patrick.net

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/the-dark-and-the-light?open=false

The poison killing our country is pervasive untruth. Every institution we have relied on to run the public interest has become a factory churning out lies, evasions, and misdirection — not unlike the way mRNA “vaccines” turned the cells in your bodies into tiny generators of spike proteins destroying your organs. Likewise, half the population, apparently, thinks this is a good thing, that we need more lawfare — the perversion of law by attorney perverts — and that we need ever more lies, evasions, and misdirection (just as the degenerates who run Harvard declare their student body needs more mRNA boosters to remain in school).

Since the doctors have all failed — miserably and dishonorably — America needs an exorcism. The poisons in our system are actual persons carrying out their programmed assignments, just as the spike proteins in the bodies of millions act as individual agents of destruction in your body. What possible invocation can drive out the likes of Mayorkas, Christopher Wray, Avril Haynes, William Burns, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, Jack Smith, Jake Sullivan, Marc Zuckerberg, Mandy Cohen, Rachel Maddow, Daniel Sachs Goldman, Jamie Raskin, Mitch McConnell, Charles “Chuck” Schumer, “Joe Biden” (the remnant of a person, after all), and a thousand others in high places behaving in a way indistinguishable from demons?

What explains their devotion to untruth? What motivates them? Can it possibly be the mere perqs and comforts of their positions? Are they answering a call? And who is issuing that call? Or are they just trapped by their many years of lying continually, fearful of getting cast into prison? Are you asking yourselves: what will satisfy these maniacs? Anything short of the ruin of our country? What will their coveted power be worth in a ruined country? ...

The lawfare claque around “Joe Biden” — Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco, Marc Elias, Norm Eisen — tutored the likes of Letitia James, Fani Willis, and Alvin Bragg to bring these cases in jurisdictions ruled by the votaries of Abraxas, the gnostic demon-God that drives the Party of Chaos. New York Attorney General Letitia James won the first round with an utterly truthless case, decided despotically by Judge Engoron without a trial, that, for now, has created awful tactical problems for Mr. Trump. He may adroitly overcome the $355-million judgment to bring his appeal, and at some point up the ladder of review, Ms. James will be subject to the disgrace and punishment she deserves. Ms. Willis already has been wrung through her tribulation and revealed herself to be an experienced and dedicated liar unfit to bring the case that was gifted to her by the lawfare orcs. Mr. Bragg’s idiotic case based on a tortured chimera of state and federal law, will be served up soon with a pre-determined outcome.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/trustworthy-friday-june-14-2024-c

The trouble started when, right after the shooting, InfoWars initially expressed skepticism and aired contradictions and inconsistencies in the media reporting about the shooting. Some of Jones’ criticisms unfortunately turned out to be unfounded hot takes, even though some details remain unexplained. The relatives testified they were traumatized by Jones’ theories, and their feelings were hurt by peoples’ online speculations that the shooting was a false flag operation.

If not entirely novel, the legal theories used to sue Jones in multiple lawsuits were at minimum very creative. The infernal strategy of filing multiple cases in multiple jurisdictions multiplies the chance of getting a friendly judge and jury, multiplies the defendant’s costs, wrecks his ability to afford a good defense, and multiplies the collective case’s complexity, making it infinitely harder to defend, all while undermining the defendant’s right to a fair venue.

In 2022, juries awarded the plaintiffs a majestic $1.4 billion judgment in Connecticut and a littler $49 million judgment in Texas. The judgments are against both InfoWars and Jones personally. These jury verdicts instantly made history, although you’ll be forgiven for not knowing that fact.

No one in history has ever been awarded so much for harmful speech.

Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and tried to propose a plan for reorganization that would have paid the plaintiffs off over time. But the plaintiffs successfully objected to that plan, and now, according to AP, Jones wants to switch to Chapter 7 liquidation, and just give them InfoWars to try to run without him. Meanwhile, the plaintiffs have sued him again in separate, new cases, arguing he’s shifted or hidden money.

It’s tempting to conclude the lawsuits against Jones are more about shutting him up for political reasons than actually compensating the victims’ relatives for their damaged feelings over Jones repeating some widely spread conspiracy theories.

