Tuesday, August 13, 2019
AG Barr to Push for Death Penalty for Mass Shooters and Cop Killers
At the Fraternal Order of Police conference in New Orleans yesterday, AG William Barr announced that he would be advocating for legislation that would seek the death penalty for those who carry out mass shootings or kill police officers. Fox News provided quotes from Barr’s speech, below:
“This administration will not tolerate violence against police, and we will do all we can to protect the safety of law enforcement officers,” said Barr, who had a tough-on-crime approach in his previous stint as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer in the early 1990s.
“I will share with you one proposal that we will be advancing after Labor Day. We will be proposing legislation providing that in cases of mass murder, or in cases of murder of a law enforcement officer, there will be a timetable for judicial proceedings that will allow imposition of any death sentence without undue delay.
"Punishment must be swift and certain.”
DHS Issues Rule Disqualifying Legal Immigrants from Receiving Green Card If on Certain Forms of Public Assistance
In an attempt to “tighten” the US immigration system, the Department of Homeland Security, under the auspices of the Trump administration, recently issued a rule that would preclude legal immigrants from receiving permanent residency status if they were to collect certain forms of public assistance. From The Wall Street Journal:
“The use or potential use of a benefits program such as Medicaid, some types of housing assistance or food stamps could disqualify an applicant.
“Through the public charge rule, President Trump’s administration is reinforcing the ideals of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility,” Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said at the White House...
The use of several other benefits—including school lunch programs, homeless shelters, food pantries and the Children’s Health Insurance Program—won’t disqualify applicants. Pregnant women and children who rely on Medicaid are also exempt from the rule. The rule doesn’t affect humanitarian-based programs for refugees and asylum seekers.”
Cucinelli also elaborated that when making a determination regarding someone’s eligibility for a green card that someone’s “totality of circumstances” would be considered. The rule is expected to be challenged in court by Democratic State Attorney Generals.
Protests Continue at Hong Kong Airport
Anti-government demonstrators have been actively protesting in Hong Kong since early June in response to a new law out of China that would have permitted extraditions to China, where the courts are currently overseen by the Communist Party. The protests have spiraled into a larger statement on Hong Kong’s antipathy to Chinese rule, which it returned to in the late nineties after Great Britain ceded control to Beijing. From New York Times:
“Anti-government demonstrators staged another protest at Hong Kong’s airport on Tuesday, as the city’s embattled leader pleaded for order after days of escalating chaos, mass flight cancellations and violent street clashes.
The latest demonstration came a day after protesters stormed the cavernous arrivals and departures halls at Hong Kong International Airport, effectively shuttering the transportation hub, one of the world’s busiest. They had also staged a three-day sit-in in the arrivals hall over the weekend that did not noticeably disrupt services…
[Since early June, the protests] have…morphed into a call for free elections, which largely do not exist in China, and spiraled into Hong Kong’s worst political crisis since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Beijing, which views the unrest as a direct challenge to its authority over the semiautonomous Chinese territory, has warned the protesters to stand down and has leaned on Hong Kong’s political and business elite to close ranks behind Mrs. Lam, a career civil servant.”
What I’m Reading Today
- The Poetic Justice of Epstein’s Demise (The Federalist)
- Joe Biden is Wrong. There’s No Evidence that Assault-Weapon Bans Work. (National Review)
- No, President Trump Should Not Commute Rod Blagojevich’s Corruption Sentence (The Federalist)
- On Ferguson, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris Told a Terrible Lie (National Review)
- The Legal Clause That Makes Brexiteers Furious – and Why They Have a Point (The Atlantic)
Beauty Recommendations for the Week: Primer Edition
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