Below is my column in the New York Post on how Madison’s famous objective of making “ambition … counteract ambition” in the constitutional system depends on the right type of ambition. Today, some members exhibit an ambition that transcends any institutional or constitutional interests. They act more like social media influencers than constitutional actors. One of the best examples is New York Rep. Dan Goldman, who vividly shows the distinction between partisan and institutional interests in a Madisonian system.
Here is the column:
In Federalist No. 51, James Madison famously wrote that “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.” He believed that members of each branch would jealously protect their own institutions from the other branches.
Of course, Madison never met Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.). Goldman is an example of how the wrong type of ambition can destroy Congress if it becomes widespread among members.
This week, both Republican and Democratic members raised alarm over the disclosure that Special Counsel Jack Smith tracked the telephone calls by members of both houses of Congress.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) stated, “On the surface of it, it would strike me as a significant invasion of the right of Senators to conduct their jobs, so this is something that needs urgent follow-up.”
But one member rushed forward to dismiss such institutional concerns as much ado about nothing. Goldman attacked the victims as legitimate targets to help “confirm Trump’s effort to overturn the election.”
Goldman has long been viewed as the face of rage politics in Washington. He often uses hearings to attack witnesses and political opponents. His signature style involves heaping insults on witnesses and then immediately “reclaiming his time” to prevent them from answering his accusations.
Yet what makes Goldman so notable is his consistent denial of abuses by Democrats, no matter what the evidence may show. Goldman has made himself indispensable as someone who is willing to deny the obvious while attacking anyone who dabbles in reality.
If denial were an art form, Dan Goldman would be the Botticelli of the Beltway.
With the increase in political violence on the left, many are joining in condemning such violent groups on the left as Antifa.
Not Goldman. He rushed forward to deny that Antifa was a real group, demanding that people name just one person who claimed to be a member of Antifa. For those of us who have testified and written about Antifa for years, it was another bizarre moment. Groups like Portland’s Rose City Antifa are some of the oldest such groups in the country and extremists have routinely identified themselves as Antifa. Even far-left activists have acknowledged coordinated protests with Antifa groups.
Goldman’s denials can even leave CNN hosts gobsmacked. This week, Goldman challenged claims that there has been a significant increase in attacks on ICE officers. After attacking ICE officers as “violent,” he objected that people “keep talking about a 1000% upswing and all this stuff, I haven’t seen examples of that.” He was literally saying that when other networks were showing such attacks. As CNN hosts and guests described the attacks as “terrible,” Goldman dismissed the accounts of widespread attacks as little more than rumors.
If there is some partisan abuse that even Goldman would not dismiss, it is clearly not censorship. Goldman attacked witnesses seeking to expose the censorship system during the Biden Administration, again dismissing the suppression of opposing views.
It also clearly does not include influence peddling. Goldman was the main denier of Biden family operations that yielded millions. Even as former associates supported these accounts and communications confirmed the allegations, Goldman was still discarding the evidence and calling evidence of corruption as mere “niceties.”
Long after the Hunter Biden laptop was authenticated and major media organizations admitted that they were wrong in dismissing the evidence, Goldman continued to call it a “myth” and attacked those raising evidence that Hunter shook down foreign figures.
When Hunter defied a congressional subpoena while holding a mocking press conference outside of the Capitol building, Goldman defended him.
Despite this history, there was a lingering thought that the tracking of calls by members of Congress might finally prove a bridge too far — even for Goldman. After all, these records of past calls can expose whistleblowers, journalists and other citizens who are seeking help from their representatives.
Goldman, however, again went on X to blast members who objected to having their communications seized by the government — despite the fact that Democratic members also expressed concerns over the implications of this move.
Goldman attacked one of the victims, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and declared (in the ultimate act of transference) “you are shameless.” Goldman first attempted to parse the meaning of surveillance by noting that only the record of past calls and their times were seized (ignoring that such information conveys identifying information and details on communications). He then resumed his signature attack by claiming, “You laundered Russian misinformation in 2020 and then communicated with the WH on Jan 6.”
