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Bill Glahn At Powerline Engages (Again!) In Blood Libel. Y A W N.

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So, Bill Glahn — the newest chucklehead at Powerline is no lawyer. That is painfully clear. Even so, he ought to at least have a passing familiarity with Supreme Court jurisprudence, in the area of racial profiling, before popping off — about how unfair it might be, to allow ICE to violate the Fourth Amendment without even articulable suspicion.

In the unbroken line of 75 years of cases, the Supremes have never allowed appearances or languages being spoken, to be considered probable cause to detain or arrest. We are not to judge books solely by their covers (See, Hernandez v. Sessions 2017).

But today, Glahn cries foul when a US District Court Judge in LA tells ICE and DHS and Border Patrol just that: the color of ones’ skin cannot ever be probable cause, standing alone.

The idiot’s remarks, are here — in context:

…A different federal judge in Tennessee really, really, wants to let Abrego Garcia free, while he awaits trial on human smuggling charges. ICE really, really wants to pick up Mr. Abrego Garcia and ship him elsewhere.

If you are interested in some insight into this process (so much due process), as it happens, I spent this afternoon attending federal court in St. Paul, MN, learning about Minnesota Dad Ezequiel Rojas-Gasca, of parts of unknown. His case presents many of the same facts as his Maryland counterpart. Read my account….

Above, Glahn libels Abrego Garcia (and it is libel per se!) by calling him a pedophile and a violent sex-trafficker. Those were the allegations in the Minnesota case he was sitting in on — but the federal courts in Tennessee have specifically ruled already that the government’s charges about activities with underage persons… cannot be sustained. In sum, there is zero competent proof of any of that.

And, by the way, Bill — Abrego Garcia was kidnapped, and dropped in a hell hole with zero due process — for three months.

Sit. The. Fuck. Down, Bill.

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The Able USDC Judge Xinis Will Take A Few Days To Release Her Decision — On Whether To Order The Return Of Abrego Garcia To Maryland…

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After two days of hearings, she has quite prudently reserved her decision.

So now… we wait. Could be a few days, or it could be… a week or two.

But it is reasonably likely that USDC Judge Crenshaw in Nashville will have held his evidentiary hearing, on the supposed basis for Mr. Abrego Garcia’s charges, in that courthouse, by the time she rules in Maryland.

We shall see. It is clear that the Noemites don’t know what they are doing. At the hearing yesterday, the government said it might never attempt to put Mr. Abrego Garcia on trial in Tennessee. [What an endless sh!t-show from Noem — and she thinks it a big deal to tell Americans they no longer need to take their shoes off during TSA screenings?! Damn.]

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And Nearly Three Decades On — More Mammalian Cloning Controversies… Polo Ponies — This Time.

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In the sweet, silly movie “Notting Hill“, Hugh Grant pretends to be a journalist for “Horse & Hound” — in order to spend a few moments in a faux-interview with Julia Roberts (playing a movie star spending the Summer in London, on a shoot). Zany situations — as ever — seem to result.

Well, it turns out that there really is a UK magazine called “Horse & Hound“, and it features a story (sort of a “Pandora’s Box” follow-up on the Dolly story I posted over the weekend). It seems that cloned polo ponies sell for upwards of $800,000 — and thus ruin friendships, when secretly stolen or re-cloned without proper intellectual property licenses / payments. Who knew?! Read on:

…The case focuses on clones of Cambiaso’s most successful horse, Dolfina Cuartetera – ranked first in Argentina’s Polo Hall of Fame – who died in May 2023, at the age of 22. Several of her clones have gone on to compete at the highest level, featuring in the prestigious Argentine Triple Crown. Among Cambiaso and his son Adolfo “Poroto” Cambiaso’s top mounts are Cuartetera clones B06 and B09.

The lawsuit alleged that Cambiaso’s longtime business partner, Alan Meeker, secretly sold Cuartetera’s clones to a rival polo team without his knowledge, despite their decade-long partnership. The claims included breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets.

Polo remains the most accepting equestrian sport when it comes to cloning; Argentina imposes few regulations and no restrictions on the number of cloned ponies allowed in competition — leaving teams and breeders to set their own rules. . . .

Meeker and Cambiaso included a three-month-old Cuartetera clone in a high-profile auction, who sold for $800,000 – the highest price ever paid for a polo horse. The buyers were a partnership led by Argentinian businessman and amateur polo player Ernesto Gutiérrez, a close friend of Cambiaso….

