The Authoritarian Checklist – John Brennan / Peter Strzok update, August 2018
John Brennan’s public service: -CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia -CIA chief of staff -Director of Terrorist Threat Integration Center -Directo...
Politics & Polls #30
A federal appeals court has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order issuing an immigration ban barring people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Trump also has made moves toward building a border wall with Mexico, which recent figures suggest may cost an estimated $21 billion.
To get into what these moves would actually accomplish, Julian Zelizer and I took a deep dive into immigration and border control with Doug Massey, one of the country’s leading experts in this field. Massey busted many myths, including the question of whether the effect of a border wall is to keep people out of the United States – or cage them inside.
Link: http://bit.ly/PoliticsAndPolls30
Bonus: Doug Massey has made a cool appearance on Adam Ruins Everything to explain these points. Scroll to 3:20. Doug is hilarious.
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Any truth to the rumor that Prime Minister Just Trudeau intends to build a wall on Canada’s southern border – and make Trump pay for it? /s
Under Circuit Court procedure, any judge of the circuit can request that a three-judge panel decision be reviewed en banc (which in the Ninth Circuit means by an enlarged panel of 11 judges of the circuit randomly drawn; the original 3 judges are eligible for that draw). When such a request is made, a vote of all active judges of the circuit is taken to determine (after briefing) whether to have such en banc review.
A judge of the Circuit has made such a request, so briefing on whether to hold en banc review will now take place. (The requestor’s name is not made public.)
A summary of the procedure is here: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2017/02/10/En_Banc_Summary2.pdf
An order setting the briefing schedule (briefs due on Thurs. Feb. 16) is here: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2017/02/10/17-35105_Supplemental%20Briefing%20Order.pdf
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This Dr. Seuss cartoon from 1941 meshes quite well with your guest’s historical “Make America great again” narrative:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/01/dr-seuss-protest-icon/515031/
A former career U.S. diplomat and the first ever Director for Nuclear Materials Security at the National Security Council discusses three possible answers to the question “why did Putin support Donald J. Trump?”
https://liesanddamnliescom.wordpress.com/2017/02/16/where-next/