#the U.S.Constitution

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Barbara Rogan

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 1, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Feb 02, 2025

Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal government. Now we are watching them do it.

The group that serves President Donald Trump is gutting the government both to get revenge against those who tried to hold him accountable before the law and to make sure he and his cronies will never again have to worry about legality.

Last night, officials in the Trump administration purged the Federal Bureau of Investigation of all six of its top executives and, according to NBC’s Ken Dilanian, more than 20 heads of FBI field offices, including those in Washington, D.C., and Miami, where officials pursued cases against now-president Trump. Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove, who represented Trump in a number of his criminal cases, asked acting FBI director Brian J. Driscoll Jr. for a list of FBI agents who had worked on January 6 cases to “determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary.”

Clarissa-Jan Lim of MSNBC reported that Trump denied knowing about the dismissals but said the firings were “a good thing” because “[t]hey were very corrupt people, very corrupt, and they hurt our country very badly with the weaponization.”

Officials also fired 25 to 30 federal prosecutors who had worked on cases involving the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and reassigned others. Bove ordered the firings. Career civil servants can’t be fired without cause, and these purges come on top of the apparently illegal firing of 18 inspectors general across federal agencies and a purge of the Department of Justice of those who had worked on cases involving Trump.

Phil Williams of NewsChannel 5 in Nashville, Tennessee, reported on Friday that federal prosecutors were withdrawn from a criminal investigation of Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) for election fraud; Ogles recently filed a House resolution to enable Trump to run for a third term and another supporting Trump’s designs on Greenland. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss an election fraud case against former representative Jeffrey Fortenberry (R-NE). Trump called Fortenberry’s case an illustration of “the illegal Weaponization of our Justice System by the Radical Left Democrats.”

That impulse to protect Trump showed yesterday in what a local water manager said was an “extremely unprecedented” release of water from two dams in California apparently to provide evidence of his social media post that the U.S. military had gone into California and “TURNED ON THE WATER.” In fact, water was released from two reservoirs that hold water to supply farmland in the summer. They are about 500 miles (800 km) from Los Angeles, where the fires were earlier this year, and the water did not go to Southern California. “This is going to hurt farmers,” a water manager said, “This takes water out of the summer irrigation portfolio.” But Trump posted that if California officials had listened to him six years ago, there would have been no fires. Shashank Joshi of The Economist called it “real ‘mad king’ stuff.”

Trump’s loyalists overlap with the MAGA crew that embraces Project 2025, a plan that mirrors the one used by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán to overthrow democracy in Hungary. Operating from the position that modern democracy destroys a country by treating everyone equally before the law and welcoming immigrants, it calls for discrimination against women and gender, racial, and religious minorities; rejection of immigrants; and the imposition of religious laws to restore a white Christian patriarchy.

Former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson has been a vocal proponent of Orbán’s ideology, and J.D. Vance this week hired Carlson’s son, 28-year-old Buckley, as his deputy press secretary. Although Trump claimed during the campaign he didn't know anything about Project 2025, Steve Contorno and Casey Tolan of CNN estimate that more than two thirds of Trump’s executive orders mirror Project 2025.

You can see the influence of this faction in the indiscriminate immigration sweeps the administration has launched, Trump’s announcement that he is opening a 30,000-bed migrant detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and officials’ revocation of protection for more than 600,000 Venezuelans legally in the U.S. and possibly also for Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans. You can see it in the administration’s attempt to end the birthright citizenship written into the U.S. Constitution in 1868.

It shows in the new administration's persecution of transgender Americans, including Trump’s executive order purging trans service members from the military, another limiting access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth, and yet another ordering trans federal prisoners to be medically detransitioned and then moved to facilities that correspond to their sex at birth, an outcome that a trans woman suing the administration calls “humiliating, terrifying, and dangerous.”

The administration has ordered that federal employees must remove all pronouns from their email signatures and, as Jeremy Faust reported in Inside Medicine, that researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must scrub from their work any references to “[g]ender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female.” Faust notes that the requirements are vague and that because “most manuscripts include demographic information about the populations or patients studied,” the order potentially affects “just about any major study…including studies on Covid-19, cancer, heart disease, or anything else.”

