For years, some of us have written about the Biden family’s multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation and the Justice Department’s refusal to charge Hunter Biden with being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, years later, the New York Times has found evidence suggesting that Hunter Biden was acting as a foreign agent as early as the Obama Administration, when his Dad was Vice President.
Last August, the New York Times ran a story about Hunter seeking help from the government for his client Burisma. Ken Vogel just ran a follow-up story with damaging new details:
Hunter Biden sought assistance from the U.S. government for a potentially lucrative energy project in Italy while his father was vice president, according to newly released records and interviews.
The records, which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy in 2016 seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he was a board member…
The State Department did not release the actual text of the letter.
That is precisely what many of us have been writing about in asking why Hunter was not charged with being an unregistered foreign agent as was the case under cases from Paul Manafort to Bob Menendez.
The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) covers anyone acting as “agent of a foreign principal,” including but not limited to (1) attempting to influence federal officials or the public on domestic or foreign policy or the political or public interests in favor of a foreign country; (2) collecting or disbursing money and or other things of value within the United States; or (3) representing the interests of the foreign principal before U.S. Government officials or agencies.
It is sweeping. So is the definition of what a “foreign principal” encompasses, including “a foreign government, a foreign political party, any person outside the United States (except U.S. citizens who are domiciled within the United States), and any entity organized under the laws of a foreign country or having its principal place of business in a foreign country.”
As I previously wrote, special counsel Robert Mueller seemed to charge by the gross under the act. He hit a line of Trump associates with such allegations from Manafort to Michael Flynn to George Papadopoulos to Rick Gates. The Justice Department used FARA to conduct searches on the homes and files of former Trump counsel Rudy Giuliani, Republican counsel Victoria Toensing and others.
However, the Justice Department and Special Counsel David Weiss seemed to tie themselves into knots to avoid tripping the wire on FARA even as it discussed Hunter’s work for foreign clients.
The government also resisted FOIA requests from the Times and other media. Vogel wrote:
The request was initially filed under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, in June 2021. After nearly eight months, the State Department had not released any records, and The Times sued. About 18 months later, the department moved to close the case after releasing thousands of pages of records — none of which shed light on Hunter Biden’s outreach to the U.S. government.
The Times challenged the thoroughness of the search, noting that the department had failed to produce responsive records contained in a cache of files connected to a laptop that Mr. Biden had abandoned at a Delaware repair shop. The department resumed the search and periodic productions, but had produced few documents related to Mr. Biden until the week after his father ended his re-election campaign and endorsed Vice President Harris for the Democratic nomination.
Now we have a copy of a key letter from Hunter that gives us an insight into the evidence buried for years:
The State Department last week released a letter that Hunter Biden wrote while his father was serving as vice president in which he sought assistance from the U.S. government for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
In the previously unpublished June 2016 letter on Burisma letterhead to the U.S. ambassador to Italy, Mr. Biden requested “support and guidance” in arranging a meeting with an Italian official to resolve regulatory hurdles to geothermal energy projects Burisma was pursuing in the Tuscany region…
The letter requested help arranging a meeting between Burisma officials and Enrico Rossi, the president of the Tuscany regional government at the time, “to introduce geothermal projects led by Burisma Group, to highlight their social and economic benefits for local communities and develop a common action plan that would lead to further development of the Tuscany Region.”
How could any Justice Department official, let alone a Special Counsel, read that letter and not see the glaring disconnect between the handling of the case involving Joe Biden’s son and others like Manafort?
The letter references a trip on which Hunter, as was his pattern, used official travel with his father to make these business connections. The letter mentions meeting a key ambassador on Air Force Two as he seeks assistance for his client.
The ambassador then sent a follow-up letter saying he knew the president of Tuscany and identified a Commerce Department official working at the US embassy to “see where our interests may overlap.”
It was another example of alleged influence peddling through his father and work for a foreign client in lobbying the government.
During this period, the Justice Department seemed to be on a hair-trigger for FARA charges. Yet, when it came to Hunter Biden, the entire department seemed composed of legal Sgt. Schultzs.
Many in the media attacked those of us who have been writing about this corruption stretching back to the Obama Administration. Many simply insisted that there was no evidence while taking no steps to find out. While the media was unrelenting in investigating Trump allegations of Russian collusion and business improprieties, it took a largely passive stance in pursuing this story.
Even the New York Times, which can be credited with pursuing this FOIA information, did comparably little with the ample evidence of corruption by the Bidens in securing millions through influence peddling.
What remains is a corruption scandal involving not only what the Bidens did but also what the Justice Department did not do over this extended period. It appears to heed the advice not of whistleblowers but politicians like former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) that “everybody needs to back off” the influence-peddling story.
Of course, Joe Biden ultimately broke his repeated promise not to pardon his son. What was most notable, however, was that he not only pardoned him for any crimes from human trafficking to tax evasion, but did so for a period running from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024.
This letter explains why such a sweeping, extended pardon was needed. Yet, in the end, the greatest indictment from this scandal was of the Justice Department itself.
This column also ran on Fox.com
remarkable! 65 2025 Take Thyself to Texas: The Supreme Court Rules For Trump on Stay and Jurisdiction Over Deportations precious
Robert Hunter Biden needs to be ‘asked’ by the FBI/Justice Dept. to turn himself in, and given a time-certain by which to do so (24 hours or 48 hours for ex.)
If he does not do so, have him arrested and brought in — remanded without bond would be nice as he’s a ‘flight risk’ —
And then the ‘fun’ begins — he’s deposed, under oath under penalty of perjury.
And he no longer enjoys the ‘shelter’ of his father’s high office.
