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After battling bureaucrats throughout presidency, Trump gets last laugh against 'deep state'

A Trump-infused Supreme Court reins in federal bureaucracy in historic fashion.

Donald Trump accused the "deep state" of trying to ruin his presidency from Russia collusion to two impeachments, but the 45th president may have gotten the last laugh 18 months after leaving office when a Supreme Court infused with three of his appointees drastically reined in the powers of alphabet-soup federal bureaucracy.

Thursday's ruling in the case of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency significantly confined the ability of unelected federal bureaucrats to make law or policy outside of Congress.

In the decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court held 6-3 that under the so-called major questions doctrine, judges can strike down federal agency regulations that have substantial economic effects when Congress did not give explicit authority to the agency to make such decisions.

The federal bureaucracy "must point to clear congressional authorization for the power it claims," Roberts wrote in a ruling that shook Washington on Thursday.

see attached: You can read the ruling here: File 20-1530_n758.pdf

While the court decision involved the Environmental Protection Agency and its efforts to restrain coal-fired electric plants, experts warned it could have vast impact on regulatory agencies across the nation's capital, forcing them to prove Congress gave them explicit powers before they impose new federal rules.

Leah Litman, a University of Michigan law professor, tweeted thedecision is "a cudgel against administrative agencies" and their powers to control industries. The ruling reaffirms the Founding Fathers' belief that "any limits on freedom be passed by Congress, not by kings and exchequers and bureaucrats and ministers," J. Christian Adams, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney, told Just the News.

"Unfortunately, the EPA is full of ministers and exchequers, and they decided that they didn't like coal," Adams said in an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast.

Bureaucrats "love to control everyone's lives," he added. "And the Supreme Court said, "Look, we're a republic, because we put power with the people, with Congress, where … if we want to do something, they have to go through a process.'

"In Washington the number of people involved in issuing this edict, there might have been 30 or 40 people, and those 30 or 40 people were responsible for basically ruining the jobs and employment and welfare of so many people across West Virginia and Kentucky, Colorado, because of their edict that got rid of coal."

Even before his presidency began, Trump was assaulted by the federal bureaucracy, which launched a since-discredited Russia collusion investigation, leaked his private conversations with world leaders, resisted his orders and allied with Democrats to pursue two impeachment cases that ended in acquittal.

Trump emerged from those skirmishes to remain as popular as ever with his base — and now more popular than his successor Joe Biden — while federal bureaucrats now will see reduced powers and influence as a result of the court's ruling Thursday.

"It was such a win for the American people, but also for Donald Trump," former presidential spokesman Hogan Gidley told "Just the News, Not Noise" television show on Friday. "I mean, how many times did he have to fight the deep state? How many times did he have to fight the bureaucrats up here in Washington?

"This ruling means Congress gets to make up what those emission standards are going to be and not some bureaucratic agency like the EPA. So another win for the American people. Another win for those who've been fighting against the bureaucracy, chief among those being, of course, the former President Donald Trump."

Adams, the former Justice Department official, said Trump's legacy years from now may very well be that he clipped the wings of Washington elites.

"I think that's the big story is the regular people finally have a voice of the Supreme Court instead of the elites," he said.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/after-battling-bureaucrats-throughout-presidency-trump-gets-last

Police: Illinois parade shooter believed to have bought rifle legally, disguised self as female

Police believe the attack was planned for several weeks

Police in Illinois said Tuesday that the rifle used in the July Fourth parade shooting outside of Chicago was "purchased in Illinois" and "appears to have been purchased legally" by the shooter.

Lake County Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said at a press conference that investigators recovered an additional rifle from the shooter's vehicle and multiple weapons from the residence of the shooter, though did not specify what they were.

The shooter used his mother's car to drive to the scene, where he fired more than 70 shots into the crowd of parade attendees from a rooftop with a the rifle – killing six and injuring dozens of other.

Police also said the alleged shooter, Robert Crimo III, is now confirmed to be 21 years old. His age was frequently reported as 22 in breaking news stories.

He then dropped down from the rooftop, abandoning his rifle and blending into the panicked crowd. He was reportedly disguised as a woman in order to conceal himself.

