If accurate, it appears someone is going to jail for a long time.
Tom Homan confirms the ICE operation leak appears to have originated from the FBI,
There’s a Homan video on X at the above link.
Fox News: “Tom, where are those leaks coming from?”
Homan: “We are thinking it’s from inside. We think we have identified that person. It’s under investigation right now. Some of the information tends to lead toward the FBI.”
“The [DOJ] has opened up a criminal investigation. And they have promised not only will this person lose their job and pension, they will go to jail.”
I Applaud this Move
Interfering with an ICE investigation is illegal. And what ICE is doing is legal, whether anyone likes it or not.
In this situation, anyone who objects has two choices: resign or carry out the duties assigned.
Two Key Court Rulings Go Against Trump. Expect More of the Same
Earlier today I wrote Two Key Court Rulings Go Against Trump. Expect More of the Same
A judge accuses Trump of defying a court order. Surprise Not.
I make no excuses for Elon Musk, President Biden, individuals at the FBI, or Trump.
I expect the rule of law to apply.
I am in a very small minority. Most only want the law to apply when they agree with it. A majority of Republicans cheer when Trump breaks the law just as a majority of Democrats cheered Biden doing the same thing.
All the hypocrites point their fingers at the other side with no introspection. Even worse, many are proud hypocrites.
It’s no way to run a country.
The Uniparty Republican and Democrats, including Trump, let the immigrants in and and or they want most of them to stay here. This sounds like yet another rigged partisan controversy. The Uniparty Republicans want people to think they are really trying to deport a lot of people and use this as an excuse for not doing much. Probably saying it was a leftist DEI person or something who sabotaged the plan. I doubt very seriously someone will get substantially punished because there either isnt such a person or they actually tipped off the deportees as a scheme condoned by the leadership of ICE, or they may have baited someone to do it, just to make a big show of it. Again, the vast majority of immigrants come here to work difficult jobs. If they lose their jobs it will be even harder for them to stay. The Republicans have a majority in Congress and President Trump to sign the law, so they could pass making e-verify mandatory, with strict punishment and no loopholes, but they arent doing that and its on purpose, so dont be deceived by this charade by the Republicans and Democrats, and vote Libertarian if you want to improve the country.
There comes a time when certain black robed terrorists need to be ignored, steamrolled, investigated, impeached and imprisoned.
There have been many frivolous rulings on both sides, for sure.
But, if these judges block the exposure of fraud and theft for the personal gain of the DC underworld and their beneficiaries, they should be brushed aside and the investigations proceed post haste.
Let the judges try to personally enforce their hapless rulings and see how far they get.
See Marbury vs Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 177 (1803): “An act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution… is entirely void.”
Also,Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376 (1879): “An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law.”
One of the main reasons to halt funding (administered by FEMA) for the Shelter and Services Program is because of Tren de Aragua recruiting activity at the former luxury hotel called Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.
https://apnews.com/article/fema-migrant-hotels-new-york-musk-immigration-3d250d9f64b40858c0f0eda9989bea6d
No reason needed. JUST DO IT.
And arrest the FEMA agency scum that KNOWINGLY PUSHED THOSE PAYMENTS FORWARD.
I figured it was some Democrat soy boy in the FBI career ranks that leaked the ICE info, such as out of the FBI field office in Denver.
So Mish, tell me. Are the judges orders legal? Are they following the law?
Yes and Yes
100%
I have a post on this tomorrow explaining.
Good. The traitor should be executed.
I think you should try introspection on yourself, Mish. “Rule of law” is an empty slogan. The conditions in Illinois that you found so offensive that you moved were matters of law. Law has no more sanctity than the humans who create it. Most of the government practices that have damaged the U.S. over the last hundred-plus years were consistent with law, not discretionary acts of replaceable jobholders. I could cite examples beyond the 16th amendment and the Federal Reserve Act. It was by law that Wilson imprisoned critics of the military draft, by law that the SS St. Louis was turned back, and so on. Trump is trying to do something pretty radical: shrink government. The demolition work will eventually be brought into line with law, but it’s pretty obvious that it can’t be carried out that way. So to pretend to support the objectives Trump espoused while reveling in every court reversal makes you the owner of the only hypocrisy I see at work on this site.
There is no rule of law anymore. You get as much justice as you can afford. Were there rule of law, Hillary Clinton and most of the Biden crime family would be in jail. There are too many laws. The average American commits…how many “felonies” a day?
Malum in se versus malum prohibitum. There is a big difference.
Malum prohibitum are not evil. Just not allowed by the powers that be. They can be used to attack political opponents and/or keep them in line. These laws are the basis of lawfare and 3 bogus impeachments.
The courts are corrupt. Again, as much justice as you can afford.
No new laws are needed. We only need to repeal existing laws or redefine them to only apply on federal government property. Then the corrupt federal judges (who were caught with a live boy/dead girl and do what they’re told) and the federal court circuits to try cases of supposed violation of these laws can all get axed.
“Judges caught with live boy/dead girl’..
Does anyone remember how fast and hard sc justice John Roberts flipped on obamacare?
He was outwardly vocally against that package of fecal matter 3 days before he did a complete 180 and personally rewrote the legislation to conform to law as a “tax”!!!!!!!
He’s been lickin’ obama/establishment boots forever after and to this day still does (on any cases that are consequential to maintaining the vigorous health of the blob.)
That poor bastard is OWNED.
People have been told right from wrong. Scripture says that to each person comes a warner. So its each persons choice and responsibility to uphold the rule of law and it is never acceptable to use another persons or groups failure to uphold the law as ones excuse for not upholding it themselves.
Thank you for supporting rule of law. It is unfortunate that so many do not understand the historical precedents of what society was like without rule of law, which date back to the dawn of civilization.
What goes around comes around
We are living a history moment:
Marbury v Madison established the right of judicial review, and Vance, a Yale Law graduate has suggested otherwise. The extent and scope of executive power must be bounded,somehow (at least if we are to escape the tyranny of “divine right of kings”). But the current moment reveals the self-bootstrapping nature of a constitution premised on self-evidence. The tortured logic smeared on the pages of MvM was the best one could hope for, but the real justification was: without it, we descend again into “might=right”.
Yes, Vance needs to go back to school.
And he’s the spare tire – scary, right?
YES. Do not trust vance. The DC blob would be very happy to see him elevated to POTUS.
Excellent. BTW. I’m not suggesting Trump should break any law. What I’m saying is, you will be proven incorrect. Not a single order against what Trump is doing in regards to USAID will stand appellate scrutiny. A district court cannot tell a President he does not have authority to recall civil servants deployed overseas.
What you fail to realize is Trump is baiting the lawfare practitioners. In appellate practice the best cases are those with multiple bad decisions, and/or where the judges feel compelled to write pages and pages. The more there is, the more there is to appeal.
It may take some time. But SCOTUS will eventually define the limits of Executive Power. And you will have to do a mea culpa. Don’t say I didn’t try and warn you.
Highlights a recent problem with federal judiciary. Judge shopping with one district court judge, say in Oregon, being able to issue ann order covering entire US. Dangerous judicial overreach.
same as it ever was. who can judge shop, will judge shop. this isn’t a new invention. rather its an enduring aspect of democracy.
I agree with you Mish. I also would like to see the very suspect assassination attempts on Trump fully investigated by someone other than the U.S. government.
Nothing to see there, buddy. Just the ol’ “Lone Wolf”. Purportedly with instructions from Very Evil Iran and bank accounts outside the US. Because 20 year olds who work in a nursing home always have foreign bank accounts.
And a guy from Hawaii who most recently was in Ukraine recruiting neo-nazis from all over the west to come and fight with the neo-nazi Azoz battalion
funny olde world, isn’t it. so many coincidences. Kennedy, Dallas, LBJ, CIA, VietNam. how can they consistently roll so many snake eyes?
