In an age of advocacy journalism, April Ryan has long been a standout. Ryan routinely engaged in diatribes in White House press conferences during the Trump Administration and has openly opposed all things Republican or conservative. Now, the MSNBC contributor and Grio White House correspondent has declared that President Joe Biden was a “standard-bearer for what the Founding Fathers put in place.” The reason? His much-criticized and partisan veto of The Judges Act. While even stalwart Biden allies like Delaware Sen. Chris Coons criticized the President for vetoing the badly needed, bipartisan measure to add new judges, Ryan declared it the work of a modern George Washington.
When the MSNBC host noted that The Judges Act “had bipartisan support” and was needed to relieve the overloaded courts, Ryan responded by saying that an obstructionist partisan move is precisely what the Framers would have wanted:
“It’s simple this President Joe Biden, didn’t want to give President-elect Donald Trump a chance to add more conservatism into our courts, bottom line. I mean, you have so many people talking about how everything is weighed down right now. The White House on January 20th at noon will be Republican, the House, the Senate, what? Republican and the Supreme Court leans Republican. So this president wanted to ensure checks and balances.
…He is the standard bearer for what the Founding Fathers put in place. He wants to make sure everything goes well. And think about this, even though it wasn’t a federal judgeship, think about what happened with Merrick Garland. Think about the fact that Merrick Garland never got a chance to even have interviews with some senators because they rebuffed, they did not want to have a Democrat on the U.S. Supreme Court. In some ways this is that as well, this is trying to hold the line, to make sure once again that fairness and equal play and checks and balances are in place.”
Ryan mixes rationales of avoiding adding conservative judges to retaliation for prior votes as a noble cause that harkens back to the founding.
Of course, as discussed in The Indispensable Right, some like John Adams used the Alien and Sedition Acts to arrest their political opponents, but few point to that as the gold standard for the Founders. Ironically, I have previously drawn comparisons between Biden and Adams.
Other Founders like Washington did not even support the creation of political parties, let alone endorse raw partisan moves by presidents. Indeed, Biden became the very thing that Washington wanted to avoid in saying that political partisanship:
“may now and then answer popular ends…by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government…”
The move by Biden is a disgrace. Our courts are overwhelmed by dockets that leave parties without any resolution for years. In 2004, the number of cases in district court pending for more than three years was 18,280. This year, there are 81,617.
If justice delayed is justice denied, our court system is becoming a tar pit of injustice, with litigants left without verdicts or relief for years.
Every responsible and independent group in the area supported this bill as essential to supporting and maintaining our legal system. The White House did not oppose the bill until Democrats lost the election. (Some Republicans also withheld their support until after the election).
Before the election, both Democrats and Republicans supported the bill in an all-too-rare moment of bipartisanship. Biden then vetoed it because he did not want a Republican to appoint new judges (even though the new judgeships would be added over a ten-year period).
In vetoing the act, Biden once again shredded any claim to being a president who could put the public interest ahead of petty political interests. It ends his presidency on a cynical, obstructionist note.
Nevertheless, Ryan and others on the far left are applauding the act as just what they want to see in a president.
It is one thing to discard any sense of integrity or responsibility, but do us a favor: leave the Founders out of it.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
This column also appeared on Fox.com
April Ryan = partisan stooge
Jonathan: When it comes to partisanship two can play the game. Joe Biden vetoed the Judges Act for the same reason Mitch McConnell and the Republicans disgracefully refused to carry out their constitutional mandate to give “advice and consent” when Pres. Obama nominated Merrick Garland for the SC.
You have a short memory. In March 2016 Obama nominated Garland to fill a seat on the Court due to the death of Antonin Scalia. McConnell had 9 months to hold hearings on Garland’s nomination. Yet he refused saying he wanted to hold open the spot so the next president could fill the opening. When DJT won the election he nominated conservative Neil Gorsuch and he was confirmed in record time in Jan. 2017 by McConnell and the Republican Senate.
The same thing occurred after the death of Justice Ginsburg on 9/18/2020. Then McConnell took a very different approach. He called DJT the night of Ginsburg’s death and told DJT two things. One, McConnell said he would put out a statement saying the Senate would fill the SC vacancy before the election and; two, he told DJT to nominate Amy Comey Barrett. The rest is history. With the confirmations of both Gorsuch and Coney Barrett, McConnell secured a 6-3 conservative majority on the SC that would set the Court on a right-wing agenda for decades, e.g., taking away a woman’s reproductive rights.
