Protests erupt over travel ban

President Donald Trump's travel ban barring citizens of seven predominantly Muslim nations entry into the U.S. has sparked protests around the country Saturday night and early Sunday morning. At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, about 3,000 protesters holding signs and chanting "no hatred, no fear, immigrants are welcome here" and "let them in" gathered Saturday evening and continued demonstrating into early Sunday morning.

Tears, detentions greet U.S. travelers

Family reunions were blocked, refugees from war-torn countries were turned away and border agents detained scores of unsuspecting travelers at airports as the U.S. began a chaotic implementation of President Donald Trump's plan to fight terrorism by temporarily stopping citizens of seven nations from entering the country. By Saturday night, a federal judge in New York had issued an order temporarily blocking the government from deporting people with valid visas who arrived after Trump's travel ban took effect.

The Sadism of Racist Exclusion: Courts Temporarily Block Trump

Picking on immigrants and refugees is the act of a sadistic bully, since they are the one fairly large group of residents of the United States whose constitutional rights are disputed. The executive order Trump signed late on Friday suspending entrance to the United States for citizens of seven countries and cancelling the US refugee program for four months is probably illegal.

This week at progressive state blogs: Activism surges; who gets naming rights to ‘The Wall’?

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Trump’s anti-refugee policies are illegal – thanks to the GOP’s war on birth control

"When, in writing for the majority of the Court, I adopt a general rule, and say, 'This is the basis of our decision,'" the late Justice Antonin Scalia once warned, " I not only constrain lower courts, I constrain myself as well ." For, "if the next case should have such different facts that my political or policy preferences regarding the outcome are quite the opposite, I will be unable to indulge those preferences."

The Injustices of Manning’s Ordeal

The video leaked by Chelsea Manning, titled Collateral Murder, depicted the killing of more than a dozen men, including two Reuters staffers, and the wounding of others, including small children. After overseeing the aggressive prosecution and near-seven-year incarceration of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, President Obama - in one of his last acts in office - commuted all but four months of her remaining sentence but ignored the fact that he had taken no action on the war crimes that Manning revealed.

GOP Attack on Women Continues With House Vote to Deny Abortion Coverage

Anti-choice House Republicans on Tuesday voted to further curtail U.S. women's healthcare access, passing a draconian bill that permanently bans the use of federal funds for abortion and prohibits anyone who receives subsidies to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act from purchasing a plan that covers abortion. "The goal of this bill is clear: to end any and all insurance coverage of abortion and make abortion financially out of reach, even in cases where a woman's health is in danger," Planned Parenthood said in a statement .

The 70-foot, hand-painted banner appeared to hang above the White House for several hours.

Greenpeace activists have unfurled a 70-foot, hand-painted banner declaring "RESIST" from atop a 270-foot construction crane facing the White House, demonstrating to President Donald Trump that his anti-environment, anti-women, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-immigrant policies are going to be met with a sustained popular resistance . The action involved seven people-including the chair of Greenpeace's board of directors-and was also meant as a call to arms, explained San Francisco community organizer Nancy Pili Hernandez, who helped unfurl the banner.

‘It’s A Dangerous Lie’: Chris Cuomo Destroys Santorum’s Voter Fraud Myth With Basic Journalism

CNN host Chris Cuomo on Wednesday accused CNN contributor Rick Santorum of enabling President Donald Trump's patently false voter fraud claims. In a tweet Wednesday morning, Trump promised a "major investigation" into voter fraud following his assertion this week that he lost the popular vote because 3 to 5 million people voted illegally.

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