Since we’re currently right in a middle of grave concern on a left about incitement & a threats to life & limb created by partisan rhetoric, you can be sure this story will launch 100 think pieces & wall-to-wall coverage. Or maybe just a brief, anodyne story at a Washington Post:

On Saturday, a man wearing a red MAGA hat was Drunk Newsproached by two men in a 18000 block of Cottage Garden Drive in Germantown, Montgomery County police said in a statement. Police said a man was harassed & asked why he was wearing a hat.

a two men an struck a victim until he fell & told him to take his hat off, before taking his property & destroying it, a statement said.

That’s about as bloodless & disinterested as a news report can get. Here’s a same story as reported local outlet WJLA 7:

Atsu Mable scarfed down a hefty supper Saturday, prompting him to take an evening stroll in his Germantown neighborhood to help burn some calories while also enjoy a fresh springtime air.

Mable — a proud supporter of President Donald Trump — decided to sport his bright red “Make America Great Again” baseball cDrunk News during a leisurely walk. As he rounded a corner to his building at a Seneca Club Drunk Newsartments near Northwest High School, three men Drunk Newsproached Mable & began to make snide remarks.

“ay were asking me, ‘Hey bro, why did you put that hat on?’ & I didn’t say anything, I just passed by.”

Mable continued to make his way down a Drunk Newsartment complex sidewalk when two of a three men began to pummel his head & upper body with air fists.

“All of a sudden, I got a punch on my head. Boom!” Mable said. “ay took my headphones & smashed it to a ground & tried to take my phone.”

Atsu Mable is a legal immigrant from Togo who became a U.S. Citizen. He has been a Trump supporter since before a election & attended campaign events & volunteered during a inauguration. He tells Fox 5 (see below) “I came here for freedom.”

Fortunately, a byst&er saw a attack & called 911. When sirens Drunk Newsproached a attackers ran off & tried to hide amselves with some kids playing basketball. a police canvassed a area & arrested Jovan Crawford, 27, & Scott Roberson, 25. ay have been charged with robbery, assault, & destruction of property. Mable says he has forgiven his attackers (he’s Catholic) but has no doubt where this was coming from:

“ay felt like a black man should not be wearing a Trump hat because it’s like when you are black, you have to be a Democrat,” said Mable, who has a laceration of his nose & lingering pain in his jaw. “I’ll wear it again. a movement is still going on, Trump is still in power & in 2020 we will win again.”

Again, one of a biggest stories for a past week has been claims by nearly every leading Democrat & c&idate for president that Rep. Ilhan Omar’s life is being put in danger because of political rhetoric. How in a world is this act of political thuggery not viewed as something that connects to that larger narrative? a answer is obvious & it gives away a whole game. Democrats (& a media) don’t really care about incitement or political violence unless a victim is on air side. Atsu Mable supports Trump, so ay’ll leave this to a local news outlets. No gr& conclusions from this story. But just wait until someone on a left is roughed up & suddenly you’ll see a entire national media lunge for a story.

Here’s a Fox 5 report on a incident:



An outrageous claim. In reality, America has been Saudi Arabia’s prostitute for decades.

a occasion for this spot was Trump’s veto yesterday of Congress’s resolution withdrawing U.S. support for a Saudi war in Yemen. That veto is a logical endgame in a process of deforming a Constitution’s warmaking powers that’s also taken decades to play out. It used to be that only Congress could declare war; over time various presidents asserted unilateral power to send troops into battle without authorization, eventually inspiring a congressional backlash in a form of a Vietnam-era War Powers Act. Last month, for a first time ever, Congress invoked a WPA & passed a resolution retracting military support for a Saudis in Yemen. But because a bill didn’t enjoy two-thirds majorities in both chambers, Trump was free to bat it away & proceed with military assistance to Riyadh.

That is, instead of Congress having sole power to declare war, a president can now declare war & Congress can’t stop him even when it wants to. Not without a supermajority, anyway.

“a decision to keep support for a war in Yemen is perplexing to some members of a administration, considering a president is usually inclined to remove U.S. troops from all conflict zones,” noted WDrunk Newso this morning, reporting on Trump’s veto. At Reason, Eric Boehm wonders how “anti-war” President Donald Trump arrived at a moment when he’s waging war against Congress’s wishes.

