Let me see if I got this right!!
First we have an apparent made up charge to undermine a duly elected President of the United States using Intel from retired Russian Agents that admit themselves it can’t be verified, a special Counsel appointed to the investigation who picks a team without one Republican, and now we have one of those weaponized progressive judges that Harry Reid and Obama carefully placed in the lower courts to block anything Trump or anyone else who would be attempting to undo what Obama and his Administration did to destroy America from within, is now being used to prevent a new team of lawyers from adding the “Are You a Citizen’ question to the 2020 Census?? You can’t make this ‘SHIT’ up!!
Let me refresh your memory on how the Progressive Socialist Party led by Harry Reid, the Senate Majority leader at the time before turning the reins over to Mitch McConnell when the Republicans took back the Senate in 2014!
If you don’t understand what the President’s Constitutional powers are let me refresh your memory when it comes to immigration!
“The exclusion of aliens is a fundamental act of sovereignty … inherent in the executive power,” the Supreme Court said in 1950. And lest there be doubt, Congress adopted a provision in 1952 saying the president “may by proclamation and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens and any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants” whenever he thinks it “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
The ’Deep State’ has placed judges to block these attacks on our sovereignty too many times, and it’s about time for the American people to see what is clearly an attempt to not only undermine the ‘Will’ of the American people, but ignore that ‘Will’ along with the Constitution and ‘Rule of Law’ to turn America into that image that now exists with the European Union and its open border policies, and the uncontrolled invasion of immigrants who can’t be vetted and have other agendas that don’t go hand in hand with America’s Christian Base, America’s Constitutional Guaranteed Rights, or come with the possibility of realizing the American Dream!
“President Trump Blocked 3 times by Progressive Judges from using his Constitutionally granted powers to protect America’s Sovereignty!”
The first time was when his temporary ‘Travel Ban’ was ordered until the vetting process could be fine-tuned by these ‘Planted’ Progressive protectors of the Obama Administration’s immigration policies by blaming his Campaign Rhetoric as the cause!
The Second time was the ‘Wall’ and these same Progressive protectors blocking anything that had to do with following the legal process that had already been in place to protect America’s sovereignty by proper vetting and a period to allow the individuals to assimilate!
Thirdly we have the question on the Census about being a citizen or not, which Obama removed from the Census back in 2010, and another Progressive protector of Obama immigration lawlessness refusing to let President Trump use different attorneys to look at the possibilities. When have you ever heard of an American Citizen not be able to change attorneys if he or she is not happy with the way things are going, or because of that lawyer’s specific knowledge over another lawyer’s lack of that same specific knowledge?
I think with the Democrats not willing to come to the table to resolve the problem, but more than willing to shut down the government over the immigration issue that all American witnessed just a short time ago, and then having the recent poll numbers being released showing that the American people in large numbers agreeing with President Trump on his campaign promises on Immigration, that it’s time for President Trump to move on alone without the obstruction and resistance, and do what he has to do and what the constitution permits him to do, and that’s to protect the sovereignty of America!
DID HARRY REID’S ‘NUCLEAR OPTION’ HELP OBAMA RESHAPE THE COURTS FOR A GENERATION?
Or did it bring the self-destruction of what used to be the old ‘traditional’ Democratic Party, which has now become the partisan opposition to constitutionalism, and fighting back under the guise of Socialism, Globalism, and Progressivism? You wouldn’t know it but America is not ready for the 3 ‘ism’s,’ and don’t believe they ever will. I don’t care how many unvetted illegal immigrants and refugees you bring into America and support for their unvetted illegal voter status, and vote, but the silent majority, which is growing daily as President Trump wheels his version of the Obama ‘Pen and Phone,’ and undoing what was never patriotic, constitutional, or never keeping America safe!
President Trump, because of outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), not only has to navigate through a maze of progressive appeals court justices who won’t be following the rule of law or constitution, but the intent and interpretation of the progressive minded last minute appointed Socialist fix that will undermine our founding father’s Constitution, and the ‘Will’ of the American people.
