JUST IN: President Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire Embattled Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook
September 18, 2025
The Trump Administration on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court blocked Trump from firing embattled Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer, in his petition to the Supreme Court, said the lower courts have interfered with the President’s authority to remove members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for cause.
A federal appeals on Monday rejected President Trump’s bid to fire Lisa Cook.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, said Lisa Cook can remain a Federal Reserve Governor, allowing her to vote during Tuesday’s interest rate meeting at the Fed.
Last Wednesday, President Trump appealed a federal judge’s injunction to block his attempt to fire Lisa Cook amid mortgage fraud allegations.
Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit against President Trump, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell after Trump fired her last month.
Lisa Cook apparently owns three properties, and she allegedly committed mortgage fraud on all three properties.
According to housing regulator Bill Pulte’s first criminal referral, Lisa Cook committed mortgage fraud by lying on her mortgage application and falsifying bank statements when she designated her out-of-state Atlanta condo as her “primary residence”—just two weeks after taking a loan on her Michigan home, which she also claimed as her “primary residence.”
Late last month, Pulte sent a second criminal referral on Lisa Cook after she was allegedly caught lying about a third property.
A Biden-appointed federal judge last Tuesday evening blocked President Trump from firing Lisa Cook.
US District Court Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from firing Lisa Cook as her lawsuit proceeds through the legal system.
Judge Cobb said the mortgage fraud allegations did not meet the “for cause” standard.
Cobb said Lisa Cook (her sorority sister) has also “demonstrated irreparable harm from her removal.”
JUST IN: Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Deporting Guatemalan Children to Their Home Country
September 18, 2025
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump Administration from deporting Guatemalan children in HHS custody to their home country.
US District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said Trump’s claim he is reunifying the migrant children with their parents “crumbled like a house of cards.”
BREAKING: Judge Kelly (Trump appointee) bars the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan kids in HHS custody, finding the claim they were “reunifying” kids with their parents “crumbled like a house of cards” upon review. https://t.co/PNbPX4ReuNpic.twitter.com/7CJNJZFGs7
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deporting certain Guatemalan minors to their home country after the government walked back claims that it intended to reunite the youths with their parents.
Judge Timothy Kelly, who issued the order, signaled his skepticism of the removals in a hearing last week, noting declarations from minors who said they feared facing violence or neglect if they were returned to Guatemala.
“It goes without saying that makes that irreparable harm,” Kelly said of their possible removals.
Kelly, a Trump appointee, also raised a report from the Guatemalan attorney general’s office, which plaintiffs submitted to the court. The report was compiled in response to Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement notifying the Guatemalan government that it planned to return more than 600 minors to Guatemala. No parents had requested the return of their children, the report said. Welch said she had no evidence to contradict the report.
Last month a Biden-appointed judge blocked the Trump Administration from deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children.
The Trump Administration was preparing to deport 600 Guatemalan children who entered the US alone during the Biden years.
The children, who do not have a parent in the US, were in the care of the Health and Human Services Department. The Trump Administration worked with the Guatemalan government to devise a plan to safely return the children to their families at home.
US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, in a 4 am order, blocked the Trump Admin from deporting the children within hours of a lawsuit filed by a ‘civil rights’ group.
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Judge Delays Tina Peters Justice, Orders Colorado AG to Answer Habeas Corpus in 14 Days
September 18, 2025
Colorado Judge delays Tina Peters justice, orders AG to answer Habeas Corpus in 14 days.
Magistrate Varholak has not yet determined jurisdiction in Tina’s Habeas Corpus but has ordered the AG to Answer in 14 days.
Here is the motion from the judge:
In fourteen days the corrupt Colorado officials must file their reasons for continuing to keep Tina Peters in prison on bogus charges taking away her God-given and Constitutional rights.
Please pray for Tina Peters.
Also, if you can, please donate and help her with her legal fees at tinapeters.us.
Mark Halperin on How Charlie Kirk Became an American Icon Without Receiving the Establishment Recognition He Deserved
September 18, 2025
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Journalist Mark Halperin shared the incredible impact Charlie Kirk had on American politics and, as we have seen, his impact across the world.
Halper noted on his podcast Next Up that if Charlie Kirk had been a Democrat and done what he did in the service of a radical leftist like Barack Obama, “he would have been among the most venerated, celebrated, profiled, championed people in America.”
“My new reporting on Charlie Kirk, put aside the day-to-day headlines of what’s happened since his assassination. I think the bigger thing here is what Charlie represented, the person and his death, of course, matters extraordinarily to the people in his family, his friends, business associates, colleagues,” he began.
“But I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means more broadly and talking to a lot of people in the conservative movement who can explain this so well. MAGA folks who I’ve talked to in the last few days reflecting on Charlie’s life and why this has been so impactful. You hear about the impact not just from the President and the Vice President, people who knew Charlie personally.”
“But I’ve been struck on two way in other conversations as I’ve traveled the last few days. How much people who never knew Charlie and weren’t even particularly aware of what his day-to-day activities were, how much they’ve been struck by this. Now, part of it is just the horror of what happened and the horrible images of his murder that resonate with any human being. But a lot of it is for people in this country who supported President Trump, even in many cases, when they didn’t like him.”
“Why? Why is this so powerful? I think Charlie, biographically, and in terms of what he did in his career, has so many of the elements that have caused the MAGA movement to grow. Donald Trump, it’s often been said, didn’t lead this movement so much as figure out what’s there and get to the front of the line, in front of the parade, and lead folks, organize folks. What’s happened here, I believe, is that Charlie’s life, Charlie’s biography, is so resonant with folks because of the strands that it represents.”
