February 16, 2019

Neal Katyal: Presidents do not have latitude to define emergency as a contravention to Congress

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word

For everyone worried about this contrived national emergency, Constitutional scholar Neal Katyal explains it well on this segment. Some points from his comments below referring to the Idiot's ill-conceived national emergency:

- This is a Constitutional disgrace, antithetical to the Constitution...
- Article 1 of constitution: "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

- The Founders' message is clear. Trump's legal advisors are giving him bad advice when they try to reprogram funds on grounds of a national emergency. The president not getting what he wants from Congress is not a national emergency.
This will be challenged in court immediately, and is easy to throw out.

- Re: the $2.5B from DoD drug interdiction program, this is not in the jurisdiction of DoD...Constitution lets Congress decide after appropriations.

- Presidents do not have latitude to define emergency as a contravention to congress.
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Love Neal Katyal

January 28, 2019

NBC's Brokaw apologizes for saying Hispanics should 'work harder at assimilation'

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/427197-nbcs-brokaw-apologizes-for-saying-hispanics-should-work-harder-at-assimilation

After a long and accomplished career, Tom Brokaw either seems to be struggling for a new self-identity, or has morphed into an enfeebled, cantankerous uncle who can't keep himself from blurting out his absurd opinions.

January 25, 2019

Dems 2020 messaging must feature front & center the cost of Shutdown to remind all of America

not to mention the
- economic cost of 7.1 BILLION: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/01/25/shutdown-carries-price/2678304002/

- the chaos to the entire nation:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-shutdown-is-causing-real-suffering--and-not-just-to-federal-workers/2019/01/12/bab0e836-15cf-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html?utm_term=.f026917ddb9f

- and the PAIN & SUFFERING to ~1 MILLION federal workers and their families, especially the low income:
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/government-shutdown-wreaks-havoc-in-lives-of-federal-workers-1405502531672

http://time.com/5488566/government-shutdown-federal-workers-furlough-salary/

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/19/16907138/government-shutdown-2018


Nancy P & Chuck Schumer are doing a good job expressing the message. All the candidates and the party as a whole need to be unified in the messaging going forward: this is the horror we endure when we vote for such an incompetent candidate.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/25/chuck_schumer_longest_shutdown_in_history_accomplished_nothing_but_pain_and_suffering.html

January 23, 2019

4 progressive Democrats named to House Oversight Committee - AOC, RTlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Ro Khanna

Source: Axios

4 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ro Khanna (Calif.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) — were named Tuesday night to the House Oversight Committee.

Why it matters: The influential Oversight Committee, led by Rep. Elijah Cummings, will serve as a powerful check on the Trump administration, which has accrued a laundry list of potential subpoena targets over the past two years. The four new members — all of which, besides Khanna, are freshmen — have been exceptionally outspoken in their criticism of the administration, with Tlaib in particular making headlines recently for her expletive-laced call to impeach President Trump.



Read more: https://www.axios.com/progressive-democrats-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-house-oversight-committee-a9baf

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Take note: All 4 are MINORITY Reps