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Paul Clement, the leading Republican lawyer who advised the judge in the messy Mayor Adams criminal case (the judge followed his advice) and is representing one of the several law firms suing over Trump's punitive executive orders (the judge granted a partial TRO), is also now representing the arrested Wisconsin judge. I guess they foresee some early appellate practice. should be interesting.
Crooked, traitor democrat judge, Hannah Duggan has been removed of her duties by the (liberal!) Wi Supreme Court.
Rich/Kak/sockpuppet and gadfly hurt hardest.
David Horowitz, RIP.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/david-horowitz-rip.php
"Interesting" in what way, Readering?
Are you hoping that the judge somehow avoids prosecution through good lawyering? Ties things up in the appellate courts? Why? What aspect of the judge's conduct do you approve of?
If the appellate courts come up with a reason why the judge's conduct doesn't amount to a criminal act, would you still feel that the judge acted appropriately?
Boatbuilder: Interesting on multiple levels. Because Clement is not charging the judge his normal fee, if at all. And I can think of a number of arguments why she should not be prosecuted for the conduct as reported. Personally, I think it sounds like the judge acted injudiciously. She knew there were multiple LE personnel in the courthouse, including on her floor, so there was no way the guy was going to evade
immediate arrest. But seems like she in the moment saw it as an affront to her position as a judge to try to arrest him in her courtroom on just an administrative warrant from ICE, not a judicial warrant. And then afterwards arresting her was an affront to create headlines. But it was a bad, useless move oh her part.
Another day another lawsuit against Trump's overreach. What amazes me is how fast the complaint and TRO application are put together, and how fast the DC federal judge sets a briefing schedule, with the DOJ lawyer in court pretty clueless. This time Trump's minion fires 3 of 5 directors remaining at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. One of the three a Trump appointee from his first term. CPB files a lawsuit and TRO application overnight, and the DC federal judge sets a status report for a briefing schedule the same day. Unless the statute creating the independent corporation is unconstitutional, and there is no reason based on precedents to think it is, Trump will lose. But he seems to crave headlines of him losing in the courts.
Status conference, not report.
It's well established that he was NEVER going to be arrested in the court room. The ICE team had already coordinated with building security for the arrest to take place in a public area after the hearing, even before her tirade and the pointless discussion with the chief judge.
Growing up as a Bay area quasi-liberal, I read David Horowitz's book Radical Son. It had the most profound political effect on me at the time of any book I ever read. The curtain over my eyes was permanently pulled back.
. Unless the statute creating the independent corporation is unconstitutional, and there is no reason based on precedents to think it is, Trump will lose
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Oh yeah? recent decisions focus on the POTUS's obligation to "take care" that the laws are faithfully executed, despite Congress's attempts to tie his hands:
Per AI Claude:
"The Supreme Court has increasingly sided with expanded presidential removal power, particularly in cases like Seila Law v. CFPB (2020) and Collins v. Yellen (2021), which strengthened presidential control over independent agencies by limiting Congress's ability to restrict the president's removal power.
The fundamental legal question revolves around the Constitution's "Take Care" clause, which gives the president responsibility to ensure laws are faithfully executed, versus Congress's power to establish agencies with specific governance structures.
The legal landscape continues to evolve, with courts generally expanding presidential authority to remove officials from independent entities that were previously considered more insulated from direct presidential control."
My reading about Ginsberg and Kerouac lead me to Williams Burroughs author of "naked lunch". I just read a biography of him. Wow, what a piece of work. Killed his wife in Mexico city. Heroin addict. Loved "Rent boys". Lived in Tangiers in the 50s and 60s because he could hire male prostitutes (aka teenage boys) and score cheap heroin.
My immeditate thought was of the man in "Suddenly Last Summer" (Hepburn is the mother) who gets killed by a pack of poor teens .
Keroauc visited him in tangiers and helped type the first few chapters of "Naked Lunch" but he soon broke off with Kerouac - but remained great friends with Ginsberg for the rest of his life.
Interesting how the media in the 50s/60s cleanup these guys and presented the "Beats" as fairly harmless rebels. If only the American public had known about their drug use, liking for young boys and (in Ginsberg's case) sympathy with Communism.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting is not a government agency.
"But seems like she in the moment saw it as an affront to her position as a judge to try to arrest him in her courtroom on just an administrative warrant from ICE, not a judicial warrant."
Where's my tiny violin when I need it?
I take it Readering is going to a chiropractor tomorrow with all the twisting and bending they're doing to defend a felonius democrat judge.
YouTube: How Jeremy Renner Recovered from Snow Plow Accident
I was intrigued by the massive blackouts in Europe the last couple of days. My initial reaction was that it might have been caused by a cyber-hack, but now that appears to not be the case. Nor was it the case that the solar and wind generating sources were unable to supply a sufficient amount of electricity due to weather conditions.
No, the most interesting explanation I've heard is from multiple independent engineers who suggest the reason for the failure was likely due to the very nature of solar and wind generated electricity when they become a significantly large percentage of the total source of generation. Wow. If true, that is shocking that this has never been prominently publicized as a genuine possibility. Shocking and damning for the very idea of "total renewables."
The technical reason, they explained, is that unlike fossil fuel sources which use massive generators which can handle system surges and drops, solar sources in particular can't handle such changes very well.
Bottom line: the greater the percentage generated by solar, then the greater the chances of catastrophic grid failure. How come nobody told Greta about this?
One evening in the early 80's, I was with my friend JD in a bar on Avenue A in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The bar was underground; you entered at the Southern end, came down a flight of stairs, walked across a floor -- maybe -- 200 feet? -- and there was a bar. But the floor was full, though not overfull, of tables, with the kind of wooden chairs that have an arched back and dowels.
So, we were drinking, at our table, and a disturbance developed at the bar. Some guy grabbed some girl by her arm, and started dragging her towards the stairs. Now, it seemed like he was twisting her arm, and she was making a good deal of noise, and the whole situation was contrary to what I understood to be cultural norms. Yet he slowly made his way towards the stairs, dragging her by her arm, and everyone there simply observed the process.
I found the situation baffling, and I think JD did as well. But as this bizarre procession approached our table, I stood up, wrapping my hand, in a somewhat offhand fashion, through the spokes of the chair I had been sitting in. And JD did the same. Thus, the man trying to drag his (girlfriend?) across the floor, and up the stairs, found himself facing two tall, young men asking him what he had in mind, while somewhat negligently dangling heavy, wooden chairs.
He remembered an appointment in another part of town, and as I recall, she hurried after him. No hard feelings. But my strongest impression is that everyone else in that basement bar found our behavior to be completely deranged. We were two hicks from the sticks, and when some asshole started beating his significant other in front of us, we had the deluded notion that it was our business to put a stop to it.
"Wow. If true, that is shocking that this has never been prominently publicized as a genuine possibility. "
This problem with wind & solar has been well known for years, at least in the technical world. Expect to see more such blackouts.
planetgeo said...
No, the most interesting explanation I've heard is from multiple independent engineers who suggest the reason for the failure was likely due to the very nature of solar and wind generated electricity when they become a significantly large percentage of the total source of generation. >>>>Wow. If true, that is shocking that this has never been prominently publicized as a genuine possibility. <<<<Shocking and damning for the very idea of "total renewables."
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WHAT? Were you born last night?????
That's been THE argument critics of zero energy have been making from the start!! Get your ass over to wattsupwiththat.com and search the many articles on this very topic. EVErYONE KNEW THIS!!!!!
It's why gas and coal backup plants---kept fired up whether needed or not--- have been deemed necessary to compensate for the inability of renewables to respond to changes in load demand,or unstable supply during cloudy or windless days.
All I can say to you, for having not known any of this is:
DERP
Readering said...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting is not a government agency.
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Idiiocy. It was created by Congress.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967 through the Public Broadcasting Act.
If it's created by Congress it is a hybrid public-private entity, but the legal issues surrounding the POTUS's powers to terminate its members are the same as for other such agencies.
"While government officials have some involvement>>>> (the President appoints the CPB's board members, who must be confirmed by the Senate)<<<<, the organization maintains operational independence from the federal government."
You wanna tell me the POTUS can appoint CPB's board members, but can't dismiss them......SNORT
Yeah, that's what the law provides.
Mr T, Original Mike: Felonious for now describes POTUS, not the Judge. Who does not need a tiny violin if she has former USSG on her team.
After Judge Dugan interacted with the arresting officers and, upon learning that they only had an administrative warrant and after telling them they needed a judicial warrant, she directed them to go meet with the Chief Judge. Further cooperation was not required under an administrative warrant, so she adjourned the court session. When Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer emerged in the public space outside of Dugan's courtroom, the plainclothed arresting officers (one of whom wore a ski mask) could have made the arrest, but chose to send one officer down in the same elevator with the immigrant, allow him to exit the courthouse and then chase him down in the street. No one could have prevented the arrrest in the public space inside the courthouse but outside the courtroom, especially not Judge Dugan.
