2017 Jan 31^st

Sally Q. Yates the Justice Department’s second in command has been fired for telling the Department’s lawyers not to enforce Trump’s edict on admitting immigrants. She claimed the ban was wrong and that she wasn’t sure about its constitutional correctness either.  Professor Tribe, of constitutional law fame, on “Morning Joe” today said that Trump’s order was indeed constitutional and that Trump had a perfect right to fire this Assistant Attorney General for refusing to enforce his reprehensible ban. She would surely been fired eventually anyway; why not raise a ruckus and get fired now?

Sally Q. is a Georgia girl and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia law school. If this woman wants a career in Georgia politics, only a fool would run against her.

Meanwhile, back at the White House, the inner circle is trying to recover from the disaster caused by Steven Miller’s edict restricting immigration from the evil seven North African and Near East predominately Muslim countries; restricting immigration of just the Muslims living there because admitting Christians is OK (But this isn’t really a ban on Muslims. We know that because Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus both said so). The unjust absurdity of this edict has produced mass protests and many lawsuits. It has led green card holders to having their cards seized and to their being held without access to an attorney. These particular screw-ups were soon resolved but they illustrate the hopelessly inept handling by this administrations first attempt “to keep America safe.”

There is more: When the administration’s honchos, Priebus and Spicer, were asked why this edict was not announced in advance so that whole families, the heads of many having helped our military as translators, the answer was that the administration was afraid of leaks that would allow the bad guys to get around the ban.

Whoa! The Trump people are afraid of leaks? They are afraid that General Kelly, a four star Marine Corps general, now chief of Homeland Security, cannot keep a secret? Or maybe General Mattis, another four star Marine Corps general and now Secretary of Defense cannot be trusted with these secrets either. The pipsqueak Trump advisor, 31-year-old Steven Miller, who originated this mess, is supremely trustworthy…perhaps because he previously worked for that noted patriot, Michelle Bachman, why else?

This whole scenario is a disaster for our fight against ISIS, supposedly a fight important to President Trump. As I write this Iraqi fighters are trying to retake Mosul long held by ISIS. We expect these Iraqis to help us with the intelligence that will allow us to arrange air strikes…but now our president tells them that they aren’t allowed into our country. What a brilliant move; who does this guy Steven Miller work for?