I completely agree that they underestimated the pushback they would get by being as brazen as they have been.
update - Judge Boasberg personally takes on the Hegseth security breach case!
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I'm not sure that they really care and won't until they are fully stopped.
Musk might if he goes broke, if that's possible.
Oh, they care.
They would far prefer they weren't meeting resistance.
I agree that they won't just go "oh, the judges said no so we will stop".
Its early to say for sure. Big protests in Turkey, Serbia and Israel over governments going too far and nothing is changing there. The US MSM doesn't seem to be able to report on protests now and they are also just starting. Its going to take a month or two for the economic changes to hit the population fully and it will take a few months of trying to shut protests before we really see.
At least it should keep PeePee out of power here.
The constitution quite clearly states which branch is responsible. And it's the legislative branch. If the AG threatens judges and takes steps to do so, then the rule of law is over, and the usa is officially a dictatorship.
Remember, the last leader in the usa who claimed absolute power was George III.
@Jim_Jordan
Jordan says Sen.
@ChuckGrassley
may also hold hearings.
Appeal from Boasberg's judgment going even worse than the lower level hearing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration can stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. but has to allow in people who were conditionally accepted before the president suspended the nation’s refugee admissions system, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The order narrowed a ruling from a federal judge in Seattle who found the program should be restarted.
The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the president has the power to restrict people from entering the country, pointing to a 2018 Supreme Court ruling upholding President Donald Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries during his first term.
Refugees who were conditionally approved by the government before Trump's order halting the refugee program should still be allowed to resettle, the judges found.
The panel ruled on an emergency appeal of a ruling from U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead who found that the president's authority to suspend refugee admissions is not limitless and that Trump cannot nullify the law passed by Congress establishing the program.
Whitehead pointed to reports of refugees stranded in dangerous places, families separated from relatives in the U.S. and people sold all their possessions for travel to the U.S. that was later canceled.
Melissa Keaney, an attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project, applauded the portions of the order that the appeals court left intact.
“We welcome this continued relief for tens of thousands of refugees who will now have the opportunity to restart their lives in the United States,” she said.
Whitehead, who was nominated by Democratic President Joe Biden, also issued a second order Tuesday blocking the cancellation of refugee resettlement contracts.
Trump’s order said the refugee program — a form of legal migration to the U.S. for people displaced by war, natural disaster or persecution — would be suspended because cities and communities had been taxed by “record levels of migration” and didn’t have the ability to “absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees.” There are 600,000 people being processed to come to the U.S. as refugees around the world, according to the administration.
The Justice Department argued that the order was well within Trump’s authority.
Despite long-standing support from both major political parties for accepting thoroughly vetted refugees, the program has become politicized in recent years. Trump also temporarily halted it during his first term, and then dramatically decreased the number of refugees who could enter the U.S. each year.
Appeals court allows Trump administration to suspend approval of new refugees amid lawsuit
The order narrowed a ruling from a federal judge in Seattle who found the program should be restarted.
The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the president has the power to restrict people from entering the country, pointing to a 2018 Supreme Court ruling upholding President Donald Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries during his first term.
Refugees who were conditionally approved by the government before Trump's order halting the refugee program should still be allowed to resettle, the judges found.
The panel ruled on an emergency appeal of a ruling from U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead who found that the president's authority to suspend refugee admissions is not limitless and that Trump cannot nullify the law passed by Congress establishing the program.
Whitehead pointed to reports of refugees stranded in dangerous places, families separated from relatives in the U.S. and people sold all their possessions for travel to the U.S. that was later canceled.
Melissa Keaney, an attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project, applauded the portions of the order that the appeals court left intact.
“We welcome this continued relief for tens of thousands of refugees who will now have the opportunity to restart their lives in the United States,” she said.
Whitehead, who was nominated by Democratic President Joe Biden, also issued a second order Tuesday blocking the cancellation of refugee resettlement contracts.
Trump’s order said the refugee program — a form of legal migration to the U.S. for people displaced by war, natural disaster or persecution — would be suspended because cities and communities had been taxed by “record levels of migration” and didn’t have the ability to “absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees.” There are 600,000 people being processed to come to the U.S. as refugees around the world, according to the administration.
The Justice Department argued that the order was well within Trump’s authority.
Despite long-standing support from both major political parties for accepting thoroughly vetted refugees, the program has become politicized in recent years. Trump also temporarily halted it during his first term, and then dramatically decreased the number of refugees who could enter the U.S. each year.
Appeals court allows Trump administration to suspend approval of new refugees amid lawsuit