Rigged game?
What did nazis ever do to you?
Since the left went to an extreme by ignoring laws and using corrupt judges then the right is just reacting to that abuse of power. This is how things function in the world, Mish. The extreme of one side usually results in an extreme from the other side.Your legal and moral views not withstanding.
Yes some call it anarcho tyranny.
They are dirty cops and you put dirty cops in jail for a long time.
c’mon man, who hides the dirty cops? the rest of the cops, the unions, etc. Doesn’t that mean they are all really dirty cops?
Where are the cops outing the dirty cops, its so freakin rare they made a movie about it. Serpico.
Yes as usually if you have one dirty cop it’s because of the culture of the local law enforcement agency.
It’s not only one dirty cop. So it’s symptomatic of a rotten police department.
Unfounded accusations by political hacks playing to the base. Why not wait until you have something concrete to leak your allegations about the leaks? I’ll wager it amounts to nothing legal-wise.
triggered!
I don’t think Trump cares whether he is breaking the law. He is clearly pissed off from what has happened to him over the last 4 years. I get the whole idea of we need to not break the law but it is evident at this point the left will continue to do so when the power is put in their hands and it seems there was nothing anyone was able to do during the last 4 years. You go against the constitution….cool its null and void but things sure didn’t turn out that way.
LOCK THEM UP!
“I expect the rule of law to apply”
I couldn’t agree more!!
I don’t care whoever it is, what their Title, or Standing for that matter. Who they work for, or what they do, and most certainly not their gender or nationality.
“Whatever” Laws are being broken, need to be enforced and those breaking them “Arrested and Charged” End of Story!!!
Yes, every single time you drive 56 in a 55, you should get a ticket. Because iT’S tHe lAw.
Driving 10 over, financially gutting the organizations investigating your massive fraud… same thing!
and hang up that cell phone when driving, and don’t share stock tips with buddies. and never roll through a stop sign.don’t forget to use your turn signal when changing lanes, or turning.
if we stacked all the misdemeanors up for a year, and only charged 1$ fine per, we’d pay off the national debt in 2 years.
We are a nation of hypocrite lawbreakers, always whining about the other guy, while we try to finangle or ignore a law we care not for.
The government is the biggest abuser of the law of all, how can we respect a system so rife with fraud, corruption and outright theft?
By the way, almost no one goes to jail for a long time. Average time in a Federal prison is 5 years.
But if it is a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, that’s a long 5 years.
meanwhile DOGE Teen Ran Image-Sharing Site Linked to URLs Referencing Pedophilia and the KKKThe site launched by Edward Coristine in 2021 promised to protect the privacy of its users, stating, “All your images are encrypted. We do not log IP addresses, device agents or anything else.”https://www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-ran-image-sharing-site
That’s my boy! Child porn is the core of the Neo-nazi experience.
Ooo … looks like I offended some nazis… sorry boys!
Rule of law. The foundation of western civilization. Without it we’re a nation of barbarians. Full stop. I have been frustrated with the former presidents and their trampling of the law. Especially the most recent previous administration. The question is, is turnabout fair play? Usually? Fact is 2 wrongs don’t make a right. The citizens of these united states will probably end up splitting the nation into pieces. That’s the only solution I can foresee. I just hope that it can be done peacefully 🙏. With the amount of firearms floating around within our borders, and the loss of trust in each other, it’s not looking good.
Many of those pieces will form New South Africa.
No one is for breaking Law.
Nor are they for breaking Justice for which adherence to Law is designed as outcome.
There was some guy about two thousand years ago, had a run in with local merchants of Law . Many of them were able to quote chapter and verse. All sounded impressive. But they missed the basic premise which was meting out Justice.
Laws are words but if not equally applied in a Just manner then Natural Law will prevail.
“We hold these Truths to be self evident” is how Declaration of Independence starts off.
