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Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 25 May 2025
Various driveby media television networks ^ | 25 May 2025 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

Posted on 05/25/2025 4:59:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

The Talk Shows



May 25th, 2025

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA); Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.); Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa); Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.); Deceased Sen. John McCain’s (RINO-AZ) widow Cindy McCain and son Jack McCain.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA); Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); Alex Thompson, co-author of “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again in 2025”. Sunday special: Gary Sinise. Panel: Michael Allen, Meghan Hays, Doug Heye and Mario Parker.

MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: special edition on America’s mental health crisis: U.S. surgeon general under Joe Biden, Vivek Murthy; Former Rep (DE-MA) Patrick Kennedy; Arthur Brooks, Professor of Management Practice and Faculty Fellow Harvard University. (Do you think they’ll cover TDS?) (MSDNC) Panel: Nedra Glover Tawwab, Lori Gottlieb and Jean Twenge—EVERY one of these easily forgotten angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash are featured on MSNBC!

THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus (or is it Martha Raddish?): Preempted by the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.

SNIP**************Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). Panel: Donna BrazileNut, Reince Priebus, Sarah Isgur and Faiz Shakir—same Ugly, shameless, Left-wing Propagandists and Fat RINOs!

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STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper (or is it Dana Bash?): Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson (R-LA); Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.); Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). Panel: Van Jones and David Axelrod—Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of parrots!

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: guest-hosted by Jackie DeAngelis: Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.); U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker; Michael Faulkender, acting commissioner of the US Internal Revenue Service; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz; FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. Special feature: FBI Director Kash Patel and Dan Bongino.


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As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.
1 posted on 05/25/2025 4:59:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: acapesket; A.Hun; aligncare; altura; bagster; Bernard; bray; BreezyDog; Calpublican; cajungirl; ...
This is the Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread Ping List! If you want to be on it, reply to this post or FReepmail me (in case I miss it). If you want to be taken off, simply send me a FReepmail.



2 posted on 05/25/2025 4:59:44 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: All
C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep! Also, Sharyl Attkinson’s Full Measure: Watch live at 9:30 EST.

Finally, each show has a YouTube presence, and you can easily watch them on YouTube any time after their live run!

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Next, here are the email addresses and Twitter/X pages--for commenting to the weekend talk shows:

Email: Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @MeetThePress @kwelkernbc

Email: Face the Nation ftn@cbsnews.com Twitter/X: @FaceTheNation

Email: Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com Twitter/X: @foxnewssunday

Email: ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com Twitter/X: @ThisWeekABC @GStephanopoulos

Email: CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @CNNSotu @JakeTapper

Email: Sunday Morning Futures Maria@FoxBusiness.com Twitter/X: @MariaBartiromo

3 posted on 05/25/2025 5:00:30 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: All; bray

James 1:19 (King James Version)
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Nous Suis Juda. Just when you think the Democrat Communist Party cannot go any lower, they murder a beautiful Jewish couple who was just getting ready to get married and start their lives together in the coldest blood imaginable. Sure, it is one thing to celebrate the massacre of 2500 innocent Peace concert attendees or singling out Jews at Haaavaad similar to the German Gulags, but to randomly wait for Jews in front of a Jewish event is the lowest yet. The lack of heart or compassion from the DNC is expected as their silence speaks volumes.

Their Megaphone MSDNC wrote this directly after the paragraph describing the cold-blooded murder of these two beautiful young kids, “The fatal shooting occurred amid the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza, launched after the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack in Israel by Hamas militants that Israeli officials say killed more than 1,200 people. Israel’s ongoing bombing campaign in Gaza has killed more 53,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza.”

So according to the Satanic Communist Cult, they and every Jew on the planet has it coming. They are back to their favorite tactic which is stirring up their most insane extremists of their religion to give them excuses to kill people and then celebrate and justify their deaths. He is not a hero in the movement just as the killer of the insurance executive and Trump’s assassins. This is a movement which murdered two hundred million political enemies over the last century and Hitler’s National Socialist Party was just the beginning of their movement.

