A Weekly Dose of President Trump- Trump Family Train 9/1/2020

Free Republic ^ | 9/1/2020 | Deplorables

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Several commented that those envelopes looked as if they had been on their return after having filled them out.

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Trump vs Biden

https://streamable.com/nhxhzs

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Morning, sweetie!

Ricky Skaggs is leading the thousands-strong crowd at #PrayerMarch2020 in singing praises to God in front of the Lincoln Memorial. pic.twitter.com/TZk7u84Qal— BGEA (@BGEA) September 26, 2020

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Years ago there was a story about someone sitting next to Alex on an air plane. Remember he was a BIG ex-football player...and he was sitting in his seat knitting. The person asked him if he knit often and he replied yes, it was therapy.

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Rooster

It would be funny if Trump pulled a head fake on the Democrats and nominated Lagoa

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Megan Mineiro

A federal judge had ruled the Alaska Native Corporations are entitled to more than $162 million in federal funds, but a three-judge panel reversed the decision Friday.

A federal judge had ruled the Alaska Native Corporations are entitled to more than $162 million in federal funds, but a three-judge panel reversed the decision Friday. https://t.co/czMhJGJZaW— Megan Mineiro (@MMineiro_CNS) September 25, 2020

Tribes Win Decision in Battle Over Covid Emergency Funds

Megan Mineiro..September 25, 2020

WASHINGTON (CN) — The D.C. Circuit shot down a months-long push by private corporations providing health care to Alaskan Native Americans to access coronavirus relief funds earmarked by Congress for tribes.

A federal judge had ruled the Alaska Native Corporations are entitled to more than $162 million in federal funds, but a three-judge panel reversed the decision Friday.

Six months after Congress passed the $2.2 trillion Covid-19 relief package, the battle raged over whether the so-called ANCs qualified to collect from the $8 billion that lawmakers set aside for “tribal governments.”

Eighteen federally recognized tribes in Alaska and the Lower 48 sued the Treasury Department over its plan to hand over a portion of the CARES funds to the private corporations.

After hearing arguments two weeks ago, the Washington appeals court concluded Friday that the ANCs do not qualify, nodding to the absence of a single ANC on the current list of federally recognized Indian tribes.

“The ANCs have not satisfied the recognition clause as we construe it. They do not contend that the United States has acknowledged a political relationship with them government-to-government,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Gregory G. Katsas, a Donald Trump appointee, referring to the definition of “Indian tribe” under the Indian Self-Determination Act.

U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee, joined her colleagues in the ruling but called it “an unfortunate and unintended consequence of high-stakes, time-sensitive legislative drafting.”

Formed in a 1971 agreement between the federal government, the state of Alaska and Alaskan Natives, ANCs had warned the D.C. Circuit that overturning the district ruling could have “sweeping adverse consequences” for its shareholders.

They argued that some remote Native communities rely entirely on ANCs for critical services urgently needed during the pandemic, including health care, educational support and housing assistance.

The short answer is statutory text prevails, the court responded, before turning to the 1971 law in which Congress “expressly preserves ‘any governmental programs otherwise available to the Native people of Alaska as citizens of the United States or the State of Alaska.’”

“We are confident that, if there are Alaska Natives uncared for because they are not enrolled in any recognized village, either the State of Alaska or the Department of Health and Human Services will be able to fill the void,” Katsas wrote.

Henderson argued the Covid-19 “virus respects no geographic or political boundaries” and disproportionately impacted Native communities as it swept across the country.

“I can think of no reason that the Congress would exclude ANCs (and thus exclude many remote and vulnerable Alaska Natives) from receiving and expending much-needed Title V funds,” the judge wrote. “Indian law, however, does not have a simple history or statutory scheme and ‘no amount of wishing will give it a simple future.’”

Attorney Riyaz Kanji, representing the tribes suing the government, said Friday the plaintiffs appreciated the court’s “thorough, careful exposition of the statutory and historical factors” that make clear ANCs are not “Indian tribes.”

The Justice Department and an attorney for the ANCs did not respond to requests for comment Friday afternoon.

U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia A. Millett, an Obama appointee, rounded out the panel issuing the decision in the case Confederated Tribes v. Steven Mnuchin.

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Until I was eight years old, this was pretty close to the washing machine my mother had.

Dryer was two clotheslines from the back porch to a unused telephone pole.

Then we got an “automatic”.

Hot stuff.

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After the announcement -

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There were commercials for some product where he was knitting.

