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Trump Just Delivered a Bombshell About Rubio’s Future

Donald Trump is denying the information about his VP search that Ben Carson reportedly gave the Washington Post, saying specifically that Marco Rubio is not being considered . . .

In his response to the article on social media, Trump didn’t mention any of the other potential VP contenders by name, saying only that Rubio and “most others mentioned” are not being vetted for the position. (Read more from “Trump Just Delivered a Bombshell About Rubio’s Future” HERE)

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Trump or No Trump, the Judiciary Has Already Hit Rock Bottom and Must Be Overhauled

The contemporary federal court system is a raging dumpster fire that poses the biggest threat to our representative democracy, society, and sovereignty since our nation’s founding. Yet, we lack a political party that is willing to finally strip the judiciary down to its original function — interpreting the law, not reinterpreting the Constitution and even remaking marriage and gender from the bench. By understanding the true and irreversible threat of the courts to our personal liberty, popular sovereignty, and society, it will become clear that the question of whether to vote for Trump or Hillary is really irrelevant and a non-sequitur in the battle we must fight.

The Left has transformed our society and system of governance, particularly through the courts, in a way not even our grandparents’ generation could have ever envisioned. Yet, like frogs in slow boiling water, we become desensitized to the radically pernicious transformation around us. The more it succeeds and is unchallenged by a genuine alternative party, the more it becomes legitimized and is viewed as the default position in our society.

Nowhere is this more evident than with the nexus of judicial tyranny, marriage, religious liberty and transgenderism. It’s time we wake up and smell the stench of judicial tyranny and finally become inspired to act, even as we lack a political party that cares about the destruction of the civil society, federalism, and representative democracy.

Worse than Redefining Marriage, Gender, and Criminalizing Religion?

Over the weekend, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was “suspended” for opposing Anthony Kennedy’s royal edict redefining the building block of all civilization from the bench. Sadly, even most conservatives will continue to legitimize the lawless federal courts and mindlessly chant, “You must obey the court’s decision.” As I lay out in chapter three of my upcoming book, the gay marriage decision flips every word of the Constitution on its head and wields not one iota of legal legitimacy. This has nothing to do with one’s personal view on the underlying policy of marriage licenses. If federal courts now have jurisdiction over something that has been a state institution since the time the Constitution was adopted in 1789 and the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868, that means there is no limit to their power. It also means that the state and Congress mean nothing and we must submit to a judicial oligarchy.

I was inspired to write my book, “Stolen Sovereignty: How to Stop Unelected Judges from Transforming America,” because of the events of September 3, 2015. On that day, for the first time in history, a GOP-appointed judge threw a Christian in jail for upholding Kentucky law and peacefully abstaining from signing a gay marriage license. On the same day, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated the deportation of a dangerous criminal alien by applying international law and asserting that the individual was transgender, all the while berating ICE officials for not using the proper pronoun.

We have hit rock bottom, indeed.

At some point, it just doesn’t matter anymore. Fifty years of built up anti-constitutional jurisprudence and hopelessly corrupt contorting of the Fourteenth Amendment have made the judiciary unsalvageable. We are now incurring a worse degree of social transformation than any of us imagined when we were warned of the need to keep electing Republicans a decade ago. We elected Republicans and are now at the point when not only has marriage been redefined but the Fourth Circuit has redefined gender itself.

The threat leveled at conservatives — that we must support the GOP nominee in order to “save” the courts — is laughable. It can’t get much worse. In fact, it’s better Hillary appoint three more justices so that the dumpster fire of the judiciary becomes self-evident enough to rally us all around the systemic judicial reforms that must take place.

The Republican Party at every level refuses to stand up to the judiciary and fight for religious liberty — the civil right of our time. This was true long before the rise of Donald Trump. It’s just that Trump is no better than the rest of them, given his support of Obama’s transgender agenda, the broader corporate homo-fascism, and the judicial role of marriage and religious liberty in our society. He fully supported Judge Bunning’s vile and lawless order to imprison Kim Davis for following Kentucky’s plenary power to define marriage.

What if Hillary Remakes the Court?

