UPDATED by Request: /SD
The tip of the Lawfare spear consists of a small group of former DOJ attorneys and Main Justice leftists who helped AG Eric Holder create the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) when it was formed on behalf of President Obama.
Lawfare, writ large, are a tribe of leftists who strategically weaponize the justice systems within the DOJ. They are also the main guides, strategists and legal analysts who previously used Robert Mueller and currently use Jack Smith.
The tribe is led by a trio of fellow travelers: Mary McCord, Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann.
If you research the group, you will discover that Mary McCord sits at the center of every attack approach deployed against President Trump {CITATION}. The influence of McCord cannot be overstated, while gender fluid leftists like Eisen, Weissmann (and others), wax philosophically about which statutes can be twisted and interpreted to assist their Lawfare strategy du jour.
Everything we have watched unfold, from using “The Logan Act” against Michael Flynn, to using “Obstruction” against President Trump and the “Insurrection Act” against J-6 targets, comes from this small crew of effeminate leftists.
The similarity of the behavioral proclivities is an outcome of their tribal synchronicity. Much like the McClintock or Wellesley effect, when you isolate Lawfare individuals into a small tribe, their collective behaviors replicate. These travelers were incubated in the DOJ-NSD.
This crew of Brookings funded Lawfare ideologues was also described by Christine Blasey-Ford as her “Beach Friends.”
Since leaving official government positions, the main trio of Lawfare leadership congregate professionally on MSNBC and feed the leftists in media and politics from their primary cable outlet.
I noted, during a recent flight filled with DC bureaucrats and IC officials (United Airlines), how the drones all watched MSNBC on their seat monitors as if it was a religious service that needed to be attended. It really was a sight to see. Every bureaucrat, active or retired, seated with their laptop under the headrest monitor while typing, texting and DM’ing in unison like synchronized swimmers.
That experience was the first time I realized how the term “NPC’s” or non-Player Characters might have originated as a meme, but the label was eerily accurate.
FBI HQ left, Main Justice building right
The alarming aspect to the tribal Lawfare approach, is to realize how this essentially very small group of former DOJ-NSD lawyers commands such an oversized influence on our national politics.
In reality, this crew is likely less than 20 full-time characters with about a half-dozen lawyers used as spokespeople. Essentially, the public voice to keep the hardcore leftists on the optimal message. However, this group also writes the legal strategies for all of the attack approaches used in Atlanta, Georgia (Fani Willis), New York (Alvin Bragg) and DC/FL with Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Within Main Justice, it is Deputy AG Lisa Monaco who takes the Lawfare instructions from the outside group and funnels them back into actionable work within the DOJ (ie to Jack Smith). It’s a similar process as to how the inside and outside group coordinated and used Robert Mueller.
Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord and Norm Eisen (with occasional guests), can be seen daily watching very closely how their legal briefs, citations and structured legal motions are being used. Yes, it is their written words, their legal briefs, and their filings that are signed by the government officials and submitted into multiple judicial venues.
[NOTE: FOIA or subpoena the Lawfare communication pipeline, and you end up with 15 iPhones that mysteriously and identically have the wrong password entered 10 times, and that deletes all the content – just like the last time someone tried with the Lawfare group around Mueller {citation}.]
♦ Well, that’s who they are…. So, we cannot say we don’t know the exact names of the people at the epicenter of the operation, and you do not need to read the proverbial overuse of the word “they” without knowing exactly who they are.
With the Supreme Court ruling Monday on presidential immunity, the Lawfare group is absolutely apoplectic and fraught with anxiety about it.
Why?
Why this much extreme vitriol?
The answer is very simple. Andrew Weissmann speaks about the reason in this soundbite. Listen at the 01:37 point, when Weissmann says the ruling now puts the President in charge of the DOJ-NSD.
THAT reality is so far beyond alarming that Weissmann has a hard time retaining his composure about it. Remember, this is a small DOJ-NSD group who truly have lived in a Main Justice institutional silo where they were untouchable. WATCH:
What exactly is the background here?
This is where CTH readers are at least a year ahead of where the reality of this story will eventually end up.
Andrew Weissmann is very concerned today because the Supreme Court just put the DOJ-NSD back into a box where they are accountable within the Executive Branch. To the group who use the auspices of “national security” to shield themselves from oversight, putting the President back in charge of the executive branch is profoundly catastrophic.
To give you context, here’s a reminder of consequence from a prior ancillary case involving the Mar-a-Lago documents.
♦ “National Security” as a shield – Remember, Barack Obama and Eric Holder created the DOJ-NSD using the authorities granted to the administrative state by the bureaucracy following 9/11. Specifically, because the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) was created, and within that dynamic the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was established, DHS would now be the weaponized umbrella organization, and the power granted to the DNI would establish the need for the DOJ-NSD.
In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.
What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms, so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system. This is very important to understand as you dig deeper.
Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01. DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.
When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.
Eric Holder created the DOJ-National Security Division for exactly the purpose of weaponizing the DOJ to target their political opposition. This is what the DOJ-NSD does under the auspices of “National Security.” The FARA violation monitoring is one of the more well-known operations within the DOJ-NSD, and from that construct you find the original justification for the NSA database monitoring.
