D.C.'s Power To Challenge Trump In Jeopardy
After Guard Ruling
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown, 12/22/2025 10:19:44 AM
D.C. is "a federal district created by Congress, rather than a constitutionally sovereign entity," Judge Patricia Millet wrote in a Dec. 17 order. "The President's order implicates a strong and distinctive interest in the protection of federal governmental functions and property within the nation's capital." (snip) Judges Gregory Katsas and Naomi Rao went further in a concurrence asserting D.C. doesn't have standing to sue the federal government since it is a creation of the same government it is attempting to sue. (snip) [I]f the reasoning expressed in it is upheld on appeal, it could trim the powers of whoever replaces current Mayor Muriel Bowser (snip.)
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D.C. is "a federal district created by Congress, rather than a constitutionally sovereign entity," Judge Patricia Millet wrote in a Dec. 17 order. "The President's order implicates a strong and distinctive interest in the protection of federal governmental functions and property within the nation's capital." (snip) Judges Gregory Katsas and Naomi Rao went further in a concurrence asserting D.C. doesn't have standing to sue the federal government since it is a creation of the same government it is attempting to sue. (snip) [I]f the reasoning expressed in it is upheld on appeal, it could trim the powers of whoever replaces current Mayor Muriel Bowser (snip.)
Gov. Gavin Newsom's "Great Leap Forward"
-- DEI And Reparations Agriculture Land
Seizure Scheme 13 replies
-- DEI And Reparations Agriculture Land
Seizure Scheme 13 replies
For a peek into how California Governor Gavin Newsom would rule the country if elected President, look no further than his
California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force. This ambiguous agency was buried within the state budget in 2022 during Newsom's statewide Covid lockdown, when media was not allowed near the governor or Legislature. (snip) The report the Equity Task Force recently released recommending a land grab from white farmers reads like a "How To" Marxism 101 manual at UC Berkeley. (snip) This comprehensive business plan requires more illegal reparations in the form of hostile land "takings" seizures, this time for "indigenous" tribes and farm workers.
Democrats are allowing people to be murdered by illegal immigrants so they can brag that they are not cooperating with [ICE]. This is the reality of the most recent case in Fairfax County, Virginia. There, El Salvadoran national Marvin Morales Ortez had been charged with multiple crimes after "maliciously wounding" someone he was living in the same home with. When the alleged victim did not show up to testify, Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descanso's office dropped the charges, and a judge ordered Ortez to be released. He was then arrested after allegedly murdering the same person he had injured (snip.)
Covid-19 -- and less frequently, the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine -- can cause inflamed heart tissue in some people. A new study implicates a pair of substances secreted by immune cells and proposes a strategy to mitigate the vaccine effect. (snip) Vaccine-associated myocarditis occurs in about one in every 140,000 vaccinees after a first dose and rises to one in 32,000 after a second dose. For reasons that aren't clear, incidence peaks among male vaccinees age 30 or below, at one in 16,750 vaccinees. (snip) A case of Covid-19 is about 10 times as likely to induce myocarditis as a Covid-19 vaccination (snip.)
Biden FBI, DOJ Weighed Campaign Finance
Probe Of Sen. Krysten Sinema After She
Left Democratic Party 3 replies
Probe Of Sen. Krysten Sinema After She
Left Democratic Party 3 replies
Officials in Joe Biden's Department of Justice and FBI considered a criminal investigation into then-Sen. Krysten Sinema (I-Ariz.) for purported campaign finance law violations after she left the Democratic Party, according to emails reviewed by The Post. (snip) Sinema's chief of staff, Daniel Winkler, expressed concern when reached for comment that the probe was pursued for "partisan political reasons," including punishing the former senator for refusing to support scrapping the 60-vote legislative filibuster. The email exchanges began in response to the Post's Feb. 1, 2024 report on Sinema's six-figure campaign spending on a security detail, luxury hotels, cars, and concert tickets (snip.)
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security has released an updated report highlighting terrorism threats to Americans (snip) after holding a hearing on Tuesday during which the Director of the National Anti-Terrorism Center Joe Kent testified that the NCTC had identified at least 18,000 known or suspected terrorists who were released into the U.S. during the Biden administration (snip.) The NCTC has also added roughly 35,000 narco-terrorists to the federal Terrorist Screening Database since he's been in office.
Several of the largest U.S. and European-based drugmakers inked deals with President Donald Trump on Friday to voluntarily sell their medications for less, as his administration pushes to link the nation's drug prices to cheaper ones abroad. (snip) Among the most notable pledges is that Bristol Myers Squibb will offer Eliquis, its blockbuster blood-thinner and top-prescribed product, for free to Medicaid. The companies make up a majority of the 17 drugmakers Trump sent letters to in July, calling on them to lower prices as part of his "most favored nation" policy.
