Lark Turner  //  8/1/17  //  Daily Update

Controversial ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has been convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to follow court’s orders to stop detaining people he thought were undocumented. After 10 days, Anthony Scaramucci is out as director of communications. Meanwhile, President Trump says there’s no chaos at the White House and continues to threaten to cut funding for lawmakers’ health care.

IMMIGRATION

Controversial ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has been convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to follow court’s orders to stop detaining people he thought were undocumented (WaPo).

Prosecutors face subjecting undocumented people they charge with minor crimes to near-certain deportation (NYT).

CIVIL RIGHTS

President Trump and DOJ’s actions actions to limit the rights of LGBT people make this administration’s hostility toward them “unmistakable,” writes Richard Thompson Ford at Take Care.

Radical trans activists reject support of the military in response to Trump’s ban (Dorf on Law).

In its decision striking down D.C.’s ‘good reason’ conceal and carry law, the D.C. Circuit dodged 700 years of history, argues Saul Cornell at Take Care.

DEMOCRACY

An Alabama District Judge refuses to force the state to inform ex-felons they now have a right to vote (Ballot Access News). Read the decision here.

JUSTICE & SAFETY

President Trump’s comments encouraging police brutality were “police authoritarianism distilled,” argues Jeffrey Robinson at the ACLU.

CHECKS & BALANCES

Like his other bans, President Trump’s attempt to ban transgender individuals from serving in the military is disordered enough to rebut the presumption of “regularity,” writes Leah Litman at Take Care.

REMOVAL FROM OFFICE

Trying to limit the President’s ability to fire Mueller through legislation is a bad idea, argues Bob Bauer at Lawfare.

After 10 days, Anthony Scaramucci is out as director of communications (WaPo, NYT).

Meanwhile, Trump says there’s no chaos at the White House and continues to threaten to cut funding for lawmakers’ health care (NYT).

Making good on that promise would be “easy,” writes Leah Mascaro at the LA Times.

We should be rooting for Trump’s new lawyer, whose task is also defending the presidency itself, argues Ross Garber at PostEverything.

RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE 

VP Pence goes tough on Russia after its response to U.S. sanctions (WaPo).