Pushback: The left discovers it doesn’t have the right to break the law
The Bill of Rights, still in force
In the past few months, since Trump won re-election in November, the string of legal and political victories by the thousands of individuals blacklisted by the left and the Democratic Party in the past decade has been so overwhelming that for me to report each story as it happened would have required me to change the focus of this website entirely, something I did not wish to do.
Instead, I have collected a short list of these victories, hardly complete, and am now posting them here in one essay. This will not only put these victories on the record, it will show unequivocally how many leftists since 2020 somehow came to believe they were not required to follow the law in imposing their leftist agenda on others. The belief however was a delusion. It has just taken a few years to make the rule of law regain its primacy.
Read now and celebrate. Note also that Trump’s election win was completely irrelevant to most of these stories. While his return to the presidency clearly accelerated the trend, the trend had been established long before his election. And that trend has only just begun.
- December 27, 2024: Justice Department suspends DEA’s civil-asset-forfeiture program, designed to allow agents to literally steal the assets of travelers for no reason at all.
- December 31, 2024: Federal judge rules in favor of jury verdict awarding $7.8 million to six former BART transit employees fired for refusing to get the COVID jab on religious grounds.
- January 7, 2025: Meta ends its program used to censor conservatives on Facebook and Instagram, a censorship program it claimed was forced on it by federal government pressure. This decision was underlined forcefully by the company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg an X post , who admitted to the censorship by his company and vowed it was now ended.
- January 17, 2025: Mother arrested for expressing critical opinions at city council meeting expands her lawsuit [pdf] against city, mayor, and arresting police officer, adding claims of assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The new charges are based on recently released bodycam footage which documents the illegal and abusive actions against her. This is also a blacklisted story that I reported previously.
- January 21, 2025: Judge condemns Florida school board for defying earlier court rulings that ordered it to stop censoring the speech of parents at meetings. This battle in Florida prompted the formation of Moms for Liberty, which now has national chapters winning school board elections everywhere.
- January 24, 2025: Trump administration drops charges against Dr. Eithan Haim, who uncovered the child mutilation and castration operation at Texas Children’s Hospital. The Biden administration had moved to persecute him for doing this, charging him with breaking the HIPPAA privacy law even though, as I reported in June 2024, nothing he did violated any patient’s rights.
- Trump reinstates more than 8,000 military service members fired for refusing the COVID jab, with each to receive full back pay and their former rank.
- January 27, 2025: California drops all charges against undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who uncovered Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of baby parts for profit. Though part of a plea deal, the state got almost nothing while the journalists end up almost entirely free and clear. Of all the cases listed above, this is actually the oldest, as the persecution of these two journalists, who only did what journalists do, began in 2017 when then California attorney general Xavier Becerra (who became Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services) filed 15 felony charges against Dalieden for committing journalism.
Of this list, five involved attacking individuals for expressing their first amendment rights, one involved a government policy that violated Americans’ fifth amendment property rights, and two involved illegal mandates that violated the rights of Americans to refuse medical treatment using an experimental drug.
The Constitution is still in force
In fact, all these cases involve actions by government officials who violated the law and the Bill of Rights. They illustrate how our government in the past decade suddenly decided it was above the law and could do whatever it wanted to stamp its boot into the faces of dissenters.
Or to put it more bluntly, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
What these petty tyrants are now discovering is that the law does matter, and that breaking the law carries real consequences. In several cases individual government officials face sanctions themselves for their actions. In all cases the effort to squelch opposition using government power is falling before the plain words of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and numerous other federal and state laws.
Nor does this list include the numerous cases where corporations violated long-standing federal and state civil rights laws in establishing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) racist hiring practices, beginning around 2020. In all cases these racist hiring quotas — favoring some races or genders over others — were blatantly illegal, and now leave these companies very vulnerable to many lawsuits.
Essentially, in the past five years too many Americans went mad, thinking they could do anything they wanted to those who disagreed with them, including abusing government power and breaking the law for political ends.
They are now discovering that the United States remains a nation of laws. The wheel of justice might grind slow, but it grinds on. There are penalties for violating those laws, and a lot of people are about to discover what those penalties are.
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THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN
“The planned obsolescence and submission of American sovereignty and leadership by the Democrat party radicals and the RINO’s to the Socialist / Globalist agenda in the world is OVER!”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/blog
and WHO was the original prosecutor in the Sandra Merritt case? Kamala Harris!!
… the string of legal and political victories _against_ the thousands of individuals blacklisted by the left …”
I think you mean _by_ the aforesaid individuals.
Call Me Ishmael: You are correct. Fixed. Thanks.
Unfortunately none of the government officials actually responsible for breaking the law were actually punished
Ebbe: Actually, in at least one case the lawsuit names the officials involved directly, and the courts have ruled the lawsuit valid and can go forward. If they lose, these officials will face financial liability of a considerable amount.
Retribution is not a bad thing.
The Left is learning that laws apply to them, too. They are shocked to find themselves being sued and/or investigated/indicted for breaking the laws of the land.
WELL, ITS OFFICIAL, THEIR “CRAZY”!!!
