SCOTUS Just Killed a Favorite Liberal Argument Against the 2nd Amendment

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In a hasty move this week, the Supreme Court gutted liberal arguments that the 2nd Amendment was only intended to protect the American right to bear primitive firearms like the muskets in common use at the time of its writing.

The case came after Jaime Caetano, a homeless woman with an abusive ex-boyfriend, was arrested for defending herself from the abuser with a stun gun after police failed to keep him away pursuant to the multiple restraining orders she had filed against the man. Prosecutors charged that Caetano had broken the law by defending herself with the stun gun because the devices were illegal under Massachusetts law and not protected by the 2nd Amendment.

The Supreme Court cited Heller earlier this week as it unanimously overturned a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in the case which maintained that stun guns are not protected as self-defense weapons under the 2nd Amendment because they “were not in common use” when the Bill of Rights was composed.

That, as you know, is also a common refrain from anti-2nd Amendment Americans who don’t believe law abiding citizens should have access to semi-automatic firearms and high capacity magazines. (Read more from “SCOTUS Just Killed a Favorite Liberal Argument Against the 2nd Amendment” HERE)

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Trump Just Doubled Down on Terror Comments by Calling on These US Laws to Be Changed

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Hours after a deadly Islamic terror attack in Brussels, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump was asked by CNN host Wolf Blitzer to share his prescription for increased threats of violence in the U.S. and around the world. Building on several previous controversial statements, Trump confirmed on Tuesday that he wants to see members of the U.S. military permitted to engage in the torture of terror suspects.

Speaking specifically about Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in last year’s Paris attacks, the brash billionaire said he would “be talking a lot faster with torture.”

Trump went on to theorize that introducing, or re-introducing, certain intense interrogation techniques could be the key to fighting global terrorism. He did acknowledge, however, that there are some people for whom he believes torture should be off limits.

“You’re going to make certain exceptions,” he told Blitzer, “and exceptions on heads of state and some of these people, and I’m not saying we don’t do that. But we have a real problem and people don’t have any idea what’s going on” . . .

“We’re fighting by different rules,” he complained. “They have no rules or regulations and can blow people up, and have bombs so vicious with the nails and the glass and all the things come spewing out, blinding people and destroying people. And we have rules and regulations and we can’t waterboard because it’s a little bit of a tough thing.” (Read more from “Trump Just Doubled Down on Terror Comments by Calling on These US Laws to Be Changed” HERE)

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The Winner of Arizona Republican Primary Is…

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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump captured the Arizona Republican primary on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press and news networks, as GOP candidates battled there and in caucuses in Utah.

Tuesday’s contests came a week after Trump expanded his advantage in the Republican presidential race to more than 250 delegates after primary wins in Florida, Illinois and North Carolina.

Trump had been favored in Arizona, which, as a winner-take-all state, will award all of its 58 delegates to the New York billionaire.

“It looks like we’re doing very well in Arizona, and very well pretty much everyplace else,” Trump said Monday at a news conference in Washington. The New York billionaire held large rallies Saturday in Fountain Hills, Ariz., and Tucson . . .

Trump, the Republican front-runner who already had been running TV ads in Arizona touting his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from traveling to the United States, tweeted: “I have proven to be far more correct about terrorism than anybody- and it’s not even close. Hopefully AZ and UT will be voting for me today!” (Read more from “The Winner of Arizona Republican Primary Is…” HERE)

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PRISON IS CALLING LOIS LERNER: Still No Justice for the Victims of the Obama’s Weaponized IRS

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The Capital Research Center recently released a report on the IRS non-profit conservative targeting scandal. The IRS Attacks the Tea Party highlights Lois Lerner’s corrupt behavior. Current agency chief John Koskinen’s aid in covering the targeting scandal has only furthered the agency from accountability.

