Wednesday, April 23, 2025
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TOP O' THE MORNIN'
Red-Hot at RedState
I have always wondered what a fly on the wall would have heard in those photo-op meetings that Pelosi and Biden have had with Pope Francis. They meet up, they mug for the cameras, and then they have discussions that we're not privy to.
Watch: Byron Donalds Delivers a Masterclass on How to Deal With a Screaming Protester
Bottom line: Her screaming was intruding on the rights of others to be able to ask questions and get answers. You don't get to step on everyone else's rights.
I had no trust in the media before reading this book. I had some trust in “experts,” but this book further disabused me of that nugget of trust.
Trending Across Townhall Media
How Legal Junk Can Earn You 20 Years in Prison Thanks to ATF
Our system is supposed to be set up in such a way that guilty people go free from time to time just to keep innocent people from being convicted, and yet, here we are.
One of the Craziest Things About the Tish James Unmasking Is Who Caught Her
When a guy's already done time for legendary crazy, there's not much he's going to worry about when he's on the right trail of wrongdoing.
Did You Hear About the Terrible Thing Ivanka Trump Did?
Personally, I can't imagine being filled with so much rage over a single politician that I'd dedicate an entire article to mocking their child for taking a vacation, and if I ever do reach that point, I would think maybe I am the one who needs a vacation. A long one.
New Polling Data Confirms a Brutal Fact Dems Refuse to Accept
Democrats slobbering over an MS-13 gangbanger who was deported for being in this country illegally who also might have beaten his wife is another example of this party being hopeless in finding a coherent message.
Don’t worry. ‘Journalists’ (aka Democrats) cannot self-reflect. They will always look outward for why their industry is dying when a glance in the mirror would answer all their questions.
WHAT'S ON TAP?
Today on Capitol Hill...
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm simply not all that fond of the weeks when Congress is "out" — even though it means they're not mucking things up in the Swamp. Of course, they're still providing a degree of entertainment. Witness:
- Woke Democrats Who Traveled to El Salvador Are Given a New Nickname - and They're Not Gonna Like It
- Elizabeth Warren War Cries at Donald Trump Over Student Loans, Completely Beclowns Herself in the Process
And we do have a glimmer now about what the House will be up to upon its return:
First, the big news: House Republicans plan to have their reconciliation package on the floor the week of May 19. This isn’t entirely surprising as it’s the last week the House is in session before the Memorial Day recess.
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Next week: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who plans the floor schedule, has five Congressional Review Act resolutions on the docket for next week.
– H.J. Res. 87, which seeks to stop California’s efforts to force truck manufacturers to sell zero-emission trucks.
– H.J. Res. 88, which overturns the EPA’s waiver that permits California to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2025.
– H.J. Res. 89, another resolution that targets California, this time going after the EPA’s decision to allow the Golden State to tighten nitrogen oxide engine emission standards.
– H.J. Res 78, which repeals the endangered species listing for the longfin smelt.
– H.J. Res 60, which repeals a rule prohibiting the use of off-road vehicles and ATVs on 24 miles of park roads in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
And did you catch that? They're heading back out on "recess" for Memorial Day. Sheesh, I tell ya.
White House What's Up
President Donald Trump is set to receive his intelligence briefing at 11:00 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday. Later in the afternoon, he'll sign executive orders. (And the left will crank up the next round of lawsuits over them...)
Full Court Press...
Oral argument in the federal appeal of Trump's New York criminal case is now set for June 11, 2025. (This has to do with whether the case should have been removed to/tried in federal court rather than in New York state court — this isn't on the merits/evidentiary decisions/jury instructions themselves. That remains pending before the New York (state) appellate court.)
There's also oral argument on Wednesday before the Supreme Court in one case:
- Diamond Alternative Energy v. EPA —
- Whether a party may establish the redressability component of Article III standing by
relying on the coercive and predictable effects of regulation on third parties.
Whether EPA's preemption waiver for California's greenhouse-gas emission standards and zero-emission vehicle mandate is unlawful.
- Whether a party may establish the redressability component of Article III standing by
Speaking of SCOTUS, look for the next edition of the Skinny on SCOTUS later today. That one's just about ready to go and will take us through the March decisions.
Also, because I'm a law nerd and my life is now consumed with tracking and scanning docket entries in hundreds of cases (which I then attempt to round up in the Evening Docket), I decided to have some fun with this entry from the infamous Judge Boasberg yesterday:
Docket Tales🦆🏛️⚖️ - The Footnote Fetish:
— Susie Moore ⚾️🌻🐶 (@SmoosieQ) April 22, 2025
Judge Boasberg strikes Plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction because it has too many footnotes.
(Don't ever let anyone tell you the litigants suing the Trump administration catch all the breaks...) pic.twitter.com/7Ai8ossvEZ
If you're unable to see the image in the tweet, it reads:
MINUTE ORDER: The Court ORDERS that Plaintiff's 18 PI Motion is STRICKEN as violating the Court's Local Rule on excessive footnotes. Plaintiff shall file a compliant brief with no more than 10 footnotes containing no more than 40 aggregate lines of text. So ORDERED by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg on April 22, 2025. (lcjeb3)
COMING ATTRACTIONS
As noted above, the critters will be back in session next week, and they'll be busy, so it will, no doubt, be fun keeping up with them.
There's another round of oral arguments next week before the Supreme Court — and then that's it for the formal calendar, though there will be at least one more argument before them in May (the birthright citizenship cases — solely on the issue of nationwide injunctions and only in this type of case. In other words, this will not be to determine the validity of birthright citizenship, nor will it determine whether nationwide injunctions involving other statutes/areas of the law are valid. Still, it will be interesting to follow.
We should also be hearing from SCOTUS fairly soon on the Alien Enemies Act deportation case. Given their herky-jerk rulings of late, though, I'm rather apprehensive as to whether they'll get it right.
MORNING MUSING
After reading Jim Thompson's article last night with his review of David Zweig's new book, "An Abundance of Caution," I was reminded yet again of the hell we were put through at the behest of those, like Anthony Fauci and Barbara Ferrer, who supposedly "know better" than the rest of us lowly regular folk and mistake their expertise and/or positions of power for immunization (vaccination, if you will) against accountability — for their hubris and their lies. As Jim rightly notes:
The “experts” didn’t just destroy lives; they took a wrecking ball to any trust I had in their opinions. Perhaps that's a good thing. Most people will no longer just “trust the experts” because that “expert” might use a child’s model and call it “science."
It also called to mind something I wrote all the way back in May of 2020 (how has it been five years since then?!): The Experts Who Cried Wolf.
We knew. Even then, we knew. But, in large part, we played along, maybe giving too much sway to our own fears and doubts; maybe just trying to get along. But the reality is, the "experts" didn't know better — or if they did, they lied about it.
They were — and are — no better than the rest of us. That's a lesson we should never forget.
LIGHTER FARE
Taking a break from the fluffy bunnies and puppies to chuckle over the Bee, once again, nailing it here.
Democrats Begin Chugging Artificial Food Dyes To Protest RFK https://t.co/pM0nnhDt0v pic.twitter.com/xCQkkJkkwP
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 22, 2025
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