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Supreme Court's Rulings In Trump Immunity, Jan 6, Chevron Cases Deal Heavy Blows To Biden Admin's Partisan Prosecutors, Bureaucrats

In several major rulings in the past week, the supreme court of the United States, SCOTUS dealt heavy blows to President Joe Biden administration's political prosecution of Donald Trump and his supporters, and the corrupt government bureaucracy or so-called deep state.

In a 6-3 decision on the Trump v. United States case Monday, the Court ruled that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, but not for unofficial acts.

In the Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal election interference case, he charged Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights. The charges which were widely criticized, stem from his months-long investigation into whether the former president was involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and any alleged interference in the 2020 election result.

Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges and argued he should be immune from prosecution from official acts done as president of the U.S.

"The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official," SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the 6 justices in the majority ruling. "The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution. And the system of separated powers designed by the Framers has always demanded an energetic, independent Executive. The President therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. That immunity applies equally to all occupants of the Oval Office, regardless of politics, policy, or party."

Justice Clarence Thomas penned a separate concurrence to the majority opinion "to highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure" -- the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel.
"In this case, the Attorney General purported to appoint a private citizen as Special Counsel to prosecute a former President on behalf of the United States," Thomas wrote. "But, I am not sure that any office for the Special Counsel has been ‘established by Law,’ as the Constitution requires. By requiring that Congress create federal offices ‘by Law,’ the Constitution imposes an important check against the President—he cannot create offices at his pleasure. If there is no law establishing the office that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution. A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former President. [T]here are serious questions whether the Attorney General has violated that structure by creating an office of the Special Counsel that has not been established by law. Those questions must be answered before this prosecution can proceed. We must respect the Constitution’s separation of powers in all its forms, else we risk rendering its protection of liberty a parchment guarantee."

The Court sent the matter back down to a lower court, to go back to the drawing board and find out whether or not Trump's actions qualify as official in his capacity as president. However the Court gave clear baselines which legal experts say, suggest a high burden of proof placed on the Special Counsel.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by her fellow left-wing Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented, claiming the decision "makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law."

"Relying on little more than its own misguided wisdom about the need for ‘bold and unhesitating action’ by the President … the Court gives former President Trump all the immunity he asked for and more," she wrote for the minority in the dissenting opinion. "Because our Constitution does not shield a former President from answering for criminal and treasonous acts, I dissent."

Reacting to the ruling Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social: "THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IS A MUCH MORE POWERFUL ONE THAN SOME HAD EXPECTED IT TO BE. IT IS BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN AND WISE, AND CLEARS THE STENCH FROM THE BIDEN TRIALS AND HOAXES, ALL OF THEM, THAT HAVE BEEN USED AS AN UNFAIR ATTACK ON CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. MANY OF THESE FAKE CASES WILL NOW DISAPPEAR, OR WITHER INTO OBSCURITY. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

Respected law professor Jonathan Turley speaking to Fox News said the court ruling is a major victory for Trump and joked that he couldn't see how the decision doesn't induce heart attack to the special counsel Smith.

SCOTUS also handed down three major rulings on Friday.

The court narrowed the statute that Biden administration's zealous left-wing prosecutors have relied on in their widely criticized 'obstruction of an official proceeding' cases against hundreds of Trump supporters who took part in the January 6, 2021 Capitol protests.

The 6-3 ruling in Fischer v United States, stems from the conviction of Joseph Fischer, a former Pennsylvania police officer, who took part in a "stop the steal” rally on the morning of January 6 before outside the Capitol.

Fischer was one of about 350 people federal prosecutors charged under a federal statute, 18 USC section 1512(c)(2), which says any person who “otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” can be fined or punished with up to 20 years in prison. The 350 people charged with the crime represent about a quarter of all those charged in connection with the January 6 protests.

The central question in the case was what kind of conduct exactly the language prohibited. The previous section of the law, 18 USC section 1512(c)(1), is more specific, saying anyone is guilty of a crime who “alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding.”

