Democratic lawyer Marc Elias appears to believe that Democrats do not need to stop at simply sacking and packing the Virginia Supreme Court in response to the adverse ruling on the radical gerrymandering plan. Elias reminded Democrats that they could eliminate the entire Virginia government under the state constitution.
The demand for radical action was prompted by the Virginia justices, including one appointed by then-Democratic governor Mark Warner, who found the Democratic effort unconstitutional. It does not matter that leading Democrats, including Gov. Abigail Spanberger, also believed that the Democrats could be found in violation of the state constitution in pushing forward with the controversial effort to virtually extinguished Republican representation in the purple state.
The adverse decision has resulted in the same demands for radical institutional changes from some of the same voices pledging to pack the United States Supreme Court once they retake power, to guarantee they never lose it again.
Elias responded to the loss by invoking language from Article I of the Virginia Constitution itself:
“whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.”
That is his response to a well-reasoned decision of unconstitutionality of a redistricting plan. We can scrap the entire Virginia government.
It is another example of the “by any means necessary” culture of the left today. There is no institution or value that is sacred. This is why I recently wrote about the rise of “the new Jacobins” in my book Rage and the Republic, lawyers and law professors rationalizing the trashing of the Constitution and our institutions to achieve their political goals.
Elias has long been controversial for his tactics.
It was Elias who was the general counsel to the Clinton presidential campaign when it secretly funded the infamous Steele dossier and pushed the false Alfa Bank conspiracy. (His fellow Perkins Coie partner, Michael Sussmann, was later indicted but acquitted).
Clinton campaign officials denied any involvement in the Steele Dossier. When journalists discovered after the election that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the Steele dossier as “legal fees” among the $5.6 million paid to Perkins Coie, they were reportedly stonewalled. The campaign was ultimately sanctioned by the Federal Election Commission for the subterfuge.
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said at the time that Elias denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier. When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’” Times reporter Maggie Haberman later wrote that “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.”
Elias’s group later unsuccessfully led efforts to challenge Democratic electoral losses.
In Maryland, Elias’s team supported another abusive gerrymandering scheme that a court found not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses. The court found that the map “subverts the will of those governed.”
One media site accused Elias and his group of “making millions off gerrymandering efforts” while publicly denouncing Republican gerrymandering.
In 2024, Elias’s legal team was also accused of pushing “to bar third-party presidential candidates — including Cornel West — from swing state ballots where they might siphon votes from the Democratic nominee [Kamala Harris].”
Likewise, the New York Times reported that Elias’s firm’s work “on behalf of a Soros-funded PAC in Texas…was opposed by a left-leaning election watchdog as undermining laws intended to limit the influence of major donors.”
His group’s work for New York redistricting was ridiculed as not only ignoring the express will of the voters and also effectively negating the votes of Republican voters.
In 2024, the Chief Judge of the Western District of Wisconsin criticized the Elias Law Group for one of its challenges. Judge James Peterson (an Obama appointee) said that the argument “simply does not make any sense.”
Now, Elias is reminding Virginians that they can respond to an opposing court decision by eliminating some or all of the Virginia state government.
It is the logic of the Jacobin. As discussed in my book, the Framers sought to prevent democracy from becoming mobocracy by rejecting more direct democratic powers. They tried to temper the passions of democracy in moments like this.
There is nothing new about these voices, like that of Elias, in fueling radical impulses. They are the same voices and arguments that have long been heard in this country. We have long rejected them and this year will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Independence. However, as Benjamin Franklin warned us and now Elias has reminded us, we must fight to keep this Republic.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Lawyers are the bane of our existence
I agree.
Turley is a disingenuous, lying, political hack who is nothing more than a tool of his overlord, Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox and NY Post.
Murdoch pays him big bucks to spew out these daily diatribes to keep the MAGA morons enraged, while simultaneously and hypocritically decrying the very rage that he is deliberately stoking.
Turley is as middle of the road as they come. You are the lying, propagandist hack, not Turley.
Anonymous – no Turley is NOT middle of the road – he is STILL an old school liberal.
He would fit perfectly in the moderate left liberal democratic party of much of my life.
Just not the far left democrat party of today.
Turley has not changed – he is still a liberal.
Democrats and the left have changed – going far left.
John Say,
Well said and I agree.
There are those who are still old school, traditional, moderate, JFK Democrats. Bill Maher, Elon Musk, the good professor, my own sister. Even they do not agree with some of the far leftists polices and abhor some of them.
My sister is a member of her local Democrat party chapter. Most of them are more aligned with traditional, moderate, JFK Democrat policies and reject the far leftists.
However, some within her chapter have told her, point blank, her thinking was “wrong.” To which she took issue. She wrote the DNC and the then Biden campaign if they did not get back to their traditional Democrat roots, she would vote third party.
For my sister, that is saying a lot.
You could not be more wrong.
The good professor is only pointing out how the far leftists whom have taken over the Democrat party, are hell bent on doing anything “by any means necessary,” to undermine the Constitution, the Republic, to gain and maintain power to ensure Republicans will never win a election again. There by silencing one half of the countries voices and votes.
In some quarters “dem thar be fighting words!”
I would like to think not.
