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Mar 14, 2019 07:52:24   #
permafrost Loc: Minnesota
 
JoyV wrote:
He actually CUT judges and replaced some with temporary judges specified with a 6 month maximum time they could work as an immigration judge. And since Trump has had far more aggressive opposition, how did he manage to nearly double the number of immigration judges while Obama with all the Dems and RINOs backing him wound up reducing judges?

By the end of Obama's term, the number of immigration judges, both permanent and temporary; was down to 247. In 2012 there were 269 permanent immigration judges. In 2018 there were 394.

Immigration judges are appointed by the president, NOT Congress!
He actually CUT judges and replaced some with temp... (show quote)


Senate obstructionism handed a raft of judicial vacancies to Trump—what has he done with them?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/06/04/senate-obstructionism-handed-judicial-vacancies-to-trump/


The reasons for the vacancies—old news to most—was the flimsy confirmation record in the 2015-16 Senate (the 114th), with its new Republican majority. Just as it refused to consider Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination, it shut down the lower court confirmation process. That’s water under the bridge. But documenting how the 114th Senate ratcheted up the contentiousness and polarization of an already broken confirmation process suggests how much harder it will be to ratchet it back into something with more comity and bipartisanship. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell now insists that there’s nothing “we can do …that’s more important … than confirming judges as rapidly as we get them.” Commentators boast that “Trump has had a massive impact on the federal bench.” The Republican majority refuses to grant Democratic senators privileges that Republicans and Democrats exploited vigorously in previous administrations.



The 114th’s record pales when compared to the final two years of the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations. Then, as in 2015-16, the other party controlled the Senate. The 114th Senate both confirmed far fewer judges than its recent other-party predecessors and stopped confirming them at a much earlier point. Some of the 2016 vacancies Trump inherited occurred after any confirmation clock would have stopped. Still, of the 21 circuit vacancies he’s filled as of late May and others he soon will, up to seven could have had Obama appointees under pre-2015 norms. So too, up to 71 of the district vacancies he inherited and has only begun to fill could have had Obama appointees.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/15/immigration-judges-report-prosecutors-jeff-sessions-justice-department/


Immigration judges are expected to be impartial. But they report to Jeff Sessions.
The structure of immigration courts, unique in the federal government, has long been criticized for its potential for conflicts of interest.

BY EMMA PLATOFF AUG. 15, 201812 AM

Immigration judges are not elected or appointed; they apply, like any other civil servant, to the relevant division of the Department of Justice. As civil servants, immigration judges are difficult to outright fire, even if their supervisor doesn’t approve of their decisions. And some judges hew closer to the any given president’s line than others. One judge in El Paso has denied 98.8 percent of the asylum cases he’s heard from 2012 to 2017; one in New York denied just 3 percent, according to government data compiled by the T***sactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

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Mar 15, 2019 14:18:04   #
JoyV
 
permafrost wrote:
I am pleased that you see trump fault in something even if it is not true.. nice one...

His gift was not used as he told you it would be,, did not go to new jobs or wages,, went to the very rich and himself...

rate of deficit is higher now then under Obama who had great issues to contend with..

trump latest proposal set a record for spending and cutting domestic programs..

Check it out...


More jobs than applicants; we had that in 2011 in MINN>.

The cash stimulus has nearly worn off.. the only thing that boomed was an additional rise to the stock market. that is now lost a years worth of gain and the sputtering is the usual before a large correction/recession..

Nothing will go as the orange master told you it would, he was once again sell a con..

It is what he does, what he was born to do.. No business acumen..

wages did pickup over 3% in the last look I got, but they were mostly in the information technology and accounting sectors.. Business still fighting wage increases..
Debt/deficit.... debt in now Even with a economy in good order gift to him the orange disaster has used trillion dollor defecits..

A quick look via Govt, book keeping..

A lot of information on this link if you wish to look, more than only Obama/trump/bush....


https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296

U.S. Debt Increase by Fiscal Year Since 1960
The U.S. Treasury Department has historical tables that report the annual U.S. debt for each fiscal year since 1790. This data has been compiled for each president as detailed below.

Donald Trump: As projected in the FY 2019 budget, Trump plans to add $4.775 trillion, a 29 percent increase from the $20.245 trillion debt at the end of Obama's last budget for FY 2017.

FY 2021 - $1.119 trillion.
FY 2020 - $1.198 trillion.
FY 2019 - $1.225 trillion.
FY 2018 - $1.233 trillion.
Barack Obama: Added $8.588 trillion, a 74 percent increase from the $11.657 trillion debt at the end of Bush’s last budget, FY 2009.

FY 2017 - $672 billion.
FY 2016 - $1.423 trillion.
FY 2015 - $327 billion.
FY 2014 - $1.086 trillion.
FY 2013 - $672 billion.
FY 2012 - $1.276 trillion.
FY 2011 - $1.229 trillion.
FY 2010 - $1.652 trillion.
FY 2009 - $253 billion. Congress passed the Economic Stimulus Act, which spent $253 billion in FY 2009. This rare occurrence should be added to President Obama's contribution to the debt.
George W. Bush: Added $5.849 trillion, a 101 percent increase from the $5.8 trillion debt at the end of Clinton's last budget, FY 2001.

FY 2009 - $1.632 trillion. This was Bush's deficit without the impact of the Economic Stimulus Act.
FY 2008 - $1.017 trillion.
I am pleased that you see trump fault in something... (show quote)


Thanks for this link. I like that the info is given in both dollars and percentages. It confirms my more generalized statement that the rate of debt has lessened under Trump. In fact according to this link, you have to go back to JFK to find a lower rate than Trump's. I was not aware of this, but only that it was less than Clinton through Obama.

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Mar 15, 2019 14:36:13   #
JoyV
 
permafrost wrote:
One more little thing..


