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  • A serious violation

    In a scathing opinion delivered today, [federal judge] Breyer said that the administration had acted illegally. Deploying these service members “for the purpose of establishing a military presence there and enforcing federal law,” Breyer wrote, “is a serious violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.” The Trump Administration Gets a Serious Scolding (The Atlantic)

  • A crime free zone

    Following his National Guard takeover of Washington, D.C., Donald Trump has declared the capital “crime free.” In a new post on Truth Social, Trump praised Mayor Muriel Bowser for working with him to “eliminate” violent crime. “Her statements and actions were positive, instead of others like Pritzker, Wes Moore, Newscum, and the 5% approval rated Mayor of Chicago, who…

  • That’ll be great

    “We’ll have a majority very shortly,” Mr. Trump said ate his latest marathon cabinet meeting about the Fed’s powerful seven-person Board of Governors. “So that’ll be great.” […] “It sends a message that is more akin to a chaotic, dysfunctional system than what the markets in the U.S. and globally have always assumed of the…

  • Normal president, pt. 18

  • “They’re thankful”

    “L.A. wouldn’t be standing today if President Trump hadn’t taken action then. That city would have burned down if left to the devices of the mayor and the governor of that state,” Noem told CBS’ Ed O’Keefe on “Face the Nation.”  “So, the citizens who live there, the small business owners in downtown L.A., they’re…

  • “You need to get the fuck out of here.”

    “I asked them if his (family) can say goodbye to him because they’re family, and they’re just ripping them away,” the firefighter told the Times. “And this is what he said: ‘You need to get the (expletive) out of here. I’m gonna make you leave.’” Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire (Seattle Times,…

  • A similar pace of arrests

    Crime in D.C. was the worst ever in history,” Mr. Trump said. “And now, over the last 13 days, we’ve worked so hard, we’ve taken so many. There are many left, but we’ve taken so many criminals – over 1,000.” For comparison, CBS News’ review of district police arrest records for the same days in…

  • Tariffs are a tax

    The Constitution grants Congress the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” and to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations.” Tariffs are a tax, and the Framers of the Constitution expressly contemplated the exclusive grant of taxing power to the legislative branch; when Patrick Henry expressed concern that the President “may easily become…

  • The current mess at HHS

    My wife has Stage 4 lung cancer. She is one of the people the COVID vaccine actually helps. Thanks to the current mess at HHS, CVS is unable to get her the vaccine. Erick Erickson (Twitter)

  • A shimmering spectacle

    Army Parade ‘Disappointed’ Trump, So Navy Will Do One Too (WSJ via New York)