Another Biden judicial nominee exposed as a doofus

 Monica Showalter

What kind of judge would Kato-the-Unready be without this utterly basic judicial knowledge? Does this explain the kinds of lunatic legal decisions we see coming from leftist judges who reflexively side with Joe Biden no matter how wrong he is?

. . ."Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) backed another one of President Joe Biden's judicial picks into a legal corner after the nominee admitted to not knowing a criminal law doctrine known as a Brady motion.

.@SenJohnKennedy: “Do you know what a Brady motion is?”

Biden federal trial court nominee Kato Crews: “It’s not coming to mind at the moment what a Brady motion is.” pic.twitter.com/oVPEnE4CfF

— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) March 22, 2023

"The 1963 Brady motion is one of the most basic laws of fairness in the judicial system -- mandating that prosecutors, who have a mountain of evidence to work with, cannot withhold exculpatory evidence from a defendant if they possess it and indeed have to hand it over.". . .

. . ."What it shows is how unfit Joe Biden's team are for any job that requires an understanding of basic, ordinary, law. Political loyalty and having the right skin color or sexual status are how these nominees get chosen, not merit, let alone anything resembling knowledge of the law. This is how it's done in Caracas..

"Crews was worse than many of them because when he was caught not knowing what the Brady motion was, he tried to bee ess his way out of it, taking a wild guess that the folksy senator from Louisiana, Sen. John Kennedy, probably had gun control on his mind.

"Crews should have known that Kennedy, whose folksy manner and witty statements conceal a steel-trap legal mind, would ask him about that. But he didn't.

"Kennedy has knocked one unready candidate after another out of judicial confirmation in the past by stumping them on basic law. This includes Biden nominees, but also Trump ones.". . .

Sen. Kennedy should be lauded for ratting out the poseurs and politically connected hacks of no merit in their field, with only political loyalty to speak for them. Based on what Kennedy unearthed, Kato Crews is easily in that category and should not be approved as a federal judge.

Sen. Kennedy’s question on legal procedure stumps Biden judicial nominee in front of Senate committee | Fox News

There Is No Hope for the Regime Media

 Townhall

The media sucks. It is comprised of a few mostly dull people who have little life experience not involving daddy’s money or a keyboard choosing and writing stories based entirely on received woke wisdom. Expecting it to change is like expecting the sun to pop up in the west. It can’t. It won’t. Let the regime media die, and laugh as it does. Kurt Schlichter

"We keep hearing that a vibrant news media is essential to a vibrant democracy, but we are not a democracy, and the regime media is trash. It is as useful as a thong on Chris Christie and as helpful to our society as a herpes chancre on your upper lip on a first date. Here’s my position, one you should adopt: I wish to do anything possible, legal, and moral (and there is a lot of latitude on that last one) to hurt the regime media and help hasten its agonizing suicide.

"The new book by Steve Krakauer, “Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People,” which I liked enough to get in both audio and ebook, disagrees. His argument is important, and you need to understand it to understand the reality of the situation. Krakauer likes the media, or rather the idea of the media as he thinks it should be. Whether it ever was, that is open to debate, but it ultimately does not matter. The regime media is unsalvageable. 

"Krakauer worked at various media outlets, including a pre-insane CNN, and now works with Megyn Kelly on her podcast (she was, of course, famously canceled over nonsense). He believes that the media needs to go back to its allegedly objective roots, albeit after making allowances for Twitter and other changes that disrupt the financial models and create incentives for journalists to forgo actual journalism in favor of personal branding.". . .

It's Time to Honor D-Day's' 'Boys of Bedford' -

There is a quote on one wall from George Patton, “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God such men lived.”

 Hollywood in Toto  "When I went to college, I studied theater and acting (much to my mother’s dismay). The degree I earned doesn’t do much by way of guaranteeing financial security, but I did learn how to tell a good story.

"Of course, I also got to act in some good stories, and one of the best I encountered in my collegiate career was the tale of the Bedford Boys.

"It was my good fortune to be cast in a lead role.

