Thread: Sheriff Clarke being considered for Homeland Security secretary

See Sheriff Clarke And Donald Trump Join Forces To Make America Great Again


November 24, 2016


”Now that Trump has taken the presidency and is assembling his cabinet, there is speculation that he will appoint Clarke to a crucial position in his administration.

Politico recently listed its possibilities for Trump’s administration, and Clarke’s was the only name they listed for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

“One person close to Trump’s campaign said David Clarke, the conservative sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, is a possible candidate for Homeland Security secretary,” the site reported.”


My second choice for this position would be Giuliani who I think ought to be selected for Secretary of State and not Romney.


JWK




Without our Fifth Column Media, Loretta Lynch and a corrupted FBI, Hillary Clinton would be making license tags in a federal penitentiary

by CHARLIE SPIERING
25 Nov 2016



President-elect Donald Trump plans to meet with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke as he continues to vet possible candidates for his administration.

Trump transition team officials confirmed that the president-elect would meet with Clarke on Monday, after he returns to Trump Tower from his Thanksgiving trip to Mar-a-largo in Florida.

Officials did not say whether Trump is offering Clarke a position with his administration, but signaled interest in his opinions.

“The president elect meets with individuals who he believes he wants to hear their ideas, suggestions and opinions and then sometimes considers them for multiple potential positions,” Trump transition team’s Sean Spicer explained.

Clarke, an outspoken champion for Second Amendment gun rights and a registered Democrat, has earned the respect from Trump supporters during the campaign. He also spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, supporting Trump for president.

Clarke also criticized Black Lives Matter activists, calling them a “a bunch of thugs, a bunch of creeps, criminals, [and] race-hustlers.”

“I think very fair in light of the anti-cop rhetoric that is sweeping the United States of America, fueled by this group, some of the vulgar, vile, vicious rhetoric coming out talking about killing cops,” Clarke said during an appearance on CNN.

http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presid...dministration/

He needs to also be meeting with Sheriff Joe Apraio who endorsed Trump early in the GOP primary.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

He needs to also be meeting with Sheriff Joe Apraio who endorsed Trump early in the GOP primary.

W

Put Joe in charge of ICE!

JWK

Think I'd still prefer Kris Korbach.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

He needs to also be meeting with Sheriff Joe Apraio who endorsed Trump early in the GOP primary.

W

I would love to have Sheriff Joe as Secretary of Homeland Security. However, I believe Trump would consider him too controversial for the position. Perhaps a lesser position in Homeland Security would draw less scrutiny.

Sheriff Babeu of AZ needs to be in there with Sheriff Clarke and Arpaio

Originally Posted by Beezer

Sheriff Babeu of AZ needs to be in there with Sheriff Clarke and Arpaio

You don't like Kris Korbach?

Trump needs all of them on the team in some capacity. Put them where they will be of the highest and best use.

Kris Kobach, Nativist Son

The legal mastermind behind the wave of anti-immigration laws sweeping the country.

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If there's a controversial new anti-immigration law that's captured national attention, chances are that it has Kris Kobach's imprimatur. A telegenic law professor with flawless academic credentials—Harvard undergrad, Yale Law School—Kobach helped Arizona lawmakers craft the infamous immigration law that passed in the spring of 2010. He's coached legislators across the country in their efforts to pass dozens of similar measures, ranging from Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri to the small town of Fremont, Nebraska, pop. 26,000. His record has helped propel him into elected office, becoming Kansas' secretary of state just six months after the passage of Arizona's SB 1070.

Kobach routinely denies that he's the progenitor of the anti-immigration laws he's drafted or defended. Rather, he insists he simply assists officials already committed to tougher enforcement policies. "I did not generate the motivation to pass the law...I am merely the attorney who comes in, refines, and drafts their statutes," he says.

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But advocates on both sides of the immigration debate agree that Kobach's influence has been far-reaching. Rosemary Jenks of NumbersUSA, an anti-immigration group, calls Kobach "instrumental in helping states and localities deal with the federal government's authority." Vivek Malhotra, a lawyer who worked for the American Civil Liberties Union when it tussled with Kobach in court, says, "What Kris Kobach has done as a lawyer is really gone out to localities around the country and really used them as experimental laboratories for pushing questionable legal theories about how far states and local governments can go."


Kobach, 45, has spent much of his professional life developing the legal framework that a growing number of officials have used to justify laws further criminalizing illegal immigration. A rising star in the Republican establishment, Kobach joinedJohn Ashcroft's Justice Department just days before 9/11. Over the next two years, he helped create a program that required all visiting citizens from 25 mostly Arab countries to be fingerprinted and monitored—a policy that critics said amounted to racial profiling.

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During those years, Kobach advanced an idea that had long been circulating in conservative legal circles: that local and state officials have the "inherent authority" to enforce federal immigration laws. This unorthodox notion bucked the prevailing view—long held by both Republican and Democratic administrations—that the federal government has principal jurisdiction over immigration under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. If local and state governments were to strike out on their own, they could undermine federal efforts, create jurisdictional chaos, and detract from law enforcement efforts by discouraging immigrants from cooperating with police, critics argue. In 2002, however, Ashcroft's Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo, which Kobach helped review, supporting the "inherent authority" theory.

"What Kris Kobach has done is gone out to localities around the country and really used them as experimental laboratories for pushing questionable legal theories."

After leaving the Bush administration in 2003, Kobach joined the Immigration Reform Law Institute and began working with local officials across the country to combat illegal immigration on the ground level. He also pitched in as a defense attorney when such measures were challenged in court, defending legislation in Pennsylvania and Texas that would revoke operating licenses for businesses that hired illegal immigrants and fine landlords who rented to them. In 2006, he landed his first major gig in Arizona, hired by state officials to defend a law that made immigrant smuggling a state crime.
Kobach has worked hard to develop laws that can withstand court challenges. "[Arizona SB 1070] was very carefully crafted to track many provisions in federal law—it creates a plausible case for proponents to say we're not doing anything new," says Mary Giovagnoli, director of the Immigration Policy Center. "It's a disingenuous argument, to say if it's illegal in the federal law, it's okay when it's illegal in state law...but it's very clever lawyering." In fact, Kobach scored a big victory last year when the Supreme Court upheld a separate Arizona law he helped craft that punished employers who hired illegal immigrants.

That said, Obama's Department of Justice has aggressively challenged the major laws that Kobach has helped author. In addition to filing lawsuits against the Arizona and Alabama laws, the DOJ has taken action against Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose officers Kobach helped train in immigration enforcement. In December, Arpaio's officers were forced to hand in their federal credentials due to complaints about their immigration enforcement tactics, which the DOJ called illegal and discriminatory.

But such legal challenges haven't slowed down Kobach, who has endorsed Mitt Romney and provided the candidate his immigration talking points. In his first year in office as secretary of state, he successfully shepherded through a new Kansas voter ID law, claiming that the current laws allowed immigrants to commit voter fraud—a new front in the immigration wars that parallels the conservative push for stricter voting laws. He's now advising Kansas legislators on a bill that would give local police far more latitude in checking the status of suspected illegal immigrants—effectively bringing Arizona's law to his own backyard.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...n-laws-sb-1070