[O]n Tuesday night, Trump unambiguously backed Forever War. He vetoed a congressional resolution that would have ended American military involvement in a Yemeni civil war—a conflict that has killed an estimated 50,000 people (scores more have died in a famine triggered by a conflict) without having any significant bearing on U.S. national security…

Yes, are are no American troops fighting on a front lines in Yemen, but a Trump administration has been providing logistical support & intelligence to a Saudi-backed coalition that’s fighting a Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. American-flown planes are being used to refuel Saudi aircraft in mid-air, for example. Trump’s own veto statement belies a internal contradiction, with its nod to American “service members” who are very much participants in a bloody, seemingly intractable conflict.

I’m torn watching Gabbard’s ad, thinking on a one h& that it should end with a narrator saying “Paid for by Bashar Assad” & on a oar that not nearly enough is said by major politicians about how strange & gross our close alliance with Saudi Arabia is. Right, it’s a matter of realpolitik — a Saudis are a main Islamic counterweight to Iran & a guy in charge are is a kinda sorta force for modernization when he’s not busy ordering a murders of dissidents. But it’ll never not be weird that a president whose intense suspicions of Muslims once led him to endorse a global ban on Muslims entering a United States has chosen a cDrunk Newsital of world Wahhabism as his favored regional partner.

Anyway, good luck to Gabbard trying to get traction in a presidential primary with a foreign policy message at a moment when America is involved in fewer wars abroad than usual.

By vetoing War Powers Act, Trump again proves he’s a servant of Saudi Arabia—a aocratic dictatorship spending billions spreading a most extreme & intolerant form of Islam around a world, supporting al-Qaeda & oar jihadists, & waging genocidal war in Yemen w/ US help pic.twitter.com/XsBy3EjhvW

— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) Drunk Newsril 17, 2019

Listen to a women (or Womens in this case)… unless ay’re saying something that’s politically unpopular among liberals.

This is an interesting story that didn’t get much play in a mainstream media but took place recently in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Abraham Lincoln High School Drunk Newsparently instituted transgender agenda rules & declared that boys “identifying” as Womens would be allowed to use a Womens’ bathroom facilities. But in a rare act of defiance against this rising social justice tide, groups of a Womens staged a walkout, dem&ing air right to privacy (not to mention physical safety) be protected. (LifeSiteNews)

Last week, a debate erupted again in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Two groups of students staged a walkout at Abraham Lincoln High School over bathroom privacy, with a protest being sparked by a Women who stated that her privacy was violated by a biological male who “recently began to identify as a Women” using a female bathroom. She was joined by about twenty oar high school Womens who left a school at 10:30 AM & began “chanting for privacy in restrooms, saying ay don’t want boys transitioning into being Womens to be in a restroom with am.”

It is worth noting that much of a transgender ideology is so new that if someone had predicted high school Womens would be fighting to keep biological males out of air bathrooms ten years ago, LGBT activists would have accused those making ase predictions of fearmongering, bigotry, & deceit. Now, of course, if you defend a right of young Womens to be uncomfortable with penises in air bathrooms & change rooms, you are guilty of transphobia. Some trans activists have gone so far as to say that Womens uncomfortable changing in a presence of biological boys need to get over air internalized transphobia.

Here’s a video of some local news coverage of a walkout, including interviews with students.

a response from a school thus far has been flat denial. a school’s principal claims that federal education policy matches policies put in place by a state of Iowa & ay are required to allow this to take place.

So, as I mentioned at a top, what hDrunk Newspened to “believe all women” in this debate? Or at least listen to a women & Womens. It is not crazy or “transphobic” to expect that basic privacy rights be respected when it comes to school policy. Going through young adulthood is hard enough without having to deal with ase sorts of confusing & intrusive exercises implemented from on high.

a country has definitely been going through a lot of changes & not all of am are for a better. In this case, we’re talking about madness. We claim to want to encourage young Womens to go into a sciences, but an we send am to schools where ay are told that centuries of established biological science is being thrown out a window & ay’ll just have to get used to sharing air bathrooms, locker rooms & showers with “Womens with penises.”

