In his final week as president, Joe Biden again invoked liberal professors to justify a plainly absurd constitutional argument by declaring that the 28th Amendment is now ratified. By invoking “leading legal constitutional scholars,” Biden only added redundancy to absurdity in claiming that the Equal Rights Amendment is now law. Unfortunately, this pattern has been all too familiar throughout his presidency and only highlights his contempt for constitutional order.
As discussed in a column yesterday, the 28th Amendment has been as dead as Dillinger for decades.
To recap:
The deadline for ratification of the ERA was set for March 22, 1979 — allowing seven years to secure the required approval by three-quarters of the states, or 38 states. It failed to do so. Even worse, four states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky — rescinded their prior ratifications and a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline.
Kentucky also had an additional problem because its Democratic lieutenant governor vetoed the resolution rescinding the ratification when the governor was out of town. However, Article V speaks of ratifications by state legislatures.
Notably, during the extended period, not a single state was added. Even assuming that the five states could be counted despite the votes to rescind their ratifications, the ERA was still three states short when it missed the second deadline.
Democrats then insisted that states could not rescind their votes, even before ratification was finalized. So, Democrats and then-President Carter simply extended the deadline to June 30, 1982. However, in 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. Freeman that Congress could not extend the ERA’s ratification deadline. (The Supreme Court later stayed that order but then declared the matter moot.)
In 2021 federal Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that it would have been “absurd” for the Archivist to disregard the deadline and unilaterally add the unratified amendment to the Constitution. On appeal, a unanimous D.C. Circuit panel rejected the appeal of Illinois and Nevada that the Archivist should be ordered to publish the ERA, holding “The States’ argument that the proposing clause is akin to the inoperative prefatory clause in a bill is unpersuasive…because if that were the case, then the specification of the mode of ratification in every amendment in our nation’s history would also be inoperative.”
This presented a particularly tough task for Biden since his own Justice Department and his own archivist rejected this argument. Even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg declared the amendment dead.
Archivist, Colleen Shogan recently explained that neither her office nor the White House have the authority to publish the amendment unilaterally or waive the deadline for ratification:
“In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice affirmed that the ratification deadline established by Congress for the ERA is valid and enforceable,” she wrote. “The OLC concluded that extending or removing the deadline requires new action by Congress or the courts.”
“Therefore, the Archivist of the United States cannot legally publish the Equal Rights Amendment. As the leaders of the National Archives, we will abide by these legal precedents and support the constitutional framework in which we operate.”
So Biden made a familiar call. In the film Casablanca, Captain Renault, played by Claude Reins, famously tells his men to “round up the usual suspects” to make things look good to the public. The Biden White House would often do the same thing when contemplating a clearly unconstitutional action.
The top of that list has always been Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe, who once again was the most cited academic claiming that the 28th amendment was ratified despite the Justice Department, archivists, the courts, and mere logic claiming otherwise.
Take student loan forgiveness.
Even former Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged that the effort to wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars of student loans would be clearly unconstitutional.
However, Tribe assured President Biden that it was entirely legal.
It was later found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Tribe was also there to support Biden — when no other legal expert was — on the national eviction moratorium.
The problem, Biden admitted, was his own lawyers told him that it would be flagrantly unconstitutional. However, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Biden to just call Tribe.
Biden then cited Tribe as assuring him that he had the authority to act alone.
It was, of course, then quickly found to be unconstitutional.
Some of Tribe’s conspiracy theories have also been quickly disproven — like his sensational claims of an anti-Trump figure being killed in Russia or claiming that the Oct. 7th massacre of Israelis was meant to cover up the corruption of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Tribe also insisted that Trump could be charged with a long list of criminal charges that no prosecutor ever pursued — including treason. Tribe even declared Trump guilty of the attempted murder of Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021. Even though no prosecutor has ever suggested such a charge, Tribe assured CNN that the crime was already established “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt.”
Yet, Tribe was again cited to support this claim. With fellow law professor Kathleen Sullivan, Tribe ran a column declaring “The ERA is Now Law!” as if amplification and exclamation points would somehow make it true.