Those embracing this ideology are also isolationist. As soon as he took office, Trump imposed a freeze on foreign aid except for military aid to Israel and Egypt, abruptly cutting off about $60 billion in funding—less than 1% of the U.S. budget—to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides humanitarian assistance to fight starvation and provide basic medical care for the globe’s most vulnerable and desperate populations. The outcry, both from those appalled that the U.S. would renege on its promises to provide food for children in war-torn countries and from those who recognize that the U.S. withdrawal from these popular programs would create a vacuum China is eager to fill, made Trump’s new secretary of state, Marco Rubio, say that “humanitarian programs” would be exempted from the freeze, but that appears either untrue or so complicated to negotiate that programs are shutting down anyway.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) appears to be beside himself over this destruction. “Let me explain why the total destruction of USAID…matters so much,” he posted on social media. “China—where Musk makes his money—wants USAID destroyed. So does Russia. Trump and Musk are doing the bidding of Beijing and Moscow. Why?” “The U.S. is in full retreat from the world,” he wrote, and there is “[n]o good reason for it. The immediate consequences of this are cataclysmic. Malnourished babies who depend on U.S. aid will die. Anti-terrorism programs will shut down and our most deadly enemies will get stronger. Diseases that threaten the U.S. will go unabated and reach our shores faster. And China will fill the void. As developing countries will now ONLY be able to rely on China for help, they will cut more deals with Beijing to give them control of ports, critical mineral deposits, etc. U.S. power will shrink. U.S. jobs will be lost.” Murphy speculated that “billionaires like Musk who make $ in China” or “someone buying all that secret Trump meme coin” would benefit from deliberately sabotaging eighty years of U.S. goodwill on the international stage.

And that brings us to the third faction: that of the tech bros, led by billionaire Elon Musk, who according to year-end Federal Election Commission filings spent more than $290 million supporting Trump and the Republicans in 2024. Musk appears to consider colonizing space imperative for the survival of humanity, and part of that goal requires slashing government regulations, as well as receiving government contracts that help to fund his space program.

Before he took office, Trump named Musk and another billionaire, Vivek Ramaswamy, to an extra-governmental group called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but Musk has assumed full control of the group, whose mission is to cut the federal budget by as much as $2 trillion.

Musk is interested in the government for future contracts, although a report from January 30, when Musk’s Tesla company filed its annual financial report, showed that the company, which is valued at more than $1 trillion and which made $2.3 billion in 2024, paid $0 in federal income tax. Today, Musk’s X social media company became a form of state media when the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said it would no longer email updates about this week’s two plane crashes—one in Washington, D.C., and one in Philadelphia—and that reporters would have to get their information through X.

Musk’s goal might well be the crux of the drastic cuts to federal aid, as well as the attempt last week from the Office of Management and Budget to “pause” federal funding and grants to make sure funding reflected Trump’s goals. After a public outcry over the loss of payments to local law enforcement, Meals on Wheels for shut-ins, supplemental nutrition programs, and so on, the OMB rescinded its first memo, but then White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt immediately contradicted the new memo, saying the cuts were still in effect.

The chaos surrounding the cuts could have been designed to make it difficult for opponents to sue over them. This method of changing government priorities through “impoundment” is illegal. Congress—which is the body that represents the American people—appropriates the money for programs, and the president takes an oath to execute the laws. After President Richard M. Nixon tried it, Congress passed a 1974 law making impoundment expressly illegal. But the on-again-off-again confusion appeared at first to stand a chance of stopping lawsuits. It didn’t work: a federal judge halted the funding freeze, suggesting it was a blatant violation of the Constitution.

But then, yesterday, Elon Musk forced the resignation of David A. Lebryk, the highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department. Lebryk had been at Treasury since 1989 and had risen to become the person in charge of the U.S. government payment system that disburses about $6 trillion a year through Social Security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, contracts, grants, salaries for federal government workers, tax refunds, and so on, essentially managing the nation’s checkbook.

