Flotsam and Jetsam - Is the Supreme Court's Patience Running Thin?

Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller sees Supreme Court Becoming Increasingly Frustrated With ‘Half-Baked’ Cases Challenging Trump Deportations, Turley Says. PJM's Matt Margolis hears Tom Homan Destroys Van Hollen for Prioritizing MS-13 Member Over American Victims. At Hat Hair Capt Ed hears whining from Klobuchar: Trump Keeps Abrego Garcia In Headlines For PR! cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander, "Everyone does know this is MK-1 MOD 0 Cloward-Piven, yes?" Quote Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "ON THE WAY IN: Open border and mass release of millions ON THE WAY OUT: Strong vetting and case by case evaluation. Upside down world. The Biden admin overwhelmed the system on purpose. The last 4 years were not normal, it was a national emergency. Emergency powers must be used." At Althouse, "I want to propose a humanitarian agreement that includes the repatriation of 100 percent of the 252 Venezuelans who were deported, in exchange for the release and surrender of an identical number (252) of the thousands of political prisoners you hold." "Wrote El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, on X, addressing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, quoted in the NYT."

Scott Pinsker at PJM warns It’s World War III... and the Democrats Are Siding With China. At NewsMax cites Trump: Federal Reserve's Powell 'Major Loser' and Dr. Redfield: COVID's Origin Is Clear and reports Hegseth Hits Back at 'Leakers,' 'Hoaxsters'. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.21.25,  American Greatness, Trump ‘Stands Strongly Behind Pete Hegseth’ Amid Latest SignalGate Controversy, Cafe Hayek: Manufacturing Job Openings, Nothing But Ominous Clouds, A Note on the Decline in American Manufacturing Jobs, Fareed Zakaria Nails It, and It’s Stupid to Match Other Countries’ Stupidity With Stupidity of Our Own, Dana Loesch: Hegseth, SecDef, & DeSantis, The Federalist: Republicans In Congress Look To Stop ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat’,, The Pete Hegseth ‘Chaos’ That Wasn’t Then And Isn’t Now, Legal Insurrection, Rep. Raskin Threatens Countries That Cooperate With Trump, Shark Tank: Buchanan Commends Trump’s Renegotiation of Trade After EU Visit, Watts Up With That: Trump’s Energy Policies Will Help U.S. Lead in Global AI Race, Endangerment Finding endangers energy & freedom, A new “Queer Centered” Climate Religion Claims Inspiration from President Trump. Rusty Weiss at RedState notes an Army Commander Suspended After Photos of Trump, Vance, and Hegseth Vanished From Chain of Command Wall, that may or may not be related.  Althouse wants you to Beware the panicans and the entryists. "I'm reading "How Trump Worship Took Hold in Washington/The President is at the center of a brazenly transactional ecosystem that rewards flattery and lockstep loyalty," by Antonia Hitchens, in The New Yorker" The Telegraph goes Behind Donald Trump’s decision to shake up White House briefings, "The president’s new style of informal press conference is here to stay."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.21.25, Jasmine Crockett reduced to literal tears over how mean Trump is to illegal immigrants, Chicago cancels its Cinco de Mayo parade, and of course it’s somehow Trump’s fault, Vox Popoli: Russia and the Immigration Challenge, Immigration and Empire are Degenerate, American Greatness: Justice Alito Voices Dissent on Supreme Court’s ‘Legally Questionable’ Late Night Order, El Salvadoran President Bukele Tells CNN He Has No Plan to ‘Smuggle’ Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Back to U.S., American Thinker, Is it Time to Ignore the Judiciary? The Lid: Police Find Mexican Nationals Transporting 180,000 Rounds of Rifle Ammo During Traffic Stop, Legal Insurrection: UK Gynecologists Report Rise in Flesh-Eating Infections of the Vulva, Arizona Gov. Hobbs Vetoes Bill Requiring State to Cooperate With ICE, Rep. Raskin Threatens Countries That Cooperate With Trump,

At the College Fix, George Mason PhD student asks ‘when must we kill’ Trump, his administration. VodkaPundit at PJM hears a George Mason PhD Student Asks ‘When Must We Kill’ Trump and Hilarity Ensues. Bad Hombre@joma_gc "Life comes at you fast." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.21.25, Tom Kratman: The Care & Feeding Of Your Right-Wing Death Squad – “When Must We Kill Them?”, The Lid, Another Dangerous, Leftist College ‘Professor’ Speaks in Favor of Assassinating His Political Opposition. Matt Taibbi, In Highest Comedy, Arch-Priest Of Elites David Brooks Calls For “Civic Uprising”. 

