The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the federal government unconstitutionally applied a gun restriction law to a Texas man who regularly used marijuana, narrowing the reach of the same federal statute that was used in the prosecution of Hunter Biden. In United States v. Hemani, the Court held that prosecutors violated the Second Amendment when they charged Ali Hemani under a federal law prohibiting firearm possession by unlawful users of controlled substances. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, emphasized that the ruling was limited and did not eliminate the government’s ability to disarm dangerous individuals, addicts, or people actively under the influence. “We do not address efforts to ban addicts, or those presently intoxicated, from possessing a firearm,” Gorsuch wrote. Hunter Biden was convicted in June 2024 before his father, President Joe Biden, pardoned him. “Those prosecuted under the law can face up to 15 years in prison and a permanent ban on owning firearms,” per NBC News. The case centered on Hemani, a 27-year-old man who admitted to smoking marijuana approximately every other day. FBI agents later found a handgun in his home that he said he kept for self-defense. Prosecutors argued that historical restrictions on so-called “habitual drunkards” justified modern restrictions on firearm ownership by illegal drug users. The Court disagreed. “The government’s analogy fails under every measure it asks us to consider,” Gorsuch wrote. “The historical laws on which it relies targeted different kinds of people, did so for different reasons, and operated in different ways.” According to the Court, historical laws focused on people whose substance abuse rendered them incapable of managing their lives. The modern federal statute broadly covers regular drug users regardless of whether they pose a threat or not. Gorsuch also warned that the government’s interpretation could surpass marijuana users. Under the government’s theory, he wrote, the law could apply to “a college student who routinely uses a friend’s Adderall to cram for exams” or “a husband who regularly takes his wife’s prescription Ambien to sleep.” The Court noted that prosecutors never alleged Hemani was addicted to marijuana, used a firearm while intoxicated, threatened anyone, or posed a danger to himself or others. The ruling drew praise from Second Amendment advocates. Judicial Crisis Network President Carrie Severino called the decision a significant affirmation of constitutional protections. “Can habitual drug users be disarmed? The Supreme Court, looking to history and tradition *unanimously* says no in United States v. Hemani,” Severino wrote on X. “This case inspired strange bedfellows like pro-drug organizations allying with gun rights groups — and so perhaps it’s not surprising that it’s also a case where Justices Thomas and Jackson can agree.” Severino also noted that the Court’s decision relied heavily on the historical tradition framework that has become central to recent Second Amendment cases. The ruling carries additional significance because the same federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), played a central role in the prosecution of Hunter Biden, who was convicted in 2024 of illegally possessing a firearm while using illegal drugs. However, the Court stressed that Thursday’s decision was narrowly focused on Hemani’s circumstances and did not invalidate the statute altogether. In a separate opinion, Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, agreed with the outcome and argued that the government simply failed to demonstrate that Hemani resembled the severely impaired individuals historically subject to firearm restrictions. The justices repeatedly emphasized that the ruling does not prevent the government from restricting firearm possession by dangerous individuals, addicts, felons, or people shown to pose a genuine threat. Still, the unanimous ruling marks another major Second Amendment decision from a Court that continues to require the government to justify firearm restrictions through the nation’s historical tradition of gun regulation.

It can be difficult to keep track of all the news — especially when every day seems to bring new horrors beyond all human comprehension — but it was just two months ago that one of the largest psy-ops in modern American political history was exposed.  In a federal indictment, the Trump administration presented evidence showing that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent and very powerful left-wing activist group, was secretly giving millions of dollars to people who were closely associated with — and working on behalf of — “white supremacists” and “Nazis.”  In public, the SPLC claimed that white supremacy was the greatest threat facing the country, and they raised a lot of money from leftists in order to defeat racism. They also pressured federal agencies and social media platforms — successfully, in many cases — to harass and censor anyone they deemed racist. But in private, as alleged in this indictment, the SPLC was funneling huge amounts of money to people associated with the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America.  In other words, because the demand for white supremacy greatly exceeds the supply in this country, the SPLC helped create some more supply. By far, SPLC’s most successful psy-op was the so-called “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, which took place in August 2017. This event immediately became a part of left-wing mythology. It was their ace-in-the-hole against Donald Trump — proof positive that he was a white supremacist. The rally was supposedly the reason Joe Biden ran for president. Kamala Harris repeatedly mentioned it.  Every claim that the Left made about this event was a lie. First, they claimed that everyone in attendance was a white supremacist. But that wasn’t remotely true. Most of the attendees were protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, which was a righteous cause.  Robert E. Lee is a great man of history and an American icon. And as Trump pointed out, the Left was never going to stop with his statue. They were on a mission to destroy the statues of all American heroes, which is exactly what they did.  