1. Forget your March Madness office pool (your brackets have been busted already anyway), the biggest competition in America is to become the March Hare April Hare and win the bidding to become the Official Easter Bunny of The Trump 2.0 Administration White House Easter Eggroll. (A White House egg roll has nothing to do with Chinese food, which Trump eschews in favor of good old American Hamburgers. Chinese restaurants are almost as bad as DEI in the view of President Musk Trump.)

    "The financial backers of the April 21 event would be able to choose from three options that cost between $75,000 and $200,000, according to a nine-page guide for potential sponsors that was reviewed by The New York Times.

    The most expensive package includes a corporate booth, logo placements, branded snacks or beverages, exclusive tickets to brunch with the first lady, Melania Trump, a chance to engage with the White House Press Corps, a private White House tour and 150 tickets to the event. the New York Times reports.

    Several rabbits are competing for the big photo op of appearing with President Trump on the White House balcony as the official Easter Bunny.


    Trump and Easter Bunny Candidate
    (Trump is on the left)


    The White House is creating brackets for the fight to appear on the balcony with Trump and wave to the crowds in the style of Evita or Mussolini. The winner will be the highest bidder in each bracket, who then gets to face off with the winner in other brackets for the ultimate prize.

    The Trix Bunny will faceoff against the Energizer bunny in the first round. The winner takes on the victor in the Cadbury Bunny vs. Nesquik Bunny side of the bracket.

    The winner of those contests will face the victor of the Bugs Bunny vs. Playboy Bunny match that starts with a buy bye. The President is believed to have a favorite to appear arm in arm with him on Easter Sunday. 

    Then the winner will bend over to hunt some chocolate eggs on the lawn, where she will put all of her eggs in one basket, eat one chocolate egg, and perhaps freeze some of her eggs for use later on ding the kind of things rabbits are known for.
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  2. Pres. Donald J. Trump says he never signed that order that he signed.  A very real looking signature with his up and down lines that bear a resemblance to the stock market graph or your EKG under the Trump/Musk Administration shenanigans this month that appears on the document below must be Trump d' Oy!


    "Trump’s signature appears on the digital image of the proclamation available for viewing with the Federal Register, the government repository of official documents. And White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said late Friday that Trump did personally sign the proclamation" the Washington Post reports.* Was the statement an unplayable lie?

    It is ironic, Trumpian in style, that he recently alleged that pardons signed by Pres. Biden were void because they were signed by autopen (when it was not clear that they were or that it matters). It is astonishing how many times Trump has accused others of things that he has done.

    Did Marco (Little Marco") Rubio of the Organized Trump Cabinet Family engage in the crime of forgery, or has Musk designated Marco an autopen? [For extra credit: When will the Department of State be eliminated and Homeland Security take over its functions?] Is there some Musk acolyte named Otto Penn?

    Did Elon Musk sign the order, since he appears to be an assistant president in charge of running the country while Trump just runs his mouth?

    Maybe Melania signed it, as she may have a lot of practice signing The Donald's checks when she needs to pick up some couture?

    The Lincoln bedroom is said to be haunted by Abraham Lincoln -- so maybe he signed the order even though his term has expired and he is functus officio when it comes to signing orders. Or maybe not, since he never finished serving out his second term!

    Was his spokeswesel correct that Trump meant he didn't sign the law that dates back to the John Adams administration?

    It looks like a job for the FBI, which should try to solve the mystery when they are done investigating Trump's real and imagined enemies.

    Who has it in for Venezuelans to want them deported? A rival gang in the States or Venezuela? It is unlikely that Trump signed the order because he likes South American immigrants--the Washington Post reported he employs them at his Bedminster Golf Course where he was this week, and may have been when the order was signed. He was in New Jersey to visit the first tee where his first wife is buried (and maybe get in a round or two of golf.) FACTOID: The Bedminster Club advertises that it is a championship level golf course with thirty-six holes (Thirty-seven if you count the one Ivana is buried in).
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    *The Washington Post says that democracy dies in darkness.  It's beginning to look like the crepusculum.
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  3.  For those of you who have tried to ignore what goes on when Trump tries to antagonize liberals over silly things in hopes you will ignore the big things or be too tired out to do anything about them, here is a reminder from my outlook on the news and our county, not your Outlook: This is your circus, and he is your monkey.

