And another irresponsible and partisan court ruling is stayed…

Last night, in Newsom v. Trump, Federal District Court Judge Charles Breyer issued a ruling against President Donald Trump’s federalization of some 4000 California National Guard troops without California Governor Newsom’s request to stop the violent protests against ICE deportations in Los Angeles.

Gee, what a surprise: the judge is the brother of retired knee-jerk progressive Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. With amazing speed, Reason had a “Yay team!” essay to post by libertarian legal scholar Ilya Somin, who wrote, “Judge Breyer’s opinion strikes me as impressive and compelling.”

That’s odd: Breyer’s opinion strikes me as “it isn’t what it is” partisan junk, and plainly so. Somin’s defense of it struck me as libertarian junk. Somin:

“As Judge Breyer explains, National Guard troops are normally under the control of their state governments, and can only be federalized in narrowly specified emergency circumstances. The statute Trump relied on to federalize California National Guard troops, 10 U.S.C. Section 12406, can only be used in one of the following situations:

1) the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions, is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation;

(2) there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or

(3) the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States

The professor then writes that (2), the obvious justification being used by Trump, doesn’t work because “there is no rebellion.” There isn’t? Democratic cities across the country have been refusing to allow illegal aliens to be arrested and deported and openly defying Federal law. Now the “sanctuary cities” are allowing those illegals and their supporters to riot and endanger ICE agents while mayors and governors call the protests “peaceful” (and some governors call the Ice Agents “the Gustapo”…)

Rebelling against Federal law is a rebellion.

Breyer’s opinion did not even mention President Johnson sending in the Guard to Birmingham, Alabama without Governor George Wallace’s assent, the famous precedent for Trump’s action. How convenient.

Then, after Reason’s applause, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals paused Breyer’s order A three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit scheduled a hearing in the case five days from now.

Sooner or later, Trump’s move will be ruled ethical, legal and legitimate.

BREAKING: California Democratic Senator @AlexPadilla4CA just crashed DHS Secretary Noem’s press conference in LA and was forcibly removed. pic.twitter.com/Q2sUWiImAM

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) June 12, 2025

Democrats are whirling like a proverbial dervish to see if shouting and faux outrage can overcome the obvious conclusion that California’s Senator Padilla behaved like a total asshole and thinks he can get away with it. With crazies running amuck in the streets of L.A., Noem’s security had no reason to allow a shouting fool get withing shooting distance of the Secretary. He was, we are told, not wearing the pin that identifies him as a U.S Senator, and he wasn’t behaving like a Senator, but rather as an uncivil activist trying to disrupt a press conference. He shouted a question while Noem was speaking, and was obviously trying to create a scene.

The narrative that Senators should be granted “deference” does not apply when they don’t act like Senators, or even relatively well-mannered plumbers. I’d have Padilla thrown out of D.C. Bar CLE ethics presentation if he barged in like that.

Democratic Party leaders are fomenting violence by behaving this way and trying to justify it.

If Fox News isn’t going to insist on accurate terminology over Axis propaganda and false narratives in our broadcast news, who will?

I just watched a Fox report from Los Angeles in which the reporter repeatedly referred to ICE arresting “immigrants” and “migrants.” Whoever it was should be disciplined, and, ideally, fired. I regard the use of those cover-words as deliberate complicity with the Axis media’s disinformation campaign, not only to demonize ICE, but to confuse the dimmer members of the public regarding what is happening and why it needs to happen.

This rhetorical sloppiness plays into the hands of partisan liars and open border activists like the disgusting Becky Pringle, featured in the previous post. It is also undermining the President’s immigration policies and law enforcement efforts. The current polls suggest that a clear majority of the public oppose the President’s deployment of the Marines to riot-torn Los Angeles, and that is the direct result of news media bias and public ignorance reinforced by incompetent or dishonest journalism.

Fox News, to be blunt, is barely a tolerable news source because its biases somewhat counter-balance the flagrant biases of the rest of our so-called “journalists.” It is equally lazy, imprecise, misleading and unprofessional as the rest, and in some respects more so: anyone who can watch ten minutes of “Fox and Friends” without their brain requesting permission to leave the room is a prime candidate to work as an intern at a bait shop. Fox New allowing its reporters to follow the progressive-dictated script to confound the issues in the Illegal Immigration Ethics Train Wreck is unethical and unforgivable.

These are illegal immigrants. They have no right to be in the country. They did not build the United States, and they are not being “scapegoated.” It their families suffer when they finally have to face the metaphorical music, that is their fault, not the fault of law enforcement. The reason that ICE has to employ draconian methods is 75% the responsibility of the Biden Administration for refusing to enforce the law for four years, with the rest of the blame lying with previous administrations and greedy members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who want to keep exploiting illegals to keep their costs artificially low.

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