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Thune Says SAVE Act Doesn’t Have Votes As Trump Pushes Filibuster Change
Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Republican colleagues Tuesday that the party does not currently have enough votes to advance a House-approved voting reform measure in the Senate by forcing Democrats to conduct a “talking filibuster.”
Thune’s comments came as Senate Republicans discussed the strategy during a closed-door lunch meeting. The proposal would require Democrats to continuously hold the Senate floor and debate the legislation to block it, potentially extending debate for days or weeks.
The legislation, known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, has been identified as a top priority by President Donald Trump, who raised the issue Monday during a policy meeting with House Republicans.
Speaking in Florida earlier that day, Trump said passage of the SAVE Act was important to Republican efforts to maintain control of Congress in the upcoming November elections. “It will guarantee the midterms. If you don’t get it, big trouble,” he said,
per The Hill.
Democrats have argued that only a small number of cases involving immigrants in the country illegally voting in federal elections have been documented in recent years, and
they falsely say available evidence does not support claims of widespread voter fraud.
At the same time, President Donald Trump has increased pressure on Senate Republican leaders to adopt the talking filibuster strategy to advance the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. Trump has also withheld an endorsement in the closely watched Republican Senate primary in Texas between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton.
Thune and other Republican leaders have encouraged Trump to back Cornyn, arguing that he may have a stronger chance of winning the general election. However, Trump has not yet announced his support for either candidate.
Asked about speculation that the White House may be delaying an endorsement because Trump disagrees with Senate Republicans over the talking filibuster approach, Thune acknowledged the possibility and said it was a concern.
“Yeah, I mean, that’s probably not a linkage that is in anybody’s best interest because voting on the SAVE America Act is something we can do but passage is not guaranteed,” Thune said, per The Hill. “You have to make political decisions independent of what the final disposition of that might be on the floor.”
Supporters of the talking filibuster strategy in the Senate, including Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.), argue that the approach could help advance the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. They say requiring Democrats to continuously debate the bill on the Senate floor could increase pressure to allow it to pass by a simple majority vote.
Lee outlined the case for the strategy during a meeting with Republican senators on Tuesday. Advocates say the extended debate could eventually exhaust opposition and lead to a vote on the legislation.
However, other Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, have expressed skepticism about the approach. They warn that forcing a prolonged debate could instead stall the Senate’s work for weeks or months without producing a legislative breakthrough, The Hill noted.
Thune said his staff had been unable to identify any historical example in which legislation passed by relying on a similar strategy involving numerous procedural votes and extended floor debate to overcome opposition.
Trump said Sunday that he will not sign any bills until the SAVE America Act is passed, adding that a “watered down” version of the act wouldn’t suffice.
“It supersedes everything else. MUST GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE. I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION — GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY — ILLNESS, DISABILITY, TRAVEL: NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS: NO TRANSGENDER MUTILIZATION FOR CHILDREN! DO NOT FAIL!!!” Trump wrote on
Trump Admin Asks SCOTUS to Allow Deportation of 350,000 Haitians
The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court of the United States on Wednesday to allow the administration to move forward with ending temporary deportation protections for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants.
The request for emergency relief is the latest development in legal disputes stemming from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to terminate Temporary Protected Status for several countries. Ending the designation would make affected immigrants eligible for deportation.
The Supreme Court has previously allowed the administration to roll back similar protections for Venezuelan migrants, while a separate request involving Syrian immigrants remains pending before the court.
Haiti was first granted Temporary Protected Status in 2010 after a devastating earthquake killed more than 300,000 people and caused widespread destruction across the country.
During his first administration, President Donald Trump moved to rescind Haiti’s TPS designation. However, the decision became tied up in litigation and was not implemented before he left office.
After returning to the presidency for a second term, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced steps to end Haiti’s TPS designation, with the change scheduled to take effect Feb. 3.
In announcing the decision, Noem said ending the protections reflected “a necessary and strategic vote of confidence in the new chapter Haiti is turning” and aligned with the administration’s broader foreign policy approach toward a “secure, sovereign and self-reliant Haiti.” She acknowledged that some conditions in the country remained concerning but said certain areas were suitable for return.