[F]ollowing a nine-day jury trial in May 2024, Cambiaso’s legal team – Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP (WTO) – demonstrated that Meeker had secretly sold Cuartetera clones to an unnamed Russian businessman for $800,000 each, with additional sales planned….

I doubt most people would have seen this story, absent my prompting — so enjoy. That said, I am fairly certain that the cloned ponies suffer from some genetic defects, as a result of being cloned and re-cloned. And as a rule, it seems… less than ethical. But who am I to judge? Anyhoo — here’s that opening scene — quite the charmer, that Mr. Grant:

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[U] The Abrego Garcia Hearing At 1 PM In Judge Xinis’ Maryland District Court Will Feature A Grilling Of One Thomas Giles / Noemite.

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Updated after Midnight: After protracted hearings today, this hearing will be continued tomorrow morning. I’ll offer more after that. End updated portion.

As promised — this one will be a… barn-burner.

The Noemites will be back-pedaling, throughout — trying to explain why they think the case should now be over [not a chance!], solely because they took three full months to get Mr. Abrego Garcia out of a torture prison in El Salvador — after they used essentially no lawful processes to send him there, in the first place. For all intents and purposes… he was… kidnapped off the street. We don’t do that, here in America, Jack. [For at least a century, we didn’t — not until Tangerine 1.0 and 2.0.]

In any event, we will offer an end of day summary here. Count on it:

…On July 7, 2025, the Court issued an order scheduling a hearing for Thursday, July 10 at 1:00 pm for the purpose of addressing several topics discussed in the same order.

The Court further directed the Defendants to provide a notice identifying any witness or witnesses they intended to call by Thursday, July 10, 2025, at 9:00 am.

Defendants hereby provide notice that the Defendants intend to call Thomas Giles, Assistant Director for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) located in Los Angeles, California….

Now you know. Onward.

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Power Alley: RFK, Jr.’s Evidence-Free Vaccine Lunacy Will… Get Kids Killed. Count On It — Moderna/COVID Vax Edition…

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The good news is that Moderna’s jab has been approved for Children under age 12.

But even so, RJK, Jr. continues his unscientific narrowing of eligibility for pediatric cases. This is truly a bizarre moment in life science: we have more knowledge, and more ability to fight disease than ever before in human history — yet here in the US at least, a “know nuthin'” party fever has infected swaths of our health care regulatory and delivery systems. So measles outbreaks are presently at an all time high (since 1973).

And Tangerine continues to spout non-science on human health almost daily. Still, we are pleased by this long delayed FDA approval:

…US regulators approved Moderna Inc.’s Covid vaccine for children, but for a narrower group than before, continuing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial policy positions that have led to restricted access to the shots for kids.

The Food and Drug Administration cleared the company’s application for full approval of the immunization for kids under 12 who are at increased risk from the disease, the company said in a statement….

Onward — and, with truly revolutionary hybrid technology, now in our garage… we are definitively 21st Century believers here! Heh.

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The Manifold Lies Noem Told, About Mr. Khalil’s Detention Processes. [That Is, There Were None.]

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This will be the subject of a show cause hearing very shortly. Count on it. And this is — in no small part — why Mr. Khalil is free with no cash bond. What a egregiously lawless agency Ms. Noem is running, now. Dammit.

This is all… deplorable. And here’s a salient bit of it:

…I am a partner at Van Der Hout LLP, which is located at 360 Post Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94108. I have personal knowledge of the matters stated herein. I am one of Mr. Khalil’s attorneys who is representing him in the above captioned-matter before this Court and also the Immigration Court. I have been practicing immigration law since December 2011.

Mr. Khalil’s arrest by ICE on March 8, 2025, did not involve a judicial warrant, an administrative warrant, or any probable cause finding that would have permitted his warrantless arrest.

In fact, although ICE officials told Mr. Khalil on the night of his arrest that they had a warrant — while refusing to show him one (see ECF 284-1, June 4 Mahmoud Khalil Declaration ¶¶ 48-49)—evidence later submitted in his immigration proceedings confirmed that no such warrant existed.

DHS also initially claimed in Mr. Khalil’s immigration proceedings—without citing any
evidence or even offering to provide any testimony from the ICE agents involved in Mr.
Khalil’s arrest—that ICE agents believed “that it was likely he would escape before they
could obtain a warrant” on the night of his arrest, thus alleviating them of the need to first obtain an administrative warrant. But surveillance video obtained by our team showed that Mr. Khalil remained cooperative, calm, and fully responsive to the agents’ instructions even as he attempted to understand the grounds for his shocking and unexpected arrest.