Every day I witness the closer and closer last day of the Democratic Party, Pelosi and Schumer have no clue what American’s want, keep doubling down on the Socialist transformation of America, and are willing to go down with the ship, and that ship that is now being steered by the ‘Newly’ elected, or not, DNC captains of Perez and Ellison, who remain to this day, because of the ‘Paid to Report’ Media, not vetting and exposing the ideological beliefs of these two very same, but different political hacks that don’t believe that America isn’t exceptional.
What the ‘left’ is missing is that the ‘right’ is not wrong, and if these refugees and immigrants can be vetted and follow the rule of law when it comes to the immigration laws that are already in place, and not intentionally bypassed by the ‘Left,’ then we have no problem with their entrance to America. I have a couple of friends that took the time and did it right, and spent the common-sense extra time to assimilate, and find out if this is the true path they want to be on. I can’t see what the problem is, but as we all know it’s political, and has nothing to do with keeping America safe, but buying and supporting the vote of these illegals! There are no short cuts, and even though Harry Reid stacked the lower courts with Progressive justices, President Trump got his first Supreme Court justice seated, but it’s beginning to look like there will be at least 1, and possibly 3 more appointed Supreme Court Justices while the Progressive left sinks slowly into the west over the anti-freedom of speech California, just like the setting sun!
Barack ‘Insane’ Obama, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Tom Perez, and Keith Ellison might have won the small battles while side stepping the rule of law and constitution through their interpretation and intent of the law, and the stacking of the deck with progressive justices, but President Trump won the ‘War’ with his first Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, and with the ‘Left’ inspired ‘Nuclear Option’ you can be sure that the next 2-3 will be, like Gorsuch, will be Constitutionally inspired, and hold the rule of law, and constitution close to their hearts!
The mandated agenda of President Trump should be the focus of a bipartisan congress, but with the help of the agenda journalist and their bosses, the ‘Paid to Report’ Media, the truth has been distorted, and when you hear that 92% of the news is anti-Trump news, you know that you’re not getting the real story, the facts, or the information you need to make an informed decision when deciding on the direction of America should take, and voicing your decision through the ballot box. Let’s look back at the history of the ‘Nuclear Option’ and how the ‘left’ through Social Media, and a few patriotic cable news networks, played their cards wrong, and how all Americans dodged the biggest Socialist bullet in history!
December 18, 2014, 6:00 AM EST
President Barack Obama can thank outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for triggering the “nuclear option” in November 2013 and securing him one of the most robust judicial legacies of any modern president.
In six years, he has appointed a whopping 307 judges, who will shape the law for decades after he leaves office. The final 12 district judges were confirmed in the closing night of the Senate session on Tuesday, Reid’s final move before Democrats surrender control of the chamber.
“The Obama Administration and the United States Senate have given Americans the best possible holiday present: the gift of justice,” said Nan Aron, the president of the progressive law and policy group Alliance for Justice.
A total of 132 judges were confirmed in the 113th Congress — the most since the 1970s.
Perhaps most significant is his appointment of 53 judges on federal circuit courts, which have the last word on most matters of law. When Obama took office, just one of 13 appeals courts had most Democratic-appointed judges on the active bench. Today, nine of 13 appeals courts have most Democratic appointees.
“There has been an extraordinary onslaught of confirmations in the last year,” said Russell Wheeler, an expert on federal courts at the Brookings Institution.
Obama has named the first-ever Native American woman and Indian American federal judge. He has placed more female and Hispanic judges than any previous president, and more Asian-American and openly gay judges than all other presidents combined.
“Before Obama, 59 percent of the active judges were white males. Now it’s down to 51 percent. That’s quite a change in 6 years,” Wheeler said. “You probably want to have a judiciary that looks like the people it’s serving, and if they’re all white males then you don’t have that.”
