Below is my column in the Hill on yet another letter from law professors declaring a “constitutional crisis” over the Trump policies. Despite the claims that this is a rogue president ignoring the rule of law, the Administration continues to prevail in some of these cases, including another ruling in favor of the Department of Government Efficiency late on Friday. As stated in the column, it has also lost some cases as did the prior Administration. The point is that, rather than witnessing the collapse of the constitutional system, these cases show that it is continuing to function as designed in sorting out these disputes.
Here is the column:
It’s only March, and we have yet another declaration of a “constitutional crisis.”
The latest dire declaration comes from roughly 950 law professors, who refer generally to actions and policies implemented by President Trump as “beyond his constitutional or statutory authority.”
So — what happens if the “experts” hold a crisis and no one shows up?
After years of such claims, the perpetual crisis has left a dwindling number of people inclined to panic. Many simply have more pressing matters at the moment and have the same reaction of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: “There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
The latest letter follows a familiar pattern that has played out like a political perpetual motion machine since the first Trump impeachment. It works something like this: A legal academy composed of largely liberal academics announces a “constitutional crisis” caused by conservatives, and then a largely liberal media runs the story with little scrutiny or skepticism. On most echo-chambered media sites, the public rarely hears an opposing view.
The purging of conservative and libertarian faculty from most universities has been a long-standing problem. In self-identified surveys, professors confirm that some departments lack a single Republican. A study by Georgetown University’s Kevin Tobia and MIT’s Eric Martinez found that only 9 percent of law school professors in the top 50 law schools identify as conservative.
In other words, it is embarrassingly easy to get 1,000 law professors to sign off on letters claiming endless constitutional crises caused by Trump or conservatives.
Those letters are then fed to eagerly awaiting media outlets. The perpetual machine then whirls and spins as liberal professors feed liberal reporters, who then feed liberals in Congress, who cite the unchallenged consensus of academia and the media.
The New York Times rushed the news to its viewers that “Trump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say.” The Times interviewed Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who previously called the conservative justices “political hacks” and just published a book titled “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States.”
Chemerinsky breathlessly explained “We never have seen anything like this.”
The problem is that we have. Presidents often negate the prior executive orders of their predecessors, fire their appointees and implement sweeping new changes. Those actions are frequently challenged and some are found to be procedurally or substantially unlawful. Others are upheld.
President Biden was repeatedly found to have violated the constitution without most of these signatories expressing a peep of concern over the mounting “crisis.”
Indeed, some pushed for unconstitutional actions against the overwhelming views of legal experts. Take Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe, who also signed this letter to express alarm at Trump pushing the Constitution to the breaking point. Tribe has attacked conservatives in profane diatribes and supported packing the Supreme Court to engineer a liberal majority.
When Biden wanted to circumvent Congress and implement billions in student loan forgiveness payments before the election, Tribe was there. Even former Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted that Biden could not constitutionally wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars of student loans without congressional action. However, Tribe assured President Biden that it was entirely legal.
It was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and lower courts.
When Biden wanted to impose a national eviction moratorium, he admitted that his own lawyers told him that it would be flagrantly unconstitutional. Pelosi then told him to call Tribe, who assured Biden he had the authority to act alone.
This was also quickly found to be unconstitutional.
Biden was also found to have engaged in racial discrimination and other flagrant constitutional violations.
Of course, none of that is a crisis, and none of these signatories ran to blast fax a letter to the legal academy.
Other signatories, such as Professor Heidi Li Feldman, have declared that conservative justices and lawyers are “lawless” due to their opposing constitutional views. She has called upon law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness.” In other words, conservative jurisprudence, followed by roughly half of the bench, is simply unacceptable and should not be recognized.
If you view conservatives judges and justices as “lawless,” then every decision that they issue can be construed as a “crisis” in failing to adopt your own interpretive approach.
There are good-faith reasons to challenge some of Trump’s actions, as there were under Biden. I have criticized some of those measures. However, Trump has repeatedly pledged to follow adverse court orders while he seeks appeals. That is precisely what he did in his first term, where he complied with opposing rulings, including some issued by his own appointees.
Trump is also prevailing in some of these cases and will likely prevail in many others. Democratic groups have forum-shopped around the country to bring challenges before favorable judges. Some have issued injunctions, while others have not. Others have already been reversed.
