Suspension Of Habeas Corpus: DC Draino On The Constitutional Mechanism To Repel The Illegal Invasion
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=What Is Democratic Legality?==
April 24, 2025 Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness1/2
Since 2021, the left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways.
One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court.
In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protestors assembled at the very doors of the court chambers.
He threatened two of the justices, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, by name. Schumer yelled to the volatile crowd that the justices’ views would make them “reap the whirlwind,” and the two would not know what “hit” them.
In the ensuing months, protestors mobbed some of the conservative justices’ homes—likely committing felonies. The sympathetic Biden Justice Department chose not to follow the law, and so did nothing—although eventually a would-be assassin turned up.
• Joe Biden himself bragged that he would try to ignore the Supreme Court ruling banning his arbitrary cancellation of billions of dollars in student loans. Indeed, he boasted, “The Supreme Court blocked it, but that didn’t stop me.”
• In response, no one on the left ever complained about endangering the “rule of law” or Biden as “a dictator.”
• For three years, four local, state, and federal prosecutors warped the law to neuter Donald Trump. Most of the charges had never been brought against other political figures in similar circumstances.
• The vast majority of the 93 weaponized indictments backfired on the liberal prosecutors, who had contorted the legal system for political purposes and now face their own ethical or legal quagmires.
• The federal prosecutor Jack Smith belatedly reported accepting $140,000 in free legal services.
• Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis was removed from the Trump case and fined, and is now under further investigation.
• New York prosecutor Letitia James is now facing allegations of falsification of documents and loan fraud.
• Federal immigration law prohibits the illegal entry into and residence within the United States. Yet the Biden administration deliberately violated the law by allowing somewhere between 10-12 million illegal aliens to cross the border. Thousands had criminal records.
• No one on the left decried any of these various affronts to the legal system.
• In polls, by overwhelming majorities—above 70 percent—the public wants the Trump administration to close the border, begin deportations, and start with criminals or those with violent histories and gang ties.
• The recent deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador, to the vast majority of Americans seems to fit that profile.
Garcia entered the U.S. illegally and was later found consorting with members of M-13—a State Department-designated terrorist organization—who were selling drugs. Informants reported that he was a gang member. His own tattoos likely confirm those accusations.
Two prior immigration judges found such evidence sufficient to allow deportation proceedings. In 2019, a third judge allowed Garcia to stay temporarily, but only on the grounds that hostile gangs might harm him should he return to El Salvador.
Garcia was pulled over for speeding without a driver’s license—but with eight illegal aliens who reportedly all lived at the Garcia residence. The officer released him, despite suspicions that Garcia was engaged in human trafficking.
Garcia’s live-in girlfriend, now wife, was physically assaulted by Garcia on two occasions, suffered injuries, and initially sought restraining orders against him.
https://victorhanson.com/what-is-democratic-legality/
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The left claims Garcia is a “Maryland man” without an arrest record.
But he is not a U.S. citizen or a legal resident of Maryland. Instead, Garcia is in legal limbo and remains what he always was—a citizen of El Salvador with gang ties and formerly residing illegally in the U.S.
Garcia is now back home on El Salvadorian soil and was mistakenly sent to a high-security prison. But his own government in El Salvador will ultimately decide how involved Garcia is or was with M-13 gangs. And then, as a sovereign nation, it will act according to its own policies about its own citizens’ associations with that terrorist organization.
The left has demanded that Garcia be returned to the U.S. He has become a cause célèbre as a purported victim of the supposedly fascist Trump.
Returning Garcia is seen by leftists as a performance art-act to derail the Trump agenda, which otherwise they have neither the power nor public support to thwart.
The left also ignores its own hypocrisies and ironies.
Those who weaponized the court system and destroyed the border now rail that Trump is acting unlawfully by not returning an illegal alien, an M-13 member, and a domestic abuser with a propensity to ignore our laws.
How ironic that those who rail about colonialism now sound like 19th-century Yankee imperialists.
Democrats do not own El Salvador—although they act like it when dictating to its government that El Salvador cannot detain one of its own citizens on its own soil for its own reasons.
https://victorhanson.com/what-is-democratic-legality/
Johnson cracks door to congressional action on tariffs
An “imbalance” of powers could force Congress to step in, the speaker said. But he doesn’t see that happening now.
Meredith Lee Hill 04/30/2025
Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday thatCongress could intervene to curtail President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime — but only, he said, if there’s an “imbalance” in the relative powers of the executive and legislative branches.
“I think the executive has a broad array of authority that’s been recognized over the years” related to trade, Johnson said at an Axios event. “If it gets close to where the imbalance is there, then we would step in.”
But he made clear he did not think that, despite the turmoil in the economy,things were anywhere near that point. “I mean, what are we, about three weeks into the tariff policy of this new administration? I don’t think it’s appropriate for Congress to jump in the middle of that and try to legislate.”
Johnson also said he would “call the president and talk with him … and tell him our concerns” before taking any action. “Right now, I think ultimately, this policy is going to achieve the desired outcome, and it’s going to be good for the country,” he added.
