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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

BERNIE SANDERS HIRES CAMPAIGN MANAGER WHO CO-CHAIRED EVENT THAT INCLUDED HAMAS FUNDRAISER

MUSLIM "VICTIMOLOGY" PROPAGANDIZED THROUGH THE SANDERS' PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

BERNIE SANDERS HIRES CAMPAIGN MANAGER 
WHO CO-CHAIRED EVENT THAT INCLUDED 
HAMAS FUNDRAISER

Bernie Sanders' campaign manager had written positively of a monster who had called for another Holocaust.

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/272926/bernie-sanders-hires-campaign-manager-who-co-daniel-greenfieldrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Bernie Sanders continues to provide shelter and cover for Islamic figures with anti-Semitism issues. Fresh off his backing for Rep. Omar's anti-Semitism, here he is bringing on board another controversial figure as his campaign manager.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has tapped Faiz Shakir to serve as his campaign manager for his second run at the White House, the Daily Beast has learned.
Shakir joins the Sanders operation from the American Civil Liberties Union where he served as national political director since early 2017. Before joining the ACLU, he was a senior adviser to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and before that he worked with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). He first made a name for himself as an editor at the site ThinkProgress, the news arm associated with, though editorially independent of, the powerhouse Democratic think-tank Center for American Progress.
As I previously noted, ThinkProgress had some anti-Semitism issues on Shakir's watch.
After the use of bigoted language by ThinkProgress contributors turned into a growing scandal, the White House publicly distanced itself from ThinkProgress, an outlet of the Center for American Progress, which Time Magazine called the think tank with the largest influence on the Obama administration. Jarrod Bernstein, the White House’s liaison to the Jewish community, described the events there as troubling and stated that the Center for American Progress’s attitude was not that of the Obama administration.
But, more importantly, there's the Hamas issue. I broke this story quite a few years ago. And there was no interest in it.
During his time at ThinkProgress, Faiz Shakir had repeatedly attacked the Jewish State, endorsing the Hamas aid flotilla to Gaza and attacking Israel’s attempts to defend itself against terrorists
But Shakir’s sympathy for Islamists and antipathy for the Jewish State are no surprise at all considering his activities during his college days when he was a member of the Harvard Islamic Society.
While the Harvard Islamic Society’s affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood’s MSA is somewhat vague, its Constitution states that its independence does not preclude “affiliation with the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada.”
HIS was co-founded by Yusuf Ibish, the father of Hussein Ibish, who is a veteran pro-terrorist and anti-Israel activist, and Syed Hossein Nasr, an Islamic philosopher and opponent of the United States and Israel, who claims to be able to trace his ancestry back to Mohammed. During Faiz Shakir’s time there, HIS was presided over by Zayed Yasin, who became infamous for his “My American Jihad” speech.
In 2000, The Harvard Islamic Society held an Islamic Awareness Week and Faiz Shakir served as the co-chair for the week’s events. One of those events included a fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation, a group which acted as the fundraising arm for Hamas in the United States. As co-chair of the week’s events, Shakir would have unquestionably been involved in the selection of organizations to donate to. That he chose a fundraising for a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization can only be regarded as highly significant.
Though the Holy Land Foundation was only raided in the year after that, it was well known at the time that the group was a front for terrorists, and the Harvard Islamic Society faced complaints and scrutiny for its terrorist fundraising. Zayed Yasin’s defense of the Holy Land Foundation made it quite clear that he was familiar with its true mission.
Ever since I broke the story, Shakir has continued rising through the ranks with little media interest in the revelation.
In 2017, Tablet finally asked Shakir about HIS.
LL: Do you feel the same was true for the controversy caused over the Islamic Awareness Week at Harvard that raised funds for the Holy Land Foundation?
FS: That one was very frustrating to me, Liel, because I don’t really know anything about that. I wasn’t involved—let me be clear on this. The Harvard Islamic Society asked me to be the co-chair of Islam Awareness Week, which entailed me going to events around campus and talking about Muslims and Islam. I remember one event was standing in front of the Widener Library at Harvard doing an “Ask The Muslim” booth. And that’s what I did. Like that was one event. I remember one person—I had to corral someone to do the call, the adhan, before prayer so I asked one of our colleagues to do the adhan in public and that was one of the things I did, too. Those are the things that come to mind of what I did. But apparently what happened at the end of that week is that there was a dinner that was, I believe, a bunch of universities in the area in Boston came together and held a fundraising dinner. I want to be clear, I had no role in the fundraising dinner, nor did I attend the fundraising dinner. And so again it feels to me like guilt by association that’s dogged me because I feel like the headline there was “Faiz Was a Muslim at Harvard—Breaking News.” And I was, but I didn’t partake or do any of those activities, and yet because somebody else did them, it’s like the three degrees of separation and now somehow I’m like equally at fault and sinned for all of those acts of others. So that’s how I honestly feel about that.
Shakir was the co-chair of Islam Awareness Week, yet he claims to have had no idea what was going on at them. This is the Hillary Clinton defense. And it comes down to, "I'm not a terrorist supporter, I'm just completely incompetent. Now watch me run major initiatives."
Much of Shakir's ThinkProgress blogging involved touting Sharia's system of Islamic apartheid and assorted Islamic initiatives.
That held true when writing about the Islamist takeover in Tunisia.
Having been run for decades by French-inspired secularism, Tunisia is expected to usher in a government that embraces a Turkish-inspired Islamic-led democracy. Rached Ghannouchi, the head of the favored Islamic Ennahda party, is pictured below (top left) waving a blue-dyed finger after casting his vote
Shakir's post was decorated with a grinning photo of the Islamist monster who had called for the mass murder of Jews.
 Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, has engaged in blatant anti-Semitism, and has said, “There are no civilians in Israel. The population—males, females and children—are the army reserve soldiers, and thus can be killed.”
Bernie Sanders' campaign manager had written positively of a monster who had called for another Holocaust.
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FILLED WITH LIES AND DECEPTION 
AS MANDATED BY THE QURAN:
SHAKIR NAMES & ATTACKS ALL THOSE BEHIND THE "SPREAD OF ISLAMOPHOBIA" IN AMERICA, CALLING THEM 
AN UN-AMERICAN "NETWORK"
EXCEPT THEY ARE ALL EXPOSING THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM, JIHAD, SHARIA & THE VIOLENCE TOWARDS "UNBELIEVERS" MANDATED BY THE QURAN
ACCUSES TRUMP OF WRAPPING HIMSELF 
WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG
THEN HE PROCEEDS TO WRAP HIMSELF IN RETURN
Faiz Shakir, Pradeep Ramamurthy, Rashad Hussain ...

SEE ALSO: 
https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/242959/a-conversation-with-faiz-shakir-about-anti-semitism-and-bds

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/31518-sanders-running-again-the-old-socialist-is-now-mainstream-among-democrats?vsmaid=3468&vcid=3987

AND:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/bernie-sanders-hires-campaign-manager-who-endorsed-hamas-flotilla-co-chaired-event-including-hamas-fundraiser
EXCERPTS:
"During his time at ThinkProgress, Faiz Shakir had repeatedly attacked the Jewish State, endorsing the Hamas aid flotilla to Gaza and attacking Israel’s attempts to defend itself against terrorists”…While the Harvard Islamic Society’s affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood’s MSA is somewhat vague….HIS was co-founded by Yusuf Ibish, the father of Hussein Ibish, who is a veteran pro-terrorist and anti-Israel activist, and Syed Hossein Nasr, an Islamic philosopher and opponent of the United States and Israel, who claims to be able to trace his ancestry back to Mohammed. During Faiz Shakir’s time there, HIS was presided over by Zayed Yasin, who became infamous for his “My American Jihad” speech….In 2000, The Harvard Islamic Society held an Islamic Awareness Week and Faiz Shakir served as the co-chair for the week’s events. One of those events included a fundraiser for the Holy Land Foundation, a group which acted as the fundraising arm for Hamas in the United States…. Zayed Yasin’s defense of the Holy Land Foundation made it quite clear that he was familiar with its true mission."
"Shakir also co-authored the “Fear Inc.” report, “which implicitly claimed that Islamophobia was the product of a Jewish conspiracy, and wrote positively about the Tunisian Islamist Al-Nahda Party and its genocidal head, Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, who has engaged in blatant anti-Semitism, and has said, ‘There are no civilians in Israel. The population—males, females and children—are the army reserve soldiers, and thus can be killed.'”

