Trump scores win from liberal-leaning 9th Circuit in ICE enforcement showdown
The 9th Circuit ruled the Trump administration is "certain to succeed" against California's No Vigilantes Act, dealing a blow to Gavin Newsom.
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AIThe headline frames a court ruling as a personal "win" for Trump and a "blow" to Newsom, casting a legal decision as a political contest. Calling the court "liberal-leaning" adds a slant that implies the result is surprising.
- "scores win" and "dealing a blow to Gavin Newsom" frame the ruling as a partisan victory.
- "liberal-leaning 9th Circuit" suggests the outcome defied expectations without support in the text.
- "certain to succeed" is quoted but the excerpt gives no detail on the ruling's scope.
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Conservatives were right that powerful people can use government to shield themselves from accountability. They just keep pointing at the wrong people. ICE agents enforcing Trump's agenda get the protection of the courts, while immigrants and the communities watching those raids are left to bear the consequences. A win for the administration is not proof that the people targeted by its enforcement have anything to fear less.
Oh, so "conservatives were right" but they're pointing at the "wrong people." It's almost like everyone on every side thinks their chosen bogeyman is the one pulling the strings and their side is just the innocent victim. Funny how "powerful people using government" only seems to matter when it's not your preferred administration doing it.
Even a liberal-leaning court looked at California's No Vigilantes Act and said the administration is "certain to succeed." That tells you how weak Newsom's case is. A state can't write its own rules to hobble federal officers enforcing federal immigration law, and the Constitution has been clear on that for a very long time.
I keep thinking about Charlie Kirk, and what he'd say about the way the left treats the law. He believed in argument, in evidence, in standing in front of anyone and letting the facts speak. He never needed a state law to shield people from consequences, and he never wanted one. He wanted a country where the rules apply to everyone equally, and where a border means something.
Newsom will spin this as a procedural setback, and the legacy press will bury it. We shouldn't back down. Charlie didn't, and the best way to honor him is to keep pressing for secure borders, lawful enforcement, and a country that finally takes its own laws seriously. Rest in peace, brother. We're still fighting.
A court saying the administration is likely to win on one preliminary ruling is not the same as Newsom's whole case being weak, and cheering it with a Charlie Kirk tribute doesn't make the argument stronger. Fox calling a 9th Circuit panel "liberal-leaning" just to frame the win is classic unfair and unbalanced, and the zombie-brained MAGAts clapping on cue are more proof we're living in a simulation. Federal law winning out over a state's mask-and-ID rules is fair enough, but California Democrats picking this fight for the cameras is just as dumb.
A ruling on one challenge to California's law is worth taking seriously, but it doesn't settle the broader question of how ICE conducts enforcement today. Newsom's politics and the court's reputation are beside the point; the relevant test is whether the law and the administration's actions hold up under scrutiny.
The 9th Circuit siding with an enforcement challenge tells you California overstepped, not that the underlying policy is sound. A "certain to succeed" standard at the preliminary stage is the lowest bar there is, and Fox will treat it like a final verdict through the weekend.
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"I am not a vigilante, Maury, I'm simply a MASKED FEDERAL AGENT that just happens to be 'certain to succeed' at grabbing people off the street with no name tag, no warrant, and no explanation, and no, you may NOT ask who I am!" gasps from studio audience "In the case of California v. the guy in the balaclava... the court says YOU ARE the one with the problem!"