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Monday, April 3, 1911. Racism in San Antonio.
President Taft ordered the reassignment of the all-African-American U.S. 9th Cavalry out of San Antonio, Texas as the unit's northern-born soldiers had defied the city's segregation laws. Indeed, two white streetcar conductors had been beaten up after insisting that the soldiers move to the "colored" section of the cars.
They'd only recently been deployed there due to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.
Draft registration became mandatory in New Zealand for all males aged 14 to 20.
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Monday, April 3, 1876. The Denver municipal election.
Denver’s 1876 municipal election shaped a fast-growing frontier city
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Pollice Verso. The 2026 Political Negative Endorsement. The Don't Vote For List.
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So, we aren't telling you who to vote for, but for the first time ever, we're publishing something on whom we think you should vote against, although it frankly takes a lot of hubris to even assume anyone at all cares what I think on this topic.
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#very election season people say something about the election being the most critical one ever but 2026 really is. 2026 may be the last gasp of American democracy, or the beginning of the restoration of it. Right now, the American electorate basically stabbed democracy accidentally in the back by electing a mentally declining spoiled rich boy caudillo, and the whole world is paying the price.
The US is being run on a near dictatorial basis by the madman. The Republican Party, save for a few of its notable members, has become nothing but a collection of worshippers, many of whom are steeped in ignorance. The childlike ignoramus who is running the country is going to try to steal the 2026 elections. About this there can be no doubt.
Part of the duty of the voters is to be informed. It's pretty clear a lot of American voters, no matter what their party affiliation, aren't. Indeed, I dare say the most informed voters are Independents who have informed themselves on both parties and marched out of the parties absolutely disgusted.
In Wyoming you almost have to be a member of the Republican Party or you have no vote at all. But in Wyoming a collection of Dixiecrats who think they are Republicans and think they are for "freedom" is now the most powerful voice in the legislature and due to Cynthia Lummis retiring the entire mix of candidates is in flux.
This trailing thread is a list of people to vote against. That's a terrible way to vote, but given the times and the slate of candidates, its something people need to consider.
This list, we'll note, is limited to current candidates. Not every Wyoming politician. If experience is any guide we would note that not getting voted for tends to refocus a politicians attention like nothing else. If there's a big shift in 2026 and some traction on that in Wyoming, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Chuck Gray wrote daily proposals of marriage to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
There are plenty of candidates running for office in Wyoming who'd end the public's right to do this, or anything, on public land.
Enemies of Public Lands, Hunters and Fishermen
Wyoming public lands users were shocked in 2025 with Deseret Mike Lee lead a full blown charge at public lands and Wyoming's Lummis, Barrasso, and Hageman joined right in. Given their histories respectively of 1) being a Cheshire Cat, 2) Being a sycophantic toady and 3) being a member of a family that very distinctly doesn't care much for anyone who isn't an agricultural landowner, we shouldn't have been surprised, and yet we were.
Our guards still need to be up in a major way. This issue hasn't gone away and if 2025/26s Trump babbling about Greenland, Gaza and Venezuela has shown anything, its that Donald Trump's GOP doesn't give a rats ass about anything that can't be reduced to a sale and the future just doesn't matter. He's a shallow golf course developer and see the entire world that way, to his everlasting discredit.
And the GOP is right behind him.
People public lands users, and that includes ranchers who will get completely screwed if Deseret Mike Lee and his ilk have his way, follow.1
These people have no Land Ethic.
Bill Allemand: Allemand is from a large ranching family in the state but has claimed not to be part of the ranching operations himself. Nonetheless he showed his hand by sponsoring a really punitive hunting trespass bill that failed last session.
That should preclude him from being reelected. He's an enemy of sportsmen.
He's also a Dixiecrat.
And he's extremely rude. His first run for office was characterized by outrageous comments about his opponent and he's shown a real temper since being elected. Most recently, he stated outrageous things against a Deputy Sheriff who arrested him for drunk driving in Johnson County.2 A cutting editorial by Susan Stubson on his drunk driving escapade is well worth reading.
On Allemand:
Rep. Bill Allemand asks judge to rescind court-ordered alcohol testing during upcoming legislative session: The Midwest lawmaker is contesting his DUI charge following his arrest last month in Johnson County.
The answer to that ought to be a hard no.
