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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: SVPete on November 01, 2026, 11:00:10 AM
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Liberal court delivers immigration win for Trump as judge warns of ‘floodgates’ if law firm succeeded
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/liberal-court-delivers-immigration-win-trump-judge-warns-floodgates-law-firm-succeeded (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/liberal-court-delivers-immigration-win-trump-judge-warns-floodgates-law-firm-succeeded)
A liberal-majority appeals court in California handed the Trump administration a victory by blocking a lower court's ruling that ordered the State Department to open its application pool for the 2027 Diversity Visa lottery, which admits roughly 55,000 immigrants from low-immigration countries each year.
In a 3-0 ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta requiring the lottery pool to be opened after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a notice in November delaying the program's acceptance of new applications in order to "implement certain changes," but the application period never opened.
The three-judge panel consisted of Clinton appointee Mary Margaret McKeown, Biden appointee Holly A. Thomas and Bush appointee Norman Randy Smith wrote a separate concurrence.
A month later, the State Department ordered an indefinite pause on issuing diversity visas after a Portuguese national who was issued a lottery visa in 2017 committed a mass shooting at Brown University, killing two people and injuring nine others. The shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was also tied to the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor two days after the Brown University shooting.
Basically, the 3 judges denied a law firm for being the immigration equivalent of ambulance-chaser lawyers.
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a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta requiring the lottery pool to be opened
In what ****ing world does a district judge get to order the highest levels of the Executive branch into how to implement policy?
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On a side note, although I think I basically understand what happened here, it's annoying trying to sort through sentences like, "today, a court reversed the decision of a lower court, which had undone a lower court's decision to block the reversal of an injunction by another court..." etc. Add in stuff like how it's a victory for such-and-such a party/politician, and try to cram it all into one sentence, and it's no wonder why more people don't follow or understand law and politics.