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“We’re Winning Across the Board”: Raskin Takes a Premature Victory Lap Just Before a Slew of Court Losses

On CBS’s Face the Nation, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) repeated the talking point of Democratic politicians and pundits that the courts are stopping President Donald Trump’s lawless actions taken after his inauguration. Raskin declared “we’re winning in court…we’re winning across the board.” The boast was dubious at best on Sunday given earlier losses, but became embarrassing on Monday and Tuesday as additional courts ruled in favor of the Trump Administration in major cases.

For weeks, some of us have expressed confusion over the basis for some of the Democratic challenges and initial injunctions in court. President Trump clearly has the authority to designate federal officials to look at the books and track expenditures in the executive branch. After losing both houses and the majority vote, Democratic groups sought to use the courts to block such executive actions.

There was obvious forum shopping as these groups went to many of the same courts and judges for relief. However, even judges viewed as decidedly hostile to Trump like Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington ultimately balked at the demand for an injunction and allowed the access and actions to continue.

On Monday, Judge Randolph Moss, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia delivered a blow to groups seeking to block the Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to data from the Department of Education on student borrowers. Judge Moss found in his ruling that the University of California Student Association failed to show sufficient irreparable harm to receive such immediate relief.

He, however, left the door open a crack: “The Court leaves for another day consideration of whether USCA has standing to sue and has stated a claim upon which relief may be granted. Those questions are less clear cut and are better answered on a more complete record.”

Judge Chutkan also refused to grant the plaintiffs’ request to issue a temporary restraining order of DOGE, again citing the failure to demonstrate evidence of “irreparable harm.”

There was a palpable sense of reluctance, even regret, in the opinion by Chutkan who noted that “Plaintiffs legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight.”

This, of course ignores the “elected individual” in the body of the President who is allowed to delegate such responsibility to subordinates. Chutkin would have been reversed by the higher courts if she had issued the requested TRO as demanded by the coalition of 14 Democratic state attorneys general.

Even before Raskin’s boast, U.S. District Judge John Bates also rejected a request to block DOGE from accessing records of three government agencies, writing in his own opinion Friday that plaintiffs “have not shown a substantial likelihood that [DOGE] is not an agency.”

Likewise, challengers thought that they had a victory in hand when U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole enjoined the buyout offer by the Administration. Some of us criticized the injunction as lacking any cognizable basis given the clear authority of the President to make such an offer. Then, as many were citing the victory as proof of the Trump Administration’s unlawful actions, Judge O’Toole lifted the injunction on the buyout program, agreeing to allow the buyouts to go forward.

Then Judge Randolph Moss (D.D.C.) in Doe v. Office of Personnel Mgmt. rejected another challenge to testing by the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) of a new email system. The federal employees argued that the move violated federal law including privacy protections. The court, however, ruled that the “Plaintiffs have failed to carry their burden of demonstrating (1) that they likely have standing to bring this action, and (2) that they are likely to suffer irreparable injury in the absence of emergency relief.”

These and other setbacks do not mean that new cases cannot be brought with new records and parties. However, it is a far cry from the claim of Democrats “winning across the board.”

Of course, Raskin is not alone in the perils of premature celebration:

 

For those members like Raskin opposing the freeze on hiring and payouts, there is even an example of losing to the Freeze due to a premature celebration:

The race is far from over so both sides may want to stay focused on the finish line in the ongoing litigation.

 

 

252 thoughts on ““We’re Winning Across the Board”: Raskin Takes a Premature Victory Lap Just Before a Slew of Court Losses”

    1. Never. There are too many US CITIZENS whose primary language is Spanish. For instance the entire island of Puerto Rico.

      Remember that English is NOT the “official language” of the USA; it is merely the most commonly spoken language.

      1. Remember, 32 US states and all US territories have English as an official language.
        Those facts sort of makes your post silly doesn’t it?

    2. 😂 ballots are in English only… there’s an English proficiency test for citizenship. Always has been.

