The ink was barely dry on Judge Derrick Watson’s order suspending Donald Trump’s latest travel ban when the recriminations and conspiracy theories began. Trump travel ban: key quotes from Hawaii judge's scathing rebuke Read moreHis 43-page document flatly describes the government’s contentions in defense of the revised travel ban as untrue and says the administration’s “illogic … is palpable”. And Judge Watson hardly has a reputation as a hothead or a rabble-rouser. That was also the impression gleaned by the Senate when it voted unanimously to confirm Watson as a federal judge in 2013. Certainly, Watson is not the first federal judge to take issue with the administration’s attempts to impose a temporary ban on travelers from certain Muslim-majority countries.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2017 19:52 UTC