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In yet more good news yesterday, and probably not coincidentally, Politico ran a story headlined, “Appeals Court clears the way for Musk, DOGE to resume cuts to USAID.”

Earlier this month, Maryland District Judge Theodore Chuang (Obama appointee) had coughed up a preliminary injunction forbidding anybody —DOGE, Elon Musk, or even Marco Rubio— from working on USAID. Yesterday, a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit (Trump, Bush, Clinton) ruled 3-0 to toss Judge Chuang’s injunction and ordered that DOGE can keep on cutting while the lawsuit continues.

There isn’t much left to cut.

The court’s decision explained, “While defendants’ role and actions related to USAID are not conventional, unconventional does not necessarily equal unconstitutional.” For those of you following my primer on injunctions, as I predicted, the appeals court found the plaintiffs failed to prove the two hardest elements: they failed to prove a likelihood of success on the merits and failed to prove any irreparable harm.

“To the extent these alleged harms are cognizable damages at all,” the Court explained, “most can be remedied by money damages. Generally, injuries that can be cured by monetary relief, by law, are not irreparable.”

Then, for good measure, the Court briefly considered the government’s case. It did find irreparable harm— for DOGE. “The district court has, based on alleged injuries from a handful of plaintiffs, issued injunctive orders that dictate and restrict a separate branch of government. Unlike the harm alleged by plaintiffs, this harm cannot be remedied by monetary damages. It truly is irreparable.”

That was the shot heard ‘round the world’s courtrooms: District judges enjoining the President are causing irreparable harm.

Finally, warming to its theme, the order added several more refreshing comments about district courts minding their own business. I bet this language will soon begin appearing in all the government’s briefs:

Last, as to the public interest, the public certainly has an interest in ensuring the
government is acting constitutionally. However, the public also has an interest in judges
wielding power only when so authorized. That authorization limits us to deciding cases
and controversies, not political disputes. Cases and controversies involve actual injuries to
actual parties, not injuries that are speculative and extend beyond the parties in this case.
Courts must be wary of stretching to find harm at the preliminary injunction stage when
the record does not support it.

In short, the Trump Agenda sprang forward yesterday like greased lightning. Alas, the lawfare beatings threaten to continue until morale improves. “Supporters of the agency,” WaPo said, meaning grifters and deep-staters, “promised further litigation over the new cuts announced Friday.” Meaning, further litigation in friendlier circuits.

But USAID is already closed, disbanded, and its offices given away. They salted the USAID field.

French Court Bars National Rally Leader Marine Le Pen from Office for 5 Years After Embezzlement Conviction

Le Pen accused the prosecution of attempting to orchestrate her political death, stating, 'It's clear the prosecutor's only goal is to drive Marine Le Pen out of political life.'