Now you call Biden’s veto “a disgrace”. What about the disgraceful acts of McConnell by refusing to hold confirmation hearings on Garland’s nomination or ramming through the Coney Barrett nomination in the last months of the DJT administration? To use your own words, McConnell showed no “sense of integrity or responsibility”!
The senate has no constitutional duty to consider a nomination just because the president made it. It is free to consent to a nomination, to oppose it, or to ignore it, as it wishes. And it is entitled to do so for political reasons, since it is a political body.
As McConnell correctly said at the time, the senate had never before, in a presidential election year, approved a supreme court nomination by a president of the opposite party, and it wasn’t about to start such a precedent on his watch.
Four years later the situation was very different, because the nomination was made by a president of the same party as the senate majority, so it exercised its clear right to consent to the nomination. It didn’t have to, but it chose to, as was its right.
Biden Vetoes the Administration of Justice
“I am returning herewith without my approval [. . .] not the true motivating force behind passage of this bill now.” (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/12/23/message-to-the-senate-on-the-presidents-veto-of-s-4199/)
That is Biden’s explanation for why he vetoed the “JUDGES Act.” Every word is a lie.
For the truth about why the Act is necessary, see this brief letter from Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. (https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/letter-to-president-biden-judges-act-s.-4199.pdf)
Especially this: “The bill has not been hastily drawn up, but is the product of years of study, analysis, and congressional review.”
This: “District court filings have grown by 30 percent since 1990, when the last comprehensive judgeship bill was enacted. Meanwhile, since 1991, the overall number of authorized district court judgeships increased by only four percent. This has contributed to significant delays in the resolution of cases
and serious access to justice concerns.”
And this: “In some of our country’s most inundated district courts, the time between filing and disposition for a civil case is *four or five years*, compared to 20 years ago when the time was less than 22 months.” (emphasis added)
And finally, this: “Delays increase expenses for civil litigants and may increase the length of time criminal defendants are held pending trial. Substantial delays lead to lack of respect for the Judiciary and erode public confidence in the judicial process.”
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.” – James Freeman Clarke.
Nothing shocks me anymore about the leftist media & Democrat hypocrisy.
Biden is nothing more than a CIA conscript who should go to prison with his Deep State cronies!
OT:
that MSNBC lies to Americans is a given much as the sun rises in the east. Once again, the WSJ has released an excellent investigative analysis on how the Biden puppeteers hid the truth about the COVID lab leak. The DIA’s Inspector General’s office has gone silent
Behind Closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak
Three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, part of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted a scientific study that concluded that Covid-19 was manipulated in a laboratory in a risky research effort. But that analysis was at odds with the assessment of their parent agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and wasn’t incorporated in the report presented to Biden.
The DIA Inspector General’s office opened an inquiry in the spring into whether the scientists’ assessment was mishandled or suppressed, people familiar with the matter said. A spokesman for the agency declined to comment on whether this inquiry was continuing, had been completed and what it might have included.
Wall Street Journal
Biden’s Regime has been without a doubt the most corrupt and anti-America presidency in history
But as you said, Biden is demented and is controlled by Democratic puppeteers. So, more appropriately, it’s the Democratic regime- not demento Biden’s- that is the absolute most corrupt in American history. And they did so thinking audaciously that they would have cover from legacy mainstream media. But, Elon turned corrupt, complicit and colluding Twitter into free speech X, and the rest is history. The Democrats audaciously corrupt ways- and mainstream media- are in serious jeopardy.
Can this vetoed bill not be repackaged and resubmitted when the next Congress convenes in January?
No, because Republicans don’t have enough to beat a filibuster and they won’t have time since their top priority will be to pass an extension of Trump’s tax cuts.
So what is it that you think Republicans want to do that democrats in the senate are going to filibuster ?
The senate can not filibuster appointments, or fiscal bills.
What is the big thing that Republicans are going to do that democrats are going to be able to fight ?
Here is Agenda 47 – Trump’s Mandate.
1). Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion
Trump can do that on his own. He can spend emergency funds by declaring an emergency at the border.
2). Carry out the largest deportation operation in american history
Again purely executive action.
3). End inflation, and make america affordable again
Some of that will happen automatically just by increasing real growth. Deregulation which Trump can do quickly on his own is a big first step.
