Too few people realize that Roe v. Wade is a 2-sided coin. It protects a woman’s liberty to choose *whether or not* to bear a child. Relegating that choice to the state isn’t a PRO-LIFE move but an ANTI-LIBERTY move. If a state can say “stay pregnant!” it can also say “abort!”
Have you folks noticed that Rudy Giuliani has suddenly disappeared from TV after the IG report suggested the FBI leaks tied to him are under investigation? Coincidence?
Unless the Dems play constitutional hardball and get Collins or Murkowski to join them in making McConnell swallow his own medicine, it’ll be time to recycle the Constitutional Law casebooks in use during the 1920s. Or maybe the 1890s. The human cost will be heavy.
Potentially the greatest danger of today’s 5-4 decision upholding Travel Ban 3.0 is that, despite the majority’s effort to make it a legalistic decision about the presidency, Trump will read it as a personal vindication and a green light for bigotry and proto-fascist autocracy
The horror of family separation may be “Trump’s Katrina” and the images of stricken children the crucible that forges a lasting impression of this malevolent administration. But Katrina was a natural disaster made worse by human error. This tragedy was man-made from the start.
Trump’s latest scam offers this typically gross deal: “We’ll return your toddler if you give up your asylum claim.” That’s flatly unconstitutional extortion under Speiser v. Randall (1958), Sherbert v. Verner (1963), and Agency for Int’l Dvlp v. Alliance for Open Society (2013).
Mr. President, we won’t turn our back on those fleeing violence and persecution. We won’t stop offering asylum. We won’t give up our values of generosity and compassion. Immigrants helped build this country, and understand its ideals better, apparently, than you do. https://t.co/h3WENxUcIe
Note to media: every time you refer to 2,300 children seized from parents you are wrong. It was 2,342 as of June 9. Children were seized for 2 more weeks-70 to 100 per day. The REAL TOTAL is over 3,000.
Trump is trying to distract from his cruel and avoidable family separation fiasco by parading people who have lost loved ones to crimes by illegal aliens, repeating his big lie that such immigrants commit a disproportionate share of all violent crimes. They do not.
First time illegal entry into the United States is a misdemeanor.
Lying on or omitting materially relevant information from your SF86 (as Jared Kushner did multiple times by his own admission) is a felony.
Guess which one's getting prosecuted?
I’m still hung up on the sheer vileness of using the verb “infest” to refer to human beings.
It’s not overstating things to say that it springs from the darkest, most evil corners of human history.
It’s the way genocidaires talk about the people they are murdering.
Trump, Kelley, Miller, Sessions and Nielsen are monsters. How eagerly and proudly they abuse innocent children and desperate families for political gain is abominable. Their actions are totally unforgivable.
Mouth agape. Tripling down on a total Four-Pinocchio falsehood. Saying it over and over does not make it so. We have now fact checked this three times. It’s still false. https://t.co/8UUUhx9Pn2
KABOOM!!
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has just announced that the State of New York is about to file a "multi-agency lawsuit against the Trump administration for violating the Constitutional rights of immigrant children & their families who have been separated at the border."
Senate voted to reinstate sanctions on Chinese telecom firm ZTE — now the House should do the same. The President prioritized Chinese jobs over our national security, but Congress doesn’t have to go along with that. @SpeakerRyan, do your job. https://t.co/n78jnwpBJC
Since the president is lying about this, I'll reiterate that we obtained internal CBP documents that show that ****91%**** of parents whose kids are taken away are being prosecuted for misdemeanor FIRST TIME entry.