    Misinformation pours out of Washington like a river and bullshit like a mighty stream. We no longer have facts that are true, instead we get Trump d' Oy! As you know, just to piss off everyone but the MAGAots, Trump likes to rename things and remove references to American heroes like the Code Talkers,  Black Medal of Honor recipient Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers, and Jackie Robinson.* After a threat from the law firm of Hugh & Crie the Pentagon restored the reference to Jackie Robinson.

    But will that be enough? Will they retroactively rename the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima "The Enola Straight"?

    Trump's war on DEI has consisted of attacking colleges that have a policy to honor and include minorities, and he can sic the Department of Just Us and Pam Bondi on them for discrimination in promoting or celebrating minorities over whites.  Will he threaten major league baseball? They have a Jackie Robinson Day to celebrate the integration of baseball, but they don't have a Ty Cobb Day to celebrate the whites who opposed it!

    On Jackie Robinson Day all the players have to wear the number 42 whether that is their good luck uniform number or not. Co-Pilot AI says: "Yes, it is mandatory. On Jackie Robinson Day, all players, coaches, and managers in Major League Baseball are required to wear number 42. This uniformity emphasizes the collective respect and admiration for Jackie Robinson's groundbreaking contributions to baseball and civil rights. It’s a unique and powerful way to honor his legacy!"

    It makes telling the players apart very difficult. The scorecard salesmen who sell the scorecards with the players' numbers have a really unprofitable day. They can't go around calling out "You can't tell the players without a scorecard" although it was never clear what it was that you couldn't tell them. You can't tell they players on Robinson Day even with a scorecard.

    And even more aggravating and annoying to the Non Consecutive Donald Trump who is President 45 and 47, the number the players all have to wear is 42-- and that number is associated with  Bill Clinton was the 42nd president.

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    * Trump blamed it on AI, without explaining why it was necessary to remove names in the first place. Musk will order some subordinate to find someone with the initials "A I" and fire him. 

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  4.  During his confirmation hearing Chief Justice John Roberts famously/infamously  compared justices of the Supreme Court to baseball umpires.* “Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules, but it is a limited role." For example, deciding the correctness of the opinion of the court below is like calling a line drive fair or foul. The court calls the opinion below fair or foul of the law. The court he sits on has been accused of abandoning neutrality, precedent and that model in favor of policy. After all, when it comes to fair or foul, Umpire Bill Klem is renown for saying “It ain’t nothing until I call it.” **

    Now baseball is considering (at the very least in spring training) having computers call balls and strikes instead of fallible umpires (i.e., Cowboy Joe West). Should we let Large Language Model AI call the cases on the Supreme Court, too, since lower court decisions are "fair or foul" based upon applicable precedents? Chief Justice Roberts thinks not. He said  “I predict that human judges will be around for a while.” 

    A study conducted with Federal Judges and AI in 2015 concludes with a definite "maybe." The forty page paper is found here.
    "The creators of the experiment and authors of the paper wrote: " The experiment involves a simulated appeal in an international war crimes case, with two altered variables: the degree to which the defendant is sympathetically portrayed and the consistency of the lower court’s decision with precedent. We find that GPT-4o is strongly affected by precedent but not by sympathy, similar to students who were subjects in the same experiment but the opposite of the professional judges, who were influenced by sympathy. We try prompt engineering techniques to spur the LLM to act more like human judges, but with little success. “Judge AI” is a formalist judge, not a human judge."
    Do we want formalism from machines, or the humans sitting on the court today? For example, take Clarence Thomas -- please! The study concludes:
    "Suppose that as LLMs [that is large language models ..not persons with a masters degree in law] improve, and prompt-engineering techniques become more sophisticated, we can design AIs that fully replicate a corpus of decisions by human judges. Then questions will arise whether the AI will replicate human judges in future edge or outlier cases not represented in the corpus; whether we humans should try to design AIs that produce better or more consistent outcomes than human judges; and whether we can trust AIs to explain their decisions correctly. It may be impossible to answer these questions because of the deep unintelligibility of LLMs. No one understands how they make decisions, and some people speculate that their decisions are literally unintelligible for humans. If the goal is to produce AI judges that operate like human judges, success would be achieved only if the AI judges decide cases in a realist way while using formalist reasoning— meaning that they do not explain how they actually decide the cases. It is hard to imagine such AI judges being acceptable in a democracy or any well-ordered political system."

