I have previously written against calls to impeach federal judges who have ruled against the Trump Administration in the issuing of temporary restraining orders (TROs) and preliminary injunctions. The latest target of such calls in the House is District Court Judge James Boasberg, who issued a temporary restraining order against Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. GOP members are making a mistake in engaging in the same impeachment craze that took hold of the Democratic members in prior years (and continues this year). The way to respond to such rulings is to appeal them, not to try to remove judges (which is neither warranted nor likely).
One of the greatest abuses of the Democratic party in the past eight years has been their use of impeachment investigations and charges against their political opponents. From President Donald Trump to conservative justices, liberal members have demanded impeachments over everything from opposing the NFL kneelers to hanging revolutionary-era flags.
Now, some Republican members (and Elon Musk) have joined this frenzy in calling for the impeachment of judges who ruled against Trump’s earlier executive orders and programs. Elon Musk has supported this effort.
The Trump Administration was fully aware that the executive proclamation invoking the use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport members of Tren de Aragua would be controversial. While the Administration believes that it can establish the legal basis for such use of the largely dormant law, the issuing of a temporary restraining order within hours of the EO was not unexpected. We expect an expedited and intense appeal process to now unfold.
The Alien Enemies Act is best known as one of the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 used by the Adams Administration. I discuss the abuse of those acts in my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
The case presents a number of novel issues. First, as a threshold matter, is whether a presidential determination of the underlying criteria is even reviewable by the federal courts. Some argue, and the Trump Administration is likely to assert, that this is a political question that is heavily laden with international and national security determinations.
Second, assuming that it is reviewable, the Act was designed for deportations in wartime or in cases of “invasion.” We have previously discussed how states sought to broaden the definition of “invasion” under Article IV, Section 4, the so-called Guarantee Clause. The Trump Administration is arguing that Tren de Aragua is different because it is being used or directed by the Venezuelan government. Trump has previously alleged that the radical regime is emptying its prisons to undermine the United States. Under this argument, the gang is being used by a “foreign nation or government.”
The treatment of this as an invasion could also trigger other powers from states closing the borders unilaterally to even a move to suspend habeas corpus.
The point is only that there are good faith arguments on both sides to be made in the courts. That is why we have independent courts and the finest judicial system in the world.
I have criticized Judge Boasberg, who was involved in the controversial FISA surveillance during the first Trump term and made a poor choice of the attorney tasked with investigating that matter. I also criticized him in prior treatment of pro-life litigants in a case reversed by the D.C. Circuit. However, he has also ruled against Trump critics).
The response for the Administration should be to seek an expedited appeal. The district court cannot drag out a TRO very long before issuing an order that can be appealed.
This country is facing novel issues and the Administration is not surprisingly trying to use novel means to address them. I expect that it will prevail in many of these initial fights while losing others. That is part of the process in a nation committed to the rule of law.
The Trump Administration can appeal and leave impeachment out of it.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”
– President Andrew Jackson
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The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.
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“[Roll out the guillotines, we’ll have guillotines of fun.]”
– Maximilien Robespierre
Here’s another simple, lovely solution to the TdA problem.
After filling up Boasberg’s neighborhood with them, relocate the rest to the leftists/Dems/bot creators here. Let them enjoy the fruits of their labor.
I am sure they will welcome them with open arms.
So let’s make a list, here.
Just write how many of TdA members you want in your neighborhood so that your wish can be satisfied. Post like you always do, you will be identified.
Your Christmas presents await you…
WHAT? No takers?
Old School Republican supporters of Ronald Reagan, Goldwater and Eisenhower knew the United States has never been perfect following the constitutional rule of law. Great ideal but we sometimes fell short of reaching it. But those real Republicans at least viewed it as a goal to move towards a more perfect the Union.
Trump said in 2024 he wanted to be a dictator. The goal was no longer a constitutional rule of law at all (American model of government), nor an independent judiciary, nor any checks & balances on dictators!