Harriet Hageman: Hageman is from a large ranching/farming family in southeast Wyoming. Her father was the sponsor of an effort to privatize wildlife when he was in the legislature. Hageman aggressively backed an effort to transfer Wyoming's Federal lands to the state and responded to criticism of those who opposed her by basically calling them dumb.
This past term her family homestead burned to the ground in a year that's been extremely warm and devoid of moisture. There were poignant comments about it, including from her, which tend to demonstrate the agricultural community's absolute refusal to read what is really in front of their face, climate wise. It's ironic, in that even university educated agriculturalist like Hageman, who depend on animal science daily, refuse to believe that any other science is valid.
Jacob Wasserburger: Wasserburger came up with this bad idea, but it sounds a lot like he's been sitting around with Mike Lee, the Senator from Deseret
Going Feral: Lawmaker Unveils Bill To Sell Between 30,000 And 2...: Another moronic idea by a Wyoming Republican, a party which seems to draw from the endless well of bad ideas. Wasserburger is going right on...
He's signed on to the no prescription for Ivermectin act as well, these two things indicating that he's hanging out with, in not in, the Freedom Caucus. A little digging reveals that Wasserburger is from a Niobrara County ranch and has been practicing law since 2008, at which he's bounced around a lot, including having once worked for a major Democratic politician and a really good Republican one. He did a stint in government work as well.
Original post: January 20, 2026.
Updates: January 24, 2026, January 27, 2026.
Allies of Ignorance. Trump Fellow Travelers and Dixiecrats.
I suspect that some of these people probably really love Trump, while others are just opportunistic and pitching to ignorant Wyoming voters, telling them what they know they want to hear. Either way, they shouldn't be voted for, either because they believe the nonsense they're spouting, or because they're willing to lie to obtain office.
Some of these folks are members of the largely carpetbagging Wyoming Freedom Caucus as well, which definitely should disqualify them. They're not running for office in 2026 Wyoming but 1966 Alabama. It's estimated that 42 members of the House, which has only 62 seats, in the Wyoming legislature are occupied by Freedom Caucus members, but it is an estimate as some of them will not openly declare their membership showing that they have some reservations about it.
Something Wyoming voters should know is that unlike other caucuses, once a legislator joins the WFC he or she can sit on his legislative rear and do nothing, as the WFC does all the work, including drafting bills it wants and telling the potted WFC plant what to say and think. The money, and at least some of the bill drafting, comes from outside of the state. The Freedom Caucus is effectively an alien, that is carpetbagging, force in the state, in the true original sense of the meaning of the word carpetbagger.
Megen Degenfelder: Degenfelder is the current Superintendent of Public Instruction who has announced for Governor.. She's clearly very far right wing, but she doesn't appear to be a full blown MAGA adherent. Still, she received King Donny's endorsement and wrapped herself in it, and for that reason alone should be rejected.
I do have a question, however, based on her time in office, as to how much of the MAGA nonsense she really believes. As one of the Board of State Land Commissioners she hasn't been a fellow traveler with Gray, and the evidence suggests that absolutely nobody on that Board can stand Gray. The Governor clearly does not, but it doesn't really look like anyone else does either. And Degenfelder hasn't come out with any of the really extreme crap that Gray has, or even that Cindy Hill had. Given that, she might be on the Trump Train in a boxcar ready to jump off when and if things begin to derail. So I'll cut her a little slack, albeit very, very, little.
In this race, so far, it looks to me that Barlow is the best candidate.
Chuck Gray: Gray's a carpetbagging opportunist who took advantage of lies to obtain the position of Secretary of State where he's been a general pain in the ass. He's not from here, he's not of here, and he should be sent packing as a disagreeable asshole. He literally obtained his office mounted on a steed of lies.
Gray, I'll note, was one of the founders of the Freedom Caucus and perhaps because of that hasn't been asked the questions or subject to sideways glances that some in his situation might have been, which is interesting.
Ken Pendergraft: A member of the Freedom Caucus who voted to slash U.W.'s budget.
The Freedom Caucus is pretty much the Freakishly Dumb Caucus and basically opposes education. Educated people, it turns out, tend to be moderate and don't believe that global warming is a fib, or that the Earth is 4,000 years old, or that Christianity somehow started in the US with an Evangelical Free Church. So education is bad, in their view.
Jeremy Haroldson: A member of the Freedom Caucus who voted to slash U.W. budget.
Jacob Wasserburger: As we suspected, Wasserburger is part of the WFC.