    The authors mean that if we cannot understand how/why AI works (and presently we cannot), then the LLMs will be unable to explain how they came to decide a case the way they did in a manner that is understandable by humans. That is often hard enough for most people when it comes to understanding how human judges reached their decisions.

    And if AI hallucinates its own non-existent precedents it will be even less intelligible.

    If you let LLM computers decide cases you would never have outmoded precedents overturned. We would still be living with Plessy v Ferguson, Dredd Scott, and Chevron deference, but also Roe v. Wade would have survived. 

    Do we want judges who can be swayed by human emotions? [SPOILER ALERT: Yes, if the alternative is swayed by gifts and trips from "friends."] After all, AI is blind to the entire atmosphere in the real world in which it operates, or to the emotional or political repercussions of its decisions. If you tell it to prioritize national security would it minimize individual freedoms, or if you reversed the priorities would it reach contrary results? How does it determine what is necessary for national security if there are unknown variables, i.e., the unknown unknowns" ?

    In a dissent in Guiseppi v Walling 144 F. 2d 608 at 624 Learned Hand explained: 
    " There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally; in every interpretation we must pass between Scylla and Charybdis; and I certainly do not wish to add to the barrels of ink that have been spent in logging the route. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final."
    In Cabell v Markham he wrote at 148 F 2d 39:
     " Of course it is true that the words used, even in their literal sense, are the primary, and ordinarily the most reliable, source of interpreting the meaning of any writing: be it a statute, a contract, or anything else. But it is one of the surest indexes of a mature and developed jurisprudence not to make a fortress out of the dictionary; but to remember that statutes always have some purpose or object to accomplish, whose sympathetic and imaginative discovery is the surest guide to their meaning."
    Roscoe Pound wrote in Interpretations of Legal History "Law must be stable, but it cannot stand still."

    Oliver Wendell Holmes opined in The Common Law: "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed

    Legal giants were lining up against AI even before there was AI -- and they didn't even know it!
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    * It is unlikely he meant they both wear black and are frequently wrong, and that usually there's nothing you can do about it.

    **The system monitoring the strike zone and calling the lines in tennis is called "Hawk-eye." A system calling fair or foul balls by computer should, by all rights, be called "Klem-In-Time," aimirite?
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  5. During David Frost's series of interviews with Richard Nixon, Nixon (in)famously said
    when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal, by definition.     Mr. Trump has not been shy about claiming that power. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” he wrote on social media last month.

    Trump has taken that as a given but has gone one step further. He operates under the belief that if the president says it then it's true. "That's the fact, Jack."



    Trump and his administration's spokesweasels said falsely that the third plane carrying deportees who were alleged without proof to be gang members left before a court order prohibited it, whereas data shows it left ten minutes after.

    ICE implied in a sworn declaration that most of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with any crime at any time whatsoever, not even a parking ticket. One was deported on the basis that a tattoo he got to honor his daughter showed gang allegiance. 

    Trump explained that anyone but a Federal judge knows that plane do not have a reverse gear, so it was impossible to comply with the judge's order for the planes to return. "They have to go forward. No one has ever been in a plane that flew backward--so the planes had to keep going. I know. I have a big beautiful plane of my own so I am an expert on aeronautics" Trump explained.

    "Moreover the judge had no jurisdiction over the planes once they were over the Gulf of America which are International waters when we want them to be, so only an international court in the Hague had jurisdiction over them--except we do not acknowledge that court's jurisdiction, either."

    Trump insisted that he could declare anyone with a tattoo to be a terrorist or enemy of the people, and deport them without a hearing or due process because the President can do that during times of war which he gets to declare against people with ambiguous tattoos.

    Trump is considering naming D.C District Chief Judge James Boasberg, who issued the order, a terrorist and deport him without a hearing under the Alien and Sedition Act passed during John Adams' Administration that gives him the power to deport his critics as enemies of the people. "The Supreme Court said that anything I do in the name of national security the courts have no jurisdiction to review. It is important for the courts to reaffirm that doctrine before I declare that national security requires that I serve a third term."

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  6.  The Kennedy Center has been taken over by Donald Trump in a somewhat hostile take over, and the bi-partisan nature of its board is now headed by the would be Impresario Donald ("I Wanna Be a Producer") Trump, and big supporters of Donald Trump will now sit on the Buy Partisan Board.