The next major factor is government spending. Trump will likely try to refuse to spend money – and that will go to SCOTUS which I will bet backs him.
But even if it does not, it can pass through reconcilliation.
4). Make america the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
Again executive action.
5). STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
Primarily executive action.
6). large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
That requires congress. It requires a fillibuster proof majority if it is to be permanent.
But 10 year changes to the tax code are not subject to fillibuster.
7). Defend our constitution, our bill of rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
again executive action mostly.
8). Prevent world war three, restore peace in europe and in the middle east, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country — all made in america
Again executive action mostly.
9). End the weaponization of government against the american people
Again executive action mostly
10). Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders
again executive action mostly
11). Rebuild our cities, including washington dc, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
I am not sure what this means. I suspect it means moving Biden Green New Deal spending to actual infrastructure.
That can be done through reconciliation.
12). Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
Much of that is executive action – but spending changes require congress. That is going to be an interesting area.
Numerous democrats have strongly suggested they would back DOGE if there were cuts to defense.
There is enormous waste in defense spending. so it will be interesting to see what both parties agree to.
Trump is a proponent of a strong military, his is NOT a proponent of funding the military industrial complex.
13). Keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency
That is foreign policy.
14). Fight for and protect social security and medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
Do you think democtrats are going to oppose this.
15). Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations.
Large parts of this can be done through executive action.
But it is likely Trump can get green energy spending cuts through congress.
16). Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children
Again executive action.
17). Keep men out of women’s sports.
Alot can be done through executive action. But permanent action requires congress.
18). Deport pro-hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again
again executive action.
19). Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship
This requires congress. But MOST of it is wildly popular.
20). Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success
Executive leadership.
You can disagree with elements of agenda 47 – but very few of them depend on congress.
And even fewer require getting past a fillbuster.
Can this vetoed bill not be repackaged and resubmitted when the next Congress convenes in January?
Of course. Biden’s legacy and Democrats in general are DOA once the next Congress convenes
I hear so many people saying that January 20th can’t come soon enough.
So many people are saying, “no, it can’t be resubmitted, because Republicans don’t have a filibuster-proof majority”. This is an extension of Operation Demoralize, and it is pure BS. It passed the House and the Senate this time without a filibuster, didn’t it? When Republicans didn’t have any majority at all? If Democrats don’t want to pass it, why did they vote for it this time? It’s a bipartisan bill that already passed the House and Senate! Why would it be filibustered? Democrats are already looking at the next election. They see their “brand” is in the toilet, other than on MSNBC. And they know that if they don’t at least pretend to play along for a while, America is going to pull the handle and flush. You won’t see any ‘resistance’ for at least a year, while they try to chip away at Trump’s popularity.
That’s not what checks and balances means. Obviously, it is not a requirement for Congress to have a majority political party different than the White House. I very much doubt April Ryan has opposed a Democrat majority Congress with a Democrat White House, as lacking checks and balances, such as when Barrack Obama took office in 2009.
Conservative judges enforce the law. Out of control illegal immigration, state and local governments refusing to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, and out of control crime was in part responsible for the Red Wave last November.
Karen S. There was no “red wave” in November. In four states Trump won, the Senate candidate lost. The majority in the House is razor-thin. And Trump’s “victory” was the product of lies–his margin of “victory” was 1.48% and was the product of lies about the economy and a fake promise to immediately bring a sharp drop in grocery prices. And, no, “conservative judges” don’t “enforce the law”–they make new law, and people like Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett and Alito are perfect examples–they ignored 50-year precedent to make new law. Crime is not only not “out of control”, it’s lower under Biden’s presidency–according to “PolitiFact”: “Overall violent crime and homicides are down during Joe Biden’s presidency, according to official government measures through 2022 and a private-sector analysis of sampled data through 2023. ” You just sit and watch MAGA media and believe the lies they tell you.
What new law did they make?
Kamala lost.
Crime is rampant where I live. Yes it is a very blue city and we are home of the cartel and gangs, including Tren Dr Aragua.
Drugs and violent crime is out of control.
Crime can go “down” by simply changing how it is reported., which is another way to lie with statistics.
