Posted on 03/10/2017 3:11:46 AM PST by HomerBohn
Democratic attorneys general in four states announced Thursday that they will try to block the Trump administration's revised executive order on travel in court, pushing for the temporary restraining order that halted the first order to remain intact.
In early February, U.S. District Judge James Robart issued an order blocking the first version of the ban, which applied visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries and all immigrants. Robart’s ruling was upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, leading the Trump administration to issue the new order on Monday.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) said Thursday his office will file a motion asking Robart to reaffirm that the order applies to the new version of the travel ban, which is scheduled to go into effect next Thursday, March 16.
“We’ve won in court, and the president has had to honor those defeats,” Ferguson told reporters at a press conference in Seattle. “It’s my expectation that we will continue to prevail, and certainly my expectation that the president will continue to respect the decision of the court.”
Ferguson said the state will continue to argue that the travel ban amounts to a ban on Muslims. In the initial suit, Ferguson’s office relied on comments from President Trump and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a Trump backer, who said the president asked him to come up with a legal way to ban Muslims.
The new ban, which some legal experts have said avoids some of the pitfalls that hampered the initial version, now blocks citizens of six Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Iraqi citizens, covered by the initial ban, will be allowed to travel to the United States under the new order.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum (D) and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) will join Washington in challenging the new ban.
“President Trump’s latest executive order is a Muslim ban by another name, imposing policies and protocols that once again violate the Equal Protection Clause and Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution,” Schneiderman said in a statement.
In a statement Thursday, Healey called the ban “discriminatory and unconstitutional."
Ferguson’s motion is the second major legal action against the Trump administration’s new ban. Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin filed suit in federal court on Wednesday alleging the travel ban would hurt Hawaii’s tourism industry and its businesses, along with Hawaii educational institutions.
Asked about Hawaii’s lawsuit, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday the administration remains hopeful that its new ban will survive court scrutiny.
"I think we feel very comfortable that the executive order that was crafted is consistent with — we’re going to go forward on this — but I think by all means, I don’t— we feel very confident with how that was crafted and the input that was given,” Spicer said Thursday.
The American people support the ban. So, NY, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii, are using taxpayers' funds to oppose a ban that is intended to help protect Americans from harm. Who is it that these AG's are representing? Non-citizens. It makes no sense.
What’s going to turn out differently this time?
Maybe Sessions will assign a more capable team to argue the case.
I’m hopeful that Trump has a long game here. Getting beat continually in court (even by a crooked judge) encourages more of the same.
What’s going to turn out differently this time?
Maybe Sessions will assign a more capable team to argue the case.
I’m hopeful that Trump has a long game here. Getting beat continually in court (even by a crooked judge) encourages more of the same.
I say New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D), Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum (D) and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) flood their states with these terrorists. And then hold each one of them accountable as accessories to the crimes the terrorists commit.
The list of tactical objectives for eventual CWII appears to be growing.
Trump needs to assert presidential authority where the constitution and laws vest him and do his sworn duty.
If he needs to arrest some interfering judges, so be it. We are a nation of laws, not a nation of rogue judges.
The last time, the judges knowing the arguments were broadcast live found early they had someone who may have never argued before an appellate court before. It was obvious to even the non-legal members here that he basically gave it away. In that, the court, feeling its oats on a PR level, submitted its ruling based not of anything the law allowed and ventured into the same stupidity from which their nebulous questions emanated.
We will find out if Sessions is the right man for the job by whom is selected to argue the case for the Justice Department. I don’t know if it has to be a government attorney, but if not, I saw hire Jay Sekelow to be that point man this time who knows the issue inside and out and has the experience in litigating in such environments.
These judges should be made aware that accidents do happen.
Too bad we can’t post the pictures of these for AGs on Post Office walls. That is where they belong.
Why can’t the Executive bypass the courts citing national security/executive privilege? Slippery slope, but circumstances being what they are.
Equal protection does not apply to non citizens abroad. Therefore this is a sham. Every potential terrorist from those countries ties admitted now I would settle every one in those four states.
He can and that’s exactly what the EO does. He will still be taken to court by these same states. It’s ridiculous that what these states are saying is that we have no ability to control the border.
I was wondering if Trump and friends have control over where the refugees land....certainly they should go to states that want them.
We are already in CWII. Seriously.
Fortunately, though, it is still a cold war.
I think all refugees should be housed in those states. As a matter of fact the ones from Australia should go to Hawaii, all 1,250 of them.
Flooding states with muslim terrorists or just regular jihadi supporting moderate muslims is a win for the Muslim Brotherhood, a milestone in turning the USA into another muslim country under Sharia.
Those learned lawyers are Democrats and, as such, are never held accountable for anything - unless they piss off their fellow Democrats.
“Those learned lawyers are Democrats and, as such, are never held accountable for anything - unless they piss off their fellow Democrats.”
This is why they must be charged with being complicit and as an accessory for any domestic terror attack. If they push to allow these thugs in the country, then push the SOBs into prison.
Who would charge them? Not their fellow Democrats, not the party loving spinless Republicans? So who? Aliens?
When those “migrants” to Mass try to migrate to New Hampshire, they will find a third eye socket magically appear in their heads.
...We’ve won in court, and the president has had to honor those defeats...
We’ve won on November 8th, and the Democrats have to honor those defeats.
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