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by Causes | 9.10.18

Welcome to Monday, denizens of democracy...

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It's 44 v. 45.

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After quietly waiting in the wings, former President Barack Obama re-took the political stage last Friday, arguing that Americans must rebuke President Donald Trump at the midterm polls.

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Declaring himself a \"fellow citizen\" rather than former president, Obama criticized his successor, tying Trump to a \"darker aspect\" of American history.

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\"Each time we painstakingly pull ourselves closer to our founding ideals... somebody somewhere has pushed back. The status quo pushes back.\"
\"It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom, not the cause.\"
\"He's just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.\"

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Obama continued his midterm push on Saturday in the traditionally red Orange County, California, telling a crowd in Anaheim:

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\"If we don't step up, things are going to get worse. In two months we have a chance to restore some sanity to our politics.\"

Read all sides of the story:

On the Radar

\nThe Trump administration's weekly status report on its efforts to reunite children separated from their parents as part of its \"zero-tolerance\" immigration policy shows that 416 children - including 15 under the age of 5 - remain in federal custody. Government officials have said they've delayed certain reunifications because of \"red flags,\" including parents' criminal histories or safety and well-being concerns. Read the full story here.
\nThis week, the Senate is expected to vote on the Opioid Crisis Response Act―a bipartisan package containing more than 70 proposals authored by relevant committees. If passed, the package would expand cooperation between agencies to stop illegal drugs at the border and provide flexible grants for states to share prescription drug data to prevent drug diversion. It would also expand resources for substance abuse treatment under Medicaid, particularly for mothers and children. For a full list of what the package would do, click here.

Under the Radar

\nThe Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services have proposed a rule that would allow children to be held indefinitely along with their parents in immigration detention centers. Currently, the Trump administration is bound by the Flores consent decree, which prohibits the federal government from keeping minors in custody for more than about 20 days. This means that if children are detained with their parents, the entire family must be released after 20 days. But Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the Flores restrictions “significantly hinder the department’s ability to appropriately detain and promptly remove family units that have no legal basis to remain in the country.” Do you support Trump’s plan to allow unauthorized immigrant families to be detained indefinitely? Tell your reps here.
\nSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has suggested legislators invoke the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump if White House officials don’t believe he’s fit to execute the duties of his office. Warren’s comments come in response to statements made in an anonymous New York Times Op-Ed, where a senior White House official wrote he and others are working to frustrate the president’s “misguided impulses,” and at one point considered attempting to remove Trump from office via the 25th. Tell your reps if it's time to consider enacting the 25 on 45 here.
\nSchools across the country are struggling to deal with elevated lead levels in their drinking water; last week, the Detroit public school system shut off water across the district, just as kids were going back to school. There’s no national standard for safe lead concentrations in school drinking water, and more than 40 percent of schools aren't testing for the heavy metal at all. Does the EPA need to act? Click here.

Your Gov at a Glance 👀

The White House: President Trump in D.C.

At 11:30am, the president will receive his intelligence briefing.
At 12:30pm, the president will have lunch with Vice President Pence.

The House of Representatives: Out

The House will return Wednesday, September 12th.

The Senate: In

The Senate will return Wednesday, September 12th.

What You're Saying

Here's how you're answering Should Supreme Court Proceedings be Televised?

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But wait, there's more!

And, in the End…

Don't tell my rabbi I'm covering this on Rosh Hashanah…

Should ‘In God We Trust’ Be Removed From Currency?

Atheist Ambassadors have launched a We The People petition to remove “In God We Trust” from all U.S. currency, saying it “violates the principle of state and church separation.”

The move comes just over a week after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, Minnesota, upheld a lower court’s ruling that found the national motto did not violate First Amendment free speech and religious rights.

But given the panoply of religious beliefs in America today – including non-belief – should the U.S. reconsider placing “In God We Trust” on its currency? Click here.

No matter what you're celebrating or not today, hope you have a happy one,

—Josh Herman

Talk to Managing Editor Andrea Seabrook via email, andrea [at] countable.us, or on twitter, @RadioBabe. And don’t forget to keep in touch @Countable.

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