On Tuesday, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet and the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government about judicial overreach.

Gingrich called the unprecedented number of injunctions a potential “judicial coup d’etat” that “clearly violates the Constitution and more than 200 years of American history.”

Below are his opening remarks courtesy of Gingrich360.com.

I thank Chairmen Issa and Roy, Ranking Members Johnson and Scanlon, and all the members of the Subcommittees for allowing me to testify. There is clearly a potential constitutional crisis involving the Judicial Branch’s effort to fully override the Legislative and Executive branches.

Fifteen District Judges effectively seized control of various Executive Branch duties in the first six weeks of the current presidency through nationwide injunctions. This is potentially a judicial coup d’etat. It clearly violates the Constitution and more than 200 years of American history.

To set the stage for this hearing, let me mention 12 former federal judges appointed by President John Adams: Richard Bassett, Egbert Benson, Benjamin Bourne, William Griffith, Samuel Hitchcock, Phillip Barton Kay, Jeremiah Smith, George Keith Taylor, Oliver Wolcott Jr., Williams McClung, Charles Magill, and Williams Tilghman.

President Adams appointed these Federalist judges on his way out of office to hamstring in-coming President Thomas Jefferson’s agenda.

President Jefferson concluded that impeaching the judges would take too much time. He and the Congress simply abolished the courts in which they served via the Judiciary Act of 1802.

This is constitutional balance of power. The Legislative and Executive Branches can reshape the Judiciary Branch. It is a useful reminder in considering the current situation.

Unelected lower-court judges have been steadily grabbing power for years. It was such an obvious threat that in 2012, Vince Haley and I wrote “Bringing the Court Back under the Constitution.” It is an historic study which I am submitting for the Record.

According to Harvard Law Review, there were 96 nationwide injunctions ordered by District Courts from 2001 to 2023. Two-thirds of them (64) were issued during President Trump’s time in office. Furthermore, 92 percent of the injunctions against President Trump were issued by judges appointed by Democratic presidents.

Since January 20, 2025, lower courts have imposed 15 nationwide injunctions against the current Trump administration. This is compared to six during George W. Bush’s eight-years, 12 during Barack Obama’s eight years, and 14 during Joe Biden’s four-year term.

The notion that unelected lawyers can micromanage the Executive Branch – and override a Commander in Chief who received 77.3 million votes – should trouble every American.

This is particularly troubling for issues of national defense and public safety. Around 500 B.C., Sun T’zu asserted in The Art of War that “speed is the essence of war.” How can the United States have speed in national security issues if opponents can judge-shop to find someone ambitious or arrogant enough to block, repudiate, or delay the President’s decisions?

There are 677 authorized district judgeships. How many think they can override duly elected Presidents?

This summary statement has four propositions:

First, the courts have often been challenged.

President Jefferson wrote “judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions… would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”

President Andrew Jackson was in constant fights with the Supreme Court.

President Abraham Lincoln made the Dred Scott decision expanding slavery a center piece of his 1858 senatorial campaign. In his first inaugural President Lincoln warned that if the Supreme Court had supreme rule, “the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”

Second, as the Judiciary Act of 1802 proves, the Legislative and Executive branches can constitutionally defend their rights – and they have in the past. It is historically and constitutionally wrong to think the Legislative and Executive branches are helpless against Judiciary actions.

Third, the Supreme Court could intervene to eliminate this attack on the Executive Branch by District Judges.

Chief Justice Roberts could end the growing confrontation by establishing a rule that any nationwide injunction issued by a District Court against the Executive Branch would be suspended in implementation and immediately taken up by the Supreme Court. This would remedy the lengthy appeals process.

Fourth, the Congress and the President can take decisive steps toward bringing the Judiciary back into a constitutional framework.

This hearing is a good first step. There could be a series of hearings on the constitutional and historic framework which ensures no single branch of government can acquire dictatorial powers – specifically the Judiciary in this committee.

