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Who are the three judges who have ruled against reinstating Donald Trump's travel ban?
9 FEBRUARY 2017 • 11:29PM
TURN THE CLOCK BACK
Who are the three judges who have ruled against reinstating Donald Trump's travel ban?
- Harriet Alexander, new york
9 FEBRUARY 2017 • 11:29PM
Donald Trump's travel ban remains on hold after three San Francisco-based judges ruled unanimously that the ban was not legitimate.
The three - Judge Richard Clifton, Judge Michelle Friedland and Judge William Canby - have been described as one of the most diverse judicial panels ever to be assembled.
Having heard an hour of oral arguments on Tuesday - with both representatives from the department of justice and Washington state, which brought about the blockage of the ban, laying out their arguments - the three judges issued their 29-page ruling on Thursday evening.
They found that the states - Washington and Minnesota - had offered substantial evidence that reinstating the ruling would be highly damaging to them, and the government did not offer enough evidence to outweigh that.
Mr Trump immediately vowed to continue fighting through the courts to reinstate his ban.
The three - Judge Richard Clifton, Judge Michelle Friedland and Judge William Canby - have been described as one of the most diverse judicial panels ever to be assembled.
Having heard an hour of oral arguments on Tuesday - with both representatives from the department of justice and Washington state, which brought about the blockage of the ban, laying out their arguments - the three judges issued their 29-page ruling on Thursday evening.
They found that the states - Washington and Minnesota - had offered substantial evidence that reinstating the ruling would be highly damaging to them, and the government did not offer enough evidence to outweigh that.
Mr Trump immediately vowed to continue fighting through the courts to reinstate his ban.
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[h=3]Judge William Canby:[/h][FONT="]The most senior of the three, he was appointed in 1980 by Jimmy Carter.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The 85-year-old from Minnesota studied law at Yale and in Minnesota, before going on to teach constitutional law at Arizona State University.[/FONT]
[FONT="]He usually sits in Phoenix, Arizona.[/FONT]
[/FONT][FONT="]The 85-year-old from Minnesota studied law at Yale and in Minnesota, before going on to teach constitutional law at Arizona State University.[/FONT]
[FONT="]He usually sits in Phoenix, Arizona.[/FONT]
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[h=3]Judge Richard Clifton:[/h][FONT="]Appointed by George W. Bush, Mr Clifton, now 66, was approved in 2002.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Originally from Hawaii, he graduated from Princeton and Yale and served as a law clerk since 1975.[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is currently the only ninth circuit judge from Hawaii.[/FONT]
[/FONT][FONT="]Originally from Hawaii, he graduated from Princeton and Yale and served as a law clerk since 1975.[/FONT]
[FONT="]He is currently the only ninth circuit judge from Hawaii.[/FONT]
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[h=3]Judge Michelle Friedland:[/h][FONT="]The newest judge on the panel, she was appointed by Barack Obama in 2014.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Before joining the bench the 44-year-old Californian worked in a San Francisco law firm.[/FONT]
[FONT="]She has been honoured for her pro bono work challenging Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that made same sex marriage illegal.[/FONT]
[/FONT][FONT="]Before joining the bench the 44-year-old Californian worked in a San Francisco law firm.[/FONT]
[FONT="]She has been honoured for her pro bono work challenging Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that made same sex marriage illegal.[/FONT]
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Whois the Federal Judge Who Keeps Blocking Trump’s Travel Ban?
By Grace Lisa Scott on October 17, 2017
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson blocked President Donald Trump’s latest attempt at a travel ban, claiming the ban doesn’t hold water under federal immigration law.
The restrictions, which were set to take effect Wednesday, would have indefinitely banned most people from the Muslim-majority countries of Syria, Iran, Somalia, Libya, Chad, and Yemen, as well as North Korea, from entering the U.S. The ban also placed restrictions on some Venezuelan members of government and their families. Watson’s order stops the ban from affecting any of the listed countries, except Venezuela and North Korea.
Watson’s decision was in response to a lawsuit filed by the state of Hawaii, two Hawaiians with affected relatives, and a Honolulu-based mosque.
