Justice Department - The War on Guns

Tyrants Gonna Tyrannize

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that struck down a federal law preventing people under domestic violence-related restraining orders from having guns. [More]

Because how better “to secure the Blessings of Liberty” than to deny rights to people who haven’t even been charged with anything, let alone convicted?

[Via bondmen]

When Mini-Tyrants Rage

A coalition of 14 attorneys general condemned payment networks majors including Visa Inc, American Express Co and Mastercard Inc for pausing work on a merchant code to help detect suspicious gun sales in the United States. [More]

That tells me everything I need to know.

Why is Reuters calling state attorneys general “U.S. attorneys general”?

[Via Jess]

Related UPDATE

Senators Menendez, Warren urge regulators to support new gun sale code [More]

And that tells me everything I need to know, too.

[Via Steve T]

If They Were for Everyone, They Wouldn’t Be Exemptions

Today several men are sitting in prison for touching the sign that passed over their heads that Ray Epps was hurling at police. [More]

Hey, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

[Via bondmen]

The Outcome will Define the Tyranny

Biden DOJ Crusade to Jail Young Man for Anti-Hillary Memes Just Got Much Uglier [More]

If this is not First Amendment protected then nothing is.

We’re the Only Ones Cowing Enough

The FBI Targeted Patriotic Conservatives Exercising Their First Amendment Rights: ‘They’re All Bleeping Terrorists’ [More]

Right. The object here is to send an unmistakable intimidating message about who’s in charge in case anybody else is getting any ideas. That and smear any opposing ideology as the stuff of domestic terrorists.

I wonder if the people who really could be in charge, and in short order, are ever going to realize the disparity in numbers…?

[Via bondmen]

Where Have We Heard THAT Excuse Before?

Report: FBI Was Against Mar-a-Lago Raid, Argued With DOJ Prosecutors [More]

But in the end, they were only following orders.

We’re the Only Ones Inciting Enough

Newly Released J6 Footage Shows ‘Non-Uniformed’ Officers, Police Urging Pro-Trump Protesters to Go to the Capitol [More]

It’s a well-known and exploitable psychological phenomenon. I’m surprised sentences aren’t being appealed based on exploitation and manipulation by provocateurs trained to agitate and elicit such reactions in crowds.

I wonder if subpoenas by defense attorneys would reveal coordinated plans and instructions.

[Via Michael G]

The Devil in the Details

Federal Firearms Administrative Action Policy and Procedures [More]

New ways for swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance…

Everybody knows the clause in the Constitution that delegates and authorizes these powers, don’t you?

Anybody…?

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Justice Department giving states $231 million for “red flag” laws, gun violence prevention [More]

Due process? We ain’t got no due process. We don’t need no due process.

I don’t have to show you any stinking due process!

[Via Jess]

Bugging the Confessional?

Re: Federal Bureau of Investigation Infiltrating Catholic Congregations [More]

Hey, it’s a lot safer than going after violent criminals and dangerous subversives…

State-approved Catholics… where have we seen that before…?

These bastards Garland and Wray are no f*****g different than the goddam Chicoms.

[Via Antigone]

This is It?

Sarah Beth Clendaniel, 34, has been charged with conspiring with a neo-Nazi leader in Florida, Brandon Clint Russell, 27, who authorities say encouraged attacks that would cause a “cascading failure” of the energy grid. [More]

These two low-hanging fruit losers are the best examples of the “right-wing extremist”greatest threat Chris Wray and Merrick Garland tell us are the bane of the Republic…?

Funny thing about that…

[Via Michael G]

Theater of the Absurd

As judges hand down one absurd sentence after another, one might be inclined to laugh at the absurdity of it all except, of course, it’s not funny… [More]

They had me at Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.

[Via bondmen]

What, No Raid?

DOJ reviewing potentially classified docs at Biden center [More]

Who thinks anything of substance will be done about it?

Maybe if we knew what the documents pertained to…? You know, the more damaging and damning, the more deliberate and vigorous the DOJ effort to bury, stonewall, and shield the Big Guy…

[Via Jess]

UPDATE

Joy Behar defends Joe Biden on classified docs: Unlike Trump, ‘Biden is [not] a liar and a thief’ [More]

Watching The View is grounds for divorce.

[Via Michael G]

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before

He said lawyers for the federal government admitted in court to having at least 400 pages of “potentially responsive” documents but are now saying they can “neither confirm nor deny” whether the records exist. [More]

Consider that the default position.