Federal judge flips immigration ruling of lower court
Donald Trump and the judiciary have been battling it out over his immigration plan from the very first day of this administration, as suit after suit has been filed.
While some judges are blocking Trump for legitimate legal concerns, others have clearly gone rogue and are what this administration has tagged as “activist” judges.
On appeal, Trump has had surprising success, with yet another lower court ruling being overturned that will allow Trump to deport eight illegal immigrants to South Sudan.
No Jurisdiction
The judiciary, in my eyes, loses a lot of credibility when you have judges taking cases that are outside of their jurisdiction, as this is something that is fairly easy to assess.
It is even more problematic when a judge continues to issue rulings on the case, even after the Supreme Court dismisses the lower court’s ruling based on that premise.
This brings us to Judge Boasberg, who overstepped his bounds regarding Trump deporting illegals to El Salvador, but then pressed forward, accusing the administration of contempt for not following his rulings (even though the Supreme Court order nullified them).
As an op-ed in The Hill summarized it, Boasberg became “intoxicated” with the power and notoriety of this new Trump resistance in the judiciary, and he failed to back down.
Big Supreme Court Win
Last week, Donald Trump had a winning streak like nothing I have ever seen in modern politics, and one of those wins was the Supreme Court ruling that Trump could deport illegal immigrants to third-party countries when their native countries no longer wanted them back.
This was not a final victory, mind you, as the case will be getting kicked back to the lower courts, but in the meantime, Trump can get this program rolling. The Court stated, "The motion for clarification is granted. The May 21 remedial order cannot now be used to enforce an injunction that our stay rendered unenforceable.”
Liberal justices, of course, dissented, with the always-overly-dramatic Justice Sotomayor writing, "Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.
"The Government seeks to nullify [basic rights] by deporting noncitizens to potentially dangerous countries without notice or the opportunity to assert a fear of torture."
Judge reverses lower court ruling
What we are starting to see is a battle of ideology in the courts, specifically regarding Donald Trump. In just about every case presented, a liberal judge has rubber-stamped the complaint, while Trump has had a 50-50 shot before conservative judges.
Trump’s order to have eight illegals being detained in Massachusetts sent to South Sudan had been blocked by a Clinton appointee. That order was lifted due to a previous Supreme Court ruling.
The migrants were reportedly from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Burma, Sudan, and Vietnam. The new ruling blocked the initial ruling by Judge Brian Murphy, who had been appointed by Joe Biden. As we noted, there seems to be a common denominator here in Democrat-appointed judges just flipping that switch to go against Trump, regardless of their jurisdiction and the actual law.
In this case, the Supreme Court ruling was respected, but we are regularly seeing lower court judges defy these rulings, such as the case by Judge Boasberg, where he continued to hold the administration accountable even though the Court had ruled that he did not have the proper jurisdiction in the case.
