The Supreme Court created a monster that has gone rogue, they opened Pandora’s Box, and now they’ll find it almost impossible to close. By shielding Trump from prosecution and giving him almost unlimited authority, the justices committed a grave injustice. They are about to find out if anyone under his command will enforce the law against him. Kash Patel of the FBI? Pete Hegseth? Pam Bondi? Fascists don’t give a fck about judges or the law. The only law they adhere to is the law of the jungle.
MIGHT IS RIGHT: This same disregard for the law and attack on the judiciary also occurred in Israel and Brazil. The only thing that saved Netanyahu from certain defeat was the convenience of war. My post Dirty War – Rumble in the Jungle, looks at the high drama that unfolded on January 8, 2022, and that is still playing out Brazil today. DT is currently interfering on behalf of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in Brazilian politics.
A DICTATOR ON DAY ONE: Chief Justice John Roberts has issued a stunning rebuke of Donald Trump in an explosive row over the deportation of migrants and attacks on judges. It came after Trump called for the impeachment of a judge who had blocked his bid to send people the administration said were members of a violent Venezuelan gang to El Salvador.
Trump attacked the federal lower court judge as a ‘radical left lunatic’ in a wild tirade on social media. But Roberts took the rare step of intervening and publicly slapping down the president.
‘For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,’ Roberts said in a curt statement issued by the Supreme Court. ‘The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.’
By that, Roberts meant that if the administration has a problem with a judge’s ruling against it, it should appeal and fight it out in court – rather than savage a Senate-confirmed judge in public. Any ultimate appeal would end up before his own body, where conservatives hold a 6-3 majority and handed Trump his pivotal ‘presidential immunity’ victory during the campaign last year.
The blast from the ordinarily circumspect justice comes at a time when some liberal legal scholars say a constitutional crisis is looming or already here over a crush of court orders that would rein in constitutional authority Trump claims is his alone.
Although Roberts used language that was legalistic – and did not identify Trump by name – the public comment came just a few hours after Trump attacked a ‘radical left lunatic’ judge who had issued a temporary order seeking to bar his administration from barring the deportation of alleged gang members.
Trump posted on his Truth Social site Tuesday morning: ‘This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President – He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING!
Trump’s billionaire DOGE head and advisor Elon Musk has also been rallying to impeach judges who ruled against the administration on federal worker firings. On Friday, in an extraordinary speech at the Justice Department, Trump praised Judge Aileen Cannon, a federal judge who ruled in his favor in the classified documents case. An appeal got withdrawn after Trump won the November election.
House Republicans have taken up Musk’s call to impeach judges who have ruled against Trump. Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said he would be ‘filing Articles of Impeachment against activist judge James Boasberg this week.’
‘Necessary,’ wrote Musk on his X site.
Nevertheless, the conservative New York Post editorial board wrote that Musk was ‘way out of his lane’ on the matter. The ruling that set off the fury came when Boasberg issued the temporary ruling that blocked the deportations of more than 200 people after the administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Steven Miller teed off on the judge at the White House on Monday when asked about his statement that the judge’s order was ‘illegal.’
‘The idea that a single district court judge has the authority to direct, as though they were the president, the movement of airplanes around the globe is … the most outrageous thing I’ve seen from a district court judge in my lifetime, frankly, going back multiple lifetimes.
Earlier this month, the American Bar Association issued a statement warning against attempts to ‘cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession.’ It said intimidation ‘cannot be sanctioned or normalized.’
The ABA said it would not ‘stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not.’ Trump railed against judges who ruled against him in his four criminal trials throughout the campaign. But in February and March, Musk began tearing into judges using his powerful online platform.
‘We are witnessing an attempted coup of American democracy by radical left activists posing as judges!’ Musk wrote Feb. 11.
“There need to be some repercussions above ZERO for judges who make truly terrible decisions,” Musk continued.
On Feb. 25, he posted: ‘When judges egregiously undermine the democratic will of the people, they must be fired or democracy dies!’
The bar for impeaching an Article III federal judge is high. Only through a vote to impeach in the House and a two-thirds vote of the Senate can they be removed.
18 Mar 2025 By Geoff Earle.
THE CONVENIENCE OF WAR: From January to October 2023, large-scale protests took place across Israel in response to the government’s push for a wide-ranging judicial reform. The proposed reform aimed to give the government full control of the Supreme Court or court decisions through various ways. The government also attempted to dismantle the Israel Bar Association and change the makeup of the Judicial Selection Committee.
The reform was promoted by Justice Minister Yariv Levin with the backing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leaders of the other parties in the governing coalition, but was opposed by opposition parties as well as a large segment of the Israeli public. They were faced with questions on how much, if at all, they should focus on Palestinian rights.
Statements by Israeli figures linked the aim of the reform to the expansion of Israeli settlements and further annexation of Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. The protests were effective in delaying the reform, and the ruling coalition would have lost 11 seats in a new round of elections according to polls published by September 2023. In July 2023, the Knesset passed a law to abolish the Supreme Court’s ability to review government actions on grounds of reasonableness, but it was repealed by the Supreme Court on 1 January 2024.
