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Several parents have already been deported, while authorities disqualified others due to criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR's John Burnett \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/07/06/626664205/aclu-family-separation-hearing\">explained Friday\u003c/a>, the Department of Health and Human Services says it has hired 250 additional personnel in the sprint to comply with the court order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're working nights and weekends to comply with the judge's orders. But they say they have to do cheek swabs of the children and the parents to do DNA tests to establish parentage. They have to conduct criminal background checks of the parents. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10:50 a.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a blow to organized labor, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged for the cost of collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote was a predictable 5-4 margin. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion with the court’s conservatives joining him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under Illinois law, public employees are forced to subsidize a union, even if they choose not to join and strongly object to the positions the union takes in collective bargaining and related activities,” Alito wrote. “We conclude that this arrangement violates the free speech rights of nonmembers by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision reverses a four-decades-old precedent and upends laws in 22 states. It also comes on the last day of this Supreme Court term, adding an exclamation point on the final sentence of a chapter that began with the appointment of conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch and saw conservative wins in decision after decision. This term was also an affirmation of the risky political gambit played by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who denied a confirmation hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s pick for the court after Justice Antonin Scalia died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiff in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/01/582539884/supreme-court-could-bleed-unions-dry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this case\u003c/a>, Mark Janus, a child-support specialist for the state of Illinois, challenged a requirement that government workers who opt out of a union still have to pay partial dues to cover the union’s cost of negotiation and other functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977, the Supreme Court had drawn a distinction between such mandatory “agency fees” and other voluntary union dues, which might be used for lobbying or other political activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s decision erases that distinction. The court’s conservative wing found that negotiations by public sector unions are inherently political and nonmembers cannot be compelled to pay for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In addition to affecting how public money is spent, union speech in collective bargaining addresses many other important matters,” Alito wrote. “We have often recognized that such speech ‘occupies the highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment values’ and merits ‘special protection.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101865964/what-janus-v-afscme-could-mean-for-public-sector-unions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Janus v. AFSCME Could Mean for Public-Sector Unions\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11652562/unions-prepare-to-lose-in-the-courthouse-and-strike-back-in-the-statehouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unions Prepare to Lose in the Courthouse and Strike Back in the Statehouse\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Alito dismissed the argument that allowing nonmembers to opt out of negotiating fees would allow them to unfairly piggyback on their dues-paying co-workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janus “strenuously objects to this free-rider label,” Alito wrote. “He argues that he is not a free rider on a bus headed for a destination that he wishes to reach but is more like a person shanghaied for an unwanted voyage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court heard a similar case in 2016, but deadlocked 4-4 after Scalia’s death, giving public sector unions a two-year reprieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Obama administration sided with the union in that earlier case, the Trump administration backed Janus and his fellow union holdouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s ruling is a victory for conservative activists who have been waging a multipronged battle against organized labor — and a potentially crippling blow for public sector unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public employee unions will lose a secure source of financial support,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissenting opinion. “Across the country, the relationships of public employees and employers will alter in both predictable and wholly unexpected ways. Rarely if ever has the Court overruled a decision — let alone one of this import — with so little regard for the usual principles of \u003cem>stare decisis\u003c/em>,” that is, allowing past rulings to stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is yet another example of corporate interests using their power and influence to launch a political attack on working people and rig the rules of the economy in their own favor,” Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said in a statement when the case reached the high court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government workers have been a relative stronghold in an otherwise shrinking labor movement. More than a third of the public sector workforce is unionized, compared with less than 7 percent in the private sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A survey by the AFSCME — the union Janus would have to pay into — found that if agency fees were no longer mandatory, 15 percent of employees would stop paying them while 35 percent would continue to pay. The balance of workers were “on the fence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nichola Torbett has been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be safe and who gets to feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel, as a white woman, a right to feel comfortable, because the world is kind of made and designed for white people,\" Torbett said. \"So when I don't feel comfortable, I think, oh my gosh, I'm not safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torbett is a lay leader at First Congregational Church of Oakland, a progressive church in California, that has made a decision to try to stop calling police, especially on people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676866/permit-patty-goes-viral-after-threatening-to-call-cops-on-girl-selling-water-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'Permit Patty' Goes Viral After Threatening to Call Cops on Girl Selling Water in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The church — which calls itself First Congo, for short — announced its decision around the same time a wave of news stories broke about white people calling police on people of color. That included \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a now infamous incident at Oakland's Lake Merritt\u003c/a>, where a white woman called the cops on two black men who were barbecuing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the men, Kenzie Smith, describes as terrifying the moment when he realized police had been called on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my mind I thought I was going to die,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is how it ends,\" he said to himself, while he watched the woman on the phone with 911 dispatch. Smith said that as a large black man, having police called on him felt no different from putting a target on his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sign, a shrine, and a conversation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First Congo has no formal pastor. Instead they invite congregants to take turns at the pulpit. Their dialogue about turning away from dependence on law enforcement began several years ago, long before there were national headlines about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/yale-black-student-nap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police being called on a grad student for napping\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/04/two-native-american-brothers-were-touring-a-colo-college-when-a-parent-called-police-they-say-it-was-racial-profiling/?utm_term=.d2a51b487c55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Native American teens for attending a college tour\u003c/a>, when white people got nervous or felt they didn't belong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Church members were talking about putting up Black Lives Matter signs following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri\u003c/a>, and other similar cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church wanted to show solidarity with the movement. But Vanessa Riles spoke up, asking fellow congregants to consider what displaying that sign actually signified.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">'\u003cstrong>There are times we are called on to be uncomfortable,\u003c/strong> in the service of being in conversation with our neighbors, and that doesn't mean we're not safe.'\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Nichola Torbett\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"As an intentionally intercultural congregation, and an intentionally interracial congregation,\" she said, \"we can't just put up a sign like that, and not have it mean something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Church members began to talk about what it really meant for black lives to matter. For Torbett that meant also trying to understand how white people, like herself, can confuse safety with comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are times we are called on to be uncomfortable, in the service of being in conversation with our neighbors, and that doesn't mean we're not safe,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A giant Black Lives Matter sign now hangs on the front of the church. Inside, in the chapel, lit by stained glass, stands a shrine to victims of police killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some you may have heard of, such as Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot by police in Cleveland in 2014. Or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, shot in 2009 by a BART police officer in Oakland while restrained and lying on his stomach. The officer later claimed to have mistaken his gun for his taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other faces and stories are less familiar, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/06/08/family-grieves-for-man-shot-and-killed-by-oakland-police/\">Demouria Hogg, \u003c/a>who was asleep in a car in 2015 when Oakland police officers tried to wake him. He was shot after an officer said she saw him reach toward a gun in the front seat. The city of Oakland paid \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-OKs-1-2-million-settlement-in-fatal-9238099.php\">$1.2 million\u003c/a> in compensation to his family, but admitted no wrongdoing in his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riles said that Black Lives Matter is, in large part, about confronting the deaths of black and brown people like these at the hands of police. So if the church was going to hang the signs, Riles asked, what else were they going to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because as a black person, if I see a church with a sign that says Black Lives Matter, the first question in my mind and in my heart is, what does that really mean?\" she asked. \"Are they just putting up a sign because it looks good, and it makes them look good as a congregation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we say black lives matter, and be a church that calls the police on people, especially black people, poor disenfranchised black men,\" she said. She told fellow church members that \"if anything, we need to be working towards not calling the police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/442988/new-study-gives-broader-look-into-how-police-killings-affect-black-americans-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Study Gives Broader Look Into How Police Killings Affect Black Americans’ Mental Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Riles was raised in an almost entirely black Oakland neighborhood where police were not welcomed as beacons of safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't grown up feeling like the police are my heroes and they're going to rescue me,\" she said. \"I've grown up feeling like the police don't come when you call them, or they don't really do anything, or someone calls them on you and your friends when you didn't do anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So First Congo congregants started to talk about when they had called police, and why. Although they didn't call police often, they realized when they did, it often was on homeless black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church is an open space, the doors are unlocked and there are community services located inside the building. Homeless people come in, and sometimes they are in the throes of a crisis created by mental illness, substance abuse or some combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeless population in Oakland is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/06/02/survey-confirms-oakland-homeless-crisis-growing-worse/\">disproportionately black\u003c/a>. According to a survey from last year, more than 80 percent of Alameda County's homeless — where Oakland is located — were living in homes here, before they were on the streets. Statistically speaking, that means many homeless are living on the streets because of gentrification and the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">'\u003cstrong>Can we really feel like we are doing God's will, or we are following in the footsteps of our movement founder, Jesus, \u003c/strong>who literally risked himself over and over and over again for people who were the most vulnerable if we're calling the police for our own safety and security and risking the lives of actually the most vulnerable?'