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President Trump Is At It Again: Calling Democrats ‘Treasonous’
Democratic Attorney Generals In 22 States Suing The Trump Administration
One year into the Trump presidency, the nation’s 22 Democratic state attorneys general — are bringing a growing string of lawsuits, complaints and other actions against the Trump adminis- tration on immigration, edu- cation policy, net neutrality, marijuana enforcement, off- shore oil and gas drilling and more — and there’s no end in sight.
Democratic state general — like Eric Schneiderman of New York, Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh, who announced last week that he will join several high-tax states planning to challenge the new federal tax law as illegal because it would “jack up” the amount many residents owe are using their positions to oppose Republi- can policy.
The other states in the law- suit would be Connecticut,
New Jersey and New York, whose governors have formed a coalition to sue over the tax plan.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has not asked Frosh to join the suit, but the state legislature last year granted the attorney gen- eral broad authority to take legal action against the federal government after the election of President Trump. The measure became law without Hogan’s signature.
According to Scott Will, executive director of the Re- publican Attorneys General Association, “They are proud, card-carrying members of the resistance.”
The results of the lawsuits are still yet to be realized. For instance, the fate of the Trump administration’s travel ban, still awaits a Supreme Court ruling follow- ing Democratic-led chal- lenges.
Black Lives Matter Activist Dies After Being Shot
In New Orleans
Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Muhiyyidin Moye, otherwise known as Muhiyyidin D’baha, was shot and killed while riding his bicycle at 1 a.m. on Tues- day, February 6.
While an autopsy has yet to be released, D’baha’s neice, Camille Weaver, an- nounced that D’baha was
shot in the leg, continued bik- ing in search of help, and later died in the hospital due to blood loss, Heavy re- ported.
His niece started a Go- FundMe page with the hopes of raising money to bring D’baha’s body from New Orleans to his hometown of Charleston.
President Donald Trump is now calling De- mocrats who didn’t clap during his State of the Union address, “treasonous.”
On Monday (Feb.5), as he spoke to a cheering crowd in a Cincinnati, Ohio factory he began saying that Democratic lawmakers gave off “bad en- ergy” during his State of the Union speech on (Jan 30) and also referred to them as “un- American” according to TIME. “Somebody said treasonous,” said Trump. “I mean, yeah, I guess, why not. Can we call that treason? Why not?”
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President Trump appears at a factory in Cincinnati, Ohio and con- tinued his name-calling tactics by referring to Democrats attending his State of The Union speech as ‘treasonous’.
bipartisan unity during the ad- dress, many Democrats re- mained seated and avoided clapping even during points
that typically would prompt a response.
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Trump Really Wants A Military Parade
Among the Democratic Attorney Generals suing the Trump Ad- ministration are, Eric Schneiderman of New York, Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh.
President Trump, appar- ently inspired by the Bastille Day parade he witnessed last summer during a trip to Paris, has ordered the Pentagon to look into staging something similar — but naturally bigger and better — for Washington, D.C., the White House con- firmed Tuesday. A U.S. official has confirmed the request to NPR.
On Tuesday evening, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shared in a statement that "Presi- dent Trump is incredibly supportive of America's great service members who risk their lives every day to keep our country safe." She added, "He has asked the Department of Defense to explore a celebra- tion at which all Americans can show their appreciation.”
U.S. presidents have long shied away from such displays of military prowess — which typically include tanks, mis-
President Trump really wants a military parade, too, after seeing the parade in France last summer.
siles and, in some cases, goose- stepping soldiers — for fear of being compared to Washing- ton's Cold War adversaries, where such displays have tra- ditionally been potent symbols of state power. Those countries include Russia (and, formerly,
the Soviet Union), China and North Korea.
"I was stunned by it to be quite honest," Rep. Jackie Speier of California said to CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday. "I mean, we have a Napoleon in the making here.”
The Republican House Is Slowly Being Torn Down
Democrats had another good Tuesday night of special elections, this time in Mis- souri, where Mike Revis won a 3-point victory in House District 97, which President Donald Trump had won by 28 points.
That 31-point swing relative to the 2016 election was extraor- dinarily large. In the other two GOP holds, Missouri De- mocrats outperformed Hillary Clinton by 18 points in one race and by 25 points in another.
This is the second state leg- islative seat Democrats flipped in 2018 after a state Senate race in Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago, and it marks a larger trend of very strong Democratic results in state legislative races.
Democratic leaders in Con- gress are seeing the tables turn.
Meanwhile, the special elec- tions are already having real- world impact. And now Republicans are starting to freak out?
House Republicans have even more reason to be wor- ried about the 2018 midterms: Democratic candidates are trouncing them in the race for campaign cash.
More than 40 Congres- sional Republican incumbents were out-raised in the final
quarter of 2017 by one — or several — of their Democratic opponents, according to re- ports.
For the GOP, here’s the re- ally disturbing part: The trendline is getting worse, not better.
On the state level, Wiscon- sin Gov. Scott Walker has decided to leave a number of formerly GOP-held seats va- cant rather than schedule spe- cial elections his party might lose.
Republicans are pushing the panic button on an up- coming special House election in Pennsylvania, and GOP leadership is letting scandal- plagued Rep. Blake Faren- thold stick around in his seat rather than risk a special elec- tion.
Black Lives Matter activist, Muhiyyidin Moye died after los- ing a massive amount of blood after being shot in the leg.
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