Immigration: Federal Judge Blocks New Trump Travel Ban
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from implementing the latest version of a travel ban that had been scheduled to take effect tomorrow (Wednesday).
Judge Derrick K. Watson of the United States District Court of Hawaii said the ban is unconstitutional. The ban was to restrict certain nationals of Syria, Somalia, Chad, Libya, Iran, Yemen, North Korea and Venezuela from traveling to the United States.
This is the third revision of the travel ban, after the first two bans were also declared unconstitutional by federal judges.
In the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Trump had vowed to implement a Muslim ban in order to keep the United States safe from terrorists.
After the first two orders were thrown out by the courts on grounds that they were meant to bar Muslims from the United States, the administration removed some majority-Muslim countries from the original list and added North Korea and Venezuela (which are not Muslim-majority countries) in a new ban introduced September 24th and scheduled to take effect on October 18th.
The Department of Justice is expected to appeal the ruling.
Comments (4)
Good news. That is the way the judiciary should operate: free and independent from the executive and the legislative branches of the government. Thank you Dr. Maraga for teaching our political joints (NASA and Jubilee) about the independence of the judiciary in making rational decisions. It took over 50 years from independence to have a real and true chief justice of our country like you.
Uhuru, have you apologized to the people of Kenya and our Chief Justice for publicly humiliating and insulting Dr. Maraga by calling him a "thug?" For your information, the people of Kenya want a president who is mature and a role model for the young and developing minds of our youth. We don't want a president who uses inappropriate language in the public and addresses the masses while under the influence of alcohol?
Long live Maraga.
Maraga is worse than Miller.How could he allow Mwilu to listen/judge a presidential election petition prosecuted by Wako,her husband?Did she not influence the outcome?
Listening to how Mwilu talks she does not sound that intelligence to be a judge. I wonder how she managed to become a lawyer and a judge. Did she do public speaking in school? She is not good at it.
You are the type of people who sit and wonder why things are happening. If you are so intelligent and you understand the law that well, go and chase that job of Chief Justice or Judge of the Supreme court. Enough with the whining and the nonsense.