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So the Trump administration is at war with our third pillar of the U.S. constitution, the Judicial!
Airlines told to allow previously banned travelers to US, after judge’s order | The Guardian |
After a federal judge in Seattle ordered a temporary halt on Donald Trump’s travel ban for refugees and people from seven predominantly-Muslim nations, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reportedly told US airlines that they could board travelers who had been barred.
District judge James Robart granted a temporary restraining order on Friday after hearing arguments from Washington state and Minnesota that the president’s order had unlawfully discriminated against Muslims and caused unreasonable harm.
It was not immediately clear whether authorities would comply with the broad order, especially after officials reacted in confusion a week earlier, detaining valid visa holders and arguing with lawyers. But the justice department said it would not immediately file for an emergency stay, at least on Friday night, and reports said Customs and Border Protection (CBP0 had informed US airlines that they should board travelers who had been barred by an executive order last week.
“We are a nation of laws. Not even the president can violate the constitution,” Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson told reporters outside the courtroom. “No one is above the law, not even the president.”
“This decision shuts down the executive order immediately, shuts it down,” he added. “That relief is immediate, happens right now. That’s the bottom line.”
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International airports around the globe in anguish after Trump ban on Muslims - so Un-AmericanLate on Friday, the White House released a statement saying that it would seek an emergency stay; an earlier request for a stay by a justice department attorney had been denied by Judge Robart.
“At the earliest possible time, the Department of Justice intends to file an emergency stay of this outrageous order and defend the executive order of the President, which we believe is lawful and appropriate. The president’s order is intended to protect the homeland and he has the constitutional authority and responsibility to protect the American people,” press secretary Sean Spicer said. In a second “updated” statement, the White House removed the word “outrageous”.
Haha …. pillars of Obama’s foreign policy! U must be kidding me?!!
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[UPDATE-1] :: Trump Prefers Bullying as in Saddam’s Stalinism
Donald Trump attacks ‘so-called judge’ over decision to halt travel ban | The Guardian |
Donald Trump has insulted and threatened to overturn the ruling of a “so-called” federal judge in Seattle who temporarily halted his travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries and the suspension of refugee admission.
In a series of tweets early in the morning after Friday’s ruling by the Seattle judge James Robart, the president wrote: “The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!”
Trump, who for the first time as president was spending the weekend away from the White House, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, wrote with characteristic typographical errors: “When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot , come in & out, especially for reasons of safety &.security – big trouble!”
He added: “Interesting that certain Middle-Eastern countries agree with the ban. They know if certain people are allowed in it’s death & destruction!” Trump again used the word “ban” to describe his order.
White House aides this week contested the use of the term.
Trump’s Make America Great Again so similar through the Atlantic Bridge to colonial power and conservative Great Britain … mocking the judges. At least the media in the US have shown self-restraint and some responsibility compared to the “boulevard press” after the British High Court ruling on Article 50 in the Brexit referendum.
○ British newspapers react to judges’ Brexit ruling: ‘Enemies of the people’