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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re starting to see a neo-Confederate nullification movement among the contemporary Left in general, in particular the Democratic Party. In other words, there are governors, like Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, or Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, or Gov. Tina Kotek in Oregon, who openly, literally, candidly say that federal immigration law shall not be enforced in their jurisdictions, their state, county, and local municipal jurisdiction. They haven’t read Article VI of the Constitution. It says explicitly that in matters of the enforcement of federal authority and jurisdiction, which is the United States, it supersedes local law enforcement. And they’re completely ignorant of history and where nullification of federal law leads to. We saw it under the Eisenhower administration when Little Rock refused to follow a court order to integrate its school system. The governor, Orval Faubus, defied the federal government. President Dwight Eisenhower had to nationalize the Arkansas National Guard and forcibly stop him. The same thing happened in Mississippi under Gov. Ross Barnett, 1961. 1963, George Wallace stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and said, “I will not allow federal troops to desegregate this university.” And they forced him to do that. From 1855 to 1859, there was something called Bleeding Kansas. And that meant that groups that were pro-Southern or pro-Union sent settlers into the territory of Kansas to change the demography so each side would be able to force the United States to either admit it as a free or a slave state. But the point was that federal law died. Each side nullified it. And they began to carry on violence against one another. John Brown, the infamous killer at Harpers Ferry, he executed five people in a raid on a Southern community. And there was tit-for-tat violence on both sides. What we’re seeing now is open street violence in Portland. Antifa-like, or Antifa themselves, protesters pelt Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. They point lasers at their eyes. They try to rush the facilities. And then, in extremis, they run over to the other side of the street for the sanctuary of local policemen. In the Chicago area, when ICE agents are besieged and blockaded by cars and under threat, local police do not come to their aid. And it’s almost as if these governors and these mayors, it’s not almost if, it is that they are nullifying federal law in the best spirit of the neo-Confederacy. They are saying that Los Angeles or California, or Chicago, or Illinois have their own unique cultures. And we do not want the federal government coming onto federal property, their own property, and enforcing federal law among us. So, they are the successors to Jefferson Davis or John Calhoun, the segregationist, states’ rightist that tried to nullify the federal government. And there’s a little twist to this story. They’re also very hypocritical. If someone were to follow their prompt in a red state or a red county or a red city and say, “Federal gun registration law does not apply here. Endangered species lists don’t apply here,” you know what the Left would do? They would go crazy: “You are Confederate nullificationists. Federal law will force you to register guns in a county in Utah.” You can see what they would say if President Donald Trump said, “Well, this federal judge, he’s just a district judge. He’s not a circuit judge. He’s not a Supreme Court judge. He’s a political activist. He’s making up laws as he is going. He’s just trying to delay and hamstring my administration. I’m not gonna follow a federal writ.” He couldn’t do that. He’s doing that. The Left would go crazy. And yet, that is what they’re doing. So, the next stage is even scarier because we’re not just seeing street thuggery, we are seeing officials, as in Los Angeles, that are helping to dox and identify ICE agents electronically and making apps and trying to help the illegal alien or the person, who is a criminal illegal alien, escape deportation efforts of ICE. And remember, contrary to what the Left says, the statistics show that about 80% or more of the people that ICE is arresting either have criminal records, they’re part of the 500,000 that the Biden administration let in, or they have preexisting deportation orders they’ve ignored. And yet our own state, local, and city officials are helping people who are breaking federal law and opposing, sometimes quasi-violently, or condoning the violence of federal enforcements, agents who are trying to enforce federal law. This has a neo-Confederate pedigree. And we know where Bleeding Kansas led to. Once you nullify federal law and once you glorify violence—and by the way, the Left has glorified almost every major left-wing assassin, whether it was James Hodgkinson that tried to take out the House leadership, or Tyler Robinson, who took out Charlie Kirk, or Luigi Mangione, who killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, or Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh, who tried to kill Donald Trump on two occasions. When you have glorification of that type of violence and political assassination, we know where it’s going to lead. It leads from Bleeding Kansas to Harpers Ferry to Fort Sumter. And they’re playing with fire. And it’s very dangerous for the republic. And it’s time for the Left to stop. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post The Left Goes Neo-Confederate on Immigration appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Bill Kristol Backs Mamdani, and Goldberg is SURPRISED?

