{"id":12970,"date":"2016-02-15T20:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12970"},"modified":"2016-02-15T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:47:19","slug":"whos-lawless-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12970","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s &#8216;lawless&#8217; now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/donald1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11035\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/donald1.jpg\" alt=\"donald\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/donald1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/donald1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump went on one of his stream-of-consciousness riffs today at a press conference in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of his 45-minute press conference, the Republican presidential primary frontrunner answered a hypothetical question about what he would do as a governor regarding immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>He wouldn&#8217;t let them into his state, Trump said, ignoring the concern from many experts who say that immigration is a<em> federal<\/em> issue and that governors don&#8217;t have the authority to deny someone from entering their state.<\/p>\n<p>Then he said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care what the rules and regulations say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He would work around them as a governor to make it so difficult for immigrants seeking to enter his state that they would want to go somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t care about the law. He&#8217;ll do what he wants.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that&#8217;s the definition of &#8220;lawlessness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump went on one of his stream-of-consciousness riffs today at a press conference in South Carolina. In the midst of his 45-minute press conference, the Republican presidential primary frontrunner answered a hypothetical question about what he would do as a governor regarding immigrants. He wouldn&#8217;t let them into his state, Trump said, ignoring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12970\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who&#8217;s &#8216;lawless&#8217; now?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2245,5924],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-south-carolina-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12971,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions\/12971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}