"To research my role I read books, listened to interviews, visited memorials and talked to people of the town of Bedford, VA. In the process, I fell in love with the men from the 116th infantry regiment Company A of the United States 29th Division of the US Army.". . .

. . .The national D-Day memorial is located in Bedford, Va. because that small rural town lost more soldiers per capita in the Normandy invasion than any other town or city in America. And not only were the lives of those brave soldiers destroyed, but the community of Bedford had a generation of young men torn from the fabric of their tight-knit society.

"As I spoke with family members of the men who died on D-Day, I heard in their stories and their voices the still poignant loss of men like Ray O. Stevens, Bedford Hoback, and Jack Powers. This group of country boys put their lives on hold to fight for their friends, families, and their country.

"And in doing so, they made the world a freer and better place. But in doing so, they and their beloved home town made a staggering sacrifice.". . .

Virginia's Most Heroic Town

Donald Trump Revelations Put Alvin Bragg in 'Untenable Position'—Lawyers

AF Branco

Newsweek   "Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been put in an "untenable position" with regards to the ongoing criminal investigation into Donald Trump's business dealings, following the "scathing" resignation letter from his former prosecutor, according to experts.

"On Wednesday, The New York Times published the letter from prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who quit as special assistant district attorney in February amid reports Bragg had doubts about pushing forward with prosecuting the former president and paused the grand jury investigation needed to indict him.

"In the bombshell letter, Pomerantz, one of the top prosecutors working on the investigation into alleged tax fraud by The Trump Organization, said that the former president was "guilty of numerous felony violations" with regards to his "false" financial statements.

"Pomerantz also hit out at Bragg for not seeking criminal charges against Trump even though the district attorney's predecessor who started the investigation, Cyrus Vance Jr., urged the department to seek an indictment "as soon as reasonably possible" because of the evidence against the former president.". . ."

: A Trump indictment is like ‘Christmas for morons’

 Alvin Bragg doesn’t even bother to prosecute repeat violent offenders. This should tell you everything you need to know.

Heavy D Don’t Tweet, He Acts

  Ann Coulter

Everyone’s worried DeSantis won’t be as “exciting” as Trump on the campaign trail. After all-talk-no-action Trump, who cares about talk? This time, we want action.

"Isn’t it great to have the media complaining about what a Republican is doing, instead of what he’s tweeting?

 "The New York Times recently did a major investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension last August of a Florida prosecutor for the flimsy reason that he’d publicly announced that he would not enforce state law on abortion.

"The Florida legislature had just spent nearly two months banging out a compromise bill that allowed abortions up to 15 weeks — more liberal than most European countries — and included an exception for life of the mother. An abortionist would literally have to turn himself in to get prosecuted under this law.

"What kind of showboating clown would sign a public “pledge” not to prosecute a case that had about a 1 in 10 billion chance of ever landing in his office?

"Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Florida state attorney Andrew H. Warren.

"This wasn’t Warren’s first publicity stunt. Even a fawning profile on Warren in the Tampa Bay Times noted his penchant for going “out of his way to draw attention to himself,” setting him “apart from other elected prosecutors.”

"During the pandemic, Warren held a press conference to announce that he was prosecuting a church pastor for violating the county’s stay-at-home order by holding services — a misdemeanor offense.

"Days later, Gov. DeSantis issued an order expressly overriding the county’s shutdown rules — and Warren held a press conference to denounce the governor’s order. People will DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" . . .  Full article...

Remy: People Will Die! (reason.com); "Remy channels his inner Elizabeth Warren to vilify the other side."

Musk Teases Schumer Over Jan. 6 Viral Video

Musk Teases Schumer Over Jan. 6 Viral Video - Conservative Cardinal 

"Elon Musk, the proprietor of Twitter, responded to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s post criticizing Fox News for broadcasting imagery from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Musk did this by reposting a popular short clip of the video and asking the New York Democrat whether he wished it removed.

