Happy Birthday to me!
Well, not today, in two days its my Birthday. I’ll be 35 years old. So congrats to me for living that long.
Well, enough naval gazing, we all know what we’re here for.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is threatening to grind arguably the best-functioning part of President Donald Trump’s agenda to a halt.
The Arizona senator, a frequent Trump critic, indicated on Sunday that he would soon move to block consideration of the president’s judicial nominees until and unless Republican leaders allow votes on measures aimed at pushing back against Trump’s authority.
“I do think that unless we can actually exercise something other than just approving the president's executive calendar, his nominees, judges, that we have no reason to be there,” Flake, who is not seeking re-election, said on ABC’s This Week.
“So I think myself and a number of Senators, at least a few of us, will stand up and say let's not move any more judges until we get a vote, for example, on tariffs,” he added.
Flake, along with several of his Republican colleagues, have been critical of the Trump administration’s trade policies, in particular the president’s use of a national-security provision to impose tariffs on U.S. allies.
Naturally, I’ll believe it when I see it, but this could be major news. Anything that can slow down Trump appointing crappy judges is good news to me.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Homeland Security Department said late Saturday the government has reunited 522 children separated from adults as part of a "Zero Tolerance" initiative and plans to reunite another 16 children over the next 24 hours.
The department said in a statement U.S. Customs and Border Protection expects a small number of children separated for reasons other than zero tolerance would remain separated, including if the familial relationship cannot be confirmed.
Well, this is a start. But we need to remain vigilant, Trump is still imprisoning people unjustly and doing other crap, and he needs to be stopped at any cost. But I’m glad these families are being reunited.
Sanders complained on her @PressSec Twitter account Saturday about the Red Hen restaurant that refused to serve her Friday, she tweeted, because “I work for @POTUS.” Restaurant owner Stephanie Wilkinson told The Washington Post that Sanders was told to leave because the business has “certain standards” to uphold, “such as honesty and compassion and cooperation.”
Walter Shaub, who left the Trump administration a year ago after five years as head of the ethics office, posted an annoyed tweet in response to Sanders’ comment, pointing out that it’s a “clear violation” of federal ethics law to name a specific business with the intent of personal gain or retaliation. He compared Sanders’ White House tweet to a federal law enforcement officer who pulls out a badge at a restaurant in a similar situation.
In an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) called upon the Office of Government Ethics to investigate Sanders for using her official Twitter account to attack the restaurant.
And another chapter in the ongoing saga of Trump Admins being shamed out of restaurants. Hope this continues to be a trend (and I hope there is someone peeing in Trumps Big Macs.)
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for an end to his administration’s migrant family separation policy faces a series of legal hurdles, which legal analysts say could derail the new directive.
Responding to immense backlash over his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated migrant children and parents caught entering the country illegally, Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that reversed the practice.
But a key part of the order’s mandate to keep families together is contingent on federal courts agreeing to modify a decades-old court order that restricts the time a minor can be detained in an immigration detention facility alongside their parents to 20 days.
The odds are slim that a federal court judge will side with the Justice Department’s recently filed petition to amend the so-called Flores settlement, say legal experts who note that a request by the Obama administration amid a sharp increase in border crossings was denied.
Experts also point to the Trump administration’s previous losses in federal court cases litigated on the West Coast, including rulings against Trump’s travel ban on travelers from six majority-Muslim countries and rejecting his termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that provides temporary legal status to immigrant minors who entered the country illegally as minors.
Trumps Concentration Camp plan is gonna be killed in court. We beat his Muslim ban in the courts, we’ll beat this as well. Just keep fighting.
SEN. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) hosted a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha’s Vineyard as part of the DSCC’S annual Majority Trust retreat. OVERHEARD: Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joking to the crowd: “If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
I couldn’t ask for a better Birthday Present.
Anyways, that’s it for me. Have a good one.