Daily Verse | Ezra 3:12
But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy.
Wednesday’s Reading: Ezra 4-6
Wednesday and I’ve mentioned this before, but one of my go-to news sources is The Epoch Times. They describe themselves as “founded in the United States in the year 2000 in response to communist repression and censorship in China. Our founders, Chinese-Americans who themselves had fled communism, sought to create an independent media to bring the world uncensored and truthful information.”
And while they still have a focus on China, they also cover news across the U.S. in a professional and objective approach. I have a paid subscription and highly recommend them.
Also, I was not paid for that endorsement.
Virginia’s attorney general is calling on prosecutors to enforce a law that bars disruptions outside people’s homes after about 100 hundred protesters descended on the residence of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.
At issue is Virginia code that forbids gathering outside a person’s house “in a manner which disrupts or threatens to disrupt any individual’s right to tranquility in his home.”
The law “states that protesting in front of an individual’s private residence is a class 3 misdemeanor,” Victoria LaCivita, a spokeswoman for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, told The Epoch Times in an email.
“Under Virginia law, local commonwealth’s attorneys are responsible for prosecuting violations of this statute. Attorney General Miyares urges every commonwealth’s attorney to put their personal politics aside and enforce the law,” she added.
The call comes after a noisy protest outside Alito’s home in Alexandria on May 9. Protesters shouted through loudspeakers and chanted “[expletive] Alito.”
You may remember that in 2021, Virginia businessman and political novice Glenn Youngkin beat former Governor Terry McAuliffe (D-Woke) in the gubernatorial election and Republican Jason Miyares beat incumbent attorney general Mark Herring, becoming the first elected Cuban American and Hispanic attorney general of Virginia. Their elections, along with the election of Republican Winsome Sears as lieutenant governor (becoming the first woman, the first woman of color, and the first Jamaican American elected to the post), electrified the nation as conservative Virginians pushed back—hard—on the efforts of the woke mob to corrupt our children in public schools through CRT and gender confusion, and the horrific attitude of then-governor Ralph Northam toward children who survive a third trimester abortion.
“The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
With the infanticidalist out of office, no one could have guessed that Roe v. Wade was itself about to be aborted, with a pro-life attorney general in office in a state in which several Supreme Court Justices live.
The irony.
The point is that in a country where mostly peaceful rioting is tolerated unless you’re a Trump supporter and the current administration is all but endorsing a campaign of intimidation against one of our last “independent” institutions, Virginia is uniquely situated to punch back twice as hard on the anarchists.
Unfortunately, it seems that Miyares has to prompt the local commonwealth’s attorneys to actually take action.
Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano did not respond to a voicemail or emailed questions after Miyares, a Republican, urged him to take action.
Descano, a Democrat who was a federal prosecutor in the Obama administration, has not remarked publicly on the protest.
Descano said on May 3, in response to the leak of the draft opinion, “I will never prosecute a woman for making her own healthcare decisions.”
A Democrat who served in the Obama administration.
You don’t say.
We should make it easy to impeach and remove these so-called “law enforcement” officials when they refuse to enforce the laws that were legally enacted by duly elected representatives and signed by the chief executive. No more of this, “I’ll decide which laws to uphold.” The office is supposed to enforce all of them, buster, not just the ones that fit your political priorities.
Federal law bars protesting near the homes of any judges “with the intent of influencing” them, but U.S. prosecutors have shown no indication they plan on pursuing charges against protesters, who recently went to the homes of several other justices in Maryland.
My shocked face is all worn out.
Brandon isn’t going to prosecute. He’s the titular head of an illegal junta that is all about finishing the fundamental transformation of the United States that Barack Hussein Obama started. And they don’t care how many laws they have to break to get there.