The Trump Presidency : Year III

sjtill

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Trump may be on track to flip 9th Circuit to Republican by 2020:

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Trump on Track to Flip the Ninth Circuit to Republican by 2020
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
With the confirmation of Kenneth Kiyul Lee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, President Trump is on track to flip the notoriously liberal court to Republican by 2020.

According to National Review's Ed Whelan, Lee will be filling a seat that was held for decades by "arch-activist Stephen Reinhardt."

And there's nothing but good news for Republicans on the horizon, Whelan says:

Up soon for a floor vote—next week, I hope—should be Ninth Circuit nominee Daniel P. Collins. [Update (3 p.m.): Cloture has been filed on the Collins nomination, so it should be voted on next week.] Collins would fill the seat long held by Harry Pregerson, the Ninth Circuit judge with the strongest claim to rival Reinhardt in lawless willfulness.
The appointments of Lee and Collins would give the Ninth Circuit 11 Republican appointees versus 16 Democratic appointees, with two remaining vacancies. At the start of the Trump administration, the Ninth Circuit had 19 Democratic appointees, only 6 Republican appointees, and four vacancies.

According to Whelan, "eight of the 16 Democratic appointees are eligible to take senior status, and a ninth soon will be, but there is no particular reason to expect any of them to elect that option."

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“President Donald Trump said Friday that there was no way for him to know that retired Army General Michael Flynn was under investigation while he was still campaigning in 2016.

Trump lamented that he should have been informed of the investigation while he was campaigning against Hillary Clinton since there was a 50/50 chance at the time that he would be become president.

'It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge,' Trump tweeted Friday morning. 'It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change?' …”

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The Hill: Trump says campaign was 'conclusively spied on,' calls it 'treason'

https://thehill.com/homenews/a...-on-calls-it-treason

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I don't understand this ruling

President Trump didn't end DACA

it was designed to end on a date certain

that date came, the program ended

President Trump had a choice to renew it, and she chose not to

but the DACA program was a Zippy invention to get around a Congress that would have killed it in the House

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I guess this is what it is all about:
".... Attorneys for the Trump administration argued that the decision to rescind DACA was an agency decision, and therefore did not have to made available for public comment and other procedures required under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).

While the court agreed that the decision didn’t have to undergo a public comment period, they said administration officials still violated the federal law by not fully explaining its decision to rescind DACA."
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But, I wonder if this is the end of the road for legal arguement, or can / will this go to a higher court?

Legal Beagles of SF - what do you say???

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RichardC

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According to Whelan, "eight of the 16 Democratic appointees are eligible to take senior status, and a ninth soon will be, but there is no particular reason to expect any of them to elect that option."

How can we encourage them to take The Long Walk?

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Nancy Pelosi, third in line to be POTUS in an emergency, on a roll:

https://d6n6n9x6.ssl.hwcdn.net.../6/5cdd6f90e5192.mp4

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^^^^Frightening!

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She's barely firing on 3 of 8 cylinders.

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She's barely firing on 3 of 8 cylinders.

More likely one of four. I seriously doubt she ever had six cylinders, much less eight.

ETA: Still, you gotta give her credit. It isn’t just anybody who can make a box of rocks look smart.

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Trump 'deserves' Khashoggi treatment, Maher guest Fran Lebowitz says before backpedaling.

Fox News > https://www.foxnews.com/entert...-khashoggi-treatment

I think I can almost hear the darkened window black crown vics pulling up her driveway as we speak......

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AP story:
Step by step: Democrats play the long game against Trump

>> https://apnews.com/b1005ff321144a58856cd1d43937dc03

^^^^ can someone help me and re-size this image? I think it is too big, but I don't know how to resize it. Thanks.

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From the Gateway Pundit:

EXCLUSIVE: Junk Anti-Trump Russia Steele Dossier Appears Tampered With – Pages Were Replaced

>>> https://www.thegatewaypundit.c...pages-were-replaced/

"The Steele dossier was a made up hodgepodge of bogus reports collated into an enormous pile of rubbish. It’s shocking to think that the US Intelligence agencies used this sophomoric report to spy on the President of the US!"
Hat tip D. Manny and her Internet sleuths

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Originally posted by RichardC:
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According to Whelan, "eight of the 16 Democratic appointees are eligible to take senior status, and a ninth soon will be, but there is no particular reason to expect any of them to elect that option."

How can we encourage them to take The Long Walk?

Send them to a nice vacation retreat at Cibolo Creek Ranch.

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sounds like Mueller's attack dog Andrew Weissmann has indeed left the DoJ.

https://www.wral.com/mueller-p...int-in-nyc/18392273/

One of Robert Mueller's top lieutenants in the special counsel's pressure-cooker probe embroiling President Donald Trump has returned to private life only to get a more mundane and unexpected legal assignment: Juror in a slip-and-fall case.

Andrew Weissmann was picked for a New York City jury at a civil trial where there was a verdict on Thursday partially siding with a woman who sued a food market where she claimed she fell because of a wet floor.

During jury selection, he said he went mostly unrecognized beyond revealing he was a former prosecutor who was about to begin teaching national security law and criminal procedure at New York University School of Law

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During jury selection, he said he went mostly unrecognized beyond revealing he was a former prosecutor who was about to begin teaching national security law and criminal procedure at New York University School of Law

Just great!

Now we have them teaching at law schools.

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dsiets

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Justin Amash (R-MI) has been compromised. I wonder what the dems have on him - he votes to the left of Pelosi.

Republican Rep. Justin Amash says Trump committed 'impeachable conduct'
Amash becomes the first congressional Republican to say impeachment is a proper response to the Mueller report.

That's not good. ~~I'm in his district~~ He represents me. He's going to get a phone call, a letter, and front row rep at his next town hall.
And obviously this will be forwarded.

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Originally posted by dsiets:
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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Justin Amash (R-MI) has been compromised. I wonder what the dems have on him - he votes to the left of Pelosi.

Republican Rep. Justin Amash says Trump committed 'impeachable conduct'
Amash becomes the first congressional Republican to say impeachment is a proper response to the Mueller report.

That's not good. ~~I'm in his district~~ He represents me. He's going to get a phone call, a letter, and front row rep at his next town hall.
And obviously this will be forwarded.

I live in the MI 3RD too, and I can tell you that, he has been great when a libertarian-leaning (R) mattered, but now he’s just a tool for the left. He clearly hasn’t read any of the JW material about how this was all started let alone the CTH articles regarding how bogus the entire investigation was.

What a dick.

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quote:
Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Justin Amash (R-MI) has been compromised. I wonder what the dems have on him - he votes to the left of Pelosi.

Republican Rep. Justin Amash says Trump committed 'impeachable conduct'
Amash becomes the first congressional Republican to say impeachment is a proper response to the Mueller report.

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NBC NEWS = Fake News

i'M NOT SAYING that Amash did not flip. I'm saying the article is presented in a left slant.

Here is another article on the subject:

>> https://thehill.com/homenews/h...t-meet-threshold-for

" Amash's statements make him the first Republican in the House to come out publicly in support of impeachment proceedings, even as Democratic leadership has hesitated to bow to demands from dozens of House Democrats who support the issue and come out in support of impeachment.

Both Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) have come out against impeachment proceedings, while calling for Trump's conduct to be addressed at the ballot box.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) blasted Amash's tweets about the Mueller report Saturday evening in a statement, accusing him of "parroting" Democratic talking points.

“It’s sad to see Congressman Amash parroting the Democrats’ talking points on Russia. The only people still fixated on the Russia collusion hoax are political foes of President Trump hoping to defeat him in 2020 by any desperate means possible," said RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel."

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