Cenk Uygur
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Fascist Trump Doesn't Care What The Courts Say
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January 31, 2017
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8:49Now PlayingWe already have our first constitutional crisis of the Trump administration. That escalated quickly. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Chaos reigns in the wake of President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world.
No fewer than five courts have issued emergency stays limiting the order's power since Saturday.
The most far-reaching court decision, issued Sunday morning by Judge Allison Burroughs and Magistrate Judge Judith Dein in Massachusetts, goes so far as to call for a total halt to detentions of anyone targeted by the travel ban.
Yet agents with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) on Sunday defied the judiciary and continued to enforce Trump's travel ban, despite immigration lawyers and even members of Congress pleading with them to enforce the federal courts' decision.
"Rogue Customs and Border Patrol agents continue to try to get people on to planes," International Refugee Assistance Project director Becca Heller told the Guardian at JFK airport in New York. "A lot of people have been handcuffed, a lot of people who don't speak English are being coerced into taking involuntary departures."
Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) was turned away by CBP agents in Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C, prompting his declaration that the U.S. is now in a constitutional crisis:
@RepDonBeyer
We have a constitutional crisis today. Four Members of Congress asked CBP officials to enforce a federal court order and were turned away.
Indeed, flouting a court order "is a big deal for any government official—federal, state, local, executive, legislative, whatever," Abner Greene, a law professor at Fordham University, commented to the Huffington Post. "Obedience to specific court orders is what keeps us from being a banana republic or fascist dictatorship. That's a really big deal.””*
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