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Can The Courts Delete Democracy?

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

Our forefathers had the idea of creating a government of, by, and for the people. The crucial tool to make this possible was the vote: The people would have their way, within law, and through their elected representatives.

The idea was rooted in the ancient idea of democracy but with a republican twist—it would not be mob rule.

There would be checks and balances. There would be inviolable rights.

Everyone on the planet Earth at the time said that this would never work—you need a king or a dictator or some other hereditary or ecclesiastical leader. It worked anyway. One hundred years later, the United States—its economy, culture, and freedoms—became the envy of the world.

We’ve drifted far from those ideals, but in 2024, voters on a national level delivered a clear mandate to the incoming Trump administration. It would clean up the vote, control immigration, root out fraud and waste, rebuild the country after five tumultuous years, restore the middle class, and recommit the nation to freedom and the Constitution.

It’s a compelling idea, and majorities agreed.

In the past year, we’ve seen many examples of how appointed federal judges have intervened to try to stop the voters from having their way.

The Supreme Court has had to intervene several times to make a simple point: The president is head of the executive branch.

There is no such thing as a fourth branch of permanent administrators.

Somehow, some federal judges have not yet gotten the message.

In the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a preliminary injunction on March 16, blocking several crucial changes pushed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to federal vaccine policy.

He did so on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a pharma-supported organization that advocates for childhood gender transitions and maximum vaccinations.

The ruling targeted Kennedy’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) panel that recommends vaccine schedules. Murphy found that Kennedy likely violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act by firing all prior members (it was a deeply conflicted panel that rubber-stamped new shots) and appointing new ones. The new ACIP revised the childhood schedule.

The judge stayed the new ACIP appointments and halted votes and decisions by the reformed committee, including revisions to the childhood vaccine schedule. The schedule on the CDC site now is reversed by one year. This effectively pauses efforts to overhaul immunization guidance.

So much for democracy. So much for good science. So much for the mandate for change.

Separately, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai ruled from the bench on March 19, in the case State of Oregon et al. v. Kennedy et al. He sided with a coalition of 21 Democratic-led states (including Oregon, California, and New York) challenging a December 2025 declaration by Kennedy.

Kennedy had said that gender-transition medical treatments for minors—such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries—were “neither safe nor effective” for treating gender dysphoria, did not meet “professionally recognized standards of care,” and “superseded” state or national standards.

Kasubhai vacated the declaration, finding that Kennedy overstepped his authority. The ruling blocked threats to exclude providers from Medicare and Medicaid, protecting access in states where mutilation remains legal.

These rulings make the point. Federal district judges are using procedural and statutory grounds to halt executive-branch initiatives on contested health issues.

In both cases, the judges did not directly rule on the scientific merits of vaccines or gender-affirming care but emphasized acquiescence to the administrative state and not the voters.

Is this judicial overreach? Certainly. The framers of the Constitution did worry that the judiciary would have too much power and did their best to contain it. The Supreme Court is doing the same now. But this still has not stopped rogue judges from generating wild opinions and judgments that seem to have the force of law.

We can speculate that the Department of Justice will appeal whatever the final decisions turn out to be. But that’s a waiting game. Meanwhile, the judges get their way. It would otherwise be quite the step for the administration simply to ignore the courts, as much as we might fantasize that they would.

The rest of us are getting an education in how the real world of government operations really works. The administrative state and its industrial backers are happy to let us have the illusion of democratic power so long as it never impinges on their profits and powers. But the minute it does, the pieces start coming together to build blockades to reform.

Consider the larger picture.

The mandate that Trump had in 2024 was an experiment without precedent. Not since the administrative state was built 100 years ago has any president and his appointees sought dramatic and fundamental change to the conduct of government, of what it consists, and how it is managed.

We aren’t talking small policy changes here and there—we’re talking a serious root canal for the bureaucracy and all its works. That’s never been tried before. It amounts to a hostile takeover of Washington. Is it any wonder that we are seeing dramatic pushback using surreptitious means but sneakily brutal tactics? We might have anticipated as much.

