We have previously discussed controversial sentences handed down in cases involving rioters on January 6th, including sentencing orders that, in my view, violate First Amendment rights. That included the case of Daniel Goodwyn, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. That crime would ordinarily not involve any jail time for a first offender. However, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia decided that he would use the case to regulate what Goodwyn was reading and communicating with a chilling probation order. After the case was sent back by the D.C. Circuit, Walton doubled down on his extraordinary order. Now the D.C. Circuit has refused to hear an emergency appeal.
Judge Walton has attracted controversy and criticism over his public comments about former President Donald Trump and the other issues. He caused a stir in Washington after doing an interview with CNN in which he rebuked former President Donald Trump for his criticism of judges and their family members. Walton previously called Trump a “charlatan,” and said that “I don’t think he cares about democracy, only power.”
Critics charged that Walton’s public statements ran afoul of Canon 3A(6) of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which states: “A judge should not make public comment on the merits of a matter pending or impending in any court.”
Walton then triggered criticism over his handling of the Goodwin case.
The case involved Daniel Goodwyn, 35, of Corinth, Texas, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 31, 2023, to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. That is a relatively minor offense, but Walton imposed a 60-day jail sentence in June 2023 with these ongoing conditions on his online reading and speech.
Walton reportedly noted that Goodwyn spread “disinformation” during a broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on March 14, 2023 and ordered that Mr. Goodwyn’s computer be subject to “monitoring and inspection” by a probation agent to check if he spread Jan. 6 disinformation during the term of his supervised release.
After accepting the plea to a single misdemeanor, Walton expressed scorn for Goodwyn appearing “gleeful” on Jan. 6 and his “egging on” other rioters. He asked his defense counsel “why I should feel that he doesn’t pose a risk to our democracy?”
As a condition for supervised release, DOJ pushed the monitoring conditions and found a judge who seemed eager to impose it.
The order reflects the utter impunity shown by the Justice Department in its pursuit of January 6th defendants. Justice Department official Michael Sherwin proudly declared in a television interview that “our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe … it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C. because they’re, like, ‘If we go there, we’re gonna get charged.’ … We wanted to take out those individuals that essentially were thumbing their noses at the public for what they did.”
Sherwin was celebrated for his pledge to use such draconian means to send a message to others in the country. (Sherwin has left the Justice Department and is now a partner at Kobre & Kim).
Walton was rebuked by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for a surveillance order of Goodwin to detect any spreading of “disinformation” or “misinformation.”
In my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discussed concerns over the cases like Goodwyn’s and their implications for free speech. I participated in the coverage on January 6th and criticized President Trump’s speech while he was giving it. I disagreed with the legal claims made to oppose certification. However, the “shock and awe” campaign of the Justice Department, in my view, has trampled on free speech rights in cases that range from Goodwyn to the prosecutions of Trump himself.
Many of us were relieved when appellate judges (Gregory Katsas, Neomi Rao, and Bradley Garcia) rebuked Walton and held that “[t]he district court plainly erred in imposing the computer-monitoring condition without considering whether it was ‘reasonably related’ to the relevant sentencing factors and involved ‘no greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary’ to achieve the purposes behind the sentencing.”
They sent the case back but, to the surprise of few, Judge Walton proceeded to double down on the monitoring while implausibly declaring “I don’t want to chill anyone’s First Amendment rights.”
For some reason, Walton believes that barring an individual from reviewing and engaging in political speech does not “chill” his First Amendment rights.
Most of us were appalled by the riot and the underlying views of figures like Goodwyn, who is a self-proclaimed member of the Proud Boys. He was rightfully arrested and should be punished for his conduct. The question is not the legitimacy of punishment, but the scope of that punishment.
Prosecutor Brian Brady detailed how the Justice Department has in place a new system using artificial intelligence to monitor the reading and statements of citizens like Goodwyn. The Justice Department brushed aside the free speech concerns since Goodwyn remains under court supervision, even though he pleaded guilty to only a single misdemeanor.
