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The New York Court of Appeals denied an appeal by President Donald Trump Thursday to grant a stay in proceedings in a defamation lawsuit brought by Summer Zervos, a former contestant on the NBC reality show he hosted, “The Apprentice.”
The decision means discovery proceedings will continue in the case against Trump. Zervos is suing him for defamation after he said publicly that she lied when she made the claim that he sexually assaulted her in 2007.
Zervos is one of several women who, during the months leading up to the 2016 election, accused Trump of sexual harassment and assault. Trump has publicly accused the women of lying about their interactions with him.
Zervos says her restaurant in California suffered after Trump publicly accused her of lying. She’s seeking damages and has demanded that Trump retract his statements about her.
Trump’s lawyers argued last year that the lawsuit should be thrown out because a sitting president cannot be sued in state court. That argument was dismissed by New York Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter in March.
Attorneys for Trump emphasized Thursday that the matter is still open and that the Court of Appeals ruling does not validate the lawsuit.
“The New York State Court of Appeals’ decision today was on purely procedural grounds — that the order appealed from was not within that court’s jurisdiction because it was not the final order in the case,” said Emily Thall, spokesperson for Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, which is representing Trump in the matter. “The Court of Appeals did not address the merits of the issue at stake here (an issue first raised by the U.S. Supreme Court in Clinton v. Jones) — namely, that, under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, state courts do not have jurisdiction over a sitting President.”
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[Thread] Ordering armed border guards to cruelly and needlessly rip children from mothers — in one case, while she was breast-feeding the child — goes against fundamental American values and undercuts its standing in the world.
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One of our followers sent us this letter she received TODAY from Homeland Security after applying for a passport. She is a US citizen.
It may be hard to believe that this is happening in the United States in 2018, that hundreds of children are being snatched from their parents, frequently under false pretenses, often screaming, and placed in vast warehouselike centers like the former Walmart in Brownsville, Tex., where nearly 1,500 boys now spend their days. The parents often don’t know where their children are, or when they will see them again.
In 2014 the Obama administration detained hundreds of families and unaccompanied minors crossing the border, a practice that the federal courts quickly curtailed. But separating families as a matter of unofficial policy is something new and malicious, a function of President Trump’s obsession with undocumented immigrants. This spring, the administration ordered that everyone caught crossing illegally into the United States be prosecuted. And since children cannot accompany grown-ups to jail, people who had crossed illegally with children had their children taken away. Hundreds upon hundreds of children, of all ages, creating a new industry in mass shelters.
The United Nations human rights office called this new practice a serious violation of the rights of children and demanded an immediate halt. Catholic bishops denounced it as immoral. The American Psychological Association warned that the separations threatened the mental and physical health of the children. All to no avail.
The administration has come back with a mix of just-following-orders and falsehoods. The Department of Homeland Security said it had no policy for separating families; it was just catching criminals. President Trump feigned sympathy for the separations but claimed he was the victim of“bad legislation passed by the Democrats,” which nobody could find. Only John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, offered what appeared to be a plausible, if shocking, explanation: that separating parents from their children could be a “https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610116389/transcript-white-house-chief-of-staff-john-kellys-interview-with-npr (tough deterrent).”
The heartlessness of that is mind-boggling. It seems to elude the administration and its cheerleaders that this is not about crime or security, but about the most elemental human values; that ordering armed border guards to cruelly and needlessly rip children from mothers — in one case, while she was breast-feeding the child — goes against fundamental American values and undercuts its standing in the world.
The Trump administration has the opportunity to do the right thing here. If you want to help sway it to do so, here are some concrete steps to take.
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