There are several apropos Constitutional Clauses and then there is the issue of SCOTUS enforceability. This would make a great Twitter Space or bring DeSantis back on Substack with you. The Executive has discretion, which with Biden, generally means he has to be impeached and convicted to be prosecuted. The only thing stopping him in the interim are the governors. It certainly won’t change under Trump because Trump will never mass deport, despite promising to do so. He will slow walk and find excuses so as not to engender complaints from Democrats, particularly from his daughter and weasel son-in-law.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
If the timeless transcendent truths of the Declaration of Independence prevailed against the rule of England, the parent of our nation, then certainly they serve to rebuke the judiciary, a mere child. John "Milquetoast Middle Management" Roberts and Amy "Look at My Black Kids" Barrett would have us believe that the laws guaranteeing our basic national security are enforceable at the whim and caprice of officials whose salaries are paid from our taxes. This is despotism; we owe thanks to Gov. Abbott for rejecting it.
The Supreme Court decision has led to Republicans seeking to pass a new law to prevent Biden from abusing immigration law. Of course, Biden has the option to veto any bill. But the Republicans are now laser focused on the open border, as they should be. No more funding for anything beyond preventing a government shutdown until Joe Biden does his job and closes the border. That will never happen and Biden or the eventual Democrat nominee will be forced to run on a policy that 80% of the country opposes. Ann Coulter deserves the lion's share of the credit for calling out this scam. We finally have a Speaker in Mike Johnson who cuts through all of the bullshit on the border scam. This is what winning looks like. Biden opened the border to spite Trump voters because he knows that we care about this issue above all others. His party will reap the benefits in November of his small, mean, nasty and petty decision to open the border.
I posit that Biden threw the borders open in an effort to repopulate the segment of the electorate f'ing dumb enough to vote for dipshits like Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, Eric Fang-Fang Swalwell, Nadler...I would continue this list but I am about to yack all over the keyboard!
Look at those people and tell me this could possibly end well.
It's like throwing Fagin (Oliver Twist), Bill Sikes (Oliver Twist) and Uriah Heep (David Copperfield) into a blender and out pours the Democrat Congress.
The primary aspect of Joe Biden's thought process is his insecurity. He was a stutterer as a young person, so the shame goes deeply with him. Joe was always regarded as the dumbest U.S. Senator throughout his career. Sen. Barack Obama wrote the words 'just shoot me,' when Biden launched into one of his tiresome speeches. Obama openly mocked Biden as his VP with 'Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.' Robert Gates said that Biden had been wrong on every foreign policy decision for the past four decades, back in 2014. Trump says that lifetime alcoholic Sen. Ted Kennedy told him that everyone knew that Biden was the dumbest member of the Senate over his career. Joe is deeply insecure about how the Washington elite look down on him. When Trump goes after a critic, he tries to humiliate his opponent. Joe Biden's reaction to critics is much darker. He boils with rage whenever anyone points out his lies. You can also see in Biden's political rhetoric that he despises Trump voters. Because every one of them knows that Biden is a complete fraud. It infuriates Biden so he responds with vindictiveness. True that the Democrats are trying to change the voter demographics by importing poor people. But with Biden it is also purely personal. He is one mean, sick, old cadaver.
Some say that Washington D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people. Or at least those with a face for radio. Americans have permitted bloated power to grow there through expansion of the MIC and Federal Government. It can only be tamed at this stage by dismantling it. Starting with the Federal Government and cutting defense spending. Let them go and build lives in other parts of the country or if they stay, to move into the private sector and produce something worthwhile. By defunding the military, the think tanks will begin to dry up. There will be hellish resistance but we cannot permit the blob to consume us all.
Is there a remote possibilty the SCOTUS voted in favor of Biden knowing it would force a "Mexican Standoff" with Gov. Abbott. Any chance the justices played Texas Holdem and we are waiting on the river card.....??
Possibly. Maybe they just want to watch the results on CNN with popcorn. But if Briben sends the Army he risks very bad optics for his Party. Anyone with half a brain knows they wouldn't just permit strangers to do a home invasion on their own property. America belongs to all American citizens, not the elite of DC.
Let's see if Biden sends the US Army. I think he doesn't dare do so as that would be incredibly bad optics for him in this election year. But the Supreme Court has by its ruling ignored clear federal laws that he might allow millions of poor economic migrants (I prefer the term invaders but whatever) to head to a welfare office near you. I'd say Biden's broken the law closer to 10 million times but with these figures what difference does it make?
Several states have pledged support for Texas Governor Abbott's "Nuts" response to the White House. If push comes to shove one can hope that that support will be worth the paper it's written on. Speaker Johnson has as well. Perhaps he can write a strongly worded letter? As Ken Paxton recently pointed out to Rosanne Barr, there are over 1200 miles of the U.S. border the illegals can come in through, so why is it so vital they not be hindered at that, particular location? It's a free-for-all and the entire border is the "property" of the federal government. We mustn't tell King Biden they can't come through "there." We mustn't make it harder for those in the cartel to make billions on human trafficking, after all. The Supreme Court's decision is a joke. But the joke is on the several states (all of them) because the White House has decided they can give America away.
