Four Republican members of the Supreme Court just said that Trump can ignore the law
On Friday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s request to reinstate an unlawful effort to prevent many refugees from seeking asylum in the United States. This order is not surprising, as the Trump administration’s arguments are so weak that they literally were rejected by the judge who wrote infamous Bush era memos authorizing torture.
What is surprising about Friday’s order in Trump v. East Bay Sanctuary Covenant is the vote. The decision was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the four Democrats in the majority. All four of the remaining Republicans, including Brett Kavanaugh, voted to grant the stay.
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https://thinkprogress.org/four-republican-members-of-the-supreme-court-just-said-that-trump-can-ignore-the-law-f8d6ac3e89ce/
Trump Now Sessionizing Whitaker
Unsurprisingly, according to CNN, President Trump twice chewed out his Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker for not doing more to control prosecutors in the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office. This happened first when Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress at the end of November and then again a week later when prosecutors implicated President Trump in a number of felonies.
“Pointing to articles he said supported his position, Trump pressed Whitaker on why more wasn’t being done to control prosecutors in New York who brought the charges in the first place, suggesting they were going rogue.”
Needless to say, this is completely inappropriate and verges on obstruction in and of itself. But what’s just as telling is how ineffective Whitaker seems to have been in his primary mission of shutting down investigations that would embarrass or endanger the President.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-now-sessionizing-whitaker
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