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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So pleased to see Weissmann is apoplectic. He thinks he’s been calling the shots for years and now he and his ilk have been shot in the foot. Haha.
Right there with ya!! I can’t stand him most of all. By far.
He was responsible for the Enron debacle and thousands of Arthur Anderson employees losing their jobs. Sidney Powell explains the issues in her book “Licensed to Lie”. That’s all these Lawfare people do, LIE.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/05/explosive-new-documents-reveal-andrew-weissmanns-misconduct-enron-case/
You beat me to it. When I read that book a long time ago, I knew he was a scumbag. And he got away with a career of corruption. To me that book was the first to really expose how corrupt our judicial system is.
Lisa Monaco was his protege during that trial.
The insiders, collectively called the Deep State, the Blob, that runs the mechanics of DC.
Once you open your eyes and see it, there’s no going back.
Look at him, untouchable, laughing at you.
Need to aim up about 5′ 8″.
The left wants power but no accountability.
Too bad he can’t aim a little higher.
I absolutely guarantee these snivelling treasonous POS’s will leave the country November 4.
They’ll return if the Obama crowd are able to steal the election at 3 AM….otherwise, these scum will all go to Paraguay or some other place where extradition would not happen.
Let them all poop their collective pants in the coming weeks.
Traitors all.
Speaking of Paraguay:
https://theweek.com/articles/523013/no-haven-criminal-bush-family
Yes, indeed.
Bless his little pea pickin’ heart.
Sundance, if I may return to your exposee of the ‘Silo’ arrangement and the IC, I think you said that no-one could access these or declassify the contents, without the permission of the head of the silo ( or whoever was in overall charge-sorry, can’t remember exactly), including the President.. Does this now mean that a President can now access and clear out/ declassify anything he wants, silo-wise, and eject anyone who attempts to obstruct him/her?
Sorry, but further to this, does he have any ability to reveal, shame the Senate Security Committee, who have enabled and shirked any control of these arrangements, or is this still ‘behind the scenes’politics?
I already explained how the president can declassify anything.
The president just needs to be the one to control it.
Yes, and if they refuse, he can fire those responsible and keep firing them until the materials are released.
This SCOTUS ruling is BRUTAL for Lawfare.
And Justice Thomas twisted the knife when he wrote about how a private citizen can’t prosecute anyone, much less a former President.
Jack Smith’s power flows from the fact that if anyone challenges him, or fights his legal authority, they can be charged with “obstruction of justice”.
Once reelected, all those weapons go away.
And DOJ NSD Lawfare warriors can delete their cell phones, but it is exceptionally difficult for them to delete government communications (.gov emails) and other records.
“And Justice Thomas twisted the knife when he wrote about how a private citizen can’t prosecute anyone, much less a former President.”
It will be interesting to see what Jack will do now that the SC has telegraphed that he has no immunity being a private citizen prosecuting a former president.
Thomas was basically telegraphing to Eileen Cannon with that statement.
Candygram!
(Land shark…)
There’s a hilarious headline this morning on CFP (yes, I know, they’re far from the best, but I still check them just in case I missed something).
It said that Jack Smith just came out declaring he will continue his cases up until January 20th.
(Smoke some more weed Jack you’re gonna need it!)
From Hokkoda:
“Jack Smith’s power flows from the fact that if anyone challenges him, or fights his legal authority, they can be charged with “obstruction of justice”.”
This statement is so true and powerful that it needs to be repeated again and again.
Jack Smith’s power flows from the fact that if anyone challenges him, or fights his legal authority, they can be charged with “obstruction of justice”.
Brilliant – thank you!! The summary from Alexi1689 is so perfect for the rank and file, which would be me.
I did not know this….what a revelation!
“This crew of Brookings funded Lawfare ideologues was also described by Christine Blasey-Ford as her “Beach Friends.”
The Deep State is a problem for any President. Looking at Ukraine, Victoria Nuland sabotaged Obama as surely as she did Trump. Remember her hot mike moment of F*** the EU. This was in 2014 while Obama was working with Merkel to try to get a peace deal. The State Department sabotaged Truman on Israel. The FBI/CIA drove Nixon out. I won’t even get into what happened to JFK. The Deep State did like the Bushes because they had carte blanche.
