Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders applauded the ruling by a federal judge to temporarily stop President Trump’s immigration travel ban nationwide.
“I’m heartened by this decision to halt Trump’s immigration order, which runs afoul of our constitution and who we are as a nation,” the Vermont Senator tweeted Saturday morning.
“This was a good day for our system of checks and balances,” Sanders added in a statement.
I’m heartened by this decision to halt Trump’s immigration order, which runs afoul of our constitution and who we are as a nation. https://t.co/7lxT9LgUHc
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 4, 2017
The decision by Judge James Robart came Friday night and has set the George W. Bush appointee up for a showdown with the Trump administration. A federal judge since 2004, Robart has a history of working with refugees in the past.
“The court concludes that the circumstances brought before it today are such that it must intervene to fulfill its constitutional role in our tripartite government,” Robart wrote in his order, which halts Trump’s ban on people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days.
Sanders came out against the order last Friday, calling it “anti-Muslim.”
He stood by his comments Saturday in his statement, saying the order “has thrown the enforcement of our immigration laws into chaos and further sewn divisive, xenophobic and hateful rhetoric into our national discussion.”
