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 mainly unelected administrative state has knee capped the legitimate function of the branches of government for too long. 😷
This cesspool of players act like overseers of a plantaion.Tactics include bribes, threats, lawfare, etc. Reagan, Nixon, and Kennedy experienced more extreme measures.
The unelected sewer needs to shrink. It is beyond the time limit for those that are not flushed out to be brought under control.🚽
I hope we are nearing the point where all of us can prayerfully exclaim, “Praise God, we are free at last!” 🙏🇺🇲
This
IMmunity Coupled with Chevron Deference overturned
we’ve just come up for air after 40 years!!!
Yes it is a step forward but don’t think the Courts will save America.
The courts aren’t running this clean-up operation.
I’ll give you a guess who is.
Who do we know who said:
“We will drain the swamp.”
“We will dismantle the rest of the deep state.”
“I am a wartime President. We are at war. A different kind of war but we are at war. We are fighting an invisible enemy.”
“I caught them all. I caught the swamp. No one else could have done that. Let’s see what happens.”
“These are some sick people.”
“We are going to fill Gitmo up with some bad Hombres.”
“Right now I have 200 Generals and Admirals supporting me.”
Thank you to all the peaceful and patriotic warriors/Guardians who are conducting this global operation alongside our favorite President and Commander in Chief. I salute you!
God bless you and God bless America.
I can actually see the Dems ignoring Scotus decisions. Biden has already done it.
The only enforcement arm of Scotus is the voters. If they can be persuaded that Congress or a President needn’t pay attention to a decision, what’s to be done?
That may be how low we’ve sunk as a people and millions have been “educated” at the hands of lefties.
I’m cautiously optimistic. We have been burned so many times it is hard to get out of the mindset that
we may actually turn the tide.
LONG way to go yet.
The Beach Friends’ theory of the Presidency is that he is akin to a Governor General in the British Commonwealth model. He’s a figurehead personifying the State who has no real power but exists to sign laws passed the legislature. The regulatory establishment exists outside the sphere of the GG’s influence, which is limited at best.
Joe Biden is the very model of a modern President in the Beach Friends’ deluded universe.
I am the very model of a modern major general…
“Amiable monarchists are not safe subjects of republican confidence.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, 1801
“You have to have immunity for the President, otherwise the President is going to be a figurehead.”
–Donald J. Trump
Lou Dobbs Tonight: Interview with President Trump 7-1-2024
https://rumble.com/v54y51f-lou-dobbs-tonight-7-1-2024.html
Obviously, this is fantastic. In fact, I kind of realized it last night and was thinking what to do if the Senate does not confirm my appointee to DOJ. Well, I’m the president so I’ll just be the boss myself. Oh, would that get some panties into a wad.
Yes it would, but those men shouldn’t have been wearing panties in the first place.
“Congress may not criminalize the conduct of the President simply for carrying out his core executive branch duties.”
I hope those duties include getting rid of not just people but also entire bureaucracies.
Shouldn’t it also include asking the leader of a crappy corrupt country what the hell the Biden Crime Family was up to in said crappy corrupt country, without being impeached for asking?
For starters Zelenskyy is not going to turn on Biden, he is well and truly gotten his money out of him.
So Trumps impeachments were unconstitutional! Void them, Republicans!
Good one.
P. O S .
Weissmann, you POS
Let them panic…it’s way past time for this. Thank the good Lord.
Hell hath no fury like a Leftist scorned
Congress now can void both Trumps impeachment! They were unconstitutional!
Republicans said last year they’d do it, but haven’t! Republicans are so frustratingly, worthless!!
They have an open door, do it!!!
I suspect its mostly the leadership who are the most corrupt;
threats of many different types make sheeple out of the rest of them.
besides the promise of untold millions from stock tips etc.
encourage their silence.
They are what they……worthless -flower pots in the hall of the CONgress…shame on all of them……
not just shame – fire them
Thank you Sundance, although I’ll admit to going a bit wobbly as I tried to follow along with your summary. I will definitely need to re-read this!!
Still, and just getting the gist of how the Supreme Court’s ruling impacts the Presidency — I have a question.
This ruling is good for President Trump now, as it applies to the court cases currently against him. It also is good for when he is once again officially the President of the United States.
But! — how does this ruling impact what happens between now & January 21, 2025??
That’s a huge timeframe.
Joe Biden is also subject to this ruling, so what can the current administration ‘do’ between now & 1-21-25?