For example, the media made great fanfare over restraining orders issued to limit the actions of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. Less coverage was given to later opinions reducing those orders or setting them aside, including a recent order refusing to bar Trump from firing many government employees at USAID.
Likewise, the media and many professors lionized Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger for suing to stop Trump’s firing. When Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington issued her opinion, some of us expressed skepticism over her cited legal authority. Within four days, the D.C. Circuit had reversed her, ruling for Trump. Dellinger then dropped his own case rather than multiply adverse rulings.
None of this means that Trump will prevail in most such lawsuits or that these are not good-faith challenges. However, the record does not suggest a constitutional crisis. It suggests the opposite — a constitutional system that continues to function efficiently and fairly.
The real “crisis” seems to be that Trump is winning in some of these cases. To make matters worse, he is complying with adverse rulings. After an election where many of these same voices declared the imminent death of democracy if Trump were elected, the constitutional system seems to be, inconveniently and stubbornly, very much alive and well.
Of course, opposing these actions on policy or conventional legal grounds would generate little press. It has to be a “crisis” to get headlines and segments on cable news. Stanford law Professor Pamela Karlan and co-signatory described Trump as different, a president “for whom the Constitution [is] essentially meaningless.”
Karlan, who previously testified in favor of impeaching Trump in his first term, ignores the fact that our system does not depend on how Trump feels about the Constitution, even if she did have an insight into his inner self. We have the oldest and most successful constitutional system because it does not rely on the good motivations or values of those in government. It has survived centuries with often hostile presidents due to its checks and balances.
In the end, the seeming unanimity is not reflective of the merits but the membership of the legal academy. From calls to pack the court to curtailing free speech to trashing the Constitution, law professors are like priests who have kept their frocks while losing their faith. And their crisis of faith is the only crisis these professors are facing.
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.”
Columbia anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil being deported over…
By Published March 11, 2025, 1:46 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Tuesday that former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is in the process of being deported for allegedly circulating “pro-Hamas propaganda flyers.”…
“This is an individual who organized group protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish-American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda flyers with the logo of Hamas,” she said. …
Leavitt’s office subsequently provided images of the flyers to The Post.
The posters that Khalil allegedly circulated include one calling on readers to “Crush Zionism” and depicting a boot stepping on the Jewish Star of David.
Another image hails “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” the code name for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of about 1,200 people across southern Israel, and bears the logo of the “Hamas Media Office.”…
Federal courts historically have found that non-citizens have fewer free speech rights and can be deported for holding certain political beliefs.
Leavitt said Tuesday that “the secretary of state [Marco Rubio] has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who serve or are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America.”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/us-news/mahmoud-kalil-columbia-anti-israel-agitator-being-deported-over-pro-hamas-flyers-white-house/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20250311?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=62680bbe38a279b1870b18c5&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts
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President Trump isn’t doing what leftist professors want.
Any time leftists cannot get their way on every single detail of every single demand, it becomes a “crisis” for them.
“. . . law professors declaring a ‘constitutional crisis’ . . .”
The Left keeps crying “wolf” — that the Trump administration is flouting court orders.
When asked to present that “wolf,” it:
First points to a lamb (the Ali case). “See, there’s the wolf.” No, that case includes details that the Left wishes to evade.
Then it points to a goat (NY v Trump). “See, there’s the wolf.” No, that case was settled some three weeks ago.
Still waiting for a wolf that exists in reality.
The lawfare against the Trump administration was expected.
The large number of lawsuits is no indication of merit.
Most of the now over 100 cases filed did NOT result in TRO’s
I am not sure that NAY of these cases met the requirements for a TRO.
Of the few that resulted in TRO’s nearly all were dropped quickly when it was found that the basis for the TRO did not exist.
Many of these cases died when a TRO was not granted or dropped – because the cases had no legal merit.
Many are stopped because the plantiffs do not have standing.
Auditing payments looking for waste fraud and abuse is legal.
Stopping wasteful, fraudulent or corrupt payments is legal.
If in the process of thwarting waste fraud and corruption some legitimate payments are stopped or delayed – those who are harmed can go to court and if they can prove their case they will get paid – likely with legal fees and possibly damages.
Terminating employment is nearly always legal.
There are SOME situations in which a terminated employee might have a claim for damages, but they are almost never getting the job back.
