Trump picked Leah B. Foley, a longtime federal prosecutor who has investigated money laundering and drug trafficking, to lead the US Attorney’s office for Mass.
The revoked order targeted by Trump, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order No. 11246, represented a watershed moment in civil rights enforcement when originally signed. President Barack Obama expanded the order in 2014 to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Another controversial executive order Trump signed was one aiming to cut off birthright citizenship. Critics immediately pounced on Trump, arguing people born in the United States are granted citizenship under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment even if their birth parents migrated here illegally.
Trump signed his first wave of executive orders around 7 p.m. Monday, after his swearing-in ceremony a parade, and before the inaugural balls.
"Trump really just said, 'Free expression will no longer be limited,' and 'There are now only two genders, male and female' in the same breath."
With concerns of President Donald Trump’s policies targeting the LGBTQ+ community looming, lawyers advise individuals on actions to take to guarantee their rights.
President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain - including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform.
President Donald Trump wasted no time signing an executive order Monday that aims to give him more control over the federal workforce – whom he has long vilified as the “deep state.”
Donald Trump axed all that yesterday as he signed a flurry of new executive orders. One of his first actions was to rescind 78 Biden-era executive actions, including Executive Order 14110 on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.”
A Touro Law Center professor who also serves as the school's associate dean of diversity and inclusion said the order likely will be challenged.
CNN’s senior data reporter Harry Enten named the executive order that Donald Trump has signed this week that may lead to his “honeymoon period” as president already being over. Trump on his first day back in office Monday ordered the end of birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.