It is easy to know exactly what is on the mind of New Yorker writer Jill Lepore 24/7. Orange Man Bad. And, oh, does she let us know why she just can't stop thinking about him which comes in the form of a bizarre extended stream of consciousness rant disguised as a story on Monday in "Trump and the Presidency That Wouldn’t Shut Up." Her fixation on Trump begins with the first paragraph and then continues without letup as she focuses on the fact that he just won't SHUT UP and it is driving her NUTS! The list of figures in American history with whom Donald J. Trump has been compared since he announced his bid for the Presidency a decade ago is longer than his trademark necktie, as red as a gash. It’s taller than Trump Tower, gleaming like a blade. It has a higher turnover than his beleaguered first Cabinet. It includes even more goons, toadies, and peacocks than his current Administration. And yet the comparisons keep coming, in the daily papers, in the nightly podcasts, online, online, online. Is Trump more of a liar than Joseph McCarthy; is he slicker than Huey Long? Is he as mean-spirited as Father Charles Coughlin, more sinister than George Wallace? Is he as much of a fraud as P. T. Barnum, even more of an isolationist than Charles Lindbergh? He is trickier than Richard (Tricky Dick) Nixon, but to what degree? After several more paragraphs of whining about Trump, Lepore then shifts into channeling a Margaret Dumont level of outrage over an AI video about miracle "medbeds": Take out your flashlight and ask the inevitable question: Is there any precedent for a President of the United States doing such a thing? Is American history any guide to understanding why Trump, or someone on his staff, posted (and soon afterward deleted) a fake video about a nonexistent news report concerning a fictional miracle cure, an episode whose political significance strikes me as asymptotically approaching zero? Lepore then conjures up the Constitution and a panoply of Presidents to make her case that Trump talks too much and how it should be somehow unconstitutional for him to do so in a more perfect world.: And now for one more (but hardly the last) stream of consciousness inadvertent comedy outburst by Lepore against Trump and his talk, talk, talking that is beat, beat, beating against her poor brain. Historians will need to account for Trump when, as Gerald Ford said when he succeeded Nixon, “our long national nightmare is over.” Analogies won’t help them. Because nothing in American history anticipates or explains the way Trump speaks to his supporters at his rallies—or his use of Twitter, between 2015 and 2021, and Truth Social, beginning in 2022. He riffs; he cusses; he dodges; he weaves; he raises money; he spreads lies. He is lurid and profane. He targets his political opponents, threatening them with prosecution, prison, and execution. He is the world’s most outspoken troll, and its most dangerous. He posts day and night, about everything from taco bowls to possible ceasefires. He is getting worse. In his second term, he has posted three times as often as he did during his first. Tonally, nearly everything he posts is unhinged, even when it’s a simple endorsement or amplification of a policy, like tariffs... GASP! He...he "targets his political opponents, threatening them with prosecution, prison, and execution?" That has never ever happened in a previous administration. Well, except for the during Joe Biden's administration when the FBI's Arctic Frost investigated over 150 Republicans and hit Trump with 2 simultaneous federal indictments as well as two more White House influenced state indictments. As for "our long national nightmare is over," that was already pompously declared by Jake Tapper followed shortly afterwards by millions of illegals flooding across our borders, an ignominious departure from Afghanistan, high inflation, Covid censorship based on misinformation (based on disinformation), Ukraine War quagmire, oh, and lots of lots of lawfare against Trump  and many connected with him. Oh, and think of the epic meltdown if President Trump should target Jill Lepore, not with lawfare but with the mere mockery she richly deserves. It really shouldn't be done since that would be sure to drive her over the edge. And that would be wrong. But it would also be fun!

