{"id":668,"date":"2024-07-17T14:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/hit-the-road-jack\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:17:23","slug":"hit-the-road-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/hit-the-road-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit the Road, Jack (Smith)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A&#0160;soup\u00e7on of sanity returns to the body politic. <a href=\"https:\/\/thespectator.com\/topic\/hit-road-jack-smith-special-counsel\/\">Roger Kimball<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cUpon careful study of the foundational challenges raised in the Motion,\u201d Cannon wrote in her ninety-three-page ruling,&#0160;\u201cthe Court is convinced that Special Counsel\u2019s Smith\u2019s prosecution of this action breaches two structural cornerstones of our constitutional scheme \u2014 the role of Congress in the appointment of constitutional officers, and the role of Congress in authorizing expenditures by law.\u201d&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Result? \u201cThe Superseding Indictment is DISMISSED because Special Counsel Smith\u2019s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.\u201d&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uSiHqxgE2d0\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hit the road, Jack<\/a>&#0160;(and don\u2019t you come back no more).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In another encouraging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/elon-musk-announces-x-spacex-headquarters-to-relocate-to-texas-from-california\/\">development<\/a>, Elon Musk delivered a stinging rebuke to that noisome knucklehead Newsom by ordering the transfer of X and SpaceX from San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively, to Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/elon-musk-has-said-he-is-committing-around-45-million-a-month-to-a-new-pro-trump-super-pac-dda53823\">According<\/a> to the WSJ, Musk plans to pony up $45 million per month to a pro-Trump Super Pac.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The tables are beginning to turn. <em>But no complacency!<\/em>&#0160; We know <em>a priori<\/em> that our political enemies will cheat their asses off as they did last time. It is important that we not only defeat them electorally but also demoralize them by crushing them in a landslide. All hands on deck!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Outstanding oratory last night at the RNC meeting #2 in Milwaukee. The best speeches in my view were by Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Marco Rubio, Nikki Haley, and Ben Carson, in that order. The ordinary citizens who came forward were also impressive with their tales of tragedy caused by the insanely destructive immigration policies of Biden, Harris, Mayorkas, and the Deep State reprobates who pull their strings.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&#0160;soup\u00e7on of sanity returns to the body politic. Roger Kimball: \u201cUpon careful study of the foundational challenges raised in the Motion,\u201d Cannon wrote in her ninety-three-page ruling,&#0160;\u201cthe Court is convinced that Special Counsel\u2019s Smith\u2019s prosecution of this action breaches two structural cornerstones of our constitutional scheme \u2014 the role of Congress in the appointment of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/hit-the-road-jack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hit the Road, Jack (Smith)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}