The Morning Report — 7//2/24

Good Morning Kids. So SCOTUS came out yesterday with the decision that confirms the logical and to the best of my knowledge precedent that presidents do indeed have immunity from prosecution over things they did that fall under the purview of their official acts. Of course the Leftists are in complete freakout mode over this because they have been attempting to railroad Donald Trump as some sort of mad tyrannical dictator in claiming things he did while in office where tyrannical in nature and as such demand his being hung drawn and quartered:

Jonathan Turley nails it:

Indeed, the Democrats have become the very threat that the court was meant to resist.
Recently, senators demanded that Chief Justice John Roberts appear to answer to them for his own decisions. (Roberts wisely declined.)
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer previously declared in front of the Supreme Court, “I want to tell you, [Neil] Gorsuch, I want to tell you, [Brett] Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.”
Now Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced that she will seek the impeachment of all six of the conservative justices. She was immediately joined by other Democratic members.
Notably, scholars have long disagreed where to draw the line on presidential immunity. The court adopted a middle approach that rejected extreme arguments on both sides. 
Yet, because Ocasio-Cortez disagrees with their decision, she has declared that this “is an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture.”
Previously, Ocasio-Cortez admitted that she does not understand why we even have a Supreme Court. She asked “How much does the current structure benefit us? And I don’t think it does.”
Other members, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have called for packing the Court with additional members to immediately secure a liberal majority to rule as she desires.
For these pundits and politicians, justice is merely an extension of politics and subject to the whims of the majority. . .

. . . None of these threats or bloviating will work. The court is designed to stand against everyone and everything except for the Constitution. It has been forged for his moment.

Unfortunately like so many others, despite getting it 100% right especially in that first sentence, he does not seem to realize that the Constitution and its underlying principles are no longer respected by a considerable percentage of the populace and at least one of the two main political parties of this nation and too much of the other alleged opposition party that looks the other way. What Democrats cannot control or bend to their will in their sending quest for absolute power is to either be destroyed, or delegitimized. This decision will only add fuel to their fire to fundamentally transform America as founded into yet another failed dystopian nightmare.

OF course, fresh from his disastrous debate performance, Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' handlers thought it was a great idea to shove the corpse in front of a teleprompter to rail against the SCOTUS and rally his base. Cue the lead balloon:

Biden spoke for five minutes, from a teleprompter, on the court finding that presidents have immunity from criminal prosecution for “official acts” taken in office. After Biden criticized the decision, calling it a “dangerous precedent,” he quickly left without taking a single question as reporters shouted inquiries his way. . .

. . . “I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers I have for three and a half years, but any president including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law. I concur with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent today. Here’s what she said: she said ‘in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.’ End of quote. So should the American people dissent — I dissent,” Biden concluded.

HE's reading his teleprompter cues because he has a cold, right? In any case, let's not start initiating a venturi effect on our nether regions just yet.

Justice Barrett’s comments have created a critical, largely overlooked opening for Democrats and their Special Counsel. Barrett hinted that if prosecutors concentrate exclusively on Trump’s private acts, they might succeed in their legal efforts against him. This insight essentially offers a strategic roadmap for those aiming to hold Trump accountable.

The key question here is this: "When Trump was questioning the accuracy of the vote count, was he doing it in his capacity as the U.S. President or as a candidate running for office?"
The Biden campaign, or whoever his replacement is, can expedite the laser-focused case against Trump the campaigner, while niftily bogging down his campaign to fight the newly invented legal action. This perspective implies that Trump’s remarks and actions on January 6, for instance, might be reclassified as those of a candidate rather than a president, thus stripping him of immunity for those specific actions.

