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Dustin Grage @GrageDustin - EXCLUSIVE: Sources close to the law firm representing Des Moines Public Schools internally believes Superintendent Ian Roberts is in serious trouble.
According to their own immigration attorneys—who are described as very liberal—Roberts lied on his I-9 about his citizenship, and serious questions are being raised about the validity of his other credentials.
Among the red flags:
- He carries a Maryland state ID available to certain visa holders (F, J, or M categories).
- His Social Security card was issued out of New York, and its validity is being questioned.
And the kicker? His deportation order was issued in May 2024… by the Biden administration.
A Democrat administration thought this man should have been deported.
Now Democrats are painting him as a martyr of Trump’s immigration policies.
It’s beyond parody.
https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/1972367812023767127
Eagle Ed Martin @EagleEdMartin - Prof. Prakash is persuasive. Link here: https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=lwps_public
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Mark Paoletta @MarkPaoletta
President Trump’s recent comments to Attorney General Bondi are PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE and follow in the tradition of our greatest Presidents/Founders, such as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.
In fact, they all directed specific prosecutions. Like them, President Trump is the nation’s Chief Prosecutor under our Constitution.
As Professor Sai Prakash, a former Justice Clarence Thomas clerk, has written in a compelling law review article, titled The Chief Prosecutor, “presidential control of official prosecutions was not something controversial (or worse yet, contrary to law) … The presidents understood that they were constitutionally empowered to direct official prosecutions. Presidents ordered prosecutions commenced and halted, sometimes doing both in the same case!”
President George Washington ordered prosecutions of those involved in the Whiskey rebellion in 1792 and 1793. But after concluding that two men had not been involved in the Rebellion, Washington directly ordered the Pennsylvania federal district attorney to not pursue charges.
President John Adams personally and vigorously directed his Attorney General and district attorneys to prosecute specific individuals for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts, and in certain circumstances, drop some of those prosecutions.
President Jefferson, who had publicly criticized this law and the Adams’ Administration enforcement of it, reversed course and ordered these prosecutions dropped.
As Jefferson explained in a private letter: “The President is to have the laws executed. He may order an offense then to be prosecuted. If he sees a prosecution put into a train which is not lawful, he may order it to be discontinued and put into a legal train.”
For example, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the arrest of Aaron Burr for treason. Jefferson publicly stated Burr was guilty before Burr was indicted by a grand jury. And Jefferson personally directed the Burr prosecution.
More recently, President Theodore Roosevelt personally ordered his DOJ to prosecute the Northern Securities Company for antitrust violations; President Reagan directed his DOJ to close a criminal antitrust investigation; President Bush ordered his DOJ to conduct a criminal investigation into the Rodney King case; and President Obama directed his DOJ in the prosecution of police officers. These are just a few examples of the norm of Presidential control over prosecution.
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