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Breaking News / Re: Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 3/05
« Last post by SVPete on March 05, 2026, 11:59:15 AM »
A SCOTUS Decision so Unanimous That Justice Jackson Wrote the Majority Opinion

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/03/05/a-scotus-decision-so-unanimous-that-justice-jackson-wrote-the-majority-opinion-n4950277

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On Wednesday, the Court handed down its ruling in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi.  The ruling is a genuine win for the Trump administration and for anyone who believes that immigration law should mean something. And not only was Jackson, Joe Biden’s DEI hire for the Supreme Court, not the sole dissenter; she actually wrote the majority opinion. There aren’t even any concurring opinions.

Jackson held that federal appeals courts must apply a "substantial-evidence standard" when reviewing immigration judges' findings on whether an asylum seeker faces a credible risk of "persecution" if deported. In plain terms, that means a federal court can't simply override an immigration judge's decision because it sees things differently. The judge's finding stands unless the evidence is so overwhelming that no reasonable person could reach the opposite conclusion.

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Jackson emphasized the high bar courts must meet before overturning an immigration judge’s findings, potentially making it more difficult for migrants to challenge their deportations as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration.

"The agency’s determination… is generally ‘conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary,’" Jackson wrote.

Confirmed porcine aviator sighting. This defines on what kind of basis a Federal court can overturn immigration law judges' decisions, and the bases are quite narrow. It may take a few Prog district judges getting smacked down before the ACLU and immigrant "rights" orgs give up on this tack.
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General Discussion / Jimmy Carter: The Father of the Islamic Revolution
« Last post by SVPete on March 05, 2026, 11:58:09 AM »
Jimmy Carter: The Father of the Islamic Revolution

https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/03/05/jimmy-carter-the-father-of-the-islamic-revoltion-n4950267

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I’m going to start out this morning by quoting a piece I wrote back in 2007:

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Yesterday, I made a comment with regards to the culpability of Jimmy Carter as regards our current troubles with Iran.  As you may imagine I managed to get some email commentary on that charge.  For the most part, the mails chided me for rendering such a verdict against so great a president.  Apparently, the people writing, have learned nothing from reading this site, over the years.  In any event, Michael Evans, in an OP/Ed piece in the Jerusalem Post, nails it down quite nicely ;

The old article on the Jerusalem Post is long gone, of course. But I managed to save some of it:

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We just don’t get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called “dim-witted cowboy,” has created the entire mess.
 
 The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the Ayatollah Khomeini
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Carter never got it that Khomeini, a cleric exiled to Najaf in Iraq from 1965-1978, was preparing Iran for revolution. Proclaiming “the West killed God and wants us to bury him,” Khomeini’s weapon of choice was not the sword but the media. Using tape cassettes smuggled by Iranian pilgrims returning from the holy city of Najaf, he fueled disdain for what he called gharbzadegi (“the plague of Western culture”).
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Carter’s belief that every crisis can be resolved with diplomacy – and nothing but diplomacy – now permeates the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, Carter is wrong. There are times when evil must be openly confronted and defeated.

Hundreds of Americans have paid with their lives for JEC's stupidity. Not to mention probably north of 100K Iranians and God knows how many Nicaraguans.
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General Discussion / Re: Epic Fury
« Last post by SVPete on March 05, 2026, 11:52:57 AM »
I don't know how much of this is really what Trump plans and dreams of, https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2029404892838945128 , but:

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Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
I'm getting tired of explaining this, but I'll do it again because there is so much stupidity out there.

Here is the Seven Step Plan:

1. Decapitate Iran's leadership and destroy its military.

2. A new regime comes to power that will no longer fund Hamas/Hezbollah.

3. Without Iranian arms and cash, Palestinians have no choice but to make a lasting peace with Israel.

4. With the Palestinian conflict ended, the Gulf Arab countries will have the political breathing room to fully engage with Israel as a regional partner.

5.  Peace in the Middle East, at long last.

6. Trump once again gets rebuffed for the Nobel Peace Prize in favor of a transgender Coptic nun in Madagascar who rescued a species of hermit crabs.

7. Profit

"Steps 1-5" are pretty much realistic. Step 6 would be predictable, though the nun might actually be in Bolivia.
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The DUmpster / Re: A thread wherein I find common cause with DU
« Last post by DUmpDiver on March 05, 2026, 11:32:02 AM »
Only DUmmies would want someone who just lost a Dem primary to be DNC Chair.
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The DUmpster / Re: When I was 7 years old on a snowy, icy morning I held my mom's hand
« Last post by DUmpDiver on March 05, 2026, 11:21:56 AM »
Never mind that Trump is taking down the regime that killed/maimed untold numbers  of US military personnel by supplying Iraqi "freedom fighters" with IEDs.
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The DUmpster / Re: People are getting angrier and angrier
« Last post by ADsOutburst on March 05, 2026, 11:18:59 AM »
This scene sounds weirdly scripted, like a work of fiction would be.
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The DUmpster / Re: People are getting angrier and angrier
« Last post by DUmpDiver on March 05, 2026, 11:12:49 AM »
And then a cop leapt out of the pizza oven. :bouncy:
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The DUmpster / Re: People are getting angrier and angrier
« Last post by SVPete on March 05, 2026, 10:57:26 AM »
Bunches of people talking at each other at gas stations? Unless Silicon Valley people are a species from a different planet, that part of the :bouncy: by itself is implausible. The Big Bunny I'll see at Saturday's 5K, https://www.cupertino.gov/Parks-Recreation/Events/Big-Bunny-5K , is a more plausible bunny rabbit, :rotf: .
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The DUmpster / Re: People are getting angrier and angrier
« Last post by Ralph Wiggum on March 05, 2026, 10:29:54 AM »
DEMOCRATS People are getting angrier and angrier

Fixed that for ya' jackass!
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The DUmpster / People are getting angrier and angrier
« Last post by CC27 on March 05, 2026, 10:11:07 AM »
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JPPaverage (637 posts)



People are getting angrier and angrier

I just came from filling the gas tank on my vehicle and a guy was saying that we'd better get our tanks filled before the prices skyrocket. Another guy said "That damned fool in the Whotr House ain't gonna make it any better." And a young woman said "**** him!". And yesterday I had to take my daughter to a couple of appointments and we decided to stop at a local convenience store to get a couple of slices of pizza. I was waiting for her to get a pop and there was a guy talking on his phone saying that "He's illegally invading Iran. I don't like trump." He then looked at me and said. "Sorry but that's how I feel." I told him he didn't have to apologize to me because I felt the same way. I'm telling you, people out here in the heartland are getting pissed off. And I think if the repukes try to steal the next elections there will be an uprising like we've never seen in our lives.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221070838

This all happened in one day??? Liar new DUmmie
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