The shooter was taken into custody Monday night at a traffic stop following an hours-long manhunt. No charges have been announced yet. No motivation has been determined.

https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/illinois-parade-shooter-bought-rifle-legally-had-second-rifle-car-during-attempt-flee

Biden to allow some migrants with terrorist ties into country, raising security concerns

CRAY CRAY BIDAN ADMIN LOVES TERRORISTS

New administration rule could potentially endanger Americans, security experts warn.People who worked with terrorist groups will now have an easier time entering the U.S. legally. Last week, the State and Homeland Security departments announced they had altered the Immigration and Nationality Act, a federal law, to grant entry into the U.S. and other "immigration benefits" tothose who provided "limited" or "insignificant" material support to designated terrorist organizations.

Examples of such support include "routine commercial transactions," "humanitarian assistance," "substantial pressure that does not rise to the level of duress," and "the satisfaction of certain well-established or verifiable family, social, or cultural obligations." The amended language, detailed in a notice to the Federal Register, creates a carveout so immigration restrictions, including an entry ban into the country, no longer apply tothese individuals provided they show they "pose no danger to the safety and security of the United States."

Other factors considered by the government include whether the person in question supported "terrorist activities that they knew or reasonably should have known targeted noncombatant persons, U.S. citizens, or U.S. interests." The notice added that the carveout "may be revoked as a matter of discretion and without notice at any time, with respect to any and all persons subject to it."

The changes are raising alarm bells among immigration and national security experts, who told Just the News that the Biden administration is potentially endangering American lives.

"This is a very concerning decision to weaken the government's ability to keep supporters of terror groups from exploiting our generous immigration system," said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. "This policy essentially makes excuses on behalf of foreign nationals who have been found to support terror groups, giving them deniability, and enables naive bureaucrats to look the other way at a record of concerning behavior on the part of applicants.

"As a result, it will be even easier for those who hate America and support terror groups to live here legally, free to fight us from within, and free to sponsor others to come in." A State Department spokesperson told Just the News that the move is meant specifically to help Afghans so they don't get flagged unfairly and can enjoy America's immigration benefits.

"This action will allow the U.S. government to meet the protection needs of qualifying Afghans who do not pose a national security or public safety risk and provide them with the ability to access a durable immigration status in the United States," the spokesperson said.

"Eligible individuals include Afghans who supported and worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, worked as civil servants or as doctors, teachers, and engineers during a time when the Taliban was in power..The Taliban is the Islamist group in control of Afghanistan.

The actual language of the new rule is broad and appears toapply to all countries and U.S.-designated terrorist organizations such as ISIS and al Qaeda, according to experts and former officials. The rule doesn't specifically mention Afghans, Afghanistan, or the Taliban.

"If this regulation is truly intended only for the restricted case of Afghanistan, the administration should quickly amend this regulation to remove the troubling loopholes," wrote Gabriel Noronha. The State and Homeland Security departments didn't address why Afghanistan isn't mentioned when asked__. The departments also didn't address the fact that the Taliban isn't a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and therefore wouldn't appear to be covered under the rule — an apparent discrepancy between the Biden administration's messaging and the language of the carveout.

"As usual, the Biden administration is pushing this on behalf of one particular group (Afghans in this case) that it believes the public will have sympathy for, but in fact it is much broader, and could cover many others of concern, such as drug cartels, gangs, espionage scenarios, and hostile governments," said Vaughan. She argued the administration added "highly subjective qualifiers"such as "limited" and "insignificant" to describe one's terror support, explaining lawyers representing terror suspects can easily exploit such language and immigration officers can be deceived. This "practically guarantees that dangerous people who could and should be kept out will slide through our system," said Vaughan.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/why-terrorists-will-now-have-easier-time-entering-us-legally

Asleep at the wheel': House GOP signals China a major issue against Dems in fall election

(I'd argue not asleep at the wheel, but it's done intentionally_

From Hunter Biden's Beijing deals to woke military ideas, Democrats are vulnerable, quarterback of House GOP policy says.

As Beijing rattles U.S. allies Taiwan and Japan in the Pacific and courts South America, the quarterback of House GOP policy is signaling that China's influence inside the Democrat Party is going to be a major issue in the fall midterm elections.

"The Democrats are completely asleep at the wheel when it comes to the China threat," Rep. Jim Banks, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told Just the News.

"The Democrats believe that China is our friend," he said during an interview last week on Just the News' "Leading from Behind" television special. "They believe that we can work with China, that we can coexist with a rising China. On the Republicans side, we recognize that China's the greatest threat economically, militarily that's posed toward the United States today."

Banks said Republicans see two big Democrat vulnerabilities when it comes to China.

–The first is Americans believe President Joe Biden is compromised because of the large business deals his son Hunter pursued with communist China.

