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Rebuking Obama,
Trump boosts Keystone,
Dakota pipelines
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Donald Trump moved
swiftly Tuesday to advance the
controversial Keystone XL and
Dakota Access oil pipelines,
signing executive actions to
aggressively overhaul America’s
energy policy and deal a sharp
blow to Barack Obama’s legacy on
climate change.
Obama had personally halted
the Keystone XL project, which
was to bring oil from Canada
to the U.S., and major protest
demonstrations have frozen work
on the Dakota pipeline.
Trump, in his continuing effort
to undo the past eight years of a
Democratic president, invited the
Keystone builder, TransCanada,
to resubmit its application to the
State Department for a presidential
permit to construct and operate
the pipeline. The company said it
would reapply.
Obama halted the proposed
pipeline in late 2015, declaring
it would undercut U.S. efforts to
clinch a global climate change
deal that was a centerpiece of his
environmental agenda.
Trump also ordered the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers to
quickly review and approve
construction and easement
requests for the Dakota Access
pipeline, a project that has led to
major protests by American Indian
groups and their supporters.
“From now on we are going
to start making pipelines in the
United States,” Trump said from
the Oval Office, where he also
vowed to require the actual pipe
for Keystone to be manufactured
in America.
Trump dogged by
insecurity over
popular vote, media
coverage
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Donald Trump holds the most
powerful office in the world.
But he’s dogged by insecurity
over his loss of the popular vote
in the election and a persistent
frustration that the legitimacy of
his presidency is being challenged
by Democrats and the media, aides
and associates say.
Trump’s fixation has been a
drag on the momentum of his
opening days in office, with his
exaggerations about inauguration
crowds and false assertions
about illegal balloting intruding
on advisers’ plans to launch his
presidency with a flurry of actions
on the economy. His spokesman
Sean Spicer has twice stepped
into the fray himself, including on
Tuesday, when he doubled down
on Trump’s false claim that he lost
the popular vote because 3 million
to 5 million people living in the
U.S. illegally cast ballots.
“He believes what he believes
based on the information he
was provided,” said Spicer, who
provided no evidence to back up
the president’s statements. All 50
states and the District of Columbia
have finalized their election results
with no reports of the kind of
widespread fraud that Trump is
alleging.
If the president’s claim were
true it would mark the most
significant election fraud in U.S.
history — and ironically, would
raise the same questions about
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Trump’s legitimacy that he’s trying
to avoid. Yet Spicer repeatedly
sidestepped questions about
whether the Trump administration
would investigate the allegations
pushed by the president.
“Anything is possible,” he said.
Trump narrows
down Supreme Court
nominee list to 3
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Donald Trump has
narrowed his choice to fill the
Supreme Court vacancy to three
judges and said he expects to make
his decision in the coming days.
A person familiar with the
selection process said the three
judges, all white men who sit on
federal appeals courts, were on
the list of 21 potential high court
picks Trump announced during the
presidential campaign.
The leading contenders — who
all have met with Trump — are
William Pryor, Neil Gorsuch and
Thomas Hardiman, the person
said, speaking anonymously
because he was not authorized
to speak publicly about internal
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decisions.
Pryor, 54, is an Alabama-based
judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals. Gorsuch, 49,
is on the Denver-based 10th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Hardiman, 51, is based in
Pittsburgh for the 3rd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals. All three were
nominated by President George W.
Bush for their current posts.
Trump has promised to
seek someone in the mold of
conservative icon Antonin Scalia,
who died nearly a year ago after
serving on the Supreme Court
for more than 29 years. Senate
Republicans prevented President
Barack Obama from filling the
seat, a political gamble that paid
off when Trump was elected.
Trump met Tuesday with
Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, Senate Democratic
Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen.
Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne
Feinstein to discuss the court
vacancy. Grassley said in a
statement that the meeting was
productive and “a step in the right
direction.”
Trump said he plans to
announce his choice next week.
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