Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - DC Appeals Court Bitch Slaps Judge Boasberg

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair reports 'Intrusive': DC Appeals Court Slaps Down President Boasberg – Again "For at least the third time, the circuit court has called an end to Boasberg's attempts to run the ICE and Border Patrol. Rao flat-out ruled that Boasberg has committed an ongoing "abuse of discretion" with his threats of criminal contempt citations:... "The widening gyre of the district court’s investigation again calls for the extraordinary remedy of mandamus to halt the judicial “impairment of another branch in the performance of its constitutional duties.” Cheney v. U.S. Dist. Ct. for D.C., 542 U.S. 367, 390 (2004) (cleaned up). The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion, as the district court’s order said nothing about transferring custody of the plaintiffs and therefore lacks the clarity to support criminal contempt based on the transfer of custody. Moreover, the government has already provided the name of the responsible official, so further judicial investigation is unnecessary and therefore improper. In these circumstances, mandamus is appropriate to prevent the district court from assuming an antagonistic jurisdiction that encroaches on the autonomy of the Executive Branch."" From Althouse, "These proceedings improperly threaten an open-ended, freewheeling inquiry into executive branch decision-making on matters of national security..." ""... that implicate ongoing military and diplomatic initiatives. This judicial intrusion into the autonomy of a coequal department cannot be remedied by a later appeal from a contempt conviction." Wrote Judge Neomi Rao, for the majority, quoted in "Appeals Court Ends Contempt Inquiry Into Deportation Flights/A federal judge’s nearly yearlong effort to investigate whether the Trump administration had violated his order had become a point of contention in the president’s battles with the courts" (NYT): Here's the opinion, from the District of Columbia court. The judge below was James E. Boasberg." Ace, DC Court of Appeals Bodies, Beats Down Obama Judge Boasberg for His Extrajudicial Unending "Investigation" Into Trump for Ignoring His Poorly-Worded and Also Illegal Order. Kaelen Deese at WaEx, Appeals court shuts down Boasberg contempt inquiry into Trump administration over El Salvador deportations. At this point, Boasberg needs to be impeached for waging an extrajudicial war on the executive branch. I know the Senate would never never convict, but the trial would be illuminating. 

Dave Strom at Hat Hair says You May Not Have Noticed, But Tulsi Is Doing a Great Job. She doesn't agree with President Trump on a lot, but they both know the intelligence services tried to do them both in, at least politically. She is well motivated to get to the bottom, and clean out some rot on the way down. Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "Out of everything we now know about the Ukraine impeachment episode, the key point is that Ciaramella was one of the central operatives in the events leading up to Joe Biden getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired. That made him the perfect vehicle for advancing the “whistleblower” complaint, precisely because he himself was implicated in the underlying events. In effect, Ciaramella got to cover his own tracks, while his allies and higher ups, including Adam Schiff, got their impeachment. ..." Quote Andrii Telizhenko @TelizhenkoAndy, "Ciaramella -not a whistleblower he is part of the Obama-Biden-Brennan plot to undermine @POTUS and protect Bidens in Ukraine. In my meeting with Ciaramella in @WhiteHouse Jan 2016 he and NSC were pushing to go after and remove Prosecutor General Shokin for investigating Burisma." At Ace's Quick Hits, "Paul Sperry @paulsperry "BREAKING: IC IG Michael Atkinson, an Obama holdover and former aide to Russiagate operative Mary McCord, "weaponized the whistleblower process" against Trump by 1) failing to conduct basic due diligence and 2) willfully exceeding his statutory jurisdiction by altering the whistleblower form to no longer require firsthand knowledge as a prerequisite for reporting complaints in order to facilitate fake impeachment "whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella's 2019 hearsay complaint against Trump, an ODNI investigation has found based on hundreds of newly declassified docs." At PJM Stephen Kruiser is Just Wondering How Long Adam Schiff Gets to Lie About, Well, Everything. It's pretty much a perk of being in Congress. And Cathy Salgado cites the Dersh: Trump Should Move to Expunge 2019 Impeachment.