At TownHall Kurt Schlichter is having a serious schadenboner over Letitia James legal trouble, The Sad Trombone Blows for Letitia James – Whomp! Whomp! If it lasts more than 4 hrs just lay back and enjoy it. From White Collar Fraud, Letitia James’ Mortgage Misclassification Just Got Worse. NewsMax reports Comer Refers Cuomo to DOJ for Criminal Prosecution. But I thought lying to Congress is only a crime for Republicans! At CNN, Wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez convicted in bribery scheme. They clearly did not include the right people in their scheme. 

Matt Margolis hears Elizabeth Warren Humiliate Herself Defending Biden's Mental Acuity: 'He Was on His Feet.' Twitchy,  Kaitlan Collins' Old Biden Debate Prep Story Shows Why One Should Always Ignore ‘Sources Say’. Hardly working is not the same as working hard. Althouse notices The NYT notices that Kamala Harris was protected from needing to state an opinion on the trans-athlete issue. "The observation is hidden away near the end of "How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart.Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy."" PJM's Cathy Salgado reports a CCP-Tied Entity Bankrolled Anti-Trump Mayor, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. Catturd ™ @catturd2 "USAID money is gone." Quote Election Wizard @ElectionWiz, "Anti-Trump rallies this weekend: more of the same. Sparse crowds of mostly older White folks, pre-printed signs, no clever chants. Low-energy protests fizzled out in hours." Buck Throckmorton at Ace wonders  Could Ranked Choice Voting Allow the GOP to Snatch Some Prominent Seats in Blue States?

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.21.25, Matt Taibbi Greg Collard, The Numbers Behind The Government’s “Anti-Misinformation” Explosion. Matt Vespa at TownHall hears Matt Taibbi, Independent Journalist Used Two Words That Perfectly Described Taylor Lorenz, “cretinous” and "deranged.” 

 John LeFevre@JohnLeFevre "This is what social contagion looks like. When I was a kid, we had eating disorders, goths, Wiccans, and parents who forced kids to play a sport to vicariously fulfill some unmet dream of theirs. Now, we have this:" Sarah Arnold at TownHall is pissed a School Board Tells Crying Student to 'Wrap It Up' After Speaking Out Against Trans Athletes. Ace claims Woke Chinese-Slavery Exploiter Nike Is Funding a "Study" To Figure Out What Hormones to Inject Into Young Boys So They Can Pretend to Be Girls and "Compete Meaningfully" in Girls' Sports. At Liberty Unyielding a  “Bonkers” ruling: Judge wrongly rules fathers can’t wear pink wristbands to protest biological males in girls’ sports. Althouse find "The passport policy does indeed impose a special disadvantage on the plaintiffs due to their sex and the court therefore concludes that it discriminates on the basis of sex." "Wrote Judge Julia E. Kobick, quoted in "Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on Passport Changes/A group of transgender plaintiffs sued President Trump and the State Department over a new rule prohibiting passports from including a gender different from the sex listed on an original birth certificate" (NYT)." Stacy McCain has a Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Update: Brainwashed Zombie Praises ‘Ziz’ and Denies Killing Her Own Parents. You don't have to convince me they're crazy. 

Lindsey Halligan

From Althouse, "Ex beauty pageant competitor wants to decide what is and isn’t appropriate for the Smithsonian." ""Great — if the administration is going to embrace stupid, it might as well go all the way. Just another incompetent boob doing a job they aren’t qualified for and they’ve no business doing. There are some parts of American history I don’t like — that doesn’t mean I get to pretend they didn’t happen or demand they be stricken from museums and textbooks. It’s how most of us learn. And if we actually learn the lessons our ancestors taught us, we don’t do those things again. Unless you are a Republican — then you embrace the wrongs of the past. And btw — art can make people feel uncomfortable sometimes — it’s supposed to evoke feeling!" A comment, over at The Washington Post, on an article titled "She told Trump the Smithsonian needs changing. He’s ordered her to do it. Who is Lindsey Halligan, the attorney assigned to help remove 'improper ideology' from a major cultural institution?" (free-access link)." Ex-Beauty Pageant signifies "not our kind." Brad Essex at RedState, Too Old for Navy Seals, Woman Sues to Be Part of Elite Force. Give her a shot, I don't care. Let her wash out if she can't perform as well as the younger men.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: The Long View and FMJRA 2.0: The Cost of Victory up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.