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So much news … how to choose?

(1) Remember how the Democrats were keen to pack the Court? Now – funny thing – not so much.

(2) Judge Boasberg’s ridiculous criminal contempt finding against the Trump administration for turning over Tren de Aragua gang members to Salvadoran officials gets overruled. From the opinion:

The district court’s order raises troubling questions about judicial control over core executive functions like the conduct of foreign policy and the prosecution of criminal offenses. And it implicates an unsettled issue whether the judiciary may impose criminal contempt for violating injunctions entered without jurisdiction.

SCOTUS had ruled that the Boasberg court had no jurisdiction.

(3) Trouble for “no one is above the law” Letitia James? See this:

The Department of Justice has launched a grand jury investigation targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), focusing on allegations of deprivation of rights related to her $454 million civil fraud lawsuit against President Donald Trump.

The probe is being run out of Albany. Subpoenas have already reportedly been delivered for documents concerning James’ lawsuit, which accused Trump of inflating his net worth to secure favorable loan terms.

Fox News Digital reports that James’ office received the subpoenas for documents and information pertaining to that case this week.

The grand jury investigation is at its early stages, according to reports, but marks a clear escalation in the DOJ’s attempts to hold James accountable for potential rights violations and potential abuse of her office against the president.

She ran for office with a promise to get him. She was elected, but she failed to keep her promise – although not for lack of trying.

(4) Keir Starmer wants Israel to make nice to Hamas and Gazans, and Ambassador Mike Huckabee has what I’d say is an appropriate answer:

(5) It’s the 3-year anniversary of the raid on Mar-a-Lago, and Tom Cotton has some observations:

This double standard is nothing short of breathtaking.

Where Trump was charged for merely “causing” boxes to be packed, Biden was specifically not charged because he “did not move the files himself” and “depended on staffers.”

With Trump, the Reagan precedent was ignored; with Biden, it was upheld due to “basic principles of notice and fairness.”

For Trump, the Supreme Court’s “express statement” doctrine, that certain laws should not apply to a president unless expressly stated, was ignored.

For Biden, the DOJ applied this doctrine — historically extended to include vice presidents — and declined prosecution to avoid “significant separation of powers concerns.”

Prosecutors charged Trump with 40 felonies — effectively life in prison.

Prosecutors charged Biden with nothing.

Those now angrily denouncing Trump for enforcing US laws — laws he is duty-bound to enforce — fully supported forging the justice system into a guillotine to lop off Trump’s head.

Because they don’t really care about law.

And they don’t really care about justice.

They only care about power.

Regaining power — and retaining it.

Comments

Roundup! — 26 Comments

  1. Hudson Inst., Zineb Riboua, Damjan Krnjevic Miškovic, Mike Doran — “Assessing the Armenia-Azerbijian Agreement”:
    https://youtu.be/HoQGYSGoxnU?si=SsGtu6iES3Cuix8w

    “President Donald Trump has invited Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to the White House for a landmark summit aimed at ending decades of hostility. The leaders are expected to sign key agreements to establish lasting peace between their long-divided nations.”

  2. Chad Mizelle:

    To recap for those not following along, let me give you a timeline leading up to this YUGE ruling:
     
    Judge Boasberg “predicts” that the Trump Admin will violate court orders.
     
    A few days later, Judge Boasberg serendipitously gets a case involving the removal of the most violent members of a foreign terrorist organization. 
     
    Judge Boasberg issues an injunction and is promptly flipped by the Supreme Court because he lacked jurisdiction over the case. 
     
    Boasberg now concludes that Trump Admin has violated his unlawful injunction and finds probable cause to hold the government in contempt.
     
    DC Circuit stays his probable cause finding.
     
    Boasberg next issues a preliminary injunction holding that the removal of these violent aliens violated due process.
     
    DC Circuit issues an administrative stay of that ruling.

    Boasberg complains that the DC Circuit is taking too long to adjudicate his rulings.
     
    DC Circuit promptly vacates Boasberg’s contempt finding.
     
    As Judge Katsas of the DC Circuit recognized, Judge Boasberg’s order raised “troubling” questions of judicial control over core Executive functions and prompted an “extraordinary, ongoing confrontation” between the Executive and Judicial branches. We are not dealing with a good faith disagreement over the law.
     
    If judges want to be partisan political actors, Congress should treat them as such.

    https://x.com/ChadMizelle47/status/1953861683346059619

  3. Re: Starmer / Palestine

    Starmer’s threat to recognize Palestine unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire is disappointing.

    But how many divisions does the UK or France or Canada or the UN have to back that up? They seem reluctant to spend much defending themselves.

    Israel and the US have shown they are all in and aren’t going to stop, even in the face of “strongly worded statements.”

    What would it even mean for those countries to recognize Palestine?

  4. The problem is that it is increasingly obvious that the solution to the Palestinians and the two-state solution is to shove them into the dustbin of history. That solution has steadily crept forward, but the trans nationalists keep trying to drag them back.

