March 19, 2025

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: A Nation, Not A Side Quest. We’re lucky to have Elon to help save us, but let’s turn America into a nation that doesn’t need saving.

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Posted at 8:39 am by Glenn Reynolds

“NOT AN ‘ELECTION WEEK'”: CA law giving mail ballots a week after Election Day to arrive is illegal, lawsuit says.

“Federal law requires an Election Day – not an ‘Election Week,’” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in the same release. “California’s counting of ballots that arrive a full seven days after Election Day is unlawful, encourages fraud, and undermines voter confidence in election outcomes.”

The lawsuit is similar to others Judicial Watch has launched across the country, also challenging extended vote-by-mail receipt and counting deadlines.

In a lawsuit against a deadline extension law in Mississippi, Judicial Watch secured a ruling in their favor from the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which declared counting ballots received after Election Day in federal races violated federal law.

In Illinois, Judicial Watch challenged a vote-by-mail law, which forces election officials to count all mail-in ballots received up to two weeks after Election Day, even if the ballots don’t include a postmark proving they were mailed by Election Day, as otherwise required by law.

Judicial Watch, along with U.S. Rep. Michael Bost, R-Illinois, lost in the lower courts. However, they have appealed those rulings to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court is currently awaiting a response brief from Illinois state officials defending the law. The court set a deadline of April 4 to receive the state of Illinois’ response.

In the meantime, Judicial Watch has partnered with Issa to open a third front in the fight to end the counting of vote-by-mail ballots that come in long after Election Day.

Representative democracy requires trust in the system, and California’s system (among others’) is untrustworthy.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

THESE ARE ALL GOOD QUESTIONS:

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Posted at 8:29 am by Glenn Reynolds

MANNY KLAUSNER, RIP:  I learned yesterday evening that Manny Klausner has passed away at the age of 85.  He was a wonderfully optimistic soul and a great ally in the fight for liberty and equal protection under the law–the happiest of warriors.  It was impossible not to love him.  More on Manny here.

Posted at 7:48 am by Gail Heriot

CHANGE? Germany votes for historic boost to defence spending.

State government representatives in the upper house, the Bundesrat, still need to approve the moves – also by a two-thirds majority – before they officially become law. That vote is set for Friday.

Friedrich Merz, the man behind these plans and who is expected to soon be confirmed as Germany’s new chancellor, told the lower house during Tuesday’s debate that the country had “felt a false sense of security” for the past decade.

“The decision we are taking today… can be nothing less than the first major step towards a new European defence community,” he said, adding that it includes countries that are “not members of the European Union”.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the vote “excellent news”.

Speaking at a press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, she said the vote “sends a very clear message to Europe that Germany is determined to invest massively in defence”.

Frederiksen meanwhile called it “fantastic news for all Europeans”.

It will be fantastic news if the bill passes the upper house and Berlin actually follows through. Even then, there’s still Germany’s ongoing deindustrialization, birth dearth, and immigration crisis to deal with.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS WORLD, YOU’RE FEELING THE CHANGE OF THE GUARD:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

IF WESTERN MILITARIES WERE ALLOWED TO WIN, THEY ALWAYS WOULD. THEN THE WEST WOULD RULE TRIUMPHANT, WITH FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE, AND WE CAN’T HAVE THAT.

Now that the West’s governments have been sufficiently corrupted — *cough* Keir Starmer *cough* — they may be allowed to win again.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

BAH. HOLLYWOOD HAS BEEN CENSORING AND CANCELLING ALL THE WAY DOWN FOR DECADES:  Tim Roth: Trump Will Censor Artists.

And we haven’t seen much in the way of art out of it for a long time.

Posted at 6:26 am by Sarah Hoyt

THIS IS DOMESTIC TERRORISM AND MUST BE TREATED AS SUCH:  TERROR: Democrat activists have taken the attacks on Tesla to an entirely new level publishing a hit list for activists to target the homes of owners, stores, and charging stations. To get removed from the list Tesla owners must prove they sold their cars. It is time for the FBI and DOJ to investigate who is behind these coordinated attacks. 

And this is for all the X-less (thinking that life has passed you by.)

Posted at 3:33 am by Sarah Hoyt