\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Vanessa Riles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When someone comes into the church in a crisis, volunteers have felt threatened, and some have turned to police, \"because they feel like their life is at stake, and they feel at risk, and they don't know what else to do,\" Riles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riles and her fellow congregants also know that in similar situations across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/07/04/420019849/paper-finds-one-quarter-of-those-killed-by-police-are-mentally-ill\">police have shot and killed mentally ill\u003c/a> and intoxicated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Can we really feel like we are doing God's will,\" Riles asked, \"or we are following in the footsteps of our movement founder, Jesus, who literally risked himself over and over and over again for people who were the most vulnerable if we're calling the police for our own safety and security and risking the lives of actually the most vulnerable?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry Donelan, head of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said he respects the church's decision. He admits that some people are too eager to call police as a first resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most police officers face that on a regular basis, where there's some address they find themselves having to go there on a regular basis, for issues that shouldn't be police matters,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan admits that can be frustrating. But, he said, his members are always willing to serve when called, and if the church ever needs them, \"my members are going to be there to serve you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Suicidal impulse or spiritual practice?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The news of the church's decision to divest from police quickly hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnRQbpprtkI\">conservative media\u003c/a>. Fox News' Tucker Carlson featured a \u003ca href=\"http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/05/31/oakland-california-church-urges-congregation-never-call-police\">segment on the church\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The church in Oakland,\" Carlson said, \"is encouraging its members not to call police, even when they feel they need the police. If that's not a suicidal impulse, I mean what is it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Church lay leader Torbett said the answer is simple. She called the decision a \"spiritual practice,\" based in Christian theology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that gets lost in Christianity in this country often is how Jesus was positioned in the society that he lived in,\" Torbett said. \"He was part of an occupied nation, a colonized people. A brown-skinned man, who was surveilled, targeted, harassed, finally arrested, beaten and killed by state forces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torbett said after the Fox News segment aired, the church received a flood of messages on social media. Some called them anti-police — they are not, Torbett said — but she was most surprised by messages deeply concerned for church members' safety, fearful they were putting themselves in harm's way.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/29/615079841/police-are-being-used-to-exclude-black-people-from-public-places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Are Being Used To Exclude Black People From Public Places\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This sense that people seem to have that outside our doors are hordes are people who mean to do us harm, and are just waiting for us to reduce our reliance on policing, so they can do that,\" Torbett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assumption that only police can save you, and that the church was just going to stop calling law enforcement and leave their members to fend for themselves, is false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really what we are talking about is how do we build up a network of community support, of people who can show up for each other,\" she said. \"Isn't that what churches should be doing?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A path away from policing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The church knows that a path away from policing cannot happen overnight. For one thing, if something is stolen, they need to file a police report to get any insurance money. And they don't plan to leave church volunteers to fend for themselves in a potentially violent interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, what they are hoping to do is create a volunteer force of community and church members trained in conflict resolution who can be on call, if anything happens. They are reaching out to other churches, places of worship and community organizations to ask for volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Riles said the notion of communities coming together to take care of their own, rather than relying on institutions like police that have a spotty record in their interactions with people of color, is nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650235/oaklands-two-black-panthers-the-movie-and-the-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland's Two Black Panthers: The Movie and the Movement\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It is as old as Oakland's very own Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their full name was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense,\" Riles said. \"It was about, how do we defend ourselves, who really is the violent offender, and even if it does come to something within the community, then how do we deal with that, without putting more lives at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torbett said that when people — especially white people — default to calling police when something goes wrong, or when they just feel uncomfortable, it is basically outsourcing crisis management, safety and potential violence to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which is exactly what the religious leaders said when Jesus was arrested,\" she explained. \"They said, 'We can't kill him, but you can. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nichola Torbett has been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be safe and who gets to feel safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel, as a white woman, a right to feel comfortable, because the world is kind of made and designed for white people,\" Torbett said. \"So when I don't feel comfortable, I think, oh my gosh, I'm not safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torbett is a lay leader at First Congregational Church of Oakland, a progressive church in California, that has made a decision to try to stop calling police, especially on people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11676866/permit-patty-goes-viral-after-threatening-to-call-cops-on-girl-selling-water-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'Permit Patty' Goes Viral After Threatening to Call Cops on Girl Selling Water in San Francisco\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The church — which calls itself First Congo, for short — announced its decision around the same time a wave of news stories broke about white people calling police on people of color. That included \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a now infamous incident at Oakland's Lake Merritt\u003c/a>, where a white woman called the cops on two black men who were barbecuing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the men, Kenzie Smith, describes as terrifying the moment when he realized police had been called on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In my mind I thought I was going to die,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is how it ends,\" he said to himself, while he watched the woman on the phone with 911 dispatch. Smith said that as a large black man, having police called on him felt no different from putting a target on his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A sign, a shrine, and a conversation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>First Congo has no formal pastor. Instead they invite congregants to take turns at the pulpit. Their dialogue about turning away from dependence on law enforcement began several years ago, long before there were national headlines about \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/nyregion/yale-black-student-nap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police being called on a grad student for napping\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/04/two-native-american-brothers-were-touring-a-colo-college-when-a-parent-called-police-they-say-it-was-racial-profiling/?utm_term=.d2a51b487c55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Native American teens for attending a college tour\u003c/a>, when white people got nervous or felt they didn't belong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Church members were talking about putting up Black Lives Matter signs following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/michael-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri\u003c/a>, and other similar cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church wanted to show solidarity with the movement. But Vanessa Riles spoke up, asking fellow congregants to consider what displaying that sign actually signified.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">'\u003cstrong>There are times we are called on to be uncomfortable,\u003c/strong> in the service of being in conversation with our neighbors, and that doesn't mean we're not safe.'\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Nichola Torbett\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"As an intentionally intercultural congregation, and an intentionally interracial congregation,\" she said, \"we can't just put up a sign like that, and not have it mean something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Church members began to talk about what it really meant for black lives to matter. For Torbett that meant also trying to understand how white people, like herself, can confuse safety with comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are times we are called on to be uncomfortable, in the service of being in conversation with our neighbors, and that doesn't mean we're not safe,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A giant Black Lives Matter sign now hangs on the front of the church. Inside, in the chapel, lit by stained glass, stands a shrine to victims of police killings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some you may have heard of, such as Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot by police in Cleveland in 2014. Or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, shot in 2009 by a BART police officer in Oakland while restrained and lying on his stomach. The officer later claimed to have mistaken his gun for his taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other faces and stories are less familiar, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/06/08/family-grieves-for-man-shot-and-killed-by-oakland-police/\">Demouria Hogg, \u003c/a>who was asleep in a car in 2015 when Oakland police officers tried to wake him. He was shot after an officer said she saw him reach toward a gun in the front seat. The city of Oakland paid \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-OKs-1-2-million-settlement-in-fatal-9238099.php\">$1.2 million\u003c/a> in compensation to his family, but admitted no wrongdoing in his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riles said that Black Lives Matter is, in large part, about confronting the deaths of black and brown people like these at the hands of police. So if the church was going to hang the signs, Riles asked, what else were they going to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because as a black person, if I see a church with a sign that says Black Lives Matter, the first question in my mind and in my heart is, what does that really mean?\" she asked. \"Are they just putting up a sign because it looks good, and it makes them look good as a congregation?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we say black lives matter, and be a church that calls the police on people, especially black people, poor disenfranchised black men,\" she said. She told fellow church members that \"if anything, we need to be working towards not calling the police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/442988/new-study-gives-broader-look-into-how-police-killings-affect-black-americans-mental-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Study Gives Broader Look Into How Police Killings Affect Black Americans’ Mental Health\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Riles was raised in an almost entirely black Oakland neighborhood where police were not welcomed as beacons of safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I haven't grown up feeling like the police are my heroes and they're going to rescue me,\" she said. \"I've grown up feeling like the police don't come when you call them, or they don't really do anything, or someone calls them on you and your friends when you didn't do anything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So First Congo congregants started to talk about when they had called police, and why. Although they didn't call police often, they realized when they did, it often was on homeless black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church is an open space, the doors are unlocked and there are community services located inside the building. Homeless people come in, and sometimes they are in the throes of a crisis created by mental illness, substance abuse or some combination of the two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homeless population in Oakland is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/06/02/survey-confirms-oakland-homeless-crisis-growing-worse/\">disproportionately black\u003c/a>. According to a survey from last year, more than 80 percent of Alameda County's homeless — where Oakland is located — were living in homes here, before they were on the streets. Statistically speaking, that means many homeless are living on the streets because of gentrification and the housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">'\u003cstrong>Can we really feel like we are doing God's will, or we are following in the footsteps of our movement founder, Jesus, \u003c/strong>who literally risked himself over and over and over again for people who were the most vulnerable if we're calling the police for our own safety and security and risking the lives of actually the most vulnerable?'