The use of judicial power like this really does represent a last resort of survival for a system that the public despises and Trump swore to upend. It’s not surprising that the goal was not achieved in one year, but not even one term is going to be enough. This effort could take a decade, provided the public has the patience and economic functioning survives.

All legal technicalities aside, never forget the big picture. What the vast majority of Americans want is the original promise of America: a government of the people, a guarantee of rights, a government limited in size, a thriving middle class pursuing happiness, and freedom above all else.

That’s easily said. Getting there—restoring the Founders’ vision—is the challenge of this generation.

No, the district courts cannot delete democracy. Now we await the Supreme Court to make that crystal clear.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 03/26/2026 – 17:00

A Long Island, N.Y., woman could be in danger after she vanished prior to suddenly jumping out of a moving vehicle and running off last week, her loved ones said.  Brittany Kritis-Garip, 32, was last seen on surveillance footage in Oyster Bay around 8 p.m. Friday before she was reported missing, News 12 Long Island reported.Her husband, Fernando Garip, said she was in a panicked state, jumped out of a moving car, threw her phone into a bush and ran off. METAL DETECTOR SCANS FRONT YARD OF SAVANNAH GUTHRIE’S MISSING MOTHER AS SISTER TO GET CAR BACKThat was the last time her family saw her. Garip told Patch that volunteers have searched wooded areas, as well rural and suburban areas. Niko Kritis, told Patch that his sister was “vulnerable” and asked that residents check their properties for spaces where someone could seek shelter. “Those small, careful actions could be what brings Brittany home,” he said. “We believe Brittany may be trying to isolate or avoid contact, and it’s possible she could be sheltering in secluded or hidden areas.”K-9 HAILED A HERO FOR TRACKING MISSING BOY DURING SNOWSTORM IN NORTH CAROLINAHe also asked homeowners to check their security cameras.”We believe she was disoriented and frightened, and may think she is in danger,” search organizer Sarah Castor wrote on an online crowdfunding page. “She is not dangerous — she needs help.”Volunteers have searched a one-mile stretch shoreline near Oyster Bay Harbor after Kritis-Garip’s wallet was discovered on a road leading down to the water, Castor wrote on Facebook Wednesday.”Brittany is an incredible, kind person and any efforts are appreciated by all who knows her,” she wrote. The Nassau County Police Department has used its helicopter and drones several times since Friday as part of the ongoing search.Fox News Digital has reached out to Fernando Garip.Kritis-Garip is described as a White woman with brown hair and brown eyes, standing 5 feet 7 tall and weighing around 140 pounds.

An eduction watchdog is asking the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to investigate the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) over allegations that the district has allocated tens of millions of dollars for services that only Black students can use.Defending Education says that LAUSD launched the “Black Student Achievement Plan” (BSAP) in 2021 to “address the longstanding disparities in educational outcomes between Black students and their non-Black peers.” The district also mentioned that the program is meant to help achieve “racial equity” and that “[r]esources are allocated to different schools” according to “a race-based tiered system.”The group says that LAUSD has allocated $50 million for the program in the 2025-2026 school year, on top of another $125 million previously spent on BSAP.An example of the BSAP resource allocation in question is staffing support specifically dedicated to addressing the academic and social-emotional needs of Black students.MINNESOTA SCHOOL DISTRICTS USE TAXPAYER MONEY FOR RACE-BASED TEACHER INCENTIVES AND LAYOFF PROTECTIONSOn July 11, 2023, Defending Education filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights over the policy, saying that it violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.But that complaint was dismissed exactly a year later, after LAUSD represented that it had “substantially changed its criteria for resource allocation to a race-neutral standard and that BSAP’s resources would be available to all students regardless of race,” and the Office of Civil Rights agreed that any potential violation had been rectified.However, Defending Education alleges that only months after the complaint was dismissed, LAUSD Board of Education members said the program had not changed.JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUES PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER ALLEGEDLY DISCRIMINATORY POLICIESIn a board meeting on Oct. 22, 2024, activists who opposed LAUSD’s changes to BSAP caused a ruckus, chanting slogans in opposition to the board’s announcement.During those chants, according to Defending Education, board President Jackie Goldberg and LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho were caught on a hot mic agreeing that “nothing has changed.”ILLINOIS DISTRICT WHERE FACULTY CELEBRATED CHARLIE KIRK’S DEATH EXPOSED OVER RACIAL ‘SEGREGATION’ PLAN”Do they not know that nothing has changed?” Goldberg asked Carvalho in reference to the protesters.”Nothing has changed,” Carvalho agreed.”How do they not know that?” Goldberg replied.DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO PULL BACK RACE-BASED CRITERIA IN FEDERAL GRANTSArmed with this exchange, Defending Education has filed a new complaint.”It’s concerning when a board of education member and the superintendent both promise in a public meeting that nothing has changed in the context of a race-based program that the district knows is in violation of federal law. It’s an admission that they have knowingly lied to the federal government about what is actually going on in the district as it relates to race-based programming,” said Erika Sanzi, senior communications director for Defending Education.”It is also worth noting that LAUSD’s school board added $50 million more to the BSAP program in its 2025-26 budget, bringing the total for the program to $175 million,” she said. “Not sure what it’s going to take for public school districts to accept the fact that it is against the law to include and exclude students in programs on the basis of race—hopefully re-opening the civil rights investigation can help with that.”LAUSD did not return a request for comment.

