Asylum Case Exemplifies Executive Branch Overreach

By Steven Gordon (January 8, 2019, 1:35 PM EST) -- On Nov. 9, 2018, as several thousand caravan migrants congregated near the U.S. border, the Trump administration implemented a new policy denying asylum to foreign nationals who illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico. Several immigrants' rights groups sued to block the policy and a federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order, or TRO, preventing its enforcement. This sparked an unusual public dispute between President Donald Trump and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after Trump castigated the ruling as the work of an "Obama judge." Justice Roberts responded that the federal judiciary doesn't have "Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."...

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