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Just finished the below press conference. It's annoying when the White House is inconsistent about picking and choosing it's enforcement of state rights vs federal ones. It seems like the only metric is the party's political bias on the issue at hand and what's expedient. This confrence had two specific issues come up, the tranny bathroom policy (state's right!) and recreational marijuana (this is problematic and subject to federal jurisdiction!)
2/23/17: White House Press Briefing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kagnaxYUPcWhy should states get to pick who can use the bathroom in public?
I'll address the schizophrenic opinion about Betsy DeVos and what rights are.
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The education secretary, who reportedly opposed President Donald Trump’s reversal of Obama-era federal guidelines for transgender students, defended her eventual support for the move during an appearance at CPAC on Thursday. “This issue was a very huge example of the Obama administration’s overreach,” she said.
And yet, DeVos also cited civil rights protections as a key part of her agency’s mission. “I think the role of the federal government should be as light a touch as possible,” she said, but added that “the areas in which the Department of Education has an important role are really around the needs of special needs students and around some of the civil rights issues.”
LBGT students, under greater threat thanks to the Trump administration, can only hope that reports are true about the education secretary’s private advocacy for their cause. Yet her public remarks on Thursday suggest something less hopeful: that her conservative fealty to “states’ rights” overrides her nominal tolerance.
What about all this doubletalk and doublethink? Her agency's most important mission is to ensure civil rights, yet doing that is federal overreach? Wtf is she doing there? This is why we shouldn't sell cabinet posts.
This post was edited by Skinned on Feb 23 2017 06:32pm