Ever heard of TWA 800? That is where the military ‘accidentally’ shot down an airliner on the east coast.
Ever wonder where all those ground-to-air missiles disappeared to in Ukraine?
Lots of ways to kill Trump with plausible deniability.
This is so terrifying. I pray to God Trump remains safe.
Recall the ADIZ (Air Defense Identification Zone) alert in the airspace around Hawai’i when PDJT was returning from meeting Kim Jong – Un in the Korean DMZ? Guess what aircraft was transiting through? Air Force One.
“We have to go through another year and a half, they’ve weaponized our justice system at a level nobody has ever seen before.”
–Donald J. Trump May 3, 2023
“There is no event, therefore, however atrocious which may not be expected.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 1798
https://rumble.com/v2m1dl8-trump-on-the-intel-agents-who-lied-about-hunters-laptop-its-probably-treaso.html
Milley for sure. General rank officers can be recalled to duty even after they retire.
Vindiman is safe from recall to duty perhaps. Maybe we can find another way to squash him.
Isn’t he in Ukraine leading the military and grifting from American finances.
If Vindiman retired with 20 years or greater service, he can be recalled back to active duty to face a court martial.
Military retirees (officers & enlisted) who are entitled to pay are subject to Article 2 of the UCMJ.
Actually, only Officers are recalled since their retirement pay is “Retainer Pay.” Enlisted like me, pass the 30 year mark of Active/Inactive Retirement I & II, are not liable for recall. However, if we commit a felony and are convicted, we lose our pension.
Nope. None of them are safe. All can be recalled to face Military Justice.
I have heard the Supreme Court distinguished that Military Justice is separate and independent from the DOJ.
I have also heard the Supreme Court clarified that the role of President is separate from the role of Commander in Chief.
Harry Reid went “nuclear option” and ended filibusters of SCOTUS nominees. Dems got burned when Trump got three SCOTUS picks.
Pelosi went “nuclear option” when she impeached Trump twice without a crime or evidence.
Biden went “nuclear option” when he had his goons raid Mar a Lago and indict Trump on bogus nonsense.
Dems got burned when SCOTUS chopped off their Lawfare trickery.
Dems never learn. Dems push until they are harshly compelled to stop. Harshness is all they understand.
I think “understand” might be too strong a word. They’re too much like animals, operating on instinct alone.
Instinct as in rabid dog, brain on fire, attack any conservative that moves.
The badge cord on the guy says…THE NEW YORK TIMES
So you know who they work for!
This is easily one of the most informative articles I’ve read on CTH, and I am forever grateful for your efforts. Thank you.
A new day is dawning.
Thank you Sundance, for providing a deeper understanding to a complex ruling. It is good to see and hear that maybe justice is not lost. Hopefully one day, lawfare funding will be exposed for the world to see.
Illegal campaign contribution?
Or
Treason?
Choose wisely
Election Interference in violation of President Trump’s Executive Order 13848 on Election Interference.
President Trump first signed and issued it in Sept of 2018, just before the 2018 midterms. Looking at you Lyin’ Ryan.
It has been renewed several times since. Any and all who interfere with US elections are subject to this Executive Order.
For those keeping score, there are a few other EO’s President Trump issued that are still active/have been renewed. EO 13818 on human rights abuse and corruption (trafficking?) is one such EO.
Lawfare looks like a political extortion racket. My opinion only.
After the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, end lawfare for good
https://nypost.com/2024/07/01/opinion/after-the-supreme-courts-ruling-on-presidential-immunity-end-lawfare-for-good/
of course it is
death by a thousand financial cuts
most could not afford it
Their lies/actions/choices have consequences. Especially in the eyes of the Lord. They run to do evil. We continue to pray and at some point the Lord says to them ‘oh no you di’int’, and puts the kibosh on it. I am patient. 🙏😇
I would love nothing more than a complete scorched earth policy against the administrative state. Every prosecutor and lawyer at the DOJ fired. Every one at the FBLIE down to the janitors fired. Raze the buildings and salt the earth. These irredeemable corrupt institutions would just be the start.
Kyle seraphin has a podcast just for you
Welcome to the party pal!
“this small crew of effeminate leftists.”
Mary McCord excepted, she certainly has bigger balls/adams apple than the other two wet blankets.