Putting aside accusations of Goldman as spreading disinformation in his denials, the targets of these orders include not just Johnson but eight other members.
While Goldman refuses to accept facts that show abuses by the left, he is quick to allege facts without a scintilla of support in attacking the right. Thus, when the home of Judge Diane Schafer Goodstein burned down in South Carolina, Goldman rushed to social media to blame Republicans for the fire. He demanded to know why there was no condemnation for “the extreme right” for the “arson.”
The reason is that some tend to wait for the facts to be established. Goldman did not even hold back until the preliminary findings of the fire department, which announced that there was no evidence of arson. The fire remains under investigation.
In the end, our system can withstand a few Goldmans in either party. Our constitution has survived Goldmans for centuries. He is the same guy that we have heard in every age of rage.
The true tragedy is that the voters of New York’s District 10 relish his form of politics. He knows his audience. Many voters want blind wrath and they found the perfect representative in Dan Goldman.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of the bestselling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
ICE, our SS:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/fear-ice-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8.7f0a.Uz_kXjSWlSpt&smid=url-share
SS:, the 1935 German enforcers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel
STASI: the Obama/Biden Attorney Generals and FBI Directors.
What will Davie’s tattoo be? Stalin’s hammer and sickle? Or Hitler’s swastika?
@ David
The SA were the Brownshirts, Storm Trooper street thugs, who operated a bit like Antifa.
Night of the Long Knives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
So goodby to the SA.
Yes, I was tempted to mention the Night of the Long Knives earlier in connection with Antifa. Hitler and Goring dealt with the SA when they became inconvenient and I wondered when the Democrats might cut ties with Antifa.
I think you mistook the SS for the SA, maybe because the SS had snazzy uniforms, likely by Hugo Boss. The brutish SA is more akin to Antifa.
ICE, not Antifa.
Good night.
ICE is just ordinary law enforcement – no different from those who pull you over for speeding or drunk driving.
They are not violating anyone actual rights. The people being detained – do not have the right to be in the US.
Exploring Nazi history can be interesting.
But the fact that you think it has the tiniest thing to do with ICE is delusional.
Actual rights of jews and others in Nazi Germany were being violated.
Their right to life, their right to their property.
None of that is happening in the US.
People who came to this country illegally are being sent HOME
Not to death camps.
If you do not like that – change the laws.
“ICE, our SS:”
ICE, your SS. If we drain the coffers of money paying for illegals, there will be nothing left for you.
Looks to me that they all found work in Chicago, hmm?
South of here the cherry crop wasn’t picked because ICE had come through just before picking season.
“nothing left”: that’s because the filthy rich aren’t paying their utilitarian fair share.
The professor is another Democrat throwback to the 1850s, clutching his pearls about who will pick his crops without the dark-brown ones around.
Re federal income taxes
Top 1% pay 40%
Top 10% pay 72%
Top 50% pay 97%
It seems the rich pay most of our federal income taxes.
Would you like to take another guess?
The question is the marginal rates progression as taxable income linearly increases, not those gross totals over all tax payers.
For example, in the Eisenhower years, the top marginal rate was 92% of income over some large amount.
We don’t have such a steep progression anymore.
The percent of income taxes borne in those years by the top 1% was less than it is today.
Other reasons that should cause concern about the top 1%, but it isn’t because the top 1% pay too little in income taxes.
The high income taxes, in the time frame of Eisenhower, caused problems.
You will have to think again.
Not what I read. I gather that it was a time of general increased prosperity for (almost) everybody.
And no, the filthy rich aren’t paying not currently paying their (progressive) fair share, IMHO..
Here’s a test for you, Tovarisch Benson:
1. What percentage of all income taxes being collected now is collected from “the filthy rich”
2. What percentage of all income taxes collected should be collected from “the filthy rich” to make American communists like yourself finally say “Okay, now they’re paying their fair share”? 90%? 80%? 70%
I wonder if greedy Tovarisch Benson is in the group of greedy, able bodied Democrat Welfare Kings and Queens who refuse to work as long as Democrats will shower them with taxpayer money for their booze, cigarettes, and drugs.
