That triangle is back

The big news of the day is that the Supreme Court preserved DACA, the program that protects from deportation undocumented people who came here as children. The nasty guy tried to end the program and immigrant rights groups sued to keep it in place. The Supremes agreed it should stay.

DACA recipients are, of course, delighted with the news. Gabe Ortiz of Daily Kos shares some reactions.

In a separate post Ortiz explains the decision. In his discussion he quotes from Mark Joseph Stern of Slate. The deciding vote was Chief Justice John Roberts, who also wrote the majority opinion.

This was not a resounding upholding of the DACA program. Roberts wrote that when the executive branch wants to change a policy it must provide a reasoned explanation. For example, the policy should consider how to handle a DACA person in a commitment, such as military service or in a course of study. But circumstances were ignored. So Roberts concluded the policy was enacted in an “unlawfully arbitrary and capricious way.”

Roberts concluded by giving his blessing to the nasty guy to try again. If the replacement policy was done properly, taking existing law into account, then he could end DACA.

There is sweetness in the victory of this battle. But the war is far from over.



Bill in Portland, Maine, in his daily Cheers and Jeers post for Kos quoted an article from Huffington Post. There is a news service for police called Law Enforcement Today. It has repeatedly promoted far-right conspiracy theories and authoritarian policies. That has continued during the recent mass protests. There is also a Facebook group Law Enforcement Family that perpetuates racist stereotypes and calls cops that kneel with protesters “pussies.” There are more than 53,000 members of this group. That’s not a “few bad apples.”



John Bolton wrote a book of all the incriminating details he wouldn’t share during the impeachment process last January. I urge you to not buy the book so that he won’t profit from spurning his duty to save the juicy stuff for the book.

John Bonifaz tweeted:

Here's a question for the House Judiciary Committee: in the face of the revelations from the Bolton book, what is your constitutional duty? Reconvene the impeachment inquiry + issue the subpoena to Bolton that neither the Senate nor House ever issued. And, while you're at it include in the focus of a new impeachment inquiry Trump's incitement of violence and murder. There is no "several months before the election" exception to the impeachment power of Congress.

Gail Berenger replied:

Anyone who thinks we are out of Trump danger because of the impending election has not considered his lame duck session and all the damage he could do. Impeachment for his crimes is what “law and order” and the violation to protect the constitution demand.

Consider all the damage the nasty guy has done since the impeachment.



Georgia’s recent primary election was a disaster. Jennifer Cohn, an election security advocate, says there was another aspect to that disaster which could reappear in November.

This is horrifying. Votes from predominantly black precincts in TN & GA have vanished from ES&S voting systems. Election commissioner @benniejsmith made the TN discovery by comparing precinct poll tapes to reported totals.

Hunter of Kos reports the nasty guy campaign has started using a red triangle in its advertising. That’s a hugely big deal because that same red triangle was used in Nazi concentration camps to identify political prisoners, or more accurately, used by fascists to identify enemies of fascism. And the nasty guy campaign is using this triangle in that same way.

Hunter then rebuts the idea this was used accidentally. No, says Hunter, it is obvious the campaign knows about the history of this symbol and is using because of that history. Hunter concludes:

It would be easier to believe that Trump's band of for-hire white nationalist deplorables stumbled on things like Nazi concentration camp symbols accidentally if they also did not run actual concentration camps, in this case for refugees, intentionally. Or demand the militarization of the streets, or promote anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, or declare, even in the Senate, that the law of the nation is now subservient to Dear Leader's personal agenda and interests. There is no subtlety here, however. The movement is both advocating for explicitly fascist things and declaring "anti-fascists," real or imagined, to be enemies of the state. There is no flowchart needed to get from A to B.

KeithDB of the Kos community wrote that Facebook has deleted the ads. He adds:

Team Trump is not even trying to hide what they are anymore.

Some of us think he stopped trying to hide a long time ago. Others say he never did try.