From Trump to Le Pen: Lawfare and the New World Order

In 2016, when Donald J. Trump did the unthinkable and beat Hillary Clinton—a woman so ensconced in the halls of Davosian power she might as well have been issued a United Nations passport—the architects of the so-called "Rules-Based International Order" felt a tremor under their polished marble floors. For decades, this Order—an alliance of bureaucrats, multinationals, intelligence agencies, and supranational institutions—had operated under the conceit that history had ended, that global governance would henceforth supersede national sovereignty. Trump's triumph threatened their theology.
To these globalist mandarins, Trump’s insurgency was not merely electoral; it was heretical. He dared to question NATO’s utility, scorned open borders, mocked climate pieties, and—worst of all—promised to put America, not Brussels or Beijing, first. The idea that a nation might chart its own course, free from the guidance of transnational scolds, was an offense that had to be punished—not just to stop Trump, but to send a warning across the world: challenge the Order, and you will be destroyed.
By 2021, the game plan emerged with Orwellian clarity. Four separate prosecutions, nearly a hundred felony charges, and a cumulative sentence that would make Methuselah wince—Donald Trump was to be entombed under a legal avalanche. Not because he was uniquely corrupt, but because he was uniquely defiant. The United States, long a beacon of liberty, now took a page from banana republics, substituting ballots for subpoenas.
But while America’s progressive elite failed to jail Trump (at least so far), they succeeded in unleashing a new form of political warfare across the globe: lawfare as an instrument of regime preservation. The message was clear. Oppose the globalist consensus, and your name will appear on a docket.
Take Marine Le Pen. For years, the French nationalist leader has been the bête noire of Brussels. Her real crime? Proposing that the French—not the European Commission—should determine France’s future. After leading in the polls for the 2027 presidency, she was slapped with a conveniently timed conviction for misallocating parliamentary staff funds—a technicality so esoteric it wouldn’t pass muster in a Texas HOA dispute. On March 27, 2025, a Paris court sentenced Le Pen to a two-year suspended prison term, a fine of €20,000, and—most damningly—a two-year ban on holding public office. This means she is barred from running in the next presidential election. The case, involving €330,000 in alleged misuse of European Parliament funds, was initiated in 2016—conveniently revived just as she surged in the polls. The timing? Not coincidental.
It is worth noting that over a dozen of her National Rally party colleagues were convicted in the same case. The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) referred the case, and the court’s decision—issued without the benefit of a jury—ignored the fact that similar cases in other EU member states have been quietly dropped or settled with modest fines. But Le Pen is not just another MEP. She is a threat to the supranational project. And in this brave new Europe, heresy against Brussels is prosecuted with greater vigor than Islamist incitement.
Germany—poster child for post-nationalist virtue—has declared open season on its own populists. Björn Höcke, a provincial voice for the AfD, faces trial for hate speech over the phrase “Everything for the Fatherland.” Frauke Petry, a former AfD leader, was convicted for perjury over statements about party finances. Meanwhile, the AfD itself is under intelligence surveillance, with whispers of a ban floating through the Bundestag. The crime? National identity.
In Romania, Călin Georgescu—a nationalist outsider—won the first round of the presidential election in November 2024, only to have the result annulled by a court citing “Russian interference.” The evidence? Nonexistent. But he was quickly arrested and charged with “communicating false information” and promoting fascism, rendering him ineligible. Democracy, you see, must be defended—even from the voters.
From South America to Eastern Europe, the same pattern unfolds. Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was imprisoned for crossing his country's own border 'illegally' and later slapped with new charges conveniently extending his sentence. In Ukraine, Viktor Medvedchuk and former President Petro Poroshenko were charged with treason—one for allegedly sharing secrets, the other for buying coal from the wrong region. In both cases, opposition became sedition.
Even celebrity isn't a shield. Ireland’s Conor McGregor, a household name and political aspirant, is on the verge of facing hate speech charges if he dares mount a campaign. In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, like Trump, faces a blizzard of indictments designed to ensure his banishment from politics. Venezuela’s María Corina Machado, banned for fifteen years over a decade-old “infraction,” was erased from the ballot despite winning her primary in a landslide.
In Turkey, Israel, and Austria, the mechanisms vary but the objective remains: judicial leverage against ideological dissent. On March 19, 2025, Turkish authorities arrested Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu—widely considered the leading opposition candidate to President Erdoğan—on charges of corruption and alleged links to the PKK. Critics widely view the arrest as politically orchestrated. Protests erupted nationwide, and nearly 1,900 citizens were detained in the ensuing crackdown. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to 14 years in prison in early 2025 on corruption charges. His arrest followed a series of legal cases aimed at neutralizing his return to power. Numerous leaders from his party were also jailed or barred from running, effectively sidelining the populist movement ahead of national elections. The fig leaf of legality provides plausible deniability. But only those opposing the Order ever seem to find themselves in the dock.
What was once called democracy has become a curated simulation—democracy if and only if it produces the correct result. This is why the Biden precedent matters. By criminalizing a former U.S. president, he handed moral license to governments from Paris to Tbilisi to Caracas to do the same.
What links all these cases is not the gravity of the crimes—many are trivial, others ambiguous, a few outright fabricated—but the profile of the accused. They are nationalists. Populists. Skeptics of global technocracy. Opponents of forever wars, mass migration, and carbon commandments. For these sins, they must be disqualified. If not by voters, then by judges.
Democracy, in the globalist mind, is too important to be left to the people.
So yes, Trump was the first domino—but he will not be the last. The globalist establishment may wrap itself in the language of liberal democracy, but its actions betray a creeping authoritarianism cloaked in process. The ballot box is now guarded by the gavel. And in this brave new order, the only crime is dissent.

