Kellyanne Conway is supporting President Donald Trump’s call to investigate the anonymous author of a bombshell anti-Trump New York Times op-ed, and says that the writer could be investigated for criminal activity.

“There can be an investigation if there is criminal activity, perhaps,” Conway told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” as The Hill reported (video below).

“There doesn’t appear to be any” criminal activity, Tapper reminded her.

“”I don’t know that. I don’t think you know that,” Conway insisted. “It really would depend on what else has been divulged by the individual. Anybody who would do this, you don’t know what else they’re saying.”

In other words, Conway is supporting the administration’s belief that it is acceptable to use the Dept. of Justice as the president’s personal police force, with zero evidence, to suppress dissent. She is suggesting, without evidence, that because someone inside the White House opposes the president, they very well may have committed criminal acts.

The author of the op-ed was identified by The New York Times only as “a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure.”

“I have literally no idea, nor do you, what else this person has divulged. I think somebody so cowardly and so conceited would probably –” Conway said, until Tapper interjected, reminding her that investigations are not conducted on hypothetical behavior.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has just handed down a 5-4 ruling siding with President Donald Trump, saying his anti-Muslim travel ban is constitutional.

MSNBC’s Pete Williams says the Supreme Court rejected the argument that Trump’s anti-muslim animus was obvious in his campaign statements and tweets, even as president.

The Court claims Trump has the power to impose the ban as a matter of national security.

BREAKING: @NBCNews Special Report: US Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban. https://t.co/iZYuZ5uGmM pic.twitter.com/IO6kgJyzkG

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 26, 2018

The ACLU weighs in with a scathing rebuke:

In 1944, the Supreme Court allowed the US government to imprison Japanese Americans solely because of their national origin and ethnicity, based on empty claims of national security.

It’s one of the most shameful chapters of US history, and today’s decision now joins it.

— ACLU (@ACLU) June 26, 2018

Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes in her dissent:

“The United States of America is a Nation built upon the promise of religious liberty. Our Founders honored that core promise by embedding the principle of religious neu­trality in the First Amendment. The Court’s decision today fails to safeguard that fundamental principle. It leaves undisturbed a policy first advertised openly and unequivocally as a ‘total and complete shutdown of Mus­lims entering the United States’ because the policy now masquerades behind a façade of national-security con­cerns.” [Bolding ours.]

The ruling is here.

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Video posted to Facebook and Twitter over the weekend showed a police officer in Wildwood, N.J. punching a woman who appears to be much smaller than him.

NJ.com reported that the video shows the officer punching a woman in the head as people around her shout, “Stop resisting.” The video was recorded Saturday afternoon and by Sunday afternoon, it had been viewed on Facebook more than 140,000 times.

In her Facebook post, Emily Weinman explains that she decided to take her daughter to the beach. Weinman admits that alcohol was near her vicinity, and officers asked her to take a breathalyzer test, which she passed.

“They still stayed, the one cop following me when I walked away to go make a phone call after they did what they had to do,” Weinman writes. “Therefore I asked them don’t they have something better to do as cops than to stop people for underage drinking on the beach, saying to that there’s so much more serious stuff going on… the cop said, ‘I was gonna let you go but now I’ll write you up’ and he asked my name.”

Weinman says that she refused to give him her name out of fear.

“I’m not gonna give him my information knowing I didn’t do anything wrong. He told me he’s arresting me and started coming towards me to put handcuffs on me,” she recalls. “I tripped and fell and the cop tackled me to the ground and smashed my head into the sand. At that point I blacked out and fought any way possible trying to get up and push him off me. Thats when he head locked me me by his arm around my neck, punched on me in my head and then he head locked me again but this time choking me.”

Weinman goes on to say that she would have given the officer her name “if I took even a sip.”

NJ.com asked Wildwood Commissioner Pete Byron for a comment on the case but he declined to respond.

Watch the video and read Weinman’s post below.

UPDATE: 6:33 PM EDT –
The video appears to have been removed from Facebook. Here is a copy via NBC Philadelphia:

Here’s a better copy:

I was sleeping on the beach and I woke up to this.. i can’t believe it.. pic.twitter.com/UJE5Sy7E4G

— Lexy (@HewittLexy) May 26, 2018