OR………Hunter can be warned to be silent, not attract any Press coverage, answer no Press questions, write no books or articles — and thus the country no longer will have Hunter Biden to ‘kick around’ (memories of Dick Nixon in the early 1960’s) any longer —
The FBI/Justice Department–you mean the DOJ run by Pammie Jo Bottle Blondie who suspended a prosecuting attorney who was trying to defend the illegal arrest and deportation of a man lawfully in the US?
From “The Hill”:
“The Justice Department has suspended an attorney who admitted the Trump administration mistakenly deported a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison, with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying he did not act zealously in fighting the suit.
Erez Reuveni was suspended Saturday after a judge ordered the Trump administration to secure the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national living in Maryland who had been protected from removal in 2019.
Bondi, appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” referenced Reuveni’s suspension.
“He was put on administrative leave by Todd Blanche on Saturday. And I firmly said on Day 1, I issued a memo that you are to vigorously advocate on behalf of the United States. Our client in this matter was Homeland Security — is Homeland Security. He did not argue. He shouldn’t have taken the case. He shouldn’t have argued it, if that’s what he was going to do. He’s on administrative leave now,” she said.
“You have to vigorously argue on behalf of your client.”
Reuveni, a career Justice Department prosecutor, has been with the department for almost 15 years and was recently promoted by the Trump administration as acting deputy director of the Office of Immigration Litigation.
In court filings, Reuveni and other department officials on the case had acknowledged Abrego Garcia was sent to the prison due to an “administrative error” but had argued against his return, saying it would be difficult to remove him from the Salvadoran prison.
After a Friday ruling ordering his return, the Justice Department within an hour said it would be appealing the decision.
In a Sunday order rejecting a bid by the government to halt her earlier directive to return Abrego Garcia, U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis cited weak arguments from the government, quoting Reuveni conceding “he should not have been removed to El Salvador.”
She also noted Reuveni did not know why Abrego Garcia was held at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.
“I don’t know. That information has not been given to me. I don’t know,” he said during a hearing.
“That silence is telling,” Xinis wrote in a scathing decision determining Abrego Garcia’s removal was “wholly unlawful.”
“As Defendants acknowledge, they had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador — let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere,” she wrote, describing the Justice Department as “having confessed grievous error.”
“To avoid clear irreparable harm, and because equity and justice compels it, the Court grants the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted: to order that Defendants return Abrego Garcia to the United States.”
Xinis has ordered Abrego Garcia returned by midnight Monday.
In one of her first memos signed after taking office, Bondi wrote to staff that “attorneys have signed up for a job that requires zealously advocating for the United States.”
“The responsibilities of Department of Justice attorneys include not only aggressively enforcing criminal and civil laws enacted by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions against legal challenges on behalf of the United States. The discretion afforded Department attorneys entrusted with those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election,” she wrote in the February memo.
“It is therefore the policy of the Department of Justice that any attorney who because of their personal political views or judgments declines to sign a brief or appear in court, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination, consistent with applicable law.”
That dumb, bleached loser thinks that we, the American people WANT innocent people arrested and deported to El Salvador–here’s a clue Blondie: Our Constitution doesn’t allow this, and if you don’t understand that, you need to resign ASAP. It is also not the job of the DOJ to defend Trump or Homeland Security when they illegally have someone arrested and deported. There was NO “good faith argument [to be made] on behalf of the Administration” and the DOJ’s mission is NOT to advocate for arresting and deporting people who have done nothing wrong.
Hunter has received a full pardon, so Blondie should just go and get something done about those bags under her eyes and her black roots.
Brilliant idea by Congressman Biggs
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/rep-andy-biggs-files-bold-resolution-remove-deep
Remove Boasberg without impeachment.
I don’t know if it will work, but it is arguable
Roberts needs to act. If Biggs’ idea doesn’t work other clever people will be looking for other remedies.
Roberts seems to think of himself as Zeus, far above the mortals, but he is looking a lot more like the Wizard of Oz as the curtains are pulled back. He probably should resign before the reputation of the Court is totally destroyed.
NY POST editorial board calls for Boasberg to recuse himself NOW.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/04/opinion/james-boasberg-too-conflicted-to-judge-trump-deport-case-recuse-yourself-now
And they give rather good reasons.
I kind of hope that idiot steps in it and holds anyone in the administration in contempt.
Sow the wind and reap…
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Article 2 – Section 2 of the Constitution says that the President “shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States”. Doesn’t that require that an “Offense” shall have been committed in order for the President to pardon it? Can a President pardon a ‘potential’ Offense? Can a pardon be non-specific (i.e. that no specific Offense has been charged or perhaps even discovered? Can a President issue a general and potential pardon simply to remove the possibility or even just the inconvenience of being charged (let alone being convicted) with any crime that might be discovered?
# I think you’re, right, anon. It’s not a game or a trick. It’s common sense and reasonable reading.
# Staying with prof Turley, it was Merrick Garland’s DOJ. He testified before congress, he knew what he read in papers. He was a puppet.
The President shall have the power to grant pardons.
What part of that sentence do you not understand?
Would you like to rewrite the Constitution to your liking?
The judicial branch does that with regularity.
What if the President doesn’t sign the pardons?
There is an issue with legislation – because the constitution explicitly requires legislation to be “signed into law” The president MUST physically sign atleast one copy.
Outside of that the president can use the Autopen.
But doing so subjects that action to challenge – not because it was signed by autopen, but because it is arguable that it was NOT the president who directed that actions to occur.
There are some claims that many things with autopen signatures were done without Biden being aware.
The president must at the very least direct someone to sign with the autopen.
In the end it is extremely unwise to sign anything that has legal significance with an autopen.
The pardon exists upon communication of its approval by the President, understanding that no particular form or method of communication is required by the Constitution, thereby allowing verbalization to suffice by omission.