Whether one ultimately votes for Trump or not is less important than the realization that either way we have lost our society to the courts and the recognition that the courts are broken and must be stripped down to size. As I will demonstrate in my book, this is true for a number of reasons. Here are just a couple:

The lower courts are even worse. Obama has filled 30% of the appellate bench and 40% of the district judgeships. The anti-constitutionalists pretty much control all the appeals courts except for the Fifth Circuit. Even a conservative president will not change that balance due to the likely vacancies being in circuits that are already long gone. Remember, 99% of cases never make it to the Supreme Court anyway, and as we saw with the marriage case, the almost unanimous support for redefining it at the lower court level had a tremendous influence on the Supreme Court’s final decision.

Even among the “conservative” judges, very few of them are like Clarence Thomas in that they’d be willing to overturn the one-directional stare decisis (precedent) and Fourteenth Amendment “jurisprudence” constructed from years’ worth of corruption in the legal profession. As Justice Alito said in the marriage case, echoing comments Robert Bork made two decades ago, “decades of attempts to restrain this Court’s abuse of its authority have failed” as evidenced by “the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture’s conception of constitutional interpretation.” Read Robert Bork’s article from 1996 on “The End of Democracy”– long before transgenderism was codified and Christians were being jailed and fined, and you will understand the folly of trying to “fix the judiciary” by appointing “good” judges.

It’s not just the judges. The entire legal profession, as noted by Alito, is irremediably corrupt, especially as it relates to constitutional interpretation, statutory construction, and the entire premise of the role of the federal judiciary. There is an army of tens of thousands of lawyers who are skilled at using decades of corrupt case law to contort the concept of fundamental rights and successfully grant super rights to protected classes and citizen rights to illegal aliens. Having a Republican appoint a few judges instead of a Democrat filling the vacancies will never roll back the jurisprudential velocity respected by the entire profession. Which is why almost all GOP-appointed judges drift to the left over time. The judicial game is rigged and it’s time we stop playing it.

Even the few tantalizing 5-4 victories we still enjoy are fleeting, narrow, and dwarfed by the magnitude of the liberal courts victories. Democrats have a perpetual first and goal at our one-yard line. Even if the court fails to “go there” now, they usually will adapt to the culture of the legal profession within a few years. Even the Heller decision has already been severely limited by the reluctance of Kennedy and Roberts to defend it, allowing blue states to get away with banning guns and the right to carry. If Hillary succeeded to tipping the balance on gun rights, red states can still do what they want, while blue states are already succeeding in pushing anti-gun laws.

Vote for Trump to “stop Hillary” if your heart so desires, but just remember that things will have to get worse before they get better. And at some point, we need to begin working on long-term reforms — starting a new party, pushing civil rights for religious liberty, stripping the court’s stolen jurisdiction, convening Conventions of the States to safeguard liberty. With every single RINO winning down the ballot for state and federal positions, together with Trump as the party’s nominee, nothing will change to stop the inexorable march towards a pagan theocracy, which legislates immorality and violation of property rights from the bench.

“But what if the Democrat wins?” is no longer a hypothetical question. We are already living through those consequences precisely because we’ve been too scared to act boldly and focus on long-term reforms, lest we risk defeat of the fake opposition party. And if we continue to fear the prospect of Democrat victory in the short run more than the lack of a conservative party, or even conservative movement, to combat the tyranny in the long-run, we will perpetuate this failed cycle and will have nobody to blame but ourselves. (For more from the author of “Trump or No Trump, the Judiciary Has Already Hit Rock Bottom and Must Be Overhauled” please click HERE)

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Making the Best out of Trump Versus Clinton

It’s still true. Donald J. Trump really really happened.

Every morning faithful conservatives wake up and for a brief, fleeting moment believe life is normal. We are still in the throes of the primary. Conservatives still have a chance. And then, reality comes crashing down. Donald Trump, the ethics-free extraordinaire, is our party’s nominee. Oh, and our other choice is Hillary Clinton.

But, despondent and downtrodden is no way to go through life. On the bright side, the eye-poppingly disgusting comments from Trump’s former butler (#richpeopleproblems) about wanting to kill President Obama is the latest of your daily reminders why it was never a wise idea to hop aboard the Trump train.

