Federal and local authorities in Idaho have finally apprehended the radical suspect accused of attempting a domestic terror attack against a DHS/ICE facility.

The Gateway Pundit reported last week that an anti-ICE agitator stole an ambulance, packed it with gas cans, and rammed the emergency vehicle into a DHS office in Meridian, Idaho.

Meridian Police Chief Tracy Basterrechea said the suspect stole the ambulance from St. Luke’s Hospital and poured accelerant inside of the vehicle.

“We want to emphasize that this was a serious criminal act,” Police Chief Basterrechea said.

“The theft and destruction of an emergency vehicle not only created a risk to responding personnel, but it also temporarily removed a critical medical resource from the community,” he said.

The police chief said “there has been a lot of rhetoric surrounding the Department of Homeland Security leasing office space at this location.”

“Comments on social media, such as ‘property damage isn’t violence,’ is absolutely false,” he said.

“This was absolutely an act of violence, and if the suspect had not been interrupted, there is no doubt this building would have been burned, putting the lives of first responders and others at risk,” he added.

According to authorities, 43-year-old Sarah Elizabeth George of Boise was taken into custody Monday evening after Meridian Police, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives executed a search warrant at her Boise residence.

Police Chief of Meridian Police Department Tracy Basterrechea:

“Today, I’m glad to announce that we have made an arrest of Sarah Elizabeth George, a 43-year-old female from Boise, Idaho. The Meridian Police Department, along with the local Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, served an arrest warrant on George and executed a search warrant at George’s residence earlier this evening.

Agents and detectives are currently processing the scene at the residence now, collecting evidence. The investigators standing here are responsible for this timely arrest.

The first thing I would like to point out is that the men and women of the Meridian Police Department and the men and women of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the FBI, did an amazing job over the last five days—working long hours and working diligently—to positively identify Ms. George and bring her into custody.”

WATCH:

Breaking: Federal and local authorities have arrested the suspect accused of attempting to carry out an arson terror attack on the DHS/ICE office in Idaho.

Sarah Elizabeth George, 43, of Boise, allegedly staged gas cans, stole an ambulance, and intentionally crashed through the… pic.twitter.com/zCDK7hZVNd

— Katie Daviscourt (@KatieDaviscourt) February 24, 2026

According to a federal criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, Sarah Elizabeth George has been charged with malicious destruction of government property by fire and malicious destruction of property used in interstate commerce.

The affidavit, submitted by FBI Special Agent Daniel Ramirez, outlines a chilling sequence of events that unfolded on the night of February 18, 2026.

Investigators allege that George stole a Canyon County Paramedics ambulance from outside St. Luke’s Hospital in Meridian at approximately 11:00 p.m.

Minutes later, surveillance footage reportedly shows the stolen ambulance crashing through the south entrance doors of the Portico Building at 3330 E. Louise Drive.

The building contains office space leased by the U.S. General Services Administration for DHS and ICE operations.

According to the affidavit, the suspect did not stop at ramming the building. CCTV footage allegedly shows her retrieving gas cans from inside the ambulance and pouring gasoline throughout the lobby floor in what authorities believe was an attempt to ignite the structure.

A Walmart bag containing lighter fluid and two red gasoline jugs were recovered at the scene.

Federal investigators describe a methodical paper trail leading to the suspect’s identification.

Surveillance footage from Walmart shows a woman matching George’s description purchasing gas cans and lighter fluid hours before the attack.

Additional footage from a nearby Fred Meyer gas station reportedly shows the suspect filling gas cans and fueling a Dodge Dakota pickup truck, using a loyalty card in the name “Sarah Elizabeth George.”

Investigators also identified a blue 2005 Dodge Dakota registered to individuals with the same last name and observed similarities between that vehicle and the one captured on security footage.

The affidavit further notes that investigators located a Facebook page believed to belong to George containing posts critical of ICE and DHS.

One post from the morning of February 18 reportedly stated: “If it can be destroyed by the truth then it should be destroyed; it was built in lies anyways.”

After reviewing the Idaho DMV database, authorities discovered that George had been pulled over during a traffic stop just weeks earlier.

Her driver’s license photo matched the suspect.

If convicted on federal arson and terrorism-related charges, Sarah Elizabeth George could spend decades in prison.

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The Supreme Court’s radical departure from the law and basic principles of constitutional governance in last Friday’s abominable decision, Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, marked an affront to the judiciary and a setback for the administration.

For an institution mired in a crisis of legitimacy, a court that has drifted far afield of the Constitution’s original text and intended meaning by its designers over a decades-long peregrination, the High Court did itself no great service by intruding into a domain that the Constitution never intended.

