This jerk also stopped Trumps travel ban.
I’m curious why the Democrat Senators opposed his appointment.
“This jerk also stopped Trump’s travel ban.”
You are correct
Federal Judge In Maryland Blocks Trump’s Latest Travel Ban Attempt (NPR)
October 18, 2017
The plaintiffs “have established that they are likely to succeed on the merits,” District Judge Theodore D. Chuang wrote in the Tuesday order dealing another setback to the Trump administration’s attempt to ban travel to the U.S. by citizens of certain countries.
In his ruling, Chuang wrote that President Trump’s own tweets helped convince him that the latest policy is an “inextricable re-animation of the twice-enjoined Muslim ban” that Trump called for on the campaign trail and is therefore likely to be found unconstitutional.
He did it twice (This is the second time the Judge tried to block the travel ban.)
Judge Theodore D. Chang rules against Donald Trump’s Muslim ban
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/18/judge-theodore-d-chang-rules-against-donald-trumps/
The Washington Times - Wednesday, October 18, 2017
President Trump’s Twitter account landed him into trouble yet again Wednesday, with a federal judge using a recent tweet about shooting terrorists with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood to prove Mr. Trump still maintains “religious animus” toward Muslims — and therefore his latest travel ban is illegal.
Judge Theodore D. Chuang, an Obama appointee to the U.S. District Court in Maryland, issued a ruling early Wednesday enjoining the administration from carrying out the latest iteration of the travel ban, issued in September.
Judge Chuang said the latest attempt at Mr. Trump’s “extreme vetting” travel ban, issued in a proclamation in late September, suffers from the same problems as two earlier travel ban executive orders because it still targets Muslim countries for severe restrictions, without giving enough of a justification.
“The proclamation’s ban generally resembles President Trump’s earlier description of the Muslim ban,” Judge Chuang wrote in his 91-page ruling.
The Justice Department had argued there was nothing anti-Muslim about the latest version of the policy, and pointed to Mr. Trump’s speech earlier this year in Saudi Arabia praising Islam as evidence there is no animus.
“The proclamation’s ban generally resembles President Trump’s earlier description of the Muslim ban,” Judge Chuang wrote in his 91-page ruling.
The Justice Department had argued there was nothing anti-Muslim about the latest version of the policy, and pointed to Mr. Trump’s speech earlier this year in Saudi Arabia praising Islam as evidence there is no animus.
But Judge Chuang said that speech didn’t repudiate the president’s past statements. And in fact, the president made things worse with an August tweet where the president suggested terrorists could be handled by shooting them with bullets dipped in the blood of pigs, which Islam teaches are ritually impure.