The surveillance of Americans shifted around the roles and responsibilities within Main Justice after the DOJ-NSD was created. The National Security Division took over Foreign Agent Registration Act monitoring as well as FISA. Both FARA and FISA required some form of downstream surveillance within the authority of the NSD.
The FBI counterintelligence division became the investigative offshoot to assist the NSD, and due to the tightrope of legal compliance issues, lawyers from the NSD were dispatched into the FBI to give legal assistance on the surveillance side. This is how NSD lawyers like Lisa Page, Tashina Guahar and Kevin Clinesmith end up encircling FBI officials like Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe.
Within this newly created DOJ-NSD, there was no inspector general oversight, so the internal officials were unaccountable, had no reason to worry about anyone looking at them, and they were generally running amok. In 2015 the Office of the DOJ Inspector General requested oversight, and it was Deputy AG Sally Yates who responded with a lengthy 58-page legal explanation saying, essentially, ‘nope – not allowed.’ (PDF HERE) All of the DOJ is subject to oversight, except the NSD.
We discover just how ridiculous and partisan the NSD became through the outcomes of the Hillary Clinton investigation. The Clinton investigation was operated by the FBI and the unaccountable DOJ-NSD.
Yesterday, in a stunning opinion that destabilized the Lawfare ideologues, the Supreme Court affirmed the Unitary Executive principle around the constitution.
The 6-3 opinion held that the President is “a person alone who comprises a branch of government.” This is important to understand. The Executive Branch is the President.
As noted by reader Alex1689: […] Read the SCOTUS opinion, not from a point of view of apprehension about President Trump (he’ll be fine), but from the point of view of what does this allow him to do in his second term, and what straightjackets does it remove that were a threat during his first term?
To start, the court wrote about powers that carry with them core, absolute immunity, the exercise of which cannot come under question in any forum. It specifically identified:
Pardons
Recognition of foreign governments
Removal of executive branch officials.
If it can’t be questioned . . . It also cannot be the grounds for impeachment, can it?
Let’s repeat: If it’s a core power, the exercise of the core power cannot be grounds for impeachment (*except if done in connection with taking a bribe).
In his first term, there was the threat that if President Trump fired . . .
Rosenstein
Barr
Fauci
That he would be prosecuted for obstruction of justice or impeached.
That threat is forever off the table now.
He can fire anyone he likes in the executive branch. The straightjacket is gone.
On that point, further, the majority opinion uses strong language consistent with the Unitary Executive theory of the Constitution. The President is “a person alone who comprises a branch of government.”
While there are areas of shared constitutional responsibility, the core powers of the Executive Branch, including personnel, are the President’s alone.
Boom.
While impeachment is a political process within the Legislative Branch, and the Supreme Court is extremely hesitant to overstep their role therein, the High Court did put this sentiment clearly into the opinion about immunity: …“The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution.”…
Congress may not criminalize the conduct of the President simply for carrying out his core executive branch duties.
Removal of Executive Branch officials is a core duty, an official act, carrying absolute immunity.
That newly affirmed reality is exactly why Andrew Weissmann and the Lawfare crowd are very alarmed.
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The amount of people ignorant to basic civics is astonishing. It’s literally tantamount to an American not being able to find America on a map – it takes layers/generations of coordinated effort to dumb down a populace to this extent. I’m praying.
Great write up SD.
Remember there are people out there who think the doj is a separate branch of government under the judiciary that is how stupid the American people are.
It has been acting as though it is separate and accountable to no one.
And THAT is one of the major problems in the recovery of our nation; the masses really are “dumb -downed” to the point that they have NO CLUE, or even more importantly, CONCERN about what is happening to this once vibrant and dynamic country. The “Real House Wives of Beverly Hills ” or the Facebook posting of the Grand Opening of a new local gay hair salon warrants more excitement and interest than the fact that we are very close to losing our Republic. “Do what????” Pitiful, indeed.
Civics has been watered down by woke and progressive teachers, and they were heavily influenced by professors who preached anti-American screeds. Combine those with media role-players who serve as a unified mouthpiece of the policies du jour into a toxic effluent.
They all need to squirm more. A few public meltdowns while wetting pants would make fun videos and pay per view events.
We need a “living organization chart online to show the entire apparatus
Or, start by eliminating the entire Department of, “Education”.
Give the funds directly to the parents.
Better education for less!
They stopped teaching civics in the schools in the 1970s. No one under the age of 60 has had a public school civics class as part of their basic curriculum.
This is not true,
At least as it relates to Texas. My kids 22 and 18 had government classes in 7th and 8th grades. They again had government classes in high school. I also believe it’s a requirement for Texas universities.
Same, but I can imagine we were at an advantage going to school in Tx back then.
Yes, but they are not called “Civic” which stresses not only a knowledge of government but also the responsibilities of citizens.
In addition to a full year of US History/Government, we were also were required to pass a separate class on Texas History in middle school.
Not completely so. I was taught civics very well in Public schools and I’m in the mid 40’s.
Being raised in a conservative state might have had something to do with that though.
My education was so exemplary that as a high school elective course I was able to take “Government.”
Is there a Government class anywhere in America that teaches the fundamentals of our Founding and Government, without apology?
