Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ lands in court
by TheHill.com - 07/09/25 8:00 AM ET

President Trump’s signature second-term legislative agenda is hitting the courts.   

His “big, beautiful bill” is a boon for Second Amendment groups, who say it aids their quest to strike down a 91-year-old gun law requiring many Americans to register their firearms. Meanwhile, a judge already intervened to block one provision of the massive package, protecting Planned Parenthood from cuts. 

It has shifted the Trump administration’s legal sagas from a tug of war between the judiciary and the executive to one involving the legislature.

The package’s toplines include key campaign promises like tax breaks for overtime pay and tips and additional funding for immigration enforcement. But packed into the 887-page law is a key change for gun owners.

It zeroes the $200 tax the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) has imposed on the manufacture and transfer of firearm silencers, short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns.

The law has long been upheld under Congress’ taxing authority. So, gun rights groups wasted no time heading to court after Trump signed the bill on Independence Day, believing it dissolved the NFA’s constitutional foundation. 

As The National Rifle Association put it, the megabill is the “biggest blow” yet to the NFA.

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https://thehill.com/newsletters/the-gavel/5390537-trump-big-beautiful-bill-court/

Doom is inevitable.  That's why we should not live in fear.  Enjoy the ride as long as you can before you reach the end of the line.

Bass: I Have to Keep Residents ‘Safe’ from Border Patrol

Ian Hanchett 8 Jul 2025

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reacted to discussions about her being arrested by saying that she’s doing her job by protecting her residents “from my own government, from military that are supposed to be overseas fighting foreign enemies, from the Custom and Border Patrol” and from the National Guard.

Bass said, “Well, they’re going to arrest me for doing my job? As Mayor, my number one responsibility is to keep Angelenos safe.”

She continued, “Now, it never dawned on me that I would have to worry about keeping Angelenos safe from my own government, from military that are supposed to be overseas fighting foreign enemies, from the Custom and Border Patrol — we’re about 2.5 hours away from a border — or from the National Guard that [has] been federalized, unnecessarily. This is an example of the federal government essentially seizing power from a governor, federalizing the National Guard, bringing them to Los Angeles when nobody asked for them. These are young women and men that have pulled — that have been pulled out of work, they’ve been pulled from their families, they’ve been pulled from school for an assignment that is basically, I don’t know what this is, other than a political stunt. I do feel like L.A. is a petri dish, and we are the experiment and basically sending the signal to the nation that this is what’s coming your way, first, L.A., let’s see who’s next.”

Bass further said that she wasn’t interfering with federal agents.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/08/bass-i-have-to-keep-residents-safe-from-border-patrol/

Burn the heretics! Buuuuuurrrrrrnnnn them!

Yet, we're still here.  Why do we keep putting credence into 'experts' who are never right?  If they were bookies, they'd be sleeping with the fishes.