\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Vanessa Riles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When someone comes into the church in a crisis, volunteers have felt threatened, and some have turned to police, \"because they feel like their life is at stake, and they feel at risk, and they don't know what else to do,\" Riles said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riles and her fellow congregants also know that in similar situations across the country, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/07/04/420019849/paper-finds-one-quarter-of-those-killed-by-police-are-mentally-ill\">police have shot and killed mentally ill\u003c/a> and intoxicated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Can we really feel like we are doing God's will,\" Riles asked, \"or we are following in the footsteps of our movement founder, Jesus, who literally risked himself over and over and over again for people who were the most vulnerable if we're calling the police for our own safety and security and risking the lives of actually the most vulnerable?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barry Donelan, head of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said he respects the church's decision. He admits that some people are too eager to call police as a first resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most police officers face that on a regular basis, where there's some address they find themselves having to go there on a regular basis, for issues that shouldn't be police matters,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan admits that can be frustrating. But, he said, his members are always willing to serve when called, and if the church ever needs them, \"my members are going to be there to serve you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Suicidal impulse or spiritual practice?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The news of the church's decision to divest from police quickly hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnRQbpprtkI\">conservative media\u003c/a>. Fox News' Tucker Carlson featured a \u003ca href=\"http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/05/31/oakland-california-church-urges-congregation-never-call-police\">segment on the church\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The church in Oakland,\" Carlson said, \"is encouraging its members not to call police, even when they feel they need the police. If that's not a suicidal impulse, I mean what is it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Church lay leader Torbett said the answer is simple. She called the decision a \"spiritual practice,\" based in Christian theology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that gets lost in Christianity in this country often is how Jesus was positioned in the society that he lived in,\" Torbett said. \"He was part of an occupied nation, a colonized people. A brown-skinned man, who was surveilled, targeted, harassed, finally arrested, beaten and killed by state forces.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torbett said after the Fox News segment aired, the church received a flood of messages on social media. Some called them anti-police — they are not, Torbett said — but she was most surprised by messages deeply concerned for church members' safety, fearful they were putting themselves in harm's way.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/29/615079841/police-are-being-used-to-exclude-black-people-from-public-places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Are Being Used To Exclude Black People From Public Places\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This sense that people seem to have that outside our doors are hordes are people who mean to do us harm, and are just waiting for us to reduce our reliance on policing, so they can do that,\" Torbett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The assumption that only police can save you, and that the church was just going to stop calling law enforcement and leave their members to fend for themselves, is false.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really what we are talking about is how do we build up a network of community support, of people who can show up for each other,\" she said. \"Isn't that what churches should be doing?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A path away from policing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The church knows that a path away from policing cannot happen overnight. For one thing, if something is stolen, they need to file a police report to get any insurance money. And they don't plan to leave church volunteers to fend for themselves in a potentially violent interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, what they are hoping to do is create a volunteer force of community and church members trained in conflict resolution who can be on call, if anything happens. They are reaching out to other churches, places of worship and community organizations to ask for volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Riles said the notion of communities coming together to take care of their own, rather than relying on institutions like police that have a spotty record in their interactions with people of color, is nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650235/oaklands-two-black-panthers-the-movie-and-the-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland's Two Black Panthers: The Movie and the Movement\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It is as old as Oakland's very own Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their full name was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense,\" Riles said. \"It was about, how do we defend ourselves, who really is the violent offender, and even if it does come to something within the community, then how do we deal with that, without putting more lives at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torbett said that when people — especially white people — default to calling police when something goes wrong, or when they just feel uncomfortable, it is basically outsourcing crisis management, safety and potential violence to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which is exactly what the religious leaders said when Jesus was arrested,\" she explained. \"They said, 'We can't kill him, but you can. 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The Court's decision today fails to safeguard that fundamental principle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, Sotomayor said, the court's decision \"leaves undisturbed a policy first advertised openly and unequivocally as a 'total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States' because the policy now masquerades behind a façade of national-security concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing Tuesday's outcome with the court's decision in 1944 to uphold the legality of Japanese-American internment camps, Sotomayor noted, \"In holding that the First Amendment gives way to an executive policy that a reasonable observer would view as motivated by animus against Muslims, the majority opinion upends this Court's precedent, repeats tragic mistakes of the past, and denies countless individuals the fundamental right of religious liberty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that plaintiffs did have a case related to the establishment clause of the Constitution and blasted the majority for believing otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The majority holds otherwise by ignoring the facts, misconstruing our legal precedent, and turning a blind eye to the pain and suffering the Proclamation inflicts upon countless families and individuals, many of whom are United States citizens,\" Sotomayor added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the court has a duty to be deferential to the president, she said, \"Deference is different from unquestioning acceptance. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 6:35 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is continuing to defend the Trump administration's controversial \"zero tolerance\" policy that results in separating children from their parents who enter the U.S. illegally. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen appeared at the White House press briefing on Monday, falsely blaming Democrats for the current crisis and arguing that the impetus is on Congress to pass a law to close legal loopholes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What has changed is that we no longer exempt entire classes of people who break the law,\" Nielsen said at one point, even while making a contradictory claim that the administration has not changed its policy and is simply enforcing the current law. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Here is the bottom line: DHS is no longer ignoring the law,\" Nielsen asserted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-blames-democrat-own-policy-separating-family/\">many fact-checkers have found\u003c/a>, there is no such law requiring children to be separated from their parents if they illegally cross the border. And Republicans control Congress, not Democrats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to why Trump himself won't immediately reverse the policy — which she continued to deny changed — Nielsen said that the president wants \"a long-term fix.\" However, later in the briefing press secretary Sarah Sanders wouldn't say whether any legislation Congress may pass to rectify the situation would have to include full funding for the border wall Trump wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also said it was \"cowardly\" of Democrats to claim that children were being used as leverage for the wall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The children are not being used as a pawn,\" Nielsen said, arguing that it was \"smugglers and traffickers\" who were using them to try to get into the country illegally. \"We are trying to protect the children, which is why I'm asking Congress to act.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a country of compassion. We are a country of heart,\" she added. \"We must fix the system so that those who truly need asylum can in fact receive it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when asked if the stringent policy was being enforced to send a message of deterrence for others who may consider trying to cross the border illegally, Nielsen said she found such a suggestion \"offensive.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But White House chief of staff John Kelly, who previously led DHS, told NPR's John Burnett in an interview last month that family separation \"would be a tough deterrent.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not bad people. They're coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws. But a big name of the game is deterrence,\" Kelly told NPR. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen had previously defended the policy in a series of tweets on Sunday night; earlier in the weekend, her agency said it had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620451012/dhs-nearly-2-000-children-separated-from-adults-at-border-in-six-weeks\">separated nearly 2,000 children\u003c/a> from adults over the course of six weeks at the U.S. southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SecNielsen/status/1008467103857463298\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility,\" President Trump said midday on Monday, after blaming Democrats for current U.S. immigration policy. He added, \"Not on my watch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immigration is the fault — and all of the problems that we're having — because we cannot get them to sign legislation, we cannot get them even to the negotiating table. And I say it's very strongly the Democrats' fault,\" Trump said. \"They're obstruction. They're really obstructionist, and they are obstructing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have struggled to figure out how to discuss the separation policy that many say they oppose. Several Senate Republicans pushed back on the White House policy, but most stopped short of directly criticizing Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the Senate, said Monday that he agrees with Nielsen that it is up to Congress to pass a long-term legislative fix to keep families together at the border. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's true,\" Cornyn said. \"The only thing the White House changed was their enforcement policy. They said we're going to enforce the law against everybody who comes into the country illegally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornyn was one of a number of Republicans who said the choice today comes down to a decision between enforcing laws separating children from parents who are charged with crimes and ignoring those laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornyn said there are other laws that require children to be taken care of separately from parents who violate laws. He said he thinks the solution should be to keep families together while they await an expedited hearing before an immigration judge. Cornyn said he plans to introduce legislation to keep children with their parents, but he would not commit to timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Republicans, like Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, disagree. Hatch was among those to denounce the policy on Twitter early in the day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/senorrinhatch/status/1008714648504487936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went further Monday night, telling reporters that he believes the White House can stop families from being separated and that removing children from parents is not the right way to deter people from attempting to cross the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the White House can fix it if they want to,\" Hatch said. \"I don't think there's any question about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatch said a legislative fix is an option, and Congress should lead but the current situation should not be allowed to continue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way it's being handled right now isn't acceptable,\" Hatch said. \"I think we've got to try and keep families together and do whatever it takes to keep them together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lisamurkowski/status/1008835652534919169\">said Monday night on Twitter\u003c/a> that, \"The time is now for the White House to end the cruel, tragic separations of families... To blame the previous administrations for a wrong committed today is not acceptable. The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security should make the call today.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats were forceful in pushing back at the administrations claims, with several, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii calling on Nielsen to resign. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1008784431694241792\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, throughout the day on Monday, Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the president's policy of splitting children from the adults who brought them into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not want to separate children from their parents, you can be sure of that,\" Sessions said. \"If we build the wall, we pass some legislation, we close some loopholes, we won't face these terrible choices.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen said the separations are warranted in cases where the parents have broken U.S. law by entering the country illegally — and that her agency is treating them no differently from how the government treats parents who break any other laws. But the Trump administration is being accused of handling the cases in a way no other presidency has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart,\" former first lady Laura Bush said in remarks published Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush wrote an opinion piece for \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/2018/06/17/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html\">The Washington Post\u003c/a> in which she compared the DHS actions to the U.S. policy of incarcerating Japanese-Americans in camps during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First lady Melania Trump also weighed in over the weekend, with her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/17/politics/melania-trump-children-separated-immigration/index.html\">a statement to CNN\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,\" the statement read, concluding, \"She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS policy triggered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/27/589079243/activists-outraged-that-u-s-border-agents-separate-immigrant-families\">a lawsuit in February\u003c/a>; nearly a year earlier, members of the Trump administration had floated the idea of separating families \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/615010170/how-the-trump-administrations-family-separation-policy-is-playing-out\">as a potential deterrent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of high-profile Trump officials have spoken in favor of the policy. Last month, Sessions said, \"If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. It's not our fault that somebody does that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions spoke on Monday at the National Sheriffs' Association conference in New Orleans, where he received a lifetime achievement award. In his speech, the attorney general said the U.S. is having \"an important conversation\" over whether it will be \"a country of laws\" or \"a country without borders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason people voted for President Trump was \"to end the lawlessness at our southern border,\" Sessions said, adding, \"It's within our grasp. We can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions said that a loophole in U.S. policy had encouraged people to bring children to the U.S., under the belief that they would not be prosecuted. That resulted in a spike in illegal crossings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not want to separate children from their parents,\" Sessions said. \"We do not want adults to bring children into this country unlawfully, either, placing those children at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also spoke at the conference, before returning to Washington where she briefed reporters at the delayed White House briefing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Describing how the DHS and Health and Human Services agencies handle those children, Sessions said, \"They're not put in jail, of course – they're taken care of. They remain in the country, even though they don't have a lawful process to be here.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions added, \"That's an enormous cost that's being incurred by our government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash against the Trump administration's tactic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/620813068/hundreds-march-to-texas-tent-city-holding-detained-immigrant-kids\">grew into a protest march\u003c/a> on Sunday, with hundreds of people heading to a tent city in the town of Tornillo, near El Paso, Texas, where children have been detained. The Father's Day march was organized by Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, who is challenging Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz introduced a bill to prohibit family separations on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than 10,000 children are currently in shelters run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published a guide for families who have been separated after parents or guardians were charged with illegal entry, noting that children who are taken into government custody are transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, \"where your child will be held in a temporary child shelter or hosted by a foster family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide sheet adds, \"DHS and HHS can take steps to facilitate reunification with your child(ren).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/609480137/homeland-security-secretary-defends-separating-families-of-illegal-border-crosse\">Nielsen told NPR\u003c/a> that her agency is merely enforcing existing laws, and that criticism of the zero tolerance policy \"is inappropriate and unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has not stopped what has now become a wave of criticism for the DHS policy of applying the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Religious leaders are speaking out against the policy, with Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski saying on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620611526/religious-groups-criticize-trump-immigration-policies\">NPR's Weekend Edition\u003c/a> that the practice effectively \"weaponizes\" children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham and a prominent Trump supporter, told the Christian Broadcasting Network \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620651574/faith-leaders-oppose-trumps-immigration-policy-of-separating-children-from-paren\">on Tuesday\u003c/a>, \"It's disgraceful and it's terrible to see families ripped apart, and I don't support that one bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her tweets Sunday night, Nielsen accused others of distorting reality, saying, \"This misreporting by Members, press & advocacy groups must stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS secretary added, \"if you are seeking asylum for your family, there is no reason to break the law and illegally cross between ports of entry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/12/414023967/obama-immigrant-detention-policies-under-fire\">The Obama administration\u003c/a> also came under fire for its immigration and detention policies, with lawsuits over the practice of holding families in detention centers as well as the conditions at such facilities. By embracing a more hard-line policy, the Trump administration has set off speculation that it's using the threat of separating families as both a deterrent to immigrants and a political tool in the hopes of reshaping U.S. laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have many people in the Trump administration denying that they're using this as some sort of political leverage,\" NPR's Scott Detrow reports. \"But President Trump is leaning into that pretty hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1008511869970255872\">Trump tweeted\u003c/a>, \"The Democrats should get together with their Republican counterparts and work something out on Border Security & Safety. Don't wait until after the election because you are going to lose!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the president added, \"Why don't the Democrats give us the votes to fix the world's worst immigration laws?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/18/621103396/house-gop-immigration-bill-would-modify-but-not-end-child-detentions\">House Republicans have introduced a bill \u003c/a>to end the practice of separating families, but it would also require Democrats to agree to federal funds for a border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that argument plays out, others are urging a new attempt to address the root causes of mass migration from people who want to flee troubled or impoverished conditions in countries such as El Salvador to Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas tells NPR's Steve Inskeep:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's different elements of the government that don't understand what's really going on. Kids are being separated from their parents. In the last two months, there's been about 2,000. The previous about year, it was almost 700. And 100 of those kids were under the age of 4.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurd added, \"This is just absolutely unacceptable. Taking kids from their mothers is not preventing terrorists or drugs from coming into this country. And so, why we would even think that this is a tool that is needed to defend our borders is insane to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Danny Nett and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/may/29/donald-trump/trump-blames-democrat-own-policy-separating-family/\">many fact-checkers have found\u003c/a>, there is no such law requiring children to be separated from their parents if they illegally cross the border. And Republicans control Congress, not Democrats. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to why Trump himself won't immediately reverse the policy — which she continued to deny changed — Nielsen said that the president wants \"a long-term fix.\" However, later in the briefing press secretary Sarah Sanders wouldn't say whether any legislation Congress may pass to rectify the situation would have to include full funding for the border wall Trump wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also said it was \"cowardly\" of Democrats to claim that children were being used as leverage for the wall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The children are not being used as a pawn,\" Nielsen said, arguing that it was \"smugglers and traffickers\" who were using them to try to get into the country illegally. \"We are trying to protect the children, which is why I'm asking Congress to act.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a country of compassion. We are a country of heart,\" she added. \"We must fix the system so that those who truly need asylum can in fact receive it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when asked if the stringent policy was being enforced to send a message of deterrence for others who may consider trying to cross the border illegally, Nielsen said she found such a suggestion \"offensive.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But White House chief of staff John Kelly, who previously led DHS, told NPR's John Burnett in an interview last month that family separation \"would be a tough deterrent.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're not bad people. They're coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws. But a big name of the game is deterrence,\" Kelly told NPR. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen had previously defended the policy in a series of tweets on Sunday night; earlier in the weekend, her agency said it had \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620451012/dhs-nearly-2-000-children-separated-from-adults-at-border-in-six-weeks\">separated nearly 2,000 children\u003c/a> from adults over the course of six weeks at the U.S. southern border.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility,\" President Trump said midday on Monday, after blaming Democrats for current U.S. immigration policy. He added, \"Not on my watch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Immigration is the fault — and all of the problems that we're having — because we cannot get them to sign legislation, we cannot get them even to the negotiating table. And I say it's very strongly the Democrats' fault,\" Trump said. \"They're obstruction. They're really obstructionist, and they are obstructing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress have struggled to figure out how to discuss the separation policy that many say they oppose. Several Senate Republicans pushed back on the White House policy, but most stopped short of directly criticizing Trump. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the Senate, said Monday that he agrees with Nielsen that it is up to Congress to pass a long-term legislative fix to keep families together at the border. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that's true,\" Cornyn said. \"The only thing the White House changed was their enforcement policy. They said we're going to enforce the law against everybody who comes into the country illegally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornyn was one of a number of Republicans who said the choice today comes down to a decision between enforcing laws separating children from parents who are charged with crimes and ignoring those laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornyn said there are other laws that require children to be taken care of separately from parents who violate laws. He said he thinks the solution should be to keep families together while they await an expedited hearing before an immigration judge. Cornyn said he plans to introduce legislation to keep children with their parents, but he would not commit to timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Republicans, like Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, disagree. Hatch was among those to denounce the policy on Twitter early in the day. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>He went further Monday night, telling reporters that he believes the White House can stop families from being separated and that removing children from parents is not the right way to deter people from attempting to cross the border illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the White House can fix it if they want to,\" Hatch said. \"I don't think there's any question about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hatch said a legislative fix is an option, and Congress should lead but the current situation should not be allowed to continue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way it's being handled right now isn't acceptable,\" Hatch said. \"I think we've got to try and keep families together and do whatever it takes to keep them together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lisamurkowski/status/1008835652534919169\">said Monday night on Twitter\u003c/a> that, \"The time is now for the White House to end the cruel, tragic separations of families... To blame the previous administrations for a wrong committed today is not acceptable. The Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security should make the call today.