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Jul 16, 2024

If Biden is foolish enough to try to impose term limits on SCOTUS, he violates the very intention of our founding fathers as reflected and summarized in Federalist paper 78.

In that paper, the founders recognize the judicial branch as the weakest of the three and its role in protecting the PEOPLE from the unwieldy exercise of power by the other two branches (legislative and executive).

In that paper, the explain perfectly why terms of the SCOTUS justices should be long and not subject to term, and the only standard for removal be that of “good behavior.”

In short: (1) they wanted to shield the court from the whims of popularity; and (2) they wanted COMPETENT judges with long memories, experience and a fulsome grasp of the full cannon of the law —- no dummies or short sighted idiots allowed, thanks.

See thread below for detail 🧵🪡

“That inflexible and uniform adherence to the rights of the constitution and of individuals, which we perceive to be indispensable in the courts of justice, can certainly not be expected from judges who hold their offices by a temporary commission. Periodical appointments, however regulated, or by whomsoever made, would in some way or other be fatal to their necessary independence. If the power of making them was committed either to the executive or legislature, there would be danger of an improper complaisance to the branch which possessed it; if to both, there would be an unwillingness to hazard the displeasure of either; if to the people, or to persons chosen by them for the special purpose, there would be too great a disposition to consult popularity, to justify a reliance that nothing would be consulted but the constitution and the laws.

There is yet a further and a weighty reason for the permanency of the judicial offices; which is deducible from the nature of the qualifications they require. It has been frequently remarked with great propriety, that a voluminous code of laws is one of the inconveniences necessarily connected with the advantages of a free government. To avoid an arbitrary discretion in the courts, it is indispensable that they should be bound down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point out their duty in every particular case that comes before them; and it will readily be conceived from the variety of controversies which grow out of the folly and wickedness of mankind, that the records of those precedents must unavoidably swell to a very considerable bulk, and must demand long and laborious study to acquire a competent knowledge of them. Hence it is that there can be but few men in the society, who will have sufficient skill in the laws to qualify them for the stations of judges. And making the proper deductions for the ordinary depravity of human nature, the number must be still smaller of those who unite the requisite integrity with the requisite knowledge. These considerations apprise us, that the government can have no great option between fit characters; and that a temporary duration in office, which would naturally discourage such characters from quitting a lucrative line of practice to accept a seat on the bench, would have a tendency to throw the administration of justice into hands less able, and less well qualified to conduct it with utility and dignity. In the present circumstances of this country, and in those in which it is likely to be for a long time to come, the disadvantages on this score would be greater than they may at first sight appear; but it must be confessed that they are far inferior to those which present themselves under the other aspects of the subject.

Upon the whole there can be no room to doubt that the convention acted wisely in copying from the models of those constitutions which have established good behaviour as the tenure of their judicial offices in point of duration; and that so far from being blameable on this account, their plan would have been inexcuseably defective if it had wanted this important feature of good government. The experience of Great Britain affords an illustrious comment on the excellence of the institution.”

Original full text: founders.archives.gov/documents/Hami…

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LAWYERGONEROGUE

@lawyergonerogue

Jun 13, 2024

A fantastic summary of, and response to, the current antisemitism and student harassment crisis plaguing the UCSB college campus by Josh Levine, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Hillel.

Full text below for those who don’t like to click links.

This is worth a full read.mailchi.mp/santabarbarahi…

Dear SB Hillel Community Members, Parents, and Supporters,

UCSB’s small but loud band of campus extremists, surely realizing that the audience for its activism is about to dwindle after this weekend’s graduation, chose this week to escalate its months-long campaign of vandalism, disruption, and incitement to violence. Its latest illegal actions began Monday morning as part of a coordinated effort to disrupt public spaces at four University of California campuses.

Late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, law enforcement personnel arrived at UCSB’s campus to address some issues and ignore others. The response by university officials continues to be inadequate and incomplete. The university must comply with federal and state laws, enforce its codes of conduct, hold accountable the students and community activists who disrupt its academic mission, and restore campus safety and accessibility for all.

Escalations at Girvetz Hall and The Arbor

On Monday morning, an “autonomous group of students, workers, and community members” calling themselves “Say Genocide” announced they had “taken” and “liberated" Girvetz Hall, a large academic building across from the UCSB library and next to a popular student store and plaza called “The Arbor.” According to a statement by university leadership on Monday, “unidentified individuals entered Girvetz Hall, intimidated custodial staff and ordered them to leave, restricted access to classrooms, and prevented final exams scheduled for that building from taking place.”

