by AFP AFP | @ | March 21, 2025 8:05 am

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Donald Trump has been back in power for just two months, and the past week produced another stream of extraordinary news stories ranging from a constitutional clash to interior decorating at the White House.

– Supreme Court v. Trump –

After Trump called for a judge’s impeachment over a migration ruling, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts delivered a rare public rebuke of the sitting president.

Breaking precedent as ever, Trump smacked back, saying “radical and highly partisan judges” were standing in the way of his agenda.

“If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!” he posted.

– Blinging up the Oval Office –

Trump unveiled the Declaration of Independence, now hanging in the Oval Office behind light-protecting curtains (though it appears to be a copy).

He has also decked out the inner sanctum of the US presidency in his signature style with gilded trophies and gold-plated, Trump-branded coasters.

Trump pointed out gold cherubs newly installed above the doorways. “They say angels bring good luck,” he said while giving Fox News a tour.

All of this is good doctrine. It is the best kind of civil government gospel. It is the enunciating of principles which are immortal, and which will stand as long as time itself. And it can never be remembered too often, that it was in defense of these principles  so ably told by Abraham Lincoln that tens of thousands shed their blood upon the field of battle in the Civil war. This was clearly seen and recognized by the leaders at that time. The blare of battle and reek of carnage seem to last longer in the minds of most men than the principles over which the battles were fought. Nevertheless it is the principles which should interest all, for they are of vital importance to all. PRUS 24.5

– Canada’s new head of state? –

Britain’s King Charles could lose one of his roles and be replaced by Trump if the United States annexes Canada as the president intends.

The king, who is Canada’s head of state, met the country’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney for talks at Buckingham Palace.

A thinly sourced report in the British tabloids suggests the king could offer bringing the US into the British Commonwealth, which he oversees. Trump posted on social media: “I love King Charles. Sounds good to me!”

So I say in relation to the principle that all men are created equal, let it be as nearly reached as we can. If we can not give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature. Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it.”
We must transport ourselves, in mind and spirit, if not in body, back to those days of strife in order that we may imbibe even a little of the spirit which animated them.  PRUS 27.2 – PRUS 28.1

– Final JKF papers released –

The National Archives released the final batch of files related to the 1963 assassination of president John F. Kennedy — a case that fuels still conspiracy theories.

The move follows Trump’s executive order for the unredacted release of papers held back at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Experts are sifting through tens of thousands of documents, but, so far, no bombshell revelations.

– Autopen attack –

Without much legal basis, Trump sought to drum up outrage over Joe Biden’s supposed use of autopen to sign presidential pardons and other documents.

Auto-signatures have been used by previous presidents, and there is no evidence Biden even used the technology, but Trump hammered home his theory that a senile Biden was not in charge as president.

“Did he know what he was doing?” Trump asked. “Or is there somebody in an office, maybe a radical left lunatic, just signing whatever that person wants?”

It is a true principle of history that a free people can not long govern subject provinces and still retain their own freedom. Exceptions can not be made to principles without the exceptions destroying the principle itself. If a principle of government is violated to day in one portion of a nation’s domain, it will not be long until that violation, like a deadly leprosy, will have eaten its way to every acre of territory in the national domain. PRUS 29.4

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