And some more:
Ann Lucas (Cheyenne):
Darin McCann (Rock Springs):
Joel Guggenmos (Riverton):
Jayme Lien (Casper):
Gary Brown (Cheyenne):
Steve Johnson (Cheyenne):
Joe Webb (Lyman):
Paul Hoeft (Cody):
Robert Wharff (Evanston):
David Giralt, who is running for the House solely on a promise to be the biggest Trump sycophant imaginable.
Jeanette Ward, who hopes to get back in the legislature after being booted out.
Bo Biteman, who is in the Freedom Caucus.
Frank Moran, carpetbagger in Moran.
Steve Friess. Teton County carpetbagger.
Updated on February 27, 2026, March 13, 2026. March 26, 2026. April 3, 2026.
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The Freedom Caucus thinks that they are Republicans, but they are not. They're Jeffersonian Democrats, i.e., Dixiecrats.
Original post: January 20, 2026. Updates: January 28, 2028. February 2, 2026.
Carpetbaggers
This may seem like an odd thing to post in this category, but this film, which I hate, really frames the Wyoming mindset in some ways, even though the novel from which its taken was set in Appalachia. Clayboy's father and eight uncles may have fallen in love here, but Clayboy is going to abandon one of the most beautiful spots on earth and the two hot chicks pursuing him so he can go to university, learn to write, and sit in an office smoking cigarettes behind a typewriter because he's convinced that must be superior to what he already has.
Wyoming has always had a transient population and, additionally, a pretty pronounced history of self doubt and even self loathing. For that reason, we're pretty willing as a rule to elect imports who claim to be like us, even though we know that they aren't. We really think they're better than us.
Right now, for example, we have Dr. John Barrasso who isn't a Wyomingite but sort of pretends to be one, or at least was up until becoming the Senate Majority Whip. He's a Pennsylvanian. He's a Boomer so chances are that this is his last hurrah before he retires and gets the heck out of here.
We've added a note above about the funding of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, which pretty much qualifies the caucus itself, if not every single members, as the Wyoming Foreign Carpetbaggers.
Chuck Gray: Gray is a Californian who shares nothing in common with anyone whatsoever in the state. He should be sent back to California.
Indeed, one of the most pathetic things about Gray campaigns is when they dress the diminutive little guy up and try to film him in Wyoming. There he is, looking at an oil rig, and looking mighty uncomfortable, and so on.
Joseph Kibler: Kibler is a recent import from California, and should just go home. He's running for Governor.
Jeanette Ward, whose from some suburb of Chicago.
Frank Chapman, who moved into Wyoming from somewhere else after practicing law there for three decades and who now is some sort of rancher and outfitter in Moran.
Steve Friess.
Original post: January 20, 2026.
Updates: January 24, 2026, March 13, 2026. March 26, 2026.
Bottle Babies and Stahlhelm
In recent years Wyoming has seen people run for office touting their experience as a veteran. They basically fall into two groups.
One group were career servicemen who sucked on the government tit their entire working lives and now have moved into Wyoming or have come back to Wyoming after decades of being gone and, uniformly, declare they hate the government and know how to fix it. Their hatred didn't keep them from competing in the free job economy with the rest of us, however.
They didn't run their military careers like they claim they'll run the state. I.e, they didn't come in and say "I hate the military with the red hot passion of a thousand burning suns and I'm going to destroy it!".
The other group are men who run simply on having been a veteran. Eh? Lee Harvey Oswald was a veteran. This group has nothing much more to say other than "I'm a veteran". So what? Lots of people are veterans. This is the Stahlhelm group.
Brent Bien is a bottle baby. He was a career Marin Corps officer and had a really distinguished career. Now he's back in the state and seeks to apply that experience, which is wholly irrelevant to running the state, to wrecking government.
Original post: January 20, 2026.
Democrats in delusion
On this category, let me be clear. I want more Democrats to run, but I want solid Democrats to run. While its a long shot, I think a centrist Democratic Party in the state, which we used to have, and which gave us multiple Governors, could gain seats, including some important seats. Indeed, I'm surprised that some names that used to appear haven't re-appeared so far.
The first thing I'm going to note is that the Democrats need to avoid wrapping themselves in bloody surgical towels and rainbow flags, but they just can't seem to avoid doing it. They should take a lesson from one of their own recent events:
Affordability, healthcare and public lands echo as top concerns at Dem listening sessions
But instead of that, they'll end up talking about "reproductive rights" and "gender determination" and completely ax themselves.