Brady described a virtual AI driven thought program. The justification was that Goodwyn refused to abandon his extreme political views:
“Throughout the pendency of Goodwyn’s case, he has made untruthful statements regarding his conduct and the events of the day, he has used websites and social media to place targets on police officers who defended the Capitol, and he has used these platforms to publish and view extremist media. Imposing the requested [monitoring] conditions would protect the public from further dissemination of misinformation… [and] provide specific deterrence from him committing similar crimes.”
So now federal courts can use a single misdemeanor for unlawful entry in a federal building for less than 40 seconds to “protect the public from … dissemination of misinformation” on the government.
That was all Walton needed to hear. Relying on a record supplied by the Justice Department, Walton said in the hearing that Goodwyn is still engaging “in the same type of rhetoric” that fomented the Jan. 6 violence. He added that he was concerned about Goodwyn spreading “false narratives” when we are “on the heels of another election.”
Walton merely added the DOJ record to his renewed sentencing conditions.
Defense counsel then returned to the D.C. Circuit to seek an emergency stay but Judges Florence Pan and Bradley Garcia denied the motion, holding that “Appellant has not satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending appeal” to prevent further “false narratives.”
That drew a pointed dissent from Judge Gregory Katsas who stated:
Daniel Goodwyn pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1). Goodwyn entered the Capitol and remained inside for a total of 36 seconds. He did not use force to enter, did not assault police officers, and neither took nor damaged any government property. When police instructed Goodwyn to leave the building, he did so.
…
On appeal, this Court vacated the condition … We further instructed the district court, if it wished to impose a new computer- monitoring condition on remand, to “explain its reasoning,” to “develop the record in support of its decision,” and to ensure that the condition complies with section 3583(d) and with the Constitution.
The district court reimposed the same condition on remand. In an oral hearing, the court said that Goodwyn had made statements on social media that “can be, it seems to me, construed as” urging a repeat of January 6, particularly “on the heels of another election.” In its written order, the court elaborated on what it called Goodwyn’s “concerning online activity.” This included posting exhortations to “#StopTheSteal!” and “#FightForTrump,” soliciting donations to fund his travel to Washington, posing for a livestream while inside the Capitol, confirming his presence there by text, and tweeting opinions such as: “They WANT a revolution. They’re proving our point. They don’t represent us. They hate us.” Id. at 3–4. In addressing what the court described as Goodwyn pushing “false narratives” about January 6 after-the-fact, the court, quoting from the government’s brief, led with the fact Goodwyn “sat for an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News Channel.” Id. at 4. Finally, in concluding that computer monitoring was reasonably related to Goodwyn’s offense, the court reasoned that monitoring would prevent Goodwyn from raising funds to support potential future crimes and would separate him “from extremist media, rehabilitating him.”
Judge Katsas stated that Goodwyn was likely to prevail on the merits and that his colleagues allowed the denial of First Amendment rights to continue in the interim.
The Walton order reflects the erosion of support for the First Amendment, even on our courts. It is reminiscent of our previous discussion of how courts have criminalized “toxic ideologies” as part of the crackdown on free speech in the United Kingdom.
Here is the D.C. Circuit order: United States v. Goodwyn
Jonathan: This really isn’t about “Combatting ‘false narratives'”. There is only one “false narrative” here. That’s your fantastical claim that the DOJ’s prosecution of J.6 insurrectionists “trampled on free speech rights in cases that range from Goodwyn to the prosecutors of Trump himself”.
Daniel Goodwyn is not unique among all the people who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He was no passive observer for less than a minute inside the Capitol. As Judge Walton found, Goodwyn used a bullhorn “to incite other rioters to go into the Capitol”–to attack Capitol police that resulted in hundreds of injuries and deaths. Goodwyn evaded Capitol police and ignored orders to leave the building.
What you forget in your analysis is that a criminal defendant does NOT have unlimited “free speech” rights. DJT found that out when Justice Merchan imposed his gag order–preventing DJT from attacking witnesses and court personnel. While Judge Walton was initially overturned by the DC Court of Appeals re his monitoring of Goodwyn’s “disinformation” social media posts, the DC Court ultimately approved those orders after Walton provided ample proof of Goodwyn’s attempts to spread false information and tried to justify the insurrection.
