The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal statute on Friday that forbids those subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.

Steve Bannon has filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court to delay the start of his prison sentence.

Here are three SCOTUS decisions of the day we didn’t discuss in articles. You can read those here and DEFINITELY HERE SCOTUS didn’t rule on presidential immunity today, but it’s coming. That is probably why – allegedly – the waist-high fence was put up around the Supreme Court. I can’t confirm it. There has indeed […] The post Three More SCOTUS Decisions Today appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

An illegal alien who entered the U.S. under President Joe Biden has recently pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old girl in Iowa. The Washington Examiner exclusively reported on Tuesday that Honduran national Junior Manuel Dubon Benitez, 18, pled guilty last month in Iowa District Court to raping the child. He was arrested this year on Valentine’s Day on suspicion of “sexual abuse upon Jane Doe a 12 year old child” at a home in Waterloo, Iowa. The attack happened a few days before he was arrested. Dubon Benitez was initially charged with second-degree sexual abuse, but accepted a plea deal for third-degree sexual abuse, the report said, adding that he faces up to 10 years in state prison. Dubon Benitez, 18, illegally entered the U.S near Hidalgo, Texas, in April 2022 as a 16-year-old, the report said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed a detainer request against him so that when he is released from state prison, he will be deported back to Honduras. The news comes after another Biden-era illegal alien admitted to prosecutors in New York City this week that he, too, raped a young girl. Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, was arraigned on multiple charges after a group of Good Samaritans beat him up and held him until authorities were able to arrest him early on Tuesday. He had been on the run for several days after the attack on a 13-year-old girl in Kissena Park in Queens. The New York Post reported that the Ecuadorian national was charged with predatory sexual assault, first-degree rape, two counts of second-degree kidnapping, two counts of first-degree robbery, second-degree rape, first-degree sexual abuse, obstructing governmental administration, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Prosecutors said in court that Inga-Landi, who illegally entered the U.S. in 2021, stated during a videotaped confession: “I was nervous at first, then got comfortable and recorded it.” Assistant District Attorney Kasey Esposito reportedly read the transcript of the videotaped statement. The illegal alien allegedly tied them together, stuffed a bandana in the girl’s mouth and cut off her shorts and underwear, and then raped her. He then took their phones, ran away, and bought drugs, prosecutors said. The New York Post separately reported that a federal immigration judge ordered him to be deported in February 2022, according to sources at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The report said that Inga-Landi illegally crossed into the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, in June 2021 as part of the unprecedented wave of millions of illegal aliens pouring into the country under Biden.

A Clark County judge on Friday dismissed the charges filed against the six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting fraudulent electoral votes for former President Donald Trump in 2020 election. Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus dismissed the case because she said that it was filed in the wrong jurisdiction. “I can’t see jurisdiction here. I can’t see it. I can’t see how I have any jurisdiction in this case,” she said, adding: “You have literally, in my opinion, a crime that has occurred in another jurisdiction. It’s so appropriately up north and so appropriately not here.” Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat, claimed that the judge “got it wrong” and said that his office would appeal the ruling at the state Supreme Court, The Nevada Independent reported. The report noted that the state cannot refile the case because the three-year statute of limitations expired at the end of last year. A lawyer for one of the defendants said that the state’s prosecution was “done.” A grand jury in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County indicted Nevada Republican Party Chairman Michael McDonald, national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid, Clark County Republican Party chair Jesse Law, state party vice chair Jim Hindle III, Shawn Meehan, and Eileen Rice in December of last year. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP All six individuals were indicted on two felony counts of offering a false instrument for filing and uttering a forged instrument by submitting fraudulent documents to state and federal officials. The two felony charges were category C and D felonies, respectively, and carried a maximum of four years and five years in prison. Other states — all of them swing states — are prosecuting Republicans who were allegedly involved in what Democrat prosecutors have claimed were similar schemes, including Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona.

TV star “Judge Judy” Sheindlin slammed New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg for trying former President Donald Trump in the hush-money case. During Sheindlin’s appearance on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” in an episode that streamed on Friday, Wallace asked the judge what she thought about the trial, and she said Bragg only tried Trump for his own selfish reasons, something for which she resents him. “I would be happier, as someone who owns property in Manhattan, if the district attorney [Alvin Bragg] of New York County would take care of criminals who are making it impossible for citizens to walk in the streets and use the subway,” the judge said. Judge Judy: “As a person who owns property in Manhattan I would be happier if Alvin Bragg took care of criminals who make it impossible to ride the subway or walk the streets, than spending $10 million of taxpayer money trying Donald Trump on nonsense.” pic.twitter.com/YBD2uBEub8 — Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) June 21, 2024 “To use those efforts to keep those people off the street, than to spend $5 million or $10 million taxpayers’ money trying Donald Trump on this nonsense,” she added. “That’s my view.” “I, as a taxpayer in this country, resent using the system for your own personal self-aggrandizement,” the judge continued, saying that’s exactly what she thinks Bragg did by trying Trump. “You have to twist yourself in a pretzel to figure out what the crime was. He [Bragg] doesn’t like him [Trump]. New York City didn’t like him [Trump] for a while.” When pressed by Wallace on what she personally thought of the former president, the judge said that she thinks Trump “was a good businessman, a real estate guy. And he was certainly terrific on ‘The Apprentice.'” However, when asked her thoughts about Trump’s presidency, she made it clear she didn’t think he should be in the highest office in the land. “I don’t think that Donald [Trump] ever should have been president,” Sheindlin said. “And I don’t think that even Donald thought he was going to be president.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The former president was recently found guilty on all 34 counts by a New York jury in the hush-money trial. The guilty verdict in Trump’s New York trial marks the first time a former U.S. president has been convicted of a crime, as previously reported. At the heart of the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg were 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal damaging information around the 2016 election as part of a “catch-and-kill” scheme. Prosecutors accused Trump of improperly masking reimbursements to repay his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence on an alleged extramarital affair by classifying them as legal expenses. Trump has denied that the affair with Stormy Daniels ever happened and pleaded not guilty to the charges. His lawyers argued there was no intent to defraud or influence the 2016 election. Daniel Chaitin contributed to this piece.