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Did the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 ban Muslims from holding public office?

Jun 12, 2017 · Attorney General Becerra Files Opposition to Trump’s Musli…. Monday, June 12, 2017. Contact: (916) 210-6000, [email protected]. SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court opposing the Trump Administration’s effort to impose a travel ban on people from …

Did the Supreme Court just upend Trump’s Muslim ban?

Jun 26, 2018 · SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today released a statement following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the case Trump v. Hawai’i et al. The case challenged the provisions of President Trump’s revised Muslim travel ban.

Is the Muslim ban unconstitutional on the basis of religion?

Update (1/30/17, 9:37 p.m.): In response to Sally Yates's statement refusing to defend the Muslim ban, President Trump fired her. She will be replaced by attorney for the Eastern District of ...

When was the last time a US Attorney General was fired?

Jan 31, 2017 · Trump’s Talk About Muslims Led Acting Attorney General to Defy Ban Give this article Sally Q. Yates, in 2015, was running the Justice Department temporarily until the Senate confirmed a new...

Who is the Oklahoma Attorney General?

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson, left, is accused of failing to respond to a lawsuit filed by Muslim rights activist Muneer Awad seeking to block the state's voter-approved law banning Islamic law in state courts.

What did the CAIR call on the sponsors of the ballot measure?

At an impromptu news conference following Monday's ruling, CAIR officials called on the sponsors of the ballot measure to repudiate hate messages they said have been received by Muslim institutions in Oklahoma following the law's passage .

What is the Supreme Court's Muslim travel ban case?

The judiciary seems to be the one institution that continues to serve the American people in the way the Founding Fathers intended.

When did Trump issue his third travel ban?

And on Sept. 27, 2017 , Trump issued his third iteration of the travel ban (the one the justices are now considering), which led the Court to dismiss the government’s appealof version two on the ground that it was moot. The third version adds still more nuance, nominally includes at least two countries that aren’t Muslim-majority, and creates a series of case-specific exceptions ostensibly to address concerns of overreach.

How many justices voted to leave the injunctions in place?

And when the case first reached the Supreme Court last June, six of the nine justices voted to leave those injunctions in place for anyone with a “bona fide relationship with the United States” while the Court considered the ban on the merits.

Who appointed Judge Ilana Rovner?

As Judge Ilana Rovner (appointed to two different judgeships by President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush , respectively) wrote for the court: Our role in this case is not to assess the optimal immigration policies for our country; that is not before us today.

Is the Supreme Court hearing a case about the travel ban?

That the Supreme Court is only hearing a case about the travel ban now, with the ban in its third iteration, is not proof that the federal courts have joined the resistance; it’s proof that they’ve been the one governmental institution that continues to serve the American people in the way the Founding Fathers intended.

What did Sessions say about the Ku Klux Klan?

During the day-long hearing, which is scheduled to continue Wednesday, Sessions rejected allegations that he has failed to protect the voting rights of black people and that he has praised the Ku Klux Klan.

Did Sessions support the Violence Against Women Act?

While Sessions initially stated during the hearing that he has supported the Violence Against Women Act, including in 2000, in 2005 and a proposal by Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, he was called out for opposing the 2013 reauthorization measure that is now law. Leahy asked why he voted against expanding protections for LGBTQ victims, immigrants and tribal victims of domestic violence in the 2013 reauthorization, which he said passed “overwhelmingly” in both the Senate and GOP-controlled House at the time.

Did Sessions vote against torture?

Democrats repeatedly pointed out that Sessions has voted against bans against torture and grilled him on what he would do as attorney general if Mr. Trump tried to bring back waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques.

What court did Flentje go to?

When the three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals pressed Flentje for evidence connecting the seven countries to terrorism, he said, "These proceedings have been moving quite fast, and we're doing the best we can."

Why did Eric Holder honor Flentje?

During the Obama administration, then-Attorney General Eric Holder honored Flentje for helping to draft the legal case for same-sex marriage and for terrorism suspects being held in the Guantánamo Bay detention center, which the administration sought to close.

What was the McCarthy era law?

The resulting McCarthy era-law codified an existing quota system for immigration. It also introduced a new system that gave preferences to some immigrants based on their skill sets and whether they would be reunited with their families. As the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian notes, the new act revised the 1924 National Origins Quota System by admitting people of different nationalities to the United States at a rate of one-sixth of 1 percent of however many immigrants from a country were living in the United States in 1920.

What is the McCarran-Walter Act?

Time for a history lesson. The McCarran-Walter Act is actually the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. It’s named for Pat McCarran, then a Democratic senator from Nevada, and Francis Walter, then a Democratic representative from Pennsylvania.