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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
The debate over Price was coming in a week that has
so far seen Democrats, eager to show liberal constituents
that they are taking a stand against Trump, ferociously but
unsuccessfully opposing two nominees for top administra-
tion jobs.
Over solid Democratic opposition and two GOP defec-
tions, it took a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Mike
Pence for the Senate to approve wealthy GOP donor Betsy
DeVos on Tuesday to head the Education Department. Under
the Constitution, one of the duties of a vice president is to
break tie votes in the 100-member Senate.
On Wednesday, the chamber confirmed Sen. Jeff Ses-
sions, R-Ala., to be attorney general. That debate was bit-
ter, fueled by Democratic accusations that Sessions lacked
a devotion to civil rights laws and wouldn’t stand up to
Trump.
Associated Press
Judges’ response to Trump
criticism: Silence
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s unusually per-
sonal criticism of federal judges has drawn rebukes from many
quarters, including from Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch,
but not from the judges themselves.
And that’s not likely to change, even if the tweeter in chief
keeps up his attacks on judges. Bolstered by lifetime tenure, inde-
pendent judges should not respond to criticism, no matter how
harsh or that its source is the president, said a former judge, a law
school dean and a constitutional law professor.
Judges “should basically give the tweets the attention they
deserve, which means they should be ignored. This is basically a
childish tantrum from someone who didn’t get his way. And the
judiciary should go about its business and decide cases, includ-
ing cases involving him,” said Vanderbilt University law profes-
sor Suzanna Sherry.
Trump’s style may be different and his language more coarse,
but the comments themselves are not the “threat to judicial inde-
pendence that some commentators have made them out to be,”
said University of Pennsylvania law school dean Theodore Ruger.
Former U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell said judges would
find themselves in unfamiliar territory “if they start critiquing the
Twitter feed of the president.”
Company to resume work to
finish Dakota Access pipeline
CANNON BALL, N.D. — With the green light from the fed-
eral government, the company building the Dakota Access oil
pipeline said Wednesday it plans to resume work immediately to
finish the long-stalled project. Opponents of the $3.8 billion proj-
ect meanwhile protested around the country in an action some
dubbed their “last stand.”
The Army on Wednesday granted the developer of the four-
state oil pipeline formal permission to lay pipe under a Missouri
River reservoir in North Dakota, clearing the way for completion
of the disputed project.
“We plan to begin immediately,” Vicki Granado, a spokes-
woman for developer Energy Transfer Partners, said in an email
to The Associated Press Wednesday night.
Work had been stalled for months due to opposition by the
Standing Rock Sioux, but President Donald Trump last month
instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to advance pipeline
construction.
The tribe fears a pipeline leak could contaminate its drinking
water. ETP says the pipeline is safe.
GOP lawmakers around the US
push for restrictions on voting
CONCORD, N.H. — As President Donald Trump hurls
unfounded allegations of colossal fraud in last fall’s election,
lawmakers in at least 20 mostly Republican-led states are push-
ing to make it harder to register or to vote.
Efforts are underway in places such as Arkansas, Iowa, Maine,
Nebraska and Indiana to adopt or tighten requirements that vot-
ers show photo ID at the polls. There is a move in Iowa and New
Hampshire to eliminate Election Day registration. New Hamp-
shire may also make it difficult for college students to vote. And
Texas could shorten the early voting period by several days.
Supporters say the measures are necessary to combat voter
fraud and increase public confidence in elections. But research
has shown that in-person fraud at the polls is extremely rare, and
critics of these restrictions warn that they will hurt mostly poor
people, minorities and students — all of whom tend to vote Dem-
ocratic — as well as the elderly.
They fear, too, that the U.S. Justice Department, under newly
confirmed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, will do little to inter-
vene to protect voters.
Some election watchers see voting rights under heavy attack.
Federal government about to green-light the final phase
of the Dakota Access pipeline.
Chance and challenge: Japan Inc
Trump vs. Nordstrom: The latest worried but hopeful on Trump
TOKYO — President Donald Trump’s salvos on trade
bout raising ethical concerns
and currency are rattling Japan Inc., but many here hope
NEW YORK — Donald Trump just can’t seem to sepa-
rate the presidency from his family’s businesses.
Whereas other presidents took pains to avoid even the
appearance of using their office for private gain, Trump is
pushing the limits. He met with Indian business partners
before his inauguration, and decided to hold on to his com-
pany, while expanding his hotel brand.
On Wednesday, he added to a string of presidential firsts,
and drew fire from ethics lawyers, with a Twitter attack on
Nordstrom. The Seattle-based retailer earned Trump’s ire
by dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing and accessory
line.
The implication, intended or not: Hurt my daughter’s
business and the Oval Office will come after you.
“My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @
Nordstrom,” the president tweeted. “She is a great person
— always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!”
Government delays listing
bumblebee as endangered
TRAVERSE C ITY, Mich. — Federal officials have delayed
the first-ever listing of a bee species in the continental U.S. as
endangered — one day before it was to take effect.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Jan. 11 it was plac-
ing the rusty patched bumblebee on the endangered list. It’s
among many types of bees that play a vital role in pollinat-
ing crops and wild plants. It once was common across the East
Coast and much of the Midwest but its numbers have plum-
meted since the late 1990s.
The listing was to take effect Friday. But in a Federal Regis-
ter notice, the service said it was postponing the effective date
to March 21 because of a White House order temporarily freez-
ing any regulations that have been published but haven’t taken
effect.
Price nears Senate confirmation
as Trump health secretary
WASHINGTON — Republicans are ready to overpower
Democrats and push another of President Donald Trump’s
Cabinet nominees through the Senate, the man who will help
lead the GOP drive to erase and replace the health care law.
The Senate voted 51-48 Wednesday to short-circuit Dem-
ocratic delaying tactics against Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga.,
Trump’s choice for health secretary. Final approval of Price
seemed certain, a vote that would elevate the long-time pro-
ponent of dismantling President Barack Obama’s health
care law and reshaping and curbing Medicare and Medic-
aid. Those goals, for many Republicans, are high on the GOP
agenda.
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a p a r t of
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can sell him a “win-win”
package of job creation and investment when they meet
this week, averting a return of the Japan-bashing of the
1980s.
Abe moved early to build a personal rapport with
Trump, meeting him in New York shortly after he was
elected. With Japan’s largest export market at stake, its
businesses need him to keep at it.
Japan’s status as the cornerstone U.S. ally in the
Pacific was reassuringly reaffirmed in a recent visit by
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. Tokyo has reiterated
its commitment to spending more on its own security and
buying more military aircraft and other equipment from
the U.S.
That won’t directly affect trade figures, however,
which are measured by the private sector.
Japan logged the second largest trade surplus with the
U.S. last year, at $68.9 billion dollars. That’s way below
China’s, at $347 billion, and on a par with the surpluses
run by Germany and Mexico.
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