At a meeting of the Fraternal Order of Police in late-August, Attoreny General Jeff Sessions triumphantly announced the reversal of a President Obama Executive Order intended to limit or restrict access to specific military weapons. The Defense Department program, known as the "1033 Program," was...
In three tweets in July 2017, Trump sought to restrict transgender troops from serving in the military claiming it was due to costs rather than bigotry. These tweets did not equal policy change.
Sanctuary cities are seeking to protect our citizens by ignoring unjust, aggressive immigration policy changes the Justice Department is using to deport good people and destroy families. Smart Dissent discussed in late June that the Justice Department are various states are seeking new ways to shutdown sanctuary cities.
In our August 15th post below, we provided a primer that explained what DACA is and why it exists after President Obama's 2010 DREAM legislation was filibustered by Republicans in Senate to prevent a vote. We said that by September 5th, DACA was at grave risk of being shut down and nearly a million individuals brought here as children would be deported to countries of birth that have no memory of or connection to.
As more of Trump's regime get comfortable in their new positions of power for which they have little-to-no qualification, they find new ways to implement the heinous ideas they believe they are empowered to undertake. They spend every day crafting and implementing policies with destructive consequences for our country, our world and our future.
Let's take a step back and make sure everyone understands what DACA is and why it exists.
The White House continues to take aggressive, bigoted steps towards reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination and protecting minorities. It is doing so by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials unsympathetic to previous practices. In that post linked here many examples were noted. Another way the Department of Justice is lessening justice for citizens it exists to protect is described below.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is working to proactively improve our nation at a time when most of our energy is spent combating Trump and Republicans to prevent the next awful thing they want to implement. Booker has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana in the U.S. and combat the racial injustices surrounding it at a time when embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions and fellow Republicans are attempting to reverse state legalization.
If you read the headline of this post or saw the coverage last week and instinctively had a confused look on your face and said "what?" out loud to yourself, you are not alone. Nothing should surprise us anymore with this administration and their accomplices, but they keep trying. If only we could joke at the abject absurdity of this, but the directive detailed below is anything but a laughing matter as our country takes enormous steps backwards from our quest to be a more perfect Union.
In three tweets last week, Trump sought to restrict transgender troops from serving in the military claiming it was due to costs rather than bigotry. These tweets do not equal policy change.