Posted on 02/05/2017 4:55:15 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
In a major blow to the ACLU, a federal judge in Boston refused to extend an order which temporarily put a stop to a portion of Trump’s controversial “extreme vetting” immigration order. Judge Nathaniel Gorton, a President George H.W. Bush appointee, decided not to renew the temporary restraining order which was set to expire on Sunday. This ruling is significant because it is the first time that the Trump administration has scored a victory after a series of orders nationwide slamming the ban.
The ACLU argued that the Executive Order violated the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution because it favors Christians over Muslims. However, the judge found that nothing in the order “compels a finding that Christians are preferred to any other group.”
In addition, he found the plaintiffs lacked standing. “Plaintiffs are not, however, refugees seeking admission to the United States and consequently, any future implementation of Section 5 (b) would not personally affect them,” the judge wrote.
Judge Gorton found that while the Fifth Amendment protects “invidious discrimination by the Federal government” against aliens, there is a difference between the constitutional rights enjoyed by non-citizens who have entered the U.S. and those outside of it.
“The decision to prevent aliens from entering the country is a ‘fundamental sovereign attribute’ realized through the legislative and executive branches that is largely immune from judicial control,” the judge wrote (citations omitted). In other words, the President has the right to make immigration decisions, without interference from the courts.
The court’s previous temporary order, which has now been lifted, stopped the deportation not only of two college professors, but also ordered the government to stop blocking deportation of others “similarly situated.” The case is being handled by attorneys from the ACLU and was originally brought on behalf of Mazdak Pourabdollah Tootkaboni and Arghavan Louhghalam, Iranian nationals and associate professors at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. They are both lawful permanent residents of the United States. The case was amended to include five other Iranian nationals and Oxfam America. The judge found that in light of the Trump administration’s statement that the order was not intended to apply to lawful permanent residents, the claims for injunctive relief by the professors are now moot.
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the ACLU works off a “winner pays the ACLU and loser pays the ACLU” loophole in civil rights law.
The ACLU makes money from donations and from the victims they sue.
it is essentially a shadow arm of the federal bureaucracy.
The ACLU is largely funded by Soros - the law doesn’t concern them as much as their agenda. Money talks.
Wasn’t the ACLU started as a Soviet front way back before WWII?
“Critical Law” before it became liberal/leftist chic, was the hidden element of the legal practices against the courts by the communists and sympathizers led by William Kunstler (and members of his law firm including id. Communist Party USA member Morton Stavis, Marxist Arthur Kinoy (NCIPA, etc)., radical ACLU member Phil Hirschkopf (for a short time), and hardcore Marxist Peter Weiss, husband of Hanoi operative Cora Weiss (daughter of Soviet asset Samuel Rubin).
Kunstler and company trained a whole cadre of younger lawyers to use the law to undermine and destroy the law, targeting internal security and related national security laws such as the Internal Security Act and the Immigration & Naturalization Act (Walter-McCarren Act, which kept Communists and their documented supporters out of the US - This was destroyed by Rep. Barnie Frank, Sen. Daniel Moynihan, Rep. Steny Hoyer, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. John Conyers in the changes their got pushed thru in light of the horrible court decision in the “LA 8 case”.).
The ACLU’s national leadership is so hardcore left these days that you might as well call it a “Marxist-Mini Me” clone.
Kunstler used “jury nullification” and “judge nullification” in the Chicago 7 case, which was based on the successful defense tactics of the CPUSA id. party member/attorney Charles R. Gary (of the CP loaded law firm that Hillary Clinton interned for in the “New Haven Black Panther Party torture/murder case of Alex Rackley).
He told a group of us in 1969 that if Gary succeeded in getting the Oakland 7 war protestors off on charges of stopping troop and/or arms trains, then he would adopt that tactic to the Chicago Trial, which he successfully did.
Today you have more hardcore leftist attorneys and dupes then we have seen since the 1940’s/early 50’s, and they pose a greater threat to our national security today then ever before because they have been joined with leftist immigration attorneys, gender attorneys, black racist attorneys, and guilt-ridden white liberals.
The upcoming 9th Circuit decision is only one part of a larger war the left is waging against America, and it will take a smart, savvy Trump team to defeat them, or we will just have to wait for the next 9/11.
Perhaps a new attorney may help as well (9th Circuit Court case). I recommend watching the video of the hearing. It’s very interesting - if you’re into that type of thing.
I was pretty shocked that the ruling went the way it did based on how the prosecution presented their side.
I wouldn’t care if it did.
So now refugees are supposed to come into the US through the territory under jurisdiction of the 9th Circus, but not through Boston? Can the admitted refugees then travel to Boston, or must they stay in the 9th Circus’ turf? SCOTUS’ input is now absolutely necessary, and I think both cases should go in front of them ASAP.
He claims that the plaintiffs have standing because they and their people will suffer financially with the stay - selling the safety of the People out for the finances of those who claim to hate Capitalism...
Just what I was going to say. Hey, wait a minute - aren’t we talking about FOREIGNERS here??
No, but it does discrimate against mass murdering and serial killing Muslim pigs. It is simply an outrage that these barbarian killers of unarmed, innocent U.S. Citizens can’t enter the country freely—I am Barack Hussein and I humbly approve this message.
With proper functioning checks and balances, congress would slap around this judge. But, Ryan, Graham, McCain, etc are funded by Soros.
NO SLEEPING IN BEDS
err {edit}
WIF SHEETS!
Animalism - That's their "understanding" of the "law".
"It is, of course, for our benefit they eat all the apples and drink all the milk..."
[Animal Farm film 1999]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGzRf0Ow1qU&feature=youtu.be&t=39m58s
Yes I do. What sort of threat does the ACLU imagine comes from Christians?
Oh come on ,the 9th Circuit have to consult with Sith Lord Emperor Soros before they do anything
There, fixed it for you.
>refugees to U.S. for fiscal year 2017
is 110,000<
.
That’s is a muzzie invasion!!
We must be eager for our own demise. where is our so-called home security?
Don’t we as a nation have “freedom of choice” whether or not someone should become a “viable” citizen? Before they become Americans, they are just a “blob of flesh” and can be “aborted”.
LOL. I like that.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/25-year-state-dept-veteran-exposes-refugee-program-as-fraud/
I stumbled on this report received from a 25 yr State Department employee who recently retired. She has enough knowledge to blow open the immigration problem.
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