But you think the DOJ is using “draconian means” in its prosecution of J. 6 defendants and Judge Walton’s order is somehow a “‘chill’ on First Amendment rights”. You think Goodwyn and his fellow insurrectionists were just exercising their 1st Amendment rights on Jan. 6. Nope. Anyone who breaks the law and tries to violently overturn a legitimate election can expect swift prosecution and restriction on their ability to continue to spread disinformation.
Goodwyn was not forced to join the insurrection. He was a willing participant who believed DJT’s lies that the 2020 election had been “stolen”. And Goodwyn still clings to those lies. That’s why he was prosecuted and now must suffer the consequences!
Joe Biden did not get 81 million votes, Dennis.
The election was stolen. It is beyond OBVIOUS at this point.
Obvious? Dude given our decentralized election system it would have been impossible.
Sammy Metamucil, speaking from a position of knowledge…
NOT
<I can say stupid shit if i want to
Sammy Metamucil
You think Democrats stealing the election would have been “impossible.” ??
Not impossible at all because it happened.
It came down to ~40,000 votes among several swing states. Then they probably gave Joe a few million too many overall ‘votes’ to make it believable. I mean, 15 million MORE than Obama got the first time he was elected? Right. THAT’s believable. Not.
It’s just like Kamala Harris goes from most unpopular VP *ever* – one that her own party was trying to get rid of not too long ago –to all of a sudden she’s the super popular Democrat nominee capable of immediately filling stadiums with 10,000+ roaring fans clinging to her every inspirational word preaching a future of hope & joy? Believable? Hardly.
It’s just like JD Vance said: Kamala Harris isn’t running a presidential campaign. She’s producing a movie.
Actually, her handlers are producing the movie. She’s not capable of it.
How do they fill Kamala campaign events? Why, Hollywood casting companies of course!
DNC hired Hollywood casting companies to fill the Kamala events with paid actors.
Sure there are ‘cat ladies for Kamala’ scattered in amongst the paid actors, but not enough to fill a venue.
It’s all fake, astroturfing fraud.
And the media – we call them the Fake News for a reason – are playing right along with the fraud.
They are not merely playing along. They are principals. Their goal is to prevent Trump’s returning to the Presidency.
Think for once in your life how many people would have been involved. And they also would have had to fake all the pre-election polling. And some very MAGAs would have had to also be involved.
Hollywood big hitter Steven Spielberg is producing the DNC Chicago convention.
All of Hollywood will be circling the wagons to get whatever Democrat is on the ballot elected.
That’s how Democrats fool the masses: Hollywood illusions. It’s all fake.
Anyone who doubts Kamala events are full of paid actors and paid activists is an idiot.
Talking to you Dennis.
Seig heil to you.
“Trust in the integrity of our election processes is sacrosanct and binds our citizenry and the States in this Union together. Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin destroyed that trust and compromised the security and integrity of the 2020 election. The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution. By ignoring both state and federal law, these states have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but of Texas and every other state that held lawful elections,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Their failure to abide by the rule of law casts a dark shadow of doubt over the outcome of the entire election. We now ask that the Supreme Court step in to correct this egregious error.”
____________________
“Texas continues to lead the fight to protect election security and integrity, and today I gladly welcome Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah to this historic endeavor. By flouting state and federal election laws, the defendant battleground states have tainted the integrity of citizens’ votes across the entire nation,” said Attorney General Paxton. “To restore trust in the integrity of our election process, we must tirelessly defend its security and hold accountable those who discarded our Constitution for their own convenience. Texas is proud to have these states by its side in shining the bright light of justice.”
– Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas
____________________________________________
“Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship”
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.
The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.
Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.
“When we take down something that we’re not supposed to, that’s the worst,” Zuckerberg said in a rare extended media interview on the Joe Rogan podcast.
The New York Post story was released just weeks before the presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which Mr Biden won.
[A] laptop, abandoned in a repair shop by Hunter Biden, contained emails which included details of Hunter introducing a Ukrainian energy tycoon to his father and arranging a meeting.
– BBC
________
Etc.
Dennis still thinks there was an insurrection.
LMAO
Joe Biden is a truly despicable, evil, divisive, lying, corrupt scumbag who deserves nothing but the contempt and scorn of the American people.
“If Trump wins this election he’s a genuine danger to American Security”
Encouraging another assassination attempt are we, Joe? Will the Demoncrats send out your thugs to riot, loot, burn, and murder when Trump wins again, Joe? Who are the insurrectionists? YOU DEMOCRATS ARE.
