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Monday, January 15, 2018

Judge's DACA ruling seen by some legal scholars as problematic

The judge who barred the Trump administration from turning back the Obama-era DACA program last week has some legal scholars concerned that the ruling could damage the notion of an impartial bench.

The New York Times reported Sunday that Judge William Alsup, the federal judge from the Northern District of California, used a local case before issuing the nationwide stop.

“How can a single judge decide a question for the whole country?” Samuel Bray, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, asked the paper.

Bray wrote a recent article where he spoke out against federal judges issuing nationwide injunctions, the paper reported.

“Increasingly, legal scholars are concerned about the way national injunctions are transforming the relationship between the courts and the political branches,” he said.

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2 comments:

  1. Should be made Illegal for damn Judges to Stop or interfere

    with President's Orders & Authority .....Needs to STOP !!!

    It Never ends......Never before in History has a President
    been treated as Trump has .......His Authority is Equal To
    or even above these Judges......or should be

    Can a judge stop the POTUS from launching a missile too ???
    If so We would all be dead !!!!

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  2. Judges should be Required to be Neutral / Not Political !!

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