Republican congressional leaders have given Trump immense leeway to implement his sweeping new tariff regime. Johnson, for instance, has undertaken a procedural move to effectively block any House effort to cancel
Trump’s tariffs, despite several Republicans backing legislation to do so.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/30/congress/mike-johnson-tariffs-congress-00317899
Republicans pull passenger vehicle fee after GOP blowback
Pushback from House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson saying the fee wasn’t a priority, proved to be too much to keep it in the markup.
By Chris Marquette 04/30/2025 07:30 AM EDT
A controversial measure to charge $20 on cars to help pay for Trump administration priorities is out of the House Transportation Committee’s reconciliation markup plan for today after several Republicans panned the annual registration fee, a person with direct knowledge of the committee’s plans told POLITICO.
Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) plans to offer a manager’s amendment that will excise the universal registration fee, the person, who was granted anonymity to discuss private plans, said. The change will also boost the annual electric vehicle registration fee to $250 from $200, pare back the air traffic controller system funding from $15 billion to $12.5 billion and reduce the top line number for Coast Guard funding from $23 billion to $21.2 billion.
On Tuesday, Graves said the universal $20 fee on passenger vehicles (other than EVs and hybrids) would lay the foundation to eventually do away with the federal gasoline tax, which hasn’t been increased in decades, but pushback from House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) saying it wasn’t a priority, proved to be too much to keep it in the markup.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/30/republicans-pull-passenger-vehicle-fee-00317786
Just watch, if Trump get’s is Income Tax reductions,Congress will start charging fees in everything else, they never really want to reduce their spending.
New snags for DC budget bill as House conservatives push for add-ons
Hard-liners are citing the city’s noncitizen voting law as a main target.
Meredith Lee Hill 04/30/2025, 11:50am ET
Republican hard-liners say a bill to restore the District of Columbia local budget and forestall planned layoffs doesn’t have votes to pass the House without conservative policy add-ons, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Those could include a provision blocking noncitizens from voting in D.C., which is one option the hard-liners have raised with senior Republicans in recent weeks. The three people were granted anonymity to describe the private talks.
District officials say they’re facing a $1 billion funding shortfall after House Republicans inadvertently reverted city spending to prior-year spending levels in the latest government funding bill. A fix passed the Senate unanimously but despite support from President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson has yet to move it forward in the House.
D.C. allows noncitizens to vote in local elections under a 2022 law that first took effect last year. The House voted last year to overturn the law.
GOP Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, chair of the House Freedom Caucus, said in a WTOP radio interview Tuesday that he and other conservatives oppose the Senate-passed measure andare seeking to “put some guardrails on the spending” done by D.C.'s local government.
“The bill is not ready for prime time in the House,” he said. D.C. largely governs itself under a 51-year-old home rule arrangement, though Congress retains ultimate constitutional power over the capital city.
Harris did not mention the noncitizen voting lawbut cited city policies surrounding reparations for slavery and abortion fundingas reasons for congressional intervention, as well as the Washington Commanders stadium deal announced this week, saying “there are some people who question whether those are responsible uses of money.”
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/30/congress/house-snags-for-d-c-budget-bill-00318038
Do any of these states and cities get audited on how they spend the money they get from the Fed?
Kevin Dalton
@TheKevinDalton
In 2022 Gavin Newsom signed SB 960 which allows non US citizens to become police officers in California.
Meet Belmont police officer Felipe Gomes, a Brazilian citizen with a history of domestic violence that was just arrested for rape of someone unable to give consent due to a mental disorder.
https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1917467144666898727
EXC: America’s 250th Birthday Commission Chair is a Trump-bashing Obama appointee who feels Mexico is more “my country” than America.
Rosa Rios believes Mexicans “are the future” of America, hates border walls, and thinks “nothing good can come” from Trump.
Rios celebrated Mexicans overtaking US-born citizens demographically, insisting it’s “not our geography that defines us. Again, I am as much Mexican as I am American” while speaking in 2015.
“We are the same blood. California, where I was born and raised, was Mexico. People tend to forget that, that we are in the same land, and that was Mexico,” Rios continued.
Rios has attacked Trump directly for his “demonizing” rhetoric that’s “difficult” to hear.
“The most difficult is, like, what can we do now? How can we move forward? And this is not time to retreat; it's time to advance and embrace who we are. That we not be silent, and be proud of who we are."
In the same speech, Rios claimed Mexicans “have a pride, an effort, an instinct to survive that there is no one else in the world.”
No one “has more passion than the Mexican people.”
“And I hope that everyone, especially the United States, recognizes you."
Rios has attacked President Trump on other occasions.
“It’s a shame there are no leaders in the US that can defend the Mexicans.”
“I think I’m going to return to Mexico much more. Here I feel at home.”
Rios insisted “nothing good” could come from Trump during an interview with Mexican news.
She declared Mexico as “my country,” adding “my blood is here.”
“There's no wall that can separate that.”
“I can't choose between the two countries; I'm part of both. I was born in California, but California used to be part of Mexico, so the blood is the same.”
(Video at the link below, on her quotes)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1917592815023911190.html
(How come someone in his admin actually researches these people?)