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Ninth Circuit Blocks Trump from Diverting Military Money to the Wall

Madison McQueen — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:43:12 +0000

In February 2019, President Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for the border wall after Congress awarded only $1.4 billion of the requested $6 billion needed to complete it. Subsequently, the U.S. Department of Defense allocated $3.6 billion of military funds to border wall construction. The money was earmarked to cover [...]

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SCOTUS: 9th Circuit Can’t Twist Law to De-Criminalize Aiding and Abetting Illegals

Matt O'Brien — Fri, 15 May 2020 16:17:35 +0000

The Supreme Court recently handed down a decision in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, reversing a Ninth Circuit decision that purported to invalidate the federal statute that makes it a crime to encourage illegal immigration. Court commentators were quick to characterize the decision as a reversal “on a technicality” rather than “on the merits.” They also [...]

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Ninth Circuit Halts Release of Immigrant Detainees Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

Matthew Tragesser — Thu, 07 May 2020 15:27:13 +0000

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed a lower-court judge’s decision requiring a California Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) detention facility to release at least 250 detainees due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The facility in question is the Adelanto ICE Processing Facility, located northeast of Los Angeles. In recent weeks, the center has witnessed [...]

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Judiciary Wages War on Trump, Jeopardizes National Security

FAIR Staff — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:13:14 +0000

An activist federal judge in Hawaii overreached his legitimate authority to block President Trump’s revised national security executive order. Judge Derrick Watson, an Obama appointee, used his 43-page opinion to wage a personal war against the president, hurling verbal insults at the Commander-in-Chief instead of providing legal analysis to justify his temporary restraining order (TRO). [...]

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9th Circuit Upholds Block of Travel Freeze, Jeopardizing National Security

FAIR Staff — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 22:18:22 +0000

A three judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to lift District Judge James Robart’s temporary restraining order (TRO) that blocks the Trump administration from implementing its temporary travel freeze. (See FAIR Legislative Update, Feb. 7, 2017) In a unanimous “per curiam” order, the appeals court denied the Justice Department’s (DOJ) request [...]

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FAIR Guest Opinion: Ninth Circuit Defies a Century of Legal Precedent in Ruling

Matt O'Brien — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:48:08 +0000

Last night, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided to continue blocking President Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration. This is a deliberate attempt to shift control over immigration from the political branches to the judicial branch in order to grant foreigners a constitutionally protected “right” to enter the U.S. And the 9th Circuit’s decision [...]

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