The 51 Intelligence Officials who said that the Hunter Biden laptop was a hoax.
Can they now be charge with election interference??
Look, way back in 2020, the Democrats had a choice. Let Warren or Booker lose bigly to Trump, or put up two throw away candidates. The Democrats chose the latter: Biden/Harris. The Democrats’ fraud machine produced enough fake ballots to barely win. The Hail Mary was caught in the end zone.
Now, after 3 1/2 years of complete nonsense, incompetence and corruption, the Democrats are stuck with those two throw away candidates. They will be on the November 5th ballot.
Boo, hoo.
Trump 2024.
That’s what you get with DEI!
I think you misspelled DIE 😏 😆
A most excellent post Repo Man.
Hello? Your J6 Committee was a sham….and J6 was Fedsurrection…a setup!
Sounds like Weissman is about to cry! Gee…..they really don’t like it when it appears that what they have been doing is going to come back on them. Some how….that’s injustice! Well, they can cry all they want to their loyalists on effing MSNBC….but We the People can not wait to see this so called retribution that you all seem to be so worried about! Justice IS…seeing these people be held accountable…..pretty bad though that we have to hold…JUSTICE…DOJ…..accountable too!
Just like a bunch of spoiled rotten stompy feet when they don’t get their way.
Sure, but according to Politico this morning, there is already in place a group of State AGs who are conspiring to get Trump should he be elected. To quote one of them, “there will be chaos.”
Supremacy Clause, constitutional structure.
Not gonna fly.
I think that Trump’s first term was subdued largely by his high ideals, willingness to look past retribution for the sake the possible. His government reform initiatives went nowhere. If you are like me, and you believe that We The People will fare better as 50 sovereign states, then the right thing to do may be to let the states take preeminence over the federal government. This means presiding over the failure of America. I don’t see Trump doing this. Do we have evidence to show that DJT is anything but a “Big Government” guy?
The federal government, as an entity, is a poisoned well.
Do we have evidence to show that DJT is anything but a “Big Government” guy?
Have you been sleeping under a rock? He threatened the Big Government!
Nice try.
NEXT! shouts the soup guy…
It is BIBLICAL … Trust the PIan. Laws and Orders.
Instead of asking:
Do we have evidence to show that DJT is anything but a “Big Government” guy?
Look at Trump’s Executive Orders, those that been extended and are currently active.
@Rattletrap1776
will provide you with plenty of Laws and Orders explicitly being executed day after day- and for many years now. Global clean out has been and is happening. Capitulation Tour, COG, COOP, Suspend Constitution +
😁
The problem I unwaveringly see, is that *any* perceived expansion (or explication) of executive power that can be productively used by a lawful conservative leader (TRUMP) will no doubt be far more heinously abused by the *unlawful* left when similarly situated in power (Biden, et al). And they are the ones CURRENTLY, albeit illegitimately, in power.
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There is no problem. This recognized the executive’s power to prune the out-of-control bureaucrats who thought they were “independent” — not to make unconstitutional orders or do impeachable acts.
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Yet, what is to stop the vicious pruning of what the Left perceives to be “out-of-control” bureaucrats? We both know they will fire people more ruthlessly and unjustifiably than conservatives would.
What prevents it is that they have already found and removed anyone who opposes them. They have nothing left.
There has never been any restriction on the Executive when a DementoRat held power. This has been true for decades now.
Man, that was hard to listen to. Big whining session. Complaining that this will give Trump lic. to seek revenge based on election rhetoric that they invoke. What the heck have they been doing the last 8 years. They are intellectually little kids. They don’t realize how many lives the are screwing including hundred of thousands dead with there efforts. They are sick people.
Good post, much closer to the mark. They’re not freaking out because Trump might get away with it. They’re not in a panic because they have to simultaneously rewrite four indictments to get around the SCOTUS ruling.
They’re apoplectic because SUNLIGHT IS COMING and there is nothing they can do to stop it. They can’t silo it. They can’t classify it. They can’t threaten “obstruction” charges if Trump releases information or fires key #resistance members. They can’t appoint a special counsel and claim things are “under investigation”.
