Showing posts with label federal judiciary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federal judiciary. Show all posts

Sunday, December 31, 2017

San Francisco Democrat Laments: Donald Trump is Here to Stay

After Willie Brown was forced out of the state assembly because of term limits, he set his sight on the mayorality of San Francisco.

He ran "The City" for eight years. "It never rains down on Willie Brown" was the word on the street.

Then he was pushed out with Gavin Newsom taking over. The left-wing insanity of San Francisco is going to run this seat into the ground. Lo and behold, Brown is a guest columnist for the diminishing San Francisco Chronicle.

Gavin Gruesome, the pervert

What's really interesting is that he makes a clear appeal to the checks and balances of our constitutional republic, but at the same time he has embraced every left-wing, progressive tenet of governance, which is contrary to everything that he and most San Franciscans hold dear.


Yes, he will, Willie boy! Suck it up, buttercups!

For those of you who aren’t crazy about President Trump, the good news as we wrap up his first year in the White House is how the courts and federal bureaucracy have kept him from running the country completely off the rails.

That bureaucracy is getting drained faster than the progressive liberals in Washington can realize or keep up. The courts are another matter, however, and need to be confronted aggressively. Some of these federal judges defy common sense and jurisprudence, as they routinely strike down President Trump's executive orders on immigration and public safety, as though every move he makes is unlawful. What a pack of lies.

The bad news, for Democrats, is that he will serve out his term and run for re-election. People hoping he’ll resign or be thrown out of office are dreaming.'

Of course he will run for re-election, and of course he will win. No one likes a loser, and with President Trump in the White House, everyone is feeling like a winner again, even if they rich liberals won't admit that Trump's economic policies have helped them get a whole lot richer.

One of the interesting twists of Trump’s first year is that the very system he wanted to tear down coming into office has kept him from going down in flames himself.

Wrong. The system he is tearing down is the very Deep State that was keeping Big Business, Big Labor, and Big Wall Street taking advantage of the vast majority of working people in the United States. One would think that the Democratic Party would stop doing the bidding of corporate cronies and actually care about the well-being of working class Americans. But let's face it: Democrats only care about more power, nothing more. Eight years of Barack Obama's horrendous administration proved that.

He can hurl all the insults and threats he wants at North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff are not going to launch an attack. He can call for criminal investigations into Hillary Clinton, but the FBI has yet to respond. He can decry “fake news” as much as he wants, but the First Amendment still stands.

The truth is that Trump has the commanded respect of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is also the first President in a long time who is talking tough and carrying a big stick toward the maniacal Stalinist regime in Southeast Asia. Rocketman is learning the hard way that he is not going to get away with his international temper tantrums the way that his daddy did. Trump does not appease; he confronts. Deal with it!



Repealing and replacing Obamacare still needs congressional approval. Even his tax plan had to go through rounds of horse-trading to make it more palatable — to Republicans, anyway.

Of course it does, Willie. No one every challenged that. Did you also notice that Trump restored the DACA issue to Congress, since it was their job to permit or forbid any kind of amnesty or legal status for illegal aliens in the country.

That’s how the system of checks and balances works, and it is working very well for Trump. But keeping Trump in check, if not in balance, is about as far as it goes.

The Congress needs to be kept in check, folks! Not just the President. Also, Willie, where were you when Bracak Obama was out of control issuing executive orders with his phone and pen, pushing program and policies which the constitution did not give him power to do?

Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 campaign isn’t going away, but it seems unlikely to yield an indictment of Trump himself.

There will be no indictment of Trump. There will be indictments of Crooked Hillary and the rest of the crooked phalanx of Democrats robbing the poor to feed the rich.

For all his daily displays of insensitivity and ignorance, Trump still has solid support in most if not all the states that made him president, so there’s no reason to think he won’t run again in 2020.

He's running for re-election, Willie. Get over it.

It is not a pretty picture, but even someone like Trump has a place in our system. The sooner we Democrats accept that and concentrate on winning the election ourselves, the better.

True. Good advice, and this is good advice for Republicans, who need to understand that they cannot continue to ride Trump's coattails for continued victory.

Willie Brown

Freelance Columnist

Isn't it telling that Brown does not reference himself as former mayor? Is he actually thinking about running again? I hope not. How sad indeed, that this politician's political career was swept away with the term limits and then the end of his tenure as chief executive of The City.

This man was the Speaker of the Assembly for 16 years, too, and what did he have to show for it? Now he's just an after-thought has-been poking fun at the President, who has done far more for this country in one year than the other three Presidents all put together.



Willie Brown, you are going down. All your hopes wrapped up in the wayward, lawless courts is going to dissipate, along with the corrupt bureaucracy filled with Obama holdovers. Just you wait!

Saturday, November 25, 2017

How the US Senate Finally Handed President Trump a Major Victory

There are plenty of reasons to be furious with the Republican "led" Congress in Washington.