Founders started this Nation based upon Natural Law.
Nothing has changed since then. Natural Law is Basis of all Law in US.
What is the basis of all the malum prohibitum laws that exist? Certainly not natural law.
Frustrated with which former presidents? All of them? Yes?
I fully support fracturing into smaller forms of representative government. We do not have a functioning representative government today and haven’t for a long time. The founders thought 1 representative for every 30,000 people was about the limit. If we did that for the House of Reps today, there’d need to be over 10,000 representatives. Not 435.
Let’s keep going with fracturing into smaller forms of government until there are no rules and everyone governs himself. Which is the definition of anarchy
no need for a war, just drive them all mad on Trick-Talk, the children are easily led by their devices any way the wind blows, and their parents, well they can’t risk losing the electronic baby sitter. Hand that child an iphone or a tablet.
learned helplessness, then once they’ve all been herded in the pen, simply put a sign in cursive that says “EXIT” on the exit door and a trick-Talk video of an exit over a pit and see which one they run through.
War is messy,costly and damages the assets, propaganda is nearly free and can have even better and more devasting effects.
make sure all your apps are up to date, they need to reach you 24/7, you are your own worst enemy in the electronic age..
There are a million cops in this country. There are far fewer Federal agents of all kinds available at a moments notice. You keep hearing Homan whining about not getting any help. Thats because he doesnt have enough agents, and will never have enough agents, plus all the cops around the country are a little busy with real crimes. Remember that these agents are at least GS-12 making $120k a year plus benefits, and a lot are ex-military. You think they are gonna try real hard chasing people who dont want to be found, and spending 5-10 hours in paperwork EACH to throw them out of the country, only to have them find a way back in? Homan is as delusional as every member of the Trump crime family.
Many of the cops are busy eating donuts and writing parking/speeding tickets. Not all cops, but a large percentage are engaged in work that most of us would not really consider police work of catching criminals. So there is in fact plenty who could help and they’d be doing something a lot more fulfilling.
As for those ex-military agents. A WHOLE lot of them are hard core patriots with a love of shooting guns. Wouldn’t take much for a lot of them to get itchy trigger fingers if they thought they would get away with it. So I bet a lot more than you think would love to track down illegals.
Local/county cops ultimately work for their states and dont enforce Federal laws. And I dont see where an ex-military gets a thrill shooting a Mexican kid in the head, but I see the world differently …
Um, many of the people Homan is targeting for deportation have committed real crimes, like murder, assault, rape, burglary and entering the country illegally. The job is hard enough without some treasonous liberal clown making it worse.
And they were being thrown out during Biden’s time as well. Why any are still here is probably the real story.
lol, the sympathetic elderly man with a poor memory was sure giving it his all.
hunting for all those illegals, at all those Dairy Queens, a nationwide hunt a Triple Scoop Cone at a time. Truly the only executive action mr. Biden took until it was time to pardon his partners and crime family.
The GS 12 pay scale in my area ranges from 91,922 to $119,504. Your math is off. That any civilians are ex-military is irrelevant. They served, they earned the military pension. So they served their country with pride, wanted to keep doing so as a civilian, but are going to just phone it in? Sure. Sure.
What rule of law? Trump pardoned all the hillbillies that ransacked the Capitol building on Jan 6, including ones that attacked police officers. This sudden interest in the rule of law for ICE’s Stasi-like operations is touching.
Ransack? Some doofus sat in Pelosi’s throne and a bunch of grannies were let in and walked between the velvet ropes. Get a grip. It was a Pelosi-FBI setup. The “hillbillies” fell for it.
Don’t sell them short! They smashed windows, squished cops, stole and broke bunch of stuff and smeared blood and shit on the walls of the capitol while prancing around with a confederate flag.
If they had 10 brain cells cumulatively, they could have pulled off the coup. Americans are so stupid….they need to be replaced.
All the imprisoned grannies did that?
they also finished off all of Pelosi’s Franza box wines. That’s why she was so pissed.