Trump doesn’t have to write a declassification order to making the coup d’etat public and wait for Barr/DOJ to get around to it.
Eileen Cannon can dismiss the Miami case, order ALL materials returned to Trump, and Trump can release it all.
And there is nothing they can do about it.
When is Judge Cannon scheduled to announce her next ruling? If she declares Smith to be illegally appointed and tosses the whole case, the media meltdown will be out of this world glorious!
She will use the immunity ruling and decide that all of Trump’s actions were official acts.
Which is a true statement. GSA is an executive branch office. GSA gave him the documents. Trump declassified documents. All of this is an official act. The bureaucracy cannot now go back and say they weren’t. She has an easy out.
BUT, Thomas’ opinion could have been a signal to Cannon to “send us that one, too”. I’m not sure, yet. They know she was holding hearings about it. My bet is SCOTUS would like to kill the entire Jack Smith faux prosecution. Ruling that his job isn’t legal would be the final nail in the coffin while simultaneously destroying any FUTURE attempts by the bureaucracy to prosecute a President.
Check Mate!
Listening to Weissmann for the second time and it occurs to me that it makes me more angry than I ever was just reading CTH. I think you get “comfortable” with Sundance’s descriptions of who these people are and how they operate. But to watch this person spew anti-American nuggets on a television network that thousands of people listen to is infuriating. The idea that the head of the executive branch is not in charge of the DOJ shows how far these anti-Americans have led people from a fundamental understanding of the Constitution, separation of powers, etc. You know – the stuff us old people got in high school.
God please give us more people like Sundance. And like Justice Clarence Thomas…
The DOJ is an AGENCY of the PRESIDENT. The President is responsible for “seeing to it that the laws are faithfully executed.” To enable one person (POTUS) to do that, Agency Law is used so the President hires and Attorney General and the inferior officers in DOJ to the Attorney General, to perform that duty for the President. The DOJ is, therefore, NOT INDEPENDENT OF THE PRESIDENT.
Here is the way the “Independent DOJ and FBI” were created by the left: When a DEMOCRAT is in power, the Democrat President runs DOJ and no one can do anything about it. When a REPUBLICAN is President, that President is not allowed to have ANYTHING TO DO with the DOJ or the FBI. That is how this “Independence” of the DOJ/FBI works in reality. It went over the heads of the majority of voters.
Amen, and surround them by angels!
So essentially the Supreme Court invalidated the first Impeachment against President Trump, which was about the hearsay of what was discussed on a call with Ukraine.
Impeachment is different than criminal charges by DOJ. IIRC, Trump was never accused of violating any criminal statutes in that impeachment.
It has always been telling to me that the GOP never repealed the impeachments, which they should have.
Discussions and interactions with foreign countries are a core power, and motives cannot be questioned (the allegation was that he was withholding aid to get his political enemies investigated). There was no allegation he was asking for a bribe.
The immunity for that phone call was therefore absolute.
The Constitution therefore does not allow a separate but equal branch to intrude in any way. Congress cannot characterize the conversation as a high crime or misdemeanor and smoke and mirrors its way into pushing itself into foreign relations.
Period.
The first impeachment was illegitimate to its core.
They can’t pull that one again either.
Impeachment is a core power of Congress. Same same.
It is constrained by the term “high crimes and misdemeanors. ”
And the power you have is the power you claim, and that your enemies think you have (Alinksy rules).
That shoe was on one foot these last few years.
Now it’s back on the other.
Sure, and a Civil War is a core power of the States.
Add it to a VERY long, and expanding, list of things that the GOP should have done… And Johnson is possibly more useless than McCarthy, if such a thing is possible!
It was very interesting to hear Thomas Massie, in his interview with Tucker Carlson, discussing the fact that he was in the same SCIF briefing as Johnson, that supposedly caused him to do a complete 180, in his priorities and his newfound support for all things Deep State. Massie flat out said that there was nothing in the briefing that was new or overly concerning (said most of it was conjecture and unverified) and therefore Johnson’s about face made no sense…
Massie pulled no punches regarding several subjects, in that interview – and less than two weeks later, his 51-year-old wife just suddenly dies…
It was an excellent interview in many ways. One of the best things I’ve listened to in the last month or so.
The word impeachment simply means accusation.