Until November 2013, Obama lagged his predecessors in confirming judges, facing unusual delays by the Senate Republican minority. Then Reid and 51 Democrats triggered the “nuclear option” to scrap the 60-vote threshold for all nominations other than the Supreme Court, advancing some stalled nominations and kicking the process into overdrive. Since then, Obama has outpaced his two predecessors in confirming appellate court judges.
In the last year, Democrats have confirmed 14 of Obama’s circuit court nominees, half with fewer than 60 votes. The most salient impact of the “nuclear option” was to add three judges to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, widely described as the second most powerful federal court, and a feeder to the Supreme Court. Senate Republicans had refused to fill the three vacancies. The nuclear option also freed Obama to appoint some more liberal judges, including Nina Pillard to the D.C. Circuit, who drew comparisons to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — and faced GOP opposition — for her work on gender equality.
Research by political scientists Robert Carp and Kenneth Manning finds that Obama’s judges are “somewhat more liberal than the Clinton judges but slightly less liberal than the Carter and Johnson jurists,” based on an analysis of rulings from 1932 to 2013 by judges appointed by each of the Democratic presidents.
“We’ve noticed patterns of voting with respect to certain kinds of legislation that gets upheld,” Randy Barnett, a respected conservative legal scholar at Georgetown University, said recently. “There are certain executive branch practices that get upheld that would not have before.”
For Democrats, the downside of the filibuster rule change is that Republicans have, in protest, slowed down confirmations of even judicial nominees they support, forcing procedural votes when the nominations could otherwise have breezed through.
The bad news for Obama is that the coming Republican majority can veto any judicial nominee during his final two years. Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) hinted at revenge if Reid opted to go nuclear, and conservative legal advocates suggest that Republicans would rather have vacancies than bring up judges whom they dislike.
“I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle: you’ll regret this,” McConnell said in November 2013. “And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think.”
Retiring Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), a staunch opponent of the “nuclear option” and one of just three Democrats who voted against it, said he sees a silver lining to the confirmation of many judges who had been blocked.
“I think there could be [an upside] in that area — that more judges that have been confirmed than otherwise would, short-term,” Levin told TPM. “Yeah.”
The White House said it was “grateful to the Senate for its action.”
“A fully functioning judiciary is critical to the administration of justice,” White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said, “and a judiciary that better resembles our nation instills even greater confidence in our justice system.”
Correction: this article previously stated that Obama appointee the country’s first black lesbian federal judge in Staci Michelle Yandle. That milestone was achieved by Bill Clinton with his appointee Deborah Batts.
Reid, Democrats trigger ‘nuclear’ option; eliminate most filibusters on nominees
Senate Democrats took the dramatic step Thursday of eliminating filibusters for most nominations by presidents, a power play they said was necessary to fix a broken system but one that Republicans said will only rupture it further.
Democrats used a rare parliamentary move to change the rules so that federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments can advance to confirmation votes by a simple majority of senators, rather than the 60-vote super-majority that has been the standard for nearly four decades.
The immediate rationale for the move was to allow the confirmation of three picks by President Obama to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — the most recent examples of what Democrats have long considered unreasonably partisan obstruction by Republicans.
In the long term, the rule change represents a substantial power shift in a chamber that for more than two centuries has prided itself on affording more rights to the minority party than any other legislative body in the world. Now, a president whose party holds the majority in the Senate is virtually assured of having his nominees approved, with far less opportunity for political obstruction.
The main combatants Thursday were the chamber’s two chiefs, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who have clashed for several years over Republican filibusters of Obama’s agenda and nominees.
Reid said the chamber “must evolve” beyond parliamentary roadblocks. “The American people believe the Senate is broken, and I believe the American people are right,” he said, adding: “It’s time to get the Senate working again.”
McConnell linked the rule change to the methods used to approve Obama’s health-care law solely with Democratic votes. The normally reserved GOP leader paced at his desk during his speech, often turning his back to Democrats to address only his fellow Republicans.
