The federal judges are doubling down against the President:
The state of Hawaii says an imam from Honolulu has legal standing to assert the First Amendment claim of religious discrimination when challenging President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban.
Hawaii’s case for a temporary restraining order to block the ban is being heard Wednesday in federal court in Honolulu.
The judge told lawyers that he is more interested in constitutional claims and wanted to know who had such standing in the lawsuit.
Attorney Colleen Roh Sinzdak says a Muslim plaintiff in the lawsuit, Ismail Elshikh, has such standing to challenge the ban. Elshikh says the ban prevents his mother-in-law, who lives in Syria, from visiting family in Hawaii.
Sinzdak says Elshikh and all Muslim residents in Hawaii face higher hurdles in reuniting with family members because of their faith.
She says that harm applies to all residents, not just Muslims.
If this genuinely surprises or demoralizes you, do remember at whose grave the God-Emperor was laying a wreath recently. This is all just setting the stage. This is just recon.