It is highly unlikely that Trump/DOGE will win absolutely every single case filed against them. But they will win almost all of them.
The few they lose are NOT a “constitutional crisis” – they are merely questions of damages for wrongful termination or breach of contract.
This is also why nearly all the TRO’s are failing. TRO’s are improper in equity disputes. A TRO is to prohibit an ACTION that will cause irreparable harm. Anything where money damages are feasible can not have a TRO.
“ Auditing payments looking for waste fraud and abuse is legal.”
The problem is DOGE is NOT auditinga anything. Audits take time. They are using AI to determine what programs are wasteful without any human input. That’s why DOGE has had to delete billions in “savings” they allege to have found because most were contracts arlready completed or funds dedicated to certain programs that were mandated by congress and arbitrarily frozen just because they had some association with DEI.
DOGE is also on record firing employees crucial to certain programs and having to rehire them because of their reckless methods. That costs more money. That’s waste in itself.
“ Terminating employment is nearly always legal.
There are SOME situations in which a terminated employee might have a claim for damages, but they are almost never getting the job back.”
Terminating GOVERNMENT employment, especially civl service employees, not probationary employees requiresa very specific process and can only be fired for specific reasons. That’s why Trump’s DOGE sought to fire the board that mediates any firings of government employees first. So they wouldn’t have due process they are given by law.
The TRO’s are enforceable when it comes to full tiime civil service employees who can only be fired through a specific process. Not just wanton arbitrary decisions by AI.
It’s more than likely Trump’s attempt to fire more federal employees will result in more money wasted than saved. Because eventually they will have to rehire when problems caused by the layoffs start to build up. It’s already happening at the FAA.
DOGE is a tool that further identifies waste , fraud and redundancy. And oddly enough it also tracks where the money came from , the paths it takes to get where it “is”. It most certainly paints a much more understandable picture of what is going on with taxpayer monies. How any logical person would disparage this tool shows the bias of those that would criticize it. It can not be fooled , bribed or swept aside…it is what it is and finds what it finds…much to the apparatchiks chagrin. We collectively know DOGE is over the target by the whine and gnashing of teeth from the woke left as it exposes their 3 card monty grift of the taxpayers.
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Best line: “…law professors are like priests who have kept their frocks while losing their faith.”
Yup.
#74. Is any part of this blog actually real? I’d feel such a fool if it’s all AI.
The radio is like a noise machine as if little elves sneak in at night and insert a little tape recording.
May God bless one and all with goodness.
#74: Goodness and blessings? Interesting approach. Not sure I can handle it.
I can’t believe it. The speaker of the House, a Republican (in name only), doesn’t know how to count. Can you believe it?
“I don’t think it’s going to get blocked,” Johnson said of the bill. “Because no one wants to shut the government down … It’s going to be up to Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats to do the right thing and I don’t think they’re going to shut the government down.”
He says if Demos don’t vote for his bill it will fail. Excuse me? Repos control both houses of Congress. How can it be the minorities fault if the majority can’t pass a bill? The idiot can’t count.
The Senate is complicated.
Usually Budget bills do not have to get passed cloture,
But this one might,
If it does then some democrats must atleast vote to bring the bill to a vote, even if they do not vote for it.
Again I do not want to pretend to understand all the nuances of when a Senate bill does and does not need to survive a cloture vote.
But there seems to be numberous people who should know agreeing that the House CR is dead without several democratic senators voting for it.
and atleast these talking heads – from both parties beleive that possibly as many as 15 Senators will vote for the house bill.
Free speech? My ASS!
Employees at the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, received internal guidance last week to flag manuscripts, presentations or other communications for scrutiny if they addressed “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics. Among the 23 hot-button issues, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica: vaccines, fluoride, peanut allergies, autism.
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BT – still a left wing nut who does not understand what Censorship is.
Censorship is NOT government no longer being FORCED to spray YOUR views.
It is govenrment FORCIBLY supressing YOUR views.
No one is stopping YOUR speech.
But they MIGHT not be funding it in the future.
Across the Western world, it seems, the “defenders of democracy” have decided to drop the mask and reveal their fully-developed facsist attitudes. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14481765/Anti-Musk-protestors-attack-Tesla-showrooms-Molotov-cocktails-guns.html
Actually… you, Musk, Trump and MAGA are the traitors. Get in line with Ethel Rosenberg.
