A federal judge on Sunday rejected the U.S. government’s request to clarify his temporary order blocking President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson said nothing was unclear about his order and the government can’t ask for a distinction that officials failed to make in earlier briefs and arguments, according to online court records.
Watson issued the temporary restraining order Wednesday in response to a lawsuit from the state of Hawaii, concluding there was “significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus” behind the travel ban.
Two days later, the Justice Department asked Watson to clarify that the order only applied to the ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries and not a global freeze on refugees entering the United States.
Watson asked federal officials and Hawaii on Sunday how they want to proceed regarding a possible extension of his order.
Trump has called the Hawaii ruling an example of “unprecedented judicial overreach” and has indicated it will be appealed.
Similar cases are being heard in federal courts in Washington state and Maryland. In all, more than half a dozen states are trying to block the travel ban.
(AP)
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Why should 1 radical liberal Federal judge have the power to refuse it when all others approve it? It’s not as if that 1 judge is the Supreme Court.
So let’s take the words in the news reports at their layman’s meaning. Another report states that the ruling was 43 pages long. So to me it does not sound so outlandish to ask for a clarification of some point. Why is the judge being so belligerent. A simple sentence clarifying the matter would suffice. The diatribe the judge spewed at the government make him sound rather biased.
Libs are evil, they hate Trump, they hate the right and they hate Hashem!
They will put the entire country in danger in order to hurt Trump and the right.
The American people are too stupid to realize what’s going on.
Since when did the left care about religion? Let alone the Muslims, who are everything a lib doesn’t stand for? (except for smashing and destroying their enemies)
#3 100% true every word