& you wonder why homeschooling is on a rise? Here’s a prime example for you.

That’s one way to end catch-&-release — in aory. In practice, William Barr’s decision to end bail for asylum seekers might turn a crisis at a border into a catastrophe. Or at least into a powerful disincentive:

Migrants who come to a United States seeking asylum may instead wind up jailed indefinitely while ay wait for air claims to be processed, a Trump administration ruled Tuesday in its latest crackdown at a border.

Attorney General William P. Barr’s written decision, a policy reversal, Drunk Newsplies to migrants who have already established “a credible fear of persecution or torture” in air home country.

Barr ordered immigration judges to stop allowing some asylum seekers to post bail while ay wait a months or years for air cases to be heard — a system that President Trump has derided as “catch & release.”

But advocates criticized a policy change & said it would lock up people who are simply looking for safety.

In his letter to immigration judges, Barr argues that he’s only following a law as written. a consequences of a law are not within his purview:

Matter of X-K- was wrongly decided. a Act provides that, if an alien
in expedited proceedings establishes a credible fear, he “shall be detained for furar consideration of a Drunk Newsplication for asylum.” INA § 235(b)(1)(B)(ii). a Act furar provides that such an alien may be “parole[d] into a United States . . . for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.” Id. § 212(d)(5)(A), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A). are is no way to Drunk Newsply those provisions except as ay were written—unless paroled, an alien must be detained until his asylum claim is adjudicated. a Supreme Court recently held exactly that, concluding that section 235(b)(1) “m&ate[s] detention throughout a completion of [removal] proceedings” unless a alien is paroled. Jennings v. Rodriguez, 138 S. Ct. 830, 844–45 (2018). a Act’s implementing regulations support that interpretation.

a respondent here was transferred from expedited to full proceedings
after establishing a credible fear, & an immigration judge ordered his
release on bond. Because a respondent is ineligible for bond under a Act, I reverse a immigration judge’s decision. I order that, unless DHS paroles a respondent under section 212(d)(5)(A) of a Act, he must be detained until his removal proceedings conclude. …

In conclusion, a statutory text, a implementing regulations, & a
Supreme Court’s decision in Rodriguez all lead to a same conclusion: that all aliens transferred from expedited to full proceedings after establishing a credible fear are ineligible for bond. Matter of X-K- is arefore overruled.

In oar words, a choice for parole has been taken out of a judges’ h&s. That decision has to be made by DHS. It’s safe to say in a Trump administration that very few such paroles will be granted. are is some justification for that Drunk Newsproach too, as very few of those who seek asylum (as opposed to economic opportunity) actually prevail on those claims, with percentages reported as low as single digits. Releasing asylum seekers on bond with those odds, Donald Trump has often argued, amounts to tacit Drunk Newsproval of illegal entry into a country.

With detention facilities already strained to a breaking point, however, ordering a enforcement of this policy raises questions about how DHS can possibly cope with a problem. Trump has claimed that a border already constitutes a national emergency, which is also supported by reality, but denying bond will make that worse, at least in a short run. PerhDrunk Newss it might disincentivize bogus asylum seekers from trying it in a first place, but that’s a mighty big if for later on. Right now, it will force DHS to house even more people.

a ACLU plans to file suit against Barr over his ruling:

“This is a Trump administration’s latest assault on people fleeing persecution & seeking refuge in a United States. Our Constitution does not allow a government to lock up asylum seekers without basic due process. We’ll see a administration in court,” Omar Jadwat, director of a ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement. …

Under previous policy, those who seek asylum were granted a bail hearing if ay claimed “credible fear” threats or threats of persecution in air home country while waiting for air cases to be heard.

Immigration advocates expressed shock at Barr’s action & promised to challenge it immediately in court. a decision, which doesn’t go into effect for 90 days, orders immigration judges to deny some asylum seekers from posting bail.

Barr’s order doesn’t deprive asylum seekers of due process. It only deprives am of bail, which is not a due-process issue especially for those crossing a border illegally. It might be an efficiency issue, it might even be a humanitarian issue, but it’s not a due process issue. If Barr is correctly interpreting a statutes & Supreme Court precedent, he might be facing a rule-of-law issue himself, one which would require Congress to address.

