The Longest Presidential Election—Ever. The Most at Stake—Ever.

TUESDAY WAS A BIG DAY for the House Judiciary Committee. Special Counsel Robert Hur testified. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) probably elicited the most useful testimony of the day when he probed the special counsel about a letter, dated Feb. 5th, that the White House Counsel sent to Hur days prior to his February report becoming public. Highlights here.

Tiffany asked Hur if the White House had requested him to “change [the report’s] references to the president’s poor memory.” Yes, Hur confirmed. This contradicted claims made by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) who, earlier in Tuesday’s hearing, claimed that Biden did not “seek to redact a single word of Mr. Hur’s report.”

Hur was consistent. In an exchange with Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), he answered a question about pressure from the White House. “They did request certain edits and changes to the draft report,” he said. Hur had concluded “that no criminal charges are warranted” in his investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents despite having found records “related to foreign policy in Afghanistan and handwritten notes ‘implicating sensitive intelligence.’” No charges were warranted essentially because Biden would be a sympathetic defendant. He “would likely present himself to the jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” It is reminiscent of James Comey not similarly pursuing Hillary Clinton in 2015. (Only the G.O.P. is ever pro persecuted.)

That wasn’t the end of it. The White House sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland only days after forwarding a communique to Hur which objected to his report suggesting Biden’s mental status had declined because Biden couldn’t recall basic facts when interviewed by investigators. An example was his inability to identify when he was VP or when son, Beau, died. The hypocrisy is blinding. I anticipate John Solomon’s analysis on Hur’s testimony Wednesday.  

This is important because, obviously, such requests from the Biden regime or Biden himself would constitute ‘obstruction of justice,’ not altogether dissimilar to the charge Dems made against President Trump with Robert Mueller and the Trump-Russia-collusion hoax which was eventually nixed by then-A.G. Bill Barr.

Tuesday evening anti-climactically found Trump and Biden winners in the Georgia and Mississippi primaries, winning all the delegates. Washington State also held its all-mail-in primaries, and who knows when they’ll be tallied. The G.O.P. caucuses in Hawaii this night, too. Biden also won the Northern Mariana Islands.  Republicans caucus there on 3/15. No electoral votes at stake.

Biden now has 2,007 delegates, more than enough to win the Democratic nomination, which requires 1,968 on the first ballot. He has taken all up for grabs except 20 uncommitteds, and the three that went to Palmer, thanks to American Samoa. Trump has 1,181 delegates at 11 p.m., falling just shy of the 1,215 needed to clinch the G.O.P. nomination once and for all, though not everything has yet been reported.

Suspect Class or Suspect Aliens?

THIS WEEK, THE G.O.P. introduced a bill preventing the United States from permitting Palestinian refugees from entering the country during the ‘war’ in Israel against Hamas. Hamas stealthily attacked the Jewish state earlier this month, killing and injuring many innocent civilians, including children and elderly. It is expected that Israel will engage in an equally major retaliation, which could send as many as a million Palestinians refugees to other nations. 

Reps. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisc.) and Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) drafted what they call the GAZA Act, or Guaranteeing Aggressors Zero Admission Act. Visas would be unavailable to Palestinian passport holders and would enjoin the Department of Homeland Security from availing themselves of the parole program it instituted (which is probably an unconstitutional program anyway.) 

In the meantime, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) plans to institute his own bill which would force the Biden regime from honoring any visas of foreign nationals, including students, who “endorse or espouse terrorist activity.” Rubio also has a novel idea that the regime should enforce existing laws. 

Of course drafting a bill is one thing. Enacting it into law is another. And it’s something else altogether to make sure a law passes constitutional muster if it’s challenged in court after enactment. With so-called suspect classes, it can be an uphill battle, but one would certainly presume the literal security of the nation would be a sufficiently compelling basis for some incarnation of these bills to meet strict judicial scrutiny, at least for a specified period of time. The nation is, after all, facing an invasion of illegal aliens unlike anything seen in history.

Rubio isn’t my favorite person in Washington, but he summed up such laws’ necessity succinctly when he said in a press release:

“America is the most generous nation on earth, but we cannot allow foreign nationals who support terrorist groups like Hamas and march in our streets calling for ‘intifada’ to enter or stay in our country. The Biden administration has the authority and an obligation under existing law to immediately identify, cancel the visas of, and remove foreign nationals already here in America who have demonstrated support for terrorist groups, and in many cases, even celebrated the slaughter of Israeli babies and the rape of Jewish girls.”