President Reagan increased the debt by 186 percent. Reaganomics added $1.86 trillion. Reagan's brand of supply-side economics didn't grow the economy enough to offset the lost revenue from its tax cuts. That was partly because Reagan increased the defense budget by 35 percent.

George W. Bush: President Bush added $5.849 trillion, the second-greatest dollar amount. It was the fourth-largest percentage increase. Bush increased the debt by 101 percent from where it started at $5.8 trillion on September 30, 2001. That's the end of FY 2001, which was President Clinton's last budget.

Bush launched the War on Terror in response to the 9/11 attacks. The War on Terror included two wars. The War in Afghanistan cost $1.1 trillion and the Iraq War cost $1 trillion. They increased military spending to record levels of $600 billion to $800 billion a year.

President Bush also responded to the 2001 recession by passing the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act. He approved a $700 billion bailout package for banks to combat the 2008 global financial crisis. Both Presidents Bush and Obama had to contend with higher mandatory spending for Social Security and Medicare.

Barack Obama: Under President Obama, the national debt grew the most dollar-wise. He added $8.588 trillion. This 74 percent increase was the fifth-largest.
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Reagan also did nothing to encourage business to remain within the nations boundaries where American's would be employed.

GW Bush not only did nothing to discourage outsourcing, he actually encouraged it. He even stated during his campaign that, "outsourcing is good for the country". But yes, his wars definitely were a big financial drain!

There have been many Republican politicians who have been closer to the stereotypical Democrat in not being fiscally responsible. Then there have been the exceptional Democrats, like JFK, whose policies were far more conservative than many Republican politicians which we now label RINOs. So it isn't what party they belong to which is the most important consideration. For myself, I would look for these ideological characteristics in this order:
1) Constitutionalism (includes guaranteed rights, limits on government, enumerated powers, and structural and functional procedures)
2) Free Market values
3) Small central government
4) Nationalism
5) Environmentalism

Others who are registered Republican may have a different list or some of the same items in different priorities.

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Mar 16, 2019 11:16:09   #
JoyV
 
permafrost wrote:
Senate obstructionism handed a raft of judicial vacancies to Trump—what has he done with them?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/06/04/senate-obstructionism-handed-judicial-vacancies-to-trump/


The reasons for the vacancies—old news to most—was the flimsy confirmation record in the 2015-16 Senate (the 114th), with its new Republican majority. Just as it refused to consider Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination, it shut down the lower court confirmation process. That’s water under the bridge. But documenting how the 114th Senate ratcheted up the contentiousness and polarization of an already broken confirmation process suggests how much harder it will be to ratchet it back into something with more comity and bipartisanship. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell now insists that there’s nothing “we can do …that’s more important … than confirming judges as rapidly as we get them.” Commentators boast that “Trump has had a massive impact on the federal bench.” The Republican majority refuses to grant Democratic senators privileges that Republicans and Democrats exploited vigorously in previous administrations.



The 114th’s record pales when compared to the final two years of the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations. Then, as in 2015-16, the other party controlled the Senate. The 114th Senate both confirmed far fewer judges than its recent other-party predecessors and stopped confirming them at a much earlier point. Some of the 2016 vacancies Trump inherited occurred after any confirmation clock would have stopped. Still, of the 21 circuit vacancies he’s filled as of late May and others he soon will, up to seven could have had Obama appointees under pre-2015 norms. So too, up to 71 of the district vacancies he inherited and has only begun to fill could have had Obama appointees.

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/15/immigration-judges-report-prosecutors-jeff-sessions-justice-department/


Immigration judges are expected to be impartial. But they report to Jeff Sessions.
The structure of immigration courts, unique in the federal government, has long been criticized for its potential for conflicts of interest.

BY EMMA PLATOFF AUG. 15, 201812 AM

Immigration judges are not elected or appointed; they apply, like any other civil servant, to the relevant division of the Department of Justice. As civil servants, immigration judges are difficult to outright fire, even if their supervisor doesn’t approve of their decisions. And some judges hew closer to the any given president’s line than others. One judge in El Paso has denied 98.8 percent of the asylum cases he’s heard from 2012 to 2017; one in New York denied just 3 percent, according to government data compiled by the T***sactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
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Can you explain this statement?
"The Republican majority refuses to grant Democratic senators privileges that Republicans and Democrats exploited vigorously in previous administrations."

Immigration court not only has a different structure than other courts, the judges are charged with a totally different goal. They do not judge crime, nor civil disputes. But instead they have the single goal of determining if the applicant's request for legal entry in the US has enough merit to give them one of the slots available. I say ENOUGH merit because there are limitations on how many people may be let in so deciding whose request should take priority is the most important part of their job. As such, they are an arm of the executive branch not the judicial branch.

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Mar 21, 2019 23:31:37   #
Radiance3
 
JoyV wrote:
Can you explain this statement?
"The Republican majority refuses to grant Democratic senators privileges that Republicans and Democrats exploited vigorously in previous administrations."

Immigration court not only has a different structure than other courts, the judges are charged with a totally different goal. They do not judge crime, nor civil disputes. But instead they have the single goal of determining if the applicant's request for legal entry in the US has enough merit to give them one of the slots available. I say ENOUGH merit because there are limitations on how many people may be let in so deciding whose request should take priority is the most important part of their job. As such, they are an arm of the executive branch not the judicial branch.
Can you explain this statement? br "The Repub... (show quote)


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Former DOJ Session identified that 80% of the Asylum seekers were not qualified. At present millions of Asylum seekers had entered the US. The space is overcrowded and officials are planning to release some.

These i******s while being identified as Asylum refugees, must be required to wait in Mexico while their qualification as asylees are under investigation. If they don't qualify, it I easier to require them to return to where they came from.

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