  2. I just can’t keep up with all the things this President is doing, its amazing how much impact for good, common sense and reason he’s had since taking office. The biggest though is just coming right out and calling the war what it was, NATO expansion to within air-minutes of Moscow, something Putin could never allow and something we promised them we would never do. Trump told him the Ukraine isn’t joining NATO, ever. And that’s what needed to be said.

    He also showed the proper respect and diplomatic tone to the leader of an armed nuclear superpower, something Biden failed to ever even attempt much less do.

    Biden was bellicose, insulting, demeaning and threatening, constantly insulting Putin and calling him names, always refusing to talk peace and always ramping up the need for more war funding, more killing, on and on and on.

    Year after year Biden fueled this war with our Treasury and his mouth.

    In a matter of weeks President Trump is already speaking to both sides and working for peace.

    And what’s more unlike Biden and the EU leaders, who forced this “Zelensky” character on us while they funneled off hundreds of billions of our tax dollars from both continents into this former comedians pocket, Trump called him what we all knew he was. A dictator.

    He doesn’t hold elections! He imprisons his political opponents and journalists. And he conscripts his young men into war at gunpoint. Tell me how that does not equal a dictator.

    Trump warned him the money trains coming to a stop and he’d better learn to make peace.

    And this is just one of the many many things he’s done that needed to be done that no one ever thought would get done, but here he is doing it. Wish he’d attack the price of ground beef, and hopefully he will.

    But the things he’s done already have been beyond incredible. Not since JFK have I seen a President so independent of the politics and so in touch with the people and so capable of handling delicate nuclear superpower interactions so as to help us all sleep a little sounder at night now.

    After all Biden’s state dept was talking to us about prepping for World War III and nuclear conflict with Russia.

    Trumps been in office for a matter of weeks and is already chatting with Putin on the phone discussing peace.

    Really am impressed with him beyond anything I could have imagined. Who cares if he’s a bit crude? So was Churchill.

    Like Churchill he gets the job done and that’s what we need.

    Besides… his Vice President made the Germans cry.

    …how cool is that?

      5. ATS do you have an argument ?
        Rassmussen has Trump’s approval at 53-54%.
        And his policies are significantly more popular than he is.

      6. the life out of the Democrats and Swamp Creatures.

        There, I finished it for ya and that’s pretty damn cool!

        1. Given your sexual preferences as a leading member of the Biden Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe, we would think you were far beyond anything causing you that discomfort by now.

        1. It is awesome that JD Vance told them to their collective faces what they are doing wrong , in fact called them out. They sure had a hissy fit with the truth. It again was awesome to have an American VP with as big balls as out potus !. And the low testosterone left just wants more appeasement and Orwellian governance – as usual.

  3. Calif news says Trump’s cuts have devastated the national parks. Pictures of unmanned toll booths were shown. Presumably there’s no 50 dollar fee to get in. Drive right in. Apparently the system isn’t shuffling people around to cover. That’s not my job?

    It’ll be fun to see a graffiti portrait of Che Guevara spray painted on half dome. The bathroom stalls will be littering the roads and trees cut down no doubt. Hunting wildlife next and crystal cave will be without crystals.

    We’re po but tickets to the hockey game in Boston are 5000 dollars.

    1. About 1/3 of federal and state parks are privately managed.
      Private companies pay the Government to manage the parks.
      They make money from camping fees. The costs tend to be lower than the governmetn run fascilities and the parks are cleaner and better maintained.

      CA should just contract out the management of its parks and the problems would go away.

    2. Oddly such as you wish to happen would be done by illegals and leftist riff raff. But you would so love that would you not.

  4. A disabled military veteran and information technology technician with the Federal Emergency Management Agency said he was blindsided this week when the Trump administration — whom he voted for — informed him of his termination.

    The man, who is from northern Virginia, was fired Monday as part of cuts from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative. The man, who was not named in the report fearing retaliation, said he was fired on performance grounds despite his military service, disability status and exceptional performance reviews.

    The man told WTOP his performance reviews were “all in the range of fours,” meaning he was “exceeding expectations.” Additionally, he was described by a supervisor as a “leader” who “demonstrated professionalism” in his core skills.

