Robert L. Tsai

My thoughts for @politico.com on President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Six years later, what do we think?

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My thoughts for @politico.com on President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Six years later, what do we think?

No single moment occurs to me. Many themes I’ve wrestled with my entire career. I did realize one day I had access to archives and people for interviews, and I was probably better placed than many to tell the story right.

Why I wrote this book

Fact of life!

Trump's War If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

“His Administration has also fixed its sights on Cuba, where President Miguel Díaz-Canel has ramped up military exercises amid reports that Trump has asked advisers to devise plans to end the island’s six-decade communist rule.”

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Spring break has begun

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Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

“Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration. Her agency invoked the ‘national emergency’ at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign, bypassing the normal competitive bidding process”

Thanks for your service Kristi Noem. We’ll always have this ad, which cost taxpayers $ 200 million

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alternate legal reality

Whoa

Why I wrote this book

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) speaks in favor of the war powers resolution. Quoting Madison, he reminds us that by lodging the power to initiate war in Congress, the Constitution adopted the wisdom of experience that “the Executive branch of power is the most interested in war and most prone to it.”

@raskin.house.gov (D-MD) derides the argument that it’s too late to debate whether to go to war: “What a humiliating, self-defeating argument!”

The fog of not-war

“A sustained war with Iran won’t stabilize the region. It has already ignited the region. It will radicalize new generations of terrorists.”

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) speaks in favor of the war powers resolution. Quoting Madison, he reminds us that by lodging the power to initiate war in Congress, the Constitution adopted the wisdom of experience that “the Executive branch of power is the most interested in war and most prone to it.”

Is the U.S. at war or not-war?

“Scripture is full of kings brought low by their own arrogance”

So apparently “yellow peril” arguments are back in vogue. From the amicus brief of Sen. Ted Cruz & Rep. Jim Jordan

Ted Cruz thinks China has been “manufacturing nominal citizens” in the U.S.

The fog of not-war

Well said!