New ICE M/O uses threat of suspect-vehicle-ramming-unmarked-ICE-vehicle as an excuse to murder victims #8 in Texas and #9 in Maine

Different leadership at DHS, same murderous Trump as before.

Elect Democrats and impeach his ass.

 

 Witness says Biddeford shooting victim told police ‘I tried to stop’ 

Daniel Boucher was getting ready for work Monday morning when he heard what sounded like fireworks going off outside of his home near downtown Biddeford.

He rushed to the window, where he saw an SUV trying to ram a small white car in the intersection. Moments later, agents in vests stopped the car and pulled the driver out.

“He was bleeding profusely from the head,” Boucher said later Monday morning. “He was talking. He said, ‘I tried to stop.'”

Boucher watched in disbelief as the man’s legs stopped moving as he lay on the ground. He believes he watched him die. ...

After Biddeford police and an ambulance arrived, Boucher said he saw someone appear to start CPR on the driver. Boucher went out to his front door, where the ICE agent he believed fired the shots walked past him.

“I said ‘This was awful’ and he said, ‘He was trying to ram me,'” Boucher said. ...  

 

 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr endorses Todd Blanche to run the Department of Injustice because Blanche is the only person who has a snowball's chance in hell of bringing Mad King Ludwig back to reality

But that's just Barr's cover story.

 

Bill Barr knows Blanche's only successes defending Trump as his personal lawyer relied on delaying tactics, both in the classified documents case and in the federal election subversion case.

 

Do we really want more of that in his official capacity as Attorney General? 

 

Isn't that what the Justice Department was famous for under Bondi, who dragged her feet releasing the Epstein files?

 

C'mon man. 

 

Other than that, Blanche lost the Manhattan hush money case and Trump was convicted of 34 felonies. 

 

I see no reason for Todd Blanche to fail upwards, unless of course he's probably the best choice to have around if you want to delay what's coming for Trump after November.

 

 

 

Confirm Todd Blanche at Justice

William Barr, Wall Street Journal

 

... Mr. Blanche is likely in the best position of anyone in the country to deliver strong counsel to the president and have him accept it.

 

...  Mr. Blanche doesn’t shy away from giving the president straight-from-the-shoulder advice and, where warranted, pushing back on bad ideas. He doesn’t always prevail, but, frankly, no one has a better chance of getting through to Mr. Trump. ... 

As long as Trump doesn't veto the damn thing, the Uniparty's housing bill will become law in 10 days without his signature

 But he will be remembered negatively for it in November either way.

Democrats who want to impeach the president will include it prominently in their campaigns against him. 

Throwing a fit over this is about as smart as attacking Iran without a plan to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. 

Jonah Goldberg: Impeachment is still an available political remedy for Trump's serious abuses

 ... Contrary to thousands of hours of impeachment legal punditry going back to the Nixon administration, a president doesn’t have to commit a crime to be impeached. As Hamilton writes in Federalist 65, impeachment involves “the misconduct of public men” and “the abuse or violation of some public trust.” Impeachments are “POLITICAL” (Hamilton’s all-caps) because they injure “society itself.”

It may in fact be legal for the president to be the judge in his own cause and create a taxpayer-financed slush fund for him to reward cronies and henchmen on a whim. It is already clear that presidents can launch wars without Congress or the courts unduly getting in the way. But I struggle to think of hypothetical scenarios that would be more likely to arouse in Madison and his contemporaries the — now misplaced — reassurance that impeachment was an available remedy.

Here. 

Y'all can't handle honesty

The Left Is in Thrall to Political Violence

John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist

 

The Left's Embrace of Political Violence

Washington Examiner

  

Is America in a Politically Violent Age?

Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times

 

We Need To Have an Honest Discussion About Political Violence

John Lott, RCP

 

 

Trump's government murdered two American citizens in Minneapolis just this year.

 

Bill Clinton's government murdered the Branch Davidians in WACO in 1993.

 

George H. W. Bush's government murdered Randy Weaver's wife and son at Ruby Ridge in 1992.