This is a Party of hate and lies which claims everyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi when it seems like they are the ones always up to their knees in blood. They are the ones instigating their Party members to beat and murder MAGA or whoever they need to rally their crazies around a flag; it is just this time it is the Star of David and breaks MAGA’s heart.

This is being done systematically using the Three Pillars of Communism (Academia, Media, DNC) to brainwash these people into hating Israel and Jews. They are lied to 24/7 by the three pillars whether it is in class at indoctrination camps like Haavaad, Columbia, or Gaza that Israel is murdering poor innocent Gazans just like the Indians were in America. It is the old evil Rich against the helpless Poor Karl Marx sold. Of course, you are for the Poor even if your parents are spending half a million on your indoctrination, you need the Virtue Signal dopamine high so you get deeper and deeper into their cause

Now you stand for something even if it is the destruction of a country whether it be America or Israel you are making a difference. As you hear more and more about the made-up atrocities the brainwashing becomes a bigger and bigger part of your life just like it is for Mouselips which is another manmade cult similar to Communism and Climate Change (weather).

As horrific as this senseless murder of two absolutely innocent victims, the real horror is how it is being justified by Old Media. They look at these murders through the same lens as MSDNC, they are not innocent victims since they are both connected to Israel and they are rooting for Hamas and Gaza. America’s media giants can justify the murder of a soon to be married couple who have hurt nobody and most likely belong to their Party, as criminals against their political agenda. To most of the Establishmedia and the Three Pillars this horrific act can be explained away through their evil ideology.

For MAGA and Christians this is beyond belief anyone can be so heartless to take an innocent life. To take a life over a person’s color or religion is the worst possible reason and only shows they have hatred and nothing else. MAGA understands they are hated since MAGA stands in the way of their Worldwide Communist tyranny, but the Jews are an even bigger threat.

The Jews are a gifted people whose land is the dagger in the Arab world which is the energy center for the Globalists. They are also God’s Chosen people with talents and gifts which are truly miraculous. They are the vine which the Christian Church is grafted from through Jesus and Judeo-Christians are a group which will not be coerced into bowing down to their gummit god so they vilify both with dangerous labels like baby killers and Nazis to make people devalue them and their beliefs.

The Democrat Communist Party is in desperate need of reform but it is not likely to occur. It is a Satanic Pagan Religion which is built on the sacred blood of abortion. It does not allow morality and the latest form is an anti-Christ religion which mocks God through blatant immorality kneeling to transsexuality, abortion, hate, and murder. They have targeted God’s people to hate which leads to some a cursed existence. To not condemn this event exposes it for exactly what they are, which is a perfect view of good against evil. The young couple was innocent and good with a hope of peace in Israel and the shooters was pure evil. The Party, Academia, and the Media all sided with Death and Destruction while MAGA and America Nous Suis Jews.

Pray for Israel

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.


4 posted on 05/25/2025 5:01:04 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Excellent image and ever so true we need to remember the fallen,salute them,honor them and help those in need.


5 posted on 05/25/2025 5:02:14 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
America THANKS President Trump who daily protects this country and its People.

Donald J. Trump: "A Federal Judge in Boston, who knew absolutely nothing about the situation, or anything else,
has ordered that EIGHT of the most violent criminals on Earth curtail their journey to South Sudan,
and instead remain in Djibouti. He would not allow these monsters to proceed to their final destination.
This is not the premise under which I was elected President, which was to PROTECT our Nation.
The Judges are absolutely out of control,
they’re hurting our Country, and they know nothing about particular situations,
or what they are doing — And this must change, IMMEDIATELY! Hopefully, the Supreme Court of the United States will put an END
to the quagmire that has been caused by the Radical Left.
If this is not worked out quickly, and the World is watching, our Country will be under siege again,
with hundreds of thousands of hardened criminals, “BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS.”
We were also forced to leave behind, in order to watch these hardened thugs, a large number of ICE Officers,
who would otherwise be in the United States, protecting our Citizens."


6 posted on 05/25/2025 5:04:37 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Stories exist which the MSM will NOT cover:

Father Of DC Shooting Suspect Was Democrats' Honored Guest At Trump Congressional Address

And GPS data reportedly put him at Obama's DC residence for 32 minutes…
The father of the suspected gunman in the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers at the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday,
was the honored guest of a far-left lawmaker at President Trump’s joint address to Congress back in March, the New York Post reported.