Awww, is some groomer still bitter about the fact that no one likes you Dims any more? Everyone sees you all as a bunch of petty, hormonal, histrionic, drama-queen, toddlers. You do realize this? “Wahhh, there is no waste and fraud in the government. Give me more free benefits! I’m just a victim! Nazis, blah, blah, blah!”
Go cry somewhere else, you pathetic loser.
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ATS – Julius was the Traitor, Ethel was little more than a typist.
But why would anyone expect that you would know history ?
Further neither were “Traitors” – Treason is defined in the constitution.
Julius may have been a criminal. He may have “betrayed his country”,
But he did not commit treason.
ATS – way too many people right and left blather idioticially escalating every offense – from the mere political to the criminal to a capitol offense,. Those those of you on the left are the most egregious and most unhinged about it.
There is not one in this country at the moment that has committed treason – atleast not anyone for whom there are public facts.
Democrats have done many things that are unconstitutional, some that are unlawful. But very few have done anything criminal.
Republicans have done little that is unconstitutional. or unlawful – and nothing that is criminal.
One of the points of Turley’s article is that there is too much running arround crying wolf when there is no wolf.
So lets stick to reality – political disagreements rarely rise to the level of unconstitutionality or illegality or criminality.
And when they do – that REQUIRES that the offense is the use of FORCE to deprive someone of something they have by right.
and on the rare occasions that actually occurs today – it is nearly always democrats.
We have had exactly one constitutional crisis in US history – and that resulted in the civil war.
All other political conflicts have been resolved ultimately. Most be adhereing to the constitution.
But even on the very rare occasions that did not happen – that did not actually result in a “constitutional crisis”.
Even when SCOTUS gets it wrong – most of us work to change the constitution or to get another opportunity to get SCOTUS to reconsider
Actually, these parasites are terrified of simply the potential for losing their “free stuff” and “free status.”
$37 trillion in debt, and they don’t realize they soon will have killed the host.
MAGA = maggots
MAGA=Make America Great Again
What a fvcking despicable idea…
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Lots of comments about the market today. As uninformed as most are about politics and the law.
1-recession has been predicted for most of the past year.
2-low margin businesses have been laying off people or going out of business for most of the past year and more. Many accumulated debts over the pandemic and then got clobbered by inflation and have failed to dig out from under the debt. Many restaurant chains have failed because of debt and the fact that the customers have not returned.
3-the market has been overvalued by many economists estimates.
4-With the inflation , the fed raised interest rates and home sales have dropped heavily and now mortgage rates are falling because many housing markets are still in the doldrums or worse. Home sales drive the economy quite often.
5 Media and entertainment have contracted severely.
6-many you have not noted many other industries have been laying off people in order to adjust to debt and “right sizing” for the anticipated recession.
7-this recession was going to happen and neither god nor Milton Friedman was going to keep it from happening. The key is what happens after the recession. Hold On!
A recession was predicted for the latter part of 2020, for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. It didn’t happen. Why? Because some smart people made moves to blunt the flu going around the world and the US only caught a cold. Now, with Trump in the White House, all the work that’s been done over the past 5 years to bring the economy into a gentle landing has been shitcanned in favor of Trump’s moronic Neanderthal “understanding” of how markets work. Please, genius, defend Trump’s moves right now and let’s hear your lame attempts to lay blame elsewhere.
Please, enlighten us as to how in particular how the economy is tanking, drama-queen.
The most beautiful word, Tariffs, Tariffs, Tariffs.
I do not want to predict the future – there are too many variables.
Frankly I am surprised that Mexico and Canada allowed Tarriff threats to last very long.
Even you should be smart enough to understand that just the Talk of Tarrifs will start production shifting to the US.
You are waiting gleefully for the inflation numbers – but the jobs numbers have already been released.
February saw a significant increase in private jobs for americans. the mere threat of Tarriffs is likely a contributing factor.
Just the threat of Tarriffs will cause some production to move to the US.
Actually implimenting them will move substantially more production to the US.
You are likely correct – the SHORT term impact on the US will be negative. But the long term impact will be positive – particularly for working class americans. While the short and long term impacts on China, Canada and Mexico will be large.