"An alum of Harvard and Georgetown Law, Shakir started off his political career with a seven-year stint as Vice President of the Center for American Progress, where he made a name for himself as editor-in-chief of ThinkProgress. Shakir saw CAP grow into a central liberal policy institution, and established himself as a top progressive mind at ThinkProgress before moving on to more direct political endeavors."
"Shakir handled policy and communications work for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and served as Senior Adviser and Director of Digital Media for Nancy Pelosi before cementing himself as the National Political Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Needless to say, his reputation precedes him as a top civil rights advocate and liberal mind in Washington. He’s renowned for his abilities as a grassroots organizer, known as a shrewd political operative who’s memorized the modern political advocacy playbook, and—cherry-on-top—was once called a “fucker” by centrist Clintonite and CAP coworker Neera Tanden."

UNITING THE GUN COMMUNITY BY IDENTIFYING & WEEDING OUT THE LIBERAL ELITISTS, THE SHILLS, ETC.

UNITING THE GUN COMMUNITY BY IDENTIFYING & WEEDING OUT THE LIBERAL ELITISTS, THE SHILLS, ETC. 

ANTI-SEMITIC MUSLIM REP. ILHAN OMAR TO FUNDRAISE FOR HAMAS-LINKED CAIR~CHICAGO CUBS TO WORK WITH CAIR FIGHTING "ISLAMOPHOBIA"

ANTI-SEMITIC MUSLIM REP. ILHAN OMAR 
TO FUNDRAISE FOR HAMAS-LINKED CAIR
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/anti-semitic-muslim-rep-ilhan-omar-to-fundraise-for-hamas-linked-cair;  republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
On the heels of her “apology” for anti-Semitic comments, now “Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is scheduled to raise money in March with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations.”
Omar’s anti-Semitic comments just keep coming. Depending on the backlash she receives, she issues a hollow apology and moves on to the next. The problem is that she is being emboldened. The underlying problem is the unreasonable, unreasoned support she is receiving from people such as Bernie Sanders, who said: “We will stand by our Muslim brothers and sisters.” He didn’t add any conditions. Omar has “referred to Israel as the ‘Jewish ISIS,'” but Bernie Sanders will still stand by her because he regards her as his “Muslim sister.” Hollywood stars rallied around her following the remarks she made about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to the effect that “Jewish money was behind American elected officials’ support for Israel.”
Leftist leaders have blindly allied themselves with Islamic supremacists, supporters of the jihad that has targeted the state of Israel for obliteration since 1948.
Omar will be the keynote speaker at CAIR’s 4th Annual Valley Banquet on March 23 to discuss advancing justice and empowering Muslims, according to the organization’s invitation. Single tickets start at $55 per person and a table can cost upwards of $500.
CAIR is linked to the jihad terror organization Hamas, which prides itself on murdering Israelis and runs summer camps to teach youngsters to “ignite the spirit of jihad.” Is this what Omar calls “justice and empowering Muslims”? She is anti-semitic and supports organizations linked to jihad terror while ignoring Sharia oppression and the intolerance and murder committed in accord with its teachings.
More on this story. “Ilhan Omar To Fundraise For Hamas-Linked Muslim Organization,” by Molly Prince, Daily Caller, February 17, 2019:
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is scheduled to raise money in March with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) only a week after she used an anti-Semitic trope to claim Israel has paid for GOP support.
Omar will be the keynote speaker at CAIR’s 4th Annual Valley Banquet on March 23 to discuss advancing justice and empowering Muslims, according to the organization’s invitation. Single tickets start at $55 per person and a table can cost upwards of $500.
Hassan Shibly, the chief executive director for CAIR-Florida, will also be speaking at the event. Shibly has emphatically stated that Hezbollah and Hamas are not terrorist organizations, reported Jordan Schachtel at Conservative Review.
Hussam Ayloush, the chief executive director for CAIR-LA, who is hosting the event, compared the state of Israel to the Islamic State during a speech in April. Shibley has repeatedly echoed those sentiments and spread propaganda describing U.S. armed forces as radical terrorists.
CAIR is a notable pro-Palestinian organization with ties to Islamic terror groups. The U.S. Department of Justice listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in funding millions of dollars to the terrorist organization Hamas. Additionally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) named CAIR a terrorist organization along with al-Qaeda and ISIS in 2014.
Omar faced massive backlash after she stated on Feb. 10 that Republicans’ support for Israel is bought by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The anti-Semitic comments received swift condemnation from congressional members on both sides of the aisle, including the Democratic leadership and the White House.
After receiving widespread criticism, Omar apologized for using anti-Semitic language but maintained her position on “the problematic role of lobbyists in politics, whether it be AIPAC, the [National Rifle Association] or the fossil fuel industry.” (RELATED: Top Democrat Jerry Nadler Slams Ilhan Omar Over Comments About Jews)
Omar’s office did not return The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment and clarification on whether raising money for CAIR exacerbates the “problematic role of lobbyists in politics” and, if not, the difference between fundraising for CAIR and AIPAC.
Omar has been in office less than two months and is surrounded by a number of controversies. The freshman congresswoman defended anti-Israeli statements, such as ones invoking Allah to expose Israel’s “evil doings,” and she has come out in favor of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to punish the nation-state of Israel by economically depriving the country for its alleged mistreatment of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
The Minnesota congresswoman is also on record implying Israel is not a democracy and gave an interview to a host that referred to Israel as the “Jewish ISIS.”…..
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/chicago-cubs-to-work-with-hamas-linked-cair-against-islamophobia 
AND:

Dems FREAKING OUT after Ilhan Omar Gets 

The Endorsement From Farrakhan 

that Will EXPOSE Them ALL



SWEDISH SWIMMING FEDERATION CHAIR RESIGNS AFTER BACKLASH TO HER STATEMENT THAT VEIL (HIJAB) IS "SYMBOL OF REPRESSION"

SWEDISH SWIMMING FEDERATION CHAIR RESIGNS AFTER BACKLASH TO HER STATEMENT THAT 
VEIL (HIJAB) IS "SYMBOL OF REPRESSION" 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
As I’ve pointed out ad infinitum, any opposition to jihad mass murder and/or Sharia oppression of women is now immediately branded as “hate,” “bigotry,” and “Islamophobia,” and leads to public disgrace and career ruin. People who think I’m exaggerating, and that this treatment is only meted out to genuine bigots, should ponder this story very carefully.
For the question must be asked, although no one in the establishment media in Sweden or anywhere else will ask it: is the veil a symbol of repression, or isn’t it? Do the people who forced Ulla Gustavsson to resign care about Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Or Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab? Have they shown any concern for the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or for Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or for Amira Osman Hamid, who faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or for the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab; or for the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told they had to wear the hijab or be fired; or for the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; or for the women in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or for the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or for the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or for the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or for the women in Iran who protested against the regime, even before the recent uprising, by daring to take off their hijabs; or for the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or for the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents; or for the fifteen girls in Saudi Arabia who were killed when the religious police wouldn’t let them leave their burning school building because they had taken off their hijabs in their all-female environment; or for the girl in Italy whose mother shaved her head for not wearing hijab; or for all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?
Courageous women in the Islamic Republic of Iran are taking off their hijabs as a sign of resistance to the oppressive Sharia regime under which they live, and at least 29 women have been arrested for doing so. Who is standing in solidarity with them? Not the people who made sure Ulla Gustavsson was punished for speaking out about this repression.
“Swedish Swimming Federation chair resigns after backlash to claiming veil is ‘symbol of repression,'” by Michael Pavitt, Inside the Games, February 18, 2019 (thanks to Bob):
Swedish Swimming Federation (SSF) chair Ulla Gustavsson has resigned following a backlash to her comments that a veil was a “symbol of repression”.
Gustavsson’s made the comment in an interview, where she criticised an advert that showed a boy and a Muslim girl participating in shooting competitions, with the latter wearing a veil.
“Everything should not be shown,” Gustavsson said, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
“If they want to show girls with an immigrant background, it can be done without them having a veil.
“Now, [it] shows that they like and encourage honour repression: genital mutilation, child marriage, honour violence.
“That upset me.
“The veil is a religious, political and sexist garment.
“In the Swedish National Sports Association’s values, gender equality is important and the veil stands for something else.
“When such images are displayed, they normalise repression.”
The Swedish Swimming Federation have distance themselves from Gustavsson’s comments, with reports in the country that the official had been dismissed from her position.
The Federation later claimed that Gustavsson had chosen to resign following the controversy.
“Ulla Gustavsson has a big heart for Swedish swimming, and we are grateful for the work she has put into the movement, both nationally and internationally,” Stefan Persson, the Federation’s vice-chair, said.
“But the Swedish Swimming Federation board takes the recent debate very seriously, and has come to the conclusion that there are no longer conditions for Ulla Gustavsson to successfully lead the Swedish Swim Association.
“Ulla Gustavsson has, therefore, chosen to resign as chairman of the Board.
“Her personal perceptions and statements contrast with the Swedish Swim Federation’s strategy and basic view that all children should fit in our activities on equal terms.”…

SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN CALLS FOR COUP AGAINST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN CALLS FOR COUP AGAINST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
BY DANIEL GREENFIELD
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/272909/senator-elizabeth-warren-calls-coup-against-daniel-greenfieldrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
It's 2019 and we need some sort of law against public officials plotting coups. 
After revelations that the FBI's McCabe, a Clinton loyalist, and other DOJ officials had plotted a coup against the White House, Senator Elizabeth Warren endorsed a coup.
“My point here is that if they believe that Donald Trump cannot fulfill the obligations of his office, then they have a constitutional responsibility to invoke the 25th amendment,” Warren, a Democratic presidential candidate, said after a rally in Las Vegas. “Their loyalty under law is not to him personally. It is to the Constitution of the United States and to the people of United States.”
The law is very clear.
The 25th Amendment is not a means for officials, elected or unelected, to remove the President of the United States from office because you don't like his policies.
That's what impeachment is for.
Only Congress is meant to have that power. 
The 25th amendment is meant for presidential incapacity. Such as an assassination or any trauma that leaves a president incapacitated. 
Talk of a 25th amendment coup is illegal and unconstitutional. It is simply a coup.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez might say something like this because she's ignorant. Senator Warren was a top lawyer and a law professor in the Ivy League. She knows very well that what she's calling for is illegal. And a fig leaf for a coup. And she's either pandering to a Dem base that wants a coup. Or she genuinely wants one herself.
Either one is unacceptable.
Senator Warren is now on record as supporting a coup. That should follow her around the same way that her lies about being an American Indian are.

SOROS GROUPS FILE LAWSUITS ATTACKING TRUMP’S BORDER WALL

SOROS GROUPS FILE LAWSUITS ATTACKING 
TRUMP’S BORDER WALL

Sixteen states sue to keep the nation’s southern border wide open for illegal aliens and terrorists

BY MATTHEW VADUM
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272915/soros-groups-file-lawsuits-attacking-trumps-border-matthew-vadumrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Sixteen states and at least six activist groups have filed or are preparing lawsuits taking aim at President Trump’s Feb. 15 emergency declaration that seeks to divert already appropriated government funds to build a wall on the nation’s porous border with Mexico.
This was to be expected. When the Left loses elections, it turns to unelected federal judges to carry out its will.
There is also an effort afoot in Congress to overturn the declaration. If both chambers pass a resolution of disapproval, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller seemed to indicate Sunday that the president would veto it. Trump is “going to protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed,” Miller said on Fox News Channel.

