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Supreme Court Hearing Arguments on Trump’s Ability to Fire, Death Penalty, Freedom of Speech

The Supreme Court is expected to reconsider a 20th century precedent on the president’s removal power.

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US to Buy 1 Million Barrels of Crude for Petroleum Reserve

Trump plans to fill up the country’s emergency stockpiles of crude oil after they were drawn down by the Biden administration.

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Texas Finds More Than 2,700 Suspected Noncitizen Voters After State Review

Officials said the review used federal immigration data available to states under the Trump administration to verify eligibility.

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Arizona Sues Speaker Johnson for Blocking Rep. Grijalva’s Swearing-In Amid Shutdown

Johnson said Grijalva’s election occurred after the House adjourned, and he is committed to swearing her in on the first day of the next legislative session.

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House Judiciary Refers Former CIA Director John Brennan to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution

“John Brennan lied to Congress. Today, we referred him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced Tuesday, providing the full content of the referral.
“We write to refer significant evidence that former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan knowingly made false statements during his transcribed interview before the Committee on the Judiciary on May 11, 2023,” Chairman Jordan explains in his letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi:
“While testifying, Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.”
“Making false statements before Congress is a crime that undermines the integrity of the Committee’s constitutional duty to conduct oversight,” Jordan writes.
At issue are Brennan’s comments in testimony regarding the infamous and debunked Steele Dossier used by the CIA and FBI to perpetrate the Trump-Russia Hoax.
The letter introduces three assertions “that support an investigation into whether Brennan made false statements at his transcribed interview”:
“Brennan falsely denied that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele dossier in drafting the post-election Intelligence Community Assessment.”
“Brennan falsely testified when he told the Committee that the CIA opposed including the Steele dossier in the ICA.”
“Brennan falsely denied that the CIA relied on the discredited Steele dossier in drafting the post-election Intelligence Community Assessment.”
In each case, Chairman Jordan cites documents declassified by the Trump Administration that expose Brennan’s claims to be false.
One declassified document quoted by Chairman Jordan reveals Brennan made prejudicial statements and insisted on the use of the discredited dossier:
“According to a CIA memorandum declassified by the Trump Administration, when two CIA mission center leaders confronted Brennan with ‘specific flaws’ in the dossier, Brennan disregarded their concerns, ‘appear[ing] more swayed by the [d]ossier’s general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.’
“Brennan later ‘formalized his position in writing, stating that ‘my bottomline is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.’
“Similarly, the HPSCI report notes that when senior CIA officers demanded that Brennan remove the Steele dossier from the ICA, Brennan ‘refused to remove it.’ When the officers presented evidence of the dossier’s ‘many flaws,’ Brennan responded, ‘Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?’
“Ultimately, Brennan ‘had to order [the dossier] included over the objections of [CIA] professionals.’”

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Google Leans on Disgraced SPLC to Attack Trump Allies

If you performed a simple Google search for the names of mainstream journalists and thought leaders, you would expect to get a link to their profile or a link to their website or news outlet. But Google has served up something far more sinister.
The search giant fed its users dossiers from the disgraced left-wing activist group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which is attempting to brand supporters of President Donald Trump as “extremists,” “white supremacists” and “bigots.” The group has smeared Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik, podcast host and veteran Navy intelligence officer Jack Posobiec and The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, to name a few, and it seems Google is more than willing to help push that narrative. Google promoted leftist Wikipedia — which repeatedly cited SPLC — and provided direct links to the SPLC website in search results.
“Google hates conservatives, so it is pushing SPLC filth while it pretends to be an innocent bystander,” said MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider. “There’s no reason SPLC should be one of the first results for Stephen Miller, Jack Posobiec or Chaya Raichick. This is a group that lumps together neo-nazi and Ku Klux Klan groups with freedom-loving Americans, concerned parents, practicing Christians and observant Jews.”
The House Judiciary Committee also reported that when former President Joe Biden’s FBI targeted traditional Catholics, it used SPLC’s write-up on “radical traditional Catholicism,” which it had labeled an extremist ideology.
On Oct. 3, FBI Director Kash Patel announced in an X post that he “terminated” the bureau’s relationship with SPLC. “The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine,” Patel wrote. “Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.”
Google, with the help of Wikipedia and SPLC, went after Orthodox Jew Chaya Raichik the hardest. Raichik receiving the brunt of Google’s bias as the search giant both directly and indirectly promoted SPLC seven different times in a search for her name.
Google elevated her “Extremist Files” profile from SPLC’s website as the top search result, above the Libs of TikTok Wikipedia page, which cited the legal advocacy group’s 12-section complaint about the influencer. In its screed against Raichik, SPLC accused her of leading “an anti-inclusive education campaign that relied on conspiracy theory, anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda and the ‘groomer’ slur.” Adding insult to injury, Google’s AI Overview also cited SPLC and Wikipedia as its top two sources.
Wikipedia’s use of the far left group’s content is especially concerning, considering the so-called encyclopedia’s own admission that the organization is indeed biased. “As an advocacy group, the SPLC is a biased and opinionated source,” Wikipedia writes in its source guidelines. Nonetheless, the encyclopedia greenlights the radical group as a “reliable source” for its entries so long as it is labeled opinion and given “due weight.”
But Wikipedia and SPLC were not the only far-left articles calling Raichik an extremist that emerged in Google’s search results for her name. The search giant also elevated two articles by the radical activist group Human Rights Campaign. One piece reported Raichik’s addition to SPLC’s “Extremist Files.” The other referred back to the same SPLC profile and linked her to bomb threats against gyms that allowed “trans-women” in women’s locker rooms.
In addition to Raichik, five others were pilloried with negativity by Google’s search engine activism.
The search giant propped up SPLC’s “Extremist Files” profile on Posobiec, as well as his Wikipedia page that cited the profile. SPLC associated him with election denial and accused him of “spread[ing] lies about widespread voting irregularities that never actually occurred.” The disgraced group notably does not label Democratic Party politicians Stacey Abrams or Hillary Clinton as extremists for having denied the results of the elections they each lost.
SPLC and Wikipedia additionally cropped up in searches for Walsh and the name of the late journalist David Horowitz. Wikipedia editors referred to SPLC’s assertion that Walsh is a "peddler […] of fear and disinformation about LGBTQ people." Citing SPLC, Wikipedia editors further accused the organization Horowitz founded, the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, of being “one of 17 ‘right-wing foundations and think tanks support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable.’”
Google also highlighted the Wikipedia pages for podcaster and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Family Research Council President and Marine Corp. veteran Tony Perkins.
Wikipedia editors echoed SPLC’s claim that "Carlson probably has been the No. 1 commentator mainstreaming bedrock principles of white nationalism in [the U.S.]" SPLC also targeted Perkins as an “extremist” for his very mainstream beliefs that immigrants should assimilate into American society, that marriage is between a man and a woman and that parents should be able to choose the best therapy for their children that aligns with their values.
These new findings follow MRC’s previous study, which found that Google had elevated SPLC, Wikipedia and an inflammatory blog at the top of search results in a search for Trump advisor Stephen Miller, who is also Jewish.
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