Two Iranian Supreme Court judges were shot and killed while a third judge was wounded Saturday. 

The incident happened in Tehran on Saturday, according to the judiciary’s Mizan news website.

The judiciary identified the judges who were killed as ayatollahs Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini.

The gunman killed himself after shooting the judges outside the Supreme Court, the website said.

A bodyguard of one of the judges was also wounded in the attack, Iranian media reported.

The motive for the assassination remains unclear.

Opposition websites have previously said Moghiseh was involved in trials of people they described as political prisoners.

Reuters contributed to this report.

After President Donald Trump is sworn in on January 20, he will then sit down for a luncheon at the U.S. Capitol hosted by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC). 

But what’s on the menu? 

While the exact details for the 2025 event have yet to be released, if history is any proof, diners can expect to be served a three-course meal featuring a seafood dish, a meat entrée and a dessert – probably with ice cream.

As Trump now calls Florida home, it would not be a surprise to see dishes influenced by the Sunshine State’s legendary cuisine – or perhaps a dish with a nod to Vice President J.D. Vance’s Ohio roots. 

In 2017, the last time an Inaugural Luncheon was held, Trump and the approximately 200 luncheon guests had a three-course meal. (The 2021 event was not held due to the coronavirus pandemic.)

The first course was Maine lobster and gulf shrimp topped with saffron sauce and peanut crumble, followed by a main of grilled Seven Hills Angus beef with dark chocolate and juniper jus and potato gratin. 

Dessert was chocolate souffle with cherry vanilla ice cream. 

The 2017 menu was quite similar in structure to the menu at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. 

There, guests were served steamed lobster and New England chowder, followed by grilled bison, ‘red potato horseradish cake & wild huckleberry reduction,’ and a dessert of ‘Hudson Valley Apple Pie,’ sour cream ice cream, aged cheese and honey. 

The last inaugural luncheon to not include ice cream as part of the dessert was President George W. Bush’s second inauguration in 2005.

At that event, the dessert was ‘steamed lemon pudding and apple wild cherry compote.’ 

The Inaugural Luncheon was first held in 1897, but its current form began in 1953, says the website for the JCCIC. 

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‘That year, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mrs. Eisenhower, and fifty other guests of the JCCIC dined on creamed chicken, baked ham, and potato puffs in the now-restored Old Senate Chamber,’ said the website. 

The event is now held in Statuary Hall. 

‘Often featuring cuisine reflecting the home states of the new President and Vice President or the JCCIC Chairman, as well as the theme of the Inauguration, the luncheon program includes speeches, gift presentations from the JCCIC, and toasts to the new administration,’ said the website.

The theme of the 2025 Inauguration is ‘Our Enduring Democracy: A Constitutional Promise.’

This theme ‘recognizes the Founders’ commitment to future generations of Americans to preserve the continuity and stability of our democratic system of government,’ said the JCCIC. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the JCCIC for details on the 2025 Inaugural Luncheon menu. 

President-elect Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his first White House term, significantly reshaping the nation’s top court. But President Biden appointed more federal judges than Trump in the past four years.

According to fresh data from the Federal Judiciary Center, Biden is slated to end his tenure having installed 228 judges to U.S. district and appellate courts, including record numbers of female and minority judges to district courts across the country. 

That total was aided in part by a flurry of eleventh-hour confirmations by Senate Democrats, who scrambled to approve Biden’s judicial nominees last month in the final days of the 118th Congress and while they still held a narrow majority in the chamber.

Trump appointed 226 federal and appellate court judges during his first White House term, just under Biden’s total.

Biden also placed one justice on the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

Sixty percent of the judges appointed by Biden are Black, Hispanic, Asian or part of another racial or ethnic minority group, according to data compiled by the Pew Research Center, the highest percentage for any U.S. president. 

Biden’s federal judge appointments, both in their diversity and scope, bear similarities to another single-term Democratic president, Jimmy Carter.

Unlike Biden, Carter did not appoint anyone to the Supreme Court. But he appointed more than 260 federal and appellate court judges during his four years in office, including record numbers of women and minority judges, helping the courts better reflect the populations they represented. The appointments helped reshape the federal bench and paved the way for women and minorities to serve on the Supreme Court.

Most notably, Carter is credited with installing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a decision that set her up later for promotion when Democratic President Clinton tapped her for the nation’s highest court in 1993.

Now that power is about to be peacefully transferred, Americans can all expect to hear from a president who actually speaks for himself. A novel concept, for sure. 

The public rarely heard from President Joe Biden unaided by a teleprompter. Press conferences became foreign concepts. Here’s a juxtaposition: In Donald Trump’s final year in office, he held 35 solo press conferences. In Biden’s final year, he held exactly zero solo pressers. His handlers wouldn’t even let him do one on the way out the door.

So, with the absentee president being shielded from the public, or off on another long weekend in Delaware, the face of the administration became Karine Jean-Pierre in the final two-and-a-half years after taking over for the pious Jen Psaki, who ran off to the very friendly confines of MSNBC. 

Let’s be fair: Defending Biden, who exits the Oval Office with a 36% approval rating, is an almost-impossible task, especially after his brain appeared to turn into applesauce. But at least Psaki could lie, er, think on her feet, when the questions got tough from Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich. KJP possessed no such ability, leading to these dubious moments in our Top Five Cringe Moments for the outgoing White House Press Secretary.

5. ‘Right? Right?’ 