@elonmusk

When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents.

This is their standard playbook throughout the world.

Le Pen was convicted alongside eight other members of the Rassemblement national/Front national, and twelve parliamentary aides. She did not personally embezzle funds or enrich herself from EU coffers. Rather, prosecutors accuse her of directing aides to undertake work for her party while they were receiving salaries from the European Parliament. They claim this happened between 2004 and 2016, and that Le Pen and her associates misappropriated over four million Euros in this way. While nobody doubts the substance of the accusations, what Le Pen did was far from unusual and the sentence just seems ridiculous to me. Many European parliamentary representatives have used staff paid from parliamentary budgets for party projects – including Franziska Brantner, the present co-chair of German Green Party. Until recently this was a common practice, and even now the distinction between party and parliamentary work is not always easy to maintain, and both routinely and deliberately blurred.

Yes, this is obviously a gross abuse of both the justice system and electoral system in France.

embezzlement sounds like a crime and worse like a self-serving crime of moral turpitude whereby a politician stole from the people. this is why they are choosing to thus name this claim.

but let’s have a look at what really happened:

le pen was "convicted" of using money allocated by the euro parliament to pay for parliamentary assistants. there is nothing improper about that. this is, in fact, what the funds were for. at issue is whether those PA's worked sufficiently on EU-related legislative work as opposed to domestic work. this issue dates from 2004-2016, over a decade old, so hardly new news. the timing itself speaks volumes.

how this is being called “embezzlement” with a straight face is beyond me. this is literally a worker classification/how did you spend you time issue. calling it "embezzlement" is ridiculous. it makes it sound like she ran off with the money. clearly, that’s the point and many of the “media” stories on this are long on emotion and accusation and desperately short on context. ...

i’m sure it had nothing to do with this:




... note that she's the only one they seem to have "investigated." care to wager than basically no french parliamentary leaders could have survived a similar audit similarly applied?

the evidence is already legion:

pierre lellouche, a lawyer and former deputy of the french national assembly, appeared on CNEWS to point out that the current prime minister, François Bayrou, faced the same charge and suffered no consequences.

“Then, last but not least, there is the case of (François) Bayrou, the current prime minister, who has been prosecuted for exactly the same thing, i.e., for abuses of party funding declared as parliamentary assistants in Europe, at the EU parliament. Bayrou emerged from this affair without being in the least concerned. In fact, the public prosecutor’s office has once again referred the matter to the courts, but even so, we’re dealing with a double standard here. It’s a bit surprising.”

is this ringing any bells? perhaps bells around the handing of emails and information or servers and documents?

this is a ridiculous and targeted piece of trumped up lawfare that has become alarmingly common in the US and EU alike. if we don't like you, we arrest you. the selectivity and uneven standards are the key feature of this system.

it’s 1000% deliberate. ...

this is a coup.

it’s the judiciary taking over elections and presidencies, tying opponents in knots and taking them off the board, allowing havoc to be wreaked by one set of activists while arresting all others and sentencing them to real, hard gulag time.

French Court Bars National Rally Leader Marine Le Pen from Office for 5 Years After Embezzlement Conviction

Marine Le Pen Responds to Court Banning Her from Running for President: ‘Millions of French People Have Been Silenced’

In a chilling glimpse of how the U.S. 2024 presidential election could have panned out, French leader Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for president in France by a weaponized court.

Le Pen, head of France’s right-wing National Rally Party and the main rival of liberal French President Emmanuel Macron, reacted to the ruling in a new interview with TF1.

The court accused Le Pen and others in her party of misusing $4.9 million of European Union (EU) funds.

The funds were designated to aid legislators in the European Parliament.

However, the court ruled that Le Pen used the funds to pay party staffers uninvolved in work for the EU parliament.

By convicting Le Pen guilty of the charges, the judges barred the National Rally Party leader from running in the 2027 French presidential election.

She is now banned from running for public office for five years.

“I perfectly understood that the court president was explaining that she was issuing a political ruling,” Le Pen stated.

“The magistrate made it very clear that enforcing the temporary sentence barring me from seeking public office rendered my appeal void and would prevent me from running and getting elected, she said, in the presidential election.

