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White House and Political News
Hoopla Over: Takeaways From Trump-Kim Jong Un Meeting
The first ever summit be- tween a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader concluded Tuesday in Singa- pore with a joint declaration that was long on ambition, but without any real details.
In exchange for unspecified “security guarantees” from the United States, North Korea agreed to an “unwavering commitment to complete de- nuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”
Here is what is believed to be takeaways from the Summit according to The Hill:
The summit couldn't have gone better for Kim
Kim, who is accused of as- sassinating relatives and exe- cuting scores of his citizens, appeared to get his top out-
come from the meeting: legiti- macy on the international stage.
Better yet, from Kim’s per- spective, was Trump calling him a “very talented man" and a “worthy negotiator.” Kim did little of substance in re- sponse.
Trump sticks it to the foreign policy establishment
Trump has consistently pushed buttons on foreign pol- icy s and appears to have rev- eled in his unconventional approach to nuclear diplo- macy.
He rattled the foreign pol- icy establishment by backing out of signing a joint commu- niqué with the Group of Seven and calling Canadian Prime
Now recorded into the history books: President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shaking hands.
announcement that joint war games with South Korea would be halted while negotiations with North Korea continue as a cost-saving measure, but echoed Pyongyang’s criticism of the drills as “very provoca- tive.” The concession appeared to be significant, but there’s some confusion about what it means.
China is happy
Outside of Pyongyang, there’s another capital that will be pleased at joint U. S.-South Korea military drills stopping: Beijing. China had been a main proponent of the so-called freeze-for-freeze, where the United States would halt mili- tary drills in exchange for an end to North Korean nuclear and missile tests.
Minister Justin Trudeau
“dishonest and weak.”
Asked at the end of his sum-
mit with Kim about praising an adversary after insulting an ally, Trump said the United
States was being “taken advan- tage of” by “virtually every” other G-7 country.
Trump’s concession on war games shocks
Trump framed his surprise
If You Don’t Vote...Then Supreme Court's Ruling In Ohio Case Could Affect You In The Future
London Breed Could Become San Francisco’s New Mayor
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday to allow Ohio's purg- ing of its voter rolls.
While federal law prohibits removing citizens from voter rolls simply because they haven't voted, Ohio's purge is slightly different.
The state sends out notices to those who failed to vote in a single election cycle. People who fail to respond and don't vote for another four years trigger an additional mecha- nism that results in their re- moval. That second prong, the Court said in a 5-4 ruling, was enough to pass legal muster.
The reason for Ohio's policy can be found in the 7,500 who went to the polls in 2016 to find out they had been purged- - as well as the 144,000 peo- ple, a 2016 Reuters study found were purged in Ohio's three largest counties.
In those locales, neighbor- hoods with more poor African- Americans were hit the hardest.
"Voters have been struck
Protesters outside the Supreme Court suffered defeat when the Justices voted 5-4 to support the purging of voter rolls in Ohio.
from the rolls in Democratic- leaning neighborhoods at roughly twice the rate as in Re- publican neighborhoods," the study found.
Over the past several years, Republican-controlled state governments have taken steps to make voting harder. Repub- licans counter that they are trying to prevent voter fraud.
It's no coincidence that 17 states, all with Republican at- torneys general, sided with Ohio's position. Florida (Pam Bondi) was not one of them.
President Donald Trump's administration
also supported Ohio's posi- tion.
Simply put, the policy was a different way to execute an old GOP strategy: Give yourself a better chance to win elections by making it harder for your opponent's supporters to vote.
Justice Breyer filed a dis- senting opinion, in which Jus- tices Ginsburg, Soto- mayor, and Kagan joined. They were the 4 who opposed.
Not surprising, the lone Black justice, Clarence Thomas was among the 5 that reversed the original rul- ing.
A week has passed since San Franciscans went to the polls to choose their next mayor, and the only thing the city knows for sure is that its ranked-choice voting system has produced the closest mayoral election in decades.
In election night, it looked like former state Senator Mark Leno would prevail over London Breed, presi- dent of the city’s Board of Su- pervisors, to finish the term of Mayor Ed Lee, whose sudden death in December created the need for the June 5 special election. Leno, who is bidding to become the first openly gay mayor of the fa- mously gay-friendly city, held a lead of 1,146 votes after the first batch of votes were tal- lied.
But as city officials have spent the last week counting mailed-in ballots received on or after Election Day, Leno’s lead dissipated and then van- ished entirely. Breed sur-
London Breed is the president of the city’s Board of Supervi- sors. Her opponent is Sen. Mark Leno.
passed him over the weekend, and in the latest tally pub- lished by the Department of Elections on Tuesday after- noon, she was ahead by 1,861 votes.
There are still thousands of mail and provisional bal- lots still uncounted, the race for San Francisco’s top job re- mains officially too close to call.
“We certainly can’t say it’s a done deal,” Breed’s cam- paign chairman, P. J. John- ston, told me by phone on Monday evening. Johnston said the campaign was “cau- tiously optimistic” about the outcome given that Breed had gained in the balloting each day since the election.
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