Federal judge in Hawaii freezes President Trump's new executive order
Source: The Washington Post
By Maria Sacchetti, Kalani Takase and Matt Zapotosky March 15 at 6:47 PM
A federal judge in Hawaii has frozen President Trumps new executive order temporarily barring the issuance of new visas to citizens of six-Muslim majority countries and suspending the admission of new refugees.
U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson froze the order nationwide.
Watson was the second of three judges to hear arguments Wednesday on whether to freeze the ban. A federal judge in Maryland said he also could rule before days end after a morning hearing, and the same federal judge in Washington state who suspended Trumps first travel ban was set to hear arguments starting at 5 p.m. Eastern.
The hearing in Hawaii came in response to a lawsuit filed by the state itself. Lawyers for Hawaii alleged the new travel ban, much like the old, violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment because it is essentially a Muslim ban, hurts the ability of state businesses and universities to recruit top talent and damages the states robust tourism industry.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/lawyers-face-off-on-trump-travel-ban-in-md-court-wednesday-morning/2017/03/14/b2d24636-090c-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?pushid=breaking-news_1489618137&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.dfea87045c6e
mobeau69
(11,144 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Tess49
(1,579 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,870 posts)or a "so-called" judge?
Maybe this can be what pushes Trump over the edge, although I'm not sure how you would know that Trump had lost it.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Norbert9
(494 posts)Hekate
(90,686 posts)mcar
(42,331 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,979 posts)By ALEXANDER BURNS MARCH 15, 2017
A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order Wednesday evening blocking President Trumps ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, dealing a political blow to the White House and signaling that proponents of the ban face a long and risky legal battle ahead.
The ruling was the second frustrating defeat for Mr. Trumps travel ban, after a federal court in Seattle halted an earlier version of the executive order last month. Mr. Trump responded to that setback with fury, lashing out at the judiciary before ultimately abandoning the order.
He issued a new and narrower travel ban on March 6, with the aim of pre-empting new lawsuits by abandoning some of the most contentious elements of the first version.
But Mr. Trump evidently failed in that goal: Democratic states and nonprofit groups that work with immigrants and refugees raced into court to attack the updated order, alleging that it was a thinly veiled version of the ban on Muslim migration that he had pledged to enact last year, as a presidential candidate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Hope it's soon, before the new one is confirmed. We know what that would mean.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)Trying to un-Americanize America is a dastardly deed that will not stand in any form.
NamesDave
(58 posts)mobeau69
(11,144 posts)NamesDave
(58 posts)Marcuse
(7,482 posts)It's a short drive. They could walk.
[link:https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/323852-obama-makes-surprise-hawaii-trip%3Famp|
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Hawaii Hiker
(3,166 posts)so he certainly isn't a controversial judge either...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Kahala_Watson
briv1016
(1,570 posts)lastlib
(23,233 posts)He's prolly trying to grab their p%$#*$..........)
George II
(67,782 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Is he just trying to overburden the courts? What is the point of issuing these lame EOs that have no hope of surviving?