You are entitled to your own opinions – you are not entitled to your own facts.
The FACT is that the period you are citing is the same period of racism that those of you on the left are trying to claim was horrible.
Things were good in the 50’s if you are a white male in the middle class.
The rest of the country – not so hot.
As to those high marginal taxes ? Not really. The tax code had bazillions of loopholes and only morons paid those tax rates.
As to “fair share” – The rich benefit from Government just about as much or little as you do.
Their “fair share” is exactly the same amount as you pay.
Musk pays 10’s of Billions in taxes a year – can you pay that ?
At the same time it should be obvious to anyone NOT a moron – that Musk would spend 10’s of billions in ways they rest of us would benefit far more than Government could possibly.
If you want everyone to be better off – take as little as possible from everyone – but especially those who know how to defer gratification in invest in a better future for themselves AND all of us.
Strip govenrment to the bare bones.
What is their comprehensive fair share?
The US did quite well during the 1950s largely because our factories and cities had not been bombed to rubble in the 1940s.The beginning of the end was when VW Beetles landed on our shores — a threat Detroit met by creating the rear-engined Corvair.
Then came the Toyotas. Detroit’s answer? The oil-sucking Vega and the pyrotechnic Pinto
DBB – you are an economic moron.
Yes, we have a less progressive tax system today than in the past.
And the result is that the extremely wealthy pay a lower rate but a higher portion of the cost of government.
All you are doing is proving the obvious – that Lafflers curve is correct.
Obama’s CEA – Christine Romer did extensive work on Tax rates throughout the developed world.
She found that top marginal tax rates about about 30% brought in LESS revenue and shifted the burden of paying for government more and more to the working class.
The economically worst taxes – for ALL of us are asset taxes.
Asset taxes destroy capital investment.
The next worst are taxes on investment/profits.
Taxes on investment income reduce investment – and that means Jobs, and wealth for the rest of us.
Think about it, If you invest 100K at a hoped for 10% ROI – you have taken 100K of YOUR wealth, and given it to others – who build factories and pay people to create something. If everything works out – in about 7years you will get YOUR 100K back. If it does not your screwed. But the people who were paid with your 100K – they still get that 100K.
Only a moron wants to see investment go down.
And Given that a 10% ROI is extraordinary – what do you think the effect of taxes will be ?
If a 10% ROI becomes a 5% ROI – less than 1/10th as much investment will occur – fewer jobs less growth, everyone is poorer.
Your entire ideology is based on making all of us equal by impoverishing us all.
DBB
Today there is no nation in the world with the tax structure you are celebrating – WHY ? Because it failed horribly.
Europe does have higher taxes on the rich than the US does – but NOT that much higher.
They used to, but when they had 80% tax rates or more investment dried up and their economies were weak and they took in LESS not more revenue. The wealthy left, or they sat on their money rather than investing it.
And the consequence ? In Europe – taxes on the wealthy have gone down – they are rarely higher than 50%.
But taxes on the middle class have gone up – in the EU – the cost of governent is paid for by ordinary people. Those cradle to grave benefits the Europeans love – they pay for them with higher taxes and lower standard of living and lower growth.
If you have a choice between a 30% higher standard of living – a growth rate of 3% rather than 1% and having to pay for your own healthcare and retirement – which would you pick ?
We KNOW – your the idiot who would pick free healthcare. A 30% higher standard of living MORE than covers the cost of all the benefits of the socalled social democracies that are themselves trying to escape socialism not running towards it. But a 3% growth rate means that your standard of living will double several times in your life. All that is EXTRA. a 1% growth rate means you will die before your standard of living doubles.
Censored! 😂
It’s a beautiful day…
The slings and arrows. How bout that bad 😂 bunny.
Any chance Tovarisch Benson can tell us what percentage of all income taxes already collected is paid by the filthy rich?
And what should “their fair share” be, as far as Tovarisch Benson is concerned? 1% paying 90%? 80%?
If “the filthy rich” weren’t already paying not just their fair share, but also the fair share of the Democrat Welfare Royalty who pay no federal income tax, how else would Tovarisch Benson get all his free stuff entitlements he has done nothing to earn?