Eric Rodriguez is an anti-Trump SEIU member who also spoke at a Democrat press conference ahead of Trump’s address.
His son, accused killer Elias Rodriguez, 30, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder
after allegedly gunning down Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, who were about to become engaged.
“Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family,”
a spokesperson for Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) told the Post Thursday night.
García in March had described Rodriguez as “an outspoken advocate against attacks on veterans’ services
and the rights of unionized federal employees.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/father-dc-shooting-suspect-was-democrats-honored-guest-trump-congressional-address

7 posted on 05/25/2025 5:07:21 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Diogenesis

No question judges on the left will take down the country they dont care.Great stuff.


8 posted on 05/25/2025 5:46:16 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Here's a good one from the NY Post seems a former employee of Harvard was selling body parts from dead people and got caught.

https://nypost.com/2025/05/24/us-news/harvard-medical-school-morgue-manager-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-selling-donated-body-parts/utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost

I'm so tired today I just lost a ton of info I was working on so I'm just gonna do links.

9 posted on 05/25/2025 5:49:08 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I’m getting tired of Rand Paul and his know it all attitude. He complains but never lends a compromise....just his way or the highway.


10 posted on 05/25/2025 5:51:59 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Alas Babylon!

Good morning, AB!

About teaching our kids the tree meaning of Memorial Day....

MDW: @SecDef helps clean up Korean War Memorial — as a new study finds less than half of Americans know the true meaning of Memorial Day 🇺🇸

https://x.com/foxandfriends/status/1926614041310408986


11 posted on 05/25/2025 6:05:40 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny ((IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND))
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To: All
It's been a big reveal this week on the bio-weapon shots first this from the vigilant fox:

The dirty dems lied about everything. Not only O'bidens health but the damage the shots were doing as well.

Here's the latest on the shots:

https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/covid-vaccine-safe-and-effective .......................

https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/articles/why-you-cant-trust-drug-side-effect-information?utm_source=The%20People%27s%20Pharmacy%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=6a268bf0f5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_20_03_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7300006d3c-db7bece79e-220081977

Long story short here every phase of bringing anew drug to market is pre-destined by big pharma.they buy off everyone,evey agency,the media, and polticians so they can't lose. That all has to change.

...........................

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-patrick-soon

This video over and hour long is the ultimate. It's with dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong and reveals it all about how radiation and chemo kill all the good stuff that stops cancer and how he has a method of turning tumors into helpful cancer fighting tumors instead of deadly cancerous growths that hospitals make a fortune from. It's easily understood and brilliant done by the best cancer doctor likely out there being interviewed by the best journalist of our times.Tucker Carlson.

Here they are:

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong:

You’re Being Lied to About Cancer, How It’s Caused, and How to Stop It

The Tucker Carlson Show

105 mins

12 posted on 05/25/2025 6:13:27 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

That apple didn’t fall far from the horse.


13 posted on 05/25/2025 6:14:11 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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Rand Paul on a rant again. He's great until you actually need him then you cant count on his vote which tells you all you need to know about him.

Mike Johnson on with shannon again saying its hard to turn the congress around from reckless spending to the beginning of sanity.Is it pretty hardly but we have to start somewhere and Trump really needs this bill to pass no matter how good,bad or ugly it is.

The dems have to spend our money to buy their votes so they never oppose spending as long as they get their cut. Meanwhile the press is lying their asses off about the bill as well totally ignoring the potential for growth which could be huge.

Shannon now asks mike about SALT state and local taxes,Johnson has little control over all this and she knows it but DNC chatting points are always key with her. Harvard next.

14 posted on 05/25/2025 6:23:15 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)
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To: Alas Babylon!; All
This could be one of the greatest posts on FR in a while it covers it all:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4314335/posts?q=1&;page=4530

4,530 posted on 5/23/2025, 10:46:39 PM by Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn.

