WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday fired Sally Yates, the acting attorney general and a Democratic appointee, after she refused to defend in court his controversial refugee and immigration ban. The extraordinary public clash over Trump’s most consequential policy decision to date laid bare the discord and dissent surrounding the executive order, which temporarily […]
Category: Domestic
Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Helping Isis
President Trump’s sweeping ban on travelers from seven majority Muslim countries (including Iraq) from entering the United States was intended to protect the homeland from a vanishingly small threat of terrorism. But U.S. diplomats stationed on the front lines in the battle against arguably the world’s most notoriously violent and sadistic group of Islamist extremists—ISIS—say […]
Trump Slashes Regulations On Businesses With Executive Order
President Trump signs an executive action in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday in Washington, D.C., saying he will “dramatically” reduce small business regulations overall. President Trump signed another executive order Monday morning, fulfilling another campaign pledge, this one to eliminate two federal regulations for every new regulation enacted. Trump signed the […]
Trump Will Name Supreme Court Nominee
WASHINGTON — Setting up a high-stakes legal and political battle, President Trump said Monday he will announce his Supreme Court choice in a prime-time address Tuesday night, two days earlier than initially scheduled. Trump did not disclose the identity of his nominee, but told reporters that his pick is “unbelievably highly respected” and people will […]
Donations Flood Into ACLU In Response To Travel Ban
“Clearly, this executive order has hit a live nerve with the American people,” Mr. Romero said. Thousands of protesters flooded airports across the country and took to the streets as word spread that immigrants and refugees were being blocked from entering the country, detained for hours by customs officials or taken off planes during the […]
WikiLeaks Wants To Publish Trump’s Tax Returns
WikiLeaks on Sunday urged people to submit President Donald TrumpDonald TrumpFeinstein to introduce two bills in response to Trump’s ban Trump warns senators ‘looking to start World War III’ Dems plan rally at Supreme Court to protest Trump’s executive order MORE’s tax returns so the organization could release them. “Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway stated today […]
Trump Adds Bannon To Security Council Over Joint Chiefs Of Staff
In one of three executive actions Saturday, President Trump reshuffled the National Security Council to include his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and limited the roles of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The memorandum makes the chief strategist a regular attendee of the principals committee, the Cabinet-level interagency forum that deals […]
Judges Rule Against Parts Of Trump’s Immigration Ban
With what by legal standards was lightning speed, the judicial branch responded to President Trump’s immigration order on Saturday night, telling the president that he had moved too fast in barring people from seven mostly Muslim nations from entering the United States. But the court orders, from judges in at least four cities, were just […]
FedEx Supports Driver Protecting Flag From Protesters Flames
FedEx is backing a driver in Iowa who stopped flag-burning protesters from desecrating American flags in a confrontation caught on video that went viral, according to reports. Many on Twitter were calling him a hero. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported Friday that the video shows Matt Uhrin in a FedEx uniform scuffling with a small […]
Mikhail Gorbachev Says World Is Preparing For War
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned Friday that “it all looks as if the world is preparing for war.” Gorbachev, who was head of the socialist state when it dissolved in 1991, wrote the comments in an opinion piece for Time magazine. “More troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers are being brought to Europe,” the […]
Trump’s Anti-Immigration Order Shaped By Benefits To His Private Businesses
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that puts a freeze on immigration from seven countries: Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq and Sudan. Even as President Trump takes steps to restrict visitors from some majority-Muslim countries, he and his family continue to do business in some of the others. Ethics experts question […]
Hillary Received 800000 Votes From Non-Citizens
Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump’s estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud. Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked with colleagues to produce groundbreaking research on noncitizen […]