Posted by Tina
A federal judge in Boston took issue with lawyers claiming Trumps temporary ban is unconstitutional:
Early on Sunday, a magistrate judge in Boston issued an injunction that for seven days blocked enforcement of the order, which the White House has contended is necessary for national security.
“Where does it say Muslim countries?” U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton on Friday asked Matthew Segal, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) representing the plaintiffs in the Boston case.
“If your honor’s question is, ‘Does the word ‘Muslim’ make a profound presence in this executive order?,’ my answer is that it doesn’t,” Segal said. “But the president described what he was going to do as a Muslim ban and then he proceeded to carry it out.”
Gorton shot back, “Am I to take the words of an executive at any point before or after election as a part of that executive order?” …
… Judge Gorton on Friday asked U.S. Justice Department lawyer Joshua Press how the seven countries had been selected.
Press responded that the list had come from a law passed in 2015 and amended early last year requiring that citizens of the seven countries apply for visas to enter the United States, “out of concern about the refugees that were coming, mainly from Syria at that time and terrorist events that were occurring in Europe.”
The lawyer, Press, knows he’s projecting his opinion into the order and the judge called him on it and then wisely set a timeframe to allow the dust to settle.
Good news…the process is working. Our republic remains intact.
Ed Straker of American Thinker says, “‘Muslim ban’ injunction is a judicial coup against President Trump.” He makes his case then concludes:
And since the 9th Circus has refused to hear an appeal of the Seattle’s judge’s ludicrous ruling, perhaps it’s time that the Appeals Court covering Boston should hear the appeal.
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by Paul Genova
I’m noticing that a lot of you aren’t graciously accepting the fact that your candidate lost.
In fact you seem to be posting even more hateful things about those of us who voted for Trump.
Some of you are apparently “triggered” because you are posting how “sick” you feel about the
results.
How did this happen you ask?
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You created “us” when you attacked our freedom of speech.
You created “us” when you attacked our right to bear arms.
You created “us” when you attacked our Christian beliefs.
You created “us” when you constantly referred to us as racists.
You created “us” when you constantly called us xenophobic.
You created “us” when you told us to get on board or get out of the way.
You created “us” when you forced us to buy health care and then financially penalized us for not participating.
You created “us” when you lied and said we could keep our insurance plans and our doctors.
You created “us” when you allowed our jobs to continue to leave our country.
You created “us” when you attacked our flag.
You created “us” when you took God out of our schools.
You created “us” when you confused women’s rights with feminism.
You created “us” when you began to emasculate men.
You created “us” when you decided to make our children soft.
You created “us”When you decided to rewrite school history books and remove the truth about our founders
You created “us” when you decided to vote for progressive ideals.
You created “us” when you attacked our way of life.
You created “us” when you decided to let our government get out of control.
“You” created “us” the silent majority.
You created “us” when you began murdering innocent law enforcement officers.
You created “us” when you took a knee, or stayed seated or didn’t remove your hat during our National Anthem.
And we became fed up and we pushed back and spoke up.
And we did it with ballots, not bullets.
With ballots, not riots.
With ballots, not looting.
With ballots, not blocking traffic.
With ballots, not fires, except the one you started inside of “us”.
“YOU” created “US”.
It really is just that simple.
EXCELLENT post, Peggy! Well said!!!!!!
A President who runs a country by issuing 20 Executive Orders in 10 Days and fires anyone who disagrees with him is not a President.
He’s a dictator.
The founding fathers tried to protect us from this very moment.
Why all the hate, Dewey?
Off topic: Remember when Republicans said Obama didn’t have pride in the US, and that he didn’t think our country was any better than any other?
Where are they now?
Trump on Putin: ‘You think our country’s so innocent?’ – CNN
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Yes, people. What do you think about this development in the nation’s foreign policy? Frankly, I like it.
Over the weekend, I had the misfortune to find out about Dick and Henry’s culpability for the Pakistani massacres in Bangladesh in the early 70s. I could have done without knowing about this one too.
So, to have The Orange One declare us to be “all barbarians together” is, indeed, rather refreshing.
Agreed Libby, honesty is better than feckless, mealy mouthed leading from behind as a means of pretending we can all just get along.
Obama did his best to pronounce that every country is the same. He believes no country is special because he thinks that’s an ego thing. But no other country stands for individual liberty or the inalienable rights given by God. We know the ideal can never be realized because human beings are flawed, but we aspire to live up to our ideals and to stand in the world as a beacon of hope for others living in tyranny. This is what Obama does not value and his governance made it obvious.
I think Trump wants to begin his relationship with Putin on a clean page. Presidents must engage with the world’s leaders. No one asked Secretary Clinton about Putin being a killer. In fact the photo’s of Clinton “resetting” with Russia were positively received by media. Obama, sounding cozy cozy, assured Putin he’d “have more flexibility after the 2012 election.” Has Putin become a different person since then?
Mountains out of molehills.
“But no other country stands for individual liberty or the inalienable rights given by God.”
Well, either that or we’re all killers … make up your mind.
Come on, you know that if Obama had ever said “You think our country’s so innocent?” you would have thrown a fit. The only reason you are OK with Trump saying it is that he has an R next to his name. (And have you ever seen a bigger RINO?)
If Obama had said it…wait a minute. Isn’t moral equivilence, in essence, what Obama’s entire presidency was? Obama spent a great deal of time telling the world and the worlds leaders that America was rotten because of slavery, racism, stupid wars, and imperialism…remember the apology tours…:
Cuba-America, it’s all the same…a patently false narrative pushed softly but distinctly by Obama.
So what’s your beef? You should be thrilled that Trump admits to America’s failings.
Trump will always be wrong no matter what he does as far as you’re concerned. The truth is we will have to wade in a bit more than two weeks to see how history judges his term(s) in office.
“Obama spent a great deal of time telling the world and the worlds leaders that America was rotten because of slavery, racism, stupid wars, and imperialism…”
No, he did not. He never said America was “rotten.” You are making that up.
“remember the apology tours…”
I remember the false accusations of an apology tour, which was roundly rejected by all fact-checkers and everyone in the reality-based community. He never “apologized.”
And still none of this explains why you are OK with Trump saying that Americans are a bunch of killers no better than Russia. You calling other people hypocrites does not make you any less of a hypocrite. Your stance is nothing but “Liberals don’t have standards or principles, so I don’t have to either.” How cynical.
You make up YOUR mind. Your the one with the fantasy that utopia can be achieved through communism…and is silent when a Democrat is killing people.
This is nonsense. How about you address the issue? the contradiction? Trump’s dismissal of Pooty’s barbarous territorial incursion with a “we’re no better.”
Have we annexed anybody lately? Some people might have called the Iraq invasion an attempt. Didn’t Trump recently make the rather audacious suggestion that, with regard to Iraq, we should have “kept the oil” … and when BushCo swore up and down that the oil had nothing to do with our incursion?
Lots to think about, and you really should try.
Yee gawds, NOW you’re interested in Pooty’s incursion? (Obummer was so lame)
Bush’s statements and Trumps statements are not knit together.
Bush was carrying out a strategy. As I showed you Bush was not after oil, he was about fighting al Qaeda on ME turf and ridding Iraq of it’s brutal dictator in the process. A freed Iraq made it’s own deals for the sale of their oil once they formed their own government…America was not included in those deals. The corrupt UN had a nice little oil for food program going on…got any choice words for that situation? (America also saved the oil fields for Kuwait when Saddam set their oil wells on fire.)
Trump was expressing frustration…not policy. Better learn to discern the difference or your panties are going to be constantly in a bunch!
You “think” only inside the boxes of communism and racism, unending circle jerks.
Let me know when you’re brave enough to actually give thinking a try.
Tina, your comments are incoherent and give no explanation for why you’re OK with a president saying that we should steal Iraq’s oil and that we’re killers who are “no better” than Russia. The reader is left only to conclude that the only reason you are OK with this is partisan hypocrisy.
But maybe you can articulate a better reason.
Steal Iraq”s oil? the man is a negotiator. I imagine had he been in Bush’s shoes he might have negotiated for a piece of the oil to pay for our investment in their liberation and newly formed democracy.
I KNOW had he been in Obama’s shoes he would have negotiated for troops remaining in Iraq to win the peace and complete the mission of completely terrorist elements.
Trump said, ‘What do you think — our country’s so innocent?’
Here’s the exchange:
If you’ve imagined that our nation has not engaged in killing then you are indeed a child. One would hope that the reasons behind what we’ve done justified what was done but it’s undenible that America has made mistakes.
The way I see it Trump was attempting to have a serious conversation about our relationship with Russia and O’Reilly was going for drama…or ratings.
Tina, there’s a word for people who “KNOW” things that they cannot possibly know: delusional.
Yes, Trump is nothing if not a serious statesman who always wants to have nuanced and complex conversations…he cares nothing for drama or ratings!
Like I said: delusional.
“If you’ve imagined that our nation has not engaged in killing then you are indeed a child. One would hope that the reasons behind what we’ve done justified what was done but it’s undenible that America has made mistakes.”
Yes, but the reasons that Russia has killed are not justified, unless you think killing journalists who criticize Putin is justified.
Trump 1) ignores 2) denies and 3) makes excuses for this behavior. If this does not worry you, you do not actually care about our country or its principles.
You’re not really going to spend the whole four years going: “He didn’t really mean it” … are you? Talk about lame.
We thought “he doesn’t really mean it” before the election. Since the election, he’s made it plain that he meant every godawful word.
Own it.
Thanks for sharing Libby. Try owning the mess of the last eight years!
I do own it ! I have health insurance that does not depend on the whim of an employer. That is so cool.
The country does seem to have clawed it’s way back from The Great Recession, with no help, I might add, from that do-nothing Republican Congress we been saddled with for six long years … and which … by the way … STILL does very little of any use to us peasants. They seem content to leave everything to the dictatorial idiot who maketh great noises signifying … very little.