Legalities

Are Biden’s AutoPen Signatures Valid?

Don’t let the autopen confuse the issue. It would be no different if they had used a signature rubber stamp.

Apparently, with a few exceptions, during his four years in the White House Joe Biden’s signature was placed on laws, executive orders, pardons, commissions, and maybe foreign obligations, all using an autopen. In other words, though Biden’s “signature” appears on numerous documents, he really never signed hardly anything. A machine, known as an autopen, signed everything in his name. There’s good reason to believe that Biden didn’t even know what was being signed by his staff in his name. Congress loves autopens. They use them to sign letters to their constituents so that the recipients think their Senators or Representatives really cares enough to respond personally, while the truth is that some rather lowly staff person prepared a response and signed the letter using an autopen.

President Trump has said he considers the pardons given by Joe Biden to members of the “Jan. 6th” Committee and to others to be void.

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Justice

“Sanctuary” Governors and Mayors Could be Charged and Imprisoned if they Impede Federal Immigration Enforcement

State and local officials who impede federal immigration enforcement may face jail time.

Democrat Governors and Mayors in so-called “Sanctuary” states and cities were given notice by Trump’s Department of Justice that they if they impede federal immigration enforcement they will be arrested and prosecuted.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said in a memorandum to all department employees that under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, state and local officials must not obstruct federal immigration enforcement. Should they impede, obstruct, or otherwise fail to comply with federal immigration enforcement activities, they will be charged.

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International

Will the U.S. Expand Under Trump?

President-Elect Trump has suggested enlarging the U.S. for the first time in many years. Greenland? Canada? The Panama Canal?

The United States was formed in 1776 by the federation of 13 colonies on the East Coast. Since then, it has grown:

1783. The Treaty of Paris (formally ending the Revolutionary War and granting to the United States all of the area east of the Mississippi River, north of Florida, and south of Canada).
1803. The Louisiana Purchase.
1819. The Adams–Onís Treaty, adding Florida.
1820. Maine.
1825. “Seward’s Folly.” Purchase of Alaska from Russia.
1845. Texas Annexation.
1846. Oregon Territory.
1848. The Mexican-American War. The Treaty of Guadalupe. The “Mexican Cession” added Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and western Colorado.
1853. Gadsden Purchase adding southern Arizona and southern New Mexico.
1898. Hawaii Annexation.
1899. The Tripartite Convention partitioned the Samoan Islands into two and the eastern island group became American Samoa.
1917. The Treaty of the Danish West Indies. The U.S. purchased the American Virgin Islands.
And without getting into too much detail, the U.S. also acquired many Pacific Ocean islands, while other islands were won during WWII.

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Constitution

Trump Orders an End to “Birthright Citizenship.” A Federal Judge calls the Order “Blatantly Unconstitutional.”

The legal issue turns on the interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause’s proviso, “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

President Trump’s Executive Order states that children born on U.S. soil to women who are (1) unlawfully present in the United States or (2) temporarily authorized to be here, such as under a tourist visa or a student visa, and (3) (in both cases) whose father was not a United States citizen, do not automatically receive U.S. Citizenship by virtue of being born on our soil. In signing the Executive Order, Mr. Trump stated that the United States was the only country in the world to award citizenship to anyone who happens to be born within its borders.

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Health

Dr. Varon: “More Than 50 percent Of My Patients Have Vaccine-Related injuries.”

“We’re truly now going through what I call the real pandemic.”

Is medicine an “art” or a “science”? That debate continues. Unfortunately, or many practitioners of medicine, it is neither: it is little more than a decision tree: “If ‘Yes,’ then this; if ‘No,’ then that.” Such doctors follow all protocols and run their practices based on avoiding liability. This style of doctoring does not describe Dr. Varon, who thinks out-of-the-box, looks for alternative solutions and cures, and has a keen interest in re-purposed drugs, including Ivermectin.

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AI

AI Creates Genuine Art, But Does It Pose National Security Implications?

AI’s artistry is so very realistic that you can no longer trust any photo or video you see — unless you know and trust the source.

Marc Andreessen was well-known at the start of the World Wide Web (“www”). Andreessen was the famed co-author of Mosaic, the earliest real web browser with a GUI (graphical user interface) and the progenitor to all other modern web browsers. Not too long thereafter, he co-founded Netscape, one of the first widely-used browsers. Netscape was hugely popular in the mid 1990’s, and later publicly released its source code and formed the Mozilla Organization.

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Constitution

Does the Constitution Require “Birthright Citizenship”?

The Constitutional clause is open to interpretation — there is no settled answer — and it is possible that Birthright Citizenship is not required.

The United States grants “birthright citizenship,” bestowing automatic citizenship to every baby born on American soil. This practice is derived from ambiguous language in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, one of several post-Civil War amendments written to end all the remnants of slavery.

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Justice

Can the U.S. Military Be Used to Enforce Immigration Laws?

The Military cannot generally be used to enforce federal law, but Is the migrant “invasion” an exception?

During the 2024 campaign, then-candidate Trump promised, if elected, to deport the huge influx of illegal immigrants who surged into the United States during the Biden years. This number is in the millions, as nearly everyone agrees, but no one agrees on the approximation figure. Mr. Trump promised to start the effort by deporting the dangerous criminal among them, including members of alien gangs that are sworn to violence and criminality. This is a part of Trump’s effort to “Make America Safe Again.”

But just how does a nation physically deport millions of individuals who are unwilling to self-deport? What kind of federal police force is necessary? Surely, this is the job of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and to a much lesser extent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But both of these agencies have limited personnel, and diverting many of them from their border posts to conduct roundups, arrests, and deportations from the interior of the country, is not really feasible without further weakening the borders. So where are the personnel who will do this job?

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