The protests came to an end following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the ensuing Gaza war, with sporadic demonstrations continuing until the formation of a war cabinet on 12 October. The protests partially resumed later in 2023, as part of broader protests in the country related to the war. – Wiki –
UPDATE: 22/3/2025 Israel’s Supreme Court has frozen the government’s dismissal of Ronen Bar, head of the country’s internal security service Shin Bet, sparking anger from senior officials including the prime minister.
Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel “is a state of law and according to the law, the Israeli government decides who will be the head of the Shin Bet.”
Other ministers immediately condemned the decision. Minister of Communications Shlomo Kari said the court had “no legal authority to interfere in this. That is the government’s authority and its alone. Your order is void.”
And far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich posted on X: “High Court judges will not conduct the war or determine its commanders. Period.”
In its ruling, the court said, “Petitions shall be scheduled for a hearing before the panel (of judges) as soon as possible and no later than April 8.” It added that in the meantime that it was issuing an order “suspending the effect of the decision.”
The vote to dismiss Bar in the early hours of Friday local time was appealed just hours later by Israel’s Supreme Court.
“The government has now unanimously approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to terminate the term of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement Friday.
“Ronen Bar will end his role as Shin Bet head on April 10, 2025, or when a permanent Shin Bet head is appointed – whichever comes first,” it added.
That vote came after Netanyahu met with Bar last week and informed him that he would propose his removal.
In a video statement released on Sunday, Netanyahu said his “ongoing distrust” of Bar had led to the move. “At all times, but especially in such an existential war, the prime minister must have full confidence in the head of the Shin Bet,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu added that removing Bar would be necessary for achieving Israel’s war goals in Gaza and “preventing the next disaster.” The prime minister has frequently criticized the agency, placing blame on its leaders for the security lapses that led to the Hamas October 7, 2023, attacks that killed more than 1,200 people.
Shin Bet, which is in charge of monitoring domestic threats to Israel, conducted an internal investigation that determined that the agency had “failed in its mission” to prevent the attacks. But it also blamed policies enacted by Netanyahu’s government as contributing factors, such as politicians’ visits to the Al Aqsa compound in Jerusalem, “the treatment of prisoners, and the perception that Israeli society has been weakened due to the damage to social cohesion.”
An Israeli official told CNN on Thursday that the government had “lost all confidence in Ronen Bar, who continues to cling to his seat while cynically using the families of the hostages and politically improperly using his position to fabricate futile, unfounded investigations.”
Shin Bet is reported to have recently opened an investigation into allegations that members of Netanyahu’s office inappropriately lobbied on behalf of Qatar – something his office denies. On Wednesday, the office of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara sent a letter to Netanyahu saying that the government could not fire Bar without the approval of a special committee.
Netanyahu responded with a letter on Thursday, saying Baharav-Miara was “exceeding her authority” and “giving legal opinions and instructions to the government in violation of Supreme Court rulings.”
Bar released a statement just hours before his dismissal saying the vote by Netanyahu’s cabinet “was hastily convened, contrary to every basic legal rule dealing with the right to be heard and contrary to the position of the legal adviser to the government.”
Netanyahu has previously removed both Bar and the head of the Mossad intelligence service, David Barnea, from the negotiating team engaging in indirect talks with Hamas regarding the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal.
Opposition politicians have criticized Netanyahu’s targeting of Bar, claiming it is politically motivated.
“The dismissal of the head of the service at this time, at the initiative of the prime minister, sends a message to all those involved, a message that may jeopardize the optimal outcome of the investigation. This is a direct danger to the security of the state of Israel,” Bar said in his statement Thursday.
By Eugenia Yosef, Lauren Izso, Tim Lister and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN
– Fri March 21, 2025
UPDATE: 24/3 – Donald Trump says the judge who attempted to block his deportation flights of illegal immigrant gang members should lose his law license. The president accused District Court Judge James Boasberg of being ‘conflicted’ and taking politically motivated actions against him from the bench
‘He should be disbarred!’ Trump demanded, calling the order a ‘miscarriage of justice.’
UPDATE: 26/3 – Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has delivered a pointed warning to judges nationwide as local courts have slowed the rollout of Donald Trump’s political agenda.
‘We do have authority over the federal courts,’ Johnson shared at a press conference Tuesday. ‘We can eliminate an entire district court,’ he noted.
‘We do have power over funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.’
His statement appeared to be a veiled reminder, if not threat, that Congress has their eyes on district judges that have issued injunctions and rulings against Trump’s policies.
Though the Supreme Court is the highest judicial body in the country, district courts, which have been issuing nationwide rulings foiling White House executive decisions, are overseen by Congress.
The White House has been frustrated with injunctions impeding Trump’s immigration, DOGE and other top priorities, prompting the 78-year-old to call for judges standing in his way to get removed. – By JON MICHAEL RAASCH for DM.
Chief Justice John Roberts and DT – Inauguration Day 2025.
Mar 19, 2025 12:19:17 am
