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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 06:52 PM Mar 2017

Federal judge in Hawaii freezes President Trump's new executive order

Source: The Washington Post



By Maria Sacchetti, Kalani Takase and Matt Zapotosky March 15 at 6:47 PM

A federal judge in Hawaii has frozen President Trump’s new executive order temporarily barring the issuance of new visas to citizens of six-Muslim majority countries and suspending the admission of new refugees.

U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson froze the order nationwide.

Watson was the second of three judges to hear arguments Wednesday on whether to freeze the ban. A federal judge in Maryland said he also could rule before day’s end after a morning hearing, and the same federal judge in Washington state who suspended Trump’s first travel ban was set to hear arguments starting at 5 p.m. Eastern.

The hearing in Hawaii came in response to a lawsuit filed by the state itself. Lawyers for Hawaii alleged the new travel ban, much like the old, violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment because it is essentially a Muslim ban, hurts the ability of state businesses and universities to recruit top talent and damages the state’s robust tourism industry.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/lawyers-face-off-on-trump-travel-ban-in-md-court-wednesday-morning/2017/03/14/b2d24636-090c-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html?pushid=breaking-news_1489618137&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.dfea87045c6e

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Federal judge in Hawaii freezes President Trump's new executive order (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
FDT mobeau69 Mar 2017 #1
A Hawiian, Obama appointee.......Trump is going to freak. nt msanthrope Mar 2017 #2
I wonder what cheeto yellow and purple rage look like when combined. n/t Tess49 Mar 2017 #8
Is he a judge SCantiGOP Mar 2017 #11
Trump loses again DesertRat Mar 2017 #3
Who's gettig tired of winning now? Norbert9 Mar 2017 #4
Mahalo nui loa, Judge Watson Hekate Mar 2017 #5
Excellent news! mcar Mar 2017 #6
NYT breaking BumRushDaShow Mar 2017 #7
Excellent news!! iluvtennis Mar 2017 #9
Wow. Looks like the S.Ct. is going to be getting involved. Honeycombe8 Mar 2017 #10
'Judges without birth certificates should not own microwaves! SAD!' bucolic_frolic Mar 2017 #12
Good, terrorist or refugee they have a home here NamesDave Mar 2017 #13
Fuck Donald Trump. Right, Dave? mobeau69 Mar 2017 #18
Yup and the rest of the swamp NamesDave Mar 2017 #23
Mr. Obama is in Hawaii. This will drive them nuts. Marcuse Mar 2017 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author iluvtennis Mar 2017 #15
Judge Watson was confirmed 94-0, Hawaii Hiker Mar 2017 #16
Love this cartoon. briv1016 Mar 2017 #17
(coupla nasty women there. ...... lastlib Mar 2017 #19
If at first you don't succeed try, try again - and again - and again! George II Mar 2017 #20
It begs the question ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #21
Distraction? Or hissy fit? Likes to pick fights? Who knows. Amaryllis Mar 2017 #22

SCantiGOP

(13,862 posts)
11. Is he a judge
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 07:22 PM
Mar 2017

or a "so-called" judge?

Maybe this can be what pushes Trump over the edge, although I'm not sure how you would know that Trump had lost it.

BumRushDaShow

(128,257 posts)
7. NYT breaking
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 07:05 PM
Mar 2017
Judge Blocks Trump’s Second Try at a Travel Ban

By ALEXANDER BURNS MARCH 15, 2017

A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order Wednesday evening blocking President Trump’s ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, dealing a political blow to the White House and signaling that proponents of the ban face a long and risky legal battle ahead.

The ruling was the second frustrating defeat for Mr. Trump’s travel ban, after a federal court in Seattle halted an earlier version of the executive order last month. Mr. Trump responded to that setback with fury, lashing out at the judiciary before ultimately abandoning the order.

He issued a new and narrower travel ban on March 6, with the aim of pre-empting new lawsuits by abandoning some of the most contentious elements of the first version.

But Mr. Trump evidently failed in that goal: Democratic states and nonprofit groups that work with immigrants and refugees raced into court to attack the updated order, alleging that it was a thinly veiled version of the ban on Muslim migration that he had pledged to enact last year, as a presidential candidate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
10. Wow. Looks like the S.Ct. is going to be getting involved.
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 07:13 PM
Mar 2017

Hope it's soon, before the new one is confirmed. We know what that would mean.

bucolic_frolic

(42,983 posts)
12. 'Judges without birth certificates should not own microwaves! SAD!'
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 07:22 PM
Mar 2017

Trying to un-Americanize America is a dastardly deed that will not stand in any form.

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
21. It begs the question
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 08:56 PM
Mar 2017

Is he just trying to overburden the courts? What is the point of issuing these lame EOs that have no hope of surviving?

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