Comments on: How wrong is Judge Orrick? Let Andrew McCarthy count the ways

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 02:04:10 +0000

What happened to all the Trum supporters that said once Trum gets power, he’ll fix things?

Even if he becomes the King of the US, what exactly is he going to fix that the rest of humanity has failed to do?

Fixing the Deep State would require another messiah at least.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:54:59 +0000

*crisis*, not “crisi”

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:54:22 +0000

Yann

a. Venezuela is a country in crisi

b. “Being extremely emotional about politics” …. seems to me to be a characteristic trait of plenty of white people in our country too.

I live in a city with a lot of Hispanics. They’re great people. It makes me mad that they’ve been Emmanuel Goldsteined by a lot of my former compatriots on the right.

I’ll be glad when the Trump era is over . . .

By: Yann

Yann — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 13:09:47 +0000

One detail: in Venezuela, the Supreme Court has been invalidating each and every law from the Congress, basically shutting down the Congress.

Being extremely emotional about politics and thinking that it’s right to submit the Rule of Law to political interests in a common Hispanic mindset.

I’m afraid US is looking more and more as a Banana Hispanic Republic, every day.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:31:15 +0000

Parker – yep.

By: parker

parker — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 03:42:59 +0000

Bill,

I agree. The problem is the legislative branch has willingly surrendered.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 01:30:27 +0000

I’m reading the White House website, in particular, the Executive Orders and the Executive Memos. Currently, the vast majority are just a request by the President to the Secretaries of the various departments to review regulations to ensure that they were really authorized by the law and that the regs actually follow the law. Then, within a certain time frame, submit a report with a plan of action.

Trump is not establishing new law or telling his staff to ignore what is on the books. He is telling everyone to follow the laws. Specific sections are usually referenced in these EO/EMs

When I read some blog posts about an EO or EM, it is frustrating that the writers (not Neo) will use the Times or Post as their source material and ignore reading the actual text. I usually comment by linking to the EO/EM and correcting some of the misrepresentations.

But, the 9th Circuit seems to want to use campaign speeches as evidence instead of reading what the EO/EMs actually say.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:13:33 +0000

Well I for one have long said the Executive (and the courts too) have too much freaking power.

Seeing some EOs get shot down makes me happy, in principle. Hated Obama’s phone and pen strategy. Trump has gone there too many times as well. Faithfully execute the laws. (I know, I know, that’s ostensibly what EOs do. But I’m sick of em)

About the previous commenter who suggests the president would have to Congress to pick bombing targets. Well, in my opinion the President shouldn’t have to do that provided he’s gotten a formal declaration of war, or were in a “minutes count” crisis.

He hasn’t gotten the formal declaration of war. Neither did his predecessor. That’s why, by the way, we’re now in an endless war cycle.

The executive has too much power. So do the courts.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:53:19 +0000

This sort of judicial activity has been going on for a long time. Especially on environmental issues. The Watermelons from the Sierra Club, Green Peace, and others have long known which judges will issue injunctions against private property owners when the enviros want to stop anything they think will be damaging to the environment. And for the enviro-whackos that means any thing man made. Like irrigation ditches that have been in place in a National Forest for 100 years. It happened to me. Unless you have a lot of money to litigate it all the way to the Supremes, they will wait you out and have their way.

Trump will have to litigate everything he does. I expect some judge to enjoin him from directing the military to carry out attacks on enemy targets without getting permission from Congress. Yes, they are that crazy.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:22:27 +0000

There are four vacancies on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and 15 vacancies on the District Courts of the 9th Circuit. That leaves us one more for another circuit. Works for me!