Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett CONFIRMED

 

The White House • October 26, 2020

BREAKING: Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett After a unanimous vote by the Judiciary Committee last week, the Senate just confirmed Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to become the 115th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.   “Having confirmed her to the Circuit Court in 2017 with bipartisan support, the Senate has already undertaken a thorough and rigorous review of her record,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said after President Trump made the nomination last month.   Throughout Justice Barrett’s career, she has faithfully upheld the U.S. Constitution as written. The American Bar Association gave Barrett its highest rating, and she has an impressive track record across the legal profession—as a judge, professor, and litigator.   Most important, she will bring a valuable new perspective to our nation’s High Court: Justice Barrett is the first mother of school-aged children to become a Supreme Court Justice. She is also only the fifth woman ever to serve.   As the mother of a child with special needs, she understands the issues and concerns confronting our nation’s most vulnerable people.   Justice Barrett is the only current justice to have a law degree from a school other than Harvard or Yale. She graduated at the top of her class from Notre Dame Law School in Indiana.   Justice Barrett has made her philosophy clear: She will not legislate from the bench. “Courts have a vital responsibility to the rule of law, which is critical to a free society, but courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life,” she said during her confirmation hearings.   “The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches, elected by and accountable to the people,” she added.   One letter—written by Justice Barrett’s former law clerks—calls her approach principled and independent-minded. “Judge Barrett taught us that a good judge will not always like the results she reaches; a good judge goes wherever the law leads,” it says.   Justice Barrett is the very model of a sympathetic yet impartial judge, according to her colleagues at Notre Dame Law School. She is exactly the type of person whom the American people deserve to have sitting on their Supreme Court.   “If we are to protect our institutions, and protect the freedoms, and protect the rule of law that’s the basis for the society and the freedom that we all enjoy—if we want that for our children and our children’s children—then we need to participate in that work,” Justice Barrett said.   🎬 WATCH: Why Justice Barrett accepted President Trump’s nomination

Ammon Bundy, the Abusive Federal Government, and the Fight for Our Rights

Last month, the Siskiyou County (one of the northernmost in the state of California) Republican Women Federated and Yreka Tea Party invited me a second time to their wonderful State of Jefferson. The people there really care about our country and the state of California, but most importantly they will stop at nothing to protect their rights.

They wanted me to hear Ammon Bundy, their featured guest speaker for May, 2018. I was privileged to meet him, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Clive Bundy. The Bundy family went national--even international--because they stood up to the overbearing federal government, particularly under the oppressive Obama Administration. For my report on the Bundy Family' victory against the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada, click here. Ammon Bundy has not relented in taking on the federal government's overreach, especially against farmers and ranchers. Here's the entire video of Ammon's speech to the GOP Women Federated Group.

The Bureau of Land Management had been chipping away at the rights of cattle ranchers throughout the Nevada territories for decades. They would separate grazing and water rights, then the feds would lay on more rules and regulations. In order to gain ownership over the land, the Bureau of Land Management would have the farmers and ranchers in the region sign off on contracts to assert older claims, yet within those contracts were written numerous stipulations, exceptions, and expectations.

When land owners would run awry of even one little law, their land would then face seizure, or the ranchers would have to settle and sell.

Clive Bundy was the last rancher standing, so to speak, in Nevada, a state where the vast majority of the property still belongs to the federal government. When the Bureau of Land Management showed up to try to push Clive and the rest of his family off their land, they stood their ground. In spite of the massive military presence and unlawful seizure from the federal authorities in the region, The Bundy family made their fight massively public.

Within 24 hours, supporters from all over the country arrived on scene with firearms. The people one, and the federal agency had to back off.



Like a growing number of outraged and overwhelmed farmers, Bundy is taking a stand against the federal government's incessant overregulation and land-grabbing. First, he stood his ground with the rest of his family to save their ranch against the Obama Administration.

He then joined with farmers in rural Oregon to restore their private property, which had been unjustly seized for a national park. If anyone has been following President Trump's latest actions, he has been restoring state and local sovereignty over public lands. It started with the Hammond family of Harney County, Oregon. They faced outrageous terrorist charges just for a prescribed burn on their own property which ended up burning a little property on a federal wildlife refuge right next door.

