Posted on 01/31/2018 2:26:17 PM PST by jazusamo
Nicholas G. Garaufis is the latest federal judge to disrupt President Trump's policy agenda and question his morals.
Trump is guilty of "recurring, redundant drumbeat of anti-Latino commentary," Garaufis said in a Brooklyn courtroom Wednesday while hearing a case on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA participants and 16 states have challenged Trump's decision to end the program.
"It's extreme, it's recurring, it's vicious," Garaufis added.
Colleen Melody, a lawyer for the state of Washington, at one point asked if Trump would have made the same decision on DACA if its beneficiaries hailed from Norway. Clearly, she was making reference to Trump's controversial immigration comments, where he reportedly called Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations "s***hole "countries, but heaped praise on Norway.
"My observation was that most of people that I ran into in Norway when I was there were white," Garaufis couldn't help but note.
Trump announced his plans to end the program last September, denouncing it as an executive overreach by his predecessor President Obama. Yet, he gave Congress six months to try and make DACA constitutional. The March deadline is fast approaching.
Despite Trump's six-month window, Democrats still railed against his callous move. How could he threaten children who came here illegally as minors? For many of them, America is the only home they've ever known.
The issue is such a hot topic that it even led to a government shutdown two weeks ago. Democrats refused to vote for a spending bill that did not protect DACA recipients. Trump extended another hand last week. This one was pretty generous. He offered a path to citizenship for younger "Dreamers" in 10-12 years, in exchange for border wall funding.
It was still a non-starter. Democrats accused the president of holding Dreamers hostage for his immigration plans.
A federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the Trump administration's DACA plans earlier this month.
Trump is familiar with rebelling judges. Last year, when he tried to implement his temporary travel ban on six Muslim-majority nations, he faced resistance in courtrooms all over the country.
Judge Garaufis did not announce when he'd make his ruling on DACA.
CITIZENS OF OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE NO RIGHT TO OUR COUNTRY!!!!
What part of “ILLEGAL ALIEN” does this constitution-hating leftist judge not understand?
Lacks judicial temperament
He obviously hasn't been there of late...................
It sounds to me like these judges, especially the one with a pending ruling, have lost their pretensions to legal objectivity and should be removed.
This is the same fed judge that banned hiring by FDNY some years back demanding racial quotas.
I’m of the opinion that all liberal judges should be dragged out into the street by their nostril hairs and horsewhipped, but some may consider that a little harsh.
There are sure many judges who don’t seem to have functioning logic centers in their brains. So sad.
Nicholas Garaufis was nominated by President Clinton on February 28, 2000 as a United States District Judge in the Eastern District of New York.
“———————but some may consider that a little harsh.”
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And some may consider it not harsh enough,like me.
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We need a new immigration law that strips jurisdiction away from all inferior courts. Congress IS authorized to do so.
I would just love this judge to be terminated by a few MS 13 children.
The “judge’s” comments are legally IRRELEVANT. He is a LOSER.
Absolutely right.
This illegal alien fiasco has become a real can of worms with every liberal pissant federal district judge getting in the act.
Colleen Melody, a lawyer for the state of Washington,
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Of course she would - with all those drug cartel grows in Washington State forests, she needs more of them to do the work Americans won’t.
Talk to the hand, Garauflis. This issue has already been forum shopped in California and they found a progressive district judge to
enjoin Trump’s executive order reversing Obama’s unconstitutional executive order.Yes. Judge, you are entitled to an opinion but not a political opinion or personal value opinion while you are sitting on that bench only an opinion as to the law. You are free to express your political opinion or value outrage over lunch in a restaurant with your buddies but no one wants to hear it in a courtroom. This issue is already being appealed by the AG directly to the US Supreme Court and you are welcome to have your forum shopped opinion added to that one for ultimate reversal
WTF does that have to do with the LAW or the Constitution?
Another rogue judge that doesn’t think they must follow the laws of our nation.
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