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Harvard Shows Trump… How American Viewpoint / Teaching / Research Actually Works, And How… The Government May Not Suppress Peaceful (Even If Controversial) Thoughts / Expressions.

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Well. That any 21st Century US preznit would need to be told — in a court of law — that he cannot suppress peaceful free speech or thought… is rather astonishing. But this is the (second) time… of the Manchurian Cantaloupe. So it goes.

You likely already saw the headlines, in papers around the East Coast — but here’s the excellently-reasoned 84 page opinion — and the sharpest end of this spear, below:

…[Harvard challenges] the decision to freeze and ultimately terminate nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard.

More specifically, Plaintiffs collectively challenge the decision to freeze and then terminate the grants on three primary grounds, contending that (1) the funding decisions were made in response to Harvard’s refusal to capitulate to Defendants’ content- and viewpoint- based demands and its subsequent decision to file a lawsuit, in violation of the First Amendment; (2) the grant terminations did not comply with the procedural requirements of Title VI and are thus invalid; and (3) Defendants acted arbitrarily and capriciously when they froze and subsequently terminated funding to Harvard, as they failed to provide a reasoned explanation for how or why freezing and terminating funding would further the goal of ending antisemitism, to weigh the importance of the grants they sought to terminate, and to consider decades of reliance engendered through their prior practice of funding research at Harvard….

For the reasons stated herein, Harvard’s motion for summary judgment, [Harvard, ECF No. 69], is GRANTED IN PART….

Hilarious — put that in your pipe and smoke it, you faux would-be / autocrats!

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She’s Logged More Space-Walk Time, And More Hours In Space — Than Any Woman, Ever: Suni Williams Reflects On Her Record-Breaking NASA Career…

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To be certain, she is already a true American icon — of space science. And she rode to the ISS on one of the most hair-raising missions (you see what I did there?!) ever flown (at least since Apollo 13), in June of 2024 — as her Boeing built Starliner capsule had thruster malfunction issues, coming in for the docking maneuver. Her fellow pilot, Butch Wilmore, expertly flew manual for a chunk of the approach, using other thrusters to compensate for the BO ones. That’s all detailed in the below.

She talks a fair bit about the minute-to-minute on that episode, and her space-walks — as well as the long time (over a year and quarter, across her career!) spent in orbit, and the physical rehab needed, afterwards… on this podcast. Do give it a listen — but here’s a bit:

…NASA and Boeing witnessed issues with the spacecraft thrusters on June 6 as Starliner approached the space station. Engineering teams reviewed a collection of data, conducted a variety of testing, hosted independent reviews with agency propulsion experts, and developed various return contingency plans. The uncertainty in data did not meet the agency’s safety and performance requirements for human spaceflight, so NASA decided to return the Starliner safely to Earth uncrewed and move Butch and Suni to return on the SpaceX Dragon as part of Crew-9. Starliner undocked without the two astronauts and landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico on September 7.

Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbunov launched September 28 on the Crew-9 mission with two empty seats to return with Butch and Suni later aboard Dragon. The quartet remained on station until April 2025 as part of the space station’s mission of research and discovery. Butch and Suni conducted more than 150 experiments and logged over 900 hours of research. Suni Williams set the record for the most cumulative spacewalking time by a woman at a whopping 62 hours and 6 minutes.

These NASA astronauts are among the few humans to pilot a human-rated spacecraft for the first time. Much was learned from the flight test that is leading to continued work on the commercial spacecraft….

Now you know — and no, Manchurian Cantaloupe… she is not blonde, or blue-eyed. Her ancestors are not… from one of what you called “the good countries“. She is just a purely… American HERO! One we all are immensely proud of. Out.

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[U] Another Loss For Trumpie/Noemites: Conservative Fifth Cir. Says No To Use Of Alien Enemies Act.

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Decidedly good news — and again, this is very much as we have repeatedly predicted. Here is the full 55 page opinion, from a very conservative Fifth Circuit. Trump does not possess any lawful power to falsely claim that all persons coming from Venezuela must be gang members and drug dealers, and deport them without process.

