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Raw Story: ‘Two-faced guy’: Trump official creates ‘real worry’ as credibility plunges to record lows

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President Donald Trump’s most popular cabinet official has been plummeting in public approval as he takes aim at a broadly accepted policy.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will conduct a new review of abortion pills, the latest move taking aim at health care matters that has included vaccine mandates and Tylenol use by pregnant women that Americans had come to take for granted as uncontroversial.

And CNN data analyst Harry Enten said his actions have his approval ratings plunging.

“Down it goes,” Enten said. “What are we talking about here? Well, let’s take a look. Net approval rating in March, according to Quinnipiac it was minus-11. You go to June, down it goes to minus-15, and now, data that’s just out this week, minus-21 points. We’ve seen a drop of 10 points since March. The more RFK Jr. Is implementing or trying to implement his policies, the further down his net approval rating goes, and at this particular point, 21 points underwater is not a place you want to be.”

Kennedy had been the most popular Trump official at the start of this month, with a net approval rating of minus-7 points, but the more the public sees from him the less they agree with his policies, Enten said.

“What is going on here?” Enten added. “Well, I think, you know, RFK is sort of a two-faced guy when it comes to the American public. What do they like about RFK Jr.? Well, Americans who support restricting artificial food dyes. Look at this: It’s 60 percent. That, of course, is something that RFK Jr. has been trying to implement, right? They like RFK Jr. when it comes to food dyes and stuff in food.

“But look at this: Trust RFK Jr. on vaccine information, he’s significantly lower. He’s down at 37 percent, and obviously, RFK Jr. has been trying to change some of the advice that’s going on from the federal government when it comes to vaccines. Americans do not trust RFK Jr., they do not like him on vaccines. They like him when it comes to food dyes, they don’t like him on vaccines, and this has been the number that has been far more in the news recently. If I were advising RFK in terms of if he wanted to be more popular, I’d be focusing on this.”

“I think that this is the real worry, right, because they don’t trust RFK Jr., right, on vaccine information, and take a look here,” Enten added. “Gives trustworthy info on public health? The CDC, it was 72 percent last year. Look at this: It’s 64 percent now. How about the FDA? It was 73 percent last year, it’s 63 percent now. Most of this decline is coming from Democrats, who all of a sudden are wondering, can I actually trust the information that’s coming out of the federal government, whether or not it is coming out of RFK Jr.’s mouth? Because obviously, as you said, all those agencies that he’s overlooking, those are very important.

“If the public doesn’t trust them, we’ve got major problems, and at this particular point, when you look at these numbers, the flip side is now more than a third of Americans are not confident in the information that they are getting at either the CDC or the FDA, which I think a lot of public health officials are quite worried about.”

‘Two-faced guy’: Trump official creates ‘real worry’ as credibility plunges to record lows

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Law & Crime: ‘Different in kind’: 4-star generals, admirals serving from JFK to Obama say Los Angeles ICE protests don’t warrant deployment of National Guard to California

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4-star admirals, generals serving from JFK to Obama warn Trump’s deployment of National Guard poses ‘potentially grave risk’

Ahead of a Zoom hearing scheduled for Tuesday at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a group of retired four-star generals and admirals who served under presidents ranging from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama filed court documents warning that President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard and deployment of U.S. Marines poses “potentially grave risk of irreparable harm.”

Seeking the appellate court’s leave to file a brief and enter the case as amici curiae — Latin for “friends of the court” — the retired generals, admirals, and former U.S. Army and Navy secretaries did not explicitly take Gov. Gavin Newsom’s side in the case. They did suggest Sunday, however, that the Trump administration’s bid for an emergency stay of a lower-court ruling and continued push to quell “violent riots” in Los Angeles amid nationwide “No Kings” protests over ICE raids may not pass legal muster when compared to historical precedents.

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Again, although the retired admirals and generals did not support either party to the case, they implicitly warmed to Breyer’s ruling that the definition of “rebellion” has not been met and that, in the proposed amici’s words, the “recent and ongoing situation” in Los Angeles “appears to be different in kind” from the “extreme circumstances” of the 1992 Rodney King riots and the times when state governors “openly” and defiantly stood against the end of racial segregation during the Civil Rights era.

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The brief concluded that Trump’s injection of the military into “domestic political controversies” — “undermining its ability to achieve its core mission of protecting the nation” — is a case in point as to why troops “should be kept out of domestic law enforcement whenever possible.”

Retired four-star generals sound alarm at 9th Circuit on Trump’s National Guard deployment
Retired four-star generals and admirals warn that Trump’s federalization of the National Guard and deployment of U.S. Marines poses “potentially grave risk.”
‘Different in kind’: 4-star generals, admirals serving from JFK to Obama say Los Angeles ICE protests don’t warrant deployment of National Guard to California

ACLU: ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation

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Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

Today, in the early hours of the morning, the New Orleans Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Field Office deported at least two families, including two mothers and their minor children – three of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant. The families, who had lived in the United States for years and had deep ties to their communities, were deported from the U.S. under deeply troubling circumstances that raise serious due process concerns.

ICE detained the first family on Tuesday, April 22, and the second family on Thursday, April 24. In both cases, ICE held the families incommunicado, refusing or failing to respond to multiple attempts by attorneys and family members to contact them. In one instance, a mother was granted less than one minute on the phone before the call was abruptly terminated when her spouse tried to provide legal counsel’s phone number.

As a result, the families were completely isolated during critical moments when decisions were being made about the welfare of their minor children. This included decisions with serious implications for the health, safety, and legal rights of the children involved–without any opportunity to coordinate with caretakers or consult with legal representatives.

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Both families have possible immigration relief, but because ICE denied them access to their attorneys, legal counsel was unable to assist and advise them in time. With one family, government attorneys had assured legal counsel that a legal call would be arranged within 24-48 hours, as well as a call with a family member. Instead, just after close of business and after courts closed for the day, ICE suddenly reversed course and informed counsel that the family would be deported at 6am the next morning–before the court reopened.

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation