Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is calling for ‘radically’ altering the U.S. Supreme Court by increasing the number of justices on the bench, and more.

‘We need to radically reform the broken Supreme Court,’ the congresswoman declared in social media posts, calling for ‘expanding the number of Justices,’ ‘a binding, enforceable code of ethics,’ and ‘imposing term limits.’

‘SCOTUS reform is on the ballot in November,’ the lawmaker asserted.

While there are currently nine slots on the high court, some lawmakers advocate for increasing the number of seats, a proposal referred to by critics as court packing.

Omar, who took office in 2019 and is currently seeking re-election, has been an outspoken advocate of the policy.

‘Expand the court,’ she tweeted in 2020 after the Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the Supreme Court.

Omar and dozens of other Democrats have supported proposed legislation that would add four seats to the Supreme Court, expanding it from nine to 13, but the Judiciary Act of 2023 has not been brought up for a vote.

Three of the nine justices currently sitting on the Supreme Court were nominated by then-President Donald Trump during his White House tenure: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated by President Joe Biden in 2022 and confirmed by the Senate the same year, was the latest member seated on the Supreme Court.

Unlike presidents and members of Congress, Supreme Court justices do not face term limits. ‘Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour,’ the Constitution states.

The deadly shooting at former President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania on July 13 was a ‘preventable’ incident stemming from a lack of proper planning and communication between law enforcement agencies, according to a new report.

The House Task Force investigating the attempts on Trump’s life is releasing their interim findings on Monday, with a final report expected by Dec. 13.

‘Although the findings in this report are preliminary, the information obtained during the first phase of the Task Force’s investigation clearly shows a lack of planning and coordination between the Secret Service and its law enforcement partners before the rally,’ the report said.

U.S. Secret Service (USSS) personnel at the event ‘did not give clear guidance’ to state and local authorities about how to manage security outside of their hard perimeter, nor was there a central meeting between USSS and the law enforcement agencies supporting them the morning of the rally – two findings presented as key failures in the 51-page report.

‘Put simply, the evidence obtained by the Task Force to date shows the tragic and shocking events of July 13 were preventable and should not have happened,’ the report said.

A would-be assassin’s bullet clipped Trump, Republicans’ 2024 nominee, in the ear while he was addressing supporters at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, over the summer. 

Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire on the rally from a rooftop just outside the event’s security perimeter, killing one attendee and injuring two others in addition to Trump.

The Monday report underscores the mountain of scrutiny that USSS has grappled with since the shooting, with lawmakers on both sides questioning how Crooks was able to fire eight shots before being killed by a single bullet to the head.

The task force found that Crooks ‘had been under scrutiny by the Secret Service’s state and local partners’ for roughly 40 minutes before ‘information about a suspicious person’ reached the USSS command post.

It said three local law enforcement officers noticed Crooks around 5 p.m. ET, each ‘independently’ deducing his ‘behavior and manner were suspicious.’

Back-and-forth ensued among local and state units, with communication made more difficult by a lack of a central command system with USSS.

The report later said that from around 5:38 p.m. to 5:51 p.m., ‘a series of calls and messages about Crooks’s description and movements reached the Secret Service.’

The document also referenced prior testimony by a witness from the Butler Township Police Department whose colleague spotted Crooks on the roof just before he opened fire.

That witness said their colleague fell from the roof – which he was tenuously gripping – while shouting ‘THERE’S AN AR! AN AR! AN AR! A GUY WITH AN AR!’

‘To date, the Task Force has not received any evidence to suggest that message reached the former President’s USSS detail prior to shots fired,’ the report said.

The report also quoted a witness from the Butler County Emergency Services United (ESU) whose account of shooting Crooks appears to undercut the USSS’s assertion that one of its snipers killed the gunman.

‘He fired a single shot from a standing position at Crooks, who was in a prone position on the roof. Butler ESU Witness 5 told the Task Force that he believes his shot hit Crooks,’ the report said.

Crooks’ autopsy suggests he was only hit by a single bullet which proved fatal, the report noted. Former USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle previously said a USSS counter-sniper killed Crooks, and the report said ‘there is no evidence to date to the contrary.’

‘The autopsy found no evidence of an entry wound from a second bullet,’ the report said.

His bloodwork was also ‘positive for antimony, selenium, and lead,’ with the latter element potentially coming from Crooks’ time spent at a firing range, according to the report.

The report also points to logistical issues – particularly on the part of USSS – in the hours before the rally took place.