 

Abroad, presidents have been routinely killing civilians since the advent of the drone era.

 

George W. Bush conducted at least 57 strikes, killing over one hundred civilians.

 

Barack H. Obama ramped up the strikes to over 500, killing many hundreds. 

 

Trump I conducted so much killing from the air he stopped reporting the numbers, leaving others to estimate thousands of killings from an unknown number of drone strikes.

 

Joe Biden radically curtailed the use of drones, but still killed dozens of civilians, including in an infamous incident during the ignominious U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

 

Trump II is murdering non-combatants in speed boats in the Caribbean, and school girls in Iran. 

 

The high criminal violence is completely bi-partisan and impeachable, but it reflects the country rather than leads it.

 

Americans of all stripes have been quite content quietly to enjoy life year in and year out while pretending that some of their fellow citizens have not been busy killing tens of millions of the unborn. Abortions don't make a loud noise and leave a puff of smoke, but the outcome is the same.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope so

Vance: If Democrats Win House It Will Be All About Impeachment

This guy should be impeached and removed from office by supper time

 

Kristi Noem lied to our faces just like Greg Bovino, can't tell the truth about the small things let alone the big things

 

House Democrats tell Trump: Fire Kristi Noem or they’ll start impeachment proceedings against DHS chief

 

 

Why not both?

 

Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. 

-- RFK 

Trump is not faithfully executing the April 2024 law which required TikTok to be divested from Chicom ByteDance or be shut down in the United States by January 19, 2025

 Biden signs Israel, Ukraine, TikTok bill into law

Oracle and Silver Lake part of TikTok investor group as Trump extends deal deadline [for the fourth time]

Impeach the bastard.

Third time's a charm

 

SPEAKER: THERE WILL BE 3RD IMPEACHMENT IF DEMS TAKE HOUSE...

 

 

Harvey Weinstein to be tried for third time in New York...

 

It took only a few months of intense familiarity for Elon Musk to develop his complete contempt for Donald Trump and Capitol Hill

 Elon made his Oval Office farewell just six days ago, and now look at them.

Elon is an exceptionally accomplished person in the auto industry, the communications industry, and the space industry. He's not a perfect man by any stretch of the imagination, but he stands head and shoulders above the puny little rejects of the political class, a bunch of climbers whose sole ambition in life is to control the $7.2 trillion in its hands this particular fiscal year. That must have been pretty boring to be around, and frankly beneath him.

 

Impeach him a hundred times if we have to: Trump lies that jury trials are needed for immigration cases

 Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know': Trump said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he’s following lawyers’ advice as he tries to execute rapid deportations, arguing that giving immigrants due process is time-consuming

 

... "We’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials", he said. ... That would not require full trials, as Trump suggested. ...

This is the same slow-walking of the law and trying an end run around the law and fundamental disrespect for the law that we see all too often and increasingly from presidents from both political parties.

 

We are either a nation of laws or we are no longer America.

 

Sick of this bullshit.

Trump's own immigration policy advisor Stephen Miller thinks Trump should be impeached for defying Judge James E. Boasberg's order to recall the deportation flights lol

 This guy's so dumb he forgot to scrub his timeline.

The constitutional crisis that many feared from a vengeful, re-empowered Trump is here

 Congress is cowed; that’s one supposedly coequal branch of government down. But federal courts are proving more resistant to Donald Trump’s trampling of laws and the Constitution. Now, just two months in office, the president has all but crossed the red line — defying a judge’s order — that for more than two centuries has separated the rule of law in this country from its undoing. ... 

The chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr., schooled both the congressman and the president, issuing a rare statement of what should be obvious: “Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”

But Trump won’t be educated. ...

In effect, and denials aside, Trump and his lieutenants defied the law ...

Jackie Calmes for The Los Angeles Times, here.

Impeaching judges turns into big headache for Speaker Mike Johnson lol

 Hill Republicans already hated the ‘idiotic’ call to impeach judges. Then Trump jumped in. 

