The suzerain Trump

[Forty Two]

So DeVos, the only person more uniquely unsuited and unqualified for her role than Donald Trump, has been appointed. Now let that sink in. Just when you thought this Republican administration couldn't get any more corrupt and morally bankrupt, and spineless, they sold out the children of America's education and future to the highest bidder. A person who is going to line her pockets with public funds. To a Dominionist who would have schools learn alternative facts, alternative history, alternative science. Who doesn't think there should be any protections for children against religiously motivated bullying and harassment.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/02/ ... -secretary

That's dark.

Oh what hyperbole.

[Forty Two]

Not yet. He shouldn't be, but the Repubs have shown they have no problem with blatant racists and white supremacists in their midst.

List of said blatant racists: ?

List of said white supremacists: ?

[Forty Two]

Dont worry they will go as low as required by Herr Leader.

Tend to your own garden, Dutchy Uber Alles.

[Tero]

Sessions likely to be racist and partisan:

One of the major reasons why the nomination of a sitting four-term senator to be Attorney General is unprecedented is that the role of a senator is to be a partisan advocate for specific legislative outcomes while the role of the Attorney General is to enforce the law. It is dangerous to combine this partisan zeal with the power and discretion vested in the Attorney General to shape legal policy in the federal judiciary. As Attorney General, Sen. Sessions will have an outsized role in determining which cases will be brought and what position the United States will take in cases decided by the Supreme Court.

An alarming case in point is the Executive Order issued by the president banning Muslims from predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States, which has been denounced by leading national security and foreign policy experts, deemed unconstitutional by scores of law professors and other scholars, sparked peaceful mass demonstrations across the nation, and is opposed by a majority of the American public. The president’s ban on Muslims entering the United States was deemed such a clear and egregious violation of the Constitution that then Acting Attorney General Sally Yates announced that she could not, consistent with her oath, defend the order in court.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/ ... the-senate

[Tero]

Warren slapped on hand for calling the asshole a racist
https://news.google.com/news/amp?caurl= ... pt0-212594

[Forty Two]

Sessions likely to be racist and partisan:

One of the major reasons why the nomination of a sitting four-term senator to be Attorney General is unprecedented is that the role of a senator is to be a partisan advocate for specific legislative outcomes while the role of the Attorney General is to enforce the law.

Politicians can and have filled appointment positions, and positions even more judicial than AG. President Taft, for example, went on to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court. The AG position is a cabinet position, advisory to the President. It's not a judicial position, and the AG is an attorney representing the government, so they advocate the government's positions.

It is dangerous to combine this partisan zeal with the power and discretion vested in the Attorney General to shape legal policy in the federal judiciary. As Attorney General, Sen. Sessions will have an outsized role in determining which cases will be brought and what position the United States will take in cases decided by the Supreme Court.

It will be no more outsized than any other AG. What about when JFK appointed his brother to be AG? Any issue there with bias? I'm sure if Trump nominated a family member, it would be an issue. LOL I do recall, of course, the massive uproar among Democrats when Governor "Moonbeam" Brown appointed a 12 term California Congressman to serve as his Attorney General in California.

An alarming case in point is the Executive Order issued by the president banning Muslims from predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States,

You mean, temporarily restricting anyone from 7 (out of the 30+) countries who are majority Muslim, those 7 countries being designated high risk countries due to terrorism concerns.

which has been denounced by leading national security and foreign policy experts, deemed unconstitutional by scores of law professors and other scholars, sparked peaceful mass demonstrations across the nation, and is opposed by a majority of the American public.

I don't support the executive order either, but whether some national security and foreign policy experts "denounce" it is really irrelevant. Some people have deemed it unconstitutional, others have the opposite opinion. That's why it's in court. We'll see what the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules, and probably the SCOTUS after that. That's how the process is supposed to work. Everything these days sparks mass demonstrations, peaceful and otherwise, and whether it is supported or opposed by a majority of the American public depends on which polls you rely on.

