executive orders

Today, Donald Trump issued an executive order regarding "censorship" on social media. You can read the order here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/ It's an interesting order. The core issue is that once upon a time, in a section of...

CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/politics/donald-trump-ending-birthright-citizenship/index.html Okay the baggage of Trump and who and what he is will overshadow any actual discussion, I have zero idea if from a Constitutional level this is something would actually fall under Executive...

This article makes a very persuasive case why the federal government (and certainly not Trump by his own power) can't try to force state and local authorities to help them enforce immigration laws...

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-what-stephen-miller-said-should-worry-everyone-875968067895 Truly terrifying when an official spokesman openly states that WH authority is "unchallengeable" "will not be questioned", and starts talking about the military...

Well, that didn't take long. Obama's actually had vacations in Hawaii that lasted longer than his respectful silence on his successor's policies. 11 days. That's it. George W. Bush has kept his mouth shut for over 8 years now, and Obama lasted 11 days. And when he opens is yap, he even...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/16/politics/obama-mike-bloomberg-gun-control/index.html If an EO is used to require bkgd checks for all gun transfers, I wonder how it will be worded? Will it only cover sales, or any and all transfers? Will it be as overly strict as the one passed in WA which could...

Wednesday, President Obama signed an Executive Order to impose economic sanctions on anyone involved in "cyber attacks" against US interests. A couple of interesting points. 1) This isn't against nations, but rather focuses on individuals involved in the cyber attacks. So, they can...

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/10/sam_brownbacks_latest_outrage_governor_strips_lgbt_state_employees_of_non_discrimination_protections/ Great guy.

If you don't know, I'm a live voice writer in real life. I use voice recognition software to caption live tv. So this morning I was captioning a local television station that was talking to their "exclusive Washington bureau" -- a bureau they share with several other locals around the country...