Trump also seems to embrace communist dictators in Russia, North Korea and China over his own American CIA, FBI and DOJ. Trump wants to essentially destroy NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) designed to counter communists and fascist regimes. The opposite of Reagan, Goldwater and Eisenhower.
Since Trump is exploiting the legal designation “invasion” comparing immigrants seeking jobs to foreign militaries to game federal laws. What would we call annexing Greenland (Denmark) and Canada – an “invasion” maybe?
Both nations oppose being invaded by Trump!
Trump is a “RINO” (Republican In Name Only) – he supports the opposite sides of real Republicans Reagan, Goldwater and Eisenhower!
In many ways Trump is different from Reagan, Eisenhower, Goldwater – though each of those is also different from each other.
Trump best compares to Carter, Reagan and Clinton all of whom actively sought to reduce the power of the federal govenrment.
As to Trump “embracing” – many nations in the world have dictators as leaders. Many have bad people as leaders.
Some of those dictators and bad people are our allies all of them are world leaders that we have to work with.
That is reality. Erodigan and MBS as an example are not good people. But they are our allies – whether Trump is president or Biden is.
Greenland voted overwhelmingly for independence.
The track record of the CIA, FBI, DOJ is abysmal.
Russia is no longer an international threat. Europe faces no threat they can not deal with on their own.
It is highly unlikely the US is leaving NATO.
But our role in leading NATO has been coming to an end for a long time.
Increasingly Europe the Mideast, Africa are NOT in the US interests. While the western hemisphere and the pacific rim are absolutely in our interests.
In the event of a conflict with China – the US will “invade” Panama in about 5 seconds. It does not matter who the president is.
The military leader of NATO was in the WH recently and specifically noted that Greenland as well as the Arctic were areas of Critical stratigic and security importance. Again the US would “invade” in a heart beat if our national security was threatened.
In the event of a conflict with China, the US would last a week using conventional weapons. China is in the same stature industrially as the US was in WWII. We got nothing, Ukraine and Israel have sucked us dry.
” Ukraine and Israel have sucked us dry.”
I have to laugh. Traveler, a conservative, uses double standards like the worst of the Democrats. He is the Chuck Schumer conservative of the right. A conservative might say we should end foreign aid to all countries, which would include Israel, but no, the conservative Chuck Schumer, I mean Traveler, blames Ukraine and Israel. Ukraine costs America Hundreds of billions of dollars, while Israel’s annual bill is 3.3 billion. Why didn’t Traveler say Egypt and Jordan instead? They have the equivalent cost of Israel, but they give nothing to the US. At the same time, Israel returns a lot of that money in technological advances for the American Military, intelligence, and many other things. Israel even got rid of Saddam’s future nukes for the US and probably will be the ones to end Iran’s nuclear program, sparing the entire world of Iran’s nuclear threat. Unfortunately, Chuck Schumer, I mean Traveler, has this double standard based on ignorance and bias. There is a certain glibness in Traveler’s responses that degrade their meaning.
You obviously missed the joke, which was actually for people like you who spewed the same nonsense he said you would. Pulled the string like a chatty Cathy doll anmd YAK YAK RUSSIA YAK DICTATOR YAK YAK YAKKITY YAK!!! And your reasoning is just nonsensical drivel that ignores the facts and not worth a response, since you’ve tripped over the truth in search of the failed narrative.
Gingrich, in the video with this article, makes a point I have been trying to make, Article I and Article II can simply strip the courts of their powers.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/newt-gingrich-judicial-activism-this-last-castle-left
Jacobin judges are making it more tempting every day that passes with these midget tyrants running things.
And they are making such action more acceptable to the public.
One wonders if the Supreme Court is asleep.
Impeachment is too good for Marxist fake-judges. The DOJ should sue Boasberg for damages of $300 million. Since Boasberg doesn’t have the financial resources to withstand the suit, he will be forced to borrow money from Act Blue. The FBI will be watching for that. . . . and BOOM. Boasberg is arrested, prosecuted, conviced and imprisoned for 20 years. Okay, it’s not realistic. But I can dream.
Thank you Prof. Turley.
I am deeply suspicious of this judge. But there is nothing that he has done that goes beyond piss poor opinions and politicization.
The remedy is not impeachment. A good start would be for SCOTUS to reign in lower courts – They are not independent of SCOTUS.
I was upset with Roberts defense of the Judiciary – because it is Obvious to all – right or left that the Judiciary has become highly policticized.
We may not agree on which judges are hyper political – but we all agree the courts have lost out trust.
The remedy for that is NOT partisan impeachments.
But there MUST be a remedy.
I am suspicious that Trump’s use of this law to acheive immediate deportations is significant overreach.
But I agree with what he seeks to do. That means that we should pass the appropriate legislation to allow him to do so – narrowly tailored.
Overall Deportation should be made eaiser. If you are not in the country legally – you should be removed quickly.
If we want people to immigrate legally – we must make it such that those that does so illegally are pushed to the back of the line.
While I think there SHOULD be a law that allows the President to rapidly deport criminal aliens. I am not sure this is it.
Not do I agree with calling the Biden tsunami of illegals an invasion in the legal sense. But I do agree that when the federal govenrment fails to secure our borders – or otherwise egregiously ignores our laws there MUST be some mechanism to enforce them.
But That likely requires new laws.
Absolutely. I agree. Let’s do nothing to “Save the Constitution” and the constitutional American republic. For crying out loud, the judge is a direct and mortal enemy who has usurped and exercised executive power. The judicial branch is, if anything, not superior but inferior to the executive. The judicial branch failed long ago to fulfill its sworn-oath duty to support the Constitution and strike down the unconstitutional Alien Enemies Act, which was a bill of the legislative branch designed to illicitly usurp executive power. That Act preposterously and redundantly “allowed” the president to issue an “order to depart,” which was, extant and de facto, an exercise of executive power. Executive power is vested solely and exclusively “in a President of the United States.”
Bradley Bartell can’t stop thinking about his vote for President Donald Trump after his immigrant wife, Camila Muñoz, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Last month, the couple was returning from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico when an ICE agent at the airport pulled aside Muñoz.
USA TODAY reported that Muñoz was one of many women who entered the country legally and were detained at an airport despite not having a criminal record.
Muñoz had overstayed her visa but was going through the process to become a legal U.S. permanent resident.
“What the f— do I do?” Bartell remembered thinking as ICE agents took his wife.
Muñoz is now being held at a private detention center in Louisiana.
“Emotionally, I’m concerned for her,” Bartell admitted to USA Today. “It can’t be easy being trapped in a room with 100 other people. They don’t have anything in there. It’s just so wasteful.”
According to the report, the couple has “been thinking a lot about Bartell’s vote for Trump.”
“I knew they were cracking down,” he remarked. “I guess I didn’t know how it was going down.”
STUPID IS, AS STUPID DOES !!!!
Typical stupid MAGA.
Bartells wife should not have overstayed her visa. Given that she is now married to Bartells, this will likely be a speed bump for her.
But the stupidity is with Bartells, and his wife.
This was entirely predictable. I would note that Munoz would have had difficulty under any prior administration – except Biden.
Despite allowing alot of illegals into the country – Obama engaged in large scale deportations.
Bartells and Munoz should not have Honeymooned in Puerto Rico – and you MUST show a passport to travel from Puerto Rico to the US – just as with other US teriroties.
Munoz did not have a valid Visa – that is her problem.
Do you think you can stay in Japan, or Sweden with an expired Visa ?
If you seek to persuade this country that you wish to become a permanent resident – keeping your visa current is a good start.
John Say
Glad to see that you agree with me that the stupidity lies with Bartells and his vote for Trump.
Stupidity is a major defining feature of MAGA cultists.
You have all voted against your own self interest.
Most of the regulars here are commenting all day every day, so they are obviously retired and on Social Security and Medicare.
