Click here to encourage Judge Xinis and Magistrate Judge Simms to dismiss the challenge against quiet skies No Fly List.

Florida Family Association’s mission to counter the Islamist agenda in America may be more important now than when it first included this issue in its mission ten years ago.  Biden’s open border policy which is allowing tens of thousands of foreign nationals from around the world to freely enter America combined with his administration’s gift of $80 billion in military equipment and major sense of Islamist victory to the Taliban has significantly increased the risk of an Islamic terror attack on American soil.  

Countering CAIR and other Islamist groups’ challenges to United States policies and laws that protect Americans from Islamic terrorism is one of several categories of Florida Family Associations campaigns.  The most important campaign in this category deals with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) legal challenge to the No Fly List where District Court Judge Paula Xinis continues to give the case life even though the appellate court under which she operates ruled against CAIR’s similar “due process” challenge to the Terror Watchlist.  The No Fly List is part of the United States Quiet Skies program which aims to protect the millions of Americans that travel by air, rail and bus every day.   

Florida Family Association countered when CAIR sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on April 5, 2016 on behalf of 23 Muslims.  The lawsuit challenged the validity of the Terror Screening Database (TSDB), the official name for the Terror Watchlist   that   is used by law enforcement and the private sector to protect millions of Americans and the citizens of several other countries from terrorism. Our first set of email campaigns encouraged Judge Trenga to make national security the priority in this case.  Judge Trenga ruled to allow the watchlist to continue but ordered DHS to implement due process procedures that could have resulted in dangerous people not being added or kept on the watchlist.  DHS appealed Judge Trenga’s ruling to the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals.  We launched several email campaigns that asked thousands of people to send emails to urge the appellate court judges not to make changes to the Terror Watchlist procedures that could jeopardize public safety.

All three judges (unanimous) of a 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled to reverse Judge Trenga’s order and upheld the Terror Watchlist.  The judges ruled in part:  “Third, we would not casually second-guess Congress’s specific judgment as to how much procedure was needed in this context.”  Sounds similar to the email Florida Family Association prepared for people to send to these judges.  CAIR responded to its loss by requesting a hearing en banc with ALL of the judges on the appellate court.  They lost the en banc hearing request with a resounding unanimous no.  CAIR did not appeal this case to the US Supreme Court, which thankfully would be highly unlikely to reverse the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling.

Despite the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruling and a similar ruling by the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals, District Court Judge Paula Xinis continues to allow this case to move forward because she thinks it is racist for Muslims to be on the No Fly List if they were surveilled because of their Islamist affiliation.   CAIR reports that Judge Xinis interprets that the No Fly list’s core principles are racist.  A CAIR press release states in part: Judge Xinis also explained that “[p]robing interrogations about travel to Muslim-majority countries, religious pilgrimages, learning Arabic, attending mosques, affiliations with Muslim organizations, religious donations, and associations with other Muslims” raise an inference that decisions to target Muslims are tied “directly, and perhaps solely, to Plaintiffs’ race, alienage, religious, and national origin.”  “Racist” as used by woke progressives is a word that indiscriminately labels any behavior according to leftist dictum, whether rationally or irrationally construed, as harmfully anti-social and deserving of severe punishment.  

Judge Xinis, a former Federal Public Defender appointed by Barack Obama, said that “probing interrogations about travel to Muslim-majority countries, religious pilgrimages, learning Arabic, attending mosques, affiliations with Muslim organizations, religious donations, and associations with other Muslims” raise an inference that decisions to target Muslims are tied “directly, and perhaps solely, to Plaintiffs’ race, alienage, religious, and national origin.”

Judge Xinis denied the US Government's first motion to dismiss.  This means that a jury will decide the fate of our national security if the case continues to trial.  The case is currently in discovery.  The Defendants could file another motion to dismiss the case after discovery is completed.

Florida Family Association has prepared two emails for you to send to ask District Court Judge Paula Xinis and Magistrate Judge Gina L Simms why their court has not dismissed CAIR’s challenge to the No Fly List given that the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Terror Watchlist against CAIR’s same “due process” challenge. 

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Click here to encourage Judge Xinis and Magistrate Judge Simms to dismiss the challenge against quiet skies No Fly List.

Email addresses

judge_paula_xinis@mdd.uscourts.gov

judge_gina_simms@mdd.uscourts.gov

Paula Xinis, District Judge
6500 Cherrywood Lane, Suite 400
Greenbelt, MD 20770

(301) 344-0653