Travel ban 2.0
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After getting the all-clear from the US Supreme Court earlier this week, President Trump’s partial travel ban went into effect at 8 pm Thursday and was swiftly met with a new challenge from Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin. [Politico / Josh Gerstein]
Unlike Trump’s first travel ban signed in January, yesterday’s revised order did not cause chaos or mass detainments at US airports, in part because it is much more in line with immigrations laws that are already on the books. [Vox / Dara Lind]
On Monday, the court announced it would hear arguments on the ban, which bars travelers and refugees from six Muslim-majority nations — including Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — for 90 and 120 days, respectively. [Washington Post / Robert Barnes and Matt Zapotosky]
Until the Supreme Court hears the case in the fall, the justices decided to allow a less restrictive version of the ban to go into effect. [BuzzFeed / Chris Geidner]
The one they approved allows students, workers, and some family members of US residents to enter the country. However, the Trump administration clarified exactly which family members would be allowed in; while in-laws and step-siblings and half-siblings were permitted, the buck stopped at grandparents, nieces, and nephews. [NYT / Gardiner Harris, Michael Shear and Ron Nixon]
That’s what the state of Hawaii seized on when it filed a motion seeking to clarify what the Trump administration’s definition of close family relationships meant. Soon after the motion went through, the US State Department said it would broaden the definition to include fiancés. [Politico / Josh Gerstein]
What remains to be seen is whether officials at the border will detain people who try to enter, and what reasons — if any — they will use for denying refugees or travelers visas. [Vox / Dara Lind]
Despite what President Trump says, many national security experts agree that the travel ban won’t actually keep America safer; especially since none of the terrorist attacks in the US from 9/11 onward were perpetrated by people from the six nations the ban targets. [Washington Post / Mark Berman]
But perhaps even more important for Trump is keeping the promise to his supporters to get the ban done, and starting the process of reviewing US vetting procedures for refugees with an eye toward something more permanent. [Vox / Dara Lind]
Trump's fraud commission has big problems
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During and after the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump released a relentless stream of allegations of widespread voter fraud across the country, with no evidence to back it up. [Politico / Eli Stokols]
Shortly after being elected, the president created a commission to investigate alleged election fraud. On Thursday, the commission started its work in earnest, asking states to send in their voter rolls. [NPR / Pam Fessler]
The commission is asking for a lot of very detailed and sensitive voter information from each state, including the full names, home addresses, dates of birth, political affiliations, the last four digits of social security numbers, elections they voted in since 2006, and information about voter registration in other states of everyone on their voter rolls. [Washington Post / Christopher Ingraham]
Commission Vice Chair Kris Kobach (Kansas secretary of state and avid Trump supporter) has also promised to make some of this information public, although he said the more sensitive information would be kept on a private government server. Nevertheless, it sparked privacy concerns from civil liberties advocates. [Kansas City Star / Bryan Lowry]
While voter rolls are technically public information, they contain a lot of sensitive information about individuals and contribute to identity theft. Social security numbers, however, are not public. [Gizmodo / Dell Cameron and Kate Conger]
Even more concerning, a new report states the commission was asking states to send this information to an email address that lacks even basic security protocols. [Gizmodo / Dell Cameron and Kate Conger]
There’s a lot of ways this could backfire for Trump. His allegations of voter fraud have been debunked numerous times, and the sweeping requests for voter data and any proposed subsequent changes to the country’s voting system based on the commission’s conclusions could alienate people on both the left and the right. [Slate / Richard Hasen]
Already, a growing number of states are refusing to provide the commission with sensitive voter information and calling its charge a misguided one. [The Hill / Josh Delk]
Ironically, Kobach announced Friday afternoon that Kansas is one of the states that won't comply with the commission's request. [Kansas City Star / Bryan Lowry]
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David McNew/Getty Images
After getting the all-clear from the US Supreme Court earlier this week, President Trump’s partial travel ban went into effect at 8 pm Thursday and was swiftly met with a new challenge from Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin. [Politico / Josh Gerstein]
Unlike Trump’s first travel ban signed in January, yesterday’s revised order did not cause chaos or mass detainments at US airports, in part because it is much more in line with immigrations laws that are already on the books. [Vox / Dara Lind]
On Monday, the court announced it would hear arguments on the ban, which bars travelers and refugees from six Muslim-majority nations — including Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — for 90 and 120 days, respectively. [Washington Post / Robert Barnes and Matt Zapotosky]
Until the Supreme Court hears the case in the fall, the justices decided to allow a less restrictive version of the ban to go into effect. [BuzzFeed / Chris Geidner]
The one they approved allows students, workers, and some family members of US residents to enter the country. However, the Trump administration clarified exactly which family members would be allowed in; while in-laws and step-siblings and half-siblings were permitted, the buck stopped at grandparents, nieces, and nephews. [NYT / Gardiner Harris, Michael Shear and Ron Nixon]
That’s what the state of Hawaii seized on when it filed a motion seeking to clarify what the Trump administration’s definition of close family relationships meant. Soon after the motion went through, the US State Department said it would broaden the definition to include fiancés. [Politico / Josh Gerstein]
What remains to be seen is whether officials at the border will detain people who try to enter, and what reasons — if any — they will use for denying refugees or travelers visas. [Vox / Dara Lind]
Despite what President Trump says, many national security experts agree that the travel ban won’t actually keep America safer; especially since none of the terrorist attacks in the US from 9/11 onward were perpetrated by people from the six nations the ban targets. [Washington Post / Mark Berman]
But perhaps even more important for Trump is keeping the promise to his supporters to get the ban done, and starting the process of reviewing US vetting procedures for refugees with an eye toward something more permanent. [Vox / Dara Lind]
Trump's fraud commission has big problems
Drew Angerer/Getty Images
During and after the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump released a relentless stream of allegations of widespread voter fraud across the country, with no evidence to back it up. [Politico / Eli Stokols]
Shortly after being elected, the president created a commission to investigate alleged election fraud. On Thursday, the commission started its work in earnest, asking states to send in their voter rolls. [NPR / Pam Fessler]
The commission is asking for a lot of very detailed and sensitive voter information from each state, including the full names, home addresses, dates of birth, political affiliations, the last four digits of social security numbers, elections they voted in since 2006, and information about voter registration in other states of everyone on their voter rolls. [Washington Post / Christopher Ingraham]
Commission Vice Chair Kris Kobach (Kansas secretary of state and avid Trump supporter) has also promised to make some of this information public, although he said the more sensitive information would be kept on a private government server. Nevertheless, it sparked privacy concerns from civil liberties advocates. [Kansas City Star / Bryan Lowry]
While voter rolls are technically public information, they contain a lot of sensitive information about individuals and contribute to identity theft. Social security numbers, however, are not public. [Gizmodo / Dell Cameron and Kate Conger]
Even more concerning, a new report states the commission was asking states to send this information to an email address that lacks even basic security protocols. [Gizmodo / Dell Cameron and Kate Conger]
There’s a lot of ways this could backfire for Trump. His allegations of voter fraud have been debunked numerous times, and the sweeping requests for voter data and any proposed subsequent changes to the country’s voting system based on the commission’s conclusions could alienate people on both the left and the right. [Slate / Richard Hasen]
Already, a growing number of states are refusing to provide the commission with sensitive voter information and calling its charge a misguided one. [The Hill / Josh Delk]
Ironically, Kobach announced Friday afternoon that Kansas is one of the states that won't comply with the commission's request. [Kansas City Star / Bryan Lowry]
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