–"We went from the strongest president, the toughest president that we ever had on China to the weakest president, who's likely compromised because of the Hunter Biden business dealings with Chinese communist party entities that Joe Biden was skimming money off the top," he said, referring to a 2017 deal in which Joe Biden was mentioned as potentially getting 10% of proceeds.

The second is that as Americans experience China's increasing aggression in the Pacific — Chinese warships repeatedly circled Japan last week —- they see the Biden administration focusing the Pentagon on woke ideologies instead of hypersonic missiles and other leading technologies.

"Wokeness is weakness," Banks said. "And the more that we project weakness in our military, the more we're projecting weakness on the world stage.

"Our adversaries see it, and China is laughing to the bank every time they see our military leadership advance critical race theory and anti-Americanism on our troops because they know it's destructive."

Banks said Republicans will offer an alternative to Biden's approach that focuses on new technology and new strategies that fuse U.S. military capabilities into a significant deterrent.

"We have to build a military that is more sophisticated," he said. "We have to give our military personnel the more sophisticated technologies that they need to fight back against an adversary, an enemy in China, that we've never seen before with what they've done to build up the sophistication of their military apparatus, their military-civil fusion."

"Their approach is something that America is not pursuing," Banks said, adding GOP lawmakers are unveiling some of their ideas in the National Defense Authorization act. "We're not well equipped because of the lack of serious leadership in America, with Joe Biden in the White House, to advance a strong military posture against China."

https://justthenews.com/government/security/asleep-wheel-house-gop-signals-china-major-issue-against-dems-fall-election

Trump's July Fourth message: 'I know it’s not looking good' but 'best is yet to come'

Trump wrote that inflation, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the tanking stock market would not have happened if he were president

Former President Donald Trump wished Americans a happy Fourth of July on Monday by saying that he knows life in the U.S. is "not looking good" right now but the "best is yet to come."

The former president's posts on his Truth Social platform come two days after The New York Times and CNN reported he is considering joining the 2024 presidential race early, "possibly" even before the midterm elections this fall, as televised hearings from the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee continue to result in weeks of bad press.

"I know it’s not looking good for our Country right now, with a major War raging out of control in Europe, the Highest Inflation in memory, the worst 6 month Stock Market start in History, the highest Energy Prices EVER, and that is the Good News," Trump posted.

"Happy Fourth of July!!! ((Don’t worry, We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and remember, none of these terrible events would have happened if I were President!!!))."

U.S. inflation numbers for June have yet to be released, but the annualized rate of 8.6% in May marked a 40-year high.

On Jan. 19, 2021, one day before Joe Biden became president, the national average cost of a gallon of gas was $2.38, according to AAA. A gallon is now $4.80 on average, slightly lower than the all-time national high of $5.01 less than a month ago.

In a Fourth of July video published to Truth Social hours after Trump first, he promised the situation in the country would get better.

"America's destiny is in our sights. America's heroes are embedded in our hearts. America's future is in our hands, and ladies and gentlemen, the best is yet to come," he said in a voiceover of a patriotic video compilation featuring him in front of Mount Rushmore and visiting veterans.

Trump also made a series of posts Monday criticizing the Jan. 6 committee and Vice Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming.

"Warmongering and despicable human being Liz Cheney, who is hated by the great people of Wyoming (down 35!), keeps saying, over and over again, that HER Fake Unselect Committee may recommend CRIMINAL CHARGES against a President of the United States who got more votes than any sitting President in history. Even the Dems didn’t know what she was talking about!" he wrote.

The former president also asked how he could be considered guilty of a crime when he recommended deploying 10,000 troops to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6.

"There would have been no 'January 6' if they had followed my recommendation. The Unselect Committee refuses to even mention this totally conclusive and determinative fact. WITCH HUNT!" he stated.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/donald-trump-july-fourth-i-know-its-not-looking-good-best-yet-come

Fulton grand jury subpoenas Giuliani, Graham, Trump campaign lawyersAJC is far left

The Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections has subpoenaed key members of former President Donald Trump’s legal team, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, according to copies obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In addition toGiuliani, among those being summoned are John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis, all of whom advised the Trump campaign on strategies for overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s wins in Georgia and other swing states.

The grand jury alsosubpoenaed South Carolina U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s top allies in the U.S. Senate, and attorney and podcast host Jacki Pick Deason.