What the Democratic Party should do in Wyoming is flat out instruct its candidates not to take hardcore positions on these issues. Ideally, they ought to run a moderate prolife Democrat, which would be something the GOP wouldn't know how to handle. If a Democratic candidate went to a house seat debate and took a position to the right of the Republican on the typical social issues, they'd be caught flat footed and resort to name calling. Better yet, if asked about abortion, and a Democratic candidate said "I'm flat out against it, and why has Donald Trump come out being sort of for it?" the Republicans wouldn't know what to do.
But, nope, that won't happen.
Anyhow, while we want Democrats to run, and want third party candidates to run, some will end up on this list as they're actually sucking air out of the room which shouldn't be.
Stewart McAdoo fits this category. McAdoo is a Democrat who is running against Art Washut in House District 36. Washut is a real conservative (and very conservative at that), and not a populist Freedom Caucus member. Losing him would be a disaster for Wyoming. I've never heard of him, but he appears to be an import to the state, which might place him in another category as well.
Original post: January 22, 2026.
Footnotes
1. While I know that it will happen no time soon, it really needs to become the case that lands that went into private hands through a Homestead Act can't go into corporate or absentee hands.
2. According to news reports Allemand admitted to the sheriff's deputy that he drank and drive, in order to address "stress". In the papers he came out just like he did in the campaign, which is to say as a boisterous asshole. That alone should put an end to his political career.
Most of his business career, we'd note, was spent in Kansas. He ought to just go back to Kansas.
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Thursday, April 2, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 122nd Edition, part two. Trouble with the Trump 'wimmins". Pam Bondi is fired.
Trump and sycophants, Bondi included. A prediction here is that Hegseth, to Trump's right, will be the next sycophant to be canned.
Lex Anteinternet: CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 122nd Edition. Trou...: News reports this morning hold that Trump is considering canning Pam Bondi for her poor handling, if that's what she's doing, of the...
News reports this morning hold that Trump is considering canning Pam Bondi for her poor handling, if that's what she's doing, of the Epstein matter, which just won't go away.
The weird thing is that if you hang out with kiddy diddlers, brag about checking out teenage models at a pageant in the buff, talk about grabbing, well you know, people start to think you might be a kiddy diddler.
Weird, eh?
And she's gone.
According to the Daily Mail, the British tabloid, which I would not regard as fully reliable, she begged not to be canned. She probably ought to regard it as a relief, given that she's now off the sinking ship.
It's my sincere hope that she never works as an attorney again. She's been an embarrassment to a profession that's far too often embarrassed. Her conduct has been reprehensible. Frankly, I doubt that she'll practice law, however. She'll probably lectures at some university, which seems to be the place all departed politicians go, and I'm certain that she'll work on a tell all book that condemns Trump, now that he's terminated her career.
Her reputation will never recover.
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122nd Edition. Trouble with the Trump 'wimmins", Hypocrisy in the Trump Administration. The disappearing and reappearing J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio.
CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 122nd Edition. Trouble with the Trump 'wimmins", Hypocrisy in the Trump Administration. The disappearing and reappearing J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio.
News reports this morning hold that Trump is considering canning Pam Bondi for her poor handling, if that's what she's doing, of the Epstein matter, which just won't go away.
The weird thing is that if you hang out with kiddy diddlers, brag about checking out teenage models at a pageant in the buff, talk about grabbing, well you know, people start to think you might be a kiddy diddler.
Weird, eh?
Anyhow, Trumps thinking of canning Bondi, and putting Lee Zeldin in her place. Zeldin is another Trump lawyer. He's currently the head of the EPA.
If Bondi departs, she'll be the second major Trump admin sycophant to be canned, Noem being the first, so both cannings will have been of women. A big difference, however, will be that Bondi is downright dangerous. If Trump turns on Bondi, she'll turn on him. Trump's advisors know that, but may be too afraid to tell him, and he's likely to dense to grasp that.
Noem, who turned out to be loathsome as the head of Homeland Security, won't be turning on Trump. . . yet. She's wait for him to be out of office, then she will. But she's been back in the news due to her husband showing up in photos cross dressing and wearing big fake boobs.
Frankly, Noem, and her husband are to be pitied for this, not condemned. But it does raise the interesting topic of hypocrisy in the Trump Administration. The administration is thick with Christian Nationalism and "conservative values", but Noem was widely rumored to he engaged in an extramarital affair with another Trump official, even carting him around on expensive junkets. and now it turns out that her husband had what I'd regard as a sexually centered mental illness, one which he apparently didn't adequately attempt to conceal, and perhaps didn't attempt to conceal at all. Trump himself is a serial polygamist and there are at least credible indicators that he may have fished in the shallow end of the pond, if not worse. Bondi didn't acknowledged abused women after ranting at Congress. Miller sounds like Himmler most of the time he speaks but is Jewish.
Perhaps we shouldn't be all that surprised. The Nazis were sort of the same way. There were affairs and of course one legendary homosexual scandal.
Sin makes you stupid, as Jimmy Akin warns us.
Since the war with Iran started J. D. Vance has been hard to find He's not out cheerleading the war like the nervous sounding Bessant or the administration like the "I took my family to Epstein Island but all I got was this T-shirt and I know absolutely nothing" Lutnick. Vance is widely believed to have leaked his opposition to the war right as it started.
Another nearly silent, but not quite silent, Administration figure is Marco Rubio, who may be the one administration figure who doesn't do the "Oh Donald, may I kiss your ass" routing at cabinet meetings. He hasn't been able to completely avoid the topic, but he's been pretty quiet Indeed, Rubio tends to be remarkably quiet and when he shows up he tends to look really uncomfortable. There's reason to believe that Rubio is the main backer on the administration's near invasion of Cuba and now that Trump is looking like a military dumbass, there's a real chance that Trump's ardor for military adventure may be over For that matter, while the current military has been very damaged by Trump, there are likely still enough real officers in the military to protest against start ing a second war when the current one isn't finished, and it's going to be at least a year, if not years, before that occurs. Marco may have lost his campaign slogan for 2028 of Viva Cuba Libre "I did that".
Rubio and Vance are somewhat unique in the Trump orbit as they're both real Catholics. Press Secretary Leavitt is apparently as well, although it sure doesn't show as she's a full time liar.
Rubio, when he speaks, tends to be pretending to be angry while saying Trump didn't say what he said, but what I'm going to say, even though Trump didn't say that camp.
Vance has come out with a book on his conversation to Catholicism which is a big off ramp from the Trump Administration and its Paul Whites and Franklin Grahams. It's a pretty clear signal that he's separating himself from the Evangelical far right fanatics and is beginning the process of separating himself from Trump. The book is likely to draw criticism but it's a really smart move, as he's essentially getting up from the Paul White Bee Dance table and walking over to the adults and sitting down with the sane and sober. He's going for the National Review/First Things crowd, not the NASCAR Country Pop gang. By the time 2028 rolls around, the folks who were admiring Franklin Graham's letters to Trump will have forgotten all about them, for the most, part, with some being on to new wives and affairs but assured that as they were once saved, they'll aways be.
Rubio likely knows this is what Vance is doing and he's going to have to do something himself What isn't clear The value of being a failed President's Secretary of State hasn't really been there since Kissinger managed to find it had one. Trump is looking worse as a President, indeed worse as a mammal, every day. My guess is that if Trump isn't removed via the 25th Amendment, he'll find he forgot to let the cat out prior to November and will leave the administration.
When he leaves he can do what Bondi will do, if fired, and what Vance can't do, while Vice President, that being writing a tell all book. Bondi's will be a bombshell, which is why Trump should not fire her if he's smart. Bondi's "I Know Where all the Bodies are Buried and Who All the Teenage Concubines Were" tell all will be something else. Rubio's "I Tried To Stop Trump From Being A Dumbass" book will be less salacious, but interesting Vance won't have a chance to write something like that before 2028.
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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 121st Edition and Wars and Rumors of War, 2026. Part 3. The War against Iran Edition and other Military Topics.
Tuesday, April 2, 1946. MacArthur bans fraternization, Murray tries for national health insurance.
General Douglas MacArthur issued the first regulations against fraternization between American soldiers and Japanese citizens as an attempt to stop soldiers from consorting with prostitutes. The regulations would grow into an extensive program of segregation.
Montana Democrat Senator James Murray convened his Committee on Education and Labor for the first hearing on comprehensive national health insurance. His concern arose from his prior role as a labor lawyer for coal miners.
