{"id":134680,"date":"2017-09-13T08:03:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134680"},"modified":"2017-09-13T23:50:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T05:50:33","slug":"congress-tells-trump-denounce-nazis-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/13\/congress-tells-trump-denounce-nazis-et-al.html","title":{"rendered":"Congress tells Trump to denounce Nazis, et al"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, this is weird. Welcome, but weird.<\/p>\n

The House and Senate have unanimously passed a joint resolution urging President Trump to denounce racist and anti-Semitic hate groups, sending a blunt message of dissatisfaction with the president\u2019s initial, equivocal response to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., last month.<\/p>\n

The resolution passed the Senate without dissent on Monday and was approved without objection by the entire House on Tuesday night. It could be sent to the White House for Mr. Trump\u2019s signature as early as Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The condemnation from the President is to be specifically about \u201cWhite nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups.\u201d Trump is called on to \u201cuse all resources available to the President and the President\u2019s Cabinet to address the growing prevalence of those hate groups in the United States,\u201d and Attorney General Sessions is to \u201cinvestigate thoroughly all acts of violence, intimidation, and domestic terrorism by White supremacists, White nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and associated groups,\u201d as well as \u201cimprove the reporting of hate crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it’s a joint resolution, it require’s the President’s signature.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is all non-binding, so it will be interesting to see what Trump does about it. I could see anything happening — a sullen signing and taking the “urging” under consideration; a sullen veto against the prerogatives of the President; an outwardly enthusiastic signing that gets defused by additional “many sides” comments during the ceremony; evenly a signing that takes on a “Congress and I stand united in” tone, and then things go on as they were — pretty much anything.<\/p>\n

But there’s certainly a possibility of it becoming … interesting. And the very fact that the joint resolution was passed unanimously has to be causing some excess stomach acid over at the White House.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: White House spokesfolk say that Trump will “absolutely” sign the bill. I look forward to his comments.<\/p>\n


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\nCongress Passes Measure Challenging Trump to Denounce Hate Groups – The New York Times<\/a><\/span>
\nThe House and Senate delivered a blunt message to President Trump, unanimously denouncing racist and anti-Semitic hate groups without equivocation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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