Trump-supported bill to stop "rogue" judges passes House

Well, folks, the House of Representatives finally did something that doesn’t make me want to hurl my coffee mug at the TV. 

On Wednesday, the House passed the No Rogue Rulings Act, a bill spearheaded by Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-CA) that clips the wings of federal district judges who’ve been playing superhero with nationwide injunctions against Trump’s policies. 

[H/T Fox News Digital]

The vote? A tidy 219-213, with all but one Republican saying “aye” and every Democrat predictably clutching their pearls and voting “nay.” Shocker.

This little gem of legislation tells those black-robed overlords they can’t just slap a countrywide pause on Trump’s agenda anymore. Instead, they’ve got to keep their rulings focused on the actual parties in front of them. Since Trump took office, his administration’s been hit with over 15 of these judicial temper tantrums—everything from birthright citizenship tweaks to telling the DEI crowd to take a hike. Issa’s bill says, “Enough already.”

Issa told Fox News Digital on Tuesday, “We’ve got the votes.” He wasn’t so sure the Dems would play ball, though he did toss them a bone by pointing out that even Biden’s former solicitor general, Elizabeth Prelogar, griped about these judgey power trips back in the day. “We’re hoping some people look at it on its merits rather than its politics,” he said. Good luck with that, Darrell.

Then there’s Rep. Derek Schmidt (R-KS), who’s got an amendment in there to stop plaintiffs from “judge shopping” like they’re picking out a new pair of shoes. He told Fox News Digital, “A lot of things get called commonsense around here, but this one genuinely is.” 

He’s not wrong. “The basic policy of trying to rein in the overuse of nationwide injunctions was supported by Democrats before. It’s supported by Republicans now, and I’m hoping [this vote will] be supported by both,” he added. 

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX), another Judiciary Committee hotshot, didn’t mince words post-vote: “Many Democrat-appointed lower court judges have conducted themselves like activist liberal lawyers in robes while attempting to stop President Trump’s nationwide reforms. The No Rogue Rulings Act limits this unchecked power.” 

Way to tell it like it is, Lance.

And Rep. Randy Feenstra, (R-IA) brought the populist heat: “More than 77 million Americans voted for [Trump’s] pro-American policies and want to see them implemented quickly. There is no reason that activist judges whose authority does not extend nationally should be allowed to completely stop [his] agenda.” Preach, Randy. That’s the kind of math even the D.C. swamp can’t ignore.

The GOP mostly rallied like champs, despite some early squabbling about whether to impeach these “rogue” judges or just spank them with a bill. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), who was Team Impeachment but still backed Issa, told Fox News Digital, “The judicial vendetta against President Trump’s agenda needs to be checked. Nationwide injunctions by activist judges have stood in the way of the American people’s will and in some cases their safety, since the President was sworn into office.” He’s not wrong—Stutzman says Issa’s fix “will stop individual judge’s political beliefs from preventing the wants and needs of our citizens from being implemented.” Amen to that.

Some conservatives wanted to go full scorched-earth and impeach the worst offenders, but House GOP brass shut that down faster than you can say “RINO.” They’re betting Issa’s way is the smarter play. We’ll see.

Here’s the kicker: the bill’s got a snowball’s chance in the Senate, where it needs 60 votes and at least a few Dems to grow a spine. Don’t hold your breath, patriots. For now, though, the House just threw a haymaker at judicial overreach. Pass the popcorn.

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Darrell Issa destroys Jasmine Crockett With real-time fact check re: impeaching judges

Well folks, it looks like Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) decided to play a quick game of "Gotcha!" with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) during Tuesday’s hearing, and he didn’t even need to break a sweat. 

Issa took Crockett’s sanctimonious grandstanding and turned it into a self-inflicted wound faster than you can say "hypocrisy-suppository." All he had to do was point to her own rap sheet of judicial impeachment cheerleading to shut down her whining about Republicans threatening the sacred halls of justice.

Crockett, bless her racist heart, joined the usual chorus of Democrats clutching their pearls and wailing that democracy itself—yes, democracy itself—would crumble into dust if those mean ol’ Republicans dared to impeach any of the sainted judges who’ve been single-handedly thwarting President Donald Trump’s administration at every turn. Sniff.

