Judge Blocks Trump's Executive Order Allowing Local Officials To Reject Refugees

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Judge Blocks Trump's Executive Order Allowing Local Officials To Reject Refugees
January 15, 2020
12:55 PM ET
Bobby Allyn
A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the Trump administration's executive order letting state and local governments turn away refugees from resettling in their communities.
Updated at 6:15 p.m. ET


A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the Trump administration's executive order allowing state and local governments to turn away refugees from resettling in their communities.

In September, President Trump announced that groups that help refugees find places to live must first get written consent from local and state jurisdictions before resettling them.

Immigration advocates challenged the executive order in federal court, calling it cruel and shortsighted.

U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte said the executive order "does not appear to serve the overall public interest."

In his 31-page opinion issued Wednesday, he wrote that the order gives states and local governments "the power to veto where refugees may be resettled — in the face of clear statutory text and structure, purpose Congressional intent, executive practice, judicial holdings and Congressional doctrine to the contrary."

Messitte's ruling is a preliminary injunction, putting on hold enforcement of Trump's refugee resettlement order.

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https://www.npr.org/2020/01/15/796658527/judge-blocks-trumps-executive-order-allowing-local-officials-to-reject-refugees?fbclid=IwAR2lgHcKfXuwfEIxdYWhdhjj9j2EiLk-6-db2zCIz5e9ejeHyhjYWipRHOg

[marble falls]

1. Back to the drawing board! Maybe judges are getting their guts back.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. rule of law still exists for a little while ...

The House and at least part of the Judiciary are not putting rule of party over rule of law. Hopefully, this will sustain us until an election can remove more Russiapublicans bent on creating a dictatorship.

[marble falls]

3. It'll be enough if we hang tough and hang together.

[jcgoldie]

4. doesn't that judge know about Article 2?

That says the president can do anything he wants?