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Trump EPA Rolls Back Another scumbag/liar-nObama Power Grab
by Thomas Gallatin
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Andrew McCarthy rebukes Judge Napolitano
over Trump campaign finance assumptions
by BEN MARQUIS.
Federal judge says Trump travel
ban lawsuit will proceed
by Sudhin Thanawala
{washingtontimes.com} ~ A lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of denying nearly all visa applicants from countries under President Donald Trump’s travel ban will move forward, a U.S. judge said Thursday... Judge James Donato heard arguments on the administration’s request that he dismiss the lawsuit. The case was “not going away at this stage,” he said at the close of the hearing. The plaintiffs say the administration is not honoring a waiver provision in the president’s ban on travelers from five mostly Muslim countries - Iran, Lybia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ban in a 5-4 ruling in June. The waiver provision allows a case-by-case exemption for people who can show entry to the U.S. is in the national interest, is needed to prevent undue hardship and would not pose a security risk. The 36 plaintiffs named in the lawsuit include people who have had waiver applications denied or stalled despite chronic medical conditions, prolonged family separations, or significant business interests, according to their attorneys....
'Genius' Rats Are Flooding DC and
Adapting Too Fast to Control
by Catie Keck.
Charging Trump Over Hush Money Payouts
Implicates Congress In The Same Behavior
by Elad Hakim
{thefederalist.com} ~ Michael Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Wednesday for various crimes the dirty cop-Robert Mueller investigation found he had committed... As CNN recently reported, prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office alleged he admitted to paying off two women hush money and that he did so in coordination with and at the direction of President Trump, thereby violating one or more campaign finance laws. On the day of Cohen’s sentencing, the Gateway Pundit reported that prosecutors for the Southern District of New York announced that they had reached a non-prosecution agreement with American Media, Inc., the company that paid $150,000 to one of the women. As part of the non-prosecution agreement, American Media reportedly admitted that it made the payment in concert with the Trump campaign in order to bury the story so that it would not influence the election. Not surprisingly, and as if on cue, this has led to renewed calls for impeachment and possibly criminal charges against the president by some Democrats. However, such action, if successful, could create bad precedent and have far-reaching implications. Despite American Media’s reported admission, there are expenditures that might “influence an election,” yet not constitute campaign-related expenses. According to an article in The Daily Signal, the Federal Election Campaign Act (52 U.S.C. 30114 (b)(2)) specifically says that campaign-related expenses do not include any expenditures “used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate’s election campaign.” Although some legal scholars have openly stated that the payments in Trump’s case do not appear to have violated campaign finance rules, dirty cop-Mueller, prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and congressional Democrats should think long and hard about the precedent they are attempting to set. While their eyes are set on one particular person, the potential impact could end up netting many others who have engaged in similar or worse conduct...The GOP Needs to Stop Being the Stupid Party
by Apolo VillalobosTrump EPA Rolls Back Another scumbag/liar-nObama Power Grab by Thomas Gallatin: Once again under President Donald Trump, some semblance of common sense and sane definitional language returned to the U.S. government. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its proposal for replacing Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s 2015 power-grabbing redefinition of the Waters of the United States rule. Under scumbag/liar-nObama, the EPA widely expanded the Clean Water Act’s definition of navigable waters to include pretty much every conceivable form of surface water — even irrigation ditches and rain-filled potholes. It was a clear and outrageous case of government overreach.
In announcing the change, acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler explained, “Our proposal would replace the Obama EPA’s 2015 definition with one that respects the limits of the Clean Water Act and provides states and landowners the certainty they need to manage their natural resources and grow local economies. For the first time, we are clearly defining the difference between federally protected waterways and state protected waterways. Our simpler and clearer definition would help landowners understand whether a project on their property will require a federal permit or not, without spending thousands of dollars on engineering and legal professionals.”
Predictably, Democrats and environmentalists were quick to misrepresent the definitional change, calling it a “sickening gift to polluters,” the “dirty water rule,” or as Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) laughably insisted, “nothing short of senseless.” In reality, it was the 2015 EPA’s redefinition of “navigable waters” that was senseless.
The announcement garnered high praise from Republicans, however. “The 2015 rule was an expansion of federal power that used bureaucrat-speak to strip landowners of their rights and local governments of their ability to manage waters within their borders,” said Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA). “This new approach is the product of doing it the right way — openly, with the input of the American people.”
It should be normal to have clearly written rules with consistently limited definitions that any member of the public can understand without a lawyer. Regulations that are so overly broad that they prevent individuals from knowing if they are in compliance or not are bad, as they have the potential for abuse of power written all over them. Thankfully, the Trump EPA is seeking to clean things up. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/60002?mailing_id=3945&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3945&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
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