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[U] In Under 24 Hours, Tangerine 2.0 Told He Is No King: Harvard’s International Admittees To Prevail…

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Updated: stop defending the felonious assaults John. These are willful abuses of process, and you know it. End updated portion.

The tiny handed dotard was so far out of pocket, this one doesn’t merit any in-depth analysis. He will lose all the way up through the Supremes. He cannot tell a private university whom they may or may not allow to matriculate. D-a-a-a-a-mn.

We will likely stop following this — after this, the one post — unless some upper level judge/justice ends up likewise out of pocket, here:

…In a lawsuit filed in Boston federal court earlier on Friday, Harvard called the revocation a “blatant violation” of the U.S. Constitution and other federal laws, and had an “immediate and devastating effect” on the university and more than 7,000 visa holders.

“Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” the 389-year-old school said in the lawsuit filed in Boston federal court. Harvard enrolled nearly 6,800 international students in its current school year, equal to 27% of total enrollment….

Busy Friday — And no John, intentionally abusing the law is not just a “blunt instrument” — it is Tangerine’s felonies tour continued —so… suck it, Hinderaker!

Next up? The silly Tom Cruise vehicle / Ethan Hunt (is this like… MI:7?!?), as a late matinee, with friends! Sweet!

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In Sum, Hinderaker Elected Trump To Give Him (As A Multimillionaire)… Big Tax Breaks.

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Hey John… It’s okay… you can finally admit it now.

You are no fiscal conservative and you don’t care at all about the national deficit, despite burping for decades about it… You really don’t care about it.

What you do care about is making sure that the bottom tenth of the income brackets in America pays proportionately far more of the cost of running the nation than you pay as a proportion of your net worth and income.

In other words, what’s yours is yours — and whatever is earned by the poorest tenth… You want to be yours — to control, as well…

Disgusting.

Palette Cleanser: Chilean Very Large Telescope (ESO) Identifies A Wild Planet (At 2M1510), Apparently In Perpendicular Orbit, To Her Twin Brown Dwarf Hosts…

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Subtle wobbles — in unwasted grace — characterize this palette cleanser, tonight. See at right — the yellow ochre oval depicts this rare beauty of a planet — far out into our chilly night skies.

It has long been known (since Edwin Hubble’s decades of study, then sorted carefully by Otto Struve), that orbiting planets cause their stars to rock back and forth ever so slightly, as the planets’ gravity pulls the stars one way and another. And these particularly odd… to and ‘fro wobbles, are what led the team in Chile to find this diamond in the rough. Here’s the story — still developing (likely now awaiting secondary source / confirmation by JWST):

…A newly discovered planetary system, informally known as 2M1510, is among the strangest ever found. An apparent planet traces out an orbit that carries it far over the poles of two brown dwarfs. This pair of mysterious objects – too massive to be planets, not massive enough to be stars – also orbit each other. Yet a third brown dwarf orbits the other two at an extreme distance….

“Circumbinary” planets, those orbiting two stars at once, are rare enough. A circumbinary orbiting at a 90-degree tilt was, until now, unheard of. But new measurements of this system, using the ESO (European Southern Observatory) Very Large Telescope in Chile, appear to reveal what scientists previously only imagined….

[It was identified by using] “radial velocity” measurements. Orbiting planets cause their stars to rock back and forth ever so slightly, as the planets’ gravity pulls the stars one way and another; that pull causes subtle, but measurable, shifts in the star’s light spectrum. Add one more twist to the detection in this case: the push-me-pull-you effect of the planet on the two brown dwarfs’ orbit around each other. The path of the brown dwarf pair’s 21-day mutual orbit is being subtly altered in a way that can only be explained, the study’s authors conclude, by a polar-orbiting planet….

Fascinating — and lovely, in very sublime ways… graceful, even. Yes, yes — wobble, baby — to and ‘fro, in unwasted… grace. Smile — onward.

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Of Course The Murder Of Anyone Is Deplorable. Full Stop. But This Is Not “A Leftists’ Problem”.

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Bill Otis is right. This is despicable.

Not a sign of what the Democrats believe, though.

So he ought to stuff a sock in it. Right now.

Hinderaker and Johnson ought to restrict their remarks to lamenting evil in all forms — and not ignore the evil of throwing the wrong Maryland man into a Salvadoran hell-hole without process… and then pretend that is all in service of some “noble” cause.

There is none.

It is all evil.

Out.

This Will Be Corrected When The Merits Are Reached, But The Dissent Tonight Is Correct. Trump Is In The Wrong — Now And Always.

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File this under abuse of the Supremes’ own shadow docket — by Alito/Thomas. Damn. [My earlier backgrounder here.]

I won’t spend a lot of time on the idea that this feels like Alito / Thomas and three others handing Trump “a gimme” — one untethered from precedent (and/or reality).