Justice Barrett's suggestion does not merely reflect a hypothetical scenario. It outlines a tangible legal strategy. By urging the Special Counsel to fine-tune their indictments to emphasize unequivocally private conduct, Barrett indirectly points to a way to bypass the delays and complications associated with broader, less distinct charges.
This brings to light the broader issue of how legal interpretations can shift political dynamics. The Supreme Court’s ruling and Barrett’s remarks underscore the delicate balance between legal principles and political maneuvering. It raises questions about the extent to which legal strategies are influenced by the political landscape and vice versa.

How does one get actual originalists on the court who have fealty to the Constitution as written when every aspect of government and of course our academia brainwashing mills from K all the way through post grad and law school are seemingly dedicated to erasing that document and what it stands for from the collective memory.

Well, I suppose half a Solomonic baby is better than nothing.

Naturally, the preservation of "our precious democracy" means that Leftists can openly call for the assassination of Trump and the supreme Court justices either via a military coup or, by whatever means necessary. This is free speech, of course! In Soviet America baby splits itself.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Inside Biden's Gulag.
  Sadistic Persecution of J6 Political Prisoner Jake Lang Continues

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
• A call for emergency mobilization in Israel.
  The IDF Confronts a Multi-Front War
  
• The lawsuit, originally filed in December 2022 by American victims of 'Palestinian' terror attacks and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), alleges the Biden junta violated federal law when it restarted aid to the 'Palestinians,' including for programs in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. This money, they argue, subsidized terrorism and contributed to the 'Palestinian' government’s "pay to slay" program, which provides imprisoned terrorists and their families with monthly stipends.
  Judge Rejects Biden junta Bid To Dismiss Lawsuit Over 'Illegal and Dangerous' $1.5 Billion "Palestinian" Payment Plan
  * * * * *

• Union members up in arms over official who called for a “Free Palestine” two days after October 7.
  ‘Turning Classrooms Into Arenas Of Radicalism’: Teachers Union Tasks Anti-Israel Activist To Create Curriculum About Israel
  
• Nurturing an ancient, visceral, ugly emotion.
  Hamas Lovers Gonna Hate
  
• The Washington Free Beacon’s guide to occupying a Columbia campus building
  Meet the Rich Kids, Professors, and Activists Arrested at Columbia in April

  "BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "At this point, given how much speculation there is out there, I want to see the actual classified information," Rep. Elissa Slotkin said.
  Michigan Dem Senate Candidate Downplays Reports on ISIS-Linked Border Crossings
  
• American citizens and their children are being stolen from, beaten, raped, and murdered by illegals in every corner of the country even as millions of illegal migrants gobble up federal and state welfare dollars for free housing, free health care, food, clothing, education, legal services and more.
  A Wave of Migrant Crime Engulfing America

  SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Jonathan Turley: "Indeed, the Democrats have become the very threat that the court was meant to resist."
  Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling is what the body was designed for — unpopular but constitutionally correct
  
• Democrats and the Biden campaign roundly condemned the ruling. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ripped it as a “disgraceful decision by the MAGA SCOTUS,” while Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accused the Court of going “rogue.”
  Titty-Caca AOC to File Articles of Impeachment Against SCOTUS
  
• “The court did not go with absolute immunity on everything but did say there is absolute immunity when it comes to core constitutional powers.” Turley told America’s Newsroom co-host Dana Perino and guest co-host Bret Baier. “We’re still going through the opinion to see if there is any assistance on where that line is to be drawn. This case is going to have to go back to the district court, which is going to have to try to thread this needle to determine what in the case would not fall under these protections, but this is obviously a win for President Trump in the sense that the special counsel was arguing, as with the lower court, that there was very little immunity here to be concerned with.”
  ‘A Win For President Trump’: Jonathan Turley Says Supreme Court Immunity Ruling Is Blow To Jack Smith
  
• Justice Barrett’s comments have created a critical, largely overlooked opening for Democrats and their Special Counsel. 
  Amy Coney Barrett's 'Trojan Horse'
  
