Judge to examine Whitaker appointment in U.S. asylum policy case

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



DECEMBER 17, 2018 / 6:10 AM / UPDATED 31 MINUTES AGO

Sarah N. Lynch

3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday is set to consider whether President Donald Trump violated the U.S. Constitution by appointing Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, part of a broader lawsuit challenging his administration’s restrictions on asylum for immigrants.

Setting aside established succession practices, the Republican president last month named Whitaker, a Trump loyalist, as the top U.S. law enforcement official after ousting Jeff Sessions as attorney general.

A decision by U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss could have ramifications for immigrants seeking asylum and for Whitaker’s tenure at the Justice Department as he waits for the U.S. Senate to confirm President Donald Trump’s permanent nominee for attorney general, William Barr.

The lawsuit challenges Trump’s asylum ban for immigrants who illegally cross the U.S. border on the grounds that it violates immigration laws and the Administrative Procedure Act, a statute that governs federal rule-writing procedures.


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[Apollyonus]

1. I wish the courts would hurry up

[LiberalLovinLug]

2. Add another one to the docket

The list is so long now that I doubt some of these charges, any one of which would be a yuuuuuuuuuuuge deal if it were Obama of course, will ever see the light of day.

[ffr]

3. Everyone who knows anything about it, says he did.

And I don't think he consultant any constitutional lawyers before installing his puppet Whitaker.

[Gothmog]

4. Whitaker was appointed illegally