The subpoenas were filed July 5 and signed off by Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney(today), who is overseeing the special grand jury. They noted that all seven people were “a necessary and material witness” to the investigation.

Unlike subpoenas issued to Georgians, the summons were required to receive McBurney’s blessing since they are for people who reside outside the state.

The 23-person special grand juryhas heard testimony in recent weeks from a parade of witnesses, including some who had direct contact with Trump and his associates in late 2020 and early 2021. But Tuesday’s subpoenas are the closest jurors have gotten to the Trump campaign or inner circle of the former president.

Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, testified before Georgia legislators in late 2020, showing edited surveillance video of ballots being tabulated at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena. The former New York City Mayor said the tape was a “powerful smoking gun” of election workers pulling out “suitcases” of ballots to count after sending Republican poll watchers home.

Eastman, a former law professor, was a key architect of the plan to press Vice President Mike Pence to reject the official Democratic electors in Georgia and other swing states and opt for an alternative slate of GOP electors. A federal judge in March argued that “it is more likely than not that President Trump and Dr. Eastman dishonestly conspired to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.”

Eastman testified at the same Georgia hearing as Giuliani, during which he argued that there was “more than enough” evidence of fraud and improper conduct to warrant Georgia lawmakers picking an alternative slate of presidential electors.

“I don’t think it’s just your authority to do that,” Eastman said, “but, quite frankly, I think you have a duty to do that to protect the integrity of the election here in Georgia.”

Deason and Ellis also spoke at the same hearing.

Cheseboro worked with the leadership of the Georgia GOP to coordinate a slate of alternate Republican electors, according to his subpoena. The DA’s office said Cheseboro drafted at least two memos in support of the plan and provided a template of documents to the party for its sham ceremony at the Georgia Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020.

Mitchell, a conservative lawyer based in Washington, D.C., advised Trump on the infamous Jan. 2, 2021, call that the Republican placed to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. During that conversation, in which Trump asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, Mitchell aided Trump as he made unsubstantiated claims about Georgia’s elections.

Graham separately called Raffensperger and his staff twice in the weeks following the November 2020 elections “about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” his subpoena alleges. Graham previously denied wrongdoing.

It may be difficult for Fulton prosecutors to secure testimony from Giuliani, Eastman, Mitchell, Chesebro, Deason and Ellis, since they could argue attorney-client privilege. Eastman sought out the exemption as he sought to block the handover of evidence to the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, though he was largely shot down by a federal judge.

Bob Costello, Giuliani’s attorney, declined to comment and said his client had not been served any subpoena. A spokesman for Graham did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fulton County DA Fani Willis launched the criminal probe into Georgia’s elections in February 2021, weeks after a recording of the Trump-Raffensperger phone call leaked. She’s since expanded the investigation to include the fake GOP electors, Giuliani’s testimony to state legislators and other efforts to pressure Georgia officials to act in Trump’s favor.

PS never trust a DA with the first name Fani!

https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-grand-jury-subpoenas-giuliani-graham-trump-confidantes/POUNSTTUXZDGDB3D5LKA7TIQQM/

Anons if you want to see how corrupt Atlanta, GA is, just type in Atlanta corruption, it will return pages and pages of corruption over the years.

US Penitentiary Atlanta nearly empty amid corruption probe

By Kerry J. Byrne August 21, 2021

A federal prison has been nearly emptied of inmates, and staff is being overhauled, in wake of an investigation into alleged widespread corruption and lax security, according to a report.

The U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta housed more than 1,800 prisoners in March, but that figure was down to just 134 as of Friday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons instituted a lockdown at the correctional facility in June, citing a “prevalence of narcotics and cellular devices being used by the inmate population” according to a memo sent to prison staff.

The phones, the report finds, were used for everything from hosting Facebook Live sessions to trafficking drugs in the outside world.

Inmates used a hole in the fence to come and go from the prison, even allegedly setting up a shuttle service to deliver prisoners to and from local restaurants.

Prison staff was reportedly complicit in these operations, which were widely known among employees. Guards would often come and go with backpacks and duffel bags that went unsearched. Meth was known to be hidden throughout the prison, the newspaper said.

“I’d say 20 to 30 percent of the officers were dirty,” a lieutenant on the prison staff told the Journal-Constitution. “And that’s just totally unacceptable. You’re always going to have a few. Most prisons have one, two or maybe three bad apples. Not a quarter of the staff.”

https://nypost.com/2021/08/21/us-penitentiary-atlanta-nearly-empty-amid-corruption-probe/