Here’s where it gets good. Crockett went full drama queen, practically hyperventilating as she preached about protecting the judiciary’s pristine honor. That is, until Issa swooped in like a hawk with a memory and reminded everyone that Crockett herself co-sponsored legislation to impeach Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. 

Whoops! Townhall.com caught the fireworks on X: “Jasmine Crockett starts HYPERVENTILATING about protecting the institution of the judiciary — before PROMPTLY being reminded by @repdarrellissa that she cosponsored legislation to impeach Justices Thomas & Alito! ‘AOC filed articles of impeachment on Justice Thomas & Alito.…’” Oof, that’s gotta sting.

Then came the hypocrite's sermon. “The problem that we have right now is that if we continue down this road, we will not have a rule of law because we have people that are currently serving and they’re saying things like, ‘Ignore the judge’s order,’” she huffed, while conveniently forgetting to mention that her pal President Joe Biden pulled the exact same stunt when he rammed through his student loan forgiveness scheme after the Supreme Court told him to take a hike. 

Details, schmetails.

She kept going, laying it on thick: “What it means to have law and order in this country is that you follow the order and you go through the appeals process even if you dislike what the judge did,” she along with her mega-lashes declared, before flouncing back to her seat. 

Noble words—too bad they’re dripping with irony, given her own track record.

Crockett, like her fellow Democrats and their media parrots, leaned hard into the tired line that Republicans just want to axe federal judges over rulings they “don’t like.” Never mind that the actual beef is about alleged abuses of power—nah, that’s too complicated for the narrative.

Enter Issa, stage right, with the mic drop. 

Issa casually pointed out that when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cooked up her impeachment articles against conservative Supreme Court heavyweights Alito and Thomas, Crockett was right there with pom-poms, co-sponsoring the whole circus. “It does seem interesting that when the shoe is on the other foot, everyone is self-righteous!” Issa quipped, before moving on like a boss.

And there you have it, guys—another day, another Democrat caught in the hypocrisy spin cycle. Gag me with a spoon.

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Gold Star Mom says Biden callously compared her son's death at Afghan withdrawal to Beau Biden's

The families of the 13 US service members killed in an ISIS suicide bombing during the Biden administration's clusterfrack withdrawal from Afghanistan came together on Monday to call out the White House. One Gold Star mother accused alleged President Joe Biden of callously likening her son’s death to that of his late son Beau, who died of brain cancer in the US, although if you listen to Joe, he died a war hero in Iraq.

Cheryl Rex's son Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola died in the Aug. 26, 2021, bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. 

Rex became angry at Biden for his lie number 29,845 when he said:

“My wife, Jill, and I know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin.”

That was a load of crap but due to his cognitive loss of cognition, Biden may believe that lie by now since he's said it so many times. 

Rex recounted the Biden moment during a forum convened in Escondido, Calif. by local Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). “My heart started beating faster and I started shaking, knowing that their son died from cancer and they were able to be by his side."

Beau Biden died in May 2015 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, far from Iraq. He was 46, fully six years after returning home from a one-year deployment in Iraq in September 2009. After his death, Beau's younger brother, Hunter, began sleeping with his widow because that's the kind of people who populate the Biden family.

Biden has claimed that he believes Beau developed the brain cancer that killed him from exposure to toxic burn pits during his deployment, when he wasn't dying in Iraq.

Through tears, Rex said she wondered “how someone could honestly be so heartless to say he knew how I felt a little over 24 hours” after her son died.

Biden isn't as heartless as he is brain dead.

“After this encounter,” Rex added, “I have never had any personal correspondence, nor has my son been honored or his name spoken by this commander-in-chief or his administration on what I feel is because of their failures and poor planning to exit our troops from Afghanistan.”

The 13 service members who died were working to evacuate thousands of Afghans and Americans from an unprotected Afghanistan airport when they should have been evacuated from Bagram AF Base which was fortified and protected. 

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Contempt for Lois Lerner to be Decided

Lois Lerner  testified on her own behalf again this past March. Now a House committee will meet next week to determine whether she should be held in contempt of Congress. You see, you can't say that you're innocent of the charges brought against you (in this case, the charges were targeting the Tea Party and conservative organizations) and then refuse to answer questions to question that claim. In other words, you can't testify and then say you refuse to testify.

