ONT Madness

Howdy Horde! Not much of an ONT tonight I'm afraid. I had car trouble tonight and just got in. What can you do? Most of y'all will be discussing March Madness anyway. I do have a few links to share.

Rogue Justice

Should Petty Judicial Tyrants Really Be Allowed to Act As Dictators?

This is an issue that is going to have to be hashed out sooner or later. The American system, after all, was constructed as a system of checks and balances - that is, checks on the power of each branch of government from other branches of the government, so that a tyranny cannot develop. Yet what we have in the form of Judge James E. Boasberg and other far-left judicial ideologues like him is an incipient judicial tyranny that has no checks on its power.

Should a district judge really be allowed to overrule the president of the United States when the president is working within the law to remove illegal migrants from the country, simply because he wants the migrants here in order to serve the interests of his political party? The Supreme Court ruled in 1948's Ludecke v. Watkins that "the very nature of the President's power to order the removal of all enemy aliens rejects the notion that courts may pass judgment upon the exercise of his discretion." Boasberg's ruling is not the way the American system ought to work. Impeaching Boasberg and removing him from office would be a tough battle, as a two-thirds majority would be needed in the Senate. Still, that would be a good forum to settle these issues once and for all, or at least to work toward a settlement, before these petty judicial dictators lead to the demise of the republic itself.

And that is the issue. If some lower court judge can usurp the powers of the executive branch at will, than we are no longer a constitutional republic. A tyranny of judges is no less a tyranny than one of kings.

Related: D.C. Judge Declares Jurisdiction Over All of America

La Revolution

Not Storming The Bastille

Either way, it means a core of the ancien-regime holds on, and who knows what hides in the deep recesses of the ancient and evil prison? Who knows what our secret services have been up to? Who knows who they serve? We have reason to believe it is certainly not the people. THE DOORS MUST BE THROWN OPEN before something happens that causes a crowd to coalesce and go insane. Mr. President, you promised. And I will grant you that you are our Vimes, or perhaps even our Moist Von Lipwig, which means you're working behind the scenes to get the results you want. Or for those who don't read Pratchett: our president is so twisty he can go down a corkscrew without touching the sides. But you promised. You are our new broom, and we're trusting you to sweep. Your time is limited, and you're at the mercy of a sudden and explosive event. The clock is ticking. I don't want us to storm the Bastille. And Madame La Guillotine should stay in France, where - if anywhere - it belongs. But the only way to avoid the storming of the Bastille; to make sure it doesn't happen, is to open the doors, and show what is and isn't there.

There's a backlash out there lurking, and results on SOMETHING concrete and big are needed to quell it.

Happy Belated St. Paddy's Day

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posted by WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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