Let me say, and hear it well — Anyone who comes to you and disparages or condemns the work of the late Senator Joe McCarthy, of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, know that they are messing with your mind. And know, too, that they are “spotting for recruits.”
I have personal experience of spotting, having been a victim of such, 14 years ago.
I was naive, and this “friend” was masterful — experienced.
But thanks be to God, I had purchased a decade earlier Whittaker Chambers’ book, Witness; and because our conversations over several months sometimes included political topics, I lent her the book.
She dropped me like the proverbial hot potato. And it wasn’t until a month or two later that I began to connect the dots.
There were so many signs that should have alerted me. The whole situation would make an entertaining/scary and informative read.
Many, many signs.
And by the way, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, as M. Stanton Evans writes of in Blacklisted By History is a must read, in my opinion. The same “machine” that shut down all debate during Covid and that now, and has been, tarring President Trump with a catalog of calumnies, is the same machine that has made even the mention of Sen. Joe McCarthy’s name an outrage against humanity.
I am 72 and had to pass a Constitution test to graduate from s8th grade.
I am 74 and got caught chewing gum in my 8th grade history class! I had to write the whole US Constitution before I could graduate to 9th grade! I learned a lot! I can laugh now but it was better than getting sent to the principle’s office for you know what!
Yep, I know what. I’m 67, and I’d had rather written the entire Constitution than get what I got from the principal!!
Some schools never offered CIVICS, ECONOMICS or BUSINESS LAW. Mine never did. I learned it taking extra classes required by my first job.
Unfortunately, I must agree with your statement J.J. as my own 2 children who both attended and graduated from public schools don’t know jack sh*t about either government or history. Ironically, I, too, went to PS and believe me I wasn’t the best student in the crowd in the 60’s but did manage to graduate in 71′ with a much deeper and vast knowledge of those two subjects. But, yes! That was also before the communists infiltrated the system. Looking at you teacher’s unions.
No, they didn’t. Total misinformation and 26 people also don’t know what they are talking about. I taught Civics, pure Civics through the 90’s in public schools. They incapsolated all of it into Government classes.
You are absolutely and totally wrong and still being taught when I left 8 years ago.
That’s all by design of the communists in charge of the DOE.
They don’t teach in schools what they should.
Well, they certainly do in Communist China whose students excel way over their American counterparts in ALL subjects from math to history and civics. Hmmm. Why is that I sarcastically wonder??
Communist China has nothing enviable. NOTHING.
Good point. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.
Weithmann theemth tho thoft 🏳️🌈
Hallelujah!
This is wonderful news for a 2nd Trump Administration!
The Public President Trump will be busy creating American success.
Behind the scenes President Trump with input from Melania, Miller, Grennell, Patel, and a few more will be working from a list.
VSG POTUS DJT did call out Lisa Monaco and Andrew W. specifically in his Truth Social post, ~ 11 hours ago.
It is my belief that out of these two dozen or so ‘lawfare key players’ and, from some of the ’51 national security leaders’ (who signed that Hunter’s laptop wasn’t real and was Russian disinformation), those with means, will move to Brazil or some other country with which we don’t have an extradition arrangement, right after Nov. 6th when POTUS 45 becomes POTUS 47. The US laws of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ may not apply in those countries and they will meet their ends in a very harsh manner in those countries. I have no evidence on this whole statement above, it is just a very strong instinct that this will happen. Pray for POTUS DJT and for his family’s well being. Justice shall be served in due time that the Lord only determines. Thank you..
A cooperative Congress is still required for a President to be successful. The Founders didn’t want a dictator and built in checks and balances wherever they could. The problem has been that the uniparty has decided that corruption was much more valuable than duty and honor.
We need President Trump and MAGA congress members to actually change the corruption and get us back on track.
Will the Senate do another 4 year stint with no adjournments so as to prevent the President from making recess appointments?
Looking at you, Rand Paul – and any other “Republican” US Senator who did not take the opportunity to make it possible for President Trump to make recess appointments (when the normal process wasn’t working either).
Senator Paul has had ample opportunities and fell short.
Senator Tuberville may be the one to make it happen.
You mean the same Senator Tuberville who insults his constituents with patronizing assurances that modRNA injections in livestock pose no risk to humans consuming the tainted meat, despite the complete lack of evidence of long-term safety?
Oh yeah. THAT Tuberville.
War Eagle!
Rand Paul (Uniparty Stooge) is still withholding his support of PDJT for 2024 even in the face of all that Team Pedo Joe has done.
Let that sink in. He’s still holding out for the Uniparty to eliminate PDJT.
Rand is on Team RFK Jr.
I will not mind a dictator. What they did with Covid killing thousands. What they did with the Shot killing thousands. What they have done with child mutilation and child trafficking killing thousands. What they have done with Ukraine and Gaza killing thousands. What they are doing to J6ers killing hundreds. What they have done running a Totalitarian Government killing free speech, The clearing out of these Communists quickly is worth the risk of going too far. We cannot let ourselves fail by not going far enough. They will put us in Cattle Cars one day if not stopped COLD.
If we trespass the righteous boundaries we will NOT receive the Grace of God.
The religion of Evolution teaches that man has and will continue to evolve.
There will always by psychopaths who will choose this as their religion and reason to explain their superiority over others as they again attempt to become Rulers of the Universe.
