Thursday, November 01, 2018

Sauce for the goose

Like so many Democrat-led initiatives (nuclear option, anyone?), the practice of court shopping to find a Hawaiian judge was all the rage just a little while ago:
Democrats were ecstatic when a judge in Honolulu barred enforcement of the Trump administration’s travel ban. They were thrilled when a judge in Chicago halted a policy to rescind grant funding to sanctuary cities. In both cases, the judges extended their ruling beyond the litigants to the whole country, issuing so-called national injunctions.
But now?
For opponents of Donald Trump’s administration, this legal maneuver has seemed like a godsend. Now it may come back to haunt them, as a single federal judge in Texas considers putting the Affordable Care Act on ice—not only in Texas, but anywhere in the country.
Now these two lawyers writing for the the increasingly-left-leaning Atlantic think that national injunctions are a bad idea.  For some reason.

2 comments:

  1. Saul Alinsky - 'Make them live up to their own rules'.

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  2. Anonymous3:55 PM

    To find even the smallest precedent for the Democrats' shortsighted scheming and targeting tactics, we must delve all the way back to...

    2016:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Texas

    2016:
    https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2016/10/19/texas-judge-says-hold-obamas-transgender-bathroom-rules-applies-nationwide

    2016:
    https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2017/10/01/obama-s-overtime-rule-struck-down-trump-s.html

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