They were joined by academics like Georgetown Law Professor Victoria Nourse, who was celebrated by Georgetown in a public statement for finally prevailing in her long fight for the ERA. Nourse also wrote that Biden’s declaration somehow makes this all official. That statement brought a quick rebuke from Ed Whelan, who noted that Nourse previously testified that presidents have “no role” in the constitutional process when the president was Donald Trump. 
Given the makeup of most law schools, it is relatively easy to produce a virtual flash mob of faculty to support anything from packing the Court to unilateral ratification declarations.
A recent survey of more than 1,000 professors shows that seventy-eight percent would vote for Harris and only eight percent would vote for Trump. Other than a poll of the Democratic National Committee, there are few groups that are more reliably Democratic or liberal.
In my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I discuss the intolerance in higher education and surveys showing that many departments no longer have a single Republican as faculties replicate their own views and values.
A Georgetown study recently found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools — almost identical to the percentage of Trump voters found in the new poll.In places like North Carolina State University a study found that Democrats outnumbered Republicans 20 to 1.
Recently, I had a debate at Harvard Law School with Professor Randall Kennedy on whether Harvard protects free speech and intellectual diversity.
The Harvard Crimson has documented how the school’s departments have virtually eliminated Republicans. In one study of multiple departments last year, they found that more than 75 percent of the faculty self-identified as “liberal” or “very liberal.”
Only 5 percent identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4% as “very conservative.”
According to Gallup, the U.S. population is roughly equally divided among conservatives (36%), moderates (35%), and liberals (26%).
So Harvard has three times the number of liberals as the nation at large and less than three percent identify as “conservative’ rather than 35% nationally.
Among the law school faculty who donated more than $200 to a political party, 91 percent of the Harvard faculty gave to Democrats.
That echo chamber of higher education offers liberal leaders instant support even for the most ridiculous claims like the ratification of the ERA. The problem is that the group-think culture has a greater hold on academics than the public at large. For most people, selling the ERA as alive and well is akin to trying to sell a dead parrot as merely sleeping or stunned:
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Laurence Tribe has long since sold his soul to the far left of the Democrat Party. He sold his mind, his academic and personal integrity, his credentials, and everything else that might have made him more worthy to listen to than a Wossamotta U. freshman gender studies major.
Dear Mr. Turly, how valid is a pardon if the president who signed it doesn’t have capacity?
Remember the recent interview of the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, in which he said:
“It occurred to me, Bari, he was not lying to me. He genuinely did not know what he had signed. I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, We’re in serious trouble. Who is running the country? I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.”
On the day they taught law at my law school, a document signed by someone without capacity is void — voidable at best.
Ergo, Pardons void?
100% PROOF OF DUNCEOCRAT CRIMINALITY:
Joe Biden has proven himself to be a 100% POS, despicable, depraved, degenerate Dunceocrat for his evil pardons of Criminal Fauci, Criminal Milley, members of Biden’s Crime Family, and other assorted POS, despicable, depraved, degenerate Dunceocrats.
Can even an obsequiouslowlife piece of trash Duinceocrat like Dennis SmackIntire defend the pardons of all these Dunceocrat Criminals who have been awarded a “Get Out of Jail” card? Of course, he can’t. If the Dunceocrats’ manufactured fake cases weren’t lawfare, than how can the Criminal Dunceocrats need a pardon when there can be no lawfare against them either?
The sweeping mangling of the law by the Criminal Dunceocrats warrants that all of them be prosecutred anyway and then nailed on perjury charges and theft of Government funds–all NEW ILLEGAL ACTS BY DUNCEOCRAT CRIMINALS.
It is long past time for Tribe to be thrown out of Harvard — and it is now time to prosecute those government DOJ ‘professionals’ who violated the law by pursuing the incarceration of so many innocent bystanders —- didn’t we learn anything from studying To Kill a Mockingbird?
If you change a deadline for ratification, every state has to vote again, their prior votes are moot.
This is the USA, not some dirtbag skum conjob casino in the ghetto.
Looks like ole Trumpy is going to get an airport named after him. There might even be some room on Mount Rushmore for him. Gee maybe he’ll get a city or town named after him next. I mean really the sky’s the limit.