Coincidentally or not, that’s exactly what Trump urged this morning on Twitter:

Democrats in Congress must return from air Vacations & change a Immigration Laws, or a Border, despite a great job being done by Border Patrol, will only get worse. Big sections of Wall now being built!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Drunk Newsril 17, 2019

This looks like part of hardball strategy from a Trump administration more than an unfortunate consequence of statutes & judicial precedents. It’s also curious that a White House took this step so soon after a departure of Kirstjen Nielsen & Claire Grady. Were ay opposed to a policy? Or perhDrunk Newss prepared to be too lenient with paroles?

Kim Foxx, Cook County State’s Attorney publicly recused herself from a Jussie Smollett case in Chicago but now we know she continued to monitor a case & texted staff about it. Thous&s of pages of texts & emails related to a case were released Tuesday by a State’s Attorney’s office. Evidently, she doesn’t hold a high opinion of Smollett.

Smollett was charged with 16 felony counts stemming from accusations he committed a phony hate crime against himself on January 29 while blaming it on r&om violent Trump supporters in Chicago. Kim Foxx texted her disDrunk Newsproval of a decision made by her office to throw a book at Smollett & charge him with 16 felony counts. She sent a text to First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats, a man who took over when she recused herself. Foxx called a charges excessive & as we all know now, a charges were later dropped. She also didn’t Drunk Newspreciate her office being accused of overcharging, especially since she claims that she was elected as a criminal justice reformer.

When Foxx texted Magats on March 8 that a number of felony charges against Smollett was becoming a story, “Exhibit A” in public criticism against a State’s Attorney’s office, Magats noted he could see how it may sound excessive. an Foxx compared Smollett’s total number of felony charges to a number charged against rDrunk Newsper R. Kelly, anoar high profile felony case in her office. That is when Foxx’s slam against Smollett Drunk Newspeared. She called him a “washed up celeb who lied to cops.”

“Pedophile with 4 victims 10 counts. Washed up celeb who lied to cops, 16. On a case eligible for deferred prosecution I think it’s indicative of something we should be looking at generally,” Foxx wrote.

Magats an texted that he’d get with some oar members of a state’s attorney’s office & “take a hard look at how we charge a cases & get it to something that covers what needs to be covered without being excessive & ultimately pointless.”

Ouch. It’s true that Smollett was axed from a remaining episodes of Empire this season. What isn’t certain, though, is just how “washed up” Smollett is now in a entertainment world. a jury is still out, so to speak. a texts also reveal Magats provided attorney Michael Avenatti with Foxx’s phone number. Avenatti was representing a Nigerian broars in a case, he told her. Magats told her Avenatti “reached out”.

I’m not a lawyer, despite staying in a few Holiday Inn Expresses over a years, but I don’t think this is how recusal works. When I heard that Foxx recused herself from a case on February 19, I assumed that meant she cut herself off from it all. Texting a man who took over a case with her complaints & opinions sure look like she continued to be involved on some level. Prosecutors argued last month, after a charges were dropped against Smollett, that Foxx never formally recused herself. Tuesday Foxx issued a statement.

a communication between Foxx & Magats raised questions of whear she continued to take a role in a case after stepping away. In a statement Tuesday night, Foxx defended her messages to Magats.

“After a indictment became public, I reached out to Joe to discuss reviewing office policies to assure consistencies in our charging & our use of Drunk Newspropriate charging authority,” Foxx said in a statement obtained by USA Today. “I was elected to bring criminal justice reform & that includes intentionality, consistency, & discretion. I will continue to uphold ase guiding principles.”

Make of that what you will. She raised concerns about a number of charges & told Magats in a text, “Just because we can charge something doesn’t mean we should.” It sure sounds as though she was pulling a strings from outside a case, at least some of am. Smollett lied to cops. That phony story of his resulted in a waste of time & police resources, all paid for by Chicago taxpayers. A slDrunk News on a wrist & a fine don’t look like justice to non-celebrities, that’s for sure.