Posted on 05/07/2025 8:54:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Monday, a federal judge in the Western District of Washington issued an order setting forth a "compliance framework" for the Trump administration to follow in order to adhere to his previously entered preliminary injunction. That framework will require the administration to begin processing roughly 12,000 refugees by next Monday.
It's the latest development in a series of back-and-forth court rulings and moves that have begun to seem a bit like a Ping-Pong match.
A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to immediately resettle some 12,000 refugees into the U.S. under a court order that partially blocks President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at halting the refugee admissions program.
U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead, a 2023 appointee of former President Joe Biden, issued the order despite the Trump administration saying during a hearing last week that it should only have to process 160 refugees into the country and would likely appeal any order requiring thousands to be admitted.
Bear with me while I retrace the chronology of this one:
That brings us to this recent article, describing that April 22nd order from the 9th Circuit and noting that it basically put the lower court (Whitehead) in check.
READ MORE: New: 9th Circuit Puts District Court in Check After It Holds Up Trump Admin Immigration Efforts
Now, in his "compliance framework" order, Judge Whitehead appears to be letting his snark flag fly — both as to the administration and the 9th Circuit's clipping of his wings. (Okay, it's mostly reserved for the administration, but it's hard not to read some "tone" into his comments regarding the appellate higher-ups, too.) The sticking point involves the third condition included in the 9th Circuit's order regarding which individuals should be exempted from the enforcement of the executive order (i.e., allowed to proceed with the immigration/resettlement process): "3. the individual had arranged and confirmable travel plans to the United States."
Here are some of the choice comments from Whitehead:
Plaintiffs advocate a plain-meaning interpretation of this phrase, under which “arranged and confirmable travel plans” refers, simply, to arranged and confirmable travel plans.
The Government, however, would have the Court believe that when the Ninth Circuit used this phrase, it secretly embedded a qualifier requiring that travel must have been scheduled to occur within two weeks of January 20, 2025.
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The Government’s interpretation is, to put it mildly, “interpretive jiggerypokery” of the highest order. See King v. Burwell, 576 U.S. 473, 506 (2015) (Scalia, J., dissenting). It requires not just reading between the lines, but hallucinating new text that simply is not there. The third criterion requires that the individual “had arranged and confirmable travel plans to the United States” as of January 20, 2025. Not “had arranged and confirmable travel plans with a departure window within two weeks of January 20, 2025.” Not “had imminent travel plans.” Not “had travel plans like Plaintiff Pacito’s.” Just, “had arranged and confirmable travel plans.” Had the Ninth Circuit intended to impose a two-week limitation—one that would reduce the protected population from about 12,000 to 160 individuals—it would have done so explicitly. The Ninth Circuit is capable of imposing temporal limitations when it intends to do so. That it did not do so here must be construed as deliberate. And it goes without saying that 12,000 is not the “tens of thousands of individuals” the Ninth Circuit implied to be problematic.
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This Court will not entertain the Government’s result-oriented rewriting of a judicial order that clearly says what it says. The Government is free, of course, to seek further clarification from the Ninth Circuit. But the Government is not free to disobey statutory and constitutional law—and the direct orders of this Court and the Ninth Circuit—while it seeks such clarification. The Government’s obligation to process, admit, and provide statutorily mandated resettlement support services to the Injunction-Protected Refugees is immediate. Likewise, the Government’s obligation to restore funding, information, and operational support to its USRAP partners as necessary to process, admit, and provide resettlement services to these individuals is also immediate.
We can expect the administration to appeal this order and/or seek further clarification from the 9th Circuit on it because, as noted above, Whitehead's interpretation forces the government to begin immediately admitting roughly 12,000 versus the 160 who had advanced further along in the travel/resettlement process.
As always, we'll continue to follow along and provide updates as to any developments of note.
Federal judges = the epitome of dictators and insurrectionists.
I urge the administration to completely ignore ALL judgements coming from US District Courts, and to not even engage with them. Defund the district courts and see if they think they can work for free...
Why?? You don’t fully understand how the other side plays it’s dangerous games.
What’s the plan sten, to step it up. Obviously you have one, so share how it is to be done.
I believe he's reluctant to ignore the justices because in doing so he would give his democrat and RINO enemies ammunition to impeach and remove him.
It's said that Marbury v. Madison is what gave the SCOTUS primacy over the other branches. It initiated judicial review, which now secures the federal court’s primacy role in constitutional interpretation. Since Congress & the Executive have never challenged this court's primacy authority initiated in Marbury v. Madison - we find our so-called representative government a farce. Jefferson warned about the court exerting power over the will of the people.