... Impeachment proceedings, even when they don’t involve presidents, can be time- and resource-intensive affairs. ... privately there is dread inside Johnson’s leadership circle about the prospect of having to pursue messy, certain-to-fail impeachments that could ultimately backfire on the GOP’s razor-thin majority.

“It’s never going to happen,” said a senior House Republican aide. “There aren’t the votes.”

“It would be such a heavy lift and we’ve got too many heavy lifts coming up,” said another top GOP aide. “What is the endgame here?”

A third said GOP leaders and even some conservative House members are “rolling their eyes” at the impeachment filings that “aren’t going to go anywhere.” ...

Impeachment of judges is pure theatre, that's all, end of story

 

  Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats

 

 ... Judicial impeachments are rare and notoriously time-consuming. ... Any such move would be all but certain to fail in the Senate, where a two-thirds majority would be needed for a conviction. ...

Mitch McConnell, hated by ungrateful MAGA, won't run in 2026 after 40 years in the US Senate

 

Mitch McConnell announces he will retire, ending his decades-long Senate career

 

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the longest-serving Senate leader in history, announced Thursday on his 83rd birthday that he won’t seek re-election next year, bringing an end to his four-decade career in the chamber.

McConnell, first elected in 1984, climbed his way up to the Senate Republican leader position in 2007 and remained there until early 2025, serving during four administrations in the majority and the minority. ...

McConnell supported Trump’s presidential bids in 2016 and 2020. He made a crucial decision in early 2021 to vote to acquit Trump on impeachment charges of inciting an insurrection, even as he blasted Trump as “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” calling his actions a “disgraceful dereliction of duty.” Despite his misgivings, he went on to endorse Trump for president again 2024 after he clinched the Republican nomination for a third successive election. ...

McConnell oversaw Trump’s three Supreme Court confirmations during his first term, as part of a sweeping set of 234 judges inked over those four years — most of them young conservatives who will serve for generations — which he has regarded as his proudest achievement. ...

 

Senators Gary Peters of Michigan and Tina Smith of Minnesota have also announced that they will not run in 2026.

Three House Republican chuckleheads, but I repeat myself, want to waste everyone's time impeaching Trump's enemy judges

 Pure grand-standing from:

Republican Eli Crane (AZ-2)

Republican Andrew Clyde (GA-9)

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14).

 

House GOP leaders have not weighed in on the calls to impeach the judges — and the chances of such an effort succeeding in their removal is close to zero.

It would take near-unanimous support from House Republicans to impeach a judge if Democrats do not support the measure, and support from Democrats would be required to clear the two-thirds threshold to convict on impeachment articles in the Senate.

More.

  

Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?  

-- Luke 14:31

The legal system is about to be clogged with multiple battles over Trump's second and imperial presidency, which has deployed Elon Musk as the embodiment of the line-item veto which it does not possess

It's a strange day when I find myself agreeing with Ed Markey.

. . . “The courts, if they interpret the Constitution correctly, are going to stop Musk, are going to stop Trump,” Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday.

“Article One is the Congress. Article Two is the president, Article Three is the judiciary. There is not an Article 3.5 where Elon Musk gets to do whatever he wants to do,” Markey said. “They are trying to rewrite constitutional law in this country.” . . .

Three weeks in, the growing storm of lawsuits means some of this young administration’s most extraordinary applications of unilateral presidential power could be reined in. But the litigation also conjures a scenario that no one wants to think about: what would happen if the administration refused to recognize court rulings — even one handed down by the Supreme Court?

This is a particularly acute matter because it’s the Justice Department, which is now operating under Trump’s firm hand, that’s responsible for enforcing the law. The constitutional remedy for a president who breaks the law is impeachment, but Republicans have twice shown that they will not hold Trump to account in such trials, making moot this key check on power envisioned by the founders.

“That is the doomsday scenario,” Ryan Goodman, a former Defense Department special counsel and NYU law professor, told CNN’s Burnett. “So far, they are complying with all the court orders, but what happens come the day that they do lose at the Supreme Court?” Goodman asked.

“If they really want to push it, we are in a real constitutional crisis.”

From the story here.