Even for an open thread, this is way off topic, but it’s good news, of a sort.
Fans of “True Grit”–either the Charles Portis novel, the John Wayne movie, or the Coen brothers remake–might like to know that this month’s “Harper’s Magazine” includes a long excerpt from Portis’s unfinished novel, entitled “The Woman from Nowhere.”
Portis died in 2020, and two years later the manuscript was discovered. So far, nothing else has been published.
Continuing along the “due process” problem, this morning Megyn had Steve Bannon on. His take is that the Ds are employing a perfect strategy of “delay means deny”. By clogging up the system for the worst of the worst, just shields the other 10 million or so illegals from being deported.
I have to say, I had a similar gut feeling this last week or so. It seems the Ds are winning on the legal front in these endless suits and rulings. Add in the feckless Roberts SCOTUS, and I fear the the whole deportation thing is doomed. Unless the Congress passes some legislation, which given GOP spinelessness, will never happen.
Vought’s unique combination of loyalty and knowledge of how the government actually works makes him perhaps the most powerful person in Washington not named Donald Trump.
Again, Trump 1.0, Trump the interregnum and now Trump 2.0 has featured endless bad behavior out of the judges towards Trump. If I’m Trump, they are being stampeded over a cliff.
The Supreme Court bats last. We’ll see.
I share physcisguy’s skepticism about the Roberts Court.
saw the film, to catch a thief, recently with Cary Grant, I didn’t know it was based on a novel by David Dodge, which has been reissued with relevant notes, the original with grace kelly, was set largely in a villa in Cannes which I discovered was letter owned by Adnan Khashoggi the arms dealer, that was party to some sundry doings re the Chechen conflict in the late 90s,
a novelist named Mark O’Neil, has written a sequel, to catch a spy, which is relatively on point, approved by the author’s estate,
By the time SCOTUS bats last it might be made up of just Thomas and Alito. If Trump crosses the Rubicon, it will be an Earth shattering kaboom. He has to let the fools dig a Grand Canyon of justification first.
gets me away from pondering some of this real life skulduggery
physicsguy – I think you identify the problem, but no one yet has a workable solution. You cannot simply ignore process. For one, the courts wont’ let you. Not even conservative courts will let you. For another, how would you like to live under a progressive Democrat unbound by process? The prog wing of the Democratic party wants their next president to declare a “climate emergency” and assume dictatorial powers the way that Trump is on the Alien Enemies Act and tariffs. Any governing strategy that is based on the premise that the other side will never again have power is fool’s gold on steroids.
If there is any sort of foresight involved in Trump’s Alien Enemies Act move, I suspect that they are trying to move as many illegals outside the jurisdiction of American courts as quickly as possible, before the courts inevitably shut them down. This would be akin to Biden’s policy of getting the money out the door as quickly as possible before the courts tell them to stop.
so democracy only counts when AID funds it, of course the great work that elon has done, is echoed by the crickets in the possums, that are loath to ratify it, as judge lamberth blocks on another front, he was the one that ‘threw the book’ at the water buffalo guy, never minding the exculpatory evidence, that his court appointed atty fail to present, it took the video, that tucker released, that a subsequent atty used to help spring,
conversely the likes of sussman and kleinsmith who committed fraud upon the Courts and voila, suffered no consequences for their part in furthering the Russian hoax against General Flynn against the President,
paging james bond to the white courtesy phone, or harry hart the modern equivalent
The problem with the due process argument is that, if I try to enter another country without a proper visa and passport, they will refuse entry and send me away. Why on earth should people who are here without the proper visa be entitled to stay with the benefit of endless court hearings?
India has ordered every Pakistani national to leave the country within 48 hours.
Once again we are being warned away from doing what the Dems have already done over and over. “True conservatism” apparently means the Left always keeps their gains, and the Right always forbears to use power in the way the Left already does. That logic is what brought us to where we were with Biden, and I don’t think it persuades anyone any longer. It’s past time to break the ratchet.
Reflecting on the video for a moment. Oh my. What a welcome interlude.
I agree with Kate. When due process is defined in a manner that flies in the face of common sense, and maybe survival of national identity, something has to give.
I have not heard of Trump pressuring Congress for legislation to correct some of the anomalies. I hope that conversation is occurring.
On the other hand, I wonder if Trump’s strategy is to let this all play out to facilitate public outrage with an eye to 2026. He could be thinking, ‘we have stopped the bleeding at the border; let’s hold that line and let the Democrats and Courts dig their own holes/graves in full public view’. I wish that I knew what he is thinking.
Oldflyer:
Congress passing a law on this would require either suspending the cloture/filibuster rules or passing it as a budget measure under reconciliation.
yes that was a wonderful respite, a great talent, at that age,
Even for an open thread, this is way off topic, but it’s good news, of a sort.
Fans of “True Grit”–either the Charles Portis novel, the John Wayne movie, or the Coen brothers remake–might like to know that this month’s “Harper’s Magazine” includes a long excerpt from Portis’s unfinished novel, entitled “The Woman from Nowhere.”
