While Ohio Governor John Kasich’s, push for a balanced budget amendment is reaping “amens” from conservatives, his support for Common Core is evoking concern about the potential 2016 GOP contender. Bucyrus (Ohio) Telegraph-Forum: “Kasich called opposition to Common Core ‘a runaway Internet campaign,’ reaffirming his support for the educational standards on a trip to South Carolina, as Ohio students began taking tests based on them this week…. [A]sked: ‘Why are candidates like you and Jeb Bush running away from the Common Core, your past support of the Common Core standards?’ [Kasich responded:] ‘That is not something that Barack nObama is putting together. ... It’s local school boards developing local curriculum to meet higher standards. I cannot figure out what's wrong with that. ...’To a large degree, it's a runaway Internet campaign, as far as I'm concerned in Ohio.’”
[A recent NBC News poll found that 46 percent of South Carolina Republicans said they would find a candidate who supported Common Core standards to be “unacceptable.”]
Green Bay Press Gazette: “Sen. Tammy Baldwin has hired a powerful Washington lawyer to represent her as she continues to grapple with the fallout from her office’s handling of the Tomah Veterans Affairs crisis. Attorney Marc Elias offered the first public acknowledgment on behalf of Baldwin that she fired top Wisconsin aide Marquette Baylor for her actions after the senator received a critical inspection report about opiate prescription practices at the Tomah VA Medical Center. Baldwin did not act on the report for four months, despite repeated pleas from a whistleblower, who urged Baylor to do something about the report last fall. … Elias did not provide a copy of the agreement or disclose what the accompanying cash payout would have been. His statement was initially reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.” -Fox News
(nicedeb( - Megyn Kelly interviewed Fox News Legal Analyst Judge Napolitano and Senator Ted Cruz, Tuesday night, asking for their reactions to the federal judge’s injunction blocking the president’s executive order on immigration, which was set to start distributing work permits millions of illegal immigrants Tuesday. Napolitano called the court’s decision “devastating,” adding that “the nObama amnesty plan is dead.”
Napolitano explained that the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals would likely not interfere with the Judge Hanen’s decision.
He went on to say that the Supreme Court will probably not take up the case.
“This is devastating for the administration,” Napolitano said. “This is a preliminary injunction which means the court viewed the court’s documents and challenger’s documents…and he made two conclusions. 1) At the end of the case, the challengers will probably prevail, meaning the president probably overstepped his bounds and he has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to create new law.
“And 2) if he does not impose the temporary restraints that he imposed last night, actually, irreparable harm will be visited upon the 26 states,” he continued.
“In my opinion, the nObama amnesty plan is dead. Absolutely dead. I don’t think the appeals court will interfere with this decision, And I think it will take this trial judge for the duration of President nObama’s term to rule on this with finality.”
Cruz told Kelly that the judge’s decision is “a major victory for the rule of law.”
Cruz also slammed Democrats for filibustering the Department of Homeland Security spending bill because it would not fund nObama’s executive action plan. Cruz called it “reckless and irresponsible” to filibuster at a time when Congress needs to fund the DHS due to growing threats at home and abroad.
“They’re holding national security hostage in order to defend the president’s illegal amnesty,” he said of Democrats.
Cruz also weighed in on nObama’s remarks today that the law is on the side of his executive action plan.
“He says the law is on his side – there’s at least one person who calls himself a legal scholar who disagrees, and his name is Barack nObama,” Cruz said. “Twenty-two times President nObama has admitted he doesn’t have the authority to issue unilateral amnesty.”
Through nObama’s executive action plan, Cruz said that the administration is basically counterfeiting immigration documents.
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