Hassan Kanu

Washington, D.C., United States

Covering courts/regulatory law @politico. Priors @TheProspect @reuters @blaw. Sierra Leonean 🇸🇱. Continuously depressed Wizards fan. Alum @DukeLaw @Morehouse

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Another DOGE flip-flop

1 week ago | politico.com | Hassan Kanu |Irie Sentner |Ben Johansen |Sophia Cai

Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond.
Federal prosecutors now charging immigrants who don’t submit fingerprints under dormant 1940s law

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Hassan Kanu

Federal officials have begun carrying out President Donald Trump’s orders to enforce a World War II-era criminal law that requires virtually all non-citizens in the country to register with and submit fingerprints to the government. Since April, law enforcement in Louisiana, Arizona, Montana, Alabama, Texas and Washington, D.C., have charged people with willful “failure to register” under the Alien Registration Act, an offense most career federal public defenders have never encountered before.
Second judge blocks most of Trump’s executive order on elections

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Hassan Kanu

A federal judge on Friday blocked key provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to make it harder to register to vote in federal elections, including a requirement for voters to prove their citizenship.
Don’t rain on my parade

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Irie Sentner |Hassan Kanu |Ben Johansen |Sophia Cai

Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook: Remaking Government, your guide to Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government — the key decisions, the critical characters and the power dynamics that are upending Washington and beyond. | Subscribe | | | President DONALD TRUMP has a message for anyone thinking of spoiling his military parade on Saturday: Don’t.
Trump: Protests in DC will be met with ‘very heavy force’

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Irie Sentner |Hassan Kanu

Nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations are expected on Saturday, the same day as the president’s military parade in Washington. U.S. Army personnel watch as tanks and other military vehicles are transported via locomotive at the CSX railroad yard in Jessup, Md., Monday, June 9, 2025, ahead of an upcoming military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.
Appeals court reinstates Trump’s ban on AP’s access to White House

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Erica Orden |Hassan Kanu

A divided panel of the appeals court lifted a lower-court judge’s ruling that had blocked the ban. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Thursday. | Evan Vucci/AP A federal appeals court panel on Friday reinstated parts of President Donald Trump’s ban of the Associated Press from several key areas where presidential press events are typically held, including the Oval Office, Air Force One and the president’s home in Mar-A-Lago.
Appeals court reinstates Trump’s ban on AP’s access to White House

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Erica Orden |Hassan Kanu

A federal appeals court panel on Friday reinstated parts of President Donald Trump’s ban of the Associated Press from several key areas where presidential press events are typically held, including the Oval Office, Air Force One and the president’s home in Mar-A-Lago. The court left in place part of a lower-court order that required Trump to give AP access to events held in larger spaces, like the East Room.
Appeals court largely reinstates Trump’s ban on AP’s access to White House

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Erica Orden |Hassan Kanu

1 hour agoSupreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security dataThe dispute concerns efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, largely led by Elon Musk, to access sensitive data, including Social Security numbers.
With travel ban 2.0, Trump learns from missteps

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Myah Ward |Hassan Kanu

It’s the nature of the do-over presidency, which has provided Trump with a unique opportunity to build on his first term.
Trump's ban on travel shows what he's learned

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Myah Ward |Hassan Kanu

When President Donald Trump abruptly unleashed his ban on people coming from Muslim-majority countries in 2017, chaos erupted at U.S. airports. Protests broke out in major cities across the country. Legal challenges stymied the administration, which ultimately had to slim down its order to pass constitutional muster. This time, as Trump leveled new restrictions against 19 nations, the reaction was mostly muted and the legal justification appears more deliberate.