• The Court held, according to the summary of the decision: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts. The Court aso ruled that a president is entitled to a pretrial hearing on immunity that can be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court before a trial begins. This means that any trial of the former president will take place after the November 5, 2024, election.
  Trump Wins: Supreme Court Says Presidents Covered by Immunity for ‘Official Acts’
  
• That doesn’t mean Jack Smith won’t keep trying to fight it.
  Immunity Hot Take: The DC Case Against Trump Is Virtually Over

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• The Nation Justice correspondent Elie Mystal claimed Biden was able “to do the funniest thing ever,” prompting social media users to accuse him of suggesting Biden should commit lethal harm to his political opponent.
  ‘Take Out Trump’: Left-Wingers Fantasize About Biden Having ‘Immunity’ To Assassinate Trump, SCOTUS Justices
  
• Trump faces charges in Washington, D.C., brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith relating to his conduct on January 6, 2021, when rioters stormed the Capitol. He argued that he is immune from prosecution for his official acts. Schumer led Democrats in expressing outrage at the 6-3 decision, in which the conservative majority was led by Chief Justice John Roberts. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Schumer blamed the three Trump-appointed justices:
  Schumer Bashes ‘MAGA SCOTUS’ After Historic Trump Immunity Decision
  
• FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, the first woman in the role, is grappling with challenges related to the behavior of some members of her predominantly male workforce. This issue came to light after attendees supporting former President Donald Trump booed Democrat Attorney General Letitia James at a department promotion ceremony, according to the New York Post. The outlet obtained text messages between Kavanagh and James through a Freedom of Information request, showing Kavanagh’s frustration and her apology to James for the incident.
  ‘I Can’t Fix Them’: Laura Kavanagh Reportedly Slams Firefighters In Texts To NY AG Letitia James After Booing Incident
  
• “The message of President Trump is very simple: fight on! If we don’t stop, if President Trump continues to fight, victory is going to be ours; we’re going to win in a landslide,” he declared.
  Bannon Imprisoned: ‘I’m Far from Dead, Baby!’

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Had Democrats and the media been honest about how obvious Biden’s condition was a year ago, they might have a winning candidate now.
  Democrat Media Aren’t Upset Biden Is Senile, They’re Mad They Can’t Hide It Anymore
  
• Alex Jones is persecuted not for his disinformation, but for his actual information....
  The destruction of Infowars is a pivotal moment in the war on free speech

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• Eos Energy—whose board includes a personal friend of Department of Energy loan czar Jigar Shah—was forced to pay a $1 million settlement to the government two years ago for evading tariffs on Chinese battery imports.
  DOE Poised To Dole Out $400 Million to Energy Company on Brink of Financial Collapse—After Evading Tariffs on Chinese Imports

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• If we cannot trust the authorities to protect us, and they have repeatedly shown themselves to be malevolent and self-interested, then we should at least have arms to protect ourselves.
  The Surgeon General Aims at Guns

  ABORTION
  

• Supreme courts in Wisconsin and Iowa quietly delivered two constitutional and lifesaving wins to the pro-life movement.
  State Supreme Courts In Iowa, Wisconsin Deliver Big Pro-Life Wins Days Apart

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• What’s unfortunate is that the Democrats of Newton County have plenty of corruption of their own to answer for. Just last week, a federal grand jury hit Newton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Marcello Banes and local attorney Stephanie Lindsey with an indictment for money laundering.
  Rampant Corruption in One Georgia County Proves That Local Elections Matter
  
• House Administration Committee Chairman Rep. Bryan Steil tells The Federalist the Biden junta has failed to meet a subpoena deadline.
  No One Knows How Much ‘Bidenbucks’ Is Costing Taxpayers, Not Even Congress
  
• “If this motion is successful, Arizona can enforce its law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote in this November’s presidential election or cast a ballot by mail in any election,” the RNC said in a statement to Breitbart News. 
  RNC Files Motion to Enforce Proof-of-Citizenship Requirements for Arizona Voters

