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The Chief Justice Takes On the President
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scumbag-Eric Holder-Led Group Releases
State Target List Leading Up to 2020
by Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ A group focused on congressional redistricting efforts backed by President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and led by former attorney general scumbag-Eric Holder... a potential Democratic presidential contender, released a map of the states the organization will target leading up to the 2020 elections. The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a Washington, D.C.-based group founded in 2016 that focuses on "Republican gerrymandering", sent an email to supporters this week with a "sneak peek" of the states the group will focus on in the upcoming years. "Friend—As a longtime supporter of the NDRC, we wanted you to be one of the first to see our map of 2019-2020 targets," the fundraising email reads. "We have red states, blueish states, and purple states on our list—but they're all states where we need to stop or prevent Republican gerrymandering." "And there's no time to lose. The 2019 and 2020 elections begin NOW, and Republicans are already working to reverse Democrats' 2018 gains."....
Dem Congresswoman Joins Migrant Caravan
for Border Crossing, Helps Five Asylum Seekers
by Aryssa Damron
{freebeacon.com} ~ Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) joined the migrant caravan on Saturday in their attempt to cross the border... condemning President Donald Trump for "creating the crisis." She said she was able to help five asylum seekers gain access to the United States. "I was able to successfully assist 5 asylum seekers – 2 unaccompanied minors, a mother and her 9 year old child, and a young man with a serious medical condition – into the United States," she wrote in a tweet.The five people she assisted were initially denied entry. "Initially they were denied, in violation of U.S. and international law, but I was able to intervene and ensure that they could simply present themselves for asylum in the United States," she said in a followup tweet. Before she went to the border, Jayapal blasted Trump for "lying" about the caravan and creating a crisis for his own political benefit. "The president is lying about this caravan, he’s fear mongering," Jayapal said. "He’s trying to use people who are seeking asylum and literally running from death just for his own political benefit and that’s a disgrace. He is creating a crisis at the border."... Pramila Jayapal is lying and she broke the law. https://freebeacon.com/politics/dem-jayapal-joins-migrant-caravan-for-border-crossing-helps-5-asylum-seekers-enter-u-s/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=a7d264c96c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_03_02_14_COPY_129&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-a7d264c96c-45611665 .
Top Senate Intelligence Committee Dem Says
They Have Sent ‘A Number Of Referrals’
To dirty cop-Mueller
by Henry Rodgers
{dailycaller.com} ~ Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner said the Senate Intelligence Committee has sent a number of referrals to special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller... in a Sunday interview. “It signals one, that if you lie to Congress, and I was with our chairman, Chairman Richard Burr, on Friday when he said, ‘If you lie to Congress, we’re going to go after you. We’re going to make sure that gets referred.’ And we’ve made a number of referrals,” Warner, the committee’s ranking member, said on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” when asked about President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty Thursday to lying to Congress. This comes two days after North Carolina GOP Sen. Burr said the committee had made referrals to dirty cop-Mueller, in regards to the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.“We have made referrals to the special prosecutor,” Burr said at a forum held at the University of Texas in Austin Friday. “One instance just highlighted of late, is that the special prosecutor is using the transcripts of interviews that we have used in our committee to indict somebody for lying to Congress.”... Why didn't you send the referrals to the DOJ? https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/02/mark-warner-senate-intel-referrals-to-mueller/?utm_medium=email.
Victor Davis Hanson: We Haven't Had A Legal Accounting Of scumbag-Comey, scumbag/commie-Brennan & scumbag-Clapper And It's Coming
by Ian Schwartz
{realclearpolitics.com} ~ Columnist and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson said the verdict is "not out" for the scumbag/liar-nObama-era DOJ officials... after their use of the infamous Russian dossier. Davis noted 8 to 10 FBI officials have been retired or reassigned or facing indictment. Hanson also warned Wednesday night it's "not over" former FBI director scumbag-James Comey, former CIA director scumbag/commie-John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence scumbag-James Clapper because the dossier, put together by a foreign national, was used to open investigations and get FISA warrants. "It's not over because we are looking at a situation where a presidential candidate hired a foreign national to find dirt on her opponent in that dossier was seeded among top officials of the scumbag/liar-nObama administration," Hanson told FOX News host Laura Ingraham...
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Roger Stone: ‘I Engaged In Politics,’ Not Crime
by Pam Key
{breitbart.com} ~ Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” political consultant Roger Stone said he engaged in politics during the 2016 presidential campaign... and not crime, as he has been accused. Stone said, “It is now two years in over $30 million. I think few Americans could withstand the kind of legal proctological examination that Mr. dirty cop-Mueller has put me under.”He continued, “Today there is still no evidence whatsoever of Russian collusion between the Russian state and the Trump campaign involving Wikileaks or not involving Wikileaks.” When asked if he communicated with Julian Assange, Stone said no. He added, “Where is the crime? I engaged in politics. My purpose was to take a tip, which I thought to be solid, and then, after that, to follow the Wikileaks’ Twitter feed and set a Google news alert for Julian Assange and use Twitter to hype as much voter and media attention to the disclosures when they came as politics. You were in this business once. that’s called politics.” https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/12/02/roger-stone-i-engaged-in-politics-not-crime/
VIDEO at the site.
