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Court Showdown Looms Over Immigration Action

February 6, 2017 at 6:29 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Fresh challenges to President Trump’s court-frozen immigration order took shape Monday with two former secretaries of state claiming the White House was undermining national security and nearly 100 Silicon Valley tech companies arguing it will keep the best minds from coming to America,” the Washington Post reports.

“The powerful new voices were added with another legal showdown coming as early as Monday. The suspension of the order, meanwhile, has allowed those previously banned more time to try to reach the United States.”

New York Times: “President Trump is barreling into a confrontation with the courts barely two weeks after taking office, foreshadowing years of legal battles as an administration determined to disrupt the existing order presses the boundaries of executive power.”

Trump Attack on Judge Raises Stakes for Gorsuch

February 6, 2017 at 6:28 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump’s Twitter assault on the ‘so-called judge‘ who put a nationwide hold on the president’s executive order on immigration has motivated Democrats to challenge Trump’s choice for the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, on an important but elusive issue,” the Washington Post reports.

“Is Gorsuch independent enough, they ask, to stand up to the president who picked him?”

“As the legal battle over Trump’s immigration directive shows, Gorsuch’s nomination lands at a time when the Supreme Court is likely to be called upon to review what Trump already has shown to be a broad reliance on executive power.”

Resisting Trump Is Key Credential for 2020

February 6, 2017 at 6:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Democratic base is so roiled and enraged after only two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency that a take-no-prisoners posture toward the White House is emerging as the price of entry for the 2020 primary,” Politico reports.

“An election that could have focused in on economic inequality and the excesses of Wall Street — the issues that animate the left’s leading tribunes, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — is already shaping up as a contest about the intensity of the resistance to Trump.”


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Trump Resumes Twitter Attacks on Judge

February 5, 2017 at 5:11 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump resumed tweeting against the judge who blocked his executive order on immigration, blaming the court system “if something happens” that could put the U.S. in “peril,” Politico reports.

Said Trump: “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!”

A few minutes later, he added: “I have instructed Homeland Security to check people coming into our country VERY CAREFULLY. The courts are making the job very difficult!”

SNL Sees Ratings Surge

February 5, 2017 at 4:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Political turmoil has been very, very good to “Saturday Night Live,” Variety reports.

“Overall, SNL viewership for the season to date is up 19% in adults 18-49 (3.5 vs. 2.9 rating) and up 22% in total viewers (10.6 million vs. 8.7 million) over the comparable period in the 2015-16 season. This marks the show’s strongest ratings performance in 22 years, since the 1994-95 season, according to NBC.”

Cracks Form Between Trump and the GOP

February 5, 2017 at 3:45 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Vice President Mike Pence was interviewed on every television network this morning — all but CNN, which President Donald Trump has labeled a “fake news” outlet.

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Patriots Fans Struggle with Trump Association

February 5, 2017 at 2:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Undefeated: “The road to a Super Bowl is never easy — not even for the New England Patriots. But even with Brady’s four-game suspension, losing fan favorite Gronk, and several key player injuries, the New England Patriots have returned. Yet what should be a joyous occasion for Patriots fans is muddied — especially for some Patriots fans of color — by the Patriots organization’s apparent relationship with President Donald Trump.”

Bill Maher explains why he’s rooting for the Atlanta Falcons:

Lawsuits Against Trump Administration Pile Up

February 5, 2017 at 1:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Bloomberg: “Less than two weeks into the administration, lawsuits have been filed across the U.S. challenging the president from every angle, including a case over alleged conflicts of interest that violate the Constitution’s ’emoluments clause,’ multistate challenges to Trump’s immigration policies, and a complaint over the new president’s regulatory plans, including his attempt to quash a proposed regulation over disposal of metal dental fillings.”

“Many more challenges are expected, and both sides are hunkering down for a protracted war, one that promises to inflame already frayed relations between Republicans and Democrats, both in Washington and across the nation.”

Quote of the Day

February 5, 2017 at 11:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It is hard not to laugh, to see President Trump alongside these Wall Street guys. I have to say this Jake, and I don’t mean to be disrespectful, this guy is a fraud.”

— Sen. Bernie Sanders, in an interview on CNN.

McConnell Rebukes Trump’s Attack on Judge

February 5, 2017 at 10:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “distanced himself from President Trump’s positions on Russia, voter fraud and the travel ban, while criticizing the president for attacking a federal judge,” Politico reports.

Said McConnell: “It is best not to single out judges. We all get disappointed from time to time. I think it is best to avoid criticizing them individually.”

Trump Is Very Weak and That Makes Him Dangerous

February 5, 2017 at 9:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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If you’re scared of Donald Trump right now, it should not be because he’s powerful but because he’s so weak. In fact, as political scientist Matt Glassman and law professor Josh Chafetz have argued, it’s hard to overstate how institutionally weak the president is right now.

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A Rocky Start

February 5, 2017 at 8:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

This is just perfect.

The Senate Is Coming Apart

February 5, 2017 at 8:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Total GOP control of Washington should mean that Trump gets everything he wants out of Capitol Hill.”

“But Senate Democrats — the last line of Democratic defense — are slow-walking the installation of Trump’s Cabinet to a historic degree, so much so that Republicans haven’t even started yet on Trump’s legislative agenda. Republicans will eventually win all these confirmation battles, but it will be time-consuming and ugly.”

Scarier Than Karl Rove

February 5, 2017 at 8:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Democrats spent years turning George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove into a bogeyman whose mere mention sent liberals’ blood boiling. Now, members of Congress are doing the same to top Trump hand Steve Bannon — but in much darker terms,” Politico reports.

“Increasingly, Democratic lawmakers are labeling the former Breitbart chief a ‘white supremacist’ who has no business at the highest echelons of American power.”

When the Jews Are Away

February 5, 2017 at 8:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Britons See Trump as Threat to World Stability

February 5, 2017 at 8:10 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Opinium/Observer poll finds that 64% of the British public believe Donald Trump is a threat to international stability and a clear majority believe he will be a bad president.

Court Rebuffs Request to Quickly Restore Travel Ban

February 5, 2017 at 8:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to lift a ruling by a Seattle judge halting President Donald Trump’s travel ban executive order, but the appeals court turned down the Trump administration’s request for immediate permission to reinstate the controversial limits on travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries,” Politico reports.

Quote of the Day

February 4, 2017 at 10:29 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The number one thing that’s going to determine whether we win or lose? If Trump’s at 35% we could take back the Senate. If Trump’s at 55%, we could lose the whole ball of wax. So part of my job is to make sure that we don’t let Trump get away with stuff.”

— Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), quoted by the Washington Post.

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