  POLITICS

• But if Biden’s aides thought Biden’s under-five-minute speech would rally his base and reassure a nation increasingly questioning Biden’s ability to handle the job, they are likely disappointed.
  Biden Attempts to Reframe Election Around Jan. 6 in Rushed White House Speech
  
• “I know I will respect the limits of the presidential powers I have for three and a half years, but any president including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law. I concur with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent today. Here’s what she said: she said ‘in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.’ End of quote.
  Biden Reads Teleprompter For 5 Minutes, Takes No Questions In First Major Post-Debate Appearance
  
• The cover image is Jill in an all-white Ralph Lauren power suit dress, staring “stoically” at something out of frame. Her posture cannot be mistaken for anything other than her explicitly telling the sharks in the Bidens’ water that their calls to remove her husband from the ticket will be ignored.
  Lady Mac-Biden Desperately Clinging To Power As Husband Crumbles Before Her Eyes
  
• “Perhaps she thinks the crowd is cheering for her,” he surmised. “Her power has clearly grown as he gets weaker. And she likes the feeling of power. She speaks for the president when he can’t or when he is napping. She tells his team and staff when he is available, and when he is not. She likes being in control.”
  ‘She Likes The Feeling Of Power’: Billionaire Dem Donor Bill Ackman Rips Jill Biden For ‘Making’ Joe Stay In The Race
  
• Biden’s decision appears heavily influenced by First Lady Jill Biden and additional family members, such as Hunter Biden, people who talk regularly with them told Axios. The new public relations strategy is to conduct more public interviews and press conferences. The plan is a change from Biden’s lack of media availability, a tactic criticized by the media and especially by the New York Times.
  Report: Joe Biden Launches Public Relations Campaign to Remain De Facto Nominee
  
• “Biden was bad,” the MSNSDAP host said. “Important convos about what happens next. But if you are directing your ire at ‘prep’ you are not talking about the right things.”
  Ex-White House press secretary Piss-Hockey Psaki says Biden’s ‘bad’ debate performance was not because aides prepped him too hard
  
• A supporter who attended Rob Reiner’s Hollywood debate watch party insisted, “They need to stop blaming other people, the president needs to show people he’s up to the job. They need to get him on TV, now!”
  Biden Debate Detonated Nuke Among Hollywood Donors: ‘I’m F*cking Worried,’ ‘Stop Blaming Other People’
  
• Last week’s epic reveal demonstrated that the Democrats can no longer be trusted with power.
  Biden’s Debate Debacle Disqualifies His Entire Party
  
• After the initial shock, Dems and the media tried to walk back their original reaction: “Biden’s old, but Trump’s a liar,” quickly became the new, settled narrative. But the most absurd spin came courtesy of a Democracy Corps survey of Democratic-leaners’ reactions to the debate.
  Check Out The Most Insane Sentence In The History Of Polling
  
• For the sake of a fair comparison, we will look at just the first three years of each presidency, before the panicked response to COVID-19 (driven mainly from the left) short-circuited Trump’s first term.
  Who Should Get To ‘Finish The Job’? The Answer Was Clear Before The Debate
  
• MARGOT CLEVELAND: Joe Biden’s backers care not a whit about voters beyond whether they can manipulate them enough to retain power. 
  By ‘Democracy,’ Democrats Mean A Shadow Government Of Unelected Biden Aides
  
• If the public finally recognizes this plain fact, then nothing Biden or the press will do in the coming few months will change anything. The public will see it for the lies they are, and ignore it.
  Is last week’s Biden-Trump debate a game-changing moment or not?
  
