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Last time I checked, being here ILLEGALLY is an offense.

What are the specific federal laws regarding this (illegal aliens)? I'd like to read them.

I'd like Judge Stephen Reinhardt to read them. The dumbshit said "because they are here illegally , regardless of whether they have committed any offense". Does he not know breaking immigration laws is illegal? I don't had JD after my name and know breaking the law is considered committing an offense.

I hope Jeff Sessions doesn't follow through on his offer to resign.

http://www.businessinsider.com...-resign-trump-2017-6

I didn't like it when he recused himself from this Russian interference malarkey either, but to lose him over that would be quite a blow. Can he un-recuse himself?

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Originally posted by marksman41:
I hope Jeff Sessions doesn't follow through on his offer to resign.

http://www.businessinsider.com...-resign-trump-2017-6

I didn't like it when he recused himself from this Russian interference malarkey either, but to lose him over that would be quite a blow. Can he un-recuse himself?

Who knows whether Sessions ever did any such thing. It is only a news report. You know how those are.

The level of trust in the media is near zero now. I remember saying about a crook in San Diego that if he told me today was Tuesday, I'd make him post a bond. Well, that's about it.

Anonymous sources, apparently the same fiction writers as work TV shows..... Who believes any of this stuff?

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Originally posted by marksman41:
I hope Jeff Sessions doesn't follow through on his offer to resign.

http://www.businessinsider.com...-resign-trump-2017-6

I didn't like it when he recused himself from this Russian interference malarkey either, but to lose him over that would be quite a blow. Can he un-recuse himself?

I'm not going to say that this is obviously total BS invented by the lying Lame Stream Press to attempt to FUD the Trump Presidency because I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't shock me at all to learn that was the case.

I'd relax and see what happens. If you are getting excited about anything coming out of the LSM, you're probably doing it wrong... YMMV

ETA: JALLEN beat me to it, and was funnier to boot.

Point taken JAllen and slosig. Yeah, I should know better by now when something like this crops up.

There was a bad misquote and inference in this week's TIME. I wrote them an email and attached the video showing the quote they used was wrong.

Of course they haven't responded to me. A flat wrong quote, but what do they care? Fake news

I hope Sessions doesn't quit

that was a great choice and he's just getting started

the only point in the article that I agree with is that a lot of the pain Trump is feeling is self-inflicted

if he keeps on the course, he's going to run out of people wanting to work with him - and I think thats the biggest fear I have in DJT - he is used to having people work FOR him and not WITH him

Trump seems to be having a great deal of trouble filling sub-cabinet slots and Federal judgeships. These are going to be necessary if his agenda is to be successful. Are people refusing to work for him? Are the recruiters being too fussy? Not clear to me.

one more item President Trump takes care of:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...-to-the-end-n2337225

Sister Constance Veit, communications director for the Little Sisters of the Poor in the United States, commented Tuesday that President Trump has given the order “real support,” both in a Rose Garden ceremony where Trump signed an executive order on religious liberty and in an apparent draft of a new HHS rule leaked to Vox that would give the Little Sisters a religious exemption to the Obama-era contraceptive mandate.

Sister Constance Veit told Townhall.com that the sisters “would be just as happy if we could go back into the shadows and do what we do so what made us most happy was knowing that our case is going, is on its way to being resolved.”

She said that during the signing of his religious liberty executive order, President Trump “gave us real support that day and it’s been followed up in HHS, there was a rule leaked last week we’re just waiting for the final rule to be published so we’ll just be really happy and feel confident that this administration is going to see it through to the end.”

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Barack Obama: soft on crime and radical islam, but tough on the Little Sisters of the Poor

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As I have been saying for a while now, the media keeps ranting and frothing about TRUMPRUSSIATRUMPRUSSIATRUMPRUSSIA. Trump and his administration continues to plug along through his agenda without fanfare because the left is too busy looking at the sparkly stuff CNN, MSLSD, NBC, CBS, etc are putting out.

Nominee announced for new FBI Director. Christopher Wray

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...be-fbi-director.html

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As I have been saying for a while now, the media keeps ranting and frothing about TRUMPRUSSIATRUMPRUSSIATRUMPRUSSIA. Trump and his administration continues to plug along through his agenda without fanfare because the left is too busy looking at the sparkly stuff CNN, MSLSD, NBC, CBS, etc are putting out.

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I stopped caring what the MSM said after I died of Ebola. They have sooo much credibility after the way they covered the election.....

I think Trump and his Family are working to make America great again and not just forcing their ideology on us via federal dictate.

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Nominee announced for new FBI Director. Christopher Wray

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...be-fbi-director.html

Specialized in white collar and internal investigations in his private practice. Sounds like just the guy we need to ferret out the rats in the wood pile.

still not tired of winning...

DOJ ends Holder-era ‘slush fund’ payouts to outside groups

Published June 07, 2017 Fox News

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups, ending an Obama-era practice that Republicans decried as a “slush fund” that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups.

In a memo sent to 94 U.S. attorneys' offices early Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would end the practice that allowed companies to meet settlement burdens by giving money to groups that were neither victims nor parties to the case.

Sessions said the money should, instead, go to the Treasury Department or victims.

“When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people—not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power,” Sessions said in a statement.