Then the Left claimed that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people,” when he explicitly said the opposite. Additionally, the Left pushed the narrative that a white supremacist had deliberately run over a crowd of protesters — even though evidence showed that his vehicle was surrounded by a mob and attacked. He pressed the accelerator to escape the violence.  The driver of the vehicle had entered his home address on his GPS. He was distraught to learn that people had died. Responding officers believed the incident was an accident — none of which mattered to the media, which never reported any of this. But the SPLC’s role in the rally, according to the DOJ’s indictment, wasn’t understood until recently. As it happens, one of the organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally was on the SPLC’s payroll. This informant helped plan the “Unite the Right” rally and “attended the event at the direction of the SPLC.” He also “made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.”  From 2015 to 2023, the SPLC paid this individual more than a quarter-million dollars. Yes, the worst Neo-Nazi rally in memory — really, the only Neo nazi rally in memory — the one that dominated the news cycle for weeks, and became a permanent part of American political discourse — was organized by someone on the Left’s payroll.  For the SPLC, and the Democrat Party more generally, the return on investment was immediate and enormous. The SPLC’s revenue ballooned from $51 million to $133 million, thanks to massive donations from Apple, JPMorgan Chase, and other major corporations. Spotify and Facebook, along with other social media platforms, began crackdowns on so-called “hate speech.”  Of course, Donald Trump was forever branded as the new Hitler — someone who had publicly endorsed violent tiki-torch mobs, even though he did no such thing. Only now — many years later — are federal prosecutors alleging that the SPLC was involved in the operation.  In the process, according to the DOJ, the SPLC defrauded its donors. The donors were told their money was going to “fight white supremacy,” but in reality, their money was going toward Nazi fundraising and false flag operations. All this to say, it would be difficult to imagine that the year could get any worse for the SPLC. The SPLC’s entire racket requires that people can pretend to take them seriously, as some kind of impartial arbiter of the truth, when they decree that someone is “racist” and “dangerous.”  For example, when then-President Joe Biden’s FBI began investigating “radical traditional Catholics,” the FBI cited the SPLC. The FBI knew that the SPLC was lying, but that didn’t matter. All that mattered was that, in the FBI’s estimation, the SPLC was “trustworthy enough” to cite in a memo, as a pretext to crack down on Catholics.  Along the same lines, if you ended up on the SPLC’s “hate list,” then many corporations and advertisers would avoid you. You’d get blackballed. And that’s not even getting into the fact that, once you were tagged by the SPLC, an army of angry left-wing nutcases would also descend on you.  I was on their list, along with Turning Point USA. So was the Family Research Council — which was shot up by a gunman who was inspired by the SPLC’s hate list. He explicitly told the police that the SPLC’s hate list inspired his attack. Just a few years later, the SPLC is no longer “trustworthy enough” for any serious person to even pretend to take seriously. Their cover has been blown. If the FBI (or a major corporation) wants to harass you on the basis of some false accusation of racism, the SPLC isn’t helpful anymore. So really, they have no reason to exist. But as if that’s not bad enough, somehow, the case against the SPLC has become even more devastating and utterly humiliating. The DOJ filed what’s called a “superseding indictment” in the case, which is basically an indictment that revises the original.  In this new indictment, the DOJ alleges that a high-level SPLC official — the director of their “intelligence project” — was sleeping with an informant in a white supremacist group called the “National Alliance.” The group was founded by William Luther Pierce, who wrote “The Turner Diaries,” which inspired the Oklahoma City bombings.  On top of that, according to the indictment, the SPLC was funneling more than a million dollars to this particular “white supremacist,” while their “intelligence director” was sleeping with him. Here’s an apparent picture of the intelligence director: Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images The New York Post reports that the SPLC official in question is “believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at [the SPLC] between 2012 and 2019.”  Think about how on-the-nose this is. The SPLC was going around saying “f*ck fascists,” and what do you know? They were f*cking fascists. And funding them too. Someone needs to turn this story into a romantic comedy screenplay immediately. And if they won’t, I’ll do it myself. I’ve already started pre-production in my mind, and the only snag I can identify — although admittedly it’s a big one — is that Philip Seymour Hoffman isn’t alive to play the woman. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Take a look and tell me the resemblance isn’t uncanny. I’m generally opposed to the use of holograms in movies, but in this case, it may be worth it. And it’s not just because she looks exactly like Philip Seymour Hoffman. The more you read the DOJ’s allegations, which include a Watergate-style break-in, the more you’ll agree with me that he’s the perfect casting choice here. Even if he’s dead. From the new indictment: At the direction of the SPLC, [the informant] infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance. While receiving donors’ money [from the SPLC], the informant was also fundraising for the National Alliance. The money the informant raised helped the National Alliance carry out its extremist activities.  