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WashingtonPost viia https://archive.ph/XlznL#selection-279.0-283.155 MAY 04, 2025 Justice Department lawyers face skeptical judges upset by ‘shoddy work’ As they defend against more than 200 lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s initiatives, some government lawyers are getting scolded from the bench. Justice Department lawyers defending the Trump administration’s policies are encountering mounting criticism and frustration from federal judges, a sign of deepening tension between the executive branch and courts weighing its aggressive uses of power. In recent hearings and rulings, judges appointed by presidents of both parties have criticized the statements and behavior of administration officials, accusing them of defying court orders, submitting flimsy evidence, providing inadequate answers to questions and even acting like toddlers. <SKIP> “We’re not being treated fairly by all judges,” Trump told ABC News in an interview aired last week. He has previously accused those who ruled against him of being “radical left lunatics” and part of a “rigged system.” But the pushback from the bench has come from judges appointed by Republican as well as Democratic presidents — including by Trump himself — suggesting the issue is more about the Justice Department’s evidence and court arguments than judicial activism.

Back to Thailand, buying insurance on here gets a reaction similar to 'Oh I just use an agent' versus someone who goes to immigration -- and I was told by one of the forum regulars that, even though I buy insurance I should self-insure anyway, so I am covered WHEN your claim is denied. As far as my 20 years insurance coverage in Thailand, claims vs. premiums is just about break-even. A benefit to me is that I can handle annual premiums for insurance, but coming up with a big lump sum claim would be doable but noy easy.

When I worked in food/grocery advertising many years back, there was a given: The 2 groups of people that use food store coupons tend to be the very poor and the very rich. People that could donate a wing to the hospital still have health insurance because they would kick themselves silly if they ever had to pay a claim that exceed by far any premiums paid in.

REDUX 30 JUN 2023

I like the old days on here when you could not post an anonymous negative emoji.

Maybe like Trump: Anything good is because of me. Anything bad is because of him.

There is not one paragraph in the Conspiracy indictment that does not relate to CC-1 10. In or around 2016, shortly after meeting each other, CC- 1 and KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA agreed to work together to transport undocumented aliens for profit and private financial gain.

No -- but there is nowhere else they suggest in the indictment would they have gotten that info. As noted, the timeline of the stop doesn't say anywhere that the THP called in for any additional assistance.

Something about the traffic stop caused concern in the mind of the THP officer that other law enforcement agencies should be alerted. THP subsequently called the FBI, which was then led by former Director Christopher Wray under the Biden administration. The FBI instructed the THP officers at the scene to capture photographs of all eight people in the vehicle and document its contents. Once the photographs were captured, this source told The Star that the FBI requested THP release all eight individuals and that the THP officers complied with this request. https://tennesseestar.com/justice/bidens-fbi-ordered-tn-highway-patrol-to-release-maryland-man-recently-deported-to-el-salvador-after-he-was-detained-in-2022-traffic-stop-on-suspicion-of-human-trafficking/tpappert/2025/04/16/ ______________ There is no mention in the indictment of the FBI or any other federal agency being contacted in the 11-point timeline of the 1 hour- 22 minute stop that Garcia was held.

The informant Hernandez is not mentioned by name in the indictment but his testimony to the feds was likely given to the Nashville grand Jury as that is where the 2022 Garcia traffic stop occurred in a car registered to Hernandez -- the conspiracy charge was likely solely based on the Hernandez info. _________________________ In a court filing on Friday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to keep Abrego Garcia detained pending trial. Citing an unnamed co-conspirator, prosecutors said Abrego Garcia joined MS-13 in El Salvador by murdering a rival gang member's mother. The indictment does not charge Abrego Garcia with murder. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/abrego-garcia-way-us-face-criminal-charges-abc-news-reports-2025-06-06/

Abrego Garcia's lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, called the criminal charges "fantastical" and a "kitchen sink" of allegations. "This is all based on the statements of individuals who are currently either facing prosecution or in federal prison," he said. "I want to know what they offered those people." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/abrego-garcia-way-us-face-criminal-charges-abc-news-reports-2025-06-06/ _____________________ Garcia was asked about Hunter's laptop. He said: Even in El Salvador, what idiot goes hunting with a laptop?