Executive and legislative power is clear and straightforward.  Article I of the Constitution equips the Congress with the power of the purse.

This includes tax and spending powers, as well as the ability to appropriate funding to the various government agencies.

Under Article II, the executive, or chief magistrate, has a whole separate slate of powers dealing with the enforcement of laws and regulations.

Foremost among executive power, however, is the ability to wage war and engage in international diplomacy.

Under this umbrella includes the numerous interests to national security.

Whether a foreign power poses a threat to the homeland, either directly through military intervention and war or indirectly through toxic policies, from drug smuggling to economic tampering, the executive is tasked with mitigating that threat, and doing so largely unencumbered by the other two branches of government.

The tariff power is unique in that it resembles traditional tax and spending powers to the extent that it fills government coffers with duties imposed on foreign imports.

However, its use, both traditionally and in practice, is fundamentally distinct from ordinary taxation.

This accounts for both its distinct name (after all, it would be easier to just call tariffs ‘foreign taxes’) as well as its long-running, commonly understood role as an extension of executive power, not simply a legislative protocol.

Which makes sense.  While tariffs raise money, in most historical cases up through today, the raising of revenue is an auxiliary consideration.

The primary reason behind the policy, from George Washington to Donald Trump, has primarily been a means to protect the nation.

In that regard, tariffs are a significant arrow in the President’s foreign policy quiver.  Tariffs may be leveraged against would-be adversaries to bring them to diplomatic heel.

In the most extreme cases, a tariff may be the one thing that gets a hostile party to a clear-headed negotiation.

Indeed, it can be the very difference between life and death: a superpower may think twice about invading a vulnerable satellite country if the threat of imposing a 15 or 20 percent tariff on semiconductors or automobile parts looms over its head.

Tariffs might also get a foreign country to get its own house in order.

If a country exercises tariffs against an important sector in a competitor nation, in part because the competitor is harming the tariff-imposing country in some way, such as by not containing their criminal organizations, that may be enough of a carrot to get the targeted nation to clamp down on crime, stop migration, or enact whatever policy may be needed to stop causing harm.

Facing the threat of economic devastation, any country will mobilize any force necessary to control the problematic behavior.  It comes down to simple cost-benefit analysis that appeals to common sense.

For these reasons, the tariff power is decisively a national security power, not a tax and spending power.

Because it is a national security power, the President has traditionally been accorded wide discretion to enact policies as he sees fit on the global arena, usually with fairly limited congressional oversight.

This is not a bug but rather a feature of the system.  The Founding Fathers wanted to give the President of the United States enough breathing room in the domain of international affairs to realize his peacekeeping vision.

The nature of the business called for flexibility: an enemy will not wait for the deliberative mechanisms of constitutional governance before waging an attack.

Enemies do not respect the rules of decorum for a constitutional system, particularly the enemies of the United States.

This is something the majority in the Supreme Court does not seem to grapple with: such deliberations will be exploited, not respected, by any foe.

This is why Justices Gorsuch, Roberts, and Barrett, all of whom should know better being the appointees of Republican presidents (two of them being Trump nominees) made a grave mistake.

To say that the tariff power is strictly a tax power, and then to conflate two entirely distinct powers with that logic, betrays both history and the wisdom of the constitutional architects.

Moreover, it demonstrates ignorance about fundamental rules of statesmanship.

Namely, how tariffs have traditionally always been used as an instrument to help presidents either avoid conflict or mitigate foreign tensions by using economic leverage to tamp down the flames of violence before things got too heated, or curb the countless indirect catastrophes that necessarily follow from any number of deleterious initiatives a competitor might do to weaken the culture or economy of its adversary.

Fortunately for the President, because of this precedent about tariffs being primarily a national security power, he should be able to easily revive the tariffs, backed by the force of law that should make another challenge insurmountable.

However, for the Court, which continues to reveal its ignorance to the world with decisions like this, the probability of rehabilitating its image in the public eye is much less certain.

In this calculus, the reputational damage has been done.  The Court is demonstrating that rather than being a neutral and impartial arbiter of the law, it would prefer to be an unelected legislator and make policies that it has no responsibility or prerogative to do.

This is not good for the Court or the Country.  If the intent is to fix the country, the Roberts court had better reckon with reality and reverse course fast, or risk further delegitimizing itself and harming the nation.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has officially selected a designated survivor for tomorrow’s State of the Union address.

In a press release, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) announced that Rep. Jeffries had selected him as the Democrats’ Congressional “designated survivor.”

