Just how worthless is the illegal stay ordered by Obama's activist judge, Ann Donnelly?
The case had been brought on behalf of Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi who had been detained at JFK. But the two Iraqis had already been released at the time that Donnelly was hearing the case.
Government lawyers repeatedly pointed this out to Judge Ann Donnelly, who instead of paying attention to the facts threw bizarre tantrums, demanded a list of all the names of those who might be deported, an obviously impossible task for government representatives to come up with on the spur of the moment and then announced, "Nobody is to be removed."
No one could expect much from an Obama appointee.
But Judge Ann Donnelly didn't even pretend to follow laws. Instead she pursued a EU strategy of claiming that the government had to prove that those deported wouldn't suffer irreparable harm. It was a transparently cynical ploy to manufacture a roadblock rather than to follow the law.
Donnelly took a case that was no longer relevant and used it to impose a broad order that was invalid from the start.