I don't have enough prescience to say emphatically Trump won't mass deport people. I'm not a prophet. Those who say so are great at second-guessing into the wind. I believe Trump knows the American people are very pissed off and fed up with the open border invasion. Trump knows that.
But, to mass deport several millions of people, Trump would need to become like Andrew Jackson was with the Supreme Court, as Ann cites at the end of her article. Even more, he would need to become like Abraham Lincoln, and unilaterally suspend the ability of any judge, lawyer, or advocacy group from litigating against such an effort.
Trump would also have to do what the Democrats are afraid of his doing, and what they're doing unrighteously to him: Go after them legally tooth and claw.
Trump, if he defeats the bogus lawsuits, and defeats the massive mail-in and machine "votes" (I think the MAGA crowd is resolved to swamp the vote) and wins, he'll have to do a clean sweep immediately of the DOJ, indict Biden, Obama, and Clinton, Pelosi and others, convene a MAGA Committee to investigate them and prosecute them, fire all the Woke leaders in the military (or accept their resignations), release the January 6 prisoners in the DC gulag, and then proceed to hire thousands of ICE agents and lastly, finish the wall he started but was thwarted by judges from completing.
He has his work cut out for him. His base is larger than it was in 2016 and is behind him. Given the amount of pressure he's under, which would destroy most men with less fortitude, and the fact that he's still standing tall, I think he's demonstrated he's up to the task. I hope this time around he has some smarter people like Victor Davis Hanson and Kash Patel as advisors, rather than Ivanka and Jared.
Staying home or worse, voting Democrat out of spite for bitterness over the past, is not an option. This election is for all the marbles. We better get this right or we don't have a country anymore.
I would also argue that many, if not most, are not poverty stricken third-world..economic migrants.
I know a young couple who grew up in the US and became Christian missionaries. They were assigned to Ecuador. They did not live in a big city or any sort of compound where everthing was provided for them. They lived out in the country with "the people" and, except for a modest stipend, basically had to provide for themselves. Even though they grew up as average Americans, they came to LOVE their modest life-style in Ecuador in so many ways.
What I learned from my friends is that "those people" do not have a BAD life, they have a DIFFERENT life than the average American.
In comparison, take a person who lives in a rural area of, say, South Dakota--maybe works on a farm or ranch. That person is going to have a DIFFERENT sort of life than a person who lives in NYC. Does that mean the person is malnourished, underpriveliged, and persecuted? Of course not!
The illegal immigrants flowing into our country sure came up with cash to pay drug cartels for transport, they are not clothed in threads, and they definitely don't look malnourished! These are greedy people, lured by pie-in-the-sky fantasies fed to them by drug cartels, who ar looking for an "easy life" via handouts or a place to engage in miscreant behavior.
As someone once commented, "Do you think giving them iPhones and feeding them fast-food is going to make their lives "better?" Based on stories from my friends in Ecuador, NO, absolutely not! I do not buy that argument.
Ann, do you have thoughts on the timing of this? It seems worrisome to me that the *right* is setting the precedent of ignoring SCOTUS just before they're highly likely to rule that actually the GOP nominee *can* be on all 50 ballots no matter what Democrats think. 😬😬😬
So Federalist Society lawyers from Harvard and Yale (perhaps blackmailed or threatened by the same globalist corporatist powers that stymied Trump) aren't our salvation?
I agree with you 100% - what's Biden going to do? Shoot them? It would be a Kent State event without a Neil Young song. Biden doesn't follow the United States Constitution or US laws. He barely supports our military - a look at Joe's handling the strikes on bases in Iraq and Syria makes that clear. I don't believe the US Army would attack the Texas National Guard either. Soldiers have the right and duty to disobey an illegal order. The Border Patrol hasn't exactly been treated well by Biden either. I hope to see Mayorkas convicted soon - the whole rotten lot of them, really. I'm happy to see what that paralyzed man in a wheelchair accomplished! He STOOD UP to Biden!
There are several apropos Constitutional Clauses and then there is the issue of SCOTUS enforceability. This would make a great Twitter Space or bring DeSantis back on Substack with you. The Executive has discretion, which with Biden, generally means he has to be impeached and convicted to be prosecuted. The only thing stopping him in the interim are the governors. It certainly won’t change under Trump because Trump will never mass deport, despite promising to do so. He will slow walk and find excuses so as not to engender complaints from Democrats, particularly from his daughter and weasel son-in-law.
The case for Abbott's actions could not have been made better. Thank you, Ann.
