Posted on 03/24/2017 10:14:37 AM PDT by Trump20162020
WASHINGTON — President Trump got his first court win on Friday in the challenges to his new travel and refugee executive order, as a federal judge ruled against a lawsuit backed by the Council on American–Islamic Relations in Virginia.
US District Judge Anthony Trenga, in a 32-page opinion, found that the plaintiffs in the case — Linda Sarsour v. Donald Trump — were not likely to succeed in their challenge to the March 6 executive order barring travel from six Muslim-majority countries for 90 days and temporarily halting the refugee program.
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Chalk one up for the good guys.
Does this have any affect on the other two rulings?
Not an attorney, but thinking conflicting rulings help get the case to the Supreme Court.
Couple that with a Gorsuch win and you get the 5-4 win for Trump and America when the case gets to them?
Well, this judge has as much authority to extend his ruling nationwide as the other judges did.
Congress could easily fix this. They define the leser courts and their powers. Why not make EO decisions out of bounds for anyone but SCOTUS? Enough of these politicized petty tyrants making law.
Thats so brilliant it’s breathtaking
I would think that even liberal SC justices can read a statute, so I am thinking 9-0 or 8-1 in favor of the ban.
Amazing: a Federal judge can read and understand what it actually says?
You are assuming the four liberal justices would care about what the law says, rather than ideology. Sorry.
No...I am assuming that SC Justices are a little more sensitive about being perceived as idiots than are the three judges on the Ninth Circus or the District Court judges in Seattle and Hawaii.
Agree. I don’t recall the last time Congress used its Article III powers. The practical purpose of congress is little more than reelection of its members. Disgusting.
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