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, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
Jonathan, not sure you read these comments. However just in case. But there is a DC Regional member bank of the Federal Reserve Bank that had someone (s) at the Obama / Biden admin, DOJ, FBI covering for the bank when the FBI Agent in Charge told me was evidence of the bank laundering money (over $600,000) and had blatantly forged checks on my account to hide moving money illegally across state lines.
President and CEO of bank holding company that the defendant bank was a wholly owned subsidiary of was a Governor Richmond Federal Reserve. He just also happened to also be the father of the president of defendant bank. No investigation anywhere even in the face of manufactured and forged, falsified banking documents that were submitted via the Leesburg courts. . These documents were supplied via the banks own defense discovery.
FBI agents in Manassas Va went to Monday morning meeting and received initial approval to investigate. Yet in the two week interim while they were finishing up 2 other cases someone from DC sent down they were “not allowed to investigate this bank”.
Agent told me they were not given a reason why. Upon asking for someone to step in and help get the FBI investigation re-authorized and being turned down I got this Direct quote from Obama White House staff (she was also a riding student of mine) who worked in West Wing of White House every day (cyber security) “Yeah that’s been a huge problem with the Obama Administration, we have been forced to look the other way, in the interest of restoring the ‘credibility’ in the American Financial Sector.”
Later as I was looking for help getting this re-authorized, Retired FBI agent in charge California with a 4 BILLION dollar fraud investigation and conviction to his credit, after looking at the evidence, said and I quote” I have zero idea why this investigation was shut down. There is more than sufficient evidence to justify an investigation. ” no I cannot risk my retirement by stepping in.
No one I know has the connections and the power to get the FBI called off an investigation into money laundering of over $600,000 and check forging. The exception would be the Executive Branch.
No one so far has ever cared about the fraud on the courts but then the recent last president of the Va Bar was a partner at the firm under retainer to the Fairfax firm under retainer to this banking entity.
They utterly destroyed my small business, eliminated everything I had ever worked for. Allegedly they did this to another black small woman owned business and one Vietnamese small woman business owner in Leesburg. Both lost their businesses also.
Everyone turns their heads at this corruption and pretends it doesn’t matter. Just like we live in some 3rd world country where money just buys the legal system.
# Well , either money buys the legal system or blackmail and extortion do, Grace.
Sure. The Times will cover it now that Hunter is pardoned. ******* cowards. Our MSM is a cancer; there will be no walking any part of the past 10+ years back.
Exactly what I was thinking, James. Very unfortunate. Where were they when America needed them?
The decenters here are all anonymous. How interesting.
We knew Hunter was a foreign agent. But was Hunter acting as President when his dad was non-compos mentos?
The term “influence peddling” speaks for itself. Hunter was selling his capacity to influence U.S. government policy on behalf of foreign companies and foreign governments and their officials. That was a FARA violation. He was aided by his father, making him an accessory. If no one is above the law, as the leftists kept repeating every time they indicted Trump, why isn’t Joe Biden indicted for accessory to FARA violations and Hunter called as a witness (no longer protected by the Fifth Amendment, given the pardon his father gave him)?
Jonathan: Looks like some Congressmen are also paying close attention to what is happening in Judge Xinis’ Maryland courtroom involving the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Rep. Sam Liccardo, a former prosecutor, says AG Pam Bondi is undermining “fundamental professional ethics” by forcing DOJ lawyers to go into court and lie for the DJT regime. As pointed out in my previous comment one such compromised DOJ lawyer was Erez Reuveni. But he refused to lie for Bondi and was just suspended.
Liccardo blasted the DJT regime and DOJ under Bondi for deporting people accused of being gang members without affording them of due process–a fundamental right of any “person” in the US–regardless of immigration status. Liccardo has advice for DOJ lawyers wrestling with what do when they are asked to lie before a judge in court: “Do everything that your professional ethics requires you to do, that your conscience requires you to do, and in the meantime, look for another job”.
Pam Bondi has gutted the DOJ of lawyers with professional ethics. But what did we expect? When she was the AG in Fl she dropped a lawsuit against Trump University after DJT donated $25,000 to Bondi’s 2013 campaign!
An immigration judge determined at a bond heating in 2019 that Abrego Garcia was deportable as a member of MS-13. The Board of Immigration Appeals let this determination stand. How much due process should an illegal alien get? Supreme Court review?
What action exists beyond “due process?”
What is the name for that bit of intrigue?
Joking right? You can’t be that clueless can you?
“DOJ lawyers with professional ethics” Where did you locate one of them?
DOJ Head of financial fraud, reported only to Loretta Lynch, refused to do anything about a ‘connected’ Bank forging checks on client accounts and accepting cash payments on client loans for over 600k and the money never touched the balance but then disappeared into the banking system. FBI agents said was evidence of the bank laundering money. But the FBI investigation was shut down by management in DC. But of course nothing was going on. 🙄
If it was you laundering money or forging checks you think they would ignore it?
No one has lied to the Judge.
DOJ lawyers have refused to make the legal arguments that Bondi requested.
Each and Every lawyer, government employee, or employee of any kind is free to do that.
They are not free to assume they have a job if they do.
Judge Xinis is way out over his skis.
Friday SCOTUS took the first step ot end this Lawfare.
SCOTUS told the States that are Suing Trump in the first circuit because that circuit is freindly to them – that is DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.
When you sue the federal govenrment about MONEY you are required to do so in the DC court of Federal Claims – which is different from the DC Circuit, that you can not try to bootstrap the APA to get jurisdiction where you do not have it.
This decision will effect almost all the current lawsuits against the Trump administration.
While the specific decision is narrow in that it applies ONLY to claims of monetary claims against the Federal govenrment – that is still about 1/2 of all current lawfare that will have to be refiled in the proper court, the decision is also afirming a constitutional principle.
JURSIDICTION MATTERS. While some of the details are different – ALL the lawfare against the trump administration is jurisdictionally in error.
