President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 55

March 17, 2025 12:03 pm EDT Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 55

It’s Monday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Monday, March 17 2025
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
1:00 PM
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 
On Camera
2:45 PM
The President departs The White House en route John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center
South Portico 
In-Town Travel Pool
2:55 PM
The President arrives John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center
In-Town Travel Pool
3:00 PM
The President participates in a Kennedy Center Board Meeting and Tour
In-Town Travel Pool
5:05 PM
The President departs John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center en route The White House
In-Town Travel Pool
5:15 PM
The President arrives The White House South Portico 
In-Town Travel Pool

Constitutional Crisis?

Over the weekend President Shitshow issued a Proclamation; Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua (03/15/2025):

Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States. TdA operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking. TdA has engaged in and continues to engage in mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming United States citizens, undermining public safety, and supporting the Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas, including the United States.

TdA is closely aligned with, and indeed has infiltrated, the Maduro regime, including its military and law enforcement apparatus. TdA grew significantly while Tareck El Aissami served as governor of Aragua between 2012 and 2017. In 2017, El Aissami was appointed as Vice President of Venezuela. Soon thereafter, the United States Department of the Treasury designated El Aissami as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, 21 U.S.C. 1901 et seq. El Aissami is currently a United States fugitive facing charges arising from his violations of United States sanctions triggered by his Department of the Treasury designation.

Like El Aissami, Nicolas Maduro, who claims to act as Venezuela’s President and asserts control over the security forces and other authorities in Venezuela, also maintains close ties to regime-sponsored narco-terrorists. Maduro leads the regime-sponsored enterprise Cártel de los Soles, which coordinates with and relies on TdA and other organizations to carry out its objective of using illegal narcotics as a weapon to “flood” the United States. In 2020, Maduro and other regime members were charged with narcoterrorism and other crimes in connection with this plot against America.

Over the years, Venezuelan national and local authorities have ceded ever-greater control over their territories to transnational criminal organizations, including TdA. The result is a hybrid criminal state that is perpetrating an invasion of and predatory incursion into the United States, and which poses a substantial danger to the United States. Indeed, in December 2024, INTERPOL Washington confirmed: “Tren de Aragua has emerged as a significant threat to the United States as it infiltrates migration flows from Venezuela.” Evidence irrefutably demonstrates that TdA has invaded the United States and continues to invade, attempt to invade, and threaten to invade the country; perpetrated irregular warfare within the country; and used drug trafficking as a weapon against our citizens.

Based upon a review of TdA’s activities, and in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, on February 20, 2025, acting pursuant to the authority in 8 U.S.C. 1189, the Secretary of State designated TdA as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

As President of the United States and Commander in Chief, it is my solemn duty to protect the American people from the devastating effects of this invasion. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Alien Enemies Act, 50 U.S.C. 21 et seq., hereby proclaim and direct as follows:

Section 1. I find and declare that TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela. I make these findings using the full extent of my authority to conduct the Nation’s foreign affairs under the Constitution. Based on these findings, and by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 50 U.S.C. 21, I proclaim that all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies. I further find and declare that all such members of TdA are, by virtue of their membership in that organization, chargeable with actual hostility against the United States and are therefore ineligible for the benefits of 50 U.S.C. 22. I further find and declare that all such members of TdA are a danger to the public peace or safety of the United States.

Sec. 2. I direct the Attorney General, within 60 days of the date of this proclamation, to prepare and publish a letter under her signature declaring the policy described in section 1 of this proclamation as the policy of the United States and attaching this proclamation. I direct the Attorney General to transmit this letter to the Chief Justice of the United States, the chief judge of every circuit court of appeals, the chief judge of every district and territorial court of the United States, each Governor of a State and territory of the United States, and the highest-ranking judicial officer of each State and territory of the United States.

Sec. 3. I direct that all Alien Enemies described in section 1 of this proclamation are subject to immediate apprehension, detention, and removal, and further that they shall not be permitted residence in the United States.

Sec. 4. Pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, consistent with applicable law, apprehend, restrain, secure, and remove every Alien Enemy described in section 1 of this proclamation. The Secretary of Homeland Security retains discretion to apprehend and remove any Alien Enemy under any separate authority.

