New York Times v. Sullivan: A Dead Letter America's Media Will Have No One to Blame But Itself

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Where Is the Supreme Court of the United States? The Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, has now filed an official complaint against Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg with the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals...

Where Is the Supreme Court of the United States?

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The People’s Right to a Free Press Shall Not Be Abridged Everything America has stood for and that Americans have believed in for almost two hundred and fifty years is under attack today by the President of the United States and his Administration, with the...

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And that is as ephemeral as the morning dew.

which is secured to them by the Constitution of the United States. Hereafter, the only “power” they will possess is not power at all. It is subservient “power.”

Having surrendered themselves to the President to secure the power that comes from his blessing, they have forever forfeited the only actual power they possessed and would ever have possessed,

when the only power they have and would ever have is secured to them not by the President, but by the Constitution of the United States.

The tragic irony is that these upon whom this precious right has been conferred have surrendered their right to the President in attempt to secure power from him that they know their submission will secure for them,

With every offering of sacrifice to the President, these confirm in the minds of millions upon millions of Americans that the free press is indeed the enemy of the people, as the President has declared them to be.

who has declared them “the enemy of the people” a sacrifice of their precious constitutional right to freedom of the press. A burnt offering to the very person for whom the free press was given its freedom by the Constitution of the United States.

Thus is the Greek tragedy of our times that when the Nation needed the free press more than ever, so many among the free press have chosen to offer unto the President of the United States

Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.

Opinion | Trump’s Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase

David French: “It’s hard to describe how thoroughly Trump is disrupting and corrupting our system of justice. . . . Donald Trump is determined to transform America’s system of justice into his personal political weapon.”

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The Republican House Oversight Committee Bludgeons Biden’s Aides to Surrender Their Fifth Amendment Rights Against Government Tyranny and Compel Their Testimony As surely as night follows day, it could have been expected that The White House would launch a pretextual “criminal investigation” into former President Biden’s cognitive abilities, in a fully transp...

I posted this piece today on Substack about the House Republican Oversight Committee’s bludgeoning of President Biden’s aides to compel their testimony.

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It was an exercise of power, not reason.”

What the order did not include was any explanation of why the court had ruled as it did.

“On Monday, in letting Mr. Trump dismantle the Education Department, the majority’s unsigned order was a single four-sentence paragraph entirely devoted to the procedural mechanics of pausing a lower court’s ruling.

Adam Liptak of The New York Times this morning: “[The Supreme Court’s order] was an exercise of power, not reason.”

More than 75 former judges urge Senate committee to reject Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove | CNN Politics More than 75 former federal and state judges on Tuesday called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, to a prestigi...

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even as they deliberately erect every day as many obstacles to that support and defense by the Judiciary as they can possibly erect.

They have left the support and defense of the Constitution and Rule of Law in America entirely to the Judiciary,

At this point, having demonstrated their utter contempt for the Constitution and Rule of Law time and again, the President and the Congress have abandoned all pretense of abiding by the Constitution and the Rule of Law.

I’m unaware of any other time when large numbers of judges (retired) publicly opposed a nominee for the federal bench. But this is what it is going to take.

The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny An audio version of Judge Luttig's special July 4 piece

My friend Ryan Lizza posted this audio of “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom — and of Tyranny” this morning. www.telos.news/p/the-self-e...

The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom—and of Tyranny Twenty-seven truths about America, our Democracy and Rule of Law, and our rights, freedoms, and liberties.

Thank you, @ryanlizza.bsky.social and Telos for hosting “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom — and of Tyranny” on Substack.

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How to Protect Our Judges They are the most important bulwark against Trump, which is why he has targeted them and why they’re endangered. Here’s what should be done.

attempting to delegitimize the courts in the eyes of the American people.

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Thank you, Mr. Reich. Yes, the federal Judiciary is the last obstacle to absolute power in this president, which is why Donald Trump is viciously attacking the federal courts and even individual federal judges,

Opinion | Why Trump Is Mad at the ‘Sleazebag’ Leonard Leo

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— one branch of government actually doing its job.