“Looks to me that they all found work in Chicago”
Left wing nuts are the ones who have been telling us all that everything is zero sum.
In YOUR zero sum world – whatever work an illegal immigrant found came at the expense of someone else.
“South of here the cherry crop wasn’t picked because ICE had come through just before picking season.”
No the cherry crop was not picked because farmers planned to hire illegal workers, and then found there werent many. They could have hired others.
““nothing left”: that’s because the filthy rich aren’t paying their utilitarian fair share.”
The top 50% of tax payers pay 99% of all taxes.
The top 25% pay 80%
The top 1% pay 50%
Not enough for you? See more of the goons in action:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/us/chicago-immigration-crackdown-videos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8.65mI.DGct2eF8HzZ2&smid=url-share
After you spent 12+ years endorsing and cheering on Obama/Biden’s stormtrooper thugs in Antifa and Black Liars & Marxists… you have no credibility to claim you know what a goon looks like.
New York Times? Does anyone believe anything they say?
Maybe your could read the articles and view the videos to see what you then think, hmmm?
Maybe you should explain to us why we should find the liars at the NYT to be credible after all the YEARS they provided you with the ongoing lie that the Russia Dossier was 100% verified intelligence agency evidence that Trump stole the 2016 election working hand and glove with Putin.
Oh… and that other favorite of the NYT and yourself, Tovarisch Benson: the Biden Bribery Laptop is a forgery, not Hunter Biden’s: created as election season disinformation by Putin.
I am not interested in their SPIN.
What I saw in your photos and videos was people getting arrested for interfering with law enforcement.
As I said before – try pulling over the next time you see a traffic stop and start “interfering with the officer doing his job – you are likely to get yourself in jail AND make things worse for the guy that was pulled over.
Protest laws you do not like – with the legislature – not the police.
Leave law enforcement alone – and you are not going to get hurt.
Do you think it would be wise when a police officer has someone pulled over for a traffic violation,
To stop and rant and shout at them ?
If you do not like our traffic laws – change the law.
Do NOT take it out on those who are just enforcing the law.
If you are an illegal immigrant – Go HOME.
You can contact DHS and they will pay to fly you home AND they will pay you several thousand to leave.
AND when you return to your home, you will be able to legally apply for entry to the US.
Or if you do not trust DHS – go back on your own, the same way you got here – and you will STILL be able to legally apply for US entry.
A million people are granted legal entry into the US each year.
You might get it.
But if you are here illegally and attempt to stay – every encounter with govenrment is a risk of being caught and sent home, and then you will NEVER be allowed to return. Once you are deported ONCE – you will not be considered for admission or asylum and if you are found in the US you will be deported almost instantly.
If you are here illegally and you attempt to stay – you set yourself up to be exploited, extorted, trafficked, blackmailed. That is what the left wants for you.
If you want to talk about increasing immigration into the US – we can have that discussion.
I think that we should allow between 2-3M people in a year – LEGALLY.
But the number of illegal immigrants should be ZERO.
In fact I would be perfectly happy to give green cards to ANYONE who can get citizens of businesses or churches or charities or community groups to sponsor them.
But they come just like all the chinese, japanese, irish, polish, swedes, italians of the past.
They arrive free – with any oportunity they can find available to themselves and ZERO in the way of entitlements.
When the US had less restrictive immigration laws – which was only for a small portion of the 19th century,
We still would deport you if you were indigent.
Obama was deporting about 400K illegal immigrants/yr.
Trump MIGHT double that – if he is lucky.
But the Big deal is that new illegal immigration under Obama was over 1M/yr – for a NET gain of 600K illegally/yr.
Under Biden the number of illegals surged to possibly more than 5M/yr – certainly more than 3M.
ICE/CBP are working about twice as hard as under Obama.
But not 10 times as hard. At the current rate Trump will still be deporting 50% criminals in 2028.
He will barely have made a dent in the illegal immigration explosion under Biden.
