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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Back the hell up': Michael Steele takes on Trump over his threats to federalize D.C.
Donald Trump is threatening a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. On Friday, the president deployed federal law enforcement agents to the nation's capital, days after claiming that crime in the city is 'totally out of control.' According to city data, violent crime is down 26% from last year, as of Friday. Trump also said the federal government was looking into overturning the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, the 1973 law that empowers limited self-government in Washington. On Thursday's 'The Weeknight,' co-host Michael Steele, who grew up in D.C., blasted Trump for the proposal: 'You know, as a native Washingtonian and who has family who still live here in the city, I'm just kind of sick of this.' Steele decried people who come into D.C. and think they can 'do whatever they want' and 'strip away the rights of the citizens.' The former chairman of the Republican National Committee noted that Washington residents 'do not have the same rights as every other American' since they do not have voting representation in the Senate, and their sole House delegate cannot vote on final legislation. Steele advised 'all you wannabes who want to think you can control D.C.' to 'just go walk through neighborhoods and understand how people actually live and raise their families here.' He said Trump's threat to federalize D.C. 'strikes very personal' for the city's more than 700,000 residents. The 'Weeknight' co-host acknowledged the federal government does have some control over the city but said the president shouldn't 'crack down' on the residents of D.C. 'Just back the hell up, President Trump,' Steele said. He added: 'Here you have this man who couldn't even run a casino, thinking somehow he's going to run D.C.? ... The only thing Donald Trump knows about D.C. is the White House, and we've seen what he's done to that, right?' You can watch Steele's full reaction to Trump's comments in the clip at the top of the page. This article was originally published on
The Irish Sun
5 days ago
- The Irish Sun
Shady final twist has me convinced Essex Boys killers were FRAMED in cover-up as questions linger over ‘corrupt' witness
Sun writer Oliver Harvey, who extensively covered the case, would love the chance to interview 'killer' Michael Steele - but is prevented from doing so for a shocking reason TAKING A BULLET Shady final twist has me convinced Essex Boys killers were FRAMED in cover-up as questions linger over 'corrupt' witness CAGED in Category A prisons for 29 years, the man convicted of masterminding the Essex Boys triple murder has been released - but with a rigorous stipulation. Grey-haired and in his eighth decade, Michael Steele still vehemently denies he was behind the most infamous gangland hit in British criminal history. 11 Michael Steele, who still vehemently denies he was behind the most infamous gangland hit in British criminal history, was released in May (pictured in 2006) Credit: Rex Features 11 Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe were the three victims Credit: PA 11 Oliver Harvey talking to retired senior Scotland Yard detective David McKelvey - who has spent the last five years painstakingly studying the case - at the scene in Essex Credit: Louis Wood Despite efforts by the Justice Secretary to keep him under lock and key, the career criminal was released from prison on licence in May. A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said he was under 'strict conditions and intensive probation supervision' and that 'he faces an immediate return to prison if he breaks the rules". One of those stringent conditions is that Steele does not discuss the case with journalists. Unless the snail-paced Criminal Cases Review Commission - currently conducting its third examination of the case - grants a fresh appeal, it's a silence he's likely to take to the grave. Steele has been unwavering in his protestations of innocence. According to recently-released Parole Board documents, he insists 'the killing was organised by another criminal and a corrupt police officer'. It was a shocking claim that, over the years, did little to encourage the authorities to grant him his freedom. But Steele stuck by his word as the grim prison years ticked slowly by and the outside world moved on. His minimum tariff of 23 years passed in May 2019, but he didn't waver in his assertion of innocence. Finally, in February this year, the Parole Board deemed Steele was no threat and could walk. Are 'Essex Boys killers' innocent? But Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood disagreed and slammed the brakes on. Her department spokesperson insisted: 'Public protection is our first priority.' Yet, retired