Judge Xinis’s case is a Habeaus case – no matter how hard she tried to say it is not. The jurisdiction for Habeaus in the case of Garcia is TX as he was deported from Texas.
The same is True of the Boasberg case.
All the immigrant cases must be filed where they are currently detained or where they were deported from if they are no longer in the US.
You are here ranting that the Trump administration is not following the law or obeying court orders.
On Monday we get to find out if Xini Boasberg and myriads of other left wing nut federal judges follow the law.
Actually we KNOW the answer – SCOTUS just said – the Courts are NOT following the law on Jurisdiction.
On Many we get to see if now that the SCOTUS has said YOU MUST FOLLOW THE LAW, whether they will do it NOW.
They did not before.
You seem to think it is the end of the world if there is even a HINT that The Trump administration might now follow a court order – even an impossible one. One Monday we get to see if given a SECOND OPORTUNITY to avoid lawlessness, that these left wing nut judges FOLLOW THE LAW and vacate their cases directing the plantiffs to file in the proper jursidiction.
How Much do you want to bet that Boasberg and Xini pretend this case does not apply to them and FORCE the Supreme court to slap them directly ?
Dennis, you have been told REPEATEDLY – by myself and others that Garcia was adjudicated to be an MS13 member and ordered deported by an Article II court years ago. Garcia appealed and an Article III appelate court upheld the lower court decision.
The FINDING OF FACT that Garcia is an MS13 member is NOT merely a claim by DOJ – it is a determination by the courts years ago, during which time Garcia got FULL DUE PROCESS. Garcia dropped his appeals. The Determination that Garcia was an MS13 Gang LEADER is at this time an established legal Fact. It is not a vague claim.
Prior to being Deported Garcia went to court with a NEW Claim. He claims that a rival gang in El Salvador might kill him if he was deported,
And based on that claim the Biden admin granted Garcia TPS status. That grant was improper – fear of death by a rival gang is NOT a basis for protective status. It must be fear of death by the government you are a citizen of. Regardless, the determination that Garcia was eligable for TPS is an executive determination that is not reviewable by the courts. Among other reasons because it is TEMPORARY
Garcia’s TPS status expired on its own a few days AFTER Garcia was Deported.
SEPARATELY Most all Biden admin TPS grants were Revoked by the Trump administration.
Just like the Biden admin Grant of TPS status is not re-viewable.
The Trump admin revocation is not re-viewable. As a rule what one president has the unilateral power to grant another has the unilateral power to revoke.
You rant about Due process – but there is little or no due process to TPS. It is temporary, the president or those acting at his direction grant it.
When it expires it is gone. It can be revoked at anytime by whoever is president at the moment.
The Trump admin made a minor clerical error, they should have waited 4 days before Deporting Garcia.
That is called “harmless error”.
Xinis should have dismissed the case at the start.
She should have dismissed it for failure to state a case.
She should have dismissed it because it was brought in the wrong jurisdiction.
She should have dismissed it because Garcia has already gotten all the Due process he is entitled to.
You are correct that all PERSONS are entitled to “due process”.
But you are OBVIOUSLY miles beyond reality with the presumption – the same idiotic one that Xinis made,
That Due process in a civil case or a deportation case is the same as in a criminal case.
Being a leader of MS13 is NOT a crime – though there are likely related crimes that Garcia could be prosecuted for.
Because it is not a crime, he has not been arrested as a criminal, indicted, and he is not facing a criminal trial, and the government did not have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Garcia was a MS13 gang leader.
If you are pulled over for a rolling stop at a stop sign – or for driving too slow on a limited access highway, law enforcement does NOT have to prove their case “beyond a reasonable doubt” – it is NOT a criminal offense and the standard as well as the due process you are entitled to is way below that of a criminal trial.
Garcia had his Article II deportation hearing. He was found to be an MS13 Gang leader. He appealed – the Artcile III apelate court upheld that determination. Garcia CEASED appealing – that determination is FINAL. The Deportation order is FINAL.
Some idiot in the Biden admin subsequently granted Garcia TPS status. That did not vacate the finding or the deportation order.
It merely delayed them.
Garcia’s TSP status expired and was separately revoked.
Because he has already litigated his MS13 membership and lost – he likely does not even have a valid Habeaus claim left.
He has gotten all the Due Process he is entitled to.
But even if he has a Habeaus claim left – that must be filed in TX.
Contra Judge Xinis the determination that Garcia is an MS13 leader is FINAL – it is outside her jurisdiction.
it is the final determination of an appellate court that was not appealed further.
I do not beleive that Garcia has a valid claim related to his TPS grant, but if he does that is a habeuas matter for the courts in TX – not Judge Xinis.
@John Say: What a masterful smack down of the leftist’s over-reqchibg power grab. Very well presented!
KD
Thank you.
There appear to be a few details that I might not be correct about.
While there are numerous reliable sources that Garcia was adjudicated by the Article II immigration courts as an MS13 Gang leader and that Garcia abandoned challenging that judicial finding of fact and therefore it is no longer within the courts purview to attempt to re-litigate that, it appears that occurred during the Trump administration. I have conflicting reports of where in the process Garcia abandoned challenging the finding of fact that he was an MS13 leader – but it is beyond dispute that that finding is now FINAL – that Judge Xinis can not re-litigate it – which is Why DOJ is not providing evidence of Garcia’s MS13 activities – the court does not have the power to review the final decisions of prior courts after appeals have been exhausted.
Bondi is slowly removing from DOJ left wing nut lawyers that will not argue the law and policy of the Trump administration.
She – like Every AG is entitled to do that.
My wife is a public defender. She has been asked by Judge, Clients and her bosses to do things that she beleives are unethical.
