Of course, this is an Obama Judge, although the GOP has its own activist Judges as well. I’d like to know who checks these activist judges, or do they operate on their own until shot down by a higher court? Our system is broken, and Roberts, as the head judge, is doing nothing but observing.
Roberts has observed these activists long enough, and if he doesn’t see a problem, he is blind, hesitant to jump in, or on the side of progressives. Respect for our justice system is in the gutter, mainly from Federal Judges who think they make policy. We need a clean sweep at the Federal level and build back better Judges, so to speak. All IMO.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/5/federal-judge-erases-trumps-39-country-travel-ban/
“A federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s policy that barred applicants from the 39 countries on the president’s travel ban list.
The policy, put in place after the shooting of two National Guard members in the nation’s capital last year, kept applications for work permits, asylum, green cards and citizenship in limbo for six months.
Those who were already in the U.S. were then unable to work and at risk of deportation, while those outside the U.S. faced significantly more hurdles to enter.
U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. determined that the deadlock was unlawful, finding that the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, responsible for processing immigration and naturalization applications, could not pause the application process solely based on people’s country of origin.
“In enacting its latest immigration policies, USCIS: claims statutory and regulatory authority that it does not possess; makes decisions without the reasoned explanations that it must provide; acts without regard for the reliance interests of applicants that it must consider; and justifies its actions with pretextual concerns of ’national security’ that mask anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making,” Judge McConnell, an Obama appointee, wrote in his lengthy order. “In legal terms that means USCIS’s actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious.”
He said the agency has neither “followed the law”’ nor “done things the right way.”