The New York Mets season began Thursday night on quite a hilarious note — because why wouldn’t it for the Mets?After the Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2026 rosters were announced, Tony Award winner Chris Jackson, who played George Washington in “Hamilton,” was brought onto the field for the national anthem.Things got off without a hitch until he moved onto the fourth line of the “Star-Spangled Banner.”CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Jackson was supposed to sing “O’er the ramparts we watched,” but instead went in reverse and repeated, “What so proudly we hailed” before moving on to the rest of the anthem.The mishap started off as a bad omen for the Amazin’s, who choked away the best record in the major leagues on June 13 last year and missed the postseason, as they fell to a 2-0 hole with new ace Freddy Peralta on the mound before recording an out.BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PITCHER GOES IN DEPTH HOW ABS SYSTEM WILL IMPROVE OFFENSE, HOW ARMS HAVE TO ADJUSTHowever, they stepped up with a five-run first inning, with the help of shoddy Pirates defense, and stunningly knocked reigning Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes out of the game. It was the first time Skenes had failed to get out of the first inning in his career, having always thrown at least two frames in his previous 55 starts.Jackson also played “Benny” in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights.” He made his Broadway debut in 1997 in “The Lion King” as Simba. In an ironic twist, Jackson also played Derek Jeter in the former Broadway show, “Bronx Bombers,” that lasted less than a month.It’s a new look for the Mets after last year’s debacle. They moved on from Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil, and Brandon Nimmo and brought in Peralta, Bo Bichette, Marcus Semien, and Jorge Polanco. Top prospect Carson Benge also made his MLB debut on Thursday.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.