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats were forceful in pushing back at the administrations claims, with several, including Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii calling on Nielsen to resign. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, throughout the day on Monday, Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the president's policy of splitting children from the adults who brought them into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not want to separate children from their parents, you can be sure of that,\" Sessions said. \"If we build the wall, we pass some legislation, we close some loopholes, we won't face these terrible choices.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen said the separations are warranted in cases where the parents have broken U.S. law by entering the country illegally — and that her agency is treating them no differently from how the government treats parents who break any other laws. But the Trump administration is being accused of handling the cases in a way no other presidency has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart,\" former first lady Laura Bush said in remarks published Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bush wrote an opinion piece for \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/2018/06/17/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html\">The Washington Post\u003c/a> in which she compared the DHS actions to the U.S. policy of incarcerating Japanese-Americans in camps during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First lady Melania Trump also weighed in over the weekend, with her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/17/politics/melania-trump-children-separated-immigration/index.html\">a statement to CNN\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform,\" the statement read, concluding, \"She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS policy triggered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/27/589079243/activists-outraged-that-u-s-border-agents-separate-immigrant-families\">a lawsuit in February\u003c/a>; nearly a year earlier, members of the Trump administration had floated the idea of separating families \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/615010170/how-the-trump-administrations-family-separation-policy-is-playing-out\">as a potential deterrent\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of high-profile Trump officials have spoken in favor of the policy. Last month, Sessions said, \"If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. It's not our fault that somebody does that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions spoke on Monday at the National Sheriffs' Association conference in New Orleans, where he received a lifetime achievement award. In his speech, the attorney general said the U.S. is having \"an important conversation\" over whether it will be \"a country of laws\" or \"a country without borders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason people voted for President Trump was \"to end the lawlessness at our southern border,\" Sessions said, adding, \"It's within our grasp. We can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions said that a loophole in U.S. policy had encouraged people to bring children to the U.S., under the belief that they would not be prosecuted. That resulted in a spike in illegal crossings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not want to separate children from their parents,\" Sessions said. \"We do not want adults to bring children into this country unlawfully, either, placing those children at risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen also spoke at the conference, before returning to Washington where she briefed reporters at the delayed White House briefing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Describing how the DHS and Health and Human Services agencies handle those children, Sessions said, \"They're not put in jail, of course – they're taken care of. They remain in the country, even though they don't have a lawful process to be here.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sessions added, \"That's an enormous cost that's being incurred by our government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash against the Trump administration's tactic \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/17/620813068/hundreds-march-to-texas-tent-city-holding-detained-immigrant-kids\">grew into a protest march\u003c/a> on Sunday, with hundreds of people heading to a tent city in the town of Tornillo, near El Paso, Texas, where children have been detained. The Father's Day march was organized by Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, who is challenging Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Cruz introduced a bill to prohibit family separations on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, more than 10,000 children are currently in shelters run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published a guide for families who have been separated after parents or guardians were charged with illegal entry, noting that children who are taken into government custody are transferred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, \"where your child will be held in a temporary child shelter or hosted by a foster family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide sheet adds, \"DHS and HHS can take steps to facilitate reunification with your child(ren).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/609480137/homeland-security-secretary-defends-separating-families-of-illegal-border-crosse\">Nielsen told NPR\u003c/a> that her agency is merely enforcing existing laws, and that criticism of the zero tolerance policy \"is inappropriate and unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has not stopped what has now become a wave of criticism for the DHS policy of applying the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Religious leaders are speaking out against the policy, with Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski saying on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620611526/religious-groups-criticize-trump-immigration-policies\">NPR's Weekend Edition\u003c/a> that the practice effectively \"weaponizes\" children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franklin Graham, son of the late evangelist Billy Graham and a prominent Trump supporter, told the Christian Broadcasting Network \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/620651574/faith-leaders-oppose-trumps-immigration-policy-of-separating-children-from-paren\">on Tuesday\u003c/a>, \"It's disgraceful and it's terrible to see families ripped apart, and I don't support that one bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her tweets Sunday night, Nielsen accused others of distorting reality, saying, \"This misreporting by Members, press & advocacy groups must stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DHS secretary added, \"if you are seeking asylum for your family, there is no reason to break the law and illegally cross between ports of entry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/06/12/414023967/obama-immigrant-detention-policies-under-fire\">The Obama administration\u003c/a> also came under fire for its immigration and detention policies, with lawsuits over the practice of holding families in detention centers as well as the conditions at such facilities. By embracing a more hard-line policy, the Trump administration has set off speculation that it's using the threat of separating families as both a deterrent to immigrants and a political tool in the hopes of reshaping U.S. laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have many people in the Trump administration denying that they're using this as some sort of political leverage,\" NPR's Scott Detrow reports. \"But President Trump is leaning into that pretty hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1008511869970255872\">Trump tweeted\u003c/a>, \"The Democrats should get together with their Republican counterparts and work something out on Border Security & Safety. Don't wait until after the election because you are going to lose!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the president added, \"Why don't the Democrats give us the votes to fix the world's worst immigration laws?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Congress, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/06/18/621103396/house-gop-immigration-bill-would-modify-but-not-end-child-detentions\">House Republicans have introduced a bill \u003c/a>to end the practice of separating families, but it would also require Democrats to agree to federal funds for a border wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that argument plays out, others are urging a new attempt to address the root causes of mass migration from people who want to flee troubled or impoverished conditions in countries such as El Salvador to Honduras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas tells NPR's Steve Inskeep:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's different elements of the government that don't understand what's really going on. Kids are being separated from their parents. In the last two months, there's been about 2,000. The previous about year, it was almost 700. And 100 of those kids were under the age of 4.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurd added, \"This is just absolutely unacceptable. Taking kids from their mothers is not preventing terrorists or drugs from coming into this country. And so, why we would even think that this is a tool that is needed to defend our borders is insane to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR's Danny Nett and Kelsey Snell contributed to this report.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Congress approved giving $380 million to states to bolster the security of their elections, state officials were caught off guard but extremely grateful. Elections are notoriously underfunded and haven’t seen a windfall like this from the federal government in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting that money out to all the states, and then into the hands of localities that run the elections, with enough time to have a meaningful effect on the 2018 midterm elections is a difficult proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595305722/senators-hold-election-security-hearing-after-releasing-recommendations-for-2018\">receiving congressional approval\u003c/a>, and now less than five months from November’s midterm elections, 33 states have filed the necessary paperwork to begin receiving money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/HAVAgrants-2018.pdf\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11675516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM.png 1404w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1200x800.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1180x787.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-960x640.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-240x160.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-375x250.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-520x347.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number may seem “disconcertingly low” \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-cybersecurity/2018/05/17/few-states-seek-election-security-funds-221527\">to some\u003c/a>, especially when it was just 11 in mid-May, but there is mixed consensus on what it actually says about the country’s seriousness when it comes to handling threats leading up to the 2018 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More From KQED’s Election Coverage\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elections 2018 Guide and Results\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Judging a state’s preparedness and dedication to securing the vote based on this measure alone is a careless oversimplification,” said Thomas Hicks, the chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, which is in charge of distributing the money. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.eac.gov/news/2018/05/21/us-election-assistance-commission-chairman-thomas-hicks-on-states-efforts-to-boost-election-security-and-resiliency/\">penned a letter\u003c/a> in response to a Politico article published last month about the low number of states that had applied for the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The states want the money, and we want to give the money out,” Hicks told NPR in an interview. “It’s mostly that they have to deal with their legislatures, and things like that. They have to jump through some hoops back at home before they can come to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if states are delaying in doing this — there are just steps they need to go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, just because a state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> applied for the money doesn’t mean everything is swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, after all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-system-remains-vulnerable-6-months-before-election-day-what-now\">valid security questions\u003c/a> for election officials across the country: from the fact that 13 states still use electronic voting machines that don’t provide an auditable paper trail, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611869599/not-just-ballots-tennessee-hack-shows-election-websites-are-vulnerable-too\">security of local election websites\u003c/a> that have often never seen a major test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if every state did prioritize its own issues, bureaucracy has slowed the process. With midterms nearing, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/584672450/intelligence-leaders-testify-about-global-threats-in-senate-hearing\">intelligence community warning\u003c/a> about impending interference from Russia, that could be a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each state has a completely separate set of variables to deal with in shoring up its systems, from different attitudes about election security within their respective state governments to the disparate nature of voting methods and infrastructure across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1582px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11675521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png 1582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-800x583.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1020x743.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1200x874.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1180x859.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-960x699.