Still whining I see. But I suppose you think it’s perfectly fine that Demented Old Joe pardoned his son, brother and numerous other treasonous crooks.
ICE more like the Keystone Kops now.
Ten yrs ago, they were more “Stasi-like” (in the Obama administration).
Who ran ICE for the last 4 years, who molded them into keystones? that old keystone stater himself old Joe from Scranton,PA ?
Make one example. It will stop. 10 year sentence Forth Leavenworth . Who’s next?
I don’t understand how some obscure judge reigning over his tiny little fiefdom and 95 percent of the Country has never even heard of this judge could possibly have the authority to tell the duly elected President of the US what he can and can’t do. Surely you jest.
That comment is so stupid I debated deleting it. But I will reply.
Judges are assigned districts, not “fiefdoms”.
They rule on case law, generally but not always correctly. Some judges have clear bias and then Appeals Courts smack them.
But since Trump has clearly broken the law several times, the courts have ruled as I expected three times now, and more coming.
Finally, and most importantly, your idiotic comment presumes presidents are above the law.
Engelmayer’s ruling “is a remarkable intrusion on the Executive Branch that is in direct conflict with Article II of the Constitution, and the unitary structure it provides.””There is not and cannot be a basis for distinguishing between ‘civil servants’ and ‘political appointees,’” the memorandum stated. “Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer to the President.
“A federal court, consistent with the separation of powers, cannot insulate any portion of that work from the specter of political accountability. No court can issue an injunction that directly severs the clear line of supervision Article II requires. Because the Order on its face draws an impermissible and anti-constitutional distinction, it should be dissolved immediately.”
Random federal judges in blue state backwaters have no authority to unilaterally dictate who the President may talk to or what data he can access. John Roberts and SCOTUS have two options here: they can bring these inferior malcontents to heel, or they can get used to the President simply ignoring these inferior courts or Congress eliminating them entirely. Congress created these inferior courts so the Supreme Court wouldn’t have to deal with every federal case by itself. But if these rogue inferior judges are going to routinely issue lawless decisions that the Supreme Court has to deal with anyway, Congress would be well within its rights to just eliminate them. Roberts and SCOTUS can immediately put these lawless judges in their place, or Roberts can watch his caseload go up 1000x and his court’s precious perceived legitimacy crater overnight. The age of tolerating this nonsense is over.
Remember you arent writing for yourself. You are writing for your reader. And this is too much for the average reader.
be careful, you may be providing proof of your own theory, in your own writing..
Well, lets try to remember Trump has 51% of the political power now, and ignoring courts is not a new idea. My demo buddies can protest and get courts to delay, but in the end, Trump wins … until we find 17 Repub senators who will convict and remove as even they have had enough.
If he signed an order to ban public sector unions I expect you would support it. Maybe that will come. It is possible. FDR certainly would have signed the order and for the same reason Trump would.
We haven’t had fiefdoms since the Middle Ages. Figure of speech, Moron. Now I realize why I never bother to comment here you arrogant SOB. I know you won’t post this but you still had to read it.
Fiefdoms are coming back. They had lords and ladies who were all-powerful. Why do you think everyone ran to America? The weather? As 5000 families in America wind up owning 99% of everything, you will bow to your lord or you will not be living on the estate … nor any other estate. Youll love American fiefdoms.
I am your lord and master! Bow before me!
I’m not sure you understand what a fiefdom is. Serfs don’t pay tax, own guns or land.
we have the means to resist, even if most of the city folks are more than happy to roll over as long as their Starbucks keep the drive thru open.
Its very difficult to understand just how large the United States is. Its very easy to assume control of the cities, very difficult to assume control of the rest.
Idiotic? Your comment presumes judges always rule on case law. Which doesn’t seem to be the case in this case based on what Mike Cernovich has been saying about this judge’s ruling.
I have seen far worse comments on this blog.