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for access to the state's voter rolls. The Justice Department said information provided by Raffensperger's office did not include all of the information requested, including the voter's full name, date of birth, residential address, state driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.
Trump Defies Odds, Achieves Economic Triple
Play With Rate Cuts, Tariffs And Cooling Inflation 3 replies
Play With Rate Cuts, Tariffs And Cooling Inflation 3 replies
Contrary to conventional economic wisdom and warnings from critics on the left and many economists that cutting interest rates while imposing broad tariffs would inevitably stoke inflation, the Trump administration is achieving all three simultaneously -- with the Federal Reserve lowering rates, significant tariffs in place and inflation cooling to 2.7% as of late 2025. (snip) The Consumer Price Index report for November 2025, released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed headline inflation cooling to 2.7% (snip.) Core inflation, excluding volatile food and energy prices, came in even lower at 2.6% -- the slowest pace since early 2021 (snip.)
Arizona Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh has introduced legislation that would add a question about dual citizenship to the decennial U.S. Census. The bill, Make Allegiances Clear Again Act (MACA Act), aims to shed light on what Hamadeh describes as a hidden national security risk: divided loyalties among U.S. citizens who also hold citizenship in foreign countries. (snip) The Arizona congressman, who began his term in January 2025, argues that the census currently lumps together "illegal aliens, guest workers, dual nationals and loyal American citizens into the same generic population buckets." This, he contends, distorts representation and funding decisions.
The Black Box Warning That Wasn't
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For much of the past week it appeared that something rare -- and overdue -- might finally happen at the Food and Drug Administration. Reports circulated that the agency was preparing to place a black-box warning on Covid-19 vaccines , the strongest safety warning FDA can issue. (snip) Then it didn't happen. What followed was not a denial that harms existed. That much is now conceded. Instead FDA Commissioner Marty Makary publicly acknowledged that an internal safety committee had recommended a boxed warning -- and that the agency had declined to act on it.
The European Union continues to hammer away at American companies under the guise of "Digital Regulation." The Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) have become tools of economic and political aggression, masquerading as consumer protection. All of this, of course, under the European guise of "protecting democracy." (snip) What the EU is doing is nothing less than an extraterritorial power play meant to export European censorship norms into America.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to hold elections if there is a ceasefire. However, eastern Ukraine citizens, those currently living in the Donbas region, who are supportive of Russia, will not be permitted to vote.This creates a rather bizarre official hypocrisy within the Zelenskyy regime. The official position of Zelenskyy is that Eastern Ukraine will never be accepted as a part of the Russian federation.
Zelenskyy has recently noted, with EU leadership support, that his government will never recognize Eastern Ukraine as part of the Russian federation. However, this same region, approximately 20% of Ukraine, will not be permitted to participate in his controlled election.
George W. Bush Institute Urges Americans
to Sympathize with Afghans After D.C.
National Guard Attack 30 replies
to Sympathize with Afghans After D.C.
National Guard Attack 30 replies
Following the fatal shooting of one National Guard member and the injury of another in Washington, DC, the George W. Bush Institute is urging against broadly targeting Afghan immigration applicants in response to the actions of a single individual.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who previously worked with a CIA-backed partner force in Kandahar and entered the U.S. in 2021 through the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, has been arraigned and is facing charges in the Thanksgiving-week ambush-style shooting that left 20-year-old Spc. Sarah Beckstrom dead and critically injured 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe.
Following the attack, U.S. immigration authorities announced an immediate and indefinite pause on immigration processing
And the (electrical vehicle) hits just keep on coming.
Just a day after car manufacturing giant Ford Motors announced that it was eating a sizable $19.5 billion bullet for putting too many of its eggs into the EV basket, a WIVB-TV report is pouring even more cold water on the left’s EV craze.
As New York shifts to meet a new statewide mandate requiring all purchased school buses to be electric, parents have already identified a significant issue — especially in the rather chilly Empire State.
According to WIVB, parents “in the Lake Shore Central School District are speaking out, claiming some bus drivers are turning the heat down, or off completely,
Australian State Set to Ban ISIS Flags,
Symbols, and ‘Intifada’ Chants After
Bondi Terror Attack 22 replies
Symbols, and ‘Intifada’ Chants After
Bondi Terror Attack 22 replies
The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing to ban public displays of Islamic State group flags or extremist symbols after a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Under draft laws to be debated by the state Parliament, publicly displaying the IS flag or symbols from other extremist groups will be offenses punishable by up to two years in prison and fines. The state’s premier, Chris Minns, also said chants of “globalize the intifada” will be banned and police would be given greater powers to demand protesters remove face coverings at demonstrations.