While we are certain the Noemites will appeal this loss to the Supremes, here’s the Wa Po on it all:

…The Supreme Court did step in. In an extraordinary middle-of-the-night order, the justices temporarily barred Alien Enemies Act removals in Hendrix’s district while they considered whether the migrants had been granted enough time to challenge their removals.

Weeks later, the justices renewed that hold on deportations as they sent the case back to the 5th Circuit, setting up Tuesday’s ruling….

Now you know — in under a year on the job, the Manchurian Cantaloupe has been told over and over again (even by jurists he appointed) that he is no king.

Onward.

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Maybe John Should ACTUALLY GO READ The Posse Comitatus Act… Just A Thought.

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Y A W N.

Tonight, Hinderaker — perfectly wrong on the law — chooses to talk about Tangerine 2.0’s “right” to roll the federales into Chicago.

He published his execrable drivel an hour or two after a federal judge ruled on the merits that Trump’s stunt in LA (rolling the National Guard) violated the express and clear provisions of the Act.

But John (idiotically) says Trump could roll Marines into Chicago… though (John sniffs) he “might” lose in the courts.

Might?!

Willful violations of these particularly clear statutes are… felony crimes, son.

Trump could well be charged with felonies for trying a stunt he now knows is plainly a violation of Chicagoans’ rights.

And every Chicagoan encumbered by his lawlessness and abuse of process (in a class action) may sue for damages (erh, BTW that’s about three million people, John). See, Bivens.

All of it is just Hinderaker trying NOT to talk about the four significant losses Trump has suffered recently [though by far the one that hurts Trump’s agenda the most is the tariffs being invalidated].

And. I. Love. It. All.

Thanks Johnnie boy!

Out.

And FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter Gets Her Post Back — Unlawfully Fired By The Manchurian Cantaloupe.

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Of course, Trump will appeal to the Supremes now.

But as the opinion and the below indicate — the Supremes have spoken, this year in very similar cases. Humphrey’s Executor is still good law. Tangerine 2.0 will lose at the Supremes. Here’s the latest:

…President Trump fired Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause. The district court ordered her reinstatement. The government now seeks a stay of that decision pending appeal. That motion must be denied. The government has no likelihood of success on appeal given controlling and directly on point Supreme Court precedent.

Specifically, ninety years ago, a unanimous Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Federal Trade Commission Act’s for-cause removal protection for Federal Trade Commissioners. See Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935). Over the ensuing decades — and fully informed of the substantial executive power exercised by the Commission — the Supreme Court has repeatedly and expressly left Humphrey’s Executor in place, and so precluded Presidents from removing Commissioners at will. Then just four months ago, the Supreme Court stated that adherence to extant precedent like Humphrey’s Executor controls in resolving stay motions.

To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court’s decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do….

Trump is likely to rage (impotently) tonight, into the void of his ‘Truth’ platform. Hilarious.

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UPDATED: Case Reassigned To USDC Judge Kelly (In DC) — And Dates For Briefing Modified Slightly, To Get To An Injunction Hearing By September 10 At 2 PM Eastern…

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The preliminary injunction motion will now be on file by noon Eastern — tomorrow. That’s… speedy!

And while he was appointed by, and confirmed under a Trumpian Senate vote in September of 2017 — he’s ruled against Trump more than once in DC. Most notably, he ruled that the Proud Boys would have to stand trial for their role in J6. [Four of the five were convicted — but one was released, because the jury deadlocked on his charges.]

In sum, he’s a no-nonsense jurist with Duke and Georgetown degrees. He clerked for the very capable USDC Judge Buckwalter [a Bush 41 appointee] in Pennsylvania — many decades ago.

So here’s the partially accelerated, and one day partially delayed NEW schedule for the Guatemalan kids’ class action/injunction:

…Plaintiffs shall file their motion for preliminary injunction by noon on September 3, 2025;

Defendants shall file their opposition by noon on September 6, 2025;

Plaintiffs shall file their reply by September 8, 2025; and the parties shall appear for a preliminary-injunction hearing at 2:00 p.m. on September 10, 2025, in Courtroom 11.

Signed by Judge Timothy J. Kelly on 9/2/2025….

Now you know. Onward, resolutely.