“Complex as subsection (c)(1) may look, it simply consists of many specific examples of prohibited actions undertaken with the intent to impair an object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding: altering a record, altering a document, concealing a record, concealing a document, and so on,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “Guided by the basic logic that Congress would not go to the trouble of spelling out the list in (c)(1) if a neighboring term swallowed it up, the most sensible inference is that the scope of (c)(2) is defined by reference to (c)(1). To prove a violation of Section 1512(c)(2), the Government must establish that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or as we earlier explained, other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so.”

SCOTUS sent the opinion back to the court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit for further consideration. The ruling could have profound implications for the January Capitol protesters and could also affect the case against Trump.

In another major decision Friday, the court in a 6-3 decision overturned one of its precedents, the Chevron deference, delivering a major blow to the regulatory powers of unelected bureaucrats in federal agencies. The court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron USA Inc v Natural Resources Defense Council, had required the courts to defer to the knowledge of government bureaucrats in their reasonable interpretation of ambiguous laws passed by congress.

Friday's decision was delivered in two combined cases, Relentless Inc v Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo. The cases were hung on a complaint from fishing companies over charges they were required to pay to cover the costs of conservation monitoring. The National Marine Fisheries Service, required fishing boat owners to pay $710 a day -- a demand that the fishing companies argued was an overreach of federal agency power.

Writing the opinion, Chief Justice Roberts stated that the Chevron precedent “is overruled.” He slammed the legal theory laid out in the 1984 ruling, claiming it “gravely erred,” and calling it “misguided” and “unworkable.”

“The constitution assigns to the federal judiciary the responsibility and power to adjudicate cases and controversies,” Roberts wrote. “Agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do.”

The supreme court on Friday, also ruled 6-3 that cities in the US west can criminalize unhoused people sleeping outside even when they lack access to shelter. The ruling is a victory for Grants Pass, Oregon, which in 2019 passed ordinances prohibiting sleeping and camping in its public parks and on its streets, banning unhoused people from “using a blanket, pillow, or cardboard box for protection from the elements.”

Critics have called on local officials to take advantage of the ruling in tackling homeless camps and filth rampant in cities across the country run by left-wing Democrats.

Also earlier last week, SCOTUS rejected Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement plan, stripped the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of a major tool in fighting securities fraud, and put a hold on an attempt by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce harmful air pollution that drifts across state lines.

Here are supreme court's opinions in Trump v. United States, Fischer v United States, and the combined cases, Relentless Inc v Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimond.

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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 1, Pad B on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula at 0410 UTC on Aug. 5, deploying the QPS-SAR-12 satellite (nicknamed Kushinada-I), into a planned 575 kilometers circular Earth orbit. The 'The Harvest Goddess Thrives' mission marked Rocket Lab's fifth dedicated launch for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS (Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc.) and the 69th overall Electron flight.

Following main engine cutoff(MECO) and second engine cutoff(SECO), the Electron's Kick stage deployed Kushinada-I into a circular orbit 575 kilometers above Earth about 54 minutes after launch, as announced by Rocket Lab announced via X.

As its formal name suggests, QPS-SAR-12 is the 12th iQPS satellite to reach orbit. The Japanese company aims to operate a constellation of 36 SAR spacecraft, which can peer through clouds and study Earth's surface at night as well as during the day.

The QPS-SAR-12 satellite enhances iQPS’s SAR constellation, which aims to revolutionize industries by providing high-resolution data for urban safety, security, agriculture, and economic analytics. The constellation’s ability to image through clouds and at night supports continuous near-real-time global monitoring, capable of imaging both stationary and moving objects (e.g., vehicles, ships, livestock) with revisit times of approximately 10 minutes.

"The data gathered by QPS-SAR constellation has the potential to revolutionize industries and reshape the future," Rocket Lab wrote in the mission's press kit, which you can find here. "By leveraging insights from moving object data, iQPS can unlock new economic value, enhance urban safety and security, and provide predictive analytics for agriculture, national economies, and regional markets when integrated with weather, market, and economic data."

