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Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corruption of the Rule of Law in America will continue apace until the American People stand up and cry out “No More. We’ve had enough. We are a nation of laws, not of men.”
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The Supreme Court is never going to stop this intentional and deliberate corruption of the Federal Judiciary and Rule of Law by this President and his Attorney General.
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This is why Americans are living in fear today.
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That is, they will not hesitate to prosecute them if they dare violate the law as Bondi and Trump deem the law to be, not the law of the land as determined by the federal courts.
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And to think that every day of the week, Pam Bondi (and Donald Trump) lecture millions upon millions of truly honorable, law-abiding Americans that they are not above the law and that she and the President will not hesitate to prosecute them for even daring to violate the law.
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The very idea that the President and Attorney General of the United States were so contemptuous of the federal courts as to even bring this utterly frivolous lawsuit against a Federal Court for the sole purpose of threatening and intimidating the federal courts across the nation is reprehensible.
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this concerted effort by the Executive to smear and impugn individual judges who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate.”
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“radical,” “politically minded,” “rogue,” “unhinged,” “outrageous, overzealous, [and] unconstitutional,” “[c]rooked,” and worse. Although some tension between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system,
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Footnote 2 from Judge Cullen’s blistering Memorandum Opinion in Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-02029:

“Indeed, over the past several months, principal officers of the Executive (and their spokespersons) have described federal district judges across the country as as “left-wing,” “liberal,” “activists,”
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just destroyed Trump and Bondi under the Rule of Law and denounced their “concerted effort” to politicize and delegitimize the Federal Courts and the individual judges of the Federal Judiciary.
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Trump & Bondi versus the Rule of Law: This is why we Americans live in fear today

The Honorable Thomas Cullen, the judge from the Federal District Court in Virginia who was brought in to decide Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corrupt and unprecedented lawsuit against the Federal Court in Maryland,
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This should be where the end begins. Let’s pray it is.

Governor Ferguson, America salutes you.
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I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.
First page of a letter from Gov Ferguson to AG Bondi
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"But at this moment, this very moment, all of us not only should, but must, rise to our feet and demonstrate to Donald Trump our full support of this American patriot and hero of America’s free press.

There will not be another moment.”
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"Nicolle is the last person who ‘needs’ our support. She has the unwavering support of millions upon millions of Americans who know that she speaks for them and who want her to speak for them now more than ever.
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My Substack post on Donald Trump’s attack on Nicolle Wallace.

“I don’t have a doubt in the world that Nicolle Wallace is the one journalist in America today who Donald Trump fears most — and for good reason.
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though I am a congenital optimist, for the first time I believe that if the behavior that this administration has exhibited in just its first six months continues and is amplified for its full four years, the America you know will be gone. And I don’t know how we will get it back.”
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Thomas Friedman, New York Times August 4, 2025, “The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away”

“That is why, dear reader . . .
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And that is as ephemeral as the morning dew.
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which is secured to them by the Constitution of the United States. Hereafter, the only “power” they will possess is not power at all. It is subservient “power.”
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Having surrendered themselves to the President to secure the power that comes from his blessing, they have forever forfeited the only actual power they possessed and would ever have possessed,
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when the only power they have and would ever have is secured to them not by the President, but by the Constitution of the United States.