Of the six activist organizations, four –Public Citizen, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Defenders of Wildlife— have been funded by radical leftist financier George Soros through his philanthropies.
The 16 states seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent Trump from moving forward with wall construction while the case is pending in the courts are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Virginia, according to the Washington Post.
In what is clearly an example of judge-shopping, the states filed at U.S. District Court in Northern California, which is part of the territory covered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit where various judges have issued sweeping injunctions against Trump administration policies.
The legal action accuses Trump of “an unconstitutional and unlawful scheme.” The states say they are attempting “to protect their residents, natural resources, and economic interests from President Donald J. Trump’s flagrant disregard of fundamental separation of powers principles ingrained in the United States Constitution.”
The activists have initiated three lawsuits at U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., aimed at frustrating President Trump’s efforts to secure the border and halt the long-running invasion of the nation by illegal aliens.
Founded by former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, Public Citizen initiated a lawsuit Friday to strike down the president’s proclamation under the National Emergencies Act, on behalf of the Frontera Audubon Society of Weslaco, Texas, and a group of Texas landowners. The lawsuit claims that endangered species will be harmed if the wall if built.
In its suit CREW is trying to force the Justice Department to hand over internally produced legal opinions “that discuss the power of the president to invoke emergency powers to build a wall or other type of barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico[.]"
Defenders of Wildlife launched a legal action Saturday to freeze the emergency declaration. The Center for Biological Diversity and Animal Legal Defense Fund are also listed in the papers as plaintiffs. Like the suit filed by Public Citizen, this suit alleges endangered species will be adversely affected if the wall goes up.
At time of writing, the national ACLU did not appear to have filed a lawsuit seeking to stay Trump’s emergency declaration, but on Friday the group’s affiliate in Massachusetts filed “a lawsuit demanding information about a contract for a section of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Donald Trump said his administration awarded,” the Boston Herald reports. Trump tweeted in December that he “just gave out a 115 mile long contract for another large section of the Wall in Texas.”
On Friday, California’s new leftist governor, sanctuary city fanatic Gavin Newsom (D), said his state would soon hop on the anti-declaration bandwagon.
Soros personally gave money to Newsom’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign and to his campaign for his previous post, lieutenant governor of California, in 2014, according to the California secretary of state’s online campaign finance database.
Many other litigious left-wingers vow to sue to stop the wall. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and other Democrat lawmakers may also sue.
Officials in El Paso County, Texas, say they will litigate. Ditto for the fake libertarians at the Niskanen Center, and the leftists at the Soros-funded Border Network for Human Rights.
The Left and NeverTrumpers in the GOP have suffered a collective nervous breakdown since the declaration was unveiled.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who has called for the in-your-face harassment of Trump administration employees, told MSNBC Friday that there should be nationwide protests over what she called the “fake” emergency declaration.
“And so it’s time for everybody to stand up. All hands on deck to refuse this president these fake emergency powers that he would like the have. And so I’m urging everybody get together —rally in every community across this country all this weekend, send a message to Washington, D.C., ‘No, Mr. President, we’re not going allow you to do this.”
Soros-funded MoveOn.org called for national protests.
“Donald Trump has declared a #FakeNationalEmergency—an illegal power grab from an unhinged man to push his racist, dangerous policies.”
"We're mobilizing rapid-response events on Presidents Day—Monday, 2/18—against Trump's fake crisis and racist deportation force and to stand with immigrant, Muslim, and Black and brown communities to stop Trump's dangerous and illegal power grab.”
Answering the leftist call for anarchy, on Saturday around 50 protesters, some of whom wore masks, occupied and vandalized the National Border Patrol Museum not far from the border in El Paso, Texas. The demonstrators reportedly hoisted banners reading “No Deportations on Stolen Ground” and shouted “Say it loud, say it clear, Border Patrol kills!”
Twitter is filled with often-strident denunciations of the emergency declaration by GOP pundits inside the Washington Beltway.
NeverTrumper David French of National Review penned an over-the-top column titled “Trump’s Emergency Declaration Is Contemptuous of the Rule of Law,” in which he calls the declaration “a contemptuous document,” and “the proclamation of a monarch, not an argument by a president.”
President Trump invoked the National Emergencies Act Friday as Congress finalized the 1,169-page, $333 billion omnibus spending bill that keeps the government operating until Sept. 30.
The bill, now law, contains $1.375 billion for 55 miles of border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The emergency declaration would take $6.7 billion in previously allocated funds to build the wall. Included in the already appropriated funds are $600 million from the Department of the Treasury Department, $2.5 billion from the Department of Defense’s anti-drug program, and $3.6 billion from the Pentagon’s military construction budget.
Law professors Jonathan Turley of George Washington University, a left-winger, and John Yoo of UC Berkeley, a conservative, say the president can call upon the statute, which President Gerald Ford signed into law in 1976, to get construction of the wall underway.
President Trump has already invoked the National Emergencies Act three times in his tenure. President Barack Obama invoked the statute no fewer than 10 times. Thirty-one previously-declared presidential emergencies reportedly remain in effect.
“Congress expressly gave presidents the authority to declare such emergencies and act unilaterally,” Turley wrote in a recent column.
The National Emergencies Act gives presidents sweeping authority as well as allowance in federal regulations to declare an “immigration emergency” to deal with an “influx of aliens which either is of such magnitude or exhibits such other characteristics that effective administration of the immigration laws of the United States is beyond the existing capabilities” of immigration authorities “in the affected area or areas,” he wrote. The basis for such an invocation generally includes the “likelihood of continued growth in the magnitude of the influx,” rising criminal activity, as well as high “demands on law enforcement agencies” and “other circumstances.”
Yoo wrote earlier this month that Trump is on especially strong ground because Democrats and Republicans passed a law in 2006 authorizing the building of a border wall.
In Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981), the Supreme Court held “that when Congress broadly delegates a general power to the executive branch in the area of foreign affairs, such as the power to impose economic sanctions, it would not read Congress’s neglect to grant a more specific, related authority as foreclosing the president from exercising that authority. Instead, it would treat Congress’s silence as acquiescence to presidential initiative, especially in times of emergency,” Yoo wrote.
“That is exactly the case here: Congress has authorized a wall and other security measures at the border, it has not passed any law forbidding such a wall, and the president has invoked delegated powers to continue the wall’s construction.”
More lawsuits are coming. Count on it.
And George Soros, the preeminent funder of the Left, will be there writing the checks.