senior Scotland Yard detective David McKelvey - who has spent the last five years painstakingly studying the case - told me: "Steele is 82, he poses absolutely no risk.' Not only that, but the 62-year-old retired Detective Chief Inspector believes Steele and his accomplice Jack Whomes - both now free - are innocent of the Essex Boys slaying. After returning to the murder scene with McKelvey and other ex detectives, I too believe there has been an awful miscarriage of justice. Steele and Whomes' convictions rest largely on the word of 'Fat Darren' - supergrass Darren Nicholls, a paid police informer and drug dealer. Appeal Court judges would later say Nicholls had a "corrupt" relationship with his Essex police handler. So did this star witness tell an Old Bailey jury the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? What is certain is that the murders so captured the public imagination it spawned 12 feature films - including 2000's Essex Boys starring Sean Bean - and a raft of books. I have attempted to sift through the welter of fact and fiction and discover what really happened. Grisly scene 11 Police were pictured examining the scene in 1995 where the trio were shot dead 11 The bodies of Patrick 'Pat' Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, were found inside a blue Range Rover Credit: REX 11 Michael Steele alongside co-defendant Jack Whomes following the 'Essex Boys' gangland murders Credit: PA On a crisp February morning in 2021, I met McKelvey and another ex leading detective Albert Patrick in Workhouse Lane, Rettendon. Set amid Essex farmland, it is immortalised as the spot where a metallic blue Range Rover containing the bodies of the three men had been discovered 26 years previously. Using a similar SUV, the two cops skillfully recreated the crime scene for a Sun documentary. Retired Det Chief Supt Patrick, 76, paced around the motor, describing the dead men inside and how they were murdered. Slumped behind the wheel was violent cocaine addict Craig Rolfe, 26, who was born in Holloway Prison. In the passenger seat was ex-soldier Tony Tucker, 38, the body-building head of a security firm that controlled the drugs trade in Essex nightclubs. Tucker was ultimately responsible for supplying the ecstasy pill that led to the death of 18-year-old Leah Betts in November, 1995, a tragedy that had traumatised the nation. The guy was very, very good at what he was doing and he's done it before Retired Det Chief Supt Patrick In the back seat was Tucker's enforcer, short-fused 18-stone man-mountain Pat Tate, 36, who had heroin, cocaine, cannabis and steroids in his bloodstream when he died. All three had been shot in the face with a pump action shotgun so swiftly that they had no time to retaliate. Rolfe's hands were still on the steering wheel and his foot on the brake. Tucker was holding his mobile phone. Tate took a bullet in the stomach to immobilise him before he, too, was shot in the head. There were no witnesses. Whoever pulled the trigger left behind no fingerprints or DNA. Patrick, who spent "31 years nicking villains" before he became a civilian homicide review officer for the Met, called the slaying 'retribution' and 'a professional hit'. He said of the assassin: "The guy was very, very good at what he was doing and he's done it before." Essex Police were under huge pressure to solve the most high profile gangland assassination since the Kray Twins ruled London's East End. 'Perjury' 11 'Fat Darren' had worked with Steele, pictured, and Whomes Credit: Rex Their inquiries stalled until petty crook and police informant Darren Nicholls was arrested in May 1996. Ex-BT engineer Nicholls, then 30, was held after 10kg of cannabis was found in his van. He had worked with Whomes, Steele and the dead men. But when accused of being in the murder gang, he turned grass. His testimony was that his friend Steele had lured the murdered trio to Rettendon as a passenger in the Range Rover. Whomes, he insisted, then jumped out of the bushes, handed Steele a shotgun and between them they blasted the trio to death. The motive, he said, was a cannabis deal that had gone wrong. Nicholls, who said he was the getaway driver, claimed that Steele had boasted: "They won't f*** with us again." Whomes admits he was in Rettendon on the night of the murder, saying Nicholls had asked him to pick up a broken-down car. In January 1998, Steele, of Great Bentley, Essex, and Whomes, then from Brockford, Suffolk, were convicted of the murders and were sentenced to life. You must bear in mind it was in his own interest to become a prosecution witness - he hopes to get less time to serve Mr Justice Hidden Trial judge Mr Justice Hidden had told the jury of Nicholls in his summing up: "You must bear in mind it was in his own interest to become a prosecution witness - he hopes to get less time to serve." Nicholls pleaded guilty to drug-running and was given a lenient sentence, gifted a new identity and rehoused at a secret location. In 2000 he broke cover. Lubricated with Jack Daniels, he revealed: 'My little boy keeps saying, 'Why can't we have our old name back? Why can't I call my friends? Why can't we go back to Essex?' 