President Donald Trump faces more than a dozen lawsuits over his executive order that keeps out travelers from seven terror hot spots around the world for a period of 90 days – and the common denominator of the legal challenges is this: They’re backed by George Soros and his billions of dollars.
The suits are also being supported by Democratic attorneys general in several states.
Fred Lucas, writing for Lifezette, has the story:
“New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has carried out a political vendetta against Trump, led 15 other state attorneys general in a joint statement condemning what they called an ‘unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful executive order.’ The Democratic AGs also said, ‘Religious liberty has been, and always will be, a bedrock principle of our country and no president can change that truth,’ a curious statement from the party that targeted the Little Sisters of the Poor.
“Last August, George Soros’ son, Alex Soros, posted a picture of himself with Schneiderman on Instagram, and wrote, ‘Great to meet with #newyork attorney general @ericschneiderman who recognized that @realdonaldtrump was a fraud way before many and has courageously taken him on!’
“Schneiderman, as well as Democratic attorneys general in Virginia and Massachusetts, intervened in existing lawsuits. The lawsuit brought by Washington State Attorney General Robert Ferguson has achieved the most success, bringing the case that blocked the order nationwide.”
Ferguson, in his suit, managed to persuade a federal judge to overturn the order based on arguments that families were being unfairly separated, and that this chaos was causing an upset of the state’s economy as a whole.
Attorneys general around the nation have taken that win and run with it, using the cause to raise money to launch more legal challenges against the exectuive order.
And here’s where Soros enters the picture.
Again, from Lifezette:
“Outside of the politicians, Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which advocates for open borders, is financing several advocacy groups that initiated litigation against the order.
“Leading the way in these lawsuits in several states is the American Civil Liberties Union, which has gotten at least $35.5 million from the Open Society Foundations, according to the Capital Research Center, a Washington think tank that investigates nonprofits.
“Soros also gave $4.6 million to the National Immigration Law Center, which has been involved in litigation, according to the CRC; and $621,000 to the Urban Justice Center, which has an appendage known as the International Refugee Assistance Project that has jumped into the lawsuits, according to the CRC.
“‘It shouldn’t surprise anyone that pressure groups funded by George Soros are litigating to keep U.S. ports-of-entry wide open to terrorists and other people who hate America,’ Matthew Vadum, senior vice president of the CRC, told LifeZette. ‘Soros has said he wants to bring America down. Flooding the country with Muslim aliens who won’t assimilate is one way to do that.'”
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