Well laid out article on the current state of affairs. And the fact that the far left (largely funded by their favorite billionaire, Soros) is trying its best to destroy Elon Musk and Tesla by inciting violence against his dealerships and Tesla owners, is the height of hypocrisy.
Reid Hoffman is another big Dem spender supporting Soros's causes which filters money to several activist groups. With Elon now in the business of determining where money comes from and goes to, he should be able to determine who's organizing the Tesla (Musk) protests.
Invisible has long been an astro-turf demonstration player. They organize a lot of the local demonstrations that appeal to the same groups of people here.
OMG, it the RACE card again. Nope, Julia, you just played the Joker card again.
Will wishing anyone a Happy Easter now be an "antisemiitc trophe too. Democrats no longer control the language, but you did have a good Saul Alinksy run with that in the past few years. Until you didn't, and yet again over-played your hand.
WIKI: The Rules (For Radicals - Saul Alinksy)
"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
"Never go outside the experience of your people."
"Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy."
"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
"A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."
"Keep the pressure on."
"The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
"The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
"If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative."
"The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
David, as always your writing is great. As you point out, Democrats are quick to criticize Trump and Musk as threats to democracy while failing to respect the democratic process. Trump has a mandate to act on the will of the American people who elected him. He is acting on the campaign promises which got him elected and this is democracy in action. To a Democrat, a threat to easy government money is synonymous with a threat to democracy. Their sacred cow is their cash cow, the government, and oh how they squeal when the trough runs dry. This is why I never refer to Democrats as belonging to the Democratic party but instead to the Democrat party to avoid the implication that they might believe in democracy.
Hello Jeff Barton, I decided to post here a very good "Discussion" on the UNLAWFUL
Universal Injunctions that is clearly an ABUSE OF DUE PROCESS. Elon just posted this
very good discussion, 4 hours ago, that summarizes the serious Weaponization of the Universal Injunctions by Corrupt Attorneys using "Judicial Forum Shopping" before the Judges in the 94 Federal "DISTRICT" Courts see weblink below for these FED-COURTS>
Elon's post has gotten over 4 Million views in just 4 hours and David McCalmont's article in the SB Current has received 89 Posts which would indicate that we all are VERY CONCERNED about the ABUSE OF OUR AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM where that ABUSE OF DUE PROCESS may have started here in California Courts, the largest Judicial System in the US, that has a F Judicial Rating for Accountability and Transparency weblink below>
Excellent analysis of the fundamental issues that are ongoing right now. Drawing the lines between Big Government which can expand unchecked forever, and Limited Government which requires no small part of temperance and personal accountability.
The very discussion we need to be having right now, through this current din of personal greed driving the Big Government howls. What better time for this discussion than our upcoming 250th Anniversary. With the US Constitution in one hand and The Federalist Papers in another, a time for national recommitment. Thank you.
Judges are government employees too. Court staff are government employee union members. Internal labor peace plays a controlling role in our court system today too.
We have several countries who want to destroy us and China may have 100 million soldiers and more land than they should. The biased court system is protecting people who are not citizens. I'm not against families coming here but any single male should be vetted.
I read this article on Justice titled "District Judges Are the Real “Threat to Democracy”
by David McCalmont. America is the only Country that has our Justice System and
if we lose it we no longer have a country. I have a supporting title "Judges Who Depart
From the Essential Requirements of the Law Destroy American Justice"
I have warned SB Currentor's about the Santa Barbara So-Called Leaders and in particular
the Judges who determine Justice to it's Community. One such Judge who was the Assistant
Presiding Judge and the Presiding Judge of the SB Courts, Michael Carrozzo, has a serious Complaint, 6 Misconduct Counts, before Judicial Commission on Performance weblink below>
"The commission determined that Judge Adams’s conduct constituted a lack of
candor as well as violations of Government Code section 68725..." "They also constituted
violations of the judge’s duties to cooperate with judicial and lawyer disciplinary agencies
(canon 3D(4));" AND "Judge Adams also received an earlier private admonishment in 1993, for ordering that a pro se family law litigant be taken into custody for two days, without a contempt
hearing. The commission found that Judge Adams’s conduct constituted “an egregious
violation of due process.”
These egregious violations of the Due Process by SB Judges of Santa Barbara Citizens is much much worse than anyone can possibly imagine and seems to be a "Pattern of Practice" not only in Santa Barbara but in the United States.
As Mr. McCalmont stated "Every Democrat-appointed federal district judge who grants broad nationwide injunctions against executive orders is a direct assault against the democratic process."
In Santa Barbara the SB Judges have granted 100's of Unlawful Emergency Injunctions
as in the recent Federal Cases as noted in this Article by Mr. McCalmont.
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1- GOV Newsom Appoints 18 New Democrat Judges in CALI ALL DEMOCRATS>
Sure Howard, Newsom stood by as NGO’s and their foot soldiers to the Dems try to impose their will, funding a massive Rainbow agenda. All while radical judges have their back.
What bullshit. I take it you never complained when district judges stopped some of Biden's executive orders. Pure hypocrisy on your part. And willing to tear down the rule of law and constitution to feed your ideology.
True, injunctions were issued during Biden’s four year term, but at a remarkably lower rate. ### Comparison
- Biden: ~14 injunctions over 4 years (roughly 3.5 per year) vs. Trump Second Term: ~14–15 injunctions in ~2 months Trump’s second term is seeing a dramatically higher rate of injunctions—about 24 times Biden’s annual average. Clearly, activist judges have always existed but have been activated under Trump 47.
BHV: Few of us complained when judges were forced to stop on multiple times, Biden's illegal student loan forgiveness, aka Democrat vote buying, schemes. You are right on that issue.
The comment - Donald Trump seeking to keep a campaign promise to eliminate federal funding.... - Is massively true.
The previous administration handed out taxpayer money to prejudiced NGO's like water. It propped up groups and political "buddies" and kept an out of control stock market inflated far beyond what the Capitalist System can support. To make sure they could continue the graft called political money from the taxpayers wallet they used activist judges to defend them from going to jail...
"These people's backs are against the wall. They are exposed, weak, and vulnerable." As the overhaul of government to be lean and mean continues the protests will continue. How many of these protestors have money directly or with family tied to government grants or payroll?
It is immoral to do what Sacramento has done with minimum wages. How many jobs have been lost to mechanization? How many stores have closed because only massive franchise businesses can afford to pay that inflation?
There you go, they get away with it with Judges at the Superior Court and Appeals Court level. To fight the above conditions takes years and appeal dollars.
Love the spotlight on decades of "old boy" politics.