We, MAGA, are not enraged. Not at all. That would be projection or wishful thinking on your part.
No, we are watching the far leftists Democrats, by their words and actions how they seek to undermine the Constitution, the Republic, to gain and maintain power to ensure Republicans will never win a election again.
Pointing that out and talking about it is not rage. It is thoughtful observation, discussion, perhaps even worry. But rage? Certainly not.
So just a bite with no venom? typical, low-effort, low-energy, deliberately-stoking post. Everyone says is terrible. the worst. Can you believe it?
ATS – Turley is a liberal – not a conservaitive.
He has been posting on this blog long before consulting for FOX.
He previously appeared regularaly on the left wing MSM.
But they do not pay him anymore – because they want spun lies – not the constitutional truth.
Todays example of left wing nut nonsense is the perfect example.
I would note that Virginians CAN wipe out their constitution, government and supreme court exactly as Elias claims.
But not easily, and not with a bare majority of votes in a rigged election.
The VA Supreme court was correct – the referendum was conducted unconstitutionally.
If VA wants to pass the new redistricting that left wing nuts want – they must do so according to the VA constitution.
That means not adding the referendum to a primary election when 1M votes are already cast,
it means getting the language actually neutral.
Had VA done that – it is likely SCOVA would have blessed the partisan gerrymander.
But as is typical of the left – you are toddlers in a grocery store demanding candy and hoping the adults will capitulate to end your tantrums.
Turley has been one of the leading constitutional lawyers for decades – testifying REPEATEDLY FOR Democrats – but keeping his advice grounded in the constitution – not 4 yr old left wiung nut tantrums.
Turely’s positions have changed very very little over decades.
Though I would note he is a tiny bit more libertarian today.
But MOST of his positions were liberal Democrat Dogma 50 years ago.
It is democrats that have changed – not Turley.
It is democrats that have become moronic idiots.
You rant about Fox and Murdock – whatever Fox and Murdocks views – they are reflective of the majority of people.
How do we know ? Because Fox not only leads all other outlets but its ratings often exceed all the rest combined.
I personally do not care about Fox.
But if you claim Turley is doing what Fox wants – that is the same as claiming he is doing what the people want.
If you do not like that
Win the debate
Change peoples minds.
A clue would be that insulting them does not work very well.
John Say,
Great comment!
Ah! But only the intellectually deficient or dumb resort to insults rather than debate.
DFTT – personal attacks do not deserve consideration – much less any response
The post is about Democrat power broker Marc Elias’s insane suggestion to abolish the entire Virginia government. You don’t defend THAT, or the long list of particulars Turley attributes to Elias, because you can’t. Instead, you rag on Turley for discussing what Elias has publicly said and done.
Why is that?
Lawyers write the laws, and the laws say send all the money to the lawyers.
Interesting that the Virginia Democrats and Mr. Elias have forgotten about the redistricting referendum in Virginia from 2020.
Trump arrived in Beijing today.
Xi Jinping couldn’t be bothered to meet him at the airport. He sent his vice president.
Xi couldn’t be bothered to meet Trump at the airport because he understands as well as Trump does that humiliating your underlings is a great way to keep them in check.
Yawn. Just maybe Xi Jinping is worried about the meeting instead.
Was one heck of a greeting!!! Biden never got that kind of reception. IIRC, when Biden went to Saudi Arabia, he was greeted by the mayor of the city.
When Biden went to SA, MBS refused to shake his hand and Biden went home with nothing.
Trump has excellent relations with world leaders the US needs good relations with.
That does NOT mean they agree, but it does mean they actually respect each other.
I would further note , that does NOT mean that these other world leaders are “good people”
Only that they are powerful people who it is important that US presidents are able to work with.
In the conflict with Iran – Europe who is at far greater risk than the US from Iran – completely dissed the US.
No matter, Europe was not needed.
Israel was there, the other Gulf nations were there
The UAE is currently conducting OFFENSIVE military operations against targets in Iran.
Undeniably the US has better relations with nearly all the mideast than at anytime previously.
This was not happening under Biden or Obama
Throughout the 21st century Russia’s global power and influence has declined while China’s has risen.
Obama/Clinton/Biden played stupid games with Russia and Putin – friends, enemies, freinds enemies.
The US relationship with Russia was on a roller coaster to hell – and Ukraine is paying the price.
Obama/Biden for the most part completely ignored China.
Trump is fixing the mess in Eastern Europe – while concurrently establishing – to the World, that Russia is NOT a superpower, and Russia is no longer a global threat that significantly impacts US interests.
Trump has told Europe that THEY must put much more effort into working things out with Russia.
Conversely Trump has redirected US interests towards China.
We are neither a friend, nor adversay with China. But China is by far the most significant US interest globally
And we see that under Trump.
@UpstateFarmer: Those who have been in diplomatic circles completely understood this reception. The key was the “two flag” waving dressed in white (mourning, asian countries) of a long line of wavers where the US flag was on the outside and the PRC Flag inside waved in his face from both sides of the carpet making him walk into the middle.
The message was clear and well presented for the CCP people/message. POTUS took it well – and I’m sure expected it.
