May 8, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where the Trump administration eyes proceedings a hundred miles south in a left-leaning appeals court that will rule on a revised travel ban. Josh Siegel reveals the mark Obama made. Trump's first overseas destinations send an important message, Fred Lucas reports. One outsider trounces another to become France’s next president. Nolan Peterson covers the vote from Paris, while Mike Gonzalez supplies commentary. Plus: Alden Abbott on withdrawing from a bad climate deal, and Tim Doescher on the work ahead despite a good jobs report. It's the 72nd anniversary of V-E Day.
The federal appeals court deciding the constitutionality of Trump's travel ban was once reliably conservative. But Democratic appointees now outnumber Republican appointees 2 to 1.
For many French voters, both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron were a disappointment as candidates for the presidency. Le Pen was too extreme, and Macron was considered to be under the thumb of France's banking elite.
Emmanuel Macron will have to cobble together some sort of working left-right coalition with the French legislature after parliamentary elections in June.
"Trump has had this image of a great disruptor, but this shows he is a great restorer of our ties with our traditional allies," says a former Pentagon official.
If the Trump administration can translate policy directives into action, we have the potential to see job growth like never before.
U.S. enactment of regulations to meet benchmarks set by the Paris Accord would likely achieve only "symbolic" gains, while imposing huge costs in the form of fewer American jobs, lower family incomes, and reduced industrial efficiency.
"We need a wall in Texas, and I'm glad to have this great video to show it works and why it works," Dallas area resident D.J. Barnes writes.
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