For instance, there were two command centers set up for the event, with a witness testifying that no one from the Butler Police Department was invited to the USSS’ hub. 

Butler ESU Commander Edward Lenz also told Task Force staff that a sniper from his unit advised a USSS agent to pick up a radio communication device from their command center to be able to keep in contact with local and state authorities – but the agent never retrieved it.

The report said ESU snipers, who were not positioned to monitor the building Crooks fired from but were inside the complex, were also not informed of any plan to keep an eye on the facility itself.

‘Local law enforcement told the Task Force that the Secret Service did not give any guidance to Butler ESU and Beaver ESU regarding the placement, role, and responsibilities of their snipers… they understood their assignment to be overwatch of the rally venue,’ the report said.

Local and state law enforcement held two briefings on the morning of the rally, but USSS ‘did not participate in either briefing,’ the report said. 

USSS held its own briefing at 10 a.m. that day, but the report suggested local units were not invited.

Indeed, one Pennsylvania State police officer ‘was invited to the 1000 USSS briefing by one USSS agent, then subsequently asked to leave by another.’

In the conclusion of its report, the Task Force indicated it would continue its efforts to interview officials and review new details as they emerge, and reaffirmed its goal to investigate both the July 13 incident and the Sept. 15 assassination attempt against Trump at his West Palm Beach Golf Course.

The Task Force was commissioned by House leaders after a unanimous vote in the chamber.

Elon Musk said Sunday he planned to upgrade his security after a left-wing German magazine labeled him an enemy of the people. 

Musk held a town hall discussion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Sunday in support of former President Donald Trump’s candidacy. While talking to the crowd, Musk commented on the heightened political atmosphere as the nation approached the November presidential election. 

He noted he was recently on the cover of Der Spiegel, which labeled him ‘Public Enemy No. 2’ – the first being Trump. 

‘I’m like, enemy number 2 of what? Uh, democracy? I mean I’m pro-democracy. I’m literally trying to uphold the Constitution and ensure we have a free and fair election,’ Musk said, eliciting applause from the crowd. 

‘I’m definitely upgrading my security. Guess I better cancel that open-car parade,’ Musk said, a seeming nod to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 

The SpaceX CEO said he was a ‘little shook’ by the ‘level of vitriolic hatred on the left.’ 

‘They claim they’re tolerant. And yet, they’re incredibly intolerant and spewing hate,’ Musk said. ‘Whereas on the right I see people who tend to regard people on the left as, well, misguided. But they don’t hate them… but the amount of hate coming from the left is like, wow, next level.’ 

Fox News Digital has reached out to Der Spiegel for a response. 

Former President Trump has survived two assassination attempts – one during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, and another around two months later while he was playing a round of golf at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida. 

Musk officially endorsed Trump over the summer, when the 45th president survived the first assassination attempt, and has since joined the campaign trail in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania to rally support and encourage people to vote.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.

An attendee at Sen. JD Vance’s Wisconsin rally shouted ‘Jesus is King!’ during his speech on Sunday afternoon, with Vance echoing the attendee and repeating the same phrase – a different approach than Vice President Kamala Harris seemed to take last week. 

Vance shared that, while he doesn’t talk about his faith often, he returned to his faith as a young man and is a devout Christian. He said he was baptized in 2019.

‘I say this as a Christian, as a person who was baptized for the first time just a few years ago. There is something really bizarre with Kamala Harris’ anti-Christian rhetoric and anti-Christian approach to public policy,’ Vance explained.

This comes after Vice President Kamala Harris seemingly told two Christian students at her Wisconsin rally last week that they were ‘at the wrong rally’ when they shouted ‘Jesus is Lord’ and ‘Christ is King.’

As he continued speaking about faith and politics, he was interrupted by an attendee who shouted ‘Jesus is King.’ 

‘That’s right. Jesus is King,’ Vance responds.

Vance then addressed a viral video of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer wearing a Harris-Walz campaign hat while feeding Doritos to a kneeling podcast host in what some critics said made a mockery of a sacred Christian rite. 

‘I don’t think that we’ve seen anything like this in modern American politics,’ Vance said. ‘Gretchen Whitmer does this really bizarre thing where she acts like she’s given somebody communion, but it’s a Dorito. And of course, Gretchen Whitmer isn’t like a minister of anything except for, you know, a church I don’t necessarily want to talk about, but think about how sacrilegious that is and think about how offensive that is to every person.’