This happens constantly. Sometimes there is discusion and an ethical way to proceed is found. Very rarely she has been persuaded that she was wrong. Quite frequently she has said NO! When she does – the client can fire her from the case, the judge can remover her from the case, the Cheif PD can fire her. She KNOWS that.
The DOJ attorney’s refusing to do as the AG requests are in the same position.
They can do what they were asked, or they can be removed from the case or fired.
So far I have not heard a claim that a DOJ attorney was asked to do something unethical that did not turn out to be a DOJ attorney claiming they were asked to do something that did not fit with their politics. Those are NOT the same.
The DOJ under Bondi is being very combattive with leftwing nut judges. While they are obeying stupid and improper judicial orders while they appeal, They are NOT showing these judges legal determinations any respect – because when you go so far over your skis as a judge – you are NOT entitled to respect.
The process of appealing – in left wing nut ciruits is tedous – but Trump is winning slowly. He is narrowing the judges decisions BEFORE appealing most of the time. He is getting dismissals a fair percent of the time. He is winning a bit less than half the appeals.
Only a few cases have gotten to SCOTUS – one was effectively a win, the most recent an outright win.
There are only a few issues like Birth Right Citizenship that Trump is going to lose on.
That alone should make clear how BAD the decisions of these judges are.
DemonicRats
The Biden story will remain current and relevant for a long time, because of the disasters imposed by a president who was non compos mentis, and by his family’s evident, but poorly hidden, corruption. The people who really ran the presidency will be uncovered, and we may know what laws are invalid because Biden did not in fact sign them.
A person could get dizzy and fall over from the kind of spin Stan spews.
Stan – yes, laws, EOs, and pardons, all by autopen.
Special Counsel Hur said he wouldn’t bring charges because Biden was a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Yet he was the one supposedly running this country, and (supposedly) the most powerful man in the world. Nobody could be that if he is elderly with a poor memory and not competent to be tried.
As Timon would say about someone like that being our current president (at the time): And everybody’s okay with this?
Thank you, thank you, President Donald J. Trump for this tremendous stock market buying opportunity!
We must empathize with the uninvited and deplorable paid trolls, Dennis McInLiar, Gigenius, and George.
In their dreadful position, it is impossible for them to attempt anything accretive or positive; they are left only with persisting in the negative.
President Donald J. Trump WON!
President Donald J. Trump is WINNING!
They LOST!
They are LOSING!
And they are beside themselves with grief and trauma.
Poor, poor, pitiful things.
Magats are losing statewide races.
They have lost all power at the federal level. And they don’t even have their precious Roe v. Wade to console themselves with – the overturning of which was supposed to usher in decades of Democrat electoral dominance. No wonder we see them turning to widespread political violence. Like firebombing Tesla dealerships is going to make them popular again.
And the Dem party shows no self-awareness. Instead of trying to repair their brand, they’re they’re doubling down on failure, going to bat for men in women’s competitive sports, criminal illegal aliens and Hamas operatives, and taxpayer-funded sex change operations for prison inmates (protesting the ending of which virtually the entire Dem side of the Georgia legislature walked out in protest). You can’t fix stupid.
Ah, Roe v. Wade.
Next up for corrective action, Social Security.
Congress has the power to tax for only debt, defense, and “general Welfare.”
Social Security is provided to only 18.7% of the population, which is distinctly not general, all, or the whole.
If Social Security is “general Welfare,” everything is “general Welfare.”
“General Welfare” is basic infrastructure, such as roads, water, post office, electricity, internet, sewer, etc., and that is what Congress may tax for.
The Supreme Court of 1937 in Helvering v. Davis could not have been more partial, biased, and just plain wrong than the Supreme Court of 1973 in Roe v. Wade.
Certainly the American Founders could have put “Federal Old-Age Benefits” in the Constitution in 1789 if that were their intent.
It was not.
. . . and one more popular item they oppose: voter ID. In Wisconsin, while the Dem candidate for state supreme court won, the ballot question to add voter ID to the state constitution also won 63-37. That shows how popular voter ID is even among Dem voters, yet the leadership still sides with its radical left-wing fringe instead of with its base.
Jonathan: While DJT is tanking the US economy with his insane tariffs you want us to believe that the failure of the DOJ to prosecute Hunter Biden for violating FARA is somehow a bigger “scandal”? Really? I cant figure out why you are so obsessed with the Biden family. Who really cares about the Bidens now. It’s really old news.
But I suppose it’s really about distraction and deflection. That’s because you don’t want to discuss what is happening within the DOJ today–where DJT has turned the agency into his personal law firm–to go after his political enemies. DJT and Bondi have purged the DOJ of any independence and the rule of law. Any DOJ lawyer who refuses follow the DJT agenda has resigned or has been fired. And the ones who are left are frustrated in having to go before a judge and defend the regime’s illegal acts.
Take the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia now before federal judge Paula Xinis in Maryland. As discussed in a previous comment (4/4/25@9:55pm) this Salvadoran was illegally picked up by ICE, claiming he is a member of MS-13, and sent him to a gulag in El Salvador with the other Venezuelan immigrants. The DOJ admits AG was legally in the US under TPS since 2019. Because of that admitted “administrative error” Judge Xinis ordered the DJT regime to return AG by 11:59 pm tomorrow. The DOJ filed an appeal with the 4th circuit yesterday asking for a stay of Judge Xinis’ order claiming she had no jurisdiction to order the return of AG.
What is interesting is that DJT’s DOJ has never offered any proof AG is a member of MS-13. In fact, AG fled El Salvador because of gang violence and threats against his family. Judge Xinis offered the government an opportunity to provide evidence of AG’s gang membership but the government couldn’t provide such proof.
When the DOJ attorney, Erez Reuveni, told Judge Xinis that the government couldn’t comply with order to return AG to the US because US government can’t tell another “sovereign” country what to do the judge replied that if the US government can strike a deal to put the immigrants in a prison in El Salvador, and pay $6 million for those services, “then certainly they have the functional control to unwind the wrong decision”.
