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The lawsuit claims that Trump manufactured a "crisis" in order to obtain funding for a wall, and that there is no national emergency at the southern border.

Adam Schiff was on CNN yesterday, questioning questioning congressional Republicans' devotion to Congress as an institution (and the U.S. Constitution) in light of Trump's fake national emergency. "It will not be a separation of powers any more," he said, "just a separation of parties. So this is going to be a moment of truth for my GOP colleagues." When Republicans go on TV to discuss arguments they can't win-- like Trump's blatant lies about this or that or the other and all of the above-- they gravitate to their safe space: Trump TV.

A few days ago, the Cook Report published a piece by Amy Walter about the 2020 prospects of a Blue Wall, basically that "the 'easiest' or least risky electoral path for the Democratic nominee in 2020 is to reconstruct the so-called 'Blue Wall' in the industrial midwest. If the Democratic nominee wins every state Hillary Clinton carried in 2016, plus Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, that Democrat would win 278 electoral votes-- eight more than the 270 needed to win.

No government shutdown today. The Senate passed the compromise bill 83-16 and then the House passed it 300-128 at night. 87 Republicans voted yes and 109 of them voted NO. 213 Dems voted yes and just 19 Democrats voted NO.

by NoahIt didn't take any effort at all to find a dog for tonight's meme that was smarter than Donald Trump or any of the fleas currently working in the White House. What dog doesn't have a higher IQ (and more energy) than Donnie Sleazeball? Also unlike Donnie and his cohorts, dogs have a natural sense of loyalty to their home and those who live in it. The dog may have one thing in common with Trump, though.

When Trump invited Chuck and Nancy Over to the White House so he could chop up some Adderall and snort it up, he no doubt already had in mind his frustrated drama-queen routine that would inevitably lead up to an excuse for declaring a national emergency. Yesterday Trump flew to McAllen, Texas to draw attention to new lie about a so-called "humanitarian crisis" at the southern border.

by NoahThe real national emergency is staring the country right in the face. It could not be more obvious. The rest of the world sees it clearly. The U.S. corporate media will blab and blather on and on about Trump's bullshit national appearance on our TV screens. They will refuse to call this crisis what it really is. The real national emergency has a name. It's name is President Donald J. Trump.