The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader's decision told ABC News. Schrader's resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said. Schrader, who spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville and was most recently the chief of the criminal division, declined to comment when contacted by ABC News. https://abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenly-deported-kilmar-abrego-garcia-back-us-face/story?id=121333122

As things stand now, he won't again have a hearing, he is to have a federal criminal trial. As ABC News first reported last month, the Justice Department had been quietly investigating the Tenessee traffic stop. As part of the probe, federal agents in late April visited a federal prison in Talladega, Alabama to question Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, a convicted felon who was the registered owner of the vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving when stopped on Interstate 40 east of Nashville, sources previously told ABC News. Hernandez-Reyes was not present at the traffic stop. https://abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenly-deported-kilmar-abrego-garcia-back-us-face/story?id=121333122

ACLU sues Obama administration for detaining asylum seekers as intimidation tactic Case: RILR v. Johnson December 16, 2014 11:01 am WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's policy of locking up asylum-seeking mothers and children to intimidate others from coming to the United States. The case was brought on behalf of mothers and children who have fled extreme violence, death threats, rape, and persecution in Central America and come to the United States for safety. Each has been found by an immigration officer or judge to have a "credible fear" of persecution, meaning there is a "significant possibility" they will be granted asylum. https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-obama-administration-detaining-asylum-seekers-intimidation-tactic

Well one reason the admin might have decided to bring Garcia back is that -- while Garcia was not charged prior with the Tennessee NOV 2022 traffic stop now charged Count 2 in the indictment -- the reason the DoJ could bring charges now is there is a "cooperating witness" already in custody providing the nitty-gritty.

AI Gemini quickie: In the United States, federal judges can be removed from office through impeachment and conviction by the Senate. This process is outlined in Article I and II of the Constitution. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach a judge, meaning to bring charges against them for wrongdoing, while the Senate holds the trial and must vote to convict by a two-thirds majority to remove the judge. i.e. not so simple.

Per NY Times 06JUN: “President Trump is the unequivocal leader of the Republican Party, and the vast majority of the country approves of his job performance as president,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement. “Inflation is down, consumer confidence and wages are up, the jobs report beat expectations for the third month in a row, the border is secure and America is hotter than ever before." Per Forbes 04JUN: President Donald Trump’s net approval rating has increased nine points since it reached a low point in April in the latest Economist/YouGov survey—as his poll numbers are slightly above his average approval rating during his first term but below those of almost all other modern presidents. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/06/04/trump-approval-rating-tracker-bounces-back-from-april-slump-in-latest-poll/

Well you can also then include Harry Truman -- Harry on the left in his Truman and Jacobson Haberdashery circa 1920 but as for the current businessman-President, I think more in terms of Hoover as you mention above.

From those halcyon days of March:

Well I liked Jimmy Carter -- saw him in person in NYC running for President. Hoover was estimated to be worth over $100 million in today's dollars. As for Jimmy: When former president Jimmy Carter left office, his peanut business was $1 million in debt Published Thu, Jul 18 20199:00 AM EDT https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/when-jimmy-carter-left-office-his-peanut-business-was-deep-in-debt.html

I miss the old Twitter 140-character max days. Would still allow some posters favorite expression "See - I was right. I nailed it. I told you so. Congrats to me." 65 characters.

When in doubt, go to the 4-D chess motif.

The last successful businessman president was Herbert Hoover.

Maybe it's possible with the 215-214 vote on the "Big Beautiful Bill" there are some Republican Reps. who never (or their staff) read it. Just sayin'. Congressman Mike Flood tells crowd he didn't read portions of the Big Beautiful bill before voting to pass it https://www.3newsnow.com/northeast-nebraska/congressman-mike-flood-tells-constituents-he-didnt-read-portions-of-the-big-beautiful-bill-before-voting-to-pass-it

Constitutional amendment