Roundup
(1) A jury decided that throwing a sandwich at a public official doesn’t put him “in fear of bodily harm”:
The jury deliberated for several hours over Wednesday and this afternoon before finding Dunn, a former Justice Department paralegal, not guilty of misdemeanor assault on a federal law enforcement [ICE] officer. The verdict is another high-profile embarrassment for federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia, who have repeatedly failed to win convictions or even indictments against residents accused of obstructing or assaulting federal officers deployed as part of the Trump administration’s occupation of D.C. …
In a statement to Reason, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said, “As always, we accept a jury’s verdict; that is the system within which we function. However, law enforcement should never be subjected to assault, no matter how ‘minor’. Even children know when they are angry, they are not allowed to throw objects at one another.”
True. The principle is that initially the person on the receiving end has no idea what the object is, and it could be dangerous. There also is no question in my mind that had the political party of the sandwich-hurler been the GOP, and the officer a member of the Capitol Police, the defendant would have been convicted. Here the charge was misdemeanor assault, and I think it’s clear that’s exactly what this was.
(2) SCOTUS rules on SNAP payments and issues a stay on a lower court’s order to fully fund SNAP despite Congress’s inaction:
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay on Friday night, in response to the Trump administration’s emergency appeal on the SNAP funding case. …
“The core power of Congress is that of the purse, while the Executive is tasked with allocating limited resources across competing priorities,” the brief reads. “But here, the court below took the current shutdown as effective license to declare a federal bankruptcy and appoint itself the trustee, charged with picking winners and losers among those seeking some part of the limited pool of remaining federal funds.”
(3) CNN pundits pretend the GOP is making stuff up about Mamdani:
(4) The shutdown is resulting in flight cancellations. I have little doubt that regular Democrat voters will blame Republicans, although it’s the Democrats holding out.
(5) Here’s an article claiming links between the current strain of paleoconservative thought represented by Tucker Carlson, and the Ron Paul libertarians of the past.
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Making stuff up about Mamdani, eh?
Seems to me that Mamdani’s been making a lot of stuff up about himself….
To be sure, that really isn’t news.
Neither is this, “unfortunately”….
“Turns out the BBC is now a pro-Hamas, anti-Trump propaganda machine”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/07/opinion/turns-out-the-bbc-is-now-a-pro-hamas-anti-trump-propaganda-machine/
Selected grafs:
The new normal (but at least the Brits haven’t lost their vaunted “sense of humour”…).
Yeah, the sandwich-flinger should have been convicted of a misdemeanor. But at least the occasion caused the clip of the incident to be circulated again, and I find it hilarious: the way he’s playing the angry righteous truth-to-power guy until the instant when he realized that he’s in trouble and scampers away like a cartoon character.
Speaking of Mamdani, who is THIS madman???
“Bandaged-up Biden says son Beau ‘should’ve been the president, not me’ in speech ripping Trump”—
https://nypost.com/2025/11/08/us-news/bandaged-up-biden-says-son-beau-shouldve-been-the-president-not-me-in-speech-ripping-trump/
Oh, golly, how about that! Someone (ha!) found her phone (which she’d gone to so much commotion to lose): https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/417451
As far as making stuff up goes….
“…Conservatives are now pointing to inconsistencies in the New Jersey gubernatorial race after nearly 500,000 new voters appeared from 2021 to 2025, more than double the state’s population growth over four years, with almost all of them going to Democrats.”—
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1986526277214613662?
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
If it’s accurate, just an innocent mistake, no doubt.
Speaking of “finding”, hello: Hamas claims to have found body of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin. Equally disingenuous “find”, as Hamas has had Goldin’s corpse all along, but never misses a cynical opportunity to proudly exhibit their barbarism: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/417463
Brendan O’Neill on Mamdani’s “honesty”…
“Zohran Mamdani’s Ivy League intifada”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/05/zohran-mamdanis-ivy-league-intifada/
H/T Powerline blog.
By the end of the article, O’Neill IS optimistic, but it looks like there’s gonna be a lotta pain before the reason for that optimism actually kicks in…i.e., if it ever does.
A jury decided that throwing a sandwich at a public official doesn’t put him “in fear of bodily harm”:
The DOJ fired Sean Dunn for throwing the sandwich at the policeman. As far as I can tell, he remains fired. Which is some justice.