Which brings us back to our own local "Community Environmental Center" dedicated to training Spanish language "environmental activists". Was this one of Biden's green boondoggle funding schemes?
I recall reading there were 59 million small businesses in America, which could be pitted against the 23 million government employees at election time. Democrats chose two options for their own election survival: (1) grow the numbers of government employees; and (2) destroy small businesses.
Goleta Old Town crushing the middle class businesses and who's pocket? Government workers, and contractors who are hired to do the dirty work. Did I mention the skim from contracts so that they pay for government workers that are already being paid?
Tragically, a hugh ravenous monster has been created in the form of NGO’s and now it’s extremely difficult to put it back in the bottle. The author is correct in asserting that a “protected class” has been created and now Rouge Judges are doing their bidding at the expense of the taxpaying public.
Something has got to give…and fast. The stock market is negatively responding to the uncertainty, and 401k balances are showing it.
Still waiting, impatiently now, for the “golden age” to begin!
I contend the stock market is responding to bratty, obstructionist Democrats protecting their own current fingers in the taxpayer pie.
There is national shock over the acts of clearly partisan and petulant Democrat-appointed activist judges. Markets do not like this highly intrusive level of partisan judicial caprice.
Add to this the coalition of states including California, who created a tax dollar-funded multi-million dollar war chest to initiate Cloward- Pivens princple lawfare in order to "Trump Proof" their own states
These renegade activists/Judges remind me of the old kid show on Saturday mornings, “School House Rock…”Injunction Junction, What’s Your Function!” The “function” being to cause as much confusion, conflict and mayhem as possible. This is what the left does.
Musk is an unelected, unconfirmed, no security clearance individual that is breaking the law every day and is only in this position because he bought Trump with his billions of dollars. He is trying to be president, congress and the courts all in one.
CB: Valerie Jarrett was unelected. (aka "The Night Stalker" due to her unfettered access to the Obama's private quarters after hours, as special assistant in the Obama Whitehouse.) Musk has had top security clearance for years due to this government contract work with SpaceX. No laws are being broken by Musk and his assigned DOGE project. No one "buys" Trump; nor Musk. Musk is an exceptional multitasker. What is your real agenda trying to string that long list of lies together here?
CB: That is the whole point. Obama/Biden should have been impeached for doing what they did do to this country. And in Biden's case, what he didn't do. We could only wish they had undertaken 10% of what is unfolding right now.
Ignoring 12 years of exploding government budgets and public debt, unchecked growth of power and reach of government itself and now documenting they exercised zero cost accountability and agency oversight is impeachable. Investigating and documenting government waste, fraud, abuse and inefficiencies is not impeachable.
What Trump/DOGE is doing right now is exactly what 2024 voters knew would happen up front and demanded that it take place - this was all put on the table before a single 2024 vote was cast.
Not sure where your arguments to the contrary are coming from. Border security and taming the expansive costs and reach of Big Government/the deep state were the top issues 2024 voters supported.
If you want more background on what 2024 voters supported see if you can find all four nights of the RNC Nominating Convention - all the details for MAWA, MASA, MAHA, and MAGA were all presented for full voter disclosures, with no other hidden agenda.
PS: It was Democrats in the last Trump #45 administration that made "impeachment" a laughable, political theater joke. That remains and should be a very serious charge.
Biden was investigated and nothing illegal was found. The witnesses were convicted of lying to the FBI. Sorry but Trump not only deserved impeachment but if McConnel had a backbone they would have convicted him too. The Senate knew he was guilty but said, "Let the courts deal with him". he is a lying crook, always has been.
Wow…another uniformed narrative follower. Reality is quite different. DOGE is disrupting the funding streams of a faction within the cabal, which is why there is such intense pushback…sad the 17% of the population still regurgitates the storylines peddled by Legacy Media. The 14 magic money machines discovered by DOGE are the tip of the iceberg. There may be 100-1000 times US Dollars in circulation than official accounted. Good time to buy Gold & SILVER (real money). Good luck…
Many fear losing income if it comes from the government. Try taking a pigs slop and you will get bit. If you succeed the pig will squeal. Did you see all of the squealers at the Tesla dealership?
This article is another idiotic rant by a person who lacks principles.
No one is stopping the administration from governing. They are stopping the administration from breaking the $^%# law. Using the absurd logic in this waste of pixels article, if Trump's agenda were to kill 10mm people in the US, you would be OK with it.
If you don't like the laws, the remedy is to CHANGE the laws. The remedy is not to ignore the laws.
DB: Huh? Best to stay focused on the topic at hand. No, no one would support Trump (your cartoon version of Trump, I suspect) if he said kill 10 million people. Where do you get this stuff? Seriously.
The laws are in the process of getting changed. And lower trial court rulings are getting appealed. Stay tuned.
BTW: You do realize much of this current Democrat lawfare is at the TRO/preliminary injunction stage. There have been no trials, let alone verdicts on any of the current issues Democrats are bringing to their selected forums. Save your powder.
"In every way of assessing the outcome of the last election, there is no doubt that Trump/Vance, the Republican Party, and America First policies were victorious.
They should be permitted to govern."
That is the premise of this absurd rant. The author is proclaiming that courts are NOT allowing the administration to govern. And the masses in here are supporting the premise. It is ABSURD.
The courts are doing what their role in the constitution entails. If the administration does not want to see the courts, do not break the #$%^ laws. It is really simple. Arguing that a judge is ruling against the administration because of who put them in place is absurd. Judges, regardless of their leanings have found the administration to be breaking the laws.
So again, the logic that the author is spewing is that they do not want judges to STOP the administration from breaking the law. That is it. So, again, if Trump wants to kill 10mm people, do you not want the judges to stop that? It is against the law.
We are a country of laws. The current administration seems hell bent on ignoring them when it suits them, using them when it benefits them. They are not for law and order, they are for rule by tyranny.
DB: You realize there are no laws broken since these are TRO/Preliminary induction cases at this stage only. We do have three separate branches of government, not just one. Courts do not have the power to run the Executive Branch, nor even the powers to impose or enforce their orders created in response to a TRO.
Their role is to adjudicate disputes, not create policy or extralegal mandates. Settle down until SCOTUS sorts out this dispute between two branches of the government, if the third Legislative Branch does not get their first.
Take a look at what Alexander Hamilton wrote about the role of the Judiciary for more balanced insights into where this will may end up. Right now, this is an federal inter-branch dispute. Kagen and Barrett have been sending our veiled messages about the court's general thinking already on these legal matters. Have you read them.
You seem very invested in this TDS "convicted felon" line of attack, when no Trump case is settled until the final appeal has been exhausted . Which has happened in none of the lawfare charge drummed up against Trump.
Please, do not preach that you understand how our branches work while spouting ignorance about them. The judges were presented a case to them. Then the determination of STANDING was looked into. Once that STANDING was determined, the judges heard the case from both sides. The JUDGE ruled. That is it. There is your judicial system at work.
Now, because the administration LOST, they have the right to APPEAL the decision. The JUDGE, knowing this is going to happen, to help PUSH this case faster, gave a time frame for the TRO. That TRO protects both the defense and the prosecution. Nothing is going to be harmed during the TRO. NOTHING. Now, the appeals court can hear the case and RULE. If you notice, the ONE case that the administration won, two of the appeals judges felt that the party that brought the case did not have standing. The lower court was OVERRULED by the appeals court. That case has to be refiled by someone who has STANDING. The appeals court did NOT validate the administration's position. But in the case where the administration keeps losing, then the SC can decide if they want to TAKE the case. They can leave the ruling in place. Getting the SC to take a case is not a right, but a privilege and one that they determine if they want to take the case.
Your argument and this waste of pixels author wants to complete gut and destroy our judicial system to suit their wants. Damn the laws! Damn the procedures!
If the administration wins, it wins. That is how the judicial system is set up. If they lose, well, they lose. Of course, the posters in this thread will call for them to be executed, impeached, removed, castrated, hung and quartered.
Now, regarding what is 'leaked,' I do not play that game. I am not a clarevoyant, nor do I read tea leaves. I will wait for the ruling. Until then, it is all speculation.
DB: For your viewing pleasure. And everyone else who is also following this current lawfare weapon of choice: federal district court uses of the "universal injunction"
John Kennedy asks penetrating questions that deserve answers and he got them: there is no such thing as a federal district court "universal injunction". We shall both await SCOTUS for a final determination.
JL, perhaps Mr, Bergersen was referring to the quote found below, though the 10 million seems a tad much. These types of statements from Trump leads to his cartoonish image.
On Jan. 23, 2016, Donald Trump was campaigning in Iowa when he made a remarkable announcement: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
PS: Maybe you would like to update this to Musk's "Nazi Salute" and Trump's claim "he was going to be a dictator" (on day one).We have been down this road with these false claims so many times already and we can go one on one, but why waste your time and everyone else's.
There is a tag team here under various names who have already plowed this same turf, ad nauseam. Unless, we are really seeing a bot still stuck on the first 2016 Trump election?
Gosh, you mean from 2015/16 which was as a clear joke in light of his clear popularity in a large GOP field .... with these people, they have nothing new under the sun to complain about. I hope they all start reading Babylon Bee,and see if they can get their humorless Democrat heads cleared.
There are so many lemmings in this thread along with the author that have no clue as to what they write and the meaning of words.
These judges WERE elected. The judges had to go through confirmation hearings and be voted on. The president did not just say, "Hey, Joe, you are now a judge in the ninth circuit."
Federal judges are appointed. And go through a set confirmation process by our elected representatives. Underscoring indeed why............elections matter, when our elected representatives determine the make-up of the federal judiciary. Tempered by the express charge the Legislature shall have the sole power to create (and by way of extension dissolve) federal district courts.
The Federal Judges WERE elected. Words matter. They may not be elected by the population, but they WERE elected. Boasburg was elected by a 96 to ZERO vote in the Senate.
Now that you are moving the goal posts, yet again, and showing with great transparency YOUR agenda, you are correct. Congress can do a lot to effectively kill a district. The power of the purse string gives them that right. It would be an interesting case to see if they stopped funding the judges, then a case comes in, of course, by the judges, how the other judges would rule on this. I suspect they would stick up for the judges, and thus, congress' act would be deemed unconstitutional.
You show that you only care about the results of the ruling, not law and order. You are showing that you want fascism and authoritarianism instead of democracy. You are showing that you do not adhere to the constitution.
There are lots of rulings that judges have made that have been appealed to SCOTUS and their rulings I disagree with. However, I live with them. I work to have the law changed so that the outcome that SCOTUS ruled on would be illegal. I understand their role, do you?
DB: I commend a good, thorough reading of the various WSJ articles today. (April 1, 2025 - WSJ being no friend of Trump) regarding the current state of the organized partisan lawfare against the Trump administration.
The various articles and opinion pieces set out the state of the current litigation (TRO's), the failure of the plaintiff bonding requirements in all of them. Plus a good description of the calculated and highly frenetic actions by this Democrat state Attorney Generals coalition who are working in close concert to disrupt this current administration. Funded no less by California taxpayers to the tune of $25 million dollars for our state's share with the stated mission to "Trump Proof" California.
SCOTUS is the proper jurisdiction for resolution of these current conflicts between the judicial branch with its multiple lower district courts authoritarian and unbonded intrusions into the autonomy of executive branch at this particular time. A teaching moment for all.
Any true legal scholar finds this is an exhilarating time; not a timet to browbeat and insult valid discussions into these critical constitutional interpretations of our governing documents. Carry on.
When you start out a response with a lie, the rest of the premise falls apart.
The WSJ is owned by Murdoch. Murdoch has done nothing but promote Trump. He has a WHOLE network dedicated to promoting Trump.
Every state, regardless of who the administration is, will contest the actions of the administration. Again, you are showing that you have NO @!#^ principles, just demanding that YOUR opinions/beliefs are the only ones that matter. You did not complain when the republican AGs went after Biden or Obama. You just want to complain when democratic AGs go after Trump.
See, if you cared about the rule of law, you would WELCOME these challenges. I welcomed them when they went after Biden. Why? Because I do not want a dictator. I do not want a society free of laws. I do not want a society free of checks and balances. MOB rule sucks.
"SCOTUS is the proper jurisdiction for resolution of these current conflicts between the judicial branch with its multiple lower district courts authoritarian and unbonded intrusions into the autonomy of executive branch at this particular time. A teaching moment for all."
Such a odd response. The lower district courts are not acting unbounded. They are within the law. The lower court is not acting authoritarian, they are within the law. Yes, this is a TEACHING MOMENT FOR YOU.
Were you OK when the lower courts stopped Biden from student loan relief?
DB: Spare us the hyperventilation and chill out on slow-talking Louisiana Senator John Kennedy delving into these critical issues in Congressional testimony: Is there such a thing as a lower federal district court "universal injunction"?