One important point to note is that a DHS whistleblower later revealed that DHS’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) had opened an investigation into the “due process concerns raised by” DHS’ arrest and attempted removal of Mr. Khalil, just days before the CRCL office was dissolved….

At no point in Mr. Khalil’s immigration proceedings was he afforded a probable cause hearing, as there does not exist such a process in civil immigration proceedings….

Now you know. Deplorable. Damn.

The Supremes Say “Nope!” To Racially Charged Florida Law Sponsored By DeSantis.

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The malignant purported Florida law plainly only targets those immigrants in places where more people are… brown or Black, than whyte.

Here is the very capable legal developments reporting, of one Amy Howe — at SCOTUSBlog:

…The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow Florida to enforce a state law that makes it a crime for anyone who entered the United States illegally to enter or remain in the state. In a brief unsigned order, the justices left in place an order by a federal district judge in Miami that bars the state from implementing the law….

The Florida law at the center of the case is known as SB 4-C. Enacted by the state’s legislature in February of this year, the law makes it a crime for undocumented immigrants to enter or re-enter Florida….

An immigrants’ rights group, the Florida Immigrant Coalition, and an advocacy group, the Farmworker Association of Florida, went to federal court in Miami to challenge the law, along with two undocumented immigrants who could be arrested and prosecuted under the law. They argued that federal immigration laws superseded the Florida law, and that the Florida law violates the dormant commerce clause — the theory that the provision of the Constitution giving Congress the power to regulate commerce between states also bars states from discriminating against, or placing a burden on, that commerce….

Now you know — one more for the good guys — now at about 142 to about 5 (for Tangerine). Grin….

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As Expected, The Able USDC Judge Xinis In MD Has Denied Noem’s Motions To End The Injunction, And Will Not Dismiss Abrego Garcia’s Claims Against The Govt…

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Once again, Noem is told that due process is for everyone on US soil.

This nicely frames the evidentiary hearing set for July 16 at 1 PM Central in Nashville, as well: [I’ll be live in Courtroom 3C, then — getting in on the night of the 15th — to Union Station. So I’ll be well rested, and yep! — full of it, by then!]

…PAPERLESS ORDER:

For the reasons stated on the record during the July 7, 2025 hearing, [165] Defendants Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction is DENIED;

[200] Defendants Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction and to Dissolve the Injunction is DENIED on the jurisdictional grounds and

TAKEN UNDER ADVISEMENT, as to the request to dissolve the injunction.

Signed by Judge Paula Xinis on 7/7/2025….

Effectively this means a complete loss for Noemites — but expect that Miller will file a baseless interlocutory appeal. Damn.

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With A “Blood Feuds” West Wing, This Is To Be Expected… Corrupt Chevron Machinations Edition.

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So this maladministration… stumbles ever onward, into ignominy. [Updated the graphic.]

I suppose we should not be surprised.

But it is fair to be… disheartened by how far America has fallen. Damn. Late night NYT, breaking the awful story:

…The U.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans in El Salvador for American Prisoners…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the U.S. envoy to Venezuela were both working on different deals and ended up at cross purposes….

[T]he deal never happened.

Part of the reason: President Trump’s envoy to Venezuela was working on his own deal, one with terms that Venezuela deemed more attractive. In exchange for American prisoners, he was offering to allow Chevron to continue its oil operations in Venezuela, a vital source of revenue for its authoritarian government….

Losers. One and all — just show ponies; no work horses, among the lot. And corrupt — looking to sell favors to Chevron?! Damn.

Out.

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[U: Confirmed]: Merck To Acquire Ohtuvayre™ Maker Verona Pharma?

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The Financial Times pegs the rumored price at around $10 billion.

Me? I’d be surprised, but never say never. Here’s a bit on it:

…The deal would value Verona at $107 per American depositary share, the report said, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations. That represents a 23% premium to its Tuesday’s closing price.

Verona Pharma is focused on developing and commercializing therapies for the treatment of chronic respiratory diseases (COPD), with Ohtuvayre (ensifentrine) its first commercial product….

Yep… dead Midsummer days seem to spawn the occasional deal rumor. Onward. It will, of course, complement the Winrevair™ franchise….

But what of Trump’s new threat to charge non-US pharma a 200% price tariff for importing to the US?! How can one defend this price, if the corrupt clown persists in his… lunacy?!

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