What are you going to do when Trump and Musk destroy SS and Medicare.
You are as stupid as they come, aren’t you?
A few years ago I had to Travel to St. Croix – another US possession – I am a citizen by Birth I have a US passport and a US passport card.
The passport card is Proof of US Citizenship anywhere in the US and US territories. It is also acceptable for crossing into Canada, and mexico. I keep my passport card in my wallet and leave my passport in a safe at home most of the time.
But I was unable to fly to St. Crox without a passport – despite the fact that the passport cares is “as good as a passport” within the US and US territories – you can not get on a plane to the US virgin Islands without an actual passport. Though oddly you can travel too and from the US virgin Islands with a passport card (or possibly even a US drivers license) if you do so by Boat.
I had to resechedule a flight and a major project because a passport card was not good enough to travel by air to the US virgin islands.
There are LOTS of these quirky rules. I strongly suspect Bartells and Munoz could have gone to Puerto Rico for a Honeymoon by boat with nothing more than a drivers license. It is my understanding they went by Air.
My father sought to take the whole family on a Carabean Cruze a few years before he died.
My children are adopted from China and South Korea respectively. They are US citizens by action of the 2000 Citizenshop act.
But at the time of the trip they only had their expired Chinese and South Korean Passports.
They would have been allowed to leave the US to go on a carabean cruise – but Like Munoz they would have been detained on return.
And they were both citizens by law, and this was during the Obama administration.
I would bet that Munoz would have been detained even under Biden.
No one should travel outside the continental US without checking first what documents are needed to get back in.
Further the rules/laws are NOT the same based on whether you travel by air or ship.
Munoz’s problems are a speed bump. I doubt they are Trump specific.
Like the kids in cages nonsense – where the photos were from the Obama administration – this coudl have happened 2 years ago.
My family travels to the Caribean that were thwarted – were during the Obama administration and my travel to St. Croix that was delayed was under Biden.
ATS – this would have happened to Munoz had she gone to Puerto Rico for her honeymoon with an expired Visa under Biden or Obama.
The Stupidity is yours and Bartells.
There are rules for Travel outside the continental US. Do not follow them and it will not go well – even if you are a US citizen.
My brother drove to Toronto when he was 17. you can get into canada with a US drivers license. He was stopped and detained for hours on his return – because he had a junior license that had a curfew on it, and US border agents would not let him back into NY until the sun rose.
If Bartells has married Munoz – this will get worked out. But they F#$Ked up – they did not check the rules and laws before traveling to Puerto Rico and now Munoz is being detained. I would note that will happen to a US citizen if they do not have a passport.
Again if you travel you should know the rules. They are different for every nation, for travel between US teritories, and even for Air vs. ship travel.
none of that is specific to one president or the other.
Destroy ss and Medicare? Do you folks have anything that’s actually not speculation, conjecture, twisted, misquoted, anonymously sourced, or just any facts? What is the fear you all have with a presidential appointee to an existing agency conducting audits the executive saw fit to do? Every day people read the nonsense and you lose another. And another. And another. Because every time someone who believed the idiocy and learns it’s been nothing but lies, that’s it. Fortunately the nonsense is turning into a screech, so it gets smaller and louder, smaller and louder, and….fades
James E. Boasberg is worthy of impeachment and conviction and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law for abuse of power, usurpation of power, bias, partiality, corruption, dereliction, negligence, subversion, conspiracy et al., in my opinion.
James E. Boasberg appeared previously on Line 7 of the list of co-conspirators to the Obama Coup D’etat in America.
As I recall, Boasberg presided over the suppression and cover-up of the abject corruption at the FISA court, clearly in support of his political benefactor, Barack Hussein “Barry ‘I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta’ Soetoro” Obama.
Please do, and by all means, correct any lapse of memory I may have suffered.
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“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Obama
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“We will stop him.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI paramour Lisa Page
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“[Obama] wants to know everything we’re doing.”
– Lisa Page to FBI paramour Peter Strzok
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“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40.”