(The ol’ quote about Trump hiring the “best people” never gets old, does it?)

Gallows humor. We’re going to need it this year.

Coming to terms with Trump doesn’t mean endorsing, enabling, or supporting his, or his surrogates, or former employees behavior. Like a wild dog off the leash, perhaps a treat could be thrown his way when he does something good, but defensive, cautious posture at a far away distance is best.

And while safely away from danger, some introspective thinking needs to be done. Conservatives should be honest with themselves about what went wrong. Without blaming it all on party leaders, or the poorly devised and accelerated primary process, or something beyond our control, although those are major contributing factors.

Something happened yesterday that clicked this into focus.

The Washington Post announced that Clinton has a plan, without any announced funding mechanism mind you, to provide “affordable child care,” which comes in addition to universal pre-school and paid family leave. (And, if Bernie Sanders is successful in pushing her further left, tuition-free college.)

Of course all of these policy ideas will require massive amounts of government intervention and intrusion into deeply personal areas of our lives. The policy ideas are wrong, but it is unwise to completely ignore the issues Clinton is raising.

Finding affordable child care is a very real problem working families face. In many areas of the country, child care is more expensive than college. There isn’t any financial aid available for child care, either. And, while it may be ideal for one parent to stay at home with the children, that isn’t an option for many for any number of reasons.

When I amicably asked on Twitter yesterday what Republicans would say to counter Clinton’s plan, I was met with derision by some friends, as if I were asking for my own special handout. If doing things such as ending the marriage penalty is a handout, however, sign me up.

(For what it’s worth, Mike Lee and Marco Rubio have worked on alternative reform ideas, which have been met with tepid reaction.)

But, this is the same old story.

Democrats announce a big, terrible idea that has great polling. Some Republican say, let’s do something half as bad so we don’t get beat. Conservatives say that’s unconstitutional. And Democrats win. That’s what happened with Obamacare. And immigration. And well, you name it.

Somewhere along the line, it seems many conservatives forgot how to just talk normally and help people.

“Because, Constitution! Because, principles! Because, free markets!” are ineffective and cheap arguments for or against anything. These arguments didn’t win in a GOP primary. Let that sink in.

Even self-evidently good policy requires salesmanship.

Enter Trump: Build the wall. Make America Great Again. With a no apologies, media accessible attitude.

Enter Clinton: Free stuff! Make history, elect me!

It’s sort of ironic. Trump is a remarkable salesman without any ideology. Clinton is a pretty ideologically driven candidate who lacks salesmanship. Judging from the GOP primary, in this sort of competition, the odds are in Trump’s favor.

Running on ideological will always differences be important. But, as Trump’s success demonstrates it ain’t everything. Ideology should be the underpinning of a campaign; not the alpha and the omega. Ideology should be compatible with solutions, but never divorced.

The presidential candidacies of Trump and Clinton may be a nightmare, but if it helps wake up conservatives from their tired old conversations perhaps it won’t be entirely traumatic. (For more from the author of “Making the Best out of Trump Versus Clinton” please click HERE)

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Boehner: Trump Can Win, ‘Just Watch’

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner is confident that Donald Trump can defeat Hillary Clinton in the general election in November.

Speaking at the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, Boehner said, “Anyone who thinks Donald Trump can’t win — just watch.”

Last month, Boehner said that he and Trump were “texting buddies” who had played golf together for years.

Regarding Trump’s meeting with the current Speaker of the House, Boehner said that Paul Ryan is probably “trying to help shape the direction of Trump’s policies,” according to the Associated Press . . .

After his meeting with Trump, Ryan said that he was “encouraged” by what Trump had said. (Read more from “Boehner: Trump Can Win, ‘Just Watch'” HERE)

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Tom Cotton Won’t Rule out VP Slot on Trump Ticket

Sen. Tom Cotton won’t rule out or “rule in” the possibility of joining presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s general election ticket as a candidate for Vice President, he reveals in a new interview.

From U.S. News & World Report:

Would you accept an offer to be Trump’s running mate?