The Senate found the accusation(s) against President Trump unfounded.
“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.”
Think about this as it relates to today, with a non-fully functioning President Biden.
That is a scary thought. But would they do anything differently from how they have been?
Nope. They’ve already done it all. (In my humbleopinion.)
The point is that nobody ever stopped a DementoRat President – but for decades all R Presidents have been – well, to use a sundance term, thoroughly siloed!
And with this ruling, how will these Corrupt Minds abuse this power against us right now?
How Team Obama Justifies the Killing of a 16-Year-Old American
By Conor Friedersdorf
OCTOBER 24, 2012
https://archive.is/KKpug
The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data
SAAAADLY AMERICAN CITIZEN TOO…..
The comments about MSNBC shows why Steve Bannon was so obsessed with watching it because it is exactly what Sundance says it is. They give the Marching orders to their army of supplicants, and they brainwash the rest of the people.
The witnessing of the minions watching it on the plane, and then feverishly sharing is priceless!
Bannon’s playing clips of them every day was excruciating, but if you don’t know what the enemy is up to, you’re screwed!
I watched Morning Willie JUST this morning.
Morning Mika is particularly important to follow. She is a direct conduit for the CFR.
Daddy’s little girl.
Ya beat me to it! 👍
The spawns of the Commies making their daddies proud.
People forget what the MS in MSNBC is.
MIcrosoft. Bill Gates put up the $$$ for MS NBC, then supposedly back away.
Look at what MS NBC covers incessantly, look at what MSNBC omits, or
covers with kid gloves.
Gates got filthy rich because he was invited and blackmailed into the big
gov/ big business club house. Invitation currently includes planes tickets
to Epsteain Island, so you can be kept wealthy ( and kept in line).
But, Gates backed away from NSNBC. Supposedly.
I venture to say that most of the liberals have absolutely no clue
what the MSNBC or any other whack job liberal shows say except for their soundbites.
They apparently have no interest in educating themselves on any background faux info
that comes out of the media mouths.
Just –
orange man bad
President Trump and MAGA are racists, sexist, Hitler like, etc.
President Trump told us to drink bleach to combat covid
All of this is mute unless he uses his authority to clean house. He needs to fire most of the top DOJ and FBI appointed officials and candidates the absolute autonomy of the NSD division and investigate those a-holes. Charge any and all malfeasance with criminal prosecution. It’s going to be a huge effort to rid government of the Obama/Clinton operatives but it must be done. He also needs to remove the security clearances of anyone not on government payroll.
Congress needs to legislate the end of the NSD, et al.
america is getting her president back.
All this hocus focus is not ‘for’ Trump’s lawfare situation; it’s for the justice Trump was about to impose on former politicians and ‘their’ bureaucracies………..where blackmail is a driving force for compliance and enforcement. SCOTUS says leave them alone, leave their immunity intact; but Trump can get them on the really nefarious, non national security crimes………blackmail, money laundering, human trafficking, weapons trafficking, kickbacks, drug running, etc.
Yes they are apoplectic, but grateful is more likely; former presidents will never go through what Trump has just gone through; good on one hand bad on the other.
In other words…….No more hiding behind the curtains. The real power is and always has been with We the People of the US Constitution. It really is a Republic IF We can keep it.
Small federal government; get politicians out of business and back into it’s enumerated powers only.
Sorry about hogging the thread, but wouldn’t it be TERRIBLE if Lindsey Graham
and quite a few others faced some investigations regarding all the Ukraine give aways?
Better look worldwide for all their shenanigans; Ukraine is just the latest.
Yes, it will be terribly enjoyable to see the fall of the deep state………and the federal government’s 3 branches – and not the whopping tree – living the US Constitutional life.
We are the roots and the trunk of the three branches.
From where does the power of these 3 vermin emanate?
Hell.
Compromised judicial system.
Big reason they always go judge shopping.
Who is on the Board at AIPAC?
I really don’t wanna be the Negative Nancy here, but this is all well and good; however, aren’t we at the point where they’re just litigating the obvious? They’re suing a lightbulb because the lightbulb lights up and is doing its job. Is it the end process they care about so much as the process itself? It’s great to say that Trump can fire Fauci No. 2 in the future, but they’re still going to litigate it anyway.