“There are millions of French people who are outraged, outraged to an unbelievable extent when they see that, in France, the country of human rights, judges were implementing practices that we thought were typical of authoritarian regimes,” she continued.

“I think the judges got it wrong,” she said.

“I think they chose to ignore all of the explanations that were given because, in the very first hours of this trial, I had understood that the court was biased against us.

“I did not think the magistrates would go this far against our democratic process and interfere this much with the choice of the French.

“Let’s be clear: I have been silenced but it’s the voice of millions of French people that have been silenced as we speak tonight.”

“I’m a fighter,” she declared.

“I’m not going to let myself be eliminated like that.

“I’m going to pursue every avenue of recourse that I can,” she vowed.

“There’s a small path; it may be narrow, but it does exist.

“In fact, I’m going to ask, in the clearest possible way, for the appeal decision to be handed down enabling me to consider running in the presidential election.

“I will always stand by the French.

“Millions of French people believe in me.

“Millions of French people put their trust in me.

“And I’ve come to tell them, ‘I have been fighting for you for 30 years, and I’ve been fighting injustice for thirty years. And so I’m going to keep doing it. And I will do it all the way.’”

Trump Tells Supreme Court His Presidential Authority Is Under Attack from Activist Federal Judges

President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a plea to the Supreme Court as activist federal judges across the country seek to undermine the authority of the White House.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration told the high court that the president’s authority to protect the nation is under siege from lower court rulings.

White House lawyers used a final brief in a high-stakes deportation case to accuse federal judges of imperiling the executive branch’s core powers.

The brief was the last fling before Supreme Court justices are slated to rule on Trump’s use of a 1798 immigration law to deport Venezuelan nationals.

In the filing, Trump admin lawyers outlined what they call a pattern of judicial overreach.

It comes as Trump is under mounting attacks from Democrat-aligned federal judges seeking to undermine the president’s agenda.

In the Wednesday filing, U.S. Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris said:

“A single district court cannot broadly disable the President from discharging his most fundamental duties, regardless of the order’s label, and irrespective of its duration.”

‘Should Have Recused Himself’: Legal Experts Sound Alarm On Obama-Appointed Judge Blocking Trump’s Deportations

As U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg continues to be a thorn in the side of the Trump administration’s effort to deport gangbangers, legal experts have begun to raise questions about his handling of the case.

The Obama-appointed judge in March blocked President Donald Trump from using wartime authorities to send suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers to a mega-prison in El Salvador, prompting incredible pushback from the president himself. As the challenge to the deportations play out in court, some legal experts have argued Boasberg should recuse himself from the case entirely, while others say he appears to be “making policy from the bench.”

Critics have pointed to the fact that Boasberg’s daughter, Katharine Boasberg, works for an organization whose founder openly celebrated her father’s decision to halt the deportations.

“Under Canon 3 (C) (1) of the ‘Code of Conduct for United States Judges’ it states that judges must disqualify themselves from a case ‘in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned,'” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Given that his daughter works directly for an organization that supports illegal aliens, opposes deportation of aliens, and has voiced its support for Boasberg’s action in this very case, the impartiality of his judgment is obviously open to be reasonably questioned.”

The Supreme Court on Tuesday halted a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal employees who were dismissed as part of a sweeping effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The decision came in response to the administration's emergency appeal of a California judge's ruling, which had directed the government to bring back 16,000 probationary employees while a lawsuit challenging the legality of the mass firings moves forward. The Supreme Court's action means that affected employees at six federal agencies will remain on paid administrative leave for now.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that seeks to limit the powers of “rogue” activist judges attempting to undermine the authority of President Donald Trump.

The No Rogue Rulings Act, led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and backed by Trump, aims to limit federal district judges’ ability to affect Trump administration policies on a national scale.

The legislation passed the House Wednesday evening.

All but one Republican voted for the bill, which passed 219 to 213.

No Democrat lawmakers voted in favor.

The bill limits district courts’ power to issue U.S.-wide injunctions.

Instead, federal judges will be forced to focus their scope on the parties directly affected in most cases.

Since the president took office, the Trump administration has faced more than 15 nationwide injunctions from Democrat-aligned activist judges.