(Laughs) I haven’t seen it floated out there. Like I said I’ve been focusing my political work on making sure that we hold the Senate and focus the rest of the time on my son.

So that’s not ruling it out?

I wouldn’t rule it in either.

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Donald Trump Rolls out His Nickname for Bernie Sanders

Donald Trump rolled out the latest of his brand names that he employs against opponents, labeling Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, “Crazy Bernie.”

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made reference to the new moniker both in an interview on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning and with his ever-active Twitter account.

“I call him ‘Crazy Bernie’ because he’s not very good,” Trump told Fox.

“Who is going to run against a socialist and lose?” he asked. “I mean, he’s a socialist. You’re going to pay 95 percent tax.”

He added, “I’d love to run against him in one way, but there’s something about running against Hillary [Clinton] that I really do [inaudible].”

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt noted that Trump would have crossover appeal with Sanders voters if Clinton became the Democrat nominee. Exit polling from the West Virginia primary Tuesday night found one-third of Sanders voters would cast their ballot for Trump over Clinton in the general election.

Co-host Brian Kilmeade pointed out a Clinton match-up would be better for the billionaire candidate than one with Sanders, based on most recent polling. The Real Clear Politics average of polls gives Sanders a double-digit lead over Trump: roughly 52 to 39 percent.

“I never hit him, don’t forget. I haven’t started on him. I haven’t said anything about him. Maybe I’m going to have to start,” the GOP candidate responded.

Trump tweeted Wednesday:

As reported by Western Journalism, a Public Policy Polling survey released on Tuesday finds Clinton up a scant four points over Trump, 42 to 38 percent. The Real Clear Politics average of polls taken over the last month gives Clinton approximately a six-point lead over the presumptive GOP nominee.

The Trump campaign also received some welcomed polling news Tuesday from the battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. A Quinnipiac University poll found very tight races in the three states. Clinton is up by a single point in both Florida (43-42 percent) and Pennsylvania (43-42 percent), while Trump has a four-point lead in Ohio (43-39 percent). (For more from the author of “Donald Trump Rolls out His Nickname for Bernie Sanders” please click HERE)

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Donald Trump Just Made a Huge Announcement About His Vice President Pick

By Associated Press. Donald Trump, the Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee, says he’s narrowed his list of potential running mates to “five or six people,” all with deep political resumes.

He says he has not ruled out New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former rival who has embraced the billionaire’s campaign with gusto . . .

The real estate mogul and former reality television star said he’s giving special weight to political experience because he wants a vice president who can help him “with legislation, getting things through” Washington if he wins the White House. (Read more from “Donald Trump Just Made a Huge Announcement About His Vice President Pick” HERE)

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Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump Pick up Victories, but Little Changes

By Emily Schultheis. Coming on the heels of a dramatic primary night last Tuesday, when Ted Cruz left the GOP race after losing in Indiana and effectively ceded the Republican nomination to Donald Trump, this week’s primaries largely stuck to expectations and did little to change the trajectory of the race.

On the Democratic side, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won West Virginia’s Democratic primary, but his victory there will do little to help him close the deficit with Democrat Hillary Clinton in both pledged delegates and raw votes.

Sanders benefited from an open primary in West Virginia, in which independents could choose to vote in the Democratic or Republican primary. Of those who identified as independents — a full 34 percent of the Democratic electorate — exit polling finds Sanders had a 61-to-22 edge among those voters. Clinton, meanwhile, edged Sanders slightly among self-described Democrats, 49 percent to 46 percent.

With another victory under his belt, Sanders has a fresh data point for his decision to remain in the race — his campaign noted in a statement Tuesday night that this is now Sanders’ 19th win of the primary season. (Read more from “Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump Pick up Victories, but Little Changes” HERE)

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Amazon.com Pressured to Drump Trump

Amazon.com, the popular online retailer, is reportedly under pressure from shareholders to stop selling products associated with Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.

According to the New York Post, a group claiming to represent 1,500 Amazon shareholders has asked CEO Jeff Bezos to end its marketing of Trump shirts, hats, ties and other products promoting the Trump campaign.

“This isn’t about politics: Donald Trump’s misogyny, racism and outright bigotry are dominating the political news cycle,” shareholder group UltraViolet said in a letter to Bezos.

