A Clinton-appointed federal judge on Tuesday blocked Ohio from requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship from residents registering to vote through the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles, handing a major victory to Democrat-aligned election attorneys just weeks before the 2026 midterm voter-registration deadline.

Senior U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. issued a preliminary injunction against the citizenship-verification provision in Ohio House Bill 54.

The ruling applies immediately unless it is stayed or overturned on appeal.

Oliver was nominated to the federal bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1994. He assumed senior status in 2021, according to the Federal Judicial Center.

House Bill 54 amended Ohio law to require applicants registering or updating their voter registration during a BMV transaction to provide proof of citizenship, or to have previously supplied that documentation to the agency.

The requirement could be satisfied with records such as a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization certificate. Ohio’s official statute took effect in June 2025.

Apparently, requiring proof that a person is legally eligible to vote was too much for the federal court.

Oliver ruled that Ohio’s BMV process likely violates the National Voter Registration Act on two grounds.

First, the judge concluded that the state could not condition the offer to register on whether an applicant successfully obtained a driver’s license.

Oliver wrote that Ohio had made voter registration dependent upon the success of the license application and declared that the “sequencing is not what Congress intended.”

Second, Oliver ruled that documentary proof of citizenship exceeded the information Ohio needed to determine eligibility. According to the judge, a signed statement claiming U.S. citizenship is sufficient.

In other words, the federal court has ordered Ohio to return to an honor system for citizenship verification at the BMV.

The injunction covers first-time applicants and people renewing their licenses. It also requires the state to offer voter registration to applicants who are denied a license because they failed to produce the necessary documents.

The order does not cover individuals who identify themselves as noncitizens on BMV forms. Noncitizens also remain legally prohibited from registering or voting. The ruling eliminates the documentary verification requirement; it does not change the underlying citizenship qualification.

The lawsuit, Red Wine & Blue v. LaRose, was filed by Red Wine & Blue and the Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans. The plaintiffs are represented by the Elias Law Group, the election-law firm founded by Democrat operative Marc Elias.

Elias Law Group celebrated the ruling and called Ohio’s citizenship requirement “unnecessary paperwork.” The firm said the injunction would allow applicants to register without producing documents that it claims are not required under federal law. Ohio’s registration deadline for the November 3 election is October 5. Read the firm’s statement here.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose previously defended the law, saying, “It’s common sense that only U.S. citizens should be on our voter rolls.”

LaRose also vowed that he would not apologize for protecting the integrity of Ohio’s voter-registration system, according to Reuters.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Office had not announced whether it would appeal the preliminary injunction as of Tuesday afternoon.

The Gateway Pundit has extensively reported on the nationwide battle over proof of citizenship and voter identification.

As previously reported, the Ohio Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment intended to protect the state’s voter-identification laws from being dismantled by a future Democrat-controlled legislature.

The Gateway Pundit also recently reported that Senate Majority Leader John Thune has told Republican voters to make the SAVE America Act a campaign issue rather than delivering the votes necessary to pass nationwide citizenship-verification and voter-ID requirements.

Now, with the November midterms rapidly approaching, one unelected Clinton appointee has stripped away Ohio’s documentary citizenship check at one of the state’s largest voter-registration access points.

Ohio officials must immediately appeal this outrageous ruling and seek an emergency stay. American elections should be decided by American citizens, and asking people to prove their eligibility should not be controversial.

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a major setback Tuesday to the left-wing legal campaign targeting Georgia’s Republican-drawn election maps.

In an unpublished per curiam opinion, the three-judge panel vacated a federal district court judgment that permanently blocked Georgia from using its 2021 congressional, state Senate, and state House maps.

The case will now return to the lower court, where the challengers must attempt to prove their claims under the Supreme Court’s dramatically revised standard in Louisiana v. Callais.

The consolidated appeals are Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. v. Secretary of State of Georgia, Pendergrass v. Secretary of State of Georgia, and Grant v. Secretary of State of Georgia.

The panel consisted of Judges Robin Rosenbaum, Barbara Lagoa, and Charles Wilson.

In October 2023, U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled that Georgia’s 2021 maps violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by allegedly diluting the voting power of black Georgians.

Jones ordered Georgia’s Republican-led legislature to create one additional majority-black congressional district, two additional majority-black state Senate districts, and five additional majority-black state House districts.

Georgia complied with the court’s order and enacted remedial maps in December 2023, but the state also appealed the underlying judgment.

Everything changed in April when the Supreme Court handed down its blockbuster 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s newly created second majority-black congressional district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

The decision did not eliminate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Instead, the Court sharply limited the circumstances under which federal judges may force states to draw districts based on race.