Are you related to the Magnificent Ann?
Unfortunately, no.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
If the timeless transcendent truths of the Declaration of Independence prevailed against the rule of England, the parent of our nation, then certainly they serve to rebuke the judiciary, a mere child. John "Milquetoast Middle Management" Roberts and Amy "Look at My Black Kids" Barrett would have us believe that the laws guaranteeing our basic national security are enforceable at the whim and caprice of officials whose salaries are paid from our taxes. This is despotism; we owe thanks to Gov. Abbott for rejecting it.
What we could have had: https://x.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1750531247095562247?s=20
Time to move on. And move forward.
The Supreme Court decision has led to Republicans seeking to pass a new law to prevent Biden from abusing immigration law. Of course, Biden has the option to veto any bill. But the Republicans are now laser focused on the open border, as they should be. No more funding for anything beyond preventing a government shutdown until Joe Biden does his job and closes the border. That will never happen and Biden or the eventual Democrat nominee will be forced to run on a policy that 80% of the country opposes. Ann Coulter deserves the lion's share of the credit for calling out this scam. We finally have a Speaker in Mike Johnson who cuts through all of the bullshit on the border scam. This is what winning looks like. Biden opened the border to spite Trump voters because he knows that we care about this issue above all others. His party will reap the benefits in November of his small, mean, nasty and petty decision to open the border.
I posit that Biden threw the borders open in an effort to repopulate the segment of the electorate f'ing dumb enough to vote for dipshits like Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, Eric Fang-Fang Swalwell, Nadler...I would continue this list but I am about to yack all over the keyboard!
Look at those people and tell me this could possibly end well.
It's like throwing Fagin (Oliver Twist), Bill Sikes (Oliver Twist) and Uriah Heep (David Copperfield) into a blender and out pours the Democrat Congress.
The primary aspect of Joe Biden's thought process is his insecurity. He was a stutterer as a young person, so the shame goes deeply with him. Joe was always regarded as the dumbest U.S. Senator throughout his career. Sen. Barack Obama wrote the words 'just shoot me,' when Biden launched into one of his tiresome speeches. Obama openly mocked Biden as his VP with 'Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.' Robert Gates said that Biden had been wrong on every foreign policy decision for the past four decades, back in 2014. Trump says that lifetime alcoholic Sen. Ted Kennedy told him that everyone knew that Biden was the dumbest member of the Senate over his career. Joe is deeply insecure about how the Washington elite look down on him. When Trump goes after a critic, he tries to humiliate his opponent. Joe Biden's reaction to critics is much darker. He boils with rage whenever anyone points out his lies. You can also see in Biden's political rhetoric that he despises Trump voters. Because every one of them knows that Biden is a complete fraud. It infuriates Biden so he responds with vindictiveness. True that the Democrats are trying to change the voter demographics by importing poor people. But with Biden it is also purely personal. He is one mean, sick, old cadaver.
Hence, a compilation of morally bankrupt characters directly from the quill of Charles Dickens.
Some say that Washington D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people. Or at least those with a face for radio. Americans have permitted bloated power to grow there through expansion of the MIC and Federal Government. It can only be tamed at this stage by dismantling it. Starting with the Federal Government and cutting defense spending. Let them go and build lives in other parts of the country or if they stay, to move into the private sector and produce something worthwhile. By defunding the military, the think tanks will begin to dry up. There will be hellish resistance but we cannot permit the blob to consume us all.
Great article...so nice to have Ann back from the primary battlefield.
Not much of a battle. More like a re-enactment, so that the couch potatoes have something to do on the weekend. Watch actors act.
Is there a remote possibilty the SCOTUS voted in favor of Biden knowing it would force a "Mexican Standoff" with Gov. Abbott. Any chance the justices played Texas Holdem and we are waiting on the river card.....??
Possibly. Maybe they just want to watch the results on CNN with popcorn. But if Briben sends the Army he risks very bad optics for his Party. Anyone with half a brain knows they wouldn't just permit strangers to do a home invasion on their own property. America belongs to all American citizens, not the elite of DC.
Let's see if Biden sends the US Army. I think he doesn't dare do so as that would be incredibly bad optics for him in this election year. But the Supreme Court has by its ruling ignored clear federal laws that he might allow millions of poor economic migrants (I prefer the term invaders but whatever) to head to a welfare office near you. I'd say Biden's broken the law closer to 10 million times but with these figures what difference does it make?
Several states have pledged support for Texas Governor Abbott's "Nuts" response to the White House. If push comes to shove one can hope that that support will be worth the paper it's written on. Speaker Johnson has as well. Perhaps he can write a strongly worded letter? As Ken Paxton recently pointed out to Rosanne Barr, there are over 1200 miles of the U.S. border the illegals can come in through, so why is it so vital they not be hindered at that, particular location? It's a free-for-all and the entire border is the "property" of the federal government. We mustn't tell King Biden they can't come through "there." We mustn't make it harder for those in the cartel to make billions on human trafficking, after all. The Supreme Court's decision is a joke. But the joke is on the several states (all of them) because the White House has decided they can give America away.
