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Trump Is More Than a Footnote in the ‘Arc of History’

June 29, 2018 at 11:14 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Edward Luce: “One measure of what stunts America’s left — and western globalists in general — is faith in ‘the arc of history’. In spite of all that has happened, Barack Obama is still wedded to the phrase. The future is on our side, he believes — even if the present is stampeding the other way.”

“Donald Trump is purging every vestige of Mr Obama’s legacy. From the Iran nuclear deal to post-racial America, he is the incinerator-in-chief. It is thus reassuring to know that he is destined for history’s ash heap. Mr Trump may not be aware of his fate but educated people are.”

“Alas, the problem with the long run is that it can take a long time to come. Lots of stuff can happen in between.”

What Comes Next for Democrats

June 29, 2018 at 10:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Dan Pfeiffer, former Obama White House communications director, co-host of Pod Save America and author of Yes We (Still) Can, joins Chris Riback for a discussion of what comes next for Democrats in the Trump era.

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Republicans Will Regret Their Supreme Court Power Play

June 29, 2018 at 9:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Matt Lewis: “Democrats understandably feel cheated and aggrieved. It is one thing not to have Merrick Garland seated, but it’s another to win the popular vote and then watch two conservative Supreme Court justices be put on the Court. If the roles were reversed, I sincerely doubt that McConnell and others would be saying, ‘Well, it’s all about power. and they are playing the game to the best that they are able.'”

“When the ends always justify the means, then the means become more and more egregious in the service of the ends. The most common retort when this is pointed out is: well, what about Robert Bork? And that’s all well and good. Maybe Democrats should rethink the way they handled that nomination.”

“And maybe Harry Reid should rethink why he did away with the filibuster. But at some point, this game of one-upmanship, turned mutually assured destruction, becomes unsustainable. ‘You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think,’ then-Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned when Reid went nuclear. Well, that works both ways.”


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Three States to Watch This Year

June 29, 2018 at 9:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Had Hillary Clinton not ignored Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania in 2016, Donald Trump would not have been elected president.

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Ethics Panel Opens Review of Schweikert

June 29, 2018 at 9:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The House Ethics Committee announced that it had voted unanimously to open an investigation into whether Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) or his chief of staff wrongly spent or received illegal campaign contributions, the Arizona Republic reports.

The rare move from the secretive panel follows an investigation by the House Office of Congressional Ethics.

Pruitt Sought Revenge on Ex-Aide Who ‘Betrayed’ Him

June 29, 2018 at 8:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Daily Beast: “On May 18, a top aide to EPA chief Scott Pruitt testified to a congressional committee that she had been tasked with procuring her boss a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Just days after news of that testimony broke, the aide, Pruitt’s now former director of scheduling Millan Hupp, submitted her resignation. But even though Hupp was gone from the agency, Pruitt wasn’t done with her.”

“According to three sources familiar with the conversations, Pruitt was livid over Hupp’s testimony, which he felt had been particularly humiliating. And he personally reached out to allies in the conservative movement, including some at the influential legal group the Federalist Society, to insist that she had lied about, or at least misunderstood, the request for a used Trump mattress. He also stressed that Hupp could not be trusted—the implication being that she should not be hired at their institutions.”

Bonus Quote of the Day

June 29, 2018 at 8:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The deficit, it’s coming down and it’s coming down rapidly.”

— White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, on Fox News Business, claiming something that everyone knows is not true.

McConnell Lays Groundwork for Another Court Pick

June 29, 2018 at 8:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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In a speech on the Senate floor, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pushed back on Democratic claims that he was violating his own rule about confirming a Supreme Court Justice in an election year:

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Jon Stewart Has a Deal for Trump

June 29, 2018 at 8:25 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“No matter what you do, it always comes with an extra layer of gleeful cruelty and dickishness.”

Big Majority Don’t Want to Overturn Roe v. Wade

June 29, 2018 at 8:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that 67% of the American public do not want the Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that established women’s constitutional right to abortion.”

