UPDATE: Ninth Circuit Denies Stay of TRO, State of Washington vs Trump

State of Washington et al vs Trump et al, re: Trump's Executive Order on immigration, TRO, and appeal to  United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco for stay: 

UPDATE Feb 9, 2017: Trump Loses at Ninth Circuit: "... the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal is DENIED."  Opinion excerpt (p.26 of 29):

Opinion in full embed below:

17-35105 State of Washington v. Trump 3:00 pm PT (6:00pm ET), February 7, 2017

LIVE audio stream from Courtroom One in the James R. Browning Court of Appeals Building in San Francisco, California, scheduled for February 7, 2017, 3:00 pm PT (6:00pm ET). Because the hearing will be conducted telephonically, the stream is audio only and there will be no courtroom proceedings or associated video feed.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco will hear arguments over whether to stay the temporary restraining order (TRO), essentially restoring the President's Executive Order, from attorneys representing the U.S. Department of Justice and the States of Minnesota and Washington.

The issue: note this Ninth Circuit hearing is not about whether or not Trump's executive order is unconstitutional, but whether to maintain a temporary block (TRO) on Trump's order pending further proceedings including consideration of the constitutional question.

The temporary block went into place last week after U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle ruled in favor of the two states over the Justice Department. The Ninth Circuit Judges scheduled to hear the arguments: Judges William Canby Jr., a Jimmy Carter appointee, Michelle Friedland, a Barack Obama appointee, and Richard Clifton, a George W. Bush appointee.

U.S. Department of Justice's Motion for Stay:

States of Washington and Minnesota response:

U.S. Department of Justice reply:

The 9th Circuit is likely to rule later this week, and many legal scholars expect the appeal court to affirm the temporary block, possibly leading to further proceeding(s) before the U.S. Supreme Court which is explained in depth here: Donald Trump Immigration Ban: The Supreme Court and What Happens Next | Fortune.com:

"Trump has a good shot at winning the underlying legal question, but only after more court wrangles and more criticism over how he's handled the process so far ... In light of the incredible controversy it has generated, the White House may choose to modify the ban, which could make the whole issue moot before the Supreme Court has a chance to decide."

Ninth Circuit Documents 17-35105 State of Washington & State of Minnesota v. Trump. WD Wash. 2:17-cv-141:

• 02/06/2017 Order clarifying live streaming oral argument
• 02/06/2017 Order re live streaming argument
• 02/06/2017 Anti-Defamation League Motion for Extension of Time
• 02/06/2017 Anti-Defamation League Amicus Motion
• 02/06/2017 Groupon Letter Joining Technology Companies Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 Reply In Support of Emergency Motion for Stay
• 02/06/2017 Washington State Labor Council Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 U.S. Justice Foundation, Citizens United, Citizens United Foundation, English First Foundation, English First, Public Advocate of the United States, Gun Owners Foundation, Gun Owners of America, Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, U.S. Border Control Foundation, and Policy Analysis Center Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 Additional Law Professors Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 National Immigrant Justice Center and ASISTA Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 Letter by Additional Technology Companies Joining Technology Companies Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 American Center for Law and Justice Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Iowa, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Vermont Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 Pivotal Software Letter Joining Technology Companies Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 SEIU Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 HIAS, Inc. Amicus Motion
• 02/06/2017 Law Professors Motion to Substitute Corrected Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 Anti-Defamation League Amicus Brief
• 02/06/2017 Constitutional Scholars Amicus Motion and Brief
• 02/06/2017 Order denying motion to intervene and setting oral argument
• 02/06/2017 Reply in support of emergency motion for stay
• 02/06/2017 Exhibits to response
• 02/06/2017 Exhibit A to response
• 02/06/2017 Response to emergency motion for stay
• 02/06/2017 HIAS amicus brief
• 02/06/2017 Americans United for Separation of Church and State amicus motion and brief
• 02/06/2017 ACLU amicus motion and brief
• 02/05/2017 Law Professors amicus motion and brief
• 02/05/2017 State of Hawaii emergency motion to intervene
• 02/05/2017 Korematsu Center amicus motion and brief
• 02/05/2017 Technology Companies amicus motion and brief
• 02/05/2017 Revised scheduling order
• 02/04/2017 Order denying immediate administrative stay pending full consideration of the emergency motion for stay and setting schedule
• 02/04/2017 Emergency motion for stay
• 02/04/2017 Video Video recording of hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
• 02/03/2017 Order Temporary Restraining Order

