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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1540601" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Courting Contempt: Administration Considers Circumventing TRO Enjoining Executive Action </strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>The Justice Department has already filed an <a href="http://cis.org/cadman/administration-files-emergency-motion-lift-restraining-order-executive-action" target="_blank">emergency motion</a> with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, asking it to dissolve U.S. District Court Judge Hanen's temporary restraining order (TRO). The motion was a masterpiece of misdirection and hyperbole.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Now, at least according to Rep. Gutiérrez, the administration is giving thought to pretending that if it moves forward in any of the states that are not party to the suit, everything is copacetic. It's fascinating to watch the administration contemplate showing itself to be as contemptuous of the third branch of government — the judiciary — as it has been of the second branch, our Congress.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>I say to the president: <em>go for it!</em> Show yourself fully, completely, and nakedly as the imperious autocrat that many of the citizenry have come to believe you are. But what the president may find is that the federal judiciary is not as pusillanimous as our legislators, who have shucked and ducked, but never really taken the chief executive to task by lawsuit despite public avowals that they would do so .</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>The administration knows full well that if it starts granting documents in any non-party state to illegal aliens to reside and work in the United States, it will simply act as a magnet to aliens living in the states that are parties to the TRO. And, of course, the federal government doesn't issue documents that limit any alien's ability to live or work where they choose; thus, these newly documented aliens would return to the state where they had been, completely defeating the point of the TRO.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>One cannot imagine federal judges at either the district or appellate court levels being particularly amused at such a too-clever-by-half measure to circumvent their authority. Some of them might even think it smacks of contempt. And it is. Apparently, contempt for the checks and balances and the tripartite form of government established by our Constitution are the rule of the day under this presidency.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://www.cis.org/cadman/courting-contempt-administration-considers-circumventing-tro-enjoining-executive-action" target="_blank">http://www.cis.org/cadman/courting-contempt-administration-considers-circumventing-tro-enjoining-executive-action</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1540601, member: 12952"] [SIZE=5][B]Courting Contempt: Administration Considers Circumventing TRO Enjoining Executive Action [/B] [B]The Justice Department has already filed an [URL='http://cis.org/cadman/administration-files-emergency-motion-lift-restraining-order-executive-action']emergency motion[/URL] with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, asking it to dissolve U.S. District Court Judge Hanen's temporary restraining order (TRO). The motion was a masterpiece of misdirection and hyperbole.[/B] [B]Now, at least according to Rep. Gutiérrez, the administration is giving thought to pretending that if it moves forward in any of the states that are not party to the suit, everything is copacetic. It's fascinating to watch the administration contemplate showing itself to be as contemptuous of the third branch of government — the judiciary — as it has been of the second branch, our Congress.[/B] [B]I say to the president: [I]go for it![/I] Show yourself fully, completely, and nakedly as the imperious autocrat that many of the citizenry have come to believe you are. But what the president may find is that the federal judiciary is not as pusillanimous as our legislators, who have shucked and ducked, but never really taken the chief executive to task by lawsuit despite public avowals that they would do so .[/B] [B]The administration knows full well that if it starts granting documents in any non-party state to illegal aliens to reside and work in the United States, it will simply act as a magnet to aliens living in the states that are parties to the TRO. And, of course, the federal government doesn't issue documents that limit any alien's ability to live or work where they choose; thus, these newly documented aliens would return to the state where they had been, completely defeating the point of the TRO.[/B] [B]One cannot imagine federal judges at either the district or appellate court levels being particularly amused at such a too-clever-by-half measure to circumvent their authority. Some of them might even think it smacks of contempt. And it is. Apparently, contempt for the checks and balances and the tripartite form of government established by our Constitution are the rule of the day under this presidency.[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][B][URL]http://www.cis.org/cadman/courting-contempt-administration-considers-circumventing-tro-enjoining-executive-action[/URL][/B] [B][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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