Mid-Day Update: September 3, 2025
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Summary
An appeals court once again rules in favor of illegal aliens coming into the U.S. illegally. President Trump is winning on the crime front in Washington D.C. and Mayor Muriel Bowser is working with President Trump to get crime off the streets in her city. The FBI releases 33,000 pages of documents related to the Epstein scandal.
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Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Wednesday, September 3rd.
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The appeals court once again ruling in favor of illegal aliens coming into this country illegally.
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday evening rejected President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act
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to deport Venezuelan illegals in a two-to-one decision.
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The three-judge panel included Majority Southwich, which was a George W. Bush appointee,
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Ramirez, who was appointed by Joe Biden, and dissenting his old home, a Trump appointee.
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The Majority ruled that there has been no invasion or no predatory incursion.
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The Fifth Circuit is the first federal appeals court to rule directly on a March 14th presidential proclamation
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invoking the 1798 law to justify rapid deportation.
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Circuit Judge Leslie Southwick, writing for the two judges of the Majority,
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rejected the Trump administration's assertion that the Venezuelan gang,
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Trende Agua, had engaged in any kind of predatory incursion on U.S. soil.
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Yes, I'll read that to you again, because I don't understand it just as much as you probably don't.
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She rejected that Trende Agua had engaged in any sort of predatory incursion.
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Yes, they're here. Trende Agua's here to make peace and to work and to be great, great people in society.
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The act gives the government expansive powers to detain and deport citizens of hostile foreign nations,
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but only in times of war during an invasion of predatory incursion.
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Earlier this year, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting
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dangerous Venezuelan gang members under this Alien Enemies Act.
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In an unsigned order, the high court said that Trump's DOJ did not give Venezuelans enough time to challenge their removals.
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The case then went back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,
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and a three-judge panel ruled against President Trump in this most recent ruling.
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Although several district court judges have ruled against President Trump's decision to invoke this Alien Enemies Act
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a federal judge in Pennsylvania on Tuesday became the first to say that Trump can invoke an AEA
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President Trump is winning on the crime-fighting front, at least in Washington, D.C.
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Last week, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser shocked Democrats and their media allies
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by acknowledging that Trump's crackdown on crime in her city was helpful and effective.
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The one issue that liberals have held is that Trump's D.C. takeover was only in effect for 30 days,
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Now, Muriel Bowser had issued an executive order for local law enforcement
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which means President Trump doesn't have to declare an emergency.
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She clearly thinks this is an arrangement that is working out well.
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but more importantly, a massive win for the people who live and work in that Marxist-run city.
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Muriel Bowser, for working with President Trump
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to get crime off the streets in Washington, D.C.
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And House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer,
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who I give credit to each and every day on The Great America Show,
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It's a man who I think is trying to do the best job he could possibly do.
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So, releasing 33,000 pages of Epstein documents
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that were handed over from the Department of Justice.
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So, new information that we're learning from these documents,
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Epstein did not appear to be an immediate threat to himself,
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per a Bureau of Prisons suicide risk assessment.
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This, of course, coming out in those Oversight Committee Epstein files.
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But we're to believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself
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Also coming out in the files released by James Comer,
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the so-called missing minute in the Epstein prison surveillance video
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has been found in the tranche of documents that was just released.
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The FBI earlier determined that Epstein did commit suicide,
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The DOJ and FBI also released that 10-hour video
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Senate Republicans are considering a rule change
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to speed up the approval of President Trump's nominees.
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This week, they're debating a possible rule change
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as it faces a massive backlot of judicial nominations.
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then typically the nomination would be rejected.