I feel for you. We left Richmond, VA precisely because of the increase in violent crime, police would no longer respond to our calls to 911 to report crime across our street in the city park, we heard gun shots regularly, police sirens blared daily, and the last straw was finding a stray bullet on our back deck. I was beyond pissed. There wasn’t enough ammo to provide us safety in Richmond. My annual Christmas letter this year to family and friends spoke about how we can look outside our windows and see beauty, neighbors wait in the driveway to chit/chat, and peace permeates our lives (meaning lack of fear of criminal violence and angst). Moving was our only “out” and we have come to celebrate our decision daily. Now I worry less about having enough ammo to fight the bad guys. Moving likely increased our life expectancy by minimum of 10-20 years!
Avoid cities run by Democrats. It’s a matter of life or death
EM, I’m so sorry you live in an area impacted by Tren de Aragua.
I agree with you that crime statistics can create a false impression. When a DA refuses to prosecute theft, then not only does shoplifting increase, but stores stop reporting it, and simply file claims with insurance.
It’s insurance claims in California that paint the most accurate picture of shoplifting damages.
Karen,
You are right about looking at insurance claims.
Walmart. Target, Lowe’s, Home Depot and all the pharmacies that have anything of value locked away. There are at least three security guards per Walmart and Target. Thieves know they can get away with crime and seem unafraid of police and the security guards. Several large chain stores have closed up shop. These aren’t petty thefts, many are organized crime. The leader texts their people what to boost and the pawns go shopping for specific items. The bounty is sold as “legitimate” deals on social media.
I learned yesterday, from someone in the know, that a number of the street beggars “homeless” at intersections are not there for a handout. They are dealing dope.
There are long waits for specialty health care providers. Finding a PCP is nearly impossible! Why? One, providers do not want to come here. Two, the system is overwhelmed. Why would that be? We now have over twenty thousand known illegals who have Medicaid cards and they are tapping into the resources available for the citizens.
The list goes on. The rent has gone up 30+% since COVID. Where else can 10+ million people go? Especially if they are subsidized by the federal government. I think our governor and mayor like it because the federal taxpayers money is being doled out to the illegals and is going into the local economy, an irrational and unsustainable idea.
This the state where I was born and where I have family. However, we have been considering relocating in the near future if things do not improve.
Also, some of the money that is doled out to the illegals is being sent right back to their country of origin. We are subsidizing other nations through this insanity!
It’s very sad.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that there are no unemployment benefits for small business owners. When a chain store closes due to theft, then at least the employees have unemployment benefits. When a small business owner closes due to repeated thefts, they’ve lost everything. One of our friends owns a local store, and he had to ultimately put bars on the front, because he’d suffered so many shoplifting and blatant robberies. His insurance keeps going up, and his out of pocket costs to keep replacing the glass windows and door, door hardware, and now the bars, are appalling.
It’s a blight.
“Crime is not only not “out of control”, it’s lower under Biden’s presidency–according to “PolitiFact”: “Overall violent crime and homicides are down during Joe Biden’s presidency,”
Gigi, how can we trust you on anything since you swallowed the following Hook Line and Sinker?
On October 19, 2020, Politico published an article titled “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo,”
You repeated the lie and you lied about almost everything else. You have no credibility. When you state something as true, an intelligent person can assume what you said is the opposite of truth.
@Gigi And Trump’s “victory” was the product of lies
Gigi – just for Auld Lang Syne… tell everybody how Biden won because he was telling the absolute truth that he had no idea who his son’s ChiCom and Putin Oligarch customers were.
Tell everybody how Biden won because he was telling the truth when he said the Biden Bribery Laptop wasn’t his, but instead was just Putin election campaign disinformation that should be ignored.
Then go back to the start again and tell us you have the credibility, personal honesty, and can recognize a lie when you see it when we see your posts.
The insult isn’t that you send a long litany of lies towards us with each one of your posts lying about Trump and defending Biden.
The insult is that you apparently believe we’re both stupid enough to believe you are credible AND believe all your lies.
Old Airborne Dog
Gigi said, “There was no ‘red wave’ in November.” Here is an article from a Democrat perspective, which certainly does not support Trump, analyzing the red wave.
https://www.timesleader.com/news/1672471/political-experts-analyze-the-2024-general-elections-red-wave
“Veteran political consultant Ed Mitchell on Wednesday put the 2024 General Election results in perspective.
“Democrats got our as$ kicked,” Mitchell said. “Trump is a unique political phenomenon. Historians, political scientists and maybe even psychologists will be trying to figure out for decades the attraction of many Americans to him. It’s above my pay grade.”