Make Mary Love Again? Build Sad Better
I may, or may not share your sentiments, but this kind of talk is harmful to this forum, and not productive.
agree
Let’s be sensible about this. We are not them.
An actual legal proceeding is sensible. And your are right, we aren’t them simply because we don’t need to fabricate the charges.
Why?
My answer would be to the “Why?” is simply that military tribunals for non-military personnel is a Q thing – not based on how things actually work. Time to put that whole misdirect operation into the circular file and move back to reality.
Having a tough time working out exactly how expressing the desire to see justice served is detrimental to this forum. The poster even suggested an actual legal approach, somewhat novel in this day and age. Had they suggested dragging them into the streets you might have had a point.
the dissenter posters should formulate their own “reality” version of justice for treason, etc.
Isn’t Andie the guy/girl/thing that had 90% of his/her/its “convictions” in the Enron cases overturned by the SCOTUS because he/she/it hid exculpatory evidence??? Please explain to me how he/she/it was able to keep a license to practice. IMESHO, Merry Mic is something else that fits the compensation theory about ugly women. Hopefully the America First Legal or the RNC will pursue constructive LAWFARE against those pathetic souls. It is ecouraging to hear that the Left’s lawfare team have been impacted by the recent SCOTUS decision, as well as severe TDS.
Don’t you know that Andy graduated Summa Cum Loud at Harvard with a 9.0 gpa at the head of his/her’s/theirs law class! Why he’s the smartest lawyer in Flatbush, Brooklyn. If you don’t believe me just ask his grandparents!
So just out of curiosity when do we get to see the interviews of former white house counsel Don McGahn (etc.) about this immunity decision?
I’m willing to pay good money.
Lawfare destroys attorney-client privilege like it’s not even a speed bump. Prosecutors that I knew who violated it lost their job and were disbarred but not these guys!
The Supreme Court Ruled Not for Trump But for the Office of the President, by Paul Craig Roberts –
The Supreme Court majority emphasized that a president must have immunity for official acts or he can be stopped by law suits and politically motivated charges from performing his designated functions. In other words, the Court’s decision is based on elementary common sense.
If a president believes an election is fraudulent, it is his responsibility, and thereby an official act, for him to have the election verified. However, the Democrats and whore media defined the issue as “Trump overthrowing the election.” Even experts with the evidence in their hands were indicted for aiding and abetting Trump’s attempted overthrow of the election.
In other words, the criminal indictment brought against Trump assumed without justification that there was no evidence of election fraud. As Trump had appointed a Justice Department and an entire government consisting of his enemies, his own government treated his official action as his private action.
A rally in support of Trump was mischaracterized by Democrats, whore media, and Republicans such as Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell as an “insurrection.”
What we should be disturbed about is the ability of the Democrats and the whore media to disrupt the 4-year term of a US president with a series of false charges that were never confirmed and then to use unconfirmed charges to indict a former president in an effort to prevent him from again running for president.
Prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling, the indictments against Trump were falling apart. The biased “special counsel” prosecuting Trump was caught lying to the federal judge, who has put the case on hold. Fani Willis entrusted by the White House with Trump’s prosecution in Atlanta has been found to have given her lover $700,000 of taxpayers’ money with which he took Fani on vacations. Her case against Trump is also on hold.
In other words, the legal machinery the corrupt Democrats have employed against Trump is too corrupt to be able to do its assigned political assassination.
Now the Supreme Court knocks the props out from under the main charge orchestrated from the fake “insurrection” charge. The Supreme Court’s ruling makes it clear that the special council’s charges against Trump have no legal basis and should be dropped.
https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-supreme-court-ruled-not-for-trump-but-for-the-office-of-the-president/
Barf (Barr) laughing about Bannons imprisonment was sickening
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Unfortunately, Bannon and his lawyers mishandled his case.
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whore media
It’s a two-fer. They make hollywoke mockumentaries too.
https://slaynews.com/news/pro-obama-netflix-documentary-produced-by-jack-smiths-wife/
Thanks for sharing this important article.
“..Even experts with the evidence in their hands were indicted for aiding and abetting Trump’s attempted overthrow of the election…”
How many of us watched every minute of each of the cases Rudy Gulliani brought to the State Legislatures?
I know I did. The evidence was overwhelming.
What about when one of the legislators said after Dr. Shiva’s testimony about how the Dominion machines weighted the votes: I’m paraphrasing ” So the Dominion machines acted as a calculator not a tabulator. ” When I heard that I thought BOOM, that’s exactly right, this guy gets it. This is the smoking gun….Victory is around the corner!
