President Shit’s First 100 Days: Day 87

April 18, 2025 12:00 pm EDT Halodoc Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on President Shit’s First 100 Days: Day 87

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“He’s betrayed our national security. He will do so again. He’s compromised our elections. He will do so again. You will not change him. You can’t constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters even less. Decency matters not at all.” – Adam Schiff, Trump impeachment hearing in 2020

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” -Albert Camus

President Shit’s Clown Public Schedule

Friday, April 18 2025
9:00 AM In-Town Pool Call Time In-Town Pool
12:00 PM The President participates in a Swearing-In Ceremony for the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Oval Office Closed Press

Wth? He’s going to “swear” in Medicare and Medicaid administrators and then what, turn around and fire them? FFS

Couple of sticky’s from boss:

Supreme Court (dot) gov

It would appear the question the justices will answer is whether or not Judges can order nationwide blocks, not the actual merits of the EO…
Boss found this:

NBC News: Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether Trump can implement plan banning birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday it will hear oral arguments next month on whether the Trump administration can take steps to enforce its contentious proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship while litigation continues.

The court in a brief order deferred action on an emergency request made by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges.

The policy for now remains blocked nationwide.

The court, when it hears arguments on May 15, will consider whether judges exceeded their authority in issuing nationwide injunctions.

NBC News

File this next one under: People who have places reserved in the Ninth Circle of Hell: Treachery

Minnesota Reformer (dot) com:

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his U.S. birth certificate in court.

The man, who was arrested Wednesday after a traffic stop in which he was a passenger on his way to his job in Tallahassee, is set to remain in jail for the next 48 hours, waiting for federal immigration officials to pick him up, even though Leon County authorities dropped his first-degree misdemeanor charge.

His mother, Sebastiana Gomez-Perez, burst into tears at the sight of her son, who appeared virtually for his first hearing at the Leon County Courthouse. She left the courtroom distraught because she could do nothing to help her son, who was born and lives in Grady County, Georgia.

Leon County Judge LaShawn Riggans held Lopez-Gomez’s birth certificate up to the light after community advocate Silvia Alba silently waved the document in the courtroom.“

In looking at it, and feeling it, and holding it up to the light, the court can clearly see the watermark to show that this is indeed an authentic document,” Riggans said.

Based on her inspection of his birth certificate and Social Security card, Riggans said she found no probable cause for the charge. However, the state prosecutor insisted the court lacked jurisdiction over Lopez-Gomez’s release because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had formally asked the jail to hold him.

“This court does not have any jurisdiction other than what I’ve already done,” Riggans said.

At issue is a recently passed law that a federal judge has temporarily barred the state from enforcing, further calling into question the validity of his arrest, the charge, and detention. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 4-C into law on Feb. 14, and U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams blocked its enforcement on April 4.

The law makes it a misdemeanor for undocumented immigrants over age 18 to “knowingly” enter Florida “after entering the United States by eluding or avoiding examination or inspection by immigration officers.”

Two hours later:

👇 Seven pages: Read it: gov.uscourts.ca4.178400.8.0.pdf

In sum, and for the reasons foregoing, we deny the motion for the stay pending
appeal and the writ of mandamus in this case.

It is so ordered.

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