– Peter Strzok to FBI parmour Lisa Page
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“People on the 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this [Trump] server.”
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The Obama Coup D’etat in America is the most egregious abuse of power and the most prodigious crime in American political history. The co-conspirators are:
Kevin Clinesmith, Bill Taylor, Eric Ciaramella, Rosenstein, Mueller/Team, Andrew Weissmann,
James Comey, Christopher Wray, McCabe, Strozk, Page, Laycock, Kadzic, Sally Yates,
James Baker, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Priestap, Kortan, Campbell, Sir Richard Dearlove,
Christopher Steele, Simpson, Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, Stefan “The Walrus” Halper,
Azra Turk, Kerry, Hillary, Huma, Mills, Brennan, Gina Haspel, Clapper, Lerner, Farkas, Power,
Lynch, Rice, Jarrett, Holder, Brazile, Sessions (patsy), Nadler, Schiff, Pelosi, Obama,
Joe Biden, James E. Boasberg, Emmet Sullivan, Gen. Milley, George Soros, John McCain,
Marc Elias, Igor Danchenko, Fiona Hill, Charles H. Dolan, Jake Sullivan, Strobe Talbot,
Cody Shear, Victoria Nuland, Ray “Red Hat” Epps, Don Berlin, Kathy Ruemmler, Rodney Joffe,
Paul Vixie, L. Jean Camp, Andrew Whitney, Lisa O. Monaco, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg,
Matthew Colangelo, Merrick Garland, Juan Merchan, Timothy Thibault et al.
Biden’s opening of the border to tens of millions of illegal crossings, including thousands by convicted rapists and murderers, is the greatest crime ever committed against America. Extraordinary measures are needed to clean up the mess he created. Lawless, out of control judges need to be dealt with lest the destructive effects of the Biden regime bring this country down. My preference is that SCOTUS will see the light and bring them into line.
PS, the modifier “dormant” when applied to an Act of Congress that is still on the books has no legal significance. It has not been repealed, nor does it contain a sunset clause. So it’s still good law regardless of the last time it was invoked.
Every single crime commited by any person is a travesty and should be prosecuted to the fulltest extent of the law.
If you goal is a society with fewer crimes. Deport all U.S. Citizens, leave all the non citizens, and crime will go down, substantially. Non citizens commit crimes at a much lower rate than citizens.
BT – you can not deport citizens.
BTW the claim that Non-citizens commit crimes at lower rates is fake news. Even the FBI data shows otherwise.
While it IS true that large numbers of illegal immigrants strive to do everything possible to avoid the attention of the law,
It is also true that large numbers of criminals are entering the country illegally.
Further we are importing people from countries were the rule of law is much weaker and the norms for what is legal and what is not much lower.
It is true that SOME illegal immigrants are more law abiding that your average citizen. But some are many times more likely to commit crimes – often violent crimes. and others are culturally more lawless.
What’s the next episode of the S.H.T.F. soon after the TRO Temporary Restraining Order expires (14 days from now) ?
Trump’s April 2nd Tariffs – Bang! this story will be long gone – I don’t think it will make past this coming Tuesday – but Ya-know what-ever. Rachel Maddow will harp on about how Trump shipped her Tren de Aragua Sugar Bros. outta the country for a hand full of day and even She’ll let it go. Tariffs are the bigger-fish to fry.
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A question nobody is asking…yet: Is it possible that Hunter Biden used the infamous autopen to give himself a pardon?
So many questions about this guy.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/15/us-news/hunter-biden-fled-for-south-africa-vacation-avoiding-lawsuit-deposition
A challenge to all MAGAs: Go look up the definition of fascism, perhaps read an article or two. Then come back here are tell us why Trump is not a fascist.
Trump favors less government control, deregulation, eliminating government censorship, and an end to wars of conquest. In other words, the exact opposite of fascism. If you want to see an example of fascism, study the “Joe Biden” administration.
Thank YOU Anonymous.