Mitchell said Donald Trump’s victory sends a clear signal that Democrats have to listen more closely to voters.”
“Jeff Brauer, political science professor at Keystone College, said Tuesday’s results show that it was a true red wave across the country.
“Joy generally doesn’t win elections — toughness does, and did, in 2024,” Brauer said. “Inflation was the issue that elites, especially on the left, continued not to understand. Inflation is devastating to average working folks. People voted their pocketbooks loud and clear — 2016 was a fluke, 2024 was not.””
Supreme Court precedent is not the same as legislation, and a good thing, too, or else we’d still have the Dred Scott decision.
Although Dred Scott was reversed by Constitutional Amendment, at times, the Supreme Court itself has decided against prior precedent.
Judges are an integral part of the criminal and civil justice system, which itself is critical to ensuring the law is followed, with consequences. Biased judges refuse to impartially apply the law.
Before Roe v Wade was overturned, every nomination of Supreme Court justices was fraught with angst, protests, and at times violence, from the Left’s desire to pretend abortion prior to viability was a Constitutional Right. They sought to legislate from the bench, as long as it was Democrat justices doing so.
A fair judge would rule on the merits of the case, regardless of personal feelings.
Yes, Gigi there was a red wave. And it is going to get worse unless Republicans F#$K up as bad as Biden has.
Democrat INCUMBENTS won in the senate by razor thin margins in states Trump won.
The house is close, but even that is heading red. The 2024 house election had several states judicially jury mandered.
It is likely those democrat favoring maps will be tossed by SCOTUS.
It took CA an extra month of counting the vote to steal an additonal 4 house seats or the GOP would have been +4 in the house.
3 of the 4 democrat incumbents that survived – did so by campaigning as Trump cooperative.
The Census bureau is saying that current demographic trends will shift 9 seats/ec votes from red states to blue states.
FL and TX are gaining 7 seats/votes. It is only 2024. If the trend continues that will be 20 seats by 2030.
The next Senate election has more republcan incumbents,. but AGAIN it is the democrats that are in vulnerable seats.
Just as OH and FL and TX are no longer Swing states, PA, MI, WI, and NV are growing increasingly red.
For the first time since 1928 Republicans have more registered voters nationwide than Democrats.
Most importantly – Democrats through absolutely everything that had at Trump and LOST.
That is very important. It means those tactics WILL NOT work in the future.
The attacks on Gaetz and hegsoth have fizzled.
And did I mentioned that Trump has GAINED votes in jut about every minortity demographic except highly educated white women ?
Next – either you have to admit that you cheated in 2020, or you have to accept that 10+ million voters that voted democrat in 2020, either did not vote or voted for Trump in 2024.
How are you getting those votes back ? Absent Bideneaque failure on the part of republicans – your not.
Politifact is wrong on crime – not oly has this been addressed before but even the MSM eventually had to reprot those claims were in error.
Biden changed the rules for reporting crime to FBI and several thousand police units stopped reporting. The FBI exterlopates when that happens – and they did so badly.
They ultimately revised the numbers – Crime went up.
Regardless the NCVS – national crime victim survey which is much more accurate. has reported increasing crime through Biden’s administration.
Nor should this surprise.
Oddly Crime is actually down in many Read regions – becaue police are fleeing Defund police cities where they could end up in jail if a black drug addict dies while being arrested
These police have moved to red communities were that risk is not present.
Hence crime in cities and their immediate suburbs is up, while rural and red suburb crime is down.
Gigi,
the NCVS shows that ALL forms of crime are UP comparing 2023 to ANY year Trump was president.
https://ncvs.bjs.ojp.gov/year-to-year-comparison/crimeType
You can still find stories claiming that the FBI reports crime down, but those were a combination of reporting errors.
The data was later corrected, but only some of the news picked it up.
Please cite examples where CONSERVATIVE justices MADE new law.
Most of the big recent cases were 9-0.
The house majority is small. It was small in 2022, but it is a republican majority.
The GOP won the trifecta.
They were expected to lose the house, pick up the Senate but only barely, and lose the WH.
They won everything.
This is what Trump promised, and this is his mandate.
Much of this has supermajority support.
Agenda 47.