    The man’s family has contacted their Congressional lawmakers and their union.

    “I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting,” he told the outlet. “We didn’t think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug.”

    While the man’s wife said she recognizes the need for “a lot of cuts, she felt “this is not the one that you think will happen to your family.”

    So these idiots voted for Trump.

    They wanted Trump to reduce the size of government, but only if OTHER people are fired.

    IDIOTS !!!!!

    1. It did not take much to KNOW that FEMA was on the chopping block.

      And rightly so. Trump has repeatedly said that even if emergency management is funded by the federal government the task of dealing with emergencies should be handled by the states.

      Frankly the government – federal and state should stay out of it entirely – private actors are far better.

      Regardless, it was no secret that Trump was taking a scythe to govenrment if elected and that FEMA was high on the list.

      I am honestly surprised and find it hard to beleive this guy voted for Trump – 95% of federal employees voted for Harris.

    2. ..Performance doesn’t count.. being a team player doesn’t count.. I remember one of my first lessons about Down-Sizing in the Corporate world was when one of the Shining Stars of the Corp, who had also just won the latest ‘Peak Performance’ Award and got to go to a select Team Building First Class Resort for a week, was ‘Let go’ upon her return to fit the Down-sizing quotas… It’s part of the cycle.. a cycle that should have been applied to the Govt. years, if not decades ago….. It Must be run as a Business, not a Religious Charity Mission… and yes, even the Best get caught sometimes.. (BUT one thing for sure.. if you are in a place where you think your job is always safe… the performance of many starts to falter…..) .The Govt. is at least offering some compensation… above & beyond what private enterprise offers, which is nothing.

  5. The American government is finally being run like a business.

    A business acquired by private equity and being stripped for parts and profit before being liquidated.

    2. Most of the federal governemnt should be stripped and liquidated – paying off as much of our debt in the process as possible.

      If we did not have governemtn doing what it is not competent at – we would not have massive debt.

    4. If what you claim is true, what you’re telling us is that you are crying for the loss of the Soviet Union/Cuba/Venezuela model of running America as a communist trickle down economic model.

      Where the citizenry are stripped of what they make in taxes, provided little in return, while the top communists are magically sudden new millionaires, despite doing nothing in the business world before becoming politicians.

      And the most well off, privileged, and protected classes of citizens are those drones with few work responsibilities who claim their title at work is “federal bureaucrat”.

      With that comparison, I’ll take my chances with the fraudulent “private equity” model you attempt to paint.

      After all, unlike communism they don’t have a 100% failure rate, mortality counted in the tens of millions of victims – and of course only a small portion of them are actually ‘liquidated’ or go bankrupt.

  6. Jonathan

    Breaking news!!

    CNN just released Joe Biden’s final approval numbers.

    It was……

    Friends and family

  8. Dear Professor Turley,
    I really need your expertise! Could you help me with more – and as specific as possible – concrete evidence as to which of President Trump’s moves are constitutional and which are not……trying to hold my own against a slew of liberal dems (who proport to be friends and just want me to see CLEARLY that they are right).  Their condescension is killing me!!  Thank you, Judy

    1. I’m not Prof T, but I’ll try to answer. Of all the things he’s done in the last month, almost all are both constitutional and legal. Some are constitutional but conflict with laws that may or may not themselves be valid. And a handful are unconstitutional.

      The only ones I can think of that are unconstitutional are (1) the birthright citizenship order; (2) any attempt to punish “sanctuary cities/states”, including by significantly cutting funding; (3) attempts IF ANY to cancel the visas of foreign students who are already in the USA, and express their support for terrorism, but do not break any laws in doing so.

      (1) The 14th amendment clearly says that anyone born in the USA and subject to its jurisdiction is automatically a US citizen. All right-wing attempts to explain “jurisdiction” in weird ways that it never means in any other context are disingenuous and invalid. Jurisdiction in this clause means the exact same thing it means everywhere else. If a person is required to obey US law, and can be arrested and hauled into court for not doing so, if he has to pay taxes, if he can be sued in US courts, then he is under US jurisdiction. Someone who is not under US jurisdiction is immune from all of that. Therefore any child born in the USA, except those born to families with diplomatic immunity, is a citizen and there’s nothing that Trump can do about it.

