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Federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban

Mar 15, 2017 7:39 pm By Robert Spencer

The first ban was blocked by a ruling that didn’t even mention the relevant statute giving the President the authority to restrict immigration. It isn’t clear yet whether or not this block discusses that law. Activist judges with no regard for the safety of the American people are legislating from the bench with complete indifference to existing laws. If that isn’t reined in, the consequences will be catastrophic, beginning with the jihadis who will take advantage of this judge’s politically correct virtue signaling in order to slip into the U.S. in the near future.

“Federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban,” by Laura Jarrett, CNN, March 15, 2017:

(CNN)A federal judge in Hawaii has blocked President Donald Trump’s new travel ban on Wednesday afternoon, hours before the ban was set to go into effect.

This ruling means that travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and refugees will be able to travel to the US.

The Trump administration took over a month to rewrite the travel ban order after multiple federal courts blocked its implementation last month….

Despite this changes, US District Court Judge Derrick Watson concluded that the new executive order still failed to pass legal muster.

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  1. Victoria says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 7:48 pm

    I do not recall VOTING for anyone named “Watson” to protect myself, those that I love, and my COUNTRY against the threat of islam. I could have sworn the name of the man I pulled the lever for was TRUMP.

    How is it that these people I’ve never heard of are in charge of my/our SECURITY???

    • Westman says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 12:48 am

      How about the IRONY of a State that doesn’t allow immigration into two “forbidden” Hawaiian Islands asking for the Administration’s temporary immigration ban to be blocked?

      What hypocrisy! How did the Judge consider them to have standing? Judicial politics is a disgrace and a form of sedition.

    • Robert Lippincott says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 3:48 am

      Agree and believe ALL These ILLegals should be sent to California and this Judges Home so He can Care for them. I don’t know what kind of “Language” will come out of their Mouths when interbreeds with all the Illegal Mexicans and, I truly don’t care. Just ship them ALL to California and we (The rest of the People) should NOT Subsidies California, They want to be their own Country anyway. Goodby, You All and Have a nice Life.

      • JIMJFOX says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 4:00 am

        Hawaii is in California? I never knew that!

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 16, 2017 at 11:33 pm

          News to me as well, Jim…

      • frederick King says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 4:18 am

        And to Hawaii.

    • Custos Custodum says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 5:05 am

      Watson is a former ambulance chaser who was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney by the bizarre murderess Janet Reno.

      • the Oracle says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 5:38 am

        He was also a law school buddy of Obama’s, who happened to be visiting Hawaii at the time he gave this ruling.

        • SweetOlBob says

          Mar 16, 2017 at 8:27 am

          If Obama was there, Obama is behind it !
          The little pencil necked, filthy muslim, pot licker, will do anything to keep
          filthy muslims and terrorists coming into our Nation.

        • Mark Swan says

          Mar 17, 2017 at 3:24 am

          President Obama nominated Watson to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii in 2012.

          He received his commission in 2013.

        • Michael says

          Mar 17, 2017 at 3:28 am

          Damn … connections I had no idea of. Funny, too, how just hours before this is to go into force, it’s ‘delayed’ … Obama flies to HI a few days ago … isn’t that something how that all came down? Must be a lot of pressure put on a judge like that. Stakes are high. Clintons have left a very long and bloody trail … these folks are serious about their agendas.

        • Mark Swan says

          Mar 17, 2017 at 5:07 am

          Judge Watson,

          1988 from Harvard College, 1991 from Harvard Law School, graduating the same year as President Obama—they both learned the law the same way, from the same place.

          Ivy league swells, pumped full of elitist doctrine, self-righteous megalomaniacs.

          Our whole world is poisoned by such absurd acceptance of damaged reasoning.

    • Frank says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 8:55 pm

      Ridulous these half ass judges are just trying to make a name for themselves. It will come into effect sooner or later.

  2. Michael says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 7:51 pm

    If only Hillary had become president and signed this executive order … Obama … even McCain! All would bow down and kiss the pen it was signed with … ah, but it was Trump. There isn’t a thing he can do that will not be challenged. I wonder if he said, the hell with borders, here’s an executive order that lets anybody and everybody in at any time, no vetting! They probably would be forced to protest that, as well, only by compulsion. Just absolute bullshit that’s going on.