David B. Benson… our Soviet Democrat in-house Joseph Goebbels, on loan here from Clinton and Biden.
Oooohhhh…. the NYT! Who famously refuse to return the Pulitizer Prize they won for being the junior mobsters in cahoots with Obama/Clinton – spending years assuring Americans that the DNC’s felonious Russia Dossier was all 100% verified intelligence agency evidence.
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/nyt-admits-it-was-wrong-about-trumprussia-collusion-hoax-reporting/video/a2a8d0fc91a5a6d671136c6eb189a27d
The NY Times and Walter Duranty think David Benson is doing the job he was paid to do but even they think he is doing it badly.
hullboy — I am paid nothing being a complete unknown.
I make no claim to excellence regarding matters political.
Have a good night,
And to whom do you make claims that you’re a credible commentator – versus being well known as a sophomoric liar?
Are you in the US legally ?
If so then Why would you fear ICE ?
Regardless, ICE is enforcing laws that were passed by democrats and republicans.
If you do not like those laws – work to change them.
I am perfectly willing to look at changes to our immigration law.
I favor more legal immigrants – even Trump does.
But the rule of law is NOT a random policy choices – it is a requirement or we live in a nation that teeters between anarchy and totalitarianism – often concurrently.
The rule of law is the foundation for stability.
We follow the laws we have,
We enforce the laws we have.
When they are wrong we do the work to get new ones passed.
Often this work is difficult – as it should be.
9 times out of 10 change FAILS.
That is true in the free market, that is true with govenrment.
Changing laws is far more disruptive and dangerous than changing products.
Therefore it should be done very slowly and carefully.
“… This week, both Republican and Democratic members raised alarm over the disclosure that Special Counsel Jack Smith tracked the telephone calls by members of both houses of Congress.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) stated, “On the surface of it, it would strike me as a significant invasion of the right of Senators to conduct their jobs, so this is something that needs urgent follow-up.”
But one member rushed forward to dismiss such institutional concerns as much ado about nothing. Goldman attacked the victims as legitimate targets to help “confirm Trump’s effort to overturn the election.” …” -JT
It’s over[.] We now live in a ‘Surveillance State’, and if anyone knows that better it’s the People on Capitol Hill. ‘The Privileged’ are excused with complete remission, ‘The Un-Privileged’ are crucified without mercy. (there is no need here to list the Who’s Who of the Privileged and Un-Privileged, We all have seen it in the past 3 decades)
Regarding Mr. Dan Goldman, He is nothing more than a ‘transplant’ by the Californian Democratic cabal. He is a Californian (S.F.) transplant in as much as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (2001 through 2009) was ‘planted’ by the DNC in New York. The exact “same breed of cat”.
WE the People will be groomed to elect him to the Executive Branch, maybe as soon as 2028.
His Congressional Seat is that once previously held by Chuck Schumer. Which reveals whom is Goldman’s mentoring Godfather is.
Bottom line: Goldman is not a New Yorker, He’s a San Franciscan in waiting for the Oval Office.
Re: Chuck Schumer 10th Congressional District ~ January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_10th_congressional_district#List_of_members_representing_the_district
Next: Regarding James Madison’s “ambition must be made to counteract ambition.”
See the Bill of Rights – 10th Amendment.
Cont.
Cont.
Jonathan,
James Madison viewed the 10th Amendment as a restatement of the original design of the Constitution, which he believed already limited the federal government to its enumerated powers. He initially considered adding a Bill of Rights, including the 10th Amendment, as unnecessary but ultimately supported it to secure ratification of the Constitution. He was concerned that the word “expressly” would make it impossible for the government to function, but he ultimately agreed to the final wording that omitted the word, though he had initially proposed language that included it.
An existing principle:
Madison believed the 10th Amendment was “superfluous” because the Constitution already established a limited government with specific, delegated powers. He saw the amendment as a confirmation of this existing principle rather than a new one.
Addressing fears:
He recognized that the 10th Amendment was needed to allay public fears that the new national government would assume powers not explicitly granted to it by the Constitution.
