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THE VIEW FROM HERE - On October 20, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals exiled facts from the courtroom. The case in question was whether Portland was burning to the ground so that President Trump needed to federalize the National Guard and call in the US military, e.g., the Marines (1) so that they find, capture, and imprison illegal aliens and any citizen which interfered with ICE, and (2) the troops could stop the non-stop crime wave which was destroying Portland.
On October 4, 2025, United States District Judge for the District of Oregon, Karin J. Immergut, who is also on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), had ruled that President Trump’s claims about Portland’s burning to the ground and his need to militarize the national guard were untethered from reality. As explained in the CityWatch article Judge Immergut Legal Insurrectionist , her Honor was living in yesteryear, thinking that objective facts played any role in judicial proceedings. However, let’s stop and think: she is not only a Trump appointee to the District Court, but also a judge with a high enough security clearance to be on the top secret FISC court. Her middle initial should be G for gravitas.
When the framers wrote the US Constitution in 1787, they created a Republic so that the central government would have enough power to protect individual inalienable rights, e.g., liberty. To prevent too much power from accumulating in one place, the framers devised an extraordinarily complex system of checks and balances, (which no one understood.) Thus, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers, (85 papers) to explain the proposed constitution. Nonetheless, the public wanted more checks to protect their inalienable rights. Thus, Bill of Rights was added. To put it mildly, both the framers and the citizenry were obsessed with limiting the power in anyone individual, while creating a government which had the power to protect us from tyrants.
The public has been subjected to so many lies that it has lost any coherent understanding of the nature of the Republic. Perhaps, the most famous and enduring lie is that the government has to be small, very small, because a large government endangers liberty. For about 237 years, a significant part of the public has failed to realize that those politicos who want a small, limited government want unchecked power for themselves so that they could rob the people blind and turn the USA into a nation of serfs, e.g., no medical insurance. With all the fuss about the Crash of 2008, few politicos explained that the shrinking the power of the federal government by the repeal of Glass-Steagall Acts and the legitimization of Credit Default Swaps (CDSs) caused the crash. In a sense, the Crash of 2008 may be blamed on the Constitution’s farmers who created a system which was too complicated to comprehend without years of education. Federalist Papers have 85 articles written in 18th Century English for people with a strong background in the classics. (Never believe what the Federalist Society says about the Federalist Papers.) Today, Americans are taught that the Declaration of Independence was written to perpetuate slavery and the Constitution’s purpose to secure the Blessing of Liberty is in reality a white racist ploy to keep Blacks poor. The Dems propose replacing this racist philosophy of individual rights with Woke DEI where a person’s rights are based on the degree to which he or his ancestor have been victimized.
On the other hand, the GOP wants the Unitary Executive where the Republic ceases to exist and all power rests in the President where the purpose of Congress and the Courts is to impose the President’s will on the people. Trump has de facto suspended Congress by telling Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to send the House members home so that the newest Dem Congresswoman cannot be sworn in. She has said that she will support disclosing the Epstein Files which Trump wants destroyed.
Under the Unitary Executive, the court’s role is to do the President’s bidding. If the President presents a series of delusions to support his claim that Portland is burning to the ground, the court’s function is to accept whatever Trump says as accurate. The court’s role is not to defy the President by turning to objective facts which show that the President is delusional. The Ninth Circuit’s October 20th decisions has shown Judge Immergut how to turn Trump’s dross into gold. I am surprised that the Ninth Circuit did not follow the new protocol of starting every session with offering profuse thanks to Donald Trump for his great wisdom in rescuing a dead nation, a totally dead nation, and turn it into a hot, a really hot, the hottest nation which everyone respects.
The Executive Theory Is Easy to Comprehend
America is no longer a Republic with myriad checks and balances, but has become a democracy where the president receives a mandate to do what he does whatever he wishes; his mandate overrides all existing laws including the Constitution. Learn the new drill! The President has immunity from all criminal laws which means he may have the US military murder scores of innocent people in boats which he claims have drugs. He has advised us that next he is turning the US military lose on “the enemy within.” If you have any doubt who is the enemy within, look in a mirror.
(Richard Lee Abrams is a former Los Angeles-based attorney, an author, and political commentator. A long-time contributor to CityWatchLA, he is known for his incisive critiques of City Hall and judicial corruption, as well as his analysis of political and constitutional issues. Abrams blends legal insight with historical and philosophical depth to challenge conventional narratives. A passionate defender of civic integrity and transparency, he aims to expose misuse of power and advocate for systemic reform in local government. You may email him at [email protected] )
