Lots of news on the law front:

(1) More indictments regarding the widespread fraud that’s been going on:

“Since June 8, we’ve charged 455 defendants across 56, like I said a minute ago, US attorney’s offices and 45 US states and territories, as alleged in the various indictments,” said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. “These individuals participated in healthcare fraud schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs.”

The scope of the fraud is tremendous. And that’s only the people who’ve been located; is it the tip of an iceberg? If so, it’s a very large tip.

[Dr. Mehmet] Oz mentioned that the fraud team identified these cases using tools that previous administrations rarely used.

“We use administrative muscle to push things through, and we are closing loopholes that fraudsters have avoided and been exploiting for years,” stated Oz. “Those days are over.”

Something tells me that previous administrations weren’t interested in closing those loopholes.

(2) Finally, some real consequences for Antifa violence.

I’m referring to this [emphasis mine]:

Eight people were sentenced to prison June 23, 2026, in connection with the nonfatal shooting of an Alvarado police officer outside the Prairieland Detention Center July 4, 2025. Authorities have called it the first-ever federal terrorism case associated with “antifa.”

Prairieland ICE detention center shooter Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison Tuesday, with others getting 30 years or more for their role in a July 4, 2025 immigration protest turned violent.

Song was convicted of attempted murder for shooting and injuring an Alvarado police officer outside the Prairieland Detention Center during the demonstration.

U.S. District Judges Mark Pittman and Reed O’Connor also sentenced seven others, who were convicted in March of playing a role in the nonfatal shooting of Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross outside the ICE facility as part of an “antifa” cell.

What’s with the scare quotes around “antifa,” and why isn’t the word capitalized? Note the Wiki entry for the group; it begins this way:

Antifa is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement.

It calls itself “anti-fascist” and in fact that’s what its name stands for. But it’s an Orwellian name. Antifa defines who the fascists are, and for instance ICE gets the label according to Antifa.

More from Wiki:

Antifa political activism includes nonviolent methods of direct action such as poster and flyer campaigns, mutual aid, speeches, protest marches, community organizing and digital activism. Some others use tactics like doxing, harassment, violence, and property damage.

Mostly peaceful – except when it’s not.

More:

Supporters of the movement aim to combat far-right extremists, including neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

Like ICE – and other groups designated as evil fascists by that other noble anti-fascist group, the SPLC.

(3) And in Merry Olde England:

Leaders of the nationalist group Raise the Colours have agreed to stop hoisting England flags on lamp-posts in Oxfordshire after the local authority secured a high court injunction against the campaign. …

The Raise the Colours campaign has been putting up flags across the country since August last year, the court heard. Bridge, who like the other defendants was representing himself, told the court the council were using “bullying tactics” but he agreed to the proposed terms of the injunction.

He said: “It is a sad day for the flag of our country and what it represents.”

(4) Two more people have been charged in a terrorist plot:

The FBI has identified two additional suspects in the alleged plot targeting the UFC Freedom 250 event in Washington, D.C., bringing the total number of publicly identified defendants to seven.

Newly unsealed court records identify Missouri resident Jordan W. Rincker and Washington state resident William Lee Spartacus Falkner as alleged members of the conspiracy. Prosecutors say Rincker allegedly helped fund and facilitate the operation, while Falkner allegedly discussed procuring and operating drones intended for use in the attack.

Five suspects previously were charged in the case in recent days. Investigators allege the group planned to use explosive-laden drones to trigger a mass evacuation of the June 14 event before directing fleeing crowds toward prepositioned shooters. FBI officials previously told Fox News Digital that a “second wave” was then expected to target the White House gate.

I wondered whether this was a case of possible entrapment – or at least including the participation of an FBI agent posing as a member. I don’t see any report that this was a factor; the article says the following:

The plot was allegedly disrupted after the mother of Proper, a 19-year-old Ohio defendant in the case, called in a tip to the FBI.

A seizure of Proper’s phone helped investigators identify other members of the alleged network.

(5) A SCOTUS ruling on immigration:

In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court held that border officers do not need clear and convincing evidence that a returning lawful permanent resident committed a crime before treating the resident as an applicant for admission and vacated the 2nd Circuit’s decision. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored the dissent, in which Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor joined.

In his opinion, Thomas emphasizes that the statute operates in two stages:

Can the Government regard the person as seeking admission? (This only requires that the person committed one of the listed crimes.)
Can the Government actually remove the alien? (Yes, if the Government can prove the alien’s inadmissibility — Lau’s guilty plea supplies that proof.)