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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley President Donald Trump dismissed acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday night, after she ordered government lawyers not to defend his executive order on refugees. In a brazen act of defiance that cost her the post, Yates said she could not enforce a policy that is not…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Pakistan’s political opposition leader called for his country to be included in President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from certain Muslim countries Sunday, claiming it would be helpful in keeping educated youth inside the country. Pakistan, a U.S. ally, was not listed as one of the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell Members of the Department of State are challenging President Donald Trump’s latest immigration policies. Trump signed an executive order Friday barring citizens of seven terror-prone, majority-Muslim countries from the U.S. Numerous consular professionals, foreign service officers, and civil servants have since drafted a dissent memo criticizing the order, Lawfare reports. The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Elias J. Atienza Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) said that the Constitution doesn’t “apply to people who have not yet come to our country” in an interview with Andrew Wilkow, host of the “Wilkow Majority.” Speaking on President Donald Trump‘s executive orders on immigration, Paul argued that the United States has…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Bob Ferguson, the Attorney General for the State of Washington, has said he will sue the Trump Administration over an executive order that suspended immigration from seven countries with majority-Muslim populations and sparked nationwide protests, reports the LA Times. Ferguson announced his lawsuit Monday, making Washington state the first to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Secretary of Defense James Mattis is reportedly asking for Iraqis who have helped the U.S. military to be made exempt from the recently imposed 90-day travel ban. A Pentagon official told The Washington Examiner that Mattis wants Iraqi interpreters and pilots traveling to the U.S. to learn…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Chris White Environmentalists accused the head of the company behind the contentious Dakota Access Pipeline of committing genocide during demonstrations against a Texas oil pipeline. Tane Ward, the organizing manager for environmentalist group Sierra Club, directed a series of protests at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission’s meeting in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Senate Democrats will attempt to block President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, regardless of who the president selects to fill the vacancy. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley told Politico he will filibuster any nominee Trump puts forward, unless the nominee is Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Former President Barack Obama has released a statement supporting the protests going on around the country. He spoke out against discrimination based on race or religion, saying “American values are at stake.” Politico reports that Kevin Lewis, spokesman for Obama in his post-presidency, said that Obama — who has been threading…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Duke University faculty and leadership vowed to help protect international students from President Donald Trump, according to a Monday report from the Charlotte Observer. The decision came after Trump signed the executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, including Iraq and Iran. A recent industry study revealed that over…