LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP EXEC ORDER: “The Seattle federal judge whom President Trump derided on Twitter on Saturday after blocking Trump’s executive order restricting travel to the U.S. is known for his conservative legal views, for a record of helping disadvantaged children that includes fostering six of them, and for dramatically declaring ‘black lives matter’ during a hearing on police reform in 2015.
District Judge James L. Robart, 69, was appointed to the bench by President Bush in 2004, following a distinguished 30-year career in private practice that included his selection to the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor bestowed on less than 1% of lawyers.”
– Associated Press, “Federal judge derided by Trump is a George W. Bush appointee known as a conservative jurist,” The Los Angeles Times online, Feb. 4, 2017