Tainting the Fifth

Why does Lois Lerner want a delay on testifying in front of Congress? Does she need to make back room deals with people up at the top? Does she think she's Superman's girlfriend and can do whatever she wants because she`s protected? Or does she simply want to cut a deal for immunity?

My guess is immunity.

This is what arrogance looks like

When she testified before Congress and said she was innocent and then "took the Fifth," it seems pretty obvious that she testified on her innocence and disqualified herself.

If Issa and his committee allow Lerner to have immunity, I think that would be a travesty of justice. I say, no delays, no immunity, and no Fifth Amendment.

What do you say?

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Now That the Dance is Over

So now we have Benghazi--now that the election is in the books, will the left actually hear about what took place where four Americans were killed?  We know the mainstream media is going to continue to protect the administration but will they at least show responsibility and describe what is actually known about it?  

When flaming liberals like Chrissy Matthews says that he's glad the east experienced Hurricane Sandy because it helped Obama get re-elected, do you have any doubts that the mainstream media will continue to withhold what they know about what took place on September 11th in Libya?  Do you have any doubts that Chrissy Matthews is in the bag for BHO?  And New Yorkers and storm victims in New Jersey still voted for Obama even after Matthews was happy for him at their expense.

It feels like America is continually morphing into a Orwellian-like state where the media controls the message and the message supports the left's agenda.  The media, in this case, is also the celebrity media--The View, David Letterman, Leno, Pimp with a Limp, and Oprah (once upon a time).  Obama has made myriad appearances on these entertainment shows where he could show his fans his Colgate smile, his cute wit, and intense intelligence, if you buy the hype.

Benghazi hasn't gone away, however, and we will hopefully get to the bottom of this slaughter.  There are certain facts that seem quite damning to the Obama administration and maybe Darrell Issa and his committee will be able to learn where the responsibility lies.  I know that it doesn't lie with the video, but they lied about the video.

Susan Rice has not been heard from since she stated that it was the video that cause the spontaneous protest that got out of hand.  And Hillary is supposedly leaving office to pursue a career in dusting and sweeping, but Issa wants to have her testify about Benghazi.  Will she?  It depends on how you define the word "testify."

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Not So Fast, Furious Holder

 Eric Holder was scheduled to testify today on the now famous operation known as Fast and Furious. Briefly, this operation, aka Project Gunrunner,  was Arizona-based and designed to be a sting operation whereby the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which is an arm of the Department of Justice, allowed "straw buyers" to purchase weapons from Arizona gun shops and move them across the border into Mexico to be used by the drug cartels.  The ATF then was supposed to trace them and stop the gun-trafficking .  And while that's what the DoJ is telling us, I'm not so sure they are being totally honest (yeah, like that isn't worth a ROFLMAO moment).

Kenneth Melson

The Acting Director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, has been spilling his guts to avoid the administration from pushing him under the bus by taking the fall for what has to involve, at the very least, the US Attorney's Office, FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and possibly the Homeland Security Department.  This probably has Eric Holder's skivvies all twisted up if Melson knew about any involvement at the top.


The House committees investigating the DoJ, headed by Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Charles Grassley, have accused the Justice Department of blocking their investigation.  You probably are aware that the operation led to the death of Border Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican nationals. Most disturbing beyond this was that taxpayer financing from other federal agencies may have funded this crazy scheme.

Darrell Issa

Issa said of Holder's umm, withholding: "It is one thing to argue that the ends justifies the means in an attempt to defend a policy that puts building a big case ahead of stopping known criminals from getting guns.  Yet it is a much more serious matter to conceal from Congress the possible involvement of other agencies in identifying and maybe even working with the same criminals that Operation Fast and Furious was trying to identify."


Holder, while answering questions, pulled a Gingrich--he attacked the questioners with statements claiming it is beneath the auspices of a Congressman to ask probing questions. He would obviously not like to be questioned or implicated in any involvement with this illegal operation.

There are 93 thousand documents that Holder refuses to give to the committee.   Democrats are saying that this entire debacle is political, having nothing to do with the fact that Holder may be involved. We now know that he lied when he originally said that he only knew of the operation for a few weeks, having to "walk back" that statement to say he knew of it for a couple of months, then saying that both statements don't contradict each other. (He also is hard-pressed to say what the definition of the word "is" is.)  For Holder, a couple of weeks, a couple of months, well, it's his version of legal accuracy--you can't nail him on it.