    Now we have Canada, Germany and Great Britian, a.k.a. those paradigms of diplomatic sophistication who do jack-all about anything, dropping yet another poison pill into the situation. They are hopelessly self-righteous.

  5. They are future? Provinces of eurabia (ht baat yeor) of course with deutschland old habits die hard see the ig farben heir

    The armenian azeri conflict was perhaps the first that russia ventures in the post cold war into on the azeri side other parties
    Followed suit like iran

  6. And then there’s the Kevin Klinesmith probation…and Boasberg’s decisions in the FISC/FISA Court.

  9. Regarding (4)

    I like the cut of this Gideon Sa’ar fellow’s jib.
    https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/rising-saar/

    “There are countries that acted, also in this building, to pressure Israel, instead of Hamas, during sensitive days in the negotiations by attacking Israel, campaigning against Israel, and the announcement of a recognition of a virtual Palestinian state. They gave Hamas free gifts and incentives to continue this war. They directly assassinated the hostage deal and cease-fire. Let me be clear: These countries prolonged the war.”

    But does he understand that prolonging the war is far superior to a Jewish victory?

  11. https://x.com/StateDept/status/1953861262225392119

    “Talks with Hamas fell apart on the day Macron made the unilateral decision that he’s going to recognize the Palestinian state … So those messages, while largely symbolic in their minds, actually have made it harder to get peace and harder to achieve a deal with Hamas. ” — @SecRubio

  13. Off topic(s), just wanted to mention: I’ve been super busy and haven’t commented in a while (not that I’m ever a frequent commenter), and maybe someone else has already pointed this out, but for me at least, this site is MUCH faster now in loading pages. So whatever you or the host have done, it’s much appreciated.

  15. “The operation is expected to begin with the capture of Gaza City, with October 7 set as the deadline for civilian evacuation.”

    In other words, Gen. Eyal Zamir is another Oslo fanboi, just like his predecessor. Fantastic, whoulda guessed?

  16. thats probably a harder pull then armenia and azerbaijan

    its very hard to find officers who really understand their mission and are not
    addicted to the oslo paradigm, you would think 30 plus years would dissabuse of one’s delusions, but you would be wrong,

    as with our military those that had a clear view of the adversary are few and far between, they are often addicted to the ‘hearts and minds’ approach, that really had little purchase outside the malayan offensive in the 50s, under Templar, the likes of Milley and Austin,

  19. Jimmy:

    I noticed it too, and since I hadn’t done a thing to speed it up, it must have been the host. Hope it lasts.

  20. Re: “I next hope to bring peace between the Yankees and the Red Sox”

    sdferr:

    You got me there!

    What can’t Trump do? 🙂

  21. They only care about power. They would gladly take the rings offered to them by Sauron and become Ringwraiths.

  22. “I next hope to bring peace between the Yankees and the Red Sox”
    Good luck on achieving peace between the fans of the 2 teams. 🙂

    I had a student teacher in gym class one year who had made a peace of sorts between the two teams, as he had played for both the Yankees and Red Sox. Which satisfied all or none of his students, as the town was split between Yankees and Red Sox fans. Though probably more Red Sox fans.

  23. Gringo, was it in Connecticut? I grew up in Hartford, almost exactly halfway between New York and Boston.

    Though it was never evenly split. When I was a kid the Yanks were in the World Series almost every year and the Bosox were still under the Curse of the Bambino. Nearly everyone was a Yankee fan. Yogi, Mickey and Whitey helped too. Now they’re all Red Sox fans, go figure …

  24. FOAF, northeast CT, so it was more Sox than Yankees—even under the Curse of the Bambino. The “pet peeve” of a friend, as recorded in his high school yearbook, was “watching those Red Sox lose”—obviously before the Impossible Dream year of 1967. At least the Narragansett Beer ads were great!

    I took a class in grad school in TX with a woman whose grandmother had provided room and board for players on the Sox’s New Britain farm team. I don’t recall if her grandmother was the one who had Wade Boggs living at her house, or if Wade Boggs was at the house of a friend of her grandmother. Wade’s “house mother” discovered that he had been cheating on his wife, which prompted the “house mother” to give Wade a talking-to. At least Wade was consistent: philandering in the minors and also in the big leagues.

    My sister lived in the same condo complex as Wade Boggs in the Boston suburbs. The impression I got was that the neighbors left him alone. (He could have afforded a much more expensive place…)

  25. I think (Mike) Nichols and (Elaine) May were behind those classic ads for Narragansett.

  26. I’m not so sure the Palestinians are all that smart. Every time they are on the brink of achieving some goal, they pull a move that sets them right back. Macron offers recognition? Walk out of peace talks.

    Of course this may be by design. When Arafat was offered peace, statehood and everything except the end of Israel, he really had to scramble to mess up the deal.

    Because if the Palestinians get a deal, the money spigot gets turned off.

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