The word “expressly”:
During the debates over the Bill of Rights, some wanted to add the word “expressly” to the amendment, which would have made the federal government’s powers even more limited. Madison objected to this, arguing that it was impossible to list every power, and that there must be some implied powers for the government to function.
A political necessity:
Despite his reservations about the Bill of Rights, Madison understood its political necessity to gain support for the Constitution. He proposed a version of the amendments that was debated and eventually ratified as the Bill of Rights.
The final wording:
The version of the 10th Amendment that was eventually ratified reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”. The final wording does not include the word “expressly” that some had initially sought, a compromise that Madison ultimately supported.
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Before Drafting the Bill of Rights, James Madison Argued the Constitution Was Fine Without It
The founding father worried that trying to spell out all of Americans’ rights in the series of amendments could be inherently limiting.
“Freedom of speech, religion and the press. The right to assemble, bear arms and due process. These are just some of the first 10 amendments that make up the Bill of Rights. But they weren’t included in the original U.S. Constitution, and James Madison, the bill’s chief drafter, had to be convinced they belonged in the country’s supreme law.
Madison was actually once the Bill of Rights’ chief opponent. In his book, The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents, Corey Brettschneider, a political science professor at Brown University, writes that when the founding father entered the race for Congress as a candidate for the state of Virginia in 1788, the issue of whether America needed a Bill of Rights was a dominating campaign issue. George Mason, a fellow Virginian, had refused to sign the Constitution without a Bill of Rights. But Madison argued it was unnecessary and perhaps even harmful. …”
By: Lesley Kennedy ~ May 28, 2025
https://www.history.com/articles/bill-of-rights-constitution-first-10-amendments-james-madison
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BTW: Tucker Carlson had a interesting opinion piece involving current matter of Federal and State powers in conflict.
ICE Protests and Antifa Riots: Tucker Carlson Warns of Total Destruction if America Doesn’t Act Fast
The U.S. could be on the verge of civil war. We break down the chaos in Portland and Chicago.
By: Tucker Carlson – The Tucker Carlson Show ~ Oct 8th 2025
https://tuckercarlson.com/live-show-october-8
So the entirety of “Crazy Abe” Lincoln was wholly unconstitutional and must be rescinded.
The power of secession is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, and is, therefore, reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
__________
10th Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Will it be “unconstitutional” segregation if actual Americans attend their own affirmative action Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Asking for a friend.
^ That made no sense at all ^
Will it be “unconstitutional” segregation if actual Americans attend their own affirmative action Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Dan Goldman is simply a Left Wing Woke “NUT”.
“Dan Goldman is simply a Left Wing Woke “NUT”.”
That would at least require some kind of belief, and at least a shred of integrity to behave accordingly. Integrity is something that shills like Goldman entirely lack. He is nothing more than an accomplished con artist. He has identified a constituency that he can bedazzle with lies of the kind that its members wish to believe, and he will continue to exploit their foolishness for as long as he possibly can.
“If we don;t get government money out of education, we will continue to see products of that system voting for scum.”
Agree, with the caveat that I think it may already be much too late.
Madison also said:
“In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive department.
“Beside the objection to such a mixture of heterogeneous powers: the trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man: not such as nature may offer as the prodigy of many centuries, but such as may be expected in the ordinary successions of magistracy. War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.
“In war a physical force is to be created, and it is the executive will which is to direct it. In war the public treasures are to be unlocked, and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them. In war the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed. It is in war, finally, that laurels are to be gathered, and it is the executive brow they are to encircle.
“The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.”
Lady Turley doth protest too much.
Article 4, Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature can-not be convened) against domestic Violence.
Article 2, Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
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,….
Lady Turley doth protest too much.
What in the everlasting f–k are you talking about?
Dan Goldman, through his actions and statements, has solidly established his reputation as a political fool – no one pays any attention to him. It is unfortunate that his constituents have given him a Congressional platform to regale us with his antics.
Question:
If Dan Goldman is a fool and nobody pays attention to him, then why are we even talking about him? Same thing with all these left-leaning cable networks (MSNBC, et al), who, supposedly, have such dismal viewrship numbers — why are they so widely discussed in Conservative circles?
