SAMUEL ASH GREY

This is classic selective framing. President Biden started zero new wars, that part is accurate. President Trump started zero wars during his first term (2017–2021). Obama authorized the Libya intervention. Bush launched Afghanistan and Iraq. The claim that Biden is the ‘only’ one in the past ~25 years is partisan rhetoric designed to rewrite the record and fire up the base. Primary sources and complete timeline over manufactured outrage. Rule of law and historical accuracy matters. Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report (updated June 7, 2023) Direct PDF: sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/R42…

There is only one President in the past 25 years who started 0 wars. This guy.

The Israel Day on Fifth Parade remains scheduled for May 31, 2026. JCRC-NY is actively promoting it, and both city and state officials are on record committing to full security and permits. Those are the primary sources, not anonymous tips. Real tensions are public and legitimate: Mayor Mamdani’s boycott of the parade and rising antisemitic incidents in NYC warrant serious oversight under the rule of law. But the specific claim of a secret “stand-down order” or coordinated plot has zero supporting evidence, no documents, no named officials, no NYPD statements. Governor Hochul’s office directly called it “lies.” Treating unverified rumors as fact is manufactured outrage that undermines trust in the institutions responsible for public safety. Primary evidence over partisan heat. Rule of law over rumor cycles. israeldayon5th.com

SCOOP: Source tells me New York Governor Kathy Hochul has been communicating with @ZohranKMamdani about issuing a stand down order for the NYPD for the upcoming Israel Parade in NYC. Source says Hochul is getting pressure to not attend this year and Mamdani is telling his staff that if Jews don’t have police present, they likely won’t show up since Palestinian protestors have been encouraged to swarm the parade. Vile! @KathyHochul

This mirrored partisan rhetoric “Trump redrawing maps for a permanent GOP majority” is pure spin designed to fire up the base, juice donations, and keep the Supreme Court painted as the villain ahead of 2026. Reality: 6-3 ruling struck down a racial gerrymander (race as predominant factor) under the Equal Protection Clause. Presidents don’t draw maps, state legislatures do. VRA still bans intentional vote dilution. Both sides play this game when it suits them. Rule of law over manufactured outrage. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…

The Supreme Court's recent decision on the Voting Rights Act is supercharging President Trump's effort to redraw districts and try to create a permanent Republican majority. We must ban partisan gerrymandering and restore the Voting Rights Act.

Sen. Warren’s post is partially accurate but misleading. Trump’s lawsuit stems from the largest IRS breach in history: contractor Charles Littlejohn stole and leaked tax data on 405,427 taxpayers (2018–2020). Warren has introduced zero legislation to strengthen IRC 6103 protections, fix contractor oversight, raise penalties, or help victims. Her only bill is narrowly written to block any settlement in Trump’s case. She called the stolen ProPublica files a “bombshell” and used them to push her agenda. Government accountability and taxpayer privacy shouldn’t be partisan. judiciary.house.gov/media/press-re…

Donald Trump thinks the U.S. Treasury is his personal piggy bank. Let's be clear: the President is trying to steal $10 BILLION of taxpayer money - before a court rules. This is a massive, unprecedented scandal. Congress must stop him. I have a bill for that.

@micah_erfan Mamdani’s claim is technically true: $12B gap now $0, no property tax hike, no social service cuts. But it’s mostly ~$8B new state aid (NY taxpayers statewide paying) + $1.7B efficiencies. Cost shift, not real local belt-tightening. comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/commen…

He did this without cutting any social services, btw.

Krassenstein with the usual selective framing. Maria Farmer’s voice matters, victims deserve full accountability and transparency in the records. But the facts show President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19, 2025. His DOJ has already released millions of pages plus thousands of videos and images, the largest disclosure yet. Democrats controlled the DOJ for the prior four years with zero comparable action. This is a serious issue. Partisan spin doesn’t serve the victims or the rule of law. justice.gov/opa/pr/departm…

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein survivor Maria Farmer just released this video message to Congress, telling them how Ghislaine Maxwell has threatened her life, and the Trump DOJ has not released all of the evidence she supplied to them about Epstein and multiple Co-conspirators. Everyone needs to hear this! What are they hiding?

True on SCOTUS in modern context, Republicans haven’t pushed expansion. But GOP legislatures have packed state supreme courts: AZ (5 to 7, 2016), GA (7 to 9, 2016), UT (5 to 7, 2026). Both sides do this when they hold power. That’s why the federal norm still matters. Changing rules mid-game erodes trust.

@SamuelAshGrey @RoKhanna Republicans have never threatened to upend the court by adding justices. That’s a Democrat thing

The next Democratic White House does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar. We need action. We need term limits for Justices. We need to expand this morally bankrupt Court from 9 to 13.

SCOTUS ruled 6-3 (Apr 29, 2026) that Louisiana’s congressional map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, race was the predominant factor, violating Equal Protection. Every citizen’s vote still counts exactly the same (one person, one vote). Primary source (full opinion): supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…

So Republicans convinced Black people they should vote for Republicans and then Republicans decided to do everything they could so that Black people’s votes stop counting as much in elections. That is what happened, right?

This is partisan demagoguery that polarizes for electoral gain. It misleads supporters about what the Court actually did. Truth-seeking requires calling that out, not pretending every hot take is an existential crisis. If “rights under attack” means “we lost on policy via constitutional process,” then democracy is working as intended.

The damage from a reactionary Supreme Court: Citizens United allows billionaires to buy elections. Ending Roe v. Wade takes away a woman's right to control her body. Louisiana v. Callais strips voting rights away from Black Americans. Our rights are under attack. FIGHT BACK.