    In a visit on Monday he remarked that the place was in some state of disrepair, perhaps analogizing it it a rent controlled New York apartment building. Republicans in Congress have been loathe to provide funds for anything named after JFK or involving the arts, so they share the blame for its current state. Trump noted that the outside columns need some embellishment, as he is not a fan of minimalist Bauhaus style, and is more of a "paint it gold" Trumphaus enthusiast. In a tumbling stock market, buying gold paint futures seems like a good investment.

    Trump has expressed the idea of giving a Kennedy Center award to Elvis Presley, who will unfortunately be unable to refuse attend due to a prior commitment.  Other Vegas lounge acts may follow if they are classy enough.

    Trump recently said he never liked "Hamilton" very much, not explaining whether he meant the hit Broadway show, Sec. of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, or actor George Hamilton.

    Anticipating that Donald and Melania will actually attend some of the productions in the Presidential Box, a few Democrats on line have been suggesting the Center host a revival of "Our American Cousin."

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  7.  Donald Trump, who is a felon and the President of the United States (although he identifies as a Fuhrer) has posted his legal opinion on line (today he identifies as an attorney because of the more than 4,000 lawsuits he had been involved in) has posted that pardons issued by President Joseph Biden are illegal because they were signed with the wrong kind of pen!

    You can't make this stuff up. I can, but I didn't -- on account of it's real .



    Donald Trump makes satire neigh on to impossible because whatever outrageous scenario a satirist posts becomes fact about a week later. Despite an opinion by the former Justice now Just Us Department that the President can direct his signature be applied to documents and doesn't have to touch pen to paper to accomplish the fact of approval Trump eclared them void. 

    The Office of Legal Counsel under George W. Bush wrote a 30-page opinion on the subject back in 2005. 

    "The President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law. Rather, the President may sign a bill within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to such a bill, for example by autopen."

     Jurist-without-prudence the Questionably Honorable (!) Donald Trump opines otherwise because it suits he lust for vengeance (the only test that applies to any action in the end of times Trump 2.0 times.)

    Of course a person can "sign" a document by many means, including authorizing an agent to do so for him.* but Trump disagrees with the law and may only acknowledge the judicial opinions with which he agrees. Perhaps he will get an opinion from some Clarence Thomaslike originalist that pardons must be signed by crow quill pen as they had been at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Ballpoint pen and felt tip pens were not in the contemplation of the Constitutional Convention and hence unconstitutional.

    Historical precedent would require at least a fountain pen with liquid ink like when America was great some time before the twentieth century according to Trump. Harry Truman signed documents with an auto pen-- the kind of pen that Trump says does not result in a legal signature. Co-Pilot reports:

    "Abraham Lincoln did occasionally direct his secretaries to sign his name on documents. This was a practical necessity, as the volume of correspondence and official documents during his presidency was immense. His secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay, were authorized to sign routine documents on his behalf, but Lincoln personally signed important or sensitive documents, such as proclamations and executive orders.

    This delegation of signing authority was not uncommon for presidents, especially during times of high demand, like the Civil War. It allowed Lincoln to focus on critical matters while ensuring that the administrative functions of his office continued smoothly."

    It is interesting that Trump has declared the pardons of no force and effect on line and apparently not in a document bearing his signature!

    Trump claims that Biden did not know about the pardons or approve them despite the fact that Biden issued a statement concluding "IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto signed my name and caused the Pardon to be recorded with the Department of Justice. Done at the City of Washington this 1st day of December in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-four and of the Independence of the United States the Two Hundred and Forty ninth."

    Statement from President Joe Biden | The White House.

    I hereby declare Trump's pardons in his two terms of folks as "deserving" as Joe Arpaio and the January 6th mob to be null and void because the signatures on them are illegible and indistinguishable from a bunch of aggressive up and down scribbles.

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    * Under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), a signature is not strictly limited to a traditional handwritten name. Instead, it is broadly defined and can take various forms, provided that it indicates an intention to authenticate a record or document. A signature under the UCC can include:

    Handwritten signatures, Printed or typewritten names, Initials, Thumbprints or other physical marks, Electronic signatures, such as typing a name or using a digital signature tool

    The key element is the intent to authenticate or adopt the writing as one's own.
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    Purim was last Friday and Saturday and today is St. Patrick's Day. They have a lot in common when it comes to downing spirits as this re=post from 2008 explains.