Perhaps they have more influence than we want to admit?
Goldman did not even hold back until the preliminary findings of the fire department, which announced that there was no evidence of arson.
A paid DNC troll on this site also immediately claimed it was right-wing violence in response to one of my comments criticizing the “both-sides” canard peddled by the Left. Of course, that troll did not wait for facts either. Perhaps it was Goldman commenting anonymously.
If Goldman and his constituents want blind wrath, give them blind wrath.
Live by the sword and you will … by it
OT
Some while ago I said here that it was odd that Antifa didn’t seem to have a presence during the FBI/Democrat/Media Jan 6 troubles.
They appeared at practically every other Republican event and well before Jan 6 I assumed they would be there when the rally was held.
Yet we are left to assume that for some reason Antifa skipped it. But I didn’t believe it. I thought, and said here, that surely they were there, probably in disguise.
Now Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying the same.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/biden-fbi-placed-274-agents-crowd-january-6/
“Eyewitnesses in the crowd were literally calling them out.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene is right to call for hunting down Antifa members at Jan 6 just as the Biden/Obama cartel hunted down grandmothers who were there.
Young – the Bee reports that three people in that crowd were not FBI agents.
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-report-indicates-only-3-people-in-jan-6-crowd-were-not-fbi-agents
Oldman–
Thanks. I love The Bee although at times I mistake real headlines for Bee spoofs. The Democrats have gotten so crazy The Bee has trouble keeping up.
So The Bee reports there were two people at Jan 6 who were not FBI agents. I wish they added that they shot one of the two who weren’t feds.
I still think that shooting was outright murder provoked in part by racial animus.
Is this the same Marjorie Taylor Greene you referenced?
EXCLUSIVE: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former tantric sex guru lover touts sex retreats and ‘ecstatic cuddle’ classes at his Washington State commune – as congresswoman’s husband files for divorce 10 years after her affair
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11275921/Marjorie-Taylor-Greenes-former-tantric-sex-guru-lover-offers-sex-retreats-amid-divorce.html
@Anon–
Doesn’t make any difference which Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The original point was that, like the FBI, Antifa was embedded in the Jan 6 crowd. Where Antifa goes trouble goes. And where Antifa goes the Democrats go. Antifa might be viewed as the Brownshirts, the violent street thugs, of the Democrats. Why else would the Democrats and corporate media run cover for them? Why else would the Democrats encourage them?
^ Gigi is fantasizing again ^
Goldman plays a relished role for his political party; unchained, unapologetic attack dog who viciously and noisily defends his yard and masters without questioning, and rabidly assaults any who may venture by and wonder, “what kind of drug-sex fueled parties and criminal conspiracies could be going in inside of that nasty houseful of weirdos”. Good Boy Goldman, another treat for you.
We have reached a point where one of the most liberal champions of the Democratic Party, Professor Alan Dershowitz, has not only distanced himself from the party but will now work to defeat their agenda and their candidates.
This radical leftwing Marxist wing of the Democrats is dangerous and has deeply harmed the party. This is not a reasonable bunch of people with different opinions and a desire for solutions to complex problems. They want to blow things apart and have lost their collective minds.
Such behavior can lead people to believe in possession requiring an exorcism.
It’s that bizarre. They actually could be non physical demons. It’s psychiatric as defiant disorder. Whatever you hate, I do.
The enemies have been exposed. Great job, God. When is it over? Heads up , heaven!
Is he simply a useful idiot or a dyed in the wool wannabe despot? Useless either way.
To quote Franklin, ‘…a republic if you can keep it.’. That is, at some point, responsibility for good government falls upon the voters. If they vote for scum as they have in this case and in many others, there is nothing to be done since clearly the man in question is not just irresponsible but also outright completely intellectually and morally defective. At the root of our problem long term is our defective educational system. If we don;t get government money out of education, we will continue to see products of that system voting for scum.
Franklin also siad this:
“This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism… when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.”
Might we already be there?