Now Rudy is being disbarred…..
Almost every lawyer that helped President Trump was indicted and disbarred sometimes in multiple jurisdictions by Lawfare!
Indictment of defense lawyers is unheard of let alone disbarrment!
Sorry for the repeat (i said this earlier elsewhere)
Can any of Bidens behavior last Thursday be colored by him knowing the full text (or most of it) of this immunity decision?
Was his mumbling an attempt to hard sell the Hur report?
I assume that someone leaked the opinion to Biden or that he had tech/nsa monitoring the comms and computers at the Supreme Court
So he had to know about this opinion well in advance… and before the debate, didn’t he?
So he knew now matter how the debate turned out that Trump would not get incarcerated in New York, etc.
And that Jack Smith got appointed (probably) illegally, so no immunity for himself and Garland for that illegal act…
Biden or his puppet masters? To paraphrase a quote, FJB could not spell “cat” if he was spotted all 3 letters.
I seriously doubt that Biden could understand even a quick summation of the decisions were an aide to have provided such a thing to him.
About all he can do is read the prompter, then go “backstage” and curse at everyone.
This from Politico:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/02/biden-campaign-debate-inner-circle-00166160
Over the course of his presidency, Joe Biden’s small clutch of advisers have built an increasingly protective circle around him, limiting his exposure to the media and outside advice — an effort to manage public perceptions of the oldest person to ever hold the office and tightly control his political operation.
But inside the White House, Biden’s growing limitations were becoming apparent long before his meltdown in last week’s debate, with the senior team’s management of the president growing more strictly controlled as his term has gone on. During meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefings they’ll deliver to Biden, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information being presented in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction.
“It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off,’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that,’” said one senior administration official. “It’s a Rorschach test, not a briefing. Because he is not a pleasant person to be around when he’s being briefed. It’s very difficult, and people are scared shitless of him.”
The official said, “He doesn’t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it.”
Joey always was a nasty downpunching cuss.
Dear Sundance:
If the Pulitzer Prize meant what it used to mean, you’d really deserve one for this coverage.
We regular CTH might understandably come to take your work for granted.
But you have done such invaluable service shedding light on these supremely holier-than-thou , supremely reprehensible degenerates.
These people really are the American IRGC.
Thank you.
True, but being the Deplorable that he is, I’m guessing he’d rather a Pilsner Prize. I hear they are awarded by the twelve pack in Baskets. Most suitable for a Deplorable.
For his trophy shelf of course since he doesn’t drink alcohol.
I’m an Australian, so my US constitutional knowledge is sparse.
Is the power to classify documents an executive power under the US constitution?
Trump ordered all documents related to Crossfire Hurricane (IIRC) to be declassified before he left office.
The SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity would affirm the declassification of the said documents if this is a Presidential power.
There would be no grounds for any subordinate agency or executive person to override this decision.
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Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
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Think it was Susan Rice who actually said that. Definitely don’t remember the person who doesn’t know what a woman is every saying that.
Was Lisa Page.
They all saying the same thing.
I dont need Fox news to give me permission to assume shes saying it too.
This is a completely illegitimate Obama installed judge made possible by the fraudulent installation of a fake Presdient.
Human Error: While human error is a common occurrence, the
simultaneous nature of the errors described seems statistically unlikely, especially among individuals accustomed to handling sensitive information who would presumably be vigilant about security protocols.
• Security Protocols: High-level officials are typically trained in security measures, including the handling of passwords and secure information.
The described scenario would represent a significant departure from expected behavior.
• Pattern Recognition: Intuition might lead one to recognize patterns or anomalies. A pattern of similar incidents occurring under similar circumstances could suggest a non-random cause.
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In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, a palpable wave of distress has swept through certain legal circles. The Lawfare group, known for its strategic legal acumen, finds itself grappling with the implications of a ruling that seemingly redefines the power dynamics within the executive branch.
The source of their profound disquiet? It’s not merely a matter of legal technicalities or abstract principles. Rather, it’s the stark realization that the President may now wield direct influence over the DOJ-NSD—a prospect that shakes the very foundations of their understanding of independence and oversight.
Andrew Weissmann, a figure synonymous with legal strategy, articulates this seismic shift in a soundbite that cuts to the heart of the matter. At precisely 01:37, he voices the concern that the ruling transfers a degree of control to the President that was previously unfathomable to those who operated under the assumption of autonomy.
