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The Tap: Sunday, February 5, 2017

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The Tap covered election news, public policy, and other noteworthy events from February 2016 to February 2022.

Review of the day

The excerpts below were compiled from issue #52 of The Tap, which was published on February 11, 2017. READ THE FULL VERSION HERE.

Federal

President Trump on voter fraud and voter registration

  • In an interview that aired before the Super Bowl, President Donald Trump shifted his discussion of voter fraud from fraudulent votes cast to voter registration. He explained, "It has to do with the registration. And when you look at the registration, and you see dead people that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two states — and that voted in two states — when you see other things, when you see illegals, people that are not citizens and they are on the registration rolls. ... You have illegals, you have dead people, you have this — it’s really a bad situation. It’s really bad." Trump told O'Reilly to “forget all that” when he asked about Trump’s previous assertion that millions of illegal ballots had been cast in the 2016 presidential election. “Just take a look at the registration, and we’re going to do it. And I’m going to set up a commission to be headed by Vice President Mike Pence, and we’re going to look at it very carefully,” Trump said.

State

Trump Speaks Against California’s Sanctuary Policy

  • In an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, President Trump reiterated that he was open to leveraging federal defunding in an attempt to halt California's sanctuary state legislation. Trump said the state was “out of control,” adding, “If they’re going to have sanctuary cities, we may have to [defund them]. Certainly that would be a weapon.” Legislative leaders in California spoke out against Trump’s message the next day. Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon (D) said in a statement that the “threat to weaponize federal funding is not only unconstitutional but emblematic of the cruelty he seeks to impose on our most vulnerable communities.” Last month, a nonpartisan legislative analyst reported that the federal government spends about $386 billion a year in the state. California is currently one of six Democratic trifectas.
    • On January 31, the California Senate Public Safety Committee advanced a bill along a party-line vote that would expand sanctuary status to the entire state. The bill would prohibit state and local law enforcement from spending money on enforcing federal immigration laws and ban the enforcement of immigration laws in state schools, health facilities, and courthouses. On January 25, Trump (R) signed an executive order to eliminate federal funding to cities and states that operate as sanctuary jurisdictions.
    • On January 24, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) delivered a State of the State address that The New York Times called “a fiery anti-Trump message.” The self-written speech, titled “California Is Not Turning Back, Not Now, Not Ever,” declared resistance to the climate change and immigration policies of the new administration.
    • Earlier this year, the California State Legislature announced that it would retain former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to represent the state in any legal disputes with the federal government. State Sen. Kevin de León (D) said at the announcement that “the former attorney general of the United States brings us a lot of firepower in order to prepare to safeguard the values of the people of California.”


Preview of the day

There were no items for this day in issue #51 of The Tap, which was published on February 4, 2017. See the "Review of the day" tab for more information.





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