[NYPOST] A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked the Trump administration's plan to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to Portland — the same day federal agents unleashed tear gas and mace on anti-ICE agitators after more than 100 straight days of unrest.
US District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump nominee, ruled Saturday that deploying active-duty troops to secure the ''war ravaged'' Oregon city would violate the US Constitution and federal law barring military involvement in domestic law enforcement.
''The relationship between the federal government and the states, between the military and domestic law enforcement, and the balance of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government,'' she wrote in her ruling.
''Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.''
In her ruling, Karin pointed out that scores of demonstrations held outside a south Portland immigration facility were not notably violent mostly peaceful or disruptive in the days and weeks before Trump's order.
''Overall, the protests were small and uneventful,'' she wrote.
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''Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.''
Now the Judiciary is determining the deployment and utilization of troops - clearly a Article 2 authority. The judge in this case is usurping powers not granted to the judiciary by the Legislative branch. The Insurrection Act is in play.
This will bother a lot of people here but note the players
[YouTube] Puerto Rico is paradise. Beaches, lush mountains, rich culture. But beneath the beauty—something is very wrong. In 2006, nearly 4 million people lived here. By 2100? It’ll be one million.
Puerto Rico—a U.S. territory, but not a state—is the poorest, most unequal part of the United States. And it’s in free fall.
Since 2006 15% of Puerto Ricans have left the island.
Puerto Rico’s birth rate is the 7th lowest in the world, it’s lower than Japan’s.
Nearly half the population lives below the poverty line and despite paying more for electricity than anywhere else in the USA, rolling blackouts frequently plunge Puerto Rico into darkness for weeks if not months.
A Puerto Rico without Puerto Ricans is arriving—fast.
And this… is the story of how we got here.
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Their unelected La Junta, our unelected Deep State.
A familiar theme; Trump and the US are the problem.
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Yes, the number of PR citizens will drop.
Given about 40% of PR is on US Gov assistance, plus there are large numbers of the breeding ages moving to the USA Mainland.
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Puerto Ricans are US citizens and thus can immigrate to the rest of the US without difficulty; many have done so. Maybe in a few years it can become the private island of Musk or Bezos...
[BREITBART] A Democrat candidate for Virginia attorney general was grilled about comments he made, pondering shooting a former Republican Virgina House Speaker and allegedly wishing death upon the lawmaker's children.
In an interview with ABC 8News reporter Tyler Englander, Jay Jones was asked about his comments, and how Virginia could ''trust a man who said something so horrific.'' Englander's interview with Jones came after the National Review reported that in 2022, Jones sent messages to Virginia House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R), complaining about his colleagues ''eulogizing'' a recently deceased Democrat lawmaker, and going on to entertain thoughts of shooting former Virgina Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert.
Per the National Review, ''text messages'' obtained by the outlet showed that Jones wrote to Coyner, saying that, if faced ''with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets'' and had to pick between shooting either Gilbert or ''two dictators,'' he would pick Gilbert:
''If those guys die before me,'' Jones wrote, referencing the Republican colleagues who were publicly honoring the deceased Johnson's memory, ''I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves'' to ''send them out awash in something.''
Jones then suggested that, presented with a hypothetical situation in which he had only two bullets and was faced with the choice of murdering then-Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert or two dictators, he'd shoot Gilbert ''every time,'' prompting pushback from his former colleague:
''A lot of politics is about trust,'' Englander said. ''I can think of nothing more horrific than a mother having to hold her dying child. How can Virginians trust a man who said something so horrific, so callously?''
''Well again, I am so deeply, deeply, sorry, for what I said, and I wish that it hadn't happened and I would take it back if I could,'' Jones answered.
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congrats to the GOP for keeping this 'in the bank' since 2022 to be able to use it now, 4 weeks from the election
and it wouldn't be a surprise if the GOP had a follow up to this for when Jones gets cute with 'I was just kidding' I never do this stuff
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Ein Führer, zwei Kugeln! His vow?
To scheiss twice at an elephant Sau,
Though Herr Jones is secure
From yours truly, who'd surely
Use xers on Mohammed and Mao.
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#2 LG is surely right. This was an amazing act of delayed gratification and strategery
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BREITBART] A Democrat candidate for Virginia attorney general was grilled about comments he made, pondering shooting a former Republican Virgina House Speaker and allegedly wishing death upon the lawmaker's children.
