Judge on Muslim ban: "The Court will not crawl into a corner & pretend it has not seen what it has"

[bigtree]

Kenneth P. Vogel‏ @kenvogel
It's still a Muslim ban, judge rules: "The Court will not crawl into a corner & pretend it has not seen what it has"

A judge in Hawaii has extended a broad block on President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, turning aside pleas from the federal government to narrow or drop an earlier order forbidding the president from implementing key parts of his plan.

In a ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson converted the temporary restraining order he issued into a preliminary injunction. He did not alter his earlier instruction that the federal government be barred from implementing a ban on issuance of visas to citizens of six majority-Muslim countries and from carrying out a plan to suspend refugee admissions worldwide.

Although Trump redrafted an earlier version of the executive order that was blocked by other federal courts, Watson said the revised version still appeared to be driven by anti-Muslim sentiment. And he again flatly rejected the Justice Department's calls to ignore Trump's public statements about seeking a ban on immigration and travel from Muslim countries in order to fend off terrorism.

"Where the 'historical context and "the specific sequence of events leading up to"' the adoption of the challenged Executive Order are as full of religious animus, invective, and obvious pretext as is the record here, it is no wonder that the Government urges the Court to altogether ignore that history and context," Watson wrote. "The Court, however, declines to do so. ... The Court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters closed, and pretend it has not seen what it has."

read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-travel-ban-order-hawaii-236675

[Cha]

1. We have just won in #HawaiivsTrump.

Link to tweet

"The Court will not crawl into a corner, pull the shutters closed, and pretend it has not seen what it has."

Mahalo, bigtree~

[dalton99a]

2. Great statement.

[katmondoo]

3. This applies to a lot of people about this President also

They pretend to have not seen what they have seen

[bettyellen]

5. He's the biggest "missing stair" that this country has ever faced! (Or ignored)

[iluvtennis]

8. +++ agree

[Orrex]

4. This stupid bigoted ban is fundamentally poisoned

No matter how they repackage it, at its core it's still a discriminatory ban based on religion. I'm glad to see these judges calling Trump out for his bullshit.

[COLGATE4]

6. Now THAT's what I call a Judge.

Congratulations and Thank You, your Honor.

[brer cat]

7. K&R for Judge Watson! nt

[malaise]

9. Another huge win

Rec

[Hekate]

10. Mahalo nui loa, Judge Watson

[Skittles]

11. in other words

WE WILL NOT BEHAVE LIKE REPUBLICAN VOTERS