Ace is thrilled to report Bill Cosby SuperFan Eric Swalwell's Resignation Is Official, Effective Immediately "Would you like some Jello Puddin' with your rufies?" "Jennifer Van Laar reports that the earliest the election can be held is 126 days after the slippery-assed governor declares a vacancy." At News Wax, 5th Woman Alleges Sexual Misconduct by Rep. Swalwell. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Another Woman Accuses Swalwell of Raping and Choking Her. Ace again, Ana Paulina Luna: It's Going to Get Worse for Eric Rapewell, and He Might Wind Up in Prison PLUS: Another Drugging and Rape Allegation. "We'll see." At Page 6, Bleary-eyed Eric Swalwell wears a robe, parties with ‘yacht girls’ during ‘hush-hush’ St. Tropez blowout, wild video shows. "Sources tell us that in early September 2022, two of Swalwell’s pals jetted by private plane from Las Vegas to the French Riviera town where they chartered the 200-foot Arience yacht and called Swalwell to come join them." Atop Da Hill a House Republican: ‘Rapists should be hung, period’. Shipwreckedcrew, Eric Swalwell Wanted To Be President And Nancy Pelosi Fed His Delusion To Make Use Of Him In Pursuit Of Her Ends. "A no-talent local pol from a one-party area of a one-party state who a national political power player used to do her dirty work -- the ego and hubris that resulted is remarkable." Matt Margolis at PJM has hopes; Will the Swalwell Scandal Take Down a Democrat U.S. Senator, Too? Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Wild that banging a Chinese spy wasn’t what got Swalwell out of Congress, rather it was the democrat ruling class machine deciding he isn’t useful to them anymore." Sister Toldja at RedState, Mike Johnson Sends Signal That Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick's Time in Congress Is Just About Up.

John Sexton asks Why Does the Media Keep Missing These Huge, Career-Ending Stories? They didn't miss it, they ignored it, until it became convenient for the Democrats. Tom Knighton at TAW, They knew and did nothing and at TownHall, The Media Patting Its Own Back Begins Anew. "Brian Stelter says that Swalwell's downfall was a testament to investigative journalism, for example, all while ignoring his colleagues who are defending their refusal to write about it as "not my beat," despite claiming to have known for years." Alex Berenson at Unreported Truths claims It is impossible to be too cynical (about the Democratic-legacy media axis) "Eric Swalwell has been (at best) an adulterer and sexual predator throughout his career in Congress. The Democratic Party didn't care, until he became a problem in the California governor's race." Martin Shkreli @MartinShkreli, "to all house dems, this can happen to you easily. imma tell you one time: don't fuck with me. @RoKhanna you fucked with me. that's against the aforementioned rules. so you next. everyone has a secret, a vice, a mistake. but not everyone has a determined enemy. tread carefully."

Freddie deBoer asks What is Left of "Believe Women"? "from Rolling Stone's Jackie to Sam Altman's sister, the rules shift and definitions strain." The rules are whatever it takes to hurt Republicans and serve Democrats. At Althouse, "The problem is less a 'boys will be boys' tolerance than a sense of resignation among politicians, staff and other members of official Washington that powerful, ambitious men are built differently." "Writes Michelle Cottle, in "How Many People Heard About Swalwell and Did Nothing?" (NYT)." 

From the Free Bacon, Gavin Newsom Said He Had a 'Moral Duty' To Release His Tax Returns Every Year He Served in Office. He Hasn't Since 2022. "Newsom has kept his returns private as his wife rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars from her charity, which is funded by corporations that do business with Newsom's California." Doreen Linder @DorLinder, "A California news team finds a left-wing group, “Build a Better California,” paying homeless people $5 a signature to sign petitions for ballot measures using other people’s names. This transpired in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. The man became violent when the reporter asked about the petitions on the hood of his car..." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn observes The Quiet Carnage of California's Minimum Wage Hikes Obsession Continues. The true minimum wage is zero. Jonathan Turley reports Disaster Tourism: California and Other Blue States Become Go-To Destinations for Econ Sightseers. Not the kind of vacation I want. 

