As I Said They Would Come To Miss Him. Is It Happening? The Last Two Vestiges. Liberal Jews Awakening?

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Shortly after Trump's questionable defeat and during the orgy of excitement over Biden's questionable victory,  I posted  something to the effect that when historians wrote about Trump's presidency they would place an asterisk by his name.

They would discuss his accomplishments distinct from what they said about his personality. They will do what voters could not - separate his presidency from his personality.

I also noted, within a brief period there would be a change in attitude and many, including  some foreign leaders, would wish Trump were back in office because he was both a strong, albeit controversial, leader.

Those who hated Trump can  never relent but those who can might bring themselves to look more objectively, would soften and begin wishing he was president once again because of their developing distaste for Biden/Kamala.

Has it begun? One pebble dropped in water can eventually make circles. Stay tuned.

 

Foreign Country That Hated Trump Now Wants Him Back

Even the world's leaders can't stand Biden.  [READ MORE]

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A Judge for First Principles

An award named for Justice Thomas goes to Judge Silberman.

By The Editorial Board

Clarence Thomas is celebrating his 30th anniversary on the Supreme Court. And how fitting it is that the Gray Center at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University honored that milestone last week with its first annual Justice Clarence Thomas First Principles Award. Even more fitting is that the first honoree is Laurence Silberman of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judge Silberman has taken senior status but continues to hear cases at age 86. He is one of the all-time giants of the federal bench, and he may be the most influential judge never to have sat on the Supreme Court. Dozens of his former law clerks, including Justice Amy Coney Barrett, have populated the federal bench, the executive branch, and even a law school faculty or two.

Judge Silberman is revered as a judge for his fealty to the law as written and the proper understanding of the Constitution. In 2007 (Parker v. D.C.), he plumbed the historical record to explain how the District of Columbia’s sweeping regulation of firearms violated the Second Amendment. His opinion offered a constitutional roadmap that was the basis for Justice Scalia’s landmark opinion in Heller v. D.C. that found the right to bear arms is an individual right and not merely for militias.

In 1988 (In re Sealed Case), he held that the independent counsel statute violated the Constitution’s Appointments Clause. The Supreme Court failed to agree in one of its worst decisions, Morrison v. Olson. But Judge Silberman’s view was echoed in Justice Scalia’s famous dissent in Morrison that has been vindicated by history.

The judge proved in the first Obama Care case that he could rule against his policy preferences if he believed the law required it. His opinion found against the constitutional challenge to the law on grounds that he was obliged to follow the precedent of Wickard v. Filburn. The Supreme Court ruled differently on the Commerce Clause, but the High Court has the luxury of interpreting its own precedents.

As deputy Attorney General in the 1970s, Judge Silberman was asked by Congress to testify on the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s secret and confidential files and so was obliged to read them. In a 2005 op-ed in these pages, he called examining those files the “single worst experience of my long governmental service.” He vowed to take the secrets he read about politicians to his grave, and so they have never leaked to this day.

The judge also did a great service by answering George W. Bush’s call to co-chair (with former Sen. Chuck Robb) the commission that investigated the intelligence failure on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The commission found lamentable failures but put to rest the partisan claims of deception. In a time when too many people think judges are politicians in robes, Judge Silberman has shown by example how to live and work by first principles.

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The last two vestiges that have served our republic well has been our abiding faith in America's election process and the integrity of The SCOTUS and our willingness to adhere to and eventually embrace their verdicts

Biased legislators and the mass media have about ruined our faith in elections and reverence for The SCOTUS is fading because it has become mired in politics and adherence to the rule of law has been abridged.

Radicals knew by weaponizing and politicizing everything they would become capable of marginalizing our faith in our institutions. First, they began with invading American education and then, like a bacterial infection, everything else fell victim to insidious attacks by radicals.

Their efforts have come full circle and have worked devastating miracles.

Supreme Court Under Siege? › Actually said it...

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