Joe Biden is a scumbag who belongs rotting in hell right next to his evil scumbag wife. FJB.
President Trump must pardon every non violent J6 political prisoner on DAY 1.
Notice that when reporters interview Biden and he makes these inflammatory divisive remarks –“Trump is a genuine danger to American security” — they just nod their heads in agreement.
These reporters never ask Biden the obvious followup: “How exactly, is Trump a genuine danger to security?”
“Why do you say this about Trump when you have open border, out of control crime, wars on two fronts, American hostages being traded for killers and spies, AND….you have dementia, you have an incompetent VP?”
Notice the followup question is never asked of Biden.
These reporters push back and interrupt Trump and Vance all the time. But not a whisper of pushback on Biden or Harris. Amazing.
Another followup Q that has yet to be asked of Biden:
“How can you say ‘Trump is a real danger to American security’ when for decades as a Senator, then as VP, you stole classified documents you were not entitled to have in your home, your garage, or in your Biden Foundation offices in Pennsylvania entirely funded by the Chinese Communist Party?”
“Those same classified, highly sensitive secuirty documents were recklessly stores, and readily accessible by your drug addicted son who was selling access and doing business with the spy chief of China?”
The reporters don’t ask, because they work for the Democrat party.
“Never forget. He’s not a “well meaning elderly man with a poor memory”. He’s a pathological liar and corrupt politician who sold out this country, perverted the justice system, trashed the economy and pitted Americans against each other.” @mirandadevine
The corrupt Propaganda Press is working for the Democrat party.
The media is willingly trashing its own last shred of credibility to keep Democrats in power.
We have no “news” media. We have ONLY STATE PROPAGANDA.
OT
The inescapable fact is that Kamala Harris is not a “natural born citizen” by the phrase’s only definition in the history of the world.
The ONLY definition of “natural born citizen” at the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the advent of self-governance existed in the Law of Nations by Vattel, which was published in 1758 and circulated in the American Colonies by 1762 and with which the American Revolutionaries, Founders, and Framers were eminently familiar.
The American Founders and Framers required the president to be an undefined “natural born citizen” in their new Constitution at the dawn of a new era.
“The circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the Law of Nations,” wrote Ben Franklin.
Blackstone mused only of “natural born subjects” and ligeance to a liege lord or king within, and relevant only to, the structure of an obsolete monarchy and dictatorship.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
“I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when the circumstances of a rising state make it necessary frequently to consult the law of nations. Accordingly, that copy which I kept, (after depositing one in our own public library here, and sending the other to the college of Massachusetts Bay, as you directed, has been continually in the hands of the members of our congress, now sitting, who are much pleased with your notes and preface, and have entertained a high and just esteem for their author.”
– Ben Franklin Letter to Charles Dumas, December 9, 1775, Continental Congress
________________________________________________________________________________________
NATURAL BORN SUBJECT (Obsolete/Irrelevant)
William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:354, 357– 58, 361–62
1765
The first and most obvious division of the people is into aliens and natural-born subjects. Natural-born subjects are such as are born within the dominions of the crown of England, that is, within the ligeance, or as it is generally called, the allegiance of the king; and aliens, such as are born out of it. Allegiance is the tie, or ligamen, which binds the subject to the king, in return for that protection which the king affords the subject. The thing itself, or substantial part of it, is founded in reason and the nature of government; the name and the form are derived to us from our Gothic ancestors.
_____________________________________________
NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)
BOOK 1, CHAPTER 19
§ 212. Citizens and natives.
The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
“OF THE FIVE, THE ONE THE AMERICAN FOUNDERS MOST FREQUENTLY CONSULTED WAS VATTEL.”
“The Ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 20: Vattel and the Law of Nations”
The Law of Nations
Legal terms of art also appear in what constitutional lawyers call the “Define and Punish Clause” (Article I, Section 8, Clause 10). This provision gives Congress power to “define and punish Offenses … against the Law of Nations.”
