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Sareen Habeshian / Axios:
Police union that endorsed Trump blasts Jan. 6 pardons … - “Allowing those convicted of these crimes to be released early diminishes accountability and devalues the sacrifices made by courageous law enforcement officers and their families,” per the statement.
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump May Come to Regret His Jan. 6 Pardons.  Here's Why.  —  The potential for political backlash is real — now and in the future.  —  Even though President Donald Trump had vowed to deliver pardons to those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the Capitol, his sweeping clemency for roughly 1,500 people was stunning.
Robert Plummer / BBC:
Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon  —  One of the people who served jail time for taking part in the US Capitol riot four years ago has refused a pardon from President Donald Trump, saying: “We were wrong that day.”  —  Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced …
Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story and RTÉ
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pardons the Jan. 6 Cop Beaters  —  Law and order?  Back the blue?  What happened to that GOP?  —  Republicans are busy denouncing President Biden's pre-emptive pardons for his family and political allies, and deservedly so.  But then it's a shame you don't hear many, if any …
Randall Eliason / Sidebars:
The January 6 Pardons  —  I didn't want to believe he'd actually do it.  —  On his first day in office, President Trump pardoned nearly 1300 defendants convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.  He granted a full, unconditional pardon to nearly all of them …
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Raskin: Pardoned Jan. 6 rioters ‘a reserve army of political foot soldiers’  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) slammed President Trump's decision to grant sweeping pardons to those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, suggesting they are “political foot soldiers” for Trump.
Discussion: The Independent
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Trump's blanket Jan. 6 pardons stun Republicans on Capitol Hill
Discussion: Alternet.org
Washington Post:
Clemency for Oath Keepers, Proud Boys fuels extremism threat, experts say
Discussion: USA Today and Al Jazeera
NPR:
Trump gave pardons to hundreds of violent Jan. 6 rioters. Here's what they did
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Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Trump launches savage attack on bishop who asked for ‘mercy’ for minorities  —  U.S. president calls the clergywoman a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater,” “ungracious,” “nasty” and “not compelling or smart.”  —  U.S. President Donald Trump hit out Wednesday at a bishop who directly called …
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Trump demands apology, criticizes bishop's prayer service remarks  —  President Trump early Wednesday morning slammed the reverend at a National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration who called on him to have mercy on transgender children and immigrant families.
Reuters:
Trump threatens Russia, others with sanctions if Ukraine deal not reached  —  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Russia “and other participating countries” with taxes, tariffs and sanctions if a deal to end the war in Ukraine is not struck soon.
Haley Byrd Wilt / NOTUS:
Republican Senators Seem Willing to Endure the ‘Challenge’ of Trump's Proposed Tariffs  —  Trump suggested Monday he'd put 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, two of the U.S's top trading partners.  — Copy  —  President Donald Trump is getting closer to blowing up the trade agreement …
Discussion: CNN, Alternet.org, CBS News and Breitbart
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:   Republicans Don't Seem Interested In Probing Donald Trump's Family Business
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Seethes as Bishop Calls Him Out in Heartfelt Plea
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Examiner:
Trump blasts bishop who gave sermon at inaugural prayer service
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Elon Musk's salute falls flat: Why far-right trolling isn't working this time around  —  As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said to defenders of Musk's provocation, “People can officially stop listening to you”  —  One thing that's easy enough to see about Elon Musk's infamous hand gesture …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, Bloomberg and DNyuz
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Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
The missing context from the Elon Musk salute  —  We can't have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.  —  Having never met Elon Musk, I can't rule out the possibility that the man deliberately gave a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration parade.
Kate Connolly / The Guardian:
‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk's apparent Nazi salute
Associated Press:
Justice Department directs prosecutors to probe local efforts to obstruct immigration enforcement  —  The Justice Department is directing its federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration …
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Washington Post:
Justice Department says it will prosecute local officials over immigration enforcement
Discussion: Politico and USA Today
Washington Post:
Trump officials pause health agencies' communications, citing review  —  The agencies are charged with making decisions that touch the lives of every American and are the source of crucial information to health-care providers.  —  The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies …
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CNN:   Trump administration directs federal health agencies to pause communications
Associated Press:
Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave  —  President Donald Trump 's administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off.
Jenna McLaughlin / NPR:
Trump pardons dark web marketplace creator Ross Ulbricht  —  President Trump fulfilled a campaign promise to Libertarian supporters on his second day back in office by pardoning the former creator and owner of an underground e-commerce website known for drug trafficking.
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New York Times:
Trump Pardons Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Multiple lawsuits challenge Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship  —  Two groups of Democratic state attorneys general, representing 22 states, along with Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at restricting birthright citizenship.
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Mike Catalini / Associated Press:
22 states sue to stop Trump's order blocking birthright citizenship
Oliver Darcy / Status:
Thompson's Trump Talk  —  Ahead of Inauguration Day, CNN chief Mark Thompson convened his top journalists for a meeting in which he provided guidance about how he wanted the affair covered. … Staff meetings before major news events are typical for the network.
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
KKK distributes flyers in Kentucky telling immigrants to ‘leave now’  —  Documents, including phone number and invitation to ‘join us’, distributed same day Trump took office  —  Kentucky police are investigating after a series of racist Ku Klux Klan flyers telling immigrants to “leave now” …
The White House:
Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose.  Longstanding Federal civil-rights laws protect individual Americans …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
How TikTok is burnishing Trump's strongman image  —  If you kiss the ring hard enough, laws disappear.  —  You're forgiven for forgetting about TikTok for the last couple of days, what with the horrorshow avalanche of executive orders and gleeful deployment of Nazi salutes (plural!) from the world's richest man.
Discussion: New York Post and Politico
 
 
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Bishop Asks Trump to ‘Have Mercy’ During Sermon
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
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LSU law professor removed from classes amid investigation into alleged political comments
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