Briben may get a garbage dump or city sewer system named after him…quite appropriate .
I’m one indictment away from being re-elected.
From Insurrection to Resurrection
President Trump taking the oath of office inside the building that was supposed to constitute the graveyard of his political future and movement he created is a fitting end to the phony J6 narrative….
https://www.declassified.live/p/from-insurrection-to-resurrection?r=2jyqg2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
“On Pardon Eve, I want to share texts to me recently from a J6 public defender. She attended the Women’s March in 2017 and is a lifelong Dem as are most public defenders.
“My reaction to these prosecutions is not political. DOJ is out of control when prosecuting J6 and police officers. They’ve turned me into a Trump supporter.”
More on DOJ abuses.
“The whole theory of prosecution was the ‘raindrop’ theory by Judge Kollar Kotelly. If you were present you contributed to everything that happened. Judges let cops who had no contact with individual defendant testify about how they were impeded or obstructed generally without tying it to particular defendant.
Gov theory of prosecution in most cases is not individualized. It’s as if in a drug case, you allowed testimony generally about scourges of drugs without tying it to particular defendant. Just because fentanyl kills doesn’t mean someone should be able to testify about effect if fentanyl that the defendant didn’t sell. Compounds the problem of jurors who hate J6 defendants.
Disparate & selective enforcement is a real problem. No recognition of First Amendment interests. And the imprisonment of defendants charged merely with misdemeanors is disgraceful.
So many people entered Capitol after others had opened doors. Or when cops stepped aside.
Big issue is how they use texts & social media posts as evidence of conspiracy, of violent intent, of intent to interfere. No recognition that people post or resend a lot of stuff on social media without giving much thought. Even anti-masking statements are used as evidence of guilty intent.
Statements questioning election security or commenting on irregularities or critical of mail-in ballots get admitted as evidence of guilt. These statements are at the core of First Amendment protection.
You cannot get a fair trial in a district that votes 90%+ liberal DEM even in 2024.
Also, some Capitol Police Officers were allowed to testify how they felt that day; that they feared they wouldn’t get home to their spouses. Just playing to jurors’ sympathies where jurors were already unsympathetic; a few of them even teared up. Cops never do that. IMHO gov also played the race card whenever they could; or insinuated it.”
Danean
@DaneanHere2
Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s “raindrop theory” was a slap in the face of justice. Many were deemed guilty and convicted of crimes they did not witness, let alone commit. I would know; I was one of her “raindrops.”
“The whole theory of prosecution was the ‘raindrop’ theory by Judge Kollar Kotelly. If you were present you contributed to everything that happened.”
Collectivized guilt in America?!
I did not know about that abomination. Thank you for publicizing it.
Amen, Floyd, America’s golden age begins at noon tomorrow. Woo-hoo!
Floyd, your music lights up my weekends. Give a pat on the head to Peanut and the rest of the bunch for me. 🐕 😻
Thank you so much! I am glad you enjoyed it! Just got thru feeding the cats, and Peanut is over raiding the Friskies Beef Shreds. I am going to steam some left-over rotisserie chicken for them later tonite, after I get a fire going. Peanut is a chicken fiend!
Why Oh Why would you expect anything else?! The man is not with it and makes up stuff. Bye Bye Mr. Biden !
Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe has achieved outright what few in academia could claim (being a Harvard professor undoubtedly gave him the edge): the ‘go to’ stooge for the sloppiest con man to have ever decorated a public office in the federal government.
Georgetown Law Professor Victoria Nourse barely gains mention as a stooge wannabe and only then because her blatant self-contradiction.
A round of applause for the many faculty that actively participated in this years long competition! It’s historical!
Biden is busy commuting the sentences of sex traffickers who beat women into submission and forced them into prostitution because they were “non violent drug offenders.”
Who is Biden’s puppeteer? The devil himself.
Turns out Biden needed teleprompters in private homes where he fundraised. Of course that’s ridiculous but is it really a surprise?
trump is a hero, YEA!!!
He vowed to get rid of ticktock because of the harm it was causing kids and the threat from data going to China. And indeed we passed a law to get rid of TicToc, YEA!!!