And after the Russian invasion of Ukraine when Biden first flew to Belgium(SHAPE), NO ONE WOULD MEET HIM. He ended up giving a speech in the US hangar that had nothing but soldiers told to go sit and applaud, and (of course) all the MSM Staffers whose questions were loaded with all praise to God Biden and we worship his glorious presence. He went home, then a week later came back to get the protocol right.
At least the European leadership had the grace to not spit on him like they normally do Americans – probably because of their complete lack of respect for the demented and socially inept “special” people does not justify abusing abusing them – especially THAT POTUS.
AI Overview
Under standard Western and U.S. protocol, the President does not greet a visiting head of state at the airport. Instead, the President waits to receive them at the official host residence (such as the White House).
^ Trump Derangement Syndrome ^
When Obama visited China – the Chinese “forgot” to roll out the stairs to let Obama off the plane.
ATS your full of schiff.
While alot of people including Trump are claiming that this meeting could result in some very big deal announcements – I am more skeptical.
At the same time – Trump has made crystal clear that Xi is the world leader that he Respects the most – more than Putin.
And Xi has made clear that he respects Trump.
Respect is NOT the same as agreement. Respect does NOT mean that there is no conflict.
I would further note that this is the first of 3-4 other meetings with Xi over the next year.
That is completely unprecidented.
Xi wants access to US markets. China DESPARATELY needs access to US markets.
Contra left wing nuts – most of the rest of the global economy is WEAK right now.
No Agreement with the EU will boost trade with China – The Europeans are in too much of an economic bind to engage in more trade with China.
The only Global economy that can have a positive impact on China is the US right now.
As much as left wing nuts are pissing over the US economy at the moment – it is still better than the Biden or Obama economies, and all the negatives will last only so long as the conflict with Iran lasts.
Xi wants greater access to US markets. Xi NEEDS greater access to US markets.
Trump and the US NEED nothing from China – they WANT China to open up.
Trump is making a big deal of NOTING that China is the only other Global Superpower.
While China is a small superpower compared to the US – they ARE a superpower.
China has very significant problems. But that does not change the fact that it is an actual global superpower,
While Russia is declining to a regional power – Russia is NOT a global superpower anymore.
China WANTS that respect from the US.
The US WANTS china to be a player on the world stage – a well behaved player.
And that requires China opening up to the world.
I doubt that will happen on this trip.
But this Trip IS a possible first step towards a better behaved China.
And Better US China relations.
Regardless, your claim that Xi does not respect Trump is nonsense.
China has rolled out the red carpet for Trump in a way they have never done before.
You rant that Xi did not meet Trump at the airport – yet the ceremony at the airport exceeded that China has given ANY other world leader ever.
Trump and Xi actually communicate – regularly – again that is NOT the same as agree.
At lower levels in the Trump administration there is open communications with China.
Biden pretty much never talked with Xi and Xi – like most of the world considered Biden a senile old man – because he was.
Sec. Def Austin waited over a month for a return call from his counterpart in China.
That does not happen under Trump.
Are there going to be fights with China over trade ? Absolutely. Their may be even more sabre rattling over trade.
But Xi NEEDS a better relation with the US and contra your nonsense Trump is the only world leader he trusts and respects.
That does NOT mean agrees with.
Trump WANTS a better relation with China – but he does not need it.
And THAT is the real context of this and the next 3 meetings with China this year.
John Say,
I would also add, Trump’s military action with Iran, that has China in a serious bind.
Iran supplies 20% of the worlds oil. 80% of which goes to Asia, namely China. China needs that oil for their own use. There are also a number of other countries whom China provides refined products like gas, jet fuel to not just domestic consumption like Australia. This is a de-facto oil embargo against China. China needs this conflict to end. Trump has that power over them. Trump and Xi both know it.
Regardless of the conflict outcome, it is the long term global energy landscape is changing and is going to change. THAT is what I am interested in.
@Upstate
Yup. and the MSM will never frame it that way, because they expect people to be stupid. Sadly, often, they are correct in that assumption.
The curtain between most people and important information might as well be made of twenty feet of lead.
James,
I would only argue it is not that MSM expects people to be stupid. They expect their viewers, like the annonys, George/X, Dennis, Gigi, to be stupid. And MSM knows it.
Ahhhh! But the curtain between the people and the information is being broken down! Independent media is gaining popularity while MSM downward spiral continues faster and faster! The distrust between the American people and MSM is at a all time high. When Trump first said that MSM was the enemy of the American people, I did not agree. But then, MSM proved him right.
BTW, I will take the lead. I can melt it down and cast boolits with it. 😉
The conflict with Iran has very serious impact on China.
Iran does NOT supply 20% of the worlds oil – Gulf nations do. Iran is just ONE of those.
I would note that Oman, UAE and SA can all get oil out of the mideast without going through Hormuz – and they are doing so via pipelines bypassing the straight. Those are running at full capacity. but still only delivering about 50% of those countries capacities. And almost none from other countries like
Qatar and Kuwait. I beleive Iraq can also bypass the gulf through pipelines – but NOT at full capacity.
Basically bottling up the straights has reduced global oil supplies by about 10% – not 20%.
But absolutely the big loser is China.
China gets ALL of its oil from the gulf or from Russia – and most of that from Iran.
The US has more oil than it needs – but global markets have driven the price up.
China can not get the oil it needs.
