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A third of all federal judges on the DC district court were born outside the United States.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the source of many of the cases interfering with President Donald Trump's authority, has 15 judges, (Counting Chief Judge James Boasberg) and five of them were born outside the United States.

While country of origin doesn't come up in most jobs, it is worth asking if judges with ties to foreign nations and cultures are the right ones to make decisions affecting the U.S. military or immigration.

The concept of foreign-born judges is a newer phenomenon in this district. In addition to the 15 main judges, the D.C. District has 10 older, senior judges who still occasionally hear cases in the district. This group, nominated as far back as Ronald Reagan the 1980s, were all born in the U.S.

But starting in 2014, former President Barack Obama appointed Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan, born in Kingston, Jamaica. She was in the U.S. by 1979, attending George Washington University. Before sitting on federal court, she had no experience as a judge. Chutkan is overseeing the legal challenge to DOGE's work to slash excess government spending.

Obama also appointed Judge Amit P. Mehta to the D.C. court. Mehta also had no previous experience as a judge. Mehta was born in Patan, Gujarat, India. He and his parents came to the U.S. when he was a baby, age one. He was raised in Maryland. Mehta will oversee four January 6 civil cases that aim to blame Trump for injuries and squeeze money, court time, and political embarrassment out of him.

The other three foreign born judges were nominated by former President Joe Biden.

What a surprise.

All day long I've dreaded having to even comment on this story because it's so preposterously trivial. Matt Vespa:

So, what the hell is this story now?

It's a warning that perhaps more administrative due diligence should be applied when creating these group chats on encrypted and secure messenger apps. Still, while alarming at first, the hubbub is dying down quickly. This story in The Atlantic that secret war plans were disclosed to known anti-Trump fake news writer Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to the group, is falling apart faster than a skiff made of paper.

It turns out that serial hoaxer Jeffrey Goldberg, of the "You gotta believe me brah, Trump totally called veterans 'suckers and losers,' I'm telling you brah" hoax, claimed he received "classified information" when some unknown staffer accidentally added his name to a group Signal chat about the Houthis. He said he wouldn't reveal the classified information, but you gotta believe me brah, I totally received it, I just can't say what it was brah, it's so classified that Sacred Honor compels my silence.

Well Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard have told him put up or shut up, giving him permission to reveal this supposedly super-classified information that he's telling us is so classified he can't talk about it. And he's not revealing what it was, because it was nothing, and he's another fucking liar at Steve Jobs' AWFL wife's vanity magazine The Atlantic.

I don't even understand what I'm supposed to be so upset by: If everything the liar Jeffrey Goldberg said was true, which it isn't because all he does is lie on behalf of the neocon sect of the Democrat Party establishment, then what happened was that someone accidentally added him to a group chat he shouldn't have been added to and he saw some exchanges between some top Trump officials.

So someone did an oopsie with a fat finger, and -- what? Trump should resign? Fire Tulsi Gabbard? Fire Pete Hegseth?

Why?

It gets worse when you consider Sean Davis' claim that it was Jeffrey Goldberg's friend, who works for Trump negotiator Michael Waltz, who was responsible for accidentally adding Goldberg. Goldberg ignores that and just asserts, insanely, that Pete Hegseth should resign for a very minor glitch committed by, Sean Davis alleges, Goldberg's fucking pal.

Kurt Schlichter
@KurtSchlichter

The Signal chat thing is a gut check for alleged cons.

Nothing significant was revealed. Worst case, it was a mistake that will never happen again. More likely, a proven liar has now lied about at least some of it.

And yet, so many people are delighted to have the opportunity to freak out about something that Trump administration did. It's bizarre how they play along with leftist narratives. The answer to your enemies is to give them nothing. Nothing.

You're not being principled. You're not demonstrating integrity. You're showing weakness.

Never ever ever give them the head of one of your allies.

Understand that your enemies never get anything except pain and mockery. There's no such thing as even handedness. Either win or you lose. I choose winning. You do you.

This is just another hysterical meltdown by the pill-popping anxiety-ridden neurotics of the liberal non-thinking class looking for a new Russia Russia Russia fake scandal to scream about while collecting clickbait money from their degenerate mentally-ill readers/victims.

I don't even think this rates this response. This is sub-nothing.

Hey, lefty pill-poppers and impotent alcoholics and closet-cases: Go fuck yourselves to death.

Here, let me propose what the left always proposes when the bureaucracy commits actual crimes: We mustn't fire anyone, we must reform the procedures!!!

Australian universities are so dependent on US welfare that they've called for a crisis meeting in the wake of Trump's cuts to USAID.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has faced calls to respond after the Trump administration cut funding to seven Australian universities.

The administration's move came after US agencies asked Australian researchers to justify why they should continue receiving American research grants.

The surveys they received asked several questions including whether the researchers had received funding from China, and if their university had recognised only two sexes - male and female.

The institutions which have had their funding cut are the Australian National University, Monash University, University of Technology Sydney, University of NSW, Charles Darwin University, Macquarie University and UNSW.

Australian Academy of Science chief executive Anna-Maria Arabia told the Australian Financial Review the federal government had to be quicker to respond to the cuts rather than choosing to "wait and see".

"It is incumbent on the prime minister to call an emergency meeting of the National Science and Technology Council, which he chairs, compelling all ministers to the table to share intel and comprehensively assess the extent of Australia's exposure to a reduction in US R&D investment across portfolios," Ms Arabia said.

"The consequences of inaction are profound with consequences for every Australian's way of life," she said.

Let me get this off my chest: It is in fact racist that we continue to pump trillions in US taxpayer dollars to these relatively well-off white layabouts in Europe and Australia, and I demand an END to this racist welfare regime.

Cut them all off. Make these sexually-twisted white (for the moment) perpetual adolescents pay their own way for the first time in their lives.

I can't believe this, but the race hustler fired from MSNBC, Tiffany Cross, went on CNN to attack Trump for deporting violent criminals while, get this, playing the race card. It's almost as if -- as if -- she's an extremely stupid robot whose one trick is blaming The White Man.

Jasmine Crockett called wheelchair-bound Governor Gregg Abbott "Governor Hot Wheels."

Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett has been trying to out-AOC NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and to out-Bern Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders with her zany comments and air of lunacy lately. She's threatened DOGE chief Elon Musk--it was disturbing enough that the attorney general of the United States warned her to "tread carefully"--and in a recent interview, she said that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) needed to be "knocked over the head." Advertisement

Your U.S. representative at work:

Later on Monday, though, she crossed any bounds of decency and openly mocked Lone Star State Governor Greg Abbott's disability. Speaking at the Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles Dinner, she lowered herself to a new level of deplorable when she called him "Governor Hot Wheels," presumably because he is confined to a wheelchair.

Now this low-IQ c*nt claims she wasn't referring to his wheelchair. She blames us for "misinterpreting" her.

Oh no -- just after Jasmine Crockett called for Republicans to be "punched" and for Ted Cruz to be punched specifically in the head, "hard," until he was knocked over, Jasmine Crockett is now herself facing security threats and people trying to lay unfriendly hands on her!

What is this strange situation I find myself in -- could it be, the consequences of my own actions?

@RepJasmine

This morning an individual attempted to my invade personal safety for a soundbite. Thank you to my Colleague @RepTimBurchett for putting himself between me and the individual to ensure I made it to Committee. In a time of division, he put respect and safety first and I appreciate it.

#Cancel Tim Burchett.

YES:

If Trump hadn't been elected, the federal government would continue paying that $11 billion every year for as long as the US persisted (which might have been a matter of mere years).

posted by Ace at 06:15 PM

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