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Zippyjuan
10-17-2017, 06:50 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41659724


US President Donald Trump's latest bid to impose travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries entering the US has suffered a court defeat.

A federal judge slapped a temporary restraining order on the open-ended ban before it could take effect this week.

The policy targets Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea, as well as some Venezuelan officials.

Previous iterations of the ban targeted six Muslim-majority countries, but were checked by the Supreme Court.

The state of Hawaii sued in Honolulu to block Mr Trump's third travel ban, which was set to go into effect early on Wednesday.

It argued the president did not have the powers under federal immigration law to impose such restrictions.

US District Judge Derrick Watson, who blocked Mr Trump's last travel ban in March, issued the new restraining order.

Judge Watson wrote that the new policy "suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor".

He said "it lacks sufficient findings that the entry of more than 150 million nationals from six specified countries would be 'detrimental to the interests of the United States'".

Judge Watson added that it ignores an earlier federal appeals court ruling that found the president's previous ban exceeds the scope of his authority.

The White House had contended the latest ban, announced in September, was based on a worldwide review of security protocols and information sharing.

But Hawaii argued in court documents that the revised policy was fulfilling Mr Trump's campaign promise for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States", despite the addition of North Korea and Venezuela.

The latest order temporarily blocks the ban on all targeted countries except with respect to North Korea and Venezuela.


The president's original ban in March was highly controversial, as it affected six majority-Muslim countries, and was widely labelled a "Muslim ban".

It was subject to a range of legal challenges and several large-scale protests.

The ban was due to be considered by the US Supreme Court on 10 October after it was partly reinstated in July.

But last month the Supreme Court postponed the October oral arguments and called upon all parties challenging the White House to resubmit briefs to the court on whether the case should be dismissed.

Jamesiv1
10-17-2017, 07:31 PM
the swamp is deep and wide.

Zippyjuan
10-18-2017, 01:03 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/politics/second-federal-judge-blocks-trump-travel-ban/index.html


Second federal judge blocks new Trump travel ban


A federal judge in Maryland has blocked President Donald Trump's new travel ban, finding it still tainted by religious discrimination.

US District Judge Theodore D. Chuang -- who also blocked travel ban 2.0 -- did not go as far as the judge in Hawaii on Tuesday and has only extended his order to "individuals with a bona fide relationship with an individual or entity in the United States."

Chuang was not persuaded by the Trump administration's claim that the new travel ban was "cured" of "religious animus," concluding that his various positive statements about Islam did not in "any way repudiate the President's prior intention to impose a Muslim ban. Particularly where, in August 2017, President Trump tweeted a statement that a method hostile to Islam — shooting Muslims with bullets dipped in pig's blood — should be used to deter future terrorism, there is no record of public statements showing any change in the President's intentions relating to a Muslim ban."

Chuang also found that the new travel ban "imposed a permanent, rather than temporary, ban on immigrants from the Designated Countries, and has effectively stopped the issuance of immigrant visas indefinitely," and says "the bar on entry is the equivalent of a ban on issuing immigrant visas based on nationality."

Chuang issued a preliminary injunction, which is also procedurally distinct from Judge Derrick Watson's order in Hawaii and has no expiration date.