According to Jeff Stein, Isaac Arnsdorf, and Jacqueline Alemany of the Washington Post, Musk’s team wanted access to the payment system. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) demanded answers from Trump’s new Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, warning that “these payment systems simply cannot fail, and any politically-motivated meddling in them risks severe damage to our country and the economy. I am deeply concerned that following the federal grant and loan freeze earlier this week, these officials associated with Musk may have intended to access these payment systems to illegally withhold payments to any number of programs. I can think of no good reason why political operators who have demonstrated a blatant disregard for the law would need access to these sensitive, mission-critical systems.”

Now, though, with Musk’s people at the computers that control the nation’s payment system, they can simply stop whatever payments they want to.

Wyden continued by reminding Bessent that the press has reported that Musk has previously been “denied a high-level clearance to access the government’s most sensitive secrets. I am concerned that Musk’s enormous business operation in China—a country whose intelligence agencies have stolen vast amounts of sensitive data about Americans, including U.S. government employee data by hacking U.S. government systems—endangers U.S. cybersecurity and creates conflicts of interest that make his access to these systems a national security risk.”

This afternoon, Wyden posted that he has been told that Bessent has given the Department of Government Efficiency full access to the system. “Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.”

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo posted: “This is more or less like taking the gold from Fort Knox and putting it in Elons basement. Anyone who gets a check from soc sec or anything else[,] he can cut it off or see all y[ou]r personal and financial data.” Pundit Stuart Stevens called it “the most significant data leak in cyber history.”

All three of these factions are focused on destroying the federal government, which, after all, represents the American people through their elected representatives and spends their taxpayer money. Musk, who is an unelected adjunct to Trump, this evening gleefully referred to the civil servants in the government who work for the American people as “the opposing team.”

But something jumps out from the chaos of the past two weeks. Instructions are vague, circumstances are chaotic, and it’s unclear who is making decisions. That confusion makes it hard to enforce laws or sue, although observers note that what’s going on is “illegal and a breach of the constitutional order.”

Our federal government rests on the U.S. Constitution. The three different factions of Trump's MAGA Republicans agree that the government must be destroyed, and they are operating outside the constitutional order, not eager to win legal victories so much as determined to slash and burn down the government without them.

Today, senior Washington Post political reporter Aaron Blake noted that while it is traditional for cabinet nominees to pledge that they will refuse to honor illegal presidential orders, at least seven of Trump’s nominees have sidestepped that question. Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard, now-confirmed defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, small business administrator nominee Kelly Loeffler, Veterans Affairs secretary nominee Douglas A. Collins, and commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick all avoided the question by saying that Trump would never ask them to do anything illegal. FBI director nominee Kash Patel just said he would “always obey the law.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[feministstruggle]

A Message to the New York City Public Library

To:  The New York City Public Library From:  Feminists in Struggle   We are a national group that fights for women's rights, with members from across the United States.  We are appalled by your recent decision to cancel a planned event by the group Women's Liberation Front (WoLF). By denying one group access to the Library, you have not only violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but have, in effect, become censors, in direct contradiction to the core principles of the history of your own institution!   The American Library Association, the oldest U.S library professional organization, has stated in its Library Bill of Rights: “VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.”   Even during the "communist witch-hunt period" of the 1950's the Library Service stood its ground and refused to bow to enormous and intimidating pressure from Senator Joseph McCarthy, et al, by refusing to remove library books deemed "subversive" by his committee. Your recent decision flies in the face of this proud tradition of defending the rights of public library users to be exposed to a diversity of opinion.   Recently, the Seattle Public Library, when faced with a similar decision, regarding this same group (WoLF), made a decision opposite your own. Their statement reads as follows:   These values are easy to stand by when we agree with the viewpoints being shared, but when viewpoints challenge us in uncomfortable ways, it certainly becomes more difficult. It is in these difficult moments we must stand particularly firm in supporting the right to free speech in order to preserve that right for everyone.   We strongly urge you to follow their lead and look forward to your rescinding this terrible decision and replacing it with one that is more in line with both the proud history of the U.S. Library Service and the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution! Read the full article

[cheile]

Found on Facebook, kinda funny!

(FYI kinda long!)

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*A RECAP OF THE LAST TWO MONTHS*

(by James Tabbek & Joseph Walker)

AMERICA: Oh my god! Coronavirus! What should we do?

CALIFORNIA: Shut down your state.

NEW YORK: Shut down your state.

