TOP O’ THE MORNIN’
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Ramirez’s suspension is occurring during a turbulent time for the Pentagon. Following an investigation into leaks, numerous top staffers were dismissed. Coincidentally, anonymous accusations about Hegseth’s participation in a second Signal chat group started circulating in the media.
It sounded like the police were not very happy about this at all.
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Now, I’d be hard-pressed to consider a Sig for my own defense needs, which is a shame because I actually like the feel of the P320.
Expect Warren and her ilk to be around for a long time, because her audience wants to be fooled.
The only thing more disqualifying than Biden’s condition was the media’s refusal to report on it.
Luckily, for Maher, he couldn’t care less.
Mystal’s attempts to fabricate a distorted version of slavery’s past and promote it to the American public lack credibility to anyone using even minimal critical thinking skills.
WHAT’S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill…
I must admit that I find it more preferable when the politicians are gathered on the Hill rather than out in the wild. This way, we can easily monitor their activities, such as hearings and votes. However, some officials have utilized their “State Work Weeks” to go on field trips to other countries like El Salvador, possibly providing some form of amusement.
And it’s not as though they’re not getting anything done. The Oversight Committee re-upped its criminal referral of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to the DOJ, after all.
White House What’s Up
After a fun Monday with Easter Eggs and coloring books, President Donald Trump is set, on Tuesday, to participate in a swearing-in ceremony for the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (Paul Atkins).
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will host a press briefing at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha are wrapping up their trip to India.
Full Court Press…
Two more cases will be argued before the Supreme Court today:
- Mahmoud v. Taylor — Do public schools burden parents’ religious exercise when they compel elementary school children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality against their parents’ religious convictions and without notice or opportunity to opt out?
- Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch — Whether a proceeding under 26 U.S.C. 6330 for a pre-deprivation determination about a levy proposed by the Internal Revenue Service to collect unpaid taxes becomes moot when there is no longer a live dispute over the proposed levy that gave rise to the proceeding.
I did my best to round up the weekend’s highlights in terms of all the litigation involving the Trump administration in Monday’s Evening Docket — but obviously couldn’t cover it all. After it published, the court in the W.M.M. (Alien Enemies Act) case entered another order, spelling out the ex parte (one-sided), improper efforts of the ACLU attorney to communicate with the court in the midst of the flurry of activity on Friday.
🔥🔥🔥WHOA…I just now am seeing Judge Hendrix’s scathing order chastising the ACLU for its effort to engage in ex parte communications with the Court. 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 22, 2025
COMING ATTRACTIONS
The Treasury Department is expected to advise Congress next week of the “X date” — the date when the government reaches its borrowing limit. This will play a critical role in finalizing the reconciliation package.
Now that the Trump administration and the ACLU petitioners have filed their response and reply with the Supreme Court in the W.M.M. (f/k/a A.A.R.P.) case, we wait and see what SCOTUS decides to do and if it can salvage some sanity from its weirdo, wee hours of Holy Saturday morning order. I’m less than sanguine about that happening at this point.
And, of course, all eyes are on the Vatican, as preparations are made for the funeral of Pope Francis and the selection of his replacement.
MORNING MUSING
As much time as I spend attempting to sort through and demystify legal proceedings, I completely understand why many take a dim view of lawyers — frankly, we’re insufferable. And we employ this obnoxious lawyerspeak that is off-putting. There are all sorts of legal terms that aren’t really pertinent to everyday life, but sometimes, they do work as apt metaphors. For instance, as I’ve been noodling on all of these high-profile immigration cases, like that of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, it occurs to me that the mentality of many on the left regarding these matters is akin to the concept of adverse possession.
In a nutshell, adverse possession recognizes the “rights” of those who openly occupy (squat on) land for a specified period of time to gain ownership of it. In similar fashion, there’s this notion on the left that, regardless of how an alien came to be in the U.S., once here, they acquire a legitimate claim to remain here — even if they are affiliated with criminal organizations (because, somehow, the act of coming here illegally embues them with sainthood). And the more that mentality is indulged, the more people it encourages to come to the U.S. And we wind up with a mess like the one the Trump administration is attempting to address now. And the left caterwauls about it because it’s somehow unjust.
Remind me again who the grown-ups are?
LIGHTER FARE
Indeed, they do!
Raccoons always look like they’re up to something… but it’s usually just snack time! 😜 pic.twitter.com/lGK2QMlEFe
— why you should have an animal (@ShouldHaveAnima) April 21, 2025
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