One could make the case, sadly, that the Republican Party is the threat to democracy. Where were their legal challenges like we are seeing now, when our country was being invaded? Not one that I recall, they sat on their hands. Where are their laws, and legal challenges to this absurd judicial coup now? Thune is posting about his grandkids, all the Republicans have done so far is post about fluff while this is going on. They need to start acting like Democrats. Stick together. Get tough. Take the gloves off. Posting fluff on X while activists posing as judges assume the role of unelected President is a threat to democracy. Get it done, or we'll create a new third party to do it for them.
Very good point made about the "uniparty" Republicans who have allowed the country to get to this point. Hopefully Trump with his team of people will be able to make a turn around and get us back on track.
I still have hope but at this point am not too optimistic, I feel like the Republicans put up a show of support knowing all the time their Dem buddies will stop things like they are and the Republicans will shout and scream and make posts on X but not really do anything about it. Hope I am wrong.
Yes we have less than 24 months to codify what is needed, voter ID, reign in activist judges and more after than who knows. If they win the Supereme court vote in Wisconsin tomorrow, we will lose control in mid terms. GOP knew this for months but only freaked out a few days ago. Go figure.
No freak out needed, only a slow and steady move to the goal posts. Nothing can hang by that slender of a thread. And it is does, everyone should have freaked out a long time ago.
Agree to disagree. If they Win Wisconsin tomorrow, they will re draw boundaries and control that swing state for years, and we will lose control of the house in 2026. The house would immediately try to impeach trump and we are right back to where we were during his first term. If we relax about things like this, while the Dems are pushing hard, we will sit by and watch it all come undone. We must win Wisconsin tomorrow, if so we may have 4 years to get things permanent. If we lose tomorrow, we will have two years to try. That's a big deal. We gotta keep our eye on the ball, no time to relax now. The Dem's are not relaxing. Neither can we.
SCOTUS, via Kagen and Barrett, sent two indirect messages revealing their own overview of the current situation: Eg: What is going on at the district court level is legal madness; and stay within the proper procedural model of appeals to reach final adjudication at the US Supreme Court level.
They did put turtles under the lampposts in from of the US Supreme Court building suggesting the road to justice nerds to be slow and steady. Savor every moment we are getting right now in our very needed civics lesson- and why it is always best for all to avoid mob justice for any side of this current political divide.
We can wait to get it right for all concerned, including our own futures when there is another a shift in political power.
If the Federal judges don't hold Criminal Trump accountable for his lawlessness, who will? We have a constitution and The Crimson Coward just uses it for toilet paper. I just wonder if the people here supporting donOLD got all moist and horny when BenedictDonald gave his microphone a blowjob? My advice: Stop taking your daily disinfectant injection....
Many of the current students in our law school. Are being indoctrinated in liberal left wing ideology. There needs to be a strong check and balance system. That prevents political judges instilling their political agendas on the governance of our country. Also politics should not be part of the curriculum in our law schools.
Mark, sounds like the seeds to start a new law school student discussion club.
Off the top of my head, the Hoover Institution, Brownstone Institute and even the locally based Young America Foundation could be able to help - speakers, topics, research. The Madison Foundation at Princeton University is another good contact, to help counter the liberal bias found in too many colleges today.
Understanding where the lines drawn can or should be drawn between legal strict construction and activist legal interpretations should be fundamental before you graduate.
"Brownstone Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded May 2021. Its vision is of a society that places the highest value on the voluntary interaction of individuals and groups while minimizing the use of violence and force including that which is exercised by public or private authorities. This vision is that of the Enlightenment which elevated learning, science, progress, and universal rights to the forefront of public life. Presently, it is constantly threatened by ideologies and systems that would take the world back to before the triumph of the ideal of freedom."
"Our Mission
Young America’s Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values."
"The Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank, values peace, individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. It seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace. "
It's all enlightenment slop, there is nothing to defend here except the same liberal values that created the mess we are in. "Enlightenment which elevated learning, science, progress, and universal rights" this is the root of the modern errors we deal with, without this first error there is no "wokism", "DEI", or "CRT".
Well laid out article on the current state of affairs. And the fact that the far left (largely funded by their favorite billionaire, Soros) is trying its best to destroy Elon Musk and Tesla by inciting violence against his dealerships and Tesla owners, is the height of hypocrisy.
Not just Soros.
Reid Hoffman is another big Dem spender supporting Soros's causes which filters money to several activist groups. With Elon now in the business of determining where money comes from and goes to, he should be able to determine who's organizing the Tesla (Musk) protests.
Invisible has long been an astro-turf demonstration player. They organize a lot of the local demonstrations that appeal to the same groups of people here.
OMG, it the RACE card again. Nope, Julia, you just played the Joker card again.
Will wishing anyone a Happy Easter now be an "antisemiitc trophe too. Democrats no longer control the language, but you did have a good Saul Alinksy run with that in the past few years. Until you didn't, and yet again over-played your hand.
WIKI: The Rules (For Radicals - Saul Alinksy)
"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
"Never go outside the experience of your people."
"Whenever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy."
"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
"A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."
"Keep the pressure on."
"The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
"The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
"If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative."
"The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
Alinsky: Rules for Radicals = Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Julia, can you clarify your statement please? I am a little lost with what you mean. Thank you.
Poor George S, he seems to be everyone's favorite boogeyman.
Here is another take on his long global reach during "covid" (Trust but verify this source, like you always do): https://caldronpool.com/new-covid-censorship-bombshells-expose-the-far-lefts-weaponisation-of-fact-checking/#google_vignette
David, as always your writing is great. As you point out, Democrats are quick to criticize Trump and Musk as threats to democracy while failing to respect the democratic process. Trump has a mandate to act on the will of the American people who elected him. He is acting on the campaign promises which got him elected and this is democracy in action. To a Democrat, a threat to easy government money is synonymous with a threat to democracy. Their sacred cow is their cash cow, the government, and oh how they squeal when the trough runs dry. This is why I never refer to Democrats as belonging to the Democratic party but instead to the Democrat party to avoid the implication that they might believe in democracy.
Hello Mr. Jeff Barton as you state "Their sacred cow is their cash cow, the government, and oh how they squeal when the trough runs dry."
FOLLOW THE FED-GOVY MONEY TO SB & YOU HAVE EMBEZZLEMENT CALORE.
Hello Jeff, Former AG Barr just weighed in on RECENT UNLAWFUL INJUNCTIONS
placed before Cherrie-Picked FED Activist Judges see weblink below>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xn7uSOL7YE&ab_channel=FoxNews
PER AG BARR>IN MATTERS OF NATIONAL SECURITY, THE PRESIDENT HAS FULL AUTHORITY
ANY NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMS IN SANTA BABRARA?