    • common sense says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 7:55 pm

      Like that, 2 thumbs up Michael.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 11:36 pm

      I don’t think Hilary would ever have done anything to curtail Muslim immigration.

      • Michael says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 11:53 pm

        gravenimage, I agree. She wanted them in as much as Obama. Her right-hand woman had family in the Muslim Brotherhood. No coincidence.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 18, 2017 at 4:57 pm

          Likely so, Michael.

  3. Mike Proulx says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 7:57 pm

    That Judge’s eyes have the glimmer of demonic possession. The whole world lieth in the evil one.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 11:33 pm

      ++ And an evil smirk. The end is coming quickly.

  4. Max says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    If Trump copied one of Obama’s travel bans, word for word, the Left would still cry and kick and throw fits.

    • Michael says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 9:22 pm

      Absolutely. His ‘7 nations’ in his first executive order were, of course, determined by Obama — who wasn’t serious about doing anything about it. He probably wanted to make sure that ‘refugees’ from those countries in particular were allowed in. The most violent, the most pro-Sharia, the most anti-American. He had a very different agenda.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 11:43 pm

        True.

  5. Wellington says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:02 pm

    I’ve already stated this at JW but I will state it again, to wit, that the greatest threat to the continuation of freedom in America does not come from the plethora of fools now running academia, nor from the many leftists who dominate the media, nor even from that once great party, the Democratic Party, which is now led by fools like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, nor from RINOS like John McCain, Lyndsey Graham and, yes, the Paul Ryans out there, but rather it comes from the federal judiciary. Here resides the weakest link in the preservation of true freedom in America.

    Look to the federal judiciary as the greatest threat to liberty in the United States. Be of no doubt about this. And made all the more bitterly ironic because said judiciary presents itself as the defender of liberty when, in fact, it is so very often an enabler of those who would end freedom in America and shred the First Amendment (the Second Amendment too) into a distant shadow of what was intended by the Founding Fathers in the first place.

    For example, here.

    • Victoria says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 8:07 pm

      sounds like a PLAN.

    • Diane Harvey says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 8:13 pm

      “The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.” –Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821.

      • Wellington says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 8:20 pm

        Jefferson ahead of the curve again.

        Thanks for that quote, Diane.

    • Mark Swan says

      Mar 17, 2017 at 3:40 am

      Following is a comprehensive list of all Article III and Article IV United States federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama during his presidency, as well as a partial list of Article I federal judicial appointments, excluding appointments to the District of Columbia judiciary.

      The total number of Obama Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate is 329, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 55 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 268 judges to the United States district courts, and four judges to the United States Court of International Trade. Obama did not made any recess appointments to the federal courts.

      In terms of Article I courts, Obama made 8 appointments to the United States Tax Court, 3 appointments to the United States Court of Federal Claims, 3 appointments to the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, 2 appointments to the United States Court of Military Commission Review, and 2 appointments to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He also elevated two chief judges of the Court of Federal Claims.

      On the Article IV territorial courts, he made two appointments and elevated one judge to the position of chief judge.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Barack_Obama

      • Rob says

        Mar 17, 2017 at 4:07 pm

        Yah…Obama did his level best to bury this country.

  6. David M says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:06 pm

    Any judge making rulings that ignore current laws should be removed. There is a law that says Trump can stop anyone he wants coming into the country.

  7. common sense says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:09 pm

    Very disheartening, Judge Derrick Watson is an obvious idiot, it’s only a 90 day restriction to get a handle things and slow down traffic. He can’t understand normal thinking only hateful towards Trump thinking.

    America is in imminent danger, absolutely clear and present. James Comey is a dirty cop, where is the objective and partial FBI with their 1000 on going investigations? McMaster? Useless! Mattis? Incoherent! We have to end this lawless judicial nonsense. We need John Kelly and Trump to step it up a notch!

    Our enemies howl with fervoured madness and bloodlust,this is another victory for them.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 1:19 pm

      Watson is not a mere idiot. Anyone who pushes to further infest his own country with members of the Army of Charles Mansons is evil, not stupid.

      What can Trump do? Well, until he can get control of this situation, he can order that if we suffer any mass murders by Muslims, that the names of the federal judges be published everywhere possible, as complicit in such mass murder(s).

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 1:20 pm

        I mean the two judges who have banned the protection of Americans.

