Jeremy Christian enters for a court appearance at Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., on, June 7, 2017. Christian is accused of killing two passengers and wounding a third aboard a light-rail train. (Stephanie Yao Long/The Oregonian)
Miles Treakle, left, of Seattle, holds a sign that reads “Refugees Welcome Ban Trump,” as he protests against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, May 15, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)
Javier Yanez stands on his balcony where he hung a U.S. and Cuban flag in Old Havana Cuba, Friday, Dec. 19, 2014.
New reports out of the Daily Caller suggest that President Trump is planning to soon make an announcement that he is reversing all of President Obama’s moves to reopen US-Cuba relations, which saw a reestablishment of diplomatic ties, a slight loosening of business restrictions, and even talked about permission to allow Americans to visit the island nation.
Demonstrators hold signs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP/Branden Camp)
In a 10-3 en banc ruling, the Fourth Circuit on Thursday upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel from six predominantly Muslim countries.
A federal judge indefinitely extended a previously temporary restraining order against U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called Muslim Ban.
On Wednesday a federal judge indefinitely extended a previously temporary restraining order against U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called Muslim Ban executive order.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson turned his earlier temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Trump’s executive order banning immigration from six majority-Muslim countries.
21st Century Wire says…
Much has been made of the recent proposed White House ‘travel ban’ barring entry to the US from 6 Muslim majority countries, enacted on the basis of national security. The Executive Order is currently on hold after being contested by a Hawaii Federal court.
“No matter how you wrap it, racism is still racism, and a ban targeting any group based on its religion still violates equal protection of the laws.”
Human rights and immigration advocates cheered early Thursday as President Donald Trump’s travel ban saw a second decisive legal defeat in a Maryland court.
Protesters rally against President Trump’s refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
A group of states renewed their effort on Monday to block President Donald Trump’s revised temporary ban on refugees and travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, arguing that his executive order is the same as the first one that was halted by federal courts.
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, right, arrives for a news conference about the state’s response to President Trump’s revised travel ban with Solicitor General Noah Purcell, left, and Civil Rights Unit Chief Colleen Melody, Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Seattle. (AP/Elaine Thompson)
SEATTLE (REPORT) — In stepping up legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, Democratic attorneys general are trying to use the court system to thwart the executive branch in the same way their GOP counterparts did under President Barack Obama.