• “Yeah girl, I’m out here in these streets.”
  Kamala’s Cringeworthy Pandering
  
• “The fact that people keep coming back to this is so offensive to so many of us,” one Harris ally told the outlet. “They still don’t get that the message you’re saying to people, to this Democratic Party, is, we prefer a white person.”
  Report: Harris Allies Seethe as ‘White’ Democrats Dominate Biden Replacement Talk

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Inmates are being offered a choice: stay in prison and serve out their sentences or join the fight against Russia in exchange for the possibility of parole, according to The Associated Press. The policy is a first for Ukraine as the country double-times its efforts to bring more people into the military in the ongoing fight against Russia, which has a considerably higher manpower advantage.
  Thousands Of Ukrainian Convicts Hit The Frontlines As War With Russia Drags On 
  
• Numerous experts and politicians fear that the decision might escalate the conflict and be counterproductive to U.S. interests.
  Proposed Policy for Military Contractors in Ukraine Draws Criticism

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Germany’s Die Tageszeitung newspaper: The right-wing “party wants to reduce France’s EU contribution, introduce a cap on immigration, restrict the freedom of movement of non-EU foreigners.” 
  European Media, Political Elites in ‘Panic’ After Le Pen’s Party Wins Big in France Elections
  
• As the July 7 vote approaches, an old specter returns.
  Anti-Semitism and the French Elections
  
• The selection of the North Dakota governor would be a cavalier choice on the issue of greatest presidential power: foreign policy.
  Doug Burgum Is a Neocon
  
• If we want a world that is congruent with our interests, we can no longer ‘lead from behind.’
  We Must End the Democrats’ Failed Foreign Policy

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• It is past time that conservatives actually play to win at the U.S. Supreme Court.
  How Conservatives Can Finally Get Judicial Nominations Right
  
• There’s a faithful remnant among conservatives that continue to agitate for repeal of the 17th Amendment, allowing the direct election of U.S. senators.
  The 17th Amendment Isn’t Going Anywhere

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Meanwhile, the stay of the Boeing Starliner crew has been “extended,” and SpaceX gets the contract to deorbit the station in 2030.
  ISS Astronauts and Cosmonauts Take Shelter After Nearby Russian Satellite Breaks Apart
  
• The entire previous solar maximum in 2014 never produced a month with this many sunspots, and now we have had two such months in a row.
  Sunspot update: The Sun keeps its boom going
  
• Because it appears the trunk section of the service module of SpaceX’s Dragon capsules actually survives re-entry, the company is now studying changes to its de-orbit procedures so that it can guarantee that trunk will not crash on land, as has happened now three times in the past two
  years.
  SpaceX studying changes to de-orbit procedures for Dragon service module

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• The emails are part of a trove of documents that show how the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the country’s largest professional association of pediatricians with a membership of 67,000 doctors, quietly partnered with transgender activist groups, such as the Human Rights Campaign and the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH), to push child sex changes nationwide.
  EXCLUSIVE: Major Pediatric Medical Org Brainstormed Ways To ‘Circumvent’ Child Sex Change Bans, Emails Show
  
• One attendee laid down in an inflatable pool in a designated area called “The Fetish Zone” and let a woman pee on him. Another man wearing only a dog collar and a small cloth around his genitals stood in the pool and clapped, video that reporter Savanah Hernandez posted to Twitter shows.
  California Cops Stand Idly By As Men Expose Themselves, Pee On Each Other At Event Open To Kids
  
• “Judge Hensley had followed the law, came up with an innovative solution to reconcile her religious convictions while serving the needs of her community, and received no complaints about her action,” the case summary notes adding that “the CJC still issued a ‘Public Warning’ to her, alleging that her refusal to officiate same-sex weddings and her referrals of couples to a local minister ‘cast reasonable doubt on [her] capacity to act impartially as a judge.’”
  Texas Supreme Court Sides With Christian Judge On Gay Marriage

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Daniel Greenfield: A “testament to the idea that the personal is political, and the political is personal."
  Hillary Clinton Gets Religion

  HITHER & YON

• Christian Toto: Kevin Costner's ambitious oater gets some tough love at the box office
  Five Fascinating Lessons from ‘Horizon’s’ Sluggish Start

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