• The FSU campus assailant: Two people were killed and six others injured on Thursday when a 20-year-old student at Florida State University opened fire on the Tallahassee campus. The perpetrator used his stepmother’s handgun in the commission of his attack, which ended when police confronted, shot, and injured him. His stepmother is a sheriff’s deputy with the Leon County Sheriff’s Office. A motive for the attack has yet to be established, though there are reports that he held alt-right and white supremacist views. Furthermore, his upbringing appears to have been quite chaotic, as his divorced parents fought for years over custody rights, with his mother at one point kidnapping him and taking him to her home country of Norway. Attorney General Pam Bondi noted that the FBI was on the scene, adding, “We will keep updating as we learn more. Praying for all.”

• Judges blind to Biden’s border invasion scrutinize Trump’s deportations: The Supreme Court paused more of Donald Trump’s deportations on Saturday. After Trump-appointed Judge James Hendrix denied the ACLU’s temporary restraining order that would have kept two Venezuelan aliens from being deported, the ACLU escalated its case to every court it could find. Late Thursday, the Trump administration refused to assure the ACLU that Venezuelan aliens not named in court cases would remain in the U.S. Early Friday, the ACLU refiled with Judge Hendrix for a new temporary restraining order; after a few hours with no response, it appealed to the Fifth Circuit. Meanwhile, the ACLU asked SCOTUS to pause deportations while the Fifth Circuit appeal is pending. Early Saturday, SCOTUS granted that pause in a 7-2 decision.

• Garcia, Bukele, and Maduro: Maryland man Illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration deported to El Salvador as a member of the designated terrorist group and violent criminal gang MS-13, has been transferred out of the notorious CECOT mega prison to another detention facility. No word on whether El Salvador will return him to the U.S. Meanwhile, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Sunday proposed a prisoner swap with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as El Salvador currently holds 252 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua who were recently deported from the U.S. Bukele’s proposal is for Maduro to swap with El Salvador the same number of Venezuelan political prisoners the Maduro regime currently has imprisoned.

• Pentagon spokesman trashes defense secretary after being asked to resign: On Thursday, former Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot claimed, “I remain one of the secretary’s strongest supporters going forward.” Yesterday, Ullyot then published a hit piece in Politico on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. At the same time, The New York Times published a piece alleging that Hegseth shared classified information in a second Signal group chat. Ullyot asserts that due to Trump’s determination to hold his top officials to account, Hegseth’s tenure at the Pentagon is unlikely to last much longer. That sure sounds like something “one of the secretary’s strongest supporters” would say. Ullyot describes a total breakdown in functionality at the Pentagon, with Hegseth turning on his closest supporters. We take it with a heap of salt when the reporting comes from Politico and the Times.

• Mexicans on nonimmigrant visas arrested with 180,000 rounds of ammo: Martinez Solis and Amador Gavira were arrested recently in Colorado. The two Mexican men claim they traveled to Denver to buy a car and then went to Salt Lake City to look at another vehicle. While in Salt Lake City, they stopped at a gun store, where Gavira purchased a lot of ammunition — 150 1,000 ct. boxes of .308 and 30 boxes of 7.62, to be exact. Solis seemingly claims not to know where the ammo was headed, but the destination on Gavira’s phone was Pueblo, Colorado. Both men have been charged with Unlawful Possession of Ammunition by Alien Admitted Under a Nonimmigrant Visa. We in our humble shop know the desire to invest in precious metals like lead and brass, but that much ammo raises some eyebrows.

• Birthright citizenship hearing at SCOTUS May 15: Does the 14th Amendment confer birthright citizenship onto the children of foreigners illegally in the country? Donald Trump has challenged that it does not, issuing an executive order ending the practice of unquestioningly granting U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal aliens born in America. Three federal judges have issued orders prohibiting the federal government from enforcing it. Rather than allow the cases to work through the lower courts, the Supreme Court on Thursday announced that it would take up the case and scheduled oral arguments for May 15. This move indicates that the justices see this case as significant enough that they need to bypass the lower courts. Does this mean the justices want to weigh in on birthright citizenship, or are they more concerned about the scope of the lower courts’ stays?

• AP loses bid to reclaim special WH access: U.S. District Judge Trevor McFaddon, who had previously sided with the Associated Press regarding its original objection to the Trump White House revoking its special access privilege over its refusal to refer to the Gulf of America as such, ruled against the media outlet on Friday. The AP sought the restoration of its long-running permanent wire services privilege. According to the White House’s new policy, the special access wire services will be shared among a rotating media pool of reporters. McFadden said that he was “not inclined to see anything wrong with it” since the policy was viewpoint-neutral. The AP will now share the same status and special access with the likes of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, a change the AP’s lawyer Charles Tobin said is “relegating us to an inferior class” and “a punitive act.”

• SCOTUS to hear case on protecting kids of LGBTQ indoctrination: Maryland parents from a variety of faiths are asking the Supreme Court to help them protect their kids from LGBTQ story time. Back when the “inclusivity” program was introduced in 2022, parents were given notice and allowed to opt their elementary-age students out. Then, in 2023, the school board reversed its notification policy, probably because allowing parents to opt out of indoctrination defeats its purpose. Lower courts have denied the rights of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish parents to protect their kids from this garbage. More surprisingly, they’ve denied Muslim parents — who rank highly on the victimhood ladder — as well. Hopefully, the Supreme Court will return the power of parenting to parents.

Headlines

• Dem judge resigns after harboring alleged Tren de Aragua gang member (Daily Wire)

• Trump to yank another billion dollars in Harvard funding (NY Post)

• Austin Metcalf’s father showed up at a press conference and undermined Karmelo Anthony’s whole case (Hot Air)

• Metcalf’s family was swatted last week (Not the Bee)

• China’s defense budget is bigger than you think (National Interest)

• Satire: Liberals warn enforcing immigration law is a slippery slope that may lead to enforcing other laws (Babylon Bee)

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