So, in other words, the SPLC was paying a guy to raise money for a Nazi group. They’re so opposed to Nazis that they install secret operatives inside Nazi organizations in order to help the Nazis raise money. Oh, and they sleep with the Nazis too. So you’re probably asking yourself: What exactly makes this guy an “informant”? Aren’t they just paying a Nazi to be a Nazi? As it turns out, indeed, this informant did perform some undercover work — which appears to be very illegal: In 2014, the informant broke into the headquarters of an extremist organization and stole approximately 25 boxes of documents. The informant transported these documents across state lines from West Virginia to North Carolina. The informant broke into the headquarters again and returned the originals [after copies were made]. The SPLC official used the copies, knowing they were stolen, as the basis for a story published on ‘Hatewatch.'” The SPLC used this story to solicit more donations. The SPLC official paid approximately $6,000 in donors’ money to a separate individual to falsely take responsibility for the burglary. So the woman allegedly used donor money to pay someone else to take the fall for her boyfriend. The Hatewatch article that the SPLC wrote, allegedly based on stolen documents, is called “Chaos at the Compound.” It’s still online. According to the article: Randolph Dilloway, 49, an accountant with almost a decade of experience, was secretly hired by Alliance Chairman Will Williams in December to conduct a forensic audit of the organization’s bank statements, member dues documents and federal income tax filings. … Terrified of his former employer, Dilloway contacted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on May 6. Active in the neo-Nazi, white supremacist scene for more than a decade, Dilloway moved to the NA headquarters compound last winter and was given full, unsupervised access to offices holding dozens of boxes of poorly-filed financial documents and data disks associated with the group’s various business entities going back to 1985. … Among the thousands of pages of documents, database files, transaction records and digital media provided by Dilloway to the SPLC, the disturbing email exchanges he had with Kalamaros and Williams outlining possible financial improprieties earlier this year seem to suggest the Alliance attorney was advising them to ignore evidence of tax fraud and embezzlement to avoid being audited by the IRS. So you can see what’s going on here. The SPLC is doing what it usually does — it’s providing a pretext for federal agencies to shut down groups they don’t approve of. The FBI presumably couldn’t get a warrant to look into the financial records of this particular white supremacist group. So the SPLC steps up to the plate. They break into the offices, steal the documents, and then publicize them. And then, once that happens, the FBI (and the IRS) have probable cause to get their search warrant and to launch their investigations. The SPLC is just one propaganda outfit among many on the Left, all of which have the exact same goal. When one falls, the others pick up the slack. When their narrative is exposed as fraudulent, they just keep pushing it, as if nothing happened. And the media will go along with it, every single time, from the national networks to the local news stations.  We are up against people who are so fixated on the elimination of their political enemies that they’ve lost all sense of self-awareness and shame, if they had any to begin with.  And while they think that’s a strength — and historically, it has been a strength — the truth is, it’s now become a massive liability.  Once you start ignoring Nazi tattoos on your Senate candidates, once your “anti-hate group” is having sex with Nazis, and once your mayor is pretending to weep about a gay Asian communist lighting a cross on fire — the shark has officially been jumped.  People can’t possibly have patience for this kind of overt, shameless lying anymore.  And with just a few months until some very important elections in this country, in a rare bit of good news for conservatives, that’s a very good place for us to be.

A New York City taxi driver is grateful to the Moroccan rapper French Montana for his efforts to raise money after a violent mob destroyed his cab. The incident, which happened after a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on June 11, left cab driver Noureddine Bitat injured and traumatized. A frenzied mob of individuals hopped onto his taxi and dragged him out of it — and they completely destroyed the vehicle. Bitat said later he was “lucky to be alive.” “The crowd came and they attacked him. They grabbed him out of the cab. They grabbed him by the neck. Someone punched him in his head,” a translator relayed the Algerian-born cabbie’s story. “They shattered the windshield. They opened the front doors and even the trunks. They were yelling, ‘Knicks in five! Knicks in five!’” he went on.  A viral video of the incident shows individuals jumping on the cab and smashing the windshield before trying to flip it over and set it ablaze. At least one person was reportedly arrested in connection with the attack on Bitat. The cab driver suffered back pain and scratches from the attack, plus is now too afraid to return to work, he says.  His taxi was destroyed after a Knicks game, leaving Noureddine Bitat so traumatized that he said he is longer able to work as a driver. French Montana heard the cab driver’s story and wanted to find him. Not only did he connect with Bitat, he harnessed the power of strangers to… pic.twitter.com/N44gyD3SrF — CBS News (@CBSNews) June 18, 2026 The violence unfolded as thousands of Knicks fans celebrated in the streets after their home team recovered from a 29-point deficit to beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-106. The Knicks went on to win the 2026 NBA Championship on Saturday. The National Taxi Workers Alliance started a GoFundMe for Bitat, The New York Post reported — and the fundraiser quickly gained momentum after it was promoted by French Montana. The rapper even presented the cabbie with his check when the fundraiser was complete. “Everybody got together and they raised up $75,000,” the rapper said. “These are the people that make the world go around. They don’t bother nobody. They out there working, minding their business.”   Bitat said he’s grateful for everyone who came to his aid. “[The support] made him feel like he has another family here even though his own family [is not here],” the translator explained. 

