Scott Dworkin (Substack)
Mar 19
THE COURTS SAVED LIVES
Last June, HHS Secretary Bob Kennedy fired all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)—an independent panel of vaccine experts—replacing them with loyalists.
In January, the panel drastically reduced the recommended childhood vaccine schedule, stripping protections against hepatitis A and B, RSV, rotavirus, flu, and meningitis.
US District Judge Brian Murphy wasn’t having it. On Monday, he sided with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and other allied medical groups, issuing a preliminary injunction that blocks Kennedy’s appointees to the ACIP, invalidates all votes taken since last June, and restores the full childhood vaccine schedule.
Murphy found that Kennedy’s panel was “distinctly unqualified” and lacked the “fair balance” required under law—calling the changes “an abandonment of the technical knowledge and expertise” needed on the committee.
“This is a great victory not only for vaccines and public health, but for science,” said Richard Hughes, an attorney for the AAP. Kennedy’s panel was supposed to meet this week—but that’s since been cancelled. The regime lost. The vaccines are back.
THESE JUDGES HAVE HAD ENOUGH
The courts keep decisively checking the regime’s abuse of power. Trump tried to install his loyalists as federal prosecutors in New Jersey—skipping Senate confirmations, handing out US Attorney’s badges, and sending them to work.
Last week US District Judge Matthew Brann ruled the move unconstitutional, warning that leaving the regime’s unlawful appointments in place could cause “scores of dangerous criminals” to walk free. “If the government chooses to leave [them] in place,” Brann wrote, “it does so at its own risk.”
On Monday, US District Judge Zahid Quraishi made it clear the courts are not messing around. A regime lawyer showed up to the courtroom with no notice of appearance—he had no legal right to be there or speak.
Quraishi told him to stop talking—he wouldn’t. Security dragged him out while he yammered on. Quraishi then ordered the entire unlawfully-installed leadership team to testify under oath on May 4.
“Generations of Assistant U.S. Attorneys had built the goodwill of that office for your generation to destroy it within a year,” the judge told the remaining prosecutor.
FACT CHECK: THE LIE THAT STARTED A WAR
The regime has insisted the Iran war is justified since the first bombs dropped. This week, the truth came out.
Joe Kent is terrible—with ties to the Proud Boys, Nazi sympathizers, and Holocaust deniers. He even called Jan 6 rioters “political prisoners.” Exactly who Trump would put in charge of national security.
But on Tuesday, even he couldn’t do it anymore. Kent resigned as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation,” he said in his resignation letter.
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia—Vice Chair of the Senate Intel Committee, and one of eight leaders in Congress who have access to the nation’s most sensitive intelligence briefings—said: “Ignoring the facts to pursue a predetermined war puts American lives at risk.”
THEN IT GOT WORSE
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard walked into the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday to defend the war in Iran. Democrats walked her into a confession.
In her written testimony, Gabbard stated Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was “obliterated” in last summer’s strikes with “no efforts since then to rebuild.” She had quietly omitted that passage when delivering her remarks aloud. Sen. Ossoff asked her to confirm it under oath. She did.
Then Ossoff asked the follow-up—whether or not Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat to the United States—which was the White House’s stated justification for the war. Gabbard refused to answer. He asked six times. Ossoff cut her off: “No, you’re evading a question, because to provide a candid response to the committee would contradict a statement from the White House.”
Then Sen. Mark Warner pressed her on the omission directly. “I recognized that time was running long,” Gabbard responded. “You chose to omit the part of the assessment that contradicts the president,” Warner said. Gabbard had no response.
Trump started a war on a lie. Democrats forced Gabbard to admit it under oath.