The Brew: Judicial Tyranny Edition
In case you thought that the JFK files declassification turned up mostly a bunch of nothingburgers, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) begs to differ. As Gateway Pundit reports, Luna (who leads the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets)
said that the latest declassified documents concerning President John F. Kennedy’s assassination suggest he sought assistance from the Soviet Union to address rogue elements within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prior to his untimely death. …
The first batch of the declassified files includes a 1967 memo detailing claims by former U.S. Army intelligence officer Gary Underhill, who alleged that a “small clique within the CIA” was involved in Kennedy’s assassination.
Underhill reportedly fled Washington, D.C., in a state of agitation the day after the assassination, expressing fears for his life and suggesting that the CIA clique was engaged in illicit activities, including gun-running and narcotics trafficking.
He believed Kennedy had discovered these operations and was killed before he could expose them. Underhill was found dead six months later under suspicious circumstances, with the coroner ruling it a suicide.
Now, this revelation doesn’t prove my theory that the Deep State has been serving U.S. elites by undermining democratic elections for decades — for instance, by orchestrating the Watergate scandal and manufacturing the Russia Collusion hoax. But it certainly does suggest that a little more digging is in order. Stay in your seat.
When the Assassins Miss, Call in the Judicial Snipers
Of course, the weapon of choice at the moment for our urban, left-wing oligarchs to flout the will of the people is judicial dictatorship — individual judges stepping in to micromanage the affairs of the executive branch of government, cocksure they won’t be impeached and confident that our squish-majority Supreme Court will back their power grabs, as we have seen many times since Inauguration Day, most recently with an Obama appointee ordering last weekend that a plane full of terrorists who were being deported from our shores return immediately. Never mind that the law and the Constitution aren’t on their side.
Anyone who doubts the President’s claim that this judge has grossly exceeded his jurisdiction and authority, read DOJ’s motion to vacate the TRO. It points out that controlling court precedent says the Alien Enemies Act is constitutional AND determinations under it are… https://t.co/1LTysgXnzs
— John Eastman (@DrJohnEastman) March 20, 2025
The chattering classes and the “right sort of people” will have these rogue judges’ backs, of course. The result is judicial tyranny, what the late, great Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia called a “dictatorship of five judges.” If you want the granular detail of how elites shove their policy preferences and morals down our throats, here’s a sample:
Before Obergefell, 90% of ballot measures outlawing same sex marriage were victorious at the ballot box.
Had gay marriage been left to Congress and the states, it is very unlikely it ever would have become the law of the land.
None of this matters, though, because the… pic.twitter.com/OJxDzzhyu8
— Josiah Lippincott (@jlippincott_) March 20, 2025
Remember that the Left doesn’t have to actually win its arguments in the end. It just has to burn up the most valuable commodity the American people have after giving a president a mandate: time. As America’s heartthrob, the great White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, explains:
The most important commodity in the executive branch is time.
Americans elect presidents to 4 year terms.
These rogue marxist judges — in a furious attempt to thwart the people’s will — are trying to take months and years of time away from the executive.
It must be stopped.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) March 20, 2025
How bad is this judicial attack? Jim Hoft did the math: “Josh Hammer noted that the first Trump administration, from 2017 to 2021 faced 65 nationwide injunctions. President Trump, in less than two months, has faced 129 legal challenges by activist judges. Only two cases are closed.”
an attempted takeover of the Executive Branch by the Judicial Branch — a judicial coup d’état. These judges are usurping President Trump’s valid exercise of his Executive Branch powers through sheer judicial fiat — a raw assertion of power by one branch of the federal government against another.
But on another, deeper level, this is an attempt by the judiciary to prevent the duly elected president from reclaiming control of the Executive Branch from the federal bureaucracy — the deep state, which has long functioned as an unelected and unaccountable fourth branch of the government. This unconstitutional fourth branch has always been controlled by Democrats and leftist ideologues who, under the guise of being nonpartisan experts neutrally administering the functions of government, have effectively supplanted the political branches. Unfortunately, to large extent the political branches have acquiesced in the usurpation of their authority.
January 6 survivor John Strand suggests a remedy:
THINK ABOUT IT: It only takes a simple majority in both the House and Senate to defund or ABOLISH activist courts.