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Federal Judge Removes Acting Director of Bureau of Land Management https://t.co/OFXIblUfrr @CarsonAndLloyd— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) September 26, 2020

Federal Judge Removes Acting Director of Bureau of Land Management (CN) — A Montana federal judge ruled Friday that Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management William Perry Pendley has been unlawfully serving in the position for over a year.

Despite being on the verge of completing a full term in the White House, President Donald Trump has faced criticism for allowing a number of ranking administration officials to carry out official duties in an acting capacity only, and therefore without receiving any kind of official confirmation from the Senate.

Trump, for his part, has seemingly showed an openness to having an executive branch filled with acting directors and officials, telling reporters last year that “I sort of like ‘acting,’” and that it “gives me more flexibility.”

Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than at the Bureau of Land Management, a crucial agency within the Department of the Interior that is responsible for overseeing and managing over 200 million acres of public land. During Trump’s term in office, five different individuals have served in some capacity as director of the BLM, but none of them have been officially confirmed by the Senate.

Current acting director Pendley was appointed by Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt in July 2019 to serve as a deputy director, a position he held for just three months before becoming acting director. Pendley has served as acting director of the BLM ever since, even after his official nomination to lead the agency was withdrawn earlier this month.

Some have opted to take the Trump administration to task over its usage of acting directors, notably Democratic Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Earlier this year, Bullock filed a lawsuit against the BLM, Department of the Interior, Pendley and Bernhardt with allegations that the officials had violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act by allowing Pendley to remain in office for so long without an official confirmation hearing.

“The Federal Vacancies Reform Act bars Presidents from circumventing the Constitution by putting people in charge of federal agencies before they are Senate-confirmed,” the complaint filed in July states. “But that is precisely what has happened here. Pendley’s tenure—and the actions the Bureau has taken, and continues to take during that tenure—violate the law.”

Bullock asked the court to declare that Pendley’s time at the BLM has been unlawful and that he should be stopped from carrying out any more official duties as an acting director.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris, an Obama appointee, did exactly that.

In a 34-page ruling, Morris found that while disagreements between the president and the Senate can result in delays regarding confirmation hearings on certain officials, and that there are some allowances given to ensure that a department can continue operating during transitional periods, such allowances only stretch so far.

“The President cannot shelter unconstitutional ‘temporary’ appointments for the duration of his presidency through a matryoshka doll of delegated authorities,” Morris wrote.

Morris specifically discussed a pair of memos and orders that made Pendley acting director in the first place, orders that used careful language to avoid designating Pendley as such — despite empowering him with acting authority and being repeatedly presented by the White House as an acting director.

Morris pushed back on these linguistic efforts, saying that the department cannot use wordplay to avoid their constitutional and legal requirements.

The judge said that while the president does have broad discretion over who operates federal agencies, that discretion is not boundless and Pendley’s tenure as acting BLM director has clearly crossed the line.

According to Judge Morris, his rise to acting director status did not “follow any of the permissible paths” set out by the law, Bernhardt lacked the authority to appoint him to the role in the first place and that Pendley has been unlawfully serving as an acting director at the BLM for exactly 424 days.

The judge officially halted Pendley from exercising any authority as a BLM director and ordered that Bernhardt cannot unlawfully delegate that authority.

Morris also asked both parties in the lawsuit to bring forward briefs on what actions Pendley took during his tenure at the BLM that should be set aside and voided, given that they were actions taken by a director without the proper legal authority to enforce them.

Representatives from Bullock and the BLM did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday evening.

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Yes, I had forgotten.

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[Lakeside Granny]

I nearly was scalped as I got my hair caught in the wringer of our old Maytag.

My sister heard my screams and came running to hit the release.

Fun times.

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THERE are no coincidences.............the COMMENTS are really worth reading.

Kanye West lands in Haiti and meets with the president as well as tennis star Naomi Osaka before traveling to visit a plant breeding center
(Haiti...🤔 will @kanyewest be the one who awakens the Black community?) https://t.co/lK3NOJCWcc— CJTRUTH (@cjtruth) September 26, 2020

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Get a high powered water gun, load it with the hottest hot sauces and peppers possible. Pepper spray on steroids, and you can start shooting from a farther distance.

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Kelly O’Donnell
@KellyO
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NEW: Judge Amy Coney Barrett and her large family left their Indiana home this afternoon dressed up for a special occasion. Our @GaryGrumbach on the scene for us. Announcement at 5pm at WH for Supreme Court nomination.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1309894866239881216

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Oregon State Police

@ORStatePolice

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At 9:00 A.M. this morning, members of @PortlandPolice Rapid Response Team were deputized as Federal Marshals. This will allow federal prosecutors to charge allegations of assault on a federal officer to anyone who attacks Officers-https://bit.ly/2EzX6jO