The Founders’ Sources of International Law
During the 17th and 18th centuries, five great scholars forged international law into its modern shape. In 1783, the Confederation Congress empaneled a committee consisting of James Madison of Virginia, Thomas Mifflin of Pennsylvania, and Hugh Williamson of North Carolina—all of whom were to serve at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. This committee recommended that Congress purchase the works of all five international law scholars.
Emer de Vattel
Of the five, the one the American Founders most frequently consulted was Vattel. Like Grotius, Vattel was both a scholar and diplomat. His principal work, “Le Droit des Gens” (“The Law of Nations”), was published in French in 1758 and translated into English two years later. You can learn more about Vattel’s life at the Online Library of Liberty.
There were four reasons why Vattel was so congenial to the American Founders: First, he was the most recent of the five great authorities. Second, his book was comprehensive and readable. Third, he was a strong advocate for individual liberty. And fourth, he discussed issues that, while not always part of the “law of nations,” were very important to the Founders: the nature of confederations, the superiority of constitutions to legislatures, the need for one and only one person to supervise the executive branch, and so forth.
Vattel was referenced at the Constitutional Convention, primarily in a speech by Luther Martin of Maryland. He also showed up during the ratification debates. For example, at the Pennsylvania ratifying convention, James Wilson argued about Vattel with an Antifederalist delegate. In the South Carolina legislature, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney also debated Vattel with an Antifederalist. In New York, Gov. George Clinton relied on Vattel in a speech to his state’s ratifying convention.
– Rob Natelson, Independence Institute . org
No. The guy is completely wrong. What was written in the 1700s has no relevance to US citizenship since the 14A was written in 1866.
You’re a spastic idiot
Can you flesh that out for us? The president must be a natural born citizen.
Do you mean the improperly ratified 14th Amendment that was approved with a gun to America’s head by Lincoln’s communist (i.e. You do know the Marxists, expelled and run out of Europe, ended up in Illinois, New York, and elsewhere, right?) successors in an environment of brutal post-war military occupation?
Next you’ll tell us that secession is prohibited because secession is not prohibited.
The Justice Department’s use of artificial intelligence to monitor the reading and statements of citizens like Goodwyn is but the ongoing mission creep toward monitoring everyone’s freedom of speech and association – not just that which unelected authorities of the illiberal administrative state may arbitrarily label as “misinformation.” For a government that hides its nondemocratic practices behind formally democratic institutions and procedures and is intent upon stifling dissent, “misinformation” has become yet another cause for ignoring and bypassing constitutional limits on its power.
This case should have flat out been dismissed – Congrss was in session, The Capitol is the pre-=eminent forum for free speech in the world – the Government can not use Tresspass law to thwart the exercise of the first amendment – this is already decided law.
Even presuming that the tresspass charges survived – because they involved firts amendment activity they MUST be treated as deminimus – i.e. Goodwyn should have been release ROR with no costodial sentence and no conditions.
Even if Goodwyn had committed a fdar more serious crime – such as Murder – Walton’s restrrcitions of Goodwynn’s first amendment rights are unconstitutional.
Wilson unconstitutionally tossed Eugene Debb’s in jail for Sedition during a presidential election – Debbs STILL was allowed to write and speak about his political campaign from prisonj. And Debb’s was a socialist and near anarchist.
Walton should be impeached and removed from the bench for cause – further the courts themselves should quit scheduling any J^ cases and any cases with poolitical or free speech involvment with him. There is an obligation of the courts to police the idiocy of their own members.
Walton’s conduct is not even a close call.
Did I read this right? Turley thinks his Constitutional rights were impacted by the sentencing but then says he should have been prosecuted because he was a member of an organization. Something does not compute.
Goodwyn should not have been prosecuted at all.
As with many protests and nearly all left wing protests – there were some prosecutable acts at Jan 6.
Gopodwyn’s conduct and that of thousands of others was NOT prosecutable. It was not illegal. Efforts to prosecute are a violation of both freee speech, assembly and petitioning govenrment provisions of the 1st amendment.
Being a member of an organization is free association – in the US you can be a member of the communist party openly dedicated to overthrowing the government.
Have we learned nothing since HUAC and Sen. MacCarthy ?
There is no “your protests are for reasons I do not like ” exception to the first amendment. We do not have the crime of Wrongthink.
or Wrongspeak.
