04-23-2017, 05:15 AM
Rather than speculate about how important this law is using fictional scenarios of bomb-toting-evil-Muslim-immigrants, you can hear Hawaii AG on NPR discuss the topic https://www.npr.org/player/embed/520363973/520363974
And Sessions’ disrespect for the rule of law also mirrors Trump’s belief that the judiciary should serve as his rubber stamp. This is not how the law works, as attractive as it may be to the party in power. His remarks stand in stark contrast to the silence of President Barack Obama’s attorneys general, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, when each was forced to fight a similar nationwide injunction against a district court order barring Obama from deferring the deportation of 4 million undocumented immigrants. And during Lynch’s short tenure, she also saw a lone judge block a rule expanding overtime pay; federal guidance protecting trans schoolchildren; and a regulation protecting transgender patients from discrimination.
At no point did Lynch, Holder, or Obama question these judge’s legitimacy or disparage Texas, the state in which all of them sit. Such a comment would’ve undoubtedly provoked outrage on the right—as well it should have. Individual judges can put holds on federal orders, no matter where they live. Yet Sessions’ criticism of Hawaii has been largely met with silence by conservatives. It seems many Republicans believe the lone purpose of the law is to implement their own views at any cost.
And Sessions’ disrespect for the rule of law also mirrors Trump’s belief that the judiciary should serve as his rubber stamp. This is not how the law works, as attractive as it may be to the party in power. His remarks stand in stark contrast to the silence of President Barack Obama’s attorneys general, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, when each was forced to fight a similar nationwide injunction against a district court order barring Obama from deferring the deportation of 4 million undocumented immigrants. And during Lynch’s short tenure, she also saw a lone judge block a rule expanding overtime pay; federal guidance protecting trans schoolchildren; and a regulation protecting transgender patients from discrimination.
At no point did Lynch, Holder, or Obama question these judge’s legitimacy or disparage Texas, the state in which all of them sit. Such a comment would’ve undoubtedly provoked outrage on the right—as well it should have. Individual judges can put holds on federal orders, no matter where they live. Yet Sessions’ criticism of Hawaii has been largely met with silence by conservatives. It seems many Republicans believe the lone purpose of the law is to implement their own views at any cost.