03-25-2017, 01:12 PM
President Trump is probably happy to get a bit of good news at this point.
Snip:
President Donald Trump won a favorable court ruling Friday on his revised executive order on immigration and refugees.
U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga in Alexandria, Va., is a George W appointee. He said Mr. Trump has broad authority over the U.S. border and likely didn’t exceed those powers in his revised order, which sought to temporarily bar U.S. entry for people from six Muslim majority countries. The order, signed March 6, also suspended the U.S. refugee program.
The decision has no immediate practical impact because the Hawaii and Maryland rulings blocking Mr. Trump’s order nationwide remain in effect. But it gives the Trump administration a favorable precedent it can now cite as litigation around the country continues.
The Virginia judge, like the other judges, said Mr. Trump and his advisers had made past statements that could be read to suggest that the president’s purpose was to impose an unlawful ban on Muslims. But Judge Trenga said those earlier statements mattered less now because the revised executive order included the elimination of a preference for Christian refugees from Muslim countries and included exemptions for travelers who had been previously approved for residency or travel to the U.S.
Full story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-jud...1490381292
Snip:
President Donald Trump won a favorable court ruling Friday on his revised executive order on immigration and refugees.
U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga in Alexandria, Va., is a George W appointee. He said Mr. Trump has broad authority over the U.S. border and likely didn’t exceed those powers in his revised order, which sought to temporarily bar U.S. entry for people from six Muslim majority countries. The order, signed March 6, also suspended the U.S. refugee program.
The decision has no immediate practical impact because the Hawaii and Maryland rulings blocking Mr. Trump’s order nationwide remain in effect. But it gives the Trump administration a favorable precedent it can now cite as litigation around the country continues.
The Virginia judge, like the other judges, said Mr. Trump and his advisers had made past statements that could be read to suggest that the president’s purpose was to impose an unlawful ban on Muslims. But Judge Trenga said those earlier statements mattered less now because the revised executive order included the elimination of a preference for Christian refugees from Muslim countries and included exemptions for travelers who had been previously approved for residency or travel to the U.S.
Full story: https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-jud...1490381292