More on that Supreme Court Decision–It Was a Victory for Trump
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More on that Supreme Court Decision–It Was a Victory for Trump
Paul Craig Roberts
A couple of readers in response to my request in my article of March 6 ( https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/06/can-the-judiciary-block-the-trump-administrations-effort-to-eliminate-waste-and-fraud-from-the-federal-budget-pcr-interviewed-on-dialogue-works/ ) sent me an article by an attorney, Jeff Childers. It turns out that my explanation is correct. A DEI judicial appointment, Amir Ali, a Muslim, tried to use a temporary restraining order to force the release of funds to corrupt entities before he held the hearing required by temporary restraining orders. However, there is more to the story as Childers explains.
First, I will say that Childers’ article is unnecessarily snide. He describes MAGA Americans as little red hens predicting the sky is falling when in legal fact the Supreme Court ruling favored Trump. But as the whore media failed to provide a correct explanation of the Court’s ruling, MAGA Americans had no correct explanation of the decision. Their reaction to the presstitutes’ explanation was correct.
It was obvious to me that something was odd, because temporary injunctions are not supposed to be subject to repeal as they have not reached the stage of a preliminary injunction. Ali could have ordered that the cancellation of USAID dispersal of funds be put on hold until the required hearing was held, but what Ali did, either through incompetence or as a Democrat operative, not a judge, was to try to use a temporary injunction to force a dispersal of funds prior to a hearing. As it is unlikely the hearing would have resulted in a preliminary injunction, Ali was short-circuiting the judicial process. This is the reason the Supreme Court took up the Trump administration’s appeal.
What did the court rule? Not what the whore media reported. It was a victory, not a defeat for Trump.
The Court ordered Ali to issue a new deadline for dispersal of funds before his temporary order expired in 4 days, a deadline that again could be appealed, and to clarify the “obligations the government must fulfill.” The Court also ordered Ali to make “due regard” in his temporary injunction “for the feasibility of any compliance deadlines.” In other words, no more same-day deadlines. Childers says that the conditions imposed on Ali by the Court are a judicial minefield for Ali that he cannot safely maneuver his way through.
Childers offers an explanation of why two Republican judges ruled with three Democrats while four Republican judges gave a stinging dissent. The result was to sandbag Ali. The ruling put Ali in a dangerous situation, and the stinging dissent served notice on Ali that, in Childers’ words, he is “riding a banana peel down a razor’s edge.” Any more attempts to improperly use a temporary restraining order and he is “a dead skunk.” It seems that it was the three Democrat justices who did not comprehend the Court’s decision. Apparently, they thought they were voting down Trump’s appeal without realizing the box into which Ali was being put.
Here is Childer’s article: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/little-red-hens-thursday-march-6
As they did in this case, the NY Times, NPR, CNN, and the rest of the whore media will present every development as a defeat for Trump. The whore media’s purpose is to present Trump as a dictator blocked by the judiciary and thereby demoralize MAGA Americans and weaken Trump’s support. This is the Democrat’s plan.
Trump should proceed immediately to breaking up the six mega-corporations that have monopolized the US media in six hands. In place of an independent and dispersed media, monopoly has given us a media with a single voice. This is illegal under the Sherman Anti-trust Act and inconsistent with American tradition. The illegality of the media monopoly, a product of the corrupt Clinton regime, is a perfect target for Trump.
Is President Trump an Israeli Puppet?
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Is President Trump an Israeli Puppet?
Paul Craig Roberts
President Trump has given every indication that he is as concerned with Israel’s interest as he is with the interests of MAGA Americans. I have expressed the hope that Trump’s sickening kowtowing to Israel is a strategy to keep the Israel Lobby off his back until he can deal with other opponents who stand in the way of his domestic agenda. I still have this hope, but it has been shaken by the Trump administration’s sacrifice of constitutionally protected free speech in order to protect Israel from criticism.
Last Friday the Epoch Times reported that the Trump administration had cancelled $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University for failing to act on allegations of anti-semitism. The Trump administration’s “Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism” consists of the departments of Justice, Education, Health and Human Resources, and the General Services Administration. The members of this task force are well positioned to ingratiate themselves with Israel, which can easily result in well-enumerated positions after their time in government is over.
What does the Trump task force mean by “anti-semitism”? It means protests against Israel’s destruction of Palestine. It means that no matter how horrific Israel’s war crimes and no matter the ICC’s indictment of Netanyahu, for students and faculty to protest genocide or mass murder, if Israel is the perpetrator, is “anti-semitic.” It is OK to protest against other countries, but not against Israel.
Protests against Israel’s actions are equated with harassment and persecution of Jewish students at Columbia. This equation implies that Jewish Americans identify with Israel and not with the United States. Does an immigrant from England feel harassed and persecuted if Americans protest against England? President Trump has branded protests against Israel “illegal protests.” In other words, Trump is saying that the exercise of free speech if Israel is the target is illegal because it is anti-semitic. Protesters can say whatever they wish about Americans, Russia, China, Muslims, and Palestinians, but not about Israelis.
Trump is also guilty of conflating Israeli citizens with American Jewish citizens. If Trump applied his Israeli standards to all ethnicities, no one would be able to express any criticism and protest any action by any government.
Trump declared: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on … the crime, arrested.” Trump did not explain how the First Amendment became illegal. Does his dictate apply to Black Lives Matter and Antifa, to LGBTQ protests?
Do Trump, the DOJ and other departments realize that they have criminalized a constitutionally-protected right if that right is used to protest Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians? In the United States is it now illegal to protest genocide if Israelis are the perpetrators?
I was surprised that Columbia, a wealthy private university, was receiving $400 million in US taxpayers’ money. But it turns out that $400 million is only the tip off the iceberg. The Epoch Times reports that Columbia “holds about $5 billion in federal grant commitments.”
This is big money even for Columbia. In response to the money threat, the university’s administration accepted the Trump administration’s destruction of the First Amendment and quickly got on board with the Trump administration. Columbia announced that its administration is “fully committed to combatting antisemitism” and “looks forward to ongoing work with the new federal administration to fight antisemitism.”
Trump and his supporters do not recognize the blatant contradiction between suppressing free speech and Making America Great Again.
America’s greatness did not come from tyranny. America’s greatness resides in the civil liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution. It is disheartening to find the First Amendment under assault by the Trump regime.
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