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Limited Lawfare and Its Uses
American Thinker ^ | 6 Jan, 2025 | Tom G. K. Swift

Posted on 01/06/2025 4:26:17 AM PST by MtnClimber

The outgoing Biden administration is wreaking slow-motion havoc on America. Plans and projects of regime transformation, regulations, and new rules to tie up the law in both straightforward and convoluted ways, and other actions to hastily circumvent MAGA, are being ginned up and rammed through as Biden goes out the door. These perversions of executive authority, at once reckless and carefully designed, plainly sweeping and seemingly trivial, are a fitting epitaph for the lawless and incompetent Biden administration. That doesn’t make them any more palatable, of course, and the question is what to do about it.

Starting January 20, the Trump administration can deploy a limited lawfare, narrowly tailored to punish present and former executive-branch officials who figured they could get away with setting America on paths which it would be ill-advised to take by means as peremptory and Machiavellian as the officials imposed (or attempted to impose) on the country.

Limited lawfare doesn’t have to concern only actions in the interregnum between an incoming and an outgoing administration. But a presidential interregnum is ideal for showing how limited lawfare can work. For one thing: it focuses mainly on government operatives, not largely on private citizens such as the J6 protesters. This reminds us that U.S. district attorneys and their subordinates are not exempt; real light can thereby be thrown on the false braying of progressives about “the rule of law.” Matthew Graves’s actions, and not only in the interregnum (he resigned last week as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia), invite particular scrutiny.

Also, charges need not be brought only in Washington, D.C.; they can be brought in any area of the country affected by miscreant officials’ actions.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

1 posted on 01/06/2025 4:26:17 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

This should be a priority. Put Rudy in charge.


2 posted on 01/06/2025 4:26:26 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
"The outgoing Biden administration is wreaking slow-motion havoc on America."

Which is exactly what would be expected from traitorous Demonicrats, who have become the enemies of the United States of America.

3 posted on 01/06/2025 4:41:42 AM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

Call Congress: (202) 224-3121 U.S. House switchboard operator.

Shakeup Congress on social media.
copy to @realdonaldtrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @StevenCheung @TrumpWarRoom

Attach news clips, other relevant documents, links.

Message The vindictive Biden administration is wreaking havoc on America; plans and projects of regime transformation, regulations, and new rules to tie up the law in both straightforward and convoluted ways, and other actions to hastily circumvent MAGA, are being ginned up and rammed through as Biden goes out the door.

These perversions of executive authority, are a fitting epitaph for the lawless and incompetent Biden administration.

The question is what to do about it.

Starting January 20, the Trump administration can deploy a limited lawfare, narrowly tailored to punish present and former Biden executive-branch officials who figured they could get away with setting America on destructive paths, using the same MO as these same Biden officials imposed on the country.


4 posted on 01/06/2025 4:41:46 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: Liz

Start with Garland, Wray, and whatshisname, the demented little imp from hell over at DHS...


5 posted on 01/06/2025 4:43:37 AM PST by OKSooner (Always remember to say "After the fair trial".)
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To: MtnClimber

I wish the author would explain WHY we the abused people on the right must accept “Limited Lawfare” as our only path forward.

Just once I would like to see the right go full medieval on the left. Destroy Them All!!

Hit them so damned hard that their ancestors feel it 5 generations back.

Stop Playing Nice. The LEFT are NOT NICE PEOPLE!!


6 posted on 01/06/2025 4:45:09 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: OKSooner

Good idea.


7 posted on 01/06/2025 4:49:27 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: MtnClimber

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8 posted on 01/06/2025 4:49:28 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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To: OHPatriot

Preach it!

The reason the left is running roughshod over us is because we play nice.

We don’t stand up for ourselves and refuse to accept their illegal actions.

Somehow there’s this mentality that if we capitulate, they’ll cooperate with us.

It will NEVER happen.

They’re bullies and need to have the snot beaten out of them to make them back off. Anything else just encourages them as they see it as weakness and despise us.


9 posted on 01/06/2025 4:51:55 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Liz

Immediately rescind all this garbage. Fire everyoe whose fingers were on creating this garbage. Fire everyone who tries to use this garbage for self-defense or obstruction to thwart the directives of the president.


10 posted on 01/06/2025 5:04:21 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber
This should be a priority.

Yes.

Put Rudy in charge.

Respectfully, no. Rudy isn't what he used to be.

11 posted on 01/06/2025 5:05:53 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


12 posted on 01/06/2025 5:11:31 AM PST by nopardons
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To: AndyJackson

I would like to have Biden’s signature analyzed against his known signature fr 10 years ago.


13 posted on 01/06/2025 5:13:06 AM PST by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!later)
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To: MtnClimber

It isn’t “limited lawfare” it is administrative justice.


14 posted on 01/06/2025 5:51:45 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: metmom; All

The reason the left is running roughshod over us is because we play nice.

We don’t stand up for ourselves and refuse to accept their illegal actions.


I respectfully disagree. It isn’t because “we play nice” it is because the Left had overwhelming advantagages in control of the Media and in the intelligence agencies.

Both of those became bastions of Progressive power. Conservatives who attempted to fight back were destroyed.

Consider Senator McCarty or President Richard Nixon.

Nixon was a Progressive himself, but not far left enough for the Media and intelligence agencies.

Some people would include President Kennedy as one of the victims. I am agnostic on that issue.


15 posted on 01/06/2025 5:58:46 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: MtnClimber

Also, charges need not be brought only in Washington, D.C..

Indeed time to get out the governors list for aiding and abetting stooge Biden.


16 posted on 01/06/2025 6:04:23 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

And conservative state AGs could look into violations of state law.


17 posted on 01/06/2025 6:05:54 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Agree the list is a long one of the guilty.


18 posted on 01/06/2025 6:53:28 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Liz; GOPJ

These perversions of executive authority, are a fitting epitaph for the lawless and incompetent Biden administration.

* * *

So true! Bidung thinks he’s being so cool as he and his crime family burns bridges behind them. But Trump’s MAGA team is about to make history and accomplish things that will astound the world.


19 posted on 01/06/2025 2:32:03 PM PST by poconopundit (Trump, Musk, Vance, Vivek -- a fantastic team of American smarts and determination.)
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