Howdy All, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue –
1. Judges
2. Prosecutor
3. Censorship
4. Fencer
5. Reinstate
6. Basing
7. Warnock
1. Judges. The insurrection is back, this time led by our Masters in black robes, who are busily taking the notion of legislating from the bench to a whole new level. The only tool in the democrat shed these days is delaying everything Trump does until after the midterms in hopes that they will be able to take control of the House and shut him down completely on the legislative end. Their co-conspirators are democrat federal judges using nationwide temporary restraining orders (TROs). SCOTUS, responsible for the rabble underneath them, is trying to thread the non-partisan needle with narrow opinions. The lesser courts simply rewrite the TROs to address earlier SCOTUS concerns and keep on doing what they want to be doing. Over time, more Clinton, O’Bama and Biden judges decide to play and the problem gets worse. Quite the frustrating time. A short review is in order.
- The flash point for all this is immigration, closely followed by budget cuts, personnel cuts, and any other thing the democrat judges can think of. While the law does give the President broad authority over immigration, the courts are busily setting up a new system which can only eject perhaps 350,000 illegals/year. Compare that with the 10 – 20 million Harris – Biden invited into the nation over four years, and we have a problem that won’t be solved for 30 years or longer. And the next combination of a democrat congress and president will simply grant amnesty and naturalize all of the remaining illegals while registering them to vote for democrats.
- The courts are demanding a full habeas corpus treatment in federal court before deportation, ignoring the very existence of an immigration court structure set up to handle this. Most of us expected SCOTUS to step in and limit the use of national TROs. They made a couple halfhearted attempts, but finally managed to choose sides, coming down on the side of democrats a week ago in a stunning 7-2 opinion, halting deportations under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act. The opinion was made in the dead of night without allowing the government to respond before the opinion was published. SCOTUS didn’t even manage to allow the DC Court of Appeals to hear the case or render an opinion. It was simply too important (/sarc) to act immediately. Justices Alito and Thomas voted against the action. Alito wrote a blistering dissent, ending with following: “Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.”
- On the state front, DoJ arrested a pair of state judges for meddling in immigration. A judge and his wife in NM were arrested for harboring Tren de Aragua terrorists at their home. While most media reports a single terrorist involved, there are photos of the judge standing arm in arm with at least five of these guys grinning ear to ear. A MN state judge was arrested obstructing ICE at the Milwaukee County courthouse. The illegal was in court with his lawyer. ICE showed up to arrest him. The judge halted the proceedings and removed the illegal and his lawyer from the courtroom. She chewed on the ICE agents for a while before leaving the courtroom. Meeting the illegal and lawyer, she pointed them to a back entrance to escape. The illegal was quickly arrested. We got to see perp walks for the two state judges. We will see no perp walks for similarly poorly behaving federal judges. I think, though if democrats can arrest, perp walk, fingerprint, and photograph a former President and current candidate for the Presidency, I don’t think federal judges will be allowed to skate. Be careful of writing your new rules, for you are going to have to play under them.
- What does the left think will happen if and when they undermine all trust in the judiciary? Do they think we will smile sweetly and allow them to put whatever Stalinist construct into place after turning 250 years of American judicial precedent into dust? Whatever they might think, I expect they will be wrong, for there is a uniquely American solution to a lawless judiciary. We’ve done it before. We will do it again. It is called trials in front of Vigilance Committees and usually ends up with ropes and trees. Message once again to the left: be careful what you wish for.
- Solution to all of this is probably legislative, though getting it through this congress will be difficult. I expect some sort of limit on the ability of federal judges to issue national TROs will be the first response. We keep expecting SCOTUS to weigh in. I have come to believe that Chief Justice Roberts is too balled up in not wanting to appear partisan that he will end up allowing the current problem to fester.
- How will the midterms go? Other than saying it is too early to tell, there is some battlespace preparation underway. Polling is starting to report Trump slipping a bit. Is this real? Perhaps, driven by concern about tariffs. OTOH, bring in 10 or so agreements with our top trading partners not named China by next spring, and those concerns (if real) go away. The other indication is to watch democrat retirements from congress. So far, 4 sitting US Senator incumbents announced they would not run for reelection: Peters, MI, Smith, MN, Shaheen, NH and Durbin, IL. This means democrat incumbents don’t think they have a clue of retaking control of the senate for several years and they don’t want to remain in the minority. A few democrat house members also announced retirement, meaning the House may not be as lost as we are currently led to believe.
2. Prosecutor. Democrat attacks on institutions have been remarkably successful and remarkably destructive over the last half century. Latest in the cross hairs is the judiciary, with the initial cadre led by the Soros prosecutors. Clinton, O’Bama and Biden nominated federal judges are behind a bit in time from the prosecutors, though doing their level best to catch up. This week’s Soros prosecutor is Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarity, who refused to charge a state government employee after he was caught vandalizing 6 Teslas, causing $20,000 in damage. The decision was roundly derided. A few days later, she did charge a 19-year-old with a felony for keying a co-worker’s vehicle, leading to accusations of a two-tiered (in)justice system in MN. Moriarity is a real piece of work, releasing a new policy of plea bargains last week that requires prosecutors to consider race when offering plea deals. Does she want to be the next participant in Bondi’s perp walk?