Murray had been born in Ontario and was moved to Butte upon the death of his father that very year. He was left a very wealthy man by an inheritance that came about when his uncle, who raised him, died.
Murray was an Irish American/Canadian Catholic and died in 1961.
It's really dispiriting to realize that national health insurance, which was a desire of the Truman Administration, has never come about. All the arguments against it really fail, but the opposition to it has left the United States the only major nation without it and has contributed enormously to the decline of the United States as a first rate nation since the 1970s.
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Monday, April 1, 1946. The April 1, 1946 Aleutian Islands Earthquake
Friday, April 2, 1926. "Fianna Fáil"
Eamon de Valera proposed the name "Fianna Fáil" for his new political party which was scheduled to organize on May 16. "Fianna" (soldiers) and the Lia Fáil, the coronation stone for the ancient kings of Ireland, formed the basis of the name.
The hard to characterize republican party is still around. It's political positions have shifted a great degree over the past century and indeed the ability to do so is a self acknowledged feature of the party.
Watts residents voted to become part of Los Angeles.
Calvin Coolidge declined an invitation to send American delegates to a League of Nations conference in Geneva to discuss America's reservations about joining the World Court.
Coolidge gave a press conference.
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Saturday, March 27, 1926.
Tuesday, April 2, 1901. News Carver meets his end.
The United Kingdom extended the military court system over Boer guerillas.
The British were turning increasingly desperate, and harsh, in their effort to put down the ongoing resistance of Boer Bitter Enders.
William Carver of the Wild Bunch was killed in Jack Owens' Bakery in Sonora, Texas, by Sheriff E. S. "Lige" Briant and his deputies while attempting to effect an arrest for suspicion of murder.
Carver was one of the individuals in the famous Fort Worth portrait from 1900 and went by the nickname "News".
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Monday, April 1, 1901. Aguinaldo consents.
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Court Watch, Part V.
Expect a major hissy fit.
I think we can confidently assume this project is dead, and that some lesser more useful construction will take place after Trump is out of office.
The judge ruled that the plaintiff was likely to prevail as the administration likely lacks the authority they tried to exercise here.
They should refund the money and Trump should pay for this destruction himself.
April 1, 2026
Trump's executive order on mail voting is set to face legal challenges
April 2, 2026
From the CST:
Basically the judge decided the issues in the two matters weren't sufficiently identical for consolidation.
On other matters:
Lex Anteinternet: Courthouses of the West: Donald Trump attends oral...: Courthouses of the West: Donald Trump attends oral arguments in Trump v. Ba... : That's the birthright citizenship case. Trump's goi...
I posted this yesterday.
Courthouses of the West: Donald Trump attends oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara
Courthouses of the West: Donald Trump attends oral arguments in Trump v. Ba...: That's the birthright citizenship case. Trump's going to lose this case, which will be another example of the wheels coming off of h...
Donald Trump attends oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara.
That's the birthright citizenship case.
Trump's going to lose this case, which will be another example of the wheels coming off of his administration. His presence at the Court will not impress anyone, let alone the Justices. Trump seems to have lost any sense that he's not that impressive to about 70% of Americans.
His attendance is, frankly, appalling.
Cont (April 1, 2026)
JUSTICE NEIL GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans today are birthright citizens under your test and under your friend's test?
D. JOHN SAUER, U.S. SOLICITOR GENERAL: I think so. I mean, obviously, they've been granted citizenship by statute ...
GORSUCH: Put aside the statute. Do you think they're birthright citizens?
SAUER: No, I think the clear understanding that everybody agrees in the congressional debates is that the children of tribal Indians are not birthright citizens.
GORSUCH: I understand that's what they said. But your test is the domicile of the parents, and that would be the test you'd have us apply today, right?
SAUER: Yes, yes. So, if a tribal Indian, for example, you know, gives up allegiance to ...
GORSUCH: Are tribal members born today birthright citizens?
SAUER: I think so, on our test, if they're lawfully domiciled here. I'm not s—, I have to think that through, but that's my reaction.
GORSUCH: I'll take the yes. That's alright.
Gee Louise, this administration is really something.
It turns out that Trump left after Justice Jackson pretty much eviscerated the solicitor, D. John Sauer, who was sent to argue this. Sauer's career really ought to be over for such a lame argument that was so obviously legal deficient. He's a former Missouri solicitor and, more important, one of the lawyers who was willing to represent Trump in the past.
Court Watch, Part IV.
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