Musk Taunts Schumer

Musk responded to Schumer on Wednesday, tweeting a video clip from @StevenVoiceover, which shows the narrator posing as a tourist guide for the Capitol’s “insurrection” in order to mock him.

Musk captioned the video asking if he wanted it taken down.

 BREAKING : Previously Unseen January 6th Footage

BREAKING : Previously Unseen January 6th Footage pic.twitter.com/0jxqANbNVn

— @stevenvoiceover (@stevenvoiceover) March 7, 2023 

With his Schumerglower and his little clenched fists, Chuck led Democrats in their Two Minutes of Rage

Karine Jean-Pierre Dodges Question About Biden’s Support For Reparations

 Karine Jean-Pierre Dodges Question About Biden’s Support For Reparations | The Daily Caller

"I would refer you to.....

"White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dodged a question about whether President Joe Biden supported reparations for slavery Tuesday.

“We understand that there’s a legislation on the Hill currently on this, on the study of reparations … and we think Congress is the appropriate venue for consideration on such action,” Jean-Pierre said in response to a reporter’s question during Tuesday’s White House press briefing. “And so, we’re going to leave it there for Congress to decide to let them go through their process that they’re taking at this moment, but I would — I would lay out and speak to what the president has done.” (RELATED: California’s Reparations ‘Task Force’ Cites Three Prominent Critical Race Theorists Dozens Of Times)

"Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas introduced legislation, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act or HR 40, to study reparations Jan. 9. A similar bill, also introduced by Jackson-Lee, was voted out of the House Judiciary Committee on April 14, 2021.". . . More..

Kamala Harris’ Husband Links Parents Speaking Out Against Woke School Boards To The… Holocaust?…

Weasel Zippers   Via JNS:

…"It was understandable that he emerged from Harris’s recent trip to Eastern Europe with some Jewish anecdotes along with his comments seeking to bolster the administration’s stand on the war in Ukraine. Speaking to Symone Sanders, a former staffer for Harris and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), on her MSNBC program, Emhoff recounted meeting a Holocaust survivor who had been forced to flee Ukraine because of the Russian invasion. Emhoff decided to use that women’s plight to denounce all sorts of hatred.

"Emhoff is hardly alone when it comes to attempts to universalize the Holocaust. Russian aggression is terrible but as bad as it is, it’s in no way analogous to the Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jewish people.

"Yet Emhoff didn’t stop there. Warming to his topic, he went on to claim that the hate that slaughtered Jews is somehow connected to just the Russian invasion but also to political debates in the United States. 

 

“Hate is interconnected,” said Emhoff. “You see it in the discourse in the country right now. You see it in the divide that we have. Just going to school meetings, you see that hate that is out there.”hat was an obvious reference to the heated arguments that have been going on in school-board meetings around the country in the last couple of years as angry parents have been calling those responsible for local education to account for the way toxic ideas like critical race theory and gender ideology have been seeping into classrooms and curricula

What Trump needs to understand about criticizing DeSantis

Salon

 American Thinker  "New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg is rumored to be ready to bring a sham indictment against former president Donald Trump for allegedly paying porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign to be quiet about a former affair.  As of this writing, whether or not this happens remains to be seen.  In the interim, political figures across the spectrum have weighed in on the matter, including Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

"Behaving eerily like leftist thought police, some staunch Trump-supporters had demanded that Governor DeSantis voice his unequivocal and unquestioning support for the former president.  DeSantis did respond to inquiring reporters and spent almost three minutes (start at 22:30) defending Trump and knocking Bragg for using a seven-year-old non-crime to push a political vendetta against a former president.  Of those three minutes, he spent nine seconds subtly digging at the impropriety of Trump's extramarital proclivities.  To the extent that he attacked Trump, he simply restated the allegations against him, stating, "I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair."

"DeSantis responded, but in a way that wasn't an exact carbon copy of how some Trumpists felt he should have.  Brianna Lyman of the Daily Caller thinks DeSantis "tanked" his 2024 chances.  Conservative think-tank cog Alex Bruesewitz accused DeSantis of "refusing to stand" with Trump.