The president’s ban on Muslims entering the United States was deemed such a clear and egregious violation of the Constitution that then Acting Attorney General Sally Yates announced that she could not, consistent with her oath, defend the order in court.

Yes, an Obama appointee, and that's her view of it. I notice she did not state her legal/constitutional argument. On February 3, a US district judge in Massachusetts upheld the consititutionality of the of executive order with this order: https://www.scribd.com/document/3383707 ... from_embed So, there is plenty of good reason to uphold the order. Whether those arguments ultimately win the day will depend on what the 9th Circuit does in the case out of Washington, and ultimately the SCOTUS. My money, though, is on the courts finding either (a) a lack of standing on the part of the plaintiffs for some or all of the claims, and (b) even where they have standing, you'll have the SCOTUS find that they cannot make foreign policy judgments for the elected executive, who has the delegated authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to make these determinations.

But, sure, if you want to sit there and believe that this is a cut-and-dried issue, with no counterargument, then good luck with that.

[Tero]

Trump IS big government:

Lee Gelernt, a law professor at Columbia and ACLU attorney, said on Fox News’ “The First 100 Days,” that both sides did well in court, but he thinks “judges got it right to push back on the U.S. government.”

[Forty Two]

Trump IS big government:

Lee Gelernt, a law professor at Columbia and ACLU attorney, said on Fox News’ “The First 100 Days,” that both sides did well in court, but he thinks “judges got it right to push back on the U.S. government.”

Is it your belief that your first sentence, before the colon, is proved or supported by the second?

[Tero]

It's getting expensive to resist this Trump spear headed big government trampling on states:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02 ... -time.html

[Tero]

Fox hid the news in a gloomy bad deal kind of text. Here is the TRUTH

"With the upcoming change in administrations, we expect that there will be extraordinary challenges for California in the uncertain times ahead," California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said in a joint statement Wednesday. "This is a critical moment in the history of our nation. We have an obligation to defend the people who elected us and the policies and diversity that make California an example of what truly makes a nation great."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/01/ ... 483566134/

[Brian Peacock]

Calif ornaments is the worse state... so overrated... full of Muslim loving Leftists, Mexicans and faggots... totally disgusting... not our people.

[Tero]

Sanders:
Jeff Sessions Must Not Become Attorney General
I rise to voice my serious concerns about the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be the next attorney general. Now more than ever, we need an attorney general who will defend the Constitution, and who will educate the president about what exactly that means. I worry that Sen. Sessions will not be that person.

[Tero]

BUT! Maybe this Supreme Court guy will work out fine:

Judge Gorsuch told Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, that he objected to Mr. Trump’s harsh criticism of the courts, including his attack over the weekend on a Seattle district court judge who temporarily blocked his immigration order. In a Twitter posting on Saturday, the president called Judge James L. Robart, a “so-called judge” whose ruling was “ridiculous” and would be overturned.

Mr. Trump’s invective toward judges is a jarring break from a tradition observed by presidents of both parties. Presidents have usually tried to refrain from even appearing to intervene in court cases that concern them or their policies, or from impugning the jurists charged with deciding them, according to judges and legal experts from across the political spectrum.

[Tero]

Go Trump!
Warren raking in millions in campaign donations thanks to GOP

[pErvinalia]

So DeVos, the only person more uniquely unsuited and unqualified for her role than Donald Trump, has been appointed. Now let that sink in. Just when you thought this Republican administration couldn't get any more corrupt and morally bankrupt, and spineless, they sold out the children of America's education and future to the highest bidder. A person who is going to line her pockets with public funds. To a Dominionist who would have schools learn alternative facts, alternative history, alternative science. Who doesn't think there should be any protections for children against religiously motivated bullying and harassment.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/02/ ... -secretary

That's dark.

Oh what hyperbole.

This comment is ironic given you think a tiny bunch of social justice warriors are out to take your freedum and are a threat to society. Yet when we have actual regressives and authoritarians in government, you see nothing wrong.