3. Censorship. DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified and released the Harris – Biden Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism. This bureaucratic gobbledygook is exactly what you think it is, the Harris – Biden roadmap for designating anyone who disagreed with them as a domestic terrorist and using the power of the intel community and deep state to shut them up or worse. The plan was classified and supposed to remain buried, out of public view. It is a blueprint, a leftist wish list for “monitoring” suspicious online speech, expanding federal watchlists to include Americans with the wrong political beliefs while taking another chunk of your constitutional rights, particularly Second Amendment rights. The Biden-oids were very serious about the notion of domestic terrorism, for those magic words allowed them free rein to do anything they wanted to do to their political opponents. Think of Jan 6 on steroids and you will be close. The plan included an expansion of red flag laws, increased collaboration with Big Tech to monitor, report and censor speech. Remember that Harris – Biden was very good at using the private sector to do things they couldn’t legally do.
4. Fencer. A 31-year-old female fencer took a knee after refusing to compete against a 20-year-old trans woman at USA Fencing’s Cherry Blossom Open in MD, Mar 30. She was promptly disqualified via a black card, and further punished being locked out of fencing at USA Fencing tournaments for a year. She is scheduled to testify in front of a House committee along with USA Fencing’s Board Chairman. Should be an interesting hearing.
5. Reinstate. One of the things SECDEF Hegseth promised to do was bring back former military members involuntarily separated after refusing the COVID vax. The plan has proceeded in fits and starts as his less than supportive underlings have passively obstructed the effort. How can they obstruct? One example is that they asked for signature on forms containing statements favorable to DoD but not favorable to the separated troops. There were perhaps 8,700 separated. Some of them were separated following administrative / judicial action giving them less than honorable conditions, essentially a kick in the back side on the way out the door. Congress passed DoD funding with a provision that repealed the Oct 2021 mandate. Former SECDEF Austin rescinded the mandated Jan 2023 but pointedly refused to reinstate those separated. While I understand the necessity to get shots while active duty, those shots ought to have something tangentially connected to the ability to perform the assigned mission. COVID targeted the elderly, infirm, and those with elderly co-morbidities, none of which are or were present among active duty 20 and 30-year-olds. How would I reinstate? I’d sign them back up, with full back pay, promotion wherever it should have happened while separated, and allow anyone to retire after 20 with full benefits. The closer Hegseth can get to that, the better.
6. Basing. One of the hallmarks of the O’Bama – Biden regimes was the Chicago Way, taking care of your friends and sticking it to your enemies, with enemies being defined as anyone who wasn’t your friend. The story is about the final location of headquarters for the newly created US Space Force. Yellowhammer discussed a DoD IG report on the decision to base the HQ at Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs. The Harris – Biden WH intervened in July 2023 to keep it in Colorado Springs rather than move to Huntsville, AL. It is a pretty ugly article but misses the point, by ignoring the background. In its earliest iteration, USSPACECOM, the unified combatant command responsible for all things space stood up in 1985, based at Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO. Location was likely chosen based on proximity to Cheyanne Mountain. There were three MAJCOM components, Air Force Space Command, also at Peterson Field, Navy Space Command at Fort Meade, MD, and Army Space Command at Huntsville, AL. AF was responsible for the nuclear mission, most of the satellites, and launch. Navy was exclusively interested in fleet defense. Army was interested in ballistic missile defense (BMD). The components battled incessantly for advantage in the budget wars. USAF leadership looked at the space guys for decades as a competitor for aviation funding. The Trump 45 decision to stand up a separate service for space was an attempt to stop the internecine budgetary warfare, probably a good one in hindsight. Comes time under Harris – Biden to figure out where the new command should be permanently located. The Yellowhammer piece claims that USAF consistently recommended moving USSPACECOM to Huntsville, something I never heard of, and don’t think I believe as yet. The WH intervened to leave it in Colorado Springs at Peterson. This is where the idiots working for Biden made their mistake, as they refused to allow the SECAF and SECDEF to be interviewed by the IG investigating the decision. At its most basic level, Harris – Biden looks like it rewards a blue state (CO) while slapping down a red state (AL). Why make that decision? Easy. At the time, CO had two democrats as US Senators while AL had a pair of Republicans. Money and all other considerations are irrelevant. Typical Harris – Biden. There are pretty good operational and budgetary reasons to leave the HQ in Colorado. There are also pretty good reasons to move, as USSPACECOM is small in terms of actual physical footprint. But nobody ever had that conversation in public, where it belongs. Nobody ever did a releasable cost benefit analysis. When you bury everything behind the classified stamp, refuse to answer questions, you end up convincing no one that the decision, whatever it was, was the right one. Like I said earlier, idiots.
7. Warnock. Speaking of grifters, we have US Senator from GA, Raphael Warnock, former pastor for Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Warnock retains his residence, which is owned by the church, a $1 mansion which he pays no rent for. Last week a senate ethics complaint was filed against Warnock for accepting a gift of residence in the home. He is a democrat, so we will see how far the complaint gets. Short conclusion: They wouldn’t be democrats unless they were grifting, or they wouldn’t be grifting unless they were democrats. Either way works.
More later –
- AG