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President Donald Trump praised the American Eagle advertisement campaign featuring actress Sydney Sweeney, stating she is a registered Republican and calling the ad "the HOTTEST ad out there" in a Truth Social post Monday. He highlighted other figures and brands he associates with "woke" messaging, including pop singer Taylor Swift, and Jaguar and Bud Light, claiming their ad campaigns were disastrous and led to massive financial losses.

The American Eagle ad, launched July 23, features Sweeney in a denim campaign with the tagline “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” playing on the homophone “jeans” and “genes.” In the ad, Sweeney says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue,” as the camera highlights her blue eyes.

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Supporters like Vice President JD Vance and Senator Ted Cruz mocked critics, with Vance joking on the Ruthless podcast, “My political advice to the Democrats is continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi.” The campaign’s viral nature boosted American Eagle’s visibility, with Google Trends showing peak search interest in over 20 years, though its impact on sales remains unclear pending upcoming earnings reports.

Trump’s endorsement came after reports, that Sweeney registered as a Republican in Monroe County, Florida, in June 2024, around the time she purchased a $13.5 million home in the Florida Keys. He expressed delight upon learning this, saying on Sunday, to reporters in Pennsylvania, “She’s a registered Republican? Oh, now I love her ad… You’d be surprised how many people are Republicans.”

The President used the ad's success to argue against what he described as "woke" corporate messaging, contrasting it with the perceived failures of other brands. He criticized Jaguar for a "stupid, and seriously WOKE advertisement" from 2024, which he claimed led to the resignation of its CEO, Adrian Mardell, and caused "absolute turmoil" within the company He also referenced Bud Light's 2023 partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, asserting that the campaign "went Woke and essentially destroyed, in a short campaign, the Company," resulting in "BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SO FOOLISHLY LOST"

"Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the 'HOTTEST' ad out there," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "It’s for American Eagle, and the jeans are 'flying of the shelves.' Go get ‘em Sydney! On the other side of the ledger, Jaguar did a stupid, and seriously WOKE advertisement, THAT IS A TOTAL DISASTER! The CEO just resigned in disgrace, and the company is in absolute turmoil. Who wants to buy a Jaguar after looking at that disgraceful ad. Shouldn’t they have learned a lesson from Bud Lite, which went Woke and essentially destroyed, in a short campaign, the Company. The market cap destruction has been unprecedented, with BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SO FOOLISHLY LOST. Or just look at Woke singer Taylor Swift. Ever since I alerted the world as to what she was by saying on TRUTH that I can’t stand her (HATE!). She was booed out of the Super Bowl and became, NO LONGER HOT. The tide has seriously turned — Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Swift was booed at the Super Bowl last year while attending the game to support her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce against the Eagles. Some fans booed when she was shown on the Jumbotron, while Trump who also attended was met with a roaring applause.

 

 
Dunkin' Donuts Ad Controversy

Meanwhile Dunkin’ Donuts is also facing 'woke' far-left backlash for a new advertisement featuring actor Gavin Casalegno, which has reignited a cultural debate following the controversy surrounding Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad.

The ad, released on July 29, sparked criticism for its use of the term "genetics" in reference to Casalegno’s tan, drawing immediate comparisons to the previous controversy and leading to accusations of promoting racial or eugenic ideals.

The 35-second commercial promotes the chain’s Golden Hour Refresher drink and features Casalegno, known for his role in "The Summer I Turned Pretty," attributing his "golden" tan to his "genetics" and jokingly calling himself the "King of Summer."  The ad has been widely criticized by far-leftists on social media platforms like TikTok and X. Critics have linked the ad’s language to the ongoing debate over the American Eagle campaign, with some accusing Dunkin’ of capitalizing on the controversy.

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Sun who founded the blockchain platform Tron, anonymously won a $28 million auction in June 2021, for a seat aboard the first-ever crewed flight of New Shepard. A scheduling conflict kept him from joining that landmark flight, which took place on July 20, 2021 — the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The passengers that day were Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Dutch student Oliver Daemen.

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