      (2) The 10th amendment protects a state’s right to refuse orders from the federal government. States must obey federal law, so if Congress says they can’t do something they can’t do it, but Congress can’t tell them they must do something. That includes cooperating with ICE. If a state (or a city, which derives its authority from the state) refuses to help ICE, that is its right and it is unconstitutional for the federal government to compel the state’s cooperation, e.g. by cutting its funding so much that it has no choice but to comply. Congress can make smaller cuts, which the state can afford to absorb, in order to persuade the state to comply; but only Congress can do that, not the executive.

      (3) The 1st amendment protects the right of every person who is physically in the USA, even those here illegally, let alone those on a temporary visa, to express any opinion they like, no matter how disgusting. That includes support for white supremacy, it includes support for Hitler and the Holocaust, and it includes support for Arab terrorists who slaughter and rape Jews. It is unconstitutional for the government to take any action against someone for expressing their opinion, including by cancelling their visa. The constitution does not protect aliens who are not in the USA, so if someone expresses support for Hamas while outside the USA and then applies for a visa, the government can refuse it. But the moment they set foot in the USA they are protected, and cannot be punished for supporting terrorism while they are here. Of course if they commit crimes while expressing that support, that’s a completely different story, and the government is completely entitled to cancel their visa and deport them for the crimes they actually committed, not for their protected speech.

  9. Calling Trump and his supporters with insults like “garbage, deplorables, fascists, racists” worked so well for Democrats, they figure questioning their patriotism will work equally as well. At this rate, Democrats might consider moving to Ukraine since Ukranians could use useful idiots to take their money.

    Former FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi Cites “Gorilla Channel” Meme As Real Evidence Trump Is Dangerous

    “If you voted for that, you really need to question whether you’re American anymore”
    – Former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI Frank Figliuzzi, now working as a “Senior National Security and Intelligence Analyst” at NBC News

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/02/18/figliuzzi_trump_not_quoting_napoleon_hes_quoting_norwegian_nazi_terrorist_anders_breivik.html

    Nothing inspires belief like a former Biden FBI spook now working for MSNBC/NBC.

    /s

  10. Dennis McIntyre and his Buddy Baby are vile trolls who sophomorically smear by imputation, contribute nothing edifying or constructive, and merely effect disruption.

    BAN FOR LIFE!

  11. “How to Win Friends and Influence People”

    – Dale Carnegie
    ___________________

    Dumba– McInliar and his Buddy Baby consumed the whole book.

    You’re doing a magnificent job of winning friends and influencing people on the Turley Blog, Dumba– McInliar and Buddy Baby!

    One ponders: Would you not be more effective on a communist site?

  12. So trump wants to do away with congestion pricing in NY. What happened to the “conservative”, “Republican” notion of local control?

  13. Jonathan: DJT’s EOs have brought total chaos in every thing we do. Take vacations. If you’re planning to visit one of the nation’s national parks this summer you best reconsider. The WP has a headline today that says it all: “Long lines and cancelled rentals: Firings bring chaos to national parks”. According to the Post DJT has ordered the firing of the “sole employee with keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms” at Yosemite National Park. At the Grand Canyon DJT let go 4 employees who worked at the south entrance “where roughly 90 per cent of the park’s nearly 5 million annual visitors pass through”. At the Gettysburg National Military Park DJT layoffs there resulted in the cancellation of visitor reservations indefinitely. In addition, Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell in Philly are also park of the national park system. And next year is our 250th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. There are big plans for the celebration. But DJT just laid off probationary employees who would have filled much needed positions.

    DJT’s orders have caused total chaos throughout the national park system. As the WP points out: “The problems are expected to escalate during the summer season, when more than 100 million Americans and international tourists typically visit the 63 national parks in the United States”.

