Trump Issues Questionable Order Making English the Official Language of the US
At least one portion of the executive order signed by Trump is legally dubious. No provision within Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which deals with the powers of the presidency, allows a chief executive to make an order unilaterally declaring the country’s official language.
The order will rescind a mandate “that required agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide extensive language ...
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to make English the official language of the United States, ...
President Trump designated English as the official U.S. language in a Saturday executive order that repealed former President ...
The White House said that declaring a national language “promotes unity, establishes efficiency in government operations, and ...
The mandate would negate a rule issued by former President Bill Clinton that required federal agencies to have language ...
The order will allow government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to ...
The U.S. has never had a national language in its nearly 250-year history.
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