“The poll finds a slim majority (53%) of Republicans would like to see Roe v. Wade overturned, while large majorities of Democrats (81%) and independents (73%) would not. Similar shares of women (68%) and men (65%) want Roe v. Wade to stand, but among women of reproductive age, three-quarters (74%) want Roe v. Wade to stand.”

Trump Will Name Supreme Court Pick by July 11

June 29, 2018 at 7:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump plans on announcing his pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy before he leaves for the upcoming NATO summit on July 11, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Gillbrand Calls for Elimination of ICE

June 29, 2018 at 7:24 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) told CNN that she doesn’t think U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “today is working as intended.”

She noted that ICE has “become a deportation force,” adding, “I think you should separate the criminal justice from the immigration issues.”

Quote of the Day

June 29, 2018 at 7:01 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Do not wait for the perfect message, don’t wait to feel a tingle in your spine because you’re expecting politicians to be so inspiring and poetic and moving that somehow, ‘OK, I’ll get off my couch after all and go spend the 15-20 minutes it takes for me to vote.’ Because that’s part of what happened in the last election. I heard that too much.”

— Barack Obama, quoted by Politico, in his first public comments in months.

Inside the Democrats’ Supreme Court Strategy

June 29, 2018 at 6:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “Look for Senate Democrats to emphasize health care — pre-existing conditions — and abortion rights as they talk about the upcoming Supreme Court vacancy. Democrats are moving away from the idea that it’s not fair that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gets to confirm another justice after refusing to consider Merrick Garland. They won’t talk much about pushing the vote until after the midterms. Instead, they plan to talk about what they consider to be the real-world impact of another conservative justice on the nation’s highest court.”

Politico: “Senate Democrats want the Supreme Court battle waged on the policy stakes, not the procedural tactics at play. But the party’s outraged base is prodding them to do everything they can to slow down Trump’s nominee, despite their paltry procedural options after the GOP quashed the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations last year.”

Could Trump Pick a Woman for the Court?

June 29, 2018 at 6:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “No matter whom President Donald Trump picks for the Supreme Court this time around, the nominee is almost certain to come under withering liberal attack as a grave threat to women’s rights. Several conservatives close to the White House, however, say they know just how to blunt that looming assault: Pick a woman for the job.”

The Plan to Overturn Roe v. Wade Is Already In Motion

June 29, 2018 at 6:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Now that President Trump has the opportunity to appoint a new justice to the Supreme Court, some abortion opponents hope that Roe v. Wade will end up overturned or gutted — and they have already been working towards that moment,” CNN reports.

“Over the past year, state legislatures in Iowa, Louisiana and Mississippi have advanced strict limits on abortion that some lawmakers believe could trigger a successful challenge to the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.”

However, leaders of the antiabortion movement tell the Washington Post “that they are in no hurry to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, saying they plan to stick with their long-standing strategy of pushing for incremental restrictions despite the tantalizing prospect of a more conservative Supreme Court.”

Trump Threatens to Upend Global Trade

June 29, 2018 at 6:47 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, a move that would throw global trade into wild disarray,” people involved in the talks tell Axios.

“A U.S. withdrawal from the WTO would send global markets into a spiral and cast trillions of dollars of trade into doubt. It would also blow up an institution that for 70-plus years has been a pillar of global economic and political stability.”

“The consequences of a U.S. withdrawal are so profound that, like Trump’s senior advisers, the trade community hasn’t seriously entertained the possibility that Trump would try to withdraw.”

Roberts Poised to Become New Swing Vote

June 29, 2018 at 6:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“With the retirement of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and the likelihood that President Trump will choose a more conservative replacement, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is poised to play a pivotal role on the court he has headed for 13 years,” the Washington Post reports.

“Roberts has been content to play the long game, moving the court to the right with incremental steps. But now, with more conservative colleagues on one side and liberals on the other, Roberts will have the ability to supply the deciding fifth vote and dictate the terms of the deal.”

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