Late Friday afternoon, the National Security Council released a memo announcing that a White House West Wing room is now off limits to members of the press - unless they’ve made and been granted an appointment with an authorized White House staff member. The change, effective immediately, is the latest step in the Trump Administration’s ongoing effort to protect sensitive information, the memo issued to top White House press officers and Assistant to the President Steven Cheung explains: “This memorandum directs the prohibition of press passholders from accessing Room 140 in the West Wing, also known as ‘Upper Press,’ which is situated adjacent to the Oval Office, without an appointment. This policy will ensure adherence to best practices pertaining to access to sensitive material. “As a result of recent structural changes to the National Security Council, the White House is now responsible for directing all communications, including on all national security matters. In this capacity, members of the White House Communications Staff are routinely engaging with sensitive material.” “Members of the press may continue to freely engage with White House Press Aides in the Lower Press Area outside of the Briefing Room,” the memo notes. Media outlets rebelled against the Trump Administration’s efforts to protect sensitive information at the Pentagon earlier this month, when the vast majority of reporters turned in their Pentagon press credentials in protest of new rules requiring them to be accompanied by escorts at times and forbidding them from soliciting confidential information from government employees.

A Maryland state senator is denying allegations that she threatened to release highly compromising video of a former political consultant to keep her from making public comments about the senator.Democratic state Sen. Dalya Attar was indicted on charges related to the alleged extortion plot that included her brother Joseph Attar as well as a Baltimore police officer named Kalman Finkelstein.'Stay out of this election, the delegate election, and make sure she doesn't do anything against Dalya throughout this election ... or I'll share this video with everybody you know.'The three defendants are accused of hiding audio and video recording equipment in the apartment of the consultant in order to gather evidence of her sexual relationship with a married man in 2022. Finkelstein's family owned the apartment where the woman was living.They then allegedly threatened to release the recorded evidence unless the two agreed to refrain from making negative statements about Dalya Attar in public. Attar was running for state House delegate at the time.Prosecutors said that Joseph Attar said to the married man via messages on WhatsApp, "I have hours of footage of you in bed with (Victim 1). Here's what I need you to do for this to go away permanently."Both Dalya Attar and the consultant are members of the Orthodox Jewish community."The only thing you need to do is very simple, is to go to (Victim 1) and say to her, 'Listen, leave Dalya alone. Don't bring her up anymore to anyone,'" Joseph Attar is accused of saying. "Stay out of this election, the delegate election, and make sure she doesn't do anything against Dalya throughout this election ... or I'll share this video with everybody you know, everyone she knows, every rabbi in town, your kids, your wife, her daughters."RELATED: Congresswoman's staffer indicted for spreading her intimate videos and photos online Dalya Attar released a statement denying the allegations."I ran for public office because of my strong belief in serving my community that I love, and I would never do anything to knowingly jeopardize my constituents' trust in me," she said."The case centers on the allegations of my former disgruntled employee. We have yet to see any tangible evidence to support the claim that I knew of any illegal actions taken on my behalf," Dalya Attar added. "I look forward to sharing my side of the story, and believe the truth will be the arbiter of justice."Dalya Attar was indicted on eight counts, including conspiracy, extortion via interstate communications, aiding and abetting, and interception and disclosure of a wire.RELATED: Dem congresswoman who allegedly assaulted ICE officer is indicted on 3 counts, faces years in prison Photo by Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesFinkelstein has been suspended since 2022, according to Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley."He has not had police powers since 2022," Worley added. "We're going to cooperate completely with the indictment."Dalya Attar represents Baltimore City and was appointed to fill a vacancy in the state Senate in January.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Democrat Embarrasingly Proves She Has No Clue Why She Voted to Close Government

Allegations of Cash-For-Votes That Would Benefit Democrat Candidates Rock Local North Carolina Races