Like President Trump, Jones is a fighter. It’s not over yet.

WTF was Jones actually sued for? Do we still have the First Amendment?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/surging-saturday-september-28-2024

In the best story of the week, the New York Times ran an article headlined, “Trump’s Huge Civil Fraud Penalty Draws Skepticism From Appeals Court.”

The headline referred to Trump’s Inflated Real Estate case, where New York Judge Arthur Engoran soaked Trump for a $500 million dollar fine, for “overestimating” the value of his priceless real estate holdings. You’ll recall that wispy-haired Judge Engoran, who probably couldn’t estimate the value of a double-wide mobile home, substituted his own judgment of what Trump’s totally unique properties like Mar-A-Lago were worth.

Was it Trump Derangement Syndrome that caused Judge Engoran to value Trump’s irreplaceable real estate holdings at pennies on the dollar? Who knows. Whichever, Judge Engoran found Trump liable for civil fraud despite there being no fraud victims, despite that all Trump’s loans were paid back in full, and despite that the involved banks all testified they didn’t rely on Trump’s financials anyway.

According to the story, during the oral arguments the five-member panel of appellate judges asked lawyers questions seeming highly skeptical about Judge Engoran’s judicial misadventures. Justice Moulton, who seemed generally unsympathetic to Trump’s lawyers, still observed at one point that “the immense penalty in this case is troubling.”

Justice Friedman asked the attorney general’s lawyer to name any other case where the attorney general had ever sued “to upset a private business transaction that was between equally sophisticated partners.” Even before the lawyer could answer, Justice Renwick queried, “And with little to no impact on the public marketplace?”

At a different point, Justice Higgitt interjected,

“Sorry, but what’s being described sounds an awful lot like a potential commercial dispute by private actors.”

Toward the end of the hearing, Justice Moulton asked how the attorney general’s office could “tether the amount that was assessed” by Judge Engoron “to the harm that was caused here, where parties left these transactions happy about how things went down?”

It wouldn’t take all five justices to vacate the judgment. Engoran’s excessive award could be reversed with a decision by only three of the five justices. Questions appellate judges ask at oral argument aren’t always reliable signals but in many cases, they are decent barometers of the way things might be trending.

I predict they will send the case back for a drastically reduced award. While there is a chance they could reverse the judgment altogether —which is what should happen— given the politics involved, a full reversal seems unlikely.

https://nitter.poast.org/joelpollak/status/1844575476637106209

Sixth Amdendment:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/increasingly-isolated-friday-october

Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative story headlined, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Antitrust Officials Weigh Splitting Google, Others.” And right before the election, too. How about that?

Both Google and Meta are in the Justice Department’s antitrust division crosshairs, each subject to multiple investigations. It’s odd timing, since it has been over 40 years since the DOJ successfully prosecuted a major antitrust case. In 2000, the Justice Department sued to break up Microsoft, but failed after an appellate court found it unconstitutional.

In the same year as the DOJ lawsuit, 2000, then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates first funded his ‘philanthropic’ Foundation, which began his slow transition out of the software business and into climate change, vaccines, third-world development, and vacations on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.

Just a few months later in 2001, right after Gates funded his multibillion-dollar slush fund, the court of appeals made the Microsoft antitrust case go away. ...

Don’t get me wrong. I’m only noticing the very curious timing between the DOJ’s Microsoft antitrust suit, Gates’ transition out of consumer electronics into world politics, and the happy resolution of the litigation, all in short succession.

Who knows? This election season, one wonders whether, if Google and Meta help the government quash election-related misinformation, and maybe help fund some third-world conflict on the side, whether all these pesky DOJ investigations might just go away all on their own.

It’s a profitable platform you have there, it would be a shame if anything happened to it.

We have a serious government problem in this country.

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/justice-department-sues-spacex-hiring-discrimination-asylum-seekers-refugees/

DOJ sues SpaceX for hiring discrimination against asylum seekers, refugees

The DOJ alleges that SpaceX intentionally rejected asylees and refugees from applying to the company.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued SpaceX last week, alleging the company intentionally avoided hiring asylees or refugees.