Everything you say represents present things that, though terrible to those involved, will disappear, and we will be stronger. It looks awful when the leaves fall off the trees, but then the trees bloom. Biden worsened things, so the recession to come is more challenging to manage, but crooked politicians caused that damage. Trump is doing what has to be done, and there will be pain even if Trump didn’t exist. As I said to Upstate, the future is bright.
“We’re going to bring down inflation starting on day one and it’ll happen fast. It will be easy.” — Donald Trump, 2024 campaign stop in Pennsylvania.
How long did it take the communist enemies to run the debt up to $37 trillion?
About $8 trillion of that $37 is from Trump 1.0. How much will Trump 2.0 add? He wants to spend less, and tax even less. That adds up to bigger deficits.
But I wouldn’t expect you to understand basic math like that. I mean I am guessing you voted for trump so by definition you don’t believe in facts.
Oh, yeah. You mean “China Flu, 2019.”
BT – math seems to elude you.
Trump’s total deficts were a bit over 6T – almost 3T of which were covid stimulus.
Biden added an additional 10T to debt – most of that was NOT covid, and not stimulus.
We are now finding that Biden spent 1.1T in DEI nonsense. Do you really think that americans wanted the federal govenrment to blow 1.1T on DEI ?
Trump’s “tax cuts” are for the most part minor. The major part of Trump’s tax plan is preserving tax rates that are due to expire.
That is not a cut.
Cutting taxes on tips, could easily be a wash – enforcement likely costs as much as revenue raised.
Cutting taxes on social security is not all that huge – while complicated – significant portions of retirement income is not taxed already.
Tarriffs will not likely raise that much revenue – but they will speed up the movement of production and jobs to the US – that means higher GCP and more tax revenue.
Cutting federal spending reduces deficits.
I do not think Trump will cut spending near enough – but every little bit helps.
GEB,
Great comment.
Columbia anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil was probed as national security threat, source says
Columbia University protest ringleader Mahmoud Khalil was being investigated as a potential national security threat, a source said Monday — as President Trump warned the anti-Israel agitator’s bust will be the “first arrest of many.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was “presented with intelligence” that determined Khalil — a Syrian-born Palestinian who received his graduate degree from the elite school in December — was a threat to national security, …
Khalil, who earned his graduate degree at the School of International and Public Affairs, was the lead negotiator for Columbia United Apartheid Divest — a group that sympathizes with terror organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and calls for the “end of Western civilization” — during last spring’s anti-Israel protests and student encampment at the university.”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/10/us-news/columbia-agitator-mahmoud-khalil-was-probed-as-national-security-threat-as-trump-calls-ice-bust-first-arrest-of-many/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20250310?&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=62680bbe38a279b1870b18c5&utm_term=NYP%20-%20News%20Alerts
Khalil has obtained an attorney to fight deportation. Good! Let there be a deposition and let the government question him about Hamas, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and some other organizations that are all tied together. Chances are he will accept deportation if that is the main focus.
S. Meyer, they will not ask him about that. He’s been illegally arrested. He was targeted because he expressed anti-israel views. That’s not a crime. He’s not an illegal immigrant either. Trump is using the threat of deportation to punish him for expressing his views against Israel and support for Palestinians. None of it is a crime.
And you know this how? Because you were in the closed-door meeting when the intel was presented to Secretary Rubio showing him to be a national security threat?
So . . . were you actually in that closed-door meeting, or are you just running your mouth when you don’t actually know the facts? It’s one or the other. I’ll wait for the answer.
I know because the hearing is about the legality of his arrest. Not the crime he’s accused of. Its not a crime to express an anti-israeli view or to protest.
Being accused of supporting terrorism requires concrete evidence which ICE does not seem to have other than allegations.
There is also the problem of producing a warrant for his arrest. ICE did not produce a warrant. Another attempted arrest failed when ICE could not produce a warrant. This is purely a retaliatory arrest for protesting in support of Palestinians.
“S. Meyer, they will not ask him about that. “
Why not.
“He’s been illegally arrested.”
He has been detained for good reason. He was to be deported, but he wanted legal representation.
“He was targeted because he expressed anti-israel views.”
No. He was associated with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.
“Trump is using the threat of deportation to punish him for expressing his views against Israel and support for Palestinians.”
