while the court considers it. is it an immediate block of the president? it s hard to predict in advance. we have seen a number of these kinds of injunctions against trump administration policies over the past two years. i think the odds are deepened. again it depends on just how closely what the president is doing fused to the statutes he s purr pourtiporting to rely on. what is the plaintiff s likelihood of success on the merits? if the president is doing something small that s really just a face-saving gesture i m not sure the courts will block it. they might say, yeah, this is close enough to the statute. it s fine. we are not going to raise a hackle about this. the more the president departs from what congress has given him, the more likely it is. this is the key point. this deal, if the president does sign it, will at least to some degree be used against him as further proof that congress hasn t approved of his actions.
loathed john mccain through the years, because he had friendships with democrats. because he said nice things about joe biden. because he didn t call barack obama a muslim in a disparaging way. i mean, seems to me if this is truly a fissure in the republican party, it s a fissure that takes the party down because a word you used that seems most appropriate here is churlish. they hated mccain for not being churlish, for not being small, for not being the type of person who would mock and ridicule a man when he was dieing of cancer. yeah. and democrats might dismiss this but within the conservative ferment there is a debate whether civility is a shackle impose and republicans and republicans alone that hinders their ability to appeal to a broader demographic. a real debate. it s one i fall in the john
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you got to do something. you got to take care of your body before it can take care of you, you know. every shackle has two locks on it. one lock, and two locks. all the 1s are keyed the same and all the 2s are keyed the same. so you have to have two sets of keys for each shackle. it s security. in case inmates get ahold of one of our key chains, it s more than likely they re not going to get ahold of two. go to secure the chains so the lock won t go up and down on your foot all day long. the most comfortable place for you to walk, or you re going to trip on them all day long. you have to secure them. with the shoestring. get your bags two at a time starting up front. at age 50, mchellon is one of the oldest inmates to work in the fields. his 20-year-old cell mate scott parker is one of the youngest.
trump tweeted on sunday he may want to take another look at those penalties. so that s raising a set of questions. there s another issue with zte. u.s. intelligence officials say they and other telecom companies present a national security risk to the united states because if they penetrate the u.s. market, their a spying risk. a u.s. intelligence official affirmed that in congress today at a hearing, chris. and so the idea that donald trump would be trying to give a benefit to this chinese firm zte is raising a lot of hackle also among people of both parties on capitol hill. nbc s ken dilanian, thank you. turning now to a dramatic situation in hawaii. lava erupting in leilani estates, forcing many people to leave their homes. this is the 19th fissure that opened in kilauea. now there are growing concerns of a possible explosion in the volcano s crater. for democrats looking to take control of the house of