This group, accustomed to navigating the corridors of power with a sense of invulnerability, now confronts a reality where the rules of engagement have changed. The vitriol, then, is a manifestation of their anxiety—a fear of the unknown and a reluctance to cede ground in a domain they once considered their own.
I get so frustrated when commentators turn on Trump with he could have sacked Fauci. I remember the cry from all and sundry in the media that sacking meant impeachment. Glad to see this written for all to see.
Weismann was behind the destruction of Arthur Andersen after Enron. His prosecution against the key partner was ultimately overturned, but by then the damage was already done.
“…….from small group of effiminate leftist activists.”
Eisen, Weissman, and others…..maybe yes.
Mary McCord?
IC falls under executive branch. Trump trimming time!
Speaking as an attorney the neutering of the Weissman Lawfare trio would go a long way toward reestablishing the rule of law. Next step investigating and exposing Eric Holder and his tenure at the DOJ
“gender fluid leftists like Eisen, Weissmann”
Thank you, Sundance, for helping start my day with a smile.
Ok, question here. And first, I am not concerned with Trump using this new ability with real dictatorial powers. I am concerned with others in the future (a Bidumb or Ozero, etc).
Is it just power of the purse as Alexi1689 noted yesterday? And wouldn’t a president be able to veto any funding bill that did so? Thinking out loud here, or maybe since the, “in official capacity” part make POTUS quite powerful, to perhaps counter that, it makes legislative have to have the 2/3s veto override democrats/Republicans have to truly get together to override veto. I suppose this will cause the legislative to more easily do this regardless of party affiliation. But then, I doubt the legislative party of the president would not want to join the other party in this override attempt.
Sorry for this meander. I hope my thoughts came across? Any thoughts on this?
Sorry for double negative. I doubt the party of the president would want to join the other party.
And for clarifications of my thoughts. The potential POTUS acts the legislative would want to override possible vetoes of funding bills could be these hoped for firings of executive personnel (not fund that department and then override that veto). For Trunp, I’m sure the legislative GOPrick RINOrats would gladly side with demonrats to override Trumps veto of department funding.
Sorry again for meander. I hope my train of thought is understandable.
Maybe this “new or newly define POTUS pewer” will cause funding bills for departments to be very clean and specific (like olden days) to specific areas that POTUS might wield his power. Not huge onmibus multi department bills the “POTUS has to sign or it shuts down government.”
But then again, there could still be huge omnibus bills with the specific area the legislative wants to defund the POTUS has to sign.
Well ok, I just need to stop now.
These leftist jerks do not care even a little about our Constitutional Republic, the USA and its people. Their only concern is the destruction of our Constitutional Republic as this is where a tiny minority can get ultimate power over the vast majority using the captured Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government.
We’ve allowed these demons to sanctify themselves, untouchable demigods (SES, government unions, hooked on the government teat, etc.) …you know, continuity of government crap.
Either this small group of demons are destroyed or the Constitution with its Bill of Rights, free peoples of the USA and the West will be destroyed…us or them.
“A time for choosing”
“This New Deal army of political appointees is the American form of the Praetorian Guard of Ancient Rome. That political band had exactly similar habits in making elections foolproof. They were also active in the decline and fall of the morals of the Roman Empire.”
–Herbert Hoover, Morals in Government (Addresses 1938-1940)
Donald Herbert Hoover Trump
https://rumble.com/v54busl-biden-tries-to-come-up-with-a-nickname-for-trump-fails-miserably.html
If I was given the authority to hand-pick five people to standup against the brick wall, Weissmann is at the top of the list.
Has anyone seen Mary McCord and Mike Pompeo in the same room together? They do look alot alike.
Asking for a friend. And no, it’s not a beach friend.
Weissmann says that this ruling is a blow to the American people since it gives the President a blank check in terms of his conduct. You mean like the blank check for Fast and Furious or the blank check for the DoJ to prosecute and imprison political opponents for not complying with their subpoenas all while ignoring prosecution of their political allies or forgiving student loans in order to garner votes even though SCOTUS ruled that not to be a Presidential authority or sending billions of dollars to Iran so that they can support Hamas’ attacks on Israelis or what Andy? Weissmann’s biggest complaint is that the SCOTUS doesn’t bow at the alter of Democrats. You cannot say that they rule in Trump’s favor even most of the time. They turned down suits on the 2020 election IRREGULARITIES (can’t say the truth on what happened without being labeled an election denier) because of standing. Who knows what standing is and how you come to have it? It would seem that if it directly affects you then you would have standing but hey, I guess the suffering of the American people under the Biden administration rests squarely on the shoulders of the SCOTUS because we had not standing because of THEIR ruling!
