Law of Self Defense News/Q&A

Attorney Andrew F. Branca

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.

  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    America is Absolutely FLOODED with Culturally FOREIGN Judges! #1150

    America is perhaps the only nation on the planet that raises to high level judgeships so many people who are CULTURALLY FOREIGN to our nation. 

    Why are so many Federal judges born OUTSIDE the United States? Why are ANY? 

    Why are so many Federal judges born in the United States to NON-AMERICAN PARENTS? Why are ANY? 

    Why do so many Federal judges MAINTAIN DUAL CITIZENSHIP? Why do ANY? 

    And then these culturally foreign judges go forth to conduct themselves as if they—unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior district and appellate court judges—had the constitutional authority to order about our democratically-elected Article II Executive Branch president as if he were a mere clerk in their court, as if it is THEY who ACTUALLY wields the greatest authority in America’s constitutional order.

    Did our Founders fight and win a desperate 8-year war to establish a nation in which the American people would be ruled over by dozens of CULTURALLY FOREIGN BLACK-ROBED JUDGES? 

    I THINK NOT! 

    12 January 2026, 7:00 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    PROPAGANDA: A Tool the US Must RE-MASTER to Defeat Invasion #1149

    America is currently engaged in an existential war for survival against powerful forces and the 92% of the world population that wishes to wipe out the first world generally and America specifically. 

    Currently this war is not “hot,” meaning it’s not being fought with armies wielding military weapons of violence. And may we all wish that it never achieves that level.

    Instead, we are engaged in a “soft” existential war for survival, in which the chess pieces are being moved into position, often using subterfuge, and ALWAYS accompanied by powerful and sophisticated propaganda wielded by our enemies.

    America was once a master of such propaganda, especially during our American Revolutionary War for independence. In fact, today, is the anniversary of the January 10, 1776 publication of the essay “Common Sense” by American propagandist Thomas Paine, which argued powerfully for America to split from the British monarch and establish a free Republic. 

    What I’d like to cover today, however, is a different Thomas Paine essay that better illustrates the vital importance of propaganda to the good guys winning—his publication of “The American Crisis” published at the end of that same year, on December 19, 1776.

    That December the peoples who would form America were in desperate straits, having experienced much military failure in their battles with Britain, the most powerful military force on the planet at the time, and General George Washington’s troops were dwindling in both numbers and morale. 

    Paine’s “American Crisis” was so powerful a piece of pro-American propaganda, however, that Washington immediately had it read aloud to his suffering troops—and just days later these same soldiers would cross the frozen Delaware on Christmas night and slay Hessian mercenaries employed by the British in their sleep. That victorious Battle of Trenton would be followed by another resounding victory a few days later in the Battle of Princeton, completely turning the tide of the revolution in America’s favor. 

    America could use a bit of Thomas Paine today, as we face our own existential travails against the tens of millions of aliens invading our shores, looting our treasury, degrading our culture, and striving to obliterate our first-world existence from the face of the globe.

    Let’s talk about the nature and vital importance of propaganda, and read through Paine’s “American Crisis,” in celebration of this great American’s passion and genius for the emerging republic of the United States. 

    11 January 2026, 2:00 am
  • 1 hour 53 minutes
    9th Circuit FINALLY TRIGGERS Constitutional Crisis: TYRANNY! #1142

    The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling en banc, has finally TRIGGERED a CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS by egregiously violating the separation of powers and subordinating the internal deliberations of the Article II Executive Branch to the whimsical and tyrannical overview of a single unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior federal district court judge out of San Francisco—the 77-year-old Federal trial judge Susan Illson, a Clinton appointee.

    The majority opinion of the en banc ruling was written by, of course, of two more Clinton appointees—80-year-old William Fletcher, and 73-year-old Johnnie Rawlinson, who despite the name is a black woman of substantial BMI.

    A dissent, joined by several additional appellate judges, was written by Judge Patrick Bumatay, a 47-year-old Trump appointee from his first term. This dissent properly lays out the Constitutional crisis and corrosion that the majority en banc opinion has now triggered.

    10 January 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    The LOOTING of America: Missing the Forest for the Trees #1143

    George Soros, the billionaire attempting, with considerable success, to destroy the civilized first-world, is in the news AGAIN, with Trump yesterday making a Truth Social post correctly implicating Soros AGAIN in his nefarious schemes to destroy white first-world civilization. 

    It’s important, I think, to understand not just the underlying details of how Soros goes about his planned destruction—the complex networks of relationships and findings—but also the broader strategy he and his allies employ.

