NO MORE UNNECESSARY GOVT REGULATIONS (TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PROMISES)

NO MORE UNNECESSARY GOVT REGULATIONS (TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PROMISES):

TRUMP KEEPS ANOTHER CAMPAIGN PROMISE TO CREATE MORE JOBS & HELP SMALL BUSINESSES.


Sources: Fox News, Reuters, Youtube


***** Trump orders new task force push to eliminate red tape


President Trump took another step Friday to roll back government red tape, signing an executive order requiring every federal agency to form a “regulatory reform task force” that would root out regulations for repeal.

A day after chief strategist Steve Bannon vowed a "deconstruction of the administrative state," Trump directed each agency's task force to evaluate existing rules and identify which ones should be modified or sent to the chopping block.

Joined in the Oval Office by business executives, Trump said "unnecessary” and “burdensome" regulations are “killing jobs” and “driving companies out of our country like never before."

Those regulations, according to the White House, will be a focus of the new task forces.

Trump said reducing the regulatory burden will “unleash economic activity.”

Trump signed the order after delivering a rousing address to party faithful at the nearby Conservative Political Action Conference. The order builds on previous directives to find two regulations to cut for every new one proposed, and to freeze pending regulations.

While the latest measure takes this a step further, stripping existing regulations could ultimately require congressional involvement.

Trump's new order calls for each task force to document and report their progress toward meeting the president’s directives.

In the first 30 days of his term, Trump has overseen a considerable slowdown in regulations, according to an analysis by The Hill.

There has been a 72 percent decline in regulatory activity during the first month of the Trump administration compared with the last two months of then-President Barack Obama’s term.

Trump also has signed several bills passed by Congress aimed at specific regulations.

They include a resolution to mitigate the harm done to the coal industry by the Stream Protection Rule, and another measure to eliminate a reporting regulation that Republicans argue placed American mining and energy companies and their employees at an unfair disadvantage because their foreign competitors do not have similar requirements.

According to the White House, the Obama administration finalized more than 3,000 regulations that cost American taxpayers $873 billion.

Speaking Thursday at the annual CPAC, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus characterized Trump’s regulatory reform efforts as a “big deal.”

Bannon echoed Priebus, saying the earlier executive action was the first step towards the "deconstruction of the administrative state."

Not everyone is on board Trump’s regulatory reform train.

On February 8, Public Citizen, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Communications Workers of America jointly filed a lawsuit challenging the validity of the action calling for two regulations to be stripped for every one proposed.

The three liberal groups argue that complying with the executive order would force government agencies to violate the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act, the federal statute which governs the way regulations are established.

TRANSGENDER BATHROOM LAWS NOT TRUMP'S PRIORITY (CHARLOTTE, NC)

TRANSGENDER BATHROOM LAWS NOT TRUMP'S PRIORITY FOR AMERICA (CHARLOTTE):

NOR IS TRUMP TRYING TO TURN ALL BLACK MEN GAY.


Sources: ABC News, The Economist, Charlotte Observer, YouTube


**** The Trump administration reverses guidelines on transgender bathrooms


But presidents cannot change the law and it is up to courts to enforce it

ON February 22nd, the Trump administration announced it would withdraw its predecessor’s guidelines regarding the accommodation of transgender students in America’s government-funded schools.

Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s press secretary, said that the president had “made it clear throughout the campaign that he’s a firm believer in states’ rights”. Issues like transgender bathroom access, he added, “are not best dealt with at the federal level".

The move has disheartened liberals and cheered conservatives, but its impact is likely to be more limited than either side expects.

Nine months ago, officials from the education and justice departments officials sent a letter and 25-page instructional pamphlet to school districts across the country.

The message was simple:

America’s schools should permit transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

In the face of new laws in North Carolina and other states imposing a biological test on bathroom access, the Obama administration noted that “the desire to accommodate others’ discomfort cannot justify a policy that singles out and disadvantages a particular class of students.”

This principle, it added, is “consistently recognised in civil rights cases”.

Thirteen states immediately challenged the letter in court. Days before the school year began last autumn, a federal district judge issued a nationwide injunction barring its enforcement.

The Obama administration, Reed O’Connor ruled, had not followed appropriate procedures before offering its interpretation of Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and how those provisions bear on the protections due to transgender students.

Mr O'Connor confirmed in October 2016 that his order against Mr Obama’s transgender policy applied not just in the 13 states that brought the challenge but to every school district in the country.

Later that month, the Supreme Court agreed to consider the case of Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy now in his final semester at a Virginia high school that will not permit him to use the boy’s bathroom. Mr Grimm’s complaint is set for argument at the court on March 28th.

Civil-rights groups and left-leaning politicians reacted with dismay to Mr Trump’s change of policy.

A representative from the American Civil Liberties Union said the move “shows that the president’s promise to protect LGBT rights was just empty rhetoric”.

