Posted on 11/09/2021 2:27:45 AM PST by Kaslin
On August 7, 2021, I wrote about how states along our southern border could thwart the Biden (*) administration’s material support for the drug cartels and the crimes being committed by invoking the RICO Statute. The statute seems to address directly the various activities in which the administration has engaged over the last ten months at our Southern border. Here, from NOLO, is the meat of that statute:
Passed in 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is a federal law designed to combat organized crime in the United States. It allows prosecution and civil penalties for racketeering activity performed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise. Such activity may include illegal gambling, bribery, kidnapping, murder, money laundering, counterfeiting, embezzlement, drug trafficking, slavery, and a host of other unsavory business practices.
Please note my added emphasis on federal law. Since August, I have spoken to several people with legal expertise, and each said RICO would be the wrong approach because federal prosecutors would be needed, and that will not happen in Biden’s DOJ.
There might be a ray of hope, however. Within the past week on 3 November, John Solomon, at Just The News, reported the following story: “Texas plots new legal attacks on Biden agenda: migrant trafficking and environmental destruction.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been relentlessly taking on every manner of illegality by the Biden (*) administration and, as the headline teases, one of the two new lawsuits in the making will take on an apparently clandestine effort to bring illegal immigrant families to the United States. AG Paxton is quoted:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yes, but you can also sue in a civil action under RICO.
Ken Paxton seems like a real patriot. He puts his state in the driver’s seat, which is exactly where states SHOULD be.
Just like Florida’s Governor deSantis.
We need more state AGs and Governors who understand that.
I’m from Pennsylvania, which is infested with ‘rats and RINOs who whore themselves out to the federal government, or the highest woke bidder.
My wife and I are 70, retired, mortgage paid off, kids and grandchildren living in the same town, we love our house that we’ve worked on for fifty years.
It’s ideal - or it should be.
The VERY LAST THING in the world I want to do at this point in my life is move - but I’m actually thinking about it.
F’ing communists.
The Entire SCOTUS could be replaced with 9 parrots trained to screech - “No standing! No standing! Bawk!”
I can’t remember when the country was in such disarray. I always was led to believe that’s why we had the SCOTUS.
the Left’s modus operandi, which can be summed up as We are in power now, and we are going to use that power to our sole advantage. You don’t have to like it, you just have to sit down, shut up, and take it.
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And who provides protection for this CF? The Bush family of course, this time using Texas Land Commissioner George Prescot Bush to try and unseat Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton is the guy opposing Biden’s scheme to import more illegals.
Notes in Paxton file:
1. Paxton, his office obtained 5th Circuit injunction against Biden's vaccine mandates.
2. Paxton did not "react", his office was "prepared" as the 5th Circuit appeal was filed with lightning speed following Biden announcement of jab mandate.
Just say no!
How many divisions does the pope have?
I’m sure the supplies for THE wALL are still located somewhere.
Since the US won’t finish it; perhaps the Texans can do what should be done.
I would love to see Paxton replace John Roberts some day.
“You don’t have to like it, you just have to sit down, shut up, and take it.”
Reminds me of a guy that ran for Gov. a while back that had about the same attitude and it got him in some hot water, Stinky Friedman.
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