"Refusing to stand with Trump?  Despite having "stood with" Trump for the near entirety of his response?  And this, despite the fact that Trump has launched unprovoked and libelous attacks at DeSantis for months?  I thought demanding unquestioned loyalty to mortal men was a tenet of totalitarian societies, not of self-described American conservatives. ". . .

Comment to this post:  Donald Henderson:  The real conflict here is not between DeSantis and Trump but instead the Republican Party and its grassroots. If Trump is brought up on Stalist charges yet again it is incumbent on the Republican Party to go full bar against the establishment. The Turtle, Mittens, and Bushes need to be openly challenged if they don’t support a very aggressive Republican Party defending trump. It is time for one voice and it is well past time for the Republican Party to step up.

First great nations forget God, then this happens

 First, that this kangaroo clown show indictment is being closely watched internationally, and the message being sent is that U.S. politics is starting to resemble the politics of a third world country... Monica Showalter

Mexico's president calls out Alvin Bragg, saying his indictment is a scheme to keep Trump off the ballot - American Thinker    "Whatever you think of Mexico's leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, there's no disputing he knows every dirty trick in the third world playbook, having been on the receiving end of at least some of it.

"He's watching what's going on in the U.S. now, with Manhattan's "let-'em-all-out" district attorney, Alvin Bragg, seeking to indict President Trump on felony campaign finance charges, and smells the stench of 'banana republic' all over it.

"According to Newsweek:

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday defended Donald Trump, saying a potential indictment of the former president could be a move to prevent him from seeking reelection.

"Right now, former President Trump is declaring that they are going to arrest him," López Obrador, who is also known by his initials AMLO, said during a press conference. "If that were the case...it would be so that his name doesn't appear on the ballot."

"And it does have the stench of 'banana republic' all over it. A sudden epiphany of concern for rule of law, from a district attorney who let every crook out he could, is obviously about politics, not rule of law. Keeping Trump off the ballot is the obvious aim here and AMLO from abroad could see it from experience. 

"AMLO also pointed out that the U.S., which blew up the Nordstream II pipeline, had no business lecturing others on rule of law.".

Why a Trump Arrest Imperils the American Idea 

It always has been part of the American Oral Law that we do not take into custody or arraign our presidents or former presidents.

"Peril awaits the America I love if the 45th president of the United States is arrested or even “just” arraigned. When a former American president is targeted by the politically despicable woke, we all face disaster.". . .

 . . ."Two things I kept seeing on Monday, the eve of what might or might not be history being made in America (and not in a good way), tell me that we’re not as well-positioned on the right as we should be.". . .

Christian Who Escaped Chinese Persecution Warns US Descending Into 'Communist-Style of Governance'

 Christian Who Escaped Chinese Persecution Warns US Descending Into 'Communist-Style of Governance' (resistthemainstream.com)

“I saw the governor of California basically prescribe and order the church to shut down and say not only when they can worship, but how. The ways that he threatened to punish those churches and pastors sometimes were word-for-word exactly the same as what the CCP is using against the Chinese churches.”

"The leader of a watchdog group that monitors Christian persecution in China said he’s seeing echoes of the Chinese Community Party “playbook” in the U.S., and he’s worried it’ll get worse.

"Bob Fu, president of the U.S.-based non-governmental organization ChinaAid, said he’s seeing the same tactics in Western nations that the CCP uses to crack down on churches.

"The similarities are very, very striking between the Chinese Communist way of persecution and the American leftist way of restriction and even discrimination,” Fu told Fox News Digital.

"Fu said he has observed with concern how the left in the U.S. is increasingly exhibiting “dictatorial” attitudes both culturally and politically by censoring speech, enforcing “woke” culture and not tolerating dissent. He pinpointed the alleged political weaponziation of federal law enforcement agencies as a worrisome escalation of such trends.

“It is very shocking and horrible to see American society’s transformation evolving from its constitutional basis,” Fu said.". . .