What Do Europeans Think About Muslim Immigration? | ChathamHouse.org: "... Drawing on a unique, new Chatham House survey of more than 10,000 people from 10 European states, we can throw new light on what people think about migration from mainly Muslim countries. Our results are striking and sobering. They suggest that public opposition to any further migration from predominantly Muslim states is by no means confined to Trump’s electorate in the US but is fairly widespread ..."

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Beyond Brexit: Four Forces Shaping the Future of Europe (video)

Four Forces Shaping the Future of Europe:

The United Kingdom has become the first country to vote to leave the modern European Union (EU), but the debate over Europe and the Union is far from over. WSJ.com's Niki Blasina explains four forces that will determine the future of the EU. Published June 24, 2016

1. Euroscepticism
2. Economic Instability
3. The Migrant Crisis
4. Terrorism

Even before the UK "Brexit vote" on June 23, 2016, there was much "Euroskepticism" in the EU:

Pew Research Center survey conducted in 10 EU nations
among 10,491 respondents from April 4 to May 12, 2016 

See Euroskepticism Beyond Brexit: Significant opposition in key European countries to an ever closer EU, Pew Research Center release, June 7, 2016 (pdf).  The 10 countries (see list in Chart above) included in the survey account for 80% of the EU-28 population and 82% of the EU’s GDP. A median of 70% in the nine EU nations surveyed outside the UK, "believe it would be bad for the EU if the UK decided to depart. Only 16% say it would be a good thing." 

UPDATE: "... In the UK, it is clear that numerous individuals were concealing their true preferences about Leave vs. Remain. The elite in the UK, and the EU as a whole, mounted a campaign of insult and intimidation. They had no positive message, but engaged in fear-mongering and ad hominem. Any brave soul who put his or her head above the parapet was immediately subjected to a barrage of invective. So many people stayed hunkered down, and concealed their preferences ... This means that the EU is particularly vulnerable to preference falsification at present. It is also acutely vulnerable to a shattering of its brittle structure when those preferences are revealed. For this reason, I would say that the expectation should be that the EU will muddle through, but there is a substantial tail risk that it will shatter into 28 pieces. And when it does, it will not go with a whimper, but a bang."--Brexit: A Case Study in Preference Falsification | StreetwiseProfessor.com

UPDATE: Brexit Aftershocks: 'You're Lying to Us!' | spiegel.de: "... jocularity and nonchalance he otherwise exudes has vanished. Juncker these days is ill-tempered and irascible. After the summit comes to an end, a reporter from Austrian public broadcaster ORF becomes the focus of his frustration. She asks a question about CETA, the already negotiated free-trade agreement with Canada. The day before, Juncker has told European leaders that he would like to enact the treaty without the involvement of national parliaments in EU member states--thus feeding into all the stereotypes out there of an autocratic, elitist Brussels ... Now, the EU is stumbling from crisis to crisis ..."

EU political contagion risks, via the @EurasiaGroup, as the Brexit referendum fuels Euroskeptic populism: pic.twitter.com/8QoW6xh4CL

— Ian Talley (@IanTalley) June 29, 2016

Rushing to exit? Euroskeptic parties clamor for EU membership referendums at home https://t.co/mEtCoHIbcz pic.twitter.com/mjWgdT475k

— RT (@RT_com) June 24, 2016

The European Union is failing too many people and needs urgent reform. https://t.co/ZoZelHJ8wK pic.twitter.com/MTlTfHZQMy

— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) July 3, 2016

Destructive creation of the European Union. https://t.co/RPXW6l2fJU @rorysutherland @ProfSteveKeen @g_m_hodgson @Frances_Coppola

— Evonomics (@EvonomicsMag) July 3, 2016

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