Reuveni also told Judge Xenis he was “frustrated” because he could not get his superiors in the DOJ to simply comply with the court order: “My answer to a lot of questions is going to be frustrating, and I am frustrated. The government made a choice here to produce no evidence”. That statement to the court got Reuveni in trouble. AG Bondi just suspended Reuveni because he refused to defend the government’s illegal actions in sending AG to El Salvador.
We’ll see what the 4th Circuit decides in this case. But it boils down to this. When the DJT regime determines an immigrant is a member of a criminal gang that can’t be contested in the courts. And if an immigrant is unlawfully sent to a foreign death camp we can’t bring him back even if it was our error–because, well, we have no power over the government we do business with. That sounds like something out of a Kafka novel!
Dennis,
I have a grand idea. You can start your own WordPress blog and choose any topic you like, as much as you want.
After all, it is still a relatively free country.
Yes. Dennis McInliar, please do that. You LOST. You serve no purpose here other than to waste time and space. Oh, and did I say YOU LOST? You’re so useless and ineffective at advocating communism that YOU LOST.
The doctrines of laches and estoppel should preclude any redetermination of Garcia’s criminal gang membership. The fact that the family pupusa stand was menaced by a rival gang, Barrio 18, proves what, exactly? Should the US intervene in a foreign country’s gang war?
” DJT is tanking the US economy with his insane tariffs”
If Trump’s tarriffs are “insane” then the tarriffs of the countries Trump is tarrifing are also insane.
The tariffs are reciprocal.
Regardless, as of tonight – several countries have dropped their tariffs on US goods to ZERO if they follow through the Sec Commerce will RECIPROCATE and drop ours to ZERO.
Over 50 countries are flooding the WH with calls to negotiate (or capitulate).
It is too early to be sure how this ends – but so far so good.
Trump might have actually managed to accomplish REAL free trade as well as fair trade.
So far only China is retaliating.
The March Jobs report is stellar -an it is nearly all private sector jobs for citizens.
As the Stock Market is dropping money is flooding the bond market and bond yeilds are dropping.
The US has 10T in Bonds that must be renewed this year. Lower bond yields mean lower interest rates, mean lower deficits.
They also mean lower interest rates for mortgages, and other bank loans., They mean lower Fed Rates.
They mean and END to inflation – and possibly some mild DEFLATION.
Commodity futures are dropping – that means commodities – food, will be cheaper in the future.
In many cases food prices are dropping now.
The price of Oil has dropped precipitously – that also will make everything cheaper.
I would further note that even if Tariffs reduce US exports of food – that would still mean US food prices would drop.
If farmers can not sell food elsewhere they must sell it at a lower price in the US – that is called the law of supply and demand.
Trump is reviving an 19th century means of raising government revenue, and he is getting 19th century economic results.
MILD Deflation. Prices going DOWN not up.
Warren Buffet is hording cash that means he expect prices to go DOWN.
I have no idea if the stock market drop is just noise or a drop to a new baseline.
If it is the latter – which it could be, it would just be Bidenflation being purged from the stock market.
The stock market is a leading economic indication – but that is NOT the ONLY signal that the stock market provides.
It is also a measure of inflation or deflation.
If Stock prices drop, and all prices drop, and the economy continues to produce and jobs continue to be created – which appears to be what is occuring, Then the stock market drop is just a reflection of purging inflation.
We have seen stock market bubbles burst before without economic consequences – the tech bubble 2 decades ago.
# The CEO of euro pacific investments says Nike won’t build in the USA. Nike uses Vietnam and other Asia pacific labor in production. A worker earns 54 dollars per month. The cost of Nike shoes is $1.50 and sell in the USA for $150.00. I guess those tariffs would cut into those profits??
Nike is publicly traded with big shares to Blackrock and Vanguard.
Trump is attempting to provide jobs. Those jobs will be in assembly, packaging, shipping. It’s a target that fits the available USA labor force. Quite reasonable creating the US as a kind of hub for distribution. It should work once the shock is over.
Many will need IDs and soc sec numbers of their own but it can be done.
Production that is inherently labor intensive and requires low skilled labor is not returning to the US.
But it is leaving China.
Production that currently uses low cost low skill labor that can be automated will return to the US slowly.
China has moved from low skill low cost production to higher skill production,. that has raised the standard of living in china, but it has also decreased the competitive advantage that China has.
All costs EXCEPT labor are higher in china. Further the supply chain length is significant with multiple unreliabilities and vulnerabilities.
Globally we are seeing production return to closer proximity to consumption. That is an inevitable consequence of globally rising stards of living.
Dennis – I do nto care if Hunter Biden violated FARA – I do not beleive FARA is constitutional.
Prior to Mueller it was rarely prosecuted – as it probably is not constititonal.
Turley makes two points. The first is more evidence that the handling of Hunter Biden was an excellent example of justice for thee, but not for me, for DOJ behaving hpocritically and lawless, and for left wing nuts like you supporting that.
The Second issue is that this as well as other revalations point out how corrupt the Bidens were and how much even up until NOW has been hidden from us.
I do not think FARA is constitutional – but I do think that FARA violations MAY expose actual criminal coruption – and in the case of the Biden’s absolutelly do.
“Take the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia now before federal judge Paula Xinis in Maryland.”
Not for long – Friday’s SCOTUS decision requires federal courts to drop cases they do not have jurisdiction over.
“Salvadoran was illegally picked up by ICE, claiming he is a member of MS-13,”
False, there is a valid deportation order out for him and has been for years.
Garcia was adjudicated by the courts to be an MS13 gang leader.
This is not a claim, it is a finding of fact by the courts.
“and sent him to a gulag in El Salvador with the other Venezuelan immigrants.”