    Because that strategy is fundamentally the looting of the West to finance its own destruction, the opening of the bank vault to allow its resources to be taken—and if we can close the vault door, that largely solves the rest of the problem, whatever Soros might wish to do. 

    10 January 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    FAFO: DHS Officer LAWFULLY Shoots Dead Protestor! #1144

    Earlier today a person protesting against the deportation of illegal invaders of my nation attempted to run over a DHS officer with her vehicle in Minneapolis, MN. 

    The officer responded swiftly and decisively and shot the protestor dead. 

    Despite the wailings of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey—him of the speeches in Somali—claiming that the officer shot unlawfully, it would be difficult to envision a more lawful use of deadly defensive force. 

    That said, just because the shooting was righteous doesn’t mean the officer might not be facing terrible legal liability, given the political dynamics and the relentlessness of those who wish to erase American culture from the face of the Earth.

    10 January 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    INSURRECTION ACT! NOW is the Time for Trump to INVOKE! #1145

    Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota is threatening to activate the Minnesota National Guard in apparent opposition to the Federal government of President Donald J. Trump, following yesterday’s lawful shooting of anti-American aggressor in Minneapolis.

    NOW is the time for Trump to FINALLY invoke the INSURRECTION ACT, and send in US military forces to seize control of American cities in ACTIVE INSURRECTION against the federal government!

    10 January 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    AMERICA: So Much WINNING! And MORE yet to come! #1146

    Back in the day Donald Trump promised America that if we elected him president we’d grow TIRED of all the winning.  

    And, man, HAS HE DELIVERED.  In fact, President Trump arguably delivered MORE WINS for AMERICA JUST YESTERDAY ALONE than President Joe “autopen dementia” Biden delivered in four years—of course, the purpose of Biden’s presidency was NOT America’s interests, and it shows. 

    That said, the single greatest vulnerabilities of America remain unsecured—although Trump is making the right moves in that direction, too. 

    10 January 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    America’s Existential War for Survival: The KEY to VICTORY! #1147

    America is engaged in an existential war for survival greater even than our founding Revolutionary War. 

    Victory is achievable, but it will require a national cultural epiphany, a re-awakening, of what America is, and what it must be to survive. 

    The epiphany, in turn, will require breaking down decades of highly effective brainwashing that has led large portions of Americans to despise themselves and their nation, and prioritize the interests of aliens and enemies above themselves—the ultimate immorality.

    10 January 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 1 hour 29 minutes
    Can “Wife” of Driver Shot Dead by DHS be CRIMINALLY CHARGED? #1148

    The body-worn camera footage has now been released from the camera of the ICE officer who lawfully shot dead Minnesota driver Renee Nicole Good after she aggressively struck him with her vehicle. 

    The “wife” of Renee Nicole Good, a “woman” named Rebecca Good, is now known to have been an active participant in the driver’s efforts to obstruct ICE operations, which conduct ultimately led to her death. 

    Had driver Renee Nicole Good survived, she could well have been charged and tried for attempted murder of the ICE officer she struck with her car. Of course, we don’t prosecute dead people, so that possibility is moot. 

    Is it possible, however, that the surviving “wife,” Rebecca Good could be criminally charged over this shooting? Perhaps as a conspirator, or under felony murder doctrines? 

    10 January 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 55 minutes 41 seconds
    PROPOSED: Marco Rubio is America’s BEST SoS EVER. DISCUSS! #1137

    Following yesterday’s seizure of dictator Maduro from Venezuela, perhaps no Trump administration official has been as much in the limelight as has our Secretary of State Marco Rubio—who, we’re told, will effectively be running the nation of Venezuela for the foreseeable future.

    A good argument can be made that Marco Rubio is the best Secretary of State that America has ever had—certainly the best in my lifetime.

    10 January 2026, 3:00 am
  • 1 hour 15 minutes
    Syria & Venezuela are DONE … NEXT: Iran! Columbia! CUBA! #1138

    Last December, shortly after Trump’s re-election the dictator of anti-American Syria was deposed and exiled to Russia. This past weekend the dictator of anti-American Venezuela was deposed and seized by American authorities.

    The big question? WHO IS THE NEXT ANTI-AMERICAN NATION TO FALL TO THE WILL OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP? Will it be Iran, already in turmoil? Columbia, specifically referenced by Trump as having to “watch its ass”? CUBA, a decades-long thorn in the American hemisphere?

    10 January 2026, 3:00 am
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