As for Weissmann, he reveals himself again as a snake in the grass, or in this case, a snake in the guvmint. Weissmann has all the honesty and integrity of Jack Smith. Put them together and the needle won’t come close to moving from 0 for either of them!
“They never made a direct offer… they made it very clear: [The Department of] Justice would go easy on me if I would just recognize the narrative that [Andrew] Weissmann was trying to put out there on Trump’s involvement with Putin. Well, if I’d recognized it, I would’ve been lying, and I wasn’t willing to do that, and I paid a price.
“They put me in solitary for 11 months and they put me in prison after that for another year.”
Paul Manafort: Biden warned the former Ukrainian President against prosecuting his opponents
https://rumble.com/v361w5l-paul-manafort-biden-warned-the-former-ukrainian-president-against-prosecuti.html
“I noted, during a recent flight filled with DC bureaucrats and IC officials (United Airlines), how they all watched MSNBC on their seat monitors as if it was a religious service that needed to be attended.”
Anyone who watches MSNBC, the mockingbird media central, is a moron. Our government is littered with fools.
The term “kakistocracy” has returned after a long absence.
Nothing can stop what is coming
NOW LET US
PATRIOTS ALL
PREVENT THE
2024
BIG STEAL 2.0
ACTION ACTION ACTION
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES A STOLEN ELECTION HAS CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES
The SC immunity decision is just bog standard constitutional law. Lawfare exists to pervert settled law, for political purposes. Their perverse field of play has been curtailed formally, and they’re whining, but this day was inevitable, assuming the SC wasn’t blatantly coopted.
I think this NY sentencing is Lawfare’s last stand pre election. They want max political effect of course, and that means a jail sentence, no matter what. The good news is it’ll be in the news 24/7, and that helps Trump and hurts our enemies. Lawfare can only succeed in the shadows of Beachfriendville. Sunlight is their kryptonite.
The Executive Branch IS the President.
This is how We the People exert OUR Political Power and Authority over OUR government; by electing that president in Honest Elections.
All of those things are anathema to these Beach Blanket Baby Nazis.
They do not care that Democrat presidents also receive Immunity under this ruling. Why?
A: Because their Two-Tiered ReichsJustice System ALREADY provides de facto Immunity for Democrat and UNIPARTY presidents.
Jeremiah 21:
12 This is what the Lord says to the dynasty of David:
“‘Give justice each morning to the people you judge!
Help those who have been robbed;
rescue them from their oppressors.
Otherwise, my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire
because of all your sins.
13
I will personally fight against the people in Jerusalem,
that mighty fortress—
the people who boast, “No one can touch us here.
No one can break in here.”
14
And I myself will punish you for your sinfulness,
says the Lord.
I will light a fire in your forests
that will burn up everything around you.’”
Yes, Lord; Soon and suddenly, Lord, even in the twinkling of an eye.
Hosannah–they lose and we win! Hallelujah!
Rest in the Vine: Justice, Chiefly: Clarence Thomas and the Constitution to Which We Actually Consented
SD’s recent article regarding Merchan’s request complements this article. Black Knight started a thread on page one, but I wanted to continue the discussion and keep it fresh.
The SCOTUS ruling, to overuse a cliche, was a nuclear bomb on lawfare if Trump is elected.
The issue that is causing the lawfare team (McCord, Eisen, Weismann) to lose their minds and Bragg needing additional time is that Trump can appoint whoever he wants to be in the head positions of the Executive agencies, it works both ways- if he can fire them, he can hire them.
For example, the Judiciary Act of 1789 does not explicitly require the Attorney General (AG) nomination to be subject to confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It’s a misnomer.
Most assume so because it’s been modern practice that AG nominees are subject to Senate confirmation. By modern, I mean 1795. John Rutledge (I believe the Senate required him to go through a nomination process) was the first judicial nominee to be formally rejected by the Senate; it was due to his public criticism of the Senate’s approval of the unpopular Jay Treaty.