'One day he's going to want to get married. One day he's going to want to know why he doesn't have a birth certificate. 'And when it all comes out and he finds out his dad's a grass, he'll probably end up hating me too.' The same year another supergrass - held in the same secure unit as Nicholls back in 1997 - claimed the Essex man had told him before Whomes and Steele's trial that his testimony was untrue. 'He said the story he was supposed to tell in court was a pack of lies,' the grass revealed. "I thought there were forensics, witnesses. I could ignore Darren's perjury because I thought it was just the cherry on the cake. 'Now I realise Darren wasn't the cherry on the cake - he was the cake.' At Steele and Whomes's failed 2006 appeal, judges found that Nicholls may have received up to £15,000 in a book deal relating to the case, signed before the pair's trial. The supergrass also agreed to take part in a TV documentary - again before Whomes and Steele were tried. Jurors at the 1998 trial were not told of the lucrative media deals but when the evidence was put before Appeal Court judges eight years later, they ruled the convictions should stand. Cold-blooded execution 11 Steele's co-accused Jack Whomes, pictured, has been released from prison Credit: getty In 2021, Whomes, now 63, was released after 23 years in jail. In all those long years he'd never wavered in his insistence that he was innocent of the Rettendon murder. His brother John told me: 'Jack's free but he hasn't got justice yet.' In his summing-up at the 1998 Steel and Whomes Old Bailey trial, the judge pointed out that whoever committed the murders must have been an expert marksman. John insists his brother wasn't capable of such a cold-blooded execution. Growing up on a Suffolk farm, John said there were guns around, but that Jack was never interested in them. 'He's a mechanic. He's interested in how things work," his retired builder brother said. 'When we was kids, my dad bought a clay pigeon trap. Jack was fascinated. 'He was pulling the arm around when it swung full circle, hit him on the neck and knocked him out cold. 'He's still got the scar. He never went near guns or clay pigeons after that." So if Steele and Whomes didn't kill the Essex Boys, who did? 'Alternative scenario' 11 David McKelvey, pictured, has pieced together an alternative scenario 11 Pictured, the car in which the killing took place, which resurfaced in 2021 and went up for auction in a raffle McKelvey and Patrick have pieced together an alternative scenario which I believe holds credence. On January 14, 1996, the Met Police arrested a "mid-tier" East End villain called "Billy" for armed robbery. The crook claimed he had been paid £5,000 to be the getaway driver in the Essex Boys hit. Billy said the order for the killings was placed by a major South London criminal - who had fallen out with Tucker over a drugs debt - and organised by an East London firm. Later Billy testified at Whomes and Steele's trial that he had been an unwitting getaway driver. Former cop Patrick - who reviewed the murders of Damilola Taylor and Rachel Nickell for the Met - told me: "There's been a total miscarriage of justice. 'If you're going to trust the word of a supergrass then you need corroboration." McKelvey says of Steele and Whomes: 'When you've completed your sentence, why would you continue to protest your innocence?' These two hard-bitten ex cops have diligently reviewed the case, not for money, but because they want to see justice done. I too believe the evidence against Steele and Whomes isn't close to passing the 'beyond reasonable doubt' threshold. Essex Police point out there was "an exhaustive police investigation" into the murders and that the Court of Appeal twice rejected miscarriage of justice claims. Meanwhile, the notoriously slow-moving Criminal Cases Review Commission continues its deliberations. For my part, I would relish the opportunity to interview Steele. But his lips have been sealed. 11 The murders so captured the public imagination it spawned 12 feature films - including 2000's Essex Boys starring Sean Bean, pictured - and a raft of books Credit: Alamy
The Sun
5 days ago
- Politics
- The Sun
Shady final twist has me convinced Essex Boys killers were FRAMED in cover-up as questions linger over ‘corrupt' witness
