Fighting Trump's Big Government

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Arbitrary EOs stepping on state rights. We are not standing still. States fighting back.

"With the upcoming change in administrations, we expect that there will be extraordinary challenges for California in the uncertain times ahead," California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said in a joint statement Wednesday. "This is a critical moment in the history of our nation. We have an obligation to defend the people who elected us and the policies and diversity that make California an example of what truly makes a nation great."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/01/ ... 483566134/

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We need our clean air and low CO2

In a nationwide protest against the upcoming Trump administration, concerned Nebraskans gathered at Sen. Ben Sasse’s office to voice their demands for change, especially as it pertained to climate change.

“If we don’t have a clean and safer (environment), we have nothing,” said Laurie Witters-Churchill. “It’s already at an urgent point...now we have an extreme threat to our earth.”

Witters-Churchill said she was most fearful of Rex Tillerson’s nomination as Secretary of State. Tillerson formerly led the major oil and gas company ExxonMobil as its chairman and chief executive officer of ExxonMobil from 2006 to 2016. In addition, Trump has nominated former Texas governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy.

Protesters said these types of picks are not a positive step toward fighting climate change. Renewable energy and safe natural resources were some of the highlights of the Obama administration in Witters-Churchill’s eyes, but those are not a guarantee under Trump’s administration.

“I want safe, clean water for my family,” Witters-Churchill said.

Cindy Golden, a member of the protest, shared similar concerns over the picks. She said she hopes Sen. Sasse, who was an early, popular opponent of Trump, will be an ally in the coming years.

http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/prot ... 19ad5.html

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Litigation by states and cities will become an increasingly important form of resistance for Democrats in the Trump era. Democrats have not been in a weaker position since the 1920s. Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress and both chambers of 32 state legislatures. They occupy 33 governors’ mansions. In light of this Republican hegemony, legal action by states and cities is shaping up to be one of the most potent tools Democrats have to stymie Mr Trump’s agenda. “Attorneys-general can have an impact beyond what a state legislature can do,” says Paul Nolette, a political scientist at Marquette University. “By going to federal court and attempting to get an injunction – that has a national effect.”

In an interview with the Associated Press, Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic attorney general of New York, said that Mr Trump’s election has sparked “an awakening” among attorneys-general and lawyers more generally. In December, he wrote on Twitter: “I’m ready to stand-up and fight [Donald Trump], his dangerous appointees, and their radical agenda.” Javier Becerra, the Democratic attorney general of California, said in December: “If you want to take on a forward-leaning state that is prepared to defend its rights and interests, then come at us.”

Mr Nolette says state-attorneys general have become far more involved in national politics over the past twenty years. They also join forces more than they once did. Mr Nolette has compiled data that suggest attorneys-general teamed up to sue the federal government 13 times in the 1980s. From 2000 to 2010 they did so 26 times. He points to the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, when a bipartisan coalition of 46 attorneys-general successfully sued the four largest America tobacco companies for $206bn, as the “big bang moment” for attorney-general activism. As part of the settlement, the companies stopped certain marketing practices and agreed to make annual payments to the states to offset some of the medical costs associated with smoking-related diseases. This showed that attorneys-general can shape policy through litigation even where Congress fails to do so legislatively.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democrac ... and-orders

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Surprize! Trump nominee holding his own, for his bramch!

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Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch says Trump's attacks on judiciary are 'demoralizing'

[pErvinalia]

I hope California/Washington State etc trumpexit.

[JimC]

I hope California/Washington State etc trumpexit.

That was tried in 1860.

It didn't end well...

[laklak]

The Late Unpleasantness - yes, certainly to be avoided if at all possible. However, maybe we can just sell the whole country to China. Trump's a deal-maker, after all. The Chinks can't be takin' our jobs if we're ALL Chinks, can they?

Probably time to diversify the old portfolio, buy stock in respirator manufacturers, bottled air, maybe glass cleaner.

[JimC]

The Late Unpleasantness - yes, certainly to be avoided if at all possible. However, maybe we can just sell the whole country to China. Trump's a deal-maker, after all. The Chinks can't be takin' our jobs if we're ALL Chinks, can they?

Probably time to diversify the old portfolio, buy stock in respirator manufacturers, bottled air, maybe glass cleaner.

Given Trump's latest insults to our PM, he may find all US military installations in Oz handed to the Chinese, who will be our next best friends...

I quite like fried rice, anyway...

[laklak]

Never trust a Chinaman, inscrutable bastards. It used to be Greeks with gifts you had to look out for, but they're so broke what are they gonna bring? Refugees? Chinamen bring big screen TVs and smartphones.

[Tyrannical]

The Late Unpleasantness - yes, certainly to be avoided if at all possible. However, maybe we can just sell the whole country to China. Trump's a deal-maker, after all. The Chinks can't be takin' our jobs if we're ALL Chinks, can they?

Probably time to diversify the old portfolio, buy stock in respirator manufacturers, bottled air, maybe glass cleaner.

Given Trump's latest insults to our PM, he may find all US military installations in Oz handed to the Chinese, who will be our next best friends...

I quite like fried rice, anyway...

Tremble, Trumble, or what ever the hell his name is better have a good deal for Trump after that ditching of those island refugees on us. He knew Trump wouldn't like it and did it anyways after Trump was elected

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Big Trump Government grabbing all the...everything....it can.

No non-incumbent Republican president has won the popular vote since 1988. Democracy is not on the GOP’s side, and it knows it.
The judiciary plays a major role in the GOP’s authoritarian designs. Republicans on the Supreme Court waved their hand at gerrymanders. They gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. They give their blessing to voter suppression. Bush v. Gore happened.
Yet there is also another, deeper effort to use the courts to subvert democracy — and this is where Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, is likely to shine.

Enter the judge
Judge Gorsuch is, for the most part, a fairly conventional Republican judge. He’s viewed the rights of LGBT people narrowly and the rights of religious conservatives expansively. He’s fought to cut off state funding for Planned Parenthood. He’s railed against “American liberals” who rely “on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.”
Yet, despite Gorsuch’s rhetorical commitment to judicial restraint, he is one of the judiciary’s leading proponents of expanding judicial power at the expense of federal agencies. He would prefer to consolidate power in the one unelected branch of government at the very moment when Republicans are about to gain a stranglehold on that branch.

https://thinkprogress.org/the-gop-has-t ... .xhl58bquf

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The Late Unpleasantness - yes, certainly to be avoided if at all possible. However, maybe we can just sell the whole country to China. Trump's a deal-maker, after all. The Chinks can't be takin' our jobs if we're ALL Chinks, can they?

Probably time to diversify the old portfolio, buy stock in respirator manufacturers, bottled air, maybe glass cleaner.

I thought China had already bought America a couple of times over.

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Guvment restoring order

[laklak]

The Late Unpleasantness - yes, certainly to be avoided if at all possible. However, maybe we can just sell the whole country to China. Trump's a deal-maker, after all. The Chinks can't be takin' our jobs if we're ALL Chinks, can they?

Probably time to diversify the old portfolio, buy stock in respirator manufacturers, bottled air, maybe glass cleaner.

I thought China had already bought America a couple of times over.

Well, they paid for it, but we haven't signed the back of the registration slip yet.