Donald John Trump: The 2nd Greatest President of the USA (by volume)

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konfab said:
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The lower courts in the US are infested with judicial activism. This judgment proves it.
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This is from The Donald subreddit so unsure of its veracity:

Its so hilarious a Hawaii judge ruled against the Revised Travel Ban (thats the 9-0 voting one)... a Hawaii judge who just happened to go to school with Obama and was 1-2 miles away from Obama when he was in Hawaii.
Nothing fishy there.
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Edit: He was in the same class as Obama at Harvard:

Watson received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1991, and was admitted to practice law in California the same year.[1] Barack Obama and Neil M. Gorsuch were members of his graduating class.[2][4]
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konfab said:
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The lower courts in the US are infested with judicial activism. This judgment proves it.
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I haven't followed this closely so I may be wrong but isn't this a very watered down version of the original travel ban that was struck down by the lower courts?
 
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A watered down version of the watered down version

The Supreme Court is allowing a limited version of President Trump's travel ban to take effect as it gears up to hear the case in the fall.

By Robert Barnes
June 26 at 12:28 PM

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to allow a limited version of President Trump’s ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect and will consider in the fall the president’s broad powers in immigration matters in a case that raises fundamental issues of national security and religious discrimination.

The court made an important exception: It said the ban “may not be enforced against foreign nationals who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

In the unsigned opinion, the court said that a foreign national who wants to visit or live with a family member would have such a relationship, and so would students from the designated countries — Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — who were admitted to a U.S. university.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...afa314-573e-11e7-b38e-35fd8e0c288f_story.html
 
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konfab said:
Well that basically excludes all the "refugees".
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But doesn't exclude all the people from those countries. Including those who have relatives in the US?

What is your point exactly? That it's not a watered down version?
 
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konfab said:
Well that basically excludes all the "refugees".
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But not necessarily the terrorists...

I also see a lot of court cases coming up around whether or not someone has a 'bona-fide relationship' with a US citizen
 
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Hamish McPanji said:
But doesn't exclude all the people from those countries. Including those who have relatives in the US?

What is your point exactly? That it's not a watered down version?
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It means they can't come to the US and tear up their documentation like they do in Europe.
 
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C4Cat said:
I also see a lot of court cases coming up around whether or not someone has a 'bona-fide relationship' with a US citizen
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Which is why three judges dissented.

Edit: Not saying that that's the actual reason. Just saying keep that in mind.
 
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Kushner firm’s $285 million Deutsche Bank loan came just before Election Day

One month before Election Day, Jared Kushner’s real estate company finalized a $285 million loan as part of a refinancing package for its property near Times Square in Manhattan.

The loan came at a critical moment. Kushner was playing a key role in the presidential campaign of his father-in-law, Donald Trump. The lender, Deutsche Bank, was negotiating to settle a federal mortgage fraud case and charges from New York state regulators that it aided a possible Russian money-laundering scheme. The cases were settled in December and January.

Now, Kushner’s association with Deutsche Bank is among a number of financial matters that could come under focus as his business activities are reviewed by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who is examining Kushner as part of a broader investigation into possible Russian influence in the election.
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Russian official linked to South Florida biker club spent millions on Trump condos

Out-of-town money pouring into South Florida real estate is as old as Henry Flagler.

But the tale of Igor Zorin offers a 21st-century twist with all the weirdness modern Miami has to offer: Russian cash, a motorcycle club named after Russia’s powerful special forces and a condo tower branded by Donald Trump.

Zorin is a Russian government official who has spent nearly $8 million on waterfront South Florida homes, hardly financially prudent given his bureaucrat’s salary of $75,000 per year. He runs a state-owned broadcasting company that, among other duties, operates sound systems for the annual military parade that sends columns of soldiers and tanks rumbling through Moscow’s Red Square.

Zorin has other Miami connections, too: His local business associate, Svyatoslav Mangushev, a Russian intelligence officer turned Miami real-estate investor, helped found a biker club called Spetsnaz M.C. Spetsnaz is a group of motorcycle-loving South Florida expatriates who named themselves after the Russian equivalent of Delta Force or Seal Team Six.

Spetsnaz members once asked for official recognition from Russia’s biggest biker gang, the Night Wolves, an infamous group that has strong ties to Russia’s security services. The Night Wolves played a role in the Ukrainian uprising, once had their flag flown in outer space by Russian cosmonauts and are under U.S. sanctions.
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Budget office: Senate health bill adds 22 million uninsured

The Senate Republican health care bill would leave 22 million more Americans uninsured in 2026 than under President Barack Obama’s health care law, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday, in a blow to GOP leaders’ hopes of pushing the plan through the chamber this week.
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15 million more uninsured next year alone.
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And the biggest medicaid cut comes in just a year before the close of the CBO window, meaning even larger uninsured rates.

Premiums for a 64-year old with middle income go from $6,800 under ACA to $20,500 under BCRA
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http://www.kff.org/health-reform/is...er-the-senate-better-care-reconciliation-act/

Overall, marketplace enrollees would pay on average 74 percent more towards the premium for a benchmark silver plan in 2020 under the BCRA than under current law
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McConnellCare not shaping up to be all that.
 
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cerebus said:
Yeah, in case anyone still has faith in Kushner's abilities as Middle East peace arbitrator, it looks like he had a fallout with the Palestinian president. So maybe the Middle East actually IS 'as difficult as people have thought' after all.
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Odd. One would have thought a rich bumpkin with no relevant experience or skills, who inherited everything he has and whose dad bought his way into Harvard would be able to fix it all in a jiffy.
 
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