I don't have enough prescience to say emphatically Trump won't mass deport people. I'm not a prophet. Those who say so are great at second-guessing into the wind. I believe Trump knows the American people are very pissed off and fed up with the open border invasion. Trump knows that.
But, to mass deport several millions of people, Trump would need to become like Andrew Jackson was with the Supreme Court, as Ann cites at the end of her article. Even more, he would need to become like Abraham Lincoln, and unilaterally suspend the ability of any judge, lawyer, or advocacy group from litigating against such an effort.
Trump would also have to do what the Democrats are afraid of his doing, and what they're doing unrighteously to him: Go after them legally tooth and claw.
Trump, if he defeats the bogus lawsuits, and defeats the massive mail-in and machine "votes" (I think the MAGA crowd is resolved to swamp the vote) and wins, he'll have to do a clean sweep immediately of the DOJ, indict Biden, Obama, and Clinton, Pelosi and others, convene a MAGA Committee to investigate them and prosecute them, fire all the Woke leaders in the military (or accept their resignations), release the January 6 prisoners in the DC gulag, and then proceed to hire thousands of ICE agents and lastly, finish the wall he started but was thwarted by judges from completing.
He has his work cut out for him. His base is larger than it was in 2016 and is behind him. Given the amount of pressure he's under, which would destroy most men with less fortitude, and the fact that he's still standing tall, I think he's demonstrated he's up to the task. I hope this time around he has some smarter people like Victor Davis Hanson and Kash Patel as advisors, rather than Ivanka and Jared.
Staying home or worse, voting Democrat out of spite for bitterness over the past, is not an option. This election is for all the marbles. We better get this right or we don't have a country anymore.
I would also argue that many, if not most, are not poverty stricken third-world..economic migrants.
I know a young couple who grew up in the US and became Christian missionaries. They were assigned to Ecuador. They did not live in a big city or any sort of compound where everthing was provided for them. They lived out in the country with "the people" and, except for a modest stipend, basically had to provide for themselves. Even though they grew up as average Americans, they came to LOVE their modest life-style in Ecuador in so many ways.
What I learned from my friends is that "those people" do not have a BAD life, they have a DIFFERENT life than the average American.
In comparison, take a person who lives in a rural area of, say, South Dakota--maybe works on a farm or ranch. That person is going to have a DIFFERENT sort of life than a person who lives in NYC. Does that mean the person is malnourished, underpriveliged, and persecuted? Of course not!
The illegal immigrants flowing into our country sure came up with cash to pay drug cartels for transport, they are not clothed in threads, and they definitely don't look malnourished! These are greedy people, lured by pie-in-the-sky fantasies fed to them by drug cartels, who ar looking for an "easy life" via handouts or a place to engage in miscreant behavior.
As someone once commented, "Do you think giving them iPhones and feeding them fast-food is going to make their lives "better?" Based on stories from my friends in Ecuador, NO, absolutely not! I do not buy that argument.
Ann, do you have thoughts on the timing of this? It seems worrisome to me that the *right* is setting the precedent of ignoring SCOTUS just before they're highly likely to rule that actually the GOP nominee *can* be on all 50 ballots no matter what Democrats think. 😬😬😬
The Democrat establishment is going to ignore law when it suits them anyway.
We are past such considerations
Don’t mess with Texas
Well, better ridiculously late than never!
So Federalist Society lawyers from Harvard and Yale (perhaps blackmailed or threatened by the same globalist corporatist powers that stymied Trump) aren't our salvation?
I agree with you 100% - what's Biden going to do? Shoot them? It would be a Kent State event without a Neil Young song. Biden doesn't follow the United States Constitution or US laws. He barely supports our military - a look at Joe's handling the strikes on bases in Iraq and Syria makes that clear. I don't believe the US Army would attack the Texas National Guard either. Soldiers have the right and duty to disobey an illegal order. The Border Patrol hasn't exactly been treated well by Biden either. I hope to see Mayorkas convicted soon - the whole rotten lot of them, really. I'm happy to see what that paralyzed man in a wheelchair accomplished! He STOOD UP to Biden!
Between DeSantis and Abbott, finally Republicans are doing something. That is the ONLY way to earn American votes!
The ONLY thing the Big Orange Beast did was federal judges, or so I thought. With ACB on this and Gorsuch’s opinion on Bostock, now I’m not so sure.
Ann-we both know DJT will likely lose, but do you think picking Abbott as a Veep might give him a Hail Mary?
I thought about that as well. Abbott has shown his toughness. Trump has to like that. He's a "stand up" guy.