Trumpwatch 2.0

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A judge has temporarily blocked Trumps executive order on birthright citizenship.

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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will not support Hegseth for Defense Secretary. She is the first Republican to oppose a Trump cabinet pick.

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The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to investigate local jurisdictions that try to obstruct immigration enforcement.

As they should. If you or I or any other citizen was obstructing law enforcement in their duties, you'd probably be charged too.

You don't support state's rights?

What does that have to do with anything?

One word for you: Federalism.

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NYT:

President Trump revoked security protection for his former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and a former top aide, Brian Hook, despite warnings from the Biden administration that both men faced ongoing threats from Iran because of actions they took on Mr. Trump’s behalf, four people with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.

Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Hook had been part of an aggressive posture against Iran during the first Trump presidency, most notably the drone strike that killed the powerful Iranian general Qassim Suleimani in early 2020.

Defend this shit, BMW. I'll hang up and listen.

You're probably in for a looooooong wait. Because bmw will either ignore the tough question, or he'll type a giant glob of vomit defending tRump on this...

[Matt]

The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to investigate local jurisdictions that try to obstruct immigration enforcement.

As they should. If you or I or any other citizen was obstructing law enforcement in their duties, you'd probably be charged too.

You don't support state's rights?

What does that have to do with anything?

One word for you: Federalism.

Also, Trump told us that everyone wanted the abortion question to go back to the states, why wouldn't the same be true for immigration? We're talking about protecting actual living people rather than potential people.

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The Senate has confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA Director.

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The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to investigate local jurisdictions that try to obstruct immigration enforcement.

As they should. If you or I or any other citizen was obstructing law enforcement in their duties, you'd probably be charged too.

You don't support state's rights?

What does that have to do with anything?

One word for you: Federalism.

Again, what does that have to do with anything??

There are certain roles designated to the federal government. Two of them being defense and immigration. The federal government is not telling the states they have to take over the task of immigration, but the states (well, just SOME of the states) are actively interfering with the federal government in their attempts to execute their assigned duties.

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The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to investigate local jurisdictions that try to obstruct immigration enforcement.

As they should. If you or I or any other citizen was obstructing law enforcement in their duties, you'd probably be charged too.

You don't support state's rights?

What does that have to do with anything?

One word for you: Federalism.

Again, what does that have to do with anything??

There are certain roles designated to the federal government. Two of them being defense and immigration. The federal government is not telling the states they have to take over the task of immigration, but the states (well, just SOME of the states) are actively interfering with the federal government in their attempts to execute their assigned duties.

Actually before the Chinese exclusion act of 1882 there was nobody giving a flying fuck about immigration and worrying about who was coming in and all this blah blah blah… so nothing formally designates the Feds as arbiters of immigration. The constitution doesn’t even have the word in it. Worrying about it is a newer thing.

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Expect Trump to unleash a firestorm of insults toward this Reagan-appointed judge:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/politics ... index.html

[zzand]

I read somewhere that everyone knew the judicial system would get involved with this order. Evidently the orange wonder wants the Supreme Court to get it. Thinking is the judges he put in there will carry the day and convince the court that an order that ignores the constitution is ok to carry out.

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I read somewhere that everyone knew the judicial system would get involved with this order. Evidently the orange wonder wants the Supreme Court to get it. Thinking is the judges he put in there will carry the day and convince the court that an order that ignores the constitution is ok to carry out.

You hit the nail on the head ZZ… that’s exactly what the hope is. If they say know he could very well pull a “Justice Roberts has his decision now let him enforce it” thing. Since the Supreme Court doesn’t have a police force and relies on folks playing along with its decrees to have any power they can be easily ignored if someone really wanted to push it.

[zzand]

Like with the Tok Tok decision?

[Honeyman]

Hear the mother fucker wants to get rid of the penny.

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I read somewhere that everyone knew the judicial system would get involved with this order. Evidently the orange wonder wants the Supreme Court to get it. Thinking is the judges he put in there will carry the day and convince the court that an order that ignores the constitution is ok to carry out.

...and then the MAGAt crowd hopes tRump does the same with the 13th Amendment!

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Now we have an XO to do the most important thing facing our nation… declassification of the JFK, RFK, and MLK Assassination records. No word on if this is actually a dog whistle to the KKK to act on something.