Timothy Birdnow

I was listening to Hancock and Kelly, a local news program with the former Republican Speaker of the House in Missouri(Hancock) and a liberal dimbulb (Kelly). Hancock is conservative in a George W. Bush sort of way and he showed it just now with his comments on the impeachment of this leftist judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the Federal bench. He argued impeachment was out of line and "no remedy at all, the remedy is the appelate process". That is stupid beyond words.

First, the courts granted themselves the authority to do this in the first place; it is nowhere in the Constitution. The power of judicial review over the Constitution was seized by the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison where Chief Justice John Marshall simply granted the power to himself and his branch of government.

Second, the Democrats have been quite aggressive in putting in partisans who pretend to be jurists and they have stacked whole lines of appelate courts so they can win when they need to do so. Even if this eventually makes it's way to SCOTUS it will take years and the vicotry of Trump's team will be merely symbolic; he'll possibly be out of office by then. The Courts, and especially SCOTUS, take their good sweet time. Time is essential to protect the American People in this case. These are essentially terrorists and murderous thugs.

So for purely political reasons gangster thugs are being kept in the country by order of one renegade judge and there is nothing to do to restrain or punish this guy.

SCOTUS could pre-empt this whole thing and overrule this guy without the case moving through the whole process but it won't.

This is not about protecting the rights of Americans; it is about the power of one political party and sowing chaos in the country and stopping the President elected by a majority of Americans to clean up this mes.

I wonder if Mr. Hancock would favor the only other remedy allowed? We could just ignore this judge. Somehow I suspect he wouldn't favor that option either.

So one man, appointed by a radical, can stop the President cold, prevent him from doing his duty.

Apparently Mr. Hancock doesn't realize Congress had to approve this judge in the first place and by impeaching him they are simply revoking his approval. Trump won't be the guy kicking them out - Congress will. All Trump can do is ask Congress to kick a guy off the bench who never should have been approved in the first place.Call it a retroactive disapproval of his judgeship.

BTW Bosoberg was a FISA court judge earlier in his career.He was also a longtime municipal judge in D.C. and before that a prosecutor (which is probably why D.C. had a rising crime rate at the time.) Boasberg was the man who forced Mike Pence to testify before a grand jury as part of a special counsel probe into Trump over the J6 business, for example. And he tthrew the book at many of the people who simply entered the Capitol building on J6, giving maximum sentences to numerous tourists whose vile crime was accepting the invitation of the Capitol Police to come into the "people's house". He's hardly non-partisan.

So he's gung-ho on borders where the government is concerned but could not care less about borders where the rest of America is concerned.

He was Brett Kavanaugh's rommate at Yale, btw, which should make us all VERY nervous about Kavanaugh.

In the end the Courts have all metastasized, much like a cancer, and is now eating up the body politic. SOMETHING has to be done to rein in tthese courts and if it requires impeachment and/or nullification then so be it.

Mr. Hancock's solution is to give all power to the people who caused the problem in the first place. Yeah; some remedy!

BTW Thomas Jefferson drafted the Kentucky Resolution and helped James Madison draft the Virginia Resolution, both of which argued that states could nullify unconstitutional laws. In this case it's not even nullifying a LAW but an edict issued by a judge. If it's good enough for nullifying Congress to them nullifying a lower court ruling would be equally acceptable.

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