Does the 9th Circuit want anyone to assert border integrity?  Doesn't look like it. Late in the day last Saturday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied president Trump's DOJ emergency request to stay the temporary restraining order issued by Seattle federal district court judge James L Robart. Judge Robart blocked Trump's executive order temporarily halting travel from seven countries, whose ties to terrorism pose a significant security risk to the United States. The 9th Circuit completely forgot about its own opinion from 2011 in Arizona v. United States, wherein it affirmed a lower court ruling that struck several Arizona statutes intended to thwart illegal immigration.  Arizona was sued by Obama's DOJ for usurping the federal supremacy in immigration and lost.  The basis for the 9th Circuit opinion was primarily the Supremacy Clause: The federal preemption doctrine stems from the Supremacy Clause, U.S. Const....(Read Full Post)