AMERICA: Wait... what? Why?

CALIFORNIA: Because 40 million people live here and we did it early, and it’s working.

NEW YORK CITY: Because 20 million people live here and not doing it early is costing lives.

WASHINGTON STATE: Social distancing works.

TRUMP: Don't talk to that snake.

ILLINOIS: Tired of waiting. We're buying our own PPE's

TRUMP: i need those for the nation's stockpile.

ILLINOIS: Say hi to our national guard.

IOWA: Whoa... whoa... let’s not be hasty now. The president said that this whole coronavirus thing is a democratic hoax & he'll stand by us.

TRUMP: Actually I said I will stand by & watch.

LOUISIANA: That's New York's problem.

COVID-19: Now it's yours.

ALABAMA: We are not Louisiana.

EVERYONE: Well bless your heart.

TRUMP: I want to reopen for Easter.

GEORGIA: When they show symptoms, shoot.

W.VIRGINIA: For crying out loud, go eat & shop

OKLAHOMA: Go out to a restaurant.

FOX NEWS: Glad you've been watching.

NEW YORK: Don't be stupid.

FLORIDA: Hold my beer. It's Spring Break!

NEW MEXICO: Don't put a cart before the horse

LAS VEGAS: Our workers can be a covid-19 control group.

OHIO: Delay the primary.

WISCONSIN: To hell with that, I'm voting.

MISSISSIPPI: Open the churches!

GOD: You do know I'm not only in your building.

PUERTO RICO: All night curfew.

TRUMP: Whiners.

FLORIDA: It doesn't affect kids.

EVERYONE: Face plant.

TRUMP: I'll decide when to ease restrictions.

U.S.CONSTITUTION: States Rights

NEW YORK: We cant do it without federal help. Pass some bucks our way.

TRUMP: Stop passing the buck.

NEBRASKA: It is critical to get back to work and slow the virus.

FAUCI: Pick 1

TENNESSEE: We're heading in a good direction.

EVERYBODY: Ass backwards is not a direction.

NEW YORK: Does anyone have ventilators.

TRUMP: We sent you some. The nurses must be stealing them.

TEXAS: But the president said that we only have 15 cases and soon it'll be zero.

CALIFORNIA: The president can’t count to fifteen. Nor even spell it. Shut down your state.

NEW JERSEY: Us too?

CALIFORNIA: Yes, you guys too. Just like when Christie shut down the bridge, but it’s your whole state.

NEW YORK: Does anyone have spare doctors?

HAWAII: Welcome tourists, swimmers, surfers & joggers.

GEORGIA: Joggers? Are they black? Get my gun.

FLORIDA: But what about all these kids here on spring break?? They spend a lot of money here!

CALIFORNIA: Those kids invented the tide pod challenge. Shut down your state.

LOUISIANA: But wait let’s have Mardi Gras first. It entertains people.

CALIFORNIA: It also kills them. Shut it down.

NEW YORK: Anyone have masks or gloves?

GEORGIA: Ok well how about we keep the state open for all of our mega churches? Maybe we can all pray really hard until the coronavirus just goes away!

CALIFORNIA: Which is working like a charm for mass shootings. Jesus told us to tell you to shut down your state.

OKLAHOMA: What about the tigers?

TRUMP: I put Carole Baskin in charge.

WYOMING: Hold up, maybe we should go county by county like the president said.

CALIFORNIA: Stop acting like there are counties in Wyoming. There are no counties in Wyoming. Wyoming is a county. Shut it down.

PENNSYLVANIA: But big coal.

CALIFORNIA: But big death. Shut it.

WEST VIRGINIA: But we were the last state to get coronavirus!

CALIFORNIA: And don’t make us explain to you why that was. Shut it down.

NORTH CAROLINA: But the republican national convention is coming here!

CALIFORNIA: SHUT... ok fine do what you want.

