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DoJ Files Emergency Request at Supreme Court over Abortions for Illegal Alien Children
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byKen Klukowski20 Dec 2017Washington, DC 0
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byKen Klukowski20 Dec 2017Washington, DC 0
WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump-Sessions U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed an emergency application at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to block a lower court’s extraordinary order requiring the Trump administration to facilitate immediate abortions for two more illegal alien teenagers.
On October 18, Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) — an extreme measure reserved for extraordinary situations — ordering the federal government to facilitate an abortion for a teenage illegal alien at a federal facility. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed days later, which is not surprising given that court’s current liberal composition.
According to a DoJ filing at the Supreme Court, lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) agreed not to seek an abortion before DoJ could seek emergency relief from the High Court the next morning. Instead, the ACLU allegedly broke its promise to the U.S. government and obtained an abortion shortly at 4:15 AM the morning of October 26. Outraged over this deception, the DoJ has asked the Supreme Court to discipline the ACLU lawyers involved in the case.
Now two more illegal alien teenagers have come forward, asking for the U.S. government to facilitate their abortions as well. On December 18, Chutkan granted yet another TRO, commanding the Trump administration to permit the foreign children to terminate their pregnancies immediately, without even allowing time for an appeal.
While Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ DoJ is immediately appealing that TRO to the D.C. Circuit, U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco is simultaneously filing emergency papers asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in. Given the current makeup of the D.C. Circuit, it is very likely that the appellate court would refuse to grant a stay on its own, thus necessitating action by the nation’s highest court.
Emergency applications involving the D.C. Circuit go to Chief Justice John Roberts, who has jurisdiction over that court and can either act unilaterally or circulate the petition to all of his colleagues for a vote.
“This case concerns the question whether the government must facilitate an abortion procedure that is not necessary to preserve the life or health of an unaccompanied minor who unlawfully entered the country and thus is in the government’s custody,” Francisco explains in DoJ’s application.
“The answer to that question is no,” he continues. “Under this Court’s case law, the government may make decisions favoring life over abortion; it is not obligated to facilitate Ms. Roe’s procedure; and the government acts permissibly if it does not place an undue burden in her path.”
Under federal law, when an illegal alien who is not an adult enters the United States, “the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is normally responsible for the minor’s care and custody pending completion of the immigration proceedings.”
Solicitor General Noel Francisco threw the kitchen sink at the case with his filing to the Supreme Court, asking for no fewer than three alternative forms of emergency relief.
First, Francisco is asking for a stay pending appeal. That is, he is asking the High Court to put the TRO on hold until the D.C. Circuit rules, hoping that court reverses Chutkan. If the D.C. Circuit sides with the trial court, then DoJ asks that the stay be kept in place until the justices vote on whether to take the case up to their level.
Second, the solicitor general says the Court may alternatively treat this filing as a petition for certiorari before judgment. Although the Supreme Court almost always waits for a final decision from a federal court of appeals, Congress’ grant of jurisdiction to the nation’s highest court in 28 U.S.C. § 1254(1) extends to any case entered on the docket of a federal appeals court, even if no decision has been issued by that court. Every five or ten years, the Court will take an appellate case before judgment. The DoJ is encouraging the justices to do so here.
Third, Francisco asks at minimum for an administrative stay, which typically would last only a few days. He emphasizes that the abortion could take place at any time and is encouraging the justices to ensure that the abortions do not occur until at the least the justices have time to decide on whether to grant a longer stay that will last throughout the appeal.
The solicitor general argues that all four factors the Court looks to when considering such a stay, as Chief Justice John Roberts explained those factors in 2012 in Maryland v. King, supports granting such an unusual stay here. Foremost among those factors is that the justices are likely to take this case when they think it is ripe for final review, so granting the stay preserves the status quo long enough for the Court to decide the underlying legal question in the case.
The case is Hargan v. Garza, No. 17-654 at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ken Klukowski is senior legal editor for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski.
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Nuclear annihilation just one miscalculation away, UN chief warns

The world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned.
“We have been extraordinarily lucky so far,” Antonio Guterres said.
Amid rising global tensions, “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation”, he added.
His remarks came at the opening of a conference for countries signed up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The 1968 deal was introduced after the Cuban missile crisis, an event often portrayed as the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The treaty was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to more countries, and to pursue the ultimate goal of complete nuclear disarmament.
Almost every nation on Earth is signed up to the NPT, including the five biggest nuclear powers. But among the handful of states never to sign are four known or suspected to have nuclear weapons: India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan.
Secretary General Guterres said the “luck” the world had enjoyed so far in avoiding a nuclear catastrophe may not last – and urged the world to renew a push towards eliminating all such weapons.
“Luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict,” he said.
And he warned that those international tensions were “reaching new highs” – pointing specifically to the invasion of Ukraine, tensions on the Korean peninsula and in the Middle East as examples.