Trespassing is a prosecutable act. It’s a federal crime. The amount of time is irrelevant. If you’re trespassing you’re trespassing.
Title 18 U.S.C. 1752 describes other conduct that would be considered trespassing, such as any of the following:
Knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without permission, defined under 18 U.S.C. 1752(a)
Nobody had per permission to enter the building at that time. When the government owns property, it can direct you to leave for any reason (even a legally invalid reason), and you are trespassing if you don’t leave.
Public property doesn’t give the public the right to access it however they want. For example, people don’t have the right to enter all areas of a government building, such as employee offices or break rooms. Some public properties, like electric power transformers, may be completely closed to the public.
“18 U.S.C. 1752”
This hinges on “knowingly”. He left when he was told he didn’t belong there.
My computer habits have been under monitoring in canada since 2008 when Obama took power, and its been under monitoring in the USA a few months after 9-11. It was so disruptive at the onset, I stopped using the internet from 2004 to 2007. In the US, I was on close feminist computer monitoring on all social media platform. My WordPress account, after 9 years, was never on the proper server registries with the effect that people could only read my blog through direct url links. feminists censored almost 90% of my contribution of Tumblr, Reddit and Twitter, and I was mostly shadow banned on major news media comment sections. For the past 2 years, I’ve been on AI computer monitoring and anything scientific literature I seek will always have to reflect post covid feminist ideology. I seek medical or other scientific literature on google scholar, with, for medial for example, the words male, men, boys, and most of what I get are unrelated texts of female medical conditions of the month. Google and Bing search pages take on average 30 to 45 seconds to load and often have nothing to do with my query. It’s impossible for to comment anywhere on Canadian websites, I can only communicate through web mail, and I am quite sure nothing gets to destination…
*SENATOR KEELEY
The judge is incompetent. His cases and judgements should be reviewed for abuse and incompetence. There are a bunch of them.
OT
The Olympics has truly turned into a joke in terms of eligibility.
Gabby Williams, the star of the French womens basketball team.
The only thing “French” about this woman is the origin of her first name.
She was born in Sparks, NV to American parents. She grew up in the US, went to college in the US, makes her living in the US.
She even competed in the US Olympic trials in the high jump.
The games are riddled with examples like this.
Silly rabbit!
Communism is GLOBAL.
The communist world is a world without borders; ask un-Border Czar, Commila.
How do you think Obama and Harris were and will be ensconced in office?
They are not “natural born citizens” and not eligible for the vice and presidency but the “dictatorship of the proletariat” holds dominion.
While I agree, individual countries determine what constitutes trhe requirements to represent that country – not the IOC.
If the entire olymbics becomes american vs., americans – that is the fault of the other countries.
Purportedly people are watching – I do not know anyone who is.
I have no interest in these olympics.
So you distract yourself from the insanity created my Marxists by supporting their TV spectaculars. Great way to discredit any actual contribution you might make to sanity.
Over and over again we see attempts to limit speech. Tim Walz has clearly stated that speech that he considers to be disinformation should not be allowed. This line of thinking has always been a political position of communist and fascist governments. All dissent must be prohibited, first through the use of the law and if the use of the law is not sufficient the use of the gun is justified in an attempt to save the people. It’s always laced with altruism. The pattern is indisputable. The millions who have been put to death because of their opposition is also indisputable. Yet somehow with all the historical evidence before them the left persists. The English people never thought it could happen as they marched through the drowsiness of their daily lives.
They are now learning that freedom requires diligence. Will it be too late in England? Will it be too late in America? My vote will be cast to protect the right of free speech. You?
*LORETTA
Is there a law about disinformation, misinformation, lying, anything? The judge is incompetent. The reason his computer is searched? Unlawful search?
Cut his tongue out and break his fingers , judge.
Third amendment is being trampled now too?
“Secret Service busted into a salon to let people use the bathroom during a Kamala Harris fundraiser.”
“Secret Service forced this woman to close her salon for a day because Harris had a fundraiser nearby. They promised they would not enter, showed up anyway, taped over the cameras, broke into her establishment, used bathrooms and let her security alarm ring out over several hours.” @ellencarmichael
·
https://www.businessinsider.com/secret-service-busted-salon-use-bathroom-owner-2024-8
“A Secret Service spokesperson told Business Insider that the agency’s employees “would not enter” without the permission of the business owner, but acknowledged an agent taped over the security camera lens.