The Tartan Army has decided to give back to Boston charities after drinking their pubs dry and drastically increasing revenue. Fans of Scotland’s national team, also known as the Tartan Army, have taken over the New England area for their team’s first two matches in the 2026 World Cup. Local bars have reported “triple” the number of sales since their arrival. In their first act of kindness, the fans were picking up after themselves. They followed that up with thousands of dollars of donations to local organizations. “If we can help ease the pain, it’ll make their life a little bit better, why shouldn’t we help out in some way?” a member of the Tartan Army said in an interview with ITV News’ Peter Smith. “I hope that message spreads as well. It’s that simple.” The tradition of donating to their hosts communities spans two decades as the army follows Scotland to all over the world. The Tartan Army visited Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, where they later donated $10,000 for cancer research. Sarah Frost, the hospital president, even met up with the fans to personally thank them for the five-figure donation. “The energy, the excitement, the love, the passion that you all bring, you know Providence is a smaller community, but you have won the hearts and minds of everyone here,” Frost told the fan in the interview. “Job done,” the fan replied with a smile. The fans made their next stop at Horizons for Homeless Children in Roxbury, a Boston neighborhood. Members of the army toured the center, played bagpipes for the children, and capped it off with a $1,200 contribution. “All we were seeking to do was to come with the Tartan Army, spread a little peace, hope, and goodwill and make a difference to the American people,” a Tartan Army “soldier” told NBC10 Boston.  Scotland’s last match in Boston takes place June 19, 2026, against Morocco. The Tartan Army will follow the national team to Miami for their final group stage match, where they will surely continue the tradition of donations and drinking bars dry.

An illegal immigrant the federal government was supposed to deport nearly three decades ago allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl in New York as she was walking home, The Daily Wire has learned. Aureliano Antonio Melendez Reyes, who hails from El Salvador, allegedly approached the teen in Huntington, New York, on June 6 and asked for her phone number, which she refused to hand over, Long Island’s News12 reported. The 59-year-old then allegedly forced her into an alley before sexually assaulting her. The teenage girl was able to break free from Reyes and managed to scale a tall fence while partially clothed before calling 911, according to the local news outlet. The accused rapist continued to pursue the teenager while she was on the phone with authorities. Police arrived at the scene, where they arrested the alleged predator. The illegal immigrant snuck across the border without detection at an unknown time, the Department of Homeland Security told The Daily Wire. He received a deportation order in 1998. “This monster is charged with rape, sexual abuse, and endangering the welfare of a child after he raped a 16-year-old girl who was walking home,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. “This sexual predator NEVER should have been in our country and able to prey on this innocent girl.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer against Reyes, asking local authorities to hand over the suspect following his prosecution, DHS said. Reyes faces up to 25 years behind bars if convicted on the rape charges, according to News12. It is unlikely that local authorities will honor ICE’s detainer due to sanctuary laws. New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed new anti-ICE legislation to prevent local law enforcement agencies from entering agreements with federal immigration authorities. The legislation also seeks to ban ICE agents from wearing masks and entering churches, schools, and other sensitive locations. Between January 20, 2025, and December 1, 2025, local authorities in New York released 6,947 criminal illegal immigrants onto the streets, according to DHS. Their crimes account for 29 homicides, 2,509 assaults, 199 burglaries, 305 robberies, 392 dangerous drug offenses, 300 weapons offenses, and 207 sexual predatory offenses. Bis called out “Hochul and her fellow sanctuary politicians in New York,” asking them to honor ICE’s detainer against Reyes by committing to “not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail and to turn him over to ICE.” “New York sanctuary politicians must not release criminals from jail into New York communities,” she said.