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Trump Requests Supreme Court Intervention in FBI Dispute Over Mar-a-Lago Raid

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Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in a dispute with the FBI over how to handle documents seized earlier this year from his Mar-a-Lago estate.

In an emergency request, Trump attorneys have asked the nation’s highest court to vacate an order issued last month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that allowed the federal government to review documents with classification markings that had been seized in the Aug. 8 search.

On Sept. 21, the federal appeals court ruled in favor of allowing authorities to resume their investigation into the records. Earlier, a federal judge had ordered officials to halt their review to allow a third-party to review the seized documents for possible attorney-client or executive privilege issues.

Trump’s attorneys argued that the appeals court lacked the jurisdiction needed to stay parts of the lower court’s order appointing a special master to review the seized records. They argued that the appeals court’s ruling “should be vacated as it impairs substantially the ongoing, time-sensitive work of the Special Master.”

“Moreover, any limit on the comprehensive and transparent review of materials seized in the extraordinary raid of a President’s home erodes public confidence in our system of justice,” attorneys wrote.

Recent Polling Shows Majority of Democrats Now Want SCOTUS Abolished

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Democrats, who remain largely unaware of the great victory the Supreme Court has secured against the EPA, are in a tizzy over the Roe v Wade overturn. A recent poll shows that a majority of Democrats have an “unfavorable opinion” of the highest court in the land and believe that it should be abolished.

The poll was conducted by Rasmussen:

According to the report:

A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and the Heartland Institute finds that 52% of Likely U.S. voters view the Supreme Court favorably, including 29% who have a Very Favorable opinion of the court. Forty-three percent (43%) view the Supreme Court unfavorably, including 25% with a Very Unfavorable opinion. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

In the wake of a recent string of decisions strengthening the Second Amendment, reining in the power of the Environmental Protection Agency, and ending the constitutional right to an abortion, however, Democratic voters mostly disapprove of the Supreme Court. Only 33% of Democrats view the court favorably, while 63% have an unfavorable opinion of the court, including 40% of Democrats who have a Very Unfavorable view of the Supreme Court. By contrast, 72% of Republicans and 52% of independent voters have a favorable opinion of the court.

A majority of Democrats view the Supreme Court as racist and discriminatory against women, and favor either “packing” the court by adding extra justices or replacing the existing court with democratically elected justices.

Democrats also seem to believe that the court is racist despite having 2 people of color sitting as justices.

In a nutshell, the far-left Democrats are livid that the court changed under President Trump and has more conservatives that don’t make decisions politically but make their decisions based on the law.

Everyone Else’s Fault: 79% Describe the Biden Economy as “Poor”, This Time He Blames Supreme Court

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Americans might not be able to agree on much right now, but one opinion unites us all, and that is how utterly incompetent Joe Biden and his administration are at running a nation… Unless of course, the objective is to run it into the ground.

85% of Americans believe that the nation is on the wrong track, this includes roughly 8 out of 10 democrats. 79% describe the economy as “poor” according to a recent AP-NORC poll.

Dissatisfaction with how the president is handling the economy has been growing, as inflation continues to rise, interest rates increase, and stocks entered a bear market. Twenty-eight percent approve of Biden’s stewardship of the economy, down from 51% a year ago.

According to AP:

Seventy-nine percent of adults consider the national economy to be in poor condition.  The increasingly negative perceptions are driven by increasing pessimism among Democrats.  A year ago, 37% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans described the national economy as poor. In the latest survey, 67% of Democrats say national economy is poor, and 90% of Republicans say the same.

On Friday morning Joe Biden was questioned on his devastating record and on an America that is going backward. In response to the criticism, Joe Biden employed a tried and true technique: he blamed it on somebody else.

This time Biden spared Putin from the blame and instead focused on the Supreme Court, that is only after spouting a string of completely made-up facts. Take a listen:

What exactly does the supreme court have to do with inflation and Biden’s approval? Your guess is as good as mine.

Will Roe V Wade Overturn Be the Inciting Incident for an Impending Civil Proxy War?

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 24th, 2022

We’ve officially crossed the Rubicon folks, and the culture war seems to be on the verge of a gruesome crescendo. The Supreme Court has sided with the state of Mississippi and overturned Roe v. Wade. Laws related to abortion will now once again be decided by the states. 

Justice Samuel Alito asserted that Roe was “egregiously wrong” and had been “on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided.”

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote. “Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

Mississippi took the case to the Supreme Court, arguing that both Roe and Casey should be overturned. They cited evidence that fetuses can feel pain as early as ten weeks. Oral arguments were made before the court in December 2021.

On May 2, 2022, a draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico. In the draft, he wrote that “it is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

To absolutely no one’s surprise, the leak prompted a wave of protests and backlash against conservative justices, including the firebombing of pro-life pregnancy centers and a foiled assassination plot against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

The response to the leak was bad enough, but now that Roe is officially overturned, there are many indications arising which suggest things could get quite heated in regards to the ongoing culture war.

In the wake of the SCOTUS decision, abortion activists were filmed handing out the home address of Justice Clarence Thomas to fellow protestors outside of the Supreme Court.

The pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us, who originally doxed the justices and called for protests at their homes, has now called for a protest at the home of Justice Thomas on the evening the opinion was announced.

The focus on Thomas is likely due to a concurring opinion he’d written regarding Roe v. Wade reiterating his view that the due process clause does not protect a right to an abortion. He also stated that the court  “should reconsider” previous rulings from SCOTUS codifying rights to contraception access, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.

Thomas wrote, “…in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is demonstrably erroneous.”

Former President Barack Obama and multiple other Democrat politicians have begun to stoke the flames of civil unrest. 

Obama isn’t the only one priming the public for potentially violent action, Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters, the self-appointed ambassador of all black women, responded by telling Americans the Supreme Court has no power to make the decision. “The hell with the Supreme Court! We will defy them!” she threatened, “black women will be out in droves—we will be out by the millions!” She also warned that “black women” will not be intimidated.

Many are claiming that these calls to action are inciting violence in the same fashion it was claimed that Donald Trump incited the Jan. 6th insurrection. The Department of Homeland Security Thursday night warned Catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy centers to be prepared for a “night of rage” by pro-abortion terrorist groups if Roe v Wade gets overturned by the Supreme Court.

Another important aspect of this situation are the ‘trigger bans’ in separate states, meaning abortion immediately becomes illegal once Roe is overturned.

26 states total will likely ban abortion or have a near ban via the Guttmacher Institute:

  1. Alabama—Pre-Roe ban, Near-total ban, State constitution bars protection
  2. Arizona—Pre-Roe ban
  3. Arkansas—Pre-Roe ban, Trigger ban, Near-total ban
  4. Georgia—Six-week ban
  5. Idaho—Trigger ban, Six-week ban
  6. Iowa—Six-week ban
  7. Kentucky—Trigger ban, Six-week ban
  8. Louisiana—Trigger ban, Near-total ban, Six-week ban, State constitution bars protection
  9. Michigan—Pre-Roe ban
  10. Mississippi—Pre-Roe ban, Trigger ban, Six-week ban
  11. Missouri—Trigger ban, Eight-week ban
  12. North Dakota—Trigger ban, Six-week ban
  13. Ohio—Six-week ban
  14. Oklahoma—Pre-Roe ban, Trigger ban (effective November 1, 2021), Near-total ban, Six-week ban
  15. South Carolina—Six-week ban
  16. South Dakota—Trigger ban
  17. Tennessee—Trigger ban, Six-week ban, State constitution bars protection
  18. Texas—Pre-Roe ban, Trigger ban, Six-week ban
  19. Utah—Trigger ban, Near-total ban
  20. West Virginia—Pre-Roe ban, State constitution bars protection
  21. Wisconsin—Pre-Roe ban
  22. Wyoming—Trigger ban

An additional four states have political composition, history and other indicators—such as recent actions to limit access to abortion—that show they are likely to ban abortion as soon as possible without federal protections in place.

  1. Florida—In 2021, the state legislature attempted to ban abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy and an effort to adopt a Texas-style six-week ban was publicized. In April 2022, a 15-week abortion ban was enacted that is scheduled to go into effect in July.
  2. Indiana—In the past decade, the legislature has enacted 55 abortion restrictions and bans, paving the way for a comprehensive ban.
  3. Montana—For the first time in nearly a decade, new abortion restrictions were enacted in 2021, including restrictions on medication abortion and abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy. (These restrictions currently cannot be enforced due to a court order.)
  4. Nebraska—Although not one of the most prolific states on enacting abortion restrictions, it was the first to adopt a 22-week ban (in 2010), and in 2020, enacted a ban on the standard method for abortion after 15 weeks.

While we hope that no one will be harmed in the fallout, if the riots of 2020 were any indication that the population was capable of keeping protests peaceful then chances are relatively high that we will see some collateral damage. The real question is whether or not this, in addition to other mounting disagreements, is something that can be mitigated without resorting to a “peaceful divorce” or worse yet, a civil war. 

FBI Says That it “Will Not Tolerate Violence” Ahead of SCOTUS Decision on Roe v Wade

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Ryan DeLarme,
June 12th, 2022

This week the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a strong warning that it would work to prosecute any acts of violence that may occur in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v Wade, which is set to take place later this month.

File this under “Things nobody believes” alongside the mostly peaceful protests of 2020.

In a joint statement with U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves, Steven M. D’Antuono of the FBI’s Washington Field Office said that the two agencies are:

 “committed to protecting the First Amendment rights of all Americans to express their views peacefully during demonstrations that take place on a regular basis in the nation’s capital, including at the Supreme Court.”

“We also have a responsibility to ensure public safety and the orderly conduct of government business. We will not tolerate violence, destruction, interference with government functions, or trespassing on government property. We are committed to working closely with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to stop any individuals who intend to commit violence or criminal activity under the guise of carrying out a demonstration.”

The statement comes as tensions over abortion rights are reaching a boiling point after an unprecedented security breach of the Supreme Court ignited a fiery backlash. 

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling later this month that will overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that nationalized abortion rights in the United States.

Activists have in recent weeks been taking protests to the homes of Supreme Court justices; the controversy reached a grim crescendo this week when an individual was reportedly arrested en route to assassinate the Trump-appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh.