Texas SB 4 has had a rollercoaster 24 hours. SB 4 is the Texas law that would allow State and local law enforcement to deport illegals. The 5th circuit issued a stay preventing Texas from enforcing the new law in January. Yesterday, SCOTUS lifted the stay, but signalled they would allow another injunction if it were issued under different grounds. Well, the 5th did just that, less than 24 hours after the SCOTUS order dropped.
Frankly, I don’t see this law standing up to Constitutional muster. Immigration is and always has been a strictly federal business.
Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinsky testified in front of the House Oversight committee today. There were fireworks from the opening statements.
Ranking dem Jamie Raskin, commie NY, was called out by name and had a fit before Bobulinsky’s opening statement was over. Other dem Reps had bad days too. Notably Dan Goldman and Sandy Occasional Cortex both on NY. Goldman, a former prosecutor, tried to catch Bobulinsky out over the ‘10% for the Big guy’ email exchange. And AOC claimed RICO wasn’t a crime.
The House Foreign affairs committee held a hearing yesterday about the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Featured were generals Mark Milley and Frank MacKenzie. I’m not a fan of Milley or MacKenzie, but their testimony was brutal for the administration. MacKenzie in particular laid nearly all the blame on the State Department. In one exchange, Milley was asked if he knew the number of Americans left in Afghanistan. He said the State department was responsible for those numbers and neither he nor anyone down the chain of command ever got a solid number from State.
This next piece is not going to interest most of you. It probably should, at least a little, because of the ramifications. The Taoseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, has resigned citing personal and political reasons. I’m betting it’s exclusively political reasons: Varadkar had been pushing for changes in the Irish Constitution. The referendums proposed changing article 41 of the Irish Constitution. The family amendment proposed widening the definition of family from a relationship founded on marriage to “durable relationships” such as cohabiting couples and their children. The care amendment proposed replacing a reference to a “mother’s duties in the home” with a clause recognising care provided by family members.the two questions failed miserably. The yes campaign mustered just 32% support for the family referendum and 26% for the care referendum.
Now, here’s why you should care; these changes were pushed by the globalists. While I don’t follow Irish politics as closely as I do US politics, I know that this was an absolutely gutting loss for the one-worlders in Ireland. I think Varadkar is only the first domino to fall and there will be other high profile resignations in the coming weeks.