Seriously, Mish, stop with all the political blog posts and get back to what you are good at – blog posts about economics.
Such as the post several years ago that gave me the idea to switch my traditional IRA contributions to my employer’s plan to Roth contributions the next time the stock market tanks. And the posts interpreting the jobs numbers.
Best
TD
Mister Mish,
If Trump does not fire career federal civil servants but sends them home on paid admin leave, then what civil service rules or laws did he break ?
Also if the agency does not spend all the money that Congress authorizes, then what laws have been broken ?
Granted, the federal government just can’t cancel contracts with Ingalls Shipyard while the DDG 51 class ships are still under construction, without incurring penalties.
I was in the federal bureaucracy from 1987 to 2013, and remember that any money not spent will get returned at the end of the fiscal year to the US Treasury, which can use the money to buy back US Treasuries.
That is why we always had purchase requests ready in September in case there was an excess funds in our military branch agency.
Then we buy spare parts with excess funds that would eventually get misplaced in inventory, and it explains why the Pentagon always fails its audits (mostly due to missing inventory items).
A D
Someone here please explain this to me:
-the president of the US is voted by the majority of people after a lot of campaigning, stress, time consuming etc and a goofy not elected unknown judge mostly with liberal views has the power to cancel a presidential order that was given with the goal to uncover corruption and safeguard tax payers money ?
-The Senate is voting for the treasury Secretary and un unknown goofy judge has the power to cancel the Senate vote of confidence and prevent the Treasury chief to look into the treasury account? Does any public company hires a CEO and prevent him to search the company book? Are you taking your car to mechanic and prevent him to look under the car roof?
If you dont like the rules of the game, you change the rules. You dont go punching the referee in the face.
Why? He obviously won’t hit me back.
Yer terrible 🙂
I beleive you meant punching the mechanic in the face.
This is how the system of checks and balances work.
“the president of the US is voted by the majority of people…”
A majority of those who cast votes. Less than 1/3 of eligible voters pick Trump, slightly fewer picked Harris, and a plurality chose no one (i.e. did not vote).
That means that roughly 68% of the voting population did not choose Trump — there’s your majority.
“Interfering with an ICE investigation is illegal. And what ICE is doing is legal, whether anyone likes it or not.”
How do we know what ICE was doing is legal? This blog is filled with examples of administrative bodies NOT operating legally. Let’s not rule out the possibility that what ICE was doing might not be legal. And if ICE’s actions were not legal, the so called “leaker” becomes a whistle blower.
Stop sideline advocating and let’s get to the facts (although very hard to find in this Administration).
You should present information that you have that shows that what ICE is doing is illegal. Do you have any evidence to share? Or are you just making things up?
By ‘this’ administration, I take it you mean Mr. Trump’s. It would be more appropriate if it referred to the Biden admin, where we are only now “getting to the facts”, when it was nearly impossible to find facts from Biden, Mayorkas, Buttigieg, Garland.
One side can’t ‘appy the rule of law’ and then let the other side do whatever it wants, and then one side follows the rule of law and then lets the other side do whatever it wants….
IN the end, that just means the side following all the correct procedures loses.
Its a recipe for civil war.
‘Badges?? We don’t need no stinkin badges’.
For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the Law. And I make the law!
Trump must push the edges of laws enacted to provide cover for an out of control administrative state and the elites that manipulate it.
Without this, Trump’s enemies will do, in a much more sophisticated way, exactly what they did during his first administration.
Prior to the 90’s, when Congress issued a subpoena to a Federal agency, they would run like chickens with their heads cut off to show up and deliver all required information. Since then, we have seen this change to an arrogant stance where heads of agencies snow not show up nor deliver the required information, all in the name of national security.
Nope, their thumbing of Congress’s noses is done in the name of their and the elites that control them security.
There is no way to break this vicious circle up other than breaking a few eggs.
Nothing scares a government employee more than loss of their pension. Go get ‘em, Tom.
He’s worried about his pension, too.