“President Trump’s administration is creating a special opportunity for free speech, the First Amendment and nontraditional media. Access to the White House press room for those in the podcast “NEW” Independant news media internet space. And why is that? Because things change AND the big corporate media entities have destroyed all of their credibility and are partisan and have gone over to the radical anti-American Left perspective and have abandoned their Objectivity and journalistic ethics. Thats why!”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/blog
“60 USAID Officials Removed From Duty”
January 28, 2025 | Sundance
“According to media reports, President Trump has removed the entire leadership structure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), previously run by Samantha Power.”
“This is not necessarily a domestic issue. Those who walk the deepest political weeds well understand that USAID is the cover agency for the interventionist efforts of the CIA. USAID is the agency silo that coordinates the meddling in foreign elections, organizes the revolutions and political opposition of those deemed out of alignment with global democratic norms, funds the NGOs who do the ground operations, and generally seeks to replace foreign leaders.”
“President Trump has just removed the entire leadership structure of the USAID enterprise, approximately 60 government officials. You can bet that nationalist leaders of foreign countries are smiling now while Brussels (EU Commission) is left wondering who will pay for the foot soldiers.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/01/28/60-usaid-officials-removed-from-duty/
It is not power that corrupts. It is power combined with immunity from the consequences of your actions. You can have virtually unlimited power without being corrupted by it if – and really only if – you realize that if you abuse that power you will be called to account and punished in proportion to that abuse.
Over the last 16 years government officials have gotten away with egregious abuses of the power they had and were not held to account. That is where the rot stems from.
The “power corrupts…” quote is inaccurate. Not saying you misquoted the commonly quoted saying, but that the saying is wrong. It should be “power is magnetic to the corruptible.” People who chase power WANT the power to abuse others. They LIKE having control over others, so they seek positions where they can satisfy their desires. That’s why there are so many HOA Presidents who are dictatorial in their edicts. This is a common behavior. People tend to be attracted to situations where they can satisfy their desires (E.G. % of pedophiles in positions involving working with children being higher than the % of pedophiles in the general population).
An example of chasing power that I read about: A man bought a house in an historical district (He told this story in a video I saw). The house had been empty for a while, and so was in need of repairs, and being brought up to code. The original front porch, six steps above ground level, only had a hand rail system that came to just above his knee (because back when the house was built, infants and toddlers falling off the porch was of concern, not adults). The historical ordinance stated that he had to maintain the original style of the house. But the safety ordinance required that the top rail be 42 inches above the porch deck. So he took one of the original uprights that went from the lower rail to the top rail of the handrail system to a woodworker, and asked them to “stretch” it to provide the needed total height (they had a design with a cross section that varied over their length). This maintained the original style by using the same profile, but put the upper rail at the safety ordinance’s desired height. The problem was the woman with the inspection authority for the historical ordinance insisted he couldn’t exceed the original railing height, so as to maintain historical accuracy. But the man with the inspection authority for the safety ordinance insisted the top rail had to be at the 42 inch level. So he got the two of them to come to the house at the same time in an attempt to work it out. They couldn’t reach an agreement. So he asked the safety inspector what the ramifications were if he failed to meet the safety ordinance, and the answer was “no certificate of occupancy would be issued, and if the house were occupied without it, it was a $1,000/day fine”. He asked the historical inspector what she could do it he failed to meet her requirement, and was told it was a one-time $150 fine. So the owner wrote her a $150 check, and told her to leave. Clearly, there was a conflict between the safety ordinance and the historical ordinance that needed to be resolved.
The owner was present for the next city council meeting, as was the historical ordinance inspector. She wasn’t there to ask the city council to resolve the conflict in the ordinances, however. She was there to ask for the power to fine home owners $1,000 per day that a home violated the historical ordinances. People like that should never be in government; but it’s people like that who WANT to be in government, or any other position of authority.
What we need in government are people like a police chief I read about. His city was small in population. The city council voted to form a SWAT team, over his objections, because they could get all the equipment for free from the federal government (and there was doubtless some power hungry people on the council). The police chief pointed out that his small town almost never needed the services of a SWAT team, and on those rare occasions when they did need one, the county’s SWAT team had been able to provide what they needed. But he was ordered to form a team. So he asked for volunteers to join the SWAT team the council made him form. Then, he blacklisted everyone who volunteered, and formed the team from people who hadn’t volunteered. His rationale: Nobody who WANTS to be on a SWAT team should ever be on a SWAT team.
Nobody who WANTS power should ever be given any.
Now Justice should prevail with those who VIOLATED laws to PERSECUTE people being subject to their OWN Prosecutions! We cannot allow this to happen again! The left understands ONE THING – POWER! If they ever regain power – look out!!!
glad to see this all consolidated in one location, thanks.
sort of dropped in hoping to be made aware of the punishments that some of these overeachers received.
i ended up being partly satisfied with your responses to ishmael and ebbe.
“civil-asset-forfeiture” started out to punish drug dealers,. But then, due to human ingenuity on the part of govt officials, and a lack of punishment of said officials, bloomed into a substantial money-making scheme for police depts. What police dept. wouldn’t want a new GM Denali (oops, McKinley) as part of their department’s transportation herd.
So now we have private citizens being deprived of their stuff, without even being convicted of a crime in many cases.
Many colonists were upset with the Brits for having similar laws, that permitted unreasonable seizures without due process. Things haven’t changed in 300 years.