Both parties rig the primaries with the same legal playbook. Only one side gets branded ‘extremist’ for it. That’s not principle — that’s the double standard Americans are sick of. Labeling the backers of this super PAC “Republican extremists” is classic partisan rhetoric. The fact is both parties use the exact same legal tactic. In 2022, Democratic super PACs and aligned dark-money groups spent nearly $44 million intervening in Republican primaries — deliberately boosting the most far-right, Trump-endorsed candidates they believed would be easier to defeat in the general election. The DCCC, Senate Majority PAC, and others ran the identical playbook of independent expenditures in low-turnout races. When one side does it, it’s labeled “extremism.” When the other side does it, it’s just politics. This selective outrage doesn’t strengthen the rule of law or public trust. It’s rhetoric over principle. Americans see the double standard. opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/d…

This is not a mystery super PAC. It’s a scheme funded by Republican extremists. The people of America will not be fooled - vote every single Republican out of office in November.

Judge Marva Brown released multiple defendants with recent violent criminal histories on supervised release in Manhattan Criminal Court (Hunter 2024 cellist assault, Brazelis 2025 train shove injury, Burke 2026 Falzone death). Serious rule-of-law question: What is the proper institutional mechanism to review high-risk release patterns while fully safeguarding judicial independence?

Chilling footage shows Rhamell Burke shoving retired elderly teacher Ross Falzone to his death down the stairs of a NYC subway station.

Floating a plan to slash the Virginia Supreme Court retirement age to 54—just to purge every justice after one unfavorable ruling—doesn’t just flip a map. It tells Virginians (and everyone watching) that courts aren’t impartial arbiters of law; they’re political trophies to be seized by whoever holds the legislature. That’s exactly how you sow deep, lasting distrust in the judiciary.

Can you imagine that the Democrats are discussing lowering the retirement age of the Va Supreme Court to 54 which would force the entire court to resign (including the three that voted with them). Then stack the court with 7 justices who would have pledged to reverse the redistricting decision. This is your Democrat party. Power hungry thugs. Willing to burn a high court to the ground that dares to disagree with them. They should never have power again.

Both parties have spent years training their voters to view every adverse court decision as illegitimate if it blocks their preferred outcome. The result? Polls show trust in the Supreme Court (and courts generally) at historic lows across the board, with large majorities of both Democrats and Republicans believing the other side’s judges are politically motivated. The floated “bank-shot” idea only makes it worse: it signals that losing in court means you just change the judges. When leaders treat institutions as disposable tools rather than neutral referees, the public stops believing in the referee at all.

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Hakeem Jeffries’ House Dems have discussed FIRING the VA Supreme Court to reinstate the 10D-1R House map They’d do it by having VA LOWER the retirement age and kick out justices — then invalidate the redistricting rules 🤯 PSYCHOS!

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker just demanded $1 billion in White House security funding be redirected to ‘tariff relief.’ Problem: The bill he’s attacking is explicitly for Secret Service upgrades, not ballroom construction.

The post is partially true but significantly misleading. There is a real $1 billion proposal connected to the ballroom project, but it is explicitly for security infrastructure, not ballroom construction. Calling it “$1 billion for Trump’s ballroom” is the Democratic/media framing of the issue, not a neutral or precise description of the bill.  The “demand” to redirect it to “tariff relief” is pure opinion/political theater. Whether tariffs are harming working families/small businesses is a separate, hotly debated economic question (Democrats emphasize higher consumer/import costs; supporters emphasize manufacturing protection and revenue). The post presents the $1 billion as a done deal that can simply be “redirected,” which overstates its status. This is classic partisan spin. It takes a real GOP legislative move and presents it in the most unflattering (and simplified) light possible. You can download and search the PDF yourself; the relevant provision is on page 6 of the document. grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

I'm demanding that the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom be immediately directed to tariff relief for working families and small businesses. It’s time to put working families ahead of Trump’s ego.

Hakeem Jeffries still stoking division. This wasn’t “Republican extremists cheating.” It was a state court enforcing Virginia’s own constitutional rules against a mid-decade power grab by the party in control of the legislature. Jeffries’ official statement called it “unprecedented and undemocratic,” “disenfranchising” voters, and vowed to fight it “no matter what it takes.

Republican extremists have to cheat to win. The American people will have the last word. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Post 3/3 Can voters ratify a constitutional amendment the legislature never properly proposed? That’s the actual question. Everything else is partisan noise. • Same court opinion above (the entire legal issue in one sentence from the majority): vacourts.gov/static/opinion…

Post 2/3 Democrats can (and should) argue the majority misread the timing requirement under Article XII. But their national framing leaps past legal debate to delegitimize the court itself. Fact: The Democratic legislature skipped mandatory steps for a constitutional amendment. The Court ruled the defect incurable, even after a 51.7% referendum, and kept the existing 6D-5R maps. • Full Virginia Supreme Court opinion (4-3, Article XII §1 violation, “incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy”): vacourts.gov/static/opinion… • Map impact (current 6D-5R preserved; proposed flip to ~10D-1R blocked): virginiamercury.com/2026/05/08/sup… • Jay Jones official statement (“politics over the rule of law”): oag.state.va.us/media-center/n…

Why are Democrats undermining the rule of law by demonizing the Virginia Supreme Court for enforcing the Constitution? When Jeffries, Jones, Warner & Co. brand a 4-3 procedural ruling as “disenfranchisement” and “undemocratic,” they don’t just attack one decision l, they normalize treating courts as enemies whenever they enforce constitutional guardrails. That destroys public trust, invites retaliation, and says the Constitution is optional when their side loses. • Hakeem Jeffries full statement (“disenfranchise… undemocratic… cannot stand”): jeffries.house.gov/2026/05/08/lea…