
In August, the Trump Administration announced a new immigration rule by way of the Federal Register. Under the new rule, the permanent residency of any legal alien was placed into jeopardy if they became a ‘public charge’ by receiving benefits in the form of cash assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, or housing subsidies for a total of 12 months in any three-year period.
This is good public policy. When immigrants passed through Ellis Island they either had to have sponsorship from friends or family already in America or have $30 in cash (about $785 today), the bottom line is that they had to show that they were capable of sustaining themselves and would not become a, wait for it, ‘public charge.’ This has been the law of the land since at least 1882.
However, to hear the shrieking, one would think that Chicken Little had looked up and seen the sky descending.
The rule went into effect on October 10. On October 11, the #Resistance in the federal judiciary went into action.
In short order, Federal district judges in five states–New York, California, Washington, Illinois, and Maryland–issued injunctions blocking the implementation of DHS’s revised public charge rule. The administration appealed. In December, the Ninth Circuit, in a unique act of sanity, lifted the injunctions from California and Washington, while the Fourth Circuit lifted the Maryland injunction. The government’s appeal in Illinois is still in progress. But just two weeks ago, in the Second Circuit, NeverTrump craziness overcame judicial modesty and the ruling by a single New York judge putting a halt to enforcement of the rule nationwide…even in two circuits where the injunction had been lifted…was upheld. The Trump administration lodged an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court.
Today, in a 5-4 decision (all those NeverTrumpers who thought ‘but Gorsuch’ was such a killer comeback against Trump can really just eat my unwashed shorts) the Supreme Court lifted all the injunctions in effect and ordered them kept that way until the case was settled.
This was a welcome development made all the sweeter by the snot-slinging and whimpering on the left.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/20...welfare-but-the-real-target-was-rogue-judges/
Insert screaming at sky ***** picture here. Winning
