Supreme Court Makes Trump’s Day. ‘Killer Quotes’ from Justice Alito. Iran Droning On? New York Times on ‘Maga Pregnancies.’ Usha Vance Has Last Word. Royals Flee Buckingham Palace. More

Good day for President Trump at the Supreme Court yesterday as two important immigration cases were decided. The left not unexpectedly erupted in fury. “White supremacy!” they shouted.

Considerably more measured is the Wall Street Journal’s editorial headlined “Trump, Refugees and the Supreme Court:”

The Supreme Court on Thursday expanded President Trump’s power over immigration—or so the press proclaims. The White House no doubt wishes that were true, but the six conservative Justices merely ruled that judges can’t usurp power that Congress delegated to the President.

At issue in Mullin v. Doe was Mr. Trump’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrian and Haitian refugees. A 1990 law lets the Secretary of Homeland Security provide quasi-legal status to migrants if they can’t safely return to their home countries because of armed conflicts, natural disasters, or other “extraordinary and temporary conditions.”

The three liberal Justices claimed racism motivates the Trump administration. Most immediately affected are TPS immigrants from Haiti and Syria. The other immigration ruling, also 6-3, concerned asylum seekers:

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to turn away asylum seekers at the southern border who haven’t yet crossed into U.S. territory.

Why it matters: The Court’s decision resolves a years-long legal fight over a Border Patrol practice when there’s limited bandwidth to process people at a port of entry.

National Review called the rulings “a clean sweep for Trump and written immigration laws.” The asylum case hinges on the meaning of the word “arrived” is. By way of elucidation, Justice Samuel Alito, author of both majority opinions, penned these immortal words:

This case presents a straightforward question: whether an alien who seeks to enter the United States from Mexico “arrives in the United States” when he or she is still in Mexico. . . . In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person “arrives in” a place — for example, a house, a city, or a country — before the person enters that place.

A person arrives in a geographic location only when he enters it. . . . Everyday examples confirm that understanding.

In another ruling, the high Court “drove a stake through Hawaii’s ‘Vampire rule’” and delivered a big win for the Second Amendment. WSJ columnist Kimberley Strassel writes that the “restoration of the Second Amendment” began with Justice Clarence Thomas’ “constitutional firepower.”

Don’t miss “Alito Gets Snippy with Sotomayor” and “Killer Quotes” from Alito’s take down of Hawaii’s illegal gun control law. The Court also handed down a 7-2 majority ruling to halt the mass tort attempt to evade federal law on regulating a Monsanto pesticide.

Iran attacked a ship moving through the Strait of Hormuz but traffic continues to flow and oil prices to decline. It was a drone attack on a Singapore flagged ship. Meanwhile, Iranian dissidents are warning the Trump administration against handing regime a ‘victory it could never win on the battlefield’ in peace talks.

Brace yourself for Acting AG Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing. The LA Times’ Jackie Calmes compares Blanche to the rather notorious Roy Cohn, a former Trump lawyer, whom Calmes describes as “no holds barred and reptilian.” Former AG William Barr, however, advocates the confirmation of Blanche:

He is well-qualified and will run the department as well as anyone could under President Trump.

It is well known that the MSM goes after conservative women. The New York Times narrows the attack to pregnant conservative women in a piece headlined “The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image.”  Julia Cassidy of Townhall writes:

Amidst their tireless pursuit of conspiring against conservative women, The New York Times published an entire piece titled “The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image,” which spent pages droning on about “the power of the pregnancy aesthetic” and how the “MAGA women” (Karoline Leavitt, Usha Vance, and Katie Miller) embody MAGA’s “idealized image of womanhood.”

With a focus on Usha Vance’s recent podcast, Storytime with the Second Lady, the article comments on her form-fitting dress, noting, “She is wearing a stretchy coral dress that hugs her stomach, making what she is talking about very clear.” The comment came after quoting Usha telling her husband, Vice President JD Vance, that he would soon have a new baby to read to. 

Ms. Vance was undaunted, tweeting:

Now that we know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity dress from Old Navy, can’t wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks! In the meantime, enjoy my pregnancy fashion (or lack thereof) and a good story with your kids on Storytime with the Second Lady.

First, They Came for … Kathy Hochul. Yes, New York’s Mamdani endorsing governor. DSA takes aim at Hochul over taxing the rich after red sweep, report says: ‘We’re coming for her’. Meanwhile, Dem Rep. Elise Slotkin responds to the socialist sweep in New York, saying her party “needs new leadership” because the “old models are no longer working.”

But Eddie Scarry of The Federalist argues that Dems aren’t afraid of the commies they are electing but hate losing their jobs.  No doubt ubiquitous Rep. Ro Khanna qualifies as a new model. Good piece on “The Meaning of Ro Khanna” at City Journal:

The California congressman embodies the uneasy place of Indian Americans in progressive racial politics.

Socialism on March. New York City’s Board has approved Mayor Mamdani’s rent freeze for two years. Quite a scene.

Not everything can be new. “The ‘Four I’s’ That Can Wreck Presidencies” is the headline on Matthew Continetti’s column at the Wall Street Journal’s Free Expression section. “Inflation, Iran, Israel and ineptitude sank Carter, doomed Biden and now threaten Trump,” Continetti argues. He writes further:

Mr. Trump’s fate now depends on Iranian caprice. And not only his fate. As part of the deal, Mr. Trump agreed to constrain Israel’s defense against Hezbollah in Lebanon. He’s gone from treating the Islamic Republic as an enemy, which it is, to dealing with it as a partner. He’s gone from treating Israel as an ironclad ally, which it ought to be, to disciplining it like a nuisance. Just as the economy went from asset to hindrance, Iran and Israel have swapped places.

Summertime. “At this point, the Reflecting Pool deserves an Emmy” a Washington Post s “Style” piece proposes. The author makes a good case for this:

The best show on television or any other screen right now is Reflecting Pool.

If you turn on Fox News, you can watch White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announce that six arrests have been made of individuals who allegedly vandalized Reflecting Pool. If you go to CBS’s social media, you can watch reporter Ed O’Keefe tell President Donald Trump that, actually, there is no evidence of vandals causing a 250-foot gash in Reflecting Pool. The next day, on YouTube, you can watch Trump stand under an umbrella and explain to reporters that, in fact, it’s a 350-foot slit — 100 feet longer than he’d originally claimed — “in the form of lots of little slits” and also, “it’s a shame.”

We Anglophiles are disappointed with this latest desecration. Seems the British royal family will no longer inhabit Buckingham Palace:

The King and Queen will never live at Buckingham Palace, it has been announced, confirming the first change to the monarch’s official residence in almost 200 years.

Clarence House will serve as the King and Queen’s official London residence, while the Palace, currently undergoing a £369m refurbishment, will remain the administrative headquarters of the British Royal family.

Snopes might enjoy His Majesty’s tax returns.