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A Legal Ft. Sumter?A Legal Ft. Sumter?
American Thinker ^ | 13 May, 2025 | Paul C. Binotto

Posted on 05/14/2025 5:42:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber

It’s debatable whether the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost, (Leo XIV), as the first American pope has displaced Donald Trump as the most important American. MAGA supporters probably don’t think so. Certainly, Donald Trump isn’t likely to agree either. However, there is one thing leftist pot-stirrers such as David French at the New York Times and MAGAmericans might both agree on -- that White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, is quickly becoming an important voice of the Trump Administration, a MAGA hero, and a Mainstream Media nemesis.

But it’s not what Miller has just done in his White House role that may rock the three branches of the United States government as we know them. It’s not his verbal retort destroying yet another media lie that may produce the kind of explosive reverberations that could have the potential of igniting the kind of inter-branch constitutional crisis rarely seen in America since the one that eventually sparked that fateful shot on Fort Sumter.

American First Legal, (AFL), the non-profit public law foundation co-founded by Stephen Miller in 2021 with a mission of “turning the legal tables on the radical activist left” and to “wage a forceful defense of our rights, our country, and our cherished American way of life,” has just “filed a bombshell lawsuit against Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in his capacity as Presiding Officer of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and Robert J. Conrad, Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.”

AFL wants information from the Judicial Conference and the U.S. Courts Administrative Office. John Roberts and Robert Conrad are accused of scoffing at the assertion by its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that AFL is entitled to it.

AFL calls the conference a “unconstitutional shadow agency

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


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: foia; judgewatch; lawfare; scotus

1 posted on 05/14/2025 5:42:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

This FOIA request is long overdue.


2 posted on 05/14/2025 5:42:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 05/14/2025 5:43:55 AM PDT 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

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4 posted on 05/14/2025 5:50:15 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: MtnClimber

Let’s see if Roberts thinks he is above the law publicly. We know he thinks this privately


5 posted on 05/14/2025 5:59:30 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


6 posted on 05/14/2025 5:59:32 AM PDT by nopardons
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Yea! Just hope Roberts can’t drag it out past the midterms.


7 posted on 05/14/2025 6:01:40 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: MtnClimber

Pope Leo is closer to a Civil War within the Catholic Church than Trump is within the United States.

Plus, Trump has a physical army.

There really is no comparison.


8 posted on 05/14/2025 6:04:38 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Trump needs to pressure Congress to codify some of his Executive Orders.


9 posted on 05/14/2025 6:06:13 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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"To deny the appeal leaves the chief justice, the Court, and the Judicial Branch, subject to the appearance of impropriety and of having something to hide.

Taking up the case almost certainly would demand Robert’s recusal. Hearing the case risks the exposure of some very unfavorable details potentially implicating Robert’s, the Judicial Conference, and Democrats Whitehouse and Johnson."

Roberts would refuse to resign, and Congress wouldn't remove him, if it is proven true what is implied in the article.

So what then?

10 posted on 05/14/2025 6:15:57 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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FOIA needs to be amended to include the Judiciary. Let the Democrats fight that one in the open.


11 posted on 05/14/2025 6:48:02 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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AFL calls the conference a “unconstitutional shadow agency

He is absolutely correct.

12 posted on 05/14/2025 8:00:14 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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