Author: Stephanie Moffat

Hawaii Will File Lawsuit Against Trump’s New Muslim-Ban News broke late Tuesday, that Hawaii will be the first state to file a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s new Muslim-ban. According to CNN, attorneys for Hawaii said in court filings they will request in a motion Wednesday that a federal judge issue a temporary restraining order blocking the new ban. “To be sure, the new executive order covers fewer people than the old one,” Neal Katyal, one of the state’s lead attorneys, said in an interview. He went on to say that, the new Muslim-ban “suffers from the same constitutional and statutory...

Trump Administration Considers Tearing Families Apart at US-Mexico Border According to three government officials, women and children crossing the United States-Mexico border together illegally could be separated by U.S. authorities under a proposal being considered by the Department of Homeland Security. The Huffington Post reported, “Part of the reason for the proposal is to deter mothers from migrating to the United States with their children, said the officials, who have been briefed on the proposal.” If enacted, this policy would allow the government to hold the parents in custody while their children would be put into protective custody with...

Nancy Pelosi Takes Aim at the ‘Deflector-in-Chief’ House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hits back at Donald Trump this morning after he accused former President Barack Obama of ordering a wiretap on him. Pelosi in her tweet is accusing the president of trying to deflect attention away from a series of stories about his team’s links to Russia. “The Deflector-in-Chief is at it again. An investigation by an independent commission is the only answer,” Pelosi wrote on Twitter. The Deflector-in-Chief is at it again. An investigation by an independent commission is the only answer. — Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) March 4,...

Trump Promise Broken, Keystone Pipeline Will Use Foreign Steel Yet another promise Trump couldn’t keep. A White House spokeswoman said that the “Buy American” rules in Trump’s executive order for pipelines won’t apply to the Keystone Pipeline. “The way that the Executive Order is written is actually … specific to new pipelines or those that are being repaired,” the spokeswoman said. “Since [Keystone] is already currently under construction … it was hard to go back. Everything moving forward would be all under that executive order.” According to CNN Money, TransCanada has already agreed that half the pipeline will use...

Trump Claims Obama Wiretapped Phone, Provides No Proof It looks like Trump was having another uncomfortable bowel movement, because he took to Twitter early this morning to accuse former President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower. Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 Of course, Trump...