China is also an arms supplier to Iran – but MOSTLY has remained at arms length in this conflict.
China has NOT provided Iran with new or replacement weapons in consequential amounts – and Iran is Pissed at China.
China and Russia were also hurt by how easily Chinese and Russian Weaponry was bowled down in Iran last year, in Venezuella and in Iran this spring.
That has a HUGE negative impact on Russian and chinese weapons sales.
“Regardless of the conflict outcome, it is the long term global energy landscape is changing and is going to change. THAT is what I am interested in.”
Absolutely – and that has been going on for some time.
Absent regime change in Iran – you can bet that Gulf nations are going to be building pipelines to get oil out of the Gulf – one major pipeline will likely run through Israel.
China and Europe have serious energy problems – dependence on the mideast and Russia.
No rational person can understand why Europe is not ahead of the US in this conflict.
The US does NOT need russian or Gulf Oil.
There is way more than enough in the western hemisphere to meet the needs of the entire western hemisphere.
I would further note that from the Oil Embargo in the 70’s forward – the US has MOSTLY moved slowly in thew right direction regarding energy – despite some stupidity – the US is wealthy enough to afford some mistakes.
But Europe has screwed up by the numbers.
Today they are MORE not less dependant on bad actors for their energy.
They made stupid and large bets on “green” energy that proved expensive, unreliable and not very green.
Those here on the left are completely ignorant of how far behind the US the standard of living in Europe is.
The UK has one of the highest standards of living in Europe.
Its median household income is egual to the WORST US state.
Economic growth in Europe has been abysmal over the past 50 years .
People do not grasp the disasterous effects of long term pi$$ poor growth
There are nations with better standard of living than the US – but these are SMALL nations,
and they do NOT have a better standard of living than Ohio or TX. They have a better standard of living than Mississippi.
Regardless, Trump’s 2nd term is proving quite different from his first.
Trump 45 was MOSTLY focused on the US economy through domestic economic measures.
While Trump 45 had some significant success in negotiating peace in the mideast – a very unexpected development.
Trump 47 has the same objective – MAGA – the interests of the american people – particularly the working class.
But the means are far far bigger.
I would have bet heavily against Trump’s actions in Venezuella – Trump 47 refused to go to war with Iran over shooting down a US Drone.
Trump 47 appears to be ridding the world of the last vestiges of radical socialism and international bad actors.
The long term outcome in Venezuella has yet to be determined – but it is inarguable that Venezuella is no longer acting hostile to US interests.
While little attention is being paid to Cuba – there is very little doubt it will collapse likely in the next year.
Russia is diminished further with each passing month.
There is zero doubt Iran does NOT come out of this with a fraction of the global political power they had before.
In the long run – both China and Russia are collapsing.
But the objective of current diplomacy with Xi is to get China to back away from being the most fascist modern nation, to returning to the more capitalist regime that existed from Mao’s death through to Xi’s rise.
I do not know if that is possible – I am not sure about China’s survival – even if it does change radically.
But Trump has been moving aggressively on foreign policy since the startt of this term,
While STILL doing everything he did in the first time.
The left talks of Project 2025 – but people should read Agenda 47 – it is only oine page and Trump is working HARD on pretty much EVERYTHING on that agenda.
This is a far more confident Trump than Trump 47
Further Trump 45 operated out of the White House – besieged by Republicans and democrats alike.
Trump 47 owns the republican party.
And he has the entire administration not just the WH advancing that Agenda 47.
Trump is in theory a lame duck – he can not run again.
But this is NOT a lame duck presidency.
This is the most aggressive effort I have seen from any president in my lifetime to deliver on an agenda.
We are barely 1 yr in to Trump 47 and he has still accomplished more than in his first term.
Yes the long term global energy landscape is changing – but alot of that was predictable – Trump or not. Trump has merely accelerated it.
I think we are moving towards a period of long term US prosperity.
But Equally important – we are also moving towards long term global propsperity for those that get on board.
The question in front of us TODAY is whether Xi and China get on board.
There are many many many things going on at once and they are all somewhat chaotically moving towards a better world.
Despite – possibly because of the current conflict – we are headed towards peace in the mideast like we have never seen in my lifetime.
What is going on in Argentina with Milei is incredible – but not just for Argentina.
South american socialism is on the back foot – and that portends great prosperity for South America.
As noted – Xi and China can get on board or they can be left behind – they get to choose.
Trump built an excellent relationship with the rest of Asia in his first term.
The question right now is whether China wants to be part of that – or whether it wants to go the way of the USSR and fight another Cold War against the US – in an era where the world is grasping that socialism does not work.
Europe is a mess – but there are lots of good signs for a better european future.
He didn’t get off the back of the plane did he?
I would like to thank those who did the analysis and responded to the initial annony lame attempt at a smear against Trump and whom greeted him at the airport. The greeting protocol of heads of state to show the annony’s lack of knowledge. Pointing out how much respect is paid to Trump vs Biden. John Say’s analysis. All very well done.
The initial annony, well, what can we say. Was not even a nice try. More like a lame one.
How marvelous!!!
It is very important to distinguish respect from agreement.
European leaders when Obama and Biden were president share the same values as Obama and Biden. There was little conflict.
