President Donald Trump may have had a great time hosting his BFF, French President Emmnuel Macron, but outside the White House State Dinner bromance, events took a bad turn for Trump.
Let’s take a look.
- Yet another federal court ruled against Trump’s attempt to rescind DACA, the Obama-era program that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
“Judge John Bates concluded that the wind-down of DACA was ‘arbitrary and capricious’ because the Department of Homeland Security failed to ‘adequately explain its conclusion that the program was unlawful.’ The judge also accused the government of providing ‘meager legal reasoning’ to support its decision,” CNN reports.
And it gets worse for Trump:
“Bates called the move ‘particularly egregious’ given the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients, young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children, protected under the program over its five years. Given how many people’s lives were built on the protections from DACA, Bates said, ‘its barebones legal interpretation was doubly insufficient.'” - In the Arizona special election to replace the U.S. House seat formerly held by Uber-conservative religious right extremist Rep. Trent Franks, while the GOP helps onto the seat, it was by the skin of their teeth. Trump won the district by more than 20 points. The Republican winner held it by just five points.
This guy is an editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report and a FiveThirtyEight and NBC News contributor. He knows what he’s talking about. - In a New York State Assembly special election voters elected a Democrat to a district Republicans have held for nearly four decades. It’s the 40th statehouse flip to blue this cycle.
- In a blow to the Trump administration’s attempt to advance “abstinence only” programs a federal judge in Washington state ruled against the Trump administration and for Planned Parenthood. The Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) had tried to cut grants to Planned Parenthood for programs that work to reduce teen pregnancy.
“The Court finds that HHS arbitrarily and capriciously terminated the TPP Program,” the judge wrote. “The Court determines that the public interest weighs in favor of (Planned Parenthood), as it would prevent harm to the community … and prevent loss of data regarding the effectiveness of teen pregnancy prevention.” - Trump’s unqualified pick to run the $180 billion U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is being accused by more than 20 current an former staffers of drinking on the job, handing out drugs like candy, and creating a hostile work environment. And he’s refusing to withdraw his nomination.
If all that weren’t enough, the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Trump’s Muslim travel ban today.
Maybe Ivana Trump was right: Donald shouldn’t run for re-election, he should just golf.