A different view of Harvard it's long but of interest:

The Harvard Control Grid

The Hidden Nerve Center of Global Power

https://badlands.substack.com/p/the-harvard-control-grid

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This post is a follow-up to Wilted Ivy, which elucidated the high-level connections between academia and the Deep State. Now, we see the Control Grid.

(Link to Wilted Ivy- https://badlands.substack.com/p/wilted-ivy)

Why Harvard's Endowment Board Was Never Just Academic - It Was the Interface for Empire

The Control Interface - Harvard's True Function

Harvard's reputation is imploding. But what lies beneath its collapse isn't merely bad press, or political missteps, or misguided ideology. It's exposure.

Because Harvard was never just a university. It was a control terminal.

For decades, Harvard served as the centralized interface where capital, compliance, and globalist agenda-setting quietly merged. It was the credentialed cockpit of an invisible empire - cloaked in crimson banners and prestige, but wired into the real-world architecture of influence: endowment-backed investments, ideological pipelines, and elite boardrooms that shape the world behind the curtain.

The epicenter of this influence was the Harvard Management Company (HMC) - a legally separate investment engine with a $50+ billion war chest, shielded from public oversight and run by individuals whose ties read like a blueprint of coordinated control.

Think Blackstone. Rothschild. Rockefeller. Goldman. Davos. CFR. Trilateral Commission. Ford Foundation. Asia Society. Bilderberg.

This is not speculation. This is structure.

Harvard's stewards weren't merely investors. They were architects of consent. The same people who managed the endowment also advised world governments, funded foreign propaganda, sat on intelligence-adjacent foundations, and chaired elite economic forums. From their seats inside HMC, they funneled resources into the very infrastructure - financial, medical, technological, and ideological - that kept the old system intact.

The collapse we're witnessing now - the donor flight, the resignations, the endowment sell-offs - isn't just about public relations. It's the systemic implosion of a command node.

The Stewards of Power - Harvard's Endowment Board Unmasked

At the center of Harvard's control grid lies the Harvard Management Company - a $53 billion investment engine that functioned less like an endowment and more like a high-trust global power node. But its true power wasn't in the capital alone. It was in who controlled it.

HMC’s board wasn't a collection of passive advisors. It was a curated group of hyper-connected insiders. Their combined influence reveals a network where elite family dynasties, high finance, foreign policy institutions, and intelligence-linked philanthropic engines operate in lockstep.

Let's unmask the stewards…

Michael S. Chae - CFO, Blackstone | CFR | Asia Society

Blackstone isn't just a private equity firm. It is a central lever in global real estate, pharma, infrastructure, defense, and financial tech. As CFO, Chae oversees Blackstone's global finance arm - while simultaneously sitting on the board of Asia Society with Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former head of Saudi intelligence. He's also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - putting him in the policy circle that shapes U.S. foreign and economic architecture.

Timothy R. Barakett - Chair of HMC | Co-founder, Atticus Capital (with Nathaniel Rothschild)

This is the Rothschild connection. Atticus Capital was launched alongside Nathaniel Rothschild, heir to one of the oldest banking dynasties on Earth. This one move puts Barakett in direct orbit of a centuries-old financial empire with links to the Bank of England, IMF policy formation, and global mining cartels. That Barakett now chairs Harvard's financial structure is no accident - it is inheritance.

Amy C. Falls - CIO, Northwestern University | Former CIO, Rockefeller University | Morgan Stanley MD

Falls served under David Rockefeller's oversight while managing Rockefeller University's portfolio. She was mentored by Morgan Stanley's Barton Biggs - one of the original Wall Street insiders. She also sat on Harvard's own investment committees, giving her simultaneous influence across multiple elite portfolios

Rick Slocum - CIO, Harvard Management Company | Investment Committee, Rockefeller Foundation | Chatham House Member

Slocum not only manages Harvard's money - he also helps steward the Rockefeller Foundation's global portfolio, placing him inside a historic philanthropic engine long tied to covert influence and population control initiatives. His Chatham House membership (UK equivalent of CFR) signals engagement with post-imperial British geopolitical networks.

Martín Escobari - Co-President, General Atlantic | Advisory Board, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard)

Escobari’s role positions him inside Harvard's Latin America arm - funded and named for David Rockefeller. He's linked to Latin American business and political networks, including globalist-aligned oligarchs, major U.S. investors, and transnational donor circuits.