‘Frankly, whether you’re a person of Christian faith or not, Donald Trump and I are going to fight for your right to live your values, because that’s what the First Amendment protects. And I think whether you’re a Christian, a Catholic or any other faith or no faith at all, when you see an American leader, when you see a surrogate of Kamala Harris insulting people of the Christian faith, I think that we should say to every single one of those people, you’re fired. We’re not giving you any more power,’ Vance continued.

Whitmer has since apologized for the video and emphasized that the video was not meant to mock people of faith.

Vance continued speaking about the support the Trump administration has for religious people, unlike the Harris campaign, he said.

‘There are a lot of Catholics. So I think rightfully feel abandoned by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s leadership. And they’re just looking for somebody to protect their rights and make this country an affordable and decent place to raise a family,’ Vance said during his rally in Waukesha. 

‘And that’s all I think that’s true of a lot of Catholics. It’s true of non-Catholics, too. But we cannot have an American government that is persecuting Christians for living their faith. We should be rewarding people and encouraging people to live their faith.’ 

Vance’s comments come after two pro-life Wisconsin college students insisted that they were doing ‘God’s work’ by attending Harris’ rally on their university’s campus and shouting pro-life, Christian messages last week. 

In video footage of the rally, the student’s voices are heard shouting the phrases.

Harris, pausing her speech, turned her attention to them, and said, ‘You guys are at the wrong rally.’

She continued as the crowd roared, ‘I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street’ – referring to Trump’s rally.

Luke Polaske, a University of Wisconsin-La Crosse junior, shared a vivid account of the incident from his perspective, stating that he and fellow UW-La Crosse junior Grant Beth were approximately 20 to 30 yards away from Harris in the small venue. In detailing the encounter, he described his perceived interaction with the vice president.

‘There’s a lot of controversy that says she wasn’t talking to us or [that] we left. We didn’t get kicked out. Well, I can speak on Grant and I’s behalf,’ Polaske said.

‘On video, Grant’s getting pushed and shoved, and there’s about five seconds before she tells us to go to a small rally down the street. You can see on the video, she waves. She was actually waving to me. I took this cross off my neck that I wear and, as we were getting asked to leave, I held it up in the air and waved at her and pointed at her, and she looked directly in the eye, kind of gave me an evil smirk.’

‘I just want to clear that up and confirm that she 100% was talking to us.’

Fox News Digital reached out to Kamala Harris’ campaign for comment and did not immediately receive a response. 

Fox News Digital’s Taylor Penley contributed to this report. 

An old adage suggests that foreign policy doesn’t decide elections. 

‘It’s the economy, stupid,’ Clinton campaign strategist James Carville famously proclaimed in the lead-up to the 1992 elections. 

But this year’s nail-biter presidential election could come down, in part, to war in the Middle East – and whether Vice President Kamala Harris can recapture support from the historically Democratic Arab-American community. 

And according to activists in swing states, the Trump team is seizing on Arab Americans’ sour feelings about the Biden-Harris administration. 

‘For Democrats, outreach is pretty null towards the grassroots,’ Samraa Luqman, a Dearborn-based Arab-American activist told Fox News Digital. 

‘The Republicans’ outreach has been like nothing I have ever seen,’ said Luqman, who wrote in Bernie Sanders in 2020 and is now voting for former President Donald Trump. 

‘The people that are surrounding the president have been in communication with grassroots organizers, local leaders, people like myself,’ she went on. ‘I’m really not somebody on the national stage. . . . And yet, here I am with access’ to those like Richard Grenell, Trump’s former acting Director of National Intelligence, and Massad Boulos, father-in-law of Trump’s daughter, Tiffany. 

Grenell, who may well find himself in a Cabinet-level job if Trump is elected, and Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman, have been leading the outreach to Arab American communities in swing states and ‘they’ve gotten progressives like myself on board to say that this is the right person for the job at this time, considering the alternative.’

For Luqman — who supports Medicare for all and student debt forgiveness – hers is a vote of protest more than an enthusiasm for Trump. ‘It’s really become an issue about genocide and how to hold administrations accountable for it, simply because we cannot reward an administration for genocide.’

To Luqman and Palestinian supporters in the U.S., President Joe Biden’s criticisms of Israel’s offensive campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon ring hollow when the U.S. continues to provide aid without conditions to the war effort. 

Biden is a ‘completely owned dog to Bibi,’ said Luqman, referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump, she said, ‘is not.’

‘Trump is a wild card, and we saw him sour on Bibi towards the end of his presidency.’

