Attorney General Bob Ferguson spoke on the steps of the United States Courthouse in Seattle after a federal judge approved a restraining order by Washington state to immediately halt President Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

The State Department says previously banned travelers will be allowed to enter the United States after a federal judge in Washington state on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of President Trump’s controversial immigration ban.

The rapid halting of President Donald Trump‘s immigration order has given him his first exposure to the limits on his presidential power, a sharp awakening for a real estate mogul accustomed to the wide unilateral prerogative of a chief executive.
With the order mired in legal challenge and travelers again weighed with uncertainty, Trump is facing his first run-in with a system of federal checks and balances.

I haven’t been on my land for 20 years. But I still remember well the days we had before the settlers came. How we’d stay on the land and work on it from morning to evening.

The writer, director and producer of the Oscar-nominated Fire at Sea, Gianfranco Rosi, is in Los Angeles where he took part in protests at Los Angeles International airport against President Donald Trump‘s travel ban against seven Muslim-majority countries.
Rosi‘s documentary on the refugee emergency on the Italian island of Lampedusa is nominated for a best feature documentary Oscar.

Showing President Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty in one hand and a blooded knife in the other, the cartoon was produced for the magazine by United States-based Cuban artist Edel Rodriguez. The design follows a number of other covers and articles by the magazine, one of Europe’s largest, which have been highly critical of Trump, both during the election campaign and after his election.

German weekly magazine Der Spiegel sparked controversy at home and abroad on Saturday with a front cover illustration of U.S. President Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty.

Freedland has been cheerleader-in-chief at the Guardian of the “Great American Democracy” for nearly three decades, beginning with his posting to Washington. Despite his protests now, he and other liberals made very little noise against the slow erosion of civil rights in the US and the accretion of powers to the security state, especially under Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

The gradual reversal in recent times of the democratic gains made in the US during the 1950s and 1960s have gone largely unremarked by the liberal punditocracy. But it was these very reversals that created, first, the political and media climate Trump exploited to win power and, second, the national security infrastructure he will exploit to entrench his rule against opponents.

Ein U.S. Bundesgericht hebt eine Executive Order des Präsidenten mit sofortiger Wirkung vorläufig auf. Das stellt eine Jahrhunderte lang nie beantwortete Machtfrage.

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Juristischer Schlag für US-Präsident Donald Trump: Ein Bundesrichter in Seattle hat das von ihm verhängte Einreiseverbot für Bürger aus sieben mehrheitlich muslimischen Ländern vorerst gestoppt. Die Entscheidung von Richter James Robart vom Freitag (Ortszeit) gilt so lange landesweit, bis über die Klage des Generalstaatsanwalts des Bundesstaates Washington, Bob Ferguson, entschieden ist.

A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump‘s ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

U.S. District Judge James Robart granted a temporary restraining order Friday at the request of Washington state and Minnesota that‘s effective nationwide.

#LoveWins #InclusionWins #BigotryLoses #NoWallNoBan

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The White House statement was a warning that he should show up with the goods. Netanyahu and his cabinet have seen how Trump behaves with leaders he believes are standing between him and his goals. The last thing Israel needs is for Trump to hang up the phone on Netanyahu, declare that talking to him is a waste of time or tweet about how he’s expecting payback for the funding Israel receives from Washington.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Saturday that a controversial refugee resettlement deal with the United States would go ahead, despite U.S. immigration officials postponing interviews with asylum seekers.

Reuters reported on Friday that U.S. officials had pulled planned second-round interviews with detainees in an Australian camp on the Pacific island of Nauru, suggesting Washington is already blocking progress on a controversial refugee resettlement deal.

Merkels Satz ist das ehrliche Eingeständnis, dass man mit Integrationsrhetorik und dem Beschwören europäischer Gemeinsamkeiten nicht mehr weiterkommt. In einer Zeit, in der nicht nur die Briten sich verabschieden, sondern Populisten auf dem ganzen Kontinent Wahlen mit einem Feldzug gegen Brüssel gewinnen wollen, zeigt Merkels Satz, dass in die Debatte über die Zukunft der EU jetzt auch an prominenter Stelle eine Prise Realismus einzieht. Es wird höchste Zeit.

European Union leaders said they agreed to stick together in dealing with Donald Trump, but at their first summit since he took office they were at odds on how far to confront or engage with the new U.S. president.

Wenn ihr euch fragt, wieso die EU eine „East StratCom Task Force“ hat, wo man FooCom eigentlich aus dem Militär kennt (siehe CENTCOM, Central Command), und in der Tat gibt es auch ein StratCom beim Militär: NATO hat auch ein StratCom, aber bei dem steht Com für Communications und nicht Command, und die kümmern sich um Social Media und Russia‘s Information Activities. Die Vermutung liegt nahe, dass es sich nicht um eine EU-Institution handelt, sondern um ein NATO-U-Boot (und DEN Link solltet ihr euch mal dringend in Ruhe durchlesen). Hier ist ein Dokument aus dem EU-Parlament über die Zusammenarbeit der EU mit NATO StratCom.