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Soliman Family Deportation Blocked: Another Great Moment in American Law
Shocked face time: A Biden-appointed federal judge has blocked the deportation of the Colorado firebomber’s family
. The judge clearly recognizes the constitutional requirement of a full trial with witnesses to ascertain the actual expiration date of their initial visit (2/26/23) and the expiration of his work visa (9/23) while his asylum request was processed and denied. Obviously, the government should bear the burden of proving that the dates on both of the relevant documents are as printed. Presumably, the person or persons who issued the document should be called as witnesses and made to testify that they intended to write those dates on those documents. If they do not recall actually doing so, I ask you, Your Honor, does that not create reasonable doubt and grounds for permanent residency?
In fact, we don’t even know what specific legal grounds are being offered for opposing deportation other than a claim of “irreparable harm,” even though that risk was an inherent, agreed-upon aspect of temporary status. According to some sources, an immigration attorney with a previous 4-month suspension of her license to practice before the immigration board for misconduct in immigration matters appeared in Judge Gallagher’s court as a “friend of the court” (not even as counsel to the family) to move to block the deportation. What the…?
The other line of argument publicly offered is that the family is being punished for the sins of the father. This too-clever-by-half line of reasoning tries to obscure the fact that they are, in fact, illegally present while also inventing a new doctrine that the law cannot be enforced if the government may be thinking mean thoughts while doing so.
If Mrs. Soliman were to claim that she and the kids were victims of physical abuse, that could create grounds for extending her stay. Although, as a devout Muslim who practices violent jihad, it would be unthinkable for him to beat his wife. [Pause for snickers to subside.] This claim would, of course, be undercut if the allegedly abusive husband is not sent to the old country but instead locked up in a federal prison where he can do no further harm, obviating the need to block simultaneous deportation.
I think the Federal Judicial Conference (Chief Justice Roberts runs it) should impose a rule that district court judges who are completely out of line and get overruled and chastised by higher courts be given a minimum 6-month training wheels status–all rulings must be approved by a senior judge assigned to oversee the miscreant, and his/her caseload limited to what can be more easily supervised. No trials. That could have a salutary effect on demigods in robes who think God wants them to make policy and fight political battles.
Published in General
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/06/05/the-courts-are-courting-disaster-by-alienating-conservatives-n2658158
In America, we pride ourselves on the Founder’s genius, setting up a system of checks and balances. But recent events reveal a weakness. What is the Constitutional check on a tyrannical Judiciary?
The other two branches. Unfortunately, Congress is no longer up to their function.
Impeachment and/or defunding, neither of which is realistically available.
The old reliance on professional embarrassment at being seen as an unprofessional partisan hack has been replaced by hero status as a member of the Resistance. As a group, the Biden appointees are less likely to put professionalism or other trivialities like the constitution or the text of statutes ahead of the needs of the Narrative. if you watched Kenney and Cruz grill some of the most egregiously unqualified losers sent up for confirmation, you got a glimpse of what is coming.
Trump’s extended 2020 post-election tantrum about Raffensberger and the Georgia outcome in general instead of joining a united effort to beat Ossoff and Warnock helped give the Dems the Senate majority power to jam through a whole raft of zombies onto the federal bench. The damage will last years unless and until SCOTUS and Congress find ways to curtail the BS.
The big news sources are not saying this. It is either not true or they are again lying.
This judge has “toxic empathy” (aka “toxic femininity”) and is breaking down the rule of law.
Unless I misunderstood the three branches, the judicial branch has no enforcement power. If Trump gave them a one-finger salute, their only hope would be that the legislative branch acted. Then, it’s up to the voters if legislators muck up, but most of the voters seem to rely on the MSM for their information. Not good.
I don’t have much regard for NPR, but I listen occasionally to see what motivated the other side. There was an interesting discussion related to the judiciary and its efforts to block Trump. Does this resonate? The speculation about why there have been so many rulings against Trump centered on the idea that Trump is forcing the issues knowing that activist district judges will interfere with his efforts. It is all a part of a diabolical plan to discredit the judicial branch the NPR commentators claimed. All Trump has to do is point to the numbers and compare the nation-wide injunctions against his administration with previous administration.
Abuse? Quite the opposite. This father cared about his family so much that, even though he’d been planning this attack for more than a year, he waited to carry it out until after his daughter could graduate from high school!
I mean, he’s practically father of the year material…
He is making us behave badly! He is forcing us to take stupid and unpopular positions! He is ever so evil!
Supposedly impeachment, but fat chance when the judges are doing the dirty work of half the legislature . . .
In a rare moment of self-awareness, the commentators admitted that it is a lose-lose situation for their side: They either risk discrediting themselves with continual nation-wide injunctions that get overruled or they bend over and let The Orange One have his way.