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-240x175.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-375x273.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-520x379.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: \u003ca href=\"https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/\">Verified Voting\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(Renee Klahr and Brittany Mayes/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The number [of states that have applied] in the abstract doesn’t worry me,” said Larry Norden, a voting expert at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, who has authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/americas-voting-machines-risk-an-update\">number of articles\u003c/a> warning about outdated voting equipment in the U.S. “But there are specifics that bother me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norden mentioned Nevada as one example; the website \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/state-websites-are-hackable-and-that-could-compromise-election-security/?ex_cid=538twitter\">FiveThirtyEight recently published\u003c/a> an article outlining vulnerabilities with parts of the state’s website (though none were related to elections). In the story, Wayne Thorley, the state’s deputy secretary for elections, said they had not yet fixed one issue because they work “in a resource-constrained world in government.” But Nevada has yet to apply for the $4.3 million it has been allocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR, Thorley explained that the delay in drawing down the federal funds is not by choice. To receive the money, the state needs approval from the governor’s finance office, as well as the Nevada legislature, which currently isn’t in session. There’s a special finance committee meeting at the end of the month, where Thorley is expecting to get approval to start spending the money by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is planning to spend the money on cybersecurity improvements and training as well as improving its auditing capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks, the chairman of the EAC, said he expects every state to have turned in the necessary 2-3 page narrative application by the end of July. The amount each state receives is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/597077701/despite-cash-from-congress-key-election-security-issue-may-not-get-fixed\">based on population\u003c/a>, and not on any metric based on that state’s level of security or need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because a state has turned in its application doesn’t indicate election security bliss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota, for instance, is one of the 33 states that has turned in the necessary paperwork to receive their portion of the money. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/18/gov-mark-dayton-lawmakers-have-117-paths-to-failure-can-they-work-them-out/\">disagreement\u003c/a> between Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, and the Republican-controlled legislature over a proposed budget bill means the state won’t be able to access the $6.6 million it is due until after November’s elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There soon will be a $6.6 million account with our name on it,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon told NPR. “Earmarked for precisely the purpose we need: election security. And we can’t touch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon said his office was hoping to use a portion of the money, about $1.5 million, to hire coders for the next four years to modernize and secure the state’s voter registration system, which was built in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he “testified before legislators six different times, made numerous phone calls and held countless in-person meetings with legislators and staff” to try to convince them to separate approval for use of the election security funds from the larger budget bill, knowing that Dayton had issues with other aspects of the bill. He compared attaching approval for use of the funds to attaching the money to the Titanic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit an iceberg and did not come to pass,” Simon said. “It ended up a bad result, and the worst part is, a totally avoidable result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, and voting officials nationwide, know ensuring voter confidence is a key task of election officials. Despite the setback on getting funding, Simon remains confident Minnesota’s elections will be secure in November. The intelligence community says despite Russian hackers targeting voter registration systems in a number of states, there’s no evidence any votes were changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, the state set to receive the largest chunk of federal money, also has yet to apply for its share. But California Secretary of State Alex Padilla says the state was busy preparing for its June 5 primary, and he wanted to wait until afterward to release its plan for the money. The exact spending details are still being finalized, but Padilla expects the state to spend about $20 million of its $34.5 million on equipment improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the money is welcome for election officials, Padilla said it’s also important to put the amount in perspective. It won’t be a silver bullet. His state alone received \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Help_America_Vote_Act_(HAVA)_of_2002#cite_note-payments-7\">more money\u003c/a> as part of 2002’s Help America Vote Act than the entire country is receiving this year from Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will put more of a dink than a dent” in the broader effort to improve election security nationwide, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Congress approved giving $380 million to states to bolster the security of their elections, state officials were caught off guard but extremely grateful. Elections are notoriously underfunded and haven’t seen a windfall like this from the federal government in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting that money out to all the states, and then into the hands of localities that run the elections, with enough time to have a meaningful effect on the 2018 midterm elections is a difficult proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/21/595305722/senators-hold-election-security-hearing-after-releasing-recommendations-for-2018\">receiving congressional approval\u003c/a>, and now less than five months from November’s midterm elections, 33 states have filed the necessary paperwork to begin receiving money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/HAVAgrants-2018.pdf\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11675516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM.png 1404w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1200x800.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-1180x787.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-960x640.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-240x160.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-375x250.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.39.36-AM-520x347.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number may seem “disconcertingly low” \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-cybersecurity/2018/05/17/few-states-seek-election-security-funds-221527\">to some\u003c/a>, especially when it was just 11 in mid-May, but there is mixed consensus on what it actually says about the country’s seriousness when it comes to handling threats leading up to the 2018 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More From KQED’s Election Coverage\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elections 2018 Guide and Results\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Judging a state’s preparedness and dedication to securing the vote based on this measure alone is a careless oversimplification,” said Thomas Hicks, the chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, which is in charge of distributing the money. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.eac.gov/news/2018/05/21/us-election-assistance-commission-chairman-thomas-hicks-on-states-efforts-to-boost-election-security-and-resiliency/\">penned a letter\u003c/a> in response to a Politico article published last month about the low number of states that had applied for the funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The states want the money, and we want to give the money out,” Hicks told NPR in an interview. “It’s mostly that they have to deal with their legislatures, and things like that. They have to jump through some hoops back at home before they can come to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if states are delaying in doing this — there are just steps they need to go through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, just because a state \u003cem>has\u003c/em> applied for the money doesn’t mean everything is swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are, after all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-system-remains-vulnerable-6-months-before-election-day-what-now\">valid security questions\u003c/a> for election officials across the country: from the fact that 13 states still use electronic voting machines that don’t provide an auditable paper trail, to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/05/17/611869599/not-just-ballots-tennessee-hack-shows-election-websites-are-vulnerable-too\">security of local election websites\u003c/a> that have often never seen a major test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if every state did prioritize its own issues, bureaucracy has slowed the process. With midterms nearing, and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/13/584672450/intelligence-leaders-testify-about-global-threats-in-senate-hearing\">intelligence community warning\u003c/a> about impending interference from Russia, that could be a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each state has a completely separate set of variables to deal with in shoring up its systems, from different attitudes about election security within their respective state governments to the disparate nature of voting methods and infrastructure across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11675521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1582px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11675521\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1582\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM.png 1582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-160x117.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-800x583.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1020x743.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1200x874.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-1180x859.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-960x699.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-240x175.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-375x273.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-9.44.00-AM-520x379.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1582px) 100vw, 1582px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: \u003ca href=\"https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/\">Verified Voting\u003c/a> \u003ccite>(Renee Klahr and Brittany Mayes/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The number [of states that have applied] in the abstract doesn’t worry me,” said Larry Norden, a voting expert at NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice, who has authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/americas-voting-machines-risk-an-update\">number of articles\u003c/a> warning about outdated voting equipment in the U.S. “But there are specifics that bother me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norden mentioned Nevada as one example; the website \u003ca href=\"https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/state-websites-are-hackable-and-that-could-compromise-election-security/?ex_cid=538twitter\">FiveThirtyEight recently published\u003c/a> an article outlining vulnerabilities with parts of the state’s website (though none were related to elections). In the story, Wayne Thorley, the state’s deputy secretary for elections, said they had not yet fixed one issue because they work “in a resource-constrained world in government.” But Nevada has yet to apply for the $4.3 million it has been allocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with NPR, Thorley explained that the delay in drawing down the federal funds is not by choice. To receive the money, the state needs approval from the governor’s finance office, as well as the Nevada legislature, which currently isn’t in session. There’s a special finance committee meeting at the end of the month, where Thorley is expecting to get approval to start spending the money by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is planning to spend the money on cybersecurity improvements and training as well as improving its auditing capabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks, the chairman of the EAC, said he expects every state to have turned in the necessary 2-3 page narrative application by the end of July. The amount each state receives is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/27/597077701/despite-cash-from-congress-key-election-security-issue-may-not-get-fixed\">based on population\u003c/a>, and not on any metric based on that state’s level of security or need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just because a state has turned in its application doesn’t indicate election security bliss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnesota, for instance, is one of the 33 states that has turned in the necessary paperwork to receive their portion of the money. But a \u003ca href=\"https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/18/gov-mark-dayton-lawmakers-have-117-paths-to-failure-can-they-work-them-out/\">disagreement\u003c/a> between Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, and the Republican-controlled legislature over a proposed budget bill means the state won’t be able to access the $6.6 million it is due until after November’s elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There soon will be a $6.6 million account with our name on it,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon told NPR. “Earmarked for precisely the purpose we need: election security. And we can’t touch it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon said his office was hoping to use a portion of the money, about $1.5 million, to hire coders for the next four years to modernize and secure the state’s voter registration system, which was built in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he “testified before legislators six different times, made numerous phone calls and held countless in-person meetings with legislators and staff” to try to convince them to separate approval for use of the election security funds from the larger budget bill, knowing that Dayton had issues with other aspects of the bill. He compared attaching approval for use of the funds to attaching the money to the Titanic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hit an iceberg and did not come to pass,” Simon said. “It ended up a bad result, and the worst part is, a totally avoidable result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, and voting officials nationwide, know ensuring voter confidence is a key task of election officials. Despite the setback on getting funding, Simon remains confident Minnesota’s elections will be secure in November. The intelligence community says despite Russian hackers targeting voter registration systems in a number of states, there’s no evidence any votes were changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, the state set to receive the largest chunk of federal money, also has yet to apply for its share. But California Secretary of State Alex Padilla says the state was busy preparing for its June 5 primary, and he wanted to wait until afterward to release its plan for the money. