Enter the Lawyers: Completing the Tripartite Against Donald Trump’s Presidency
Joining Democrats and NeverTrump Republicans in the Senate and House, along with the mainstream media, four anti-Trump Lawyers on the west coast have now revealed the third force in a tripartite cabal bent on the de-legitimization and eventual destruction of the Donald Trump presidency.
It is not enough that a third of House Democrats boycott the president’s inauguration. It is not enough to do everything they can to block President Trump from having every part of his cabinet in place, nor enough to slander and libel fellow Senator Jeff Sessoms (R-AL) to a level of disgust never seen in the U.S. Senate. It isn’t even enough that the mainstream media is approaching the new administration with a level of hostility not seen before in U.S. history.
No, now it is the lawyers who enter the fray- two appointed by George W. Bush (U.S. District Court Judge James Robart and Ninth Circuit Court Justice Richard Clifton), one appointed by Barack Obama (Ninth Circuit Court Justice Michelle Friedland), and one by Jimmy Carter (Ninth Circuit Court Justice William Canby), and who join forces with politicians, press and pundits, to block President Trump at every turn.
“What cannot be achieved in legislation, must be achieved in the courtroom,” so sayeth the mantra of liberalism in the United States, today.
“Trump was elected, but not legitimately, so we are going to do everything we can to stymie and block everything he wants to do, regardless of what the people have to say about it- national security be damned.” Such is the pathetic pledge of allegiance binding Democrats, NeverTrump Republicans, the mainstream media, and, now, leftist litigators who all share a hatred of all things Donald, to a degree not seen this side of Hollywood.
The actual law in question is beyond dispute:
“Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
-Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
Oh, but don’t let a little thing like the law or the United States Constitution get in the way of doing the “right thing,” and putting a lasso around a president for whom none of the aforementioned judges voted. U.S. District Judge James Robart didn’t even mention the law in his ruling to put the kibosh on President Trump’s temporary travel ban on seven countries- countries which cannot or will not ascertain the true identity of travelers flying from their airports to ours. An activist on a mission to aid immigrants of all types, legal and otherwise, James Robart was the man who could “get it done” for Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. He and his staff knew before the fact that Judge Robart would play along. After all, the judge was appointed by the open-border and globalist former president George W. Bush, whose Ninth Circuit appointee, Richard Clifton, would join Michelle Friedland (Obama’s) and William Canby (Carter’s) to stick it to the current president. The law was also missing from the Ninth Circuit ruling but, when it comes to reigning in a man like Trump, what matter?
Never mind that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has a notorious history in their radical and extremist rulings, leading all other circuit courts in having their decisions overruled in the Supreme Court. This is the same court that once ordered the motto “In God, We Trust” banned, and the phrase “under God” be excised from the pledge of allegiance. Thankfully, both of these rulings were tossed out by the U.S. Supreme Court, but the fact that such undertakings went that far demonstrate a predisposition and predilection on the ninth Circuit Court’s part, to appease the demands of liberals who seek to tear this nation asunder, any way possible. While leftist and looney lawyers are lining up their legal challenges to stop President Trump at every turn, rest assured that most of these actions will find their way through Ninth Circuit Court, and this is a pattern that will oft be repeated, since they are powerless to stop him in the chambers of Congress where Democrats are in the minority.
It is as if they are saying, “What’s a little thing like national security matter, when it’s the president who needs to learn who runs things around here- and it ain’t him.”
Not that all Republicans can be counted on to back up their party’s president. Trump wasn’t in office three weeks before Senator John McCain (R-AZ) openly criticized and put a negative slur on an otherwise successful intelligence mission (Trump’s first) in Yemen, which cost the life of Ryan Owens, a member of Navy Seal Team 6. Citing his death, the Senator questioned the mission and its success for no reason other than to get attention by once again jabbing his president. Then, Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) another NeverTrump Republican, joined Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in opening an investigation looking into presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway, who voiced support for Ivanka Trump’s fashion line in the wake of Nordstrom’s (and others’) decision to drop the product line from its stores.
Wow! Talk about scandals! Oh, but the shoes, the shoes!
What’s really at stake is the fact that there is a new president, sent by the people to upend the status quo ante, and drain the swamp of the special interests and the inherent corruption it breeds. The politicians who protest the loudest are the very ones who have the most to lose, and fear that their days of influence are coming to an end with the presidency of one Donald Trump.
Hence, such are the words of those whose days are numbered, and we suspect they know it, all too well.
-Drew Nickell, 10 February 2017
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