BREAKING: Federal Judge REMOVES Trump-picked leaders of US attorney’s office in New Jersey

A federal judge is once again rejecting the Trump-picked leaders of the US attorney’s office in New Jersey because the Senate hasn’t confirmed someone to serve in that position.

It started with Alina Habba, who had to be removed. Now this Obama judge is removing the current leadership that Trump chose to replace her while he waits on the Senate to get over their antiquated traditions and confirm someone.

Here’s the news via Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney’s office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

Brann says the administration’s refusal to use some of the undisputedly legal ways to staff the NJ office could result in “scores of dangerous criminals” having their cases dismissed, but that it comes down to Trump simply not wanting to be countermanded.

I know Trump simply doesn’t want someone running the office that he hasn’t chosen to run it, because that is his privilege. This isn’t about being ‘countermanded’, as this activist judge suggests, but rather about keeping leftists and the swamp creatures from running the office and ruining good people’s lives.

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-federal-judge-removes-trump-picked-leaders-of-us-attorneys-office-in-new-jersey/

While Thune Slacks On SAVE America Act, His Home State Passes Its Own Version Of The Bill

While Senate Majority Leader John Thune hems and haws about getting the SAVE America Act to President Trump’s desk, his home state just showed him up by passing its own version of it.

The South Dakota House of Representatives passed SB 175 on Wednesday. Much like the SAVE America Act, SB 175 seeks to require documentary proof-of-citizenship for residents registering to vote. The House approved the measure in a veto-proof 64-3 vote after it successfully cleared the Senate (28-6) last month.


Sponsored by South Dakota Freedom Caucus Vice Chair and GOP Sen. John Carley, the bill now heads to Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden’s desk to be signed into law.

SB 175 stipulates that any individual seeking to register to vote in South Dakota must be a U.S. citizen and have “provided sufficient evidence, as set forth in section 3 of this Act, to demonstrate the individual’s citizenship.” Such persons must also meet criteria such as being a resident of the precinct they’re registering in and being at least 18 years old “[o]n or before the next election.”

The measure goes on to list various forms of documentation that individuals must provide in order to register to vote. This includes driver’s licenses or nondriver identification cards issued by South Dakota or other U.S. states and territories, “provided that the license or identification card was issued after July 1, 2025, and indicates that the individual has provided sufficient documentation to demonstrate that the individual is a United States citizen.”

Legible photocopies of an individual’s birth certificate, passport, and/or tribal identification card are among the other listed forms of acceptable ID. The measure would take immediate effect upon its enaction into law.

Despite being a so-called “red state,” getting SB 175 over the finish line was no small feat.

According to local media, a Senate committee initially killed the measure in a 5-3 vote. It was only after Carley “used a legislative procedure known as a smoke-out to force the committee to send it to the floor” that the bill was able to be placed on the Senate debate calendar and passed.

Carley’s determination to get SB 175 approved and the South Dakota Legislature’s passage of the bill stand in stark contrast to the antics of Thune and the U.S. Senate GOP, which have dragged their collective feet on passing the SAVE America Act. The Senate Republican conference has thus far declined to force Democrats into a talking filibuster to clear the measure through the upper chamber and send it to Trump’s desk for signature.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/06/while-thune-slacks-on-save-america-act-his-home-state-passes-its-own-version-of-the-bill/

Schumer demands Trump tap oil reserves — after blocking refill at $29 per barrel

Schumer previously supported Biden's two SPR releases but blocked Trump's attempt to refill reserves during COVID-19 pandemic

The top Senate Democrat wants President Donald Trump to tap the nation’s oil stockpile as fuel prices skyrocket, years after blocking his attempt to replenish the supply when prices were low.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Trump to unleash reserve barrels of oil from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as oil prices spike amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Schumer argued in a statement that the reserve "exists for moments exactly like this."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during a news conference following Senate Democrat policy luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2026. 

TRUMP’S ENERGY DOMINANCE REWRITES THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE AFTER BIDEN DRAWDOWNS

"When wars and global crises disrupt energy markets, the United States has the ability to act, but President Trump and his administration are refusing to do so," Schumer said. "Trump should release oil from the SPR now to stabilize markets, bring prices down, and stop the price shock that American families are already feeling thanks to his reckless war."

During his first term, Trump wanted to use about $3 billion from a colossal COVID-19 stimulus package making its way through Congress to fill the reserve, but the move was promptly rejected by Schumer and congressional Democrats, who panned it as a "bailout" for the oil industry.

