YMB - // For one judge to be able to block it (or any other) it is wrong. That puts the Judge above the President. //
In turn I disagree.
If the law can be blocked, then it can be blocked by anyone - a single judge, a committee, every judge in the country.
If the law can be blocked, and the President prevents it being blocked, that puts the President above the law, and that cannot be allowed to happen, ever - as president Nixon would confirm if he were here.
//If it is a panel of judges in teh Supreme Court then that is right since this prevents anyone with a political grudge. i.e "questionable evidence supporting the government's national security motivation" This is entirely subjective NOT law. //
If the law can be blocked, because it is the law - then it behoves a judge to do so, because to do otherwise is to go against his or her responsibilities as a judge.
I am sure that any judge observed to be blocking a law for anything other than legal reasons would be exposed, and dealt with accordingly.
In an ideal world, a judge's motives would be entirely based on the legal system, aside from any personal agenda, but none of us are naïve enough to imagine that this is how things work - but as I stated, a judge applying law which the President has flouted for similar reasons to the President - personal animosity, will soon be exposed, as indeed the President was - last time, and this time.