Here’s Joe Biden in a suit with a tie with another lie; injecting with a declaration that “for all…for all practical purposes, today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.”
No, the Supreme Court did not remove any limits on the Presidency.
You would think that, as president, he would take the removal of limits on what he can do as a good thing.
There isn’t to be any removal of limits by the Supreme Court. This is an obvious angling for his Biden crime family “good thing” by slamming PDJT. Turn that around to apply to PDJT for the screams to start
He only knows to read what is written for him; he doesn’t have the ability to decipher the meaning of the words.
And so we know that the Corrupt Minds are already figuring out how to use this ruling against us.
The only limits on his feeble mind are how much his designer Depends hold and how many ice cream cones he can eat before brain freeze sets him free.
He knows he’s caught. Good.
not caught, just can’t continue within the administration now sabotaging it from the inside without getting caught then…
“…The alarming aspect to the tribal Lawfare approach, is to realize how this essentially very small group of former DOJ-NSD lawyers commands such an oversized influence on our national politics.…”
This is why I object to people quoting George Carlin’s well-meant line about government: “It’s a big club…”
No, it is NOT a “big club,” and never has been.
It is a “very small” club, and we are not in it, and will never be allowed to be in it, or to know much about it.
The Elite, The Deep State, is not interested in expanding its numbers. This was noticed 40 years ago in an essay by Umberto Eco on the return of the Middle Ages.
The new aristocrats have titles like CEO, CFO, Ph.D., “Former Department Chief…” etc. They are international: the American elite has more in common with their counterparts in London, Milan, Tokyo, et al. than with their own countrymen.
We 21st-century peasants, however, unlike medieval commoners, never catch a glimpse of our aristocrats. They stay hidden in first-class airplane seats or private jets, in helicopters flying from the top of one high-rise to another, in gated communities, in massive office buildings, in resorts which are gated or so expensive you will never get close to them.
Your children will never rub elbows with their children, and you will never get close either, unless they are politicians looking for your vote and want a “photo opportunity” with some of the little people.
In the medieval city, you would probably see the local aristocrat as he rode through and perhaps stopped at your shop for a suit of new clothes.
It is high time for a change!
I think the “big” in “big club” meant “big” (powerful/arrogant/egotistical/connected) people, not thousands and thousands of them.
It may be a small club, but there is a very, very large group of people willingly and knowingly helping the club.
Have you seen what the Marxists are spreading? They think presidential immunity means they will be put back in chains, and in the cotton fields! Seriously, those people are sickeningly insane!
Maybe it is projection; like they will now get what they deserve?
As a white person, I WOULD NEVER ALLOW anyone to put a black person in chains, not EVER! The slavery of any individual is abhorrent! This is why the idiots spreading the misinformation need to be countered!
Many normal Americans fought and died in a war to prevent that behavior from continuing.
Do you know where the actual word slave came from?
Slav.
MANY different peoples throughout history have been slaves, including, but not limited to St. Patrick and St. Josephine Bakhita, not to mention the world-wide slavery going on today!!!
RTR, what does Black have to do with anything?
Slavery is colorblind, and has always been.
Start printing the pink slips now…cause we’re going to need a lot of them come January 2025. 💥🇺🇸TRUMP 2024🇺🇸💥
I love that image of DJT as a cowboy lawman….goes back to a time when people knew right from wrong and mea from women.
This is what I thought of by looking at picture:
New Sheriff in town…
or…
Say hello to the new boss…
Same as the old boss 🙂
Agree, it’s like we’ve turned a corner to a bright beautiful new day.
The Boss is calm and ready. This S.C. decision, is among several that amazingly “drain the swamp”.
(Who would have known that VSG PDJT had used a time-release draino formula that took nearly four years to kick in?
Thank God that the SC is addressing and delineating administrative and executive powers.
The Freedom of Information act is one way the People check their Government. But there are 9 exemptions from this. See below
Check out Exemption one. “National Security”
Once the National Security group was created a group of people became above the law with no oversight – everything blocked due to classification or ownership or flat out saying No.
Mccord is accociate with Chief Justice Roberts via her husband working for him. access to files, drafts, and personal stories shared during the word day.
I don’t believe this is the result the Lawfare Group was going for.
Bless Justice Thomas. His fingerprints are all over this decision.
they are freaking out, because they’d prefer President Trump to kneel and this end, versus them defending their years of crime by destroying this country so it can never prosecute them.
They are not sure how things will be after they cripple this country.
The next time the Deep State releases a biological weapon upon the world, give homeopathic doctors freedom to work and influence as they see fit. Don’t give the pharmaceutical giants absolute power. People need and deserve effective methods of alternative medicine.
People have some say in this.
Take control of your diet and exercise, and don’t take medication until you’ve explored other remedies.
Just listen to the “warnings’ in every Rx commercial, and seriously evaluate whether the “cure” may be worse than the disease!
I would love to see ads for lawyers and prescription drugs restricted as they were decades ago, ending the pharmaceutical control over what we think.
Ditto!!!
And alternative EVERYTHING, especially education
!!!
A couple of thoughts:
The NSD has not been accountable to anyone. And that same NSD appears to have functioned as a domestic station of Langley. How convenient.
