The case that may dynamite Trump’s immigration order

Posted by | February 3, 2017 12:58 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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Here is the lawsuit that looks poised to deliver Donald Trump a yuuuugely embarrassing defeat:

Just minutes after a federal judge blocked part of President Trump’s immigration order on Saturday night, ruling that no one with a valid visa should be deported, someone was, according to court papers filed on Thursday.

Her name is Suha Amin Abdullah Abushamma, a Sudanese doctor with a valid H-1B foreign-worker visa who was working at the Cleveland Clinic, in Ohio, in a residency program.

“She left for vacation thinking she’d be gone for a short time, and then she couldn’t come back to her home,” Dr. Abushamma’s lawyer, Jennifer Kroman, said on Thursday evening. “It raises not only constitutional questions, but questions about the importance of court orders.”

Mr. Trump said his immigration order, restricting entry to the United States by people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Sudan, was intended to make the country safe from Islamic terrorists. But according to lawyers for immigrants who were barred, the order caught in its web dozens of people like Dr. Abushamma, who graduated at the top of her class from medical school.

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Dr. Abushamma’s case was highlighted at a hearing in Federal District Court in Brooklyn on Thursday, where Judge Carol B. Amon extended until Feb. 21 the initial ruling — formally known as a stay of removal — issued last week by her colleague, Judge Ann M. Donnelly.

Judge Amon will be presiding over the case and deciding on the legal issues underlying the executive order, while at the same time overseeing nine cases in which plaintiffs say they were improperly deported.

The Thursday hearing before Judge Amon was largely procedural and was held to set out the schedule for arguments and motions in coming weeks. But in a separate action the day before, Judge Amon ordered the government to explain in writing by mid-February why she should not allow Dr. Abushamma to return to the United States, where the doctor is engaged to be married to a fellow physician.


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28 responses to The case that may dynamite Trump’s immigration order

  1. mea_mark February 3rd, 2017 at 13:09

    ” … government to explain in writing … ” Can’t wait to see that load of BS. Of course the way things are going we may have a new government by mid February and everything will be a moot point.

  2. anothertoothpick February 3rd, 2017 at 13:36

    Again I ask, Was it worth voting your “conscience” and electing Trump with your third party votes?

    Answer this question in four years:

    When the SCOTUS is for a generation stuck on ultra right and voting rights are further eroded and Roe v Wade is but a distant memory…

    When access to healthcare is again unattainable for the poor…

    When the deficit and debt have skyrocketed under Trump and the GOP controlled congress…

    When we slip even further in public education and become even more underfunded than now…

    When Dodd Frank is weakened or scrapped and the banksters again get all they want…

    When Medicare is privatized and seniors can’t afford health care…

    When Social Security has been all but privatized and only benefits the banksters…

    Was it worth wasting your vote on third party wing nuts with zero chance of getting even close?

    • mea_mark February 3rd, 2017 at 15:49

      People that supported Hillary in the primary should be asking themselves, was it worth it? Bernie was popular in the swing states that tRump won to get the presidency. The democrats lost because they supported the wrong candidate in the primaries. Was it worth it?

      • bpollen February 3rd, 2017 at 15:59

        That’s an assumption, not a given. But, fact is, Hillary was the chosen candidate. At that point, Bernie became a Hillary supporter, but Bernie supporters weren’t as supportive.

        • mea_mark February 3rd, 2017 at 16:40

          Hillary was always the oligarchy. Support from Sanders supporters should never have been assumed. To blame those supporters now for the failures of others in making poor assumptions is extremely irritating. Hillary supporters should have known what they were getting themselves into. Their ignorance is not the problem of those that didn’t support their positions. Personally I prefer an enemy dressed as a wolf than an enemy in sheep’s clothing who is really a wolf. America needs change, Sanders was the choice for positive change. Dems rejected that and we got negative change. Hopefully that can be turned around at some point if people will face reality for what it is and quit blaming people for failures that they themselves have incurred. Further division by not accepting responsibility for one’s actions and poor decisions is not helping.

          • anothertoothpick February 3rd, 2017 at 16:46

            And you got what you prefer.

            You got no reason to do any more of your sensless complaining.

          • anothertoothpick February 3rd, 2017 at 16:54

            Here’s the deal.

            Bernie lost in the primaries.

            But yet you willingly threw your vote away that could have helped stop trump.

            You SUCK!

            • mea_mark February 3rd, 2017 at 18:20

              And you are history.

          • Foundryman February 3rd, 2017 at 17:08

            The only assumption that was made was it was assumed that center left to far left thinking people would be informed and intelligent enough and concerned for their own left wing causes that they would know when it came down to Hillary and Trump, Hillary would be light years ahead and better for all concerned. But we wrong, Berniebots didn’t care and nothing and no one could say anything to change that. Hillary was the devil, so let it be Trump!
            Of course now Trump is already proving he’s goingt obe much worse than anyone imagined and now the Berniebots want to blame everyone but themselves.

            • mea_mark February 3rd, 2017 at 18:31

              Far left progressives are in it for the fight to make the world a better place. They aren’t interested in a slow march into a dystopian future. That is what the dems didn’t get at all. They assumed we would throw away our principles and pick up that yoke and be a beast of burden for the oligarchy. They were wrong.

