If you believe the story -- and why should we, frankly -- Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were shocked to read about daddy's Twitter-announced transgender military ban. If they really had no idea that this was going down, then we MUST once and for all resist any and all psyche-soothing hopeful thinking that these kids have any influence on America's president.

In addition to this Trump tweet that transgender individuals will not be serving in the military in the future, I wonder if Miss Ivanka actually understands that the Trump Administration has birth control in its crosshairs. It's not only Planned Parenthood. It's birth control, 70-years after the US Supreme Court declared it legal and a right of American women.

Oh, and the Jeff Sessions' justice department made a landmark decision last week to intervene -- uninvited -- into a private employment lawsuit, arguing that the ban on sex discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect workers based on their sexual orientation.

In One Day, Trump Administration Lands 3 Punches Against Gay Rights New York Times

Prominent Democrat lawyer Jamie Gorelick, the lawyer representing White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and also Ivanka and Jared as a couple in certain legal matters, is winding up her work with Jared Kushner on matters related to the Russia investigation. Gorelick said she is "completing the work" Kushner originally hired her to do before President Donald Trump was inaugurated: handling Kushner's ethics compliance, security clearance and other federal disclosures, explains the National Law Journal.

Abbe Lowell, whom Kushner added to his white-collar team on June 26, is now Kushner’s primary defender in the multiple investigations into the Trump team’s interactions with Russian officials.

“As you may recall, and as we have stated, once Bob Mueller and three of our partners left the firm to form the Special Counsel’s Office [at the Department of Justice], we advised Mr. Kushner to get independent legal advice whether to continue with us as counsel,” Gorelick said in an email Friday. “As [a] result of this process, Abbe is now responsible for the Russia-related inquiries.”

Lowell is also a prominent DC Democrat, as head of the white-collar group at Norton Rose Fulbright. Gorelick runs the regulatory department at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

The article notes the criticism -- we're previously written about it also -- that Gorelick, a former Clinton administration deputy attorney general -- has received from Hillary Clinton supporters. Many thought she would become (President) Hillary Clinton's Attorney General.

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