The SCOTUS ruling reaffirms that Trump (and any President) can appoint whomever he wants to each Executive Department Head position.
He can appoint his AG (among others), Congress can cry, and they can cry some more, but there’s nothing they can do about who he appoints.
That AG can open investigations into criminality and corruption. Rats will jump ship as the evidence mounts; they will have access to whatever they want from the other Executive Departments (DOJ-NSD, for example). Investigations will lead to charges.
That scenario is why lawfare is in a full-blown panic. And this is why we will start to see rats jumping ship. I wouldn’t be surprised to see surprise retirements (especially from R’s; they love to do that) in the next few months.
Lawfare can’t jump ship; they have chosen to do lawbreaking as private citizens. They are no longer government employees; whoever is appointed AG will provide opportunities for those coerced to turn in evidence for immunity or reduced sentences.
The one thing Congress can do is provide oversight. And for ALL living Americans, it will be the first time in history that we see what real Congressional oversight looks like because it won’t be their AG directing and guiding the prosecutions; it’s the President’s as it should be…one ruling by SCOTUS can and should start to realign the balance of separate but equal branches of government.
An election not being swayed by corruption and a swearing-in must happen first, but I think this provides further context to why they are scrambling.
A correction. I confused John Rutledge with Henry Stanbery. Rutledge was rejected as the Chief Justice due to his stance on the Jay Treaty.
Henry Stanbery was the first AG to be rejected.
He served as Attorney General for President Andrew Johnson. Stanbery resigned in 1868 to defend Johnson during his impeachment trial. After Johnson was acquitted, he nominated Stanbery to resume his tenure as Attorney General, but the Senate rejected the nomination 11–29.
The Appointments Clause guides appointments and requires a nomination process, but the fact that the president can fire them without cause restores some balance of power. I think we see a speedier process by Congress; they don’t want Trump’s nominees running around as appointees forever, especially if they don’t want them there.
I apologize. I was hyper-focused on the Judiciary Act and completely threw out the Appointments Clause…and I mixed up two different Senate rejections of Executive appointments. I need less coffee.
According to Gateway Pundit, Andrew and Mary are making sure their battle plan is leaked to the Post.
They are going to have Jack try to jail PDJT before he can be inaugurated.
Obstruction and mishandling of documents. How rich, for a minion who falsified evidence.
Pay back is gonna be a bitch baby.
Retribution is going to be a F ing Bitch.
As the winner of the 2024 election, President Trump is “The Executive Branch” of the federal government, in toto.
He personifies “the lock, stock and barrel” of “The Executive Branch.”
President Trump, as the Executive Branch, can immediately de-authorize and disband the unconstitutional administrative-state’s departments, personnel, rules, acts, declarations, interpretations, agreements, and even some laws that the un-American globalists have enacted over the past century, slowly eroding the freedoms and rights of the American citizens and states defined in the “original Constitution and the legally approved amendments.
As President, based on his oath, he cannot associate with, nor defend, any “written law that is unconstitutional.”
The oath is found in Article II of the Constitution. It contains 35 words and goes as follows:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
As such, it doesn’t require of him to do the same for the unconstitutional administrative-state’s departments, personnel, rules, acts, declarations, interpretations, agreements, and even some laws that the un-American globalists have enacted over the past century, slowly eroding the freedoms and rights of the American citizens and states defined in the “original Constitution and the legally approved amendments.”
He doesn’t need to ask any stinkin’ congressman, senator nor jurist before taking action.
“Let’s go Brandon and the democrats!”
I find it humorous that everyone thinks we have three equal branches of government: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. This proves otherwise. The USSC just stated that the Executive has the powers WE say he has. The Supreme Court reigns supreme. If a law is passed that is clearly unconstitutional, they can either hear it and deem it is or is not, or decide not to be bothered with it and let it stand (citing something about ‘standing’). Our greed, corruption and lust for power has destroyed this nation. John Adams wrote in 1795 and 1798 that the US Constitution was “made only for a moral and religious people” and that it would be “wholly inadequate to the government of any other”. Looks like he was right.
So Weissmann would have us believe that AGs were always independent and not cronies of POTUS? Bobby Kennedy told John to pound sand? Eric Holder didn’t publicly call himself Obama’s “wingman”?
Feckoff mate!
Trump is likely the only POTUS in history to have 2 AGs, 2 DAGs , 2 FBI directors, the CIA director, the House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader actively working to overthrow him.