              I am not really blaming anyone I’m countering the BS I see coming at people from dems that don’t want to take responsibility for their actions. I accept the fact tRump won, at least I have a clear enemy to fight rather than one that is pretending to be a friend. Hillary did lot’s of things I don’t agree with and there is absolutely no way I would’ve voted for her. The dems didn’t get that all.

      • anothertoothpick February 3rd, 2017 at 16:44

        Oh, that’s right, I forgot It was Bernie that was the candidate.

        How could I forget?

        But I bet you are proud of yourself for “voting your conscience”

        I want to puke when I think about people like you.

      • anothertoothpick February 3rd, 2017 at 17:05

        You had your chance to help us stop trump but yet you threw that chance away on some moron third party that you knew had NO CHANCE.

        And now you come here bitching and moaning about trump.

        You might has well stayed home and not voted.

        There is no spin to this, your third party vote put these deplorable in charge.

      • Obewon February 3rd, 2017 at 17:11

        You said “no difference between trump” or (D) Clinton’45. OMFG!!

        Sanders said: ‘if you’re a Bernie supporter and aren’t voting for Hillary? You’re no longer a Bernie supporter. You’re a TRUMP supporter!’

      • robert February 3rd, 2017 at 17:16

        Actually I was discussing this with a few coworkers and we all agreed Hillary shouldn’t have ran for prez in 2012 because Obama took out the ugly stick on her while pointing out her bad points only to try to fix it in 2016.

        It also didn’t help when huma and Anthony came up again on the negative side,at that point the party was over and Bernie got blind sided by DWS the undecided had no other option Even though I still believe if all the injustice didn’t happen to Bernie he would have won

        • mea_mark February 3rd, 2017 at 18:38

          Most of the disappointments I got from Hillary came from her record as SOS. It had nothing to do with what someone said about her. I did my research and decided she was clearly against my interests and when she said something I liked it often sounded like she was pandering and couldn’t be trusted to follow through with what she was saying.

          • robert February 3rd, 2017 at 19:15

            I guess we will never know if Gaddafi took possession of those WMDs as Cheney said he did

            You could say Hillary did the gop a big favor not to mention he was another that was no threat to the usa

            • mea_mark February 3rd, 2017 at 19:19

              Libya was a disaster. All it did was create more terrorist and yes it helped the GOP and tRump win. The whole idea of beating people up and hoping they will do what you want is just plain stupid. If we want more peace in the world we need to make more friends, not more enemies.

              • robert February 3rd, 2017 at 19:31

                I’m on the wall when it comes to lybia prior to Gaddafi . I don’t remember that much conflict when bill Clinton was in office

    • Comicus February 5th, 2017 at 20:29

      STFU. You don’t get to blame others for the DNC for backing a shitty candidate and for HRC being said candidate.

  3. William February 3rd, 2017 at 13:46

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  4. mea_mark February 4th, 2017 at 07:01

    There are plenty of dems blaming Bernie supporters for tRump. They are also making assumptions and that is my point. If you are going to make assumptions and blame me then it is only fair for me to make assumptions also. If they don’t like it, they need to STFU. I’m 100% tired of their BS blame game.

    • bpollen February 4th, 2017 at 07:18

      Saying that they didn’t help isn’t blaming them for the outcome. And that’s all I have done. I believe that the loss had numerous contributing factors, and you can’t assign blame for the outcome on any one specific point.

      My whole position after the Republican primary was for Trump not to be the President. If Bernie got the nod, I would have supported him. Hillary DID get the nod, so I supported HER. To me, electing ANY Dem was the ultimate goal. If it were Jim Himes, Dem from CT and a former Goldman Sachs VP and biggest recipient of Goldman Sachs campaign cash in the House, I would have gotten behind him. As abhorrent as that idea is, virtually the entire party. would have been a preferable President over Trump. There seemed to a certain subset of the party base that had a different view of the goal. Or a different goal entirely. While not the singular cause, it certainly didn’t constitute a solution to a Trump Regency.

      • mea_mark February 4th, 2017 at 07:40

        I don’t think any one is entitled to my vote. You have to earn it. Just because you may be popular with some doesn’t me you are with me. The dems knew Hillary wouldn’t be that popular and the hierarchy pushed her anyways. They failed to take that into account. I will never vote for someone who I think is bad for the country and who is against my interests. I felt that way about Hillary.

        All I really care about at this point is moving forward. If people are going to keep bringing up the past because they want to keep fighting the primary battle than I am going to throw it in their faces. If they want to continue to divide the left, so be it, that is their choice. They need to recognize though that dividing the left is only going to make things worse for themselves. If centrist want the progressives on their side, they are going to have to earn it. No one is entitled to my vote, period. I would rather have a blatant enemy than someone pretending to be a friend, be my enemy. Life is much simpler for me that way. No games, no lies, no deceptions. Things should be what they are.

        • bpollen February 4th, 2017 at 07:45

          I think whoever was a viable candidate against Trump was entitled to my vote. My goal was fairly prosaic: STOP TRUMP. You’d be hard-pressed to present a viable candidate WORSE than Trump. Half a loaf, and all that.

          • mea_mark February 4th, 2017 at 08:05

            I really have no problem with that what so ever at all. Just don’t try and impose your line of thinking on me. Let me make my own decisions. When people try and impose their thinking on me and I reject it and they start berating me for that, I have a problem.

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