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Barnes Brief: Week of July 4, 2024
July 03, 2024
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Schedule

·      Wednesday, Bourbon w/ Barnes at 9ish pm eastern

·      Sunday at 6 pm eastern: Law For the People w/ Viva

·      Book Recommendation:

·      Closing Argument: Remembering the Revolution

Introduction: Top 10 Headlines of the Week

  1. Trump immunity.
  2. Trump trends.
  3. Harris plots.
  4. Donors fear.
  5. Biden won’t leave.
  6. Deep State plots.
  7. Trump lawfare.
  8. Europeans skeptical of Ukraine.
  9. Hurricanes incoming.
  10. Pension problems.

*Bonus: Fishing troubles from Hurricane.

Wisdom of the Day: “We for Ten Years incessantly and ineffectually besieged the Throne as Supplicants; we Reasoned, we Remonstrated with Parliament in the most mild and decent Language. But Administration, sensible that we should regard these oppressive Measures as Freemen ought to do, sent over Fleets and Armies to enforce them.” Representatives of the Colonies, 1775.

The Evidence: Top Ten Articles Curated from The Barnes Library

  1. Immunity decision summation. https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/07/justices-rule-trump-has-some-immunity-from-prosecution/
  2. The unrealism of Dump Biden. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-absurdity-of-the-dump-biden-uprising/ar-BB1phY5B
  3. SCOTUS greenlights censorship. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/02/no_remedy_for_censorship_the_perils_of_murthy_.html
  4. Need for military reform. https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/06/29/next_secretary_of_defense_1041262.html
  5. Trump joins Medical Freedom. https://x.com/BoLoudon/status/1808187088455471349
  6. Dem Delegate rules
  7. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/02/democrats_convention_rules_actually_give_delegates_some_leeway_151193.html
  8. Deep State Debate rigging. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/06/26/james_clapper_mr_october_surprise_how_obamas_intel_czar_rigged_2016_and_2020_debates_against_trump_1040444.html
  9. Petrodollar concerns. https://realinvestmentadvice.com/petrodollar-panic-separating-fact-from-fiction/
  10. Industrial resurrection. https://chroniclesmagazine.org/columns/short-views/rebuilding-what-weve-lost/

*Bonus: ACLU’s anti-Trump obsession. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/how-the-aclu-is-planning-for-the-return-of-trump/

Homework: Top Dozen Cases TBD on Sunday Show

I.          SCOTUS: Suing agencies. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1008_1b82.pdf

II.         SCOTUS: Social Media https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1008_1b82.pdf

III.        SCOTUS: Trump Immunity https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

IV.        SCOTUS: Social Media Cert https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/doe-snap-thomas.pdf

V.         SCOTUS: Unconstitutional Agencies Cert https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/doe-snap-thomas.pdf

VI.        SCOTUS: Racial Jury Selection Cert https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/king-warden-jackson-dissenting.pdf

VII.       SCOTUS: Prosecutorial Misconduct https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/king-warden-jackson-dissenting.pdf

VIII.       SCOTUS: 2nd Amendment. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-877_8nka.pdf

IX.         SCOTUS: Jury trial presence. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-5618_7648.pdf

X.          SCOTUS: Jury trial numbers. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-5171_5426.pdf

XI.        Trump motion for mistrial in New York. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24787717-trump-letter

XII.      Vaccine mandate verdict. https://www.local3news.com/local-news/fired-bcbst-employee-awarded-680k-in-covid-19-vaccine-lawsuit/article_0c883e0c-37da-11ef-a546-0b8b7c35ef7f.html

*Bonus: Trump search. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cannon-ruling-franks-hearing-warrant-trump-classified-documents.pdf

