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Another one bites the dust. Michigan alternate juror case thrown out.

Guilty by association.

Another one bites the dust. Michigan alternate juror case thrown out.
After November oof 2020 alternate electors were chosen in six states. Pennsylvania was the only one of six who took no action. The other five made fools of themselves.

Michigan is now the latest where the courts ruled that there was no reason to bring forth charges. Now the 16 charged are fighting back. They filed a lawsuit. What I found interesting was this.

MI AG Dana Nessel on a Zoom call with a far-left group, bragging about how, if the judge (Kristin Simmins) decides to send the alternate electors case to a jury trial, she’s set them up to be tried in the deep blue city of Lansing, MI, where it’s very likely they won’t get a fair jury trial.

Arizona (legal instructions + intent issues)

Nevada (procedural/jurisdictional failure)

Georgia (insufficient evidence of intent)

New Mexico (no statutory basis + intent problems)

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Stay in Traffic court where you belong. Supreme Court rules 9-0.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the Supreme Court fellows program on Feb. 13, 2025, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Stay in Traffic court where you belong. Supreme Court rules 9-0.

As you know, low level judges have been ruling on cases that should be heard in immigration court. The undocumented criminals have been doing end arounds. But now in a 9-0 vote the Supreme Court ruled.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling Wednesday ordering federal appeals courts to defer to immigration judges when reviewing asylum decisions, bolstering the executive branch’s authority in immigration cases and handing the Trump administration a win as it pushes an aggressive deportation agenda.

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No Virginia, you can’t illegally change Congressional districts. For now.

Cout tells Virginia no.

No Virginia, you can’t illegally change Congressional districts. For now.

A Virginia court ruled against Democrats’ redistricting effort in the state Tuesday, concluding that lawmakers did not follow the proper procedures to approve a state constitutional amendment.

Of course, the Democrats will appeal because their map would give the Democrats four more seats in Congress.

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No Virginia, trashy members from Congress can’t just show up at ICE facilities.

Trash kept out. APTOPIX Immigration Enforcement Minnesota © Adam Gra

No Virginia, trashy members from Congress can’t just show up at ICE facilities.

A few weeks back several members of Congress showed up at an Ice facility. Ilhan Omar, Kelly Morrison and Angie Craig initially were turned away from an ICE facility in the Minneapolis federal building. Well, a judge gave a ruling the trashy women did not like.

A federal judge refused Monday to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit immigration detention facilities.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., concluded that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t violate an earlier court order when it reimposed a seven-day notice requirement for congressional oversight visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.

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And why are we seeing more shootings this year? Just ask the judges.

Judges gone wild.

And why are we seeing more shootings this year? Just ask the judges.

It seems as if you want to shoot someone or commit a crime of violence, this year was the year to do it. According to my AI. In 2025 there have been several high‑profile cases where judges released violent repeat offenders, including individuals involved in shootings or stabbings, and those offenders went on to commit further crimes.

Texas – Bail Reform Debate

Governor Greg Abbott pushed a constitutional amendment to stop judges from releasing violent offenders on low bail. Families testified that loved ones were murdered by offenders who had been released after prior violent crimes.

Houston’s mayor revealed that 900 people charged with murder were free on bond, with some committing additional crimes while out.

North Carolina – Repeat Offender Case

Congressman Randy Fine introduced the Judicial Accountability for Irresponsible Leniency Act (JAIL Act) after the murder of Iryna Zarutzka, who was stabbed to death by a man with 14 prior arrests. The suspect had previously been released despite a violent history.

Washington State – Judicial Discretion Bill

A proposed law would allow judges to release violent felons early, even before sentences were complete. Critics warned this could put dangerous offenders back on the streets.

Providence, Rhode Island – Brown University Shooting

After a deadly campus shooting, a person of interest was detained but released without charges. This raised concerns about judicial and prosecutorial discretion in handling suspects tied to shootings

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Sorry Virginia, Abortion isn’t healthcare. Appeals Court said so.