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Trump’s Rolling Marines & National Guard Into LA: Ruled Wildly Unlawful! Told Ya’!

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Here is the 52 page banger!

Read the room, Manchurian Catalope!

Yup — this is the first final, on the merits decision finding that he violated the law. Of course it is up on appeal in the Ninth Circuit on various procedural (earlier) rulings — but this is the way it’s going to end:

…Congress spoke clearly in 1878 when it passed the Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting the use of the U.S. military to execute domestic law. Nearly 140 years later, Defendants-President Trump, Secretary of Defense Hegseth, and the Department of Defense deployed the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, ostensibly to quell a rebellion and ensure that federal immigration law was enforced. There were indeed protests in Los Angeles, and some individuals engaged in violence. Yet there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law.

Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction federal troops executed the laws. The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles. In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act….

Now you know. Truly a gang of crooks — that cannot shoot straight. Out.

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[U: Case Reassigned — New Dates.] In The Guatemalan Minors’ Putative Class Action (To Avoid Being Dumped On Foreign Soil, Alone), DC Schedule Has Been Set: It Is On A Very Tight Time Deadline — As Lives Are At Stake.

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It took us a minute to get caught up, but here is the original federal class action complaint (as filed in DC) against Kristi Noem — related to the at least ten young people who were born in Guatemala, but live here in the US, now.

As we’ve said, they have a plethora of due process rights — which the Noemites and Miller-goons were hell-bent on violating, as they kidnapped them, and were going to dump them in a land they really don’t know — at all. And so it is, that the very capable USDC Judge Sooknanan in DC has set a very tight timetable for briefing, here:

…MINUTE ORDER: The Parties are ORDERED to comply with the following briefing schedule. The [Noemite] Defendants will file their Opposition to the [6] Motion to Certify Class by September 5, 2025.

The Plaintiffs will file their Reply by September 8, 2025.

Signed by Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan on 9/2/2025….

As you will read in the complaint — in recognition their unique vulnerability, Congress has created a special statutory scheme to ensure that unaccompanied minors receive enhanced protection and care whenever the government seeks to remove them from the United States. Any summary removal plainly violates this statutory scheme. Under US law, an unaccompanied minor is defined as a child who “(A) has no lawful immigration status in the United States; (B) has not attained 18 years of age; and (C) with respect to whom — (i) there is no parent or legal guardian in the United States; or (ii) no parent or legal guardian in the United States is available to provide care and physical custody.” 6 USC § 279(g)(2). Once a child is designated as an unaccompanied minor, numerous legal protections guarantee that they are not removed without due process and are able to pursue forms of relief from deportation for which they may be eligible.

Now you know. What an evil — and thankfully, largely incompetent group of goons these folks are. Onward.

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While We Were Away, The Able USDC Judge Sabraw Reiterated His Order That ICE/DHS/BOP Must Produce The List Of ~8,000 Names By Sept. 29…

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As we mentioned, numerous public media video reports show ICE/DHS agents scanning bar codes, on wrist-bands these putative asylees are required to wear, while being detained by the federal government in pens at or near the Southern Border.

So it is facially preposterous for the agents to say the list of some 8,000 names (and associated ID details) must be prepared by hand, with quill pens, on ancient parchment. Damn. And as we said he might, the able USDC judge is having none of this foot-dragging nonsense — from the Noemites:

…[T]he alleged burden on Defendants would not outweigh the need to produce the information to Plaintiffs’ counsel. As parties to the Settlement Agreement, Defendants have an equal responsibility to ensure that Class Members receive the relief to which they are entitled, and to ensure that Class Members and QAFMs are neither wrongfully detained nor removed. It behooves Defendants, as well as Plaintiffs, to have this information at the ready so that other Class Members and QAFMs are not reseparated from their families.

For all of these reasons, Defendants’ motion for reconsideration is denied. Defendants shall produce to Plaintiffs’ counsel the information set out above on or before September 29, 2025. Pending production of this information, the Court continues its stay on removal of Class Members or QAFMs defined in the Settlement Agreement.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 26, 2025….

So… the Manchurian Cantaloupe’s impotent stalling tactics… fail, yet again.

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