It’s not a threat, and we will see more people deported. Trump should deport you for stupidity, but he understands you have citizenship. Unfortunately, citizenship doesn’t mean you aren’t a dummy.
It had to do with Hamas. Do you know what a Palestinian is?
I don’t expect you to engage in lucid thought, for it is documented that you have the Dunning-Kruger effect.
S. Meyer, he was arrested not detained.
The government has to prove the allegations true in court. They have to produce a warrant which they can’t seem to produce.
Trump is threatening protesters. With deportation for exercising their free speech rights.
“he was arrested not detained.”
You are too stupid to understand the meaning of the word detained. I used the word detained because that was used in the article describing what happened. I cannot be sure of the details, so being detained is not wrong as ICE can detain one to enforce immigration laws without arresting them for a criminal offense.
If Khalil were arrested, it would be for violating a law, which is a possibility if their claim was he supported a terrorist group. Under those circumstances, he might be arrested first. Either way, detained or arrested, he remains in detention.
I will await more accurate reporting of the sequence of the claims that led to his detention. On the other hand, you will pretend you know what you are talking about because you are too stupid to understand the details known today that might change tomorrow. You are typical of one expressing the Dunning-Kruger effect.
S. Meyer being detained and being arrested are two very different things. Being detained and being arrested have specific legal meanings. Because you’re too stupid to learn the difference and just take whetever your’e fed at face value shows how ignorant you are.
“ If Khalil were arrested, it would be for violating a law, which is a possibility if their claim was he supported a terrorist group.”
He was arrested for allegedly supporting Terrorism. But Trump already made it clear he was arrested for being part of a protest. That is an unlawful arrest and a violation of his 1st amendment rights.
“ I will await more accurate reporting of the sequence of the claims that led to his detention.”
You didn’t wait to already claim he committed a crime. He has not been charged with any crime at all. That’s the problem. In order to be deported he has to be charged with committing a crime that specifically nullifies his greeen card and that is a very high bar to clear.
You have no idea what you are talking about, you don’t even know that you are exhibiting exactly what Dunning-Kruger is.
You claimed Khalil was an illegal immigrant and your ignorant assumption got your ass handed to you. He’s a legal permanent resident that’s why he has a green card doofus.
“S. Meyer being detained and being arrested are two very different things. “
As I said, you would be too stupid to understand the differences and similarities clearly laid out in my above reply and on Merriam-Webster’s website. You can only think one layer deep, which is why your answers must revolve around the same idea. In other words, you are stupid.
“. But Trump already made it clear he was arrested for being part of a protest.”
That is your unintelligent response to what Trump may have said, but you can reproduce the words so we can discuss them. Trump was not the person who detained or arrested Khalil. He is not the one to level charges. You are such a doofus. You don’t know what you are talking about.
“You didn’t wait to already claim he committed a crime.”
That is one of the reasons I used the word “detained.” You are too stupid to realize that the details were unclear when I spoke, and since there was no definite charge, I chose to use the word detained rather than arrested. According to the INA, immigrants can be detained. Your pea brain is too small to incorporate all the details and doubts surrounding the incident.
You are a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
He wasn’t detained dipshit. He was arrested so he could be deported. Nobody is saying he is being merely detained. He was arrested for allegedly commiting a crime. Problem is they have no evidence.
“You are too stupid to realize that the details were unclear when I spoke, and since there was no definite charge, I chose to use the word detained rather than arrested. ”
No, you found yourself opening you mouth before understanding what you were reading. He was arrested because the state department revoked his green card without proof of the crime that authorized the revocation. They will have to show they have clear concrete evidence against him. Problem is they didnt’ have a warrant for his arrest in the first place.
You’re the best example of the Dunning-Kruger effect there is. It’s hilariously ironic.
You are really stupid and likely could not read the simply written English response above. Is English your first language?
We have to remember that we are getting our information third-hand, and based on the time of each response, things likely changed. It is news reporters who provide the information, and especially in the first 48 to 76 hours, things are fluid, so reports might be different.
There is no problem with my understanding, but you are too dumb to realize that my first posting came from a news article where the word detained was used, and there wasn’t enough clarity, which is typical. You are not defending your thoughts and ideas, which lack intelligence, but are trying to attack me based on what you read from a different source and likely later in time. I will provide what I said earlier; it explains where I came from, but an idiot like you cannot understand simple words. You also need to refer to a dictionary, something I suggested you obtain years ago when you were under another name.