That would be TdA members.
“The DOJ admits AG was legally in the US under TPS since 2019.”
Correct. While TPS never should have been granted, it was and that grant is legal and non-reviewable, even if it was wrong.
Granting TPS status did NOT vacate the Deportation order or prior courts findings.
It merely put them on hold TEMPORARILY.
Garcia was deported a few days BEFORE his TPS status expired, and Before Trump revoked it.
That was an administrative error.
“Judge Xinis ordered the DJT regime to return AG by 11:59 pm tomorrow.”
Correct – that is an illegal order.
“The DOJ filed an appeal with the 4th circuit yesterday asking for a stay of Judge Xinis’ order claiming she had no jurisdiction to order the return of AG.” Correct.
“What is interesting is that DJT’s DOJ has never offered any proof AG is a member of MS-13. In fact,”
Incorrect – AGAIN Garcia was found by the courts to be a MS13 gang LEADER, That finding has never been vacated.
Garcia TEMPORARILY block removal by getting TPS status. But he did not vacate the finding or the deportation order.
“AG fled El Salvador because of gang violence and threats against his family.”
Correct a RIVAL Gang to MS13 threatened to kill him and his family.
BTW that is NOT a legitimate basis for sancturary in the US.
The threat MUST be from your govenrment – not From Gang’s. This was adjudicated way back int he reagan administration and specifically with respect to El Salvador. You can not get sanctuary in the US because your country has lots of violence or is an economic basketcase.
“Judge Xinis offered the government an opportunity to provide evidence of AG’s gang membership but the government couldn’t provide such proof.”
False – Judge Xinis failed to examine the evidence and used the wrong legal standard to attempt to revisit a legal finding of fact that she does not have jurisdiction over.
The Finding that Garcia is an MS13 Gang leader occurred years ago in courts with full due process, Garcia lost, and lost on appeal, and then dropped his appeal and successfully sought TPS status. The Court Finding that Garcia is an MS13 Gang leader is final and out of Xinis’s jurisdiction. It is NOT a mere claim, it is a finding of fact done with full due process.
Xinis does not have jurisdiction to revisit the claim and even if she did she is applying the wrong legal standard of proof.
Being an MS13 member is not a crime – thoguh MS13 members with near certainty commit crimes.
It is however gorunds to deport, and the standard of proof to send someone here illegally back to their HOME, is far lower than beyond a reasonable doubt.
Xinis is correct – Garcia was not charged as an MS13 member, not indicted as an MS13 member, not prosecuted and not convicted as an MS13 member – because the legal standard for deportation – is a Civil law standard, not a criminal law one.
Xinis err’s in failing to accept the final determination of immigration courts. and applying the wrong legal standard.
“When the DOJ attorney, Erez Reuveni, told Judge Xinis that the government couldn’t comply with order to return AG to the US because US government can’t tell another “sovereign” country what to do the judge replied that if the US government can strike a deal to put the immigrants in a prison in El Salvador, and pay $6 million for those services, “then certainly they have the functional control to unwind the wrong decision”.”
Xinis is wrong, but that is irrelevant. The conduct of foreign relations is outside the jurisdiction of the courts.
If Xinis used the word “immigrants” that is unethical – the correct term in courts is illegal alien.
and in the Case of MS13 and TdA – Criminal Illegal Alien.
“Reuveni also told Judge Xenis he was “frustrated” because he could not get his superiors in the DOJ to simply comply with the court order: “My answer to a lot of questions is going to be frustrating, and I am frustrated. The government made a choice here to produce no evidence”. That statement to the court got Reuveni in trouble. AG Bondi just suspended Reuveni because he refused to defend the government’s illegal actions in sending AG to El Salvador.”
Bondi properly Suspended Reuvini. If he disagrees with the direction of his superiors – he can resign if he wishes.
He can not go to court and undermine the DOJ. He is obligated top argue the DOJ position on the law.
“We’ll see what the 4th Circuit decides in this case.”
Actually we will see on Monday whether Xinis dismisses the case for lack of Jurisdiction as SCOTUS is just told the lower courts to do.
“But it boils down to this. When the DJT regime determines an immigrant is a member of a criminal gang that can’t be contested in the courts. ”
Partly correct.
AGAIN Garcia is an Illegal Alien. The entire deportation process is handled inside the Executive by Article II courts based on Immigration law and the constitutional executive powers of the president.
After going through that process – Then and only then can the person being deported appeal to Article III courts and then only on a limited basis.
Garcia failed to do that. Instead he sought and got Temporary protective status – which is purely at the discretion of the executive, which TEMPORARILY blocked deportation. It did NOT vacate the existing Deportation order.
DOJ is not even slightly interested in giving Xinis he oportunity to Relitigate the judicial finding that Garcia was an MS13 gang leader.
They want to win this case on the clean legal issue – Do Article III judges have the right to review deportation orders AFTER they are final ?
That is what DOJ is asking Reuveni to argue. That is what they want to take to the appeals courts if Xinis decides improperly.
That is what they want to take to SCOTUS if the apeals courts decide improperly.
DOJ does not WANT to relitigate Garcias MS13 status infront of a judge that can not even get the legal standard that applies correctly.
Lets be clear Garcia LOST his right to challenge his deportation as an MS13 leader when he did not appeal his deportation decision.
“And if an immigrant is unlawfully sent to a foreign death camp we can’t bring him back even if it was our error–because, well, we have no power over the government we do business with. That sounds like something out of a Kafka novel!”
You can spin it however you wish.
Garcia is NOT an immigrant – he is an illegal immigrant. This is important.
You rant about due process – the due process rights of legal and illegal immigrants are different.
It is not even necescary to prove that Garcia is an MS13 member to deport him back to his home in El Salvador.