Stacy McCain calls it Natives vs. Newcomers in Virginia: What ‘Spanberger’s Lobster’ Is Really About.

Joe Chalfant at TownHall, Democrats Just Got One Step Closer to Seizing Presidential Elections. Bob Hoge at RedState thinks Tom Steyer's Latest Incendiary ICE Proposal and Call to Arms Is So Outlandish, Even Newsom Might Blush. I don't think Newsom can blush. PJM's Bob Spencer sees Comrade Mamdani Gets to Work on His Cult of Personality. Matt Vespa at TownHall hears Graham Platner Has a New Explanation for His Nazi Tattoo. It's a Doozy. The military made him a Nazi. Say, how about just admitting you were young and stupid?

Oren Kessler @OrenKessler, "1) Pod Save America gives Hasan Piker softball opportunity to say he can't actually *mean* it when he says Hamas is "1,000x better" than Israel 2) Piker declines opportunity: "I mean it" 3) Headline of Ezra Klein's NYT op-ed, "Hasan Piker Is Not the Enemy," mysteriously changes." Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou, "This is an absolutely disastrous moment for American liberalism because their top public intellectual just said they should embrace open communists who support mass killings and political terrorism. I compiled a video showing 65 times Hasan Piker endorsed political killings and terrorism: https://x.com/DrewPavlou/sta" Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, "I could not love this more. The Obama Bro tries so freaking hard to sanitize Piker's love of terrorists, only to have it revealed that Piker is exactly who the Right says he is. The absolute state of the Democratic Party in one glorious 20-second clip." Quote Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts "Jon Favreau: "When you say Hamas is a thousand times better, do you mean that?" Hasan Piker: "I do mean it … I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.”"

John Sexton, Erika Kirk Misses Event in Georgia After Threats. At Shooting News Week, Life in a Soros Prosecutor City: Defender Faces Murder Charges While the Mob Runs Free. Ace, Wisconsin Sheriff Sues Liar for Claiming She Was Detained by ICE for Two Days -- When She Was Actually at a Hotel Getting Spa Treatments. "There must be consequences for disinformation and defamation. Isn't that what the self-appointed "Disinformation Experts" told us when they tried to ban Joe Rogan?" At Insty, VodkaPundit has another DISPATCH FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol, "OH. MY. GOSH!!! A judge in Charlotte NC just DROPPED THE BOND of an known Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FROM VENEZUELA from: $1,000,000 -> $25,000 No justification was given. Luis was charged after he fired a gun, his pregnant wife wrestled it away from him, but sadly in the process the gun fired and the bullet struck her stomach and k*lled her 7 month old baby. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO CHARLOTTE NC?!!!!!!" Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "Because Democrats and Republicans have collaborated with corporate America to import foreigners by the million to take your job and turn your town into a scene from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom." Quote New York Post @nypost "Why searching for jobs is becoming harder for millions of unemployed Americans: survey https://trib.al/Laimifj"

Ace's Documents Biden's Autopen Autocrats Knew About Elevated Stroke Risk from the Covid Jab But, Get This, Covered It Up and Falsified #TheScience "Trust the experts. Trust the outrageously dishonest partisans who insist that they are the only #Oracles who are qualified to tell you what #TheScience says." Tim O'Brien at PJM has a New Report: Biden DOJ’s Weaponization Against Pro-Lifers Was Worse Than Imagined. Capt. Ed, NEW: Report Proves Biden's War on Pro-Life Activists Was Real, and Spectacular; UPDATED.

Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "Far to many Democrats with positions of power within the GOP." Quote Politics & Poll Tracker @PollTracker2024 "Olivia Troye, former aide to Vice President Mike Pence, files to run in Virginia’s 7th congressional district as a Democrat. (Troye endorsed Kamala Harris for president in 2024)."

Jeff Charles at TownHall sees a Republican Donor Blows Up CNN Panel After Pope's Attack on Trump. Sunny @sunnyright, "The chief criteria for a just versus an unjust war being whether the guy who launched it cut off your illegal alien-based taxpayer subsidy gravy train" Quote 60 Minutes @60Minutes "“In the Catholic teaching, this is not a just war,” Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., says of the war in Iran. https://cbsn.ws/47SJKd8" and Hey while you’re there honoring the people who violently drove Catholics from the country, if you find the time in between that and condemning us for killing genocidal Islamist leaders, could you swing by and lecture the people currently massacring Christians in Africa?" Quote Catholic Sat @CatholicSat "Pope Leo XIV places a wreath of flowers and prays for the Algerians who died in the Algerian War of Independence against French Colonial rule at the Maqam Echahid Martyrs’ Monument in Algiers." Overton @overton_news, "Bill O’Reilly just put Pope Leo on the spot with the one question no one in the media will ask him. And with it, he completely exposed the Pope’s double standard in the feud with President Trump. O’REILLY: “I could mediate a settlement between the Pope and Donald Trump, I could do it.” “But in such a mediation I would have to ask his holiness very frankly…you had 30,000 people gunned down in Iran just a few weeks ago, we heard nothing from the Vatican on that at all.” “NOTHING!”..." Kate @kate_p45, "Have you ever noticed that we never see Catholic cardinals or the Pope speak out about all the Christian churches being burned down around the world? But yet, Pope Leo runs to showcase a mosque in a country that restricts Christians and other faiths, and coerces conversion to Islam. Not a single statement of concern from Pope Leo or the Cardinals about religious freedom and protections for Christian minorities in certain regions." Quote Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra, "Another church set on fire last night, this time in Saint-Romain, Quebec. Invaders are attacking our women, children and every fabric of our societies. All while politicians give them preferential treatment and put laws in place to..." Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "It is in the best interests of the Roman Catholic Church, the USA and the world that the Vatican publicly release details as to the subject matter of the recent meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Obama's political strategist, David Axelrod. This incident is harming the Church in the USA far more than it is harming the USA itself. Transparency may defuse the situation." KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat, "It's fascinating to see what social media reveals about a person before they become the Pope. Before he became Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost was on Twitter trashing Trump, criticizing Vance, calling for open borders, promoting COVID vaccines, endorsing stricter gun control, and tweeting after George Floyd: "We need to hear more from leaders in the Church, to reject racism and seek justice." The account was deleted the day he was elected." At Althouse, Which U.S. Presidents have been called "The Antichrist"? "I wondered, on seeing the Wired article "Staunch Trump Supporters Are Now Asking if He’s the Antichrist/The Iran war and a series of social media posts, including one depicting Trump as Jesus Christ, have some conservative commentators and fans suspecting the president may be the antichrist.""

Peter Navarro at RCM thinks Friday's CPI Report Was a Lot of Noise, Not Much Signal. From TCW, Trump’s golden age that the media is desperate to tarnish. At Althouse, Trump is wowed by himself. ""Wow!" ADDED: At the link, which goes to a Trump post at Truth Social, there's video animating a series of photos of Trump, in chronological order, beginning with him as an angelic toddler. We get the sense of Trump through the years, but there is one glaring problem, and it's funny that he chose to share this video anyway. There is only one photo where he is shown with one of his wives, and that wife is Marla Maples."


Beege Welborn at Hat Hair is disappointed, Irish Government Survives to Ignore Its Citizens Another Day.