You are too stupid to understand the meaning of the word detained. I used the word detained because that was used in the article describing what happened. I cannot be sure of the details, so being detained is not wrong as ICE can detain one to enforce immigration laws without arresting them for a criminal offense.
If Khalil were arrested, it would be for violating a law, which is a possibility if their claim was he supported a terrorist group. Under those circumstances, he might be arrested first. Either way, detained or arrested, he remains in detention.
I will await more accurate reporting of the sequence of the claims that led to his detention. On the other hand, you will pretend you know what you are talking about because you are too stupid to understand the details known today that might change tomorrow.
The Dunning-Kruger effect explains everything since it severely affects everything you read and hear.
S. Meyer, you have already demonstrated that you are too ignorant to understand. All you’re doing is making incoherent claims and statements that sound like a 5th grader. You’re making a great example of what the Dunning-Kruger effect does.
If you wish to understand the Dunning-Kruger effect, look in a mirror.
The Trump stock market is going down faster than Lauren Boebert in a truck stop men’s room.
Looks like it’s that time of day, when the crybaby retard loser trolls crawl out from under a rock and lay turds on Turley’s blog.
Then why did you post?
Trump bankruptcies:
Trump Taj Mahal – $3 billion
Trump Plaza Hotel – $550 million
Trump Castle and Casino – $338 million
Trump Plaza Hotel: $550 million
Trump Casino Resorts: $1.8 billion
Trump Entertainment Resorts: $1.7 billion
Trump’s America: pending
He’s a genius.
Faster than Monica Lewinsky on Bill Clinton?
Faster than Anthony Weiner on a porn site?
Faster than Eric Swalwell on a Chinese cookie?
Faster than Hunter Biden on a piece of parmesan cheese ?
Faster than ilhan Omar on her brother?
Faster than Pocahantaus on a peace pipe?
Faster than AOC on an Eat the Rich dress?
Faster than Joe Biden on a dementia test?
Faster than Kamala Harris on a grammar test?
Loser
The Orange Retard in the White House is crashing the economy a lot earlier than I thought. Calling him a “retard” is suddenly too kind.
^ crybaby loser retard troll ^
Yes, Trump is a crybaby loser retard troll. Good call.
So funny I forgot to laugh 🥱
I think packing the Supreme Court is a good idea. Let’s do it.
Voiding all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution would do nicely.
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“To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, “to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.” For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union. In like manner, they are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase, not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please, which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless.”
“It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and, as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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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
There has to be a reset at universities in general and at law schools and the ABA specifically. The universities are no longer places of learning. The are institutes of left wing politics and propaganda. Law schools are merely graduate schools for the same thing. The problem is that law schools and professional associations have weapons that they can to affect civil society merely because their liberal dictates are not followed. Take for example, the lawyers that advised Trump, like John Eastman. The bar association had absolutely no business trying to pull his law license. Eastman was a constitutional lawyer and advised his client. Whether the bar association liked the advice he gave is none of their business. Trump should yank all federal funds from these people and the DOJ should sue bar associations for violating the civil rights of conservative members. The insidious wokeism has filtered into every nook and cranny of culture and if we are to a legal system that matters, you can’t allow Marxists to rig the system
You didn’t notice.
President Donald J. Trump is conducting a MASSIVE RESET as we speak.
The markets are crashing. Reset!!!!!!
You have to break a few eggs to make an omelette.
Markets crash all the time; one must always be prepared.
Sounds like you aren’t.
The stock market “crashed” in Ronald Reagan’s first term, and we heard prophesies of doom from the media. But the economy grew and the stock market recovered nicely.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/business/stock-market-by-president/index.html (“Despite the strong economy, Wall Street suffered its worst day ever under Reagan. The Dow plunged an astonishing 22.6% on Black Monday — equaling about 5,500 points today. Nonetheless, the S&P 500 posted five separate years of double-digit growth on the Gipper’s watch, including a 26% spike in 1985.”)
edwardmahl: Thank you. even if this doesn’t happen this time, it at least works to expose the fear-mongering political partisanship. There is no doubt in my mind that much of the stock slide is part of an orchestrated plan to destroy Trump economically, i.e., “I told you so.” Similarly, the vandalism and attacks on Tesla interests.
