Thursday, February 23, 2017
C12 Blog Post 4 Trump administration takes back protection of transgender students
According to an article from The Washington Post, on Wednesday the Trump administration revoked the federal guidelines saying that transgender students could use public school bathrooms. Trump's administration is ordering nation's schools to ignore the memo's the Obama administration had in place and worked on for the past two years. The letter that the Trump administration wrote offers no new guidance, and the old memo needs to be withdrawn because of the lack of extensive legal analysis, had confusions and drew legal challenges, and didn't go through the public 'vetting' process. Even though the letter did have any guidance it did say "schools must ensure that all students, including LGBT students, are able to learn and thrive in a safe environment." Many protest are going on now because of revoking the guidelines and we have to wait to see how everything pans out for the transgender students and the Trump administration.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
C12 Blog Post 3 Federal Agenies are asked by the Senate to Preserve Records on Russia
In my AP Government class we are learning more about Federal Agencies and Bureaucracies. This is about Senate Intelligence Agency asking Federal Agencies to keep/ preserve all records of Russia's impact on the 2016 Election, that is relevant to the committee's investigation. The committee is working on a bipartisan investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 election. Also including any interactions with Trump staff and Russian officials after the election. National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, resigned last week because he misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top government officials about conversations he had with the Russian Ambassador after Trump's victory.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
C12 Blog Post 2: McCaster needs Senate confirmation to keep his three stars
President Donald Trump's new national security advisor, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, needs Senate confirmation to still be a three start general in his new post. McMaster's job doesn't need Senate approval. But to keep being on active duty as a three star general does need approval by the Senate. Under the military's arcane system ranking three and four star generals rankings is considered temporary and tied to the position. An other option for McMaster is he retire from active duty or take the national security job as a two star general. On the other hand, the White House has already said that he will remain on active duty and isn't likely to accept a demotion.
C12 blog post 1: Scott Pruitt confirmed as EPA Administrator
On Friday, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt got Senate confirmed to be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a federal agencies which Mr. Pruitt repeatedly sued during the Obama Administration. The vote was close but the Republican majority, in the Senate, lead got him confirmed. The vote still happened even though Democrats wanted to push back Scott Pruitt's confirmation. Democrats boycotted the vote until Pruitt released emails that he had exchanged with gas companies, while he was Attorney General. When Pruitt was Oklahoma's Attorney General he filed 14 lawsuits against EPA challenging their regulations. Also, Pruitt is known as a climate changed skeptic so it's going to be interesting as what he does for EPA as the administrator.
Thursday, February 9, 2017
C11 Blog Post 4
In class yesterday we were talking about how the First Lady Melania Trump, has staffed few people for the east wing. According to an article from The New York Times, Melania Trump has chosen Anna Cristina Niceta Lloyd, a Washington event planner, as her social secretary. From a statement from the White House said that Ms. Niceta Lloyd, also known as Rickie, will be overseeing all the social events and gatherings such as; state dinners and the White House Easter Egg roll. By Melania Trump hiring Ms. Niceta Lloyd, it has started in the right direction to get the East Wing to be staffed. In class yesterday my teacher said she was not able to schedule a White House tour because there has been no one there to do it (no one staffed). It has been a concern from some people by Melania staffing the East Wing from afar, but by her hiring Ms. Niecta Lloyd its slowly going in the right direction.
C11 Blog post 3 Ninth Circuit Court Judges rule on Trump's Travel ban
On the San Francisco based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, three judges will be ruling some time before Thursday to immediately reinstate Trump's Travel ban. The three judges are Judge William Canby, Judge Richard Clifton, and Judge Michelle Friedland. Judge William Canby is rarely hearing cases anymore because of his age. Therefore it was unusual that he heard oral arguments over Trump's ban. During the arguments he challenged the justification of the ban and came to the rescue of the attorney that is challenging the ban, when another judge was giving the attorney a hard time. Judge Richard Clifton, apparently had the toughest questions for the two states challenging the ban, Washington and Minnesota. One of the questions he asked was "what evidence the attorney had that the president's travel ban was motivated by religious prejudice". Out of the three Judges, Judge Michelle Friedland was most sympathetic with Washington's case. She kept asking the Justice Department's lawyer over the basis for this travel banned. Therefore, in my opinion the judges ruling is a toss up. I think it could go either way but their decision won't be till sometime Thursday (today).
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
C11 Blog Post 2 "Rogue' Federal Twitter Accounts Multiply"
An article given out in my Government class is about "Rogue" twitter accounts. Rogue twitter accounts that are accounts that look like official federal agencies. These accounts claimed to be run by members of the organization, but some have changed who says to be running the account. Therefore we don't know for sure who is running theses accounts because the owners have not come forward. Many of these rogue accounts such as AltUSNatParkServie and AltUSForestService have been tweeting about climate change and opposing the Trump administration. These rogue accounts are not a new thing. Why rogue accounts are getting so much attention now because many have formed as the result of the Trump's administrations "gag" orders on a few of the federal agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency has been reported targeted by Trump administration over its climate research. Now the accounts just want o share facts and spread information, some include jokes and comments directed to Trump. They are just advocating for participatory democracy. Which they have the right to do.
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