{"id":8825,"date":"2017-02-01T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtfulpastor\/?p=8825"},"modified":"2017-02-01T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:11:16","slug":"bannontrump-does-not-trump-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtfulpastor\/2017\/02\/01\/bannontrump-does-not-trump-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Bannon\/Trump does not trump the constitution: new lawsuit filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_8826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8826\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8826\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/667\/2017\/02\/Steve_Bannon_2010-e1485971820733.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Bannon, Chief White House strategist\" width=\"615\" height=\"796\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Bannon, Chief White House strategist, <a href=\"http:\/\/Steve%20Bannon,%20Chief%20White%20House%20strategist\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><em><strong>Please note:<\/strong> from this point forward, I intend to refer to the POTUS as Bannon\/Trump. This nomenclature reflects the reality that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/30\/opinion\/president-bannon.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">white supremacist Steve Bannon<\/a> that calls most of the shots right now and acts as de-facto president. <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/01\/30\/president-stephen-bannons-amazing-first-week-in-office-trump-eo-nsc-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here is an excellent analysis of the rise of President <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The following article explains another lawsuit that has been filed against the immigration ban. The chaos that election of Bannon\/Trump has brought about, not to mention the heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtfulpastor\/2017\/01\/31\/help-refugee-crisis-christian-reduce-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">There is not one possibly remote Christian underpinning to the ban<\/a>. AND, we also have extreme vetting in place. <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2015\/11\/20\/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">This link <\/a>displays the current steps all potential refugees must undergo to gain entrance and asylum in the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>[For more information about a possible Bannon\/Trump coup,<a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/02\/01\/opinions\/bannon-trump-coup-opinion-ben-ghiat\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> watch the video on this site<\/a>.]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>New immigration ban lawsuit: \u2018Trump does not trump the Constitution\u2019<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">DETROIT \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration ban has triggered yet another lawsuit, this one filed in federal court in Detroit on behalf of several Muslim green card holders who are trapped overseas, including a 9-year-old boy who was denied a visa to join family in the U.S. The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit is the Arab\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rhembed\" style=\"width: 100%; border: 0; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" src=\"\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?p=MTM3OTg=&amp;c=MzkyMDM3NDA=&amp;license=3.13798-39664&amp;showDate=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"1500\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/js\/rh.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!-- TO HIDE THE DATE, change \"showDate=true\" to \"false\" --><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: from this point forward, I intend to refer to the POTUS as Bannon\/Trump. This nomenclature reflects the reality that it is white supremacist Steve Bannon that calls most of the shots right now and acts as de-facto president. Here is an excellent analysis of the rise of President The following article explains another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2704,"featured_media":8826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2486,2485,2484,2315],"class_list":["post-8825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christianity","tag-coup","tag-immigration-ban","tag-steve-bannon","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bannon\/Trump does not trump the constitution: new lawsuit filed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I now refer to the POTUS as Bannon\/Trump. 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