These hearings would educate the members and the American people. They would create a national understanding of the need to defend the Constitution against overreaching branches of government.

I would also recommend the Congress pass Chairman Issa’s No Rogue Rulings Act, which is a good signal to the Courts that they have gone too far.

Thank you and I look forward to your questions.

Watch:

“The notion that unelected lawyers can micromanage the executive branch & override a commander-in-chief who received 73 million votes should trouble every American.”

WATCH: Speaker @newtgingrich details the unprecedented number of nationwide injunctions imposed by rogue judges. pic.twitter.com/RAeWFveo6Q

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025

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Hollywood legend Val Kilmer has passed away Thursday evening from pneumonia.

He was 65.

Val Kilmer starred in Hollywood blockbusters Top Gun, Batman Forever, Tombstone, and other hits.

Kilmer previously fought a battle with throat cancer and recovered after two tracheotomies.

Excerpt from AP:

Val Kilmer, the brooding, versatile actor who played fan favorite Iceman in “Top Gun,” donned a voluminous cape as Batman in “Batman Forever” and portrayed Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” has died. He was 65.

Kilmer died Tuesday night in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and friends, his daughter, Mercedes Kilmer, said in an email to The Associated Press. Kilmer died from pneumonia. He had recovered after a 2014 throat cancer diagnosis that required two tracheotomies. The New York Times was the first to report his death.

His break came in 1984’s spy spoof “Top Secret!” followed by the comedy “Real Genius” in 1985. Kilmer would later show his comedy chops again in films including “MacGruber” and “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.”

His movie career hit its zenith in the early 1990s as he made a name for himself as a dashing leading man, starring alongside Kurt Russell and Bill Paxton in 1993’s “Tombstone,” as Elvis’ ghost in “True Romance” and as a bank-robbing demolition expert in Michael Mann’s 1995 film “Heat” with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

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A crazed individual with a seething hatred for Big Pharma gunned down an innocent worker in a Luigi Mangione-style ambush this week.

As ABC News reported, 30-year-old Narciso Gallardo Fernandez entered a Madera, California Walgreens at roughly 9;30 p.m Monday night and allegedly murdered employee Erick Velasquez. The suspect proceeded to shoot at other employees in the store as they ran.

Before allegedly killing Velasquez and trying to gun down the others, Fernandez shot out a security camera in an apparent effort to cover up his horrific crime.

Below is a video report from ABC World News Tonight regarding the incident:

A man in Madera, California is under arrest after allegedly shooting and killing a Walgreens employee. According to police, the suspect had a grudge against large scale pharmacies. @AaronKatersky has details. https://t.co/JgVTlWqnS5 pic.twitter.com/NBtTB7yy4X

— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) April 1, 2025

Madera Police Chief Giachino Chiaramonte told ABC News that Fernandez did not know Velasquez. He went on to explain that Fernandez told investigators he hates big pharmacies.

According to Chiaramonte, the pharmacy was closed at the time of the incident. Moreover, Velasquez was not a pharmacist.

In addition to being a worker at Walgreens, Velazquez was a husband and the father of two children.

To commit the heinous crime, Fernandez drove more than 80 miles from Pixley to the Madera store according to Chiaramonte. The shooter was arrested outside the Walgreens in the parking lot, where he was reloading his gun when officers arrived.

This incident brings to mind what happened to United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. As The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson previously reported, Thompson was shot in the chest in December outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan in what was a targeted attack by a leftist who hated pharmaceutical companies.

His killer, Mangione, was apprehended on December 9 at McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, following a nationwide manhunt. The Trump Administration is determined to ensure this cold-blooded monster pays the ultimate price for taking Thompson’s life.

Chiaramonte, though, said he does not believe Mangione inspired by Mangione’s crime despite some similarities between the two incidents.

Fernandez is now in jail on multiple felony charges, including murder. ABC News reports that Fernandez will appear in court today.

