Posted originally on CTH on March 2, 2025 | Sundance
Not unexpectedly, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has ruled that unelected bureaucrat, Hampton Dellinger, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel head has more unilateral power within the executive branch of government than President Donald Trump. [RULING pdf HERE]
This ruling stems from the same mindset as former AG Bill Barr, former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy AG Sally Yates, former IC Inspector General Michael Atkinson, and the entire organization of professional Lawfare activists that includes Mary McCord, Andrew Weissmann and Norm Eisen. The collective belief is that in the modern “continuity of government” framework, the bureaucracy of government controls things, not the elected and plenary President.
Basic constitutional civics has been destroyed in the modern era by progressive advocacy saying the executive branch is an omnipotent organism that is not controlled by the duly elected President of the United States. Current Lawfare activists and activist judges seek to retain this bastardized view of constitutional government.
Let us hope the Supreme Court finally puts an end to decades of this ridiculous nonsense. The earlier ruling in the Presidential Immunity decision indicates SCOTUS is positioned to do exactly that.
(Via POLITICO) – A federal judge ruled Saturday that President Donald Trump’s firing of a federal workforce watchdog was illegal — teeing up a Supreme Court showdown over the president’s claim to nearly absolute control of the executive branch.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that Hampton Dellinger — confirmed last year as head of the Office of Special Counsel — may continue to serve his five-year term despite Trump’s effort to remove him from the post via a brusque email last month.
Jackson ruled that Dellinger’s duties, which include holding executive branch officials accountable for ethics breaches and fielding whistleblower complaints, were meant to be independent from the president, making the position a rare exception to the president’s generally vast domain over the executive branch.
Dellinger’s “independence is inextricably intertwined with the performance of his duties,” Jackson wrote in a 67-page opinion. “The elimination of the restrictions on plaintiff’s removal would be fatal to the defining and essential feature of the Office of Special Counsel as it was conceived by Congress and signed into law by the President: its independence. The Court concludes that they must stand.”
[…] Less than an hour after Jackson ruled, the Justice Department appealed her decision to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. (more)
It’s worth remembering, the basic construct of Lawfare is not necessarily to win the final legal challenges – Lawfare is designed to shape public opinion, impede the target and advance an adversarial narrative.
Posted originally on Feb 24, 2025 by Martin Armstrong
Former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg chastised the practice of DEI initiatives while speaking to the DNC Chair. That’s correct – the same forum that blamed Kamala’s loss on racism and misogyny. Buttigieg recently moved to Michiga,n where he is expected to run for state governor. The Democrats are turning on the very policies they aggressively pushed after realizing the people will no longer vote for woke insanity.
Pete Buttigieg said: “What do we mean when we talk about diversity? Is it caring for people’s different experiences and making sure no one is mistreated because of them, which I will always fight for? Or is it making people sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced, and it is how, it is how Trump Republicans are made if that comes to your workplace with the best of intentions, but doesn’t actually get at what actually matters here.”
Apparently, DEI initiatives create “Trump Republicans” as people want to be judged on their character and qualifications rather than their race or sex. Pete Buttigieg is the DEFINITION of a DEI hire. He had absolutely no qualifications to lead the nation’s transportation sector. Biden cheered that Pete would become the nation’s first openly gay person to be confirmed by the Senate to a Cabinet position. Biden said he was appointing Pete to be in his “Cabinet of barrier-breakers” and openly said he was there “BUILD BACK BETTER.”
What qualifications did he have other than diversity? Some say that he helped handle some transportation issues while acting as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Certainly, that could not be the BEST American for the job.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently lashed out at DEI quotas, partially blaming the program for the recent Delta plane crash. “You couldn’t fill the role rather than us just simply saying, we need the best and brightest individuals, and we’re going to hire you specifically on merit. We’re going to train you specifically on merit,” Senator Markwayne Mullin stated. As a result, class sizes shrank to 80% to 70% of capacity to maintain DEI required ratios. “So Pete Buttigieg carries no credibility. The only reason why he was there was probably because of DEI to begin with,” Mullin said.
Now, Buttigieg is pivoting his stance completely. Yet, as Transportation Secretary, he established the Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity (ACTE) to force employees to undergo civil rights and equity training; he repeatedly apologized for having too many White people in his office. During his 2020 campaign for president, he openly stated that he wanted minorities to vote for him. “I need help, so the black voters who know me best, the people of South Bend, helped return me to the office by an overwhelming margin,” Buttigieg begged.
Following more of his speech at the DNC Chair:
“If we were more serious about the actual values and not caught up in vocabularies and trying to cater to everybody only in terms of their particular slice of combinations of identities versus the shared project. Actually if we thought about it a little bit differently, things like diversity would be actually an example of how we reach out beyond our traditional coalition.”
Politicians will claim to support any agenda that garners votes. Pete Buttigieg moved up the political ranks as a direct result of DEI hiring practices and now he is criticizing his own party for becoming “caught up in vocabularies” and not focusing on “actual values.” Expect more “progressives” to switch their stance and pretend they never supported the woke madness.
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