Executive Order

(ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. — On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new executive order that will lift a ban on the distribution of certain types of military-style equipment to local law enforcement agencies.

While President Trump is still trying to sort out exactly how to word his executive order,  but the plan is clearly to expand the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and start throwing more detainees into the facility.
The Pentagon’s planning ahead on picking up spending at the site.

Mount Katahdin, the highest peak in Maine, is visible from some locations within the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. The Katahdin monument is one of the 27 under threat by Trump’s executive order. (AP/Patrick Whittle)
With the public comment period ending Monday, there are just hours left for the public to weigh in on President Donald Trump’s order that threatens protections of 27 national monuments designated since 1996.

Miles Treakle, left, of Seattle, holds a sign that reads “Refugees Welcome Ban Trump,” as he protests against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, May 15, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

Demonstrators hold signs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP/Branden Camp)
In a 10-3 en banc ruling, the Fourth Circuit on Thursday upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel from six predominantly Muslim countries.

Immigration activists hold a banner while protesting the GEO Group which is one of the nation’s largest private prison companies and operator of multiple immigration detention centers. (AP/Gosia Wozniacka)
SANTA ANA, Calif.  — U.S. immigration arrests increased nearly 40 percent in early 2017 as newly emboldened agents under President Donald Trump detained more than 40,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally — with a renewed focus on immigrants without criminal convictions.

Donald Trump stands during a service at the International Church of Las Vegas in Las Vegas. President Trump’s move to scrap limits on church political activity could have sweeping effects that extend beyond his conservative supporters. (AP/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order doing away with an IRS rule that says religious organizations and other nonprofits that endorse political candidates risk losing their tax-exempt status.

(ANTIMEDIA) President Donald Trump signed his newest executive order on Thursday. This time, he will seek to expand religious liberties.
Trump’s hand has barely stopped scribbling away at executive orders since he took office in January. In the first week, he signed more orders than any president in 70 years, and that pace has hardly abated.

President Donald Trump listens to a question during a town hall with business leaders in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, April 4, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)
President Trump keeps getting trolled.
Shortly after he was elected and began signing executive orders, the internet had a field day with an image of the president holding a folder containing blank pages.
Trolls photoshopped text into the blank pages in the photograph, mocking the newly-inaugurated head of state.

(ANTIMEDIA) President Donald Trump signed a new executive order last Tuesday, this time directed towards H-1B, or “high skilled,” labor visa holders.