‘Perhaps he would say his America-first policy means that we are going to keep our billions at home,’ she went on. ‘Perhaps he would say, you know, the whole ‘peace through strength’ . . .  I told you to do something, and you didn’t do it, then possibly withholding the military aid would come next.’

As for what Trump might do better, ‘It really comes down to personality.’

Michigan, which Biden narrowly won in 2020, is a crucial battleground state this election. It has the second-highest population of Arab American residents – north of 300,000. 

Trump won the state by just 11,000 votes in 2016 over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and then lost the state four years later by nearly 154,000 votes to Biden.

And while Arab Americans also historically favor Democrats, new polling suggests that could change. Of likely voters in the community, Arab Americans favor Trump over Harris 46% to 42%, according to new polling by the Arab American Institute.

‘This is a shift that started several years ago, around 2022, when there was sexually explicit material in books in public school libraries, and the community felt, you know, [they wanted] to assert parental rights. They did not want their children exposed to these at whatever age it was,’ said Luqman.

‘I’m not one of those people that was in those buckets. I am very liberal. But once Oct. 7 happened, that solidified support for Republicans among some people within this community.’ 

Last month, Democratic Mayor Amer Ghalib of Hamtramck, Michigan, a town where 60% are believed to be Muslim Americans, announced his endorsement of Trump. 

Biden won 60% of the Arab American vote in 2020, but support from that community has cratered since the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. 

The National Uncommitted and Abandon Biden movement launched a campaign calling on voters to cast uncommitted ballots in swing state primaries to send a message to Democrats, and more than a million did so. 

Trump has said that for a Jewish American not to vote for him ‘shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.’ His campaign frequently suggests that Harris favors the Palestinian cause over the Israelis. 

But in April, Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt ‘Israel is absolutely losing the PR war,’ and criticized the images being shown of Gaza in ruins. 

‘You’ve got to get it over with, and you have to get back to normalcy. And I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory,’ Trump said, without directly answering whether he was ‘100 percent with Israel.’

Trump recently said that a post-war Gaza could be ‘better than Monaco.’ 

‘It could be better than Monaco. It has the best location in the Middle East, the best water, the best everything,’ he told Hewitt earlier this month.

‘They never took advantage of it. You know, as a developer, it could be the most beautiful place,’ he said.

Trump has blamed the current unrest in the Middle East on Harris and Biden for loosening sanctions on Iran, thus emboldening its proxies to carry out the attack last year. 

But his growing support among Arab Americans is a stark shift from the post 9/11 years and comes despite a history of anti-Muslim remarks and a travel ban on people from Muslim-majority nations in his first presidential administration.

And it’s a reflection of how Harris refusing to put any daylight between herself and Biden could be damaging.

After Luqman’s efforts to get the party to abandon Biden, ‘I think I could have considered possibly voting Democrat,’ she said. 

‘But after she came out with her policy stances, declared that there was no change in course, they were 100 percent exactly the same,’ Luqman went on. ‘It became evident to me that she had to lose as well.’

The Israeli Defense Forces is expected to conduct airstrikes against Lebanon late Sunday targeting financial institutions linked to the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

Fox News’ Trey Yingst in Israel reports the strikes will specifically target al-Qard al-Hassan ‘all over Lebanon.’ Al-Qard al-Hassan is a unit in Hezbollah to fund terrorist activities like paying operatives and buying arms. 

The registered nonprofit is sanctioned by both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, provides financial services and is also used by Lebanese civilians. 

The IDF issued evacuation orders for civilians close to these financial institutions. IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the strikes will be widespread, targeting not just financial centers in Beirut, but also other Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon. 

Fox News is told the goal is to strike at the heart of Hezbollah’s financial support for the conflict with Israel, which has been ongoing since October 2023, the month Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killing nearly 1,200 and taking hundreds more as hostages. 

A senior intelligence official indicated earlier Sunday that not all of Hezbollah’s money is being held in these financial institutions, but it’s expected to inflict significant damage on the group’s economic abilities. 

The official noted that there are hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians – mostly Shias – who use this banking system, and there are a number of branches in Beirut expected to be targeted. 

A year of escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah over the war in Gaza turned into all-out war last month, and Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon early this month.

Israel’s announcement came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called civilian casualties in Lebanon ‘far too high’ in the Israel-Hezbollah war, and urged Israel to scale back some strikes, especially in and around Beirut.

Iran supports the Lebanon-based Hezbollah, and the United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents indicating that Israel was moving military assets into place for a military strike in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Oct. 1, according to three U.S. officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.