[sfc-paulchambers]

Posted @withregram • @robert.paul.chambers South Carolina Day: is celebrated to recognize the beauty, culture, and history of South Carolina. South Carolina is called the Palmetto State because of the large amounts of Palmetto trees. It is also known as the Iodine State due to the high amount of iodine present in its fruits and vegetables. South Carolina became the eighth state to be authorized by the U.S.Constitution in 1788. The highest point in the state, Safrassas Mountain is 3560 feet at its summit, while the state’s coastal plains, known as the ‘low country’ are just above sea level. Interesting Facts about South Carolina Day:  * The Palmetto tree is an important icon of South Carolina since the American Revolutionary War. When the British attacked a fort near Charleston, the cannonballs bounced off spongy palmetto logs used to build the exterior walls. * The State motto is the Latin Phrase “Dum spiro, spero” which means “While I breathe, I hope” * Slavery and civil war played a significant role in South Carolina’s complex social, political and economic profile. * The smallest town in the state is a patch of land called Smyrna which is only around 0.7 square miles with a population of 45 people. * A 297 feet tall, St.Matthew’s Lutheran Church is the tallest structure in the city of Charleston. * Legendary tennis player Althea Gibson, boxing champion Joe Frazier and future NBA Hall-of-Famer Kevin Garnett were all born in the Palmetto State. * There are more peaches produced in South Carolina than in Georgia, which is the Peach State. In the town of Gaffney, there is a landmark water tower shaped like a giant peach that was built in 1980 to honor the peach farmers. * The Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge that connects Charleston and Mount Pleasant was the longest cable-stayed bridge in North America when it was opened in 2005. * Delicacies of South Carolina:The food in South Carolina reflects its history. A few of them are Shrimp and grits, black-eyed peasant rice, Beaufort stew. Lying on the coastlines we can enjoy the best of the Seafoods and Barbecues. A few other delicacies are boiled peanuts, macaroni and cheese. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7ClkBO270/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[loosekraken]

BARRED BY YAHOO - Ted Cancun Cruz.....On January 6th , 2021 When "U" Objected to the Electoral College Certification of Pres Biden's Victory in the 2020 Presidential Election "U" Violated "UR" Oath of Office , a federal Felony & 1 Yr Prison in the Big House & immediate removal from Office - On That Date- & permanent bar to any lifetime federal Gov Employment......This is in addition to numerous Federal Criminal & Civil Rights Statutes carrying very very stiff Prison time 10 yrs , 20 yrs @ count......The Constitution provides no provision , no process & procedure for any Electoral College vote count objections....the constitution has never been amended to permit such objections...Congress is constitutionally barred from changing the const , adding to removing from the const except by ART-V > Amendment.....Any Congressional Statute changing the constitution w/o amendment is sedition & treason THIS would include The Electoral Count Act , a Congressional Statute adding to the U.S.Constitutions Electoral College Provisions absent ART V - Amendment > "Objections to the Electoral Vote Count in Congress".....2022 B4 Mid-Terms you & 157 of your republican congresspersons will be called into a federal court to account for your unconst & unlawful conduct to include the Illegal impersonations of federal officials as you impeached yourselves , lost all power , authority & entitlement to political office on at leat Jan 6th 2021......" ONION LIKE >JUDGE : Ted Cruz aka Cancun Cruz , Did You Read the Constitutions provision on counting electoral votes >CANCUN : YES JUDGE : Cancun Does the Const Contain any provisions for Objections by any party to the Vote Count > CANCUNE : NO >JUDGE : Cacun has the const ever been Amended ART V Amendment to add such objections > CANCUN : NO > JUDGE : Cancun did you then & do you now understand the mind boggling federal criminal felonies & civil rights statutes violations with the truly vast prison time you are facing > CANCUN : YES > JUDGE : Cancun but then why? > CANCUN : We are the Republican Party , the chosen one's standing above the right hand of GOD unbound by all laws except to ourselves...Since 1793 We have been re-writing the constitution so as to guarantee we could do as we did in 2000 (bush) & 2016 (trump) Re-Write Electoral College Provisions so that even though they lost with a republican controlled congress they won & almost in 2022 (trump) , Put a republican presidential candidate into the presidency when they have lost both the Pop Vote & the Electoral College..In 2024 We shall establish a Republican Dynasty with no end of the Presidency , Congress , Federal Gov. , all State & local Govs...We cannot be prosecuted Indicted nor convicted...We Are the Only American Patriots , Immune from any of your laws....Donald Trump shall replace GOD in the Christian Bible in 2024 ..................... JUDGE : U.S.Marshalls Service ...Cuff'em , Click'em & Can'em

