Feb. 9, 2017
Good morning from Washington, hours after the Senate's vote to confirm one of its own, Alabama's Jeff Sessions, as the 84th attorney general. Rachel del Guidice reports. A switch in lawyers hurts the defense of President Trump's restrictions on travel from terror-prone nations, Fred Lucas learns. Conservative lawmakers argue that repealing Obamacare doesn't have to wait on full replacement. Melissa Quinn has the story. Plus: Rep. Kevin Cramer on the revival of an oil pipeline in North Dakota, and Jarrett Stepman on a Supreme Court justice's misunderstanding of the Electoral College.
"We need to repeal [Obamacare] first before deciding what comes next. There's a lot of agreement among Republicans in Congress with regard to repeal," says Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. "But there is a lot less agreement on what comes next."
"On a bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty is inscribed a poem titled 'The New Colossus.' A line in this poem states, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,'" writes Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga.
During the Obama administration, then-Attorney General Eric Holder honored August Flentje for helping to draft the legal case for same-sex marriage and for terrorism suspects being held in the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which the administration sought to close.
Sessions will take over a Justice Department that conservatives see as tainted by political corruption during the Obama administration.
The ability to appoint justices to serve on the Supreme Court is no more the exclusive right of the president than it is of the Senate.
Today, the nearby Standing Rock Sioux members and state and county crews are feverishly cleaning up the mess of personal belongings, trash, and human waste the Dakota pipeline protesters left behind.
"There are some things I would like to change," Ginsburg said. "One is the Electoral College."
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