Posted on 03/26/2025 5:16:03 AM PDT by airdalechief
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has delivered a pointed warning to judges nationwide as local courts have slowed the rollout of Donald Trump's political agenda.
'We do have authority over the federal courts,' Johnson shared at a press conference Tuesday. 'We can eliminate an entire district court,' he noted.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Though the Supreme Court is the highest judicial body in the country, district courts, which have been issuing nationwide rulings foiling White House executive decisions, are overseen by Congress.
The White House has been frustrated with injunctions impeding Trump's immigration, DOGE and other top priorities, prompting the 78-year-old to call for judges standing in his way to get removed.
“We do have authority over the federal courts,’ Johnson shared at a press conference Tuesday. ‘We can eliminate an entire district court,’ he noted.”
WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY WAITING FOR!
Well, lookee here. More foreign interference from guess who...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/profile-962/jon-michael-raasch.html
And this guy -District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Boasberg blocked a Trump order to deport Venezuelan migrants
Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a pointed warning to judges nationwide:
‘We do have authority over the federal courts.’
‘We can eliminate an entire district court,’ he noted.
District courts, which have been issuing nationwide rulings
thwarting executive decisions, are overseen by Congress.
The Trump DOJ said it is exercising the State Secrets Privilege and informed Judge James Boasberg it will no longer provide him with any information related to deportation flights.
Boasberg, an Obama appointee, has been grilling DOJ lawyers about the Trump Administration’s move to deport dangerous Venezuelan aliens under the Alien Enemies Act.
Judge Boasberg said Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal aliens is “incredibly troublesome and problematic” and threatened the Trump Admin with consequences if they violate his order in the future.
On Monday evening, the DOJ had enough of Judge Boasberg’s intrusive orders and invoked the State Secrets Privilege.
“The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court’s March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security,” the DOJ wrote.
Quote from the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees:
Article 32. - Expulsion
1. The Contracting States shall not expel a refugee lawfully in their territory save on grounds of national security or public order.
2. The expulsion of such a refugee shall be only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with due process of law. Except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require, the refugee shall be allowed to submit evidence to clear himself, and to appeal to and be represented for the purpose before competent authority or a person or persons specially designated by the competent authority.
3. The Contracting States shall allow such a refugee a reasonable period within which to seek legal admission into another country. The Contracting States reserve the right to apply during that period such internal measures as they may deem necessary.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees
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What does Trump have to do to get the US out from under the Refugee Convention?
Send (or hand deliver) the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres a letter!
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Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations:
I, Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States, on behalf of the United States, do denounce the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, as permitted by Article 44.
Donald J. Trump
It takes a year after receipt for the denunciation to become effective.
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“Building a wall is a red herring”
“The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof, which means all of Earth can come to America.”
Elon Musk
Of note, this has precedence from 1802 with the repeal of the 1801 Judiciary Act. The repeal basically eliminated the courts created by the 1801 Act.
However, while the repeal eliminated the circuit courts created in 1801, it didn’t eliminate any judges who had already been seated and received their commissions. Basically making them floaters without a court.
H. R. 1029
To abolish the United States Agency for International Development.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 5, 2025
Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To abolish the United States Agency for International Development.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. Abolishment of the United States Agency for International Development.
(a) In general.—Beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, no Federal funds may be made available to carry out any of the functions, duties, or responsibilities assigned or delegated to the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) or any other provision of law.
(b) Rescission of funds.—The unobligated balance of each amount made available to the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development as of the day before the date of the enactment of this Act is rescinded. Any other assets or liabilities of the Agency as of such day shall be transferred to the Secretary of State.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1029/text?s=1&r=36
Cosponsor Date Cosponsored
Rep. Massie, Thomas [R-KY-4] 02/06/2025
Rep. Norman, Ralph [R-SC-5] 02/06/2025
Rep. Biggs, Andy [R-AZ-5] 02/06/2025
Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13] 02/06/2025
Rep. Timmons, William R. [R-SC-4] 02/06/2025
Rep. Collins, Mike [R-GA-10] 02/07/2025
Rep. Bean, Aaron [R-FL-4] 02/07/2025
Rep. Wied, Tony [R-WI-8] 02/10/2025
Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large] 02/10/2025
Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3] 02/13/2025
Rep. Rulli, Michael A. [R-OH-6] 02/24/2025
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1029/cosponsors?s=1&r=36
I was referring to the reporter, airdalechief. :-)
The UK’s Deep State continues to try to undermine our republic.
