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The Court Martial Option

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Aug. 23, 2021) — It starts. The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, retired Colonel Richard Kemp, CBE, rejects the notion that the Goofball-in-Chief – formerly known as Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. – should be impeached as a result of the unmitigated and calamitous disaster he has single-handedly precipitated in […]

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Wokestan Newspeak

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021  (Jul. 30, 2021) — Seriously?  Attorney General Merrick (“Thank-the-Lord-and-Mitch-McConnell-he’s-not-a-Supreme-Court-Justice”) Garland and the Goofball-in-Chief, both marinating in the swamp now called Washington, District of Wokestan, have agreed with one of their minions that the “Executive Office for Immigration Review” (“EOIR”) within the Department of “Justice” [sic] can no longer refer to illegal […]

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Kamala’s “Kinko’s Moment”

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021  (Jul. 11, 2021) — OK, the Goofball-in-Chief’s sidekick, aka Kamala Harris, once again demonstrates how painfully unqualified she is to serve in public office, let alone reside at One Observatory Circle.  And by “unqualified,” your humble servant means incompetent, rather than not constitutionally eligible, an entirely separate topic. No, the occupant […]

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USSC “Opinions Relating to Orders” and “Summer Order Lists”

 by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jul. 6, 2021) — In addition to writing majority opinions, dissenting opinions and concurring opinions, Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court sometimes prepare and issue “Opinions Relating to Orders.”  These opinions constitute the view of one or more of the Justices relating to the summary disposition of cases.  The most common […]

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The Tisdale Mirage

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021 (Jun. 17, 2021) — As your humble servant’s favorite former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, quipped when debating and dismantling Water Mondale’s doomed 1980 presidential campaign: “There you go again…”  President Reagan’s timeless observation has renewed relevance as your servant composes this response to comments from “Wilson” and “Luke” regarding the matters set […]

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A Brief Addendum

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021  (Jun. 14, 2021) — As a brief addendum to your humble servant’s prior post on the “quo warranto” topic (prompted by the comments of “Luke” and “Wilson”), an additional problem for Mr. Lindell and his lawyers takes the form of the proceedings in Laity v. Harris, USSC Doc. No. 20-1503.  There, […]

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The Fight for the Filibuster

by Joseph DeMaio, ©2021   (Mar. 18, 2021) — Lord Acton said it best, back in 1887: “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The longer explanation of that observation is that as a person’s or organization’s power increases, their moral sense diminishes, sometimes incrementally, sometimes exponentially.  In more colloquial terms, this explains the modern variation on […]