But it is easier to deport him as a criminal or member of a criminal gang – again the extent of due process that people illegal immigrants who are members of criminal gangs are entitled to is less than those who are merely illegal immigrants.
It is irrelevant whether the US has power over El Salvador – the Courts do not have power over El Salvador, and more importantly they do not have power over international relations.
The courts can not order the US govenrment to negotiate ANYTHING with a foreign govenrment.
If Garcia was a US citizen who was illegally deported to an El Salvadoran h311 hole, While we would expect the US govenrment to get him back.
The courts could not order that.
SCOTUS requires lower courts to stop acting outside their jurisdiction
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a910_f2bh.pdf
This opinion repeats and expands on what I have posted here repeated.
You can not grant a TRO requiring a party to ACT on a claim in equity – because those claims do not result in irrepairable harm.
SCOTUS further found that The APA is not appropirate for monetary claims against the federal govenrment,
The 1st Circuit does not have proper jurisdiction for monetary claims against the federal govenrment.
While the details of this case are NOT completely on point with the immigration cases.
The issue of jurisdiction is.
Just as you can not use an APA to get jurisdiction over an equity dispute witht he federal govenrment,
You can not use the APA or other federal laws to move jurisdiction in deportation cases from the Article II courts, or the appeals from the Article III court in the district the the deportee was detained in.
Dennis – Daily Mail poll has Trump approval at 53% up 4pts in the last week.
Turley: WHY can’t you let go of the “Hunter Biden Scandal”? Is it to deflect away from the fact that Trump’s failures have, in a little more than 70 days, energized the American people to take to the streets, to town halls, to Tesla dealerships and to innundate offices of their Congressional representatives protesting Musk and his “tech bros”downloading our most-sensitive personal information, firing scientists, meat inspectors, park rangers, cancer researchers, VA nurses and counselors, Social Security office personnel, IRS personnel, and trying to eliminate USAID, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Education? In 2 days time, he managed to screw the American people out of $6 Trillion Dollars out of the value of their stocks and retirement accounts with his on-again-off-again stupid tariffs. That is a record–and not a good one. And, the damage is just beginning. Several of our service members died in a training mission in Lithuania, and was Trump there to honor their service when their bodies arrived at Dover AFB? No. He was golfing in Florida–they are, according to him, “suckers and losers” anyway. And never forget the REASON behind all of the arbitrary firings and tariffs–TAX CUTS TO BENEFIT THE WEALTHIEST.
And, exactly WHAT is the “scandal” here? You haven’t even SEEN the letter–so why are you commenting on the alleged contents? Jeesh! How pathetic.
: gigi :
It’s PROFESSOR Turley to you, little copycatting twit who learned big words, cool terms, and colon punctuation from this blog.
(Remember that all your OLD comments are saved in memory to provide evidence of your “development” )
THE INCIVILITY OF IMPUDENCE!
BAN FOR LIFE!
This is not about Hunter Biden or the Bidens.
It is about the double standards of the left.
It is about justice for me, but not for thee.
It is about the willful blindness of those like you who seem to think that the schiff of those on the left does not smell.
We are getting stories and tell all books about how obvious it was in the WhiteHouse that Joe was incopetent, or that those in the MSM knew it.
Those stories are not about Joe’s incompetance, they are about the massive effort to atleast party cover it up.
You talk about lies – but on topic after topic YOU were lied to.
There was more than at the time of the lies – but still YOU beleived.
Now as it becomes more and more evident that those YOU beleived were KNOWINGLY lying,
YOU double down.
YOUare still shilling the Collusion Delusion nonsense.
YOU still hat “experts” advice on Covid was correct,
YOU still beleive that Joe was not corrupt.
YOU still beleive that Joe was competent.
YOU still beleive that the US economy was good for the past 4 years,
YOU still beleive that Biden inherited inflation rather than caused it.
YOU beleive almost nothing that is true.
A wise person would be angry with those who deceived her, not those who were telling the truth all along.
Tom Homan, Director of ICE, apparently thinks that the language spoken in Mexico is “Mexican”.
He is offended that the Taco Bell menu lists items in Mexican rather than English.
Where is Pam Bondi? Biden should have been prosecuted for corruption, autopen fraud, etc. Baby Biden should be in prison by now. And how about that entire Obama “holdover administration” that gave Obama a de facto third term and that usurped the power of a dementia-diagnosed president?
FOR. THE. LOVE. OF. GOD. LOSE. THE. HUNTER. BIDEN. STORY.
LOVE OF GOD??? HUH?
Turley is under orders from his overlords at Fox to keep harping about Hunter Biden as a distraction from the total chaos that has engulfed the Trump administration.
The really interesting observation is that this stokes the “RAGE” of the Trump cultists who infest this blog. Just look at all the strident, hateful comments this has engendered here.
Turley is constantly whining and writing about how the Democrats are constantly stoking rage against their opponents.
Apparently he has no qualms about stoking rage among the Trump cultists that is directed against the liberals.
TOTAL CHAOS like Biden gave us? ha ha ha DEMS weren’t complaining then!
Turley is under orders from his overlords at Fox . . .
Hahahahahah! Total clown show. Who writes idiocy like that?
If Democrats didn’t have double standards they wouldn’t have standards at all. Hillary Clinton violated the Espionage Act by copying Top Secret documents to the hard drive of the private email server she kept in a Chappaqua bathroom — no prosecution. HRC committed the same NY crimes Trump was convicted of, mislabeling payments for the Steele Dossier as “Legal Services” in the attempt to thwart Trump’s election. The FEC even finrd HRC for her deception. No prosecution. The laundry list of Republicans prosecuted under FARA, but not Hunter –:just another example.
The Hunter Biden story is no longer about Hunter Biden
It is about the MASSIVE coverup. It is about the corruption of those int he government and the media.
It is about the hatred of the left being so great they burried the truth as deep as they could