As a designated survivor, Thompson will watch the State of the Union address from a secure, undisclosed location to preserve congressional leadership in the event of a catastrophic emergency.

Later in the press release, Thompson used his selection as the designated survivor to attack President Trump.

I’ve been selected as a designated survivor for tomorrow’s State of the Union, so I won’t be there in person, but I’ll be watching. Americans deserve accountability for the militarization of ICE, terrorization of our communities and killing of American citizens. pic.twitter.com/ig3cFdQcCV

— Rep. Mike Thompson (@RepThompson) February 23, 2026

Per Mike Thompson’s Press Release:

Today, Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-04) announced he was selected by Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries as designated survivor for tomorrow’s State of the Union address. Thompson will watch the speech from a secure, undisclosed location off campus. Thompson released the following statement on what he demands to hear from the President tomorrow:

“Since the day he took office, this president has raised costs for hardworking families, unleashed ICE to terrorize our communities, and threatened unlawful military attacks on foreign countries. He’s made Americans’ lives and our democracy worse off.

“President Trump is unpopular because he’s failed to lower costs, failed to fire Kristi Noem, and failed to follow the rule of law. Americans demand answers when he addresses the nation. We will keep holding him to account in the Congress, in the Courts, and in the court of public opinion.”

House Republicans have not yet announced their designated survivor.

The White House has also not yet announced its designated survivor.

Last year, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins was selected by President Trump to be the designated survivor.

Unlike the House’s selection of a designated survivor, the White House’s pick serves a far more important role.

Because the State of the Union brings nearly everyone in the presidential line of succession into the same chamber at the U.S. Capitol, one Cabinet official is selected to remain at a secure location and take over the role as the president if those ahead in the line are tragically killed.

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President Donald Trump’s official White House schedule has now been finalized ahead of what is expected to be one of the most consequential addresses of his second term in office.

According to the White House official website, President Trump will deliver his 2026 State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress today, Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 9:00 PM Eastern Time inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

The prime-time address marks President Trump’s first State of the Union of his second term and will be delivered before the 119th Congress, with Vice President JD Vance presiding over the Senate in his constitutional role and House Speaker Mike Johnson overseeing the joint session.

As is customary, the nationally televised speech will serve as the President’s opportunity to lay out his administration’s legislative priorities, outline the current condition of the nation, and present his policy roadmap for the year ahead — including expected updates on:

• Border security and immigration enforcement
• Economic growth initiatives
• Inflation and cost-of-living relief
• Military readiness and national defense
• America’s standing on the global stage

According to Roll Call, President Trump will participate in the Annual State of the Union Luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Blue Room of the White House.

According to reports, approximately 50 Democrat lawmakers are expected to skip the state address. While most top leadership, including Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, plan to attend, dozens of others have joined organized boycotts or counter-programming events like the “People’s State of the Union” rally on the National Mall (organized by MoveOn and MeidasTouch), and the “State of the Swamp” event.

Verified Senators (all skipping in-person attendance)

• Adam Schiff (CA): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Chris Murphy (CT): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Chris Van Hollen (MD): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Ed Markey (MA): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Jeff Merkley (OR): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Patty Murray (WA): Delivering her own separate livestreamed address to Washington state.
• Ron Wyden (OR): Participating in the “State of the Swamp” counter-event.
• Ruben Gallego (AZ): Staying in Arizona (not traveling to D.C.).
• Tina Smith (MN): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Angus King, I-Maine

Verified Representatives (all skipping in-person attendance)

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): Opting out (has said she refuses to “legitimize” Trump with her presence).
• Ami Bera (CA): Opting out (no specific alternative listed in some reports, but confirmed skipping).
• Becca Balint (VT): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Chellie Pingree (ME)
• Dan Goldman (NY): Participating in the “State of the Swamp” counter-event.
• Delia Ramirez (IL): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally (one of several Illinois Democrats boycotting).
• Diana DeGette (CO): Explicitly skipping; stated she will not “legitimize his egregious actions.”
• Dina Titus (NV): Skipping but plans to watch from her office.
• Eric Swalwell (CA): Participating in the “State of the Swamp” counter-event.
• Greg Casar (TX): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Jan Schakowsky (IL): Boycotting (one of several Illinois Democrats; cited constituent concerns and calls to skip).
• Jared Golden (ME): Will watch from home in Maine
• Pramila Jayapal (WA): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Seth Moulton (MA): Participating in the “State of the Swamp” counter-event.
• Veronica Escobar (TX): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.
• Yassamin Ansari (AZ): Attending the People’s State of the Union rally.

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