Not hiring people based on their immigration status is illegal under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

The DOJ specifically pointed to period between September 2018 to May 2022, during which out of nearly 10,000 hires only one asylee was hired. The hire occurred four months after SpaceX was notified of the DOJ’s investigation in 2020.

Article from 2023, but I just wanted to document (lol) that the weaponized DOJ is suing SpaceX for not hiring criminal aliens.

Every lawyer who helps Trump or is associated with him is targeted for disbarring.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/supercharged-thursday-november-7

I couldn’t decide between two headlines since both were terrific. First, Politico ran a story headlined, “Say goodbye to Trump’s legal cases.” And NBC published its version of the same story under the headline, “DOJ moving to wind down Trump criminal cases before he takes office.” It’s another body blow to Democrat partisans.

Trump has said before that he would fire DOJ special prosecutor Jack Smith within five seconds of taking office. You’re fired! But Fox reported in the clip linked above that Trump won’t have to fire agent Smith. Grandma Garland’s DOJ is going to do it for him.

Democrats’ problem is a long-standing, common sense DOJ policy providing that a sitting president may not be prosecuted. They can’t prosecute their own boss. So, NBC reported “DOJ officials see no room to pursue either criminal case against Trump — and no point in continuing to litigate them in the weeks before he takes office.”

One could argue there was never any point, but I digress.

Beyond those, two state cases remain pending. Both cases also appear to be equally star-crossed. Judge Merchan is set to sentence Trump on November 26th in New York, but he would have to be professionally suicidal to order a jail term. It won’t happen.

Meanwhile, Fani “Love Puppy” Willis’s case in Georgia, already mired in bad law and drowning in ethics investigations, is in even worse shape. As President, Trump acquires special protections from prosecution that would make the case even harder for the ungrammatical district attorney. Her smartest move —all right, intelligence is not Fani’s strong suit, but still— would be to dismiss the whole thing.

Hey Jack, what part about being unconstitutionally appointed didn't you get???

Even after that ruling, he still led prosecutorial proceedings against Trump. I am certain that appropriate charges can be filed against this criminal and those conspiring to commit the crimes.

I know there is gonna be a long line of people headed for prison.

https://ground.news/article/rudy-giuliani-says-hes-a-victim-of-political-persecution-as-hes-told-again-to-give-up-assets

Rudy Giuliani says he’s a victim of ‘political persecution’ as he’s told again to give up assets

Rudy Giuliani claims he is a victim of a "political vendetta" regarding a court judgment against him as reported after the Manhattan federal court hearing.
During the hearing, Judge Nathan mentioned that Giuliani delayed revealing new bank accounts containing about $40,000.
Giuliani stated, "First of all, I didn’t defame them," defending his actions before reporters.

This is highly illegal political retribution via the corrupt "justice" system against Giuliani for calling out the obvious election fraud of 2020.

Patrick says

This is highly illegal political retribution via the corrupt "justice" system against Giuliani for calling out the obvious election fraud of 2020.

You guys know they don't actually pay it, right? Jones will still be a millionaire. Giuliani is just fine financially. If you committed a crime you can be locked up. In a civil suit there's nothing they can do. We don't put people in debt into prison. You just don't pay. They can't garnish wages in a case like Jones' and Giuliani because they're not W-2 employees. These guys don't have wages. Can't seize assets as they're likely in Trusts. Borrow tax free on property and investment.

Jones did the BK to try and protect his company. We've been trained and forced to pay anything mentally. Rack up $5k on a credit card and don't pay. Nothing. They'll sell it to a debt collector at which point your obligation is paid. Take a credit hit and move on. How do you think inner city blacks live? They don't pay anything. That's why their interest rates are 30% on a car. Get 2-3 payments and repo the car. You still made money as the lender. And the black can buy another car.

This is why it's hard to get a high limit CC. Most people it's $5k or $10k best case. I have about $150k in credit limits and I have medical collections as my only negative. I pay on 99% of everything. This medical shit pisses me off since it was work related but I'm not paying it. I might actually be suing the USPS over it, the post master and supervisor. Ran a business for 15 years. They sucked at their jobs.

