{"id":33723,"date":"2018-06-26T21:34:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33723"},"modified":"2018-06-26T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T01:34:44","slug":"following-the-law-and-not-the-judges-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33723","title":{"rendered":"Following The Law And Not The Judge’s Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Johnson at Power Line<\/a> posted an article today about the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s travel ban.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court vindicated President Trump\u2019s final iteration of his so-called \u201ctravel ban\u201d order in Trump v. Hawaii <\/em>this morning. The ruling was 5-4. Although the plaintiffs prevailed in the lower courts, the Supreme Court\u2019s rational wing was unimpressed by the arguments ginned up to frustrate Trump\u2019s executive order. The ruling left Trump free to be Trump and interred the Court\u2019s 1944 Korematsu<\/em><\/a> decision upholding Japanese internment by the Roosevelt administration to boot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It also reminds me again to thank the Senate Republicans who toughed it out to leave the appointment of the successor to Justice Scalia to the winner of the 2016 election. Thanks especially to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. They took a lot of abuse from the media in an early preview of the hysteria we have endured since Trump improbably won.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The law is as follows:<\/p>\n

Section 212(f) of the INA is arguably the broadest and best known of these <\/strong>Authorities . It provides, in relevant part, that<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President is ultimately responsible for national security. The buck stops with him. For the courts to undermine the President’s ability to protect America is simply unbelievable. We have reached the point where to some people politics is more important than national security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Johnson at Power Line posted an article today about the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold President Trump’s travel ban. The article reports: The Supreme Court vindicated President Trump\u2019s final iteration of his so-called \u201ctravel ban\u201d order in Trump v. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[691,1551,1369,10589,5276,274,10608],"class_list":["post-33723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chuck-grassley","tag-executive-order","tag-national-security","tag-president-trump","tag-scott-johnson","tag-supreme-court","tag-travel-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33726,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33723\/revisions\/33726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}