Trump’s order, and ambiguous direction from the Department of Homeland Security related to the court orders, has raised the specter of a full-on constitutional crisis, in which officers acting on the president’s authority simply ignore an order from the judiciary.
In recent years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has aggressively pushed to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by interpreting the law’s ban on sex discrimination as covering sexual orientation and gender identity.
North Dakota’s new governor, Doug Burgum, shares much with his predecessor, Jack Dalrymple, including support of the hotly contested Dakota Access Pipeline.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to immediately begin plans to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. He’s talked about the wall from day one of his campaign, though the details have varied. We round up some of his statements.