The politically motivated injunctions have been targeting a wide range of Trump’s policies

Sounds like a good law.

Whoops ! ! ! ! !

The bitch practicing Lawfare gets caught up committing mortgage fraud and I'm sure other charges will be forthcoming because nobody is above the law.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-administration-refers-ny-ag-letitia-james-for-possible-prosecution-over-allegations-of-mortgage-fraud/ar-AA1CZBRG?pc=U531

If it is prosecuted in NY, she'll get a deal.

I believe @ElonMusk was right when he said that Democrats were importing illegals as a means of having a permanent majority in all swing states.

However, he missed a more sinister underlying reason for doing so...

By importing twenty million illegals, they also set up an absurd mission for President Trump to pursue, which is deporting every single one of them. This will not result in making America great again. It will simply make America 2020 again.

This is 100% by design. When you have an elite problem solver who is capable of multi-tasking and operating high-level organizational control, the only way to manage that opponent is to control the problems he's focused on solving. Much like Covid-19 derailed the entire Trump agenda in 2020, the invasion is designed to do the same thing. Give Trump and MAGA a false sense of victory over problems the deep state set to eat up time and resources.

How do you counter this tactic? The same way you counter all tactics in 2025... speed.

The administration must understand that they're solving problems and fighting enemies inside of a prefabricated environment. The real problems and real enemies exist outside of this environment. The only way to escape the environment is to adopt an attitude of permanent offense and permanent speed. Speed allows for mistakes. Speed allows for smaller organizations that don't have the numbers to destroy much larger and well funded institutions.

Speed is the great equalizer with information warfare. There are only so many judges. There are only so many Dem leaders, activists, and organizers. Trump must turn the tables and begin dictating terms across multiple war zones and environments.

Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel hundreds of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel and force them to litigate.

If their strategy is to bog you down in court, saturate the environment in such a way that they don't have enough time and resources to litigate every dramatic action you've taken. Close down agencies. Lock the doors. Seize computers. Send them all home. Force them to litigate.

We must begin dictating the battlefield and playing a higher level of war, or we will get victories, but they will only be the ones that our communist opponents allow.

Apr 19, 2025

A great consternation boils and bubbles across the land as the sinister forces of Jacobin lawfare keep up their legalistic battery against the nation. You better believe that the country will not stand for much more of this lunatic judicial coup aimed at wrecking the authority of law itself, and with that, any chance for sane management of our affairs.

On Saturday, the activist org Indivisible, sponsored by Linked-In billionaire Reid Hoffman and dark money “pass through” funder the Tides Foundation (Bill Gates and others), sent its “protest” troops into the streets to pretend that there is public support for national suicide. It was a pitiful showing, after all. There are only so many mind-fucked Boomers out there who can be marshaled to militate for the psychopathocracy behind these monied actors.

Easter weekend looked like a turning point in this struggle for sanity over the public interest. On Saturday night, the SCOTUS shot its wad staying the deportation of Venezuelan gang-bangers rounded-up by ICE in Texas. Do you suppose that means the executive branch is powerless now to remove anyone who entered the USA illegally? It’s alleged that the illegal aliens have a right to some due process beyond their deportation orders — which themselves entail sufficient due process to execute their removal, since entering the country illegally is an actionable violation.

Of course, millions of illegal immigrants ditched their own identity documents before crossing into the USA, so there is no way of even establishing who they actually are, were they to appear in an American court for any proposed due process sorting-out. The identity erasure was carried out deliberately to confound the law, and was part of the concerted efforts of NGOs working with the “Joe Biden” regime to stuff illegals into the country as fast as possible with no vetting whatsoever.

It was, you understand, an elaborately engineered operation, down to the CPB One cell phone app created by the US Department of Homeland Security itself under Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to mass produce phony asylum cases that streamlined illegal entry for millions. This was complemented by the DHS program of “humanitarian parole and travel authorization” to enter the US on commercial flights directly from foreign countries, bypassing customs interviews.

The motivation for all that was understood by anyone with a functional brain: to assemble a new voter cohort, using motor-voter procedures and mail-in ballots to guarantee Democratic Party election victories in key districts for all time to come. It couldn’t have been more cynically corrupt, as is the new campaign to prevent these millions of new fake voters from being deported back to where they came from.

