Civil Rights and Social Justice

A Democratic lawmaker slammed President Trump on Saturday over his tweets attacking The New York Times and defending his executive order temporarily banning citizens from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.

Last week, the famed Doomsday Clock, created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to sound the alarm over the inherently catastrophic nature of nuclear weapons, was set ahead 30 seconds, to two and a half minutes to midnight, the closest it's been to midnight since 1953.

Barack Obama and his aides expected to take on President Donald Trump at some point, but they didn't think it would happen this quickly.

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Republicans hoped he would turn out to be a conventional conservative. Democrats hoped he would not do anything too drastic, and maybe even strike a few deals.

But the best guide to what Donald Trump would do as president appears to be what he said he would do as president.

Crowds have gathered for the second day in a row at LAX to protest President Donald Trump's immigration and travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries.

"The Muslim ban is simply based on bigotry," said Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Sunday in response to President Donald Trump's refugee travel ban.

Lieu went on to tell reporters outside of Los Angeles International Airport at an afternoon press conference:

After James Mattis was sworn in as his Secretary of Defense, President Donald Trump signed an "extreme vetting" executive order that, in his words, would "keep radical Islamic terrorists out."