Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Roman Law Established A Diktator For Times Of Emergency

The emergency had to be declared by the Senate, and the diktator appointed by the Senate. Who also had power to remove him. Until Julius came along.

Probably why there’s no such provision in the Constitution. The men in Philadelphia that summer knew their Roman history.
For folks not in DC:-
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
Trump means some white people want a dictator:
A federal judge dismissed a weapons case against a man held in the D.C. jail for a week — concluding he was subject to an unlawful search.

"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."

The judge said Torez Riley appeared to have been singled out because he is a Black man who carried a backpack that looked heavy. Law enforcement officers said in court papers they found two weapons in Riley's crossbody bag — after he had previously been convicted on a weapons charge.
Pro tip: black man with backpack is not “reasonable suspicion.”
Newly confirmed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has directed her prosecutors to seek maximum charges against defendants — and to seek to detain them. And the court system is straining to respond.
Yeah. How’s that working out?
Three separate grand juries refused to indict woman for “assaulting” ICE.

Ham sandwich 3, DOJ 0.
Wait for it:
It appears this Aakash Singh worked for Sen. Tillis and is a 2017 law grad. He needs to be infamous.
Close, but not yet:
/2 Also, contrary to my memory, re-submitting to the grand jury after a no-bill only requires approval of the U.S. Attorney, not Main Justice. There's no rule for a second or third submission BECAUSE THAT DOESN'T FUCKING HAPPEN.
There it is.

Jeanine Pirro had to approve every attempt to create a felony out an assault that produced this:
I’ve injured myself worse gardening. Maybe I should charge my garden with felony assault.

Now who’s more qualified: Habba? Or Pirro? Judges can’t reach a decision, so lines are open. This is a free call.📞 

Remember the guy we started with? The one who’s illegal search was dismissed?
"The government has determined that dismissal of this matter is in the interests of justice," prosecutors wrote in court papers.

A spokesman for the Department of Justice said Pirro moved to dismiss the charges once she was shown body camera footage of the arrest on Friday.

Judge Faruqui, who spent about a dozen years as a prosecutor in that same office, expressed outrage about the charges.

"We don't just charge people criminally and then say, 'Oops, my bad,'" he said. "I'm at a loss how the U.S. Attorney's Office thought this was an appropriate charge in any court, let alone the federal court."

But Pirro pushed back against Faruqui's comments.

"This judge has a long history of bending over backwards to release dangerous felons in possession of firearms and on frequent occasions he has downplayed the seriousness of felons who possess illegal firearms and the danger they pose to our community," Pirro said in a statement to NPR. "The comments he made today are no different than those he makes in other cases involving dangerous criminals."

The judge said he had seven cases on his docket Monday that involved people who had been arrested over the weekend — the most ever, he said.

Faruqui also said "on multiple occasions" over the past two weeks, other judges in the federal courthouse had moved to suppress search warrants, a highly unusual move that makes the warrants inadmissible in court.
The judge is busier than ever. Does that mean crime is up? Or down? That number is determined by the number of cases brought, not the “vibe” in the White House. So… 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

And Pirro needs to shut her mouth and do a better job running her office.
Another man, Edward Dana, was charged last week with making threats against the president. Dana said he was intoxicated and in the course of other rambling — that included singing in the back of a patrol car — he made remarks about Trump, according to the court docket. Dana was unarmed.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya ordered a mental health assessment and competency screening and ordered Dana released last week.

But prosecutors appealed her ruling. On Monday, Chief Judge James Boasberg held his own hearing — and agreed with the magistrate's decision. He ordered Dana's release, with conditions.
Federal magistrates are not Art. III judges, so appeals from their rulings go to Art. III judges first.
In the Riley case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Helfand declined to describe the changed circumstances but instead spoke for a few moments privately with the judge, while the courtroom husher blocked the sound of the exchange.

Later, the judge said Helfand was not the problem and praised him for having "the dignity and the courtesy" to move to drop the case. But he told Helfand to deliver a message to his superiors — that charging people based on little or unlawfully obtained evidence would hurt public safety, not improve it.

"If the policy now is to charge first and ask questions later, that's not going to work," the judge said. "Arrests stay on people's records. That has consequences."

"Lawlessness cannot come from the government," Judge Faruqui added. "The eyes of the world are on this city right now."
Turns out the people who want a dictator are wrong. And don’t have the levers of power they think they do. I actually want the Sinister Six to respond to that. I have a hard time seeing the Six getting behind that. Then again, they’re actively pissing away the Court’s legitimacy from the bench, so…
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