This measure, reported by the Washington Examiner, strikes me as being likely to be an unconstitutional invasion of privacy:
President Trump and his Justice Department are being urged to go slow on appealing a court’s rejection of their travel ban and follow Germany’s example and put GPS ankle bracelets on visitors from the seven targeted nations until a final decision is made.
A prominent legal expert said that the administration should wait to appeal until Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch gets to the court, giving Trump a 5-4 majority and in the meantime put the tracking devices on any refugee or visitor.
not to mention obnoxious and objectionable. Germany and the U. S. are not the same and we don’t have the same problems. What is legal in Germany may not be legal in the U. S. and vice versa.
Also, the president has substantially less leeway on what may be required of people inside the U. S. than he does with people seeking to come to the U. S.
I think if the delay had been applied universally it would have passed legal muster. Ankle bracelets seem silly, obnoxious, unconstitutional……
Except that ankle bracelets are only used with people who’ve been convicted of something in a court of law.