Not tired of winning yet.
Docket:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70450264/dvortsin-v-noem/
Looks like the University of Spoiled Children School of Law is handling the case:
https://gould.usc.edu/faculty/profile/niels-w-frenzen/
The risk that Kurt Schlichter notes in the column highlighted by @django in Comment #1 that the public loses respect for, and then ceases to pay attention to, what the courts say. Then the judges and justices will no doubt be baffled why they are ignored.
People across social media are mentioning how odd it is that in a very short time we now know so much about Soliman himself as well as his entire family.
Yet despite it being over 300 days, and counting, few of us know very much about Thomas Crooks.(Well his Deep State handlers might know a lot about him, but they aren’t talking.)
There was eventually a gain for our side:
Democrats had hoped 2021 victories by Ossoff and Warnock signaled the party’s resurgence in Georgia. But Kemp cruised to reelection in 2022 over Democrat Stacey Abrams. (Citation: The Associated Press)
Oh please.
Electing Ossoff and Warnock is DJT’s greatest political mistake. Can you imagine how different the last four years would have been with a 52-48 Republican senate? Laws, judges, cabinet members…
Wow. Counsel imported all the way from a California law faculty. No doubt there will be lots more paper in the record for the appellate court (or even SCOTUS) to read before OK’ing their eventual departure. Probably cheaper to do the Maryland Man Maneuver–Oops, your honor the plane already left accidentally.
Funny that lefties lecture us about the importance of rule of law except for the law that actually govern the terms, dates and conditions of their permission to be in the USA.
One of my favorite examples:
Do we know for certain that the election of Ossoff and Warnock was all due to Trump? I think it would be naive to think it was all his fault.
You blame him for what you see as his over concern about the 2020 election outcome in Georgia. (His concern came about regarding how it had affected his being re-elected.)
However, if he was concerned about the integrity of the vote counting processes, maybe those processes had something to do with the victories in 2021 of Ossoff and Warnock as well.
Here is just one comment among many that resulted from hearings regarding the election vote counting processes in that state:
Is this the same daughter whose fate the media is bewailing as “she dreamed of being a doctor, and now she may be deported?”
Last I looked, there were medical schools in Egypt, Even Wikipedia has an extensive list.
I’m still waiting to see the headline about the “peaceful, elderly Jews who dreamed of not being burned alive.”
This. And the reactionary nonsense that “illegal alien” is synonymous with “angelic blessing from the Lord”. These judges are from Clown College central casting.
Or yet so little about the people Mr. Soliman tried to kill.
Or yet so little is said about the two young adults executed on the D.C. street outside a Jewish event.
What about their dreams and aspirations?
That was because of Stacey Abrams, not the popularity of Kemp,who is not as popular in Georgia as many outside of Georgia think, despite some of his relatively good decisions on lock downs, taxes, law enforcement. But things likely going to Davos to invite the globalists to build batteries in Georgia, and strong arming a bad deal on a Rivian plant highly unpopular with the locals, dilute his popularity. Georgia is still a red state,albeit with a purplish tinge. Everyone expected Kemp to run for Senate, but he (wisely) declined, likely because Trump got re elected. Kemp, like many Republicans in Atlanta, is a GHW Bush/W Bush type Republican, which is long since not in sync with the Republican Party/MAGA movement. MTG hasn’t declared on a Senate primary run, with Buddy Carter (how’s that for a Georgia good-old-boy candidate?) trying to pre empt her entry into the race,with a MAGA coat tails early campaign. If he wins the primary, it is likely to be a tight race with Ossoff. Perhaps the despised Raffensperger will toss his hat in the ring, but he would have a tough time getting MAGA support. He is likely to run for governor and, like Kemp, keep his Sec of State position to run the campaign, a conflict of interest in my view.
No one else in sight for Republicans that I am aware. So it will be a close thing, unfortunately. I am not sure that Ossoff Warnock election was a gain for Georgia or the nation. Georgia, I am finding, is a strange place politically. And, inter alia, voting systems and procedures in Georgia are a mess. Straightforward elections are well nigh impossible in Georgia.
The functions remain but the increasingly habitual flouting of and disrespect for the rule of constitutional integrity has pushed us down the slippery slope at an accelerated pace. Are we approaching the tipping point of no return? I don’t think so. I don’t know how we stop the progression but I know Someone who can.
Yes, case in point demonstrating my previous comment.
I love my home state while strongly with cuss words disliking the State. It’s embarrassing…what they are and what they do.
And in the past people used to think the courts moved slowly. I suppose they cane rule quickly when motivated with clear decisions.
Whichever is more torturous for the innocent.
Funding. Congress only needs to fund the Supreme Court, the rest can go away if Congress decides it.
Not sure about that. Isn’t there something about not reducing compensation for any article 3 judges?