Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/19

[SVPete]

Soros-Backed Fairfax DA Repeatedly Dropped Charges Against an Illegal Immigrant — Now Someone’s Dead

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/18/va-illegal-immigrant-murderer-released-n2668121

The Democrats' soft-on-crime, pro-illegal immigration policies are deadly. There have been far too many stories about career criminals with multiple arrests being given slaps on the wrist before they're turned loose on our communities to rob, rape, and murder innocents.

But this story out of Reston, Virginia, takes the cake. Illegal immigrant Marvin Fernando Morales-Ortez, from El Salvador, has been charged with several crimes in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Including a first-degree murder charge in 2021.

But the Soros-backed Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano entered a nolle prosequi and declined to prosecute not only that first-degree murder charge, but several more of Morales-Ortiz's criminal offenses dating back to 2020.

[SVPete]

FBI Busts 'Shocking' SNAP Fraud Ring - Entire Stores Were Allegedly Set Up to Operate the Scam

https://www.westernjournal.com/fbi-busts-shocking-snap-fraud-ring-entire-stores-allegedly-set-operate-scam/

Two Massachusetts men have been arrested in what prosecutors allege was a fraud scheme involving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Antonio Bonheur, 74, of Mattapan and Saul Alisme, 21, of Hyde Park, were each charged with one count of food stamp fraud, according to a Department of Justice news release.

The Justice Department reported the scheme netted millions, with SNAP redemptions of $100,000 – $500,000 per month.

Bonheur owned the 150-square-foot Jesula Variety Store. Alisme owned the 500-square-foot Saul Mache Mixe Store. Both were in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston.

Prosecutors said the level of SNAP redemptions at both stores was exceedingly high, with many months topping $300,000. The release said a full-service supermarket in the area redeems about $82,000 per month in SNAP benefits.

Further, more than 70 percent of transactions were for $95 and above, which is more typical for a supermarket than a small neighborhood storefront.

The release said that undercover observers saw SNAP benefits exchanged for cash and liquor exchanged for SNAP benefits.

[enslaved1]

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced

The justices of the US supreme court – even its conservatives – have traditionally valued their institution’s own standing. John Roberts, the current US chief justice, has always been praised – even by liberals – as a staunch advocate of the court’s image as a neutral arbiter. For decades, Americans believed the court soared above the fray of partisan contestation.

No more.

In Donald Trump’s second term, the supreme court’s conservative supermajority has seized the opportunity to empower the nation’s chief executive. In response, public approval of the court has collapsed. The question is what it means for liberals to catch up to this new reality of a court that willingly tanks its own legitimacy. Eager to realize cherished goals of assigning power to the president and arrogating as much for itself, the conservative justices seemingly no longer care what the public or the legal community think of the court’s actions. Too often, though, liberals are responding with nostalgia for a court that cares about its high standing. There is a much better option: to grasp the opportunity to set right the supreme court’s role in US democracy.

Not seeing where in this Trump sucks diatribe exactly how these geniuses expect to replace the USSC, but I also am not up to digging too deep into this pile of fertilizer. 

[SVPete]

I'm supposed to believe a reliably Prog British skewspaper understands US courts?

[ADsOutburst]

...the conservative justices seemingly no longer care what the public or the legal community think of the court’s actions.

They're not supposed to care what the public thinks; they're supposed to care what the law says. Otherwise, what's the point of a court?

And what does this publication have to say about the Democrats' talk of expanding and packing the court?