President Donald Trump’s decision to issue an executive order Monday delaying enforcement of the federal ban on TikTok has deepened a murky legal landscape in the US for the popular social media app and its technology partners.
The move is one of many executive actions focused on the federal workforce enacted since Trump took office Monday afternoon. His other actions addressed DEI hiring more broadly, froze hiring in most executive agencies and directed a return to in-person work for many federal employees, among other directives.
Another controversial executive order Trump signed was one aiming to cut off birthright citizenship. Critics immediately pounced on Trump, arguing people born in the United States are granted citizenship under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment even if their birth parents migrated here illegally.
President Donald Trump wasted no time signing an executive order Monday that aims to give him more control over the federal workforce – whom he has long vilified as the “deep state.”
"Trump really just said, 'Free expression will no longer be limited,' and 'There are now only two genders, male and female' in the same breath."
Donald Trump says the government must stop pressuring social media companies. The Biden administration wasn’t the first to do that.
Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order from President Joe Biden that sought to lower the price of drugs.
President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain - including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform.
Even presidential powers have their limits - and in some cases, Trump faces hurdles before his plans can become reality.
The “Protecting The Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” —better known as the birthright citizenship executive order—attempts to cancel the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Getting rid of constitutional amendments via executive order is new, and, for me at least, “the worst.”