[thesirhandsome-tepalehuia]

For being an Insurrectionist, rioter, looter, cop-killer, breaking/entering, trespasser, vandal, thief, criminal, traitor, violator of U.S.Constitution or, just all around asshole  and, sheeple following a nazi tyrant

[shanaesqueakymonroe]

I’m usually not on it like this.. however it seems like there is a HUGE IGNORANT GAP ALONG the LINES OF TRUTH within our community. We are so far apart & separated as a PEOPLE because we do not know our proper HISTORY down pact! We let the REAL enemies & aliens teach us WHAT THEY wanted us to know & just take! #JaneElliott said it, it’s really NOT #socialstudies its ANTI-social studies aka ALL LIES! I thought it didn’t matter also. However, our ancestors fought for A REASON✊🏾For our #RIGHTS therefore we now have the 13, 14 & 15th #amendments specifically in our favor! You have to know in order to become a FULL citizen (and not 3/5ths of a person as how they have it in THEIR laws)📚you MUST have A #nationality & #spirituality ✡️☯️ in order to Truly become a FULL 5/5 Human In these people eyes- because we were not EVER meant to become a citizen! We always WERE meant to stay dumb, lie dormant & BE THEIR SLAVES! Yes It took a #revolution to get these amendments added in for US & it’s time to amend EVEN MORE hidden laws we may all not know of TODAY which protects them & gives them permission TO KILL US! The laws state that as #black #colored or #negroes YOU have the “equal” rights to do what the “free” can do right? SO HOW COME, they are still killing you off as if you are NOT Human beings? or Citizens? They are still treating us like animals & 3/5 of a person! WE MUST STUDY & EDUCATE ourselves, DO NOT be afraid ASK questions! #Nationalize or #Naturalize -what’s the difference? 💡 💡 LAW & LEGAL DEFINITION (you can google & research while we still have access to the internet for yourselves)= A #UnitedStates #citizenship certificate is given to someone who derives or attains citizenship from their #US parents, while a certificate of #naturalization is given to someone who later becomes a #citizen via our naturalization process. #USCIS permits foreign nationals who are 18 or older to naturalize as US citizens. 💎 💎 A #naturalizedcitizen is a person who was born an alien, but has lawfully become a citizen of the United States under the U.S.Constitution & laws. An applicant must be 18 years old & have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residency https://www.instagram.com/p/CBCAv3lpMLm/?igshid=1e495t56bovtl

[panatmansam]

I ask this as one who is not familiar with the ways laws work. There are emolument rules on the books. Who is in charge of enforcing them? Are the rules/laws not detailed enough to be enforced or is the person who is in charge of enforcing them not in power to do so?

Congress enforces them against a president. In fact, Trump is being investigated by a grand jury right now for business dealings in violations of the emoluments clause of the U.S.Constitution. In fact, it is the buzz around Washington that if the Trump presidency goes down it will be for violations of the emoluments clause rather than obstructing justice with respect to the Russia probe. Notice a pattern? Trump doesn’t release tax returns and threatens to fire the investigator if he delves into his private finances. My educated guess is that Donald Trump paid or received bribes or kickbacks from foreign governments and discovery of this is what he fears the most. 

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Kevin Siers

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A travesty of justice.

November 26, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

I am sending this short note to channel our communal outrage and disgust over the dismissal of the election interference and defense secrets criminal cases against Donald Trump.

Historians will shake their heads in disbelief that the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court failed to protect American democracy against a hostile takeover by a convicted felon who sought the presidency to escape justice.

Special counsel Jack Smith is blameless. He worked diligently to bring Trump to justice. After Trump's re-election, Smith asked the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel for guidance regarding continued prosecution of Trump. The Office of Legal Counsel told Smith it was impermissible to continue the prosecution of Trump in light of the DOJ’s existing policies and the immunity ruling in Trump v. US. Smith chose the only ethical path: He complied with the DOJ’s binding legal opinion and requested dismissal of the cases.

All of the blame belongs to Merrick Garland, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court.