In December, five Haitian nationals filed a lawsuit challenging the termination of TPS and sought to block the move. A federal district court granted their request last month, concluding in part that the decision to end the designation was likely motivated by racial animus, without providing any evidence to justify that determination.
“Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee and first LGBTQ federal judge, wrote.
“Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the [Administrative Procedure Act] to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that,” she added.
Noem has since been replaced as head of the Department of Homeland Security by Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullen. She is now serving as special envoy for the Shield of the Americas.
The DOJ appealed the ruling, but a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit declined to block the lower court’s decision.
In its filing asking the Supreme Court of the United States to intervene, Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that the legal reasoning adopted by the lower court could undermine a wide range of immigration policies implemented by the administration,
CBS News reported.
Sauer wrote that the theory relied upon in the ruling could potentially invalidate “virtually every immigration policy of the current administration.”
Federal courts, he said, “are again attempting to block major executive-branch policy initiatives in ways that inflict specific harms to the national interest and foreign relations, while crediting harms to respondents that inhere in the temporary nature of TPS.”
Temporary Protected Status was established by Congress in 1990 to provide temporary protections for individuals from countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters or other “extraordinary and temporary” conditions that make returning unsafe.
Individuals from countries designated for TPS generally cannot be deported while the designation remains in place and are eligible to obtain work authorization. The protections are typically granted for periods of up to 18 months and can be renewed if conditions in the designated country persist.
As part of his immigration policy agenda, President Donald Trump has moved to terminate TPS designations for immigrants from multiple countries. Those include Afghanistan, Haiti, Nicaragua, Somalia and Yemen, among others, CBS News noted.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Justice is reportedly preparing for a historic legal confrontation that could redefine federal oversight. Legal experts and former investigators, led by former FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam, are signaling that Attorney General Pam Bondi is currently reviewing a "slam dunk" conspiracy case against a coordinated group of former federal agents and prosecutors.
The core of the case rests on newly unsealed documents suggesting that high-ranking officials utilized the Justice Department as a "mafia-style enterprise" to target Donald Trump while simultaneously suppressing investigations into the Clinton Family Foundation.
The "Mafia-Style" Allegations
During a recent appearance on Just the News, Gilliam argued that the evidence, coordinated by FBI Director Kash Patel, reveals a pattern of "falsified evidence" used to justify political investigations.
Mar-a-Lago Oversight: New reports suggest that senior agents were overruled in 2022 when they advised that there was "insufficient probable cause" for the search of Trump’s Florida residence.
The Clinton "Annex": Patel recently declassified an annex to the Durham report, which Republicans claim shows that investigators were repeatedly blocked from advancing corruption probes into Hillary Clinton as far back as 2016.
Civil Liberties Violation: Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has echoed these concerns, alleging a coordinated effort between federal and state prosecutors to violate the civil liberties of the President’s supporters through "selective prosecution."
The Paul Campo Cartel Sting
Fueling the administration’s claims of "institutional rot," federal prosecutors in New York recently announced the indictment of Paul Campo, a 25-year veteran of the DEA who served as the Deputy Chief of Financial Operations during the Obama administration.
Narco-Terrorism: Campo and an associate, Robert Sensi, were caught in an undercover sting operation where they believed they were helping the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) launder $12 million.
Weaponizing Expertise: The indictment alleges that Campo offered to use his law enforcement background to secure commercial drones, grenade launchers, and military-grade rifles for the cartel.
The Sting Totals: The pair successfully laundered $750,000 into cryptocurrency before their arrest in late 2025, an act DEA Administrator Terrance Cole called a "profound betrayal of the public trust."
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A Mandate for "Justice Czars"
The convergence of these cases has led to calls for a "Justice Czar" to oversee criminal investigations into former high-level officials. Gilliam warned that if these coordinated actions are proven, the charges could escalate from conspiracy to sedition or treason. As Bondi and Patel continue to "pull the files," the administration is framing these investigations as a necessary purge to restore the FBI and DOJ to their original mandates of "law and facts" over political maneuvering.
