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Ann Coulter says Donald Trump's national emergency is to "scam the stupidest people in his base for next 2 years
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, a strong supporter of Donald Trump until very recently, has been very vocal about her irritation regarding the president’s inability to follow through on the border wall.
On the recent Trump emergency declaration, she said he was only doing so to “scam the stupidest people in his base in his base for 2 more years."
Coulter, who authored the book ‘In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!’ in 2006, turned against the President last month, after he unexpectedly agreed to reopen the government without any border funds.
Quoting the tweet of Conservative Review senior editor Daniel Horowitz, in which he wrote that “the goal of a national emergency is to end illegal immigration and cartel smuggling,” Coulter opined, “No, the goal of a national emergency is for Trump to scam the stupidest people in his base for 2 more years,” she tweeted.
Coulter seems to have lost all trust in the president, and wrote in a separate tweet, “The goal is to get Trump's stupidest voters to say ‘HE'S FIGHTING!’ No he's not. If he signs this bill, it's over.” She was referring to the bipartisan border deal that Congress has presented to the president to sign, and which contains much less money than what Trump had demanded for border security. "Unhappy" with the allocation, Trump declared the emergency in order to build the wall. However, the decision is facing legal scrutiny.
She is also currently, vehemently tweeting against the Trump governemnt, including retweeting comments about Jared Kushner being the president for all intents and purposes.
This comes in the wake of Coutler’s radio interview with KABC's Morning Drive on Friday, wherein she said that "the only national emergency is that our president is an idiot." Trump had claimed earlier claimed that the conservative voice is "off the reservation.”
To this, Coulter said, “Thank God he’s relieved me of any responsibility for what he’s been doing. That was the biggest favor anyone could do [for] me today.” Trump made the comments about Coulter during a press conference, wherein he first claimed to not know who Coulter was, before saying that he has not spoken to her in over a year.
He said, "Ann Coulter, I don’t know her. I hardly know her. I haven’t spoken to her in way over a year. But the press loves saying, ‘Ann Coulter.’” Further he added, "Probably if I did speak to her, she’d be very nice. I just don’t have the time to speak to her. I would speak to her. I have nothing against her," he continued. "In fact, I like her for one reason. When they asked her right at the beginning, ‘Who’s going to win the election?’ She said, ‘Donald Trump.’ And the two people that asked her that question smiled. They said, ‘You’re kidding, aren’t you?’ Nope. Donald Trump. So, I like her."
“But she’s off the reservation,” Trump concluded. “But anybody that knows her understands that. But I haven’t spoken to her. I don’t follow her. I don’t talk to her.”
https://meaww.com/ann-coulter-doubles-down-on-donald-trump-says-national-emergency-is-to-scam-stupidest-people
California to sue Trump administration over emergency declaration
Los Angeles, Feb. 16 (IANS): California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced plans to sue the Donald Trump administration over the President’s declaration of a national emergency to access funds for building a wall on the Mexican border.
“President Trump is manufacturing a crisis and declaring a made-up ‘national emergency’ in order to seize power and subvert the constitution. This ’emergency’ is a national disgrace, and the blame lays solely at the feet of the President,” Newsom said in a statement on Friday hours after Trump’s declaration, Xinhua reported.
“Meanwhile, he plans to shut down and divert funds used by California law enforcement that run counter-narcotics operations and fight drug cartels to build his wall. Our message back to the White House is simple and clear –California will see you in court,” the Democratic Governor added.
Newsom and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra did not mention when they would file the lawsuit at a press conference in Sacramento, the capital city of California.
“Fortunately, Donald Trump is not the last word, the courts will be the last word,” said Newsom at the press conference.
Becerra said California is being called upon to act, noting that they held the press conference because the important matters impacting the state of California and American people.
“He can’t do this, because the US Constitution gives Congress, not the President, the powers to direct dollars, the powers of the purse,” he added.
Trump announced earlier on Friday that he will sign a national emergency to build the US-Mexico border wall and push for his signature campaign promise. The move gave the president power to bypass US Congress to get access to money, but it sparked a new round of legal and partisan battles almost immediately.
The White House plans to redirect $3.6 billion in military construction funding toward the border project, re-purposing about $2.5 billion from the Defense Department’s drug-interdiction programme and $600 million from the Treasury Department’s asset-forfeiture fund.
http://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/california-to-sue-trump-administration-over-emergency-declaration/
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https://twitter.com/Cordicon/status/1096542926136664065
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Returns to Work at Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court on Friday to participate in a private conference at which the justices considered adding cases to the court’s docket, a court spokeswoman said. It was Justice Ginsburg’s first appearance at the court since undergoing cancer surgery in December.
Among the cases under consideration at Friday’s conference were ones on whether the Trump administration may add a question on citizenship to the census and whether a federal law barring employment discrimination applies to gay men and lesbians.
Justice Ginsburg, 85, missed two weeks of arguments in January but participated in the cases by reading briefs and transcripts. She is expected to be on the bench on Tuesday when the court returns from its four-week midwinter break.
Justice Ginsburg has suffered a number of health setbacks over the years but had never before missed an argument in her 25 years on the court.
Surgeons removed two malignant nodules from Justice Ginsburg’s left lung on Dec. 21. The court has said that the surgery was successful and that she is cancer free.
“Post-surgery evaluation indicates no evidence of remaining disease, and no further treatment is required,” Kathleen Arberg, a court spokeswoman, said in January.
Doctors found the nodules during tests following a fall in November in which Justice Ginsburg fractured her ribs. She had broken her ribs once before, in 2012. In 2014, she underwent a heart procedure.
Justice Ginsburg has been treated for cancer twice before, and attributed her survival partly to the medical care she received at the National Institutes of Health.
“Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H.,” she said in the 2013 interview. “That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage” in 2009.
She did not miss any arguments after the earlier procedures. She was also on the bench in 2010 on the day after the death of her husband, Martin D. Ginsburg.
Last week, Justice Ginsburg made her first public appearance since her recent surgery at an evening of music celebrating her life. But she skipped President Trump’s State of the Union address the following night.
Justice Ginsburg is the senior member of the court’s four-member liberal wing. Mr. Trump has appointed two new members to the Supreme Court, Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, moving it considerably to the right.
Should he name Justice Ginsburg’s replacement, Republican appointees would outnumber Democratic ones six to three.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/politics/ruth-ginsburg-supreme-court.html
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