The letter noted the continued presence of Donald Trump products “poses a risk to Amazon’s reputation” . . . (Read more from “Amazon.com Pressured to Drump Trump” HERE)

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Trump Gives Christie Major Role in Planning for a Trump Administration

Presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announced this earlier in the week. that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will lay the foundation for a potential Trump administration by leading Trump’s transition team.

The team’s goal is to ensure that when the Obama administration leaves office in January, his successor’s administration is fully operational.

” … it is really important that Trump has publicly named a transition chairman,” said Max Stier, who is chairman of the Partnership for Public Service. “Trump is demonstrating his understanding that he needs to prepare for the possibility that he will be governing at the same time as he is trying to win the campaign.”

Trump said in a statement, “Governor Christie is an extremely knowledgeable and loyal person with the tools and resources to put together an unparalleled transition team, one that will be prepared to take over the White House when we win in November.”

“I am grateful to Governor Christie for his contributions to this movement,” he said.

According to the statement, Christie would be “overseeing an extensive team of professionals preparing to take over the White House, and all that entails.”

“I am honored by the confidence being placed in me by Mr. Trump and look forward to putting together a first-rate team to assemble an administration to help best serve the president-elect and the nation,” Christie said.

Stier suggested that Christie would not be able to serve as Trump’s running mate or take on an active, full-time campaign role because of the time needed to devote to the transition team.

Christie, who had originally sought the GOP nomination, endorsed Trump after his campaign faltered.

The Washington Post noted Christie has been “a key adviser … behind the scenes.” It also noted that his selection as the transition team leader give Christie “influence in the selection of White House and administration staff and in the development of a president-elect’s first steps.” (For more from the author of “Trump Gives Christie Major Role in Planning for a Trump Administration” please click HERE)

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Donald Trump Receives Endorsement From Former Opponent

Former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal loves his country. He does not feel the same way toward Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. However, in an election where he — as with all Americans — must choose, he has done so, writing his endorsement for Trump in a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined, “I’m voting for Trump, warts and all.”

“I think electing Donald Trump would be the second-worst thing we could do this November, better only than electing Hillary Clinton to serve as the third term for the Obama administration’s radical policies,” Jindal wrote. “I am not pretending that Mr. Trump has suddenly become a conservative champion or even a reliable Republican: He is completely unpredictable. The problem is that Hillary is predictably liberal.”

Clinton looms large in Jindal’s column.

“I have no idea what Mr. Trump might do,” Jindal wrote, “while Mrs. Clinton is predictable. Both are scary, the former less so.”

Jindal argued that an election is a choice.

“I do not pretend Donald Trump is the Reaganesque leader we so desperately need, but he is certainly the better of two bad choices,” he continued. “Hardly an inspiring slogan, I know. It would be better to vote for a candidate rather than simply against one.”

Last week, as Indiana voters were going to the polls to give Trump the victory that unraveled his opposition, Jindal indicated he could support Trump against Clinton and noted a Trump victory would require soul-searching on the part of conservatives.

“We conservatives have to go back and do a better job of explaining our beliefs and principles to the voters,” Jindal told Politico. “I think Donald Trump is tapped into the middle class anxieties when conservatives say they’re for limited government, entitlement reform, free trade.

“Donald Trump is not for those things and doing well in part because voters are responding to what he’s saying. He’s saying, look he’ll fight for them,” he said.

Jindal has said Trump is not a genuine conservative — that is, against big government.

“I don’t think he’s opposed to big government; I just think he wants to be the one running big government. I do think he’ll be better than Hillary Clinton,” he said.

Jindal characterized Trump in harsher terms in a piece written for CNN last fall.

“Donald Trump is a shallow, unserious, substance-free, narcissistic egomaniac,” he wrote then.

“Like all narcissists, Trump is insecure, weak and afraid of being exposed,” Jindal added.

“We face a choice,” he continued. “We can decide to win, or we can be the biggest fools in history and put our faith not in our principles, but in an egomaniac who has no principles.” (For more from the author of “Donald Trump Receives Endorsement From Former Opponent” please click HERE)

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