The Legal War Against Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Census Power Grab Ramps Up | Talking Points Memo

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A new lawsuit filed Thursday challenges President Trump’s new anti-immigrant census policy, expanding the legal battlefield over Trump’s push to deprive immigrant communities of political power.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1322194
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Trump throws like a girl (sarcasm folks)

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Trump’s gambit to ignore the Constitution’s census requirement for counting “persons” is a political scam. It’s not serious. The memorandum Trump’s hatchetman Barr and other lackeys threw together is legally a joke. The decision will soon be stayed by a reviewing court and, we all hope, President Biden will withdraw it.

With Trump, everything is a self serving stunt to keep his deplorable racist base onboard. This is nothing else.

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Trump is only throwing the 1st pitch because he’s jealous of Dr Fauci and there are no spectators present to boo him.

I hope the players take the knee in front of the con man.

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I said the same thing last night when they announced he was doing it. He doesn’t want to be upstaged by Fauci. Poor little baby. :baby_bottle::baby:

Ooooh… taking a knee would be awesome.

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As a former “best college baseball player in NY” this should be interesting.

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I think his neck wear will get in the way and he will strangle himself.
A guy can hope

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May not be serious but it is still baldfaced unConstitutional.

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I’m betting he won’t be 60 feet 6 inches from home plate.

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To be fair, so did Fauci and Obama haha

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Yeah but they didn’t claim to be the best player in the history of New York State.
And they never claimed to be the world’s bests ever in history in any field which trump has done many times
To wit:

“I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have.”

The big picture: President Trump says he’s an expert on a lot of things, including ISIS, taxes, technology, nuclear arms and even Sen. Cory Booker.

  • Campaign finance: “I think nobody knows more about campaign finance than I do, because I’m the biggest contributor.” ( 1999. )
  • TV ratings: “I know more about people who get ratings than anyone.” ( October 2012. )
  • ISIS: “I know more about ISIS than the generals do.” ( November 2015. )
  • Social media: “I understand social media. I understand the power of Twitter. I understand the power of Facebook maybe better than almost anybody, based on my results, right?” ( November 2015. )
  • Courts: " I know more about courts than any human being on Earth." ( November 2015. )
  • Lawsuits: “[W]ho knows more about lawsuits than I do? I’m the king.” ( January 2016. )
  • Politicians : “I understand politicians better than anybody.”
  • The visa system: “[N]obody knows the system better than me. I know the H1B. I know the H2B. … Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me.” ( March 2016. )
  • Trade: “Nobody knows more about trade than me.” ( March 2016. )
  • The U.S. government system : “[N]obody knows the system better than I do.” ( April 2016. )
  • Renewable energy: “I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth.” ( April 2016. )
  • Taxes: “I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world.” ( May 2016. )
  • Debt: “I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me.” ( June 2016. )
  • Money: “I understand money better than anybody.” ( June 2016. )
  • Infrastructure: “[L]ook, as a builder, nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump.” ( July 2016. )
  • Sen. Cory Booker : “I know more about Cory than he knows about himself.” ( July 2016. )
  • Borders: Trump said in 2016 that Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he was endorsing him for president because “you know more about this stuff than anybody.”
  • Democrats: “I think I know more about the other side than almost anybody.” ( November 2016. )
  • Construction: “[N]obody knows more about construction than I do.” ( May 2018. )
  • The economy: “I think I know about it better than [the Federal Reserve].” ( October 2018. )
  • Technology: “Technology — nobody knows more about technology than me.” ( December 2018. )
  • Drones: “I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have.” ( January 2019. )
  • Drone technology: “Having a drone fly overhead — and I think nobody knows much more about technology, this type of technology certainly, than I do.” ( January 2019. )

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That’s where the analysis falls apart. It’s a shitshow of ideologues now. Depends entirely on luck of the draw.

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trump will end up claiming to be the best lawn bowler in the world after he throws in the first pitch.

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With his eyes shut?

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This is awesome. I cannot tell you, as a NY baseball fan, how wonderful I think this occasion is and how glad I am that this is happening.

Cuz I’m a Mets fan, and this is one more perfectly justified reason to fucking despise the goddamned New York Yankees.

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I hope they all kneel like the Nationals game and do it putting their backs to Trump.

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He can do this because there will be no fans to boo him.

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All the more reason to take a knee.
Donnie’s boycott ain’t gonna be cutting revenues, so it’s all up side.

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“Trump throws like a girl (sarcasm folks)”

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I’ve argued for TROs. This one is the easiest one ever to make, even in front of a right winger.

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