Day 16: The Administration is Not Happy

It's Saturday, so news is a bit slower today. The primary story for today is the repercussions of last night's nation-wide stay by a Seattle judge on the immigration order.

• This time, the State department and CBP was quick to act on the judicial order. Some sense of normalcy has returned to international travel. The visas that were "provisionally" revoked are being reinstated. While this is a good thing, there is definitely a sense of fear that it's only going to be temporary.
• Trump has been fuming. Not only was the official response "outrageous", but Trump's tweets this morning were aimed at discrediting the judiciary. An emergency appeal has, of course, been filed. Note that Trump's tweets put the appeals court in a tough position: oppose the administration and bring the judiciary and the executive head to head, or agree with the administration in discrediting their own. Neither sounds appealing, pun intended. There is a good reason why past presidents have not taken aim at individual judges.
• Bureau of Indian Affairs officers called in to remove protestors at Standing Rock. Well fuck. These guys have spent their careers supporting the protestors (in principle). A heinous act, aimed at sowing discord and dispersing opposition to the pipeline.
• The FCC chair is already dismantling net neutrality. I haven't seen this widely reported, but we really should be making more ruckus about it.
• In Trump's conflicts of interest this weekend, he has two events planned at his own resorts. How is this not exploiting the presidency for personal gain?
• Finally, the US has upped the ante against Iran, escalating the conflict of words by declaring Iran the biggest state sponsor of terrorism. This is not going to end well.
• I said yesterday that the Republican's plan consists of one word: repeal. And here we go: a document titled "Roadmap to Repeal". Note that a lot of the repeal energy is coming from the Koch brothers and the oil and mining industries, who have spent large sums of money lobbying congress. These repeals are not for the benefit of the people at all, they are for the benefit of large businesses.

Any chance we can repeal this congress and start again?