memeorandum: GOP lawmakers look to penalize refugee resettlement charities (Howard Fischer Capitol/Arizona Daily Sun)

11:30 AM ET, February 4, 2017

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Cyra Master / The Hill:

Report: Customs and Border Protection tells airlines ‘back to business as usual’ — Customs and Border Protection told major U.S. airlines Friday night they should go “back to business as usual” after a federal judge issued a temporary nationwide restraining order stopping President Trump's …

Discussion: Politico, Just Security, Liberty Unyielding, TheBlaze, Patterico's Pontifications, The Gateway Pundit, Q13 FOX News and twitchy.com

CNN:

Federal judge temporarily halts Trump travel ban nationwide — Washington (CNN)A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump's immigration executive order effective nationwide Friday, a significant setback for the controversial travel ban. — Federal Judge James Robart …

Discussion: Associated Press, USA Today, Q13 FOX News, IJR, alan.com, TheBlaze, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Boing Boing, The Week, twitchy.com, ThinkProgress and ImmigrationProf Blog

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 …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Mediaite, Deadline, The Guardian, Raw Story, Business Insider, Politicus USA, Joe.My.God., New York's PIX11, Jamie Dupree, CBS Boston, BizPac Review, The Week, Vox, DCist and Al Jazeera English

Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's entry order nationwide — A federal judge in Washington state declared Friday that he would temporarily block enforcement of President Trump's controversial ban on entry to the United States — a ruling that appears to be broader than others before it …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, NPR and Balloon Juice

Associated Press:

Trump Lashes out a Federal Judge Over Ruling on Travel Ban — President Donald Trump lashed out Saturday at “this so-called judge” who put a nationwide hold on his executive order denying entry to the U.S. to refugees and people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Discussion: Politico and ABC News

Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico: Trump officials slow-walked court orders on travel ban

Alan Yuhas / The Guardian:
Travel ban in disarray as airlines told they can board barred passengers - reports

Discussion: Associated Press and alan.com

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge issues broad block against Trump's travel ban

Discussion: Hot Air and Politicus USA

Christine Wang / CNBC:
Seattle federal judge grants temporary restraining order on immigration ban on nationwide basis

Discussion: ABC News, KTLA and Axios

Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Stops Enforcement Of Trump Refugee And Travel Ban Nationwide

Discussion: Townhall.com, Washington Post, United States Courts, The Times of Israel, 6, ABC News, BizPac Review, Daily Kos, The Guardian and CNN

New York Times:
Court Temporarily Blocks Trump's Travel Ban, and Airlines Are Told to Allow Passengers

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, Political Wire, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Guardian, Mother Jones, High Country News and Washington Post

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

Eli Stokols / Politico:

The method to President Trump's madness — Donald Trump's first two weeks have been a frenetic sprint that has unsettled Washington and left a rattled world wondering what's next. — Trump's White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is the provocateur who has engineered …

Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Trump aides hold ‘Kumbaya meeting’ with reporters

Discussion: The Atlantic and AOL

Leo Shane III / Military Times:

Trump's pick for Army Secretary drops out — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Army abruptly withdrew his name from consideration late Friday night, citing his inability to get around strict Defense Department rules concerning his family businesses.

Discussion: New York Times, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, BuzzFeed, Washington Post and NBC News

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 …

Discussion: RedState, McClatchy Washington Bureau and TheBlaze

Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney:
Russian tech exec sues Buzzfeed for publishing unverified Trump dossier

Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire — Just days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald J. Trump stood beside his tax lawyer at a Midtown Manhattan news conference as she announced that he planned to place his vast business holdings in a trust …

Discussion: Washington Post

Howard Fischer Capitol / Arizona Daily Sun:

GOP lawmakers look to penalize refugee resettlement charities — PHOENIX — Unable to block the federal government from sending refugees to Arizona, six Republican lawmakers want to penalize the charities that help them resettle here. — Sen. Judy Burges of Sun City West, who is leading the effort …

Discussion: Political Wire and Politicus USA

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 …

Discussion: In the Name of Humanity …, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit and IJR

Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:

Kellyanne Conway Admits ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Error — Kellyanne Conway, the adviser to President Trump who coined the phrase “alternative facts,” is facing another firestorm of criticism and fact-checking after she falsely spoke of a “Bowling Green massacre” by Iraqi refugees.

Erin Gloria Ryan / The Daily Beast:

Trump Just Declared Open Season on Suckers — If the 2016 election was a national litmus test to see just how many suckers live in this country, the next round of President Trump's executive orders are going to make sure those millions of suckers are taken for every last penny.

Discussion: Bloomberg and Balloon Juice

Nick Juliano / Politico:
GOP assault on Obama's regs is just beginning

Discussion: Axios

Amy Brittain / Washington Post:

Eric Trump's business trip to Uruguay cost taxpayers $97,830 in hotel bills — When the president-elect's son, Eric Trump, jetted to Uruguay in early January for a Trump Organization promotional trip, U.S. taxpayers were left footing a bill of nearly $100,000 in hotel rooms for Secret Service and embassy staff.

Discussion: Althouse, The Hill, Balloon Juice, Mediaite, ABC News, Daily Kos, Raw Story, twitchy.com, Axios and Political Wire

Danny Vinik / Politico:

The little-noticed bombshell in Trump's immigration order — When President Donald Trump issued his executive order on immigration last week, it was the travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries that dominated headlines—leaving hundreds of people in limbo, provoking airport protests …

Discussion: Raw Story and Politicus USA