It must have been a frustrating interview for Associated Press Supreme Court and legal affairs reporter Mark Sherman. He was interviewing Justice Amy Coney Barrett about her new book and he could barely get a word out of her on the subject uppermost in his mind: President Donald Trump. This frustration was reflected in the title of his AP story on Monday, "In new memoir, Supreme Court Justice Barrett reflects on historic cases, is largely silent on Trump." Despite the fact that Trump was rarely mentioned in her book, Sherman tried to get Barrett to comment on the one who appears to be on his mind 24/7. Oh how he tried! Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says “violence or threats of violence” against judges shouldn’t be the cost of public service. But in an interview at the court with The Associated Press about her new book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution, Barrett was not willing to join other judges who have called on President Donald Trump to tone down rhetoric demonizing judges. Sherman's frustration over the lack of Trump references by Barrett in both her book and interview was expressed in the next section of his story under the heading of "Few mentions of Trump." Barrett joined the court in 2020, just over a month after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and Trump chose Barrett to replace her. In her book, the Republican president gets just a few mentions, mainly in connection with her nomination and confirmation. She dealt with the court’s 2024 decision that spared Trump from prosecution for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss without even using his name or explaining the decision. “For example, when a former president was indicted — a historical first — the court took the case to decide whether he could be prosecuted for his official acts,” Barrett wrote. She joined most of Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion. Even as Barrett writes about political polarization across the country, she does not address what role Trump may have played in it. The book does not deal with events of his second term, which began in January, about when Barrett said she was wrapping up the writing. Despite the fact that Trump is barely appears in her book, poor Sherman just can't let go as you can see in the heading name of his next section: "Some disagreement with the president." Barrett wrote clearly on two topics that suggest some disagreement with the president. Trump signed an executive order last month requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, despite a 1989 high court decision protecting the act as political speech. After trying to squeeze this disagreement with Trump for all it was worth which was not much, Sherman appears to have given up his fruitless attempt to extract any more Trump out of Barrett. But near the end, Sherman warned of the peril of Barrett and the "conservative supermajority." He lamented: "In a series of emergency orders this year, Barrett has mainly been in the majority to allow Trump to move ahead with plans to remake the federal government, even after lower-court judges have found some of his actions likely illegal." Those lower-court judges trying to stop Trump.don't get an ideological label.

Former Obama adviser Van Jones and CNN talking head Abby Phillip attacked Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Monday for daring to suggest that racial animus may have been a factor in the savage Aug. 22 murder of a Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina.The liberal chatterboxes' eagerness to avoid the controversy over the murder becoming — as Phillip put it — "some sort of, like, reciprocal George Floyd situation" evidently had them overlook what the alleged murderer apparently says in the gruesome footage of the stabbing.From avoidance to spinThe liberal media appeared keen to overlook 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska's murder last month on the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte, even in the wake of revelations about suspected killer Decarlos Brown's lengthy criminal history and the release of footage showing the stabbing.When the horrific story and the reaction to it online became too big to ignore, some outfits belatedly attempted to cure the narrative on Monday.The New York Times, for instance, concern-mongered about the unprovoked stabbing turning into "an accelerant for conservative arguments about the perceived failings of Democratic policies," suggesting it might be "successfully used" like Laken Riley's murder by an illegal alien.CNN, among the liberal outfits that delayed covering the murder, similarly attempted to orient the public's focus away from what set the stage for Zarutska's murder and toward political implications of the backlash.RELATED: Wikipedia editors are trying to scrub the record clean of Iryna Zarutska's slaughter by violent thug AzmanL/Getty Images The eponymous host of "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" kicked off the panel discussion Monday evening stating that she was "trying to understand why this has become such a flashpoint on the right."Phillip, Van Jones, and other liberal panelists did not appear particularly receptive to the explanation offered early on by Republican strategist and commentator Brad Todd — that every murder is a tragedy but this one is particularly tragic because it was so avoidable."The man who committed this crime was out on cashless bail, which has been a crusade of the political left. He also has a repeat offender, career criminal, 14 times he was arrested," said Todd. "He clearly is someone who should not have been out on bail in January when he was released on bail."Strategic deafnessAfter some of the panelists tried to center the conversation on the theme of mental illness, Phillip played a clip from Charlie Kirk where the conservative noted:A white Ukrainian refugee was murdered just because she was white. Everybody knows that, obviously. ... If a random white person simply walked up to and stabbed a nice, law-abiding black person for no reason, it would be an apocalyptically huge national story used to impose national, sweeping political changes on the whole country."Van, they've been looking for opportunities to make this some sort of, like, reciprocal George Floyd situation," said Phillip. "And that's the part that I think he's almost giving away the game. It's sad to see a lot of people going along with it."RELATED: Mainstream media turns a blind eye to vicious stabbing of young Ukrainian woman Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images Before suggesting that there were no "sweeping changes imposed on society" following the death of George Floyd, Jones first stated that "we don't know why that man did what he did.""For Charlie Kirk to say, 'We know he did it because she's white,' when there's no evidence of that, is just pure race-mongering, hate-mongering. It's wrong," continued the former Obama adviser. "He should be ashamed of himself. No one mentioned the word 'race,' 'white, 'black,' or anything except him."Contrary to Jones' suggestion, the violent thug who murdered Zarutska, an aspiring veterinarian assistant, appears to repeatedly say in the video as blood dropped from his knife, "I got that white girl."Blaze News has reached out to Kirk for comment.FBI Director Kash Patel indicated Monday evening that the "FBI has been investigating the Charlotte train murder from day one."Decarlos Brown has been charged with first-degree murder. Blaze News has reached out to the DOJ about whether Brown might face federal hate crime charges as well.