A View from the Beach: Flotsam and Jetsam - Judge Boasberg 'Draws' Signalgate Lawsuit

Day 3 of the "Signalgate Scandal." Day 1 was barely wet a toe, and Day 2 dived in headfirst.

Kaelen Deese at WaEx, Trump officials sued over Signal text records. Sundance, Guess Which DC Judge Was Just Assigned to SignalGate Lawsuit, Boasberg. Sean Davis @seanmdav, "What a crazy coincidence you guys. Can you believe this coincidence. What a wild and random coincidence that is totally a coincidence." Quote Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney, "Replying to @kyledcheney You really can’t script this. The same week the Trump admin invokes the state secrets privilege to deny Boasberg info, he is assigned the lawsuit over the Trump administration’s apparent carelessness with state secrets." Jeff Carlson @themarketswork, "Nobody with even half a brain is believing this happened by chance." Quote Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney, "JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit." Jerry Dunleavy at JTN reports ‘This is a problem’: Boasberg attending anti-Trump org's event spurs calls to ban judicial junkets. "Judge Boasberg attended a conference funded by an anti-Trump organization. Now there are calls to ban privately-funded judicial junkets altogether." From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 03.26.25 (Afternoon Edition), EBL, “Honorable” Judge Boasberg thinks he is president. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Obama Appointed Judge: Maybe I Lack the Power to Overrule the White House Nationwide? Elle Purnell at Da Fed, Obstructing Trump’s Agenda Via Injunction Is The New Russia Collusion Hoax. Victor Joecks, When Judges Violate the Constitution. From Althouse, "Under what theory of the constitution does a single marxist judge in San Francisco have the same executive power as the Commander-in-Chief elected by the whole nation to lead the executive branch?" "Tweet Stephen Miller, quoted by David French in "Trump Is Coming for Every Pillar of the State" (NYT)", and "We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court." ""We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act." Said Mike Johnson, quoted in "Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges/Republican lawmakers are setting their sights on the judiciary following court rulings that have halted Trump's agenda" (NBC News)." At the WSJ, A Supreme Court Remedy for Nationwide Injunctions, "Congress gave the Supreme Court the authority to curb them by clarifying the Rules of Civil Procedure." ET, Judge Rules Biden Admin Unlawfully Canceled Oil, Gas Leases in Alaska Refuge. "AIDEA filed the lawsuit against the Biden administration in 2023 after the Department of Interior canceled oil and gas leases it won in January 2021."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair warns Never, Ever, EVER Trust a Breaking News Story That Makes Trumpworld Look Bad. Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash, "Full Signal text chain has been released. There's nothing in it but the pros and cons of striking now vs waiting a month. It's not war plans. It's not classified info. It's a conversation, and nice to see cabinet members and staffers hashing out the best way to move forward. I also love that JD Vance can NOT stand Europe." Sundance at CTH, Atlantic Magazine Publishes Entire National Security Signal Group Chat Content, "READ IT HERE." I did. It's not very illuminating. Matt Vespa at TownHall, The Atlantic's Signal Story Is Quickly Falling Apart. PJM's Matt Margolis says Another 'Signalgate' Narrative Just Crashed and Burned and Jeffrey Goldberg Accidentally Proved His ‘Signalgate’ Narrative Is a Hoax, while Vicky Taft is trying to Distinguish the Signal From the Noise. David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi, "So this from yesterday turned out to be a complete lie. Not even close to being true. Just a lie."

Sundance hosts President Trump Answers Questions About SignalGate During Press Availability, SignalGate: NSA Mike Waltz Says a Contact ID Was Wrongly Attributed to Jeffrey Goldberg’s Phone Number and CIA Director John Ratcliffe Notes Signal app Was Installed on His Devices by CIA Personnel as Approved. Charlotte Hazard at JTN reports Intelligence leaders to testify before Senate committee amid reports about Yemen strike. From Fox, Signal says it is 'gold standard' for encrypted messaging, despite claims of vulnerabilities, "Signal says reports that its app has vulnerabilities are not 'accurate.'"

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius "Do you guys remember that time that a chubby Army lieutenant colonel with a dead-end career listened in on a confidential call between the President of the United States and the President of Ukraine, and then that rabidly partisan chow-thief LTC violated all of the confidentiality terms of his security clearance and ran to unauthorized Congressional staffers to blab the contents of that confidential, high-level conversation? Remember how literally every Democrat alive thought that was just peachy-keen fine? I remember. Good times...." 'Becca Downs at TownHall, Ted Cruz Weighs In on 'Signalgate' With a Key Reminder "So, on substance, we ought to be thrilled," as "we actually have a commander in chief who's standing up for America, who's defending American shipping, who’s defending American interests, who's fighting terrorists who hate America. All of that is a massive contrast from what happened under Joe Biden," Matt Taibbi at Racket, Chatgate: Senator Mark Warner's Shifting Stance on Leaks, "This is the same Mark Warner who was Vice-Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee whose head of security, James A. Wolfe, was criminally convicted in 2018 of lying to the FBI about leaking the Carter Page FISA material to a pair of journalists. Warner didn’t invoke shock, crap or steroids in response to that leak, which led to stories calling a former Trump aide an “agent of a foreign power.” In fact, Warner wrote a letter to the judge in Wolfe’s case, Ketanji Brown Jackson, recommending leniency. . . " From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 03.26.25 (Afternoon Edition), Dana Loesch on When You Add A Progressive Journalist To The War Chat. At the Babylon Bee, Hegseth Kicking Himself For Not Just Getting 13 Soldiers Killed And Giving $80 Billion In Weapons To Terrorists.

