July 14, 2017
DID jUSTICE NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE sUPREMES OVERTURNED THE MUSLIM BAN?
US judge expands list of relatives exempted from travel ban (JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER July 14, 2017, AP)
In another setback for US President Donald Trump, a federal judge in Hawaii has further weakened his already diluted travel ban by vastly expanding the list of family relationships with US citizens that visa applicants can use to get into the country. [...]US District Judge Derrick Watson on Thursday ordered the government not to enforce the ban on grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins of people in the United States."Common sense, for instance, dictates that close family members be defined to include grandparents," Watson said in his ruling. "Indeed grandparents are the epitome of close family members."
Not only did the Court ruling make the ban unenforceable--as Justice Thomas articulated--but it required that it be ended altogether by the time it could ever be reheard.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 14, 2017 10:22 AM