[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #521 Bloomberg / Guiliani 2020

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 17:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Thanks. Schandalig dat zoiets goedgekeurd wordt. Maar dat krijg je met zo'n gepolitiseerde rechtspraak als je in Amerika hebt.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 21:46 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het inreisverbod mocht gewoon en was terecht.

Allemaal gehuil van de libs om niks en dus weer verloren, want zij wisten ook dat het wettelijk en constituneel mocht.

Hoewel, ze zullen nu de SCOTUS wel weer Nazi's vinden.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 23:08 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Weer een nederlaag voor Manafort:
https://www.politico.com/(...)cts-challenge-676814

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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AP twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 16:10:43 BREAKING: The Supreme Court says a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion probably violates the Constitution. https://t.co/BpYzIwXdem reageer retweet

Probably?

Daar heb je veel aan.

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Supreme Court Backs Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers in Free Speech Case

California may not require “crisis pregnancy centers” to supply women with information about abortion, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

The First Amendment prohibits the government from forcing the centers, which oppose abortion on religious grounds, to post notices at odds with their beliefs, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for a five-justice majority. He was joined by the court’s more conservative members.

“Licensed clinics must provide a government-drafted script about the availability of state-sponsored services, as well as contact information for how to obtain them,” Justice Thomas wrote. “One of those services is abortion — the very practice that petitioners are devoted to opposing.”

California, he wrote, can use other means to tell women about the availability of abortion, including advertising. But “California cannot co-opt the licensed facilities to deliver its message for it,” he wrote.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch joined the majority opinion.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Kennedy said the First Amendment bars compelling people to betray their beliefs.

“Governments must not be allowed to force persons to express a message contrary to their deepest convictions,” he wrote. “Freedom of speech secures freedom of thought and belief. This law imperils those liberties.”

In a dissent that he summarized from the bench, Justice Stephen G. Breyer accused the majority of acting inconsistently. In 1992, he noted, the Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvania law that required doctors who performed abortions to provide some kinds of information to their patients.

“If a state can lawfully require a doctor to tell a woman seeking an abortion about adoption services, why should it not be able, as here, to require a medical counselor to tell a woman seeking prenatal care or other reproductive health care about childbirth and abortion services?” he asked.

“As the question suggests,” Justice Breyer wrote, “there is no convincing reason to distinguish between information about adoption and information about abortion in this context. After all, the rule of law embodies evenhandedness, and ‘what is sauce for the goose is normally sauce for the gander.’”

Justice Thomas responded that the 1992 decision was different because it concerned a medical procedure. Justice Breyer was unpersuaded.

“Really?” he asked. “No one doubts that choosing an abortion is a medical procedure that involves certain health risks. But the same is true of carrying a child to term and giving birth.”

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 23:08 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Weer een nederlaag voor Manafort:
https://www.politico.com/(...)cts-challenge-676814

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In Arizona, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is ahead of all three potential Republican opponents — Kelli Ward by 10 points among registered voters (48 percent to 38 percent), Martha McSally by 11 points (49 percent to 38 percent) and Joe Arpaio by 25 points (57 percent to 32 percent).

In Ohio, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, leads GOP challenger Jim Renacci by 13 points, 51 percent to 38 percent.

But in Florida, incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., gets support from 49 percent of registered voters, while Republican Gov. Rick Scott is at 45 percent – a result that’s within the poll’s margin of error.

https://www.nbcnews.com/p(...)test-remains-n886731

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With a lead among women topping 2-1, Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic incumbent, has an overall lead of 54 - 36 percent over Republican challenger Corey Stewart, chair of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released today.