    Now we know DJT is not a frequent visitor of our national parks. The only outdoor activity he likes is playing golf. So what does he care about closing our national parks? Well, millions of Americans and foreign visitors care. I suspect you also care because you like hiking in our national parks. Kind of counter intuitive that you would also be supporting all of DJT’s cuts to our national parks!

    1. Last time I went to a National Park there was a six month waiting list and when we got there it was packed with Chinese, Indian and Pakistani tourists, a cheeseburger with fries was $25 bucks. Shut them down fuggem.

      1. Now you’re on to something.

        Americans were sold out and foreign invaders were subsidized by the communists (i.e. globalists, liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) who just hated WINNING!

    2. Trump has not even come close to dissmissing 10% of the federal workforce.
      And the largest number of people dissmissed are those hired in the past 2 years.

      Are you saying that only those federal employees still on probation as new hires know how to run things ?

      We are also now learning that Job Biden’s Jobs numbers were padded – the overwhelming majority of new jobs each month were illegal immigrants and new government hires.

    3. I am sure that RRM will be willing to take over the management of any federal parks that can not manage.
      They will actaully PAY the govenrment to run the parks, they provide better service and lower user fees.

      “Our company, Recreation Resource Management (RRM), is over 20 year old, and we operate over a hundred public parks under concession agreement for the US Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Tennessee Valley Authority, California State Parks, and many others. Traditionally, park concessions used to be limited to private companies running the gift shop or the bike rental inside a park. And we do some of that (for example we run the store and marina at Slide Rock and Patagonia Lake State parks). But our preferred niche has always been to run entire parks on a turnkey basis. We run a huge variety of facilities that largely parallel anything we might find in the Arizona State Parks system — including campgrounds, day use and picnic areas, boat ramps, hiking trails, wilderness areas and historic buildings. The largest parks we run are twice as busy as Slide Rock or Lake Havasu and four times as busy as any of the parks we are proposing to manage. We currently run parks today literally right beside some of these Arizona State parks. All of this is to say that the parks in Arizona are absolutely normal and typical resources that we manage.”

    4. “But DJT just laid off probationary employees who would have filled much needed positions.”
      Why do you think they are needed ?

      Gettysburg is about an hour to the west of me – on occasion I visit.
      I do not need park staff to visit.
      Independence hall is an hour the other way.
      Aside from someone to lock up at night, do not really need much there either.

      The most common encounter I have with people at national parks – is when they take money from me just to be there.

      i live in a fairly historic community – all of the historic and parks arround me are run either for profit, or by foundations – not government.

      The largest local park is a private foundation, and they hold an art and craft show once a year to fund the park. With the money they raise they have an excellent summer music program. We have free concerts by artists like Dervish or Otis Tailor or Crooked Still, or …

      National parks do not appear ANYWHERE in the constitution. The federal government is required by the constitution to sell all land it owns inside a state – except a small amount for forts and post offices.

  14. DOGE saved us $8 billion. YEA….oops, turns out it was a lie.
    $8 million. I wonder if what really happened is that they found $8 million, took $799,992,000,000.00, put in an offshore account for musk and his teenage programers, and claimed it was $8 billion.

    If you believe anything, anything at all, that musk and trump are telling you about DOGE, you are a bigger sucker than anyone thought possible.

    1. Based on Musk’s outlandish lying, such as an AI created photo he posted as factual, a migrant mob storming a hospital in the UK with axes, what moron would put any faith in anything he has to say, much less Trump.

      1. ATS we get this nonsense of those of you on the left constantly.

        If anything is posted or makes the news that is not absolutely precisely perfectly correct – and YOU get to make up your own rules for what correct means – then you paint it as some kind of racist lie.

        I have no idea what your nonsense about an AI generate image from Musk is about.

        But the FACT is the UK specifically, and Europe generally has a far worse backlash against immigration than the US.

        The immigration that the entire EU is seeing – mostly from the mideast is Small compared to the illegal immigration in the US.

        Further the EU is used to half the crime rate of the US and they are seeing their crime rates increase dramatically as they accept new immigrants – particularly violent crimes.

        The EU has repeatedly pretended the US was racist – but the FACT is that the entire EU is far more hostile to REAL diversity – as opesed to token diversity than the US.