All of this points to the question: what can be done about such an arrant insult to the citizens of our country? The consternation arises from the failure of federal appeals courts, and now even the SCOTUS, to end the coup. What’s needed is a raft of major DOJ prosecutions for the serious crimes around the vast panoply of lawfare operations going back to 2016. I believe they are coming and that the reason you hear nothing lately out of the DOJ and the FBI is because the cases are under construction and details about them have not been leaked.

A good place to start would be a case for mass murder, battery, obstruction of justice, and lying to Congress against the people responsible for the Covid-19 caper.

You might have noticed last week — though The New York Times and the cable news networks didn’t report it — that the White House issued a major document titled Lab Leak; the True Origins of Covid 19. The doc succinctly outlines the case that Anthony Fauci of NIAID and Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina presided over the design of the Covid-19 virus and outsourced its production, with the help of Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, to the Wuhan Virology Institute lab. Include the CEOs or Pfizer and Moderna, Francis Collins, Rochelle Walensky, and their chief deputies at CDC, and Stephen Hahn, Janet Woodcock, and Robert Califf all serially chiefs of the FDA from 2020 to 2024, for enabling the phony and harmful Covid Vaccine program. Indict them all. Let a jury decide if Dr. Fauci’s preemptive pardon was legitimate. The others enjoy no pardon protection.

Bring cases against, John Brennan, James Comey, and a long list of DOJ / FBI officials for the crimes around RussiaGate. Include Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg for his activities running the FISA court during the period. Indict them under federal statute 18 USC 371, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States. Throw in sedition and possibly treason, since the UK’s MI6 agency was a party to the seditious frauds involved.

Indict Alejandro Mayorkas and his deputies, and the White House aides manipulating “Joe Biden,” for engineering the mass entry of illegal immigrants between January 2021 and 2025.

Bring cases against Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party leadership for instigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol building, as well as the DNC / RNC pipe bomb hoax.

Investigate the previously ignored incidents of voter fraud in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia in the 2020 election.

Indict Joe Biden and his family for bribery and treason for their money laundering activities in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan and elsewhere during Biden’s years as vice-president and the period when he was out-of-office, 2017 to 2021 (and enjoyed no immunity).

Indict Norm Eisen, Mary McCord, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa Monaco for organizing the malicious prosecutions of Donald Trump in 2024 in Georgia, Florida, the District of Columbia, and New York City. And bring a case against Eisen and his assistants for orchestrating the current judicial coup outlined above.

Start making this happen, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, and you will begin to shatter the giant glass cloche of cognitive dissonance that holds the minds of half the country hostage to a long-running Jacobin conspiracy aimed at wrecking the country. You will at least witness a startling shift in what the people pay attention to. Call it retribution if you like. It represents payback for a host of crimes committed against the American people by government officials who warred against them. It is well-deserved.

Our existing immigration system wasn’t built for mass enforcement— it’s built for case-by-case adjudication.

⚖️ Here’s where things get spicy. Trump, citing judges making it impossible for him to fulfill his mass deportation promises, could next ask Congress to authorize suspension of the writ in a continuing resolution, which circumvents the Senate filibuster. (Continuing resolutions are short-term funding bills that let the federal government stay open.)

If the Continuing Resolution also agreed that America is currently under invasion, then two branches would be lined up against one, and the Supreme Court would find it very difficult to undo. Even Justice Taney found that Congress can legally suspend the writ, so Congressional delegation of that authority to the President in a CR would be constitutionally sound.

And the Supreme Court has always deferred to the other branches over things like declarations of emergency, war, or invasions, calling those political questions rather than legal issues.

Once again we see the outlines of a carefully considered plan. One of Trump’s first moves was to declare an invasion, and to declare cartels to be foreign terrorist organizations, which put the Alien Enemies Act on the chessboard, framed the problem in military terms, and teed up an eventual showdown over the writ. Trump’s team must have known they’d face these due process problems in carrying out the mass deportation plan.

Democrat "Rule of Law" personified. If a person had vandalized a 20-year old beater Volvo in MN belonging to a Dem Staffer with "Coexist" stickers, they'd be getting months of jail and probation at a minimum.