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 4:28 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Justice Department watchdog on Thursday criticized \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/15/527773206/what-just-happened-the-james-comey-saga-in-timeline-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former FBI Director James Comey\u003c/a> for violating long-standing department guidelines and mishandling the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The probe by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz has already prompted reassignments and departures at the highest levels of the FBI. Former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe abruptly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/01/29/581597193/fbi-deputy-director-target-of-partisan-ire-is-retiring-as-he-planned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left the bureau in January\u003c/a>, as watchdogs raced to finish their report, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/03/16/571671917/justice-department-fires-embattled-fbi-deputy-director-just-short-of-retirement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">later was fired outright\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCabe’s lawyer later confirmed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/04/19/604048396/justice-department-refers-mccabe-to-prosecutors-but-unclear-if-theyll-charge-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prosecutors in Washington, D.C., were considering a criminal referral on McCabe\u003c/a>, who allegedly lied to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4515892-2016-Election-Final-Report-06-14-18-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Horowitz’s full report was released on Thursday\u003c/a> in a spray of new fuel onto the still smoldering political fires over the 2016 election that have never stopped burning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey’s actions, it concluded, were “extraordinary and insubordinate,” and none of his explanations amounted to a “persuasive basis for deviating from well-established department policies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey responded swiftly Thursday afternoon once the report was released. “The conclusions are reasonable, even though I disagree with some,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the former FBI director wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>. “People of good faith can see an unprecedented situation differently.” And Comey \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/comey-clinton-inspector-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provided a longer response in a column for the New York Times\u003c/a> published online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey wasn’t the only person whose conduct has undercut public faith in the Justice Department, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, two FBI officials, special agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page, also have been under intense scrutiny after their text messages were collected during the inspector general investigation and later released to Congress and the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Page has left the FBI. The disclosures about the range of candid political and other opinions that Page traded with Strzok on their official government mobile phones have been an embarrassment for the bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one new message released on Thursday, Page writes to Strzok:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Page -” (Trump’s) not ever going to become president right? Right?!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strzok: No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The FBI officials did not “stop” Trump from being elected, but Trump and Republicans have cited those kinds of statements in months of attacks on federal law enforcement. “Biased” officials in the “deep state” are trying to frame Trump in another investigation, they contend — the one by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Russian attack on the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his Republicans allies also have accused then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other officials in the Obama administration of being too soft on Clinton. “Lock her up” was a campaign rally leitmotif in 2016 and remains a popular chant at the president’s campaign events now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/amberjamieson/trump-muhammad-ali-rodman-lebron-russia-leaks-g7-transcript?utm_term=.cjqXV09oA#.aq2o2nA0N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking recently to reporters\u003c/a>, Trump suggested the inspector general’s findings could be something of a “birthday present” for him. Trump turns 72 on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dems: The feds didn’t go easy on Hillary. They hurt her\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, meanwhile, said the findings of the report made it clear that the FBI had effectively helped elect Trump — by damaging Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the minority leaders of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees cited Comey’s choice to reveal the FBI’s investigation into Clinton but not its counterintelligence investigation into Trump aides’ ties to Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we warned before the election, Director Comey had a double standard: he spoke publicly about the Clinton investigation while keeping secret from the American people the investigation of Donald Trump and Russia,” said Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler of New York and Oversight Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings of Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats also said they are angry that Comey talked so much, so often, about a case that he ultimately had concluded should not result in any prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FBI should not have spoken publicly about the case after recommending against criminal charges,” Nadler and Cummings said. “They should not have revealed that they had reopened the case just days before the election. These actions violate long-standing guidelines designed to protect citizens from unfair attacks and avoid influencing elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justice, FBI vow to do better\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions — whom Trump has said he regrets nominating — said on Thursday that he views the “errors” uncovered by the IG report as an opening the Justice Department can use to improve itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Accordingly, this report must be seen as an opportunity for the FBI—long considered the world’s premier investigative agency — and all of us at the department to learn from past mistakes,” Sessions said. “The department is not above criticism, and it is accountable to the chief executive, Congress, and most importantly, the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump nominated to replace Comey after an interregnum in which McCabe was acting director, picked up that theme from Sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FBI is taking immediate remedial actions to reinforce the importance of maintaining a work environment free from the appearance of political bias,” he said. Wray said the actions include a review of whether commingling of work discussions and political commentary violates any FBI guidelines and “a review of how the FBI staffs, structures and supervises sensitive investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?embed=true&id=4515903-DOJ-IG-Report-Executive-Summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the report’s executive summary here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those faulted in the report fire back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey has defended his actions in 2016 as the response to an unprecedented situation for which there was no instruction manual. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He said on Twitter\u003c/a> after the release of the IG report that he welcomed the work that investigators have now completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey also pointed out in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/comey-clinton-inspector-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a column in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Horowitz’s report had effectively vindicated his decision-making — that there was no “prosecuteable” case against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others defended themselves on Thursday, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCabe, who faces potential criminal charges, did not comment on the report but his attorney, Michael Bromwich, issued a statement defending him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In short, the report demonstrates that any and all claims that political bias or political influence affected Mr. McCabe’s actions, including charges from the president and other critics, are entirely baseless,” Bromwich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Strzok, Aitan Goelman, pointed to a section that said there is no evidence that the political views Strzok expressed “impacted the handling of the Clinton email investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, Goelman said, the IG report noted instances in which Strzok and Page supported investigative techniques even more aggressive than those supported by their bosses, including the potential use of search warrants or a grand jury to get witnesses testimony and issue subpoenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And David Laufman, the former Justice Department counterintelligence official who oversaw the Clinton email probe, defended the integrity of the investigation amid repeated attacks from the president and his allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Particularly given the formidable circumstances, the Justice Department lawyers who conducted this investigation carried out their responsibilities with exceptional rigor, professionalism and integrity consistent with the finest traditions of the department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Clinton matter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IG report has its origins in the tumultuous days after the 2016 presidential election, when politicians and Justice Department veterans of all stripes cried foul at the FBI’s public statements about its investigation of Clinton’s email practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton used a private email server while she served as secretary of state under President Obama. Although she said she regretted the practice, Clinton said she never knowingly used it to handle classified information. Republicans alleged that she knowingly hazarded important secrets and received sympathetic treatment from then-Attorney General Lynch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s IG report faulted Lynch for not being more sensitive to the public perceptions she created by meeting privately with former President Bill Clinton aboard an airplane as the FBI investigation was taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lynch’s failure to recognize the appearance problem created by former President Bill Clinton’s visit and to take action to cut the visit short was an error in judgment,” the report said. Her statements later about her decision not to recuse “created public confusion and didn’t adequately address the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early last year, following calls from Congress, the DOJ inspector general announced he would review allegations that the FBI failed to follow procedures when Comey criticized Clinton in \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hastily called news conference on July 5, 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Comey told reporters at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, given the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order,” he also said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey eventually appeared before lawmakers to explain his findings, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/485138667/fbi-director-faces-congress-over-hillary-clinton-email-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised to update them\u003c/a> if any new information came to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI director notified Congress he had reopened the probe Oct. 28, 2016, because of emails that investigators had found on the laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the then-husband of longtime Clinton confidante and aide Huma Abedin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, just days before the election, Comey went public again, to tell lawmakers he had found no new bombshells and would again close the investigation with no charges — on Nov. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton and her top aides blamed Comey’s verbosity for slowing her momentum in the waning days of the campaign and turning the election for her opponent, Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey’s letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526586505/clinton-blames-2016-loss-on-comey-letter-russian-interference-and-herself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she later said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey, of course, was fired by Trump in May 2017, a move that helped prompt the Justice Department to appoint special counsel Robert S. 