Conservatives have long fought the policy introduced under the Obama administration. Earlier this year, Republican lawmakers introduced legislation that would prohibit the Department of Justice from requiring defendants to donate money to outside groups, after concerns that the settlements bypass congressional appropriations processes.

“This bill is oversight and action. Congress must not tolerate Justice Department political appointees using settlements to funnel money to their liberal friends,” Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who introduced the bill, said in a statement. “This is also an institutional issue. Once direct victims have been compensated, deciding what to do with additional funds recovered from defendants becomes a policy question properly decided by elected representatives in Congress, not agency bureaucrats or prosecutors.”

Paul Larkin, a senior legal research fellow at The Federalist Society, described the practice as “improper and unlawful.” He also said the practices were barred by the Appropriations Clause, Antideficiency Act, and the Miscellaneous Receipts Act.

“No private lawyer could give away a client’s settlement money, and no government lawyer may do so either. It is time for this unlawful practice to end,” Larkin wrote in 2016.

Officials told Fox News the third-party settlement changes were an issue of "good governance."

“Unfortunately, in recent years the Department of Justice has sometimes requires or encouraged defendants to make these payments to third parties as a condition of settlement,” Sessions added. “With this directive, we are ending this practice and ensuring that settlement funds are only used to compensate victims, redress harm, and punish and deter unlawful conduct.”

Bank of America, for example, was required to pay nonprofit organizations as part of a record $17 billion settlement to resolve an investigation into its role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis. The agreement was struck under then-Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department.

The receiving groups included organizations that provide housing counseling, foreclosure prevention and community redevelopment assistance.

Gibson Guitar Corp. also had to contribute to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to resolve a criminal investigation into allegations it illegally imported exotic wood.

It's hard to say what kind of cases could be impacted by the change and how. The new policy allows only for restitution to victims or payment that "directly remedies the harm that is sought to be addressed."

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...-outside-groups.html

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Trump seems to be having a great deal of trouble filling sub-cabinet slots and Federal judgeships. These are going to be necessary if his agenda is to be successful. Are people refusing to work for him? Are the recruiters being too fussy? Not clear to me.

Given the brutality of the confirmation process these days, it's a wonder that anyone would voluntarily subject themselves to it.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!

Is there a risk that some trivial incident or association in your background might be dissected in public with your motives and judgment unveiled, exaggerated, impuned for all the world to see?

Becoming a US District Court judge had long been seen as a prestigious and dignified reward for an admirable professional and civic life. If you are considered, your family, politics, religion, professional associations, every case you litigated or participated in will be scrutinized with utmost intensity. Those you dealt with, ex wives, old girlfriends, current girlfriends, your old boys network, fraternal and lodge members, professors, enemies will all be queried.

How many of us have led lives without stain, episodes of embarrassing misjudgment, writings, comments, acts, that you prefer not be publicized?

Not directly a Trump item except for the Democrat conspiracy to get him but these hearings are a joke.
Now with the "countdown" to Comey like it's supposed to be a time bomb where Trump explodes.
Good Grief.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
Not directly a Trump item except for the Democrat conspiracy to get him but these hearings are a joke.
Now with the "countdown" to Comey like it's supposed to be a time bomb where Trump explodes.
Good Grief.

Comey's testimony tomorrow will be a bigger nothing-burger than the hearings today.

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Justice Department announced Wednesday it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups, ending an Obama-era practice that Republicans decried as a “slush fund” that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups...

.Bank. of America, for example, was required to pay nonprofit organizations as part of a record $17 billion settlement to resolve an investigation into its role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis. The agreement was struck under then-Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department.

The receiving groups included organizations that provide housing counseling, foreclosure prevention and community redevelopment assistance.

Gibson Guitar Corp. also had to contribute to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to resolve a criminal investigation into allegations it illegally imported exotic wood.

It's hard to say what kind of cases could be impacted by the change and how. The new policy allows only for restitution to victims or payment that "directly remedies the harm that is sought to be addressed."

It's astonishing that this was ever legal. Talk about Wealth Redistribution... and in such arbitrary and wholly subjective ways. That any agency could do this is, to me, a clear sign that some parts of our government have entirely too much autonomy and far too little oversight.

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Given the brutality of the confirmation process these days, it's a wonder that anyone would voluntarily subject themselves to it.

How many of us have led lives without stain, episodes of embarrassing misjudgment, writings, comments, acts, that you prefer not be publicized?

Great point and to answer your question, damn few.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...appropriate-n2337730

NSA Director: I Was Never Directed By White House to Do Anything Inappropriate

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) was very direct in his questioning for NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats at Wednesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. The hearing was scheduled under the impression it would focus on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, yet lawmakers took advantage of another chance to grill the intelligence officials about the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

Did President Trump ever ask Rogers to try to “downplay” the Russia investigation? Warner wondered.

The NSA director refused to relay any details about his private conversations with the president, but he could for certain offer the following assurance about his three years as NSA director.

NSA Dir. Rogers: "I have never been directed to do anything I believed to be illegal, immoral, unethical, or inappropriate."

Warner was disappointed by Rogers’ lackluster answer, and proceeded to ask Coats the same thing. He, too, was not very forthcoming. Yet, he also told the panel that he has “never” felt pressured by the Trump administration to interfere in an investigation.

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sign of the times. A DEM senator is disappointed that the NSA Director has never been directed to do anything illegal