ANY TERRORISM & SEXUAL PREDATORS IN SANTA BARBARA? SEE WEBLINK BELOW>
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1906703745158660177
Hello Jeff Barton, I decided to post here a very good "Discussion" on the UNLAWFUL
Universal Injunctions that is clearly an ABUSE OF DUE PROCESS. Elon just posted this
very good discussion, 4 hours ago, that summarizes the serious Weaponization of the Universal Injunctions by Corrupt Attorneys using "Judicial Forum Shopping" before the Judges in the 94 Federal "DISTRICT" Courts see weblink below for these FED-COURTS>
https://www.theusconstitution.org/u-s-federal-courts-101/
Elon's post has gotten over 4 Million views in just 4 hours and David McCalmont's article in the SB Current has received 89 Posts which would indicate that we all are VERY CONCERNED about the ABUSE OF OUR AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM where that ABUSE OF DUE PROCESS may have started here in California Courts, the largest Judicial System in the US, that has a F Judicial Rating for Accountability and Transparency weblink below>
https://scocablog.com/california-gets-an-f-grade-in-judicial-accountability-and-we-have-questions/
Senator John Kennedy X and UTUBE on Unlawful Universal Injunctions>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF0Xy23_eJs&ab_channel=ForbesBreakingNews
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1906948011667698146
Excellent analysis of the fundamental issues that are ongoing right now. Drawing the lines between Big Government which can expand unchecked forever, and Limited Government which requires no small part of temperance and personal accountability.
The very discussion we need to be having right now, through this current din of personal greed driving the Big Government howls. What better time for this discussion than our upcoming 250th Anniversary. With the US Constitution in one hand and The Federalist Papers in another, a time for national recommitment. Thank you.
Thanks for pointing this out. They are so biased it should be easy to appeal but they protect each other not the law.
Judges are government employees too. Court staff are government employee union members. Internal labor peace plays a controlling role in our court system today too.
We have several countries who want to destroy us and China may have 100 million soldiers and more land than they should. The biased court system is protecting people who are not citizens. I'm not against families coming here but any single male should be vetted.
Ron, can you expand on the 'more land than the should'?
I read this article on Justice titled "District Judges Are the Real “Threat to Democracy”
by David McCalmont. America is the only Country that has our Justice System and
if we lose it we no longer have a country. I have a supporting title "Judges Who Depart
From the Essential Requirements of the Law Destroy American Justice"
I have warned SB Currentor's about the Santa Barbara So-Called Leaders and in particular
the Judges who determine Justice to it's Community. One such Judge who was the Assistant
Presiding Judge and the Presiding Judge of the SB Courts, Michael Carrozzo, has a serious Complaint, 6 Misconduct Counts, before Judicial Commission on Performance weblink below>
https://cjp.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/12/Carrozzo_NFP_12-12-24.pdf
Hearing for same on 4/14/25 at the 2nd District Appellate Court at Ventura
https://cjp.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2025/03/Carrozzo_NOH_SM_03-10-25.pdf
Another SB Judge Thomas Adams was Admonished by the CA JC Commission weblink>
https://cjp.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/12/Adams_Pub_Adm_12_10_24.pdf
"The commission determined that Judge Adams’s conduct constituted a lack of
candor as well as violations of Government Code section 68725..." "They also constituted
violations of the judge’s duties to cooperate with judicial and lawyer disciplinary agencies
(canon 3D(4));" AND "Judge Adams also received an earlier private admonishment in 1993, for ordering that a pro se family law litigant be taken into custody for two days, without a contempt
hearing. The commission found that Judge Adams’s conduct constituted “an egregious
violation of due process.”
These egregious violations of the Due Process by SB Judges of Santa Barbara Citizens is much much worse than anyone can possibly imagine and seems to be a "Pattern of Practice" not only in Santa Barbara but in the United States.
As Mr. McCalmont stated "Every Democrat-appointed federal district judge who grants broad nationwide injunctions against executive orders is a direct assault against the democratic process."
In Santa Barbara the SB Judges have granted 100's of Unlawful Emergency Injunctions
as in the recent Federal Cases as noted in this Article by Mr. McCalmont.
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
PS1- GOV Newsom Appoints 18 New Democrat Judges in CALI ALL DEMOCRATS>
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/03/25/governor-newsom-appoints-18-superior-court-judges-3-25-21/
Clinton, Obama and now Biden knew what they were doing when they appointed federal activist judges and now these “judicial booby traps” are going off!
LT See my PS1 Above 18 Democrats Appointed by GAVY NEWY and its worse than
those 18 Appointed CALI DEM Judges.
Then GOVY GAVY NEWY Appoints 18 more Dem Judges here in SB County weblink>
https://keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/2023/12/07/governor-newsom-announces-judicial-appointments-including-one-new-santa-barbara-county-superior-court-judge/
THE STATE OF CALI JUSTICE HAS BEEN DESTROYED
Sure Howard, Newsom stood by as NGO’s and their foot soldiers to the Dems try to impose their will, funding a massive Rainbow agenda. All while radical judges have their back.
The Complaints I have provided are for "STATE SB COURT JUDGES"
who control CALI however there are "Activist" Judges in the US
as noted by this Article who are in the FED COURT SYSTEM HERE
IN CALI. The DEM ATTORNEYS ARE CHERRY PICKING THEIR
FED-JUDGES by filing with them to obtain favorable rulings.
What bullshit. I take it you never complained when district judges stopped some of Biden's executive orders. Pure hypocrisy on your part. And willing to tear down the rule of law and constitution to feed your ideology.
True, injunctions were issued during Biden’s four year term, but at a remarkably lower rate. ### Comparison
- Biden: ~14 injunctions over 4 years (roughly 3.5 per year) vs. Trump Second Term: ~14–15 injunctions in ~2 months Trump’s second term is seeing a dramatically higher rate of injunctions—about 24 times Biden’s annual average. Clearly, activist judges have always existed but have been activated under Trump 47.
Perhaps it's because Biden didn't try to break as many laws or constitutional prohibitions.
BHV: We will let SCOTUS weigh on those statements, TYVM.
Fallacious anchors dipwad.
BHV: Few of us complained when judges were forced to stop on multiple times, Biden's illegal student loan forgiveness, aka Democrat vote buying, schemes. You are right on that issue.
Loan forgiveness, how horrid... how dare one be forgiven for the usury of others.
The comment - Donald Trump seeking to keep a campaign promise to eliminate federal funding.... - Is massively true.
The previous administration handed out taxpayer money to prejudiced NGO's like water. It propped up groups and political "buddies" and kept an out of control stock market inflated far beyond what the Capitalist System can support. To make sure they could continue the graft called political money from the taxpayers wallet they used activist judges to defend them from going to jail...
