The USS Gravely, an Aegis-class destroyer, deployed to the waters near Venezuela as part of counter-narcotics operations. THE PRESIDENT AUTHORIZES A LETHAL STRIKE ON A VESSEL TRANSPORTING DRUGS—THE OPENING SHOT IN A NEW AND EVOLVING WAR ON TERROR INTRODUCTION The current Administration is formulating a strategy to join issue with an increasingly dangerous influx…
A LABOR DAY WEEKEND TARIFF RULING FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT—A SEPARATION OF POWERS SHOWDOWN GOES TO SCOTUS INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS On Friday, August 30th, a divided federal appeals court issued a ruling on the majority of the President’s tariffs imposed to address various declared emergencies from trade imbalance, fentanyl…
THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION IS PARTIALLY RELIEVED FROM LETITIA JAMES’S CORRUPT CIVIL ACTION, BUT REAL JUSTICE AWAITS A FURTHER APPEAL INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS It appears that a few Justices of the Appellate Division, First Department, an intermediate appellate court within the New York legal structure, may have read my blog on these issues from September…
EXPLODING THE STATUS QUO AND ENSURING LIFE AND LIBERTY IS NOT AUTOCRACY—IT IS A STRONG ARTICLE II PRESIDENT WIELDING CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY INTRODUCTION The status quo in the Nation’s Capital has seen a disproportionate share of violent crime, the actual impact and effect of which seems to contradict so-called crime statistics. A politically broad swath…
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. JUDGE BOASBERG’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL QUEST TO HOLD TRUMP’S DOJ IN CONTEMPT COMES TO AN ABRUPT AND IGNOBLE END INTRODUCTION Previous editions of this blog have examined the drama between the Executive and Judicial branches as…
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…