A federal judge in Ohio ruled against the Trump administration Monday, citing bigoted comments President Trump and Vice President JD Vance made about immigrants.

U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley ordered the White House to unfreeze immigrants’ benefit applications, citing Trump and Vance’s “outright hostility towards immigrants, both before and after the 2024 presidential elections.” These applications include filings for work authorization and green cards from people in the U.S. from countries including Burma, Canada, Iran, Nigeria, Syria, Tanzania, and Venezuela.

“Their ire appears focused on immigrants from countries in the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Asia,” Marbley, nominated to the federal bench by President Clinton in 1997, wrote.

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      You and I have different definitions of the word, “directly,” but I think mine is at least in-line with the dictionaries just a tad bit more.

      How can Democrats directly give three Republican directly- appointed SCOTUS justices?

      Do you often blame the hero for failing to win, over the villain who made it necessary for the hero to act in the first place?

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        Joe Biden and Hillary’s future media manager David Brock successfully smeared the one woman that would have kept Thomas off the bench. Obama throwing his hands in the air and not fighting for a Scalia replacement and only offering up a milquetoast judge to say he tried, resulted in Gorsuch getting appointed, and RBGs arrogant hubris gave us Coney-Barrett.

        Democrats are not the hero.

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          So hero-blaming it is.

          I’ll repeat: The 4 nays are ALL Democratic appointments.

          Democrats aren’t perfect; they’re just better.