In a major 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court has finally addressed the expansive regulatory use of executive agencies to create law through interpretation.  The 40-year-old Chevron ruling granted the executive agencies of government the ability to interpret laws and apply restrictions/regulations based on their own rules and definitions therein.

The Supreme Court put the judicial branch back into the equation by ruling that courts will decide what laws apply when the legislation is ambiguous on detail.  This shift in prior precedent could have major ramifications.  [MORE AT SCOTUS BLOG]

In another big case, the court ruled in favor of Joseph Fischer a Pennsylvania police officer charged in the January 6th protest with “obstructing an official proceeding.”  [FULL RULING HERE]

The law at the center of Fischer’s case is 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2), and as noted by Julie Kelly, “The statute … has been applied in roughly 350 J6 cases; it also represents two of four counts in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s J6-related criminal indictment of Donald Trump in Washington.”

Julie Kelly – […] In a 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the “c2” subsection is tethered to the “c1” subsection that addresses tampering with a record, document, or “object.”

Roberts was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the dissent (!) joined by Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

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The details and cause are unknown; however, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie announced his wife’s passing on his Twitter account [HERE]

Prayers extended to his entire family.

(Via FOX NEWS) – Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky on Friday announced the passing of his wife, Rhonda.

“Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven,” the Republican wrote on X. “Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time.”

Massie said just prior to Rhonda’s death, “We spent last week touring Mt Rainier with our grandson.” (more…)

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”

“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”

~ Mike Vanderboegh

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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Seriously, no snark.  Give me your opinion because at a certain point I will admit my analysis starts to look at people through a very dark prism.  Given what we continue to see getting worse by the day with the mental state of her husband, Jill Biden is really looking sketchy.

I’ll share why in another video, but to first put context to a rather alarming topic, we all need to watch this one.   As you watch Jill Biden treat her husband like he’s an in-patient on a day outing, I want you to look carefully at her ring finger on her left hand.   Notice she is NOT wearing a wedding ring or any ring on the ring finger of her left hand.  WATCH:

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That video is immediately taken after the presidential debate in Atlanta.  That video is also seriously cringeworthy.

That said, now check out this video from their arrival a few hours later in North Carolina.   They flew from Atlanta to North Carolina and something very interesting happens with Jill Biden at the airport.

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Today President Donald Trump is holding a MAGA rally in Chesapeake, Virginia.  These will be the first remarks by President Trump since his exceptional debate performance in Atlanta, last night.  The anticipated start time is 3:00pm ET.  Livestream links below.

RSBN YouTube Livestream Link – RSBN Rumble Livestream Link – Trump Campaign Rumble Livestream

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Sometimes, when you ask the right questions, you don’t ask why people in assisted living facilities suddenly realize Joe Biden is more than a few french fries short of a Happy Meal, and instead you ask why Politico proactively had a journalist embedded in an assisted living facility to get feedback on Joe Biden.

Seriously.  What did Politico know about the debate in advance, such that it was an assignment to have a top headline article prepped?  I think we all know the answer to that question.  Essentially, the entire professional political class in DC knows about an operation to replace Joe Biden.  If you understand that is the plan, you adjust your corporate assignments accordingly.  Politico did just that.

(Politico) – […] “How Biden’s devastating debate went over at an assisted living facility” –  For Biden, it was a disaster. His allies had seen the debate as his best chance yet to ease concerns about his age, a persistent liability for his campaign. And the perception of older voters — who turn up to vote at higher levels any other age group — is critical to the Democratic president. He lost voters 65 and older to Donald Trump by 5 percentage points in 2020, but is courting them aggressively in the run-up to November.

Nothing his contemporaries saw here Thursday helped his case. “I think that he is rushing it, and he’s not looking at the camera for the most part,” said Meg Maguire, 81, who was visiting the facility to watch the debate with her husband. She said, “In terms of just physical relationship to the camera, Trump is doing better.”

[…] And by the first commercial break on Thursday — when at least three residents here had nodded off — the damage to Biden had been done.

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Across the broad political spectrum of leftists and professional Democrats, the apoplexy is consistent.  Everyone is freaking out about how terrible Joe Biden did in the debate against President Trump.

Biden was incoherent, stumbling, disjointed and generally showing all of the signs of cognitive decline the media have previously denied witnessing.  However, even the most political spin-masters on the Democrat side of the spectrum will not spin this one.  The curtain of denial and pretending has fallen.  The emperor is naked; the crowd admits.

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The number one theme being repeated by the professional left is the discussion of replacing Joe Biden with another candidate.  I suspected that was the entire reason for a presidential debate to take place before the conventions.

I have outlined my prediction for almost two years.  California Governor Gavin Newsom is certainly smiling, and there’s a reason why his aunt (in law) Nancy Pelosi, earlier gave up her leadership position to free up some time.  Keep watching.

The side-by-side of President Trump and Joe Biden was brutal for the Democrats, and all of the debate structures built in by CNN to assist Biden ended up backfiring.  It was a hot mess, because Joe Biden is a hot mess.

Donald Trump did great.  MAGA is ascending. The pretenses have dropped.

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”

“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”

~ Mike Vanderboegh

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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