CAGED in Category A prisons for 29 years, the man convicted of masterminding the Essex Boys triple murder has been released - but with a rigorous stipulation. Grey-haired and in his eighth decade, Michael Steele still vehemently denies he was behind the most infamous gangland hit in British criminal history. 11 Despite efforts by the Justice Secretary to keep him under lock and key, the career criminal was released from prison on licence in May. A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said he was under 'strict conditions and intensive probation supervision' and that 'he faces an immediate return to prison if he breaks the rules". One of those stringent conditions is that Steele does not discuss the case with journalists. Unless the snail-paced Criminal Cases Review Commission - currently conducting its third examination of the case - grants a fresh appeal, it's a silence he's likely to take to the grave. Steele has been unwavering in his protestations of innocence. According to recently-released Parole Board documents, he insists 'the killing was organised by another criminal and a corrupt police officer'. It was a shocking claim that, over the years, did little to encourage the authorities to grant him his freedom. But Steele stuck by his word as the grim prison years ticked slowly by and the outside world moved on. His minimum tariff of 23 years passed in May 2019, but he didn't waver in his assertion of innocence. Finally, in February this year, the Parole Board deemed Steele was no threat and could walk. Are 'Essex Boys killers' innocent? But Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood disagreed and slammed the brakes on. Her department spokesperson insisted: 'Public protection is our first priority.' Yet, retired senior Scotland Yard detective David McKelvey - who has spent the last five years painstakingly studying the case - told me: "Steele is 82, he poses absolutely no risk.' Not only that, but the 62-year-old retired Detective Chief Inspector believes Steele and his accomplice Jack Whomes - both now free - are innocent of the Essex Boys slaying. After returning to the murder scene with McKelvey and other ex detectives, I too believe there has been an awful miscarriage of justice. Steele and Whomes' convictions rest largely on the word of 'Fat Darren' - supergrass Darren Nicholls, a paid police informer and drug dealer. Appeal Court judges would later say Nicholls had a "corrupt" relationship with his Essex police handler. So did this star witness tell an Old Bailey jury the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? What is certain is that the murders so captured the public imagination it spawned 12 feature films - including 2000's Essex Boys starring Sean Bean - and a raft of books. I have attempted to sift through the welter of fact and fiction and discover what really happened. Grisly scene 11 11 On a crisp February morning in 2021, I met McKelvey and another ex leading detective Albert Patrick in Workhouse Lane, Rettendon. Set amid Essex farmland, it is immortalised as the spot where a metallic blue Range Rover containing the bodies of the three men had been discovered 26 years previously. Using a similar SUV, the two cops skillfully recreated the crime scene for a Sun documentary. Retired Det Chief Supt Patrick, 76, paced around the motor, describing the dead men inside and how they were murdered. Slumped behind the wheel was violent cocaine addict Craig Rolfe, 26, who was born in Holloway Prison. In the passenger seat was ex-soldier Tony Tucker, 38, the body-building head of a security firm that controlled the drugs trade in Essex nightclubs. Tucker was ultimately responsible for supplying the ecstasy pill that led to the death of 18-year-old Leah Betts in November, 1995, a tragedy that had traumatised the nation. In the back seat was Tucker's enforcer, short-fused 18-stone man-mountain Pat Tate, 36, who had heroin, cocaine, cannabis and steroids in his bloodstream when he died. All three had been shot in the face with a pump action shotgun so swiftly that they had no time to retaliate. Rolfe's hands were still on the steering wheel and his foot on the brake. Tucker was holding his mobile phone. Tate took a bullet in the stomach to immobilise him before he, too, was shot in the head. There were no witnesses. Whoever pulled the trigger left behind no fingerprints or DNA. Patrick, who spent "31 years nicking villains" before he became a civilian homicide review officer for the Met, called the slaying 'retribution' and 'a professional hit'. He said of the assassin: "The guy was very, very good at what he was doing and he's done it before." Essex Police were under huge pressure to solve the most high profile gangland assassination since the Kray Twins ruled London's East End. 