Roundup
My attempt to keep up with the incredible pace of the news – another roundup:
(1) Netanyahu has reportedly gifted Trump a golden pager to commemorate the pager explosions that harmed Hezbollah operatives. But would you accept a gift of a pager from this man?
(2) Pam Bondi is the new AG. She’s got her work cut out for her. She hasn’t wasted any time in issuing this directive:
“The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election.
… “any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.”
This seems reasonable to me. DOJ employees are under the direction of the executive branch and the AG.
(3) Next up on the chopping block: the Department of Education. This is no surprise; it was one of Trump’s campaign promises. Most of my Democrat friends will probably assume this means that Republicans are against education.
(4) About the FBI and J6:
FBI employees who “simply followed orders” with respect to their investigations into Jan. 6 defendants will not be fired or face any other penalties, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove confirmed in an internal memo.
This is about the higher-ups, apparently.
(5) The EU is destroying Europe.
Well, it’s certainly not helping it.
I just learned this:
When a court dismisses an action, they can either do so “ with prejudice ” or “ without prejudice .” Dismissal with prejudice means that the plaintiff cannot refile the same claim again in that court.
I never knew what that term meant exactly. I looked it up because of this:
https://x.com/ThomasCatenacci/status/1887176791397167201
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks hasn’t it?
My experience with the term comes from my serving on the board of my HOA (condos). A wealthy investor lost his first suit against the HOA, which meant he had to pay our attorney’s fees. He filed an appeal, or was it a second suit–don’t remember. On the day the case came to court, he finally recognized that he had no case against us, and requested that his case be dismissed. The judge dismissed his case “with prejudice,” so the wealthy investor could no longer sue us on those grounds. There was still a jury trial–for attorney’s fees. 🙂 In the two cases, the wealthy investor paid about $200,000 for his and the HOA’s attorneys. That, for him, was chickenfeed.
I was the HOA’s liaison for the attorney in the second case.
About the FBI and J6:
I found it amazing—shall I say outrageous–that the FBI used 5,000 of its employees in the J6 case.