Federal court blocks Trump administration’s reallocation of funds for the border wall
June 29, 2019
The New York Times reports, U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Shift $2.5 Billion to Pay for Border Wall: A federal judge in Northern California on Friday permanently blocked the Trump administration from using $2.5 billion in contested funding to build barriers along the United States’ southwestern border, dealing a blow to the White House’s … Read more
SCOTUS Watch: Court adds review of DACA to its 2019-2020 term
June 29, 2019
The 2019-2020 U.S. Supreme Court term is slowly shaping up to be a momentous one, dropping a bombshell or two into the 2020 presidential campaign. The Census case is not over, and could return as early as this summer, or in early October. As Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern note at Slate: If there … Read more
Court Dismisses Effort To Move Up McSally/Kelly Contest To Replace Late Senator McCain
June 28, 2019
A U.S. District Court Judge has thrown out a case challenging the constitutionality of the Arizona law that has delayed a special election to replace the late Senator John McCain for more than two years. Plaintiffs were calling for the special election to be held as soon as practicable and said that the law that … Read more
Arizona Senators Split On Proposal To Forbid Attack On Iran Without Congressional Approval (READ the amendment)
June 28, 2019
Arizona’s Senators split on June 27 on a proposal that would have restricted the President’s abilities to begin hostilities with Iran before getting Congressional approval. The bipartisan amendment needed 60 votes to pass; the vote was 50-40. Kyrsten Sinema sided with all voting Democrats to add the check to President Donald Trump’s ability to launch … Read more
BfAZ Authors React to the Second Democractic Debate
June 28, 2019
By Blog For Arizona’s Authors Mike Bryan, David Gordon and Pamela Powers Hannley Here is the full video of the event: https://youtu.be/cX7hni-zGD8 Here is the debate transcript. Reactions from Michael Bryan: The first and primary takeaway of the second debate was to totally throw open the race: All of the leading candidates are now on … Read more
The Would be Duce is an insult to our Democratic System and Federal Republic.
June 28, 2019
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While the hopeful next President and Vice Presidents of the United States were discussing on the debate stage in Miami the last two nights how they would put the United States back together again and move the American People forward, the KKK President (also known as the 2016 Popular Vote Loser, Liar in Chief, and … Read more
BfAZ Authors React to the First Democratic Debate
June 27, 2019
By Michael Bryan, Larry Bodine, Pam Powers Hannley and David Gordon. First of all, if you missed it and want to recap in prose: here’s the debate transcript. Here’s the full video: Comments by Michael Bryan: If you ask me, the debate accomplished a few things: It moved forward the debate on immigration and refugees. Julian … Read more
Conservative activist judges threaten ‘Obamacare’ and the U.S. health insurance system
June 27, 2019
Back in early May, the Trump administration asked the court to strike down all of Obamacare: The Trump administration filed a motion in opposition to the entire Affordable Care Act aka “Obamacare” on Wednesday, arguing in a federal appeals court that the signature Obama-era legislation was unconstitutional and should be struck down. Trump Administration Files Formal Request … Read more