They want chaos, because they want the Trump name to be associated with chaos. They know people constantly seek a state of calmness and don’t really care what evils they must endure to achieve that state of calm.
Isn’t it different this time around?
With so many Americans more fully aware of the corruption and its purpose, will they be able to sell “the chaos is Trump’s fault narrative anymore?”
I agree -Americans are not falling for President Trump as a convicted felon – what would make us
think they will continue to fall for our corrupt government actions? Our problem as I see it,
has been that no one knows what to do about it, except vote, and that has been taken away from us.
This SC ruling excites my hopes the destruction of America can be reversed.
The foundation and principles of our Republic needs to return to the classrooms, especially law schools which seem to have severely failed their academic charges, and the citizenry MUST be made aware of the power of the Presidency and the importance of careful consideration and vetting of candidates.
We may have to muddle through a few months of Harris as President, ( a tawdry stain on the historical status of “first woman”) though I wonder if her own party might not use her lack of native-born status to replace her with less consternation from within party factions.
If the Left ever acknowledges her intelligibility then they take Zero out as well.
They won’t ever do that.
At least, not openly; they could well discuss such a matter in private, again, chiefly to protect Zero.
Ugh.
Her “intelligibility.”
Auto-Smell got me good with that one!
Actually I think it’s her “unintelligibility.”
She is completely unintelligible – and she has that ability to the ninth degree!
We knew what you meant…..everybody gets a dunce cap once in a while from auto correct.
Aut0-Smell Stinks!
There’s a reason President Trump just highlighted this issue.
You’re really cookin Alex! Good work…
congratulations – job well done. You and Sundance gave us all an opportunity for a little calm from the constant anger.
Thanks.
I feel like we are in a boat on a stormy sea, but we just got lifted up on a high wave to where we can see the lighthouse and the land just ahead.
I expect we will be plunged back down 40 feet as the next wave hits, and then up and down from now until everything shakes out – but in the end, we will finally put our feet on solid ground in a land of restored liberty.
Seriously, this is a week to just breathe and enjoy and celebrate and remember the Patriots went through many stormy waters too. We owe them our gratitude for being the authors of the only example of a truly free We The People in history, and for recognizing and declaring that the Author of true liberty is God.
I look forward to Dems realizing this small group of DOJ-NSD rogue lawyers who filed and managed Lawfare cases against Trump caused this Supreme Court decision for presidential immunity. May the Dem retribution against McCord, Weissmann, Eisen be spectacular!
Pretty sure the “Dems” are well past the point of being reasonable. They just want results, no matter what it takes to get it. Which also means they will do anything they need to, to get rid of you too (See J6):
Unhinged Actress From ‘Orange is the New Black’ Calls on Biden to Assassinate Trump: ‘Take Him Out, Joe’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/unhinged-actress-orange-is-new-black-calls-biden/
I had a conversation with a co-worker I thought I liked and respected, a big mistake on my part, on views around COVID and politics. This person took the opposite views that I had and that’s fine. I think they are wrong, and I genuinely am concerned that the wrongness of their opinions could hurt them. However, that’s not what really bugged me or left me stunned. What stuck in my craw is how this person described their treatment of other people, by cutting off family and bullying friends. They described themselves as having a larger community identity and absolved me of being a hateful bigot, at least in private. This later made me pretty angry. You can imagine I lost my respect and warmth for that person, and on a lot of reflection, re-analyzed my relationships to make sure I wasn’t doing the same thing.
These people don’t have a moral anchor. They’ve lost the spiritual battle. That’s not a holier than thou statement, but a contrast between people that have abandoned self awareness and a moral anchor.
That is a chargeable felony. She should be arrested. I hope she has a residence in a state where there is an AG who will do so. This HAS got to stop.
“He can fire anyone he likes in the executive branch. The straightjacket is gone.”
I think this should read, “He can fire anyone he DOES NOT like in the executive branch.” I am really glad I signed up on Project 2025. Everyone here should do the same.
Project 2025 is NOT something that President Trump has put out – it is solely something the Heritage Foundation created.
It’s another head fake to get people on the left riled up and the more that fake creation gets spread the more the left will use it to rally their young voters.
