NY AG’s Trump ‘Fishing Expedition Has to Stop’

constitutional rightsEric Mack – An attorney for former President Donald Trump has filed an injunction Monday in the U.S. Northern District of New York to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James “fishing expedition” into the former president and his businesses.

“We get that it’s going to take a couple years to get through a normal case, but this is so bad we have to stop right now and be fair,” lawyer Alina Habba told Newsmax’s “Stinchfield” on Monday.

“The fishing expedition has to stop.” Continue reading

Supreme Court Lifts Injunctions On Trump Asylum Policy In Reversal Of Lower Courts

injunctionJonathan Turley – The Supreme Court handed The Trump Administration a major win yesterday by lifting all injunctions on the new Trump asylum policy being enforced. That policy could result in a drastic reduction of asylum claims along the Southern Border since anyone who passes through another country like Mexico would have to first seek asylum in that country. The ruling is also a strong rebuke to the lower courts, particularly United States District Court Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco who issued multiple orders to try to impose a national injunction.

Many judges and commentators have expressed concern over the increasing practice of trial judges to issue nationwide injunctions rather than injunctions confined to their district or their circuit. Most recently  Attorney General William Barr wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal objecting to the fact that the Trump Administration has already faced twice the number of nationwide injunctions that were imposed against the Obama Administration. Continue reading