“Hate speech or incitement of hatred has no place in our society,”
More than a dozen newly-released Jeffrey
Epstein files vanished from Justice Department website 18 replies
Epstein files vanished from Justice Department website 18 replies
More than a dozen files tied to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein mysteriously vanished from the Justice Department’s website just one day after the agency released the massive, long-awaited trove of documents and photos to the public, according to reports.
At least 16 files — among thousands available Friday — were taken down with no explanation from the government, leading to criticism from Democrats on Capitol Hill.
The missing docs included images of nude female paintings — and according to the Dems, a picture of a desk that had numerous framed photos on it and some photos piled in an open drawer.
CBS pulled a “60 Minutes” segment on Venezuelan migrants who were sent to El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison, CECOT, just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast time.
“The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated,” the program posted in an Editor’s Note on social media three hours before it was set to air.
“Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast,” the post said. The episode, which was scheduled to air at 7:30 ET on Sunday, was set to show correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewing recently released deportees who experienced “brutal and torturous” conditions at the hellhole prison,
The Reiner Murders: a common humanity view
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The murder of Hollywood Director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer Reiner by Reiner’s 32-year-old adult son Nick has become another front in the ongoing political war. Nick is a long-time drug addict, in and out of rehab many times, and often homeless on the streets of multiple states. He reportedly trashed his parent’s home at least once in the past, and some reports suggest he was diagnosed with schizophrenia not long before the alleged murders, apparently committed with a knife or other sharp object.
Rob Reiner was perhaps best known for his writing and directing, particularly the classic rock “mockumentary” This is Spinal Tap. He’ll certainly
The New York Times acknowledged in a recent report that there has never been any evidence connecting President Donald Trump to the criminal activities of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, despite years of public speculation and repeated claims pushed by Democratic officials.The article, written by Times reporters Nicholas Confessore and Julie Tate, was based on interviews with “more than 30 former employees of Jeffrey Epstein, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with Mr. Epstein and President Trump.”
Ex-FBI agent says Bondi has ‘slam dunk’conspiracy
case against Obama's feds for election meddling 15 replies
case against Obama's feds for election meddling 15 replies
A retired FBI agent who assembled major crime cases for years says Attorney General Pam Bondi has a “slam dunk” conspiracy case to prosecute former federal agents and prosecutors for election meddling for relentlessly pursuing Donald Trump for political purposes while protecting prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton in the face of damning evidence. Jonathan Gilliam, a retired FBI agent and Navy SEAL, told the Just the News, No Noise television show that Trump should name a “Justice Czar” to coordinate both prosecutions and policy fixes after documents turned over to Congress by Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel…
Lawrence, Massachusetts, Mayor Brian DePena appeared in court on Friday, where he required a translator to participate in proceedings at a Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission proceeding on Friday.
The hearing concerned former Lawrence Police Chief William Castro, a political ally of DePena, who was stripped of his policing credentials following an improper police chase. Castro was accused of driving the wrong way down a city street during the chase and filing a false police report, claiming he was responding to an armed bank robbery when he had actually been responding to someone attempting to cash a bad check.
San Francisco plunged into darkness when nearly 30 percent of the city was struck by a power outage, which brought vital transportation, such as self-driving cars, to a grinding halt on Saturday night.
Over 130,000 houses and businesses were left in the dark, largely in the northwest part of San Francisco,[snip]
The company shut down its operation at around 8 p.m. because the cars were unable to operate without traffic signals. Residents shared footage of the Waymo vehicles parked with their hazards flashing
At least four Waymo vehicles were parked in the middle of an intersection with their hazards on,
This Week's Underreported News
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Much of the mainstream news this week has been, in my opinion, partisan or devoted to less-than-significant matters. Does it really matter if the Trump-appointed board that saved the Kennedy Center from going to wrack and ruin has added his name to the building? Were you really surprised that Bill Clinton, not Trump, was pictured in the released Epstein files cavorting with women whose faces were blacked out because they were either minors or victims? (Snip) I think the important and underreported stories of the week, are different -- the growing fractures in the European Union and the Administration’s lowering the boom on richly rewarded migration sponsors.
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The Democratic Socialists of America are on track to replace Bowser with an even zanier version of NYC's Mamdani. President Trump and Congress should avoid this embarrassment by ending the farce of "D.C. home rule" before the election cycle begins.