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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump officials slow-walked court orders on travel ban  —  Hours after a federal judge ordered customs officers to provide lawyers to travelers detained at Dulles airport last Saturday, senior Trump administration officials instructed the guards to give the travelers phone numbers …
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Yahoo:
Trump fumes, vows to act, after judge lifts travel ban  —  WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denounced a judge who lifted a travel ban for citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries, vowing that his government would reinstate it as affected travelers scrambled …
Discussion: The Hill
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump lashes out at ‘so-called judge’ who temporarily blocked travel ban  —  President Trump on Saturday morning ripped into a federal judge's decision to temporarily block enforcement of his controversial travel ban.  —  “When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot …
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
DOJ seeking emergency stay of federal judge's ‘outrageous order’  —  The Justice Department will ask for an emergency stay to honor President Trump's executive action on immigration admissions, the White House's Office of the Press Secretary said in a statement late Friday.
Discussion: IJR
Associated Press:
The Latest: Demonstrators Protest Trump's Travel Ban
CNN:
Federal judge temporarily halts Trump travel ban nationwide
Associated Press:
Trump Lashes out a Federal Judge Over Ruling on Travel Ban
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's entry order nationwide
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump's immigration order  —  On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 28, as airport protests raged over President Trump's executive order on immigration, the man charged with implementing the order, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, had a plan.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's First Weeks Leave Washington— and the White House Staff—Panting  —  President's freewheeling style and a torrent of meetings and executive orders created turmoil, forcing him to clarify staff roles; 'we're cracking some eggs here'  —  President Donald Trump wasn't happy.
Discussion: Axios
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
CNN turns down White House offer of Kellyanne Conway to appear on Sunday shows: report
Eli Stokols / Politico:   The method to President Trump's madness
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
8 million people could be deported under Trump's immigration order  —  Migrants from Guatemala receive instructions from a local law enforcement official after they crossed the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas, in 2014.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
The Daily Caller:
Look Who Funds The Group Behind The Call To Arms At Milo's Berkeley Event  —  The left-wing group that helped organize the violent shut down of the Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday is backed by a progressive charity that is in turn funded by George Soros …
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Tristan Lejeune / The Hill:
BuzzFeed sued over unverified Trump dossier  —  BuzzFeed faces a new lawsuit over its publication of an unverified dossier of claims against President Trump and others, McClatchy reported Friday evening.  —  McClatchy says XBT Holdings, a tech firm with Russian ties named in the document …
Austin Wright / Politico:
DeVos opposition snowballs into avalanche  —  Adversaries of Betsy DeVos are mounting a furious last-minute bid to sink her nomination for Education secretary, with tactics that include a “tie-breaker telethon” in Alaska, a flood of emails to U.S. senators and celebrity appeals to millions of Twitter followers.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Maggie Hassan / New York Times:
Why I Won't Vote for Betsy DeVos
Discussion: PhillyVoice and ThinkProgress
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
How protesters plan to get under Trump's skin wherever he goes  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Saturday evening march will begin at Trump Plaza, a high-rise apartment building.  President Trump actually hasn't owned the place since 1991.  Fine.  It still has the name.  It's a good place to start.
Anna Palmer / Politico:
TV networks hiking ad rates for shows Trump watches  —  MSNBC and Fox News are capitalizing on President Donald Trump's TV watching habits, dramatically increasing issue advocacy advertising rates in recent weeks as companies and outside groups try to influence Trump and his top lieutenants.
Discussion: Hot Air
New York Daily News:
SEE IT: New Yorkers hold mock vigil at Bowling Green for ‘massacre’ victims as Kellyanne Conway ripped for bogus claim  —  New Yorkers can be a sentimental — and satirical — bunch.  —  That's why it was no surprise that an impromptu vigil was held Friday honoring the Bowling Green massacre victims that never were.
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs  —  American greatness was long premised on the common assumption was that each generation would do better than previous one.  That is being undermined for the emerging millennial generation.
Discussion: Instapundit
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Hundreds plan to moon Trump Tower in protest  —  Hundreds have responded to a Facebook “Chicago moons Trump Tower” event, during which protesters plan to drop their trousers in front of Trump Tower Chicago.  —  According to the Facebook page for the event titled “Operation “Kiss Our Asses …
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Donald Trump might be more popular than you think  —  Just how popular is Donald Trump?  Two weeks into the new president's term, it's a matter of some dispute.  —  Traditional phone polls that use live interviewers — including some of the most trusted polls in politics and media …
 
 
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