Federal district judge James Robart violated the Constitution in issuing a TRO (temporary restraining order) against President Trump's temporary entry ban for citizens of seven countries.  Now a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed that stay. What we have here is a creeping constitutional coup.  As long as President Obama was in charge and had a massive open-door policy at our borders and at our airports, in violation of statutory law, the judiciary was content to be silent.  But when Donald Trump became president and tried to use the powers of the presidency to put some national security safeguards into place, the judiciary sprang into action. The judiciary has usurped the executive branch's powers and has created a parallel constitution – one that bears no relation to the founding document of our nation.  The courts have now cited this parallel constitution to justify taking away the ultimate...(Read Full Post)