Day: May 19, 2025

Federal Court Sides with Tennessee Civil Rights Lawyer Daniel Horwitz, Rules Attorneys Cannot Face Contempt for Private Speech

Tom Pappert
Daniel Horowitz

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee last Thursday amended its local rules following a nearly three-year fight by Nashville-based civil rights attorney Daniel Horwitz, who filed a federal lawsuit after the court issued a gag order which prevented him from discussing a case against the private prison company, CoreCivic.

Horwitz filed the federal lawsuit last October, about two years after he was subject to a gag order over his public statements regarding CoreCivic. He was then representing clients suing the private prison company, who have since settled, and made a series of claims about the company while publicly advocating the case.

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Trump: Putin Call Went ‘Very Well’, Negotiations to Start ‘Immediately’

Just the News
Trump and Putin

Following his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump expressed optimism about the call and posted to Truth Social that Russia and Ukraine will immediately begin negotiations to achieve a ceasefire. 

He noted that “the conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.”

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Kid Rock Says Deport Illegal Immigrants ‘No Matter Where They Are’ After ‘Clickbait’ Claim His Nashville Restaurant Closed over ICE Activity

Tom Pappert
Kid Rock restaurant

The musical artist Kid Rock on Monday condemned the report claiming his Big Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse closed early on a Saturday night earlier this month so that illegal immigrant workers might avoid rumored activity by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP). He instead offered his full support for the President Donald Trump and his immigration agenda.

According to Nashville Scene, the artist’s Steakhouse was among numerous restaurants that closed early in Nashville on May 10. The outlet claimed that managers at the establishments instructed “employees without legal citizenship status” to leave the premises “during a primetime rush on Saturday night to avoid detention by ICE agents.”

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China’s Economy Stumbles as It Fails to Shake Off Trump’s Tariff Gut Punch

Daily Caller News Foundation
Chinese workers

New economic data shows key Chinese industries continuing to struggle in the wake of President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.

Retail sales, which track the sale of new and used goods to the general public, slowed to 5.1% in April, missing official projections for a 5.5% expansion, according to numbers from China’s National Statistics Bureau reviewed by Reuters. China’s industrial output fell to 6.1%, down from 7.7% the month before, as tariffs keep biting Chinese factories.

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Trump Ed Department Rescinds ‘Largest’ Fine Ever Levied Against Christian School

Daily Caller News Foundation
Brian Mueller

The Department of Education (ED) on Friday rescinded a $37.7 million fine applied to Grand Canyon University (GCU) under the Biden administration.

The fine was the largest ever proposed against a university and sparked allegations that the Biden administration was targeting and harshly punishing Christian universities. ED under the Trump administration dismissed the case with “no findings” of wrongdoing by the university, according to GCU, and with prejudice, meaning the suit can’t be brought again.

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FBI Director Kash Patel Says Memphis Now Nation’s ‘Homicide Capital,’ but Human Trafficking Follows Interstates

Tom Pappert
Dan Bongino and Kash Patel

In response to a question about human trafficking trends throughout the country, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Sunday that he was surprised to learn upon taking office that Memphis, Tennessee, leads the nation in homicides per capita.

Patel made the remarks during a joint appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Deputy Director Dan Bongino, when he said he was surprised to learn about the crime in Memphis after host Maria Bartiromo asked about the “biggest cells” of trafficking in the country.

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Maryland’s Wes Moore, the Country’s Only Sitting Black Governor, Vetoes Reparations Bill

Just the News
Wes Moore

Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore has vetoed a reparations commission bill passed by the state legislature, saying it was “not the time for another study,” but it “is the time for continued action.”

Moore, the country’s only black governor, wrote his veto letter on Friday regarding the bill that would have created a commission to study and recommend reparations for slavery and racial discrimination, The Hill news outlet reported.

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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Proceed with Plans to Remove Temporary Legal Status for Venezuelans

The Daily Signal
Illegal immigrants

The Supreme Court will allow, for now, the Trump administration to proceed with plans to strip temporary legal protected status from thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela living in the U.S.

The court’s decision allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to cancel Temporary Protected Status for illegal aliens who entered the U.S. under the Biden administration’s Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans parole program.

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New Jersey Rail Workers Agree to End Strike After Weekend of Commuter Chaos

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NJ Transit

A tentative deal between NJ Transit and its locomotive engineers has ended New Jersey’s first statewide rail strike in more than 40 years, with full service set to return Tuesday, officials said Sunday night.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) suspended its walkout after two days of post-strike talks, capping a shutdown of began at midnight Friday and left some 350,000 commuters scrambling while the agency rolled out emergency buses and urged employers to let staff work remotely.

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Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell Says ‘No Response’ to Push for Congressional Probes from Rep. Andy Ogles

Tom Pappert
Mayor Freddie O'Connell

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell said on Friday that he has “no response” to the recent formal request by U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) for Congress to open probes into the actions taken by the mayor in response to the recent immigration enforcement operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP).

In response to the immigration enforcement operation, which resulted in nearly 200 arrests of illegal immigrants, O’Connell signed an executive order that required Metro Nashville employees to inform his office, and the Nashville Office of New Americans, of any communication by a federal government official that relates to immigration enforcement.

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