Just like what happened in Nevada, the Feds had engaged in unjust, unlawful, unconstitutional land takings to build up a federal wildlife preserve. Ammon Bundy read about what happened, researched the federal and constitutional law on the matter, then joined with the residents of Harney County to reverse the unjust land takings. Following the common law precedents about adverse possession and perfecting private property titles, Bundy led a group of residents to go to public lands in the region and reclaim it for the Harney County residents.

This process so alarmed the FBI and elected officials around the state. Federal officials were even intimidating Congressmen in the region to back off. We the People. Despite these heinous tactics, Bundy with  other ranchers in the area and began restoring local control of the region. Bundy was well-regarded for his efforts. His stance to protest within the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge inspired many around the country. First responders and veterans arrived on scene to show their support. One veteran gave Bundy the Bronze Star he had earned while in active duty.

Ammon Bundy received the Bronze Star
from a veteran because of Bundy's brave stance
to retain our God-given rights.

Another man gave Ammon the American Flag which had shrouded the burial casket of his fallen veteran brother:

Ammon Bundy with the American Flag

Why did these men give Bundy such prized possessions of honor? I submit that they wanted to show what appreciation they could for Bundy's brave stance for the rights of all Americans. He was exercising the rights which these men fought to preserve and enhance. Bundy's legal fight against the lawlessness of these federal agencies demonstrated to the First Responders and America's veterans that there are still good men out there who are using what they had fought for.

In spite of his brave and legal efforts in southeastern Oregon, he was arrested and even placed in solitary confinement. For two years, he suffered not just unjust incarceration, not just painful separation from his wife and four beautiful children, but incessant abuse from prison guard and inmates. They stopped up his ears once and blew out his eardrums, for example. There other abuses he suffered which I will not detail at this time. The point remains that the fight against the abusive federal government is rule. The corruption of the Deep State in Washington DC affects everyone, not just President Trump and his staff our elected officials trying to get to the bottom of the Swamp Rot.

Ammon Bundy with his daughter Avery

For decades, the federal government has seized property or claimed public or non-owned property without constitutional authority. Bundy said "Enough", and more people around the country are teaming with him. During my private discussions with Ammon, he frequently referenced the United States Constitution. Nowhere does the federal government have a right to take property and transform it into national parks under strict rules and regulations.

Our federal government has declared war against farmers and ranchers: men and women, the farmers and ranchers who till the land, who raise livestock to our general benefit. These abuses have not stopped Ammon and a growing contingent of farmers, growers, harvesters, men and women who trust in God's goodness and refuse to relinquish their God-given rights. "You fight for your rights where you are, not in a courtroom," he told the Siskiyou County audience. Indeed.

Bundy was not afraid to point out the source of rights. They do not come from the state, they do not come from other people. We are created in God's image, and from Him we receive our authority, our ability, our prosperity. Ammon Bundy's struggles and victories must be told, but his courage must be emulated. We can't Make America Great Again until We the People demand that the government at all levels becomes constitutional again.

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.

Jake Novak for CNBC reports:

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.

Sheriff's Civilian Commission: Keith Hardine Speaks

"A majority held in restraint by Constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism." Abraham Lincoln

MY STATEMENT before the LA County Sheriff, Civilian Oversight Commission on Thursday June 22, 2017, at 9:30am.

LOCATION: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

700 N Alameda St,

Los Angeles, California 90012

(Located next to Union Station)

—Dear Representatives of the LA County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission:

I stand before you, the People, and  the God who authored "the Laws of Nature" himself, to remind us all of our equal obligation to be subject to the same laws. There are three things we must never forget if our Government is to remain legitimate over a free People—since it was founded on the authority of "Natural Law," as described in the Declaration of Independence.

First, an understanding by "We The People" of the authority of Government we have adopted.

Secondly, a consent of the Constitutional majority of "We The People" to be governed by that authority.

Thirdly, a conduct by the governing representatives of "We The People," which consistently reflects that authority.

But if this Commission insists on combining with other local agencies to resist the Natural Law of co-operation with the immigration enforcement efforts of ICE; thus, making us citizens "subject to a jurisdiction that is foreign to our Constitution," then let me be clear, "We the People of the United States," will ONLY conform to the Constitution to which we have pledged our allegiance. And we will continue to publicly demonstrate our contempt for any policies that contradict this supreme Law of the Land.

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson