Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
55 responses to “Just time for a new thread.”
I reign supreme.
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Correction….King Roberts reigns supreme. No checks and balances of the Judicial Branch allowed.
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Can we get a real American to check in first? These foreign Hedgehoggers are just not up to our high standards.
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Disagreeing with Trump is not grounds for impeachment.
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Although I do not know when or how I will die, I know it will not be due to diving in an underwater cave.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14518713/horror-scuba-diver-dead-underwater-labyrinth.html
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Because I am worried about the tariffs on bacon and scrapple tariffs I was forced to eat 8 slices of slab bacon instead of 6 and 4 one inch slices of deep fried scrapple instead of the normal 3 this morning.
My wife tried to point out there are no tariffs on bacon and scrapple so I said what about CANADIAN BACON. I had her there.
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Correction….King Roberts reigns supreme. No checks and balances of the Judicial Branch allowed.
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Zzzzzz…..
Says the guy that demands 100% fealty to his King.
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I tried Irish bacon over the weekend. Interesting. Good but too much fat.
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Bitter – intentionally – continues to substitute “impeachment” for any suggested check on the judicial branch.
It is code for “I don’t believe there should be ANY check on the Judicial Branch”.
Correct me if I’m wrong….are there any?
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Maybe Jason can tell us what checks and balances are available to the other branches of government to use on the judicial branch.
Hint…..his ideas yesterday were all checks the judiciary could impose on itself.
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Here’s a great article confirming why the DOGE process is necessary. This is going on throughout the entire federal Government –
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump?topStoryPosition=undefined
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https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/lawfare-judge-falsifies-usaid-origins-in-anti-trump-order-rebuking-unconstitutional-foreign-aid-freeze/
A federal judge, in a ruling aimed at restoring the core functions of the defunct United States Agency for International Development (USAID), appeared either to not know or, indeed, falsify how the agency was created. The bizarre error will now call into question the validity of his ruling Tuesday, which even seeks to reopen building access for dismissed USAID employees.
U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang, who serves on the Federal District Court of Maryland bench and was appointed by former President Barack Obama, claims that Congress created USAID and, therefore, it cannot be shut down solely through presidential authority. However, this is not the case.
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what’s even funnier, Tina is that all the so called legal experts on CNN yesterday praised this judge for his “well renowned” intellect and judicial prudence.
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Neil Gorsuch wrote an excellent book titled A Republic, If You Can Keep It. There is much in there on the separation of powers. Even Bitter, a self-confessed attorney might learn something.
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“what’s even funnier, Tina is that all the so called legal experts on CNN yesterday praised this judge for his “well renowned” intellect and judicial prudence.”
I am sure one or more free passers also “praised” the Marxist judge.
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Reasonable suggestions for pushing back against Judicial overreach and Democrat lawfare –
“First, expand the courts. No, no, not “court packing,” nothing like that. The National Judicial Council just recommended adding 66 District Judges and two Court of Appeals judges to remedy the “crisis of undermanned federal courts.” Republicans should do at least that, though I would add at least two new Court of Appeals judges to each circuit. And I might increase the number of district judges appointed to the District for the District of Columbia, and perhaps the Southern District of New York, beyond the Council’s recommendations on the ground that those districts seem to be getting busier.
This wouldn’t be court-packing, since it’s simply following the recommendations of a non-partisan commission. (And in truth, it’s been widely agreed for many years that the federal courts are understaffed)…..
With simple majorities you could, as I’ve previously suggested, bring back the requirement for three-judge district courtswhen the legality of federal statutes is challenged, and expand that requirement to include challenges to executive orders.
Another thing you could do with simple majorities, as Ron DeSantis has noted, is to strip federal courts of jurisdiction to issue Temporary Restraining Orders and Preliminary Injunctions in the class of cases that we’ve been seeing. Or, indeed, to strip them of jurisdiction to hear any complaints regarding the internal administration of the Executive. Or stripping courts of jurisdiction to issue any order in such cases until an appeals bond has actually been posted by the moving party.
Congress could also provide that lawsuits challenging changes to federal programs or agencies be assigned to randomly-selected district courts from around the nation, rather than the District for the District of Columbia. (It could possibly even go further and simply abolish the District for the District of Columbia, and do this with all cases. In 2025, there’s no real reason for all such cases to be heard in DC; it’s not the horse-and-buggy era anymore. Going further still, they could simply abolish the District of Columbia itself, which is permitted but not required to exist by the Constitution.)
Congress could also require that all proceedings in federal courts be televised. Federal Judges have resisted that, but ultimately it’s not their call. Many lawyers involved in the January 6 proceedings have said that if video of what judges were doing there had been made public, there would have been a revolution. At least the prospect of public scrutiny might make judges more cautious, and less imperious.”
Read more here – https://instapundit.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-lower-courts?r=1k5yq&triedRedirect=true
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Nobody at HHR praised the Judge. But Tina knows that.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/white-house-hails-recent-drops-egg-and-gas-prices
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Trump cannot deport terrorists
Trump cannot manage the executive agencies,
Trumps secretary cannot access treasury systems,
-Marxist judges with a h/t from Souter 2.0/beotchy.
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Fla wants to add dozens of Judges appointed by Trump (no different than FDR wanting to add enough SCOTUS Justices to rubber stamp the New Deal). He also wants to eliminate courts unfavorable to Trump. All in the name of judicial integrity, of course.
