[U] By Monday, We Will Have The Until Now Uniformly-Victorious Plaintiffs' Reply To Team Trump's SCOTUS Asylum Appeal Request...

UPDATED: 12.20.2018 -- The court has now converted the TRO to a preliminary injunction, nationwide. Judge Tigar's excellent opinion and order here -- all as we await word of the Supremes' likely denial of Trump's interlocotory appeal. End, update.

I find the SCOTUSblog extremely useful.

Here is the sublime Amy Howe, overnight -- on 45's attempt to have the Supremes place a stay on the TRO that presently blocks his would be proclamation (which vainly attempts an "end run", around Congress -- by lawlessly essentially barring asylee applications, at our Southern Border). [My last word on this, here. But do search "East Bay Sanctuary" if you want to read 20 plus posts, on the history of the litigation.]

. . . .Last month President Donald Trump blasted a ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco that blocked the government from enforcing a rule that would prohibit immigrants who enter the country illegally from requesting asylum. Trump criticized U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, who issued the order, as an “Obama judge” and predicted that the government would “win that case in the Supreme Court of the United States.” Trump’s comments elicited a rare public rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts. . . .

The government’s request went to Justice Elena Kagan, who handles emergency filings from the geographic area that includes California. Soon after the request was filed, Kagan directed the challengers to file a response by noon on December 17. She could rule on the request herself, but she is more likely to refer it to the full court. . . .

Onward -- Trump is very likely to be denied here (East Bay's brief), at the Supremes, and be forced to return to the trial court in San Francisco, on a fully-vetted permanent injunction proceeding (predicts Condor). I will post both arguments, once the plaintiffs' is filed on Monday, right here. But for now, I will not give any bandwidth, or oxygen -- to piles of Trumpian nonsense, in legal pleadings -- unanswered. Smiling -- into the thankfully no longer quaking sunshine, hunting lobster bisque tilapia taco trucks, after court -- later, today. . . .

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