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Judge Refuses to Halt Trump’s New Immigration Order
This is a good first step. And President Trump is not going to give up trying to protect Americans from the jihad threat. So if some other leftist activist judge blocks the order, he will come at the problem again from another direction.
“Judge Refuses To Halt Trump’s New Immigration Order,” by Kerry Picket, Daily Caller, March 10, 2017:
A federal district court denied a request to place an emergency restraining order on President Donald Trump’s modified immigration executive order, an attorney representing states opposing the order told Reuters Friday night.
The initial executive order posted by the Trump administration — which restricted travel from seven countries with majority Muslim populations — last January was challenged by lawyers in states such as Washington and Minnesota.
Seattle U.S. District Court Judge James Robart issued a temporary restraining order against the initial policy last month.
The new order narrowed the travel restriction down to six countries and would give exception to green card holders among other changes. According to Reuters, Robart did not apply his restraining order to the new immigration order.
Sec. of State Rex Tillerson defended Trump’s new order last week when the president signed it, saying Trump is using “his rightful authority” to keep Americans safe….
Source: http://pamelageller.com/2017/03/judge-refuses-order.html/
As the judge should have in the first place. Hysteric’s aside, all Trump was doing was trying to get a handle on the vetting processes of potential terrorists slipping through it. The Judge knew he was skating on thin ice the first time he put a hold on the order and when he finally stepped down from his ivory tower long enough to hear all the constitutional reasons he screwed the pooch, he let go of that leash in a heartbeat.