Trump pays Obama back
Posted By: earlybird, 6/27/2021 12:07:58 PM
Does the name Derrick Watson ring a bell? It should. He is the infamous Hawaiian judge who exceeded his authority and blocked President Donald John Trump's temporary moratorium on travel to 6 nations at war and Iran. Not only did Obama appoint Watson, but he was friends with him, having been in the same class at Harvard Law School. Indeed, Obama was in Hawaii on the day his friend and judge issued his order.(snip)Now it is Obama's vice president's turn to feel the burn. Trump-appointed judges are stopping Josef Biden from bending the law to his will.
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The Watson block of Trump’s moratorium was learly a political move, in cahoots with Obie, who was in Hawaii at the time. Now a Trump-appointed judge in Louisiana has cut off Biden’s attempt to “pause” oil and gas leases.