    • StacyGirl says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 7:29 pm

      Lather rinse repeat. They’ll keep this up until SCOTUS stops it, if that is even an eventuality. Meanwhile the hordes of barbarians will be speedily settled, sworn in as voters — all in time for the mid terms.

  8. Baucent says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:13 pm

    Trump and his team are going after the issue the wrong way. Forget issuing “travel bans” but vastly increase visa vetting requirements so as to achieve the same effect. If they can’t get a visa they can’t travel. And in the countries listed on the ban most are failed states where no documentation can be trusted. Tweek the visa regulations, forget issuing bans the activist judges can interfere with.

    • somehistory says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 11:29 pm

      It would seem that through the State Department and the various embassies around the world, people could just be told that for the moment, visas are not being issued,

      or…like any red tape we citizens must go through…like with questions to the IRS and other agencies, feet could be dragging and red tape added. Judges would not be able to stop those things.

      More and more people are bowing to islam’s demands, to satan’s demands for world rule.

      • Michael says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 12:52 am

        and it’s all you can call it: Islam / Satan … evil. pure evil. talk about a wolf in sheep’s clothing. When does a ‘religion’ cease to be a religion, and instead is a dogma? an ideology? A legal system? Are other religions that I’m not aware of, imposing legal doctrine on every facet of their ‘believers’ lives? Why can we criticize the ideology of Naziism, but not Islam, which is at least as coercive and invasive and brutal, and in many ways much more so?

        • Jeanette says

          Mar 16, 2017 at 1:31 pm

          This “religion” ceased being a religion when it began practicing every evil that qualifies an organization as a cult.

          That happened when their Dear Leader Pedophile Mohammed was rounding up the little girls in every village; having people who disagreed with him murdered; lopping off the heads of those who refused to join his organization; encouraging slavery and establishing half of the population as slaves to the other half.

          In other words, it was a cult from the beginning.

          I can hear it now, “But Mohammed claimed it was a religion, and his 1.7 billion current followers also claim that.”

          Besides the fact that Mohammed was not a credible individual, I can’t think of a cult that hasn’t claimed it is a religion, can you?

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 17, 2017 at 9:02 pm

          All true, Jeanette and Christianblood.

  9. Berengaria says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    Activist Federal Judges, like Watson, scare me to death. He was appointed, No One elected this DEM SKUNK TO ANYTHING. Now, He’s usurping Presidential Power, THIS IS TOO MUCH TO BEAR.
    President Trump is trying to protect the American Citizens from TERROR, & this little wannabe tyrant is putting all of us in DANGER. Arrest HiS POMPOUS DERRIERE!

  10. mortimer says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    US District Court Judge Derrick Watson will probably never get a promotion. The president has the right to ban anyone from entry on his own authority. No one has a right to enter the US except for US citizens.

    Banning countries that are not cooperating in the war against jihadism is punishing their governments for promoting terrorism and not aimed at the citizens.

  11. Don McKellar says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    There is a new goal for the Trump White House: REIGN IN THESE LEFT-FASCIST JUDGES TRYING TO LEGISLATE FROM THE BENCH! This is insane and undermining American democracy.

    Question: HOW DO YOU REIGN IN THESE MEGALOMANIAC FEDERAL JUDGES???

    Does anybody know?

    • SaipanSam says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 8:30 pm

      Impeach them.

      • Spencer Warren says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 8:48 pm

        Also Congress can restrict their jurisdiction, over immigration for example. But problem as always is ridiculous Senate filibuster rules.

        Trump needs to bide time till Gorsuch confirmed. Also he should simply limit refugee numbers to those who have already been admitted and, as noted above, simply find all visa applications don’t pass muster. No foreigner has a right to a visa.

    • common sense says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 8:47 pm

      The Cherokees appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect their land from being seized by Georgia, their ruling was that Georgia laws did not apply to the Cherokee Nation. Andrew Jackson said something along the lines of,”John Marshall has made his decision… Now let him enforce it.” (Sorry for the cut n paste)
      Well Prez Trump could somehow do this restriction anyway if our security forces and immigratiom admin are willing but it definitely means defying a court order. I’m not sure though and I remeber not relishing Trump emulating Andrew Jackson in a previous post. In this case I could be wrong…again. This is not about forced removal of Cherokee, its obviosly about protecting ourselves from jihadis who are not part of this country

      If there is an alternative I think Baucent might have the ‘jist’ of it in the above comments.