The three ‘musketeers’ of McCord, Weismann and Eisen. Isn’t it strange how McCord is always the 1 of the 3 out front as surmised by SD. How convenient that is for plausible denial by Weismann and Eisen, if and when the time comes.
🤔
they are above oversight, FOIA, investigation, etc…
that type of power corrupts.
and Mccord has probably beeen flexing her power by spying on Roberts via her husband that was his assistant.
So, the corrupted power of the NSD that is without oversight was so great that they could force or convince the CIA to carry out illegal, seditious and treasonous activities abroad with foreign allied IC compatriots in 2015 & 16 to effectuate an attempted coup?
the CIA focus has to account for the ability of political appointees,political positions, and their allies being able to do a coup themselves.
they have access to everything, and can conspire. they dont need the CIA.
the CIA has a goal of most likely creating a global community – so subverting America is just working to the end goal.
the various intel groups of each country have a partnership, but due to their nature, they will never trust each other. so the endgame of a Global Intel Community will fail, but the info sharing will last until it fails and they turn on each other. Again the goal is a Global entity – America is in the way.
but the coup doesn’t need the CIA to do it, the CIA can just laugh and know its helping them and not stop it or out it.
at this point most political positions (retired and current) probably hire out former intel and contractors – that themselve utilize the security tools to subvert the target
As Chief Executive, a (hopefully) PDJT47 ought to immediately revoke all security clearances for those not directly working for the government, and EVERY security clearance left over ought to be re-evaluated. Sorry, Mr. Former Vice President, Mr/Mrs Senator & Representative, your clearances have been revoked as unnecessary.
I still do not see what inspired or convinced the CIA to get involved overseas in that explanation.
Our host has continually exposed and espoused that the Fourth Branch IC has control of our government.
And he is correct.
Those politicians, if they had been in control, could have not made the CIA participate, nor could all of them kept their mouths shut. But most importantly, they surely would have needed them because without them, the origins of Trump Russia could have never happened.
And the CIA controls all politicians thru compromise as has been thoroughly examined on these pages for the last several years.
All Roads Lead to Langley, First!
The CIA uses the DOJ and FBI to take care of domestic political threats, all while keeping the allusion of being a non-domestic intelligence gathering apparatus.
Yes, everything starts and ends with Langley.
Langley doesn’t serve our purpose, so i agree, shut them down and the data storage centers.
I do remember a large number of former CIA running for Congress in the last 8 years.
McCord has a memorable face, and not memorable for beauty.
It would scare the hell out of a Tasmanian Devil.
“Mary”. Yeah, right.
That’s a MAN baby!
Did you notice how SD described all 3 of them as effeminate?
Why would you characterize a woman that way? 🤔
Methinks a Freudian slip or he has some info he hasn’t shared yet, maybe.
😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣
Unfortunately a substantial portion of American males have been emasculated.
Feminine is chaos. Masculine is order.
If there is a shortage of masculine there will be an excess of chaos.
If masculine is “order” then Mr. Mc Cord is steering the ship…
Very likely. 😉
Dude looks like a lady
S(he) can’t help the way she looks, but s(he) doesn’t have to go outside.
DOJ NSD = CIA National Resources Division (in my humble opinion).
That is a good question and a great observation.
And, further, since we know they are behind it all and have been since the beginning, one could and should surmise the narrative “Trump will jail his opponents. He will go after people in retribution” probably originated from their mouths too. They are the most at risk of being prosecuted.
Every Uniparty Commie
electedselected official will turn in on them in a DC minute.TY and you too have made great observations.
The origin of all media propaganda leads back to them also. So this new narrative in all probability is them showing their fear and trying to make a case to We the People of “not fair, you can’t don that.”
Equally prescient, you’ve made an observation that I haven’t thought about quite frankly.
The ideological willing participants have no defense whatsoever. However, any politician or bureaucrat that has been coerced thru some type of compromised position or situation may well indeed jump at the opportunity to tell all they know if given a pass on their wrongdoing.
Kudos on such a fine thought.
Thanks.
I wanted to further my thoughts. I will leave a comment in the more recent article regarding Merchan’s request. These two articles go hand in hand.
I know you will see this; I want others to also provide their thoughts. This comment is buried.
Sorry, I put the comment on the most recent page under this post.
Let the self-serving Whistle-Blowing begin!
Ah, Schedule F!
The Terror of the Deep State. Like garlic to vampires.
Bring on the garlic coated popcorn.
What if we actually put garlic cloves IN with the popcorn kernels that we are going to pop?
Yumm!
Yummmm!
Oldest brother and sister are Basque, so garlic and butter belongs in EVERYTHING.
If Kennedy unionized the civil service then why can’t PDJT de-unioinize?
This is such a great website. Thank you Sundance and staff.
Here is what Mary McCord is up to now:
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-work/ <<=== she is the Senior Litigator.
Also, I cannot find it now, but I recently read where she and a well known group are putting together an activist group to be a complete thorn in the side of the new Trump Administration after he wins.
Give McCOrd, that homely man-in-drag, a shout out for acknowledging that Trump WILL indeed win.
Her twin brother Donald Sutherland recently passed. I’m guessing her days are numbers, too.
