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imho, the Dem leadership knows they're fucked and cant really stop Kavanaugh, with the filibuster gone, a GOP majority in the senate and a candidate that is not extreme enough to have any hopes of collins or murkowski blocking him.
imho, they are just putting up a fight for show, so that they can tell their base that they tried everything in their power to stop him.

Quote (EndlessSky @ 10 Jul 2018 12:36)

John Mccain is going to have to vote for Kavanaugh by email in his condition. Hes about an inch from death

Quote (ThatAlex @ 11 Jul 2018 04:53)

McCain should have retired months ago. There's no excuse for him to be missing so many votes and work duties. He can't do his job.

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Basically. They can't do shit. It's really a shame what Democrats and Republicans have done with the filibuster over the past 5 years. At least McConnell is defending it from the President's attacks.



McCain should have retired months ago. There's no excuse for him to be missing so many votes and work duties. He can't do his job.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ 10 Jul 2018 22:01)

I think I've read somewhere that he had to hang on until after the 1st of June or July (cant remember exactly), so that his successor, which Arizona's governor chooses after his death, can serve until a 2020 special election, while there would have been a special election for the senate seat this fall if he had died or resigned before this cutoff date. So by making it this far, McCain has done his party a last big favor, given how close the races in Arizona are expected to be this fall, and how peculiar the entire power balance on the senate is right now.

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that ALJs are officers of the United States, since they are being effectively being given judicial power, and thus must be appointed by the President or a delegated officer
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"The executive order takes a very modest decision from the Supreme Court last month, and basically runs with it to turn just about all administrative law judges within the executive branch from somewhat independent civil servants into politically appointed and politically removable bureaucrats who basically will have no one to answer to other than the administration officials who are responsible for their appointment," said Stephen Vladeck, an expert on administrative law at the University of Texas law school.

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U.S. officials at the southern border may have taken a child of a U.S. citizen into custody, administration lawyers revealed Tuesday.

In a court filing to give an update on efforts to reunite families, lawyers for the Department of Justice (DOJ) said the administration is unable to determine if the child was separated from the parent, and the government hasn’t been able to locate the parent for more than a year.

The child is under the age of 5, according to the filing. Officials did not give any other details about the child or the parent's potential whereabouts.

One child “cannot be reunified at this time because the parent’s location has been unknown for more than a year,” the filing said. “Defendants are unable to conclusively determine whether the parent is a class member, and records show the parent and child might be U.S. citizens.”

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another story from nazi germany
the gestapo in their zeal to separate brown children from their parents have taken the child of a citizen away and don't know where the parent is now

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is cutting most of the funds previously provided to groups that help people get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act and will push them to promote plans lacking the law’s benefits and protections, a government agency said on Tuesday.

Under the latest cuts, so-called navigators who sign up Americans for the ACA, also known as Obamacare, will get $10 million for the year starting in November, down from $36.8 million in the previous year, according to a statement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

This follows a reduction announced by the CMS last August from $62.5 million, along with an even bigger cut to advertising for enrollment, and represents the latest in a series of moves to weaken the ACA by the administration of President Donald Trump.

Navigators will be “encouraged to demonstrate how they provide information to people who may be unaware of the range of available coverage options in addition to qualified health plans, such as association health plans, short-term, limited-duration insurance and health reimbursement arrangements,” the CMS statement said.

On Saturday, the administration said it would suspend a program that was set to pay out $10.4 billion to insurers for covering high-risk individuals under Obamacare last year, saying that a recent federal court ruling prevents the money from being disbursed.

Health insurers warned that the action could drive up premium costs and create marketplace uncertainty.

Trump’s administration has used its regulatory powers to undermine the ACA on multiple fronts after the Republican-controlled Congress last year failed to repeal and replace the law instituted by Democratic President Barack Obama. About 20 million Americans have received health insurance coverage through the program.

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Donald Trump’s environmental policies may have caused controversy in the US but the president’s stance has managed to get him a literal stamp of approval from a Russian mining company.

Uralasbest, one of the world’s largest producers and sellers of asbestos, has taken to adorning pallets of its product with a seal of Trump’s face, along with the words “Approved by Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States”.

The move follows the US Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision not to ban new asbestos products outright. The EPA said it would evaluate new uses of asbestos but environmental groups have criticized the agency for not going further by barring them on public health grounds.

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Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt had a colorful way of describing President Donald Trump’s trip to Europe this week.

Stirewalt told anchor Shannon Bream that Republicans in the U.S. Senate “will not stop Donald Trump from undermining NATO” nor will they be able to prevent the president “from realigning U.S. foreign policy to be more favorable towards Russia.”

“He is going to do it,” Stirewalt predicted.

In comments posted on Mediaite, he said:

“And the Republicans who say, ‘Well, we have a broad foreign policy apparatus and we forced him to impose these sanctions, and we forced him to do these things.’ He’s going to fly into Brussels like a seagull. He is going to defecate all over everything, squawk and fly away is what he’s going to do in Brussels. And the Europeans are going to continue to say to each other, ‘We don’t have a reliable partner in the U.S. government right now.’”

He also said Trump will succeed in realigning U.S. policy away from Europe and toward Russia. The only question is whether it’s temporary or lasting.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-chris-stirewalt-trump-defecate-europe_us_5b4587d7e4b07aea75454510