As time progresses, it appears the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is intentionally undermining President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
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As The Daily Caller News Foundation noted on Jan. 6, the 4th Circuit appears to be strategically withholding its opinion on the administration’s latest round of travel sanctions, despite a Dec. 4 Supreme Court order requiring the court to produce its ruling “with appropriate dispatch.”
Such language, unusual for a Supreme Court order, indicates the justices want to review the case themselves and issue a ruling on the merits before the current term ends in June.
Time is running out, however, for the justices to take cases for disposition before the summer — late January is generally the latest the Court can take a case for resolution before the end of a particular term. Therefore, the longer the 4th Circuit strategically holds its ruling on the travel ban, the more likely it is their ruling will escape Supreme Court review for the foreseeable future, essentially blocking the policy until the justices return for their next term in October, if not later.
As of this writing, the Supreme Court will announce cases it will review on two more occasions this month. After that, historical measures suggest it is unlikely the Court will take further cases for its current term.
Given both the condensed timeframe and the amount of time the 4th Circuit has let elapse, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the court is intentionally delaying release of their ruling, in hopes they can stop the travel ban and evade the high court until much later in the year, unless the justices stay the decision. Such stays are uncommon.
The court’s conduct is especially odd as another federal appeals court — the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — took heed of the Supreme Court’s Dec. 4 order and produced its opinion in separate travel ban litigation in late December.
The 4th Circuit barred enforcement of an earlier iteration of the travel ban on a 10-3 vote.
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Michael Buley
6 years ago
Communists want destruction of sovereign countries. No borders / unlimited immigration are perfect tools to expedite the process. We have traitors sitting in those courts.
livingengine
6 years ago
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
District of Maryland
Eastern District of North Carolina
Middle District of North Carolina
Western District of North Carolina
District of South Carolina
Eastern District of Virginia
Western District of Virginia
Northern District of West Virginia
Southern District of West Virginia
– Wikipedia
I do not want the United States becoming Europa 2.0. If that is their idea of “progress”, then they are free to enjoy it, but I hope it doesn’t come to America! 🙁
It will only if AMERICANS let it happen! SO far there is a very strong sense of what it is to BE AMERICAN & this is what EUROPE & the LEFT with POSTMODERNISM has managed to TOTALLY DESTROY in Europe with the help of the EU!
The EUROPEAN SELF confidence & sense of belonging to the MOST advanced civilization anywhere has been DESTROYED!
Let this SMASHING of AMERICA not HAPPEN & get rid of C.A.I.R & then there is a very good possibility that there will be no WAR! SOROS KNOWS this & Has stated that AMERICA will be a HARD NUT to CRACK ! Be aware & do not let him succeed!
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago
No, don’t give them a choice. These judges & other libtards aren’t giving us a choice by making us take them into America.
Rocinante44
6 years ago
no surprise. it’s the democrat-muslim party at work, destroying america one day at a time. if you vote democrat, you are a domestic enemy, which our military takes an oath to protect us from.
Emmett
6 years ago
PRESIDENT TRUMP NEEDS TO GO ” ANDY JACKSON ” ON THIS STALINIST LOW- LIFE SH!THOLE LOVING GARBAGE ! AND I WILL TELL THESE LOW-LIFE STALINIST PIECES OF GARBAGE OF THE FOURTH REICH, AH DISTRICT TO SHOVE THEIR STALINIST, SH!THOLE LOVING OPINION UP THEIR NOBLE SAVAGES AZZ ! AND YES I HAVE COMPLETE AND UTTER CONTEMPT FOR THESE AZZ- CLOWN SH!THOLE LOVING AMBULANCE CHASERS !
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
If criminal muslims can’t be kept out, then deport them the instant they commit any infraction of the law, jay walking will suffice.
The undesirable immigrants can be kept out whenever Trump stops listening to his swamp attorneys advising him that he must obey unconstitutional court interference until their orders are reversed by a higher court, and then if SCOTUS approves judicial activism, which they partially did with the first decision regarding his Muslim ban, then what? He should ignore the interference, order his admin officials to comply with his orders and then see what the courts can do about it. The only enforcement officers are under the admins authority. His only risk is impeachment but that is a political trial anyway with the legislators voting on whatever they decide is a high crime and misdemeanor so they don’t need the excuse of an arguable offense. If the executive and legislative branch of the fed govt must obey the judicial branch even when their orders are clearly an unconstitutional interference, then the branches are not coequal. We have right now what the founders feared but didn’t resolve because considering their experience they believed in the reliability of judicial restraint. We have a dictatorship of unelected lifetime authoritarians. We will control to suffer this unconstitutional interference by activist judges until SCOTUS is forced to rule and admit that a president cannot be forced to obey a wrongful order by a lower court. Jefferson did it and so did Lincoln although the latter was actually incorrect in his defiance, but nothing was done about it.
just look at Minneapolis. and Michigan has a muslim who intends to become governor in Nov.
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago
The courts have been FILLED with the progressives put in by the illegal Negro. The sodomite obama. Who had 8 years to do his DIRTY work of his masters and original slave-owners (the Demoncraps) and get paid off.
There is so much trickery going on I’m surprised there has been no revolution. Instead, you all have acquiesced to DEBT to keep the illegal charade going.
But who cares. If the money is phony, so is the debt. Wonder who decides how it will all end and in what way? So, you’ll be fighting a deadly war over a phony debt, created by phony money, by phony people.
Quite Hillaryous – (the bullet you dodged last time) if you ask me. But you’re game for more, right?
John Forbes
6 years ago
HELP TRUMP & stop the Undermining by DEMANDING the REMOVAL of JUDGES who are not following DIRECTIONS!
Buck
6 years ago
The judges are supposed to be the weakest of gov. But some how they have gotten power that they were never suposed to
Have. These judges need to be fired
Buck a Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran ??⚔?? right wing republican life time member NRA and friend to Israel
Rob Porter
6 years ago
Is there no way that the Supreme Court can be alerted to the tactic being employed here by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? Justice is being defeated by a rogue court with ulterior motives.
This is blatant lawlessness. Exactly what has been happening with Obama, Clinton, Comey et al. They just do what they want and with the Deep State and its thousands of members they will all make sure lawlessness prevails and only their agenda wins. They are traitors and NEED to be aggressively arrested and prosecuted. NO tolerance.
Steve
6 years ago
Just make another executive order banning all countries from immigration and blame it on the liberals. 2018 elections are coming up. The right has to be as hard headed as the left.
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