Iran on Edge, Biden’s Records in Play, and Courts Clash Over Trump
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#1 – This brilliant initiative by the Iranian people against their oppressors might just make your day — by Nick Arama
It’s a brilliant decision. Not only does this eliminate the oppressors, it encourages resistance on the ground, and it also requires the Basij to cower in their boots. This will likely lead to more defections from their ranks. Now, of course, you have to check and make sure that the identification of the checkpoint is correct, which the Israelis do. But it’s pretty easy to identify a Basij checkpoint compared to other types of traffic, I think.
Their “supreme leader”, Mojtaba Khamenei, cannot even go out into the streets. “Cardboard Mojtaba” has not been seen since the start of Operation Epic Fury; it’s not even clear that he’s alive. If Israel and the United States eliminate everyone in the streets, from the leaders to the Basij forces, one must assume that the regime will not last long.
#2 – Grab the popcorn: Trump’s executive privilege ruling means all this information about Biden is out – by Nick Arama
Warrington therefore ordered NARA to turn over the three sets of documents to the various congressional committees that requested them.
The Democrats always cry for transparency – without being transparent. Why should none of this information withheld by the Biden team be released — unless there are things in there that they just don’t want us to see? We must reveal everything if we want to have any accountability in these investigations. We have had a glaring lack of accountability for Democratic misconduct for too long. This could finally bring us closer to real action, in addition to revealing more of the truth.
#3 – Hot Spots: Reactions to Barack Obama’s Latest Post About His Bad Library Are Pure Gold — by Nick Arama
And then, we also can’t forget things like the mess Obama left in Libya or the lie he sold us about health care and getting our plans done. Worse, however, was the division he sowed and the role he played in the Russian collusion hoax. It divided the country in ways that we still suffer from.
All this ugliness can’t help but rear its ugly head in his building. So laugh and make fun because he deserves all of this.
#4 – Jackson and Kavanaugh face off in rare public fight over Supreme Court’s handling of Trump cases – by Ben Smith
That’s what happened Monday when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Justice Brett Kavanaugh shared a stage and openly clashed over the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency appeals related to President Donald Trump’s policies.
The discussion focused on the emergency role of the Court. These cases often come after lower courts block federal policies and the administration asks the Supreme Court to allow those policies to take effect while lawsuits continue.
This process has become one of the most important legal fronts of Trump’s agenda. The Court has repeatedly intervened after lower court rulings halted various policies, allowing the administration to move forward while lawsuits continue.
#5 – Seventh Circuit takes blowtorch to order abusive, anti-ICE Chicago judge – by streiff
These two rulings by Ellis meant that no one else was affected by the dismissal of the case and that the plaintiffs could sue again in the future and be re-certified as a class. The intent appeared to be to allow Ellis to issue the same decision again in the future, with the same or different plaintiffs, and to force the administration to fight the same fight again. Maybe several times.
Normally, an appeals court would have considered the case moot since both parties wanted to end the litigation. In this case, the Seventh Circuit was suspect.
The district court’s order may also result in negative legal consequences. Since the district court dismissed this case without prejudice – against the plaintiffs’ unopposed request to dismiss with prejudice – all class members or lead plaintiffs could refile these claims tomorrow. They could ask the district court to reinstate a nearly identical preliminary joinder, adopting the facts and legal reasoning from the district court’s order.
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