  12. Keys says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:29 pm

    What the hell! How many federal judges are there? (from what I can see over 3,500) And all it takes is one to over rule an elected Presidnt acting wihin the law? The President has to have 100% of them approve his legal actions? What the hell!

    We need a re-revolution!

  13. SaipanSam says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:29 pm

    All I can say is get weapons , ammunition and learn how to use them. This nation is failing and it’s failing DIRECTLY because liberal vermin are killing it.

    Terrifying.

    • Ed Lee says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 9:19 pm

      The Second Amendment should have been the First. Some of the authors of the Bill of Rights thought so, too.

      • Michael says

        Mar 15, 2017 at 9:30 pm

        Agree, Ed. Without the 2nd Amendment, there are no other rights that are worth a damn. Everything hinges on the right and means to defend ourselves against tyranny.

  14. Troybeam says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    Liberal judges are a huge problem and Trump will have to battle these lefties continually.

  15. Ed Lee says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    A photo accompanying a Bloomberg article (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-15/trump-s-second-travel-ban-blocked-by-u-s-judge) shows two people holding signs with a portrait of a woman wearing a hijab made out of an American flag. To use an American flag to show the oppression of women by Islam, and the submission by women to the misogyny of Islam is the ultimate insult to the United States and the Constitution. How many people will submit to Islam or accept dhimmi status before we put a stop to this?

    • Lu says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 1:51 am

      I, too, found that thing – hijab made out of the American flag – extremely insulting, disgusting and provocative beyond measure. And yes – we can consider such a display an ultimate insult to the country and its Constitution – no doubt about it.

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 3:25 pm

      A few months ago, when Megyn Kelley was still at FOX she had a woman on who had an American flag draped around her head as a hijab. There were some objections to it it was mentioned a few days later.

      There was a song written and performed shortly after 9/11 which went, “This is a flag, not a rag, and we don’t wear it on our heads.” I am not a fan of country music, so I don’t know who performed it.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 17, 2017 at 9:18 pm

        That would be Charlie Daniels, Carolyne:

        Charlie Daniels Band

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 17, 2017 at 9:21 pm

          Sorry, the video did not post. Let me try again:

        • Kay says

          Mar 18, 2017 at 5:12 pm

          How refreshing to hear and see some patriotism!

  16. common sense says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    This just in from Pamela Gellar an hour ago.

    10,000 weapon cache uncovered in Spain 2 MONTHS AGO! This is big boy stuff.

    https://lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdlvr.it%2FNdgJWC&h=ATMwioqnyn-Ni4w8Hh04_9LU12kXqk_5D7boRNNQoGiD8oJoG0KOI1ANhhvUBBOk8zuqCfGuqkg5BVa4qIof6_EghsIOgYHX8cyYeMd9mYyhbPXvb2sIjNZ6zS7k2cE5DnLQgWYl7itf-eIH2_TBag&enc=AZOrXWUid3Ao2U8bU3ZN_08N3oLLaIZErgsNnTStsdhNbqrR_qv27li9DVMV5EcRWa4EYLgT2XlK4k_mzV2IrQWf9t5kRzbOUqTGZHKzUfOHl0XLJNfW3nouQ8PlNBDiUR-YO3nSZuxMlg6ULEP3M-9z-5wQ2twAUqIbkL_mKCimMhPNRxIhY1JbV4D9_AE6uw4To6-SUIp8omNCwZcAErb8sKccOfStGk7hnaO7Fn9WvWjS8dhjDQpTa-wUEq5vYGQ7gIza4rNQXt79MtZtRTjdKWIaUnRDXQMAbcpGR1SdtaYJR1TttygC58rrULgDJus&s=1

    • common sense says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 9:43 pm

      It looks like the attacks in Europe right down to every assualt and act of intimidation are to rub it in our face, test the waters for response and counter measures which are almost non existent across Europe. Skirmishes to gauge battle authenticity, the toughness of the defender.

      Spain has been quiet unless you go to youtube and other social media to hear what the avg citizen is saying about refugees and Islam. Not sure if there are any Spainards on JW?

  17. traci94 says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    How can this not pass legal muster?? The President is specifically granted the right to to restrict immigration via the Constitution, correct? If he already has that power, then how can these judges stop him?

