Posted on 03/15/2017 3:48:21 PM PDT by springwater13
BREAKING: Judge in Hawaii blocks Trump's new travel ban from taking effect nationwide tomorrow
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FEDERAL judges = Congress authorizes a set number of judge positions. Since 1869, Congress has authorized 9 positions for the Supreme Court. As of 2007, it had authorized 179 court of appeals judgeships and 678 district court judgeships.
As of 2007, Congress had authorized 352 bankruptcy judgeships and 551 full-time and part-time magistrate judgeships.
Barack Obama nominated 329 Article III judges who were confirmed by the Senate.
Every action like that by Judge Watson today moves the country closer to when justice will be meted out in the streets and by versions of peoples’ courts that would also bring judges before them for judgment, too.
Back in the 1800s, it used to take no more than a week, but it was simpler times. The republicans are being accommodating because they want 8 democrat votes. They have turned down further delays that Schumer wants and for better or worse, that is the best that can be hoped for at the moment.
I really don't think the republicans will change the rules to 51 votes - there are 6 or so senators on record saying they will vote against it.
Correct. Federal courts are rouge now and have been since the early 1900s perhaps before.
I advocate totally ignoring these globalist communist judges and close their court and block entrance with marines!!
I remember when scotus denied AZ the power to close its border w/Mexico. Scotus found that power resides w/congress (except when it keeps out muzzies).
Nonsense!
A president doesn't have to pass laws through Congress to support actions he is already Constitutionally entitled to take.
May ALL LIBS receive Righteous Justice soon.
No, they need to get Gorsuch in so they can gear up for Kennedy’s replacement.
Whose idea was it to make Hawaii a state?
I agree. The optics of taking it to a court fight aren't good for Trump - it's like he's conceding that the judiciary has any right to say the first thing about his carefully crafted EO, and it also lets the moonbats squawk about "separation of powers" and "Constitutional rights" just exactly as if they understand the first thing about either concept.
Of course, a real Republican Party would be be backing up their President by immediately filing articles of impeachment against the judge, but I digress...
Normally I would have brought up the FACT that the Constitution is Crystal Clear as to Where Judicial Jurisdiction lies when a “... State shall be Party”
see Article 3, Section 2
Unfortunately the vast majority of people do nothing but give Lip Service to the US Constitution, and have NEVER actually Read it. I would bet Half or more of the elected officials across this country have Never Read it.
Really? How above oneself some have become.
Unlike Obozo, Trump is well within the law here
Ignore the tyrant judges & enforce the EO
Amen!
Couldn’t Trump just issue a state of emergency and proceed. If he issued a SOE, does he not have the power to move forward unimpeded?
The constitution seems to indicate that Scotus has original jurisdiction in cases involving states. What prevents Trump insisting this go directly to Scotus?
For that matter, should a lesser court even be allowed to hear a case in which a state is disputing a federal action?
How can a judge rule against an EO that’s not even in effect yet?
I wonder how many refugees have been placed in Hawaii? Any?
He has that power anyway.
"If the policy of the government on vital questions affecting the whole people … is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court … the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.” - Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861.
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