The core powers are documented in Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution. They are all there as well as in the Supreme Court decision with the apparent exception being Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and the State Militias when called into the service of the United States and obtaining written opinions from Cabinet Secretaries and Agency heads about any responsibilities delegated to them by the President.
The Democrats, because of their Lawfare campaign against Trump, with news reports about the trials now being reported under ELECTION REPORTS by the major networks, underscoring their political nature, brought about this decision. It is their fault entirely. All they are doing is trying to panic the people by lying about the nature of the decision, and use it to attempt to turn the Supreme Court, ONCE AGAIN, into the SUPER LEGISLATURE controlled by the Democratic Party which gave us Roe v Wade and other decisions that usurped Constitutional authority from the legislative and executive branches and also the States.
Far as I can tell, SCOTUS just handed the deep state its death sentence.
As clearly laid out in the Constitution, the entirety of the Executive Branch serves at the pleasure of the President and for the sole purpose of executing his agenda.
Sort of like when the farmhouse landed on top of the Wicked Witch of the East.
Unless they just ignore him, and why wouldn’t they?
Because he will immediately fire them.
I can see them refusing to vacate their offices, just like Pelosi.
Then “You’re Fired!” could become a mite more literal.
My assumption is that in today’s world employees mostly have lanyards
with swipe cards to let them in office buildings, etc. All they have to do is
cancel their accesss.
Of course, they could just live at their desks and never leave LOL
Yep.
Next year the show The Apprentice will actually be renewed and playing nightly at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Sundance has shown us why it didn’t happen in the last PDJT term, and the SCOTUS has taken notice.
Too bad that this ruling / information was not available when we had to shut down the damn NSD of DOJ.
F these Crap Weasels
Sundance’s post includes this quote from ReaderAlex1689: “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.”
I understand how the SCOTUS decision takes the threat of prosecution off the table. However, my understanding is that impeachment is a political process that is outside the strict confines of constitutional law. Would the SCOTUS decision truly protect Trump from impeachment in the case of Trump undertaking executive branch housecleaning and staff removal?
Impeachment is not outside the strict confines of constitutional law. It is specified in the constitution.
Per constitution: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”
As the SCOTUS decision has removed any possibility of the last two items for core constitutional duties, which they explicitly said could not be criminalized. So unless they make a case that firing a bureaucrat is somehow treasonous or was done for a bribe, then no they can’t
Impeachment requires a High Crime (felony).
Firing employees is not a felony.
‘oversight’
Passing a law that steps into the Excutive branch sole power is unconstitutional period.
Mitch got his senate wings clipped also.
yep the height of the trashing of the executive branch… assisted by the Graham mob.
they cant be happy under their trench coats either.
They got shrinkage.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Graham has more skeletons in his closet than pride wear.
They’d impeach and remove before SCOTUS could take on the case to invalidate the law under which they would impeach and remove him. They’d probably have run it at midnight over a single night the way some of the worst legislation gets passed.
Pssst…we will see you scumbags soon….
NO MERCY
When do these losers all pack up and move to Ukraine and help “save that democracy”?
What really galls me about this is that these demons were allowed to create a branch of bureaucracy (DOJ-NSD) within a branch of bureaucracy that is under the power and control of the USA President (DOJ) and gave it super Constitutional powers, and no one made a peep in protest. Not one “Constitutional scholar” or “Libertarian type” or “Great American True Conservative” or “President” did a thing to counteract these demons.
For over 20 years these demons flourished and acted as judge, jury, and executioner and not a peep of protest until PDJT came along and ruined their game.
what frosts my behind is the Chevron Doctrine which the SC passed in 1984
and now, finally, have reversed.
Where were/are the conservative outlets, websites, think tanks, media personalities
who (in my opinion) should have been researching the results of this and letting us
know what was going on.
If the fishermen hadn’t sued, it would not have been reversed.
There are more than likely other bad laws that should be reversed.
Where is the list?
LANGUAGE WARNING FOR DELICATE EYES/EARS.
And Lightning strikes Mycroft!
(yes I am dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to understanding people)
“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.”
Listening to Andrew Weissmann for the first time ever I am struck by the whiney little bitch tone of his voice!