Soon after this vanguard group secured the building -- barricading doors, covering windows, forcing out staff, and installing “bloody” effigies and large rocks inside and outside – the adjacent UCSB encampment put out a call for reinforcements on its Instagram: “WE NEED BODIES NOW! WE ARE CALLING ALL WHO CALL FOR FREE PALESTINE TO JOIN US! MEET US AT GIRVETZ HALL.”

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LAWYERGONEROGUE

@lawyergonerogue

May 15, 2024

Healthcare Workers for Palestine in Boston today live streamed their pontifications for the world to record and never forget.

I wouldn’t want a single one of them within 50 feet of me in a hospital or healthcare setting.

They begin their speeches first with a land acknowledgment in violation of Professor Mohamed Abdou’s warnings of the hypocrisy in same.

I guess they aren’t Columbia grads.

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LAWYERGONEROGUE

@lawyergonerogue

May 13, 2024

Allegedly fired Columbia Professor, Mohamed Abdou, just can’t resist spreading his ideology —- whether on or off campus. A thread🧵

THIS 5-PART VIDEO SERIES IS A MUST-WATCH TO UNDERSTAND THE REPULSIVE IDEOLOGY AND RHETORIC HE SPREADS TO IMPRESSIONABLE YOUTH MINDS.

Part 1: Abdou explains that colonialist settler nations, such as Canada, the US and Israel, are dependent on the ONGOING (not historical) genocide of indigenous peoples, and the continued “plunder” of those people, land and resources are necessary elements of empire wealth for such settler nations.

Part 1 : AUTO-CAPTION TEXT

“Salaam alaikum peace be upon you all and whoever is listening and watching I was asked as the author of Islam and Anarchism by Pluto, Press to say a few words with regards to settler colonialism given the state of confusion that we're currently living as well as the inspirational historical moment that we're also witnessing.

In 1492, Columbus described the weapons of the Taino people the indigenous people of the Caribbean as “alfanjes”, which was the Spanish name for the scimitars used by Muslim soldiers against the Crusaders. Hernan Cortes who is the Spanish conquistador who overthrew with the AA Empire for 1519 to 211. So there were 400 mosques in Mexico by which he meant Aztec temples. He described Aztec women as moorish women. He described Montezuma, the Aztec leader as a sultan.

The first generation of conquistadors make no mistake about it were forged in the world of warfare between Islam and Christendom.

The US as Canada is as New Zealand is Australia and arguably Israel though vis-a-vis different manifestations of comparative colonialisms or settler colonialisms was founded on the euro-american crusading doctrine and of manifest destiny and doctrine of discovery.

As Patrick Wolf notes, 1492 is not an event, rather it established a structure with a religious character which Tiffany Lethabo King refers to as conquistador settler colonialism. Similarly, other scholars and activists like (…) and have noted a similar argument. So, we don't live in a secular democracy. think “In God We Trust” on the dollar bill. Think Protestant ethics that define notions of property as well as Victorian Moors tied to gender and sexuality.

What is conquistador or settler colonialism?

First, it’s premised on the idea of original sin on the ongoing genocide of indigenous people and nations. Let me say this again: the ONGOING genocide of indigenous peoples and nations in the context of the US Canada and so on so forth and on the ongoing theft of their lands, which forms the wealth that empire uses for plunder, pillaging and exploitation, land theft, forced removal, illegal settlements, the condition of making populations perpetual refugees, administrative detentions, killings without impunity, hospital uh hospital and house destructions are all components of settler colonialism.

Indigenous people, say in the context of Canada, continue to be exposed to mock commissions and and heated calls for national inquiries despite the false apologies such as the one for many missing and murdered indigenous women and girls that number in the thousands.”

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LAWYERGONEROGUE

@lawyergonerogue

May 8, 2024

For those interested in the full text of the Professor Hatem Bazian lawsuit filed May 2, 2024 in Tampa, a link can be found here:

For those that don’t like clicking on outside links, I am posting below in this thread the full 191 pages of text.scribd.com/document/73036…

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LAWYERGONEROGUE

@lawyergonerogue

May 7, 2024

Big Surprise 🙄🙄🙄

Palaction has a slide deck for anarchy floating around.

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