ONE WEEK after his inauguration, Donald Trump received a lesson in the ways of American democracy. The new president suffered his first setback at the hands of the judiciary, a co-equal branch of the federal government that may soon replace the media as his biggest nemesis. A day after Mr Trump issued an executive order (“Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States”) that banned the entry of all refugees and citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries, federal judges in New York, Virginia and Seattle issued emergency stays that effectively stop a key part of the order in its tracks.
The lawsuit in New York was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of two men, Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi and Hameed Khalid Darweesh, and dozens of other “similarly situated” people who arrived at American ports of entry on January 27th just after Mr Trump’s order had taken effect. Mr Alshawi, an Iraqi citizen holding a valid visa who was on his way to Texas to be reunited with his wife and son, was detained by authorities at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Mr Darweesh, an Iraqi who had served as an interpreter for the...Continue reading
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