What we can be certain of, is that these hearings are just heating up and the heat is on Holder.

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More On Fast and Furious

This is a story that doesn't go away--kind of like the unwashed on Occupy Wall Street. Fast and Furious, the gun walking screwup that allowed guns to cross into Mexico from the USA and get into the hands of the drug cartels. Eric Holder, the Attorney General at the Department of Justice (DoJ) has finally been supoenaed and being put on the hotseat for this incredibly stupid tactic.

Go ahead, pull my finger

Barack Hussein Obama has claimed that Holder is innocent, as is he, in the Fast and Fuirious scandal. In fact, when Obama was first asked about the scandal, he couldn't remember Eric Holder's name--and who can blame him? Our president comes into contact with literally hundreds of people each day, so how can we expect him to remember someone he appointed to such an unimportant position like Attorney General? Why should he remember someone who he has hung out with and probably played a few rounds of golf with, as he has with hundreds of people every day? Obama has enough problems with his jobs plan and things like Solyndra and now another solar energy company called Sun Power     that has received $1.2 billion to keep it afloat but is now having its own problems. Obama certainly doesn't need Fast and Furious up his butt like a thistle in a briar patch.

Darrell Issa

But Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-Calif.)  the Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman, is not going to let Fast and Furious simply go away. This may turn out to be Holder's Waterloo, or it may do even more damage to the present administration; we shall see. Issa believes that Holder is not being forthcoming with information on the botched scheme, and that he was not being 'candid' when he said that he only knew of the operation a few weeks ago (in his testimony last May). This has been shown to be less than the truth--some might even say that something less than the truth is a lie, but we don't say that about politicians. They're very sensitive to being called liars--they get it all the time.


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The Annointed One, The DOJ, Islamic Terror, Cha Cha Cha

Barack (Barry) Hussein Obama (Soetoro) is not doing well--his approval rating is a miserable 44%, something akin to his bowling average. The good news for Barack is that the Muslims love him and he has about a 100% approval rating with them, even though they burned our flag on 9-11 in London, and danced in the streets when the towers came down. That should tell you something about Hussein, just like it should tell you something about his choice for Attorney General, Honest Eric Holder. Holder refused to pursue the lawsuit filed against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization that was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. This was in spite of the enormous amount of evidence to link these terrorists with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).  It is a fact that CAIR is an arm of the MB, and a fact that Obama is ready to sit down and hold their hand in an Islamic lovefest. It makes sense that Obama wants Holder to keep hands off the organization, even though it has ties to Islamic terrorism throughout the world and is now the apparent arm in charge of Egypt.

But Eric Holder has more crap on his plate than a manure spreader has on its rotor, with Operation Fast and Furious. Darrell Issa, (R-CA) continues to pursue justice in this case, but Holder keeps throwing roadblocks out to slow down the investigation.

Issa is not only Holder's worst nightmare, he probably makes Barry as nervous as a gay guy in Marine Corps bootcamp who was asked and told. Issa will not say that this case goes all the way to the White House, but he noted how people involved with it are being moved around or fired from the ATF. My take is that Obama either knew about Operation Fast and Furious, or his management skills suck, or both. To believe that Holder didn't know is simply naiive--he has to be investigated closely, and if involved, prosecuted and the justice he refuses to enact, be done to him.

The country is hurting and Obama isn't assuaging the pain--his speech was a no name brand band aid on a gaping wound. He wants to throw more money at the problem and still hasn't learned anything about economics. He has the audacity to demand we pass this bill without discussing or reading it--absolute smugness.

Questions remain unanswered: what did Obama have to do with Solyndra? Fast and Furious? The Muslim Brotherhood? Why is he so anti-Israel, is it because he really is a Muslim or just sympathetic to their 'cause'? What does he really think of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's beliefs about America and the Jews? Who funded his education at Harvard and Columbia, and what were his grades? What were some of the papers about that he wrote as his theses? 

This is the man who promised transparency--maybe he didn't mean his or his administration's. 


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