1 Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion
2 Carry out the largest deportation operation in american history
3 End inflation, and make america affordable again
4 Make america the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
5 STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
6 large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
7 Defend our constitution, our bill of rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
8 Prevent world war three, restore peace in europe and in the middle east, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country — all made in america
9 End the weaponization of government against the american people
10 Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders
11 Rebuild our cities, including washington dc, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
12 Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
13 Keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency
14 Fight for and protect social security and medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
15 Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations
16 Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children
17 Keep men out of women’s sports
18 Deport pro-hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again
19 Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship
20 Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success
Dear Prof Turley,
MSNBC is the ‘standard bearer’ of fake news .. . the way president Biden is the standard bearer of cognitive dementia.
Garbage in, garbage out.
*Trump is the standard bearer of MAGA . .. and he’s got his work cut out for him.
Joe Biden is the standard bearer for, not what the American Founders put in place, but that of Lincoln and his fellow traveler, Karl Marx, to wit, the nullification of the U.S. Constitution, commencement of the incremental implementation of Central Planning, Control of the Means of Production (i.e. unconstitutional regulation), Redistribution of Wealth, as Social Engineering, in line with Karl Marx’s slogan, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs” as forcibly imposed by the “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e. hired help)” as executed in Lincoln’s “Reign of Terror” after his unconstitutional denial of unprohibited and fully constitutional secession, prosecution of an unconstitutional war, imposition of martial law, suspension of habeas corpus, smashing of printing presses, imprisonment of political opponents, confiscation of private property, failure to carry out his executive duty to enforce existing immigration law et al.
In fact, the Founders established the American nation, the American law, and the American population as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Naturalization Act of 1790.
Truth be known, if America reflected what the Founders put in place, America would enjoy distinct and secure borders, the population would be Americans who were “pursuing happiness” in freedom without governmental interference, other than security and basic infrastructure, free enterprise, free industries, and free markets, and no admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc., understanding that Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “general Welfare,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity, and that the same Article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces, further, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
If America reflected what the Founders put in place, Americans would be free.
Point taken
Joe Biden is the standard bearer for, not what the American Founders put in place, but that of Lincoln and his fellow traveler, Karl Marx
George the vicious lying Marxist thug is the Soviet Democrat apparatchik fascist that is the avatar for how the Soviet Democrat fascists operate. The singular American failure is the continuing existence of the Democratic Party even after their progression from simple racism to neo-communist Soviet “Progressivism” as typified by George.
The USSR spy who defected, Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov warned us about fraudulent “constitutionalist” commies like you, George, back when many of us were well into our work careers. That was before you were having your first Democrat wet dreams about your Democrat heroes like George Wallace and his best friend young Senator Joe Biden.
At least sign an organ donor so we can hope you make some marginal contribution to this great country at some point in your otherwise meaningless failure of a life.
Yuri Bezmenov – A Brief Summary Of Communist Ideological Subversion As Used By American Communists Like George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJnRmvqTdEQ
FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Communist Subversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw
Old Airborne Dog
Ben Franklin in July 9, 1722
The New-England Courant
Silence Dogood, No. 8
Founders.archives.gov
“To the Author of the New-England Courant.
Sir,
I prefer the following Abstract from the London Journal to any Thing of my own, and therefore shall present it to your Readers this week without any further Preface.5
“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.
“This sacred Privilege is so essential to free Governments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together; and in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors…
…“That Men ought to speak well of their Governours is true, while their Governours deserve to be well spoken of; but to do publick Mischief, without hearing of it, is only the Prerogative and Felicity of Tyranny: A free People will be shewing that they are so, by their Freedom of Speech.
“The Administration of Government, is nothing else but the Attendance of the Trustees of the People upon the Interest and Affairs of the People: And as it is the Part and Business of the People, for whose Sake alone all publick Matters are, or ought to be transacted, to see whether they be well or ill transacted; so it is the Interest, and ought to be the Ambition, of all honest Magistrates, to have their Deeds openly examined, and publickly scann’d: Only the wicked Governours of Men dread what is said of them; Audivit Tiberius probra queis lacerabitur, atque perculsus est.6 The publick Censure was true, else he had not felt it bitter…
…Misrepresentation of publick Measures is easily overthrown, by representing publick Measures truly; when they are honest, they ought to be publickly known, that they may be publickly commended; but if they are knavish or pernicious, they ought to be publickly exposed, in order to be publickly detested.”