This is not the first time that Watson has blocked a Trump-backed travel ban. Hawaii, along with Maryland, were responsible for blocking the previous version of the ban back in March. The case was scheduled to make its way to the Supreme Court by mid-October, but it expired and was replaced by the latest ban.
“The illogic of the government’s contentions is palpable,” Watson said of the second ban, back in March. The first version, concocted as an executive order in January, was partially blocked by a Washington state federal judge.
Watson was nominated by President Barack Obama for the District of Hawaii in 2013. He was unanimously confirmed to his post with a vote of 94-to-0.
Watson was born in Honolulu in 1966. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991. He’s held a number of judicial positions; he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California as well as the deputy chief of the civil division. He was also the assistant U.S. attorney in Hawaii, and the chief of Hawaii’s civil division following that. He also did a stint with the Army, as a U.S. Army Reserve captain, JAG Corps, from 1998 to 2006.
In Watson’s most recent dressing down of Trump’s travel ban (named EO-3), he made reference to the recent NFL debacle in his 40-page ruling.
Watson’s order is a temporary stop on the ban, while a lawsuit over the ins and outs of the legality of the ban will ensue in coming months.
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Whois the Federal Judge Who Keeps Blocking Trump’s Travel Ban?
By Grace Lisa Scott on October 17, 2017
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson blocked President Donald Trump’s latest attempt at a travel ban, claiming the ban doesn’t hold water under federal immigration law.
The restrictions, which were set to take effect Wednesday, would have indefinitely banned most people from the Muslim-majority countries of Syria, Iran, Somalia, Libya, Chad, and Yemen, as well as North Korea, from entering the U.S. The ban also placed restrictions on some Venezuelan members of government and their families. Watson’s order stops the ban from affecting any of the listed countries, except Venezuela and North Korea.
Watson’s decision was in response to a lawsuit filed by the state of Hawaii, two Hawaiians with affected relatives, and a Honolulu-based mosque.
This is not the first time that Watson has blocked a Trump-backed travel ban. Hawaii, along with Maryland, were responsible for blocking the previous version of the ban back in March. The case was scheduled to make its way to the Supreme Court by mid-October, but it expired and was replaced by the latest ban.
“The illogic of the government’s contentions is palpable,” Watson said of the second ban, back in March. The first version, concocted as an executive order in January, was partially blocked by a Washington state federal judge.
Watson was nominated by President Barack Obama for the District of Hawaii in 2013. He was unanimously confirmed to his post with a vote of 94-to-0.
Watson was born in Honolulu in 1966. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991. He’s held a number of judicial positions; he was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California as well as the deputy chief of the civil division. He was also the assistant U.S. attorney in Hawaii, and the chief of Hawaii’s civil division following that. He also did a stint with the Army, as a U.S. Army Reserve captain, JAG Corps, from 1998 to 2006.
In Watson’s most recent dressing down of Trump’s travel ban (named EO-3), he made reference to the recent NFL debacle in his 40-page ruling.
Professional athletes mirror the federal government in this respect: they operate within a set of rules, and when one among them forsakes those rules in favor of his own, problems ensue. And so it goes with EO-3.
He went on to explain how the ban was far too universal in its nature.
The generalized findings regarding each country’s performance do not support the vast scope of EO-3 —in other words, the categorical restrictions on entire populations of men, women, and children, based upon nationality, are a poor fit for the issues regarding the sharing of “public-safety and terrorism-related information” that the President identifies.
He also mentioned that the ban impacts foreign nationals who may not have significant ties to the banned country, “such as those who left as children or those whose nationality is based on parentage alone.” Furthermore, the ban doesn’t account for nationals of non-banned nations who might have concerning ties to the listed nations, as outlined by the Trump administration. “This leads to absurd results. EO-3 is simultaneously overbroad and underinclusive,” Watson said.
Watson’s order is a temporary stop on the ban, while a lawsuit over the ins and outs of the legality of the ban will ensue in coming months.
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