President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

The Klan sympathizer in line for AG just had his confirmation hearing moved up, I suspect.

 

If only Bork were still around to tell the acting AG broad to get lost.

 

One of the justifications being presented for a Muslim ban was the Internment of the Japanese Americans during WWII; which the Supreme Court upheld in the Korematsu v. United States in 1944.

Well, what those proponents fail to recognize is that case was all based on a fraud on the Supreme Court:

In 1982, with newly uncovered documents by law historian Peter Irons, Korematsu, Hirabayashi, and Yasui filed a writ of error coram nobis to their respective U.S. district courts. This legal procedure is designed to vacate wrongful convictions in cases of governmental misconduct such as withholding important information or presenting false evidence at a trial. (See coram nobis cases.) The government files disclosed that the Justice Department lawyers who handled these Supreme Court cases had complained that their superiors were suppressing evidence and lying to the justices, but their complaints had been ignored.[8]

At issue was John L. DeWitt's Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast, 1942, with which he had justified his recommendation for mass incarceration. Back in 1943, when attorneys Edward Ennis and John Burling were reviewing the report for use in the government's Supreme Court briefs in Hirabayashi and Yasui, they found that DeWitt's argument of "military necessity," specifically his claims of Japanese American espionage activity and shore-to-shore signaling, were not only false but had been refuted by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Burling attempted to add a footnote alerting the Justice Department's disagreement with the Final Report. In response, War Department officials halted its publication, altered the footnote, and concealed the existence of a prior version, which would have undermined DeWitt's credibility. After burning the drafts, memorandums, and galley proofs of the original report, an extremely diluted version was presented to the Supreme Court in the Korematsu case after its public release in 1944.[9]

After a year of litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel set a hearing for November 10, 1983. Korematsu stood before the court and stated: "As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing." Indeed, as recently as 1971, suspected subversives could still be detained without due process of law under the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950, an anti-communist legislation of the McCarthy era. In a surprise move, Judge Patel ruled from the bench and overturned Korematsu's conviction.

After Judge Patel's decision, the US did not appeal paid reparations to the Japanese Americans interned.

 

That fucking embassy. It looks like a giant battleship in the middle of beautiful downtown Ottawa. There was plenty of local opposition to it before it was built that it was ugly and would mess up traffic in that area, which is one of the busiest parts of town. Built it anyway. It is in fact ugly. Then they put up "temporary" barriers on the street on the right, closing an entire lane of traffic, to give it more of a buffer from bombs, I guess. So now there's a bottleneck there, forcing you to sit in traffic and stare at the big concrete American fart in the middle of our quaint Canadian capital.

It's not the best, is what I'm saying.

 

FUCK

 

Thanks to the Google doodle, I read up on Korematsu. Only problem after all of that is the SCOTUS ruling still stands.

 

This thread has a theory:

 

Why is only "civil society" in quotes? What was the whole quote, and is there a link to an audio file of it somewhere, or at least a transcript?

 

You mean the guy who thought the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was reprehensible, that political speech is the only form of expression allowed by the First Amendment and that the state can criminalize sex? Nice guy.

 

What fresh fuckery is this? Trump filed with the FEC for 2020 five hours after the inauguration. Read the link for the implications.

 

One of the great threads I've read in a long time.

I'm knee-deep down that rabbit hole.

1, the suggestion it's Melania is funny

2, they're dissecting the activity period chart ...

 

Yeah, the guy Nixon told to fire the special prosecutor, Cox, which he did.