Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 03/20/2025
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10:10 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Constitutional Crisis?
- Judicial Coup: Radical Leftist Judges Wage All-Out War Against President Trump and the Nation — 129 Legal Challenges Filed in Two Months and 64 Injunctions His First Term! MORE THAN ALL US PRESIDENTS COMBINED!
- (The Gateway Pundit)
- Judge James Boasberg: Did he overstep the boundaries of a District Court Judge (Foreign Policy)?
- Miranda Devine: Trump is fighting a cartel of vile, corrupt and far-left judges trying to kill his campaign promises
- Headline from last night’s NY Post:
Georgetown University researcher detained by ICE, accused of ‘actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism!
And a few days ago:
- Brown professor deported to Lebanon after allegedly attending Hezbollah funeral, government says
- Rasha Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday and sent back to Lebanon despite having a valid visa.
- The leader of pro-Palestine protests on Columbia University’s campus had his legal fight to stay in the country transferred to New Jersey federal court after a federal judge in New York said Wednesday he doesn’t have jurisdiction over the case.
- Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the United States who was arrested by federal immigration agents on March 8 in New York City and now faces deportation, had filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus — that’s a challenge to the constitutionality of his detention — in New York federal court. Khalil’s petition was challenged by the federal government, which asked the judge overseeing the case to dismiss it or move the case to Louisiana, where Khalil is currently detained. (New Jersey Monitor)
- Perilous Times for Personal Liberty:
- Judge Andrew Napolitano
The history of human freedom is long, tortuous and not gratifying. It consists essentially in governments trampling the laws enacted to restrain them. It is the profound clash of natural personal freedom and the commands of the state backed by force. The constitutions of totalitarian countries are papered over with restraints on the state, but the restraints are toothless. The state does what it wants. It doesn’t take rights seriously.
In liberal democracies -- with the separation of powers, and checks and balances -- the state is theoretically restrained. Yet often, there, too, the restraints are paper tigers. There, too, HERE, too, the state does not take rights seriously.
Thomas Jefferson argued that in the long march of history, personal liberty shrinks and state power grows. He famously believed that only a revolution can bring about a proper reset. All of this history and theory came into sharp focus in the past two weeks when the feds arrested a Syrian graduate student in his student housing at Columbia University in New York City and shipped him to an immigration jail in Louisiana. He is married to a native-born American, they are expecting a child in April, and he is a permanent resident alien.
Last week, the federal government arrested a Lebanese physician at Logan Airport in Boston. She is a professor of medicine at Brown University, and she, too, is a permanent resident alien. The student was charged with immigration violations. The physician was summarily deported to Paris and then to her native Lebanon. The charging documents filed against the student allege no crime or personal misbehavior, point to no statutory violations, and offer no evidence of the student’s danger to persons or property or the government. The papers claim that Secretary of State Marco Rubio believes that this student’s presence on the Columbia campus -- given his outspoken support for a Palestinian state, the existence of which has been the public policy of the U.S. for generations -- is a material impediment to the execution of American foreign policy.
Panelist:
Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst at Newsmax and the Host of the Podcast: Judging Freedom. You can follow Judge Napolitano at: judgenap.com
10:35 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Does Putin have full operational control over his field ops?
- After an agreement of cease fire with Trump, Russia hit Ukraine powerplant.
- EU continues to discuss peacekeepers in Ukraine. Why?
- What about former Ukraine territory?
- Will Victoria Nuland be involved in the final negotiations?
- China’s Xi angered by Panama Canal deal. (Zerohedge.com)
- Blackrock to purchase ports for $22.8 Billion from Hong Kong company.
- Should we; can we trust Blackrock?
- Is the Xi outrage staged for Trump?
- War in Gaza: Full speed ahead!
- Blackrock to purchase ports for $22.8 Billion from Hong Kong company.
- What about former Ukraine territory?
Panelist:
Brig. Gen. General Holt is a former Deputy United States Military Representative to (NATO). He supported the Military Representative and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in executing the U.S. political-military mission at the North Atlantic Council.
General Holt was a command pilot with more than 3,900 flying hours in a variety of aircraft. He is a frequent contributor to Newsmax.
11:10 AM ET
Segment Topic:
- Jury Finds Greenpeace Liable for Hundreds of Millions in Damages!
- A lawsuit by pipeline giant Energy Transfer claimed Greenpeace had played a major, costly role in protests nearly a decade ago. Greenpeace has said a loss could put it out of business.
Reporting from Mandan, N.D. (NY Times) March 19, 2025, 3:45 p.m. ET
- A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against its Dakota Access Pipeline.
- The verdict was a major blow to the storied environmental organization. Greenpeace had maintained that it played only a minor part in demonstrations led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It had portrayed the lawsuit as an attempt to stifle oil-industry critics, but a jury apparently disagreed.
- The nine-person jury in the Morton County courthouse in Mandan, N.D., about 45 minutes north of where the protests took place, returned the verdict after roughly two days of deliberating.
- Energy Transfer’s co-founder and board chairman, Kelcy Warren, an ally and donor to President Trump, had been outspoken in his criticism of the protesters and had the last word during plaintiffs’ closing arguments on Monday, when his lawyers played comments, he made in a video deposition for the jurors.
- “We’ve got to stand up for ourselves,” Mr. Warren said, arguing that protesters had created “a total false narrative” about his company. “It was time to fight back.”
- Energy Transfer is one of the largest pipeline companies in the country. The protests over its construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline drew national attention and thousands of people to months long encampments in 2016 and 2017.
- BREAKING: Corrupt Obama Judge Chutkan Temporarily Blocks Lee Zeldin from Clawing Back $20 Billion From Biden EPA Slush Fund!
- Remember (lawfare) Judge Chutkin?
- This $20 Billion was moved (offshore) to launder to climate NGO’s).
Panelist:
Gregory Wrightstone, author of A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefitting humanity. Mr. Wrightstone is a geologist and the executive director of the CO2 Coalition, based out of Arlington VA.
11:35 AM ET
Segment Topic:
Panelist:
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