Round two was also blocked by a federal judge, and the president isn’t at all happy.
President Donald Trump ripped U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson after Watson, sitting in Honolulu, Hawaii, issued a temporary halt to Trump’s travel ban from six Middle Eastern countries Wednesday.
Trump delivered “the bad, the sad news” to a huge rally of supporters in Nashville, Tennessee shortly after the ruling was handed down.
“The order he blocked was a watered-down version of the first one,” Trump said, as the crowd booed.
“This is, in the opinion of many, an unprecedented judicial overreach,” he added, and then pledged to continue battling the judiciary.
“We’re going to fight this terrible ruling. We’re going to take this case as far as it needs to go, including all the way up to the Supreme Court,” he vowed.
“We’re going to win and we’re going to keep our citizens safe,” he promised. “The danger is clear. The law is clear. The need for my executive order is clear.”
The judge ruled that Trump’s revised executive order violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits the establishment of any religion by Congress.
The president’s revised temporary travel ban makes no mention of religion whatsoever.
“The illogic of the government’s contentions is palpable,” Watson nevertheless wrote. “The notion that one can demonstrate animus toward any group of people only by targeting all of them at once is fundamentally flawed.”
As expected, Trump’s supporters had his back.
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@FoxNews @POTUS Trump is on fire. He is doing his utmost and others are planting booby traps for him. He will win bc he is strong as the Sphinx. Adore him!
— Dina Henein (@dinahogenboom) March 16, 2017
@FoxNews @POTUS so proud that we have a common sense president.
— Michelle Walsted (@MichelleWalsted) March 16, 2017
@FoxNews @POTUS A nation that can’t determine who comes into its borders is no longer sovereign. A lawless ruling
— Scott Ruesterholz (@Read_N_Learn) March 16, 2017
One suggested sending the refugees to Hawaii.
@FoxNews @POTUS Send all incoming refugees to Hawaii! They want them, they can have them. Problem solved!
— Mary Jo Barnett (@mjbarnett1962) March 16, 2017
And another observed that Hawaii, ironically, is shipping all of its homeless to the continental United States.
.@FoxNews @POTUS How #Hawaii Deals With #Homelessness?
‘Deport’ Them to the Lower 48 States? https://t.co/8FuvT3ABS0— NetAdvisor.org® (@NetAdvisor) March 16, 2017
Author and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino observed that Hawaii is within the Ninth U.S. Circuit, and is where Watson’s order would first be appealed to.
Can we all stop pretending that the 9th Circuit is a real court?It’s a bunch of politicians in black robes,nothing more #Hawaii #Immigration
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) March 16, 2017
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