Should we all be urging our Democratic Senators to do everything they can
to encourage Jeff Flake to switch to the Democratic party for the remainder of his term?
Should we be begging Jeff Flake ourselves?
That would give us a majority in the Senate, at least till January, and we could stop any rightwing DT nominee from getting approved.
The Senate Majority leader would be a Democrat, and that Democrat would control the passage of all legislation and the activities of all committees. We could start subpoenaing witnesses NEXT WEEK.
FYI, Jeff Flake just wrote this about the Travel ban:
https://medium.com/@JeffFlake/travel-ban-b3c2234b986a (the link needs to be copied and pasted).
In April of 2017, when a District Court ruled against the Administration’s travel ban, I wrote in this space that I thought that the Travel Ban would ultimately be upheld. I also wrote the following:
“This does not, however, make the new travel ban a good idea. I fail to see what national security gains are achieved. In fact, our long term security goals are compromised. To win this war on terrorism we will need the help of good and decent citizens in every country — including those countries compromised by terrorism. Imposing a blanket ban based on nationality will only make such assistance more difficult to obtain.”
I feel the same today. Just because something is constitutional doesn’t make it wise. The travel ban does not make us safer.
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