Garland failed to bring Trump to justice in four years after a coup and insurrection that were not only televised but announced beforehand in speeches, tweets, and cable news appearances. Garland dithered until the testimony of 26-year-old Cassidy Hutchinson embarrassed him into appointing special counsel Jack Smith. But by then, it was too late. Garland allowed Trump to run out the clock.

Also at fault is the DOJ’s decades-old policy declaring that it may not investigate or indict a sitting president. That dubious policy granted the president protections not found in the Constitution. The DOJ compounded that original sin by expanding its policy to declare that it may not continue an existing prosecution against a non-president if that person is subsequently elected president. In its newest policy, the DOJ is affording protection nowhere found in the Constitution, and that is inimical to the nation’s founding principle that all persons are equal under the law.

The DOJ’s internal policy memo was the first step in converting the presidency into a dictatorship. The Supreme Court relied on the DOJ memo (in part) in fabricating presidential immunities nowhere found in the Constitution and whose existence would have shocked and scandalized the Framers.

The collective actions of Garland, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court have created an absurd and perverse result. They have converted the office of the presidency into the refuge of billionaire criminals who seek to evade justice for their crimes. The guilt or innocence of defendants becomes irrelevant; the ability to buy their way into the presidency supersedes the Constitution, the criminal laws of the United States, and the bedrock principle that no person is above the law.

Under the Garland-Roberts Impunity Doctrine, the only logical course for a billionaire guilty of criminal conduct is to run for president. “Hyperbole,” you say? That is exactly what Trump did. Other billionaires are waiting in the wings.

What is most disheartening about this outcome is that it was brought about by men and women who attended the finest law schools in the nation. They entered the legal profession with the noblest of motives. They had every advantage. They were fêted for their intellect and integrity. But they proved to be spineless, faithless, feckless servants who betrayed the democracy that lifted them to the pinnacle of the legal profession.

Shame on Merrick Garland.

Shame on John Roberts.

Shame on Samuel Alito.

Shame on Clarence Thomas.

Shame on Neil Gorsuch.

Shame on Brett Kavanaugh.

Shame on Amy Coney Barrett.

It will take decades to undo the damage they inflicted on the Constitution and the rule of law.

However, it will take much longer for Americans to recover their trust in the DOJ and Supreme Court. We have been betrayed—but it will be up to us, the victims of that betrayal, to pick up the pieces, repair the guardrails, and hold the bulwarks of democracy until we can undo the damage done by Garland and the Supreme Court.

Candidly, the present situation stinks to high heaven. But we have no choice. It is the only path forward. Let us proceed in righteous anger fortified by dedication to the principle that all persons are equal under the law—including the President of the United States.

[Robert B. Hubbell]

[papundits]

Exploring ‘A More Or Less Perfect Union’

Exploring ‘A More Or Less Perfect Union’

By Walter E. Williams ~

The three-part documentary TV series “A More or Less Perfect Union,” produced by Free to Choose Network, will air on various PBS stations across the nation this month.

The documentary is a personal exploration of the U.S. Constitution by Justice Douglas Ginsburg, who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and is now a senior justice on that court.

A…

[garygpelow]

ANTIFA: Media Backed Terrorists ANTIFA, and The Revolutionary Abolition Movement and Anarchists and BAMN Are leftist, racist. Marxist, homophobic, traitors against YOU UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND YOUR BILL OF RIGHTS.

[edivupage]

3 Steps to Becoming a Teacher in Nevada

Want to become a teacher in the great state of Nevada? If so, you have come to the right place. Below you will find a short article that lists the steps to becoming a teacher in Nevada.

Step 1: Complete an Approved Teacher Preparation Program

To teach in the U.S., educators must hold at least an undergraduate degree. The state of Nevada also requires students to complete a state-approved teacher education program to receive certification. In Nevada, every field or subject area has its own special requirements.

Teacher education programs generally consist of two elements—curriculum and field experiences. Curriculum typically includes instruction on teaching foundational skills, pedagogy (the science of teaching), and preparing students to research, create, and implement learning experiences in their field of study. Field experiences often include field observations, internships, student teaching, or a combination of all three. A list of approved teacher education programs in Nevada can be accessed on the U.S. Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs.