"These people's backs are against the wall. They are exposed, weak, and vulnerable." As the overhaul of government to be lean and mean continues the protests will continue. How many of these protestors have money directly or with family tied to government grants or payroll?
It is immoral to do what Sacramento has done with minimum wages. How many jobs have been lost to mechanization? How many stores have closed because only massive franchise businesses can afford to pay that inflation?
There you go, they get away with it with Judges at the Superior Court and Appeals Court level. To fight the above conditions takes years and appeal dollars.
Love the spotlight on decades of "old boy" politics.
Which brings us back to our own local "Community Environmental Center" dedicated to training Spanish language "environmental activists". Was this one of Biden's green boondoggle funding schemes?
I recall reading there were 59 million small businesses in America, which could be pitted against the 23 million government employees at election time. Democrats chose two options for their own election survival: (1) grow the numbers of government employees; and (2) destroy small businesses.
Cars Are Basic as you state "The comment - Donald Trump seeking to keep a campaign promise to eliminate federal funding.... - Is massively true."
Any FED FUNDING TO OUR LIL OLE BEACH TOWN GOING INTO SOMEONES BIG POCKETS?
Look at the roads projects that are not needed.
Goleta Old Town crushing the middle class businesses and who's pocket? Government workers, and contractors who are hired to do the dirty work. Did I mention the skim from contracts so that they pay for government workers that are already being paid?
Tragically, a hugh ravenous monster has been created in the form of NGO’s and now it’s extremely difficult to put it back in the bottle. The author is correct in asserting that a “protected class” has been created and now Rouge Judges are doing their bidding at the expense of the taxpaying public.
Something has got to give…and fast. The stock market is negatively responding to the uncertainty, and 401k balances are showing it.
Still waiting, impatiently now, for the “golden age” to begin!
I contend the stock market is responding to bratty, obstructionist Democrats protecting their own current fingers in the taxpayer pie.
There is national shock over the acts of clearly partisan and petulant Democrat-appointed activist judges. Markets do not like this highly intrusive level of partisan judicial caprice.
Add to this the coalition of states including California, who created a tax dollar-funded multi-million dollar war chest to initiate Cloward- Pivens princple lawfare in order to "Trump Proof" their own states
These renegade activists/Judges remind me of the old kid show on Saturday mornings, “School House Rock…”Injunction Junction, What’s Your Function!” The “function” being to cause as much confusion, conflict and mayhem as possible. This is what the left does.
Send Musk back to S Africa and put Trump in jail where he belongs.
Yikes ... A Democrat still breathes the polluted air of hatred.
LOL, Chuck. Care to tell us more about your own personal motivations for this opinion?
Musk is an unelected, unconfirmed, no security clearance individual that is breaking the law every day and is only in this position because he bought Trump with his billions of dollars. He is trying to be president, congress and the courts all in one.
CB: Valerie Jarrett was unelected. (aka "The Night Stalker" due to her unfettered access to the Obama's private quarters after hours, as special assistant in the Obama Whitehouse.) Musk has had top security clearance for years due to this government contract work with SpaceX. No laws are being broken by Musk and his assigned DOGE project. No one "buys" Trump; nor Musk. Musk is an exceptional multitasker. What is your real agenda trying to string that long list of lies together here?
If Biden or Obama had tried to do 10% of what Musk is doing they would have been impeached.
CB: That is the whole point. Obama/Biden should have been impeached for doing what they did do to this country. And in Biden's case, what he didn't do. We could only wish they had undertaken 10% of what is unfolding right now.
Ignoring 12 years of exploding government budgets and public debt, unchecked growth of power and reach of government itself and now documenting they exercised zero cost accountability and agency oversight is impeachable. Investigating and documenting government waste, fraud, abuse and inefficiencies is not impeachable.
What Trump/DOGE is doing right now is exactly what 2024 voters knew would happen up front and demanded that it take place - this was all put on the table before a single 2024 vote was cast.
Not sure where your arguments to the contrary are coming from. Border security and taming the expansive costs and reach of Big Government/the deep state were the top issues 2024 voters supported.
If you want more background on what 2024 voters supported see if you can find all four nights of the RNC Nominating Convention - all the details for MAWA, MASA, MAHA, and MAGA were all presented for full voter disclosures, with no other hidden agenda.
PS: It was Democrats in the last Trump #45 administration that made "impeachment" a laughable, political theater joke. That remains and should be a very serious charge.
Biden was investigated and nothing illegal was found. The witnesses were convicted of lying to the FBI. Sorry but Trump not only deserved impeachment but if McConnel had a backbone they would have convicted him too. The Senate knew he was guilty but said, "Let the courts deal with him". he is a lying crook, always has been.
Wow…another uniformed narrative follower. Reality is quite different. DOGE is disrupting the funding streams of a faction within the cabal, which is why there is such intense pushback…sad the 17% of the population still regurgitates the storylines peddled by Legacy Media. The 14 magic money machines discovered by DOGE are the tip of the iceberg. There may be 100-1000 times US Dollars in circulation than official accounted. Good time to buy Gold & SILVER (real money). Good luck…
Isn’t it a bit early to be hitting the MD 20/20?
That's a blast from the past. I didn't know they were still around... but yes indeed. https://www.md2020wine.com/
I’m no Democrat
Many fear losing income if it comes from the government. Try taking a pigs slop and you will get bit. If you succeed the pig will squeal. Did you see all of the squealers at the Tesla dealership?
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy in his own droll way said it best - When you trim the fat off hogs, they squeal. It is a fact of nature.
Hello Chuck Burwell see my post on SB Judges.
I THANK WE ALL HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN
OUR LIL OLE BEACH TOWN!
THE BIG SHOWDOWN IS COMING TO THIS TOWN>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmuBOwj1fz4&ab_channel=ChristianBrown
Maybe Mr. Burwell's a communist!
Democrats. Worthless
No Brad Scott Democrats TAKE THE BIG FED MONEY LIKE HERE IN OUR
LIL OLE BEACH TOWN.
Hand-out money vs. hands-up policies.
Yep
This article is another idiotic rant by a person who lacks principles.
No one is stopping the administration from governing. They are stopping the administration from breaking the $^%# law. Using the absurd logic in this waste of pixels article, if Trump's agenda were to kill 10mm people in the US, you would be OK with it.
If you don't like the laws, the remedy is to CHANGE the laws. The remedy is not to ignore the laws.
DB: Huh? Best to stay focused on the topic at hand. No, no one would support Trump (your cartoon version of Trump, I suspect) if he said kill 10 million people. Where do you get this stuff? Seriously.