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The Chief Justice Takes On the President
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ When Donald Trump became president, he swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and enforce federal laws "faithfully." James Madison, who was the scrivener at the Constitutional Convention, insisted on using the word "faithfully" in the presidential oath and including the oath in the body of the Constitution because he knew that presidents would face the temptation to disregard laws they dislike.
The employment of the word "faithfully" in the presidential oath is an unambiguous reminder to presidents that they must enforce federal laws as they are written, not as presidents may wish them to be. Earlier this month, Trump succumbed to Madison's feared temptation, and last week, a federal judge corrected him. Then an uproar ensued.
Here is the back story.
Federal immigration laws, as well as treaties to which the United States is a party, require that foreigners who are seeking asylum here may enter the United States across any border they can reach, whether at a designated portal or not. If they have not entered through a designated portal, they can be brought, without a warrant, to a portal for processing.
The feds must process all asylum applications from migrants who make prima-facie cases for asylum. Once an application has been made, the feds may release the migrant as President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama did into the general population, or they may detain the migrant as President Trump has done, pending a trial before a federal immigration judge.
At the trial, the migrant has the burden of proving worthiness for asylum. That worthiness can be based only on government animosity toward the migrant or government failure to protect human rights and enforce property rights in the home country. If the migrant prevails at trial, asylum is granted, and a green card is issued. If not, deportation follows.
On Nov. 9, President Trump issued a proclamation directing the Border Patrol to deny entry to all migrants, including those with legitimate asylum claims, unless they come through government portals where Border Patrol personnel are present to address their applications. Though this sounds reasonable, it directly contradicts federal law, which expressly permits migrants to enter the U.S. anywhere.
When groups of migrants challenged Trump's order in federal court in San Francisco, Judge Jon Tigar prevented the government from complying with the president's proclamation. The judge did not make any value judgments, nor was he critical of the president's motivation. Rather, he ruled that the law is clear: Immigrants seeking asylum may enter anywhere, and the president cannot change federal law; only Congress can.
Trump dismissed Judge Tigar's ruling as meritless because the judge was appointed to the bench by former President scumbag/liar-nObama. The implication in Trump's words was that Judge Tigar ruled against him for political reasons. In reality, Judge Tigar did what any judge would do; he prevented the president from changing federal law and required him to enforce the immigration laws as Congress has written them -- and to do so faithfully.
Trump should not be surprised when judges rule against him when he takes the law into his own hands. He cannot close the border without an act of Congress and a lawful withdrawal from two treaties. He cannot refuse to accept asylum-seekers based on where they enter. He cannot use the military to enforce immigration laws -- his own secretary of defense called this a "stunt" -- without violating other federal laws.
Judge Tigar did not necessarily inject his personal ideology into his ruling any more than the "Trump judge" who ruled for CNN and against the president did last week; he merely applied long-standing federal law. There is no room for ideology at the trial level. I know that personally from my own experience as a trial judge in New Jersey.
Shortly after Trump publicly blasted Judge Tigar, Chief Justice John Roberts came publicly to Tigar's defense. The chief justice announced that there are no scumbag/liar-nObama or Trump or Bush or scumbag/liar-Clinton judges, just hardworking defenders of the Constitution. That comment was met by two more from Trump, who disputed it directly.
Who is correct?
There is no question that many federal judges are nominated by presidents because of shared views on public policy. But though this is ordinarily the case for appellate judges and, in the modern era, is always the case for Supreme Court justices, it is rarely the case for trial judges, of which Judge Tigar is one.
Trial judges do not make public policy. They apply statutes as written by Congress, pursuant to precedent as set forth by the Supreme Court and the intermediate appellate court to which they are subject.
Yet we know that there is a kernel of truth in the president's accusation and that there is a kernel of tongue in cheek in the chief justice's contention. Surely, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would view Judge Tigar's ruling more favorably than Justice Samuel Alito would. Ginsburg, a scumbag/liar-Clinton appointee, would probably interpret the law literally, and Alito, a George W. Bush appointee, would probably give the president some wiggle room.
Yet the spectacle of the president and the chief justice disputing constitutional values is not a happy one. Here's why. Under the Constitution, the three branches of the federal government -- legislative, executive and judicial -- are equals. Yet the judiciary has the final say on the meaning of the Constitution and the laws. The judicial branch is anti-democratic. Federal judges shouldn't care what the public thinks. Their job is to apply the Constitution and interpret federal laws as they have been written, come what may.
For these reasons, federal judges and justices have life tenure. They do not need and should not seek public approval. And they should not enter public disputes -- other than by their judicial rulings -- for by doing so, they can appear as political as those in the other two branches.
Comments
Bonnie
You got it. I was wondering who would get it. The judge needs to bush up
defend the country against foreign invasion and the pres can close the border and the country to anyone he wants IT IS OUR COUNTRY .
defend the country against foreign invasion and the pres can close the border and the country to anyone he wants IT IS OUR COUNTRY .
defend the country against foreign invasion and the pres can close the border and the country to anyone he wants IT IS OUR COUNTRY .
defend the country against foreign invasion and the pres can close the border and the country to anyone he wants IT IS OUR COUNTRY .