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/va/va06262018_vwlc17.pdf/

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 23:34 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Je vraagt je af wanneer het voor Manafort uitzichtloos genoeg is om de handdoek in de ring te gooien. Of is hij echt bereid de rest van zijn leven de gevangenis in te gaan voor Trump? Waag dat toch te betwijfelen.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 20:57 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Bizar genoeg was Garland een kandidaat die op een eerdere lijst van de GOP stond waar ze wel vrede mee zouden hebben als hij genomineerd zou worden.

https://www.reuters.com/a(...)dUSTRE6456QY20100506

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 23:42 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dit veronderstelt dat hij wat te ruilen zou hebben. Het kan natuurlijk zijn dat dat niet zo is.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 23:49 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Manafort was campaign manager tijdens de inmiddels beruchte meeting met de Russische advocate Veselnitskaya in de Trump Tower op 9 juni 2016, waarin laatstgenoemde belastend materiaal over Clinton aanbood namens de Russische overheid. Mueller heeft in rechtbankdocumenten al aangegeven dat een van de redenen voor de huiszoeking bij Manafort was om informatie te vergaren over deze meeting. Manafort's schildknaapje Gates heeft al een gunstige plea deal gekregen. Ik denk dat het een understatement is om te stellen dat Manafort's medewerking voor het collusion aspect van Mueller's onderzoek cruciaal is.

VOTE TODAY! (6/26): The Courage to Change | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated powerful House Democrat Joe Crowley in a stunning primary election upset Tuesday, a result that could shake the foundations of the established party.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 01:06 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Je weet toch dat de advocate op een speciaal visum was binnen gekomen?
http://thehill.com/homene(...)y-for-russian-lawyer

En dat ze voor en na de trump tower meeting bij gps langs is geweest?
http://www.foxnews.com/po(...)ump-jr-sit-down.html

VInd je dat niet enigszins vreemd?

En gps deed werk voor hillary:
http://www.bostonherald.c(...)worse_than_watergate

Fusion GPS Transcript Outlines Potential Donald Trump Money Laundering | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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During the campaign, anti-Trump forces from both parties by turns bankrolled Fusion's research.

More notable to some lawmakers is Mr. Simpson's connection to two figures with deep bonds to Russian power, who have long fought for a pet Kremlin cause: Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist, and Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, a lawyer known as a formidable Moscow insider.

The two have worked to turn back the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 American law detested by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, that punishes Russian human rights violators. And together with Mr. Simpson, the trio worked on behalf of a Russian-owned company accused by the United States government of laundering some of the funds stolen in a fraud uncovered by Sergei L. Magnitsky, after whom the act was named.

Mr. Simpson had been hired by a law firm, BakerHostetler, representing the company. As part of this work, he compiled damaging allegations against William F. Browder, an American-born financier and Kremlin foe who was the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act.

"He's a professional smear campaigner and liar for money," Mr. Browder said of Mr. Simpson. "The credibility of anything that he does is in question."

The Magnitsky Act was a topic of discussion at an infamous meeting that both Ms. Veselnitskaya and Mr. Akhmetshin attended at Trump Tower in June 2016 with Donald Trump Jr., who had been promised compromising information on Hillary Clinton.

Mr. Simpson was in court with Ms. Veselnitskaya hours before the Trump Tower meeting and saw her again shortly after it, his lawyer, Joshua A. Levy, confirmed. But these contacts were related to Mr. Simpson’s work on the case for BakerHostetler, Mr. Levy said, and Fusion only learned about the Trump Tower meeting in news reports last year.

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Bron

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 23:34 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Je vraagt je af wanneer het voor Manafort uitzichtloos genoeg is om de handdoek in de ring te gooien. Of is hij echt bereid de rest van zijn leven de gevangenis in te gaan voor Trump? Waag dat toch te betwijfelen.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 23:34 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Je vraagt je af wanneer het voor Manafort uitzichtloos genoeg is om de handdoek in de ring te gooien. Of is hij echt bereid de rest van zijn leven de gevangenis in te gaan voor Trump? Waag dat toch te betwijfelen.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 08:34 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:

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Ik denk niet dat Trump degene is waar Manafort bang voor is.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 08:10 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ik las het op Politico:

https://www.politico.com/(...)elosi-speaker-678807

De eerste gevoelige overwinning voor de "Bernie-vleugel".

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 09:18 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dit is dan een erg in het oog springende, maar over het algemeen is de Bernie vleugel redelijk vleugellam in de primaries tot dusver.

