Good morning kids. There are a number of links today that sort of remind me of the lyrics to the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime." You may find yourself....
The Department of Justice is reportedly set to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol, for $5 million. Babbitt’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government last year, seeking $30 million. The Justice Department previously opposed the suit and planned to argue against it in a trial scheduled for July 2026.
While this certainly is a good thing. And obviously no one can speak for the late Ms. Babbitt and I am neither a relative nor a personal friend. As an American, for me real justice can not be done until Michael Byrd is sitting on death row in a federal prison, sweating out the last minutes before his sentence is carried out. And as a Capitol Police officer, the agency of which he was a part was under the direct control of the Speaker of the House, who on January 6th of 2021 was Malig-Nancy Pelosi. Surely it was neither Byrd's first day on the job, nor could he have been where he was the moment he fired his weapon at Babbitt without a considerable amount of training before being given a badge and a weapon. What orders was he given that day or in the hours or even days leading up to his shift, and who gave them? Surely an unarmed woman, ditto anyone near her at the time posed no threat whatsoever that warranted the use of deadly force.
Moving right along, we have this tantalizing bit of news:
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) was charged with assaulting, resisting, and impeding law enforcement officers during a riot at Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba revealed that McIver was being charged. Noem noted that “no one is above the law.” The announcements of the charges against McIver come after Reps. McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) showed up at Delaney Hall to “conduct federal oversight” of the facility and allegedly stormed and trespassed. Baraka ended up being arrested for alleged criminal trespass.
Tantalizing but perhaps it's kind of just a sugar rush as I fully expect the corrupt judiciary in New Jersey and if it ever gets that far, the federal courts all the way up to SCOTUS to let them off scot free. I mean, there's insurrection and then there's "insurrection!" You can guess which one's which depending upon who's in the dock, and who sits in judgement.
From a legal perspective, the two liberal justices have it entirely backwards: The legal question for the justices was not how do courts accomplish their goal of stopping Trump without nationwide injunctions, but rather, do courts have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions?
The Supreme Court spent little time probing that question, which includes two fundamental issues. The first issue is whether nationwide injunctions are within a court’s “traditional equitable authority,” such that Congress, in granting the lower courts equitable jurisdiction under the Judiciary Act, gave judges the power to issue nationwide injunctions. . .
. . . The litigants challenging the president’s American First agenda have filed their 100-plus lawsuits in the same handful of courts, which are presided over by liberal judges. And those judges, just like Justices Kagan and Sotomayor, view the Trump Administration’s policies and actions as “dead wrong.” Those lower courts likewise see the question before them as how can they stop Trump.
By reverse-engineering the cases, the lower courts are ignoring what should be the initial questions of standing, jurisdiction, and in some cases even the merits, the latter of which the judges presume the Trump Administration is wrong on. But why shouldn’t they? After all, several Supreme Court justices take the same tact. And if a majority of the high court issues a decision in the birthright cases that acquiesces in the use of nationwide injunctions, there will be no end to the use of nationwide injunctions because a judge will always find an excuse to justify the remedy — just as the same justices bemoaning the “abuses of nationwide” injunctions did.
Elsewhere, are we still having to endure the concept of "reparations" for black people?! Of course we are. And yet Wes Moore, the nation's lone black governor from Maryland is stating "wait a cotton-pickin' minute. No, not because he has a fiber of sanity and/or decency, but because he has aspirations to be the Democrat nominee in 2028 and nows or senses this to be something that will turn off the otherwise easy to dupe and beat about the head with the race card white folks.
I would support reparations under two specific conditions. First any recipient would have to have been an actual slave at the time of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Proof cannot include a death certificate or Democrat voter registration card from any election after 1900. And payments must come from the State Democrat National Committee where said enslavement took place with matching funds from the National DNC.
Over in the Middle East, it looks as if at long last Israel is about to make the rubble bounce in Gaza.
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