01/30/2017
Trump's Muslim ban (of course it's a Muslim ban, no slippery legal language can alter that fact) has created a Consitutional Crisis. Dept of Homeland Security - on POTUS' instructions - is acting in violation of several court orders. DHS says it is acting in compliance, yet continues to detain and question people. When Trump announces his Supreme Court nominee this week, you can be sure that person's been thoroughly vetted with regard to this standoff, as has the man Trump wants as his AG, Jeff Sessions.
WE MUST POSTPONE SESSIONS' CONFIRMATION VOTE. It CAN be done. Here's HOW it can be done. Call and fax your members of Congress now.
From Adam Jentleson, Harry Reid's former deputy Chief of Staff:
"Senate Democrats have a powerful tool at their disposal, if they choose to use it, for resisting a president who has no mandate and cannot claim to embody the popular will. That tool lies in the simple but fitting act of withholding consent... The procedure for withholding consent is straightforward, but deploying it is tricky. For the Senate to move in a timely fashion on any order of business, it must obtain unanimous support from its members. But if a single senator objects to a consent agreement, McConnell, now majority leader, will be forced to resort to time-consuming procedural steps through the cloture process, which takes four days to confirm nominees and seven days to advance any piece of legislation — and that’s without amendment votes, each of which can be subjected to a several-day cloture process as well."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/27/democrats-in-congress-can-block-trumps-agenda-if-they-want-to-heres-how/?utm_term=.6f6e55c58bbb
We're inclined to compromise. But if we want to hold this administration accountable, we'll need to play hardball.
