yes, I agree.

Regarding the Senate tradition you cited with respect to “blue slipping” Judges; it is just one of many Senate traditions that need to be scrapped. I know that will not happen. Nobility has its jealously guarded prerogatives, and will never sacrifice them voluntarily.

No, the judge was not a conservative originally. The judge was always a liberal.

The story of how he got appointed by Bush despite that can be found here. An excerpt:

To cover up the embarrassing weakness of Judge Robart’s temporary restraining order, reporters at the Washington Post and elsewhere have trumpeted the fact that Robart was nominally appointed by President George W. Bush. They have done this to suggest that his ruling must have merit, because otherwise he would not have ruled against a President of the same party as the man who appointed him. But this is misleading, since Robart is a “staunchly liberal” judge whose appointment was “effectively forced on Bush” by liberal Senator Patty Murray in 2004, when Washington State had two liberal Senators.

The media ignores the fact that Robart’s appointment as a federal judge was championed by liberal Senators like Patty Murray (D-Wash.), who used Senatorial custom allowing senators to veto Presidential appointments of trial judges to obtain the appointment of liberal trial judges like Robart in Washington State. An April 13, 2005 press release by Murray touts Robart’s appointment as the “bipartisan” result of using a state commission to select federal trial judges in Washington, whose appointment Bush then rubberstamped. This Senatorial veto power, known as the “blue slip,” is an old tradition, dating back to at least 1917, that lets senators have a say on which trial judges are appointed to courts in their home state.

Stop pretending it is going to only last 90 days. No-one with an ounce of brains thinks after than time that Trump is suddenly going to go back to what it was before. He was elected to close the borders, and he is going to try to do that. There might be some finessing of exactly who gets in, but we all know he will reduce Muslim immigration to zero if he can.

or if the judge in question was originally conservative and gradually morphed into a liberal.

Or perhaps, just maybe was obeying the law?

Retroactive legislation is a real no-no, because it means you never know if you are safe from the law changing.

For a judge to rule that people who were granted Green cards cannot then be denied that without due process is a conservative viewpoint.

Trump over-reached in his Order. If he had forbidden entry by people who had not previously been given entry, including people who had been in the US military, he wouldn’t be in this stupid position.

Cornhead: Seconded!

In the things that make America great, diversity is barely in the top 10.

And I don’t care about Canada. Let them take all of the Syrian refugees. Alberta and Manitoba need more people.

It’s getting interesting. All of a sudden the gun-hating Left has become militant. We are getting closer to a civil war, as in Northern England.

I have been contemplating the fact that a GWB appointee to the federal bench should overturn Trump’s decision to delay the arrival of refugees from 7 MENA countries. I wondered if GWB chose a left-leaning judge knowing confirmation by a D Senate was going to be a problem, or if the judge in question was originally conservative and gradually morphed into a liberal.

I am guessing here, but it occurs to me that perhaps living in the Seattle area was what caused him to become more liberal — assuming he was not liberal from the outset. It’s the sea they swim in, you understand. They can’t help themselves. Or perhaps he has always believed that diversity is our strength and he longs for a stronger America. Cut from a different cloth that Turnbull, obviously. . .