Federal Judge Blocks Trump's BS 😜
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Samael — 1 year ago(January 28, 2025 10:59 PM)
Federal judge blocks Trump order nationwide
By Matt Zapotosky, Justin Jouvenal and Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post
A federal judge in Washington state declared that he would temporarily block enforcement of President Trump’s controversial ban on entry to the United States — a ruling that appears to be broader than others before it, though the precise details have yet to be revealed.
Judge James L. Robart granted a request from lawyers for the state of Washington who had asked him to stop the government from acting on critical sections of Trump’s executive order. The order bars from entering the United States citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries as well as refugees and others.
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson hailed the case as “the first of its kind” and declared that it “shuts down the executive order immediately.”
The practical implications of the ruling remained unclear, in part because the judge did not lay out his thinking in writing. The judge, a George W. Bush appointee, indicated in a docket entry that he would issue a written ruling later. The Justice Department said in a statement that it “looks forward to reviewing the court’s written order and will determine next steps.”
Another complicating factor is that the State Department has revoked the visas of all immigrants and nonimmigrants from the seven listed countries. Without proper documents, those who are prohibited from entering the country may still not be able to board planes.
Immigration lawyers said Friday night they were still assessing the Washington case, though they were heartened by it.
“The order makes it clear that all of the main provisions of the executive order cannot be enforced at this time,” said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. “That means that a lot will have to change immediately, and the government will have to make clear how they intend to follow the order with respect to all of the ways in which immigrants here and abroad are being affected at the moment.”
Since it was first rolled out a week ago, Trump’s travel ban has been evolving — both because of legal challenges and as a result of decisions by the administration to walk back aspects of it. Green-card holders from the affected countries, for example, no longer need waivers to get into the United States, as they did when the order took effect. And the Department of Homeland Security asserted Friday that the order does not apply to dual citizens with passports from countries other than the seven listed.
The numbers of visas revoked, too, demonstrated just how far-reaching the impact of the order would be. Families will remain split, students unable to pursue their education, those in the United States unable to leave for fear of not being able to return — and not by the handful, but by the tens of thousands.
During a hearing in a lawsuit by two Yemeni brothers who arrived at Dulles International Airport last Saturday and were quickly put on a return flight to Ethiopia because of the new restrictions, a Justice Department lawyer said 100,000 visas had been revoked. While the government is working to resolve the Yemeni brothers’ case and return the men to the United States, lawyers at the hearing addressed the broader impact of the ban.
About the same time, in Boston, a group of four students enrolled in area colleges, a researcher and the spouse of a permanent resident — all of whom came from countries affected by the ban — flew into the United States.
The group that entered was aboard the same flight from Frankfurt operated by the German airline Lufthansa, which a day earlier had noted on its website a court decision that it claimed had “suspended” Trump’s decree on flights to Boston. Lawyers hailed the development as good news.
“We’ve got six more today than we had yesterday,” said Susan Church, an attorney for the American Immigration Lawyers Association of New England.
Among those who made their way back to the United States were two undergraduate Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who had been visiting their families for winter break; as well as 27-year-old Behnam Partopour, a PhD student from Iran studying chemical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute who had been working on a project in Germany; and Samira Asgari, an Iranian scientist who was headed to Boston to conduct research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Colleen Wamback of Worcester Polytechnic Institute said Partopour had a student visa which was issued before the executive order but was delayed in getting to him. Asgari, on the other hand, had tried twice to board flights to the United States but was turned away because of the ban. She had filed a lawsuit over the matter.
Though federal judges in other parts of the country already had restrained enforcement of the ban, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs’s order in Boston went somewhat further — blocking U.S. officials from detaining or removin -
The Vagitopian — 1 year ago(January 28, 2025 11:11 PM)
Any decree is meant to be a controversial distraction.
The chief executive can just disband agencies, fire administrators and cut funding without all the hoopla. This would be more effective, which is why it's not happening this way. -
MepDusa — 1 year ago(February 05, 2025 09:57 AM)
That wouldn't be very wise, even if it were possible. These are agencies that perform necessary functions so you will need them eventually, but they will be very hard to put back in place effectively if you have disbanded everyone.
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The Vagitopian — 4 months ago(November 25, 2025 01:10 PM)
the point was to be effective, not to argue whether a dependent's fear of losing their inefficient and ineffective welfare system of agencies and social programs.
and i would
hope
they would be hard to put back into place. these things used to have charters, but now we are so dependent and entitled that these burden of needing a nanny for day-to-day things will never end and that is the gift we pass on to all future generations along with endless debt, war and diminishing freedom. -
Steve Lake — 1 year ago(January 30, 2025 04:56 AM)
No one elected this Judge. He doesn't have the power constitutionally to invoke such an order .
The American People voted President Donald John Trump for President.
Not this effeminate middle aged Activist posing as a Judge.
The only poster who had his account banned 4 times without ever breaking any rules each of those times.
