Attorney Andrew F. Branca's weekly plain-English legal educational News and Question & Answer show on American use-of-force law--self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property, to enable law-abiding people to make better informed, more confident, more decisive, and more lawful use-of-force decisions.
OK, I've had enough with this James Fishback guy running to be Florida Governor now that Ron DeSantis is term-limited out.
Tomorrow I'm doing a TAKE DOWN live stream on this character who's suddenly all over my X feed.
I must admit, I don't actually have anything NEGATIVE to say about James, as I don't really KNOW anything about him. But he's saying a lot of the right MAGA things, and before I jump on the Fishback bandwagon I want to make sure I'm not stepping on some political landmine.
So, this is your chance, people, to dissuade me from the Fishback fandom. Get those skeletons out of the closet, polish up whatever shit it is you think you have to say about him, and join me at 11 AM ET tomorrow, Tuesday, December 16!
Fair warning! Bring receipts or be called out for NO RECEIPTS!
(Full disclosure, in the absence of any credible Fishback negatives, I'll probably just play a bunch of the videos he's been posting on his X channel--they're pretty compelling stuff, and I'll EXPLAIN WHY.)
Episode 1116.
An mass shooting event occurred yesterday at Bondi Beach in Australia, by a father-and-son killing team. As usual, the event has led to a tsunami of poorly-reasoned opinionating on social media—and most of that I’ll leave to the dummies to wrestle with.
In THIS show we’ll focus on the LEGAL DYNAMICS of defense against this kind of mass attack. What is legally permissible, and why? How is this legal different from a more traditional deadly-force self-defense scenario, and what additional tactical options does it make lawful that otherwise might be criminal? And MORE!
All of this will, of course, be from the legal perspective of AMERICAN use-of-force law, as if the event had tragically occurred in the United States rather than Australia.
Just a month after rogue pro-invader Federal District Court Judge Jeffrey Cummings (Biden 2023) ordered the release of hundreds of illegal invaders detained by immigration authorities based on a 2022 Biden-agreed-upon consent decree about warrantless arrests of illegals, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel with two Biden and one Trump appointed judge agreed to stay that order, keeping the invaders detained.
A particularly interesting facet of this case—ignored by the two Biden appellate judges, but driving a forceful dissent by the Trump member of the panel—is whether it can even be lawful for a consent decree entered into by a prior administration to bind the executive authority of a later administration. Such “zombie” consent decrees certainly appear profoundly undemocratic, as they prevent the American people from effecting political change through electing a new administration with preferred policies.
A repeated pattern among our Trump Deranged unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior, federal district trial court judges is that the start presiding over cases with an anti-Trump decision already determined and then spew world-salad to achieve that outcome.
More often than not, their feckless legal reasoning gets checked by their bosses on the relevant federal court of appeals, which then in the normal process of such things returns the case to the original trial judge for further litigation—ONLY to have that lower fabricate a SECOND world-salad order achieving the same pre-determined anti-Trump goal.
This week we’ve seen this cycle happen yet again with Federal Judge Indira Talwani and the Planned Parent abortion case. Congress had passed a statute this year that sharply constrained financing for federally-funded abortions, Planned Parenthood sued in federal court in Massachusetts, and Judge Talwani has repeatedly issued world-salad orders freezing that statute—and has been repeatedly checked, again this week, by the court of appeals.
The wildly Trump Derangement Afflicted unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior federal district trial court Judge Count Boasberg has been checked hard by the DC Court of Appeals, following an ABSOLUTELY SCATCHING filing by the Trump administration kindly asking the judicial adults to step in and check this mad trial court judge.
Join me for this LIVE show in which we explore more realities around programs like H1B in particular and the impossibility of first-world, high-trust America saving itself with third-world, low-trust migration more generally.
We’ll also discuss other migration dynamics in America, including the apparent collapse of the migrant employment and student population in Charlotte NC at the mere suggestion that ICE might make an appearance, some updated research findings on IQ and its hereditability, and more!
The great and powerful President Trump has called out a group of Democrats for their patent act of sedition—a crime punishable by 20 years in prison, and by death for military personnel—following their release of a video urging US military and intelligence personnel to disobey “illegal” orders from the democratically elected Article II Executive Branch Commander-in-Chief.
While it has always been the law that unlawful orders need not be followed, this urging by the Democrats must necessarily be understood through the lens of their own self-serving political claims that Trump is already issuing orders they believe to be illegal.
Specifically, they claim--without evidence or legal basis or authority--that Trump’s bombings of Venezuelan drug boats engaged in irregular chemical warfare against the United States, a clear and present danger to our national security, are “illegal.”
Within that obvious context the Democrats crime of sedition is really incontestable—but will anything be done about it?
Once again America is being slapped across the face with the hard reality that modern immigration—BOTH legal AND illegal—is not merely generally harmful to our high-trust, first-world American culture, but represents an existential threat to our nation as anything our Founders would recognize or our posterity would prize.
Whether it’s Somalian migrants exploiting the autism generosity of Minnesota to launder tens of millions of dollars to the terrorists that rule their homeland or Indian migrants exploiting the H1B generosity of our nation or illegal migrants rocketing the costs of living for all American citizens, the burdens are both inexcusable and unbearable.
It all must end.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minnesota police officer wrongfully convicted in the death of life-long drug addict and criminal George Floyd, has yesterday filed an appeal for post-conviction relief with the state courts.
The arguments for relief include, some never previously argued on appeal, include:
(1) Chauvin’s police officer superiors lied about his training to argue criminal intent,
(2) The state medical experts used pseudo-science to fabricate claims that Chauvin caused Floyd’s death;
(3) The jury instructions were defective allowing an impermissible non-unanimous verdict of guilty.
The great and powerful President Donald J. Trump has once again applied his political jiu jitsu to wrap the malignant Democrats into a rear naked choke that’s leaving them unconscious and impotent.
Applying the same corrupt political levers of color revolution developed for foreign nations to our own American government is about all the Democrats have left, given that the American people will no longer support their anti-American policies, and their efforts to replace Americans with third-worlders appears in doubt in the face of Trump’s aggressive anti-invasion immigration policies.
Join me LIVE at 11 AM ET as I break it all down, and share both my own thoughts and the latest hot takes on the efforts of the Democrat seditionists to undermine and overthrow our democratically elected constitutional republic!
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The great and powerful Secretary of WAR Pete Hegseth has launched a sedition investigation into the seditious conduct of Senator Mark Kelly as captured in his seditious video urging sedition amongst American military forces. Could Kelly be recalled to active duty, tried for sedition, and convicted? Yes, yes, and maybe—but the process alone would be worth the effort, right January 6 protestors?
James Comey and Letitia James have also had their indictments dismissed by yet another federal Progressive Fascist judge. Is that it? Have they won? Is it over? The good news: Not hardly.
Time permitting I’ll also share and comment upon an interesting video from Scott Adams (Dilbert, etc.) breaking down various levels of consciousness and awareness, knowledge that can help you defend yourself against the vile and corruptive propaganda of the Progressive Fascist Left.