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11:00 PM ET, January 30, 2017

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Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: Justice Dept. will not defend executive order on travel restrictions  —  Federal lawsuit filed against travel ban  —  Washington (CNN)The acting Attorney General Sally Yates has told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending President Donald Trump's executive order …
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New York Times:
Acting Attorney General Orders Justice Dept. Not to Defend Refugee Ban  —  WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, ordered the Justice Department on Monday not to defend President Trump's executive order on immigration in court.
New York Times:
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday after she defiantly refused to defend his immigration executive order, accusing the Democratic holdover of trying to obstruct his agenda for political reasons.
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Trump has fired the acting attorney general who ordered Justice Dept. not to defend president's travel ban  —  President Trump fired Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night, after Yates ordered Justice Department lawyers Monday not to defend his immigration order temporarily banning entry …
Washington Post:
Trump's hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions
Axios:
Full statement on attorney general firing
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
Trump Fires Justice Dept. Head Over Executive Order Defiance
Streiff / RedState:   Obama Holdover Refuses To Allow Justice To Defend Trump's Refugee Ban
The Guardian:
Trump fires acting attorney general who said travel ban was not lawful - live
Discussion: Power Line, Vox, Discourse.net and Big Think
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Hill staffers secretly worked on Trump's immigration order  —  Senior staffers on the House Judiciary Committee helped Donald Trump's top aides draft the executive order curbing immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, but the Republican committee chairman and party leadership were not informed …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Angry Republicans lash out at Trump for not consulting them on travel ban  —  President Trump's temporary ban on refugees and other foreigners has significantly deepened fissures in his already fragile relationship with congressional Republicans, as GOP leaders on Capitol Hill complained angrily Monday …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
The Intercept:
Suspect in Quebec Mosque Attack Quickly Depicted as a Moroccan Muslim.  He's a White Nationalist.  —  A mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque last night left six people dead and eight wounded.  The targeted mosque, the Cultural Islamic Center of Quebec, was the same one at which a severed pig's head was left during Ramadan last June.
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Globe and Mail:
Quebec City mosque attack suspect known for right-wing online posts  —  The suspect in the deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque was known in the city's activist circles as a right-wing troll who frequently took anti-foreigner and anti-feminist positions and stood up for U.S. President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Fox News, IJR and BuzzFeed
New York Times:
Killings at Quebec City Mosque Force Canadians to Confront a Strain of Intolerance
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Dems will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee  —  Senate Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick no matter who the president chooses to fill the current vacancy.  —  With Trump prepared to announce his nominee on Tuesday evening …
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Daily Mail:
NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE?  William Pryor of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
Bwittes / Lawfare:
BREAKING NEWS: Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order  —  Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees. … Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban
CNN:
How the Trump administration chose the 7 countries in the immigration executive order  —  (CNN)The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump's executive order on immigration were initially identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.
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Jon Finer / Foreign Policy:
Sorry, Mr. President: The Obama Administration Did Nothing Similar to Your Immigration Ban
Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump administration to allow 872 refugees into U.S. this week - document
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama supports protests: ‘American values are at stake’  —  Barack Obama spoke out Monday afternoon against his successor — and in support of the protests opposing President Donald Trump — with a spokesman saying the former president thinks they're “citizens exercising their Constitutional right …
Wall Street Journal:
Homeland Security Chief and White House Clash  —  Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has clashed with the White House over staffing and other decisions, people familiar with the matter say, leaving DHS without a No. 2 during a chaotic weekend at the nation's airports.
Discussion: Political Wire
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded.  —  “This will be the biggest such act …
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New York Times:
Republicans Have One Big Incentive to Stick With Trump  —  Despite the growing protests against President Trump's executive action on refugees and other people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, relatively few members of his party have spoken out against the policy — a familiar pattern since the election.
Discussion: Washington Post
James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
Rep. Tom Price Got Privileged, Discounted Offer on Biomedical Stock, Company Says  —  Rep. Tom Price got a privileged offer to buy a biomedical stock at a discount, the company's officials said, contrary to his congressional testimony this month.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
A Dangerously Isolated President  —  The Presidential order that Donald Trump signed on Friday barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the United States was reviewed by virtually no one.  The State Department did not help craft it, nor the Defense Department, nor Justice.
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Associated Press:
In New White House, a Look at Trump's Inner Circle
Discussion: Politico
David Frum / The Atlantic:
How to Build an Autocracy  —  It's 2021, and President Donald Trump will shortly be sworn in for his second term.  The 45th president has visibly aged over the past four years.  He rests heavily on his daughter Ivanka's arm during his infrequent public appearances.
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Support Temporary Ban on Newcomers from Terrorist Havens  —  Most voters approve of President Trump's temporary halt to refugees and visitors from several Middle Eastern and African countries until the government can do a better job of keeping out individuals who are terrorist threats.
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee to Roast Trump on Same Night as Correspondents' Dinner  —  The annual custom of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner suddenly seems uncomfortable if not untenable: Journalists mingling with Trump administration aides who loathe them, celebrities decrying Trump White House policies …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
White House considers reversing LGBT protections for federal workers  —  The White House is embroiled in a debate over whether to reverse some key protections the Obama administration extended to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers, according to several people briefed on the process.
Discussion: The White House and Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Associated Press:
Boy Scouts to allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll
Discussion: RedState and The Week
STAT:
After Trump order, hospitals scramble to aid patients planning to travel to US for care
Discussion: Morning Consult, Axios and The Atlantic
Alex Weprin / Politico:
Fox News' Sean Hannity: The media 'doesn't understand' Donald Trump
Discussion: Mediaite
Aaron Gregg / Washington Post:
Trump says Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from F-35 program
Justin Salhani / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman cultivating ties with anti-Muslim parties across Europe
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump on Schumer's tears: Who is his acting coach?
Discussion: Daily Kos and ABC News
Anna Yukhananov / Morning Consult:
Approval Ratings for Obamacare Jump With Law on Chopping Block
Discussion: CNBC, Vox, Hit & Run and Politicus USA
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Koch network could serve as potent resistance in Trump era
Discussion: Hot Air, Axios and East Bay Times
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
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