And now he has again worked wonders and brought TicToc back to life as he vows to help keep it working after it was shut down.
you trump sycophants are so incredibly dumb, dumb dumb.
How do you fall for this sh!t?
You’re a typical low IQ troll. TikTok (which you can’t even spell correctly) is about 1,539,523,077 down the list of what Trump supporters care about, as if it was even 1/1,000th as important to us as the open border, violent crime, high inflation, forever wars, the crushing national debt, energy independence, and the threat of nuclear armageddon, all of which are worse after four years of “Joe Biden.”
For clarification: Trump has stated he received much support from what was posted on TikTok, which was favorable to his campaign. Trump also stated he would like to find a buyer for TikTok, so is going to extend the ban for 60 days.
TikTok is fun to watch (until it isn’t), however I think it’s a great source for educational purposes. Not the kind at Harvard, but from “real people”. Zhang Yiming is the main co-founder of ByteDance, which created TikTok and has more than 1 billion users. He started ByteDance in 2012 in a four-bedroom apartment in Beijing.
“These Billionaires, Companies And Investors—Elon Musk, Kevin O’Leary And More—Could Buy TikTok As Ban Starts”
“The AI search engine startup Perplexity AI has reportedly submitted a bid to merge with TikTok, as other companies and billionaires have rumored to be, or have expressed in, buying ByteDance’s popular social media app to navigate around a U.S. ban.”
– Forbes
😂 right.
“Elon Musk, Kevin O’Leary And More—Could Buy TikTok As Ban Starts”
Unfortunately, Reason, and possibly some other primary sources, are reporting that Trump wants the Federal government itself to own part of TikTok. I can see how his remarks could be construed that way, but I’m optimistically assuming for now that it was just sloppy wording on his part. The last freaking thing we need from an incoming administration with a mandate to reduce Federal costs and footprint is for it to begin a new era of intrusion into the private sector by owning a social media outlet, or even a significant piece of one.
Envy is a mortal sin.
Yes, it is.
Going to double dip. This was clear in 2020; at the time, the Professor called Biden’s inaugural speech one of the most moving he’d ever heard. Can ‘liberals’ finally be ready to acknowledge that they have very much willingly been duped for nigh on more than a decade (because this started in 2015, when Trump was first running, and of course the roots started much sooner)? Is the dumpster fire of dem rule finally clear enough?
Is the dumpster fire of dem rule finally clear enough?
Nahhhhhh.
Darrin Bell, Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist, Faces Child Pornography Charges
Mr. Bell, a freelance cartoonist, has won several awards for his work, including a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for his editorial cartoons, which “took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration,” the Pulitzer website said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/darrin-bell-arrest-child-pornography.html
* Mr bell might be framed?
God wastes nothing. Even sewage is fertilizer.
I’m convinced God loves the United States. He’s just running a security check.
Adios. Ah theos.
Like tea leaves in a cup, Biden reads the insides of his diaper….
Jonathan: Amid the continuing wildfires in So Cal MAGA House Speaker Mike Johnson, dutifully following the edicts of his supreme leader, thinks “conditions” should be attached to federal aid to the devastated area. Johnson thinks Cal officials were “derelict”. What “conditions” does Johnson have in mind? He doesn’t say but it’s pretty clear what he has in mind. Like DJT, Johnson is unhappy with the “liberal” policies of Gov. Newsom and the state legislature–a state that went for Kamala Harris. Johnson is engaged in plain old extortion. He is telling California: “Unless you adopt the priorities of the new Trump administration don’t expect any federal disaster aid when you experience more wildfires in the next 4 years”.
Johnson has a short memory. When Hurricane Francine struck Louisiana (Johnson’s home state) last year Biden announced immediate federal disaster assistance to the stricken areas. No “conditions” attached to that aid. When Hurricane Helene struck Florida and the Carolinas again no “conditions” were attached to that disaster relief.
Presidents do not and should not attach “conditions” to federal disaster assistance. It’s part of the social contract. When ordinary citizens are suffering they need immediate assistance and the government should not play politics with that assistance. Biden never did that during his 4 years in office–even though he disagreed with the politics of the leaders of the state’s affected by those natural disasters.