Unless she’s in prison where she belongs.
To hear these people rage and hyperventilate a visitor from mars would be forgiven to think these liars do not know the difference between “official” and “unofficial” acts. The Martian would also be forgiven for think this opinion applies to only one individual.
Gobsmackingly good. This is a truly revolutionary approach.
I don’t think there’s anything as good, or as effective, as Sundance’s treatment anywhere else on the web.
Would that we could apply such clarity and transparency to all the managerial class, in every agency, corporate subcontractor, and NGO, and in every county and country.
Could we wikify employee lists and org charts by faction?
Then we’d have the means to a truly informed electorate; we might even be able to make democracy work!
I must add a caveat: will you “but itsh a Compistutional Repubick!” nitwits and the “everbody’s stupid” crowd please SHUT the hades up? Demographics alone guarantee the 80s America you knew is never, ever coming back, and your grandchildren- despised, broke, beaten, sterilized, by a ruling class that HATES them- need more from you than magical chants and insufferable preening.
Hi turd. Welcome to the punchbowl.
Guess what? We’ll still make sweet delicious punch.
Gallons and gallons of it.
Filled with Winnamins.
Heh! I deserved that, and you right. I wanta be tired of winning! Give us our Sulla!
Aw, geez. Sorry folks, I tried to delete my pet peeve, as it’s not helpful. Apologies to the site and our host.
One: The jury can’t unhear it.
Two: Like it or not a non-pretending person must acknowledge a lot of truth in your post.
(Let the stones be thrown…)
Great news… the POTUS can fire the whole lot at will and there’s nothing they can do now.
Meanwhile, the CIA must be shitting some bricks.
We no longer need the CIA if it is going to operate with no consequences inside the US against US citizens.
We never needed it. It is a Crown corporation, legalized piracy by privateers with letters of marque, a modern version of the East India Companies.
CIA is the direct heir of the OSS, an outfit whose main mission was to hunt down German patriots outraged at the rape and murder of their good Christian nation. The Five Eyes were formed to do the same to us.
If I understand this correctly, everyone classified as executive branch employees are at will employees of the president.
He can fire any or all of them with or without cause.
There is a lot of people in Washington with lumps in their drawers.
2025- Clean Sweep.
Joe Biden said that the executive branch employees were his to fire or retain at will with the covid vaccination policy of a few years ago. Maybe the Lawfare crew forgot, or only recognize that when convenient.
So well explained, Sundance.
If he can overcome the cheating, the house cleaning at DOJ, FBI, CIA, ODNI, NSA etc will make the Augean Stables look like a dusting.
Really looking forward to what the next months bring, as the Dems squirm with their candidate.
Refuse to accept any election that is not carried out in accordance with election laws, not to mention common sense.
Election laws including HAVA which says not more than 1 error in 125,000 in the voter rolls. And votes counted must be from eligible voters (US Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment, Section Two).
Common sense as in, mail-in ballots mean we cannot guarantee the voter’s vote was private, or un-coerced. And election machines which the vendor admitted are connectable and connected to the Internet cannot be certified.
This and the repeal of Chevron means it really might be possible to rein in the loci of abuses.
Kudos to the fighters by Constitutional legal means. I’d cynically given up on them, and their thankless efforts.
If we could turn this into a way to make loads of money, we could get some dissenting or ambitious elites on our side. All revolutions are a fight between elite factions.
Heck yes I’d give some representative organizations an excessively healthy cut of the purloined riches stolen from us. The establishment GOP is just a grifting operation, so why not reverse that into a renewal of the fraternal benefit organizations that covered the country in the 1950s?
Local chapters of such ‘clubs’ as Moose, Elks, Kiwanis, Shriners, not-for-profit Church hospitals (“Baptist”, “Methodist”, “St. Judes”), and Catholic schools were the pro-American version of NGOs.
NGOs have a deservedly bad reputation as mercenaries for GovCorp. I’d love to see a revival of the gray area of Americans helping Americans locally, rather than faux charities abusing tax evasion, converged corporations doing the Fed’s dirty work, or government agency overreach.
Reverse that MAGA style. That’s why MAGA populism is such an exciting concept.
When building a house, you can’t test how strong and well built it is on a calm sunny day.
You need to see how well it survives after a storm of heavy wind and rain.
The same principle applies to our Constitution. How does it do when tested to the limits?
From Lawfare Tribe to Boomerang Crew just like that.
They outclevered themselves big time. And now all their go-to allies in the executive branch are toast if Trump wins.
The pressure to push Biden out is about to reach frantic proportions.
Now this, is good news!
“With the Supreme Court ruling yesterday on presidential immunity, the Lawfare group are absolutely apoplectic and fraught with anxiety about it.
Why?
Why this much extreme vitriol?
The answer is very simple. Andrew Weissmann speaks about the exact reason in this soundbite. Listen at the 01:37 point when Weissmann says the ruling now puts the President in charge of the DOJ-NSD. THAT reality is beyond alarming to a group who have lived in a world where they were untouchable.”
Or maybe:
It’s all theater (“the lady doth protest too much, methinks”) as cover for what’s really going on, namely:
The current regime plans to use the SCOTUS immunity ruling to their own advantage: The current “president” (cabal) will now proceed to leave lawful guardrails even further behind based on a disingenuous claim that he has even more latitude confirmed by the SCOTUS immunity decision.
