March 2017: He Enjoined Section 2(c) of the Revised Travel Order.

DOCUMENTED

On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued Executive Order 13,780. On March 16, 2017, the District of Maryland posted a notice in International Refugee Assistance Project et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al., TDC-17-0361, and published a memorandum opinion signed by Judge Theodore D. Chuang.

The official opinion PDF on the court’s site grants the motion in part and denies it in part. The accompanying order enjoins enforcement of Section 2(c) of Executive Order 13,780 on a nationwide basis and denies the motion as to the other provisions of that order. GovInfo hosts the same memorandum opinion under the USCOURTS-mdd package for 8:17-cv-00361.

The Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, later affirmed a substantial part of that injunction in Int’l Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump, 857 F.3d 554 (4th Cir. 2017). The Supreme Court later treated the EO-2 appeals as overtaken when the 90-day provision expired and Proclamation 9645 issued. That later history is in the next posts. This post records the Greenbelt order as written.

A nationwide preliminary injunction is a documented judicial act. It is not a Supreme Court holding. It is not a criminal finding.

Sources

U.S. District Court, D. Md. Memorandum opinion, TDC-17-0361 (posted March 16, 2017). mdd.uscourts.gov PDF

Court notice. mdd.uscourts.gov notice

GovInfo slip opinion, 8:17-cv-00361. govinfo.gov

Clearinghouse case page, IRAP v. Trump. clearinghouse.net

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

First big one. Revised travel order. Nationwide. Establishment Clause theory built on campaign talk. The country needed a vetting pause. Greenbelt said no. The Supreme Court would later say the President had the statute. Remember who went first.