Flip-flopping judge proves Clarence Thomas 100% right

President Trump’s June immigration victory at the Supreme Court lasted less than a month before being tarnished by the federal judge in Hawaii who blocked Trump’s first immigration order.

The LA Times reports that the same judge who initially blocked the immigration moratorium from six Middle Eastern countries ruled in favor of expanding the exceptions to the policy by adding grandparents to the list of “close” relatives who are exempt from travel restrictions, as well as refugees with no American ties whatsoever.

As Dan Spencer notes at RedState, Watson’s ruling is a notable flip-flop from a decision he made last week, when he denied an emergency motion to an imam seeking to bring his grandparents into the country. In it, he said he would not “usurp the prerogative of the Supreme Court to interpret its own order.”

Headlines from both old and new media, as well as the president himself, hailed the unanimous June ruling by the Supreme Court as a victory, though a minority of observers pointed out the potential holes in the high court’s order.

As vexing as some will find the decision, some saw this sort of thing coming when the Supreme Court first issued the order.

Indeed, such an outcome as this was forewarned by none other than Clarence Thomas, when the court made an administrative call, rather than ruling on the case itself, saying that the move would only bring more lawsuits in the future:

In response to the June ruling, Conservative Review senior editor Daniel Horowitz concluded that this is an area (one of many) that should be controlled by the elected branches of our federal government rather than by unelected judges.

“The Supreme Court did enough good to prove why the courts must be stripped of their power over immigration but not enough good to rely on the high court for relief in the long run,” he wrote at the time. “Time for the elected branches to take back what is rightfully theirs.”