Maura Healey, the attorney-general for Massachusetts, wrote that Mr Trump “is sending a message that discrimination is acceptable”. Dick Durbin, a Democratic senator from Illinois, called it “a major setback in the fight for civil rights”. Conservatives, meanwhile, are cheering the about-face.

Gary McCaleb, a lawyer at the right-wing Alliance Defending Freedom, said, “No longer will federal officials distort federal law that is meant to equalise educational opportunities for women, and no longer will they force local officials to intermingle boys and girls within private areas like locker rooms, showers, hotel rooms on school trips, and restrooms".

Two considerations should temper reactions on both sides. First, Mr Trump’s change of policy is not a wholesale reversal of Mr Obama’s stance on trans rights; it is, instead, a withdrawal pending further consideration.

The “Dear colleague” letter issued on February 23rd criticises the May 2016 missive, along with another guidance letter from January 2015, in brief and general terms: “These guidance documents do not...contain extensive legal analysis or explain how the position is consistent with the express language of Title IX”.

It then briefly recounts the litigation battle over bathrooms, noting the legal dispute over whether discrimination against transgender people amounts to “sex” discrimination. But Mr Trump’s letter does not itself stake out a definitive claim:

The government “has decided to withdraw and rescind” Mr Obama’s guidance, it reads, “in order to further and more completely consider the legal issues involved”.

And the letter closes by affirming that protections are still in place against “discrimination, bullying and harassment” and that “all students, including LGBT students” deserve to attend schools where they “are able to learn and thrive in a safe environment”.

This rather conciliatory closing, along with the lack of a full-throated condemnation of Mr Obama’s position, may owe something to squabbling inside the White House over the move: it appears that Betsy DeVos, the new Education secretary, opposed the change but bowed to the demands of Jeff Sessions, the attorney-general, after Mr Trump intervened.

So Mr Trump’s change of policy is quite a bit softer, both in tone and content, than it might have been.

A second factor mitigates the significance of the change still further: whatever a president’s spin on civil-rights law may be, the law itself remains the same. “With or without guidance”, the National Women’s Law Centre tweeted yesterday, “Title IX is still the law of the land & schools still have an obligation to protect trans students.” Many states have already adopted transgender-friendly policies in their schools.

States that do not offer adequate accommodations will face lawsuits, and it will be up the courts—not the executive branch—to interpret and enforce the law.

OBAMA'S TEARFUL GUN CONTROL LAWS COMPLETES HIS LEGACY, WON'T REDUCE DEATHS (CHICAGO)

OBAMA'S TEARFUL GUN CONTROL LAWS COMPLETES HIS LEGACY, WON'T REDUCE DEATHS:

MORE UNEMPLOYED, FRUSTRATED BLACK MEN WILL BE INCARCERATED OR THROWN INTO MENTAL INSTITUTIONS.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016 while delivering a Tearful Press Conference, Pres OBAMA announced his enactment of new GUN CONTROL laws in the United States via Fiat i.e., Executive Action.

During his new Gun Control laws press conference, Pres OBAMA mentioned several Communities adversely impacted by Gun Violence: Aurora, Colorado.......Sandy Hook, Connecticut......San Bernandino, California and CHICAGO.

***By the way Pres OBAMA only mentioned CHICAGO for one second.

Under OBAMA'S Administration thousands of BLACK Boys & Men in CHICAGO have died via Gun Violence yet he barely mentions CHICAGO.

OBAMA mentioned three Initiatives for his new Gun Control laws.

1). To stop Straw Buyers and Straw Sellers from putting Guns into the hands of Customers who can't pass a Background Check.

2). To ensure everyone who purchases a Gun is in fact subject to a Background Check and can clear a Background Check.

3). To help people who are MENTALLY ILL.

Now let's analyze these Initiatives.

Straw Buyers & Straw Sellers will continue to make Money selling Guns. Moving forward they will just have to do it completely LEGAL.

WHITE People and Middle Eastern citizens with Criminal Records and FELONIES will continue to purchase Guns LEGALLY just as they did before OBAMA enacted new Gun Control laws.

Citizens with NO Civilian Criminal Record and NO apparent signs of MENTAL INSTABILITY/ MENTAL ILLNESS but are actually Psychological walking time bombs, will continue to LEGALLY purchase Guns and KILL innocent people once their Psychological inner time bombs explode.

I perceive MORE Unemployed, Frustrated BLACK Men some of them with prior Criminal Records, will be thrown into Mental Health Institutions and Prisons.

Thus I don't quite see how Pres OBAMA'S new Gun Control laws will help curb Gun Violence in the United States.

Especially in WHITE Communities.

However I do see the number of Unemployed, Frustrated BLACK Men being thrown into Prisons and Mental Institutions increasing.

Dear GOD We Really Need To PRAY & VOTE In November 2016!

~ President Obama Cries During Gun Control Speech

For a man who's rarely rattled, this was a powerful display of emotion.

President Barack Obama has been recorded crying only a handful of times while in office, and this may very well have been the most poignant.

The president took executive action on gun reform Tuesday in a move that he seemed to feel was long overdue.

When discussing the deaths of shooting victims – particularly the first-graders murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 – the president was overcome with emotion.

"Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness – those rights were stripped from college students in Blacksburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine, and from first-graders in Newtown. First-graders," he said, pausing and tearing up.

"Every time I think about those kids it gets me mad.

And, by the way, it happens on the streets of Chicago every day."

Sources: France24, ABC News, US News, Youtube

OBAMA TRUMPS GOP AGAIN BY EXECUTING AMNESTY; IGNORES U.S. CONSTITUTION (2016 POLITICS)

Once again Pres OBAMA does just want he wants to do with his "Pen and his Phone" as CONGRESS stands by in awe observing him doing just as he wants to do.

This time it's AMNESTY for the 2016 General Election.

While most American Voters are in total agreement with Comprehensive IMMIGRATION REFORM being enacted by CONGRESS and a Sitting U.S. President, NO American Voter (in their right mind) agrees it should be enacted via a KING'S Fiat by a Sitting U.S. President.

The United States of America is NOT a Monarchy.

It is a Democracy with a Constitution which must be adhered to.

Article Source: Washington Examiner

ARTICLE: "Obama Calls Immigration Action Legal, Not Amnesty"

President Obama in a prime-time address to the nation Thursday night trumpeted his executive action to protect 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, saying the most extensive overhaul to the immigration system in decades would limit "real amnesty" in the United States.

Ignoring GOP cries of executive overreach, the president opted to move ahead with unilateral action that adds fuel to the simmering feud over the limits of his executive authority.

The centerpiece of Obama’s executive blueprint is the deferral of deportations for roughly 4.1 million undocumented immigrants whose children are American citizens or permanent residents. Under the president’s plan, the parents must have lived in the U.S. for at least five years to receive work permits.

"I know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty," Obama said. "Well, it’s not. Amnesty is the immigration system we have today — millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules, while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time."

While Obama’s move alienated conservatives, progressives largely fell in line with the president, arguing his hand was forced by House Republicans' unwillingness to take up a Senate-passed immigration bill.

"Had the House of Representatives allowed that kind of a bill a simple yes-or-no vote, it would have passed with support from both parties, and today it would be the law," Obama insisted. "But for a year and a half now, Republican leaders in the House have refused to allow that simple vote."

Under the presidential directive, the Obama administration is also expanding a program that granted certain Dream Act-eligible immigrants a reprieve from deportation, saying that minors who arrived in the U.S. before 2010 would not face prosecution. Previously, Obama limited such protections to young immigrants who arrived in the country before 2007.

However, the parents of so-called Dreamers do not qualify for the new benefits outlined by the president.

The federal government will begin taking applications from undocumented immigrants in the spring 2015, administration officials said.

For their part, Republicans accused the president of killing any hopes of bipartisan compromise on the hot-button issue.

“Instead of working together to fix our broken immigration system, the president says he’s acting on his own. That’s just not how our democracy works,” said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "The president has said before that he’s not [a] king and he’s not an emperor, but he’s sure acting like one. And he’s doing it a time when the American people want nothing more than for us to work together.”

The unilateral action is part of a broader campaign by the Obama administration to reserve deportations for the most violent criminals, not those convicted of lesser offenses. Obama’s plan will replace the Secure Communities law-enforcement program, which checks the fingerprints of all inmates with the Department of Homeland Security to verify their immigration status — and requires the detention of undocumented immigrants for lengthy periods of time.

Obama is also making more high-tech visas available, a provision long sought by Silicon Valley. The administration will grant visas to the spouses of H-1B visa recipients without it counting against the overall limit.

Obama’s high-profile address was delayed until after the November midterms, part of a failed attempt to retain Democratic control of the Senate. The president faced major pressure from Latino activists to flex executive muscle on immigration, though some advocates insist Obama could have done even more to halt a record number of deportations under his watch.

A major challenge Obama faced Thursday night was convincing the American public of the legality of his actions — he framed them as a matter of prosecutorial discretion.

"The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every Democratic president for the past half-century," Obama said. "And to those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.”

Yet, multiple recent polls have shown that many Americans are opposed to his executive action. Aware of that political reality, Obama will travel to Las Vegas Friday to promote his immigration efforts.

But Republicans predict Obama will regret going it alone on immigration.

"President Obama is not above the law and has no right to issue executive amnesty,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said. “His actions blatantly ignore the separations of powers and the principles our country was founded on. I will not sit idly by and let the president bypass Congress and our Constitution."