Posted on 08/22/2026 7:23:01 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A U.S. judge on Friday struck down, opens new tab a Trump administration policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, saying that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statutory authority.
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan said the policy that the State Department announced in January was "patently unlawful" and ran afoul of federal immigration law, which explicitly stripped the secretary of state of authority over consular officers' processing of immigrant visas.
"The Policy, which categorically prohibits the issuance of immigrant visas based upon the nationality of the applicant, represents a direct abrogation of this statutory scheme," she wrote.
The State Department's suspension that also took effect in January impacted applicants from Latin American countries including Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay; Balkan nations such as Bosnia and Albania; South Asian countries Pakistan and Bangladesh; and those from many nations in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean.
The State Department said applicants from those countries were "at a high risk for becoming a public charge and recourse to local, state and federal government resources in the United States." The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.
Vargas, an appointee of Democratic former President Joe Biden, issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by immigrant rights groups Catholic Legal Immigration Network and African Communities Together along with applicants for immigrant visas and U.S. citizens who are sponsoring family members from the designated countries for immigrant visas.
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Another Breakfest Taco Dip**** Judgette. Where are they finding all these road kill Taco slobs?
How many rogue judges did Biden install in his term? How many has Trump appointed in the first half of his second term?
Overturned in 3.. 2.. 1..
To be overturned shortly.
This is so stupid.
“How many rogue judges did Biden install in his term? How many has Trump appointed in the first half of his second term?”
List of federal judges appointed by Joe Biden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Joe_Biden
List of federal judges appointed by Donald Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Donald_Trump
Tar and feathers come to mind...
As of August 22, 2026 (about 579 days into his second term), Trump has had roughly 54 Article III federal judges confirmed; Biden appointed 235 total over his full presidency and about 74–76 by a comparable point (around August 2022).
Judge Jeannette needs her arse kicked. She should stay in her lane. She doesn’t have the authority to make immigration policy. Fire her arse.
“...suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries...”
It wasn’t Rubio that made that call it was Trump. So, if they are going to be fair, the next time a news media announces a liberal policy then they should be taken to court and suspended. That means that any press secretary or spokesman becomes the punishable or catches blame for doing anything. What happened to Art 1? They have no authority to speak for anyone.
wy69
Deport the Judge, pronto.
“filed by immigrant rights groups Catholic Legal Immigration Network and African Communities Together along with applicants for immigrant visas and U.S. citizens”
I’m really sick of these US groups working to get these welfare cases into the country.
Still ZERO impeached judges.
The SCOTUS, just today or so, ruled against a similar attack on the President’s authority...
These judges need to be severely punished...
More importantly, how many of these dingbats were approved by the Republicans?
What’s the point of a confirmation process if you’re just going to rubber stamping anyone or anything the Democrats parade out?
We can’t successfully impeach judges, but a Republican Congress and President can removal their tools of obstruction.
The Congress has Article I, Section 8 power to make rules for the government.
Perhaps a new law:
Federal judges shall not make law, but merely help litigants get the benefit of the text and intended meanings of the provisions of the Constitution when they were placed into it, statutory law and the remnants of common law.
No ruling or decision by a federal district or appellate court judge on a case against a government, a governmental agency or governmental person shall be applicable beyond each entity or private person individually listed within by name or personal particulars by the judge personally.
No federal judge who has or has possessed foreign citizenship may adjudicate an immigration, asylum or removal case.
No district court federal judge shall work on a case who has a parent, aunt, uncle, sibling, child, grandchild or known partner of such close relative or a personal partner with any case related interest.
The following district and appellate court judges are hereby barred from hearing cases where the federal government is a party or federal funding is in contention:
....
If judges don’t want to be shaking their fists instead of gavels, they need to behave and know their place.
If judges don’t want to have to wear fools’ caps when working as Congress may require under Article I, Section 8, they need to behave and know their place.
We can’t successfully impeach judges, but a Republican Congress and President can removal their tools of obstruction.
The Congress has Article I, Section 8 power to make rules for the government.
Perhaps a new law:
Federal judges shall not make law, but merely help litigants get the benefit of the text and intended meanings of the provisions of the Constitution when they were placed into it, statutory law and the remnants of common law.
No ruling or decision by a federal district or appellate court judge on a case against a government, a governmental agency or governmental person shall be applicable beyond each entity or private person individually listed within by name or personal particulars by the judge personally.
No federal judge who has or has possessed foreign citizenship may adjudicate an immigration, asylum or removal case.
No district court federal judge shall work on a case who has a parent, aunt, uncle, sibling, child, grandchild or known partner of such close relative or a personal partner with any case related interest.
The following district and appellate court judges are hereby barred from hearing cases where the federal government is a party or federal funding is in contention:
....
If judges don’t want to be shaking their fists instead of gavels, they need to behave and know their place.
If judges don’t want to have to wear fools’ caps when working as Congress may require under Article I, Section 8, they need to behave and know their place.
“How many has Trump appointed in the first half of his second term?”
i think Thune has stalled ALL of Trump’s judge appointments ...
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