Amir Ali

We have two big Second Amendment cases, one about switchblades and the other about body armor.

We've got judges gone crazy.

So the probably could be its own segment or whatever.

Show these days, bias allegations in D.C., bias allegations in Minnesota, a judge out of, I think, Atlanta that was, let's say, caught in a range of scandals.

That had to be a discipline.

But even then, the discipline was kind of limited, given the scandals, the use of AI by judges in a DEI case.

And then we've got allegations of bias of it by an Italian court that went to the European Court of Human Rights.

We've got immigration detentions, the election-related cases we mentioned, and Instacart discriminating for H-1B visas and against U.S. citizens.

Sitting down, all six of these judges ruled against the president on immigration.

Amir Ali, he's Canadian.

Indira Talwani, she's an anchor baby.

Sparkle Sukhnenan, Trinidad and Tobago citizen.

to get a conviction.

Now, Judge Amir Ali is in charge.

I don't know what I think of the communist people's courts in D.C., but Judge Amir Ali is one of the few that did not actually have a J6 case in front of him.

So this is going to be

interesting.

The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge has ruled, in a major win for voters.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali found that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency likely violated federal law in conditioning hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding on changes to how states and local jurisdictions administer elections.

Ali found that FEMA had no authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.

FEMA's conditions here, which are imposed on states and localities at their own expense rather than funded by grants, and which address routine election administration decisions rather than types of terrorist act threats contemplated by the statute, go beyond what Congress authorized, the judge wrote.

The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge has ruled, in a major win for voters.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali found that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency likely violated federal law in conditioning hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding on changes to how states and local jurisdictions administer elections.

Ali found that FEMA had no authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.

FEMA's conditions here, which are imposed on states and localities at their own expense rather than funded by grants and which address routine election administration decisions rather than types of terrorist act threats contemplated by the statute, go beyond what Congress authorized, the judge wrote.

Now, also related to elections, I'm sure you'll remember when Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Mark Twain Mullen, had mentioned that they were going to be tying FEMA anti-terrorism grants to election security requirements.

Well, the Biden-appointed Canadian-born judge, Amir Ali, has just blocked that provision.

He is a federal judge in Washington, D.C., and we've talked about him on a number of occasions.

He's just sided with these Democrat-run cities and counties who are attempting to stop the Trump administration from taking a slice of federal counterterrorism money if the various entities decided they did not want to partake in election security issues.

So he ruled that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has exceeded the authority Congress granted it when FEMA attempted to condition Homeland Security grant program money on changes to election administration.

We all want real audits.

That's what we need to be able to check that these ballots are real, to check that the people who cast these ballots are real as well.

But the judge treated all of this as some type of routine election administration, which is totally outside of the counterterrorism statute, ignoring essentially the fact that Mark Wayne Mullen has already declared the elections to be a critical infrastructure.

The new four-page indictment did not, did not add a different type of offense.

The superseding indictment came one day after Cole's lawyers asked Judge Amir Ali to suppress statements that he made during a December 4th FBI interview, 2025.

The defense said that agents coerced Cole, who has autism, by telling him his denials were illegal and threatening to bring members of his family in for questioning.

About three hours into the interview, an agent showed Cole a surveillance image and asked, "So this individual is you?" "Yes," Cole answered.

[news jingle] The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge has ruled in a major win for voters.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali found that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency likely violated federal law in conditioning hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding on changes to how states and local jurisdictions administer elections.

Ali found that FEMA had no authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.

"FEMA's conditions here, which are imposed on states and localities at their own expense rather than funded by grants, and which address routine election administration decisions rather than types of terrorist act threats contemplated by the statute, go beyond what Congress authorized," the judge wrote.

until state or local governments adopted election administration measures favored by the administration.

Washington-based District Judge Amir Ali sided with counties and cities in Texas, Ohio, and Tennessee, which sued to block the changes on the basis that the conditioning of such funds exceeded FEMA's authority.

A coalition of mostly Democratic-governed states also filed a separate legal challenge to the policy, which remains pending.

This grant program totals about $1.1 billion.