The Fitch is Back.

 

Washington Crime Report

Roger Fitch Esq    Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Supreme Court's failure to rein in a lawless president ... A credulous and weak chief justice ... Federal judges critical of Supreme Court ... MAGA fortunes changing ... Revealing off-year election results ... Trump's shakedowns and litigation try-ons ... Urging the military onto US citizens ... Roger Fitch emerges from hibernation

“Everything the Trump Administration Does Must be Presumed Irregular” – Norman Eisen

There’s no doubt that crime is a problem in Washington. The current president, convicted criminal Donald Trump, continually breaks the law through Orwellian edicts, purported  “executive orders”, tracts and brain spasms that are by turns laughable, alarming and downright crazy. Most are without authority.

Since Roger Fitch’s June report, many new EOs have been published with flagrantly lawless purposes; (executive) crime persists in Washington, even if Trump himself is immunised from penal consequences.

Many of the fledgling dictator’s oracular rants have been successfully attacked in federal district courts of the US, struck down or enjoined by judges who were appointed by Democrats, Republicans and Trump himself.

Read the rest here.

DING DONG

 An expression many from my generation revert to when someone "bad" dies.  The expression hails back to the movie "the wizard of oz." When the bad witch dies, the munchkins and everyone else bursts into spontaneous singing:

Well today someone bad died. Dick Cheney. In fact, I think it is fair to say that he led the way for trump. Cheney pushed for the unitary executive theory- expanding the power of the president beyond the constitutional limits. Basically turning the presidency into a monarchy.

Cheney also push for the use of torture in the "war on terror." 

As a dear friend said to me today "Cheney died today but thanks to trump, none of us can enjoy it,"

I am trying my best to enjoy it - but yes, we are in such bad times that it is hard to celebrate this particular war criminals death.

I hope to find time to say more about this awful human being in the future.

Stay tuned.

Halloween in Chicago while under siege.

 Halloween is a big holiday in this here country of mine. And it is especially popular in my neighborhood in Chicago. People decorate their houses and the atmosphere is festive as kids and adults dress up in costume. Kids from all over the city come to the neighborhood that I live in. It is safe and lots of good candy passed out.

This year we took precautions to continue keeping the neighborhood as safe as possible. The ICE thugs were all around us in the morning and our neighborhood set up a system with spotters relaying information and armed with whistles to alert everyone. I did my part. The ICE thugs stayed away from our neighborhood but we were just lucky. They were busy terrorizing other neighborhoods.

Back to the Gitmo playbook....again

 It was less than a month ago when I posed the question as to whether the criminals in my government would resort to bounties for capturing supposed drug dealers. Today I learned I was not far off. Seems the criminals are offering bounties for "illegal immigrants." I guess it doesn't matter if they are selling drugs, it only matters if they might be here in this country without the proper paper work.

At least they are not dropping leaflets yet- because with the economic hardship of so many people in this country that could work as well as it did in Afghanistan and Pakistan- and of course it would mean rounding up a lot of people that should never have been rounded up just so people could get the bounty. [This is not to suggest that people without the proper paperwork are legit targets.]