You did not meet the terms of my challenge. I asked that you look up the definition of fascism and tell me why Trump is not a fascist,. Instead you took lies or half-truths regarding Trump’s actions and claimed without consulting the definition of fascism that Trump is not a fascists.
Try again.
He met the terms of your challenge, but you prove you don’t know what fascism is.
List the things that fascism stand for. I will start with one of his examples. Censorship. That is what fascists and Joe Biden did. Do you wish to explain why censorship wasn’t a part of fascism?
Freanke – I used Musolini’s definition of Fascism from the 1920’s when Fascism was spreading through europe.
It perfectly fits the govenrments of Nazi Germany. Italy, and Spain at the time, as well as later governments of Perone,
and other fascist governments in the world
Those of you on the left like to play word games – You can pretend that Trump is somehow like Hitler because you manipulate words and definitions.
Not getting YOUR way – Not being able to FORCE your values on others yusing govenrment is NOT fascism.
It is actually anti-fascism.
Antifa is actually fascist, the progressive left is fascist,
MAGA, Trump libertarians are actual anti-fascists.
I would further note that again according to Mussolini as well as other fascists – like Hitler and Perone – Fascism is SOCIALIST.
The left constantly tries to pretend that Hitler, Musollini were ultra conservative – they were not – they were socialists through and through.
The fundamental differences between Mao, Stalin and Hitler are the class that they focused on is pushing their class warfare.
Their government and ideologies were near identical.
Even in the US – neo-Nazis are still fundimentally socialists – they are not conservatives.
“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
Fascism – according to Benito Mussolini the founder of fascism.
Mussolini as the founder of fascism would be the authorarative defnition.
But that deffinition accurately describes Hitler’s germany, Franco’s spain, and Peron’s Argentia as well as other fascist regimes too.
It also reflects the objective to which woke progressives are striving.
Further it is the antithesis of MAGA and Trump.
Trump is actively seeking to dramatically cut govenrment – that is just about as antifascist as you can get.
Franke – you say consult the definition of Fascism – I am others did – the most authoritative definition – that of the founder of Fascism – Benito Mussolini a definition that also accurately describes all historically fascist nations.
Like the typical left wing nut you demand we follow some definition that you made up and do not even provide.
Regardless the defintion of fascism by fascists – fits the objectives of the left – not MAGA or Trump.
We can play word games all you want.
You can redefine Fascism as libertarianism if you want – just as you can refine a woman as a man.
But playing games with defintions – does not alter reality.
Trump seeks to diminish the power of the federal govenrment over the lives of ordinary citizens.
That is reality. He is striving to cut spending. He is striving to cut govenrment.
Conversely democrats, and the woke left seek to expand government and government control of our lives.
John Say,
Great comment. I would also note that under the Biden admin, he enacted more regulations than any other president. That is, as you point out, an leftist attempt to use the government to control our lives.
Actually, at this point Democrats fit the definition more than MAGA, which is conservative, not fascist. Or maybe the bureaucrats of the EU, who are actually a lot like the people in Salazar’s regime in Portugal or maybe the apparatchiks of the eastern European communist states.
I assume you want people to read Emilio Gentile? Stanley Payne? George Mosse? Giorgio Rochat? Roger Griffin? Nolte? Gregor? Allardyce? Paxton?
Or just Hannah Arendt? Mussolini’s definition? Bottai’s? Marsanich’s? Whose?
The term fascist has no real meaning any longer. Fascism ended in 1945. Neo-fascism is almost as difficult to define. Griffin thought he had managed a good one-sentence defintion; problem is it can apply to all sorts of regimes and political movements, not just the fascist ones.
For what it’s worth, I would recommend Gentile & Payne, then Mosse, Gregor and Paxton.
Better to dump the term ‘fascist’ and use ‘conservative,’ ‘reactionary,’ ‘dumb bunny,’ ‘moron,’ or something that more precisely fits your idea of a group you do not like.
Or maybe you could just explain it to us rather than hope that we read the article or two that you find persuasive.