He also said during the convention ‘Declarations of fixed opinion, and of determined resolution never to change it, neither enlighten nor convince us’.
Franklin a perfect example of a pure journalist willing to publish the facts whatever they may be even when his brother was imprisoned for confronting leaders.
It’s the epitome of modern politics. Yay for my team. No principles need apply.
This law was totally unnecessary! The Article 2 assembly of the States in the Senate establish all the executive and judicial departments necessary to manage the general affairs of the United States under their direction!
[Article. III. Section. 1.
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.]
The States assembled as the Senate do not need the Presidents approval to establish the executive and judicial departments! What does it mean to “ordain and establish”? That means that the States as the Union assembled in the Senate determine every aspect of the executive and judicial departments, including appointing the civil officers and judges, and the president has absolutely no say in the matter, as president only nominates when vacancies occur, and there are no vacancies when the departments are established. And when vacancies do occur, the president must nominate the number of persons with the required qualifications as determined by the States as the Union assembled in the Senate as part of their advice as rules for their proceedings to determine the persons to be appointed.
If you geniuses spent more time actually studying the Constitution of the United States instead of trying to interpret it to your advantage, we wouldn’t have all these problems of malfeasance and dysfunction in our government!
By the way, the States as they are assembled in the Senate determine what constitutes “Good Behavior” and enforces that Standard!
What a moron. You have clearly never read the constitution and are just making stuff up.
First of all, the senate is NOT “the states assembled”. It is a legislative chamber whose members are ELECTED by the people of the states, but is completely independent of the states. No state can tell its senators how to vote. Nor can a state recall its senators if it’s unhappy with their votes.
Second, NONE of the powers you claim belong to the senate. They belong to the CONGRESS, which consists of TWO chambers. And every decision of the congress must be presented to the president for his approval. It doesn’t matter what kind of thing it is, if it requires a vote in both houses, then it needs the president’s approval, or a veto override.
Third, Congress (with the president’s approval) creates offices, but it does NOT fill them. Filling them belongs to the president, with the senate’s consent. And yes, that includes the initial appointment to a new office. Congress NEVER gets to make its own appointments, and certainly the senate doesn’t.
I repeat, you are an utter moron.
Honestly, to me this stinks of setting up the layup, just as with other preemptive strikes from 2016. Now they can say Trump is undeniably trying to pack the courts in violation of ethical safeguards provided by the outgoing admin if he counters.
These people are scum, and I honestly think the modern dem party is likely too far gone to save. Disgusting. May the midterms make November’s dem (and globalist!) defeat look like a trickle. The modern left is not interested in a world that works for everyone, just them.
Oh, and PS – pay close attention. The new narratives are being written right before our eyes, and not even particularly judiciously. Reject it all out of hand.
Precisely. If I’m watching what used to be called news, and that’s only on Fox (ugh), or NewsMax (almost ugh), and they pop up with a leftist bobble-head to offer their say so, or view point, click. Change the channel. If they support leftist causes, find another seller even if it costs a bit more. If it’s a newly minted movie, no thanks. I’ll take entertainment from the era before the leftist demise of the country. So be it, rather give someone else the profit.
In point of fact, if not for Fox and NewsMax who continually talk about what some leftist said or did, or show irritating leftists on their shows, I wouldn’t know or care what the leftists think, do , say, or pretend to believe. Why would anyone? They have no credibility, no morals, no ability to reason, nor any concern at all about this Nation, it’s needs or sovereignty, it’s citizens, their safety, nor anything else relative to living in this society. That despise this country. So again, why would anyone care what makes a leftist tic?
You should care what Lefists think, because the far Left has a stranglehold on states like CA, with a Democrat supermajority. Several other states automatically adopt some of their regulations.
The California Air Quality Resource Board (CARB), has banned the sale of gas powered cars by 2035, and has effectively banned the sale of RVs in 2025, because RV manufacturers cannot meet the Advanced Clean Trucks Act requirements that a percentage of vehicles produced be electric. There are no electric RVs. RV manufacturers don’t want to create electric RVs that can only drive a couple hours before requiring hours of charging.
Democrats often tout California as the “Gold Standard”, and seek to emulate it. Democrats in state and local governments can do a great deal of damage, while conservatives might have no idea what they’re doing.
Always find out what motivates those who create disastrous policies, never reverse course, yet keep getting voted into office.