'IMPEACHABLE' - Obama Judge Issues Insane Ruling Against Trump
The Supreme Court made it clear. Lower courts cannot issue stays blocking Temporary Protected Status terminations. The ruling wasn’t subtle. It wasn’t ambiguous. It was the highest court in the land telling every district judge in America exactly where the boundary is.
Obama-appointed Judge Allison Burroughs looked at that ruling and issued a stay anyway — blocking the Trump administration from terminating TPS for Somali nationals despite what SCOTUS had just said.
GOP Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee has seen enough. On Monday he is filing articles of impeachment.
“SCOTUS made it very clear that lower courts cannot suspend TPS,” Ogles’ spokesman told Townhall. “Yet, an Obama-appointed judge is defying the Court and the Constitution in an attempt to subvert the will of the President. This judicial activist’s obstruction of the people’s will must be stopped.”
He’s right about the defiance. Whether impeachment succeeds is a different question — but the principle behind the move is one that an increasing number of Americans share, and with good reason.
The pattern of lower court obstruction of the Trump immigration agenda has reached a point that the word “unprecedented” no longer covers. District judges appointed by Democratic presidents have been issuing nationwide injunctions, stays, and blocks on executive immigration actions at a pace and scope that the founders could not have imagined when they created an independent judiciary. The purpose of judicial independence was to protect the rule of law from political interference — not to allow individual district judges to function as a one-person veto on the policies of an elected administration.
What Judge Burroughs did is not judicial independence. It is defiance of a direct ruling from the Supreme Court of the United States. The highest court in the land drew the line. She crossed it anyway. If that isn’t the kind of behavior that warrants Congress using its constitutional oversight tools, then those tools have no meaning.
The impeachment effort faces steep odds. Removing a federal judge requires a two-thirds Senate vote. Getting there requires building a case that goes beyond a single controversial ruling — courts have always had wide latitude on individual decisions, and “I disagree with this ruling” has historically not been sufficient grounds for removal.
But “defying an explicit Supreme Court ruling” is a considerably stronger basis than policy disagreement. And the House vote to impeach doesn’t require sixty senators. It requires a simple majority in a Republican-controlled chamber — and the message it sends to every Obama and Biden-appointed district judge currently contemplating a similar move is worth sending regardless of what happens in the Senate.
Ogles has been making waves in Congress for months on exactly these issues. Left-wing clean energy PACs have spent nearly $700,000 trying to defeat him. That’s a reliable indicator that he’s doing something right.
File the articles. Force the vote. Make every Democrat go on the record defending a judge who defied the Supreme Court. Meantime, the Trump administration has a ruling from the highest court in the land on this matter. They should ignore this Obama sycophant.
Navy Gives Update On Search For Sailor Lost When Helicopter Went Down
The U.S. Navy has provided a major update on its search for a missing crew member.
The crew member vanished after an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea.
The U.S. Navy has tragically announced that it has concluded a rescue effort that lasted more than 102 hours and scoured more than 14,000 square miles of open water.
The sailor was never discovered. Four other crew members were rescued from the water and survived.
The missing sailor, whose name is being withheld until relatives are notified, is the 14th American service member confirmed killed in the escalating war with Iran, the New York Post reported.
The helicopter was based on the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier.
It went down around 3:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, July 1, in waters within the area of responsibility of U.S. Central Command.
There is no evidence that hostile action was involved in the emergency landing, although the cause is still under investigation, military officials said.
The U.S. 5th Fleet issued a statement confirming the conclusion of the search. The language was spare and official.
“The efforts concluded following an extensive search by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility,” the statement said.
A second statement from the fleet command described the scope of the operation: “For more than 102 hours, an extensive and coordinated search and rescue effort spanning over 14,000 square miles was conducted.”
Equally remarkable is what the Navy didn’t say.
No cause has been given for the emergency landing. There is no explanation for the loss of one crew member and the recovery of the other four.
The sailor’s name is being withheld for now. This is the standard protocol for informing families of military casualties, but it leaves families and the public waiting for answers that could take weeks or months.
Fox News reported three of the four recovered crew members were in stable condition on the USS George H.W. Bush.
Three sailors were injured in the emergency landing itself.
The loss raised to 14 the official American toll of war dead in the fighting with Iran.
The number has slowly risen as U.S. forces operate across a volatile theater that stretches from the Arabian Sea through the Strait of Hormuz and into the broader Central Command footprint.
There have been harrowing episodes already in this conflict.
President Trump had previously promised to jail a leaker who disclosed a live rescue operation of a downed pilot in Iran, an act that highlighted the peril for American pilots and the security threat of unauthorized disclosures during active missions.
The campaign has seen flash points in the Arabian Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. naval forces have had multiple encounters with Iranian forces, including the sinking of Iranian boats in the Strait of Hormuz as the administration warned Tehran of rising consequences.
Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. still wants a diplomatic solution, while President Trump wants to make a deal with Iran.
But diplomacy hasn’t stopped the operational tempo or the casualties.
It is worth noting the scale of the rescue effort. More than 102 hours of searching non-stop. 14,000 square miles of ocean.
The Navy and Air Force both committed assets to the operation. That’s no token gesture. That is a military that does not abandon its people without exploring all reasonable options.
The MH-60S Sea Hawk is a workhorse of naval aviation, performing combat support, logistics, search and rescue, and special operations.
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It is not a delicate airplane.
Whatever forced the helicopter to make an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea before dawn will undergo a formal investigation.
