Tea at Trianon: Why the Department of Justice Must Answer to President Trump

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Why the Department of Justice Must Answer to President Trump

From Amuse on X:

During Pam Bondi’s Senate confirmation hearing, a curious bipartisan consensus emerged: the Department of Justice and the Attorney General, they argued, should be independent of the President—as if the DOJ were some mythical fourth branch of government, free to chart its own course, unbound by the Constitution’s framework. This position, though politically fashionable, is fundamentally misguided. It ignores the constitutional architecture that vests all executive power in the President, distorts the principles of accountability, and risks creating an unaccountable bureaucratic Leviathan. The Department of Justice and its Attorney General must remain under the President’s direction, as the Constitution and the unitary executive theory demand. (Read more.)

From The Vigilant Fox:

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi just delivered a masterful performance in her bid for US Attorney General. Democrats threw everything they had at her, but Bondi effortlessly deflected their attacks, leaving them looking like fools. One senator was triggered when Bondi refused to deny the irregularities she witnessed during the 2020 US Presidential election.
She explained, “I was on the ground in Pennsylvania, and I saw many things there… And I saw so much. No one from either side of the aisle should want there to be any issues with election integrity in our country. We should all want our elections to be free and fair, and the rules and the laws to be followed.” This response angered Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), who clearly didn’t get the answer he was hoping for. (Read more.)