Dave Strom observes Trump Approval Skyrocketing, But So Is Democrat Engagement. NY Sun, Confounding Conventional Wisdom, Polls Find Trump Stronger Than Ever, "The clock is ticking for Democrats to find their footing ere the midterms are upon them." At Da Caller, ‘Through The Roof’: CNN Data Guru Breaks Down Surge In Americans Saying US On ‘Right Track’ Under Trump. PJM's Stephen Kruiser has his Fingers Crossed That the Trump Effect on the GOP Lasts Far Beyond His Presidency and notes The Seeds of the Trump 47 Administration Were Sown by the Tea Party Movement in 2009. At ET, No Recession in Sight… Say Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell and A Look at Trump’s Tariff Plan to Revive the US Auto Industry.

Sundance, Team USA and Team Russia Release Statements Following Technical “Ceasefire” Team Meetings. ET, Zelenskyy Says US Has Offered ‘Full-Scale’ Critical Minerals Deal. "Kyiv says Washington’s proposal is a ‘full-scale agreement’ that could pave the way for a joint revenue-sharing agreement on rare earths." At Liberty Unyielding, Trump’s desire for Greenland may cost the U.S. billions of dollars in lost sales to Denmark. I hope this doesn't interfere with the all important lutefisk trade.

Jeff Charles at TownHall, Federal Employees Are Looking for New Jobs As the DOGE Chainsaw Nears. Learn to plumb. The Peacock whimpers Treasury Department is set to lay off a ‘substantial’ number of employees, official says. Dave Harsanyi says There’s no reason for the Department of Education to exist. Fox, House Hearings NPR, PBS chiefs set to clash with GOP lawmakers during DOGE subcommittee hearing "NPR's Katherine Maher, PBS' Paula Kerger will testify before the subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene." And testify she did,

Catching a Liberal White Lady tweeting in 2020 that she took a day off to fully absorb a v. important book about reparations, and making her admit under oath she probably didn't read it after all is an all-timer of Liberal White Lady moments. https://t.co/ErGUfVVN23
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) March 26, 2025

At Da Mail, NPR boss makes stunning Biden admission as she's confronted at Congress over her wokest pronouncements. At Insty, a long Driscolly poss on NPR’S QUEEN OF THE KARENS and NPR BOSS MAKES THE ULTIMATE BIDEN CONFESSION AS SHE’S GRILLED OVER WOKE-ISM AND LIES AT BLOCKBUSTER HEARING ON CAPITOL HILL: Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray "NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher on the truth: “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.” Reposting this because the original poster deleted the video."

From NYPo, Democrats WILL regret cheering as Tesla terrorism rages on. Paula Scanlan @PaulaYScanlan, "Spent the morning registering voters at Tesla charging stations in New Jersey. Tesla owners are going to make this state RED." 'Becca Downs notes Rashida Tlaib Won't Condemn Acts of Domestic Terrorism Against Tesla. You could knock two words off that title and still be accurate. alexandriabrown @alexthechick "So the FT, which is supposedly one of the premiere traditional financial news media outlets, has a writer who doesn't understand accrual method of accounting? Covering itself in something that is definitely not glory." Quote, "Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt, "NEWS: The Financial Times has issued an apology after suggesting that @Tesla had shady accounting with $1.4 billion "missing." In reality, the Financial Times just didn't understand the accounting, and an expert reached out to them to explain it to them. FT: "One unavoidableShow more"

Sundance, President Trump Directs the Declassification and Release of FBI Russiagate Files – Essentially, “the Mar-a-Lago Binder”, but goes on to discuss the limitations on the order.

At NewsMax, DOJ Defends Trump in N.Y. Felony Case. "The Department of Justice took up President Donald Trump's business records case on Wednesday, arguing to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the prosecution should be moved out of New York state court so a push can be made to toss the guilty verdict on presidential immunity grounds."

Also at Althouse, "President Barack Obama... claimed the right to kill U.S. citizens abroad without trial, used the Espionage Act against whistleblowers and expanded domestic counterterrorism." ""He helped perfect the arsenal that Trump would later inherit. It was the left, not the right, that normalized censoring disfavored online speech during the pandemic, often using intelligence-linked partners to do so. It was establishment liberals who applauded when the FBI investigated Trump-world operatives — not on the basis of principle, but because they liked the target. Now the weapon is back in circulation, only in different hands.... That’s how weapons work.... Power, once created and normalized, rarely stays dormant — and never stays partisan...." From "Trump is using weapons that liberals helped build," by Vinnie Rotondaro (at The Hill)."

Via NewsMax, FBI's Patel: More Terror Suspect Arrests at Northern Border. Fox reports Noem comes face-to-face with alleged Tren de Aragua members during tour of notorious El Salvador prison. "Noem on 3-day trip to El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico."