Originally Posted by
lonelycrowd
Reports indicate that an
injunction or TRO has been issued by Judge Watson in Hawaii, giving another window for blacklisted individuals to apply for visas irrespective of their ties to the US. In another indication that this judge may be particularly focused on the religious discrimination angle, he is letting the "ban" on North Korea and certain individuals in Venezuela stand for now.
This comes after Judge Watson
attempted to get access to the report that followed the worldwide review of visa security and information sharing prompted by 13780. State/DOJ apparently insisted that the documents that supposedly led to the 9/24 Proclamation are classified.
I am reasonably certain that once this hits the SCOTUS, it will also be tossed. The essentials are the same for the most part - at least in terms of supporting reasoning, and the information that they will use in running this up the appeal chain. The simple fact is the powers have been fairly clearly granted to the POTUS office to make these changes - there may be a way to convince juries, or Justices that the reasoning behind the changes is "wrong". The current changes will have sufficiently worded reasoning, backed with intel reports and such, and will most likely be allowed by the SCOTUS as it sits now. Of course, this does not mean that something may change that course, but I do not see that there is sufficient evidence of bias, nor a compelling reasoning to set precedent against the POTUS prerogative in this case. IMHO...