But it sure looks like that, for these five to avoid being targeted themselves, by Tangerine 2.0’s crazier forces — here’s a bit of the fine dissent:

…The current President believes that Humphrey’s should be either overruled or confined. See Application 14; Letter from S. Harris, Acting Solicitor General, to Rep. J. Raskin, Re: Restrictions on the Removal of Certain Principal Officers of the United States (Feb. 12, 2025). And he has chosen to act on that belief — really, to take the law into his own hands. Not since the 1950s (or even before) has a President, without a legitimate reason, tried to remove an officer from a classic independent agency — a multi-member, bipartisan commission exercising regulatory power whose governing statute contains a for-cause provision. Yet now the President has discharged, concededly without cause, several such officers, including a member of the NLRB (Gwynne Wilcox) and a member of the MSPB (Cathy Harris). Today, this Court effectively blesses those deeds. I would not. Our Humphrey’s decision remains good law, and it forecloses both the President’s firings and the Court’s decision to award emergency relief….

Our emergency docket, while fit for some things, should not be used to overrule or revise existing law…. It is one thing to grant relief in that way when doing so vindicates established legal rights, which somehow the courts below have disregarded. It is a wholly different thing to skip the usual appellate process when issuing an order that itself changes the law. See, e.g., Netchoice, LLC v. Paxton, 596 U. S. ___, ___ (2022) (ALITO, J., dissenting from grant of application to vacate stay) (slip op., at 2) (demanding that an applicant for relief have a good claim “under existing law”)….

And nowhere is short-circuiting our deliberative process less appropriate than when the ruling requested would disrespect — by either overturning or narrowing — one of this Court’s longstanding precedents, like our nearly century-old Humphrey’s decision. Under that decision, this case is easy, as the courts below found: The President has no legal right to relief. Congress, by statute, has protected members of the NLRB and MSPB (like Wilcox and Harris) from Presidential removal except for good cause. See 29 U. S. C. §153(a)….

Damnation. Onward, resolutely just the same. I guess we should call this win number 5 — out of 121, now. Still a terrible Tangerine batting average — and this was with a corked bat — to be certain.

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Tonight, In The Ninth Cir., We Should See Tangerine 2.0/DOGE’s Brief, Appealing USDC Judge Alsup / SF Smack-Down — A Prelim. Injunction, In Favor Of The “Probationaries”.

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Busy days, indeed.

Tangerine 2.0 / DOGE was enjoined last month by Judge Alsup — and the Ninth Circuit will now decide whether Trump has any reason to overturn the injunction (hint: he does not). So we await the likely turgid filing from his lawyers, here tonight:

…Ninth Cir. [Appeal 25-2637; Original Case 25-cv-1780]:

Preliminary Injunction Opening Brief Due (Appellant) 5/22/2025….

Should (as ever!) be a truly… stultifying exercise in… befuddlement, and misdirection — by the Tangerine 2.0 lawyers. Heh!

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Tangerine 2.0 Is Met / Opposed, At The Supremes, This Morning — By A Veritable “Who’s Who” Of Former Bush 41 AND 43, AND Reagan Era-GOP Lawyers… Opposing Him, As Amici

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Not surprising, as the vast bulk of these are the “Never-Trumpers” inside the GOP — but one, Ty Cobb, is notable: he actually served in Tangerine 1.0’s maladministration — as the goof’s personal lawyer for more than three years. He opposes this nonsense, too. [He’s also the great-grandson, I think, of the vicious baseball hall of famer.]

Here’s a bit — but it sings a familiar (and truly meritorious) tune: the preznit cannot act with a mere Sharpie, alone — he needs the full Congress. And he simply hasn’t gotten it:

…The constitutional genius of America is the establishment of three branches of government that must cooperate with each other, and check and balance each other’s actions, to govern the country. In discussing “the necessary partition of power among the several departments,” the Framers contemplated an “interior structure of the government” that would provide “the means of keeping each other in their proper places.” THE FEDERALIST NO. 51 (James Madison). They understood that the branches’ functions were not designed to be “wholly unconnected” and “should not be so far separated as to have no constitutional control over each other.” THE FEDERALIST NO. 48 (James Madison)….

The Constitution requires that the President “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3. If the President disagrees with the legislative choices made by Congress — if he believes, for example, that the government is bloated, spending is out of control, or that programs and policies are poorly conceived — under our Constitutional scheme, he may recommend to Congress corrective measures that he deems “necessary and expedient.” Id. But the President cannot take unilateral action to implement his desired measures without Congressional action….

As I said, Trump is now almost 120-4, striking out — losing/against. That’s a terrible batting average, indeed. Busy-busy bees, here — truly! Heh!

