Comrade Chaos doesn’t give a damn about sanctuary cities. This was trotted out — along with Beauregard — as another attempt at diverting attention from his From Russia with Love problems.
And as we can see, as the scandal continues to engulf his disAdministration with breathtaking speed, it didn’t work.
This SOB’s going down. And none too soon.
Conservatives champion “states’ rights,” (as long as the state is more conservative than the feds)
Conservatives champion “local control,” (as long as the locality isn’t more liberal than the state)
Fucking hypocrites, all.
Our advantage is that they have no idea how government works, nor do they care to learn. That’s why Don needs an autocracy.
They also don’t understand how court precedent works. They never think ahead. They cheered Jones v. Clinton, not realizing that it applied to all Presidents, not just Clinton. Now Trump is facing a suit he won’t be able to put off.
The irony of the ruling dooming his so-called sanctuary city clawback is also pretty funny — those damn unintended consequences again!
It’s also ironic that one of the hardest hit departments would be the very one protecting his fucking New York City properties. (I wonder how that “Melanoma-Get-The-Hell-Out-Of-Dodge!” petition is going over in the Dictator Chic Suite at the Tower? Last I heard it had well over 50,000 signatures and it’d just gotten started.)
Mister Scam Man just can’t seem to put two-and-two together. Not that that’s anything new.
“Failure to remedy violations could result in withholding of grants, termination of grants, and disbarment or ineligibility for future grants,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned the roughly 600 sanctuary jurisdictions around the country in a Monday press conference. “I urge our nation’s states and cities to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws, and to re-think these policies.”
Best response to Mush Mouth Sessions?
As a compromise, let’s make Jared in charge of deciding which court rulings are best for Trump to follow and which she can ignore for now!
Yet another example as to how the Right only waves the Constitution when it benefits them. They deny its existence when it doesn’t support their stupidity.
The vendetta against sanctuary cities always struck me as akin to quartering troops, which Founders really, really disliked. Just for fun, see how many of George III’s “Oppressions” seem strangely relevant:
“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good… He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people… He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance… He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:… For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.”
Color me shocked, shocked, that Sessions doesn’t understand the law as the new AG under a Trump Administration, 10th Amendment notwithstanding.
So nice to see how these people in Drumpf’s remaking of the federal government will have their bullying decisions come back to bite them in the ass.
It will be another fine day if the courts find the appropriate means to hoist these assholes on their own petard.
Wonder how this state’s rights thingy will work when Sessions tries to go after various State’s marijuana laws. I suspect they’ll try at some point and be sorely disappointed, yet again.
The first 100 days haven’t gone so well, have they
The Conservative Justices are consistently ingenius at thinking up whatever it takes to move the partisan football.Watch for lower courts to block the order and SCOTUS to uphold it.
Merci.
How does that CROW taste?
The C in CLOSER keeps dropping off the description of Trump
…and we know what the C stands for
Well, maybe. Jones v Clinton was in federal court. The defamation suit against Trump is in state court in NY. Therefore, there’s wiggle room if the Supremes want to limit the Jones ruling. At that point, I imagine Gloria Allred can refile the suit in federal court in NY if the plaintiff lives someplace other than NY (wonder why she didn’t do that in the first place).
I don’t think the Supremes will. Four liberals plus Kennedy. (Even if Roberts, Alito and Thomas -RAT- overlook precedent.
State’s Rights for me, but not for thee!