    Why is St. Patrick's Day a day to drink (perhaps to excess (Is that a good toast? "To excess?"))

    One website, about.com, explains it as follows:

    "The custom of imbibing alcohol on St. Patrick's Day comes from an old Irish legend. As the story goes, St. Patrick was served a measure of whiskey that was considerably less than full. St. Patrick took this as an opportunity to teach a lesson of generosity to the innkeeper. He told the innkeeper that in his cellar resided a monstrous devil who fed on the dishonesty of the innkeeper. In order to banish the devil, the man must change his ways. When St. Patrick returned to the hostelry some time later, he found the owner generously filling the patrons' glasses to overflowing. He returned to the cellar with the innkeeper and found the devil emaciated from the landlord's generosity, and promptly banished the demon, proclaiming thereafter everyone should have a drop of the "hard stuff" on his feast day. This custom is known as Pota Phadraig or Patrick's Pot. The custom is known as "drowning the shamrock" because it is customary to float a leaf of the plant in the whiskey before downing the shot."

    Purim, too, is a holiday where celebrants are supposed to drink to excess to celebrate it. According to the Talmud, a person is required to drink until he cannot tell the difference between “cursed be Haman” and “blessed be Mordecai,” though opinions differ as to exactly how drunk that is. i.e., how drunk is too drunk? The Commentators did not say in terms of a blood alcohol limit measurable by breathalyzers exactly how much liquor for shikkurs is too much.

    Here is one story (with further explanation there):

    Rabbah and R. Zeira got together for Purim Seudah (the feast on the afternoon of Purim). They got very drunk, and Rabbah got up and cut R. Zeira's throat (literally, Rabbah butchered him). The next day, Rabbah prayed on R. Zeira's behalf and brought him back to life. A year later, Rabbah asked, "Would you like to have Purim Seudah with me again this year?" R. Zeira replied, "One cannot count on a miracle every time." (Megillah 7b)

    The connection between Ireland and Persia (where the Purim story takes place) may run through Greece. Both holidays occur around the beginning of spring and the vernal equinox. They may both be akin to the Greek Dionysia, a festival around March-April to celebrate the new wine by reveling, dressing up in costume (as people do on Saint Paddy's Day and Purim) and generally acting vulgar. The Persian holiday of Farvardigan festival may have been the original Purim. Xenophon, praising the moderation of the Persians at the time of their first institution under Cyrus, says of the Persians of his own time that " Beginning their meal very early they continue eating and drinking till the latest sitters-up go to bed. It was likewise an institution among them not to bring large bottles to their banquets; evidently thinking that, by not drinking to excess, they should neither weaken their bodies nor impair their understanding. And that custom, too, continues of not bringing such bottles; but they drink to such excess, that instead of bringing in they are carried out themselves, not being able to walk without help." (Cyrop. VIII. 8.)

    So last weekend you can drink green beer at Purim until you turn green and keep drinking on Monday, or perhaps make kosher corned beef and cabbage (on rye--anything else is a sacrilege), or even make green hamentashen.

    Here's a St. Patrick's Day Toast:

    Saint Patrick was a gentleman,
    Who through strategy and stealth,
    Drove all the snakes from Ireland,
    Here’s a toasting to his health.
    But not too many toastings
    Lest you lose yourself and then
    Forget the good Saint Patrick
    And see all those snakes again.
    'Beannachtam na Feile Padraig!'
    Happy St. Patrick's Day!
     
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  9. "Pope Francis entered the fifth week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia Saturday very much looking ahead as he worked on a signature priority of his papacy and signs of his recovery remained on a positive trajectory." it says here.

    The Pope's doctors are hesitant to show him the size of his bill for the five week stay, fearing a set-back or a sudden shock to his heart. It is said to be an Elon Musk size total and to greatly exceed his Vatican health insurance's lifetime total benefit coverage.

    In Other news...