    • Michael says

      Mar 15, 2017 at 10:12 pm

      Good question, Traci. Apparently it’s just a repeat of the first judge, also in the 9th Circuit. If it only takes one judge, time after time after time, the whole concept is doomed. Unless, as one commentator I listened to last week said, you simply do extreme vetting for ALL those wishing to come into this country. But I’m sure that would be contested, too — and it’s because it is Trump, and it is against what appears to be national policy to allow in as many ‘refugees’ of the Islam ideology as possible. Christians in the Middle East are not being given any kind of ‘favored status,’ and they are being decimated. This is all about allowing in adherents of Islam, which has the explicit goal of becoming THE law in this country, and worldwide.

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 17, 2017 at 9:23 pm

        Yes–a judge does not actually have the power, as I understand it, to block the president’s actions in this case.

  18. awake says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    Another political victory for Trump and the American citizenry.

  19. Catherine says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 10:32 pm

    For crying out loud, it’s a 90-day travel moratorium! Bunch of babies!
    This result was sort of predictable, given the supply of activist judges in federal courts (with another really creepy-looking judge – what’s up with that?)
    So what’s the next step? I’m sure President Trump & the Justice Dept. have something planned. If one way is blocked, find another.

  20. JayT says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 10:32 pm

    The ruling is obviously political in nature and not judicial. Hawaii was the state in the news, leading the charge against the travel ban (which is not even a permanent ban and I believe was 90 days?), so it’s easy to connect the dots a judge in Hawaii would do this.

    One solution I think would be for Trump’s administration to order all incoming immigrants, travelers, visa holders from all Muslim majority countries to land in Hawaii and they can go from there. And start holding the detainees on the battlefields in Hawaiian jails.

  21. gravenimage says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    Federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban
    ……………

    More crap.

  22. Jan Aage Jeppesen says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    Alan Dershowitz told CNN that he’s not surprised at all that the Hawaii court halted Trump’s 2nd attempt at a travel ban because, to this judge, it’s not about the travel ban at all but about what Trump said in 2016:

    “The attitude of the court is that there can’t be any lawful order as long as candidate Trump said what he said and Giuliani said what he said. That makes anything that happens thereafter simply a cover for a Muslim ban. And so the whole effort to try to clean it up was futile.

    Taking out the religious part of it which gave religious preference to discriminated-against groups – that didn’t matter. Because if the entire ban, no matter what it says, was badly motivated, then it’s struck down.

    Now the problem is that the Supreme Court has taken exactly the opposite attitude when it comes to looking at motive and intent. They said you don’t look at motive and intent, you look at the words of the regulation and that’s what the Supreme Court will ultimately hold.”

    For the safety of Amertica and Americans let us hope professor Dershowitz is right in his assesment.

  23. US infidel says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    How to remove a federal judge when he abuses his authority. President appointed should have the power to remove

    • Jan Aage Jeppesen says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 5:11 am

      Like president Erdogan in Turkey? 😉

  24. Transmaster says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    Trump is dealing with the legacy of left wing judges at this level. Please be patient. What is happening right now is the wreckage remaining from President Sparklefarts immigration policies. The one thing the press has not talked about is the President, and the executive branch has complete control of the numbers, and the criteria for any future immigration. This has been well adjudicated at the SCOTUS level starting over 100 years ago. So the President can say we will allow the immigration of 50,000 people over the next 2, or 3 years and we are looking with specific skills. We are not discriminating we are just looking for people that will help enhance the economy US. Right now Trump is playing for time. Once the President gets his nomination into the Supreme court he will permit one or more of his executive orders get to the Supreme court. The beauty of what is going on right now is this is keeping this issue in front of the American People we are collectively getting increasingly angered and the libtards, MSM, and the Democratic Party are digging an ever deeper hole for themselves. The President is continuing to play the left like a master musician. It is going to take President Trump awhile to fix what The Sultan of Stupid has done. In the meantime keep the fire growing as we watch the destruction of liberal victimization politics. What I am looking forward to is when trump get his 2nd Supreme court nomination, especially if it is Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who was the former head of the ACLU. We will see a battle that will be talked about well in the next century.