“Self-Goal” Goldman. His steadfast commitment to his bizarre alternate reality provides everyone else a reliable warning system. Just keep giving this imbecile a microphone and you’ll soon here the opposite of the truth.
Rescind the communist welfare state and return to the clear meaning and intent of the Constitution.
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what [their powers] forbid.”
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“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Sure Cletus. The red states’ residents would starve to death.
Or get a job…
Many already have farms.
Dan Goldman is a scion of the Levi Strauss family, whose members were long known for their humanitarianism and philanthropy. Real mensches, every one.
Then came Dan Goldman, who I would liken to the end of the gastrointestinal tract that most people don’t kiss.
What could have happened, to make him so different?
Jonathan:
Through two Trump administrations, you have championed the destruction of the rule of law and heralded the coming of autocracy. As an attorney and a fellow U. of C. alumnus, I am embarrassed by you and your distorted and convoluted arguments to justify undefensible positions. My sense is that you climbed on board the crazy train early on, and now can find no way to get off without owning up to you multitudinous and pathetic defenses of coercion. You have lost touch entirely with the democratic bases of our democracy. Entirely as a result of your own foolishness and toadiness to your masters, you may find yourself one day swinging from a rope or spending your life in a south Sudanese deportation center.
You misspelled your name; should be Chicago Moron.
Just what we need, more Rons.
😂
More transference
So, the U of C law school doesn’t teach its students to back up their assertions with facts? Saying “because” and giving factual support for one’s claims should be second nature for the law-trained writer.
Please show us your blog site, publications and books, teaching history, media appearances and media retention as expert, as well as calls to testify as expert in congressional hearings, cases, or national debates. Then we can better judge you against your colleague Turley. Thanks.
I would suggest that you read the news. But I strongly suspect you are incapable of reading. So, ask someone to read it to you.
Tsk. Tsk. Flinging out insults and personal attacks against the creator and host of an educational public blog are not really becoming for a Ph.D. in psychology, now are they/is it?
The fact that you would choose Professor Turley’s public blog to air your personal grievances or differences with him tells me all I need to know about you….Especially since you are a fellow colleague who has more personal contact information than others to discuss your differences with him.
All good forensic psychologists and wannabe psychiatrists do look carefully at motive, don’t they now? Pray tell, why did you want to post your unhappiness on this blog site? thanks in advaNce
ha ha Good one, LIn!
hE’S off to his corner pouting and thinking about how to respond.
“Figure it out fir yourself, judge. I can’t be bothered making a case.”
hey chicago moron, isn’t it “indefensible,” not “undefensible?”
Here is thought about Goldman and his ilk. If you are in a western or English flat class and want the judge to notice how good your horse is, you get alongside the most ill mannered, bad moving ugly mount in the show ring. Goldman is that horse.
“Through two Trump administrations, you have championed the destruction of the rule of law and heralded the coming of autocracy.”
Chicago Moron: You have had SIXTEEN years to pipe up here to as an attorney to condemn the felony ridden police state fascism of two Obama administrations and the Biden Administration. And yet, we never heard a word from you about that destruction of the rule of law – which began LONG before Trump entered politics and became your excuse for doubling down on felonious police state fascism.
Instead you got down on your knees so often to kiss the back end ring of Obama that you now have callouses on your knees and everyone assumes you’re wearing black lipstick and you’re a Goth.
You seem to think your channeling of your sins and shortcomings onto Professor Turley will be successful due to your naive belief that there’s no way Republicans have memories capable of remembering back when all this police state fascism began immediately after Obama took office.
There will always be types like Goldman; read Shakespeare, Dickens or any other great author and you will find his type. Answer is a savy electorate that does not want this type as their representative.
Education is the key rather than indoctrination.
Any laws written to obstruct the likes of goldman will only come back as either unconstitutional or available ammunition for future representatives of any stripe.
Force the public to understand just what a scumbag he and his base are and show the rest just what a danger to our government such types are.
our main problem at this time is demographics that are increasing goldman type supporters faster than rational voter can accumulate.
I blame welfare and illegal immigration for the unbalancing of our electorate and that was the plan all along (ie NYC mayoral election)