Links for 03/17/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The Republican stain goes back to opposition to forced bussing and the Nixon Southern Strategy, thorugh Lee Atwater to Lott/Helms/Thurmond and ending with McConnell blocking all action by Obama that he can. Trump is only the result. Of course, he is also an out of control manic depressive - hopefully he will have a good VP who will invoke the 25th Amendment for his disability and removal.
Teddy had some class, as did Strom (for all his overt racism he treated people well individually). The days of Senate comity are sadly (though hopefully temporarily) gone. Of course, I can't see them coming back while McConnell is still the leader. Removing him from even the minority leadership is as essential as blocking Trump.
ICE can only do so much. What it should do is grant student visas to any undocumented student - but sadly it is the law that is the ass here - with no small measure being the heightened security enacted post 9/11. Obama should stop when he can - the matter of his use of presidential enforcement authority to slow roll deportations is currently before the Court. He is too good a constitutional lawyer to ignore what they will say or go too far ahead of it. This is why, even if bad things happen, he is a good president while Trump would be horrid. The rule of law is what keeps us free from presidential tyranny.(of course, if Obama can act within the law, he should)
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