Donald Trump suffered the biggest defeat of his presidency when James Robart, a US district judge, issued a temporary restrainiing order halting a ban imposed by him. This ban, in the form of an executive order, was made by the president to restrict the travel to the US of people from several muslim countries.
So a high court judge in the US has put a spanner in the works for the president and overruled the later’s ban on people of these countries from entering America. Therefore, a single judge, “that person”, to quote the president, has in effect become more powerful than the most powerful person in the world.
One wonders how one person, a mere judge, can have more authority than the president. God forbid and if anything untoward happens in the US, who would bear the responsibility?
There are recent precedents in Europe when terrorists struck in Paris, Brussels, Germany and Turkey. The president must be right in trying to prevent such attacks taking place in his country.
This begs the question. Can a mere judge be higher than the most powerful person in the world? How can a judge undermine the authority of the president of the US?
There is a lesson in all this for India’s PM. He should take a leaf out of Donald’s book and stop the insurgents from neighbouring hostile countres which are harbouring terrorists from infiltrating the land of Lord Rama, Krishna, Mahavira, Gandhi et al.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
