Bush-appointed Judge puts nationwide halt to Trump’s immigration order

"A federal judge in Seattle has ordered a halt to enforcement of President Trump’s controversial travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations.

U.S. District Judge James Robart ruled in favor Friday of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who sued to invalidate key provisions of Trump’s executive order. That order indefinitely blocks entry to the United States for Syrian refugees and temporarily suspends entry to citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries.

The temporary restraining order is granted on a nationwide basis, Robart said.

“The Constitution prevailed today,” Ferguson said. “No one is above the law — not even the President.”"
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...ge-in-seattle-halts-trumps-immigration-order/

Customs just announced that they will comply with the court order.

 

this is very strange because a federal judge on the other coast says something totally different



In Major Blow to ACLU, Judge Finds Trump Immigration Ban Doesn’t Discriminate Against Muslims

In a major blow to the ACLU, a federal judge in Boston refused to extend an order which temporarily put a stop to a portion of Trump’s controversial “extreme vetting” immigration order. (*)Judge Nathaniel Gorton, a President George H.W. Bush(*)appointee, decided not to renew the temporary restraining order(*)which was set to expire on Sunday. This ruling is significant because it is the first time that the Trump administration has scored a victory after a series of orders nationwide slamming the ban.
The ACLU argued that the Executive Order violated the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution because it favors Christians over Muslims. (*)However, the judge found that nothing in the order “compels a finding that Christians are preferred to any other group.”
In addition, he found the plaintiffs lacked standing. “Plaintiffs are not, however, refugees seeking admission to the United States and consequently, any future implementation of Section 5 (b) would not personally affect them,” the judge wrote.
Judge Gorton found that while the Fifth Amendment protects “invidious discrimination by the Federal government” against aliens, there(*)is a difference(*)between the constitutional rights enjoyed by non-citizens(*)who have entered the U.S. and those outside of it.
(*)“The decision to prevent aliens from entering the country is a ‘fundamental sovereign attribute’ realized through the legislative and executive branches that is largely immune from judicial control,” the judge wrote (citations omitted). In other words, the President has the right to make immigration decisions, without interference from the courts.
The court’s previous temporary order, which has now been lifted, stopped the(*)deportation not only of two college professors, but also ordered the government to stop blocking deportation of others “similarly situated.” The case is being handled by attorneys from the ACLU and was originally brought(*)on behalf of Mazdak Pourabdollah Tootkaboni and Arghavan Louhghalam, Iranian nationals and associate professors at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. They are both lawful permanent residents of the United States. The case was amended to include five other Iranian nationals and Oxfam America. The judge found that in light of the Trump administration’s statement that the order was not intended to apply to lawful permanent residents, the claims for injunctive(*)relief by the professors are now moot.
http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/bre...tion-ban-doesnt-discriminate-against-muslims/

 

You don't know that. The basis for the court action need to be considered. But for now Trump has been shut down; likely because of his highly inept handling of this.

Maybe next time he will know better than to let the crackpot Bannon write executive decisions.

 

The perfect end for a day when he is found to have the lowest approval rating at this point since they started tracking approval ratings - since Eisenhower!!!

 

Liberal judges are mere bumps in the road.

 

So Obamas ban on Iraqi refuges then to was unconstitutional ?

 

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-six percent (46%) disapprove
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_feb3

and you was saying again?
and because you want to refer to polls how about this one

Poll: 49% of Americans agree with Trump's immigration ban

The Jan. 30-31 poll found that 49 percent of American adults said they either "strongly" or "somewhat" agreed with Trump's order, while 41 percent "strongly" or "somewhat" disagreed and another 10 percent said they don't know.
http://www.businessinsider.com/49-of-americans-agree-with-trumps-immigration-ban-2017-1

best you get better informed before you start spewing off polls

 

yup. this will go on through his entire presidency. They will try to obstruct all his actions with radical left wing judges.

bannon is on it. These judges are all going to be flushed out before its over. The left hates bannon because he knows how to outwit liberals.

 

Hillary landslide LOL

 

You're kidding, right? The judge was appointed to the bench by GW Bush in 2003.

 

This Judge James Robart?

"The Seattle judge who issued a temporary “nationwide restraining order” that blocks Donald Trump’s immigration ban is a George W. Bush appointee who once provoked controversy by saying “black lives matter” from the bench."


Big surprise!