June 2, 2025

June 1, 2025

NEW YORK REP. JERRY NADLER SAYS DHS AGENT HANDCUFFED HIS STAFF MEMBER AT CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE:

New York Rep. Jerry Nadler says a member of his staff was handcuffed by a Department of Homeland Security agent at his congressional office Wednesday.

The incident was caught on video.

According to a DHS spokesperson, Federal Protective Service officers were responding to reports that protesters were inside Nadler’s district office in Manhattan.

“Upon arrival, officers were granted entry and encountered four individuals. Officers identified themselves and explained their intent to conduct a security check, however, one individual became verbally confrontational and physically blocked access to the office. The officers then detained the individual in the hallway for the purpose of completing the security check. All were released without further incident,” DHS said in a statement.

In a statement released Saturday, Nadler said the DHS agents “forcefully” entered his office and handcuffed a member of his staff.

“The decision to enter a Congressional office and detain a staff member demonstrates a deeply troubling disregard for proper legal boundaries. If this can happen in a Member of Congress’s office, it can happen to anyone–and it is happening,” Nadler said, in part.

Related: “Nobody is above the law.”

—Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), May 15th, 2019.

Posted at 10:03 pm by Ed Driscoll 134

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds 1455

HAMASHOLES: Breaking: ‘Targeted Terror Attack’ in Boulder. “A self-proclaimed Palestinian activist showed up with a garden sprayer full of something flammable – witnesses said it was clear but smelled like gasoline – sprayed the group, and then threw Molotov cocktails as he shouted obscenities and watched elderly human beings in flames. . . . The descriptions of the injuries are so ghastly.”

I’m devastated to think of the wave of Islamophobia that this incident may set off.

UPDATE:

Every decent American should be carrying. This guy shouldn’t have lived long enough to be arrested. He should have been plugged as soon as he started.

UPDATE (From Ed):

MORE (FROM GLENN):

STILL MORE: What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like: Eyewitness Provides Harrowing Account of Boulder Terror Attack.

If the intifada is globalized, doesn’t that make Hamasholes legitimate military targets everywhere?

Posted at 9:14 pm by Glenn Reynolds 634

OKAY, BUT SHOULDN’T CONGRESS FOCUS MORE ON PASSING THE AGENDA OF THE CURRENT PRESIDENT? Watergate-Style Hearings for the Biden Coverup.

The massive coverup of Joe Biden’s mental decline has stimulated plenty of indignant commentary. Missing from the hand-wringing is a demand for accountability, which brings to mind the quip: “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” This newspaper and recently published books have exposed the trickery and lies of Mr. Biden’s minions and Democratic allies, who attempted to wield power in a leaderless vacuum. It was perfectly described in Tunku Varadarajan’s review of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book, “Original Sin,” as resembling “a hush-hush leftist capture of an infirm president.”

A White House cadre, with media connivance, hoped to drag their puppet over the electoral line to win four additional years of power, dangerously undermining the institutional integrity of the presidency. Memorial Day has come and gone, and Washington’s elite is already enabling the machinery to which the Democratic left turns in the face of scandal—elevating sideshows such as insupportable claims that Republicans are destroying Medicaid or rants regarding President Trump’s dispute with Harvard, all to make this latest deceit disappear like April’s cherry blossoms.

Republicans will end up rewarding this duplicity if they elevate cheap talk over accountability. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is holding aggressive hearings on the coverup, but they have been too narrowly aimed. Mr. Biden’s using an autopen and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s declining to release the audio of the president’s interview with Robert Hur are small potatoes amid this vast whitewash of history.

If Congress takes seriously that it should act when Americans are cynically hoodwinked, it must begin an investigation into the coverup that matches or exceeds the Senate Watergate Committee hearings.

John Fund explores: Why the Biden Health Cover-Up Really Matters.

The media are supposed to be watchdogs of potential governmental abuse. Instead, they are in danger of becoming lapdogs serving the interests of some of those in power. (The danger, with Trump in office, is dramatically reduced.) In Biden’s case, his aides worked overtime to conceal the president’s frailty from the media and intimidate anyone who questioned his abilities, and the media failed in their duty to probe more deeply and question the official White House line.

“This was a cover-up — plain and simple,” admits Chris Cillizza, a former reporter with the Washington Post and CNN. “For at least two years (or close to it) senior people in the White House knew that Biden’s condition was bad enough that it needed to be concealed from people working in the administration.”

The media should have realized how powerful a motivation their sources had to deceive them.

They all knew that, but were too invested in getting their man across the finish line for the second time (or possibly the fourth time).

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll 167