Law of Self Defense

Law of Self Defense

Attorney Andrew F. Branca's weekly plain-English legal educational News and Question & Answer show on American use-of-force law--self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property, to enable law-abiding people to make better informed, more confident, more decisive, and more lawful use-of-force decisions.

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July 13, 2025 90 mins

Unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior, federal district trial court Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong in Los Angeles has decided that it is she, rather than the Article II Executive Branch, who is in charge of managing the operations of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.   She has issued an order that—essentially—instructs ICE that they are obligated to obey the law. 

More specifically, her order prohibits...

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Another week, and another week of America fighting its desperate existential war against the forces of global fascism seeking to destroy our great nation and subjugate Americans to billions of third-world migrant invaders, the virulent pawns being used to attack America through the machinations of the global elite and their American politician henchmen working their treason within our very borders. 

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE...

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Another week, another week of unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior federal district court judges imagining that our Founders created a nation in which THEY are our fascist overlords over our Congress, our President, and ourselves.

Today I have a couple of more examples of absolutely grotesque overreach by these black-robed little monsters—as well as more confirmation that Supreme Court Justice Kentanji “I’m not a b...

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Elon Musk, until very recently one of the strongest backers of President Donald J. Trump, has announced his intention to form a “third-party” opposition to what he refers to as the GOP/Democrat “uni-party”—and, indeed, just today Musk filed with the Federal Election Commission to form the newly created “American Party.” 

Might it be more difficult to get a third-party off the ground than Trump envisions? What would the Ame...

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Join me as we watch President Donald J. Trump LIVE sign the Big Beautiful Bill and SAVE AMERICA from being invaded, overwhelmed, and destroyed by hundreds of millions of illegal & legal migrants & third-world invaders. 

There’s much to be dissatisfied with in the BBB—promised tax breaks not provided, promised Second Amendment moves not followed through, and others, many for apparently no good reason. 

The ...

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Federal Judge Brian Murphy—the unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior federal district trial court judge raised to the federal bench on December 6, 2024, a FULL MONTH AFTER the re-election of President Donald J. Trump, was a mere 200 days on the bench when he had the dubious honor to be checked by the US Supreme Court itself on June 24 of this year, when SCOTUS paused the injunction Judge Murphy had issued against Trump’s eff...

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Join me for an EXCLUSIVE breakdown of Sean "Diddy" Combs' shocking federal trial outcome—guilty on two counts, but cleared of racketeering charges that could’ve meant LIFE in prison!  

My good friend Attorney Joe Nierman (@GoodLawgic on YouTube and elsewhere) was IN the NYC courtroom every day, and he’s spilling ALL the details!  

Get the insider scoop on how Diddy dodged the worst, what his 10-year...

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Why did the accused University of Idaho killer suddenly accept FOUR LIFE SENTENCES instead of facing the death penalty?  

In this explosive episode of The Andrew Branca Show, we dive deep into the controversial twists of the 2022 stabbing case that gripped the nation. 

Was the evidence against Kohberger too weak? Did his autism play a role in this stunning decision? And what does this mean for justice?

Jo...

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You’ve been LIED to for DECADES! President Trump’s bold Executive Order on “birthright citizenship” has unveiled a jaw-dropping reality: not everyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen. The 14th Amendment has been twisted, and illegal invaders have NO constitutional right to citizenship—or to influence our political power!   

But it gets WORSE. Did you know the U.S. Census is rigging the system? By counting illeg...

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Yesterday the Progressive Fascists and their collaborator unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior, federal district trial court judges were stripped by the Supreme Court of their ability to weaponize universal temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions against the political agenda of President Donald J. Trump, the Article II Executive Branch people elected by the whole of the American people to carry out their po...

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Yesterday, the US Supreme Court released its decision in Trump v. CASA. This case was nominally about the legal question of so-called birthright citizenship, in light of a Trump Executive Order “ending” this practice. (In fact, America did not have birthright citizenship even prior to Trump’s EO, and never has, but that’s a different show.)

In fact, the legal question here was not the issue of birth-right citizenship on th...

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New York City—a place where I grew up, since attending Public School 139 from the first grade—appears ready to hurl itself off the cliff into socialist hell by electing as its mayor a communist Muslim, Zohran Mamdani, an American citizen for a mere 7 years—and this only 24 years after 9/11.

In today’s show we’ll take a look at the key questions around this impeding national catastrophe.  

Who is Mamdani and what a...

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On April 2, a verbal at a Texas high school athletic meet turned deadly when 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf in the heart under a crowded tent. 

Now, Anthony faces a first-degree murder indictment and up to 99 years in prison as Texas tries him as an adult. His defense? He claims it was lawful self-defense. 

In this gripping video, we dive deep into the legal fallout of this tragic case....

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Mahmoud “Hamas” Khalil, spokesman for an organization that advocates for the total eradication of Western civilization, is ordered by an unelected black-robed tyrannical inferior district court judge to be released from detention, where he was awaiting lawful deportation.  

Khalil Armando Abrego-Garcia, an adjudicated MS-13 terrorist and credibly accused human trafficker and spouse abuser, is ordered released from ICE dete...

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It can be hard to tell given the nature of Progressive dominance over both mainstream media and social media, but the Democrat party is on the ropes, is code blue, is being told to arrange their affairs, and every other metaphor for an impending demise. 

The reasons are not surprising--the Democrats and their policies have been demonstrable failures for American citizens everywhere they have been applied, and Americans are...

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The most liberal court of appeals in the United States, the 9th Circuit, late last night ruled that it is the great and powerful President Donald J. Trump who is Commander in Chief of the federalized California National Guard, and not the feckless and pandering Governor Gavin Newsom.

This ruling overturns an insane temporary restraining order issued last week by the unelected, black-robed, tyrannical inferior federal distr...

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Yesterday the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of US v. Skremetti, which involved a challenge to a Tennessee law that banned the surgical mutilation of sad minors. 

US v. Skremetti (SCOTUS): https://tinyurl.com/eyjn3heb

This Tennessee law was challenged by various groups that wished to be free to surgically mutilate sad minors, and who claimed they had a Constitutionally-protected right to engag...

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the Commander-in-Chief battle between the feckless pandering California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Article II Executive Branch President Trump fought its way into the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, with each side presenting oral arguments to a three-judge appellate panel.

Panel:
Judge Mark Bennett--Trump 2018 (older gentleman)
Judge Eric Miller--Trump 2019
Judge Jennifer Sung--Biden 2021

At issue:  W...

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The White House activation of the California National Guard to protect Federal property and personnel in riot-torn Los Angeles has been challenged by the feckless pandering Governor Gavin Newsom. 

Newsom was able to secure a Temporary Restraining Order against Trump for a few brief hours last Thursday, with an unelected, black-robed tyrannical inferior federal district trial court judge out of San Francisco stripping the A...

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One of the most wonderful aspects of 2025 in particular and the second President Trump term in general has been watching Democrat politicians go full theater kid, act like emotionally uncontrolled drunks, and line themselves up for decades' worth of prison time in a Federal prison--all for "clicks." 

Today I share with you videos of several Democrat politicians committing federal obstruction and impeding of ...

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