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Larry GriffinJanuary 31, 2017

Representatives from Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida announced that they were filing a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, in response to his executive orders barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country over the weekend. The lawsuit is filed from 20 plaintiffs, including CAIR Florida Chief Executive Director Hassan Shibly and other activists, lawyers […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 31, 2017

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz blasted President Trump Tuesday morning, a day after he fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates for what the White House called “refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States.” “I think it’s important to note that she did exactly what she said she would do […]

Associated PressJanuary 31, 2017

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Washington became the first state to sue the Trump administration with a filing Monday over the president’s executive order restricting refugees and immigration. It likely will not be standing alone for long. Since Donald Trump was elected president, Democratic state attorneys general have been forming a coordinated wall of legal resistance over immigration, environmental protections, […]

Darryl PaulsonJanuary 31, 2017

During and after the 2016 presidential election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump complained about “millions of people who voted illegally.” He offered no proof to his charge, and virtually all state supervisors of elections found little evidence of fraud. It is “big news” when a single case of vote fraud emerges. It would be the […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 30, 2017

It took awhile, but Charlie Crist is finally weighing in on Donald Trump’s controversial executive order temporarily placing a ban on refugees entering the U.S. While nearly every member of the Florida congressional delegation, and certainly every Democrat was eager over the weekend or on Monday to express their opinion, the St. Petersburg Democrat was quiet. Until now. Although […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 30, 2017

While the twists and turns of U.S. President Donald Trump‘s executive order instilling a ban on refugees and nationals of seven majority Muslim countries coming into the United States continue, one Northeast Florida lawmaker supports what Trump is doing. Meanwhile, another opposes the Trump position. Rep. John Rutherford supports increased vetting of people from certain nations, even […]

Joe HendersonJanuary 30, 2017

It might be easy to dismiss the harsh comments by U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa regarding President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order that called for “extreme vetting” of potential refugees from seven Muslim nations. As Mitch Perry reported Sunday on SaintPetersBlog, Castor said, “President Trump’s executive order targeting and banning legal permanent residents and […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 30, 2017

Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran is applauding President Donald Trump‘s executive order temporarily banning refugees from entering the United States. The Land O’Lakes Republican also wants to work with the administration to improve the transparency of the process, particularly on resettling refugees in Florida. In a letter sent Monday, Corcoran praised the president’s “bold action” on the issue, while complaining that the current relationship between […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 30, 2017

Back in 2015, in the wake of a terror attack in Paris, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry stunned some when he came out in favor of restrictions on allowing Syrian refugees to enter the state of Florida. Curry noted, in letters to Jacksonville’s U.S. Congress delegation, that “at least one of the eight terrorists who conducted the […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 30, 2017

Sunday marked the eighth anniversary of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gives people who experience pay discrimination more time to file a complaint. Although the bill (the first signed into law by Barack Obama) was designed to close the wage gap between males and females in the U.S., Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says that President […]

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CAIR Florida files federal lawsuit against Donald Trump over immigration ban

Debbie Wasserman Schultz tells Fox Business that Donald Trump ‘believes he was elected dictator’

Democratic state attorneys general begin Donald Trump pushback

Darryl Paulson: Florida – Land of electile dysfunction

Charlie Crist says Trump administration needs to rethink its executive order on refugees

Al Lawson, John Rutherford disagree on executive order for travel ban from Muslim countries

Kathy Castor is right calling ‘extreme vetting’ order immoral, un-American

Richard Corcoran wants to meet with Trump administration on refugee resettlement in Florida

Lenny Curry backs Donald Trump’s travel ban from terror-linked Muslim countries

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says pay wage gap in U.S. getting worse