Portis died in 2020, and two years later the manuscript was discovered. So far, nothing else has been published.
link: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/04/the-keys-to-veracruz-charles-portis-fiction/
Continuing along the “due process” problem, this morning Megyn had Steve Bannon on. His take is that the Ds are employing a perfect strategy of “delay means deny”. By clogging up the system for the worst of the worst, just shields the other 10 million or so illegals from being deported.
I have to say, I had a similar gut feeling this last week or so. It seems the Ds are winning on the legal front in these endless suits and rulings. Add in the feckless Roberts SCOTUS, and I fear the the whole deportation thing is doomed. Unless the Congress passes some legislation, which given GOP spinelessness, will never happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOYl6C0H4OY
Interesting read from Bloomberg.
https://archive.md/YEhL5
Mike Doran, “Trump Tore Up Obama’s Iran Deal. Is He Now Negotiating Something Worse?”: https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-obama-iran-deal
Eric Schmitt 11 part thread (scroll down):
https://x.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1914777748498718955
Again, Trump 1.0, Trump the interregnum and now Trump 2.0 has featured endless bad behavior out of the judges towards Trump. If I’m Trump, they are being stampeded over a cliff.
The Supreme Court bats last. We’ll see.
I share physcisguy’s skepticism about the Roberts Court.
saw the film, to catch a thief, recently with Cary Grant, I didn’t know it was based on a novel by David Dodge, which has been reissued with relevant notes, the original with grace kelly, was set largely in a villa in Cannes which I discovered was letter owned by Adnan Khashoggi the arms dealer, that was party to some sundry doings re the Chechen conflict in the late 90s,
a novelist named Mark O’Neil, has written a sequel, to catch a spy, which is relatively on point, approved by the author’s estate,
By the time SCOTUS bats last it might be made up of just Thomas and Alito. If Trump crosses the Rubicon, it will be an Earth shattering kaboom. He has to let the fools dig a Grand Canyon of justification first.
the two works in question
https://www.amazon.com/Catch-Thief-Bruin-Crimeworks/dp/0982633939
https://tinyurl.com/3njhpptp
gets me away from pondering some of this real life skulduggery
physicsguy – I think you identify the problem, but no one yet has a workable solution. You cannot simply ignore process. For one, the courts wont’ let you. Not even conservative courts will let you. For another, how would you like to live under a progressive Democrat unbound by process? The prog wing of the Democratic party wants their next president to declare a “climate emergency” and assume dictatorial powers the way that Trump is on the Alien Enemies Act and tariffs. Any governing strategy that is based on the premise that the other side will never again have power is fool’s gold on steroids.
If there is any sort of foresight involved in Trump’s Alien Enemies Act move, I suspect that they are trying to move as many illegals outside the jurisdiction of American courts as quickly as possible, before the courts inevitably shut them down. This would be akin to Biden’s policy of getting the money out the door as quickly as possible before the courts tell them to stop.
Not great, but not completely unprecedented.
actually i’m familiar with the type,
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/04/23/irony-alert-wannabe-dolores-umbridge-nina-jankowicz-goes-to-europe-to-call-us-an-autocracy-n2411756
so democracy only counts when AID funds it, of course the great work that elon has done, is echoed by the crickets in the possums, that are loath to ratify it, as judge lamberth blocks on another front, he was the one that ‘threw the book’ at the water buffalo guy, never minding the exculpatory evidence, that his court appointed atty fail to present, it took the video, that tucker released, that a subsequent atty used to help spring,
conversely the likes of sussman and kleinsmith who committed fraud upon the Courts and voila, suffered no consequences for their part in furthering the Russian hoax against General Flynn against the President,
what do we have here?
https://www.reuters.com/world/world-economic-forum-launches-probe-into-founder-klaus-schwab-over-whistleblower-2025-04-22/
paging james bond to the white courtesy phone, or harry hart the modern equivalent
The problem with the due process argument is that, if I try to enter another country without a proper visa and passport, they will refuse entry and send me away. Why on earth should people who are here without the proper visa be entitled to stay with the benefit of endless court hearings?
https://x.com/RightGlockMom/status/1915082063625032072
Hilarious mirroring kitty
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1915081904321073586
Once again we are being warned away from doing what the Dems have already done over and over. “True conservatism” apparently means the Left always keeps their gains, and the Right always forbears to use power in the way the Left already does. That logic is what brought us to where we were with Biden, and I don’t think it persuades anyone any longer. It’s past time to break the ratchet.
Reflecting on the video for a moment. Oh my. What a welcome interlude.
I agree with Kate. When due process is defined in a manner that flies in the face of common sense, and maybe survival of national identity, something has to give.
I have not heard of Trump pressuring Congress for legislation to correct some of the anomalies. I hope that conversation is occurring.
On the other hand, I wonder if Trump’s strategy is to let this all play out to facilitate public outrage with an eye to 2026. He could be thinking, ‘we have stopped the bleeding at the border; let’s hold that line and let the Democrats and Courts dig their own holes/graves in full public view’. I wish that I knew what he is thinking.
Oldflyer:
Congress passing a law on this would require either suspending the cloture/filibuster rules or passing it as a budget measure under reconciliation.
yes that was a wonderful respite, a great talent, at that age,
The second part of this post discusses “it looks a whole lot like President Trump has been preparing a path to argue for suspending habeas corpus.”
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/habeas-corpses-monday-april-21-2025