We can get this done! @HouseGOP
Who wants to start by defunding the D.C. District Court? ✋
— John Strand (@JohnStrandUSA) March 20, 2025
For my part, I wait impatiently for the moment when the president decides to cross the Rubicon and simply flout the will of our unelected masters by defying illegal court orders and challenging his enemies to fight him via the prescribed constitutional means: impeachment and removal from office. We’ve been down that short road before. The challengers lost.
Supreme Court to Decide if Parental Rights Are Real
A significant case involving parental rights and LGBTQ+ education is set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court as early as this spring and could have wide-reaching implications for religious beliefs and public education across the country. At the heart of the case is a group of parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, challenging the school district’s decision to include LGBTQ-themed storybooks in preschool and elementary classrooms.
The parents, representing various faiths including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, argue the books conflict with their religious beliefs and are seeking to opt their children out of these lessons. The books approved by the Montgomery County Board of Education in 2022 include titles such as My Rainbow, a story about a black transgender girl; Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, a story about a young girl who learns about her uncle marrying another man; and Pride Puppy, which follows a family and their dog at a Pride Parade.
Local school officials claim that parents have no standing to object to such groomer books being foisted on their kids. But hey, the LGBTQ agenda is just about making sure all its activists and members are left alone, remember?
Trump Stands Undaunted
As we wait for “high noon” to toll, it’s encouraging to see that President Trump is undaunted, continuing to govern boldly and keeping his campaign promises. For instance, yesterday he issued an executive order dismantling the hated, wasteful, obscurantist Department of Education — at best a slush fund for layabouts, and at worst an actively anti-American and anti-Christian propaganda outfit.
Trump is also making targeted funding cuts to those who abuse female athletes in the name of pandering to transgender fetishes, such as the University of Pennsylvania:
Speaking of school boards, if you don’t follow the Mass Resistance columns we reprint here, you won’t have heard that one of the most common responses such boards have to parents who raise awkward questions is to simply get up and walk out of the room. In fact, that’s standard practice. They don’t argue, don’t gavel the parent down, don’t even call in the sheriff to have the parent removed — that’s bad optics, they’ve discovered. Nope, they just walk out en masse, as if to make the point that the parent is such a crackpot extremist he doesn’t even deserve an answer.
Where did such people learn that? Naomi Wolf offers an answer:
This ‘leaving all together without answering questions’ is Marxist training that school boards across the country have displayed. https://t.co/qnnPUsMwWU
— Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. (@naomirwolf) March 20, 2025
But What Will the French Say About Us?
In case all this governmental squalor and cultural terrorism is getting you a little down, give this story from Modernity a read. It’s a masterpiece of old-fashioned, deadpan reporting on a series of developments so absurd that if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.
Claims that Emmanuel Macron’s wife Brigitte Macron is actually a man could seriously harm international relations between the United States and France, according to a report by the Telegraph.
The source of the claim is a 2021 article which appeared in the French journal Faits et Documents asserting that the 71-year-old first lady and her brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux, were actually the same person.
According to the conspiracy theory, Trogneux was actually Brigitte, who transitioned from male to female at the age of 30 and went on to date Macron when he was 15 and she was 40.
According to a new report by the Telegraph, which describes the theory as “absurd,” it risks seriously damaging diplomatic relations between America and France.
“Relations between France and America might be about to get even frostier,” reports the newspaper, noting that “associates of Trump” are becoming increasingly interested in the story. …
Relations between the two countries are already fraught after French politician Raphaël Glucksmann suggested France should take back the Statue of Liberty as punishment for Trump trying to “side with the tyrants” over the Russia-Ukraine war.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded by saying that if it weren’t for America, the French would be “speaking German right now.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m not tired of winning.
Along The Stream…
Lest we get too entangled in this fleeting world and its urgent distractions, let’s take the time to read Rev. Sammy Rodriguez’s reminder of the core truth which Jesus conveyed in every miracle He performed: Our true home is Elsewhere, with the Person whose love sustains everything in being.
This afternoon, Archbishop Joseph D’Souza offers a timely reflection on how central the Church has always considered community, our web of connections with fellow believers who travel with us on the road back Home.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.