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Lone Judge Controls US Immigration Policy for Nine Months
In October 2017, Federal District Judge Derrick Kahala Watson, appointed by Obama in 2013, issued a nationwide injunction against President Trump’s travel ban for people from seven countries in which Islamic terrorists are active. These countries’ governments are in such disarray they are not able to provide the US with sufficient records to properly identify and vet immigrants seeking to come to the US.
That’s right. One federal judge in Hawaii at the lowest level of the federal court system, with a mere four years’ experience, issued a ruling that prohibited the entire Executive Branch from enforcing the travel ban.