Cabbage News Network Week #135

[kmusser]

Monday 8/26

• States sue administration to block the indefinite detention of children (source).
  
• DJT and Bolsonaro reach agreement on fast tracking Brazilian deportees (source).
  
• FEC member resigns leaving it without enough members to function (source).

Tuesday 8/27

• Administration is raiding other agency budgets to keep paying for immigrant detentions (source).
  
• Immigrants face deportation if they get any emergency medical care (source).
  
• GOP argues that the civil rights act doesn't apply to sexual orientation or gender identity, Supreme Court will decide in October (source).
  
• DJT argues for Russia being allowed to join G7 (source).
  
• DJT nominates Scalia for Labor Dept. (source).

Wednesday 8/28

• Children of non-citizen members of U.S. military or other U.S. employees born abroad no longer automatically considered citizens (source, clarification on who would be effected).
  
• New tariffs go into effect 9/1 (source).
  
• DJT pushes to open Alaska's Tongass National Forest to logging and mining development (source).

Thursday 8/29

• Administration is denying access to its concentration camps detention centers (source).
  
• Space Force becomes a reality, at least on paper (source).
  
• EPA proposes lifting restrictions on methane (source).
  
• More preventable diseases in migrant detention camps (source).

Friday 8/30

• Personal aide to DJT dismissed for leaks (source).
  
• ICE to deport immigrants that cooperate/report crimes to police (source).

Map of the week

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • 9 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate - in recess
  
  • 215 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House - in recess
  
  • 72 total pending bills

Comments

[dewline]

And now I understand what the Tongass fight is about...and am somewhat more frightened than I was this morning.