The laws are in the process of getting changed. And lower trial court rulings are getting appealed. Stay tuned.
BTW: You do realize much of this current Democrat lawfare is at the TRO/preliminary injunction stage. There have been no trials, let alone verdicts on any of the current issues Democrats are bringing to their selected forums. Save your powder.
Did you read the article?
"In every way of assessing the outcome of the last election, there is no doubt that Trump/Vance, the Republican Party, and America First policies were victorious.
They should be permitted to govern."
That is the premise of this absurd rant. The author is proclaiming that courts are NOT allowing the administration to govern. And the masses in here are supporting the premise. It is ABSURD.
The courts are doing what their role in the constitution entails. If the administration does not want to see the courts, do not break the #$%^ laws. It is really simple. Arguing that a judge is ruling against the administration because of who put them in place is absurd. Judges, regardless of their leanings have found the administration to be breaking the laws.
So again, the logic that the author is spewing is that they do not want judges to STOP the administration from breaking the law. That is it. So, again, if Trump wants to kill 10mm people, do you not want the judges to stop that? It is against the law.
We are a country of laws. The current administration seems hell bent on ignoring them when it suits them, using them when it benefits them. They are not for law and order, they are for rule by tyranny.
DB: You realize there are no laws broken since these are TRO/Preliminary induction cases at this stage only. We do have three separate branches of government, not just one. Courts do not have the power to run the Executive Branch, nor even the powers to impose or enforce their orders created in response to a TRO.
Their role is to adjudicate disputes, not create policy or extralegal mandates. Settle down until SCOTUS sorts out this dispute between two branches of the government, if the third Legislative Branch does not get their first.
Take a look at what Alexander Hamilton wrote about the role of the Judiciary for more balanced insights into where this will may end up. Right now, this is an federal inter-branch dispute. Kagen and Barrett have been sending our veiled messages about the court's general thinking already on these legal matters. Have you read them.
You seem very invested in this TDS "convicted felon" line of attack, when no Trump case is settled until the final appeal has been exhausted . Which has happened in none of the lawfare charge drummed up against Trump.
Argh.
Please, do not preach that you understand how our branches work while spouting ignorance about them. The judges were presented a case to them. Then the determination of STANDING was looked into. Once that STANDING was determined, the judges heard the case from both sides. The JUDGE ruled. That is it. There is your judicial system at work.
Now, because the administration LOST, they have the right to APPEAL the decision. The JUDGE, knowing this is going to happen, to help PUSH this case faster, gave a time frame for the TRO. That TRO protects both the defense and the prosecution. Nothing is going to be harmed during the TRO. NOTHING. Now, the appeals court can hear the case and RULE. If you notice, the ONE case that the administration won, two of the appeals judges felt that the party that brought the case did not have standing. The lower court was OVERRULED by the appeals court. That case has to be refiled by someone who has STANDING. The appeals court did NOT validate the administration's position. But in the case where the administration keeps losing, then the SC can decide if they want to TAKE the case. They can leave the ruling in place. Getting the SC to take a case is not a right, but a privilege and one that they determine if they want to take the case.
Your argument and this waste of pixels author wants to complete gut and destroy our judicial system to suit their wants. Damn the laws! Damn the procedures!
If the administration wins, it wins. That is how the judicial system is set up. If they lose, well, they lose. Of course, the posters in this thread will call for them to be executed, impeached, removed, castrated, hung and quartered.
Now, regarding what is 'leaked,' I do not play that game. I am not a clarevoyant, nor do I read tea leaves. I will wait for the ruling. Until then, it is all speculation.
BHF&S? talking here?
I have no idea what BHF&S means.
DB: For your viewing pleasure. And everyone else who is also following this current lawfare weapon of choice: federal district court uses of the "universal injunction"
John Kennedy asks penetrating questions that deserve answers and he got them: there is no such thing as a federal district court "universal injunction". We shall both await SCOTUS for a final determination.
https://rumble.com/v6ri609-federal-judges-are-not-supposed-to-be-ordering-universal-injunctions.html
No. I am not going on Rumble. The home of tinfoil, the world is out to get them, and them only, fear mongering, fear peddling, psychopaths.
JL, perhaps Mr, Bergersen was referring to the quote found below, though the 10 million seems a tad much. These types of statements from Trump leads to his cartoonish image.
On Jan. 23, 2016, Donald Trump was campaigning in Iowa when he made a remarkable announcement: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
PS: Maybe you would like to update this to Musk's "Nazi Salute" and Trump's claim "he was going to be a dictator" (on day one).We have been down this road with these false claims so many times already and we can go one on one, but why waste your time and everyone else's.
There is a tag team here under various names who have already plowed this same turf, ad nauseam. Unless, we are really seeing a bot still stuck on the first 2016 Trump election?
Gosh, you mean from 2015/16 which was as a clear joke in light of his clear popularity in a large GOP field .... with these people, they have nothing new under the sun to complain about. I hope they all start reading Babylon Bee,and see if they can get their humorless Democrat heads cleared.
There are so many lemmings in this thread along with the author that have no clue as to what they write and the meaning of words.
These judges WERE elected. The judges had to go through confirmation hearings and be voted on. The president did not just say, "Hey, Joe, you are now a judge in the ninth circuit."
Federal judges are appointed. And go through a set confirmation process by our elected representatives. Underscoring indeed why............elections matter, when our elected representatives determine the make-up of the federal judiciary. Tempered by the express charge the Legislature shall have the sole power to create (and by way of extension dissolve) federal district courts.
Keep putting on your dancing shoes.
The Federal Judges WERE elected. Words matter. They may not be elected by the population, but they WERE elected. Boasburg was elected by a 96 to ZERO vote in the Senate.
Now that you are moving the goal posts, yet again, and showing with great transparency YOUR agenda, you are correct. Congress can do a lot to effectively kill a district. The power of the purse string gives them that right. It would be an interesting case to see if they stopped funding the judges, then a case comes in, of course, by the judges, how the other judges would rule on this. I suspect they would stick up for the judges, and thus, congress' act would be deemed unconstitutional.
You show that you only care about the results of the ruling, not law and order. You are showing that you want fascism and authoritarianism instead of democracy. You are showing that you do not adhere to the constitution.
There are lots of rulings that judges have made that have been appealed to SCOTUS and their rulings I disagree with. However, I live with them. I work to have the law changed so that the outcome that SCOTUS ruled on would be illegal. I understand their role, do you?
DB: I commend a good, thorough reading of the various WSJ articles today. (April 1, 2025 - WSJ being no friend of Trump) regarding the current state of the organized partisan lawfare against the Trump administration.
