9, February 2017 Huddled Masses
Kuddos to the Seattle judge who halted
President Trump’s executive order targeting people from predominantly Muslim
countries from entering the US. Hundreds of refugees, students, researchers,
business men and women had to endure extreme humiliation being forced off
planes stuck in limbo waiting for sanity to return to the US. Trump was
attempting to follow through on his campaign promise to launch a “total and complete shutdown” on all Muslim entrants to
America.
Predictably, Trump who does not
take defeat gracefully, lashed out at the judicial
branch for considering challenges to his executive order accusing them of being
politically motivated judges and “disgraceful”. Acting more like a king than a
president, Trump chose to exclude senior officials in his travel ban fatwa
adding to the confusion.
The state of Washington was right to argue that the court
must provide a check on executive power. Trump’s order clearly discriminates between minority and
majority religions giving favorable treatment to Christians. This is a clear
violation of the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution and thus Trump’s
travel ban must be invalidated by the US Justice Department. Even Supreme Court
Justice Nominee, Gorsuch, jumped into the fray calling Trump’s tweets, about
the judiciary “demoralizing and disheartening” If the stay by the district
court is overturned, the case will likely be fast-tracked to the US Supreme
Court. Let us hope common sense will prevail and the US remains a haven for the
“huddled masses”.
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