Donald Trump issues another Muslim ban, and boom, boom, it gets blocked by one court after another. Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson, in Hawaii, granted a temporary restraining order against the ban on travelers from eight countries. And Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, in Maryland:
… issued a somewhat less complete halt on the ban than his counterpart in Hawaii did a day earlier, blocking the administration from enforcing the directive only on those who lacked a “bona fide” relationship with a person or entity in the United States, such as family members or some type of professional or other engagement in the United States.
But in some ways, Chuang’s ruling was more personally cutting to Trump, as he said the president’s own words cast his latest attempt to impose a travel blockade as the “inextricable re-animation of the twice-enjoined Muslim ban.”
These actions are temporary and the case will continue, probably up to the Supreme Court. In the mean time, don’t be surprised if Trump takes aim at the federal judiciary yet again.