Politicians, pundits, and scholars have been arguing about what ‘fascism’ is, might be, or was since 1922, when Mussolini came to power. Griffin proposed his answer and asked for everybody’s approval several years ago. The problem, as noted above, is that it applies to a lot of movements and regimes. There is no single definition.
Fascism was a political philosophy of the early 1900s which advocated the abolition of parliaments (think EU, which has two unelected governing bodies and a rubber-stamp parliament), a corporate economy (with representation by economic status — teacher, lawyer, whatever), concentration of power in the state, opposition to socialism and communism (unless we are talking about ‘red fascism’ of course), promotion of the family . . . or we could use the earlier 1919 manifesto, then we get 8-hour workdays, confiscation of war profits, . . . .
there is no simple definition, which is why I did not attempt one. If you are truly curious about the term and the political phenomenon, then there is a vast literature, as there is on communism, socialism, authoritarianism, and, of course, democracy, republicanism . . . anybody who can give me a simple definition of a ‘democratic’ government?
Same with fascism.
For crying out loud, don’t indulge this clown, just ignore it (i.e. his/her pronoun, it).
“If you build it, he will come.”
– Shoeless Joe Jackson
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Sorry – no fascist governmetn was EVER anti-socialist. They were ALL socialist.
They tended to be anti-marxist, or anti-bolshevick.
Mussolini the founder of fascism and the pro-typical fascist as well as Hitler were unequivocal that they were socialists – and they policies were socialist. Hitler and Mussolini repeatedly asserted they were the ONLY True socialists.
Fascism is a form of socialism. PERIOD.
That is exactly what you have to do. Then list the 5 most important things we get from the left and the 5 most important things obtained from the right.
When you do this you will realize you are a fascist.
According to Musollini – who was the first consequential fascist leader and one of the founders of the fascist movement
Fascism is
Everything inside the govenrment,
nothing outside the government
nothing against the government
In otherwords it is exactly the same as modern progressive woke nonsense.
It is not MAGA that does not know what Fascism is – it is those of you on the left.
This is more of a political issue these days and politics may intervene to control these midget tyrants.
The courts are losing our trust and reverence so the political earthquake may determine what is left standing after the fight over who controls the Constitution.
It might not be a short battle. Constitutional scholar, Ilya Shapiro, has warned us about the consequences of Critical Legal Theory infecting our law schools and courts. Judges who believe in power but not the guardrails of the law.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/rep-brandon-gill-moves-impeach-obama-judge-james
This is an opportunity for Trump to set himself apart in distinguish himself from the Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer and other far left radical members of the Democrat party. If Trump does not set himself apart he will establish that he is no better than they were when they were using lawfare against him. Time to step up his game, step up the rule of law and step up the confidence of the public in our system.
Impeach all Federal District Court judges issuing unconstitutional, nationwide administrative stays, temporary restraining orders, or preliminary injunctions! The Appeals Courts and SCOTUS drag their feet. With no swift action, they are going to allow lawfare to destroy President Trump’s second term, like what happened in President Trump’s first term. We the people will not accept that!
Totally agree!!!
Illegal immigration aided by the Communist Party of the previous administrations. Criminal gang members operating in OUR country, here illegally or through some abusive abstraction of our immigration laws. I hope for something a bit more of a stronger lesson for him while remembering Laken Riley.
I wonder if this judge has a family and daughters, what would be his position if his daughter were raped and killed by one of these creatures. What a despicable piece of excrement.
The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) constitute an unconstitutional usurpation and exercise of executive power by the legislative branch, understanding that the Constitution vests all executive power exclusively “in a President,” per Article 2, Section 1.
Any and all orders to depart constitute the exercise of executive power.
Article 2, Section 1, vests executive power “in a President.”
The Constitution distributes the unassailable, absolute power of a King in distinct and particular areas of governance.
No article of the Constitution vests any facet, aspect, degree, or amount of executive power in the legislative or judicial branch.
