Trump-Pence administration/week 01
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Week 0: 2017-01-27 – 2017-02-03
2017-01-27 (Day 8, Fri)
- New Trump Executive Order Says Federal Agencies Should Exclude Foreigners From Privacy Protections (via)
- immigration ban:
2017-01-29 (Day 10, Sun)
- President Trump's First Defeat - re Muslim immigration order
- Department Of Homeland Security Response To Recent Litigation "The Department of Homeland Security will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders..."
2017-01-30 (Day 11, Mon)
- Trial Balloon for a Coup? by Yonatan Zunger - re Muslim immigration order
- Google employees staged a protest over Trump’s immigration ban - re Muslim immigration order
- Trump orders "1 in, 2 out" rule for federal regulations
- Trump Fires Attorney General Sally Yates for Refusal to Support Muslim Ban
- 2017-01-31 That Time Jeff Sessions Asked Sally Yates If She Would Follow An Unlawful Order And She Was Like 'Nah' (via): apparently Jeff Sessions believed it was very important for the Attorney General not to follow illegal presidential orders when the president was Obama, but is now on the side which agrees she should have been fired for refusing illegal orders from Trump (though it's not clear whether Sessions himself has overtly taken this position).
- When Muslims Got Blocked at Airports, US Veterans Rushed to Help (via)
2017-01-31 (Day 12, Tue)
- Trump trip canceled; Harley-Davidson wasn't comfortable with likely protests, per source (via)
- Homeland Security's Kelly Defends Trump Travel Ban
- New York priest tells anti-Trump protesters to commit suicide (via), but it was just a joke
- House Moves to Encourage Drilling in National Parks (via)
- Police Unions Head To DC To Ask New President, Attorney General To Stop Making Cops Respect The Constitution (via): apparently inspired by Trump's "Standing Up for Our Law Enforcement Community" edict (date uncertain)
- Dems boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees (via) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) doesn't understand why