Biden Administration’s plan:
“On his first day in office, President-elect Donald Trump is likely to confront a U.S. stock market that is more overvalued than on any other Inauguration Day in U.S. history.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/all-these-market-indicators-point-to-stocks-struggling-during-trumps-presidency-a34b8b57
A wise president puts all the economic problems in the first eighteen months.
#74. I’m afraid you’ll need to keep your children out of colleges. Maybe online courses if the child is a math or science student. Attend classes for labs only.
Democrats have branded the Executive Office going through the books and cutting wasteful spending and bad contracts as a Constitutional Crisis, and oligarchy, as if an oligarchy would ever so reduce its funding.
Yet, in the movie, “Dave”, which heavily favored Democrats, going through the books to cut waste was portrayed as heroic and bold.
https://youtu.be/ZARAldXlSyA?si=0SKgeJ3zZGdw6x7t
https://youtu.be/uoRHwIMYlbc?si=LbWGmLs0Yt3RL-fd
Karen S: please stop. DOGE is NOT “going through books” or “cutting wasteful spending and bad contracts” at all–that’s just some slop you picked up from MAGA media. They are arbitrarily trying to fire or force out anyone and everyone who works for the federal government–air traffic controllers, cancer researchers, NOAA weather predictors, nurses and others who work at VA hospitals–anyone and everyone–no discretion, no analysis, and no game plan.
giggle’s colon and “please. stop” are copycatted from others. No one owns that style, but if you go back in history on this blog, you can see how gigi hass evolved under the influence of other posters.
The Biden Administration regularly lost cases in the Supreme Court. The system works as designed, to determine the constitutionality of such issues, and to make corrections as needed.
The sky didn’t fall every time the Biden Administration lost a case at SCOTUS, nor will it under the Trump Administration.
On a related note, it appears that most of Biden’s executive actions were signed by an AutoPen. There needs to be a thorough investigation as to whether Joe Biden was even aware of what was being signed in his name, who ran the country as his mental capacity declined, and who helped cover it up.
Karen S,
Well said. The ones screaming Constitutional crisis cannot or will not see our Constitutional system is in fact working as the good professor points out.
The autopen is a very interesting question. It only confirms someone else was making the decisions, not Joe Biden. From everything we have read in the past, Jill Biden posting a pic of her on AF One looking over a binder and posting that she was getting ready for a big meeting in the EU, to reports of Hunter was in on key meetings after the Trump/Biden debate disaster, to some coming forward now saying only key people were allowed to get close to Joe Biden or one on one meetings with him. All the staged press conferences. He was only good till 4pm. All the time he spent on vacation. Who was running the country indeed.
Karen S: please stop. If we wanted to read the garbage put out by MAGA media, we’d watch it instead of dealing with you regurgitating the crap you heard. Joe Biden rescued America from the disaster Trump left him–COVID, businessess shut down, the worst recession in decades (although Trump is well on the way to topping his old record). So stop repeating the lie that Biden had dementia or diminshed mental capacity. He got more done that benefits most Americans that most presidents in recent history and has always been more respected on the international stage than Trump ever could be. The only one “covering up” incompetence is the MAGA media you rely on for daily affirmation and the dumb bottle blondie “press secretary” who can’t and won’t answer questions.
Why are you still here?
What entitles you to ask that?
After the raft of shills and morons that Democrats have had as press secretary – you should not be complaining about someone actually competent.
She is felony-stupid–meaning so stupid, it should be a felony. She’s a liar, too.
“Competent”? Tell us: WHO PAYS THE TARIFFs on goods imported from Canada–the importer or Canada? The dumb slut said it is Canada. Everyone else says it’s the importer–you tell us what the facts are.
Today, that dumb, lying slut actually tried to correct an AP reporter about WHO pays tariffs–the dumb slut said that the tariffs are paid by “other countries”–then she went off on a riff about being insulted over being corrected by the reporter who relayed the truth that the person or company who imports goods pays the tariffs. That dumb hole performs for an audience of one—the dumb orange pig who hired her. She is an embarrassment– with the lipstick outside of her lips to cover how thin her lips are, the brown roots showing at the base of her bleached hair–a sure sign of stupidity—but most of all, how arrogantly proud she is and belief that she is somehow empowered to talk down to reporters and lie with impunity.