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lawhawk2/22/2017 6:16:01 am PST

Greets and saluts from the resistance. Trump’s still pushing immigration/Muslim ban stuff, and is still running headlong into the Constitution. He doesn’t care. The GOP doesn’t care. This is what they want, and they’re going to keep cheering him on, consequences be damned.

The immigration/deportation rules are guaranteed to sweep up American citizens. It’s impossible for them not to. That means ICE detaining American citizens. So, when people claim that this isn’t a constitutional violation, they don’t know what they’re talking about (and they’ve likely gotten their law degrees on Twitter).

As I was walking to work this morning, noticed that DHS cops were in Hoboken Terminal. That’s unusual. Typically, we’ll see NJ Transit police, occasionally national guardsmen, or most commonly NJ State Police, but I suspect the reason is that they were told to be visible.

Meanwhile, just because Flynn’s gone doesn’t mean the Russia scandal is over.

As much as the GOP wants to see this disappear from the media, it’s not going away. But the GOP wont act because the rank and file see Putin not as an enemy of the US, but as someone to emulate. They want an autocrat who pushes a kleptocracy and rewards his close confidants (but those riches/wealth never ends up at his most strident supporters at the ground level). Like Trump, Putin’s pushing policies that enrich himself, but Russians don’t see any of the benefits - just more misery.