For heaven’s sake GOP, quit talking about things and just damn well DO IT. All this a talking is what is causing problems.
RATs don’t react to threats. They like to know what you are wanting to do so they can derail it.
I am getting disgusted at all the talking and no action.
A Third Of All DC District Judges Were Not Born In US
Appointed by the Kenyan and the Slobberor
Federalist ^ | March 25, 2025 | Beth Brelje
Posted on 3/25/2025, 6:02:40 PM by george76
snip
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, 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. 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.
Judge Ana Cecilia Reyes was nominated in 2021, also with no prior experience as a judge. She was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and moved to Spain, and while still a child, moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where she grew up. She is the first openly LGBT Latina to be appointed to this court. Reyes presided over an objection to Trump’s executive order declaring “gender dysphoria” as “inconsistent” with the “high standards for troop readiness,” as The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood reported. Reyes blocked Trump’s order with a preliminary injunction.
The first Muslim and Arab American in the D.C. district court, Judge Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali was born and raised in Canada to Egyptian parents. According to his Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees, Ali was not required to register for the U.S. Selective Service. That is because he was not a citizen until 2019.
He worked as a volunteer on Biden’s 2020 transition team and for a phone bank in support of Biden’s presidential campaign. He worked for some nonprofits but never served as a judge until Biden appointed him in 2024. Amir has written extensively and negatively about Trump’s so-called “Travel ban,” a 2017 Executive Order which restricted travel to the U.S. from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days.
In his writing, he said, “prejudice and intolerance” were “the very hallmark of [Trump’s] campaign against Muslims.” When confirmed, Amir was a member of the Capital Area Muslim Bar Association; Muslim American Judicial Advisory Council; National Arab American Bar Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Police Accountability Project; and the Native American Bar Association of D.C., among others.
Ali single handedly restored $2 billion in USAID spending to foreign nonprofit contractors that the Trump Administration had paused for 90 days, in a stunning overreach of authority last month. The newest judge on the D.C. District Court is also foreign born.
Before slinking out of office, Biden and his handlers got Judge Sparkle Sooknanan confirmed. She was sworn in Jan. 2, 2025. Born in the dual-island nation Trinidad and Tobago in 1983, she left her home country at age 16 to pursue college and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 2010.
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Those “judges” are lawless.
quotes:
A rescission is “Legislation enacted by Congress that cancels the availability of budget authority previously enacted before the authority would otherwise expire.” This reduces future spending.
When budget authority is provided to an agency pursuant to the enactment of an appropriation, those funds are not necessarily obligated, or set aside to be expended right away. While the funds remain unobligated, the budget authority can be rescinded by a new law passed by Congress and signed by the President, thus stopping the funds from being spent. The Impoundment Control Act allows the
President to delay obligation of funds he has proposed to rescind for up to 45 days of continuous session of Congress.
The rescission bill would not be subject to the filibuster in the Senate. Both the motion to proceed and final passage of the bill are subject to simple majority votes, and time for debate is limited to ten hours.
In the House, the consideration of a rescission bill that has been reported or discharged from the Appropriations Committee is privileged on the floor, meaning any Member can move to call it up. If the Appropriations Committee has not reported a rescission bill after 25 days, any Member can make a motion to discharge the bill from the Committee that would be adopted by one-fifth of the House.
Prior to the law being enacted, Presidents had claimed the power to impound, or to refuse to spend funds appropriated by Congress. President Nixon expanded the use of impoundment in a way that thwarted the will of Congress. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in a 1975 decision that the President may not impound funds appropriated by Congress unless the power is provided by law.
The Impoundment Control Act limits the President’s ability to use impoundment, but gives the President the authority to recommend that previously appropriated funds be rescinded and for Congress to consider those recommendations in an expedited way.
infiltration?
He may be correct. But what are the chances of a bill eliminating a particular court getting through the House *or* the Senate? The Maoist judges in question know this...and therefore are not even slightly worried.
I recommend that a new law be passed:
No judge shall handle a case wherein a domestic government or government person is a party unless the judge shall have been born in the United States and clearly had a parent having US citizenship nine months prior to birth.
Every time the word, “chilling”, is used, Hillary gets a thrill down her leg - that, or she’s leaking…
It's crap like this unprofessional reference to the President that makes us despise the MSM.
Perhaps the (lead) plaintiff should be able to block 10 percent of the judges in a district from handling their case and the (lead) defendant should be able to block 30 percent of the judges in a district from handling their case, just like lawyers get to unquestionably block jurors in legal cases.
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