Sec. 5. All executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall collaborate with law enforcement officials of the United States and with appropriate State, local, and tribal officials, to use all lawful means to apprehend, restrain, secure, and remove Alien Enemies described in section 1 of this proclamation.

Sec. 6. Pursuant to my authority under 50 U.S.C. 21 to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States toward the Alien Enemies subject to this proclamation, to direct the manner and degree of the restraint to which such Alien Enemies shall be subject and in what cases, to provide for the removal of such Alien Enemies, and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary “in the premises and for the public safety,” I hereby direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security to execute all the regulations hereinafter contained regarding the Alien Enemies described in section 1 of this proclamation. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security are further directed to cause the apprehension, detention, and removal of all members of TdA who otherwise qualify as Alien Enemies under section 1 of this proclamation. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security are authorized to take all necessary actions under the Alien Enemies Act to effectuate this proclamation, consistent with applicable law. In doing so, and for such purpose, they are authorized to utilize agents, agencies, and officers of the United States Government and of the several States, territories, dependencies, and municipalities thereof and of the District of Columbia. All such agents, agencies, and officers are hereby granted full authority for all acts done by them in the execution of such regulations when acting by direction of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as the case may be.

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Alien Enemies Act, 50 U.S.C. 21 et seq., I hereby declare and establish the following regulations which I find necessary “in the premises and for the public safety”:

(a) No Alien Enemy described in section 1 of this proclamation shall enter, attempt to enter, or be found within any territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Any such Alien Enemy who enters, attempts to enter, or is found within such territory shall be immediately apprehended and detained until removed from the United States. All such Alien Enemies, wherever found within any territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are subject to summary apprehension.

(b) Alien Enemies apprehended pursuant to this proclamation shall be subject to detention until removed from the United States in such place of detention as may be directed by the officers responsible for the execution of these regulations.

(c) Alien Enemies shall be subject to removal to any such location as may be directed by the officers responsible for the execution of these regulations consistent with applicable law.

(d) All property in the possession of, or traceable to, an Alien Enemy, which is used, intended to be used, or is commonly used to perpetrate the hostile activity and irregular warfare of TdA, along with evidence of such hostile activity and irregular warfare, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture.

The Attorney General is further granted authority, pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act and 3 U.S.C. 301, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to issue any guidance necessary to effectuate the prompt apprehension, detention, and removal of all Alien Enemies described in section 1 of this proclamation. Any such guidance shall be effective immediately upon issuance by the Attorney General.

This proclamation and the directives and regulations prescribed herein shall extend and apply to all land and water, continental or insular, in any way within the jurisdiction of the United States.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.

Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua (03/15/2025).

Near as I can piece together, cause that’s how we roll now, just fucking winging shit and putting “pieces” together…

Anyway, originally, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was hearing a case regarding five named Venezuelan immigrants, that lawsuit was turned into a provisional class action lawsuit as political explained.

The lawsuit, brought on behalf of five named Venezuelan immigrants, was provisionally turned into a class action — meaning it serves as a block on deportation of all non-citizens in U.S. custody who are subject to Trump’s proclamation invoking the rarely-used law.

Politico.com. 03/15/2025.

“Rarely-used law.”

Google says the last time the Alien Enemies Act was used was during World War II.

We now turn to Kyle Cheney for more…

Shortly after the Judge’s ruling Axios reported that two planes were not turned around because those planes were already outside the US jurisdiction.

[Snip]:

How it happened: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller “orchestrated” the process in the West Wing in tandem with Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Noem. Few outside their teams knew what was happening.

Axios. 03/16/2025.
  • They didn’t actually set out to defy a court order. “We wanted them on the ground first, before a judge could get the case, but this is how it worked out,” said the official.

The timeline: The president signed the executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act on Friday night, but intentionally did not advertise it. On Saturday morning, word of the order leaked, officials said, prompting a mad scramble to get planes in the air.