The various articles and opinion pieces set out the state of the current litigation (TRO's), the failure of the plaintiff bonding requirements in all of them. Plus a good description of the calculated and highly frenetic actions by this Democrat state Attorney Generals coalition who are working in close concert to disrupt this current administration. Funded no less by California taxpayers to the tune of $25 million dollars for our state's share with the stated mission to "Trump Proof" California.
SCOTUS is the proper jurisdiction for resolution of these current conflicts between the judicial branch with its multiple lower district courts authoritarian and unbonded intrusions into the autonomy of executive branch at this particular time. A teaching moment for all.
Any true legal scholar finds this is an exhilarating time; not a timet to browbeat and insult valid discussions into these critical constitutional interpretations of our governing documents. Carry on.
When you start out a response with a lie, the rest of the premise falls apart.
The WSJ is owned by Murdoch. Murdoch has done nothing but promote Trump. He has a WHOLE network dedicated to promoting Trump.
Every state, regardless of who the administration is, will contest the actions of the administration. Again, you are showing that you have NO @!#^ principles, just demanding that YOUR opinions/beliefs are the only ones that matter. You did not complain when the republican AGs went after Biden or Obama. You just want to complain when democratic AGs go after Trump.
See, if you cared about the rule of law, you would WELCOME these challenges. I welcomed them when they went after Biden. Why? Because I do not want a dictator. I do not want a society free of laws. I do not want a society free of checks and balances. MOB rule sucks.
"SCOTUS is the proper jurisdiction for resolution of these current conflicts between the judicial branch with its multiple lower district courts authoritarian and unbonded intrusions into the autonomy of executive branch at this particular time. A teaching moment for all."
Such a odd response. The lower district courts are not acting unbounded. They are within the law. The lower court is not acting authoritarian, they are within the law. Yes, this is a TEACHING MOMENT FOR YOU.
Were you OK when the lower courts stopped Biden from student loan relief?
DB: Spare us the hyperventilation and chill out on slow-talking Louisiana Senator John Kennedy delving into these critical issues in Congressional testimony: Is there such a thing as a lower federal district court "universal injunction"?
https://rumble.com/v6ri609-federal-judges-are-not-supposed-to-be-ordering-universal-injunctions.html
No.
Rumble is a cesspool of tinfoil.
If it is lawless, why is it lawless today, but has not been for the last 50+ years?
One could make the case, sadly, that the Republican Party is the threat to democracy. Where were their legal challenges like we are seeing now, when our country was being invaded? Not one that I recall, they sat on their hands. Where are their laws, and legal challenges to this absurd judicial coup now? Thune is posting about his grandkids, all the Republicans have done so far is post about fluff while this is going on. They need to start acting like Democrats. Stick together. Get tough. Take the gloves off. Posting fluff on X while activists posing as judges assume the role of unelected President is a threat to democracy. Get it done, or we'll create a new third party to do it for them.
Very good point made about the "uniparty" Republicans who have allowed the country to get to this point. Hopefully Trump with his team of people will be able to make a turn around and get us back on track.
60 days seems pretty early for a final report card on a four year term.
I still have hope but at this point am not too optimistic, I feel like the Republicans put up a show of support knowing all the time their Dem buddies will stop things like they are and the Republicans will shout and scream and make posts on X but not really do anything about it. Hope I am wrong.
Keep your eye on the 2026 midterms. Democrats are loaded for bear and have already targeted their take-down list.
Yes we have less than 24 months to codify what is needed, voter ID, reign in activist judges and more after than who knows. If they win the Supereme court vote in Wisconsin tomorrow, we will lose control in mid terms. GOP knew this for months but only freaked out a few days ago. Go figure.
No freak out needed, only a slow and steady move to the goal posts. Nothing can hang by that slender of a thread. And it is does, everyone should have freaked out a long time ago.
Agree to disagree. If they Win Wisconsin tomorrow, they will re draw boundaries and control that swing state for years, and we will lose control of the house in 2026. The house would immediately try to impeach trump and we are right back to where we were during his first term. If we relax about things like this, while the Dems are pushing hard, we will sit by and watch it all come undone. We must win Wisconsin tomorrow, if so we may have 4 years to get things permanent. If we lose tomorrow, we will have two years to try. That's a big deal. We gotta keep our eye on the ball, no time to relax now. The Dem's are not relaxing. Neither can we.
SCOTUS, via Kagen and Barrett, sent two indirect messages revealing their own overview of the current situation: Eg: What is going on at the district court level is legal madness; and stay within the proper procedural model of appeals to reach final adjudication at the US Supreme Court level.
They did put turtles under the lampposts in from of the US Supreme Court building suggesting the road to justice nerds to be slow and steady. Savor every moment we are getting right now in our very needed civics lesson- and why it is always best for all to avoid mob justice for any side of this current political divide.
We can wait to get it right for all concerned, including our own futures when there is another a shift in political power.
If the Federal judges don't hold Criminal Trump accountable for his lawlessness, who will? We have a constitution and The Crimson Coward just uses it for toilet paper. I just wonder if the people here supporting donOLD got all moist and horny when BenedictDonald gave his microphone a blowjob? My advice: Stop taking your daily disinfectant injection....
Many of the current students in our law school. Are being indoctrinated in liberal left wing ideology. There needs to be a strong check and balance system. That prevents political judges instilling their political agendas on the governance of our country. Also politics should not be part of the curriculum in our law schools.
Mark, sounds like the seeds to start a new law school student discussion club.
Off the top of my head, the Hoover Institution, Brownstone Institute and even the locally based Young America Foundation could be able to help - speakers, topics, research. The Madison Foundation at Princeton University is another good contact, to help counter the liberal bias found in too many colleges today.
Understanding where the lines drawn can or should be drawn between legal strict construction and activist legal interpretations should be fundamental before you graduate.
"Brownstone Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded May 2021. Its vision is of a society that places the highest value on the voluntary interaction of individuals and groups while minimizing the use of violence and force including that which is exercised by public or private authorities. This vision is that of the Enlightenment which elevated learning, science, progress, and universal rights to the forefront of public life. Presently, it is constantly threatened by ideologies and systems that would take the world back to before the triumph of the ideal of freedom."
"Our Mission
Young America’s Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values."
"The Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank, values peace, individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. It seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace. "
It's all enlightenment slop, there is nothing to defend here except the same liberal values that created the mess we are in. "Enlightenment which elevated learning, science, progress, and universal rights" this is the root of the modern errors we deal with, without this first error there is no "wokism", "DEI", or "CRT".
Glad to see you back here Theo. I don't agree with you often but I appreciate the information and perspective.