OnPolitics Today: Politicking and politics

Happy Monday, OnPolitics readers! We hope you had a restful weekend and that you're ready to go, because today felt like we were in The Godfather, and we're pretty sure it's only going to pick up from here. OnPolitics Today: Politicking and politics Happy Monday, OnPolitics readers! We hope you had a restful weekend and that you're ready to go, because today felt like we were in The Godfather, and we're pretty sure it's only going to pick up from here.

An Obama program created to build trust with immigrants is being used …

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program launched under Barack Obama to build trust with community groups has been reconfigured to focus on assisting victims of crimes committed by immigrants. Twenty-one employees hired and trained to work in community outreach have been assigned to work under President Donald Trump's new Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, which was established in his Jan. 25 executive order on immigration.

Second US appeals court refuses to revive travel ban

A second court upheld a Maryland judge's ruling that also blocked Trump's 90-day ban on travelers from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Photo: Reuters President Donald Trump suffered another legal setback on Monday as a second federal appeals court refused to revive his travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority nations in a dispute headed to the US Supreme Court.

Theater refuses to buckle after ‘Caesar’ Trump criticism

In this May 21, 2017, file photo provided by The Public Theater, Tina Benko, left, portrays Melania Trump in the role of Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, and Gregg Henry, center left, portrays President Donald Trump in the role of Julius Caesar during a dress rehearsal of The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar in New York. Teagle F. Bougere, center right, plays as Casca, and Elizabeth Marvel, right, as Marc Anthony.

Hundreds gather to grill US Sen. Jerry Moran on health care

Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has told a sometimes raucous crowd of hundreds that he would have voted against a House-passed bill that would repeal and replace the Obama-era federal health care overhaul law. The Kansas City Star reports that Moran spoke Monday at a conference center in Johnson County, which President Donald Trump won by fewer than 3 percentage point.

Maryland, DC attorneys general sue Trump over business ties

The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia filed a federal lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump, alleging he violated the Constitution by improperly retaining ties to his sprawling global business empire and by accepting foreign payments while in office. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh joined District counterpart Karl Racine at a news conference in the nation's capital, saying the lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in neighboring Maryland.

Dem Introduces ‘COVFEFE Act’ To Record All Of Trump’s Tweets

A Democratic lawmaker introduced legislation Monday to specifically require that all of the president's social media posts be archived, following an unusual typo from President Donald Trump. The COVFEFE Act, which stands for Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement Act of 2017 and is named after Trump's May 31 tweet featuring that strange word, would update the laws requiring the White House to archive all presidential communications.

Rubio Slams Criticism of His Questioning of Comey

Sen. Marco Rubio lashed out at criticism that he made a deal with President Donald Trump for a tougher Cuba policy in exchange for his line of questioning of former FBI Director James Comey last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Politico reported on Monday. The criticism against Rubio was spearheaded by an article in the Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago that "Rubio seemed most interested in getting Comey to publicly admit that President Trump 'was not personally under investigation' than in obtaining any new evidence for the Senate investigation."

Trump slogans airbrushed out of NJ high school yearbook

A New Jersey high school is being accused of censorship after multiple references to President Donald Trump were airbrushed out of its yearbook. One student told NJ.com that he wore a navy blue T-shirt that said "Trump Make America Great Again" for his portrait, but the publication instead appeared to Photoshop the president's name and campaign slogan out of the photo.

Trump’s base providing steady support amid Russia probes

President Donald Trump attends a roundtable on infrastructure at the Department of Transportation, Friday, June 9, 2017, in Washington. Faced with the under-oath allegations of ex-FBI Director James Comey and the steady creep of congressional investigations, Trump's response this week was aimed squarely at rallying his most dedicated supporters to his side.

Obama hampered law enforcement investigation of Iranian terrorism funding

Last Thursday all of the attention of Trump-impeachment-obsessed Democrats and the majority of their news media minions was focused on the hearing of fired FBI director James Comey. These President Donald Trump-hating leftists were disappointed when Comey testimony showed that: Trump is not now, nor has he ever been, under investigation by the FBI; President Obama's attorney general, Loretta Lynch, told Comey not to call the probe into Hillary Clinton's endless scandals an "investigation," but rather a "matter"; and that Comey himself leaked his own memo about meetings with Trump, giving them to a leftist university professor to secretly turn over to a news media denizen.