President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to strip many Americans of their legal citizenship by executive fiat, specifically targeting children born in the United States to undocumented immigrant parents. Such a move would immediately run afoul of the United States Constitution, as well as a federal judiciary whose fringiest right-wing judges have never cottoned on to such a radical revision of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Nevertheless, tearing down the infrastr...
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Trump’s Medicare chief: Expanding Medicare to more Americans is scary
Seema Verma isn’t a well-known member of President Donald Trump’s administration, but she is an important one.
As the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Verma is in charge of overseeing health programs that over 100 million Americans rely on.
So it seemed like an odd choice for Trump’s Medicare chief to call the proposal to expand Medicare coverage to more Americans scary in an attempted Halloween joke on Wednesday.
There are not two sides to birthright citizenship. Reporters who say so are committing malpractice.
Reporters, please, for the love of God, don’t do this.
Breaking News: President Trump said he was preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship. It is unclear whether he can do so unilaterally.https://t.co/uAshSXiP10
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2018
It is not “unclear” whether Trump can act unilaterally. The Constitution’s text unambiguously says that Trump cannot do this — an...
Meet Katie Hill, the advocate for homeless people running to flip a solidly red California district
Katie Hill has been running for Congress for 19 months, and you can tell. Her answers to policy questions are polished and substantive. She has studies to back up her claims. Her body language tells you she’s at ease, but her resolute gaze belongs to someone practiced at anticipating challenges and personal jabs.
Hill is a 31 year-old executive of a nonprofit, PATH, People Assisting The Homeless, who grew up in grew up in Santa Clarita and Antelope Valley. She would be the fir...
Transgender women celebrate monumental health care court victory
It was the first case outcome of its kind: a total of $780,000 in damages for two transgender women who were denied medically necessary health care because of their gender identity. It was also likely the first time a court found that facial feminization surgery was medically necessary.
The women now hope that if eight jurors in Wisconsin could be convinced that transgender people deserve access to health care related to their identities, others might be inspired to fight for what t...
Media outlets use racist terms to describe Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship
President Trump told Axios in an interview this week that he is planning to end birthright citizenship, a right granted to children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States.
Axios on Tuesday morning released a small portion of the interview, set to air in full on HBO Sunday, using racist terminology to describe the decision.
“This would be the most dramatic move yet in Trump’s hardline immigration campaign, this time targeting ‘anchor babies̵...
Everything you need to know about why Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional
Donald Trump, in an interview with Axios, said that he plans to sign an executive order stripping many Americans of their citizenship. Though it is unclear how far Trump wants to go, or whether he would attempt to retroactively strip many existing citizens of their citizenship, Trump apparently wants to target the children of undocumented immigrants.
“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United...
Audience laughs at Rep. Steve Knight after he says the economy is ‘explosive’ thanks to GOP tax cuts
SIMI VALLEY, CA — Republicans passed a sweeping tax bill last year that mainly benefited wealthy individuals and corporations, but that hasn’t stopped Rep. Steve Knight (R-CA) from arguing it deeply changed the economy to benefit everyone.
In a debate on Thursday night with his Democratic opponent, Katie Hill, Knight said the economy was “explosive” thanks to the tax bill passed last year. His statements ignore the reality of the bill he voted for, as well as...
The Note: Obamacare central to midterm races
Attention can be drawn to the Supreme Court, to a migrant caravan and even towards tax cuts, but races across the country keep coming back to one big issue: health care.