The Justice Department is asking a federal appeals court to set aside a judge’s order that temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s travel ban.
The federal government’s request for an emergency stay was filed Saturday night with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The filing asks the court to lift an order from a day earlier from a judge in Washington state.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge James Robart temporarily halted a Trump administration executive order that suspended America’s refugee program and halted immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries.
The administration on Saturday moved to suspend enforcement of the travel ban as the Justice Department readied its legal challenge.
President Donald Trump has lashed out at Robart on Twitter, calling him a “so-called judge.”
(AP)
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As of 10:00 PM EST, the Federal government had simply filed a notice of intention to appeal but had NOT filed any substantive pleadings as to the basis for their request. Like everything else they’ve done so far, there was no advance preparation in case the courts ruled against them. Further, the DOJ attorneys have to clean up the mess left by their client (aka Trump) for attacking the legitimacy of a Judge appointed by President Bush and confirmed by a 97-0 vote. Our “so called” President, is deliberately seeking to create chaos and then take credit for “fixing it”.