** Bonus: Biden Export Ban overturned. https://ago.wv.gov/Documents/LNG%20ruling.pdf

*** Bonus: Missouri Sues New York https://ago.mo.gov/wp-content/uploads/Missouri-v.-NY.pdf

Closing Argument: Remembering the Revolution

  • No better expression of the meaning of the Constitution exists than the American Revolution itself. The Revolution established the principle “that all civil government, as far as it can be denominated free, is a creature of the people. It originates with them. It is conducted under their direction; and has in view nothing but their happiness.” Any government unconsented to by the people is not a “free” government.
  • Let’s start from First Principles. At the outset, each individual human may “assume among the power of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.” All legitimate power derives from the consent of the governed; any other asserted power is usurped, illegitimate and unfree. This surmises the first of the Eternal Truths we know to be “self-evident.” Of note, the appeal to conscience and the archives of Nature – God’s writing on the soul of each human and the world created – provides the first and foremost admissible evidence in support of these truths. This informs the reason “all man are created equal” and “endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.” The origin of government is “to secure these rights” as the only “just powers” must obtain “the consent of the governed.” Nothing better surmises the core precepts of the Revolution: respect for each human being as a human being, and the constraints on civil society and authorized governance to respect the rights of each human being.
  • Every principle and precept of the Constitution should be read in light of its purpose: “to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” The Constitution must “provide new Guards for their future security” of their “unalienable rights.” What are those unalienable rights? At a minimum, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  
  • The litany and list of offenses against those unalienable rights give us further definition of what the Constitution must be a security Guard against. Refusing to “assent to laws.” The right of Representation. Distant venues of representative assemblies. Border mismanagement. No independent judiciary. Biased judges corrupted by loyalty to something other than the law and the rights of the people. A ridiculous multitude of new administrative offices that “harass our people and eat out their substance.” Standing armies. A military power above the law. Foreign jurisdiction. Mock trials that protect the politically connected. Taxation without representation. Depriving the people of Trial by Jury. Venues and vicinages of trials beyond their home. Military drafts for perfidious wars. Left defenseless against invasion. Refusal to answer petitions for redress of grievances. An unwarrantable jurisdiction of government over the citizen. In objection to this, they declared independence and swore their lives, fortunes and sacred honor.
  • These principles should form the frame for filtering any Constitutional question of today. We witness in the DC courts the recreation of “transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses.” We see in the NYC courts “a mock trial” that makes a mockery of justice. We see in the judicial denial of jury trials in a range of case the “depriving us in many case of the benefits of
    Trial by Jury.” We see in the self-aggregating administrative state a hungry bureaucracy “erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
  • A simple refrain for any Constitutional question must commence with What Would the Revolutionaries Do? Answer that question, and the Constitution comes alive an entire new light, like the night skies of the Fourth around America.
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  • Benny Johnson Interview
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  • Friday at 9ish: Betting w/ Barnes AMA
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II.  Art of the Day: The hidden alleyways in ancient communities share secrets of generations past, wlecomed by the decorative arts on display in the magnificent murals, decorous streets, illuminated arches, old gas lights, as enveloped by nature. I love art that expresses itself in the everyday, shares its genius with all who come to it, making nature into an indoor-outdoor mirror of nature and the soul. Windows to the world, windows to our own world. 

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The Barnes Brief: July 4, 2025

I.  Schedule

  • Saturday 9 pm eastern: Movie July 4th Theme
  • Sunday 6 pm eastern: Viva & Barnes Law for the People

II.  Art of the Day

A pickup truck. By the beach. Our flag flowing in the wind. The center of summer. The celebration of American independence. The spirit of the 4th.The simplest joys partake, in backyard barbecues & flowing fireworks into the night sky. All for the liberty, freedom, and individuality unleashed by the American spirit that sentinel 4th of July, birthing a revolution of spirit around the world. America's Independence Day. 

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  • The eternal truths of the ends of government remained the same truths as God ordained, reason entitled, and nature spoke: the “self-evident truths” included that “all men are created equal” and as such endowed by their Creator “with certain unalienable Rights” of the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to the pursuit of happiness. This, and this alone, is the reason for government — “to secure these rights.” Security wasn't for physical safety but rather for liberty -- security measured by respect for the right to liberty, the right to life, and the right to the pursuit of happiness. Thereby, wherever and whenever government “becomes destructive” toward the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to the pursuit of happiness, then the self-evident right endowed by the Creator, and his creations in nature and reason, entitles “the people” to alter such government, abolish such government, and to, in their place, “institute new Government.”
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Barnes Brief: Friday, June 27, 2025

Schedule

  • Friday at 6 eastern: Betting w/ Barnes
  • Saturday at 9 eastern: Movie Night 
  • Sunday at 6 eastern: Law for the People w/ Viva

Art of the Day: The Water Fountain. To make the simple, elegant; the functional, expressive; the accessible, ideal. Decorative arts charm the mind by turning the ordinary into extraordinary, the everyday into an otherworldly invitation. This form of decorative arts remakes our material world into an ethereal paradise of the mind evoking the God shaped spark of the soul for a task as mundane as getting a sip of water. 

Book Recommendation History rhymes. The last effort of the Deep State to regime change in Iran birthed us the current regime. The Coup: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586980-the-coup?

Wisdom of the Day: “A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.” George Washington, Farewell Address. 

 

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