Sunday, January 29, 2017

Executive vs Constitutional -Trump

In its response, the Department of Homeland Security said it would continue to enforce the measures that on Saturday had affected "less than 1% of the more than 325,000 international air travellers who arrive every day".

A US federal judge has blocked part of President Donald Trump's controversial executive order barring citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for the next 90 days.

This is nevertheless being ignored as the Judge did not rule on the constitutionality of the Presidents executive order

CNN ....

A US federal judge has blocked part of President Donald Trump's controversial executive order barring citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for the next 90 days.

Amid global turmoil, the judge ruled that authorities could not deport citizens of the seven countries who had already arrived in the US with valid visas, or who were in transit.

The ruling was made after the American Civil Liberties Union brought a challenge on behalf of two Iraqis detained at John F Kennedy airport in New York on Friday night, hours after Trump issued his executive order at the White House, banning entry to people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Obama commutes Chelsea Brad Manning's sentence

CNN Jan 17,  2017

President Barack Obama on Tuesday overruled his secretary of defense to commute the sentence of former Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who was convicted of stealing and disseminating 750,000 pages of documents and videos to WikiLeaks.

The decision -- which a senior defense official told CNN was made over the objections of Secretary of Defense Ash Carter -- immediately touched off a controversy in the closing days of the Obama administration.

A former intelligence official described being "shocked" to learn of Obama's decision, adding that the "entire intelligence community is deflated by this inexplicable use of executive power." The official said the move was "deeply hypocritical given Obama's denunciation of WikiLeaks' role in the hacking of the (Democratic National Committee)."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/01/17/politics/chelsea-manning-sentence-commuted/index.html

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Brexit

You must go back to Parliament for these changes.  The referendum is of great importance but the treaty is silent to this. To circumvent the Parliament, even with Article 50, would breach constitutional laws.

Brexit Exit

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-38723261