Quotable
Month: June 2018
Fascism
There’s A Stormfront Coming
Josh Marshall: “Many of our assumptions about the course of the Mueller investigation are based on the premise or the backstop that Supreme Court will enforce the Nixon-era precedents about the rule of law and […]
Supreme Court
Kennedy Retirement Cedes Supreme Court To Conservatives For A Generation
“Anthony Kennedy, the longest-serving member of the Supreme Court, is retiring,” Vox reports. “With Kennedy gone, the Court’s decisions on issues where he’s a down-the-line conservative — like campaign finance and corruption, most business regulation […]
Fascism
Then They Came For The Trade Unionists…
NPR: “In a blow to organized labor, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged for the cost of collective bargaining.” “The vote was […]
Muslim Ban
Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Muslim Ban
Reuters: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and rejecting the argument that it represented unconstitutional religious […]
Incompetence
Trump’s Trade Tantrums Start To Backfire
CBS News: “President Donald Trump not long ago held up Harley-Davidson as everything that was right about American manufacturing. Now, Mr. Trump can only see red when he talks about the motorcycle company. The 180-degree-spinout […]
Fascism
Trump Takes Another Swipe At U.S. Constitution
ABC News: “Donald Trump doubled down Monday on his likely unconstitutional assertion that rather than hiring more judges to handle immigration cases on the southern border, undocumented immigrants should instead be immediately sent back to […]
History
June 22, 1944
History.com: “On this day in 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services–known as G.I.s–for their efforts in World […]
Quotable
Trump Lies
Trump Signs Executive Order to Stop What He Said Signing an Executive Order Couldn’t Stop (?)
Daily Beast: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday halting his administration’s separation of immigrant families, putting an end to a practice that caused international outrage and rare condemnation from both parties in […]