Thursday News: “Trump Fixed Nothing Today”; “created new problems, and kids already held may be there indefinitely”; “Now Free Your Hostages”; Corey Stewart Gets “Mostly False”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, June 21.

• Trump Retreats After Border Policy Outcry (“Order Does Nothing to Address Plight of 2,300 Children…But there are still legal and practical obstacles to ending the practice, and the order does not address the children who have already been separated.”)
• Trump Fixed Nothing Today (“By trading the policy of family separation for one of indefinite detention, the president has only deepened the legal and moral crisis.”)
• Trumpism, Realized (“To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.”)
• Trump’s executive order only protects against family separation for 20 days (“Though President Trump declared that the executive order he signed Wednesday would “solve” the problem of family separation while parents are prosecuted for illegal border crossing, the order is really only good for 20 days, CBS News’ Paula Reid reports, citing a source familiar with the drafting of the order. The order does not override the 1993 Flores v. Reno Supreme Court case, which says that detained migrant children cannot be held in government detention facilities for more than 20 days.”)
• Why a Rogue President Was Forced to Back Down on Family Separation
• Trump Ended Family Separation Because Dehumanizing Infants Is Hard
• The King and Queen of Cruelty (“Donald and Melania are a team in this terror. They have worked together to make the abhorrent normal. They deserve each other; we deserve better.”)
• In Trump’s America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the Top (It’s appalling and dangerous.)
• The Damage Is Done (“Donald Trump wants credit for ending a crisis he created.”)
• Trump Wants to Replace Family Separation With Indefinite Detention. He Likely Can’t. (“His executive order seeks a court reversal that’s unlikely to happen.”)
• Repugnant (“Trump’s policy and comment that immigrants would “infest” the U.S. show that he does not respect their humanity.”)
• Trump walks away from the U.N. Human Rights Council — and rewards the oppressors (“It’s a counterproductive step and another sign of Trump’s retreat from global leadership.”)
• Trump says trade wars are ‘easy.’ Here come the first American casualties. (“Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee grill Wilbur Ross about the president’s policies.”)
• The Trump administration is deliberately starting a legal fight over family detention (“The law says the government can’t detain migrant families for more than 20 days. But Trump’s team is trying to strong-arm a federal judge into changing that.”)
• Trump’s Executive Order On Family Separation: What It Does And Doesn’t Do (Trump “ended a policy that sent thousands of children to government-run facilities away from their parents, but critics say he just created new problems, and kids already held may be there indefinitely.” 100% unacceptable.)
• Ivanka Trump Thanks Her Dad For Ending Family Separation Policy He Started (It’s like thanking an abuser for easing off for a little while on the abuse.)
• Trump Order Ending Family Separation Likely Won’t Apply To Children Already Taken From Parents
• The Roots of Koch Brother Politics Are Deep and Likely Permanent (“Big, unaccountable money will rule our politics for the foreseeable future.” The Kochs have done enormous damage to America.)
• Just Another Day Where the United States Completely Abandons Its Commitments to the World (“On human rights and climate change, Trump says we’re taking our ball and going home.”)
• This Passage in Trump’s Family-Separation Executive Order Is Cause for Concern (“Knowing this group, it’s liable to make things worse.”)
• The President* Is a Fool and a Coward, and He’s Melting Down (“Trump sounds half-mad amidst a humanitarian crisis of his own creation.”)
• Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms. His Goal: Flip the House for the Democrats.
• Kansas secretary of state defies court order, won’t register eligible voters (“I think ‘immediately’ is kind of open to interpretation,” his office said.”)
• Giuliani’s act of love sets off GOP furor (“The bizarre tale of the ex-New York mayor’s support for an obscure House candidate in Louisiana.” Is there anything about Giuliani that is NOT bizarre?)
• GOP immigration bills on brink of collapse (“Trump’s address to House Republicans failed to win over skeptical conservatives.”)
• McAuliffe hits the road to boost Democratic governors — and himself (“The former Virginia governor has thrown himself into 2018 campaigning, gathering potential chits if he runs for president.”)
• Young immigrants detained in Virginia center allege abuse (“The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal court filings that include a half-dozen sworn statements from Latino teens jailed there for months or years. Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads.” Anyone who did this should not only be fired, but prosecuted.)
• Garrett’s Independent Streak Flourishes Since Reelection Announcement (“Since he announced that he would not seek reelection, Fifth District Congressman Tom Garrett was one of seven Republicans to vote against a bill setting aside housing vouchers for people recovering from opioid abuse. And he was one of 12 Republicans to vote against a bill giving the feds new authority to crack down on fentanyl.” Weird.)
• Corey Stewart’s misleading comments on Sen. Tim Kaine and Antifa (“Kaine has more than once advocated for peaceful protest, and he has also condemned the violence that has driven some to label Antifa as a terrorist group. We rate Stewart’s statement Mostly False.”)
• Tobias: Filling Judge Conrad’s Western District of Virginia vacancy
• Editorial: Mental health crises require longer holds (“Virginia Sen. Creigh Deeds knows better than most the shortcomings of emergency custody orders as they now exist in the commonwealth.”)
• Abortion rights groups sue Virginia over restrictions they call medically unnecessary (“The lawsuit says that the 24-hour waiting period and other hurdles are an ‘undue burden’ under a 2016 Supreme Court ruling.”)
• Commission won’t renew contract to house migrant children in Northern Virginia (“The Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Commission announced the move as controversy swirled over a Trump administration policy to separate families crossing the border illegally.”)
• Md., Va. congressmen hear stories of family separation
• Martese Johnson, Virginia ABC reach $250,000 settlement in arrest lawsuit
• Unite the Right rally organizer Jason Kessler gets initial approval for anniversary event in D.C. (Wonder if Corey Stewart will be there.)
• Don’t leave out sea-level rise from the development equation in Beach, elsewhere
• Hampton School Board approves higher salaries for teachers, some employees
• Arlington County purchases “Buck property” (“The future of the property is still undetermined. The county is considering reusing the existing buildings for office space or even constructing a new school.”)
• The year’s longest day is a fine one, but unsettled weather follows (“The first official day of summer is drier, cooler and less humid than previous days.”)