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 12:48 pm

      Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t look well. I wonder how she feels. How old is she, anyway, 110? Her cute little lace collar doesn’t fool me. She is the witch from the Wizard of Oz. Al she needs is green paint. And, she is just as evil.

  25. Ian H says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    So everything the US president does has to be approved by a judge? Looks like the US is now a kritocracy.

  26. tjhawk says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 11:46 pm

    I heard on NPR that Watson was claiming that Trumps action would hurt tourism in Hawaii. He should learn that the exact opposite is the case. As many people as possible should write to the Hawaiian tourism board or even congressmen and inform them that it is the action of this judge that is causing you to change your plans of visiting Hawaii. Tell them that It has always been a dream to get there, but that Hawaii is no longer on the list of places where your money will be spent.

    • Transmaster says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 12:02 am

      Hurt tourism, har-de-har-har after the United States the biggest group of tourists come from Japan. Allah Akbar’s don’t go to Hawai’i it is a little hard to escape form the Islands after an attack, the waters are several miles deep and thousands of mile wide. Talk about lying sacks of Allah meat.

      • Tjhawk says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 8:59 am

        Yep, It’s a laugher that they want to pander to the 14 people who might experience temporarily increased difficulty entering Hawaii. That’s why I hope large numbers of American tourists (Japanese too) let Hawaii know, in no uncertain terms, that this judges ruling will smack them directly in the wallet.

  27. pdxnag says

    Mar 15, 2017 at 11:58 pm

    Here’s a dissent by four 9th circuit justices issued today, March 15th, regarding a call to hear the original case en banc (by 11 justices).

    http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2017/03/15/17-35105%20en%20banc.pdf

    It begins: “I regret that we did not decide to reconsider this case en banc for the purpose
    of vacating the panel’s opinion.”

    Then continues for 25 pages.

    • pdxnag says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 12:00 am

      Five justices not four. One more and the insanity could have been put to an end.

  28. BLC says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 12:30 am

    What’s the sense of having elections and elected officials if the judges in courts are going to tell them what they can and can’t legislate?

  29. Romans says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 1:19 am

    Every time these Judges with evil thoughts block the President’s EO, He should add a month to the Ban, once he reinstates the ban and it should be written in such a way where there are no loopholes for these leftists activists.

  30. RichardL says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 1:35 am

    There will always be a judge blocking a Trump EO. If you don’t see this, you don’t life on planet earth.

    Trump obviously knows this and plays a PR game: people will get frustrated with judges. Then Trump can simply ignore these rulings.

    Once SCOTUS is reliably conservative, the situation will be different.

  31. afrostreetwise says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 3:04 am

    The muslims must be laughing all the way to America- The land of the free, brave and stupid in their mistaken perspective. .

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 1:06 pm

      Americans have been brainwashed by pro-communist (and recently, pro-Muslim) educators, since about the late sixties.

      The result was predictable.

  32. afrostreetwise says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 3:07 am

    part 1. MEDIA AND POLITICAL ELITES COLLUSION; KENYA IS WILLINGLY RUSHING INTO A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISES AND VIOLENCE-ACRY FOR HELP FOR 45 MILLION PEOPLE.
    Dear JIHAD WATCHERS, is there a Kenyan living abroad amongst you or do you know of any Kenyans living in your country or, even if you are not a Kenyan, do you know of a
    church with branches here in Kenya? I urgently need their cooperation to forestall a slide into
    anarchy. The situation is dire and urgent.
    The problem is simple really. Egged on By Barack Obama,we enacted a new constitution which demands that parliament must not have more than 2/3rd of either gender. The recommended time for implementation was five years. That has now elapsed and a petitioner got the High court to rule that, that particular provision has to be in place by 27th August 2015 or else a petitioner can petition the high court for any order especially to compulsorily dissolve parliament by the President. Parliament has even exhausted it’s only alternative of extending the implementation period by one year as provided by the constitution. Now we have an incredible stalemate. The reason being that our parliament is grossly bloated (450 Mps)and neither the opposition and government want to enact legislation to provide for additional gender (women) nomination as many as will be required to make at least 1/3 of total. Such an amendment of the constitution will also require to be approved in a referendum.