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Supporting MS-13 gangbangers, and judges like Hannah Dugan, might be part of the reason why the Democrat Party is now polling at 27%.
"When Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer emerged in the public space outside of Dugan's courtroom...."
Emerged from where? You omitted part of the story!
"Emerged in the public space" sounds like a magical experience, as if from a cocoon or a genie's lamp.
Gadfly: "No one could have prevented the arrrest in the public space inside the courthouse but outside the courtroom, especially not Judge Dugan."
I predicted this defense a few days ago: "I didn't interfere with you because I had no power to interfere with you. If you honored my request to go to the chief judge's office and thereby break up your arrest plan to safely outnumber the guy, that's on you! Nyah!"
JSM
Big Mike said...
“Supporting MS-13 gangbangers, and judges like Hannah Dugan, might be part of the reason why the Democrat Party is now polling at 27%.”
One way to interpret that is that 27% of poll responders are gangbangers.
Readering said...seems like she in the moment saw it as an affront to her position as a judge to try to arrest him in her courtroom
It's not her courtroom. It's the people of Wisconsin's courtroom.
effinayright, what has been well publicized (not to mention obvious) is the inability of solar to maintain load demand in variable weather conditions in the particular region being served. What HASN'T been publicized (nor obvious) is the ripple effect on the ENTIRE GRID when a significantly large portion of the grid is solar. The inability to equalize and stabilize the entire grid not just in drops due to weather events but also surges is the killer. So the larger the percentage of solar sources (the greenies' ideal), the greater the probability of catastrophic failure of the entire grid (thus, not just in Spain, but also in France, Germany, Belgium, etc.).
Cool your jets, smartass.
Poor Gadfly, after yesterday's dismal narrative performance, he follows it up with this garbage.
"No one could have prevented the arrest in the public space inside the courthouse but outside the courtroom, especially not Judge Dugan."
Then why did she protest it and demand they see the Chief Judge about it? Did she know, as you suggest, and lie? Or did she not know and more clearly added the escape of the criminal by redirecting the agents? Both are crimes.
Also what Ann noted. The criminal should not have walked into the public space from the Judge's chamber. In fact, the moment the Judge asked the defendant and counsel to come to her chambers without the Prosecutor present, she committed a major ethics violation for the pending case (ex parte communication), and that should have been enough to tell her she was doing something wrong.
"What HASN'T been publicized (nor obvious) is the ripple effect on the ENTIRE GRID when a significantly large portion of the grid is solar."
I beg to differ. I guess it depends on the meaning of 'publicized'. It certainly hasn't been a secret.
LELAND: If you could only read. To remove a named participant from any courtroom, arresting officers need a Judicial Warrant, not an administrative warrant. So she sent the FBI and ICE folks to the Chief Judge to resolve the problem. Once outside her 6th floor courtroom, the defendent could be arrested using the administrative warrant and was but only after an unneccessary chase designed to make the judge look bad. With six identified and and more officers assisting, there is no way for Flores-Ruiz to get out of the building unless the delberate chase was planned in advance.
Trump, General Bondi and Kash Patel wanted to go to court to shut down all the lawsuits that the regime is losing every day in courtrooms. Instead, they will loose another lawsuit and the Wisconsin Supremes will reverse their ill-conceived ruling.
@Readering:
From Wattsupwiththat.com, the leading climate website, with more than 566 MILLION hits:
"With more than 50 million EU electricity consumers suffering blackouts yesterday, campaign group Net Zero Watch has reiterated its warning that the UK power grid is also becoming increasingly unstable.
Grid analysts have suggested a high likelihood that the extent of yesterday’s blackout in Iberia was a result of the Spanish grid operating almost entirely on renewables at the time. The stability of power grids depends on so-called ‘inertia’, a resistance to rapid change that is an inherent feature of large spinning turbines, such as gas-fired power stations, but not of wind and solar farms. Too much renewables capacity on a grid can therefore mean inadequate inertia. As a result, in grids dominated by wind and solar, faults can propagate almost instantaneously
across grids, leading to blackouts."
IOW this kind of failure was always known, and not just a forehead-slapping "what the hell just happened here" kind of event.
Face it: YOU haven't been keeping track of the instabilities and failures of net zero power grids. Here's the entire article:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/30/net-zero-watch-warns-of-growing-grid-instability/
AFAIK other grids relying heavily on solar and wind have hedged their bets by keeping gas turbines running at idle, just in case they are needed to preserve stability. So the problem has been known...forever.
i have not been keeping track of this stuff. So I didn't comment.
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