Executive Orders
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The Trump Administration’s Early (Appropriate) Focus on Botnets
President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity, concentrating as it does on things largely within the authority of the executive branch, is a reasonable early approach…
Norms Watch: Tracking the Erosion of Democratic Traditions (Mar. 10-17)
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the latest installment of Norms Watch, our series tracking both the flouting of democratic norms by the Trump administration and the erosion of…
We’ll See You in Court, 2.0: Once a Muslim Ban, Still a Muslim Ban
If a Muslim Ban is cleaned up to exclude Iraq, exempt lawful permanent residents and other current visa holders, is it still a Muslim ban? That’s the question presented by…
Why the New Travel Ban Doesn’t Resolve the Old One’s Problems
This morning, President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order on immigration, designed to correct the deficiencies of the last one that several courts have put on hold.…
More Info Needed on Travel Ban’s Claim that 300 Refugees Under Counterterrorism Investigations
To justify why it’s suspending the U.S. refugee program, President Donald Trump’s new executive order states that 300 people who entered the US as refugees are now…
The Ongoing Dangers of the Revised Immigration EO
The Trump administration issued its updated immigration executive order on Monday. It seeks to correct for the total chaos that ensued after the issuance of the first Executive…
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Fact Sheets on New Executive Order Banning Travel to the US
Just Security has obtained two documents prepared by the Trump administration to help explain its revised travel ban executive order, which President Donald Trump signed Monday.…
The United Divided States: San Francisco Sues Donald Trump for Sanctuary Cities Order
Amidst the well-placed outrage over Trump’s Executive Order selectively banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries – including an array of critiques, lawsuits,…
Trump’s Muslim Ban & the Propaganda Value of Violence Against Women
There has been much well-deserved criticism of President Trump’s Executive Order imposing a Muslim Ban on entry into the United States and the chaotic and non-deliberative process…
The CIA’s New Guidelines for Handling Americans’ Information
In acknowledgment of the mass scale of modern electronic intelligence collection, the Central Intelligence Agency today released newly updated guidelines governing how it treats…
The government’s treatment of civilian casualties in counterterrorism operations [updated]
The government has just released two important documents. One is an assessment by the Director of National Intelligence of the cumulative civilian casualties from U.S. counterterrorism…
Obama Shouldn’t Wait for Congress to Ensure He Leaves Behind a Clearly Defined War
Against the backdrop of a collapsing ceasefire in Syria, President Obama announced last week that he approved the deployment of an additional 250 special operations troops to Syria,…