Grandparents, other extended relatives exempt from Trump travel ban, federal judge rules

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

Grandparents and other extended relatives are exempt from President Trump’s travel ban, a federal judge in Hawaii declared late Thursday, again stopping the administration from implementing the president’s controversial executive order in the way that it wants.

U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson wrote that the government’s “narrowly defined list” of who might be exempt was not supported by either the Supreme Court decision partially unfreezing the ban or by the law.

“Common sense, for instance, dictates that close family members be defined to include grandparents,” Watson wrote. “Indeed, grandparents are the epitome of close family members. The Government’s definition excludes them. That simply cannot be.”

Watson wrote that refugees with an assurance from a resettlement agency could also be exempt from the ban.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/grandparents-other-extended-relatives-exempt-from-trump-travel-ban-federal-judge-rules/2017/07/14/ce67aa72-6888-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html?utm_term=.117f2a5c7bf4

[IronLionZion]

1. Time to send the Drumpfs back to Germany and Scotland

[iluvtennis]

2. Great news. grandparents should have never been on list, and for that matter, no list at all

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Had to research this and confirmed this ruling came after the Appeals Court claimed no jurisdiction

to interpret/clarify the SCOTUS opinion for the revised ban and suggested the state could go back to the lower court to get such. So the state went back to the District court and got this ruling.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/after_9th_circuit_rejects_travel_ban_appeal_hawaii_returns_to_district_cour