I know a guy who had ridiculous medical bills he just didn't pay. I asked how he dealt with it and he said that when he got too many calls from a collection agency, he told them they didn't have permission to call him. They kept calling, so he sued them in court and won. Not sure if he was then able to collect, lol.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/ace-card-tuesday-november-19-2024

The Trump Effect is crashing into the Trump Lawfare. Yesterday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution somberly ran a sorrowful story headlined, “Appeals court cancels hearing in Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump.” ...

The top two layers are the two federal cases, which are being specially prosecuted by Jack Smith, an odious little demon who Supreme Court Justice Thomas opined was illegally appointed. The captive media has reported both of Smith’s cases must be closed or dismissed before Trump takes office, pursuant to a DOJ policy precluding prosecution of the department’s own boss (the President).

Passing deeper, into the third circle, where greedy, conflicted judges are tormented for eternity, we discover wispy-haired, antique Judge Engoran, who soaked Trump for a then-unpayable, historic $500 million fine — for writing the wrong value on his loan application, even though the bank testified it didn’t care. After Judge Engoran scheduled a hearing to liquidate Trump’s New York properties, Trump took his social media company public, to raise the cash to pay the massive bond. (No billionaires bailed Trump out; it happened during the long, dark night of the grim Second Act.)

Anyway, just over a month ago, the New York Court of Appeals held oral arguments on Trump’s appeal of the massive verdict, and most of the appellate judges seemed stiffly skeptical of the record-setting fine, and of the state’s creative interpretation of the law. Most observers, regardless of politics, expect Trump’s fine to be miniaturized if not completely overturned.

Moving deeper still, we discover Judge Juan Merchan, whose New York jury convicted President Trump of hiring an accountant who wrote “legal fees” on checks paid to Trump’s lawyer. Judge Merchan has twice rescheduled Trump’s sentencing hearing, now facing the hideous prospect of sentencing a sitting President to jail — which simply won’t work — or even worse, not sentencing him to jail. ...

Fani Willis, the plump county prosecutor who took orders from Biden’s White House and used the case as her personal bank account, generously spread Fulton County money around to her pals, and hired unqualified married men to work under her at the DA’s office, if you know what I mean.

Trump’s appeal sprang from the trial judge’s denial of his motion to remove Fani Willis and her office as the case’s prosecutors, basically since she’s a hopeless train wreck. If removed, the case would be reassigned to a different Georgia county, and would almost certainly be immediately dismissed. So, returning at last to the Journal-Constitution’s sad story, yesterday, the appeals court, without any prompting issued a one-sentence order canceling the already-scheduled oral arguments without explanation. ...

All the Trump cases are rapidly unraveling. But we will never forget them.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/unstoppable-tuesday-november-26-2024

Leftists wept bitterly yesterday as the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Jack Smith Moves to Dismiss Charges Against Trump in Election and Documents Cases.”

“After careful consideration,” Prosecutor Smith’s carefully drafted motions to dismiss carefully explained, “the Department has determined that (DOJ’s internal) opinions concerning the Constitution's prohibition on federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President apply to this situation and that as a result this prosecution must be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated.”

Ka-boom.

I’ll bet they “carefully considered” it, desperately but unsuccessfully searching for some kind of loophole. Either way, DC Judge Chutkan has already dismissed her case, leaving only the 11th Circuit in Atlanta to dismiss Smith’s appeal against Trump. I expect to see that dismissal today.

The Times article correctly noted that Trump had promised to fire Prosecutor Smith “within two seconds” of taking office, and has suggested, perhaps strongly, he’ll initiate investigations of the various federal prosecutions. For their sakes, I sure hope everything is squeaky clean.

Remember, if they didn’t do anything wrong, they don’t have anything to worry about! And also, no one is above the law! ...

The truth is that the Democrats conducted a vast poli-sci experiment by crossing all kinds of invisible political red lines, such as prosecuting former presidents under flimsy legal theories, and they found out the hard way that kind of thing can boomerang on you.

https://x.com/eScarry/status/1860007992168710370

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/great-expectations-tuesday-december

And all of this candidate history-making occurred over the quilted backdrop of not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six criminal cases filed against President Trump, plus a handful of civil lawsuits thrown in, all designed by Democrats to thwart the GOP’s political chances. (It never occurred to anyone that the dozen or so legal proceedings were all brought by radical progressives and not a single one filed by a Republican.)

