Top Items:
New York Times:
Acting Attorney General Orders Justice Dept. Not to Defend Refugee Ban — WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, ordered the Justice Department on Monday not to defend President Trump's executive order on immigration in court.
Discussion:
JustOneMinute, Talking Points Memo, Lawfare, Refinery29, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Instapundit and ImmigrationProf Blog
RELATED:
Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: Justice Dept. will not defend executive order on travel restrictions — Federal lawsuit filed against travel ban — Washington (CNN)The acting Attorney General Sally Yates has told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending President Donald Trump's executive order …
Bwittes / Lawfare:
BREAKING NEWS: Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order — Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees. … Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats …
Discussion:
The Intercept, The Guardian, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Politico, Above the Law, The Atlantic, NPR, The Daily Caller, Washington Monthly, American Power, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, Hot Air and Axios
New York Times:
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General — WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday after she defiantly refused to defend his immigration executive order, accusing the Democratic holdover of trying to obstruct his agenda for political reasons.
Discussion:
Politico, RedState, Political Wire, Associated Press, Taylor Marsh, New York's PIX11, Deadline, New Urban Legends, Althouse, CBS Philly, Mediaite and Foreign Policy
Washington Post:
Trump's hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions — In jagged black strokes, President Trump's signature was scribbled onto a catalogue of executive orders over the past 10 days that translated the hard-line promises of his campaign into the policies of his government.
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and Axios
Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban
Discussion:
Politico, Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo and Associated Press
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Hill staffers secretly worked on Trump's immigration order — Senior staffers on the House Judiciary Committee helped Donald Trump's top aides draft the executive order curbing immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, but the Republican committee chairman and party leadership were not informed …
Discussion:
RedState, Associated Press and Daily Kos
RELATED:
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Angry Republicans lash out at Trump for not consulting them on travel ban — President Trump's temporary ban on refugees and other foreigners has significantly deepened fissures in his already fragile relationship with congressional Republicans, as GOP leaders on Capitol Hill complained angrily Monday …
Discussion:
Balloon Juice
The Intercept:
Suspect in Quebec Mosque Attack Quickly Depicted as a Moroccan Muslim. He's a White Nationalist. — A mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque last night left six people dead and eight wounded. The targeted mosque, the Cultural Islamic Center of Quebec, was the same one at which a severed pig's head was left during Ramadan last June.
Discussion:
Daily Mail, Fox News, New York Times, Business Insider, CBC News, Breitbart, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Raw Story, AOL, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Mediaite, Vox Popoli and NBC News
RELATED:
Globe and Mail:
Quebec City mosque attack suspect known for right-wing online posts — The suspect in the deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque was known in the city's activist circles as a right-wing troll who frequently took anti-foreigner and anti-feminist positions and stood up for U.S. President Donald Trump.
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Fox News, BuzzFeed and IJR
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Dems will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee — Senate Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick no matter who the president chooses to fill the current vacancy. — With Trump prepared to announce his nominee on Tuesday evening …
Discussion:
Above the Law, Politicus USA, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, The Hill, WOOD-TV, LifeNews.com, The Daily Caller, Booman Tribune, Vox, Mother Jones, Guns.com, Hot Air, TheBlaze, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Week, Axios, twitchy.com, Viking Pundit and Fox News
RELATED:
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama supports protests: ‘American values are at stake’ — Barack Obama spoke out Monday afternoon against his successor — and in support of the protests opposing President Donald Trump — with a spokesman saying the former president thinks they're “citizens exercising their Constitutional right …
Discussion:
MichelleMalkin.com, ABC News, Joe.My.God., Daily Kos, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Fox News Insider, Althouse, Political Wire and Refinery29
RELATED:
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
White House considers reversing LGBT protections for federal workers
White House considers reversing LGBT protections for federal workers
Discussion:
The White House and Joe.My.God.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Obama ‘fundamentally disagrees’ with Trump's immigration order
Obama ‘fundamentally disagrees’ with Trump's immigration order
Discussion:
NBC News, NPR, CBS Philly, IJR and FOX31 Denver
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded. — “This will be the biggest such act …
Discussion:
ABC News, The Atlantic, Vox, Eduwonk, Hullabaloo, Joe.My.God. and The Hill
RELATED:
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
Discussion:
Power Line, ThinkProgress, Fortune, US News, Hit & Run, The Atlantic, Washington Post, AOL, STAT, Discourse.net, Business Insider and Morning Consult
Ayesha Rascoe / Yahoo:
Trump signs executive order to slash regulations
Trump signs executive order to slash regulations
Discussion:
John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, IJR and Vox Popoli
Jon Finer / Foreign Policy:
Sorry, Mr. President: The Obama Administration Did Nothing Similar to Your Immigration Ban — There are so many reasons to detest the Donald Trump administration's executive order on “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” that it's hard to know where to start.
Discussion:
Vox, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Department of Homeland …, The Guardian, Daily Kos, TheBlaze, The Atlantic, Media Matters for America, Hit & Run, New York Times, Bloomberg, The Week, Breitbart, Townhall.com, Mother Jones, BillMoyers.com, BuzzFeed, Infowars, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and The Moderate Voice
RELATED:
CNN:
How the Trump administration chose the 7 countries in the immigration executive order
How the Trump administration chose the 7 countries in the immigration executive order
Discussion:
Slate, The Atlantic, TheBlaze, KTLA, The Federalist, The Daily Signal, Hit & Run, Washington Post, twitchy.com and Mashable
Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump administration to allow 872 refugees into U.S. this week - document
New York Times:
Republicans Have One Big Incentive to Stick With Trump — Despite the growing protests against President Trump's executive action on refugees and other people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, relatively few members of his party have spoken out against the policy — a familiar pattern since the election.
Discussion:
Washington Post
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
A Dangerously Isolated President — The Presidential order that Donald Trump signed on Friday barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the United States was reviewed by virtually no one. The State Department did not help craft it, nor the Defense Department, nor Justice.
Discussion:
Washington Post, Yonatan Zunger, The Guardian, WTKR-TV, Salon, New York Times, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, The Huffington Post, War on the Rocks, Shakesville and BuzzFeed
RELATED:
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Support Temporary Ban on Newcomers from Terrorist Havens — Most voters approve of President Trump's temporary halt to refugees and visitors from several Middle Eastern and African countries until the government can do a better job of keeping out individuals who are terrorist threats.
Discussion:
VDARE, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
Rep. Tom Price Got Privileged, Discounted Offer on Biomedical Stock, Company Says — Rep. Tom Price got a privileged offer to buy a biomedical stock at a discount, the company's officials said, contrary to his congressional testimony this month.
Discussion:
Business Insider, Vox, Talking Points Memo, Axios and Political Wire
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee to Roast Trump on Same Night as Correspondents' Dinner — The annual custom of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner suddenly seems uncomfortable if not untenable: Journalists mingling with Trump administration aides who loathe them, celebrities decrying Trump White House policies …
Aaron Gregg / Washington Post:
Trump says Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from F-35 program — President Trump said Monday that Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from its next lot of 90 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes, capping weeks of private meetings with Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson and public criticisms of the program's cost.
Discussion:
Mother Jones
RELATED:
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump claims Lockheed Martin cut $600 million off cost of F-35 joint strike fighter
Trump claims Lockheed Martin cut $600 million off cost of F-35 joint strike fighter
Discussion:
Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Axios