A judge in Hawaii just put a restraining order on Trump's new travel ban. HONOLULU/GREENBELT, Md. (Reuters) - US District Judge Derrick Watson on Wednesday said he would put an emergency halt on President Donald Trump's revised travel ban that placed temporary entry restrictions on refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.
On this list, there are killers, crooks, plotters, rakes, a blackmailer, several revolutionaries, heartbreakers, duelists, drunkards, an opium fiend, a serious oddball, and even one fascist. To borrow the words of Lady Caroline Lamb, who played mistress to one of them, these men were mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
As the Cheshire Cat points out, everyone's mad in Wonderland, and it is true to say that all of the characters are eccentric, at least, and if they weren't, then they wouldn't be there. The phrase as mad as a hatter was well known in Lewis Carroll's day, and was a probable inspiration for the character of the Hatter. At the time, many hatters suffered from mercury poisoning.