"In your opinion, is this executive order constitutional?" Judge Coughenour asked Justice Department attorney Brett Shumate during Thursday's hearing. "Yes, we think it is," Shumate said, drawing ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in 1941, which outlawed racial discrimination in the federal workforce and defense industry. President Dwight Eisenhower, another Texan ...

Here is how the executive order will change current policies. Trump’s executive order broadly rejects gender identity and requires the government to only define gender as sex at birth which will ...

Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first openly transgender member of Congress, called President Donald Trump’s executive order proclaiming there are only two sexes that are not changeable “red ...

Much has been written about President Trump's executive order concerning birthright citizenship ... Indeed, maybe that is the point of drawing the categories so broadly. Any wiggle room that ...

At a time when many commentators think that the death penalty is waning in the United States, President Donald Trump issued an ambitious executive order on his first day in office laying out his ...

President Trump revoked an executive order that mandated AI developers share safety test results with the government. The revoked order, signed by President Biden, aimed to mitigate risks AI poses ...

President Donald Trump on Monday, fulfilling a campaign promise, issued a sweeping executive order rolling back a host of protections for members of the transgender community. The order ...

Advocacy groups for LGBTQ rights have already promised to take legal action following the signing of this executive order that rolls back policies on gender identity. The executive order says the ...

United States President Donald Trump has signed a record 26 executive ... order means: The admission of refugees into the US will be suspended. The complications it might face: Trump’s order is ...

Sex' shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female," Trump's executive order declares. "'Female' means a person belonging, at conception ...

It is not uncommon for a president to use an executive order to claim the authority to take some action whose legal legitimacy is contested, leading to a court fight. For example, near the ...