At 8:10 that Saturday morning, a Secret Service agent — wearing a dark suit and open-collared white shirt, but no pin on her lapel — walked up to the salon’s front entrance while swinging a roll of masking tape in her left hand. She looked at the door. Then she looked at the security camera on the porch. Then she looked at the door again.”
Again, ask: Where is Joe Biden? Who is in control of our rogue government?
“When they were done using the bathroom for two hours, they left, and left my building completely unlocked, and did not take the tape off the camera”
Secret Service agent in charge of security that day “was telling people to come in and use the bathroom.”
Be happy.
Lincoln taught them that the Communist Manifesto was better than the Constitution.
OT: Absolutely fascinating.
FULL INSIDE STORY: MINUTE BY MINUTE OF HOW THE MOSSAD ASSASSINATED HAMAS LEADER HANIYEH
https://www.israelunwired.com/full-inside-story-minute-by-minute-of-how-the-mossad-assassinated-hamas-leader-haniyeh/
It starts after 50 seconds of documentation.
How did Mossad install the controlled-demolition charges in the three buildings of the World Trade Center before 9/11 (i.e. the Saudis are going in; we may as well assist them FBO Israel) with the intent to firmly ensconce the U.S. in the Middle East, which, incidentally, is still there, with no indication of extraction any time soon, nearly 25 years later? Was it the “elevator repair” firm that immediately preceded the attack?
“H ow did Mossad install”
I take note how many anti-Semites carry the name of Anonymous. You are so courageous to post under such a name. (sarc. off) Are you afraid of your tail?
My take on Turley’s statements – Turley states, more or less, the left are tyrants, but I still hate Trump, the best weapon against the left’s tyranny. I will pretend to rail against the constitutional abuses of the left while saying I essentially agree with them. – Turley talks out of both sides of his mouth.
You ARE tyrants. Trump is one man, a 78-year-old man at that, with the whole corrupt establishment arrayed against him.
You, on the other hand, have most media, nearly all of academia, 99% of the federal bureaucracy, and 100% of the globalist oligarchs on your side.
Since when are YOU the arbiters of truth? Your fellow travelers deliberately lied with malice about the Biden laptop. Your fellow travelers told us masks would stop the spread. Your fellow travelers told us the “vaccine” would stop the spread. Your fellow travelers told us even toddlers needed the vaccine. Your fellow travelers told us Biden was competent until you decided that dog wouldn’t hunt anymore. Your fellow travelers would rather have women beaten to a pulp in a boxing ring than admit there’s such a thing a woman.
You aren’t a government. You’re a shogunate with meat puppets like Biden and Harris for politicians.
Since when are YOU the defenders of democracy? You are censorious and intolerant and sanctimonious.
You are self-loathing white hypocrites who feel you can be cured of your sins by burning other whites at the stake. You are the new Salem. You are Cotton Mather. You don’t see witches everywhere. You see racists everywhere.
You are THE SYSTEMIC THREAT to democracy. Some dude in a basement doing memes on YouTube is nothing compared to you. Trump is nothing compared to you.
“Throughout the pendency of Goodwin’s case, he has made untruthful statements regarding his conduct . . .” So does Judge Walton mean that someone found guilty in his court after “untruthfully” claiming to be not guilty should receive enhanced sentencing or more severe restrictions on his/her liberty than stipulated in sentencing guidelines than if one just agreed to plead guilty to the prosecution’s charges?
He did plead guilty and the judge accepted his plea. Most of us would take it with a grain of salt when a self-confessed criminal professes innocence. But maybe a judge could vacate the plea since the case is still pending.
Most defendants would want to adopt a posture of remorse at least until sentencing. Because a lack of remorse does seem like a factor to weigh.
All that being said, ordering prior restraint on speech seems unconstitutional.
You are correct about what people tend to do. You are not correct about what they are required to do.
A loan trasspass plea in a protests shoud NOver result in any costodial sentence – and is typically dismissed – there is no charge of breaking and entering, of property damage, opf refusing to leave when asked. And we are dealing with the pre-eminent forumn for free speech for petitioning govenrment in the entire world – It is unconstitutional to use tresspass as a means to protect congress from the first amendment excercise of citizens – this is a long ago decided issue.
