The Trumpster Fire: In a blow to President Trump and the power of his pen, a federal judge has ordered the government to resume accepting asylum claims from immigrants no matter where and how they enter the country. The President had ordered, contrary to law, that applications for asylum may be accepted only at official border crossings. The law says you can apply even if you cross the border illegally.

Judge Jon Tigar of the United States District Court in San Francisco said, “Whatever the scope of the president’s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden.”

DefCon 1: The White House has backed away from its standoff with CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, agreeing to fully restore his press pass. CNN said it would withdraw its lawsuit.

That doesn’t necessarily mean the end of conflict with Acosta or the White House press. The truce comes with a set of rules for reporters, a restriction of one question per reporter, with follow-ups allowed at the discretion of the president or the official at the lectern. “Failure to abide,” the administration warned, “may result in suspension or revocation of the journalist’s hard pass.”

The Gunbeat:Three mass shootings across the country yesterday; St. Louis, Denver, and Chicago. In Denver four people were wounded and one killed.

Four people are dead after a shooting at a Chicago hospital. The dead were a police officer, a doctor, and a pharmacy employee.The gunman also died, but police have not said whether it was suicide. He appeared to have originally targeted his former fiancée.

Lock Her Up!: Despite her father’s call for the past three years to lock up Hillary Clinton for using private email for government business, Ivanka Trump has done the same thing. Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner both used their private email domain for government business. Some of Ivanka’s messages included business with cabinet secretaries.

The information was revealed in a Freedom of Information request.

President Trump’s supporters still chant “Lock her up!” at his rallies, but they won’t likely say that about Ivanka.

Taking a swipe at Clinton, a spokesman for the first daughter issued a statement saying, “She did not create a private server in her house or office, there was never classified information transmitted, the account was never transferred or housed at Trump Organization, no emails were ever deleted and the emails have been retained in the official account in conformity with records preservation laws and rules.”

Nation:A Colorado man has been sentenced to life without parole after admitting he killed his pregnant wife and two young children to get a fresh start in life. He had been having an affair. Christopher Watts, 33, originally claimed his family had gone missing. As his story broke down he said his wife had murdered the two children, and he then killed his wife. He killed them all. His wife was found in a shallow grave and his daughters stuffed into an oil storage tank.

Lock Him Up!: The chairman of Nissan motors, who resigned in scandal two days ago, has been arrested in Japan on charges that he underreported his income and misused company funds.Carlos Ghosn engineered a turnaround at the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, making and selling more vehicles than any other automaker. Nissan investigated their chairman after a report by a whistleblower.

Pilgrims’ Progress: Customers eager to get high lined up this morning in cold, wet weather as Massachusetts became the first state on the East Coast to allow the opening of recreational marijuana stores.

The mayor of Northampton was expected to be one of the first customers. Mayor David Narkewicz – yeah, that’s really his name — told reporters, “I won’t be consuming it. My plan actually will be to preserve it and display it because it will be a historic purchase here in the city.”

He won’t be the first politician to say he didn’t inhale.

Humorectomy: The White House Correspondents’ Association has decided to skip the tradition of having a comedian headline their annual dinner next spring. They’ve invited author Ron Chernow to speak. Evidently nothing is funny in Washington anymore.

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