The report reminds us of the scandal:

“Before examining the role that those left-wing nonprofits played in the saga, some background is necessary. In the lead up to the 2012 election, many conservative organizations and Tea Party groups that had sought tax-exempt status from the IRS were frozen in limbo, unable to participate fully in election season because they were wasting away on an IRS waiting list specifically created to stymie right-leaning groups hostile to President Obama’s radical left-wing agenda.”

“The very fact that Lois Lerner isn’t in prison right now is proof of political interference at the highest levels. Lerner lied to congress, committed, contempt, and engaged in obstruction of justice on a massive scale. Yet nothing happen to her.”

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), noted that the “Obama administration continues to refuse to hold anyone accountable at the IRS.” This comes after an interview in which President Obama said that not even “a smidgen of corruption” would be found during the investigation into the IRS scandal.”

The CRC report concludes:

“The Left’s ‘accountability’ actions focus on harassing and intimidating political enemies, disrupting their activities, and forcing them into waste resources dealing with activist’s provocations… They want to shut down, humiliate, and silence those who won’t quietly submit to their policy agenda.” (For more from the author of “PRISON IS CALLING LOIS LERNER: Still No Justice for the Victims of the Obama’s Weaponized IRS” please click HERE)

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Ted Cruz Signals Growing Frustration With ‘Spoiler’ Kasich

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By Patrick Svitek. For nearly all of the 2016 Republican presidential campaign, you would have been hard-pressed to hear Ted Cruz mention fellow competitor John Kasich.

But now it’s a three-person race. And as Cruz tries to consolidate support from Republicans opposed to Donald Trump, the Texas senator is taking direct aim at Kasich, saying the Ohio governor is sabotaging the GOP’s hopes of defeating the billionaire.

“A vote for John Kasich is a vote for Donald Trump,” Cruz told reporters Saturday in Utah. “I don’t know if John Kasich is perhaps campaigning to be Donald Trump’s vice president, but he has been eliminated mathematically from having any chance of being the nominee.”

Cruz was similarly dismissive a day earlier in Arizona, where he told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Kasich’s role in the nominating process at this point “is essentially as a spoiler.” (Read more from “Ted Cruz Signals Growing Frustration With ‘Spoiler’ Kasich” HERE)

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Cruz: Kasich Blocked Me From Winning Illinois

By Ryan Lovelace. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he would have won the Illinois Republican primary over Donald Trump, if not for Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Cruz told Fox News that Kasich’s presidential bid has functionally served to deliver delegates to Trump.

“What he’s doing doesn’t make any sense unless he’s auditioning to be Trump’s vice president because he can only be a spoiler,” Cruz said. “I’ll give you an example: Illinois. We would have won Illinois without John Kasich. Trump had 38 percent in Illinois, I had 30 percent, Kasich had 19.” (Read more from “Cruz: Kasich Blocked Me From Winning Illinois” HERE)

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Donald Trump Makes Wild Threat to Ted Cruz’s Wife

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Donald Trump escalated his feud with Ted Cruz on Twitter Tuesday — but this time he also involved the Texas senator’s wife.

The real estate mogul tweeted that the Texas senator should “be careful” or he would “spill the beans on your wife” Heidi Cruz.

“Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!,” he tweeted Tuesday evening, just minutes before polls closed in Arizona. Trump tweeted and deleted a similar version of the Tweet about 10 minutes earlier.

Trump appears to be referring to a Facebook advertisement targeted to Mormons that shows Trump’s wife, Melania, posing nude. That ad was produced by an anti-Trump super PAC, Make America Awesome, which has no known connection to the Cruz campaign. (Read more from “Donald Trump Makes Wild Threat to Ted Cruz’s Wife” HERE)

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Court Rebukes IRS for Tea Party Targeting, Orders Release of Secret List

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A federal appeals court spanked the IRS Tuesday, saying it has taken laws designed to protect taxpayers from the government and turned them on their head, using them to try to protect the tax agency from the very tea party groups it targeted.

The judges ordered the IRS to quickly turn over the full list of groups it targeted so that a class-action lawsuit, filed by the NorCal Tea Party Patriots, can proceed. The judges also accused the Justice Department lawyers, who are representing the IRS in the case, of acting in bad faith — compounding the initial targeting — by fighting the disclosure.

“The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation’s interests and enforcing its laws — all of them, not just selective ones — in a manner worthy of the Department’s name. The conduct of the IRS’s attorneys in the district court falls outside that tradition,” Judge Raymond Kethledge wrote in a unanimous opinion for a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. “We expect that the IRS will do better going forward.”

Justice Department officials declined to comment on the judicial drubbing, and the IRS didn’t respond to a request for comment on the unusually strong language Judge Kethledge used.

The case stems from the IRS‘ decision in 2010 to begin subjecting tea party and conservative groups to intrusive scrutiny when they applied for nonprofit status. (Read more from “Court Rebukes IRS for Tea Party Targeting, Orders Release of Secret List” HERE)

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Cruz Push for Doubling of Immigrants Raised Again

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Plans pushed by GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz under the immigration reform debate in 2013 that would have jumped the number of immigrants, including those from Muslim nations, were raised by the Trump campaign Tuesday.

Under the Cruz plan, yearly legal immigration would have gone from 740,000 to 1,675,000. He said his idea was to actually help kill the bill not boost the numbers.

“I was introducing a whole series of amendments, in part to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Democrats. So, for example, the Democrats claimed they were supporting high-tech workers, so I introduced an amendment on that, every Democrat voted against it, which demonstrated that this was all a political endeavor for them, that what they were saying wasn’t true,” he told radio’s Laura Ingraham.

Donald Trump’s advisor Stephen Miller raised the issue on Fox Business, claiming the amendments would have “substantially increased” Muslim migration.

Secrets recently reported that the administration has approved more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C. (Read more from “Cruz Push for Doubling of Immigrants Raised Again” HERE)

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Hollywood Actor Makes Trump Endorsement [+video]

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Scott Baio has endorsed Republican frontrunner Donald Trump for president.

The 55-year-old Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi star made his endorsement in an interview with Fox News’ Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday.

“It’s very simple,” Baio told Pirro of his reasons for supporting Trump. “Because when he speaks, I understand him. He speaks like I speak, he communicates with people very well. I want him, as any one person can do, to go into Washington and blow it up.”

The conservative actor said he was “fed up” with the Republican Party, who said “lied and conned and BS’ed me,” and added that he no longer considered himself a Republican but a “conservative Independent.” (Read more from “Hollywood Actor Makes Trump Endorsement” HERE)

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Marco Rubio Rejected ‘Unity Ticket’ With Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz’s campaign has been exploring the possibility of forming a unity ticket with ex-rival Marco Rubio — going so far as to conduct polling looking into how the two would perform in upcoming primary states.

The motivation, hashed out in conversations among Cruz’s top aides and donors: to find a way to halt Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination.

It’s unclear whether Cruz’s campaign brass views a partnership with Rubio as realistic or quixotic. In Rubio’s orbit, according to three sources, it’s seen as an outright nonstarter — with Rubio telling his team he isn’t interested.

Yet in recent weeks, within Cruz’s camp, talk of a joint ticket has run rampant. Utah Republican Mike Lee, one of two senators to endorse Cruz, has emerged as an outspoken supporter of a unity ticket — and as a potential broker. The freshman, according to several sources briefed on the talks, has reached out repeatedly to Rubio to gauge his interest, but has been rebuffed.

Shortly before Lee endorsed Cruz on March 10, Lee and his advisers discussed the possibility of organizing a meeting between the Utah senator and Rubio in Florida, just days before the state’s primary, according to two sources. The meeting, though, never happened. (Read more from “Marco Rubio Rejected ‘Unity Ticket’ With Ted Cruz” HERE)

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