Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said the Department of Justice will ask the Supreme Court to review an appeals court’s refusal to lift a nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s executive order barring travelers from six majority-Muslim countries.
“The Department of Justice strongly disagrees with the decision of the divided court,” Sessions said in a statement. “This Department of Justice will continue to vigorously defend the power and duty of the Executive Branch to protect the people of this country from danger, and will seek review of this case in the United States Supreme Court.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit on Thursday refused to lift a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking key aspects of Trump’s travel ban.
Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Roger Gregory wrote that, in context, the order “drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination” and “stands to cause irreparable harm to individuals across this nation.”
Trump responded vehemently in February to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ refusal to reinstate the ban, tweeting: “SEE YOU IN COURT.”
The ban has not fared any better in court hearings since.
Oh Jefferson, Jefferson, Jefferson…
You won’t be seeing anyone in the Supreme Court after you’re booted from the JD for perjury, lying to congress and lying on your security clearance forms. And then there’s obstruction of justice to come.
You can smell ice, can you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7we9T1K_hoTrump said the travel ban was urgently necessary, and also temporary until we could sort out “extreme vetting” or whatever. And yet, despite the lack of enforcement, no harm has befallen US interests without the ban in place. And if they were going to be working on a solution during the temporary ban, what’s stopping from doing that now? Instead of the absolutely nothing they’re doing instead?
OT: FWIW.
https://twitter.com/Spicerlies/status/867826768568348672
My thought exactly
Hopefully he will see someone else in jail.
What makes the Trump administration think it is going to do better in the SCOTUS when it has been struck down in every court including the appeals courts.