But over the second half of the year, every single criminal case against Trump imploded, was dismissed, or was indefinitely stayed. It is all over. As for the civil cases, they are either resolved or on appeal. But no longer do they pose any serious threat; all are now relegated to nuisance status. Meanwhile, after all that, late in the year, Trump began winning his own cases. Just this month ABC forked over $15 million for defamation.

Given how thin and how creative the cases against Trump were, many of us were optimistic. But nobody would have predicted this kind of radical and complete turnaround in Trump’s legal fortunes, all in one year, and all resolving before the elections.

https://nitter.poast.org/listen_2learn/status/1879643890577547696#m

Patrick says

https://nitter.poast.org/listen_2learn/status/1879643890577547696#m

Dude is wrong.

A new SEC head can drop that case exactly 1sec after taking the office.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/forked-wednesday-january-29-2025

But, we also had conclusive evidence against many other federal workers, like celebrity villain Lois Lerner and her team of career IRS staff who helped her. They were all just delighted to illegally spin the wheels of power to the “grind” setting and levigate legions of innocent Tea Partiers.

In other words, since 2013 we’d realized there were literal criminals inside government, empowered by progressive protectors, who were outright destroying people’s lives and insidiously making things immeasurably difficult for the rest of us. They’d hide in the regulatory bushes, and just after we played slip-n-slide on a hot Saturday afternoon, they’d figuratively spring out and declare the leftover puddles in the lawn to be protected wetlands.

We waited breathlessly for all the swamp-draining to start, but nobody ever got fired. Trump 1.0 was a great disillusionment. Worse, whenever President Trump wasn’t looking, the swamp thumbed its reptilian nose and made faces at us. This happened a lot, because the President was often distracted by all the lawfare and impeachments and Democrats otherwise clowning around like idiots.

We expected sackings, at least at the Cincinnati IRS office where Lois Lerner’s squad of partisans unleashed bureaucratic hell on their fellow Americans. But we got inaction. Our long-deferred expectations dissolved into disappointment. ...

But we weren’t just disappointed about Lois. Granted, it is maddening that she is living on a Greek Island somewhere enjoying her generous, federal defined-benefits retirement plan, which we are paying for, and given what we’ve been learning lately, we are also paying for her taxpayer-funded security detail and probably a government-funded personal shopper.

It’s been too long; Lois has escaped the net. The remaining issue is this: What about the so-called nonpartisan, apolitical, career IRS personnel who did Lois’ dirty work? What about them? In 2013, the Inspector General found the IRS officials had broken the law. But no charges were ever brought. No federal employee was ever reported to have been fired.

Lois Lerner and her crew of ‘nonpartisan’ civil servants weaponized the IRS against conservatives, sabotaging core, First Amendment-protected political participation, all thinly disguised as bureaucratic red tape. And what happened? Nothing. No one got fired. No one got charged. No one even lost their pension.

Nothing changed to ensure it couldn’t happen again.

Absurdly, as you read this, the same staff at the same Cincinnati office still process conservative tax-exempt applications. But don’t worry—they got an hour of mandatory ethics PowerPoint training! With a multiple-choice quiz at the end.

But now we have Trump 2.0. And finally! at long last! oh, glorious day! Trump 2.0 has started out the way that we’d originally hoped Trump 1.0 would begin. A great gurgling noise is coming from Washington, DC, and the swamp creatures are getting louder and louder. The reckoning has begun, and nobody cares anymore about all the tired, absurd claims about how “apolitical” the civil service is.

Want to know the main reason why conservatives have zero sympathy for pajama-wearing federal workers being ordered back to the office five days a week? I can answer in two words: Lois Lerner.

Re DOGE:

https://babylonbee.com/news/sauron-appointed-judge-rules-frodo-must-return-ring-to-sauron

https://babylonbee.com/news/hamas-gets-biden-appointed-judge-to-overturn-trumps-order-to-release-hostages

https://babylonbee.com/news/soros-funded-judge-vows-to-keep-billionaire-influence-out-of-politics

https://babylonbee.com/news/study-finds-people-trying-to-stop-financial-audit-have-absolutely-nothing-to-hide

https://genesiustimes.com/breaking-judge-hugh-jassole-blocks-trump-from-making-america-great-again/

Scott Jennings ends the careers of every Democrat on the CNN panel, by nailing the issue about activist judges illegally interfering with the Trump presidency.

