Random News and Notes 5 June
We’re going to kick off this edition of RNN way back in 1942. Today marks the second day of the Battle of Midway, the turning point of the War in the Pacific. The Battle, fought from 4 June till 7 June, saw Japanese sea power broken irrevocably. US SBD Dauntless dive bombers sank 4 Japanese carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu. This represented nearly all of the striking power of the Kido Butai – the Japanese Mobile Striking Force – and 4 of the 6 large Jap flattops. The IJN would never recover.
The codebreakers at Station Hypo on Hawaii were responsible for the victory. Had Capt. Joe Rochefort’s people not figured out IJN code 25b in time the battle would not have turned out the way it did. They figured out the code – and the target of Operation MI – by a simple ruse. They had Midway send a message saying their water maker was broken and they were running short of fresh water.
The Japanese duly relayed that information and thus the code was compromised. This intelligence allowed ADM Chet Nimitz to position the three US carriers – the Enterprise, the Hornet and The Yorktown – north of Midway in an ambush position waiting for the Kido Butai. The rest as they say is history.
A federal judge in Colorado has ruled that the family of the Boulder terrorist cannot be deported. Judge Gordon Gallagher, a Biden appointee (of fucking course) issued the ruling yesterday. I should point out that this judge does not have jurisdiction in immigration matters. The immigration statutes strictly limit jurisdiction in these kinds of cases to Immigration courts.
There is some other weirdness surrounding this ruling. None of the family were actually involved in the court application. Instead, some disbarred lawyer filed the habeas petition as a ‘next friend’. This is a person who petitions for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of another person who is detained, but who is unable to petition on their own behalf due to mental incompetence, lack of access to the court, or some other disability. It gets better, the lawyer was disbarred for immigration court shenanigans.
I really hope that these judges wake up to the fact that they are destroying Article III. It will not be long before they are considered illegitimate and then ignored.
Keeping with the immigration theme, President Trump has issued a new set of visa restrictions. It is being called the muslim ban 2.0 by its detractors. The visa ban restricts and limits the entry of nationals from 12 countries found to be deficient with regards to screening and vetting and determined to pose a very high risk to the United States: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen and partially restricts and limits the entry of nationals from 7 countries who also pose a high level of risk to the United States: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela
I’m fine with the list, mostly. I have to wonder what is going on in Equatorial Guinea that it made the list. Laos is another curious one. As several posters on X have asked, how long before some district judge issues a TRO preventing the visa ban.
In some good news, the IDF managed to off the guy responsible for the Bibas family kidnapping.
Mahmoud Abu Nar fornerly the commander of the Central Gaza Brigade of the Al-Mujahideen Brigades is now burning in hell. May he rest in piss.
Staying in Israel, the bodies of two Hamas hostages were recovered by Shin Bet and IDF forces in Khan Younis in Gaza overnight. Judy Weinstein-Haggai (70) and Gadi Haggai (72) were kidnapped from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7.
May their memories be a blessing.
The Supremes just dropped 6 decisions today. I may write about them later, it depends on if, after a quick skim, I think they are of interest to y’all. The one I do know that will be of interest is S&W et al v Mexico. Mexico was trying to sue gunmakers for the illegal use of their products by Mexican cartels. SCOTUS said nope. I haven’t read the whole opinion – authored by Elena Kagan of all people – but the logic laid out in the syllabus makes sense to me.