I’m sure that he has or will find employment with some lefty think tank in the DC area. After all, sandwich-throwing is evidence of a highly developed intellect. 🙂
Barry Meislin
Recall Mamdani’s informing that his justification for saying “Globalize the infitada” is Israel’s occupation of Gaza. Which conveniently ignores that the reason for Israel’s occupation of Gaza is Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which appeared to have massive support among the residents of Gaza.
Look forward to people starting to put stones or glass or the like (or for the really devilishly clever, poisoned or tainted food) in sandwiches and then flinging them at undesirables, hiding behind the idea that it is “just a sandwich” and this precedent shows the victims should not be in fear of their lives. This is similar to why you saw an outbreak of rioters and AntifA thugs filling up milk shake containers with cement and flinging them, so that they would conceal what was really a very nasty, possibly deadly weapon and assault and battery using it by making it look much less damaging than it was.
Gringo, we wouldn’t wanna forget his dear auntie, either…
‘…It has been revealed that the “aunt” Zohran Mamdani shed fake tears over, claiming she stopped riding the subway after 9/11 because she didn’t feel safe wearing her hijab, neither wore a hijab nor lived in New York City at the time; she lived in Tanzania.’—
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1982603332305977560
But you know? None of his lies matter…as long as his dream-weaving machine stays seductive…AND Reality is given the Trump treatment.
I am in Prague, heading to Poland for a week. Some in the tour are having travel disruptions, but so far not me.
“There also is no question in my mind that had the political party of the sandwich-hurler been the GOP, and the officer a member of the Capitol Police, the defendant would have been convicted.
When the rule of law is only applied to one side of the political divide, that side has set itself upon the path that leads to Might makes Right. Which ultimately boils down to which side will prevail when their ‘disagreement’ boils over.
“So much of left-wing though is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”
I assume this is the same trip that had you in Paris earlier SHIREHOME? This is quite a tour.
Pirro might have had a better chance of conviction if her response had been proportionate from the start.
Suspect wants to turn himself in? Pirro sends in 20 armed officers to break down his door and drag him off in handcuffs.
Suspect willing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in exchange for a light sentence?
Prior demands that the grand jury indict him for a felony.
The fact that the grand jury refused to indict him for a felony twice should have warned her to go lightly, but no. When she finally got an indictment for a misdemeanor, she kept insisting on a huge show, when the matter could have been settled quietly. The jury refusing to convict him was a classic case of “juror nullification” against an overzealous prosecuter. She demanded the whole hog, and she got nothing but a handful of pig sh!t.
Hi, Shirehome! Good wishes for that journey for you.
1) I wonder what these jury members’ reactions would be if a defendant threw a sandwich at them.
(3) The smug look on the woman’s face speaks volumes.
(Bandaged-up) Joe Biden is such a kind, decent man; if only he could be re-elected like Trump!
I hope you are enjoying your trip, SHIREHOME!
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/09/the-first-circuit-is-not-a-dennys/
SNAP snafus: disparate courts, disparate plaintiffs, disparate respondents, disparate handlings, yet oddly similar thumbs on scales, eh wot?
Let’s add a fubar to the count of insanities underway today: https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-idf-legal-chief-hospitalized-police-ask-court-to-apply-house-arrest-conditions/
Released to “house arrest” Friday, now one week after her first purported “suicide” attempt (by drowning?), she’s back in hospital with yet another (by sleeping pills?). Clownshow doesn’t begin to describe the Israeli judicial arrangements.
Mike and Gadi discuss “The iPhone Suicide”, Israel Update (1:39:46): https://youtu.be/PWTawP0rhxY
Judges and clerks (minions) don’t like a constitutional republic. Power corrupts.
You sound so eminently reasonable BJ. But just turn that scenario around on the parties. Dems have done all those things and get away with it – night-time raids, wild overcharging, “show” trials etc. Not necessarily claiming that automatically means it is what Pirro should have done but I’m not going to smugly tut-tut about it. The reason for the acquittal was the venue and jury, not Pirro’s tactics.
“turns-out-the-bbc-is-now-a-pro-hamas-anti-trump-propaganda-machine”
I question that, because it implies there was a “before” time when they were not.
BJ full of BS? Inconceivable.
It looks like a deal has been struck to end the Schumer shutdown. John Hinderaker of powerlineblog says the Republicans did not give away the store. From his lips to God’s ear. He does tend to be optimistic though.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/the-schumer-shutdown-is-over.php
@FOAF,
Really? Name a case where a GOP suspect threw something at a guard and was charged with a felony by a Dem prosecutor. I’ll wait.
@Om,
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. 😉 *
*For those out there who are scratching their heads, this is a running joke from “The Princess Bride”.