“It’s a sad day in the history of the Senate,” McConnell told reporters, calling the move a Democratic “power grab.”
The clash ended with a vote nearly as partisan as the times — 52 to 48, with all but three Democrats backing the move and every Republican opposing it.
The vote was the culmination of more than 25 years of feuding over nominations, beginning with President Ronald Reagan’s choices for the Supreme Court and including Obama’s picks for obscure federal regulatory agencies. Each side in Thursday’s debate cited its own statistics to state its case.
Democrats said the attempted filibusters of Chuck Hagel during his confirmation hearing to become defense secretary, a first for any nominee to lead the Pentagon — as well as a blockade of picks to head the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — exceeded anything Democrats did when they were in the minority. In addition, Democrats charged that Republicans didn’t even have substantive objections to the D.C. Circuit nominees they filibustered.
After the vote, Obama told reporters at the White House that Republicans had turned nomination fights into a “reckless and relentless tool” to grind the gears of government to a halt and noted that “neither party has been blameless for these tactics.” However, he said, “today’s pattern of obstruction. . . just isn’t normal; it’s not what our founders envisioned.”
Republicans countered that they had confirmed 99 percent of Obama’s judicial selections. McConnell accused Democrats of eyeing the D.C. Circuit to stack the court, which reviews many cases related to federal laws and regulations, to tilt its balance in a liberal direction.
What made the day so historic for senators, former senators and the small collection of parliamentary experts in Washington was the simple majority vote used to execute the changes — a tactic so extreme it is known as the “nuclear option.”
Previous majorities had threatened to upend filibuster rules in this manner but relying on a simple majority vote had been used only for relatively minor procedural changes to how amendments were handled, never to eliminate the supermajority requirement altogether. Before Thursday, the standard precedent was that major rule changes needed a two-thirds majority. The change was so significant that Reid and his leadership team held a victory party with liberal activists afterward in a room just off the Senate floor.
Republicans said the way Democrats upended the rules will result in fallout for years. “It’s another raw exercise of political power to permit the majority to do anything it wants whenever it wants to do it,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), the GOP’s parliamentary expert, told reporters.
Republicans vowed to reciprocate if they reclaim the majority.
“Democrats won’t be in power in perpetuity,” said Sen. Richard C. Shelby (Ala.), a 27-year member. “This is a mistake — a big one for the long run. Maybe not for the short run. Short-term gains, but I think it changes the Senate tremendously in a bad way.”
After the vote, Reid told reporters that his views on the issue had evolved — from eight years ago, when Republicans held the majority and he led the fight to protect the filibuster. He acknowledged that he wouldn’t mind seeing the super-majority requirement abolished for everything but that there were not enough votes in his caucus to support such a move.
Reid first faced pressure on this issue from junior Democrats four years ago, particularly Sen. Jeff Merkley, a former speaker of the Oregon state House, who became the point person for growing the anti-filibuster movement. But Reid repeatedly rejected their effort as too radical.
Even if Republicans want to do away with the filibuster someday, Reid said, Thursday’s move was worth it because the current climate had become too hostile to get anything significant done. Reid said he faced a choice: “Continue like we are or have democracy?”
The rule change does not apply to Supreme Court nominations or to legislation.
Individual senators will still be able to seize the floor for marathon speeches opposing nominees, as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) did in a nearly 13-hour session in March against the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director. But once such speeches end, the majority will be able to confirm nominees without needing bipartisan support.
With the Senate majority very much up for grabs in midterm elections next year, Democrats placed a big bet on maintaining control of the chamber. GOP leaders have suggested that, if given the Senate Majority back, they might further strip filibuster rules, so they could dismantle Obama’s landmark domestic achievement, the Affordable Care Act, on a simple majority vote.
“The solution to this problem is at the ballot box,” he said. “We look forward to having a great election in 2020.” ~~ By Paul Kane, a Friend of America!