Drew Gilpin Faust - Former Harvard President | Board Member, Goldman Sachs

Faust was placed on Goldman's board after her presidency, bringing Harvard's presidential seal into direct partnership with one of the most powerful banks in the world. Goldman's CEO at the time, Lloyd Blankfein (Harvard alum), referred to their relationship as “symbiotic.”

Paul J. Finnegan - Co-CEO, Madison Dearborn Partners | Former Harvard Treasurer

Finnegan controls massive private equity holdings across tech, infrastructure, and public utility sectors. His co-founder’s role in the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and influence in regional governance boards shows how PE capital feeds into both macroeconomic policy and institutional engineering.

Together, these figures form more than a board. They are the operating layer of a globalist architecture - plugged into Rothschild liquidity, Rockefeller soft power, Goldman market strategy, CFR/WEF ideological consensus, and intelligence-linked philanthropy.

The Shadow Scaffolding - Think Tanks, Foundations, and Covert Consensus

.................. This is just part of the post it's longer and tells it all about how Harvard is much much more than a university gone far left.harvard inc. is a deadly corp. and basically a CIA asset gone rogue.

15 posted on 05/25/2025 6:31:35 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)
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To: rodguy911

The next truth the Estabishmedia tells will be its first.


16 posted on 05/25/2025 6:31:59 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Diogenesis
Excellent article from the great John Eastman, Supreme Confusion--Chaos reigned at the Court—and a dose of judicial supremacy to boot.

Attending oral argument last week in the case touching on birthright citizenship pending before the Supreme Court, I observed a combination of confusion, omissions, and outright lies from some of the justices. As the lawyer for one of the amici, I witnessed the Court address the propriety of the nationwide, universal injunctions that have been issued by several district court judges blocking the execution of President Trump’s day-one executive order on birthright citizenship.

Let’s begin with the lies.

Early in the argument, Justice Sotomayor unequivocally stated that the Court had held 127 years ago that anyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen, and repeated that holding in three other cases since. That is false.

The Supreme Court has never held that the children born on U.S. soil to temporary visitors or illegal aliens are citizens. The Wong Kim Ark case to which she was referring explicitly dealt only with a child born to parents who were lawfully and permanently domiciled in the United States—and the word “domicile” or one of its derivatives was repeated nearly 30 times throughout that opinion. Any language in the opinion beyond that is not part of the holding, but is rather non-binding dicta. The same is true with the passing references in the three other cases she cited—they are pure dicta. So her claim that the Court has already issued holdings that are contrary to the president’s executive order is simply untrue.

Several legal scholars have recently made the same claims, and Justice Sotomayor may have been parroting them. Yet until President Trump raised the issue in his first campaign for the presidency, almost all legal scholars writing in this area candidly acknowledged that Wong Kim Ark did not settle the question. Such is the hostility to all things Trump that the prior honest assessments have given way to a certitude that is simply not accurate.

Now for the confusion. Justice Kavanaugh queried U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer whether excluding from birthright citizenship the children born to temporary visitors or those illegally present in the United States would be unworkable. “What are the hospitals to do,” he asked, or the states when registering vital statistics about births? Apparently Justice Kavanaugh is unaware that most countries in the world, including almost all the countries we once described as “First World,” don’t seem to have any difficulty noting on a birth certificate whether the parents were citizens or merely visitors at the time of birth.

And he is apparently likewise unaware that until 1966, the application for an American passport, which could only be obtained by citizens, similarly inquired about the status of one’s parents at birth. Justice Kavanaugh’s treatment of this as an insurmountable problem is simply not compatible with the practice in the rest of the world, or even by our own government for a full century after the adoption of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Then there is the omission. I was quite frankly surprised that none of the justices asked about a foundational requirement for preliminary injunctions. Long-standing black letter law requires that one must have an irreparable injury in order to obtain interim relief by way of a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction. Granted, that requirement goes to the validity of any preliminary injunction, not merely the universal injunctions that were the topic of the day. But it seems to me that the broader issue necessarily falls if even a narrow injunction could not be sustained.

