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9:55 AM ET, January 31, 2017

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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 …
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New York Times:
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Who Defied Him  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday night, removing her as the nation's top law enforcement officer after she defiantly refused to defend his executive order closing the nation's borders to refugees …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Under fire, Trump weighs new changes to refugee ban  —  Republican sources tell us that the Department of Homeland Security may issue “implementation guidance” that would allow for softening, and even policy changes, to President Trump's travel restrictions on migrants.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
I Smell Fake News  —  Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama holdover, thrills her future employers by refusing to put the weight of the DoJ behind Trump's travel ban.  Even the Times admits this gesture is somewhat symbolic since she is on her way out and Jeff Sessions is on his way in, but they include this odd detail:
Discussion: Associated Press and CBS Philly
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Trump has fired the acting attorney general who ordered Justice Dept. not to defend president's travel ban  —  President Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night, after Yates ordered Justice Department lawyers Monday not to defend his immigration order temporarily banning entry …
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 …
National Review:
Why Yates Had to Go  —  It is a very simple proposition.  Our Constitution vests all executive power — not some of it, all of it — in the president of the United States.  Executive-branch officials do not have their own power.  They are delegated by the president to execute his power.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Gohmert calls Sally Yates a ‘political hack’  —  Former acting attorney general Sally Yates “showed herself to be a political hack,” Rep. Louie Gohmert said Tuesday morning, loyal not to President Donald Trump but to his predecessor.  —  Yates, a deputy attorney general during …
Los Angeles Times:
White House aides who wrote Trump's travel ban see it as just the start
Discussion: Mother Jones
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Angry Republicans lash out at Trump for not consulting them on travel ban
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Mark Abadi / Business Insider:
Trump fires acting attorney general after she defies him on immigration ban
Discussion: AOL and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Democrats consider backing off big battle over Trump's Supreme Court pick  —  Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats are weighing whether to avoid an all-out war to block President Donald Trump's upcoming Supreme Court pick, instead considering delaying that battle for a future nomination …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Hot Air and Daily Kos
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump ridicules Democrats for equipment failure at rally  —  President Donald Trump mocked Congressional Democrats Tuesday morning over an equipment failure at their Monday night rally, writing on Twitter that the event was “a mess.”  —  “Nancy Pelosi and Fake Tears Chuck Schumer held a rally …
Discussion: Axios
Daily Mail:
NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE?  William Pryor of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Republican Fausts  —  Many Republican members of Congress have made a Faustian bargain with Donald Trump.  They don't particularly admire him as a man, they don't trust him as an administrator, they don't agree with him on major issues, but they respect the grip he has on their voters …
Department of Homeland Security:
Statement from Secretary Kelly on the President's Appointment of Thomas D. Homan as Acting ICE Director  —  WASHINGTON - Today, the president appointed Mr. Thomas D. Homan acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  —  Since 2013, Mr. Homan has served …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Obama's Protections for L.G.B.T. Workers Will Remain Under Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The White House said on Monday that President Trump would leave in place a 2014 Obama administration order that created new workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
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Jeff Taylor / LGBTQ Nation:
Sources: Trump executive order allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination is coming soon
Discussion: Daily Kos and Joe.My.God.
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Can Jared and Ivanka Outrun Donald Trump's Scandals?  —  Less than a fortnight into his new post, Kushner appears unable to control his father-in-law—and is “furious” that his efforts are being undermined.  —  On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump descended upon the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes flanked …
New York Times:
President Bannon?  —  Plenty of presidents have had prominent political advisers, and some of those advisers have been suspected of quietly setting policy behind the scenes (recall Karl Rove or, if your memory stretches back far enough, Dick Morris).  But we've never witnessed a political aide move …
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Associated Press:
In New White House, a Look at Trump's Inner Circle
Discussion: Politico
Mike Allen / Axios:
Team Hillary blames Obama more than Putin  —  The worst-kept secret inside Democratic circles is how bitter Hillary Clinton's team is at President Obama over her election loss.  We have heard from numerous, anguished people in Clinton-land blaming Obama — more than Putin, FBI Director James Comey or …
Discussion: NBC News and The Daily Caller
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.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
How to Build an Autocracy  —  It's 2021, and President Donald Trump will shortly be sworn in for his second term.  The 45th president has visibly aged over the past four years.  He rests heavily on his daughter Ivanka's arm during his infrequent public appearances.
 
 
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Alice Speri / The Intercept:
The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement
Discussion: Boing Boing
Indivisible Kentucky:
Military Flying TRUMP FLAG in Louisville, KY
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump urges Rick Scott to run for prized Florida Senate seat
Discussion: Axios
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Kasich to publish ‘Two Paths,’ a book offering a contrast to Trump's America
Discussion: Political Wire and WDTN-TV
Extra:
Arnold Schwarzenegger Weighs In on President Trump's Immigration Ban: 'It's Crazy'
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
 Earlier Items: 
The Independent:
Donald Trump's ban on travel to the US from some Muslim-majority countries has been denounced …
Discussion: Business Insider
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
Discussion: Washington Post
 

 
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