Georgia Republican Congressman Doug Collins kicked off an oversight hearing on the Trump administration’s separation of migrant families by repeatedly declaring that the real “dehumanizing” aspect of the issue was the hearing itself.
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“You know what is dehumanizing?” Collins asked. “Is continuing to bring the same witnesses, the same people from the same agency, to talk about this over and over and over again. What’s dehumanizing is doing that and not doing anything about it. That’s what’s dehumanizing.”

Collins then repeatedly claimed — falsely — that the House majority had not passed any bills dealing with the subject, and reiterated “Dehumanizing is this. This is dehumanizing.”

After complaining about the bills that the House has passed, he repeated “But what is dehumanizing is this hearing. What is dehumanizing is this hearing, where we’re going to talk about it again, and people come, and the folks in this audience, I’m glad you’re here.”

Whoever beamed a fake presidential seal on the wall behind Trump at a recent event - a seal remade with golf clubs and Russia’s two-headed eagle - is a hero and should be rewarded.

U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield’s ruling that claims of unfair competition, fraud and deceptive trade practices can continue in a class-action lawsuit.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that they were scammed by Trump and three of his children when they spent money on multilevel marketing ventures and a live seminar program. The program, according to Bloomberg News, promised to teach participants Trump’s “secrets to success” in real estate — and the plaintiffs allege that it didn’t make good on its promise.

“The tyranny of a dysfunctional system that permits plaintiffs to forum shop in order to find a single district judge who will purport to dictate immigration policy to the entire Nation – even in the face of a contrary ruling by another Federal court – must come to an end. – White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, after a federal judge blocked Trump’s latest attempt to impose restrictions on asylum requests.

This child died next to a toilet, alone, in a Border Patrol facility.

There should have been high-level firings over this, but there were none. Not even a statement of remorse from the president, because he felt none.

We are a disgrace.

“And in the course of the last two years, there’s not been a moment where Mitch McConnell had any interest whatsoever in dealing with this problem,” continued Heilemann. “I have to say, watching this today, any responsible person of either party would watch this and say, ‘If they hadn’t already noticed, we have a problem here.’ And I don’t think Mitch McConnell is going to do a damn thing about it in the weeks or months ahead. I don’t think anything changed that. Even though I think the illustration of the Russia problem is vivid and powerful.”