terminated,” they wrote.

CBS News reported:

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California upheld a lower court ruling that maintained temporary protected status, or TPS, for Venezuelans while the case proceeded through court.

An email to the Department of Homeland Security for comment was not immediately returned.

The 9th Circuit panel found that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on their claim that the department had no authority to vacate or set aside a prior TPS extension because the governing statute written by Congress does not permit for it.

“In enacting the TPS statute, Congress designed a system of temporary status that was predictable, dependable, and insulated from electoral politics,” the court wrote.

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In a 2-1 decision against “voter assistance” organizations, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned an October 2024 district court’s decision that would have gutted Texas’s Senate Bill 1.

The bill was passed following the 2020 Presidential election and implemented new restrictions and requirements, mainly for mail-in voting.  For example, the bill banned drive-thru and 24-hour voting centers and set acceptable hours for early voting centers, which were challenged in the lawsuit.

Among other provisions that were challenged were the criminalization of compensated mail-in ballot assistance and banning certain canvassing activities, such as canvassing a voter while in possession of a mail-in ballot.

The law also required a voter to provide matching ID numbers on mail-in ballot applications and returned ballots.

It also made it a felony for election officials to send out mail-in ballot applications without them first being requested.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel stated:

Several voter-assistance organizations claimed those provisions are preempted by Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act…The district court agreed and permanently enjoined the challenged provisions.

We reverse.

Some of the challenged provisions require assistors to disclose information such as name, address, relationship to the voter, and whether they are compensated.  Another amends the existing oath assistors must take.  Contrary to the district court’s ruling, we conclude that none of the plaintiff organizations has standing to challenge these provisions.  In particular, fears that their members will be prosecuted for violating them are speculative and so fail to show Article III injury.

While those issues were dismissed on standing, other issues were dismissed on the merits, finding that Section 208 did not preempt these state election laws.  The Court writes:

Other challenged provisions bar assistance from persons who are compensated or are paid ballot harvesters.  The district court correctly ruled that two of the plaintiff organizations have standing…because there is a credible threat that their members will be prosecuted for violating them.  So, we address whether those provisions are preempted by VRA Section 208.

They are not.  Nothing in Section 208 shows that Congress wanted to preempt state election laws like these.  To be sure, the federal law is an important one – guaranteeing blind, disabled, and illiterate voters assistance from “a person of [their] choice,” with certain exceptions.  Contrary to the district court’s ruling, though, this federal right does not vaporize all additional state voter assistance regulations.

Regarding the oaths that assistors must take, the Texas legislature added “I swear under penalty of perjury that the voter I am assisting represented to me they are eligible to receive assistance…”  It also added the oath that they will not “pressure or coerce the voter into choosing me to provide assistance.”  Lastly, it added that the assistor must swear not to disclose how the voter has voted and that if they provide assistance to an ineligible voter, the vote may not be counted.

It also made violations of that oath punishable by up to two years in prison, up to a $10,000 fine, and/or a rejection of the voter’s ballot.  The block on both the added text and criminal sanctions was overturned.

In October 2024, the same appellate court had issued a temporary injunction against the district court’s ruling, citing that the ruling came in the middle of an election when mail-in ballots had already been mailed out.

JUST IN: 5th Circuit panel, 2-1, overturns block on Texas SB1 ballot “harvesting” restrictions. Majority: Duncan (Trump)/Smith (Reagan). Dissent: Graves (Obama). Doc: https://t.co/GVtyZ3WlDm

— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) August 29, 2025

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The Trump Administration is reportedly preparing to send federal agents and National Guard troops into Chicago as soon as next week, as he ramps up threats against leftist governors and mayors to replicate his takeover of Washington, DC.

Per the New York Times, 200 Homeland Security Officials will be deployed and housed at Naval Station Great Lakes near Chicago, potentially for the entire month of September.

The enforcement operations will be centered on arresting illegal aliens in the sanctuary state of Illinois, but the National Guard could be used to quell violent rioters, as done in Los Angeles, or to deter crime, as we are seeing in Washington, DC.

Trump deployed federal law enforcement, National Guard troops, and he federalized the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, earlier this month. Over 1,300 criminals have been arrested, and the district has seen a sharp decline in crime, including a 30% reduction in violent crime and a 57% reduction in homicides.

The President said on Truth Social last night that carjacking is down 87%. “DC will soon be a CRIME FREE ZONE, in only 14 days, far faster than scheduled,” he said.

Trump: Carjacking in DC is down 87%. ALL other categories of crime are likewise down massively since I got involved. DC will soon be a CRIME FREE ZONE, in only 14 days, far faster than scheduled. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Sources familiar with the Chicago plans told CNN that the President is going to move in on Chicago as soon as next week.