Another Rubber Stamp judge wants it all rubber stamped ,LOL
Activists make very very very very BAD judges
Desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s so obvious they’re purposely trying to thwart his presidency and the will of the people. Evil wins when good men and women do nothing.
looks like we’re gonna need Alcatraz a little sooner than anticipated.
“I urge the administration to completely ignore ALL judgements coming from US District Courts...”
Better yet, put out a call across the U.S. for any Americans who feel unsafe in Democrat run cities and wish to move to safer parts of America where their children could attend better schools and opportunity for jobs at expanding factories are available. Process and move 12,000 “American refugees” and see how long the District judges want to play this game.
obviously, more teams / personnel. using the national guard can work.
while we’re at it we need to oust all the people in local, state, and federal positions taking money from the cartels. remove them from their jobs and look into prison sentences.
after that... then we’ll be ready to start moving south of the board to word on the cartels.
REVISED:
Put out a call across the U.S. for any Americans who feel unsafe in Democrat run cities and wish to move to safer parts of America where their children could attend better schools and opportunity for jobs at expanding factories are available. Process and move 12,000 “American refugees” and see how long the District judges want to play this game.
In California cities alone I bet you could find at least 4,000,000 citizens who currently cannot afford to flee the Democrat violence and would jump at the chance to get help starting a new life elsewhere. To them it would be WINNING.
Force the lefty NGOs to use their stash of $ to pay for the “refugee resettlement” of American citizens fleeing violence. More WINNING. Any NGOs that refuse, immediately pull their tax exempt status. Much more WINNING.
California population currently stands at 39,529,000 with the average congressional district at 761,169 giving California 52 congressional seats. Republicans currently hold 9 of those 52 seats. So if you drop Californias population by 4,000,000 to 35,529,000, those 52 seats drop to 47 with 9 of those seats still held by Republicans. Can you say WINNING? Now add those 5 seats lost by Democrats to other places in the country where the citizens are law abiding and in the boat and rowing and the makeup of the House of Representatives completely changes. Multiply that in every state run by violent Democrat cities and these United States of America would change so fast even the RINOs teaming up with the Democrats could not stop it. SO MUCH WINNING!
I am not trying to be a smart-arse, but that would take decades if not centuries to accomplish if you followed the legal norms that actually do not exist for illegal aliens that arrived in this country through illegal actions. To further complicate things, one can argue that Biden invited all of these illegal aliens in with his open borders policy.
So, while I endorse your plan in theory, in reality the speed of removal you desire wouldn't materialize at a faster rate. In fact, it might be even slower. You also seem think it to be an easy task to spot someone here illegally. Which I believe you would find that your error rate would cause issues as well.
Unfortunately the issue is far more complex than you apparently believe it to be. Especially on the legal front. Now the Supreme Court could eliminate a lot off those problems, by correctly ruling that the President has Article 2 authority from the Constitution to remove illegal aliens. But Roberts & Barrett would most likely side with the liberals, if nothing else to thwart Trump.
So, I a not trying to belittle you, just shed a little reality. Biden should be tried for treason, only getting a conviction him would be seen a elder abuse.
That is why we must expose what really happened and fig to uncover who was really making the calls in the Biden Administration. That should proceed by charging all of the top people in the administration in order to see who are willing to flip to save themselves. I think the U.S. military should lead that charge by ensuring that MAGA supporting prosecutors in the military get all of the cases and slow walk the cases in order to bleed away their financial resources. In other words, we use the military justice system to create the same form of lawfare they did on Trump & MAGA supporters faced. that in return would take away from the activist liberal judges as their support structure is eroded aand the fear is now placed upon them.
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Yup!
Just remember kiddies....Invasion is a Civil Right, but only if you’re a non-White.
Because rogue judges fight him?
Ridiculous.
Screw due process. They aren’t citizens.
Screw judges. They aren’t in charge.
Start gutting the military brass that were put in place by & for Obama, making that priority number one.
There is no need for ‘due process’ for invaders. in fact, they should be thrill they aren’t shot on sight, as invaders normally would be.
as for all you whiners now complaining about how we’re removing the millions of illegals by not following ‘due process’... your opinion carries NO WEIGHT as you were absent as they were breaking the law dragging them into the country.
personally, i’d like to see charges against all those that brought them here as accomplices to the crimes (rapes, robberies, murders) the illegals committed after being dropped into America’s backyards.
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