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Stay tuned: Trump Just Signed Something About Children Being Separated From Families, But It's Unclear What Exactly It Is buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/tru…
Trump didn't share any details about the executive order he just signed: "So we're going to have strong, very strong borders, but we're going to keep the families together. I didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated."
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UPDATE: Here is the text of what Trump just signed, more to come shortly whitehouse.gov/presidential-a… Story: buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/tru…
The order just signed by Trump directs DHS to maintain custody over immigrant families while criminal and immigration proceedings are pending, and it directs AG Sessions to ask the Flores judge to modify the settlement to allow family detentions buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/tru…
What's not immediately clear is what exactly can happen until a judge agrees to changes the Flores settlement, which says children cannot be held indefinitely in secure detention facilities buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/tru…
The order directs the Defense Secretary and other agencies to make available to DHS facilities that could be used to house families together (and says DoD can build more if needed) buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/tru…
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Hello on this mild morning from the DC Council, which is scheduled to vote today on the LOVE Act -- emergency legislation that would make it possible for couples to get a DC marriage license during the federal govt shutdown (background: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…)
At the DC Council this a.m. waiting for a vote on the LOVE Act, and listening to Councilmember Grosso intro a bill to legalize and regulate sales of marijuana. "This council should be unapologetic in pursuing what is best for our constituents." Background: dcist.com/story/19/01/07…
The LOVE Act is up — this emergency legislation will make it possible for couples to get a marriage license in DC during the govt shutdown. It's being introduced by Councilmember Brandon Todd at the request of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
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NEW: The federal judiciary now expects to have enough money from other sources to keep the courts largely business-as-usual during the shutdown through Jan. 18 (previously it was Jan. 11) — this is the latest from the Administrative Office of the US Courts (HT @hsu_spencer)
In order to make the funds that the judiciary does have (absent a congressional appropriation) last as long as possible, "courts have been asked to delay or defer non-mission critical expenses, such as new hires, non-case related travel, and certain contracts"
DOJ, of course, is already affected by the shutdown, so most judges have been approving requests or issuing blanket orders to delay civil litigation involving the federal govt during the shutodwn (criminal cases still have to proceed as usual)
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Some fireworks in court this morning as a judge criticized the lawyer representing Concord Management & Consulting in the special counsel Russian troll farm case for his language and harsh words about Mueller's office in filings — "unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective"
The judge told attorney Eric Dubelier that his strategy was "ineffective" and that his approach to filings — including pop culture quotes (see: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676…) and accusing Mueller's office basically of lawlessness — was "undermining your credibility in this courthouse"
"Knock it off," Judge Dabney Friedrich told Dubelier. This then led to a heated exchange where Dubelier said he needed to consult his client since the judge had accused of unprofessional conduct, and now there might be bias from the judge. There's no bias, the judge replied.
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💧Deluge💧

Big Picture TOC:

‘The whole mess of RU hacking, CA, the Trump & Leave Campaigns was not only a coup but an unprecedented shorting of the market through mass manipulation of the electorate w/ the aim of controlling not only geopolitics but the financial markets too’
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A lot of big legal news has happened in the past 72 hours. Here are the highlights from our @BuzzFeedNews coverage —>
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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