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Two criminals, a convicted gun trafficker and a fraudster, are citizens of the United States no longer after action by the Department of Justice, which charged that the two were not eligible for citizenship because they obtained their status through fraud.
“American citizenship is a sacred privilege,” explained Attorney General Pam Bondi. “Not a cheap status that can be obtained dishonestly.”
She said the actions to denaturalize the individuals “reflect this Department of Justice’s ongoing efforts to strip citizenship from people who conceal crimes or defraud the American people during the immigration process.”
The announcement from the DOJ said it also still is working to revoke the citizenship of a third person, who participated in marriage fraud.
A report at Fox News said the first individual was Valdimir Volgaev, from Ukraine.
He “concealed and misrepresented his involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle over a thousand firearms components out of the United States and ship them to foreign markets,” the report said.
Brett Shumate, assistant attorney general, explained, “This case sends a clear message. The United States provided Volgaev with safety, housing, and citizenship, and he returned those gains with malice, including by defrauding one of the federal agencies that provided him benefits. We will not reward this kind of behavior by allowing such an individual to retain U.S. citizenship that should not have been granted in the first place.”
Volgaev actually was convicted of “smuggling goods from the United States and theft of government money or property.”
The second person denaturalized was Mirelys Cabrera Diaz, a native of Cube, who pursued and obtained citizenship even though she was disqualified “because she committed unlawful acts – namely a health care fraud conspiracy.”
She was convicted in 2019 in Florida of “conspiring to commit health care fraud, pleading guilty and being sentenced to 29 months behind bars. She was ordered to pay $6 million restitution.
“She specifically admitted that, between August 2011 and March 2014, she and her co-conspirators paid kickbacks to patient recruiters for referring fraudulent prescriptions to the pharmacy where she worked. She admitted to maintaining a log of how much money was owed to each recruiter for fraudulent prescriptions,” the report said.
The denaturalization of the third person, Alec Nasreddine Kassir of Lebanon, still is in the works.
“Kassir falsely represented that he had been living with a U.S. citizen spouse, during the three years immediately preceding the filing of his naturalization application in March 2010,” the government has charged.
He admitted “passport fraud,” the government said.
 

Ukraine Government Schemed To Funnel War Aid To Biden Campaign

According to a newly declassified intelligence report, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted communications from Ukrainian government officials back in 2022 discussing a scheme to siphon off hundreds of millions in American taxpayer dollars. The funds, earmarked for clean energy projects in the war-torn country, were allegedly redirected to the United States to benefit Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee. 

The report, obtained by Just the News, summarizes raw intercepts gathered by U.S. spy agencies in late 2022. Officials familiar with the material say the communications are not believed to be tied to Russian disinformation efforts.

The declassified summary is very specific. 

“The Ukrainian Government and unspecified U.S. Government personnel, through USAID in Kyiv, reportedly developed a plan that would provide hundreds of millions of US taxpayer dollars to fund an infrastructure project for Ukraine that would be used as a cover to send approximately 90% of funds allocated to the DNC to fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign,” the document states. 

The mechanics described are textbook money-laundering architecture. “The plan included details of how subcontractors would be funded through U.S. companies so that how the funds were spent and allocated would be difficult to track,” the report explains. Two American subcontractors were named in the raw intercepts as conduits for funneling money toward Democratic coffers, though their identities remain redacted in the declassified version.

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Ukraine became by far the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid after Russia’s invasion in February 2022 — the first time a European nation held that distinction since the Marshall Plan. As of December 31, 2025, Congress had made available $188 billion in Ukraine-related spending, with $164 billion flowing from just five pieces of legislation. The last of those bills passed in April 2024 — while Biden was actively campaigning for a second term. 

What makes the alleged scheme particularly audacious is the built-in exit strategy. “They were confident the project would be funded initially, even though at some time in the future the project would be disapproved as unnecessary. At this time, the money would already be allocated and impossible to return or use for a different purpose,” the report added. In other words, the design assumed the fraud would eventually be discovered – and didn’t care. By then, the money would be gone and untraceable.

The cover-to-transfer pipeline was engineered for maximum opacity. “Additionally, contracts would be executed that would be difficult to verify. In this manner, most of the U.S. funding would be diverted to Joe Biden’s election campaign without the ability to track where exactly the funds came from,” the report read.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently learned of the intercepts and directed USAID officials to search agency records for evidence that the plot was actually carried out and to evaluate whether a criminal referral to the FBI is warranted. Perhaps the most disturbing find so far is that there is no substantive evidence that anyone during the Biden years made a serious effort to investigate what U.S. intelligence had intercepted. Officials reviewing the files noted a lack of investigative curiosity about allegations of foreign election interference.

Since President Trump took office, no new legislation authorizing additional spending for Ukraine has passed Congress. But now we need to find out how much of the funds for Ukraine were diverted to Biden’s campaign or the DNC, and whether the lack of an investigation reflects willful negligence, deliberate burial, or a conspiracy. 

Tyler Durden
Thu, 03/26/2026 – 16:40