Arrest the Judges and Fire the Lawyers

By Cliff Kincaid

May 19, 2025

A far-left New York publication called “The Indypendent” is helping organize resistance to the Trump Administration, which it calls the “Trumptatorship.” Its May issue calls Trump a bully and is headlined, “Fight The Bully.” Yet, this “bully” is being pushed around by the U.S. Supreme Court, and all that this “bully” can do is rant and rave.

After the Supreme Court issued another 7-2 ruling against his deportations, he said, “The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our Country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process.”

“The result of this decision will let more CRIMINALS pour into our Country, doing great harm to our cherished American public,” Trump continued. “It will also encourage other criminals to illegally enter our Country, wreaking havoc and bedlam wherever they go. The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do.”

Once again, the Supreme Court has made a mockery of our constitutional republic. It has intervened in a matter beyond its jurisdiction. But Trump is listening to his lawyers and deferring to the courts.

The only “dictatorship” we should fear is of a judicial variety. Judges are not given the power to conduct foreign policy.

Speaking of foreign terrorists on American soil, consider the news release from the Department of Justice about a “Michigan Man” who was arrested and charged with “attempting to attack” an American military base on American soil on behalf of ISIS.

As Trump was touring the Middle East and making deals with the Arabs, a former member of the Michigan Army National Guard was arrested “after he attempted to carry out a plan to conduct a mass-shooting at a U.S. military base in Warren, Michigan, on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization.”

His name is Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said and is a 19-year-old U.S. citizen who made a pledge of loyalty to the new ISIS head, the “Chalifa” of ISIS (Abu Hafs Al-Hashimy Al-Qurayshi).

Trump says he defeated ISIS during his first term. But the terrorists keep popping up, even in America. Perhaps there is something in the Middle East that inspires them.

In fact, ISIS is still active in the Middle East and is a Sunni Muslim group, operating with the same Islamic ideology that motivates the Arab Gulf states as well as al-Qaeda.

On October 27, 2019, Trump had announced the death of ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saying, “He died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way.” Trump called al-Baghdadi “a sick and depraved man, and now he’s gone. Baghdadi was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way, as a coward, running and crying.”

Saudi Arabia claims it has been a leading partner in the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. But Wahhabism, the strict form of Islam originating in Saudi Araba, inspires ISIS.

As Trump was addressing the Saudi-US Investment Forum at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 13, that ISIS terrorist in Michigan was being arrested for planning “a mass-shooting at the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command (TACOM) facility at the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan.”

How many more like him are in America, either as citizens or illegal aliens?

Meanwhile, back in Saudi Arabia, Trump recognized a new terrorist regime in Syria and met with Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, described as “a former Jihadist” once hunted by the U.S. with a $10 million bounty on his head for his involvement with al-Qaeda.

Look at the wanted poster for this Jihadist and then compare it with his photo during the meeting with Trump. He trimmed his beard and put on a suit and tie.

Then look at the president’s visit to Qatar, and the extravagant state dinner the Arab oil sheiks held for him, attended by “some of his most glamorous aides and a slew of TV stars.” There is glamour in black gold.

The president is getting some very bad advice in foreign policy matters, just as he has been led astray regarding the Supreme Court’s veto power over his deportations.

You know there’s something wrong when the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) journal Foreign Affairs runs an article praising Trump’s dealings with the Arab states.

You also know there’s something wrong when Deep State mouthpiece and CFR member David Ignatius writes in the Washington Post that Trump’s Middle East diplomacy “has yielded some surprising gains.”

Remember it was Ignatius who used top-secret surveillance intercepts of communications to derail the nomination of Michael T. Flynn, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), as Trump’s national security advisor in his first term. Flynn had opposed the Obama policy, carried out by John Brennan’s CIA, of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic terrorists in the Middle East.

It now looks like the United States is back in the “dirty wars” business in the Middle East. Although the oil dollars and their investment in the U.S. look attractive in the headlines, nothing good can come from deeper U.S. involvement in this dangerous region of the world, where Sunni and Shiite Muslims battle for world domination and plan the destruction of Israel and America.

To make matters worse, Trump thinks he can make a deal with the Ayatollahs of Iran.

Qatar, the second leg of Trump’s trip, has a notorious history, having hosted the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and other terrorist groups in the region. It even harbored its spiritual leader, Yusuf al-Qaradhawi. Qatar also hosted and financed 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with other terrorists.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is currently in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay for acts of terrorism, lived and worked in Qatar but was allowed to leave for Pakistan as U.S. authorities were trying to apprehend him, according to the report of the 9/11 commission. He went to Pakistan and cut journalist Daniel Pearl’s head off. Pearl was kidnapped while investigating the al-Qaeda networks in the Middle East.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed proudly confessed to a U.S. military tribunal that he decapitated with “my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl.”

These are dictatorships in the Middle East Trump is dealing with.

American Senators who included Marco Rubio, now Trump’s Secretary of State, had introduced a resolution holding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), personally responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident who was dismembered after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

President Joe Biden had promised to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. Instead, he gave MBS immunity. Now he is Trump’s friend and his country, the source of most of the 9/11 terrorists, has benefitted from a massive sale of modern weapons.

“Underscoring our commitment to strengthening our defense and security partnership, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed the largest defense sales agreement in history — nearly $142 billion, providing Saudi Arabia with state-of-the-art warfighting equipment and services from over a dozen U.S. defense firms,” says the White House.

The White House added, “Our defense relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is stronger than ever under President Trump’s leadership, and the package signed today, the largest defense cooperation deal in U.S. history, is a clear demonstration of our commitment to strengthening our partnership.”

We have a “bully” president who obeys the orders of the Supreme Court and practices “the art of the deal” with those regimes whose ideology motivates the Islamic terrorists.

Meanwhile, his so-called “Big, Beautiful” bill in Congress is facing conservative opposition in the House and Senate because it fails to curb federal spending and reduce the debt. That has already led to a decline in America’s credit rating.

What is more, the highly respected analyst Gordon Chang says Trump’s dramatic reduction of tariffs on China represents a “win” for the communist giant. That win for China was engineered by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a former financial manager for the George Soros hedge fund.

Trump’s America First agenda is being smothered by Black Robes, Red Ink, and Red China. The “bully” must break out of his shell.

E-Mail Cliff Kincaid: kincaid@comcast.net