    • afrostreetwise says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 3:16 am

      My greatest worry (almost certain) is that the election losers and in particular one Presidential candidate will obviously not recognise a parliament declared unconstitutional by the court. He has a big following and in 2007/8 with the support of western governments ( especially US ambassador) he caused a great post election violence where 1500 died and was threatening to be a full blown civil war. Koffi Anan intervened and we were forced to form a government of National Unity. This is bound to repeat.
      Solution? I want to find a way to force the discussion of this problem. One way is to go to court and petition for the delay of elections. There are reasonable grounds for that. Some of the relevant clauses in the constitution are; Article 27(6),(8), 81(b), 100 (a). Schedule five and also article 10. etc

      • afrostreetwise says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 3:33 am

        For more details contact email: kenyantrueman@gmail.com

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 17, 2017 at 9:30 pm

        Sadly, it does not surprise me that there are riots against women in government in Kenya.

  33. JIMJFOX says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 3:57 am

    Always hear “The 9th Circuit”- what is this? Are there another 8 circuits we never hear of? Are there more than 9 circuits? Very baffling to a non- American!

    • afrostreetwise says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 2:50 pm

      I hope this is not a response to my post above. If the “circuite” refers to probable con games, i am sorry I am pretty straight forward and anybody can easily check that in the internet. You can even get in touch with the Kenyan embassy in Washington (?) and voice your concerns about a possible crises and see if you get an answer. Your embassy (US or UK) will most likely update you adequately as well. We are in an incredibly stupid situation. I even attempted to raise funds to stand for legislative post so I may trigger this debate but was unable. Now I am doing it just to get the problem solved. We are foolishly headed to a hell hole.(At best it will be political bickering for the next five years causing untold poverty). If interested, Check it by yourself..

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 17, 2017 at 9:32 pm

        afrostreetwise, circuit courts in the United States have nothing to do with Kenya, nor did Jim’s comments imply that they did.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 17, 2017 at 9:38 pm

      Yes, Jim–there are indeed eight other circuit courts (also known as appeals courts) in the United States. Here’s a map and some information:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals#Circuit_composition

      The Ninth Circuit Court is just geographically the one in the far West.

      The reason it is more famous–or more notorious, depending on your point of view–than the others is that it has taken on a lot of controversial cases, is more activist, and tends to be over all pretty Leftist.

  34. duj swami says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 5:58 am

    Power grabber…I didn’t know judges were running the country…If I was Donald I would ignore Watson and do what I think best anyway…What’s Watson going to do, arrest him?

  35. SweetOlBob says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 8:20 am

    BULLSH*T ! The SOB is a democRAT, I’ll bet. Just more obstruction from the whining, snot lapping, bed wetting, finger wiping, democRATS !

  36. Robin Rosenblatt says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 11:20 am

    I guess the Judge wants Muslims to rape the American women and their children and his daughters as they been doing in Europe.

  37. Hummer says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    Maybe the easiest way would be to halt all immigration by President Trump. Then the side issues become irrelevant until we have SCOTUS filled and the Presidents authority is reaffirmed which he obviously in spite of activist judges has the law with him.

  38. p says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    They will be blocked from getting visas at the foreign consulates

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 12:56 pm

      Only if Trump has already managed to replace all Obot U.S. Consul Generals.

  39. Carolyne says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    I am tired of Federal judges legislating from the bench. I didn’t vote for this guy and I don’t consider he has authority to subvert the Constitution which clearly says the President will control immigration. Either he never went to law school, never studied the Constitution or is just plain dumb. This judicial activism has to end.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 12:55 pm

      No law school, no familiarity with the Constitution, dumb …. or just plain evil?

  40. Jeanette says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 12:53 pm

    “Activist judges with no regard for the safety of the American people …”

    That’s kinder than I would be. It appears to me that these judges do not just have no regard, but are actively TRYING to get Americans maimed and killed by helping with the importation of massive numbers of people from populations which produced the Army of Charles Mansons, AKA Muslim terrorists.

  41. Richard Paulsen says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 1:11 pm

    Let Hawaii take in all so called refugees and build thier mosques and have their sharia law on Hawaii then.

    • JawsV says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 3:31 pm

      Oh, gooney bird Judge Watson would veto those! He enjoys foisting Mohammedans and Islam upon others!

      • Richard Paulsen says

        Mar 16, 2017 at 9:12 pm

        Right.

