The letter is dated January 12, 2017.
Trump wasn’t sworn in until January 17. WTF??
Did the US Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Kenneth Magidson act on his own initiative? Is he one of the US Attorneys who have been asked to resign? 
Not to mention, the letter was signed by a paralegal.
The land taking is actually forBush’s wall. It got stalled by being in a flood plain, and there’s a treaty against it.
George W. got a lot of things wrong, but he got that right, God bless his soul.
And the treaty is against building the wall in a floodplain only. There are other areas where construction can commence.
Those Meskins would *never *think of crossing a flood plain, would they? :rolleyes:
To be fair, Trump has always been a big fan of eminent domain.
Could somebody help me to find that part of the Constitution which 45 said gives him the right to control immigration?
So, up above, I posted a story about Mad Dog Mattis trying to get rid of a Trump political appointee who is keeping him from doing his job. And now, HR McMaster has had a run in with a guy who has Steve Bannon’s ear, and McMaster has lost. Will he stick around now?
Among other things, the Trump budget cuts include removing the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program, which funds programs like Meals on Wheels, housing assistance and other community assistance efforts.
On your first link, Ted Cruz’s ad was explicitly aimed at Donald Trump, and was an effort to capitalize on Trump’s rather egregious efforts to use eminent domain for his own private gain. I’d need more evidence than one ad from a vicious political campaign to reach any conclusions about his overall policy on eminent domain.
As for the second link, did you actually read the article and watch the video? The Club for Growth, who i have no time for and am not interested in defending, was NOT making a blanket argument against eminent domain. It was arguing explicitly against the abuse of eminent domain in order to take private property for private use, and was explicitly referencing the exact same case that i mentioned in my previous post, the Supreme Court’s Kelo v. New London decision.
While i have little time for the Club for Growth, i happen to agree with them about Kelo. In fact, about the only place where i disagree with their argument on that issue is when they describe opposition to Kelo as a conservative position. There are plenty of liberals and leftists in the US, including me and a bunch of others of this message board, who opposed the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo.
Some of the people at Trump’s rally in Detroit were given time off with pay and bussed to the event.
The Hawaiian judge who struck down Travel Ban II: Electric Boogaloo said that his decision took into account not just the text of the ban, but statements made by Trump and his surrogates.
Which may mean that by Trump and Giuliani running their fat mouths and using the words “ban on Muslims”, Trump may never get a travel ban no matter how he words it. And that would be hilarious.
Isn’t it only supposed to be a 90-day ban, so the government can “figure out what’s going on” and then be perfect about who is admitted to the country?
Seems likely to me that it will be more than 90 days just to get the ban in place. We should have an admission process totally figured out by then.
We are, btw, 56 or so days into the Trump presidency, meaning he’s 26 days late in revealing his TOP SECRET ISIS PLAN.
Even better: he makes good on his promise to take it to the Supremes and they refuse to hear his case.
Federal judge.
Kevin Drum lists a bunch of Trump admin failures/fuckups, then asks:
I doubt Drum takes this 12D chess theory seriously, but it’s interesting how we (humans) feel uncomfortable accepting things that are as chaotic and inexplicable as our president. Imposing an orderly mental map onto a disorderly situation.
There’s something almost Lovecraftian about the whole thing. And Trump is Azathoth, the blind idiot god. (Making Putin Yog-Sothoth, devourer of souls. Steve Bannon is obviously his high priest, Great Cthulhu.)
This is a man who cut off health care to his own family, and yet people are hoping he isn’t going to do the same for 24 million+ Americans. We refuse to admit he’s evil as that means there’s something evil about the people, and/or process, which elected him. So we attribute a lot of it to chaos, incompetence, etc… of which there is a lot of, true.
But…
He could just as easily suck at expanding the ACA, improving the immigration process, implementing greater efforts to save the ecology, etc. He could be incompetent at doing things to improve lives. But he’s not - he’s sucking at evil things… simply because he, himself, is evil.
That is what I think people really do not want to see: the malice in the man’s heart.
Good point. Punishing his enemies - and there are a lot of us! - or the people they care about*** is a big part of his MO. (Along with leaving his damn DNA splashed all over every single crime scene. And sucking at alibis.)
Being a total fuckup doesn’t mean you’re not dangerous.
- Punished his brother by cutting off health insurance to his brother’s young kid: http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care
Don’t forget this stooge:
Stephen Miller’s Fox News interview is coming back to haunt President Trump
He seems like the kind of person who probably pulled the wings off of insects as a kid.