Axios. 03/16/2025.
  • At 2:31 p.m. Saturday, an immigration activist who tracks deportation flights, posted on X that “TWO HIGHLY UNUSUAL ICE flights” were departing from Texas to El Salvador, which had agreed to accept Venezuelan gang members deported from the U.S.
  • Hours later, during a court hearing filed by the ACLU., Boasberg ordered a halt to the deportations and said any flights should be turned around mid-air.
  • “This is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately,” he told the Justice Department, according to the Washington Post.
  • At that point, about 6:51 p.m., both flights were off the Yucatan Peninsula, according to flight paths posted on X.

Inside the White House, officials discussed whether to order the planes to turn around. On advice from a team of administration lawyers, the administration pressed ahead.

Axios. 03/16/2025.
  • “There was a discussion about how far the judge’s ruling can go under the circumstances and over international waters and, on advice of counsel, we proceeded with deporting these thugs,” the senior official said.
  • “They were already outside of US airspace. We believe the order is not applicable,” a second senior administration official told Axios.

Yes, but: The Trump administration was already spoiling for a fight over the Alien Enemies Act — one of several fronts on which they believe legal challenges to the president’s authority will only end up strengthening it when the Supreme Court rules in his favor.

Between the lines: Officially, the Trump White House is not denying it ignored the judge’s order, and instead wants to shift the argument to whether it was right to expel alleged members of Tren de Aragua.

Axios. 03/16/2025.

Quoted in the article is Attorney Mark Zaid.

The press secretary denies the reporting of Axios.

Show more =’s Moreover, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion. A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrying foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil.

From this morning.

Self-labeled Border Czar said this morning, he doesn’t care what Judges think.

I think we’ve been in a “constitutional crisis” since President Shitshow was sworn-in.

Obviously, we can go further back, and find other times a President overreached their authority, the difference between those times and now; the majority fought back, pushbacked, our Congress wasn’t a rubber stamp from fucking bullshit, they did not spend hours of the day defending shit like…

He says in the clips “there’s a disagreement between the President’s position and the position of the Canadian government, I don’t think that was a mystery coming in”…

And it’s not a disagreement, the “President’s” position is fucking insane, it’s not normal for the President of the United States to think out loud how it would be great if Canada joins the US.

President Shitshow starts off the clip saying that he supports Greenland’s right to self-determine, before he says “and I think we’re gonna get it, one way or the other, we’re gonna get it”.

They laughed, the Republicans in the Chamber fucking laughed…

The day after President Shitshow became President Shitshow for the second time, Rep. Andy Ogles introduced a bill or was planning on it, to help President Shitshow get Greenland…

Again, I should point out, this is not normal. It just isn’t.

Today, President Shitshow via “Lies” social said that President Biden’s use of an “autopen” makes his pardons of some people “null and void”.

This is when, I hate myself, I almost, almost covered the autopen bullshit on Friday–I decided I didn’t wanna drag out the post for Friday so skipped it…

Anyway…

I bookmarked this from the 7th of March…

Just an FYI–Oversight Project is part of the Heritage Foundation.

The question of course being asked now, can a President undo another President’s pardons…

The answer is, no with a but…

KGW8 posted the first of what I suspect will be many fact-checks on President Shitshow’s post trying to “null and void” President Biden’s pardons.

No, presidential pardons cannot be revoked once finalized.

The Constitution gives the president sweeping powers to pardon people for federal crimes, and there is nothing in the Constitution or federal law that allows anyone to revoke a presidential pardon once it’s delivered.

[the but]

There is one grey area: revoking a pardon that hasn’t been formally delivered.

KGW8. 03/17/2025.

In the article they mention that back in 2008, then-President George W. Bush took back a pardon of a real estate developer who had pleaded guilty to fraud “When it was revealed the man’s father had donated thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, Bush quickly changed his mind to avoid the appearance of impropriety.”

Think about that for a second, he took back a pardon because he feared it would look like the pardon was bought.

I mean, that was 17 years ago.

What all this means; if President Biden’s pardons have been finalized, then no, they can’t be revoked.

“No New Wars!”

So, in his sights for invasion, Greenland, Panama Canal, and Iran…

But somehow, this is all going to make America Great Again…

This is an open thread

P.S.

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