Trump watch 20180624

Today's Episode :  We need new laws to be lawful.

So, today's big Presidential Twitter Announcements has Trump advocating a new model of "Law." 

Apparently, while he was driving to go and play Golf at his Golf Course in Virginia, Trump explained his thinking regarding how immigration law should operate.

"We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country.  When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back where they came from.   Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order.  Most children come without parents."

"Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years!  Immigration must be based on merit - we need people who will help to Make America Great Again!"

It is interesting to note that the idea of adding more judges so the process can be sped up has been proposed, specifically by Ted Cruz among others.  Trump's responded specifically to this idea on Tuesday, saying "I don't want judges.  I want border security.  I don't want to try people.  I don't want people coming in.  Do you know, if a person comes in and puts one foot on our ground, it's essentially 'Welcome to America, welcome to our country.'  You never get them out, because they take their name, they bring the name down, they file it, then they let the person go.  The say, 'Show back up to court in one year from now.'"

Apparently Trump doesn't understand that the LEGAL PROCESS (i.e. the LAW) involves a number of steps, and having more judges to address the cases could speed up the LEGAL process.  It's interesting that Trump doesn't even want a Kangaroo Court.  He wants a wall which is basically impenetrable so people can't cross the border on foot. If people manage to cross the border anyway, he wants I.C.E. to be able to send people back to their country, although I'm really not sure what mechanism he wants for that.  I'm also not very clear on what sort of legal process in the United States anyway has this sort of model.  If a law enforcement officer witnesses you committing a crime, they can cite you and send you on your way after giving you a ticket with a court date, or they can take you into custody to await your day in court.  Court involves judges, prosecutors, and defenders, as well as witnesses, and presentation of evidence.  It's not cheap though, and if you're top priority if cost rather than justice, well, it seems that Trump wants to set up the Mega City One system with himself as the Head Judge, and ICE officers as Street Judges, at least where it applies to immigration law.  Whether that's a model he would like to expand to other areas of law enforcement, your call on whether this is a slippery slope argument or not (assuming you are good with cutting out judges and hearings, and that sort of thing).

• Stormy Daniels
• Trump Charity lawsuit by New York Attorney General
• FBI investigation (it keeps being called a Russian Collusion investigation, but I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that at this point
• North Korea
• The Space Force
• The Border Wall
• Alien Children Detention/family separation
• Presidential Pardons
• Civil War Monuments
• Muslim Travel Ban
• China Tariffs/Trade
• Canada-G7 Tariffs/Trade
• NAFTA
• Puerto Rico response

Survivor White House watch.  Nothing really new today.

Giuliani still there as Lawyer
John F. Kelly still there as Chief of Staff
Jeff Sessions still there as Attorney General
Sarah Huckabee Sanders still there as Press Secretary, rumors continue to be denied.
Mike Pompeo - Secretary of State

John Bolton - National Security Advisor
Marc Short - White House Legislative Affairs Director - no denial of plans regarding his departure prior to the 2018 midterms.
Kirstjen Nielsen - Homeland Security Secretary
Joe Hagin - White House deputy Chief of Staff is resigning.- reported June 19th