And the questions of constitutionality of such actions will take years to litigate, meanwhile damage being done and opponents worn down by attrition – the MO already in play by the current regime.
Can you give us an example of such a potential guardrail?
The question is not whether there are guardrails of law imposed on the executive branch, or whether the current regime has flouted same.
(The examples of the flouting are numerous.)
The suggestion is that the SCOTUS immunity ruling can be exploited by the current regime including the executive branch to add yet another layer of disingenuous pretext for flouting the lawful guardrails. (Added to the various ruses already employed.)
While feigning apoplexy at the SCOTUS ruling, both as cover and to use against their opponents.
Typical of their MO. All. The. Way.
Nada…nope
Interesting responses apparently defending the current regime against suggestions they might be duplicitous and scheming to exploit the SCOTUS ruling while publicly decrying it.
Here’s what biden said:
“Today’s decision almost certainly means that there are no limits on what a president can do. This is a fundamentally new principle and it’s a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law, even including the Supreme Court of the United States,”
It begins and ends with ominous suggestions about how the biden cabal itself will now act based on the SCOTUS ruling, with a middle prong likely intended to use against Trump.
That’s the typical approach of the left and the current regime in particular: Duplicitous, scheming, gaslighting, multi-pronged.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/1/joe-biden-says-supreme-court-decision-means-there-/
I think they are legitimately scared and angry; this would explain why immediately, the leftwing sites (led by MSNBC and Rachel Maddow) began trumpeting the idea that President Vegetable can now authorize a drone strike on Trump. Vegamin has total immunity!
I wondered about that but hesitated to put such negativity in everybody’s happy hour.
Gee, I was kind of under the impression that the current (mal) Administration has been doing whatever the heck it wants without any guardrails at all.
I can’t believe that the plain language of the Constitution requires a SCOTUS ruling to re-affirm much of its meaning. Our Constitution is still the greatest political document ever written. Everyone on this site should have a copy of it to study. I suggest a little bit of American Revolutionary history could give the proper context to all of the Constitution’s Articles. “The Federalist Papers” should be helpful in this regard.
I am not a Democrat or a Repug. I believe in our Constitution and in several subsequent statutes passed by the voices of Congress and signed by the several concurrent Presidents into law. Many of the rights of the The People did not have to be clarified with Amendments, if an adequate understanding of the limited powers of the Federal Government found in the Articles, is always accepted.
By the way, my favorite holiday has always been The Fourth of July! I have two big rib-eye steaks ready for the BBQ on Thursday. I also won’t be bothered by anything I read on that day. I celebrate the founding of my Country, with all of it’s ancient warts included., because there is a historical context for all of it. We the People have always been the best people and we should stand proud of what Our Ancestors gave to us.
Thank you, Sundance!
“the ruling now puts the President in charge of the DOJ-NSD. ”
“THAT reality is beyond alarming to a group who have lived in a world where they were untouchable.”
Key thing to remember from article
To quote Flounder from Animal House – “Oh boy, is this great!!!” 😊
They will happily throw Biden under the bus, but are realizing that some of the Biden supporters who watched the “debate” are having an epiphany, and realizing the media has been covering for him all along.
Some of the media may end up under the bus as well.
She looks more like she’s sleeping it off.
Maybe she shared some cocktails with Pelosi?
Ms. Mitchell looked to be dozing. How odd.
77 —> WITH ” Bondo ” Applied
( https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/newrochelle/neighbors/happy-birthday-to-new-rochelles-andrea-mitchell/409693/ )
can we now say the storm is coming? schedule F and everything else. Hurricane Trump?
We can always hope.
Wait until they see Schedule FU!
That United Airlines flight sounds like a bunch of drones from the Borg Collective.
That woman in the red dress interviewing Weissmann looks like death. No joy or life in her face.
Weissmann knows this doesn’t end well for him.
The jig is up and the walls are collapsing in on them, peacefully and patriotically of course.
Past due for MAGA organization to pursue disbarment of this leftist Lawfare cabal. Let’s go, it’s Time and money well spent to save our Republic from these legal shysters.
US News on disbarment advice: https://law.usnews.com/law-firms/advice/articles/what-does-it-take-for-an-attorney-to-be-disbarred
“All attorneys – even private ones – are officers of the court who have taken an oath to uphold the rule of law.
Attorneys cannot interfere with the administration of justice. For example, they must be truthful. They cannot engage in deceitful conduct when representing their clients. They cannot file false or meritless pleadings. Therefore, since no one is above the law, the bar has to discipline lawyers for bad faith conduct, Feiner says.
The reality is that the system, however, is set up to compensate clients for the wrongdoing of their own lawyers, not to address a more systemic abuse of the legal process, she says. It’s not even clear who should be filing such complaints.
To that end, the organization States United has filed bar complaints against a number of attorneys who represented former President Donald J. Trump during his efforts to discredit the 2020 presidential election. States United has alleged that these attorneys have engaged in wrongdoing, such as filing false and frivolous complaints in court and providing false and misleading legal advice.”
YOUR FIRED! Boom. excellent writeup
“Scared” ain’t the word. “Flummoxed” is more like it.
