Porter@porter14159 2h2 hours ago
Laws and national policy are going to be set by someone. It shouldn't be someone who doesn't bother to get elected.
Porter@porter14159 2h2 hours agoWhat we have in Ireland is an independent Attorney General.
Whenever the government wants to bring in a controversial law, they bring him in to look at it in detail, to see if there is any way that it might be challenged in the courts. If he finds a problem, the government can fix it before it is introduced. This has the effect of reducing legal challenges to laws.
Maybe the US needs a similar system, rather than just appointing Liberal or Conservative Yes-Man Attorney Generals depending on which party is in power.
Why didn't the States protest when Obama blocked Iraqi refugees for 6 months? Identical scenario.
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http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/30...-did-nothing-similar-to-your-immigration-ban/
2. Not a ban. Contrary to Trump’s Sunday statement and the repeated claims of his defenders, the Obama administration did not “ban visas for refugees from Iraq for six months.” For one thing, refugees don’t travel on visas. More importantly, while the flow of Iraqi refugees slowed significantly during the Obama administration’s review, refugees continued to be admitted to the United States during that time, and there was not a single month in which no Iraqis arrived here. In other words, while there were delays in processing, there was no outright ban.
3. Grounded in specific threat. The Obama administration’s 2011 review came in response to specific threat information, including the arrest in Kentucky of two Iraqi refugees, still the only terrorism-related arrests out of about 130,000 Iraqi refugees and SIV holders admitted to the United States. Thus far, the Trump administration has provided no evidence, nor even asserted, that any specific information or intelligence led to its draconian order.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/30...-did-nothing-similar-to-your-immigration-ban/
Thus far, the Trump administration has provided no evidence, nor even asserted, that any specific information or intelligence led to its draconian order.
Thank you for providing a pristine example of a leftist legal opinion that has nothing to do with the actual law as it's written. All of what you state may be true depending on ones point of view and none of it is relevant to the case. As a member of the party of intellectuals you once again illustrate absolute and total ignorance of constitutional law, and this particular statute is brain dead easy to understand unlike much of law which is written to make your head swim.http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/30...-did-nothing-similar-to-your-immigration-ban/
. Not a ban. Contrary to Trump’s Sunday statement and the repeated claims of his defenders, the Obama administration did not “ban visas for refugees from Iraq for six months.” For one thing, refugees don’t travel on visas. More importantly, while the flow of Iraqi refugees slowed significantly during the Obama administration’s review, refugees continued to be admitted to the United States during that time, and there was not a single month in which no Iraqis arrived here. In other words, while there were delays in processing, there was no outright ban.
3. Grounded in specific threat. The Obama administration’s 2011 review came in response to specific threat information, including the arrest in Kentucky of two Iraqi refugees, still the only terrorism-related arrests out of about 130,000 Iraqi refugees and SIV holders admitted to the United States. Thus far, the Trump administration has provided no evidence, nor even asserted, that any specific information or intelligence led to its draconian order.
I agree. This. Fuck the court.
The court has zero jurisdiction here. The court isn't the final arbiter as to what constitutes a security threat, or nebulous security threat. That's up for politicians to decide. Not these asswipes.
So any executive order now can be challenged by a State using a TRO, under the guise of lost tax revenue (for ex. to universities and colleges), and state residents who incur financial losses and emotional upheaval???
Obama care? How many tens of millions of Americans suffered massive financial losses from being forced into that shit show. What of their emotional suffering? Being forced into bankruptcy? Strain on their families? What of lost tax revenue to the local economy that would have otherwise benefited tens of billions - if not hundreds - in sales that circulates through, that otherwise went directly to the insurance company, and the top 2%, of its shareholders in dividends!! How does making the top 1% of Americas richest that much richer by doubling and tripling stock prices of the biggest insurers?? That doesn't help the bottom 95% of Americans who don't own stocks !! Their wealth gets transferred to those companies so their standard of living goes down !!!!
Listen, everyones the fucking victim. All these liberal pussies do is throw out red herring after red herring.
Now these bitches are playing the VICTIM. Every government policy decision has a VICTIM and a VICTOR. Some benefit, some hurt. Wah wah. Lost revenue. We're in a fucking war.
Since when the fuck does lost revenue have anything to do with preventing islamic soliders - already streaming into the motherfucking country - from entering the united states? That makes zero sense. This is almost treason. It could be. It's blatant. .