He starts with Gretchen Carlson who clearly wants “individual judges who hate Donald Trump to tie him up for four years.”

Chris Sununu interjects and leaves the Dems speechless when he brings up the issue of “judge shopping.”

Then Jennings owns Alencia Johnson and Ellie Honig on how Joe Biden repeatedly defied the Supreme Court on student loan debt “cancellation.”

The hypocrisy of Democrats saying leaders should listen to judges is astounding. Especially after Pennsylvania blatantly defied the Supreme Court when it came to elections.

The best is at the end where Abby Phillip condescendingly tells Jennings “let me explain it to you a little more slowly.” Jennings lets her have it after that.

Ultimately, Jennings is right that activist judges don’t get to “compel the executive branch” to spend tax dollars specifically how they see fit.

If there’s a major policy issue, take it to the Supreme Court. Otherwise, these district judges need to be ignored. They’re nothing but unhinged lunatics with EDS, TDS, and DDS.

https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1889312721176265130

^^^^^^
THIS

Unless it's from SCOTUS, Trump can fucking ignore it. Even then, let the SCOTUS enforce its decision in the face of Executive intransigence. After all, it worked for Lincoln through the duration of the Civil War as well as Reconstruction (even after Lincoln was dead).

Drain the swamp. Annihilate globohomo. Give this country back to its legal citizens.

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The Democrats are desperate to stop Trump from ensuring the 2025 deficit is less than $1.9 trillion.

Biden's deficits in 2023 was $1.65 trillion and in 2024 was $1.9 trillion. So it would be the first time in 24 years that the deficit did not increase.

It's an ideological war as far as Democrats protecting Big Government and their gravy trains at USAID, etc.

And Congress just outlays or authorizes funds, but the agencies do not have to spend all the money. Any money not spent at the end of fiscal year gets returned to the US Treasury to buy back US debt.

Also there is nothing stopping Trump from putting federal civil servants on paid admin leave. He just can't fire them unless in compliance with career civil service rules.

Send the civil servants home so they can't spend money on bullshit contracts and programs.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/11/alex-marlow-lawfare-judges-making-unprecedented-efforts-to-shut-down-trumps-agenda/

However, there is one element of the activist left that still poses a significant threat to the Donald Trump and his agenda, and that is lawfare. Many of the same elements of our system of justice that were used to harass, bankrupt, and even try to jail President Trump in years past are still in place and are already being weaponized against MAGA right now.

Here are several activist judges who are trying to take control of the government for the Deep State as we speak.

Judge Angel Kelley, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, nominated by President Joe Biden

Yesterday, Kelley granted a restraining order against National Institute of Health (NIH) funding cuts. The Trump administration had moved to capped indirect costs, i.e. reimbursements for “overhead” expenses on university research, at 15 percent. This is fundamental to the Trump administration’s agenda of slashing waste, but it was met with strong pushback from the universities. Judge Kelley immediately stepped in on their behalf. ...

Senior Judge Amy Berman Jackson, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, nominated by President Barack Obama

Jackson recently made news by temporarily reinstated the fired head of the Office of the Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger, a Biden appointee. She is known as a clear partisan with a long history of attacking Trump and his Republican allies. She presided over the Russian collusion case and multiple January 6 U.S. Capitol riot cases, where she built a reputation for opining on her judicial philosophy for an hour or more even during “procedural courtroom check-ins,” according to CNN. ...

Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, nominated by President Barack Obama

A Democrat donor, McConnell is attempting to block another spending freeze from Trump and is even taking the extreme approach of threatening administration officials with criminal charges if it is not reversed.

But McConnell is more than just a typical Democrat, he’s a committed activist, as the Daily Caller reported:

While he was in private practice as an attorney until 2009, McConnell donated hundreds of thousands to Democratic campaigns and political action committees, including 2008 presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, according to Federal Election Commission records. He also donated over $8,000 to Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s 2006 senate campaign.

