Oh, my stars and garters! The federal judges are really getting “fed” up with all the antics and bullshizzle coming out of Trump and the administration. Of course, you already know about the DoJ getting flattened. Often. And Todd Blanche is part of the DoJ. He’s making bigger mistakes than Pam Blondi did. This is a rather interesting example. With respect to AlterNet:
A federal judge in Ohio has just issued a major blow against the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies, citing statements from both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance as proof of racist intent. This is according to Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney, who on Monday posted, “JUST IN: A federal judge in Ohio, describing hostility toward nonwhite immigrants expressed by President Trump/VP Vance, becomes the latest judge to order the administration to unfreeze immigrant benefit applications frozen by USCIS.”
How about ‘dem” apples? They won’t learn. They won’t listen. Judges will continue smacking Trump and Vance around. We’re loving it. It’s all part of the anti-immigrant agenda. Hmmmm. Did Stephen Miller have a hand in this, and will he be part of the hammer down? We’d *really* love that because of poetic justice finally bringing him down a peg or three. And others, but he is the most visible for this ‘administration’, along with Vance and Trump.
As the court opinion explained, “This case concerns the legality of a series of policies developed and implemented by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These policies indefinitely pause USCIS’s final adjudication of pending immigration benefit applications submitted by foreign nationals from certain countries, and treat nationality from those countries as a significant and negative factor in that adjudication process.”
According to the judge, “Both the President and the Vice President have publicly and repeatedly expressed outright hostility toward immigrants, both before and after the 2024 presidential election. Their ire appears focused on immigrants from countries in the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Asia. As the Supreme Court just observed, President Trump’s comments have ‘broadly denigrate[d] countries’ and ‘malign[ed]’ certain groups of immigrants… These include the extraordinary statements that certain foreign nationals, including Haitians, are ‘poisoning the blood’ of the United States.”.
Oh, my, the judge called out Trump and Vance. That takes a spine of reinforced steel. We may hear about this in a few days if they get hold of the news. That would be something to see if it reaches them. The judge doesn’t care what they do. He does what’s right. There’s some news we might have missed dealing with the immigration status and responsibilities that might be handy to have around. We certainly could broadcast it again.
What’s more, the judge noted, “This general hostility to immigration contrasts with an apparent interest in and preference for the migration of white people.” The opinion raises examples of Trump calling for more immigration from Scandinavia and welcoming white refugees from South Africa. In the end, argues the judge, the administration was “exceeding authority” when it “unreasonably delayed” immigrant applications based on “shifting or post hoc rationales,” causing “irreparable harm.” The opinion lists several examples of this harm, such as the separation of families, the destruction of educational and career opportunities, and the disruption of cancer research.
As Cheney noted, this is just the latest in a string of several major setbacks courts have issued to Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. In June, a judge ended a ban on visa processing for applicants from 39 targeted countries. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court slapped down Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship. Then on Thursday, a court sharply curtailed the administration’s desire to detain migrants while deportation cases are proceeding.
Wooot! Judge Algenon L. Marbley handled this case (I had to go on a quest to find out, but wow, the judge laid it on, and this case is even more interesting! It’s kinda long, so I may read it later. I need to get this done for you folks. One of our cats is trying to sleep on my keyboard. We also have the other cases, listed in the above paragraph. The racist opinion is getting brought out into public view more and more. This is a good thing.
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