But Mike Johnson and his MAGA leader think otherwise. They think the victims of a natural disaster should pay the price for the politics of their elected leaders. Well, I have a bit of advice for Speaker Johnson and something he should think about. California pays in about $84 billion more to the federal government than it gets back. Louisiana gets half it budget from the federal government–or around $21 billion more than it pays in every year. So in a real sense California subsidizes Louisiana’s budget. Louisiana also has the second highest poverty rate in the country. If Johnson wants to impose “conditions” on disaster relief to California maybe the Golden State should suspend its payments to the federal government until the recovery is complete. Without the money from California how would Johnson explain to the citizens of Louisiana they are soon to become the poorest state in the union!?
Please cite the Constitution for any enumerated power of Congress to provide funds to any state for disasters.
Disaster funding is authorized by the Constitition’s general welfare clause — see the Supreme Court decision in Helvering v Davis (1937): https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/301/619/
Article I, Section 8
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;…”
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THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE UNITED STATES
ALL WELL PROCEED
General – All or the Whole
Wel – Well
Fare – Proceed
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All, not one, some, or a few.
General welfare not individual welfare, specific welfare, particular welfare, favor or charity.
No disaster in America ever involves all or the whole.
Disasters are particular to one or a few states, not the entire country.
Congress has not power to tax to fund disaster relief in one or two states.
This is in the preamble and the courts interpretation is that the GW clause is pretty close to meaningless.
The claim that the GW clause is grant of power runs at odds to the enumeration of powers within the constitution.
If congress can do anything it claims is in the general welfare – then why separately and explicitly enumerate powers throughout the constitution ?
The courts have correctly concluded that the constitution did NOT say
You can do whatever you want.
And then provide a list of the things that the federal government has the power to do.
Further any broad reading of the GW clause runs afoul of the 10th amendment
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
How is it that the states can be conveyed the powers not specifically given the federal government if the federal government is given broad an unenumerated powers.
While there is a huge amount wrong with this decision – including that the decision itself admits it is unconstitutional,
and that it is another of the disastrously stupid FDR court decisions that have F#$Ked up the country.
Regardless it does NOT say what you claim.
I have no idea what the 1937 court thought it meant,
But today it is limited to using federal taxes to fund States.
There are a number of other limits, but since you are already wrong, I need not address all the limits on this.
You can also tell that it does not mean what you claim by the plethora of left wing legal books and law review papers trying to persuade the courts to use the General Welfare clause broadly.
If the General Welfare clause was acccepted by SCOTUS in the way you claim this decision allows there would not be so many left wing law review article begging the courts to empower the GW clause to allow things that are currently unconstitutional for the federal courts.
@Dennis
Go blow, Dennis, really: nobody cares. Find another blog to haunt.
Absolutely It doesn’t matter what trump says or does it is all good because he is an orange god and we must applaud everything he says and does. We are lemmings. Yea trump, TicToc is bad, destroy, TicToc is good bring it back. Yea trump what ever you say I will do.
DUMB Biden/Kamala voter Anonymous!
It matters a great deal what Trump ACTUALLY does.
What does not matter is what those of you who have repeatedly been caught lying SAY that he has done.
You don’t matter anymore.
People do not trust you. They do not care about your TDS.
Trump will be judged by what he ACTUALLY does – not your constant lies.
Polly want a Briben , bock bock , polly want a briben……..
Gavin Newsom and Mayor Bass have a well documented trails of corruption with millions, in fact, billions of tax dollars “disappearing” and slipping thru their fingers with NO accounting for where the money went.
They should not get one cent of federal funs without it being overseen by a Special Master from outside Cali’s utterly corrupt, failed state, political machine.
Funny you say that about them yet the guy that has been found a sexual abuser and a convicted Felon you just elected to be President again. Hmmmm, cultish?
What is the felony crime Trump was ‘convicted’ of? Name it.
When has a jury ever been instructed by the judge that a unanimous verdict was not required to ‘convict’ someone of a felony crime that was never identified??
Banana republic nonsense.
TDS sufferers will hang onto it because their lives have no other meaning. They are pathetic.
