If only Trump knew anything about anything!
If only Trump knew anything about anything. In the last couple of days,
Trump has decided that we do not need to get out of or renegotiate
NAFTA. I never liked NAFTA, because of the jobs it took from the US, but
then I never ran for president with one of my key promises being to get
out of or renegotiate NAFTA. Trump did. Then he spoke with Mexico and
Canada and changed his mind.
Today, furious that he cannot get his way on defunding federal grants to what he calls sanctuary
cities, he is calling for the breakup of the US Court of Appeals, 9th
Circuit. Two problems there. The first is that the 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals did not hear the case on sanctuary cities. The second is that
the president has no authority to break up--whatever the heck he means
by that--and US Court of Appeals.
But wait! There is more! If you
order now...Trump obviously has no idea what sanctuary cities actually
are. They are cities in which the local police are told not to help
federal authorities with catching and detaining illegal aliens. But
local police have no legal authority to do that, anywhere. That is a
federal responsibility, and laying it on localities to enforce those
federal laws is not even legal. So there is that.
Trump went even
further to expose his complete lack of knowledge of how things work when
he declared that both his Muslim travel ban (which was heard by the 9th
Circuit Court) and the Sanctuary Cities funding ruling (heard by a
district court in San Francisco) were opposed by judges because lawyers
suing to stop his executive orders "judge shopped" [actual phrase "judge
shopping"] to find judges sympathetic to their cause. This did not
happen. The lawsuit against sanctuary cities' defunding was filed in San
Francisco, so it was heard by the district federal court there; the 9th
Circuit heard the Muslim-travel-ban case because that was initially
heard in Hawaii, and automatically went to the 9th Circuit on appeal by
the US Government.
Trump went even one step further than that when
he declared "...Ninth Circuit, which has a terrible record of being
overturned (close to 80%..." SHEER LUNACY. According to the Washington
Post, while it is true that 80 percent of the 9th Circuit cases taken up
by the US Supreme Court in 2015-2016 were overturned, the Supreme Court
only heard one-tenth of 1 percent of their cases for 2015-2016.
There is more, but if I keep thinking about Trump and his complete lack
of understanding of any and everything in the world, my head will
explode.
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