executive orders

“In America,” wrote the Our Revolution team in a mass e-mail this morning, “we often make the mistake of overvaluing the importance of individual leaders and undervaluing the impact of grassroots movements.

Despite portraying himself as a “master negotiator” throughout last year’s campaign, Donald Trump as president has come to rely increasingly on the issuance of executive orders instead of brokering deals — whether bipartisan or within his own majority party — to meet his policy goals.

The Federal Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against portions of President Trump’s Executive Order that bans entry of individuals from six African and Middle Eastern countries. Luckily, the court's opinion have been citing Cato's sound reasoning about the legal and constitutional problems with the order.

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The controversial Muslim ban proposal was removed on Monday from the campaign website of US President Donald Trump months after two executive orders barring citizens of several Muslim-majority countries were stalled by legal challenges.

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

(ANTIMEDIA) While we were distracted by the onslaught of executive orders President Trump pushed through during his first two weeks in office, legislators in Congress were busy quietly introducing legislation to bolster his top-down moves.
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(ANTIMEDIA) A day after President Trump signed into law three executive orders to combat what he called “the menace of rising crime” — including one designed to protect police — a group of law enforcement professionals published a report on Friday urging the newly elected U.S. leader to rethink his crime-fighting strategy.

Trump signs executive action to withdraw the US from the TPP.

21st Century Wire says…
In a recent interview former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, told Fox that Trump will likely be vetoing out the majority of executive orders made by Obama.