Capt. Ed, Are You Ready For Islamabad II: Blockade Boogaloo? and CENTCOM: 24 Hours And All's Well On the Blockade Front. Cathy Salgado sees 10,000 Troops at Work: CENTCOM Update on U.S. Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Pierre Rochard @BitcoinPierre, "The IRGC developed its Strait of Hormuz strategy with 1970s data and didn't update it. Devastating miscalculation." (interesting graphs at link). Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "45K likes because people don't understand the blockade is of Iranian ports, not the Gulf states." Dave Strom, Trump Ensuring All the Strategic Sea Lines of Communications Are Controlled by United States. Clandestine @WarClandestine, "Eyes on Hegseth just hosted Indonesian counterpart and announced a “Major Defense Cooperation Partnership”. The Strait of Hormuz is 2nd highest volume oil chokepoint on Earth. What’s the 1st? The Strait of Malacca, INDONESIA (80% of China’s oil imports pass through here). Global oil shipping chokepoints are being secured by the US MIL and their partners. Trump is securing the board! It’s happening." At Twitchy, Iran Announces Deployment of Its Miniature Submarine Fleet and X Can't Stop Laughing. 1945, Iran’s Next Move Decides Everything: Every Iranian Port Will Be Closed by the U.S. Navy. And at PJM, VodkaPundit sings All in All, It's Just Another Brick in the Wall Around China. Open Source Intel @Osint613, "Interesting to note: The United States was producing 13.58 million barrels per day in 2025, about 16% of global crude supply. It was exporting roughly 4 million barrels per day of crude. Iran shuts the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. April exports jumped to 4.9 million barrels per day, and May is tracking 5.2 million, an all time record. 28 supertankers are booked for May. Normally it is around 5. Asian buyers that once depended on Hormuz are now turning to U.S. supply. In some strange way, the Strait of Hormuz being blocked is actually the biggest payday U.S. oil has ever had."

NYPo, Trump tells The Post US-Iran talks ‘could be happening over next two days.’ From News Wax, Diplomats Try to Set 2nd Round of US-Iran Talks on 1st Full Day of Hormuz Blockade. Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13, "WATCH: From C14 (English subtitles) After the Iranian delegation returned from Pakistan empty-handed, President Pezeshkian erupted, shouting at members of the delegation. In an exclusive quote obtained by C14, he told associates, “We are weeks away from collapse. They are cutting off our main source of income - I don’t know how we will pay salaries.”" Nioh Berg @NiohBerg, "The regime in Iran's every decision is based on this following sentence: "We just need to stall for time until Trump is out of office, and after that, we can do whatever we want" and "Everything happening today is downstream from Jimmy Carter backstabbing the Shah of Iran. Absolutely everything." I remember.

Dave Strom, Will Europe's Only Ally in the Middle East Turn Out to Be Iran? VodkaPundit at Insty thinks MELONI IS USUALLY SMARTER THAN THIS: Eli Lake @EliLake, "This hurts Italy. Doesn’t matter for Israel." Quote Raylan Givens@JewishWarrior13, "Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: Due to the current situation, Italy is suspending the automatic renewal of the security agreement with Israel."


From Wired, The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril "As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages."

At Insty, THAT KIND OF DENIAL PRETTY MUCH NEVER HAPPENS: Indiana U. professor says he was denied emeritus status after posting about male IQ. "As Ann Althouse says, it’s perfectly fine to talk about inherent sex differences, but you must always do so in a way that portrays women as superior." Ian Miller @ianmSC, "What’s impressive about this is that the education system didn’t just eliminate virtually all conservative thought as it moved toward left wing extremism, they got rid of almost anyone who was in the middle too. Anyone who doesn’t fully comply with the groupthink isn’t welcome." Christopher F. Rufo @christopherrufo, "Hampshire College made a big deal about offering spots to all of the left-wing New College of Florida students who wanted to leave after we eliminated their DEI and gender studies programs. Now Hampshire College is shutting down—go woke, go broke." Quote Kassy Akiva @KassyAkiva "Hampshire College is closing. I suspect there will be more."


Still mor at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.13.26 and In The Mailbox: 04.14.26.

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