PRESIDENT TRUMP'S NEW ORDER ON TRAVEL BAN HAS BEEN NATIONWIDE BLOCKED TODAY BY A FEDERAL JUDGE IN HAWAII
VietPress USA (March 15th, 2017): On January 27th, 2017, President Donald Trump signed the first Executive Order on Travel ban for "Protecting the nationbanning order, from foreign terrorist entry
into the United States.". With this first Trump banned citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries
from entering the US for at least the next 90 days, including Iraq,
Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen -- or at least 218 million people,
based on 2015 data published by the World Bank -- from entering the United
States.
On February 3, 2017, under the Court Case # 17-CV-00141-JLR, the Federal Judge James Robart of the State of Washington temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's immigration order.
On March 6th, 2017, President Donald Trump signed a newly revised Executive Order that excludes Iraq from 7 Muslim Countries list and corrected some small changes. The newly Executive Order will be effected since March 16th, 2017.
But today on Wednesday, March 15th, 2017, U.S. Federal Judge Derrick K. Watson of District in Hawaii has decided to block nationwide the President Donald Trump's second Executive Order on banning travel and immigration from 6 Muslim countries to enter the United States.
Federal judge Derrick K. Watson in Hawaii has granted a temporary
restraining order against President Trump's revised executive order on
immigration. This is the second time the courts have blocked the travel ban signed by President Trump and it will be effected since 12:01AM on Thursday, March 16th, 2017.
Hawaii’s case was filed by the State itself. Lawyers for the Hawaii state argued that the new travel ban violates the First Amendment — which
prohibits religious discrimination — because it is essentially a Muslim ban. The state also claims that the ban hurts Hawaii’s ability
to recruit top talent and damages the state’s tourism industry.
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| Federal Judge Derrick Kahala Watson of Hawaii District Court |
According to Wikipedia, Derrick Kahala Watson was born in 1966, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He graduated from the Kamehameha Schools in
1984. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988 from Harvard College. He received his Juris Doctor in 1991 from Harvard Law School.
He began his career at the law firm of Landels, Ripley & Diamond in San Francisco, California, as an associate from 1991 to 1995.
He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of
California from 1995 to 2000, serving as Deputy Chief of the Civil Division
from 1999 to 2000. He joined the San Francisco law firm of Farella Braun +
Martel LLP in 2000, becoming partner in 2003, his practice focusing on product
liability, toxic tort and environmental cost recovery litigation. He served as
an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Hawaii from 2007 to 2013
and served as Chief of the Civil Division from 2009 to 2013.[1][2]
On November 14, 2012, President Obama nominated Watson to serve
as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the
District of Hawaii, to the seat vacated by Judge David Alan Ezra, who took senior status on
June 27, 2012.[1] On January 2, 2013, his nomination
was returned to the President, due to the sine die adjournment of the Senate.
He was renominated to the same office the next day. His nomination was reported
by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 14, 2013, by
voice vote [3] and confirmed by a vote of 94
ayes to 0 nays on April 18, 2013.[4] He received his commission on
April 23, 2013.
On March 15, 2017, he
granted a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald's revised executive
order banning entry of designated groups into the United States as
violative of the First Amendment's establishment clause
Please read the whole 43 pages of the Hawaii Court restraining order published at this Link:
VietPress USA would like to publish here the copy of the first page and the last page of Hawaii Court restraining order against President Donald Trump's revised executive order on Travel and immigration ban.
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Please read the following news report from Policy.Mic:
The case in Hawaii
was brought by a Honolulu imam named Ismail Elshikh, who said the ban prevents
his mother-in-law from traveling to Hawaii from her native Syria to
visit his family.
The ban was set to go
into effect at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday. There were also legal
challenges to the ban on Wednesday in both Washington state and Maryland.
In late January,
Trump issued a sweeping travel ban that
temporarily blocked individuals from 7 majority-Muslim countries from entering
the United States and indefinitely banned the U.S. from accepting any more
refugees.
After considerable public outcry a
federal judge in Washington state halted
the law, and later a three-judge panel upheld his decision, effectively
blocking the ban. Instead of fighting that ruling the White House issued a
new updated travel ban
that dropped Iraq from the list of banned countries and explicitly exempted
visa holders and lawful permanent residents.