Backpfeifengesicht!
Here is how bitchy women use and sabotage each other. (Thanks for the explanation Harry.)
Woman A who wants to control/destroy woman B (for whatever reason).
She doesn’t use her fists as might a man. She uses verbal jujitsu.
Woman A to woman C.
I’m worried about B. I’m concerned B might be a slut.
C. Really?
A Yes I’m afraid for her. (note how her sabotage is couched as concern. A “Cares”)
C I don’t think I should tell anyone?
A No that would only hurt B. (A knowing C in possession of dirt will immediately tell everyone)
B to A Why have all my friends stopped talking to me?
A I don’t know. People can be so cruel.
B What can I do?
A Stick with me and I’ll help you through it.
B I’m so lucky! You are my Very Best Friend!
A now manipulates B (as her Very Best friend) into getting invitation from B’s boss to corporate retreat next month ……
Seems to me this describes politics to a tee. DC politics in particular.
Regardless have they penis or vagina they are all effeminate leftists sabotaging anyone who might frustrate their narcissism.
Listening to Andrew Weissmann for the first time ever I am struck by the whiney little bitch tone of his voice!
Ditto. I was immediately reminded of the diagnosis, inadequate personality, probably no longer allowed because it hurts people’s feelings. He is a poster boy for the disorder.
It also reminded me of a friend who was fond of quoting the old saying, “Washington is Hollywood for B students.” It’s far worse than that, but sure does explain da#n near everything about the decline of our country. The lunatics are running the asylum.
Washington is the revenge of the kids picked last in gym class. The ones never invited wanted to sit with the cool kids . So they all became lawyers at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Georgetown where they learned how to get revenge.
You are right, Sinkingship. It certainly explains their unnatural loathing and hatred for President Trump.
“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.” [This article]
“Democrats want power; Republicans want money. Threaten Democrats power, they get vicious. Threaten Republicans money, they get vicious. Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money.” [Reoccurring line at TheConservativeTreehouse]*****************************
The group for the politics of the Big Club >we’re not in<, = is actually very large. … The public support, bitterness, and indifference by people, is what makes the Democrats powerful. … Destroy the small controlling group, and the new leaders will emerge from the larger group Democrats and Uniparty Republicans.
Liberty will be preserved only by that eternal vigilance.
“It is the common fate of the >indolent to see their rights become a prey to the >active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, >servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.”—Speeches of John Philpot Curran,
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The ‘Big Club’ has many members that DO NOT want us to be here in the future. … There are many people that want our servitude tax dollars, but their plan is for us to all be dead.
SO many hideously psychopathic women in power–none of them have a soul.
My opinion is that both sides want power and money.
The Presidency survives.
Who benefits from division?
Does America need the wheatfields of Ukraine?
Is the death of every Palestinian a fair price in exchange for a patch of dirt?
As we head into Independence Day, I think we should take a moment to truly savor the sheer brilliance of Team Trump.
This is so much deeper than the day to day drama.
Badlands Media hasn’t posted the Defected video clip inside this Burning Bright article yet, so you will have to scroll down through the article (also worth reading btw) to find it, but the discussion between JustHuman and Burning Bright delves into the ways in which team DS is just realizing it has been misled, misdirected, and acted upon by Team Trump to destroy everything they’ve built.
https://burningbright.substack.com/p/agenda-47
The DS thought it had President Trump bound in chains and that they were rowing him out into the lake to throw him overboard and drown him forever.
It turns out they were manning the oars, but he was calling the strokes.
He just emerged from the misty waters, unchained, cloaked in armor, and holding Excalibur.
And their boat has a leak.
Enjoy the day.
Great comment. Hope you don’t mind that I copied and pasted it for future reference.
Not at all.
Sundance sets a good example.
I have only one question. Can this lawfare be destroyed for all time by a legal means? They have perverted the legal system to create massive distrust in the system and have brought the American people to the brink of another civil war. How can we use this system to jail them persecute them so that they see that it’s not worth it.
The 6-3 opinion held that the President is “a person alone who comprises a branch of government.”
Thank you for sharing that direct quote. Says it all.