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Retaliation for refusing the once-mandated COVID-19 shot no longer has a place in today’s U.S. military. Careers were destroyed, and here’s one of the most egregious examples.

Joshua Zermeno enlisted in the Air Force in 2010. After a few years of serving as a B-52 strategic bomber mechanic, a previously earned mechanical engineering degree provided the opportunity to apply to Officer Training School (OTS).

After OTS, Zermeno was commissioned in the Air Force as a second lieutenant and began Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT). Finishing number two in his class, in 2015, he was then assigned to fly the RC-135, a reconnaissance aircraft.

In 2018, he was given the opportunity to transition career paths once again. He began working with rockets, assisting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SpaceX, and other space-related entities.

In 2021, he was selected as one of the first officers to be commissioned into The United States Space Force, and his oversight on space lift operations continued to expand.

“Everything seemed to be going well,” Zermeno told The Gateway Pundit. “That is, until the [shot] mandate came down from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin [in August 2021].” He took objection to the now-rescinded mandate for “personal reasons,” and “that didn’t go well with the base commander,” he shared.

Within three weeks, he received a Letter of Reprimand (LOR). A few weeks after receiving the LOR, he received “a do not promote” guidance from his base commander.

“I was passed over for promotion to Major,” he explained. “Things just started spiraling out of control, and I received a second LOR.”

Without a religious exemption or religious waiver for the shot, Zermeno was essentially forced to apply to “voluntarily separate” using an administrative discharge process created specifically for service members refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

To his surprise, “The Air Force decided it wasn’t in their best interest to separate me.” Rather, he was “kicked out” of government buildings and was assigned to remote, menial jobs.

Shockingly, after being denied voluntary separation, Zermeno was threatened with Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) punishment. “I was going to be put up against a discharge board in January [2023],” he explained.

But at the final hour, former Defense Secretary Austin rescinded the mandate on January 10, considering it “an unfair, overbroad, and completely unnecessary burden on our service members.”

“I was in the clear. This is over,” thought Zermeno. “But about a month later, I received a second ‘do not promote,’ for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine” he said.

“I was passed over [for promotion] and forced to involuntarily separate months after the COVID mandates were rescinded” he added, pointing out that “when they separated me, they labeled it for a failure to promote.”

Despite his harrowing experience, Zermeno still expresses interest in reinstatement.

“When I saw the Executive Order by President Trump to [‘make reinstatement available to all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged solely for refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and who request to be reinstated’], I immediately started reaching out to my previous base and no one knew what was going on.”

Zermeno then reached out to the Department of the Air Force, which is responsible for United States Space Force members. He was told “they have no guidance at all, and are waiting on guidance from the Department of Defense.”

Week after week, he continues to be told “they have no guidance on how to logistically make it happen.”

Will President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, or Air Force Secretary Gary Ashworth intervene? A former Air Force Captain who served honorably awaits the answer.

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A third term for President Trump would be a game-changer for America, solidifying the progress he is making in restoring economic strength, securing our borders, and putting America First. The radical left has spent years trying to tear down everything he built, but with another term, he could finish the job and ensure that the deep state and corrupt establishment never regain control.

While the 22nd Amendment technically limits presidents to two terms, there’s a long-shot possibility—one that I’ll reveal in this podcast—that could open the door for Trump’s return beyond 2028. It’s a conversation the mainstream media doesn’t want you to hear!

Former Trump Attorney and Constitutional Scholar John Eastman is our guest. Plus we go through the days topics you need to be aware of.

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Amid the volley of “now the truth can be told”-style stories coming out about the last days of President Joe Biden’s administration in the run-up to the 2024 election — and those are bad enough — we’re now getting them about the run-up to the 2020 election, too.

In fairness, we probably should have seen this coming; the Biden administration spent four years protecting the swamp at all costs and invoking the specter of the worst day in the history of all of humanity — Jan. 6, 2021, obvs — to ward off anyone who shined a light into the D.C. bog.