Russia was widely accused of escalating tensions when days after his invasion of Ukraine in February, President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s substantial nuclear forces on high alert.
He also threatened anyone standing in Russia’s way with consequences “you have never seen in your history”. Russia’s nuclear strategy includes the use of nuclear weapons if the state’s existence is under threat.
On Monday, Mr Putin wrote to the same non-proliferation conference Mr Guterres opened, declaring that “there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed”.
But Russia still found itself criticised at the NPT conference.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned what he called Russia’s sabre-rattling – and pointed out that Ukraine had handed over its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in 1994, after receiving assurances of its future security from Russia and others.
“What message does this send to any country around the world that may think that it needs to have nuclear weapons – to protect, to defend, to deter aggression against its sovereignty and independence?” he asked. “The worst possible message”.
Today, some 13,000 nuclear weapons are thought to remain in service in the arsenals of the nine nuclear-armed states – far lower than the estimated 60,000 stockpiled during the peak of the mid-1980s.
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US military leader warns Chinese security deal with Solomon Islands sounds ‘too good to be true’

A senior US military general has warned during a visit to Australia that China’s offer to deepen security ties with Solomon Islands will come with strings attached, suggesting the Pacific island country may come to regret the planned deal.
“My parents told me if a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is,” the commandant of the United States Marine Corps, general David Berger, said on Wednesday.
Berger was cautious when asked about longstanding US concerns relating to a Chinese company’s lease over the port of Darwin, stressing it was a sovereign decision for Australia as part of its yet-to-be-completed national security review.
Ahead of a trip to Darwin, the site of increasing rotations of US Marines, Berger said: “If it’s not of concern to Australia, then it’s not of concern to me.”
Berger’s visit comes amid a flurry of diplomatic activity by the US and Australia attempting to head off a proposed security agreement between China and Solomon Islands, which could allow regular visits by the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
A leaked draft from last month raised the possibility China could “make ship visits to, carry out logistical replenishment in, and have stopover and transition in Solomon Islands”, while Chinese forces could also be used “to protect the safety of Chinese personnel and major projects in Solomon Islands”.
The prime minister of Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, has sought to allay concerns, saying his country has no intention of allowing a Chinese naval base. But Sogavare has also said it is “very insulting to be branded as unfit to manage our sovereign affairs”.
Speaking in Canberra on Wednesday, Berger said the US needed to show humility in its outreach to Pacific nations, but also needed to be open about the potential long-term consequences.
Berger reflected on the fight for control of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands during the second world war, when the US and allies sought to prevent Japanese forces from gaining a foothold in the strategically important location.
“A lot of things change in warfare. Not geography. Where … Solomon Islands are matters. It did then and it does now,” Berger said at the Australian Strategic Policy
Institute.
He said the proposed agreement was “just another example” of China seeking to broaden and expand its influence. He raised concerns about “the way that [it] happens and the consequences for the nations” involved.
Sogavare has argued Solomon Islands pursues a “friends to all and enemies to none” foreign policy, but Berger implied countries making agreements with Beijing might regret it down the track.
“We should illuminate, we should draw out into the open what this means long term,” Berger said.
“This is, in other words, an extension of ‘hey we’re here with a cheque, we’re here with money, we’d like to improve your port or your airfield or your bus station’. And that just sounds so great, until a year later or six months later.”
The US plans to reopen its embassy in Solomon Islands, a move the nominee for US ambassador to Australia, Caroline Kennedy, has said “can’t come soon enough”.
Berger acknowledged there were limits to US insights in Pacific island countries, so the US needed to rely on allies such as Australia.
“We’re not going to have always the best view, the clearest picture,” he said.
“We have to understand the neighbourhood and we’re never going to understand it as well as Australia.”
Earlier, the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, denied that the US had conveyed any concerns that Australia had dropped the ball in the region.
Morrison said the Australian government was continuing to raise concerns with Solomon Islands without acting in a “heavy-handed” way.
Australia’s minister for the Pacific, Zed Seselja, met with Sogavare in Honiara on Wednesday and “asked Solomon Islands respectfully to consider not signing the agreement” with China.
Seselja suggested Solomon Islands “consult the Pacific family in the spirit of regional openness and transparency”. Australia would work with Solomon Islands “swiftly, transparently and with full respect for its sovereignty”.
“We welcome recent statements from prime minister Sogavare that Australia remains Solomon Islands’ security partner of choice, and his commitment that Solomon Islands will never be used for military bases or other military institutions of foreign powers,” Seselja said.
Sogavare has previously said Solomon Islands welcomed “any country that is willing to support us in our security space”.
But Matthew Wale, the leader of the opposition, has argued the deal “would make the Solomons a geopolitical playing field” and “further threaten the nation’s fragile unity”.
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