Mike Benz 15 min lightning round talk on The Origins Of NATO's Role In Internet Censorship. Benz's address at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, DC on July 9, 2024.

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Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the special counsel’s appointment violated the appointments clause of the Constitution.

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By Sam Dorman
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July 15, 2024Updated:July 16, 2024

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Justice Department’s classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on July 15, ruling that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated two key provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
In a 93-page ruling, Judge Cannon wrote that Mr. Smith’s prosecution of the former president “breaches two structural cornerstones of our constitutional scheme—the role of Congress in the appointment of constitutional officers, and the role of Congress in authorizing expenditures by law.”
The ruling raises questions about the Justice Department’s use of special counsels.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for Mr. Smith, said the Justice Department had authorized an appeal.
“The dismissal of the case deviates from the uniform conclusion of all previous courts to have considered the issue that the Attorney General is statutorily authorized to appoint a special counsel,” Mr. Carr said in a statement provided to The Epoch Times.
Here are some key takeaways on the ruling and its implications.
Special Counsels and the Appointments Clause
Judge Cannon ruled that Mr. Smith’s position was unconstitutional under the appointments clause of the Constitution, which states that Congress can, through law, allow department heads to appoint “inferior” officers.
The judge ruled that Mr. Smith was an inferior officer, which requires Congress to authorize the attorney general to appoint him as special counsel, which didn’t happen.
Her ruling pointed to how Congress let the Independent Counsel Act, which allowed the Justice Department to appoint special prosecutors, to expire in 1999. While Mr. Smith pointed to other laws to justify his appointment, Judge Cannon rejected those arguments.
Judge Cannon’s ruling conflicts with a 2019 judgment by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which upheld former special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment.

Special counsel Jack Smith arrives to deliver remarks on an indictment against former President Donald Trump at the Justice Department in Washington on June 9, 2023. Mr. Smith is the prosecutor in former President Trump's classified documents case. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Florida judge also declared his funding illegitimate in her opinion.
“Special Counsel Smith’s office—since November 2022—has been drawing funds from the Treasury without statutory authorization, in violation of the Appropriations Clause,” she wrote.
The appropriations clause reads: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
Judge Cannon said the court “has difficulty seeing how a remedy short of dismissal would cure this substantial separation-of-powers violation, but the answers are not entirely self-evident, and the caselaw is not well developed,” she said.
The ruling is limited to the prosecution of former President Trump in the Southern District of Florida but could be cited in other cases.
Appeal to 11th Circuit

Vivek is a real firebrand and I do wonder what position he will hold in a new Trump Administration, if Trump survives long enough to get elected ?

Quote:Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy calls for transparency in the investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Trump on 'Jesse Watters Primetime

Tucker's take on J.D. Vance's nomination for V.P. I found it interesting on the resistance  to his nomination.

No telling how long it will stay up ?

Some interesting info.

For those who have wondered how they would remove Trump... well here was a more direct try.



Surprised more people were not shot as there were several shots fired... Gotta go for the head as Trump has bullet proof vest on ...

We learned a long time ago that 1984 is a primer, and we can't say we were blindsided. They have been gearing up before 1984.

We knew it was coming. The beginning phase has arrived.

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Thought crimes and the mandatory chip is next.

Interesting history of Hamas

Quote:Where did the terror organization called Hamas first come from? What is the true origins of Hamas? They are an off shoot break off faction from the Muslim brotherhood who also broke off from a charity organization created in the 1960s. Then in 1973 a Palestinian Cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin helped establish an islamic charity organization called Mujama al-Islamiya also known as the Islamic Center. This group is the precursor to Hamas. Yassin was a refugee of the Arab-Israeli War. A childhood sports accident left him wheelchair bound. Yassin’s charity group registered with Israel in 1978 as a non profit Non Government Organization. Although the name wouldn’t officially be used until January 1988 when they published their charter outlining their reason for existing, calling for armed resistance to establish a Palestinian state and the destruction of Israel. Hamas envisioned a Palestinian state that would cover all of the territory that had previously belonged to the British Mandate for Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. In 1989, the Israeli government arrested Sheikh Yassin was arrested and sentenced him to life in prison for ordering the killing of Palestinians who had allegedly collaborated to help the Israeli army. In the summer of 1991 they organized into newly formed armed militia units called the Al-Qassam brigades. At the same time, an engineering graduate named Yahya Ayyash joined Hamas and put his engineering skills to work for the group building bombs. Nicknamed “the Engineer” , Hamas first used Kamikaze bombings in April 1993. They condemned the 1993 Oslo Accords and rejected the deal. This agreement created the Palestinian Authority that was intended to be an interim self-governing body with the responsibility of managing certain aspects of civil governance in parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The expectation was that the Palestinian Authority would eventually be replaced by a democratically elected government. The idea was to help Palestinians reach self determination for their government. The expectation was that final negotiations would eventually address core issues like where the exact borders would be drawn, the status of Jerusalem, and the establishment of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state. The terror organzation got the vast majority of its funding from Iran. Israel has had success in fighting the group over the years militarily but it's been a difficult group to destroy entirely.