🎯
There needs to be a short synopsis of what Schedule F means…it reads like regular gobbledygook 🤣
Bad players in critical positions in the Executive Branch can be fired by the Executive without the insane formalities and difficulties established over many decades to protect them from that kind of accountability.
Policy people effectively work the President’s policies as directed or they get sent packing.
Thanks 😊
Here is a little tidbit for you all to move around- if you would please.
Zerohedge is reporting that Kamala Harris is rising.. indicating that they plan on installing her???
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kamala-rising-harris-blows-past-competition-predictit-market-wagons-begin-circle
Kamala did horrible in NH and wasn’t liked AT ALL here.
Even our local left-wing media gave her a hard time asking her real questions that left her flubbering and looking like a damned fool- that happened twice and that that they did this to her, their own media, that then made local news!
Kamala only got 129 votes in that 2020 election here in NH.
Let that sink in, in a population of 1.3 million people up here on the deep blue east coast, she got 129 votes.
Her and Joe Biden did so horrible in NH, that THIS played a huge role in why they skipped the NH Primary and held theirs in South Carolina- a move they are still pissed about here today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_New_Hampshire
In my opinion, it’s a flat out lie that anyone at all would want this stupid, anchor baby installed as the ‘President”.
The candidate is irrelevant as long as the Dems believe they can produce the “votes.”
Remember, Crop Circle Joe DID NOT get 81 mil votes.
As long as Clyburn and his ballot creating operation thinks they can manufacture enough votes to nudge Kamala over the finish line, with the help of shrieking hollywood/media/DEI hires, she will be the nominee.
President Trump has begun to pull away from Biden to the point that manufacturing enough votes could become problematic and too many of the hollywood/media/DEI group are slinking away, so Biden may need to go.
Remember, they only need to make it seem like the election results are a reasonable possibility, as long as the general public is willing to accept “Just move on. Nothing to see here,” from the uniparty operatives.
Nobody normal would.
But we are not dealing with normies.
Possession is nine-tenths of the steal.
The truth of her popularity doesn’t matter–just fresh meat that they can justify all the voter fraud –and you are a racist misogynist if you doubt she gets 90 million votes.
How depressing for the Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself. They thought “orange” man would be wearing an “orange” jumpsuit next week. Best I have felt politically since Nov. 8, 2016!
So, the party’s over. Was talking to a retired government worker type yesterday. (There are a ton of them here in Virginia!) He was explaining to me that it is not difficult to have divisions created without oversight from an IG or a higher level. I read him Sundance’s original article and he wasn’t surprised.
The tribe is led by a trio of fellow travelers: Mary McCord, Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann. They have COMMITTED SEDITION, SUBVERSION and INSURRETION against America. Indict and prosecute for crimes against America.
I guess their only recourse is to make sure they steal the next election.
President Reagan fired the air controllers during the PATCO strike.
In a non-strike situation:
How does this decision by the Court concern federal unions and civil service employees?
Are federal unions weakened by this decision?
Does a federal department or agency now have additional capabilities to dismiss non-performing personnel by having the number of hoops they have to jump through reduced? Such as refer to the President, or a review board. after a poor performance review, the name of an individual for dismissal?
The Civil Service Act was to stop the practice of the spoils system. Federal unions did not exist back then.
Would love to see the Trump Justice Dept bankrupt Weissmann with some real lawfare. Would be just rewards for the evil bastard.
Lawfare is illegitimate prosecution.
PDJT doesn’t need that.
There are plenty of authentically prosecutable offenses Weissmann has committed.
Indeed.
RICO, Soviet!
That added information is beautiful in showing the subtle manipulation to get the courts through the fear of ‘national security’ to give legs to that 4th branch of government, something never authorized by our Constitution or any amendments to it.
What are the odds that President Trump disbands that agency/department?
I can hear it now – the left taking this very article and demanding a newly installed President Trump disband that agency or PDJT will use it to form his 1-day dictatorship.
The irony would be sweet to see the left change their tune midstream.
So the question is now; who will form Trump’s counter lawfare force and plan complete wreckage on the DOJ, Fbi and other ‘sovereign’ Exec branch offices? Before this, I had assumed muscle was the one and only way to bring the whole system down before reforming and rebuilding.
Excellent update, sundance! You definitely honed the message on this sterling example of your expertise.