Trump's travel ban is going under the gavel today in San Francisco's 9th Circuit federal appeals court.
Sacramento Bee's ANDY FURILLO/SAM STANTON: "Setting the stage for a legal fight that is expected to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Department attorneys on Monday denounced a federal judge’s suspension of President Trump’s immigrant travel ban as “vastly overbroad” and argued that the president has the authority to make decisions affecting national security."
"The argument, included in a 15-page filing with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, came as the San Francisco-based court scheduled oral arguments in the explosive dispute for Tuesday at 3 p.m."
"A three-judge panel of the court said each side in the case would be given 30 minutes to make their case over whether Trump’s temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim nations must be restored. The two sides will present their arguments over the phone. The hearing will be streamed live on the court website, https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov."
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Senate Democrats have spent the last 24 hours trying to persuade a single Senate Republican vote to go against DeVos' confirmation (today at noon) not 'for the sake of party politics, but for the sake of children.'
The Week: "While you were sleeping, Senate Democrats were holding court on the Senate floor, part of a 24-hour effort to highlight the unusually large amount of opposition to President Trump's education secretary pick, Betsy DeVos. All 48 Democrats and two Republicans are expected to vote against DeVos, and part of the Democratic marathon was aimed at peeling away one more Republican. "I am encouraging my colleagues to search your hearts, step aside from party politics and pay to play in politics, and fight for the children of the United States of America," Sen. Jeff Merkeley (D-Ore.) said before dawn. Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) noted the deluge of phone calls from constituents opposed to DeVos. "You can ask the Senate Republicans whether they're getting phone calls, too — they're getting phone calls, too," he said."
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Financial advisers offer perspective to those ruffled by Trump's business tweets.
Sacramento Bee's CATHIE ANDERSON: "Investors in domestic automakers, Big Pharma and U.S. defense contractors have seen their investments swoon in recent weeks at words of criticism from President Donald Trump, but they also witnessed the Dow Jones industrial average soaring past 20,000 as the new president vowed to roll back regulations on big banks."
"This volatility has some Main Street investors jumping out of the stock market amid a bull run – a move that money managers warn could sabotage long-term returns. They advise investors to put a fixed amount of money in stocks on a regular basis. This tactic, called dollar-cost averaging, will buy more securities when prices drop and less when they go up. Averaging out the purchases allows investors to weather market ups and downs."
“I show one chart to prospective clients when they come in,” said Kelly Brothers, a partner at Genovese Burford & Brothers. “It shows asset classes over the last 20 years and how they’ve done. The S&P 500, which is the broadest measure of the U.S. stock market, if you take a price appreciation plus the dividend paid by the S&P 500, its annualized return has been just about 10 percent per year."
Two teens from Yolo county have disappeared, and authorities are now saying it happened under suspicious circumstances. A reward has been offered for any information that leads to their safe return.
Sacramento Bee's BILL LINDELOF: "Police now believe that the disappearances of two Yolo County teens is suspicious, and a $10,000 reward from the FBI is being offered for information leading to their return."
"Classmates Enrique Rios and Elijah Moore vanished 25 days apart. There is little evidence to indicate where they went or who they may be with now."
"Someone knows where Enrique and Elijah are or has other information that will help us find them. The families of these two young men desperately want to know where their sons are,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Monica M. Miller of the Sacramento Field Office."
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Sacramento continues to get rain and the local rivers have had their flows increased to reduce flood risk.
Sacramento Bee's BILL LINDELOF/PHILLIP REESE: "Water officials dramatically increased flows on the American and Sacramento rivers Monday to lessen the flooding risk ahead of big storms coming Monday and Tuesday night."
"Flows on the Sacramento River were slated to rise from 26,000 cubic feet per second to 36,000 cfs on Monday, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced. The increased flows were expected to push water levels at the Tower Bridge to 29.6 feet. That’s similar to depths seen in mid-January following a series of violent storms, and it’s about 4 feet below flood stage."
"Releases on the lower American River were expected to double by 4 p.m. Monday to 30,000 cfs. That is not quite as fast as flows during the height of last month’s big storms. The American River was expected to reach levels of 33.4 feet, which is still well below flood stage, federal data show."
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Cesar Chavez granddaughter, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, is an active political force.
NY Time's MIKE MCPHATE: "A couple of months ago, then Senator-elect Kamala Harris appointed Julie Chavez Rodriguez to be her state director, overseeing operations in California."
"Ms. Rodriguez, 38, would “give voice to our vulnerable communities,” Ms. Harris said at the time."
"Ms. Rodriguez had experience. Her most recent job was in the White House serving as senior deputy director of public engagement and special assistant to President Barack Obama."
Trump is scheduled to talk to Turkey's President Erdogan for the first time since Inauguration Day.
AP: "Turkish officials say President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump — their first since the American leader took office."
"Officials from Erdogan's office said Tuesday the conversation would take place shortly after midnight (2100 GMT). They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government regulations."