Maarja, hipsters in Queens en een oude witte man die er al 30 jaar zit gaat misschien niet zo goed meer samen. Dit district is tevens 50% latino, en nu heeft een latina gewonnen. Dat zijn betere verklaringen denk ik dan dat dit een soort kaping van de Democratische partij van links is, a la Tea Party.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 09:34 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Volgens de Guardian is ze een socialist.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 09:18 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dit is dan een erg in het oog springende, maar over het algemeen is de Bernie vleugel redelijk vleugellam in de primaries tot dusver.

Maarja, hipsters in Queens en een oude witte man die er al 30 jaar zit gaat misschien niet zo goed meer samen. Dit district is tevens 50% latino, en nu heeft een latina gewonnen. Dat zijn betere verklaringen denk ik dan dat dit een soort kaping van de Democratische partij van links is, a la Tea Party.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 09:34 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Volgens de Guardian is ze een socialist.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 09:34 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:

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Volgens de Guardian is ze een socialist.

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JChengWSJ twitterde op woensdag 27-06-2018 om 02:31:00 Just FYI, satellite imagery suggests N. Korea is continuing to upgrade its nuclear enrichment facility. @38NorthNKhttps://t.co/UlGBaZmcit reageer retweet

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CBS News has obtained cellphone video from inside the Cayuga Centers in New York showing children huddled in what look like classrooms - including one crying girl who couldn't talk to her mother. It's the first unfiltered look inside a facility for separated immigrant children.

The government will not let news cameras inside the shelters and instead releases images they want us to see. These videos were provided to CBS News by attorney Michael Avenatti, a frequent critic of the Trump administration, and were apparently shot by an employee who was troubled by family separations and recently quit, reports CBS News' Vladimir Duthiers.

When we first see Leo, he is all smiles, but that smile disappears when he's asked if he's sad about being away from his mother. Avenatti, who represents Leo's mother Lourdes, said the two were separated 48 hours after arriving at the Texas border on May 10.

"She had no idea where he was for the better part of three weeks and she was distraught over it," Avenatti said. "She's been deported back to Guatemala."

Leo was sent to the Cayuga Centers in New York.

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the federal government to reunite migrant parents with children taken from them under the Trump administration’s family separation policy.

U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw, based in San Diego, issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday night requiring that nearly all children younger than 5 be returned to their parents within 14 days and that older children be returned within 30 days.

Blasting the Trump administration for what he called “a chaotic circumstance of the Government’s own making,” Sabraw said it was a “startling reality” that no adequate planning had been done before officials embarked on a policy to separate children from parents kept in immigration custody or referred for criminal prosecution. The practice has led to more than 2,300 children being separated from their parents or other family members.

“The government readily keeps track of personal property of detainees in criminal and immigration proceedings,” Sabraw wrote in his 24-page order. “Money, important documents, and automobiles, to name a few, are routinely catalogued, stored, tracked and produced upon a detainee’s release, at all levels — state and federal, citizen and alien. Yet, the government has no system in place to keep track of, provide effective communication with, and promptly produce alien children. The unfortunate reality is that under the present system migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as property. Certainly, that cannot satisfy the requirements of due process.”

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President Trump this weekend lamented what he characterized as an invasion of undocumented immigrants that is “very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years.”

But illegal border crossings represent a relatively small share of the number of people who enter the country, legally or otherwise, in any given year, according to the Department of Homeland Security's data.

A September 2017 Office of Immigration Statistics data brief estimated that in fiscal year 2016, the latest year for which complete data is available, there were 170,000 successful illegal border crossings occurring outside of authorized ports of entry. That's down roughly 90 percent since 2000, and it's about one-seventh of the roughly 1.2 million immigrants who obtained lawful permanent resident status via a green card, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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President Trump said at the end of May that drug companies were about to make “voluntary, massive drops in prices” in two weeks.

Two weeks later, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar backed down from that timeline, testifying to Congress that drug companies “want to execute substantial material reductions in their drug prices” but were facing hurdles.

Nearly four weeks out, the White House has not explained why nothing has happened on that front, but it continues to hint that news could be imminent. “We’re not going to get ahead of any forthcoming announcements,” deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said in an email last week.

