JACK SMITH UNDER INVESTIGATION—THE PROS AND CONS INTRODUCTION Donald Trump was elected to a second term of office in part due to a large portion of the electorate rejecting the weaponization of the law, which has assumed the nefarious term “lawfare.” Jack Smith secured indictments in federal District Courts in the District of Columbia…
TRUMP SUES THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND ITS OWNERS—A DIFFICULT ROAD AHEAD INTRODUCTION Last week the Wall Street Journal took the low road and published a story describing what purported to be a birthday greeting to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 from then-citizen Trump that took the form of a letter or card that had…
A CALIFORNIA FEDERAL COURT ENJOINS ICE—JUSTICE JACKSON WOULD APPROVE BECAUSE FEELINGS ARE ACTUALLY LAW INTRODUCTION On July 11th, 2025, US District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a recent Biden appointee, entered an extraordinarily broad and likely unlawful Ex Parte Restraining Order essentially telling federal immigration authorities that they cannot enforce immigration law in the Central…
SCOTUS’S 27 JUNE OPINIONS—NOTHING LESS THAN COMMON SENSE JURISPRUDENCE INTRODUCTION The left’s handwringing over the three decisions that I will discuss herein continues to establish its untethering from mainstream moral and legal thought. The bottom-line takeaways from these decisions clearly resonate with most Americans, who do not need to be Constitutional scholars or lawyers…
A United States Air Force B2 Spirit. This file is licensed under the Open Government Licence version 1.0. OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER—UNCONSTITUTIONAL? DEPENDS ON THE POLITICAL WINDS INTRODUCTION Since Congress overrode Nixon’s veto in 1973, the War Powers Resolution has been the subject of uniform disdain by Presidents regardless of party. Whether or not its…
FEDERAL AUTHORITY VIOLENTLY CHALLENGED IN LOS ANGELES—WHEN POLITICS AND THE LAW COLLIDE INTRODUCTION This weekend saw the truth of what propelled Trump to victory. The Mexican flag flown by violent protestors (mingled with “peaceful ones”) who attacked and injured state and federal law enforcement officers while displaying the American flag upside down is a…
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE—A PRIMER INTRODUCTION The controversy over President Biden’s actual ability to govern, in fact, and his clear lack of mental acuity and physical decline has ripened into what will become a procedural and substantive battle between Congressional oversight functions and the deliberative and communicative processes of the Executive during the pendency of his…
View of names etched into the granite face of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. REMEMBER This weekend hundreds of thousands of bikers rode to Washington, DC, for the Rolling Thunder commemorative. Its purpose for years has been to bring awareness to the POWs and MIAs still…
A QUICK TOUR OF THE WEEK’S LEGAL NEWS—AN ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION This week saw several issues thrust onto the legal landscape. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Alien Enemies Act deportations are on hold but for a procedural reason that has been misread by the lay media. Universal injunctions were considered in the…
AN OKLAHOMA CASE WILL DEFINE THE FUTURE OF PUBLICLY FUNDED RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS—UNPACKING LAST WEEK’S SUPREME COURT ARGUMENT INTRODUCTION Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case wherein the Oklahoma Charter School Board and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School challenged a ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The school had entered…