The U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow to transgender rights today as the high court voted 5-3 to allow a Virginia school to continue to block trans students from using the public bathroom the students gender identity aligned with while the case itself is being appealed.
The Court was responding to request from a Virginia school board to stay a lower court’s ruling which found its transgender bathroom ban to be discriminatory and illegal.
BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants temporary stay in Va school transgender case. For now, trans student must use restroom matching birth gender.
Surprising no one, Donald “Ask the Gays” Trump’s spokesperson Katrina Pierson turns out to be not so friendly to “the gays.”
Dominic Holden of Buzzfeed finds several anti-LGBT comments in Pierson’s Twitter history, such as the one below.
When asked about the tweets Pierson replied:
“It’s a long reach to go back to 2012 to try to create a new hit piece and call it relevant,” Pierson wrote to BuzzFeed News in an email. “You’ll also find that as a grassroots volunteer for multiple campaigns, it’s quite common that Twitter is a platform to promote/defend the policies and values of the candidates at the time. Many times, it’s about engaging trolls which can lead to humorous and sarcastic banter.”
Saying “it’s a long reach to go back to 2012” is an interesting comments considering the entire Trump campaign against Hillary Clinton is about “reaching back” much, much further than 4 years.
@michael_atx You will never for acceptance, but you could win coexistance. Gay is not normal, accept that.
Green Party candidate for president, Jill Stein, makes her pitch to the voters – her “Green New Deal.”
“I would feel terrible if Donald Trump gets elected, and terrible if Hillary Clinton gets elected.”
Stein is currently averaging 3.2% support in the polls, behind Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson (7.4%), Republican Donald Trump (37.8%) and Democrat Hillary Clinton (42.2%).
From NBC News’ Chuck Todd, this is what Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s past 24 hours were like.
In a Washington Post interview, Trump declined to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan against his primary challenger
He reiterated that he hasn’t endorsed Sen. John McCain and said the onetime prisoner of war “has not done a good job for the vets”
He slapped out at Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte, saying “she has given me zero support”
He suggested that Americans should pull their 401(k) funds out of the stock market
He said he’s “always wanted” to receive a Purple Heart but that having one gifted to him by a supporter was “much easier”
He said that the handling of sexual harassment has “got to be up to the individual”
He accused Khizr Khan of being “bothered” by his plan to keep terrorists out of the country, and said that he had no regrets about his clash with the family
He appeared to feud with a crying baby during a rally
He reiterated that “if the election is rigged, I would not be surprised”
The sitting president of the United States publicly called Trump “unfit to serve” and urged Republicans to withdraw their support for him.
Trump spokesman Katrina Pierson suggested that Obama and Clinton are to blame for the death of Humayan Khan, who died in 2004, when neither were in the executive branch at the time
An ally of Paul Manafort told our colleague John Harwood at CNBC that the campaign chairman is “mailing it in,” leaving the rest of the staff “suicidal.”
Sitting GOP congressman Richard Hanna, HP head Meg Whitman and former Christie aide Maria Comella all said they plan to vote for Hillary Clinton
The Washington Post released a transcript of its full interview with Trump, indicating among other things that he paused five times to watch TV coverage in the middle of the sit-down
A GOP source told NBC’s Katy Tur that Reince Priebus is “apoplectic” over Trump’s refusal to endorse Ryan and is making calls to the campaign to express his “extreme displeasure”
“Don’t worry about that baby, I love babies!” he interjected. “I hear that baby crying, I like it! What a baby. What a beautiful baby. Don’t worry, don’t worry. The mom’s running around, like … don’t worry about it, you know? It’s young and beautiful and healthy, and that’s what we want.”
While it is decidedly rare to hear anyone proclaim that they “like” hearing a baby cry, it was a human moment – a move by Trump to say to a mother in the audience: don’t worry about it, we’ll keep the speech moving. And for a minute, he did. Until the baby dared to interrupt his thoughts on China with a second outburst.
“Actually, I was only kidding. You can get the baby out of here,” Trump said. “I think she really believed me, that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking!”
“People don’t understand, but that’s okay,” he added.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough reported that during a foreign policy briefing months ago, Donald Trump repeatedly asked experts “Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?”
From the video below:
“Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on an international level went to advise Donald Trump and three times he [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked, ‘If we have them, why can’t we use them?’ That’s one of the reasons why he just doesn’t have foreign policy experts around him. Three times in an hour briefing, ‘Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?”
Watch: What are some major concerns about Trump’s handling of national security? Hayden and #morningjoe weigh in. https://t.co/FyFoSmJlJI
Believe it or not, there was once a time before social media. A period before we could reveal the awesome results of our labors in the kitchen to the world on a moment’s notice.
Life was sooooo hard.
IKEA reminds us of such a time. And suggests we relax and get back to the things that really matter 🙂
Congressman Richard Hanna has the distinction of being the first Republican member of Congress to publicly declare that he will be voting for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race on November 8.
In a recent interview, Hanna cited the now commonly repeated issue now swirling around the Donald Trump campaign in the race for the White House – that Trump is “unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.”
“I think Trump is a national embarrassment. Is he really the guy you want to have the nuclear codes?” he asked.
The congressman said that he’s considered voting for Clinton for a few months, and that Trump’s attacks the parents of a deceased Muslim American soldier were the last straw.
“I saw that and felt incensed,” Hanna told Syracuse.com. “I was stunned by the callousness of his comments.”
Hanna also wrote an op-ed on Syracuse.com spelling out why he cannot support Trump and will instead vote for Hillary Clinton.
“Secretary Clinton has issues that depending on where one stands can be viewed as great or small. But she stands and has stood for causes bigger than herself for a lifetime. That matters,” he wrote. “Mrs. Clinton has promoted many of the issues I have been committed to over the years including expanding education and supporting women’s health care.”
“While I disagree with her on many issues, I will vote for Mrs. Clinton. I will be hopeful and resolute in my belief that being a good American who loves his country is far more important than parties or winning and losing,” he added.
UPDATE: Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois has now joined the list of GOP lawmakers who will not vote for Trump.
