Lawmakers Warn of a ‘Constitutional Crisis’ as Refugees and Green-Card Holders Remain in Detention

Attorneys across the country continue to fight to free travelers targeted by Trump’s executive order.
By Alex Kane

 

Airports around the country were transformed into ad hoc legal centers over the weekend, as attorneys continued furiously to file petitions to free detained clients who were ensnared by President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting entry into the United States. Attorneys and politicians charged that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents were flouting the federal judiciary by not allowing lawyers access to detainees, not releasing the names of those in detention, and pressuring those in detention to sign papers to speed up their removal from the United States.

The chaotic clash between an executive branch intent on intensifying its war on foreigners and a judiciary committed to Constitutional protections began on Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Federal judges around the United States ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting refugees and Muslims must not be enforced—at least for now—against travelers with valid visas who were on their way to the United States at the time the order was issued. First a judge in New York, and then judges in Boston, Seattle, Alexandria, and Los Angeles issued rulings to temporarily stay Trump’s executive order as it winds through the court system, protecting detainees in airports, for now, from deportation.

 

Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/lawmakers-warn-of-a-constitutional-crisis-as-refugees-and-green-card-holders-remain-in-detention/

Fantastic. Well stated!

Hermoso hasta el dolor: Freud

Matisse (Detalle)

La música.1907.

El velo de Vargas

Hacía 1.930.

La Bretona de Gauguin

La musa dormida de Brancusi

En el MOMA.

Así imaginaba Reni a Santa Cecilia, allá por 1606

Autorretrato de Kazimir Malevich

Ghirlandaio

Saraceni

Hine

Ensor

Gual

Poème pour l'aube

les fougues de chair vive
aux étés de l'écorce cérébrale
ont flagellé les contours de la terre
les ramphorinques dans le sarcasme de leur queue
prennent le vent
le vent qui n'a plus d'épée
le vent qui n'est plus qu'une gaule à cueillir les fruits de toutes les saisons du ciel
mains ouvertes
mains vertes
pour les fêtes belles des fonctions anhydrides
il neigera d'adorables crépuscules sur les mains coupées des mémoires respirantes
et voici
sur les rhagades de nos lèvres d'Orénoque désespéré
l'heureuse tendresse des îles bercées par la poitrine adolescente des sources de la mer
et dans l'air et le pain toujours renaissant des efforts musculaires
l'aube irrésistible ouverte sous la feuille
telle clarteux l'élan épineux des belladones

 

Aimé Césaire

El maravilloso retrato oval de Stuck

Bronzino

Le Pen anuncia el nacimiento de un nuevo mundo con el ejemplo de Trump

Luis Doncel 

Más de 2.000 años después de que los romanos bautizaran como Confluentes el lugar donde se unen los ríos Rin y Mosela, esta ciudad alemana sirvió el sábado como escenario de confluencia de las fuerzas populistas antinmigración de Europa. En Coblenza, los líderes de la ultraderecha de Francia, Alemania y Holanda dieron la bienvenida a la oleada de cambios que comenzó con el Brexit y continuó con la victoria en EE UU de Donald Trump. Y anunciaron la llegada de una nueva Europa tras las elecciones que los tres países celebrarán en 2017, al que ya han bautizado como “el año de los patriotas”.

 

Nada más ver a sus líderes, el público entró en éxtasis. Escoltados por ayudantes que ondeaban las banderas de sus países, la francesa Marine Le Pen, la alemana Frauke Petry, el holandés Geert Wilders y el italiano Matteo Salvini irrumpieron en la sala principal del centro de congresos de Coblenza para anunciar su disposición a liderar la era que se avecina. Quizás fue Wilders el que mejor resumió la idea. “Ayer, una nueva América; hoy, Coblenza; y mañana, una nueva Europa”, arengó a los presentes, a los que prometió una “primavera patriótica”.

F:http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/01/21/actualidad/1485010154_810692.html

The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: a declaration of political war

Editorial

 

In its outward details, the orderly transfer of American presidential power accomplished in the inauguration-day scene on Capitol Hill today felt time-honoured. The ceremonial essentials of the occasion – the stars and stripes banners, the dignitaries and the prescribed rituals of the swearings-in – were familiar and traditional. Political rivals took their places on the podium as they do every four years, shook hands and applauded one another, offering gracious compliments and providing a show of national dignity.

 

Yet all this was in fact a sham. Donald Trump’s inaugural address was a declaration of war on everything represented by these choreographed civilities. President Trump – it’s time to begin to get used to those jarringly ill-fitting words – did not conjure a deathless phrase for the day. His words will not lodge in the brain in any of the various uplifting ways that the likes of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy or Reagan once achieved. But the new president’s message could not have been clearer. He came to shatter the veneer of unity and continuity represented by the peaceful handover. And he may have succeeded. In 1933, Roosevelt challenged the world to overcome fear. In 2017, Mr Trump told the world to be very afraid.

 

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/20/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trumps-inauguration-a-declaration-of-political-war

Has America Ever Elected a ‘Legitimate’ President?

Given how hard it is to vote, and how actively some states discourage voting, America elects legal presidents—but not legitimate ones.

By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson

 Civil-rights icon Congressman John Lewis, in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, indicated he didn’t think President-elect Donald Trump would be a “legitimate” president and that he would not be attending his inauguration because Russia conspired to interfere in America’s presidential election.

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Prickly—never one to be punched and not punch back—Donald Trump responded with a stereotypical, erroneous tweet about Representative Lewis’s not paying enough attention to his “crime infested” congressional district, “which is in horrible shape and falling apart.” Congressman Lewis represents a booming downtown Atlanta and many thriving middle-class neighborhoods, including the third-largest business district in Atlanta, in Buckhead.

 

Read more: https://www.thenation.com/article/has-america-ever-elected-a-legitimate-president/