“For decades, Conservatives in this country have felt aggrieved, alienated, shut out from so much of what is sometimes called the mainstream, because liberal institutions, the media, universities, big corporations in many cases, Hollywood, news, and so many the big institutions have not just alienated people on the right, but often hurt them, kept them from job advancement, kept them from having rewarded times in college, kept them from getting fair media coverage if they were in politics.”
“Charlie represented so many of the themes, so many of the specifics that people in MAGA have reacted against, and his death, his murder, has made them feel like one of their champions, one of their great success stories was eliminated as a symbolic not pushing back, regardless of who actually pulled the trigger.”
“Charlie was not in his life given credit by the establishment that he should have been. Had Charlie Kirk been a Democrat and done what he done in service of, say, Barack Obama, he would have been among the most fetted, celebrated, profiled, championed people in America.”
“Now, Charlie got plenty of credit in certain circles. This program certainly paid respect to what an extraordinary life he had. But he was not treated the way he had been. Hey, he wouldn’t have been a Democrat. So what are these themes? What are these elements of Charlie’s life that the establishment, the liberal establishment in particular, did not celebrate, did not feel a closeness to.”
He continued, “Charlie’s success occurring that way really undermined people on the left, and it’s a great source of inspiration to people in MAGA. Charlie started a popular show, a popular video podcast. He didn’t need CBS news or NBC news or the New York Times to help him do that. That ability was a great source of pride for Charlie, great source of pride for his followers. But again, it’s another way in which here’s a guy, rises up, develops a successful show on his own, and then he’s eliminated.”
“Okay. Another one related. Charlie was not with the establishment media. He was respectful to them. And you can find, probably as much for Charlie as any leading MAGA figure, you will find lots of liberal reporters who had dealings with them, who he was friendly with, who he often agreed to do interviews with, sometimes surprised me, but he didn’t need them, and he didn’t really associate with them. There’s some people, even some Conservatives, who will fly to Washington, DC or New York and do editorial boards or go out to dinner with reporters. Charlie didn’t do that much because he didn’t need to, and he didn’t really want to.”
“He’d rather be home with his family and long flight from Arizona. But that’s different. And the fact that someone without being chummy with the establishment press could succeed and then be eliminated.”
Halperin concluded, “But the two biggest factors are the fact that he was a conservative and that he was pro-Trump. And this is where the decades of history of all these institutions being biased against Conservatives and Republicans changes when Donald Trump comes on the scene. Again, make no mistake, you can go back to Nixon and Reagan and the Bush’s extraordinary bias against Republicans and Conservatives.”
“But Trump made it different. Donald Trump’s rise on the scene, even though, again, ironically, his whole career, including his 2016 presidential campaign, featured Trump’s close relationship with a lot of these cultural institutions that are liberal. They like Trump. He used to be a Democrat and a liberal. But as they turned on him after he beat Hillary Clinton, as they turned on him, anyone in this country, pro-Trump and pro-conservative, discriminated against by these liberal cultural institutions. And I’ve heard it for 10 years now. People saying they can’t wear a MAGA hat. They can’t say on a Zoom call in their workplace, ‘I’m for Trump.’ Now, since he has been reelected in 2024, that’s changed somewhat. It’s been one of the most, I think, under-discussed, under-understood, maybe misunderstood developments where you see it in the changes in the DI programs.”
“You see it in the willingness of some people to be way more outspoken about supporting Donald Trump. But from 2016 to 2024, and even now, all of the things that I’ve listed about Charlie that set him apart from the establishment approval matrix, they’re front and center. And again, to be a conservative, to be openly for Donald Trump, even now, in many places, is to court big trouble and to risk hurting your career. Charlie’s legacy is multifaceted. There’s so many things he achieved that people will remember him for.”
Watch Halperin’s full remarks:
“Had Charlie Kirk been a Democrat and done what he did in service of, say, Barack Obama, he would have been among the most venerated, celebrated, profiled, championed people in America.”@MarkHalperin on how Charlie Kirk became an American icon without ever receiving the… pic.twitter.com/AgoT3rcXDk
The establishment that “soft-censored” Charlie includes Fox News. While Fox has shared powerful coverage of Charlie following his political assassination, including epic rants from Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters, Charlie did not appear on the network from 2021 to 2024, and their anchors were reportedly banned from attending TPUSA events.
Charlie talks here about how he hadn’t been on Fox since Tucker’s departure and how Fox banned their anchors from attending TPUSA events. Charlie, as usual, speaks with grace and compassion about his issues with Fox Corp. https://t.co/jDIk93wLPUpic.twitter.com/2AZ16PQ1fE
NEW: Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s Widow, Named New CEO and Board Chair of TPUSA
September 18, 2025
Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, was named the new CEO and Board Chair of Turning Point USA.
“It was the honor of our lives to serve as board members at Charlie’s side. Charlie prepared all of us for a moment like this one. He worked tirelessly to ensure Turning Point USA was built to survive even the greatest tests. And now, it is our great pride to announce Erika Kirk as the new CEO and Chair of the Board for Turning Point USA,” the announcement read.
TPUSA Erika Kirk
BREAKING: The Turning Point USA Board announces “with great pride” that Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, will lead the organization as the new CEO and chair.
“In prior discussions, Charlie expressed to multiple executives that this is what he wanted in the event of his death.” pic.twitter.com/GsBM1Q1pk3
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