The biggest swamp creatures, including Mitch McConnell, John McCain and Jeff Flake, have stymied Trump--and our--agenda for the last ten months. They attack the President rather than working for Americans' best interests.



But one bright spot has emerged and the US Senate has given President Trump a major victory.


President Donald Trump should give special thanks to two U.S. Senators this Thanksgiving weekend. One is still serving in the Senate, the other recently retired. One is a Republican. The other a Democrat.

Late last week, Grassley decided not to honor a Senate tradition of holding up hearings for judicial nominees who aren't cleared by their own home state senators. That tradition is known as the "blue slip courtesy" born out of time before nationwide communication technology when a given state's senators had access to much more information about nominees than their colleagues from the rest of the country. Grassley correctly noted that Democrats were now trying to use the blue slips tradition to replace the filibuster, and he's having none of that. 

So happy that Judiciary Chairman Grassley is putting the proper process ahead of the partisan bickering and bigotry of the Democratic minority. These antiquated measures were permitted for too long. The same goes for the time-honored filibuster tradition. It should only be used if US Senators actually get off their butts and talk a piece of legislation to death.

And that brings us to the Democrat who provided the initial generous source of President Trump's solid triumph: Former Senate Majority Leader, and Democrat, Harry Reid. Reid is a major reason this good fortune has befallen President Trump because Reid was the one who killed the filibuster rule for judicial nominees in 2013. And when he killed it, it was gone for good.



There were a few Democratic US Senator who slammed then-Majority Leader Harry Reid for killing the filibuster for federal district and circuit court nominees. The truth is, however, that the measure needed to go. During the Bush Administration, the Democratic minority (until 2007), went out of their to block qualified, well-vetted and well-informed nominees to the federal bench. The most notorious case was Miguel Estrada of California. US Senator Dianne Feinstein blasted the nomination because Estrada had no substantive scholarship or leadership to justify the appointment. The truth is that he was a well-qualified constitutional conservative, and the Democrats feared his incredible potential influence if confirmed.

Novak also points out that Reid's impatience worked even more for Republicans, since when they gained the majority in 2015, they stalled everyone of Obama's judicial nominees, and there was nothing the newly-imposed Democratic minority could do about it.

In fact, President Trump has twice as many vacancies to fill as President Obama faced in 2009. This is real winning. And there's more to this story:

But this isn't just about sheer numbers, it's about ideology too. While President Trump and conservatives have diverged in matters of policy several times over the past year, the judicial nomination process is decidedly not one of them. The nominees sent to the Senate from the White House are more conservative and even younger than what we saw during President George W. Bush's two terms in office.

Young conservative confirmations will ensure a long-lasting imprint on the federal judiciary and prepare a strong bench of candidates for the Supreme Court. In fact, one of the most important appointments has been Neil Gorsuch, cut from the same perfect ideological cloth as the late Antonin Scalia. The Democrats showed how out of touch and desperate they are by going after this nominee with all their political capital. They should have waited, since replacing one conservative with another would not have altered the balance of the court.

Instead, the plunged ahead and attacked Gorsuch with everything imaginable. They went so far as to throw up unprecedented assaults to this nominee, and thus gave the GOP majority the justification to kill the filibuster rules for all federal nominees.

More winning for the country!

Sure, the tax reform and Obamacare repeal bills may be jeopardized by internal spats between the GOP and the White House. But real history is being made in the courts all thanks to a bad bet made by Senator Reid and remarkable cooperation between the Trump team, Senator Grassley, and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. While the fights with other senators like Flake et al may grab headlines, these judicial confirmations will have a much bigger impact.

Final Reflection

One key point in Novak's article is that the press is ignoring this unparalleled victory for the President and the Republicans. One other article, which I wrote about and shared with Townhall.com and Barbwire.com, featured that this country is going to be substantially more conservative for the next generation because of the rapid and rising number of judicial confirmations under the Trump administration.



Indeed, this is great news for taking back our country, for making America great again. We need judges who respect the Judeo-Christian ethic of our nation, men and women who honor the timeless values and traditions which make Western Civilization possible, and have made the United States the most prosperous, blessed nation on earth.

We should be glad for some substance of pro-Trump leadership in the US Senate, and this victory may explain in growing measure why Trump went along with supporting Luther Strange in the contentious Alabama US Senate special election primary earlier this year. Also, the US Senate, feeling the heat from the conservative grassroots across the country, are pressuring more members to get the President's agenda going forward. The US Senate's decision to repeal the onerous Obamacare individual mandate, for example, is a response from a rest conservative base and independent electorate which want the Swamp drained and the rights of American citizens retained.

The US Senate has made one key victory happen, but there need to be more victories very soon--which includes the final resignation of Majority "Leader" Mitch McConnell.