{"id":11148,"date":"2019-10-11T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2019-10-11T15:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:53:56","slug":"the-mills-of-the-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11148","title":{"rendered":"The mills of the gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">The millstones of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Plutarch<\/p>\n<p>Hoo, boy &#8212; it&#8217;s been a bad day for The Donald.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/11\/politics\/judge-trump-border-wall-funds\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal judge<\/a> has ruled that Trump&#8217;s emergency declaration, which seizes funds from the military for use building his border wall, is illegal.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/11\/us\/immigration-public-charge-injunction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal judge<\/a> has ruled that the Trump administration rule prohibiting immigration by those who might become a &#8220;public charge,&#8221; is illegal.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/10\/11\/20909811\/trump-loss-congressional-oversight-mazars-tatel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal judge<\/a> has ruled that, yes, his accounting firm can be required to release his tax returns to investigators.<\/ul>\n<p>So the courts are rejecting his high-handed and plainly unlawful conduct, and the House of Representatives is surely headed toward impeachment.  Not for the first time, I wonder: How did Trump&#8217;s supporters not <i><u>know<\/u><\/i> that his ignorance and squalid self-absorption would come to a bad end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo, boy &#8212; it&#8217;s been a bad day for The Donald.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}