Biden in particular was NOT respected personally – he NEVER was much of a politician, more of a two bit grifter.
One of the worst things about the Biden Family Grift was that it was low rent and stupid.
The Clintons made a fortune from the Clinton Foundation – and though there was some obvious pay for play, they did NOT make the same Sen. Menedez type of open grift that the Bidens engaged in.
Joe Biden could have made millions as a politician without the Open and obvious corruption that the biden family engaged in.
But he was too stupid to do so.
Whatever you might say about the Clinton’s – they were NEVER stupid.
Obama has not profited as much as the Clintons – but he is worth much more than the Biden’s
And he has done so without any wiff of personal financial corruption.
The left rants that the Trump family is making a fortune in this Trump presidency – and that is true.
But they are doing so completely openly and perfectly legally – they are doing so more cleanly than even the Clinton’s
The Trump family is making a fortune by changing the world for the better – in conjunction with the Trump administration.
Absolutely nations who are benefiting from Trump 47 policies are rewarding the Trump family.
But those same policies are benefiting the american working class.
Regardless, Biden was viewed as impotent, corrupt and senile by much of the world.
Even by those who Shared Biden’s world view and goals.
The US under Biden did NOT lead the world. We just walked 100 yrds behind the rest of the world.
Trump is at odds with other world leaders on some issues.
But no world leaders who wish to hold power view him as impotent, or corrupt.
They have a choice – Follow and hope to do well or obstruct and get run over.
Trump is a leader and he is well respected.
That does not mean he is liked or that other world leaders share his views.
But they are following anyway – they have little choice.
The question regarding the focus on China through the rest of the year is:
Is Xi and China going to continue to be at loggerheads with the US,
A strategy that is likely to further weaken china,
or are they getting on board.
Trump has made it clear that China is the US greatest adversary – since 2016.
He is also making it clear – it does not have to be that way.
That china can work with the US and prosper.
I do not want to pretend to know what choice Xi will make.
Xi and china have had a very rough year.
Xi and China are the weakest they have been in a long time.
But Trump is going out of his way to flatter Xi and China.
The question is will that help Xi see the right future for China ?
Xi has been wrong ALOT over the past decade.
We will have to see if he is ready to change course.
Pooh is already on the rocks with the CCP so Trump might just be his best friend in the world.
Alternatively:
The Great State of Virginia May Secede
“We, the delegates of the people of Virginia… Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will: that therefore no right of any denomination can be cancelled abridged restrained or modified by the Congress by the Senate or House of Representatives acting in any Capacity under the Great Government or by any Officer of the United States.”
– Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia; June 26, 1788.
Virginia did that once before. It didn’t go well.
Was history in school so boring you can’t remember any of it or did your “teachers” decide it wasn’t necessary?
So true. The American form of governance is firepower. It says so in the Constitution, right, Einstein? Lincoln illegally and unconstitutionally deployed military forces on the territory of a sovereign foreign nation. Alternatively, Lincoln and everyone else obey the duly enacted legislation, including that of reprehensible slavery, while endeavoring mightily in Congress to overturn it legislatively. Lincoln created the legal situation now that requires the abrogation and rescission of every act of Lincoln et al. subsequent to his unconstitutional denial of fully constitutional secession. It’s called historical and monumental remediation that places America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights of 1789, resuming American freedom.
Laughable.
Was that a rebuttal?
It’s puzzling, but entertaining, to watch these well-known nutjobs like Elias keep failing when they try to destroy our Republic with their self-contradictory attacks on basic democracy.
But they keep getting away with it because they still control most of the media, although even that is also starting to slip away.
And contrary to what they see on their media, things are going very badly for Democrats right now.
– Non-racial gerrymandering is “disappearing” their prized racially-constructed congressional districts.
– Their favorite voting block – illegal aliens – is being deported as fast as possible.
– Once the Strait of Hormuz and Kharg Island are secured, oil/gas prices will fall quickly, just in time for the midterms.
But the real blessing for Republicans are the Far Left Socialists in their Party (AOC, Mamdani, Jeffries, Sanders, Fauxcahontas Warren) who are actually ensuring that the Democrat Party will keep losing popularity and votes.
Democrats are stubbornly and hopelessly on the wrong side of every major 80/20 issue.
Their solution to try and distract voters away from that is to attack Trump, who can’t even run for another term anyway.
That should be the final nail in their self-created “unalive box”.
Democrats are stubbornly and hopelessly on the wrong side of every major 80/20 issue.
Yup. In California a few days ago, a biological male was allowed to compete in a track meet:
Last weekend a a high school meet in Yorba Linda, AB Hernandez, a biological male who switched from volleyball to track and field, and who identifies as female, destroyed all female competitors in jumping events.
https://www.aol.com/articles/california-misses-memo-transgender-athletes-230432314.html
Women and girls train their whole lives for medals and scholarships. They are then deprived of what they worked for by boys who couldn’t quite make it competing against other boys, so they “identify” as girls. And, voilà, the boys dominate and the deserving girls can kiss their opportunities goodbye. Yet, this is what Newsom supports. Leftists are mentally-deranged monsters.
OldManFromKS,
And there are people who cannot seem to grasp how wrong this is and even cheer it on.