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Trump also,cannot halt payments to review/audit because of Muh contracting law. Did you know trump stiffs people?
-Marxist judges/freepassers
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“The National Judicial Council just recommended adding 66 District Judges and two Court of Appeals judges to remedy the “crisis of undermanned federal courts.”
Bitter says following this recommendation is the same as FDR packing the court. Wow.
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Bitter writes – Fla wants to add dozens of Judges appointed by Trump (no different than FDR wanting to add enough SCOTUS Justices to rubber stamp the New Deal). He also wants to eliminate courts unfavorable to Trump. All in the name of judicial integrity, of course
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once again bitter misreads a post and reacts accordingly. First off, these are not my suggestions but those of a bipartisan commission, which determined that the district courts and appeals courts need significantly more judges. Click on the word “recommended” in my post and it will take you to the National Judicial Council’s bipartisan recommendations. This is plenty different from FDRs Supreme Court judge stacking move. You can either go with them and the recommendations of its renowned bipartisan council of judges or the learned thoughts of a local Philly lawyer on this board. Take your pick
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Hi Bitter and Tina,
Just got up to speed on your medical issues and I wish both speedy and pain free recoveries.
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Thanks Marv.
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Fla…..perhaps Bitter believes this type of recommendation can only be enacted when a Democrat or his “type” of Republican is in the White House.
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Marv, the baseball season is off and running. My Cubs are 0-2 already.
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Tina,
Do you plan on a trip to Hawaii this year.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-jobless-claims-still-show-few-private-sector-layoffs-but-more-ex-federal-workers-get-benefits-5576495b?mod=home_ln
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Marv, no. You?
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Why Is “a Rino” cutting Fed Jobs and departments?
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Chicon,
I saw that the Dodgers swept both games in Tokyo.
l like to follow the Yankees and it looks like the injury bug has bitten them again this year. Also, I’m still irritated by their pathetic performance in the 5th inning of Game 5 in the World Series last year.
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Tina,
We plan a local staycation here in south Fl this year.
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Marv, those things can linger! I’m still stirred up by the Cubs soiling the bed in the NLCS in 2003!
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The Cult only wants more Judges to support Trump. Why was this proposal not aired at HHR years ago?
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The local Philly lawyer you despise will put up his credentials against yours.
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Thank you, Marv.
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My type of Republican is a conservative. Your type is a Democrat billionaire who is not a conservative.
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Lol.
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Chicon,
I’m also a Marlins fan and we went to every playoff and World Series game that they played at home that year. Steve Bartman is a hero down here.
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Marv, imo, Bartman is wrongly blamed in Chicago. In addition, the SS was not forced by Bartman to let the next grounder go between his legs.
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Chicon,
I agree on the Bartman issue. The ball was out of the field of play and any fan in the stands has a right to go for the ball. Alou should have known that.
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Bitter writes – The Cult only wants more Judges to support Trump
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Bitter once told me to google him so I did and I found him! This you, bitter? LOL!
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I still curse Joe Carter from the 1993 World Series.
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https://images.app.goo.gl/GaJdBnzjDzxRt7669
Not sure if this is Chi or Fla2025.
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Nah, that guy is smarter than the 2 of them put together.
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Chicon believes in “separation of powers”.
He just doesn’t believe the Judiciary is a separate branch.
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Bitter – intentionally – continues to substitute “impeachment” for any suggested check on the judicial branch.”
LOL
The Cultists, after talking about impeachment, impeachment, impeachment here for weeks now want to MOVE THE GOALPOSTS to “suggested checks”.
Hypocritical morons.
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I mostly share Bitter’s views on the judges. I think most of the calls from the Cultists are just because they don’t like the rulings and they are shortsighted in thinking that whatever weaponization/retribution they use against judges they don’t agree with might come back to bite them when the Dems take control again.
However, I do think the word “district” has some meaning, and I am skeptical about the “universal” rulings that district judges are imposing on the whole country rather than just their “district” or just the plaintiffs involved in the case. In other words they could have the power to say ok the plaintiffs cannot be deported pending appeal but the order would not apply to the whole country.
That could be one “check” I think would be reasonable.
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My type of Republican is a conservative. Your type is a Democrat billionaire who is not a conservative.”
Heh, the Cultists get really mad when you correctly point out Trump is not a conservative, never was, never will be.
But in 3, 2, 1……
Have I missed anything?
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Trump also,cannot halt payments to review/audit because of Muh contracting law”
Goebbels would be proud of this lie.
He can halt payments, review and audit contracted/pending/ongoing works
He should follow contract law and pay for work contracted and COMPLETED.
He can order investigations to determine if any of the contracts were awarded illegally and have anyone responsible prosecuted.
But contractors who did work for the government and completed it in good faith should get paid. Period.
All can be true.
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Any bombshells from the JFK files yet?
No?
Didn’t think so.
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Can one of the freepasssers explain is it a verbal or writtten order to go by? Does doj have to be a mind reader?
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1902749640937681122?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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The Houthis have continued firing missiles at Israel, despite recent US attacks.
Has Trump cleared an escalation with each of the 677 Federal District Court Kings? We wouldn’t want to have the missles ordered to return mid-flight by one of these super-elite titans.
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