But now, thanks to a report from Catherine Herridge and Michael Shellenberger, two prominent independent journalists, we can see inside the FBI’s response to Hunter Biden’s laptop in regards to social media — and, surprise, surprise, it’s every bit as bad as we thought it would be.

The report said that federal investigators confirmed that, yes, they told Twitter the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop — i.e., that it was real — before Twitter throttled a story from the New York Post about its unseemly contents.

This was in the final days of the 2020 election cycle — and while social media eventually eased restrictions on sharing stories about the contents of the laptop, the damage was done in the interim. Eventually, according to the report, the FBI settled on a lie of omission, refusing to answer whether the laptop was real.

From the Herridge/Shellenberger report:

In 2024, an FBI official admitted to House investigators that an FBI employee had inadvertently confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop to Twitter on a conference call the morning of October 14, 2020, the day the New York Post published a story about it.

“I recall that when the question came up, an intelligence analyst assigned to the Criminal Investigative Division said something to the effect of, ‘Yes, the laptop is real’,” testified the then-Russia Unit Chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force in a closed door transcribed interview.

“I believe it was an (Office of General Counsel) attorney assigned to the (Foreign Influence Task Force) stepped in and said, ‘We will not comment further on this topic.’”

Now, with the GOP in control of both houses of Congress and the White House, FBI officials have coughed up “internal chat messages that show Bureau leadership actively silenced its employees.”

The heavily redacted reports indicated that Elvis M. Chan, a San Francisco-based special agent who liased with social media conglomerates, was told that there was a “gag order” on discussion of the problematic laptop.

In another message, Chan is instructed to say that “official response no commen(t).” The reason, bureau officials said, was that there was evidence of criminality on the computer.

Chan asked, “actually what kind of case is the laptop thing? corruption? campaign financing?”

A redacted message began, “CLOSE HOLD —,” followed by plenty of blacked out text.

Chan responded, “oh crap … ok. It ends here.”

Another employee told him, “please do not discuss biden matter,” according to the report.

This is a CatherineHerridgeReports @C__Herridge / Public Investigation

In 2024, an FBI official admitted to House investigators that an FBI employee had inadvertently confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop to Twitter on a conference call the morning of October 14,… pic.twitter.com/lf96noyAHU

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 1, 2025

As Herridge noted in her report, the bureau “had a special task force to counter foreign election interference, [which] could have set the record straight by confirming the laptop was real and the subject of an ongoing criminal probe. Instead, FBI leadership allowed the false narrative about the laptop to gain momentum.”

BREAKING: FBI Imposed “Gag Order” About Hunter Biden Laptop After Employee Accidentally Confirmed Its Authenticity To Twitter

Newly released internal FBI chat messages reveal senior bureau officials actively shutting down discussion of the laptop’s credibility days before the… pic.twitter.com/PzaCUG6B7L

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) April 1, 2025

While this isn’t entirely a surprise — the Post reported in 2023 that Twitter was informed on the day of the Post’s report that the laptop is real — this is the first time that we’ve seen definitive evidence that this was someone who blurted out the truth on a call before the FBI brass actively told them to lie.

Furthermore, they told everyone else to keep lying, as well, and their social media ambassador basically said that he wasn’t going to say anything even though the contents of the laptop were in the public domain.

Of course, at that point, the narrative was that the contents were a fakery; the Biden camp essentially suborned dozens of intelligence officials to sign a letter to that effect without anyone correcting it. To say that this went a long way toward silencing any talk about the laptop — even after social media stopped throttling shared stories about it — is an understatement.

Remember, when you hear these “now the story can be told”-type missives, what officialdom is saying is, “OK, now I guess we can stop lying to you.” This is why the swamp needs to be drained with all due speed and never allowed to get even the slightest bit marshy again. Now that Kash Patel is director of the FBI, it’s high time we went back and unredacted these messages to find out who was really behind this outrageous cover-up.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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