Category Archives: Supreme Court

A Slam Dunk!

grampslcf March 4, 2024 Comments Off

SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that the Colorado Supreme Court did not have the authority to keep PDJT off Colorado’s primary ballot via Section 3 of the 14^th Amendment.

According to the Supreme Court, States may only disqualify officeholders or candidates from state office. This power doesn’t extend to federal elections or officers. To quote, “Nothing in the Constitution delegates to the States any power to enforce Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates.”

Colorado Insurrection

grampslcf February 15, 2024 Comments Off

The Colorado insurrection will likely be quashed by the Supreme Court. It is always risky to make predictions based on the oral arguments presented. However, it seems likely that SCOTUS will end the insurrection by the Colorado Supreme Court by reversing their ruling removing PDJT from the ballot.

Trial Suspended

grampslcf February 5, 2024 Comments Off

The Special Counsel election interference case against PDJT has been suspended. President Trump’s attorneys argued to the DC Circuit appellate court that PDJT holds inherent constitutional immunity. In essence, because President Trump was acquitted by the Senate of claims he incited or instigated the January 6, 2021, events, lawyers are arguing that under the Constitution only impeached and removed presidents can be criminally prosecuted.

Anger

grampslcf October 5, 2023 Comments Off

Thoughts that echo through an idle mind.

Speaker Pro Tempore of the House Patrick McHenry was visibly furious over the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. Was this because Pelosi and Steny Hoyer had promised to protect the Speakership if it was challenged?

Where was this anger when J6 defendants were and are still being railroaded by Biden’s weaponized DOJ? Did McHenry ever speak out forcefully about this maladministration of justice?

Gag Orders

grampslcf September 22, 2023 Comments Off

Gag orders issued in criminal cases and less often in civil cases, are supposedly done to control publicity and protect the right to a fair trial. Such orders are supposed to balance the right to a fair trial with the First Amendment free speech rights of the people being silenced.

Because courts have almost always overturned trial judges’ attempts to restrict the news media’s right to report on cases, gag orders typically apply to participants in a case. This is especially true today with the widespread use of social media. Citizen journalists abound and would be far more difficult to control.

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith did the expected. We all knew this was coming. On Friday last week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed previously hidden court filings revealing the DOJ’s request to silence Donald Trump via a judicial gag order [Read PDF Here].

Odds & Ends

grampslcf September 21, 2023 Comments Off

A home run. I have to hand to the Biden administration. Never before in American history has every single appointment been someone that is both incompetent and with a passion to tear down and destroy the country.

The political class has lately produced an impressive string of debacles: the Afghanistan pullout, urban crime waves, easily foreseen inflation, mayhem at the southern border, a self-generated energy crisis, a pandemic response that wrought little good and vast ruin.

Then there are the perennial national embarrassments: a mind-bogglingly expensive welfare state that doesn’t work, public schools that make kids dumber, universities that nurture destructive grievances and noxious ideologies, and a news media nobody trusts.

Need I go on?

Supreme Court Attacked Again

grampslcf September 12, 2023 Comments Off

The attack on the Supreme Court by Democrats continues. The Democrats have been trying to delegitimize the Court since Trump elevated three constitutionalists to the Court.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked Chief Justice Roberts to investigate conservative Justice Samuel Alito. Whitehouse sent a letter to Roberts demanding an ethics investigation into Alito over his recent comments about the Supreme Court in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.

Odds & Ends

grampslcf July 18, 2023 Comments Off

The Biden administration announced Friday it would automatically forgive $39 billion in student debt for 804,000 borrowers. This comes just weeks after the Supreme Court struck down the attempt by the White House to buy votes with their previous plan to cancel debt.

These borrowers entered into a contract to receive money and to make repayments of said money. Their debt should not be transferred to the general public. Why should someone who paid off their student loan have to pay off the debt of someone else?

Marines Without a Leader

grampslcf July 13, 2023 Comments Off

On Monday the woke press went on another freakout because (pick your own story) the “Marines are without a Senate-confirmed leader for first time since 1859 after GOP senator blocks nominee.”

Oh horrors! Marines without a Senate-confirmed leader or is that Senate-conformed leader?

Is The Dam Breaking?

grampslcf July 7, 2023 Comments Off

Dr. Tom Woods has published a piece about racial quotas in medical schools. Actions like that of Dr. Wang indicate that the pendulum is swinging back.

Yes, I know we’re a “litigious society,” as they say, but it still makes me happy when a good guy sues bad guys who never expected to have to pay for their wrongdoing.

The good guy in question is Dr. Norman Wang, who until 2020 had been a mild-mannered academic who had attracted no controversy of any kind. A cardiologist, Dr. Wang was a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the fellowship program in clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. ...