Notice how the idea of giving the “trans” people their own category or division never seems to take on.
Does this perversion-cum-insanity persist because the legal system upholds it? Presumably, then, there are deep flaws in the legal system.
No one would dream of getting rid of women’s sports and having women compete in men’s sports.
The whole premise of Title 9 was that Women could not compete in sports alongside men.
They needed their own separate leagues and teams made exclusively of women.
Those of you on the left can have all the MTF trans competing with women you want.
Just eliminate Title 9 and womens sports.
Almost no rational person thinks that men and women’s sports need to be separate BUT that any man who calls himself a women can compete in womens sports.
Either women can compete against men – or they can not.
A great deal is made of the feminist victory of Billy Jean King over Bobby Rigs a lifetime ago.
At the same time – the absolute top world womens player in here prime managed with difficulty to beat a 50+ year old male player that while capable – was NOT a serious ranked male competitor.
And that is the point – male players that are 2nd and third tier in male competition, will handily defeat women – even after years on hormones.
This is just biology.
Those on the left deny logic and reality.
It is not just an 80/20 issue, it is an issue in which biological reality has already determined the outcome.
If you want MTF tr4ans to compete with women – just eliminate women’s sports.
“… well-known nutjobs like Elias keep failing when they try to destroy our Republic with their self-contradictory attacks on basic democracy.”
His goal isn’t necessarily to convince all Virginians at once, but to induce a few more to distrust the current government and be more open or to support revolution. A revolution which would be led by Marxists, of course.
He’s not a nutjob, he knows what he’s doing, which makes him more dangerous than a nutjob.
CJ
Your assertion that the “real blessing” for Republicans is democrats themselves is spot on.
I read the various behaviors and tactics of democrats – really since Trump’s first term as growing desperation.
Hail Mary passes very rarely work
The democratic party looks desperate and impotent and is at odds with most Americans.
That is not a good place to be.
Off with their heads!
This is literally what the Nazis did, I have no words. Very concerning, even if it’s just bravado for the sake of distraction. These people are insane.
This piece reads like AI slop and as normal for Turley, ignores all the Republican’s work to shit on the Constitution and democracy.
Name one thing the Republicans have done to “s–t” on the Constitution? Maybe some lib Republicans, but not conservatives. Conservatives are the only ones who protect the Constitution. You slimeballs have gerrymandered every liberal state that there is nothing left to gerrymander. Now, Republicans are doing what the Democrats have started and have done for years, and of course, you slimeballs want to change the rules again. Democrats are the biggest threat to democracy and world peace, period.
Start a war without Congressional approval. Raise and spend money without Congressional approval. Raise taxes without Congressional approval.
1. War Powers Act. You can thank the Democrats for that. They created it and were the primary legislators that passed it.
2. Didn’t happen. There is a transfer provision. But you don’t know that because libereals know-nothing about how the government actually functions.
3. Didn’t happen. SOME of his over-aggressive uses and interpretations of the Tarrif Laws passed by Congress were over-turned. BUT NOT ALL.
But when it comes to history, let’s have some:
Biden cost the US $165 billion as he suspended Student Loan repayments.
Biden cost the US $3 billion by ending welfare work requirements.
Biden cost the US $300 billion when he redid SNAP w/o Congressional Approval.
Biden illegally expanded Obamacare, costing the US $34 billion.
Biden cost the US over $200 billion by illegally expanding Medicaid without Congressional Approval
I could go on for quite some time. And BIden isn’t the only Democrat (or Republican) President to do such things. Yet here you are with your TDS and ignorance thinking you’ve made a point.
Here’s the law you need to know. Congress has the power to declare war…so declare it. The President is the Commander-in-Chief…so command it. The Constitution does not require the Commander-in-Chief to wait for a declaration to command. Congress has the power to impeach the president for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
“Constitution does not require the Commander-in-Chief to wait for a declaration to command.”
Yes he does. That is what a good chunk of A1S8 goes over. The US military does not exits and does not get activated without Congressional approval.
Please cite the Constitution. Oh, and don’t you have babies and dinner to make? Ya know, the American fertility rate recently dropped deeper into its “death spiral,” and, just as men have a duty to fight their nation’s wars, women have a duty to make their nation’s people. Have you done your duty to the best of your ability, which is about 25 to 30 per lifetime?
The WPR has been violated, removing the very weak fig leaf Trump had. The war is 100% illegal. As for the others, MAGAs are just too dumb to reason with.
How long must the commander-in-chief wait for a declaration of war when there are multiple incoming ICBMs, Einsteinita?
You can cover that in your own blog
What work has Republicans done to crap on the Constitution?
Start a war without Congressional approval. Raise and spend money without Congressional approval. Raise taxes without Congressional approval.
Has anyone declared a war?
Looks more like a military operation kinda like the one Obama did.
He is building a new ballroom using private funding and not taxpayers. I call that a good thing.
What taxes?
Bombing Iran and having a blockade is a war, which is nothing like Obama did. But even if Obama did it, that means both engaged in an illegal war and does not make what Trump is doing legal.
You may like that he is using private donations to pay for the ballroom, but it is sill illegal and unconstitutional. No money for the government may be raised or used without Congressional approval. Building a government building requires spending government money. There is no “private slush fund” exception in the Constitution.
Tariffs are taxes.
No one declared war. It is a military operation. You just dont like it so you try to change the language to fit your definition even though Obama also did military actions to include drone strikes against Americans killing them without due process.
Previous presidents to include Obama have made changes to the WH without Congressional approval.
Trump is not building a new building. He is renovating the old one. Had you ever owned a home, you would know the differences when applying for a building permit.
Tariffs are legal.
The framers of the Constitution did not have to include every possible thesaurus entry for “war” to make what Trump did illegal. Calling a war a military operation does not make it not a war any more than calling a MAGA unintelligent does not make them not a dumbass.
And one can not renovate a building that does not exist.
Tariffs are taxes that disproportionately affect the targeted country and favor the targeting country. unconstitutional? Please tell us all about what you like about the Constituition Sally.
He, she or it, one never knows, is either a bot or a typically brainwashed tool employed to troll these websites. Same as the cretin(s) who hide under the Anon name. Ignore hem.
Is the commander-in-chief required to wait for a declaration of war if General Antonio López de Santa Anna stealthily crosses the border and begins killing Americans without notice, or if Comrade General Secretary Justin Trudeau does the same from the Great White North? Would he not be negligent and derelict in his hesitation?
How long must the commander-in-chief wait for a declaration of war when there are multiple incoming ICBMs, Einsteinita?
Eloquent.
You are entitled to your opinion
You are not entitled to your own facts
Proof would help sally.
Which you offered none
Sally, your statement against Turley is a very strong and convincing one. Can you please elaborate on your argument and finish him off once and for all. I’m sure many readers are eagerly waiting for your knockout reply.
Such as? Getting rid of institutional racism enshrined in laws and badly considered judgments?
@Sally
Pretty sure you are Gigi, Sally. Some of us have been around long enough to recognize your tone and verbiage. If not, then Gigi – someone is stealing your thunder.
Hehehehe Turley is just still big mad because Elias correctly identified the Professor as “Mike Lindell with tenure.”
Mike Lindell is a businessman.
PT is a Constitutional lawyer, legal analyst, writer of two best selling books and a professor at law.
So, Elias could not be more wrong. As we have seen, Elias has been wrong on a number of things.
Look at the context:
“ “whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.””
THESE PURPOSES – not your liberal wishes.
These radicals are not members of the Virginia communities. How many of the residents of the Commonwealth want to nuke their entire State government?
It also states a majority of the people, meaning a vote. I would find it hard to believe that the abolishment of their own State Supreme Court would be a winning horse by popular vote.
I so want to see the indictments and convictions of these Clinton/Biden/Obama era corruptocrats. Just to watch their heads explode, it would be delightful and delicious. Please !
In the alternate universe where Republicans control NYC, and Brooklyn’s DA prosecutes Hillary Clinton for falsification of business records (New York Penal Law 175 10) for mislabeling Steele Dossier paymen̈ts on FEC paperwork as “Legal Services,” Marc Elias would be prosecuted as her co-conspirator in violating New York Election Law 17-152, conspiring to win an election (or prevent another’s winning an election) by unlawful means (the falsification). Political organizations like campaigns count as “businesses” for NYPL 175.10.
That would be a just result. Hillary will never be held accountable. Bill will never be on a coin!
I keep getting confused about which party is the threat to democracy. Then the Democrats go and talk about abolishing a duly elected government, or appointing primaries. On those points, I’m also confused about this “No Kings” dorkfest? Are we for democratically elected individuals and following constitutional wording or are we Democrats?
I have come up with an idea to prevent kings. How about this: every four years we have an election to choose a new president. Never been tried, but I bet it will work. Woo-hoo!
OldManFromKS,
Whoa! Radical idea!
Let us know what the state bar associations give Elias and his law firm the John Eastman treatment.
You can criticize the “response” but never forget Trump and MAGA leaders started this mess with a nationwide strategy in states like Texas (documentary: “Deep in the Pockets of Texas”).
Under Article One of the U.S. Constitution, Congress (controlled by Republicans) has the authority “to enforce the U.S. Constitution” at the local, state and federal levels.
So if a local, state or federal government is violating constitutional rights, Congress has a duty to intervene to correct that unconstitutional system or practice.
Congress could enact constitutional voting districts not favoring any one party or any one group. That would reverse the damage done by states like Texas.
Despite a blatant ignorance of the US Constitution and the process of electoral assignment, you may have missed a couple of evidentiary pro-democratic gerrymandering which opened this door preceding Texas. Time to go back and intelligently and logically discourse rather than spout.
1. Illinois
2. Maryland
3. California
4. Connecticut
5. Hawaii
6. Massachusetts
7. New York
8. New Jersey
9. Pennsylvania
You left out New Mexico.
You are missing something. Texas, based on their state Constitution had the right to do what they did. None of the other states did.
In fact, it was California rigging the number of congressional seats by padding the US Census using illegals to cheat Republicans out of 3-4 congressional seats. Texas, as well as other Red States has undergone a large increase in population due to the influx of those fleeing California. So California’s CITIZENRY decreased as Texas’s CITIZENRY increased, and somehow California GAINS seats having lost legal voters, but Texas did not? The redistricting Texas did was to provide the correct representation according to our increased population. It was done legally. California on the other hand bypassed their State Constitution completely in another move to rig California’s map.
Don’t forget Illinois!
In 2011 the State legislature passed the Illinois Voting rights Act codifying race as the primary consideration for drawing congressional and state assembly district lines.
the law states:
“the Illinois Votings Right Act of 2011 ensures redistricting plans are crafted in a way that preserves clusters of minority voters if they are of size or cohesion to exert collective electoral power. The maps signed into law today meet those requirements to adequately preserve minority representation and reflect the diversity of our state.”
This law has been in conflict with the Civil Rights Act since the above state law was passed.
How can they be square with each other as the Civil Rights Act is racially blind, and the Illinois VRA is racially discriminatory?
The Supreme Court ruling now gives us a real chance in Illinois to challenge the unconstitutionality of this law in federal court.
Jeanne Ives, a former Illinois state legislator, with representation by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, is challenging the law as of this week.
This same foundation is also challenging California’s congressional map.
Oh, certainly…but you’d never allow the feds to do the same in states like California, where the Assembly has re-drawn districts to give DEMS 5 more seats!
Another fine example when combined with the 500k+ elected & appointed gov’t officials ‘ruling’ the USA, shows that is predicted final world power, giving humanity notice that God is taking back control of earth(Daniel 2:43-44). V43 predicted America’s melting pot of people will not remain united. When God & Jesus come to earth putting all religions out of business(Revelation 21:22); when Jesus rules(11:15)& God ends death while refurbishing the earth(21:3-5) & will dwell in his new 2.25M square mile paradise(22:1-5) that Jesus gatekeeps(2:7)! Billions resurrected(20:4-6) or born again like Jesus was (1:5)!
How has he not been debarred yet?
Elias should be disbarred.
This is how you get a hot civil war.
That’s what the radical Democrats like Elias want. They’re testing these tactics to see if they can do this at State level, because it’s what they want to do at the national level. The Democrats are burning down Democracy, and burning down our Constitutional form of government. They have unleashed their totalitarian thirst for complete power, enthusiastically embraced admitted Socialists, Marxists, Communists, Islamic Jihadists and Nazis into their ranks. And will use every fascist maneuver they can to attain their goal. They don’t even want to hide it anymore. The question is what and how do we stop this? The Republicans have refused to acknowledge this was coming. We look to our laws and our Constitution as our defense, however these radicalized lunatics do not care about following any of those things, they just burn them down and ram through with a battering ram.
The only things inadequate enough to abolish and eliminate for the public weal are Mac Elias and his band of psychopaths in the DNC, their henchmen brownshirts in SEIU and antifa, and the neurotic white women with Stockholm Syndrone – largely education, environement, HR, and nursing morons and their cuck white boys.
Right off you jump into your partisan rhetorical tricks, Turley. Refresh my memory… was it Elias who said you were Mike Lindell with tenure?…
Quite an accurate and beautiful line.
PT has written two best selling books, get invited to speak at various venues across the country, is sought after for his legal analysis, has appeared on Capital Hill many times providing testimony.
Elias promoted the Russia hoax and by his words and actions is clearly trying to undermine the Constitution and disenfranchise millions of American voters.
It’d be nice if people were disturbed enough at these tactics that they’d show up at the polls and vote against those who are this power hungry. However, I’m not gonna hold my breath. Back in the 1970’s I was assigned to outer level election security for big city pols for their meetings with the minions who were supporting them. Highly disturbing to see first hand the practices being taught to “volunteers” who were being paid for their efforts.
Anonymous, you have wished all along that Trump could be sent to prison based on the false evidence of the RussiaGate hoax. First The New York Times and the Washington Post went along with the Clinton conspiracy but finally even these bastions of freedom had to admit the truth to show some semblance of sanity in an attempt to end tanking of their subscription numbers. You, on the other hand have remained steadfast in your belief in a hoax that has been found to be untrue even by leftist news outlets. No matter how long you continue to believe it the earth is not flat.
In the post-mortem of the 2020 census we learned that four of the five most–unde
Undercounted states were Republican — the biggest undercount was in Texas.
While four of the five most OVERcounted states were Democrat-controlled.
Funny how that worked out.
Says the anonymous tool that reads Turley’s column every day.
……..and that’s all you’ve got.
Surely you jest, that’s like calling Obama a Constitutional Scholar 🤣
Eight Ball,
That is like calling Obama a scholar of anything.
And dont call me Shirley. 😉
@Upstate
Me either. Obama is pretty much just the most successful at being a brainwashed tool; he is no better without a script than Biden. This is something Trump excels at, and it drives the left crazy, because they cannot do anything without premeditated notes prescribed by approved ideology.
James,
Is that not interesting?
Here we have the Democrats that have to stage everything. They have to bring in a former ABC producer to stage their Jan 6th Stalinesque trial. Biden’s entire four years, all staged. Harris’s campaign, staged.
Back in 2016, NPR of all people had an on air article about how HRC was “reinventing herself” based off polling numbers. I was mildly shocked they even aired it. But it was accurate.
Right now in Maine, Democrats are backing a guy who had, now covered up, SS Nazi tattoo.