They ought to be scared because much of their lawfare activities occurred while they were out of government, which means they have no prior immunity for actions which could be characterized as a criminal conspiracy to violate the civil and political rights of Donald J. Trump.
If Justice is to be served, Weissman and Crew will learn first hand that the process is the punishment.
In the British vernacular, Weismann, McCord, and the rest of the boys in the band overegged their pudding.
So cocksure were they in their little bubble of their smarts and superior intellect that they failed to consider “Events” outside their control…
And here they come…barreling down the train track at supersonic speed. Right at them.
Lol
Something about striving to dominate Creation as gods, insisting He has abdicated His duty.
Really gets in their heads, righteousness and little people be damned.
Hubris beyond madness.
Hubris beyond madness…
Poetic, Maquis.
Deadly…if they only knew it.
🇺🇸—-The Best IS Coming❣️—-🇺🇸
✝️❤️🇺🇸
Is it too much to ask to boil off the swamp, while it’s draining?
They have shown us how easy it is to “find felonies”. I suggest we find and actually prosecute REAL ones: you only need one felony to indict each and every one of these Marxist tyrants.
Reparations! Strip them and each family member embroiled in Bidenesque schemes of their money, their pensions, their benefits, of all the stolen profits from their criminal enterprises, and recompense the American taxpayer!
By gum, if we repossessed each oversized pension (like they want to due to our 401K’s) we could pay the national debt down to an A rating.
Then assign them duties in the most just Debtors’ Prison ever built.
The Apprentice coming live from DC soon! You’re fired, and you and you and you…..
To the top of the ratings once more!
I would rather see it on pay per view from Ft. Happy, Gitmo, Cuba where trials and sentencing could be held quickly with military tribunals. Would help pay off the National Debt, along with all confiscations of sentenced wealth and property.
Excellent analysis! And revealing personal anecdotes.
Shining light on the individuals who love working in the shadows is important. And the sociological and ideological foundation of their network shouldn’t be minimized. Like minded and radicalized politically in the appropriate schools, following the same career paths.
So far,relative anonymity has protected them from scrutiny. Filtering their messages to their media confreres in easy to digest form further distances them.
As things tighten against them, expect some panic reactions.
Now more than ever break up the Federal District.
It is literally a separate nation, and tribe.
Anybody ever listen to Federal Radio on AM in DC?
Nothing but job listings between agencies, all day.
Fedgov is its own economy, with its own feeder colleges, as well.
Dead giveaway:
Notice that Democrats aren’t giddy that SC ‘gave POTUS the power’ to Pardons, Recognition of foreign governments, Removal of executive branch officials, etc. Rather, they’re only apoplectic that Trump will now be able to remove their fellow travelers, traitors, spies, backstabbers, in the executive branch.
They own everyone. Work from there.
Trump is making a list and checking it twice . . .
Start with the release of all political prisoners hunted down like animals, persecuted, incarcerated, tortured, and denied due process in the filthy Stalinist DC hellholes and elsewhere.
Have the documents ready to sign AT the Inaugural right after he takes the oath of office.
Pardons or computations for each and every one….including those who have been imprisoned for standing between our gifts from God and Molech (and his right hand servants/acolytes “Planned Parenthood”).
commutations…
Those lists have been updated daily by those that DJT has entrusted with his forthcoming administration.
I WANT THIS 💩 ON TRIAL IN 2025!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Maybe he’ll hang in blue drapes.
One of the first things President Trump should do after being sworn in is fire all US Attorneys like Clinton did. They are not prosecuting any criminals and all are leftists. So slowing down justice is not a thing.
And all Department IGs. All personnel within the DOJ-NSD, except perhaps the cleaning crew and receptionist. The top leadership of the FBI, including the entire Washington Field Office. All of the 51 intelligence agency personnel who signed the Hunter Biden laptop letter, if they still happen to be employed come inauguration day. Same goes for DHS HQ. The list will only grow from there.
Cancel all security clearances, regardless of former positions, denial/suspension/cancelations of retirement benefits until after trials for treason, and freezing of all assts held in USA and abroad during the same period.
excellent article and their fears are very real. They will be consumed by their own policies.
Thank you, Sundance, for the analysis.
Thank you, Lord, for this ruling.
Silver lining and Divine purpose to the steal of 2020
It has always been this way. The only thing which allowed it to deviate from the law was mindset. The invisible wall between the DOJ and POTUS was on its face obscene. POTUS is top cop. This is how the government was formed. Only recently did the deep state concoct this mantra that DOJ operates independently. It destroyed his first Presidency.
I admit I never thought the country could be saved.
I am wondering if governors have similar powers.
From my lowly position, I think mountains are being moved 🙏🏻
Hopefully removal is only a small first step. Prosecution and extended jail time for treason is necessary.
Thank You, Sundance & Crew. I am Learning and appreciating Every Day!
The government (executive branch) has sovereign immunity from suit UNLESS it waives its own immunity. The president is the unitary executive, under which all executive branch activity occurs.
There is nothing unusual then that the president would likewise have immunity from suit for any act on behalf of the government.
Day 1-47 eliminates DOJ-NSD forever.
And eliminates all those extra IRS AH’s