Originally published at: Trump Admin Tries to Use Shutdown to Pause DC’s Case Against National Guard Occupation
The Trump administration lobbied Wednesday evening for a freeze of Washington D.C.’s attempt to eject a couple thousand National Guard from the district. The district’s attorneys are seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the “unlawful” patrols. “Absent an appropriation, Department of Justice attorneys and many employees of federal defendants are prohibited from working, even on…
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There’s an obvious solution for the Trump administration. If they can’t pay the lawyers, and they can’t pay the troops, then maybe the troops shouldn’t be patrolling the streets.
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Who is the Mango Mussolini Whisperer?? Donnie isn’t very bright, in fact he is pretty stupid and not clever in the machinations of government. Is he being advised by Stephen Miller? Steve Bannon? A lawyer? A MAGA Repub from within? Who plants these nefarious ideas into his Orange Head?
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Nobody seems to be asking that if they are authorized to make this delay request, why they can’t also be authorized to comply with other preliminary injunctions?
Also, isn’t the whole justification behind having National Guard troops in DC because it’s for ‘emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property’? Aren’t the Federal Government attorneys implying that the deployment of the Guard to DC is not an emergency involving the safety of human life or the protection of property? That kind of undermines their whole case.
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“I tied my shoes together, so I don’t have to turn in my homework today!”
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I’m pretty sure it’s the Supreme Court. Kavenaugh seems to be twisting himself into a pretzel justifying why Trump can discriminate against minorities. How long before it’s legal to burn somebody’s house down?
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And justifying that action is burning down someone’s houseby saying that it is a less lethal option. They would probably call it preventative justice.
Whatever happened to this:
Apparently, the four freedoms are now controversial.
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D.C., like California and Oregon, has challenged the presence of armed federal law enforcement, but has less autonomy due to its sub-state status. A few hundred of the Guard in the district came from mostly red states. Many of them have been turned to “beautification” projects including spreading mulch and picking up trash, costing the taxpayers an estimated $201 million.
$201 million dollars.
And how much will the interventions in LA and Oregon cost?
Someone should keep track of all of the waste in this militarization of law enforcement.
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Wow! Just evil.
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I feel like one of the many things the Trump administration is is a version of a kid who always pleads that “The Dog Ate My Homework.” And in this case the kid almost always gets away with it, but once in a while he doesn’t.
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I guess the pretzel is appropriate. I mean, we know he really likes beer.
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Bearing responsibility for the shutdown by virtue of undertaking no good faith efforts to negotiate with Democrats, Trump is more like the defendant who killed his parents pleading for mercy because he’s an orphan.
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