The Eleventh Circuit said Callais significantly changed the legal landscape governing vote-dilution lawsuits.

“Perhaps most significantly,” the panel wrote, Callais held that Section 2 may compel race-based redistricting only “when the circumstances give rise to a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred.”

This is a massive departure from the old system, under which liberal activist groups could demand new majority-minority districts based primarily on alleged discriminatory effects, even without proving intentional discrimination.

The court explained that plaintiffs must now rule out the possibility that ordinary political considerations, rather than race, explain how a district was drawn.

“If either politics or race could explain a district’s contours, the plaintiff has not cleared its bar,” the opinion stated.

That requirement could prove devastating to Democrat-aligned groups that have spent years portraying partisan redistricting decisions as racial discrimination.

Under the new Callais framework, partisan advantage is treated as a constitutionally permissible, race-neutral redistricting objective. Plaintiffs cannot simply point to election results, label them “racially polarized,” and demand that federal judges manufacture additional Democrat-friendly districts.

The Supreme Court’s revised test makes several critical changes:

• Plaintiffs cannot use race as a districting criterion when preparing their proposed alternative maps.
• Their proposed maps must respect all legitimate state redistricting objectives, including political goals and incumbent protection.
• Evidence concerning racially polarized voting must control for party affiliation.
• Courts must focus on evidence of present-day intentional racial discrimination—not decades-old allegations or generalized claims about “societal discrimination.”

The Eleventh Circuit determined that Judge Jones never had the opportunity to analyze Georgia’s maps under these stricter requirements because Callais was issued years after his original judgment.

The panel therefore rejected the plaintiffs’ request to preserve portions of the lower court’s ruling.

“By its nature, the Gingles analysis is fact-intensive, and those facts may take new shapes under the scrutiny of the new Gingles framework,” the judges wrote.

The court concluded:

“For the foregoing reasons, we vacate the judgment and remand to the district court for further proceedings consistent with Callais.”

VACATED and REMANDED.

The decision represents another major domino falling after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling.

In May, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Fifth Circuit unanimously vacated a lower-court order forcing Mississippi to redraw its state Supreme Court districts based on race. That case was also returned to the district court for reconsideration under Callais.

The Gateway Pundit also previously reported that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp called a special legislative session to consider new congressional and legislative maps after the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Georgia Republican leaders ultimately rejected Kemp’s proposal, pointing in part to ongoing litigation involving the state’s districts.

Tuesday’s ruling does not immediately establish new district lines or decide which maps will govern future Georgia elections. It also does not guarantee that Georgia will ultimately prevail when the case returns to Judge Jones.

But the lower court’s sweeping judgment against Georgia has now been wiped away, and the challengers must start again under a far more demanding test, one that no longer permits partisan politics to be casually repackaged as racial discrimination.

For Georgia Republicans, this is a significant legal victory.

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Music icon and American legend Dolly Parton has passed away at age 80.

Her passing was announced on her Instagram account on Tuesday in a video by her nephew, Brian Seaver, on behalf of the Parton family.

“My name is Brian Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next,” Seaver began. “This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it until now.”

Seaver continued, “It is an honor, an honor that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness. But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents and countless others who have watched her and longed to meet her in the heavens.”

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On Friday, Parton had announced that she had been dealing with her own health issues after the passing of her husband, Carl Dean, last year.

“As I’ve shared in video messages throughout the past year, I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl. You know, this isn’t the first time I’ve had to manage something like this. Back in the early ’80s, I was down for several months with female issues, and I was struggling with my weight at the time too, so it’s not like I haven’t been through hard times with my health,” Parton told PEOPLE Magazine.

Parton continued, “But I think because we live in a 24/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn’t years ago. I used to joke that I was the Queen of the Tabloids, but now I guess I can say I’m the Queen of Social Media AI! Seriously, though, even though I’m still healin’, I’m still workin’! You know me — as I’ve often said — I’ve dreamed myself into a corner and I still have so many things I want to achieve, so I’m gonna keep on working as long as I can to see everything come to life.”

Parton was born on January 19, 1946, in a one-room cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains of Pittman Center, Tennessee. She was the fourth of twelve children in a poor farming family. She began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television, and moved to Nashville the day after high school graduation to pursue a music career.

In the 1970s Parton became one of country music’s biggest stars with hits such as “Jolene,” “Coat of Many Colors,” and “I Will Always Love You.”

She crossed over into acting with roles in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Steel Magnolias.

Over her career she has released dozens of albums, sold more than 100 million records, and earned numerous awards, including multiple Grammys and inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Beyond music and acting, Parton is known for her extensive philanthropy, most notably the Imagination Library, which has distributed millions of free books to children.