He not only worked at the ACLU, but he was on the board of directors for the Rhode Island branch of Planned Parenthood for four years. ...

Senior Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, nominated by President Bill Clinton

Kollar-Kotelly boldly stood against Trump’s efforts to cut government excess by blocking DOGE from “obtaining access to certain Treasury Department payment records,” which handles an estimated 90 percent of federal payments.

The judge is known for having sentenced seven pro-life activists to federal prison in a particularly cruel fashion. The husband of activist Paula “Paulette” Harlow, 77, whom Kollar-Kotelly sentenced to prison, was thoroughly rebuked by the judge when he emphasized that his wife was dying and plead for mercy and leniency. In response, Kollar-Kotelly suggested that Harlow “make every effort to stay alive” as part of the “tenets of your religion.”

Nasty. ...

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, nominated by President Barack Obama

Engelmayer blocked DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department payment system. In his ruling, Engelmayer forbade all political appointees including the Treasury Secretary(!) from accessing Department of Treasury data. ...

Senior Judge George O’Toole Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, nominated by President Bill Clinton

O’Toole has already tried to buck Trump two to significant ways.

First, he blocked Trump’s federal government employee buyout even after 65,000 federal workers had already taken the offer. This prolonged a pause on the deferred resignation program.

He also temporarily blocked the transfer of trans women (aka biological males) to men’s prisons. This ruling rebuffs part of Trump’s “two sexes” executive order from taking full effect. This also prolongs “trans” prisoners’ access to “gender-affirming care.”

Chief Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales, of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, nominated by President Barack Obama

Gonzales made headlines by blocking the deportations of Venezuelan criminals to Guantanamo Bay. ...

The pattern is clear: these are political operatives using the judicial system to pass de facto legislation that blocks elements of the Trump agenda. Maybe some of this will get overturned, but it gums up with works and undermines the agenda of the democratically elected president.

Though the players are largely unfamiliar to the general public, they are performing essentially the same function as the Lisa Monacos, Jack Smiths, and Alvin Braggs of the world.

Patrick says

Senior Judge Amy Berman Jackson, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, nominated by President Barack Obama

Jackson recently made news by temporarily reinstated the fired head of the Office of the Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger, a Biden appointee.

Judge Shaka Con thought better of it.
I think some Judges are starting to realize that DOJ is in charge of the Judges, and they to can be investigated for corruption of their bench.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/pharmakeia-wednesday-february-19

CNN ran a remarkable story yesterday headlined, “Judge Chutkan rejects call from Democratic AGs for temporary restraining order blocking DOGE’s access to federal data.” Chutkan is the same DC Circuit judge who gave the J6ers such a hard time and was reversed by the Supreme Court. So you know that if she couldn’t find support for a TRO it was pretty bad. It was another I told you so moment.




Lawyers for 18 blue states had asked Chutkan to temporarily restrain Musk and DOGE from accessing government information systems... They also wanted the judge to block Musk and DOGE from firing any employees at those agencies.

But Chutkan ruled the states hadn’t shown “that they will suffer imminent, irreparable harm absent a temporary restraining order.” Regular readers will recall imminent, irreparable harm is one of the hardest elements to prove to get a TRO. So, that was good news. But it got much better.

Judge Chutkan—no friend to Trump—couldn’t find a way to justify a temporary restraining order. That means their legal case was embarrassingly weak—so weak that even the judge who handed down some of the harshest J6 sentences wouldn’t touch it. What did Judge Chutkan see? ...

They’ve been chasing the wrong person the whole time. The billionaire they love to hate —nobody elected Elon Musk!— is just a special consultant to the White House. But if you go back and read and listen to Musk carefully, you’ll find that, while he may have hinted at authority, he never actually claimed it. ...

Since Elon wasn’t confirmed by the Senate, they thought they had him dead to rights. But ‘advisors’ don’t wield significant authority. Thus, the Appointments Clause doesn’t apply—and the plaintiffs just lost their big constitutional argument.

It was pure political aikido—using the enemy’s own momentum against them. They built an entire legal argument around a fundamental mistake. Trump’s team let the media and the blue states chase Musk around, and then ripped the rug out at the last second.