Executive Order

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• 3/21/19
  

  Trump's Executive Order Censors Free Speech on College Campuses

  by Ed Simon

  The House Un-American Activities Committee and the real intent of Trump's "free speech" executive order. 

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• SOURCE: Sandbox (blog)
  2-1-17
  

  Martin Kramer notes how a ban on Jews in the 1930s affected historian Bernard Lewis

  by Martin Kramer

  "Trump’s limited executive order doesn’t resemble the sweeping Jewish ban that changed the career of Bernard Lewis.”

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• 1-30-17
  

  Huddled Masses–Keep Out!

  by Bob Buzzanco

  Not since I had to remember and recite “The New Colossus” in elementary school have I seen so many references to Emma Lazarus’s poem on the Statue of Liberty as in the past week.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  1-30-17
  

  German Ambassador 1933: “Hostility to Jews Aimed Mainly at ‘Immigrants' ”

  by Juan Cole

  On the similarities between the Trump / Bannon inaugural speech and Fascist ideology.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-27-17
  

  Trump’s Immigration Ban Is Illegal

  by David J. Bier

  Congress long ago outlawed discrimination based on national origin.

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• SOURCE: Petition
  1-30-17 (accessed)
  

  More than 500 historians have signed a petition against the Trump immigration ban

  The petition criticizes the executive order restricting immigration from select Muslim countries.

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• 2-1-15
  

  President Obama Needs to Address One More Problem with an Executive Order

  by Benjamin Hellwege

  Older Americans are facing rampant job discrimination. The law enacted in 1967 to protect them has been weakened by the Supreme Court. Congress won’t act. Obama should.