  42. BARBARA LEE BROOKS says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 2:12 pm

    Polygamy is specifically forbidden in immigrants. Since it is against U.S. law, why can’t immigration fully enforce the legal ban? It’s no secret that thousands of immigrants from throughout the world are bigamists (including Obama’s father). The Trump administration could cite figures showing how widespread bigamy is in immigrants from many countries and say it is adverse to U.S. social service spending and good citizenship. Then if a judge tries to block the order to fully enforce the polygamy ban, he or she cannot argue that the ban targets Muslims? Every potential immigrant could have their social media checked for signs of polygamy or for advocating polygamy and then be rejected. Most foreign immans could be excluded on that basis.

  43. vladkoval says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 7:13 pm

    SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK …TO REASON
    https://nobsrussia.com/2017/03/12/i-may-have-to-retire/#comments
    Makhno
    March 14, 2017 at 11:23 am
    Jim – On a side note, as you mention the apartment bombings in ’99. What’s your take on them? I would generally have a tendency to take any accusations of “false flags” with a Dead Sea level pinch of salt, as actual instances are as rare as minotaur shit, but it does look exceptionally dodgy. Although that might be coloured by my general antipathy towards the Russian security forces.
    ***********************************
    Jim Kovpak Post author (Jim Kovpak – the only one American blogger who has a clue about Russia, no matter of his personal political creeds)
    March 14, 2017 at 3:20 pm I generally dismiss most false flag theories, but after several years I finally accepted (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) that there’s something to this one. There’s actually registered evidence in this case, in terms of the bomb, the detonator, the men found planting it, etc. I’ve yet to see any satisfactory explanation for these rather straight forward facts. One thing is for sure though- this is Yeltsin’s crime (NO, IT WAS KREMLIN’S CRIME, NO MATTER YELTSIN OR PUTIN), not Putin’s. Putin was not in a position to organize such an operation.
    *******************************************************

    Russia is not the target of terrorism, Russia IS terrorism.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 17, 2017 at 10:00 pm

      vladkoval wrote:

      Russia is not the target of terrorism, Russia IS terrorism.
      …………………..

      vladkoval, as you know I have my issues with authoritarian Russia. But Russia *has* been the victim of Jihad terror attacks–many times, in fact. I don’t have to be a fan of Putin to not want to see Russian people fall victim to Jihad terror.

  44. Richard Paulsen says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    Judges say that the American Constitution does not accept any religion above any other. How come islam i is being allowed, claiming superioritory over all other religions?
    Islam is a political system not accepting other systems and religions. Not just a religion as any other. Just have a look att islamic countries and how they are being ruled.
    In order to protect your nation and its democracy, welfare and freedom of religion islam must be stopped.
    The Cairo Declaration of Human Rights (CDHRI) only ackonowledges rights according to sharia law.
    If so other Constitutions and Declarations of Human Rights can be based on their own law and not accepting others.like sharia law.
    Why is only islam allowed to forbid others? No reason whatsoever. How come islam is allowed being spread in not Muslim countries and not vice versa?
    Why allowing a doctrine and its followers claiming superiority above your own religion, political system and country into your country?
    The right to protect your nation from such a doctrine must be your first priority and most important duty. Democrats and all the non Muslim World must support the President of U.S.A..
    There is something rotten in the state of U.S.A and all of the Western World.
    No to islam.
    “Islam over all religion.” https://quran.com/48/28

    • Richard Paulsen says

      Mar 16, 2017 at 10:25 pm

      Strange, not being allowed according to your Constitution to claim a religion being superior over other religions, but being allowed according to the same Constitution to allow a religion setting itself above all other religions into your country. That should not be allowed as well.
      Islam over all religion. https://quran.com/48/28

  45. gravenimage says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    Federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban
    ………………

    As noted, this block may not even be legal. But will the administration fight it?

  46. vlparker says

    Mar 16, 2017 at 11:49 pm

    I wonder how long it is going to take Trump to figure out that every single Executive Order that he signs on muslim immigration is going to be blocked by a leftist judge. Trump made a mistake by writing the second EO, thereby giving legitimacy to the court ruling on the first EO. He should have just ignored the court and ordered the relevant agencies to enforce the order. If they refused he should fire the agency heads and replace them with people who will obey orders.

  47. bobm says

    Apr 9, 2017 at 11:18 pm

    just from his face ; I’d say he’s a lg. bit unbalanced..

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