WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court denied the government’s request to allow it to enforce President Trump’s travel and refugee ban executive order while the case challenging the ban makes its way through the courts.
“[T]he Government has failed to establish that it will likely succeed on its due process argument in this appeal,” the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a unanimous, unsigned opinion.
Additionally, the court held, “The Government has not shown that a stay is necessary to avoid irreparable injury.”
Failing to meet either of those standards, the three-judge panel ruled that US District Judge James Robart’s Feb. 3 order halting enforcement of major parts of the ban would remain in place.
The Justice Department now could seek a stay of Robart’s order, a move that would start with a request made to Justice Anthony Kennedy, who could then refer the matter to the full court.
Robart’s decision had led the federal government to begin allowing travel from the seven affected majority-Muslim countries and allowing the refugee program to continue.
The Justice Department quickly filed a request with Ninth Circuit, asking the trial court’s order to be stayed, or put on hold, while the merits of the case could be hashed out in court. The appeals court heard arguments over the government’s request on Feb. 7. The three judge panel was skeptical of the government’s request, with one judge from the panel also expressing skepticism of the broad scope of Robart’s order.
I took this question really seriously, so I asked my parents to help me answer this. Here is what my dad said:
Here is what my mom said:
Here is what I say:
First of all, I am sorry for referring to you as “kid” to my folks. It was just a shorthand I used for them to understand in a simple way that I think you are someone younger than they are. They are professors/teachers, and are often tasked with communicating effectively with young people. (also, sorry if my dad misgendered you? I guess kid = boy in his head)
Next: Yes. To what my parents said. When I feel helpless I often turn to them because they are so blisteringly smart and compassionate, and if I seem strong and like I have all the answers, it’s because I come from an incredibly supportive family. I wanted to share that with you.
Because our representatives are firmly planted in the last century, online activism doesn’t cut through the noise to them—but phone calls do. Here is a website called 5calls.org that helps you make those calls with a script, and is especially effective if you (like me) have social anxiety.
Trump raised a lot of eyebrows by elevating his chief strategist Stephen Bannon to a permanent seat on the National Security Council.
Democrats, though, apparently weren’t the only ones stunned by the move. Among the people caught unaware was one Donald J. Trump.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that Trump hadn’t realized what he did when he signed the 2,100-word executive memorandum that elevated Bannon to the NSC.
“Mr. Bannon remains the president’s dominant adviser, despite Mr. Trump’s anger that he was not fully briefed on details of the executive order he signed giving his chief strategist a seat on the National Security Council.”
Read that again: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, was “not fully briefed” on a document he signed, a document that carries the force of law. Read more
Those walkbacks do not, unfortunately, change the reality that Trump’s cruel new approach to immigration will continue to hurt people. The threat to the health insurance of millions remains real.
But this is still a remarkable amount for a new president to need to walk back in his first 10 days in office.
according to a poll conducted by The Washington Post,
more than one in three Democrats say they plan to become “more involved
in the political process in the next year” as a result of the election.
That’s true of 40 percent of Democratic women, and almost half of
self-identified liberal Democrats…
Here’s an overview of some of the new efforts launched since November 9.
It’s by no means comprehensive, but we started with a list of 75 new
groups and whittled them down to some of the most interesting or
promising. They’re not presented in any kind of ranked order. Our hope
is that knowing how others are standing up to Trump will inspire more
readers to get involved.
You can also hit Breitbart News and other sites that peddle in bigotry
and white nationalism in their pocketbooks by getting involved with a
Twitter group called Sleeping Giants.
Buycott Trump
is trying to get people to vote with their dollars. Organizers have
launched a new campaign on top of an existing app that allows you to
scan barcodes and QVCs, and offers you information about the politics of
the companies who make the products you see on store shelves.
Up to 8 million people in the country illegally could be considered
priorities for deportation, according to calculations by the Los Angeles
Times. They were based on interviews with experts who studied the
order and two internal documents that signal immigration officials are
taking an expansive view of Trump’s directive.
Far from targeting only “bad hombres,” as Trump has said
repeatedly, his new order allows immigration agents to detain nearly
anyone they come in contact with who has crossed the border illegally.
People could be booked into custody for using food stamps or if their child receives free school lunches….
“We are going back to enforcement chaos — they are going to give lip
service to going after criminals, but they really are going to round up
everybody they can get their hands on,” said David Leopold, a former
president of the American Immigration Lawyers Assn. and an immigration
lawyer for more than two decades.
Hearseeno 