Killer Judge.

Sorry Virginia, Abortion isn’t healthcare. Appeals Court said so.

Planned Parenthood is always claiming that they just want to provide healthcare. Like this.

“Everyone deserves access to high-quality, affordable health care. That’s what we’ve been fighting for the last century — and we’ll never stop,” President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Alexis McGill Johnson said over the summer.

Well, they went to court and found a fanatic who agreed that babies must die. The Appeals court said no. A federal appeals court on Friday overturned Judge Talwani’s orders blocking Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill provision that barred funding for Planned Parenthood.

Sorry but when you offer the death sentence to innocent babies, that’s not healthcare.

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Low level judge gets bitched out.

She got a royal bitch slapping.

Low level judge gets bitched out.

Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, previously issued a temporary nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s transgender military ban. A federal appeals court on Tuesday sided with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on the transgender military ban.

“In our view, the court afforded insufficient deference to the Secretary’s considered judgment. Accordingly, we stay the preliminary injunction pending the government’s appeal,” the DC Circuit Court of Appeals judges said, scolding Judge Reyes.

Nuff Said.

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This needs to be fixed nationwide before 2026 midterms. Errors on ballots and after election day.

On Friday, the Justice Department said the Civil Rights Division will coordinate an effort to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 86 jurisdictions in 27 states -- including all seven battleground states -- during the general election on Tuesday. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

This needs to be fixed nationwide before 2026 midterms. Errors on ballots and after election day.

Two errors that happen in blue states (Except Georgia in 2020) are ballots counted and received after election day plus errors on the ballot or ballot envelope. Michigan is the latest case.
On December 4, 2025, a Michigan Court of Claims judge delivered a crushing blow to Jocelyn Benson’s attempts to weaken mail-in ballot safeguards. The Michigan Court of Claims judge has once again ruled against Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, striking down her “guidance” that allowed absentee ballots with mismatched or missing identifying numbers to be processed and counted as “challenged” rather than rejected outright.

The decision, handed down on December 4, 2025, reinforces a key anti-fraud safeguard enacted by the state Legislature in 2024, which mandates that ballots can only be tabulated when the unique numbers on the ballot stub and envelope match perfectly. Benson’s instructions had directed clerks to bypass this requirement, potentially opening the door to irregularities (or cheating) in absentee voter ballot processing.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that those who made errors had to be notified to fix those errors. Pennsylvania also has tried to use nine days after election day for ballots to be counted. So, both situations need to be clarified.

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Take that Blue States. Supreme Court makes the right call.

The Supreme Court in Washington last month. (AP) President Donald Trump has encouraged Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps to help the GOP preserve its narrow House majority in the 2026 midterms.

Take that Blue States. Supreme Court makes the right call.

In an unsigned order, the justices granted Texas’ emergency request to block a three-judge federal district court ruling that barred the map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and faulted the lower court for “at least two serious errors” in striking down the map.

First, the majority said the three-judge court failed to apply the usual presumption that lawmakers act in “good faith” and instead construed “ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature.”

Second, it said the lower court should have drawn a “dispositive or near-dispositive” adverse inference against the challengers because they never produced an alternative map that would have met Texas’ stated partisan goals without the racial features they attacked.

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Judge in Comey case blocks order mandating DOJ hand over grand jury evidence.

Carsten Koall/Getty Images - PHOTO: Former FBI Director James Comey talks backstage before a panel discussion about his book "A Higher Loyalty," June 19, 2018, in Berlin.

Judge in Comey case blocks order mandating DOJ hand over grand jury evidence.

The Comey team went over the sitting judges head and got a Federal Magistrate to demand that the government turn over grand jury evidence to the Comey lawyers. The Justice Department requested the stay earlier Monday. They WENT TO THE JUDGE HEARING THE CASE.

The federal judge overseeing former FBI Director James Comey’s criminal case on Monday granted a request from federal prosecutors to block a magistrate judge’s order that mandated they hand over a trove of grand jury evidence to Comey’s attorneys.

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