'Perjury' Their inquiries stalled until petty crook and police informant Darren Nicholls was arrested in May 1996. Ex-BT engineer Nicholls, then 30, was held after 10kg of cannabis was found in his van. He had worked with Whomes, Steele and the dead men. But when accused of being in the murder gang, he turned grass. His testimony was that his friend Steele had lured the murdered trio to Rettendon as a passenger in the Range Rover. Whomes, he insisted, then jumped out of the bushes, handed Steele a shotgun and between them they blasted the trio to death. The motive, he said, was a cannabis deal that had gone wrong. Nicholls, who said he was the getaway driver, claimed that Steele had boasted: "They won't f*** with us again." Whomes admits he was in Rettendon on the night of the murder, saying Nicholls had asked him to pick up a broken-down car. In January 1998, Steele, of Great Bentley, Essex, and Whomes, then from Brockford, Suffolk, were convicted of the murders and were sentenced to life. Trial judge Mr Justice Hidden had told the jury of Nicholls in his summing up: "You must bear in mind it was in his own interest to become a prosecution witness - he hopes to get less time to serve." Nicholls pleaded guilty to drug-running and was given a lenient sentence, gifted a new identity and rehoused at a secret location. In 2000 he broke cover. Lubricated with Jack Daniels, he revealed: 'My little boy keeps saying, 'Why can't we have our old name back? Why can't I call my friends? Why can't we go back to Essex?' 'One day he's going to want to get married. One day he's going to want to know why he doesn't have a birth certificate. 'And when it all comes out and he finds out his dad's a grass, he'll probably end up hating me too.' The same year another supergrass - held in the same secure unit as Nicholls back in 1997 - claimed the Essex man had told him before Whomes and Steele's trial that his testimony was untrue. 'He said the story he was supposed to tell in court was a pack of lies,' the grass revealed. "I thought there were forensics, witnesses. I could ignore Darren's perjury because I thought it was just the cherry on the cake. 'Now I realise Darren wasn't the cherry on the cake - he was the cake.' At Steele and Whomes's failed 2006 appeal, judges found that Nicholls may have received up to £15,000 in a book deal relating to the case, signed before the pair's trial. The supergrass also agreed to take part in a TV documentary - again before Whomes and Steele were tried. Jurors at the 1998 trial were not told of the lucrative media deals but when the evidence was put before Appeal Court judges eight years later, they ruled the convictions should stand. Cold-blooded execution 11 In 2021, Whomes, now 63, was released after 23 years in jail. In all those long years he'd never wavered in his insistence that he was innocent of the Rettendon murder. His brother John told me: 'Jack's free but he hasn't got justice yet.' In his summing-up at the 1998 Steel and Whomes Old Bailey trial, the judge pointed out that whoever committed the murders must have been an expert marksman. John insists his brother wasn't capable of such a cold-blooded execution. Growing up on a Suffolk farm, John said there were guns around, but that Jack was never interested in them. 'He's a mechanic. He's interested in how things work," his retired builder brother said. 'When we was kids, my dad bought a clay pigeon trap. Jack was fascinated. 'He was pulling the arm around when it swung full circle, hit him on the neck and knocked him out cold. 'He's still got the scar. He never went near guns or clay pigeons after that." So if Steele and Whomes didn't kill the Essex Boys, who did? 'Alternative scenario' 11 11 McKelvey and Patrick have pieced together an alternative scenario which I believe holds credence. On January 14, 1996, the Met Police arrested a "mid-tier" East End villain called "Billy" for armed robbery. The crook claimed he had been paid £5,000 to be the getaway driver in the Essex Boys hit. Billy said the order for the killings was placed by a major South London criminal - who had fallen out with Tucker over a drugs debt - and organised by an East London firm. Later Billy testified at Whomes and Steele's trial that he had been an unwitting getaway driver. Former cop Patrick - who reviewed the murders of Damilola Taylor and Rachel Nickell for the Met - told me: "There's been a total miscarriage of justice. 'If you're going to trust the word of a supergrass then you need corroboration." McKelvey says of Steele and Whomes: 'When you've completed your sentence, why would you continue to protest your innocence?' These two hard-bitten ex cops have diligently reviewed the case, not for money, but because they want to see justice done. I too believe the evidence against Steele and Whomes isn't close to passing the 'beyond reasonable doubt' threshold. Essex Police point out there was "an exhaustive police investigation" into the murders and that the Court of Appeal twice rejected miscarriage of justice claims. Meanwhile, the notoriously slow-moving Criminal Cases Review Commission continues its deliberations. For my part, I would relish the opportunity to interview Steele. But his lips have been sealed.