Drug companies — and insurers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that negotiate drug prices, drug distributors, patients and physicians — are working with the administration, a spokeswoman for the department of Health and Human Services said, "to respond to President Trump's call to action and help patients pay less for their prescription drugs." But after more than a year of promises to lower drug prices, the silence following Trump's recent remarks suggests that the bully pulpit may not offer the swiftest solution to the problem of high drug prices. And it is increasingly clear that policy solutions — which will likely spark bitter fights between industries — will take longer than Trump has suggested.

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 15:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
In May, Trump predicted the pharmaceutical industry would cut prices in two weeks. It hasn’t happened yet.

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If Republicans succeed in their multi-front campaign to cut back on food stamps, the burden will fall heaviest on the working-class, rural white voters on whom President Trump has staked the future of their party.

House Republicans on Thursday passed legislation that would require Americans ages 18 through 59 to either work part time or spend 20 hours a week in workforce training to receive food stamps.

On the same day, the White House unveiled a proposal to consolidate the public safety net — including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — under a revamped health department. The program, The Washington Post's Amy Goldstein and Caitlin Dewey write, “has an explicit aim of building standardized requirements that people must work or prepare for jobs to qualify for government help.”

Trump's 'Blue Apron-type' Harvest Box vs. actual Blue Apron

On the surface, these efforts seem like they will affect Democratic voters the most. The highest rates of food-stamp assistance tend to be in the most Democratic areas. But that’s a superficial reading of the numbers.

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GovPenceIN twitterde op dinsdag 08-12-2015 om 16:30:55 Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional. reageer retweet

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mitchellreports twitterde op woensdag 27-06-2018 om 13:37:29 .@NBCNews confirms as Russia once again announces breaking news before the White House: NSA John Bolton meets Putin today to arrange Trump July summit reageer retweet

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President Trump said his administration will take a more moderate approach to limit Chinese investment in the United States, rejecting more aggressive restrictions that would have imposed new curbs on Beijing and further inflamed a trade dispute between the two countries.

Mr. Trump said on Wednesday morning that he supports a bipartisan push in Congress to expand the authority of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius, which reviews foreign investments for security threats. Mr. Trump said he will back an expansion of the committee’s powers to address concerns about China buying stakes in American companies in order to acquire valuable technology and trade secrets.

“I have concluded that such legislation will provide additional tools to combat the predatory investment practices that threaten our critical technology leadership, national security, and future economic prosperity,” Mr. Trump said in a statement on Wednesday morning.

The administration had been considering much more draconian curbs on Chinese investment as punishment for what the White House has said is years of China “stealing” intellectual property from the United States. While the expansion of Cfius will likely curb Chinese investments, it is not as targeted a measure as the administration had been contemplating. If approved by Congress, the legislation would give the administration greater power to curb investments globally — not just those from China — by expanding the types of transactions Cfius can review, including minority stakes in American companies and real estate transactions near military bases or other national security facilities.

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Fresh off his high-profile meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump may next turn his attention to what he has called the “ultimate deal” — a new U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, and Jason Greenblatt, his Middle East peace envoy, visited the Middle East last week to test ideas for the plan and explore ways to address the humanitarian situation in Gaza. And in a wide-ranging interview with a Palestinian newspaper at the end of the trip, Kushner promised the plan would soon be ready, while heavily criticizing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and hinting at a potential truce between Hamas and Israel.

Putting out a new U.S. peace plan at this moment would be a terrible mistake that would likely only make matters worse. The White House should instead postpone whatever peace plan is in the works and focus foremost on stabilizing the situation in Gaza.

It is impossible to be a mediator in a conflict or release a credible peace plan when one side refuses to even talk to you. Palestinian leaders have not met with senior U.S. officials for the past six months, since Trump announced that he would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. In that context, the content of a plan would not matter. The Palestinians would reject it out of hand.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 27-06-2018 om 16:35:36 Ivanka Trump’s business received registration approval for three additional Chinese trademarks on June 7, according to records reviewed by CREW. On that same date, Trump agreed to lift sanctions against the Chinese telecommunications company ZTE. https://t.co/UhMilITPeP reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 27 juni 2018 15:06 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Federal judge orders Trump administration to reunite migrant families

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