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The owner of a Detroit clothing store said it took crooks only five minutes to steal $90,000 in merchandise from his place of business in a predawn heist Monday, WDIV-TV reported.“When I get here, the police was already here, but the damage has already been done," Waheed Ahmed, owner of J-Bees on Gratiot Avenue for 26 years, told the station. "Merchandise was gone."'You know, when you’re in the community, you’re trying to bring good brands to the community, try to bring good quality things to the community, and you build a relationship with certain customers. So it’s like, what you gonna do? You gonna shut it down, or you gonna stay open?'Ahmed, 57, told WDIV that security video showed the crooks arriving in a white minivan and a black pickup truck at 4:49 a.m.At least a dozen individuals quickly exited the minivan while another group got out of the pickup, the station said.By 4:53 a.m., the crooks smashed a window and door, forced open the storefront gate, and went inside, WDIV reported, adding that the crew emptied tables and shelves, destroyed mannequins, and broke into a back office.The thieves were gone by 4:56 a.m., the station said — just five minutes to steal an estimated $90,000 worth of clothing, the station said.RELATED: Crooks try getaway after daytime smash-and-grab heist of Rolex watches in downtown Chicago — but time runs out on them “They moved quick. They had an idea what they wanted," Dee, the store’s general manager for the last 15 years, told WDIV.Dee added to the station that “they had, like, 12 to 15 guys. This is a routine. This is probably something that they do on the daily.”WDIV noted that this incident is the second time this year that the store had been robbed in such a brutal fashion.“I feel like someone came in and scoped the store out,” Dee added to the station. “They took a look around and seen where everything was at, where everything was set up — like the high-end merchandise — and that’s what they went after."More from WDIV:Dee said that robberies like this are tiresome, and he feels the store needs more security and better protection with the help of Detroit police.Both Ahmed and his general manager are frustrated with this type of crime, as they want to keep businesses like this in the neighborhood.“You know, when you’re in the community, you’re trying to bring good brands to the community, try to bring good quality things to the community, and you build a relationship with certain customers,” Dee noted to the station. “So it’s like, what you gonna do? You gonna shut it down, or you gonna stay open?”Ahmed added to WDIV that "I love this neighborhood. It’s been 26 years, so I am seeing a third generation in my place, so I get connected with the third generation.”But the crime is taking a toll on him, too.“I really enjoy doing business with them,” Ahmed noted to the station. “But I say it’s getting frustrating.”Detroit police detectives arrived Monday afternoon to gather information about the robbery, WDIV said.Between the damage and the stolen merchandise, Ahmed told the station that even with insurance, he could be looking at a total loss of at least $200,000.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Last week, Dearborn, Michigan — a city near Detroit known for its large Islamic population, which drives much of the city’s culture — proposed adding a patch to its police officers’ uniforms that read "Dearborn Heights Police” in Arabic script.While some reacted to the idea positively, public outrage far outweighed support. Shortly after the idea was announced, Dearborn’s mayor walked the Arabic patch proposal back, and the police department clarified it was a premature, unapproved idea.Glenn Beck says the incident is more evidence that “we no longer respect the ethics and the constitutional norms that created this country.” The proposed change was supposedly just meant to reflect and honor the city's large Muslim population, but Glenn says it’s far more than just “a small gesture of outreach.”“It is a signal, and signals matter,” he says.America was designed to be a melting pot: “You could come here from any land, speak any language, [practice] any faith, and ... if you believed in the laws and the Constitution of America ... and you upheld those things, we could melt together, and we could create something even greater than you could even imagine,” Glenn explains.“We [don’t] erase cultures. We elevate what unites us instead of elevating what divides us, and we don't bend our civic institutions to mirror any kind of tribal or religious identities. We don't create parallel systems of justice or identity.”Never in the history of this country has an immigrant or religious group had law enforcement “tailor itself to them,” he says.In fact, it’s often been the opposite. Glenn points to Mormons, who were at one time persecuted for their faith, despite being “the most patriotic of any religion in America.” “They didn't bend America to their faith; they bound their faith to America,” he says, adding that Catholics, too, have faced religious persecution in this country.But for some reason, Muslims have not only avoided persecution, they’ve been catered to. “Week after week, from the pulpits of the local mosque [in Dearborn], the imams openly declare their goal — not to join the American project, but to replace it, not to preserve the Constitution, but to subvert it.”“They preach the supremacy of sharia law over American law, and now the police department, a symbol of our secular constitutional order, decides they want to appeal to that group? To wear that identity on its uniform?” says Glenn. “That's not inclusion. That's not assimilation. That's not the melting pot. It's the opposite. It's balkanization at its kindest.”“It is the state bending towards the demand of a religious political ideology that seeks to replace our American civilization. Let me be really, super clear on this: This cannot stand,” he warns.To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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