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With Trump and his fellow Republicans expecting a full-frontal assault on the president himself, leading Democrats—from House leader Nancy Pelosi, to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Ben Ray Luján, to the party’s biggest donors and elder statesmen—advised House candidates to run hyper-local, non-hysterical campaigns that made little mention of the president.
“I’m not running against Donald Trump. I’m running against Erik Paulsen,” Dean Phillips, the newly elected Democratic representative from Minnesota’s 3rd District, told POLITICO while campaigning two days before the election. “I talk about what people want to talk about, and it’s much less about Trump than you’d think.” Paulsen, who lost by just over 11 percentage points, represents a suburban Twin Cities district that Republicans have controlled since 1960. He tried repeatedly to distance himself from Trump—whose approval rating in the 3rd District tumbled into the 30s this fall—but it was little use: Phillips branded him as a rubber-stamp for the White House, while the president himself was so irritated by Paulsen’s lack of loyalty that he insisted on sending not one but two tweets endorsing him.
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“I’m not running against Donald Trump. I’m running against Erik Paulsen,” Dean Phillips, the newly elected Democratic representative from Minnesota’s 3rd District, told POLITICO while campaigning two days before the election. “I talk about what people want to talk about, and it’s much less about Trump than you’d think.” Paulsen, who lost by just over 11 percentage points, represents a suburban Twin Cities district that Republicans have controlled since 1960. He tried repeatedly to distance himself from Trump—whose approval rating in the 3rd District tumbled into the 30s this fall—but it was little use: Phillips branded him as a rubber-stamp for the White House, while the president himself was so irritated by Paulsen’s lack of loyalty that he insisted on sending not one but two tweets endorsing him.
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A: No.
Not that either characterization would be completely wrong
Not that either characterization would be completely wrong
Indeed!
In most cases, true!
boom
Whether we continue in this vein is for the Article I branch to decide. I do not believe President Trump may reverse by executive order a practice that has ensued for decades pursuant, at least ostensibly, to statutes enacted by the branch of government constitutionally empowered to prescribe qualifications for citizenship. (My friend Hans von Spakovsky makes a strong argument that the president does have this power.) But as for Congress itself, neither the 14th Amendment nor the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence prevent it from adopting a sensible policy that does not create perverse incentives to immigrate illegally and violate our laws.
Of course Grieder thinks it's GREAT because BETO
I do not consider either the majority or minority opinions to be irrefutable. The argument could go either way.
// True. And the argument one side makes is not beyond the pale, though those who disagree want to portray it that way.
// True. And the argument one side makes is not beyond the pale, though those who disagree want to portray it that way.
Leave it to Stanard to go way overboard, though
Needs a copy editor