Parton also built a successful business empire that includes the Dollywood theme park.

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Yushvaev had often been arrested, but never convicted.

Shocking footage that’s going viral online shows a man being shot dead at a gas station in Israel’s Caesarea.

The man has been identified as Yanis Yushvaev, described in local media as the boss of Israel’s Caucasian Mafia.

The Times of Israel reported:

“Yushvaev, 40, a resident of the central town of Or Akiva, was well known to police and had been repeatedly arrested in recent years on suspicion of violent crimes.

Footage of the shooting showed a man wearing a hoodie and cap approaching a restaurant at the Caesarea Junction gas station. The man met Yushvaev and two other men at the door as they walked out, and passed them by, only to suddenly spin around, draw a handgun, and shoot Yushvaev from behind at point-blank range. He then fled the scene.”

The alleged mob boss was critically wounded and later pronounced dead at a hospital. Police are working to locate and arrest the killer.

“Yushvaev had been arrested numerous times on suspicion of involvement in shootings, grenade attacks, and car burnings, though none of the cases resulted in a conviction. He was most recently detained in February at Ben Gurion Airport after returning from Moscow, but was released within days.

Yushvaev owned restaurants in Or Akiva. In an October 2025 interview with Channel 12, he described himself as ‘a legitimate businessman’ who was ‘very well-established, and drives a Bentley, and that bothers police’.”

Israeli organized crime figure Yanis Yushayev was shot dead Sunday outside a restaurant at a gas station near Caesarea.

Police reportedly believe he operated with brothers Eli and Matan Arbivin as part of a criminal network active across several Israeli regions.

Yushayev…

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 24, 2026

The 40-year-old father of three was considered one of Israel’s most dangerous criminals.

The Telegraph reported:

“[Yushvaev] had evaded conviction for years as police repeatedly failed to gather sufficient evidence despite his own alleged involvement in shootings, grenade attacks and vehicle arson.

[…] In recent weeks, branches of Japanika, a popular sushi restaurant chain, have been targeted with grenades, gunfire and attempted arson in attacks police have linked to an escalating feud between the Mosli (Jewish) and Jarushi (Arab) crime families.

Thirteen attacks were reported in the space of several days, including gunfire at a restaurant in Herzliya and a suspected grenade attack that caused a fire at a branch in Netanya.

The attacks prompted the US embassy in Jerusalem to issue a security warning to Americans in Israel about the threat from organised crime in Tel Aviv, Jaffa and Herzliya.”

Read more:

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Somehow, while Illinois faces serious challenges, Gov. JB Pritzker (D) decided it was a great time to post a bizarre and vain ‘governor-maxxing’ video.

The weird black and white ‘aura-farming video’ comes as Illinois is grappling with rising taxes, fleeing businesses, failing schools, and rampant crime.

Illinois consistently ranks among the highest-taxed states, with the highest combined state and local tax burden in some measures (e.g., as a share of median household income) and very high effective property tax rates.

The state also carries massive unfunded pension liabilities of around $145 billion for state systems alone in recent estimates, far exceeding other states and contributing to one of the highest debt ratios nationally.

Businesses and people have been fleeing the state for years. Illinois has experienced ongoing net domestic outmigration (more residents leaving for other states than arriving), with losses exceeding 40,000 in recent years, such as 2025.

In June of 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that Ken Griffin’s hedge fund, Citadel, would move its operations to Florida, citing a more business-friendly environment.

Other major businesses have fled the state in recent years, including Caterpillar and Boeing.

In July, Hardware giant True Value announced that they are moving its headquarters from Chicago, Illinois, to Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Even a Pritzker announced a departure. In 2024, The Pritzker Military Museum and Library announced the closure of their downtown Chicago location and move to Kenosha County in Wisconsin.

Pritzker has alson been vocal about his unwillingness to keep residents safe from unchecked illegal immigration, even threatening to help prosecute ICE agents if or when Democrats take back power.

The Department of Homeland Security revealed that his sanctuary-state policies have allowed more than 1,700 convicted criminal illegal aliens, including murderers, kidnappers, and child predators, to be released back onto the streets just in the period of January 2025 to December 2025.

He has also been soft on crime. In 2023, HB 3653, the SAFE-T (Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity- Today) ACT, went into effect in Illinois. Pushed by Democrats and signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker, the ACT abolished cash bail and returned violent criminals to the streets.

The video is captioned, “When you’re in an aura-farming contest, and your opponent is JB.”

See the weird video below:

Governor-maxxing. pic.twitter.com/KUZRJc9ANF

— JB Pritzker (@JBPritzker) August 24, 2026

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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourist visas of as many as 200,000 foreigners who entered the United States as temporary visitors and later sought asylum, escalating its campaign to restore control over an immigration system systematically abused for years.