The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) are invalid, illegitimate, illicit, and unconstitutional.
The judicial branch has no authority or legal basis to legislate or to usurp or exercise the executive power that is vested exclusively “in a President.”
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FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
At the Second Session,
Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the thirteenth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
An Act Concerning Aliens.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States…to order all such aliens…to depart out of the territory of the United States….
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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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Article 2, Section 2
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States,….
At this point I don’t know if the poster is being sarcastic or really believes that shit.
“The Constitution distributes the unassailable, absolute power of a King in distinct and particular areas of governance.” Holy hell.
So true!
The Constitution vests executive power “in a President” while it simultaneously vests executive power in the legislative and judicial branches.
I don’t find that “s—” anywhere.
Holy h—!
And thank you for your citation of the Constitution, wherein the power vested “in a President” is variable and transferable.
What a (expletive deleted) idiot!
That statement is fairly close to accurate. Each branch of govenrment has specific power – there is some overlap and some oversight, but there are also some powers exclusive to one branch or the other.
And a few of those powers are unreviewable.
AS an example a presidents determination of what is “classified” and what is not – is a pure power of the president unreviewable by courts of congress.
Turley– “The way to respond to such rulings is to appeal them, not to try to remove judges (which is neither warranted nor likely to succeed.”
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What is ‘warranted’ What is ‘succeed’ ??
They will succeed if they remind the Supreme Court that this needs their attention now if they don’t want the legislature or executive to solve the problem more roughly. Think of impeachments as fire alarms. Time someone paid attention.
Judges won’t be removed by multiple impeachments but the powers they abuse may well be as the game plays out.
Does anyone imagine that the broader public will support a stupid judge who orders planeloads of barbaric criminals to return to American streets and homes?
Redoubtable Julie Kelly has more on this disgusting example of a judge.
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1901301015355281568
Young, Turley balanced out the good and the bad of the Judge, “However, he has also ruled against Trump critics).” Thanks for this information because it further describes the judges temperament and moves the dial.
Just because this judge gets in right occasionally, reminds of broken clocks.
Yes. That is why Young’s addition was important.
Since there was no due process, we do not know who was on that plane.
And you don’t know that there was no due process.
We do know there was none. There were no trials or hearings, and the government submitted no evidence. The order to use the law and the deportations happened so quick that due process would have been impossible.
Frankely, this troll entity is firing blanks all over the campus; throwing all the mud he is wallowing in against the wall and waiting frantically for just a scintilla of it to stick.
I rarely disagree with Prof Turley, but in this case I believe that the ONLY way to curb this overstepping by the courts is to cut them off at the knees! Impeachment should NOT be taken off the table and if they are overturned on appeal, they should be IMMEDIATELY Impeached! A return to having a 3 judge panel being required to review the actions of a another branch of our govt would be a step in the right direction. This Judge shopping MUST END!
I read the professor pretty much everyday for years. One of the best commentators in the business. But his dedication to civility and rule of law, both of which I deeply appreciate, is, if not politically suicidal, approaching so.
So what should the rule be? The left can paralyze any right-wing government it wants by continuous assault by every foul and unfair means, and the right cannot show the left the foolishness of its partisanship by at least lawfully doing the same. This is why most of the time the left wins. I wish there were a hundred impeachments of left wing federal judges for reasons showing they are not fit to serve. I wish Biden was impeached on several valid grounds.
I am not suggesting that I want the right to lie, cheat and destroy the rule of law as the left has done for years. But I want them to reciprocate the tough politics as much as possible. I just don’t think many on the right understand – the relentless savage assault by the left on the right works with low information voters. I know a lot of very bright people who do not follow politics who do believe that Trump is probably fascist or like Hitler or is destroying this or that, because they hear it from their peers or the media every day. This is why the Nazis won. People would not fight back. They gave, out of exhaustion. And the bad guys never get tired. We only have one on our side like that named Trump. And we had better support him. I’m speaking not only to conservatives, but to moderate/independence like myself.