The President has recently spoken about potential plans to deploy the National Guard and federal forces in other cities, such as Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump told reporters on Friday, “I think Chicago will be our next, and then we’ll help with New York.” He added, “Now, you look at what the Democrats have done to San Francisco. They’ve destroyed it… We’ll clean that one up, too.”

Per CNN:

Chicago was among the first cities targeted in immigration enforcement operations when Trump took office in January. The administration also sued the city over its so-called sanctuary policies, though the case was dismissed when a judge ruled the federal government lacked the legal standing to bring the challenge, and threatened to withhold federal funding, which was also blocked by a judge.

Now, the anticipated operations in Chicago are expected to be at a larger scale, using personnel from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and possibly other agencies. Officials are preparing the National Guard to help if a peacekeeping presence is needed, akin to what unfolded in Los Angeles following protests, the sources said.

Preparations for Chicago are already underway, including sending armored vehicles to the city in the coming days and surging federal agents by next Friday, Sept. 5, when, according to two sources, the operation is expected to kick off. Discussions, however, are still ongoing and planning is in flux.

White House officials have made clear that these plans are distinct from the idea the president has suggested over the past week to use federal law enforcement and National Guard troops to carry out a broader crime crackdown in Chicago, similar to the current surge in Washington, DC.

This comes after President Trump teased sending federal authorities into Chicago, telling America to “STAY TUNED!”

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump slammed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Thursday after another weekend of violence in Chicago, signaling that he will take over the city if needed.

Per CBS, 6 people were killed and 27 were injured in shootings over the weekend. The victims’ age range reportedly 5 to 48 years old.

Trump responded, “Governor Pritzker had 6 murders in Chicago this weekend. 20 people were shot. But he doesn’t want to ask me for help. Can this be possible? The people are desperate for me to STOP THE CRIME, something the Democrats aren’t capable of doing. STAY TUNED!!! President DJT”

“STAY TUNED!” – President Trump Teases Federal Crackdown on Chicago Incoming After Six Killed, 20 Shot

This is a developing story.

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Imagine this: you go to your doctor, and they give you ten minutes. You say, “Hey, Doc, I got a problem. How do I fix it?”

The doctor writes you a prescription, you take it to the pharmacy, and then you take that pill for life—until you die.

This is what most people experience when they see a doctor.

But RFK Jr. is changing that with a bold new vision to improve the doctor-patient relationship for good.

He announced that he’s leading a team at HHS to overhaul the medical education system and finally put a focus on what’s been ignored for too long—nutrition training.

“The leading cause of death in the United States is poor diet,” claiming 1 million American lives every year.

You’d think training doctors to help patients improve their habits would be a top priority. Sadly, it’s near the bottom.

In today’s corrupt system, “most medical students receive less than 20 hours of nutrition education over four years of medical school.”

That lack of focus, Kennedy says, is woefully inadequate—and he plans to fix it.

“We pour more than $4 trillion annually into treating these preventable diseases. And we continue to graduate physicians unprepared to confront their root cause,” Kennedy lamented.

“The good news,” he says, is that “diet not only causes these conditions, it can also PREVENT and REVERSE them.”

“We can reverse the chronic disease epidemic simply by changing our diets and lifestyles,” Kennedy declared.

Kennedy said in order to fix the problem, “We need nutrition to be a basic part of EVERY doctor’s training.”

So he’s proposing a move that directly threatens the “pill for every ill” approach to medicine that has devastated the health of Americans for decades.

Kennedy announced, “We’ll start by embedding nutrition directly into college pre-med programs and testing it on the MCAT.”

“Every future physician should master the language of prevention before they even touch a stethoscope,” he stressed.

Kennedy says that under President Trump’s leadership, this move will “systematically transform nutrition education throughout American medicine for more than 200 of America’s medical schools, 13,000 residency and fellowship programs, and ultimately each of the nation’s 1.1 million practicing physicians.”

“In the future, doctors won’t just prescribe drugs, they’ll be able to PRESCRIBE DIETS as well,” Kennedy explained.

“By confidently screening for diet-related diseases and collaborating with nutrition experts to recommend food-based solutions, our reforms will save our country hundreds of billions of dollars and prevent millions of debilitating chronic diseases.”

“This is an approach that is both radical and common sense,” Kennedy continued.

“We’re going to reconnect medicine with its roots. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said, ‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.’ His advice remains true today.”

This is Big Pharma and Big Medicine’s worst nightmare. Healthy Americans mean less sickness to profit from.

And when doctors start prescribing diets that work instead of a pill for every ill, Big Pharma’s gravy train—and its influence on politics—starts going down in flames.

This is a huge move that anyone who cares about humanity can applaud and celebrate.

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