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#1 – This Brilliant Move by the Iranian People Against Their Oppressors May Just Make Your Day — by Nick Arama
This is a brilliant move. Not only does it take the oppressors out, it encourages the resistance on the ground, and it also has to have the Basij cowering in their boots. It’s likely to result in more defections from their ranks. Now, of course, you have to check and make sure the identification of the checkpoint is correct, which is what the Israelis are doing. But it’s pretty easy to identify a Basij checkpoint versus other kinds of traffic, I would think.
Their “Supreme Leader,” Mojtaba Khamenei, can’t even go out in the street. “Cardboard Mojtaba” hasn’t been seen since the start of Operation Epic Fury; it’s not even clear that he’s alive. If Israel and the U.S. are taking out everyone from leaders to the Basij forces on the street, you have to think that the regime is not going to last long.
#2 – Grab the Popcorn: Trump Executive Privilege Decision Means All That Info on Biden Is Coming Out — by Nick Arama
So Warrington directed NARA to turn over the three sets of records to the various congressional committees requesting them.
Democrats are always screaming about transparency — while not being transparent. Why should any of that information held back by the Biden team not be released — unless there are things in there that they just don’t want us to see? We need to have it all come out if we are to have any accountability in those probes. We’ve had a glaring lack of accountability for Democrat misconduct for far too long. This may finally get us closer to some real action, in addition to exposing more of the truth.
#3 – Hot Takes: The Reactions to Barack Obama’s Latest Post About His Ugly Library Are Pure Gold — by Nick Arama
Then, too, we can’t forget things like the mess Obama left behind in Libya or the lie he sold us about healthcare and keeping our plans. The worst thing, though, was the division that he sowed and the role he played in the Russia collusion hoax. That divided the country in ways we’re still suffering.
All that ugliness can’t help but rear its ugly head in his building. So laugh and mock away because he deserves every bit of it.
#4 – Jackson and Kavanaugh Clash in Rare Public Fight Over Supreme Court Handling of Trump Cases — by Ben Smith
That is what happened Monday when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Justice Brett Kavanaugh shared a stage and openly clashed over how the Supreme Court has handled emergency appeals tied to President Donald Trump’s policies.
The discussion centered on the Court’s emergency docket. These cases often arrive after lower courts block federal policies, and the administration asks the Supreme Court to allow those policies to take effect while the lawsuits continue.
That process has become one of the most important legal fronts for Trump’s agenda. The Court has repeatedly stepped in after lower-court rulings halted various policies, allowing the administration to move forward while the lawsuits continue.
#5 – Seventh Circuit Takes a Blowtorch to Order Issued by Abusive, Anti-ICE Chicago Judge — by streiff
These two decisions by Ellis meant that no one else was affected by the dismissal of the case and that the plaintiffs could sue again in the future and again be certified as a class. The intent seemed to be to allow Ellis to make the same ruling again in the future, with the same or different plaintiffs, and make the administration fight the same fight again. Perhaps several times.
Ordinarily, an appeals court would have considered the case moot as both sides wanted to end the litigation. In this case, the Seventh Circuit was suspicious.
The district court’s order may also spawn adverse legal consequences. Because the district court dismissed this case without prejudice—against the plaintiffs’ unopposed request for a dismissal with prejudice—any class members or the lead plaintiffs could refile these claims tomorrow. They could ask the district court to reinstate a near-identical preliminary in junction, adopting the facts and legal reasoning from the district court’s order.
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