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For Now, No To “Public” Religious Charter Schools Getting Primarily Direct Federal Funding… Supremes Deadlocked 4-4; Barrett Recused. Roberts Likely Voted It Violated Constitution.

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It is a near certainty that the three: KBJ, the Wise Latina and Justice Kagan voted it violated Amendment 1. That’s three. But the vote was a four-four tie, so we would best guess it was Chief Justice Roberts that sank the Oklahoma attempt.

Here’s a bit of it; I agree with the Okalhoma Supreme Court: church and state should remain separate:

…The one-page decision did not say how each justice voted. During oral arguments last month, most of the court’s conservatives indicated support for the school while liberals expressed concern. At least one conservative is likely to have sided with the liberals, most likely Chief Justice John Roberts.

The court will likely be asked to weigh in on the issue in future cases….

[It is likely that Justice Barrett recused due to her close affiliation with Notre Dame Law School — its clinic was counsel to the church here.] Onward — good news, for now — at least.

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Ringside & Powerline Boys: Trying To “Turn The Page” On Today’s ~$500 Million Bribe.

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Here is the Bill Otis version.

Here is the very similar Hinderaker flatulence, of the evening.

Confidential note to these jamokes: no one should care (from a legalities perspective) that Mr. Biden is or was ill, as being nearly as important as the current preznit formally accepting a $500 million “pre-bribe” from Qatar today.

But these boys are transparently silly: they think that their endless whining about Mr. Biden will prevent America from learning that Donald Trump is corrupt to the core.

It won’t. Clearly, most of the thinking people in America already know that Donald Trump is completely for sale to the highest bidder. The budget package tonight proves this.

Remember that Donald Trump just just five years ago said that Qatar was a sponsor of terrorism. And here he is accepting a $500 million jet from them.

It is often said that people turn to crime because they are not smart enough to do anything else.

Every move Trump makes is proof of that adage.

And these boys efforts are defending his felonies, or deflecting from them more precisely… are unbecoming — of people who once called themselves lawyers.

Out.

[UPDATED Family Contact Visit Granted!] USDC Judge Farbiarz Grants Family Visits, To Mr. Khalil!

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He’s given the Noem / Rubio lawyers only until about two hours from now, to oppose.

But then I am all but certain he will rule that she may see her husband in private — and he may hold his baby for the first time.

…[Updated Order; Family Contact Visitation Tomorrow, Granted.] On May 22, 2025, Khalil shall be permitted to meet with (1) his lawyer or lawyers and (2) his wife, Dr. [REDACTED] — at a single, joint meeting.

The meeting shall start before 10:30am, local time. The meeting shall take place in-person, and under conditions (including as to length of time and confidentiality) that are appropriate for a substantial attorney-client meeting. The facility and its officials may take reasonably necessary security measures. This Order is made under Title 28, United States Code, Section 1651.

IT IS on this 21st day of May, 2025, so ORDERED.

[Immediately prior] TEXT ORDER: The Respondents indicated to the Court’s deputy late this afternoon that they were working to meet the Court’s filing deadline but would likely not make it. But enough time was provided. This issue is a highly narrow one.

And it has, per the Petitioner’s letter at ECF 258, been brewing for long enough — the lawyers have been well aware of it, and so have officials at the relevant detention facility. In addition, the Respondents have indicated they need time to explain certain “security concerns” to the Court.

But the Court’s Order at ECF 262 allows for reasonable security measures to be taken. So Ordered by Judge Michael E. Farbiarz on 5/21/2025….

TEXT ORDER: Construing the Respondents’ letter at ECF 263 as a motion for reconsideration of the Court’s Order at ECF 262, the motion is denied. So Ordered by Judge Michael E. Farbiarz on 5/21/2025….

[Earliest] TEXT ORDER: The Petitioner filed a letter this afternoon and the Court received it a few moments ago.

The letter represents that the Petitioner’s wife, currently in Louisiana, is aware of certain facts that would be of assistance to counsel in their current habeas representation of the Petitioner before this Court. The Court credits this representation.

In this circumstance, the Court is inclined to issue an order today in aid of its jurisdiction, under the All Writs Act, at Title 8, United States Code, Section 1651, to permit the Petitioner, his wife, and the Petitioner’s lawyers to meet together tomorrow morning at the facility where the Petitioner is held.

It is apparent from the attachments to this letter that this issue was not teed up for the first time today.

And it is apparent from the letter that in response to the Petitioner’s request, the Respondents have been actively thinking through various issues, including with respect to facility security.

Should the Respondents wish to be heard in general, or as to how an order might be appropriately tailored, they should make a filing before 4:30 pm today.

So Ordered by Judge Michael E. Farbiarz on 5/21/2025….

Onward — grinning. Sometimes the right thing… happens.

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