    In a speech to the Trump Administration's Department of Just Us (as he and Elon Musk have renamed it) President and Lawgiver Donald Trump excoriated MSNBC and CNN for reporting the news and (ironically for Donald Trump) paying too much attention to what he says and does; remarking that they ought to be in jail. Under the extraordinary and all encompassing powers granted to the Secretary of State and member of the Trump Organized Cabinet Family Marco ("Little Marco") Rubio citing Section 237(a)(4)(C)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which denotes individuals whose presence poses serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States as deportable may deport them.

    This is an ironic use and consequence of the "media corporations are people" decision of the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case suggested by a new hire in Pam Bondi's office, who wrote a memo authorizing the expulsion of "corporate people" who never requested green cards to reside in the United States. CNN is officially CNN International, and operates worldwide. MSNBC operates in Africa, Australia, Turkey and other countries.

    Prominent Democrats denounced the decision as an abuse of power, and half of them requested the Attorney General deport Chuck Schumer instead.
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  10.  Previously we posted that Trump announced that plans are underway to replace the poem written by "that little Jewish girl" on the base of Lady Liberty with:

    "Give me your retired, your rich

    Your coddled classes yearning to vote GOP

    The wealthy Jet set from your upscale shores,

    Send these the emigrating millionaires to me 

    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

    Now that position to just replace the policy statement seeking poor with one seeking rich immigrants that is no longer valid with a new poem by the Trump Administration has been reversed in favor of deporting the statue! Who would have guessed an announced policy would change so quickly? {SPOLER ALERT: Zelensky!}

    Like Ole Pharaoh, another absolute ruler he admires, Trump's heart has hardened! (Exodus 7:3-4.)

    The policy to crack down on foreigners legally in this country is exemplified by the fate of Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate and permanent legal resident who was arrested and taken to a Louisiana detention center. Mr. Khalil, who has Palestinian heritage, was a leader of demonstrations on Columbia University’s campus last year against Israel’s war in Gaza. Mr. Khalil has not been accused of any crime and his swift arrest and transfer have raised alarms about free speech protections as President Trump promises to crack down on protests at colleges. ICE has said that the First Amendment has it's limits, and that Khalil is "associated" somehow with terrorists.

    "The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that he had been arrested in connection with activities he led that were “aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” The statement was reposted by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio. "Secretary of State Marco Rubio invoked a vague and rarely-used provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act that says the government may deport people if there are “reasonable grounds” to believe their presence in the country “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” The White House has stated that it seeks to revoke Mr. Khalil’s green card because he organized group protests, distributed flyers, and served as the lead negotiator of the Gaza solidarity encampments at Columbia. He has not been charged with or accused of any crime, as the Trump administration has freely admitted" the ACLU says.

    The Statue of Liberty came to this country, albeit legally, (unlike say, Elon Musk, whose initial entry was not in compliance with his visa limitations) and has resided in New York harbor. She does not have a green card, and like a certain witch in "Wicked," has an overall foreign green complexion. As Kermit The Frog says in a song inexplicably not in the movie "Wicked" "It's not easy being green."

    While the Statue of Liberty did not say or do anything that is illegal per se, she had been cited as inspiration for many opponents of Trump immigration policies and has inspired sanctuary cities. Rubio says she stands firmly on Liberty Island in New York City, and that the island is "reasonable ground."

    The Trump administration has vehemently opposed other countries "tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of teeming shores, the homeless" from entering this country, while offering gold cards to millionaires. Only rich wretched refuse need apply for green cards.

    For expressing a policy that is the opposite of what America now espouses while being of foreign origin and complexion, and inspiring all sorts of radials here and abroad to commit acts of terrorism (as Trump defines "terrorism") The statue must go back to France, ICE says.

    A spokesemu (a non-native species Homeland Security has its eyes on) for Liberty Mutual Insurance, a company that often features the Statue in the background of its commercials, expressed dismay and noted that its feeling "about Lady Liberty and Trump's is not mutual." ICE replied "You're just a flightless bird!"

    It is unclear when the Statue will be ICEd. 

    UPDATE: It's hard to write satire in the Era of Trump 2.0 because days after you write something absurd it happens. I wrote this post on the 14th and posted it on the fifteenth. then on the sixteenth this occurred:

    "A French Parliament member is demanding the US return the Statue of Liberty, claiming America has lost its way and no longer stands for what the iconic sculpture represents.


    “We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty,’ ” the left-leaning French dip, Raphaël Glucksmann, said during a recent convention of his political party, Place Publique, according to the French newspaper Le Monde."
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