President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to let the world know that he is sort at Judge James Robart for blocking his Muslim ban.
The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
Because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
Why aren't the lawyers looking at and using the Federal Court decision in Boston, which is at conflict with ridiculous lift ban decision?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
The judge opens up our country to potential terrorists and others that do not have our best interests at heart. Bad people are very happy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2017
Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2017
I have instructed Homeland Security to check people coming into our country VERY CAREFULLY. The courts are making the job very difficult!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2017
President Trump found himself unable to do much more about the resistance to his Muslim ban than complain on Twitter, as his ban was halted on Saturday and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an emergency request to resume it on Sunday.
"I'm . . . asked to look and determine if the executive order is rationally based. And rationally based, to me implies to some extent, means I have to find it grounded in facts instead of fiction," Judge Robart told Michelle Bennett, a lawyer from the Department of Justice, over the weekend.
"Your Honor, we actually don't think you are supposed to look at whether it's rationally based. We think that the standard is, again, facially legitimate," Bennett responded.
Although Judge Robart's Saturday ruling only established that allowing the ban to remain in place until it could be heard by the courts would cause more harm than good, the most memorable moment of his court hearing occurred when his questioning forced the Trump administration's lawyer to argue against the concept of rationally based thinking.
The Trump administration's "facially legitimate" standard would effectively mean that as long as the president's executive order serves a valid governmental purpose, in this case protecting the United States against terrorism, than it is automatically constitutional.
The moment Trump lawyer tells judge Robart of travel ban: "We actually don't think you're supposed to look at whether it's rationally based" pic.twitter.com/u9PRy4cKGT
— Rob S (@RobPulseNews) February 5, 2017
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