        Did some angry immigrant mob rush a UK hospital ? Maybe not.
        Does the UK have LOTS of laken reilly type crimes that ARE getting the attention and the anger of the british people despite the efforts of much of the UK press and the governemnt to try to hide them – ABSOLUTELY.

        So any AI generated meme may not be literally accurate – but it still reflects the problems in the UK and the views of ordinary brits

    2. From the doge.gov website. (Explanation of savings of some $167 MILLION on ONE CONTRACT)
      Click on savings
      Down to Wall of Receipts
      Slide switch to “total contract savings”
      Start scrolling down, with “Savings” shown in green at extreme Right. (Expand at bottom if necessary)
      Click on each line item to view contract details

      Literally thousands of contracts reviewed SO FAR!
      List updated twice a week!

      HOWEVER, Example of ONE Contract listed

      The Camdus Group LLC, Contract for “Digital Strategy Implementation and Programs”!

      Initial Contract amount $200,000,000

      Cancelled for SAVINGS of $167,430,251

      Hey Baby Trump!
      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

      1. Now factor in the breach of contract claim the vendor will use to sue the federal government…

        1. You do not get anywhere suing anyone for breach of contract – when they did not breach.
          Actual waste and Fraud are themselves breach.

          Further those running these agencies who approved contracts that are wasteful and fraudulent – could be held personally liable.

          Finally even if you prove breach – you are only entitled to your losses – not the entire contract amount.

          If you had a $167M contract that is canceled and you manage to survive the motions to dismiss, at most you are entitled to reasonable legal fees, shutdown costs, and lost profits. You are NOT going to get punatives from the government.

          From the perspective of Spending it is STILL a huge savings.

  15. Really: why is anyone who is not insane or preternaturally immature/ignorant still taking these people seriously? Pfft. Grift into the sunset, Raskin. You are convincing exactly zero of us, even your own constituency over the age of 35. The damage the likes of him are doing to their party (the DNC BTW; the likes of Jasmine Crockett are even worse) are incalculable, and they just don’t seem to be able to stop. It’s like watching an avalanche, but one composed of arrogance and stupidity instead of snow and soil. Whatever, dude.

  16. It should be clear by now that both major political parties have been running our country as a constitutional republic In Name Only. (CRino) I say that as a way to explain how we could possibly get to $37 trillion in debt. Both parties are responsible. It’s also a way for me to rationalize the existence of a massive bureaucracy that has survived ideologically different administrations and congressional majorities. Until Trump entered this arena, Presidents and their administrations were made of politicians that evolved into this CRino ideology. Trump was a shock to this system. His first term introduced *gasp* an agenda that wasn’t party/bureaucracy first, but America First. That completely broke the Democratic party. They chose to ride the emotional wave of the radical Left minority and Republicans were forced to acknowledge Trump’s America First agenda was truly where the rest of the country was moving. So 8 years later, President Trump has all the pieces in place to end the CRino government. Democrats will resist having that taken away from and the only thing they will succeed in accomplishing is to put a stake through heart of their party.

    1. @Olly

      Some of us have thought so for awhile. My personal wake-up moment, at least definitively, was when Obama was lying, replete with manufactured charts, regarding unemployment way back in his second term. It was patently and plainly obvious he was lying to anyone experiencing the reality of the situation.

      Modern technology in 2020 made it easier for his cabal. I think personally, at least for now, that is done. People can castigate Musk all they like: the Executive branch is not doing anything beyond their powers, the globalists on the take can cry all they like, and you’d better believe they will.

      1. I agree James. I believe for the most part that the CRino’s aren’t necessarily anti-America. They more than likely favor a system of government that is alien to ours, but short of a revolution, this is what they have to work with. They are stuck with a tripartite government and an electoral process that forces them at a minimum to pay lip service to the people. Once elected, the will of the people is replaced by the will of government. That oath they take is purely ceremonial. Their #1 challenge at this point will be the constitution and separation of powers; not as a boundary, but as an obstacle. I also believe Democrats missed their exit ramp on the road to their own destruction. And with it they have exposed that cabal to the full force of an actual constitutional form of government. This is a joy to watch unfold.