If carried out at the projected scale, the action would amount to the largest mass visa revocation in American history.

State Department documents cited by the Associated Press show the measure would apply to B1 and B2 visas issued between 2016 and 2026. Officials expect the State Department and Department of Homeland Security to carry out the revocations jointly and on a rolling basis.

“We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said. He declined to give a final number because the review is still underway.

B1 visas are intended for temporary business travel, while B2 visas cover tourism, family visits and medical treatment. Applicants are expected to prove they plan to leave the United States rather than use temporary admission as an entry point for permanent settlement.

Current applicants are also asked to affirm that they do not intend to seek asylum once inside the country. For Trump officials, the contradiction is obvious — someone who tells the U.S. government he is coming temporarily and then immediately seeks a permanent foothold has changed the terms under which he was admitted.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau made the administration’s case directly on Monday. “People in the US and all over the world are fed up with bogus asylum claims,” he wrote on X.

People in the US and all over the world are fed up with bogus asylum claims. Asylum isn’t supposed to be a loophole to circumvent immigration laws; rather, it’s supposed to provide a narrow safe harbor for persons persecuted because of their “race, religion, nationality,… pic.twitter.com/fNHbj1SsIX

— Christopher Landau (@DeputySecState) August 24, 2026

“Asylum isn’t supposed to be a loophole to circumvent immigration law,” Landau added. He said the system had been swamped by claims that can remain unresolved for years, giving foreign applicants time to obtain work permits, establish themselves in American communities and make removal increasingly difficult.

The administration argues that asylum was designed as an emergency refuge for people facing genuine persecution over race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. It was never intended, officials say, to function as an alternative immigration track for foreign visitors who simply want to remain in America.

Landau highlighted Colombian national Humberto Coral as an example. Coral entered on a tourist visa in 2015, filed for asylum shortly before the visa expired and subsequently obtained employment authorization that he reportedly renewed for years.

Landau accused Coral of spending his extended stay promoting Colombia’s far-left government and attacking U.S. immigration enforcement, including accusing American authorities of operating “concentration camps.” The administration has pointed to the case as evidence of how a nominally temporary visit can turn into a decade-long presence through the asylum backlog.

Visa cancellation would not automatically mean that every affected foreigner is immediately deported. Those with active asylum cases could remain in immigration proceedings, but they would lose the separate visitor status under which they originally entered the United States.

The distinction is part of a wider Trump strategy aimed at closing off overlapping legal channels that officials say allowed temporary visitors to turn short stays into effectively indefinite residence. Rather than treating visas, asylum, employment authorization and deportation as disconnected bureaucracies, the administration is increasingly linking them into a single enforcement system.

The State Department has already revoked roughly 175,000 visas during the past 18 months. Many involved foreign nationals accused or convicted of offenses ranging from drunken driving and robbery to rape and other serious crimes.

That campaign reflects a broader nationalist premise now driving federal immigration policy — admission to the United States is a privilege, not an entitlement. Foreigners who commit serious crimes, violate the terms of their visas or have no legal right to remain are increasingly being targeted for removal rather than accommodated indefinitely.

The administration has applied the same approach to so-called birth tourism. Officials have moved against foreign women who allegedly use temporary visas to enter the country for the purpose of giving birth and securing American citizenship for their children.

Trump has separately sought to restrict birthright citizenship itself, although courts have blocked several of those efforts. The visa crackdown, by contrast, gives the administration another avenue to target what it describes as deliberate exploitation of American immigration law.

Work authorization has become another front in the fight. Foreign nationals with pending asylum applications can eventually become eligible to work legally, meaning a weak asylum claim can still provide years of access to the American labor market while immigration courts work through massive backlogs.

That issue became particularly visible in commercial trucking. Asylum applicants holding federal employment authorization had been able to qualify for non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses until federal regulators tightened the rules earlier this year.

Indian nationals were among the populations that recorded a dramatic rise in asylum filings during the Biden administration. Homeland Security figures showed applications from Indian citizens jumping from 4,330 in fiscal 2021 to 41,030 in fiscal 2023.

That logic also feeds directly into the growing remigration agenda on the American right: identify foreigners who have no valid claim to remain, revoke immigration privileges that were obtained or used improperly, deport criminal aliens and return rejected applicants to their home countries through lawful proceedings.

If the State Department ultimately reaches the 200,000 figure, the action would mark one of the clearest signs yet that Trump’s second-term immigration doctrine is moving from border enforcement toward a broader principle — America decides who enters, America decides who stays, and temporary admission will no longer be treated as a one-way ticket to permanent residence.

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