Judge Blocks: Trump and Judge

judge blocks: Read More Federal judge blocks third version of Donald Trump's travel ban hours before it was to take effect Article Continued Below Trump offered a grieving military father 25,000 in a call, but didn't follow through Trump did disrespect my son' Mother backs report of president's horrible' call to soldier's widow The third iteration of Trump's travel ban had been set to go fully into effect early Wednesday, barring various types of travellers from Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Chad, Somalia, North Korea and Venezuela, according to Toronto Star. Even before Chuang's ruling, though, a federal judge in Hawaii stopped it at least temporarily for all of the countries except North Korea and Venezuela. react-empty 157 That judge, Derrick K. Watson, blocked the administration from enforcing the measure on anyone from the six countries, not just those with a bona fide U.S. tie. But in some ways, Chuang's ruling was more personally cutting to Trump, as he said the president's own words cast his latest attempt to impose a travel blockade as the inextricable reanimation of the twice-enjoined Muslim ban. But his ruling did not address whether Trump's intent in imposing the directive was to discriminate against Muslims. The Justice Department already had vowed to appeal Watson's ruling, which the White House said undercuts the President's efforts to keep the American people safe and enforce minimum security standards for entry into the United States. He said the president had merely exceeded the authority Congress had given him in immigration law. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.