OVERRULED: Judge Blocks Second Travel Order; Trump Slams ‘Judicial Overreach’
The ruling, granting a request for a temporary restraining order by the state of Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh, stalls the president’s second attempt to suspend admission of nearly all refugees for 120 days and to restrict visas for nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson, who said the restraining order applies nationwide, said Trump’s travel order was religiously discriminatory.
In an appearance Wednesday night in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump denounced the ruling as “an unprecedented judicial overreach” and said his administration would pursue the case all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
“We’re talking about the safety of our nation, the safety and security of our people,” he said, adding: “This ruling makes us look weak.”
Sarah Isgur Flores, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, called Watson’s ruling “flawed both in reasoning and in scope,” saying Trump’s travel order “falls squarely within his lawful authority in seeking to protect our nation’s security.”
Mollie Hemingway has more:
Trump said the temporary travel restriction was needed for national security. In issuing his temporary restraining order, Watson said Trump’s order was a result of nothing more than religious animus against Muslims. The judge’s order is predicated on what he thinks Trump wants to do, not the order itself.
Throughout the ruling, Judge Watson concedes there’s nothing about the executive order that would be problematic if not for his interpretation of Trump’s statements made in the months and years prior to issuing it. He repeatedly states his feeling that Trump had a bad motive in issuing the order.
Judges using campaign rhetoric to infer intent instead of plainly evaluating the law as written is a dangerous development. Also because the public can witness the selective use of this trick, it undermines confidence in the judiciary at a time when the judiciary can’t afford too much erosion of trust.
I’m curious; which law school taught Derrick Watson that “I have feelings that he has bad motives” is sufficient to overturn this executive order?
Paul Joseph Watson on Twitter: Incredible that activist judges are more convinced by hysterical anti-Trump autistic screeching than actual law and constitution.
Jeff Sessions: “Like every nation US has a right to control who enters our country & to keep out those who would do us harm.”
twitter.com/Pamela_Moore13/status/842182880881184769
Based lawyer systematically rips apart hack judge’s EO ruling point by point on twitter.
1/ New thread analyzing District of Hawaii's decision in Hawaii v. Trump #travelban
— Josh Blackman (@JoshMBlackman) March 15, 2017
Amazing! now two-bit judges now run the Presidency
Thanks. Now I have that stupid song in my head.
Great headline. ????
Just how wierd is all this going to get before the snap back from pizzed off conservatives?
Joe Blow is a Holocaust denying douchebag. Know your enemy, America.