What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Oexmelin]

There will increasingly be more of those things that are very narrowly legal from the perspective of an eighteenth-century Constitution, but have the aggregated effect of sapping the basis of American democracy.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm not surprised.  Have you looked into her career at all?

All I know is meeting Bubba on the plane. Vaguely recall some strong words about Balmer police homicide case.

[katmai]

I'm not surprised.  Have you looked into her career at all?

All I know is meeting Bubba on the plane. Vaguely recall some strong words about Balmer police homicide case.

[LaCroix]

the EO did not lose in the courts. that rumor seems to be carrying some legs. a district court judge overruled that a very, very small aspect of the EO. that doesn't affect the rest of the EO under traditional concepts of judicial review of laws. you construe things narrowly and try to keep the law intact if possible. that's how obamacare survived -- parts of it were ruled unconstitutional and literally cut from the rest of the act.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm not surprised.  Have you looked into her career at all?

All I know is meeting Bubba on the plane. Vaguely recall some strong words about Balmer police homicide case.

You don't even know who we're talking about.

[CountDeMoney]

[Admiral Yi]

My bad.  Thought it was the sister.

[CountDeMoney]

Unfortunately, she was the highest existing Senate confirmed official in the DOJ, and therefore the only official authorized to sign FISA warrants for surveillance.

Der Weiss Haus is saying the new guy was sworn in at 9 PM, but there are no witnesses or evidence produced for that so far.

[sbr]

Unfortunately, she was the highest existing Senate confirmed official in the DOJ, and therefore the only official authorized to sign FISA warrants for surveillance.

Der Weiss Haus is saying the new guy was sworn in at 9 PM, but there are no witnesses or evidence produced for that so far.

Worrying about who can authorize what in this shitshow is adorable. 

[DGuller]

Is anyone reading Rogue POTUS Staff Twitter account?  What are the odds it's legit?

[sbr]

Tea Pain
‏@TeaPainUSA

More Muslims have been killed by Trump supporters in the past 24 hours than Americans killed by refugees from banned countries in 30 years.

https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/826128469574709248

[The Minsky Moment]

There's nothing wrong with Yates pulling a Richardson.  She didn't sign on to be a part of this disgraceful shit show.  The criticism is that she didn't resign, but the difference is the lack of personnel below her, to wit:

Unfortunately, she was the highest existing Senate confirmed official in the DOJ, and therefore the only official authorized to sign FISA warrants for surveillance.

So the charitable interpretation is that she stayed on to preserve this capability until the Trumpists could get their act together and put someone else in.

[The Minsky Moment]

the EO did not lose in the courts. that rumor seems to be carrying some legs. a district court judge overruled that a very, very small aspect of the EO. that doesn't affect the rest of the EO under traditional concepts of judicial review of laws. you construe things narrowly and try to keep the law intact if possible. that's how obamacare survived -- parts of it were ruled unconstitutional and literally cut from the rest of the act.

You know better than this.  So far all the applications have been TROs so there hasn't been any full reviews yet.  But there have been court findings of substantial likelihood of success on the merits.  There have been four separate district court rulings - and they address the core of the executive order.  These cases are just at the beginning but so far the administration is getting pasted in Court.  It is not typical for an EO to get hit with TRO grants within hours of issuance,

[katmai]

the EO did not lose in the courts. that rumor seems to be carrying some legs. a district court judge overruled that a very, very small aspect of the EO. that doesn't affect the rest of the EO under traditional concepts of judicial review of laws. you construe things narrowly and try to keep the law intact if possible. that's how obamacare survived -- parts of it were ruled unconstitutional and literally cut from the rest of the act.

You know better than this.

Does he, does he really??

[viper37]

the evidence is starting to pile up that people don't actually care about the things a lot of posters here think they should be caring about

fuck y'alls books, we the people now

Donald Trump was the fastest president to get to net negative popularity in modern history.  It took him eight days.  Usually it takes months or years.

The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls. They are rigged just like before.

That's actually not true. Gallup doesn't do election prediction polls.

Nobody got that I was quoting Trump's twitter on his approval poll just before inauguration day
I don't think he's too embarassed by untrue statements either, so there's no shame there