Archive for 2025
March 19, 2025
NEWS YOU CAN USE: These Are the Safest SUVs You Can Buy for 2025.
READER FAVORITE: NORTIV 8 Men’s Ankle High Waterproof Hiking Boots. #CommissionEarned
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Traveler’s Gun Rights Act For Active-Duty Military And RV-ers.
READER FAVORITE: REDTIGER Dash Cam Front Rear. #CommissionEarned
SPACE: 4 tiny, Earth-like planets found circling 2nd-closest star system to us — and could be visited by future human generations. “Astronomers have long suspected that there was at least one exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s Star — a red dwarf with a mass around one-sixth that of the sun. At 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, after the three interconnected stars of the Alpha Centauri system.”
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Hollywood’s Rough Start To 2025 (And It’ll Probably Get Worse).
“What really made me laugh though,” the Drinker says, “was the idea that distributors are holding out hope for Snow White to turn their fortunes around. Hate to break it to you chaps, but with a projected $50 million opening weekend and some of the worst PR in Hollywood history, something tells me this isn’t going to be the box office savior you’re hoping for.”
Fortunately though, America’s Newspaper of Record is reporting that Disney has a cunning, last-second plan to salvage its box office prospects!
THE CLOSING OF THE DISTAFF AMERICAN MIND:
And:
Earlier: The Era Of Presuming Liberal Moral Superiority Is Over.
PARDONS INVALID? Legal Analysis: Biden’s Autopen Pardons Are ‘Invalid’.
With the usual caveat that I am indeed not a lawyer (Boss, you looking?) I really suspect that a court would see this as non-judiciable, which is lawyer-speak for “we’re not touching this one.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A SHIATSU MASSAGE: So Another Male Feminist Turns out to Be a Social Media Perv.
WHEN AIRLINE PILOTS REPORTED THESE THINGS, PEOPLE SAID THEY WERE LYING: Unveiling the mysterious ‘red sprite’ lightning strikes over the Himalayas.
THE ROT RUNS DEEP: How Many Tax Dollars Bankrolled Union Efforts to Block Trump? “During the Biden administration, federal agencies spent millions bargaining sweetheart collective-bargaining agreements that imposed significant costs on the American taxpayer while impeding effective and efficient agency operations… Agencies paid for both the costs of their and their unions’ bargaining teams.”
THIS ONE IS A BIT OF AN ODDBALL: Normally, under Florida Star v BJF, I’d agree with telling the opposing counsel to go pound sand. But in this wrinkle, the media filed (and was granted) a Motion to Intervene, and as such, I think by doing so, they submit to the courts’ jurisdiction if a Motion to Compel is filed and granted. Then comes the fun and games of trying to get an immediate — almost interlocutory — appeal and request for a stay.
“During that meeting, the lawyer inadvertently sent the reporter unreacted versions of the confidential documents. When they’d realized the error, the attorney demanded The Oregonian to return or destroy the documents, but the newspaper refused.“
What say you? Will we see a replay of Bankers Trust v. Procter & Gamble? There “somebody” “leaked” the inadvertently disclosed documents to a third-party publisher who was not an intervenor.
Who says CivPro is no fun?
HMM: Gender gap in teenage depression is twice as large in London as in Tokyo, study finds.. “By the age of 16, the difference in depressive symptoms between boys and girls in London was around twice as large as in Tokyo. The average level of depressive symptoms in teenage boys in Tokyo declined between the ages of 11 and 16, whereas for boys in London it increased slightly over time, following a similar trajectory to that of teenage girls in Tokyo.” Well, Tokyo doesn’t have English-language media.
THERE THEY GO AGAIN: Judge Temporarily Halts Trump EPA From Ending Climate Grant Fund.
WELL, THAT’S BAD LUCK: Babies with heart defects also prone to cancer, researchers say.
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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YES, THIS IS WORTH YOUR TIME:
Important thread by @ProfMJCleveland. Trump’s lawyers have skillfully bent over backwards to avoid conflict with Art III in the face of massive provocations. Read the whole thing. https://t.co/Urk3Bf4AdP
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 19, 2025
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This lesson used to be taught to every law student on the first day of Constitutional Law—or whatever day Marbury v Madison is taught: How Marshall brilliantly claimed the duty of judicial review without mandating Jefferson do something he might well have refused to do. https://t.co/QstoVP3ba9
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 19, 2025
Yes, before the decision in Marbury was announced, President Thomas Jefferson had already stated that if he lost, he would not obey a ruling for the plaintiff. Background here.
Plus:
All the courts have is the perception of legitimacy, which can be lost. The Left has been systematically attacking the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Now progressive district court judges are undermining the legitimacy of the judiciary on the right. This is so dangerous. https://t.co/BKLUv5rC7Z
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 19, 2025
After Dobbs, the left went on the warpath against the Supreme Court. Now the federal judiciary is delegitimizing itself with the right. Chief Justice Roberts’ concerns with “legitimacy” seem mostly focused on the New York Times and Washington Post editorial pages. That is a serious error.
JOSH TREVIÑO: Trump Has Mexico on the Ropes.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What’s Your State’s Education Freedom Grade? Our New Tool Reveals the Truth.
Here’s the link to the ratings. Only six states received a B or better, although ten have yet to be graded.