Impeach. Convict. Remove.
Recap of this week in the revolution: District judge orders U.S. to allow return of CECOT prisoners. Trump regime repeals emissions standards and Pam Bondi puts on childish display before House. CBP uses military laser to shoot down party balloon. What happened when USAID was cut?
The good...
U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered the Trump regime to allow Venezuelans they sent to CECOT the option to return to the United States to resume their immigration proceedings. The 130 men unjustly confined to the El Salvador torture prison by the United States have since been returned to Venezuela. Should they choose to return, the United States will cover the cost of their travel back to our country.
It is unlikely that many of these falsely-imprisoned men will return to the country that kidnapped them and sent them off to be tortured in El Salvador in violation of their constitutional rights. The prisoners were tortured for months before being dumped back in the country they had originally fled from to seek a better life in the United States.
Boasberg is the same judge who ordered a halt to the initial flights carrying these prisoners to CECOT last March.
It is worth emphasizing that this situation would never have arisen had the Government simply afforded Plaintiffs their constitutional rights before initially deporting them.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg
The bad...
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.
The Trump regime has brought an end to the rule backing every environmental regulation on greenhouse gas emissions. It is will known that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger the public health and lead to climate change. This scientific fact led to the passage of the Endangerment Finding passed in 2009 that essentially codifies this finding into law. The endangerment finding is the central basis for all greenhouse gas emissions standards and laws.
Repealing this law will roll back emissions standards for cars and trucks, as well as power plants and oil and gas facilities. One the immediate targets is removing fuel efficiency requirements and restrictions on tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks. These restrictions have provided a boost to the electric car market, which the Trump regime is trying to destroy.
Pam Bondi's childish display at this week's House Judiciary Committee hearing was filled with irrelevant distractions, finger-pointing, and name-calling.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was called before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about her handling of the release of the Epstein files. Almost two months have passed since the deadline set by Congress for the release of the files, and they have not all been released at this time. Those that have been released have been improperly handled. The names and in some cases graphic images of some victims were left unredacted, even though the law requires victims' identities be protected. Meanwhile, the names of Epstein's fellow pedophiles were redacted, even though they should not have been redacted since their actions as Epstein's associates may constitute crimes.
Bondi spent her time deflecting questions, calling congressional representatives names, and generally refusing to provide any actual answers to the questions she was asked. From calling one representative a "washed-up loser lawyer", to declaring that the hearing should focused on the status of the stock market instead of the victims of Epstein's ring of pedophiles, Bondi's behavior was an embarrassing display of incompetence and disrespect.
The ugly...
Balloon shooting game. Image by Moheen Reeyad from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
This week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suddenly and unexpectedly closed the airspace over El Paso, Texas. The sudden closure caused confusion and disruption for commercial and medical flights in the area.
As reports began to emerge about the cause of the closure, the Trump regime revealed that the military had engaged in an operation to stop an incursion of Mexican cartel drones invading U.S. airspace using an experimental laser to shoot the drones out of the sky. Apparently, these operations were conducted without informing the FAA, prompting the FAA to close the airspace due to the danger these experimental weapons posed to civilian aircraft and the risk to the public posed by shooting down aircraft over population centers.
As more details emerged, it became apparent that the military had loaned the experimental lasers to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Apparently, it was CBP, not the Army, that was fired the lasers that prompted the closure. It was also revealed that at least one of the alleged "Mexican cartel drones" was nothing more than a party balloon.
Keeping you informed...
Last year, the Untied States cut funding for USAID, the largest humanitarian aid organization in the world. The organization provides disaster recovery aid, food aid, and other humanitarian assistance to people in need around the world. The regime has repeatedly lied about the results of the cuts, claiming that no one died as the result of these cuts and that life-saving efforts were spared. ProPublica investigated the real results of the cuts and found a very different story.
Investigators traveled to refugee camps in Kenya and South Sudan and found that the conditions were appalling. The Untied States had promised to provide food for these refugees, but that food did not arrive. Refugees came to these camps to flee from violence and persecution at home, and many were now leaving to return home, preferring the risk of murder to the slow certainty of starvation. Mothers were contemplating suicide because they were told that the United Nations would provide care for orphans.
Prior to the Trump regime's decimation of USAID, the organization provided adequate food each day to refugees in Kenya. After the cuts, refugees saw their daily rations reduced to as little as 20% of their daily nutritional needs. Funding for infrastructure maintenance and medicine in South Sudan have also been cut, leading to many preventable deaths in the midst of a massive cholera outbreak.