Yahoo
02-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Michael Steele Issues Ominous Alert For ALL Republicans: ‘Trust Me, Baby'
Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee, issued a stark warning Tuesday about Donald Trump's agenda, cautioning that even the president's supporters aren't safe. Speaking on MSNBC, where he is now a host, Steele urged all Americans to take Trump at his word, particularly following his remarks that some U.S. citizens could be stripped of their nationality and deported for certain crimes, including those actually born in the country. 'I don't even know why people at this point act like this is not the plan,' said Steele, who led the RNC from 2009 to 2011 and has since become one of Trump's most outspoken conservative critics. 'I mean, it's a slow ― and it's not that slow, actually ― process to get to where we are. It's been step by step. It's been layered. It has been articulated very clearly. It is Project 2025. We told y'all that. We directed you to the document. So there's no surprise here,' he continued. 'America, you're next. Citizens in neighborhoods and communities ― you're next,' Steele cautioned. And he had a further warning for 'all you little Republicans who think you're not on the list.' 'Trust me, baby, you're on the list,' he said. 'You're on the list. Because that's the way this authoritarian thing happens.' 'They use you, they punk you. They get you to do their bidding. And as we've just seen play out with Elon Musk, they flip the script,' he said, referring to the spectacular fall from grace in Trumpworld of his onetime ally and donor, the world's richest person. Trump this week has talked about looking at deporting Musk. 'I mean, come on, guys. I don't know what people expect here. The blinders—this is coming at us,' Steele added. 'It's at me. It's coming. It's everybody in this country. Babies that have not been born yet. Babies that have not been born yet, whose mothers don't know whether or not, if their child is born in state X, that child is a U.S. citizen.' Watch the full analysis here: Trump Asks DeSantis The Weirdest Question About Marjorie Taylor Greene, In Front Of Her BF Wall Street Journal Warns Trump May Have Just Sabotaged His Own Presidency Ex-GOP Strategist Warns How A Lara Trump Run Could Backfire Badly On Republicans
Daily Mail
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
MSNBC host erupts on air over SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling
MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend gave an unhinged reaction to the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision handed down on Friday. Sanders is a Co-Host of MSNBC's The Weeknight, and a Former Chief Spokesperson for Vice President Harris - and wasted no time calling the ruling 'insane.' She slammed her hands on the table during the heated discussion - shaking her arms in the air and rolling her head as she kicked off over the SCOTUS decision. 'I just don't, I can't believe that we are asking the question, 'is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution constitutional?' That is what, it is crazy. And I am sorry, but people need to call, 'this is crazy,' Sanders Townsend stated on air. 'They are asking us… They're asking us not to believe our own eyes and our own ears. They're asking us to go against everything that we know to be true. This is insane,' Sanders Townsend added. Another one of her co-hosts, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, responded to Sanders Townsend, noting that 'Trump and and his minions inside the government been very effective at setting to stair steps to the various narratives that they want to get accomplished.' The court ruled 6-3 Friday in favor of Trump to end the practice of stalling his Executive Orders and agenda. The ruling allows Trump's executive order halting birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants to take effect in states and jurisdictions that did not directly challenge his action in court. It could mean citizenship rules vary from state to state, pending ongoing litigation. While all six conservative justices - including the three he appointed - sided with the president, three people dissented the historic ruling. When the decision was made Friday, a fiery dispute broke out between two of America's most powerful judges. The justices' secret personal feuds have seemingly become so fraught that they are counting down the days until the SCOTUS summer recess - which will be a welcome respite from both work and colleagues, according to Chief Justice John Roberts. This week, the court's liberal wing erupted in spectacular fashion against the six-judge conservative alliance during the biggest ruling of the year thus far. Trump appointee Justice Amy Coney Barrett (pictured), 53, ripped into liberal dissenter Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's arguments in her 6-3 majority opinion in a major birthright citizenship case. Writing for the conservative majority of the court, Barrett hit back at both Jackson and fellow Justice Sonia Sotomayor who dissented. Barrett's scorched earth reply took aim at Jackson mostly, spending 900 words to repeatedly rip into the Biden appointee and the court's most junior member. Jackson went on to describe the decision as an 'existential threat to the rule of law.' Speaking at the White House after his victory, Trump said: 'This was a big one. Amazing decision, one we're very happy about. This really brings back the Constitution. This is what it's all about.' Basking in his victory during an impromptu appearance in the White House briefing room, the president vowed to push through 'many' more of his policies after the court win, including curbs to birthright citizenship. The president said he would 'promptly file' to advance policies that have previously been blocked by judges. Attorney General Pam Bondi (pictured) said the ruling meant 'not one district court judge can think they're an emperor over this administration and his executive powers, and why the people of the United States elected him.'