Govenrment csan not through seemingly neutral laws restrict first amendment rights.
I do not know the details of this plea – you say it is still pending – if so then everything about it is still subject to appeal.
Often guilty pleas reserve the right to appeal – when that is the case – the court must accept that as part of the plea.
Otherwise overturning a plea is nearly impossible. It requires misconduct on the part of the prosecution that the defense and/or courts were not aware of – that occured in the Flynn case – though again the Flynn plea was not final.
Regardless, first amendment rights do not diue with conviction for anything.
Attacking the judge attacking the courts is an uncommon legal strategy – but it is not a prohibited one.
The FACT that Goodwyn is, and that many others are – including Trump is PROOF of the political corruption of the DOJ and the Judiciary and several DA’s
“ A loan trasspass plea in a protests shoud NOver result in any costodial sentence – and is typically dismissed – there is no charge of breaking and entering, of property damage, opf refusing to leave when asked. ”
It does when it’s a federal building. It’s a federal crime and it IS punishable with jail time.
A trespassing charge on federal property does not require breaking and entering. Nobody had permission to enter. Entering without permission is automatically a trespass, even in the Capitol.
Title 18 U.S.C. 1752 describes other conduct that would be considered trespassing, such as any of the following:
Knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without permission, defined under 18 U.S.C. 1752(a)
For general incidents of trespassing on the restricted property, the case will be filed as a misdemeanor which carries up to one year in jail as defined under 18 U.S.C. 1752(b)(2).
The United States Supreme Court ruled that the government can impose reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on constitutionally protected activity.
Lawful protestors can gather near government buildings for peaceful and orderly demonstrations if they don’t interfere with governmental activity.
J6 wasn’t orderly or peacefully.
The distance from Kursk to Moscow is just 283 miles. This war should be wrapped-up in a few days.
The violation of rights is the point.
Just like the Clintons and the Bidens, Judge Walton is clearly above the law. An activist Judge on a mission. Americans need to set conditions for Judge Walton’s release Jonathan.
The Waltons need to stop taking so long to say goodnight to each other.
Just another example of the government’s boot on the neck of citizens. Nothing new here.
Yes, Turley, yes, yes, yes, we are all aware that you find Trump gauche, obnoxious, and distasteful. You are not alone. I have no doubt you were a Hillary voter, and probably Biden as well. It remains to be seen whether you’ll be able to pull the lever for Kamala and retain your self respect. And we’re also more than aware that you criticized Trump’s speech while he was making it, blah, blah, blah, blah. Your endless reminders of your liberal street-cred, equivocations, provisos, and apologetic qualifications have long since become tiresome. And also useless. They mean absolutely nothing to the Leftist imbecile trolls who stalk your blog, who lump you in with Nazis and the KKK because you’re not a Marxist like them. To communists, everyone else looks like a Fascist.
Or those here on the Right
with their “Well Said, Good Professor”
while he votes against everything they say they stand for.
Agree completely!
Excellent – thank you.
While I respect Turley – and I am not going to criticise him in the way that those here on the left constantly do.
He is a very intelligent person who has spent most of his life inside an ideology that advocates freedom, but has dangerous underlying assumptions regarding government that can turn on a dime and destroy liberty.
We are seeing that now.
No one wants to here this “see here, in this heavily edited clip trump said something hurtful or that offended me or that was less than perfectly accurate, or that is extended greatly might constitute an actual threat to liberty.
That would be meaningful if the left was not ACTIVELY destroying liberty every single day.
I disagree with Turley that Trump’s J6 speech was inapproriate – I disagrtee with many of Turley’scriticism’s of Trump[ – which is not to say that Trump is perfect.
My view of Trump is like Lincoln’s view of Grant – I can not lose this man – He Fights.
“I disagree with Turley that Trump’s J6 speech was inapproriate “
@ John: Turley is from the left but has classical liberal feelings. Coming from the left means he dreams. A dream can be perfect, while real life is not. He has to look at politics from the point of view of reality, not dreams, though many good people are like that. Other than that, Turley is wonderful and sticks firmly to our independence and freedoms.