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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 21:15
OceanGate Titan update
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard, but the Navy announced that it had found a debris field about 1600 feet from the wreckage of the Titanic, and it’s been identified as the wreckage of the OceanGate Titan sub. They believe the sub imploded, killing all five people aboard instantly. They also believe this happened several days ago, just hours after the sub went into the ocean.
The Navy detected sounds that they suspect were the implosion, but they withheld that information to ensure that search and rescue missions continued. The more recent “banging” sounds that were detected hadn’t been conclusively linked to the sub and must have come from some other source, as our guest submarine expert Bill Sanner predicted yesterday.
It's a tragic irony that 111 years after the Titanic sank because its makers put too much faith in their technology, more people have lost their lives in the same place for the same reason. Our prayers and condolences to their families.
SCOTUS: 8-1 Ruling
This morning, the Supreme Court issued an 8-1 ruling, handing a big win to the Biden Administration and a big loss to American sovereignty and immigration law enforcement.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-hands-biden-admin-major-win-immigration-case
With only Justice Alito dissenting, the SCOTUS found that Republican states did not have standing to challenge the Biden White House’s narrowing of ICE arrest and deportation enforcement only to “recent border crossers; threats to public safety; and national security threats.”
The SCOTUS ruled that "The threshold question is whether the States have standing under Article III to maintain this suit. The answer is no." While monetary costs are an injury, the injury to allow standing must also be "legally and judicially cognizable." Several conservative Justices said that the states lack standing "because federal courts do not have authority to redress their injuries." The ruling said they were not stating that states may never have standing over an alleged failure to make more arrests or prosecutions – including if the Executive Branch "wholly abandoned" its responsibilities in this regard -- but not in this case.
So a big win for the Biden principle of doing as little as possible to enforce immigration laws decimated by his deliberate refusal to do his duty of securing the border, on the basis that he didn’t “wholly abandon” his sworn duties. What a travesty and tragedy for anyone who cares about national sovereignty or the rule of law.
Must-Read:
The fact that so much bad stuff is coming out about Joe Biden and actually getting reported suggests that the Democrats and their media sycophants realize that Old Joe will be roadkill if he actually runs again in 2024, so they’re greasing the floor to slide him out the door. They’re terrified of Robert Kennedy Jr., so California Gov Gavin Newsom is warming up in the wings.
Newsom has everything the Democrats love: “charisma,” presidential hair, and far-left politics that are impervious to facts. He proved this recently by going on Sean Hannity’s show and dispensing a blizzard of bull droppings about how amazingly successful his policies have been in California. He not only denied all the things that have residents fleeing in record numbers, he also denied that people were fleeing.
There was so much manure being flung that Hannity couldn’t respond to all of it. But it was a great indicator of how Newsom, the Party and the media are planning to gaslight Americans into thinking it would be a great idea for the whole country to jump into the black hole of California governance.
That’s why I hope you will read this and share it far and wide, so we can be prepared to counter the onslaught of pro-California propaganda that’s likely coming our way.
Brandon Smith at Discern Report went through all the jaw-dropping whoppers Newsom dispensed on “Hannity” and corrected them with the devastating facts. If you watched that interview and were packing your bags to move to the liberal Utopia of San Francisco, this should get you unpacking and thanking your lucky stars that you read it before calling U-Haul.
Related: If you need any more reasons not to move to California, Democrat legislators just advanced a bill that would allow children as young as 12 to be “emancipated” from their parents and moved to state-run shelters on the say-so of therapists and counselors. The bill’s backers claim it’s to protect children and ensure they have access to mental health care, but detractors say it’s opening the door to letting the state remove parents from decisions over things like giving “trans” surgery to minors.
https://freebeacon.com/california/california-assembly-bill-665/
Going after Justice Alito
The left’s groundless attack on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas seems to have fizzled, so now they’re going after fellow conservative Justice Samuel Alito. The far-left media outlet Pro Publica launched an assault on Alito’s ethics for allegedly failing to report some gifts of airfare and lodging he received on a fishing trip to Alaska over 15 years ago.
Pro Publica contacted Alito for his response, but he’s smart enough to know a trap when he sees one, so instead of letting them edit and cherry pick his response, he released a full statement in advance, laying out the fact-free nature of their allegations and that there were no conflicts with any cases before the Court, nor was it required under the rules at the time that he disclose any of it. In fact, if he was trying to conceal it, why did he talk about it in front of a crowd during a speech at the Federalist Society convention?
Law professor and Instapundit blog master Glenn Reynolds has more on this latest attempt by the left to undermine the conservative Court majority…
https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/propublicas-lame-hit-on-alito-a-dark-money-assault-on-high-court/
And there are a lot more details here, although I warn you that due to this being National Review, you have to get past the requisite Trump-bashing…
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/06/justice-alito-has-done-nothing-wrong/
I think my favorite part of this story is that while Pro Publica claims to be an independent news watchdog and accuses conservative Justices of letting gifts influence their actions, they rake in millions of dollars in anonymous donations, with a quarter of their budget for 2022 coming from just two donors that they refuse to name.
https://freebeacon.com/media/propublica-takes-millions-from-secret-donors/
Just a reminder
The Biden DOJ is trying to put former President Trump in federal prison for allegedly letting someone without a top security clearance see a classified document that was reportedly a crackpot plan to invade Iran that he never approved. They call this revealing state secrets and endangering national security.
So what do you call it when Joe Biden stands up in front of a roomful of donors at a fundraiser and blurts out the state secret that the Chinese balloon he recently let float across the US was loaded with “a boxcar full of spy equipment,” something the public wasn’t supposed to know?
And no, I don’t mean you call it a “miracle” just because he was able to stand up and say something coherent.
Related: Former President Barack Obama said the Trump indictments uphold the basic principle that “nobody is above the law.”
Say, wasn’t Obama aware that his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was using her personal email address when writing to him about classified documents and conversations, instead of the secure government account she was required to use? And we know what she did with classified documents and subpoenaed devices, so if nobody is above the law, she should be a convicted felon and he should be an accomplice to her crimes, right? Nothing personal, just wanted to make sure we’re all on the same page here about laws applying equally to everybody.