Saturday, February 17, 2018

For the Record: There will be so many indictments we'll be sick of indictments

Via BitsAndPieces.



It's an unceasing astonishment to me that Trump can seem completely unaware that the predicament of the "incredible kids" is something he caused himself with his "arbitrary and capricious" action, as Judge Nicholas Garaufis of New York's Eastern District called it, in the opinion blocking the action:
If the decision is allowed to go into effect prior to a full adjudication on the merits, there is no way the court can “unscramble the egg” and undo the damage caused by what, on the record before it, appears to have been a patently arbitrary and capricious decision.
Incidentally, this move from Judge Garaufis, the second federal judge to reject Trump's attempt to end the DACA program, must be part of what Democrats are taking into account as they work on the issue. It's really starting to seem likely that the courts are going to preserve DACA no matter what Congress does—I'd never have believed that a year ago, but with the ongoing failure of Trump's third attempt at a Muslim ban (which the Supreme Court has allowed to go into partial or half-assed temporary effect but has now been declared unconstitutional in two federal courts), I'm getting to be a believer.




Aside from all the techie stuff I don't know at all about voter rolls and the targeting of bot messages at specific election districts and whatnot, Wall Street Journal reported last November that Cambridge Analytica head Alexander Nix had been working with Julian Assange on editorial issues in the publication of Democratic emails in the summer of 2016. Nix denies he had any Russia connection in that, but then as Jonathan Chait remarked at the time he also denied Russia had any involvement in the election, a denial that seems even more ridiculous now than it did three months ago.

Left out Roger Stone, Peter Smith, Alexander Nix, Scaramucci, Tillerson and Ross, Caputo, Nigel Farage, Erik Prince, Boris Epshteyn and Felix Sater...

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