ASK BIDEN about Tara Reid and Ashley Biden. You are a dope!
Absolutely California should not be bailed out for problems of its own making.
If CA is bailed out at all – it should be under the condition that it stop the mismanagement that resulted in this mess.
That is properly manages its forests such that they are not overgrown and just kindling waiting to catch.
That it has sufficient water in dry seasons to fight any fires that are likely in a 100 year time frame.
That its water distribution system is fully functional.
That there are suffiicent firefigthers to deal with likely fires.
That the firefighters are competent to deal with likely fires.
When you dump money on people who failed to make the neceescary efforts to prevent events of high probability – then you create moral hazard.
Left wing nuts like to lcaim this is from Climate change – that is stupidity. But it does not change anything.
If “climate change” is going to make CA fires more common – then CA is obligated to get much better at dealing with that.
They are not entitled to pass the unique and predictable costs of living in La to the rest of us.
Florida builds houses that will survive anything short of a direct hit by a hurricane.
The NC mountains do not – because they see huricanes once every 100 years.
Please cite the Constitution for any numerated power of Congress to fund disaster relief.
If Congress were to approve Disaster Relief Funds, these fundings should be on a para-mutual basis to all States.
For example if California should be set to receive 250,000,000,000 (250 Billion) in relief then the remaining 49 States should also receive a para-mutual share of the amount. e.g.: $250,000,000,000 ÷ 49 = $5,102,040,816 to each State.
So if the U.S. has a banner year of Disasters (Fire in Cal. Floods in NC, Hurricanes in Florida, …) All States would get a share of Equal-Treatment, and a bonanza in Federal Aid.
This would have an effect on the Congress.
It would curtail what would be eligible as a Disaster, thus what gets approved.
It would compensate States that are not Disaster prone.
It would provide funds to the Unaffected States for infrastructural improvements while funding Relief to the Affected.
It addresses a Democrat thing “Equality” – right (ret),
and no one is getting special treatment – a Republican thing right (ret),
But this would be a fair and intelligent approach, So there is no chance in hell that Congress would venture to do it.
Here are some conditions: Don’t blow up dams of reservoirs. Prepare for fire season. Clear the debris in the Forrest’s around Los Angeles (as it had been done for over a century), allow targeted logging, etc. The “leaders” in California are treating a modern society as though it is the 1830s.
This is a case of gross mismanagement in a state that standards one of the most powerful economies in the world. That is thanks in part to infrastructure that had been built decades and decades ago.
Why have the insurance companies fled California? They are not a charity and they act solely on actuarial data.
Conditions? Yes. Make sane and common sense decisions that protect the citizens.
What did all the ins and “green” legislation achieve? Untold carbon emissions, destruction of habitat, deviation to wildlife, domestic animals and humans.
Those who survived have lost property and irreplaceable possessions such as a well loved stuffed toy, marks on the door commemorating the growth of a child, etc. So much lost!
Yes, rebuild, but do so with competent, common sense.
Debbis, I thought you might appreciate this.
After FEMA wasted 152B of funds on illegal immigrants so that it had nothing left for NC and FL,
After FEMA completely botched the NC natural disaster.
After FEMA used its power to try to interfere in the 2024 election – trying to tip NC by failing to provide Aid to red parts of the state.
After FEMA instructed workers to avoid homes with Trump signs.
After Califronia engaged in massive ballot harvesting in 2024 – CA unfortunately is one state were ballt harvesting is legal.
And then still had to spend something like a month counting ballots in close house races to steal multiple house races from Republicans.
It should not suprise you in the slightest that Johnson and LOTS of other republicans do not give a schiff about CA.
The firest in CA are not a natural disaster – they are man made.
You can accept the truth that they are the consequence of incompetent governemnt in CA,
Even if you accept the luny and false premise that they are due to “climate change”.
So what ? Do states get to duck their responsibility to have adequate numbers and adequately trained firefighters because they choose to blame their problems on GW ?
Whether the earth is warming or not,
Whether it is natural or man made.
It is still the responsibility of the state to secure the life, liberty and property of its citizens.
There is no excuse for the mess in CA. Democrats made it – they can clean it up.