Even Republicans who were ready to climb on board Trump’s Muslim ban had to admit that there was one huge problem with their fear train: the actual implementation of the ban. It was made without any planning, any discussion with the people who had to enforce the action, and with conflicting guidelines on how to handle people who had lived in the United States for years, and was a recipe for chaos. So you might think that while the order has been suspended by someone rightfully called a judge, they’d think about how to address that.
Lawyers for Washington state and Minnesota have told a federal appellate court it would "unleash chaos again" if it lifted an order temporarily halting President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
Last time the rules for students, family members, workers, and pretty much everyone else were so unclear that what happened to them was unpredictable at best. They could be released, held, sent back to their point of origin, blocked from a flight, deprived of documents, or dispatched to a country where their life was in immediate peril. Even American citizens were made to face long delays or humiliating interrogation. Friends and families were torn about by apparently random decisions.
In the time since that initial disaster, the Trump regime has done … nothing to prepare for what would happen if their ban is reinstated. Which is part of why it’s not just states weighing in.
Dozens of tech companies, including giants like Apple, Google, and Uber, are siding with Washington state as it fights President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
And there are others adding their voices.
Early Monday, two former secretaries of state — John F. Kerry and Madeline Albright — joined a six-page joint statement saying Trump’s order “undermines” national security and will “endanger U.S. troops in the field.” The rare declaration, addressed to the 9th Circuit, was also backed by top former national security officials including Leon Panetta, who served as a past CIA director and defense secretary during the Obama administration.
The case now moving toward a likely date with the Supreme Court is based off the appeals filed by the states of Washington and Minnesota, but those are far from the only legal actions preventing a return of Trump’s illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional ban.
Federal courts in New York, California and elsewhere have blocked aspects of the ban from being implemented, although one federal judge in Massachusetts declared that he did not think that challengers had demonstrated that they had a high likelihood of success. The lawsuits now stretch from D.C. to Hawaii, and the number seems to grow regularly.