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We’ll stop it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The FBI officials did not “stop” Trump from being elected, but Trump and Republicans have cited those kinds of statements in months of attacks on federal law enforcement. “Biased” officials in the “deep state” are trying to frame Trump in another investigation, they contend — the one by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Russian attack on the 2016 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his Republicans allies also have accused then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other officials in the Obama administration of being too soft on Clinton. “Lock her up” was a campaign rally leitmotif in 2016 and remains a popular chant at the president’s campaign events now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/amberjamieson/trump-muhammad-ali-rodman-lebron-russia-leaks-g7-transcript?utm_term=.cjqXV09oA#.aq2o2nA0N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking recently to reporters\u003c/a>, Trump suggested the inspector general’s findings could be something of a “birthday present” for him. Trump turns 72 on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dems: The feds didn’t go easy on Hillary. They hurt her\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats, meanwhile, said the findings of the report made it clear that the FBI had effectively helped elect Trump — by damaging Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the minority leaders of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees cited Comey’s choice to reveal the FBI’s investigation into Clinton but not its counterintelligence investigation into Trump aides’ ties to Russians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we warned before the election, Director Comey had a double standard: he spoke publicly about the Clinton investigation while keeping secret from the American people the investigation of Donald Trump and Russia,” said Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nadler of New York and Oversight Committee ranking member Elijah Cummings of Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democrats also said they are angry that Comey talked so much, so often, about a case that he ultimately had concluded should not result in any prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FBI should not have spoken publicly about the case after recommending against criminal charges,” Nadler and Cummings said. “They should not have revealed that they had reopened the case just days before the election. These actions violate long-standing guidelines designed to protect citizens from unfair attacks and avoid influencing elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Justice, FBI vow to do better\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney General Jeff Sessions — whom Trump has said he regrets nominating — said on Thursday that he views the “errors” uncovered by the IG report as an opening the Justice Department can use to improve itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Accordingly, this report must be seen as an opportunity for the FBI—long considered the world’s premier investigative agency — and all of us at the department to learn from past mistakes,” Sessions said. “The department is not above criticism, and it is accountable to the chief executive, Congress, and most importantly, the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump nominated to replace Comey after an interregnum in which McCabe was acting director, picked up that theme from Sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The FBI is taking immediate remedial actions to reinforce the importance of maintaining a work environment free from the appearance of political bias,” he said. Wray said the actions include a review of whether commingling of work discussions and political commentary violates any FBI guidelines and “a review of how the FBI staffs, structures and supervises sensitive investigations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?embed=true&id=4515903-DOJ-IG-Report-Executive-Summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the report’s executive summary here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Those faulted in the report fire back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey has defended his actions in 2016 as the response to an unprecedented situation for which there was no instruction manual. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1007328935842123777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He said on Twitter\u003c/a> after the release of the IG report that he welcomed the work that investigators have now completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey also pointed out in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/comey-clinton-inspector-general.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a column in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that Horowitz’s report had effectively vindicated his decision-making — that there was no “prosecuteable” case against Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others defended themselves on Thursday, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCabe, who faces potential criminal charges, did not comment on the report but his attorney, Michael Bromwich, issued a statement defending him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In short, the report demonstrates that any and all claims that political bias or political influence affected Mr. McCabe’s actions, including charges from the president and other critics, are entirely baseless,” Bromwich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lawyer for Strzok, Aitan Goelman, pointed to a section that said there is no evidence that the political views Strzok expressed “impacted the handling of the Clinton email investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, Goelman said, the IG report noted instances in which Strzok and Page supported investigative techniques even more aggressive than those supported by their bosses, including the potential use of search warrants or a grand jury to get witnesses testimony and issue subpoenas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And David Laufman, the former Justice Department counterintelligence official who oversaw the Clinton email probe, defended the integrity of the investigation amid repeated attacks from the president and his allies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Particularly given the formidable circumstances, the Justice Department lawyers who conducted this investigation carried out their responsibilities with exceptional rigor, professionalism and integrity consistent with the finest traditions of the department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Clinton matter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IG report has its origins in the tumultuous days after the 2016 presidential election, when politicians and Justice Department veterans of all stripes cried foul at the FBI’s public statements about its investigation of Clinton’s email practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton used a private email server while she served as secretary of state under President Obama. Although she said she regretted the practice, Clinton said she never knowingly used it to handle classified information. Republicans alleged that she knowingly hazarded important secrets and received sympathetic treatment from then-Attorney General Lynch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s IG report faulted Lynch for not being more sensitive to the public perceptions she created by meeting privately with former President Bill Clinton aboard an airplane as the FBI investigation was taking place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lynch’s failure to recognize the appearance problem created by former President Bill Clinton’s visit and to take action to cut the visit short was an error in judgment,” the report said. Her statements later about her decision not to recuse “created public confusion and didn’t adequately address the situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early last year, following calls from Congress, the DOJ inspector general announced he would review allegations that the FBI failed to follow procedures when Comey criticized Clinton in \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hastily called news conference on July 5, 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Comey told reporters at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this case, given the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order,” he also said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey eventually appeared before lawmakers to explain his findings, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/485138667/fbi-director-faces-congress-over-hillary-clinton-email-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised to update them\u003c/a> if any new information came to light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI director notified Congress he had reopened the probe Oct. 28, 2016, because of emails that investigators had found on the laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, the then-husband of longtime Clinton confidante and aide Huma Abedin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, just days before the election, Comey went public again, to tell lawmakers he had found no new bombshells and would again close the investigation with no charges — on Nov. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton and her top aides blamed Comey’s verbosity for slowing her momentum in the waning days of the campaign and turning the election for her opponent, Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey’s letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526586505/clinton-blames-2016-loss-on-comey-letter-russian-interference-and-herself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she later said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comey, of course, was fired by Trump in May 2017, a move that helped prompt the Justice Department to appoint special counsel Robert S. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 2:37 p.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood is suing the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its board of directors over what she calls “extensive and persistent violations of federal law,” her office announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The directors of the foundation named in the suit are President Trump and three of his children: Donald J. Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court_stamped_petition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The suit\u003c/a> alleges “unlawful political coordination” with Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, “self-dealing” that benefits Trump’s businesses, and other violations of the law. Underwood’s suit seeks to dissolve the Trump Foundation and collect nearly $3 million in penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1007278825661784064\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump quickly \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1007278825661784064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied\u003c/a> on Twitter: “The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1007278825661784064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he added\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 41-page petition to New York’s Supreme Court cites voluminous evidence, including photos and emails, in alleging that Trump used his foundation’s charitable assets to pay legal fees, to promote his hotels and other businesses, and to buy personal items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also alleges that at Trump’s request, the foundation “illegally provided extensive support to his 2016 presidential campaign by using the Trump Foundation’s name and funds it raised from the public to promote his campaign for presidency, including in the days before the Iowa nominating caucuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit states that the foundation’s board existed in name only and failed to provide oversight to the organization for at least the past 19 years: “It has not met since 1999 and does not oversee the activities of the Foundation in any way.” The petition says the foundation has no written criteria or protocol for the grants it considers or approves and that “Mr. Trump ran the Foundation according to his whim rather than the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the penalties and dissolution of the foundation, the lawsuit seeks to ban President Trump from serving as director of a New York not-for-profit for 10 years and also a one-year ban for his children named in the suit. Underwood also sent letters Thursday to the \u003ca href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTgwNjE0LjkxMTc3NDQxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE4MDYxNC45MTE3NzQ0MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MDE2NDExJmVtYWlsaWQ9anJvc2VAbnByLm9yZyZ1c2VyaWQ9anJvc2VAbnByLm9yZyZ0YXJnZXRpZD0mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&102&&&https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/irs_final_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internal Revenue Service\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTgwNjE0LjkxMTc3NDQxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE4MDYxNC45MTE3NzQ0MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MDE2NDExJmVtYWlsaWQ9anJvc2VAbnByLm9yZyZ1c2VyaWQ9anJvc2VAbnByLm9yZyZ0YXJnZXRpZD0mZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpdmFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==&&&103&&&https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/fec_final_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Election Commission\u003c/a>, “identifying possible violations of federal law for further investigation and legal action by those federal agencies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underwood became New York’s attorney general last month, after Eric Schneiderman \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/08/609363984/manhattan-da-opens-investigation-of-allegations-against-n-y-attorney-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned\u003c/a> the post. Schneiderman had pursued \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/nyregion/eric-schneiderman-attorney-general-new-york.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a number of cases against Trump\u003c/a>, including one over Trump University, in which Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/18/502620122/new-york-attorney-general-says-trump-agrees-to-settle-trump-university-lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed to pay\u003c/a> a $25 million settlement. 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