he White House is gearing up to fight a federal judge's nationwide halt of President Donald Trump's immigration order.
The
order by Judge James Robart, a George W. Bush appointee who presides in
Washington state, is a significant setback for Trump's controversial
travel ban and creates another round of chaos nationwide over the
policy's legality.
"The court
concludes that the circumstances brought before it today are such that
it must intervene to fulfill its constitutional role in our tripartite
government," Robart wrote in the order.
1) He went from private practice to the federal bench
James
L. Robart has been a federal judge in the US District Court for the
Western District of Washington state since 2004, the year after Bush
nominated him to the federal bench. He assumed senior status in 2016.
Born
in 1947 in Seattle, Robart graduated in 1969 from Whitman College and
in 1973 from Georgetown Law School, where he was administrative editor
of the Georgetown Law Journal, according to his official biography on
the US District Court's website. He was in private practice in Seattle
with the firm Lane Powell Moss & Miller from 1973 to 2004, serving
as managing partner in 2003 and 2004.
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