Step 2: Complete the Required Exams

Potential Nevada teachers must pass the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators exams for basic skills, the Praxis II: Subject Exams in their specialty area, plus Praxis II PLT (Principles of Learning and Teaching) Grades K–6 or 7–12   for the grade levels they plan to teach in. Candidates for licensure must demonstrate knowledge of Nevada School Law, the Nevada Constitution, and the United U.S.Constitution. This requirement may be satisfied either through examination or through college/university courses.  

Nevada gives a Non-Renewable License (3 years) to novice educators who have certain deficiencies in courses, testing, or student teaching. Once an educator becomes eligible for a Standard License, it is renewable every 5 years. Educators with a minimum of3 years of experience and a graduate degree are eligible for a Professional License, renewable every 6, 8, or 10 years depending on the particular advanced degree. Find out more from the Nevada Department of Education Office of Educator Licensure.

Step 3: Submit a Nevada Teaching Credential Application

Once you have met all of the required obligations, you are ready to apply for Nevada teaching licensure. Use the Application for Educator Licensing. Send the required documents and application fee to one of the following offices of the Nevada Department of Education: Northern Office, 700 East Fifth St., Suite 105, Carson City, NV 89701-5096; or Southern Office, 9890 South Maryland Parkway, Suite 231, Room 23405, Las Vegas, NV 89183.

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getting high.....?????

I just heard on the newsbreak in the top of the hour newsbreak on the Sean Hannity show that 46 states allow sum sort of cannabis use in "medical use" or just outright recreational use of cannabis (marijuana). My state of California passed recreational use of marijuana back in 2016. I just start  to wounder why the BIG PUSH for marijuana to be legalized so quickly ????

and who is behind it and what motives do they have. I believe so it could be much,much easier to overthrow the U.S. Government and to do away with freedom & liberty and the U.S.Constitution and enslave the American people. Two things dictators do first 1. Do away with all firearms in the hands of ordinary citizens. So only the military and police forces have the firepower 2. Ban the word of god(Jesus Christ) the holy bible and ban his house (churches). Why, because people are so drunk and high they can't pick up that rifle or that handgun and learn how to use those tools to protect their freedom & liberty. And that's why I get so angry with people tell me that God put it here on earth or its just an herb man. No, it's a tool of Satan to enslave you moron !!!!

Just Sayin......!!!!!!!

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BARRED by YAHOO ----- In 2016 President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to SCOTUS....as the nomination was being walked to the Senate Chamber "IN EFFECT" .....YOU Mitch McConnell gathered railroad spikes & timbers & Nailed the Senate Chamber Door shut from the Outside preventing the nomination from entering & passing through the Senate Door... "IN EFFECT" ....placing nomination in UR hip pocket it is alleged as officials walked away YOU hit secret recessed button hidden in an alleged secret carving of the 'Turtle God' within the senate door & a hidden door opened on the hallway wall & YOU'RE alleged to scurried down McConnell Secret Turtle Passageway to inner McConnell Turtle Sanctum where you have repetitively stated to the media You Opened a Drawer in your desk dropped the Obama Scotus Nomination therein Closed & Locked Drawer as it remains today....Grim Reaper McConnell....#1 -- Neither U.S.Constitution Nor the Senate Rules Permit Senate Majority Leader , YOU in this Instance , from Nailing the Door to the Senate Chambers Shut & Preventing any SCOTUS Nomination and/or Bill from the House from entering the Senate and being addressed / directed in the traditional Constitutional Legal Fashion / Manner.......When YOU Blocked the Senate Door YOU Violated Your Oath of Office , committed a fed felony & removed yourself from office-----A FEDERAL COMPLAINT SHALL Be with YOU as Defendant Filed B4 Nov 2022 Mid-Terms , CC'D Facebook/Tumblr,,,Since the Civil War EVERY SCOTUS Nomination by a President has been carried through the Senate Door & delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee where it was discussed & debated prior to it being delivered to the senate floor for consideration EVERY NOMINATION ! Turtle Boy possessed NO Power & NO Authority to Block the Nomination from passage into the U.S.Senate...UR Toasted Turtle

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Does Trump provide for the common defense

Does Trump provide for the common defense

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