Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

I bet Trump could convince his hardcore supporters to accept higher taxes

unfortunately, his biggest supporter (himself) is deeply opposed to paying higher taxes.

Sean Hannity is deeply displeased with Joe Scarborough! The Republic trembles!

Scarborough is deeply displeased with everyone this morning.

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.@RandPauI just blocked @SenJohnMcCain's UC request to add Montenegro to NATO & exited. McCain: "The sen from Ky is now working for Putin."

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everyone is Putin

Maybe...the Putin is us.

Every GOP rep/Admin flack who is interviewed on NPR about Ryancare/Dontcare sounds like Martin Short's Nathan Thurm character from SNL. "I don't accept your premise..."

you'd think some day our "conservative" friends would get beyond the 'i know you are but what am i?' stage of social development. maybe raising the estate tax would help?

Perfect combination of tweet and screenshot here

https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/842122519897333760

Fun interview with Snowden:

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/15/intercepted-podcast-snowden-vs-trump/

More of this:

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-volcanologist-says-she-is-considering-a-1489547480-htmlstory.html

I would vote for her if I could for her name and occupation alone.

Sounds a bit like a pitch for a superhero origin story. Jess Phoenix, scientist/activist, studies volcanos and wishes she could do more to fight evil. Then one day she falls into a radioactive volcano (that part needs work)....

President salutes man on money he sees most often.

https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/842128458314571783

I assume Trump will be parroting this argument shortly:

On "Fox & Friends" this morning, Judge Andrew Napolitano said that even if the Obama administration did spy on Trump, there may never be a way to prove it.

He explained that the statutes allow the president to order the surveillance of any person in the U.S., without suspicion, probable cause or a warrant, but that would leave "fingerprints."

In this case, the alleged surveillance was reportedly ordered in a way that left no record, he said.

"Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command," Napolitano said. "He didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI, and he didn't use the Department of Justice."

Instead, Napolitano said, Obama used GCHQ, a British intelligence and security organization that has 24-7 access to the NSA database.

"There's no American fingerprints on this," Napolitano said. "What happened to the guy who ordered this? Resigned three days after Donald Trump was inaugurated."

In a statement to Fox News, a UK government spokesperson responded, saying that "no part of this story is true."

Cruz has a formidable challenger too: https://ballotpedia.org/Pavel_Goberman

House races are p different from Senate races fyi

Oh for sure, this dude is just a PNW batshit perennial candidate and I was amused to see he's hunting big game now.

And moving to Texas, apparently?

Here's his website, there's some excellent late-90's design: http://www.getenergized.com

speaking of batshit PNW candidates, looks like Robert Mercer is bankrolling 4-time loser and lunatic Art Robinson for yet another challenge to our Rep Peter Defazio

New GOP repeal and replace strategy seems to be arguing that those millions of people who will lose health insurance don't want it anyway.

Apparently some of them have begun arguing for 'collapse and repeal', that is, sit around and wait for ACA to fall apart on it's own. Which, of course, it won't. But whatever.

I mean, of course it will! Choose collapse and repeal, guys, it's a perfect plan!

New travel ban shot down again?

Hawaii judge issues temporary restraining order

See you in court! As long as court is in Hawaii, and you pay!

The illogic of the Government’s contentions is palpable. The notion that one
can demonstrate animus toward any group of people only by targeting all of them at
once is fundamentally flawed. The Court declines to relegate its Establishment
Clause analysis to a purely mathematical exercise.

A review of the historical background here makes plain why the Government
wishes to focus on the Executive Order’s text, rather than its context. The record
before this Court is unique. It includes significant and unrebutted evidence of
religious animus driving the promulgation of the Executive Order and its related
predecessor.

daaamn.

these from http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015a-d421-db68-a97b-d5e934210000

this comes down so hard on the administration i just had to triple check the section i'm reading wasn't a brief filed by the plaintiffs

love it

extensive quotes from interviews with trump and rest of administration in this, heh

The Government appropriately cautions that, in determining purpose, courts
should not look into the “veiled psyche” and “secret motives” of government
decisionmakers and may not undertake a “judicial psychoanalysis of a drafter’s heart
of hearts.” Govt. Opp’n at 40 (citing McCreary, 545 U.S. at 862). The
Government need not fear. The remarkable facts at issue here require no such
impermissible inquiry. For instance, there is nothing “veiled” about this press
release: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims
entering the United States.[]” SAC ¶ 38, Ex. 6 (Press Release, Donald J. Trump for
President, Donald J. Trump Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration (Dec. 7,
2015), available at https://goo.gl/D3OdJJ)). Nor is there anything “secret” about
the Executive’s motive specific to the issuance of the Executive Order:
Rudolph Giuliani explained on television how the Executive
Order came to be. He said: “When [Mr. Trump] first announced
it, he said, ‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up. He said, ‘Put a
commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.’”

Is Giuliani not being seen around as much? I guess they figured he was a useless surrogate.

oh my god giuliani found bumbling way into this yesssss

this is opinion is beautiful

Righteous

Could not be happier that these are the circumstances through which Trump gets taught a valuable lesson about words having meaning/consequences

pretty rad

the seattle judge is hearing petitions rn apparently too

useful context from a couple of days ago http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/03/back-court

Holy crap. Lol. I honestly thought they might have gotten away with it this time.

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/842153834361282560

"They intentionally made the second travel ban unconstitutional as a distraction from..."

I lold

this is my favorite part:

The Government appropriately cautions that, in determining purpose, courts
should not look into the “veiled psyche” and “secret motives” of government
decisionmakers and may not undertake a “judicial psychoanalysis of a drafter’s heart
of hearts.” Govt. Opp’n at 40 (citing McCreary, 545 U.S. at 862). The
Government need not fear. The remarkable facts at issue here require no such
impermissible inquiry. For instance, there is nothing “veiled” about this press
release: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims
entering the United States.[]” SAC ¶ 38, Ex. 6 (Press Release, Donald J. Trump for
President, Donald J. Trump Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration (Dec. 7,
2015), available at https://goo.gl/D3OdJJ)). Nor is there anything “secret” about
the Executive’s motive specific to the issuance of the Executive Order:
Rudolph Giuliani explained on television how the Executive
Order came to be. He said: “When [Mr. Trump] first announced
it, he said, ‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up. He said, ‘Put a
commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.’”

(sorry about weird formatting, it's c+p'd from the pdf)

The courts HAVE to look at Trump's statements.. its an executive order. There is no legislative history whatsoever to look at, no drafts to discuss what the 'intent' of the law is. If these idiots went through Congress they wouldn't have this problem.

(sorry about weird formatting, it's c+p'd from the pdf)

ugh welcome to my shitty paralegal life!

Who wants some adorable manga:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DogasusBackpack/status/842144188913209344

so happy with this ruling.

Separately:

https://twitter.com/mollyesque/status/842129207337578496

Breitbart editor Pollak on @MSNBC on where he got the Trump wiretap story: "I was washing dishes & listening to Mark Levin."

Also, this story on the lickspittles is hilarious

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-photo-opportunities-236108