So what is “irreparable” injury? It is an injury that cannot be remedied after the fact. It almost never includes things for which money damages (plus interest) can make the person whole. Take the typical wrongful discharge employment case. Preliminary relief is almost never permitted, because if the claimant succeeds, back pay with interest would fully compensate him. The asserted injuries are therefore not irreparable.

So too with the birthright citizenship cases. If, as Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson expressed with such certainty, the plaintiffs will ultimately prevail, the remedy would be that their citizenship be recognized. If, in the interim, they lost out on some welfare benefits that are available only to citizens, retroactive payment of those benefits (with interest) would make them whole. Therefore, in neither case is the harm “irreparable.” Basic injunction law 101 indicates that any preliminary injunction, not just a universal one, is not proper.

One can imagine an irreparable injury that might arise if the government moved to deport the illegally present parents and their not-yet-recognized-as-citizens children, but such speculative future harms are also not proper grounds for a preliminary injunction until the harm becomes imminent. At that point—and only at that point—would a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order be proper. But no such harm has been alleged, or is evident, in the cases as they presently stand.

Finally, there was a strong whiff of judicial supremacy evident in some of the questions. Justice Barrett, for example, asked whether a ruling by a court of appeals—say, the Second Circuit in New York—would bind the government in their dealings with individuals who were not parties in a particular case. Solicitor General Sauer, quite appropriately, would not give the definitive answer she was seeking. One suspects that was because he recognized that such an answer would replace judicial review in particular cases with judicial supremacy.

His intuition on that score finds fulsome support in the views of several notable former presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson. Here’s what Lincoln said about it in the context of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, one of the most notorious—and notoriously wrong—decisions ever issued by the Court. He agreed that the decision was binding on the parties in that case, but added that if we were to allow “the decision to stand as settling the law for all time, we should, to that extent, cease to be our own rulers, having practically resigned our Government into the hands of that [dripping with irony] eminent tribunal.”

Lincoln’s view reflected the basic constitutional premise that the judiciary is but one of three co-equal branches. Just as an erroneous view of birthright citizenship has seeped into our political psyche, so too has an erroneous view of judicial supremacy. We should applaud President Trump and those in his administration who are pressing to restore the original meaning of the Constitution on these questions.

17 posted on 05/25/2025 6:42:31 AM PDT by kabar
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To: bray; All
That's for sure here's more:

https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-university-left-bias-trump-omar-sultan-haque

Omar Sultan Haque has spent 23 years at Harvard University. He is furious about what has happened within the school.

While the media have framed the recent fight between Harvard and President Donald Trump in partisan terms, Haque believes that the problem goes much deeper than political score-settling. As he rose through the ranks—from graduate student to postdoctoral fellow to medical researcher to faculty member at Harvard Medical School—Haque watched the university gradually abandon the pursuit of truth and replace it with left-wing racialism.

Rather than stay silent, Haque has spoken out. Last year, he wrote an essay about his experience and has continued to criticize the university throughout the recent campus turmoil. As Haque sees it, Harvard cannot be reformed from within. It’s an unconscious patient and requires CPR to survive.

18 posted on 05/25/2025 6:46:42 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

It’s not Paul’s fault no one took him seriously. Paul pushed ‘the penny plan’ for years, which reduced spending and shrunk deficits. No one listened.

It’s gotten so bad, it would now require a “dime plan”—10% reduction rather than 1%.

Still doable. Sen. Ron Johnson is correct in shouting spending is still ridiculously high in this new big beautiful bill and could be trimmed with no ill consequences.

Perhaps the final bill will trim further, but I doubt it.


19 posted on 05/25/2025 6:48:10 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead". (We'll go ahead))
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To: kabar
Great piece and we should always remember the open borders had numerous goals aside form destroying the country with those who hate and are ready to destroy America.Illegals had dems salivating about more voters legal or not.

Also,more money for nothing by signing up illegals as legal and than looting the treasury for all the free stuff they can get from medicaid to SS. The list goes on and now the cleanup begins.

20 posted on 05/25/2025 6:55:43 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)
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