        1. “I believe for the most part that the CRino’s aren’t necessarily anti-America.”

          I must disagree. They are anti anything that a subscriber to the principles on which this Republic was founded could possibly recognize or respect as worthy of the name “United States of America”. The assertion that they are willing to continue operating using that moniker (my interpretation of what you meant) as a shell to thinly disguise their intended nominally collectivist oligarchy imo does not provide them with even the smallest vestige of moral justification.

          1. Number 6, I was trying to address something that has been bothering me about these CRino’s and the bureaucracy they’ve created. I believe our entire government, from top to bottom, is largely populated by people that do not view their positions as a service to our country. The laws that come out of this entity are for everyone not in government. Their only law is the constitution and that is viewed as an obstacle to their power and wealth. I’m praying that President Trump can make real, lasting change and restore the constitutional order.

    2. Understanding that none of the welfare state is constitutional, what part did the judicial branch play by not striking it down at every step of its incremental implementation?

      Were not the legislative and executive branches fully expected to “overreach” only to be subsequently corrected by the Constitution through the judicial branch?

      1. Were not the legislative and executive branches fully expected to “overreach” only to be subsequently corrected by the Constitution through the judicial branch?

        All 3 branches were expected “overreach” or “underreach” or not reach at all. The 4th check were the people and they failed as well, answering Franklin’s question; a republic, if you can keep it. If President Trump is successful, this entire experiment will start anew. They’ll have some history of failure to guide them on what additional checks & balances will be necessary.

    4. “It should be clear by now that both major political parties have been running our country as a constitutional republic In Name Only. (CRino)”

      We have a new Republican Party that is different than the earlier one. Trump is not a political animal that can yet be labelled. As the smoke clears we need to move the party in a libertarian direction which Trump is doing . So far Trump looks like a classical liberal.

  17. Odious Raskin….the stench is palpable….anything that comes out of his mouth is pure effluent. Obviously not wedgied enough as a kid

  18. Raskin is like a one-trick pony, and all he does is attack, attack, and attack. Which, there is nothing wrong with, if you are honest, and own up to your mistakes. But Raskin never owns up. I went to wiki to look him up, and there, I found this:

    “As one of his first actions in Congress, Raskin and several other members of the House objected to the certification of the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump due to alleged ties with Russia, and Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, as well as voter suppression efforts. Then-Vice President Joe Biden ruled their objection out of order because it had to be sponsored by at least one member of each chamber, and it had no Senate sponsor.[42] Raskin questioned the legitimacy of the election, claiming it was “badly tainted by everything from cyber-sabotage by Vladimir Putin, to deliberate voter suppression by Republicans in numerous swing states”.[43] In late June 2017, Raskin was the chief sponsor of legislation to establish a congressional “oversight” commission which would be tasked with determining whether the president was unfit, physically or mentally, to perform his duties. The commission’s evaluation could support removing the president from office under the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[44][45]”

    I didn’t ever hear about Raskin trying to figure out if Biden was unfit, physically or mentally, to perform his duties, in spite of it being pretty obvious. And how did all that Russian stuff play out? Did you ever hear Raskin apologize, and say that he was wrong? Don’t hold your breath. No, Raskin has but one trick up his sleeve, one arrow in his quiver, and that is to attack and smear. He deserves an Irish Poem!

    A One Trick Phony???
    An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm

    There once was a fellow named Raskin,
    And, OH! In the glow, he was baskin’!
    He raved and he ranted,
    And never recanted,
    There really was no sense in askin’.

  19. THE EXECUTIVE POWER, THE WHOLE EXECUTIVE POWER, AND NOTHING BUT THE EXECUTIVE POWER, SO HELP YOU GOD.

    The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.

    The executive power is vested exclusively in the President.

    No other person, official, or entity has any aspect, facet, degree, or amount of executive power.

    Executive power may not be legislated or adjudicated.
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    “…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”

    “…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”

    “[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”

    – Alexander Hamilton
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    Article 2, Section 1

    The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

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