The price per barrel at the time was roughly $29, according to WTI Crude Oil. Now, oil has eclipsed $110 per barrel over the weekend for the first time since 2022.

Though the SPR has capacity for over 700 million barrels of crude oil, the reserve currently has far less.

TANKERS TO RESUME NORMAL MOVEMENT IN MIDDLE EAST IN 'A FEW WEEKS' AT WORST, ENERGY SEC SAYS, ENDING OIL SURGE

President Joe Biden speaks during the Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 2024. 

That’s because under former President Joe Biden, it was tapped twice — once to relieve soaring fuel prices as the nation still grappled with the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and another time to combat increased energy costs at the onset of the war between Russia and Ukraine.

At the end of Biden’s term, the reserve had about 415 million barrels of crude on hand, according to data from the Department of Energy. Schumer supported both instances when Biden opened the nation’s oil reserves but, years prior, blocked Trump from building up the stockpile toward the end of his first term.

"Senator Schumer championed Joe Biden’s Green New Scam, which raised energy costs, threatened our national security, and stifled American energy independence," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital in a statement. "President Trump has been unleashing American energy dominance since day one, and now, American oil and gas production is at record highs." 

A timelapse video shows marine traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz. 

Schumer lauded Biden’s first move to tap into the SPR in 2021, arguing that it provided "much-needed temporary relief at the pump."

"Of course, the only long-term solution to rising gas prices is to continue our march to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels and create a robust green energy economy," he said at the time.

And toward the end of Biden's presidency, his administration did buy back barrels of oil to refill the reserves, which Schumer did not object to. 

Fast-forward, and the price per barrel of oil has launched into the stratosphere since Trump’s Operation Epic Fury and Iran’s response to put the Strait of Hormuz — a key route ferrying barrels around the globe — into a chokehold.

For now, the administration has no public plans to tap into the reserve as Americans undergo sticker shock at the pump.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright argued that the best way to lower prices was to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by neutralizing Iran’s ability to target oil tankers.

Wright told Fox News over the weekend that the disruption would last for "weeks, certainly not months."

"We believe this is a small price to pay to get to a world where energy prices will return back to where they were," Wright said. "Iran will finally be defanged, and now you can see more investment, more free flow of trade, and less ability to threaten energy supplies."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-once-blocked-trumps-move-fill-nations-oil-reserves-now-he-wants-them-opened

Rep. Randy Fine Demolishes “Idiot” MTG After She Attacks Trump’s Iran Strikes

Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) unleashed a brutal verbal assault on former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), exposing her as an isolationist quitter who’s more interested in grandstanding than protecting America from nuclear threats.

During an interview with Newsmax, the Florida congressman didn’t mince words, ripping into Greene for her reckless criticism of Trump’s decisive actions against Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Rep. Fine: “Marjorie Taylor-Greene is an idiot and a quitter. She did get one thing right: she talked about the Jewish space laser, apparently years before she knew it was coming. If she cared so much, she shouldn’t have quit on her constituents and left Congress.

I think President Trump is fighting for America First. I think stupid people like Marjorie don’t understand that if you isolate America from the world, America will be damaged by doing that. We are not an island. We’re dependent on much of the world for goods and services, for resources, and for manufacturing.

If we try to simply hunker down behind our oceans, it will hurt America. Make no mistake: Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon and a missile that could deliver that nuclear weapon to America. Maybe idiots like Marjorie Taylor-Greene need to see America get nuked before they take it seriously.

Clearly, Donald Trump is not willing to wait for that.”

WATCH:

Greene has sharply criticized Trump’s military strikes against Iran, calling them a betrayal of his “America First” campaign promises to avoid foreign wars.

In an interview with Megyn Kelly, she questioned Trump’s mental state, asking, “What is in his mind? What is his mental state?” and exclaiming, “We’re in another f‑‑‑ing war.” She accused him of prioritizing “Israel first” over domestic issues and labeled the strikes “unprovoked.”

Greene has declared that “MAGA was all a lie,” arguing that Trump has abandoned core promises like ending regime changes and focusing on American issues.

She told an interviewer she was “naïve” to believe in the movement and has accused Trump of lacking a real plan, dismissing ideas like “4D chess.”

In a 60 Minutes appearance, she described watching Republicans flip from mocking Trump privately to “kissing his ass” publicly after his 2024 win.

Below are some of the tweets from Marjorie Taylor Greene:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/florida-rep-randy-fine-demolishes-idiot-stupid-marjorie/