San Diego Rally Against Trump's Non-Emergency Set for Presidents Day at Noon
As of 10am Saturday morning there are 152 President’s Day rallies and protests scheduled around the United States in response to the Trump administration’s non-emergency emergency declaration.
Make plans to join local activists for the San Diego event, slated for Noon on Monday, February 18, at the County Administration Building at 1600 Pacific Highway on the waterfront.
You can RSVP for the event at this link.
Citizens for Common Sense, the coalition sponsoring this demonstration has issued the following statement:
Donald Trump has declared #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.
Stand together to oppose the direction our leadership is taking us. To call an emergency for a border wall is ludicrous in light of the several other real emergencies which could be addressed: stopping mass shootings, developing renewable energy, and others.
p.s. I think the great architects and former leaders of this country will appreciate the action we are taking on Presidents Day.
My coverage of President Hannity’s emergency declaration.
The real national emergency, of course, is embodied by the man currently playing the links at Mar-a-Lago. And we may ultimately have to wait until 2020 to fix that problem. In the meantime, every bit of energy expended to slow him down is worthwhile.
Mark Sumner’s take at Daily Kos
As Trump prepares to address the national emergency of Sean Hannity not being sufficiently flattering to him, he’s aided and abetted by his right-right-hand man in taking a chisel to the Constitution, Mitch McConnell. It’s been months since McConnell stopped pretending that the Senate was actually part of an independent branch of government and made it clear that it was just a rubber stamp for Trump. In fact, it’s possible to mark down December 2018—the month in which McConnell openly declared that he would not bring a bill to the floor of the United States Senate without knowing that it had been pre-approved by Trump—as a definitive date for the end of all those things they teach students in American Government class. As it turns out, children, Congress gets one vote, and Donald Trump gets two.
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