Ateba is the Chief White House Correspondent at Today News Africa in Washington.
Biden regrets using term “illegal” at his SOTU
March 10, 2024
President Joe Biden regretted using the term “illegal” at his 2024 State of the Union Address.
“I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It’s undocumented,” Biden told MSNBC News.
Biden used the term when describing the person who killed Laken Riley. He also mispronounced her name, calling her “Lincoln” instead.
In 2021, Biden ordered immigration agencies to stop using the term “illegal alien” and instead use “undocumented noncitizen.” To this writer, it sounds as if the person didn’t fill out paperwork properly.
Super Tuesday Results Assure Trump as Nominee
March 7, 2024
Supreme Court rules unanimously to allow Trump on Colorado ballot
March 4, 2024
In a unanimous decision by the 9 justices, Donald Trump in spite of Colorado’s Supreme Court ruling, will indeed be on the Colorado ballot tomorrow. The decision will have implications for at least 30 other states who have thought about, or have already, dumped him from their ballots.
To this writer, all these court cases seem to be a waste of taxpayer funds, since they are all based on the assertion that Trump is an insurrectionist, and therefore a criminal, and should be disallowed from any and all ballots.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines insurrection as:
“an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence“.
Soon after the January 6,2021 event, the FBI concluded there was NO insurrection that day:
“Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-off cases,” said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. “Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.”
Just more attempts to try and criminalize, punish and persecute Mr. Trump to assure a Democrat remains in the Oval Office.
Former SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may help Trump’s NY case
March 3, 2024
Liberals who despise former President Donald Trump may find out one of their best loved persons may save him from an exorbitant fine placed by Judge Arthur Erdogon, in New York.
Former and deceased SCOTUS Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, no lover of Mr. Trump, once said of him in July of 2016:
“I can’t imagine what this place would be–I don’t even want to contemplate that.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, photo courtesy of IJR.com, by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Later Ginsburg recanted and apologized, saying “judges shouldn’t be commenting on a candidate for political office.”
Erdogan has placed a fine of $355 million on Trump, with interest of $100 million, claiming he purposely inflated the value of his property and assets. Who the receiver of that fine should and would be is still a mystery.
Most, except liberals, would count this *fine* as excessive and over the top. Trump has appealed and has asked for a stay in payment and accruement of interest until his appeal is heard. He has offered to place $100 million into an escrow account, which has been denied by the judge.
Ironically, in 2019, Justice Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion in Timbs v. Indiana. The case hedged on the state wanting to seize Tyson Timb’s $42,000 Land Rover in a criminal case against him, when the maximum fine was $10,000. The Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution prohibits excessive fines and bail. At the time SCOTUS heard this case, all three justices appointed by President Trump were on SCOTUS. Barrett, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were on the bench.
The decision in this case was 9-0, meaning the Eighth Amendment holds not just to the federal government, but the states as well.
Prominent attorneys such as Mark Levin see Erdogon’s excessive judgement as the “legalization of stealing.”
The key to dealing with New York’s attempt to legalize the stealing of President Trump’s property is the 8th amendment and the Supreme Court’s most recent rulinghttps://t.co/Q8XETyOHAz
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) February 21, 2024
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University Law School, wrote:
The size of the damages is grotesque and should shock the conscience of any judge on appeal. Even if the Democrat-appointed judges on the New York Court of Appeals were to ignore the obvious inequity and unfairness, the United States Supreme Court could intervene.
Justice Ginsburg may ironically hold the key to Trump’s fate and also the route the justice system takes regarding personal property.