After Biden argued that the way to bring down inflation is to make corporations pay their fair share in taxes, Doocy asked, ‘How does raising taxes on corporations lower the cost of gas, the cost of a used car, the cost of food, for everyday Americans?’
 
What followed was like listening to a college sophomore putting together a stream of consciousness in order to achieve a mandatory word count on a verbal book report. Here was the answer verbatim, per the official White House transcript. 

‘So, look, I think we encourage those who have done very well — right?’ Jean-Pierre began. ‘Especially those who care about climate change, to support a fairer tax — tax code that doesn’t change — that doesn’t charge manufacturers’ workers, cops, builders, a higher percentage of their earnings; that the most fortunate people in our nation — and not let the — that stand in the way of reducing energy costs and fighting this existential problem, if you think about that as an example, and to support basic collective bargaining rights as well, right? That’s also important. But look, it is — you know, by not — if — without having a fairer tax code, which is what I’m talking about, then all — every — like manufacturing workers, cops — you know, it’s not fair for them to have to pay higher taxes than the folks that — who are — who are — who are not paying taxes at all or barely have.’

No matter how many times she injected ‘right?’ into her Kamala-esque word salad, we still couldn’t find an answer in there to the question about how raising taxes on corporations lowers inflation.

4. Election denier 

We’ve been warned by Democrats that denying election results is a chilling threat to democracy itself. So it was odd to see KJP chosen to be White House press secretary, because she’s an election denier herself. 

‘Stolen election … welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump,’ she tweeted after the 2016 election. 

‘Trump always finds a way to take it to the lowest of lows. Not only is he a petulant dotard but also a deplorable illegitimate president,’ was her sentiment in 2017. 

‘Reminder: Brian Kemp stole the gubernatorial election from Georgians and Stacey Abrams,’ she said of Abrams’s gubernatorial loss to Republican Brian Kemp in 2018. 

That’s arctic chilling stuff. When Doocy noted KJP’s objections to Donald Trump’s complaints about the 2020 election and noted these tweets, she became the dictionary definition of ‘defensive.’

‘Let’s be really clear. That comparison that you made is just ridiculous,’ Jean-Pierre replied. ‘I was talking specifically at the time about what was happening with voting rights, and what was in danger of voting rights.’

Let’s be clear: No you weren’t, Karine.

3. ‘I can square that’

After Trump’s victory on Nov. 5, Heinrich asked Jean-Pierre a solid question around pre-election fearmongering vs. post-election assurances: 

‘This administration messaged to millions of Americans that they’re going to wake up the day after the election if Trump won and have their rights stripped away, that democracy would crumble. And the president said today, ‘We’re going to be okay.’ So how do you square that?’ Heinrich asked the press secretary.

‘I can square that,’ Jean-Pierre said. ‘I’m going to square that in a way that hopefully makes sense, because I’ve been answering this question multiple times (author’s note: she hadn’t answered the question multiple times to that point). 

‘The American people made the decision,’ she continued. ‘There was an election two nights ago. There was! And it was a free and fair election, and we respect the election process. We do. And Americans spoke.’

‘What is the message to people who are fearful based on what the messaging was about [Trump]?’ asked Heinrich.

‘Well, now you’re just twisting everything around, and that’s really unfair,’ a flustered KJP responded. ‘Jackie, it’s unfair because I’ve been standing here trying to be very respectful to what happened the last two nights, two nights ago. Being respectful. I’ve been standing here saying that we respect the decision that the American people made.’

Instead of squaring Biden’s statements, KJP just talked in circles.

2. ‘Shouted questions’ 

When asked in 2023 if the people around Biden were trying to ‘protect’ the aging president from the press by not allowing him to answer direct questions, Jean-Pierre began spinning at ludicrous speed.

‘The President many times has stood in front of all of you, has taken questions on his own, because he wanted to see what was on — on your minds, he wanted to see what the questions you all were going to ask him, and he wanted to answer them directly,’ she claimed before eventually adding, ‘I’ll say this: It is also unprecedented that a president takes as many shouted questions as this president has. And he has.’

Oh, please. Whenever reporters are invited into the Biden Oval Office, they were screamed out of the room by the president’s handlers at what would normally be Q&A time. And ‘shouted questions’ are the ones Biden never answered as he shuffled away.

1. ‘No, no, no, no, no, you can’t’

When Doocy challenged the KJP in September, 2023, on her outlandish claim that the border was under control, she tried to blame the Republicans.

‘What do you call it here at the White House when 10,000 people illegally cross the border in a single day?’ Doocy asked.

‘So what do you call it, Peter, when [the] GOP puts forth a … wait, no, no, no, no, no, you can’t,’ Jean-Pierre responded as Doocy attempted to redirect the press secretary back to reality. 

‘You’re answering my question with a question,’ Doocy noted.

‘OK, we’re going to move on,’ Jean-Pierre said, without any explanation as to why. 

After the briefing, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) called out the White House for its apathy.

‘Joe Biden doesn’t seem to care. Karine Jean-Pierre doesn’t seem to care. And I know [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas] doesn’t care because we’ve asked him tons of questions, asked for information and data that he refuses to get to us,’ Jordan argued. 

‘So this is the state of this administration. And it’s frankly, why I think the approval ratings of Joe Biden are so darn low, because they see what a pathetic job this administration has done,’ he added. 

Karoline Leavitt will be the next White House press secretary. At 27, she will be the youngest to ever hold the position. Leavitt has promised to allow more access to non-traditional reporters and bloggers and even potentially podcasters in an effort to end the White House Correspondents Association’s monopoly on the James S. Brady Briefing Room.