He said the law clearly allowed a president to suspend entry to any class of people if he determines they would be a detriment to national security.
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Executive Order: At issue is Trump’s order of January 27 entitled: “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States”. On the other hand, state residents would suffer and state governments have lost tax revenue as a result of the executive order, he argued.
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, a former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, called on Trump to withdraw the executive order.
President Trump said on Friday that he may sign a brand-new travel ban next week, rather than waiting for the courts to deal with his first one.
He issued an all-caps tweet shortly after Thursday’s 3-0 court ruling: “SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!”
“Although our jurisprudence has long counseled deference to the political branches on matters of immigration and national security, neither the Supreme Court nor our court has ever held that courts lack the authority to review executive action in those arenas for compliance with the Constitution”, the judges wrote. It led to chaos at USA and worldwide airports as tens of thousands of visa holders were blocked from entering the country or detained after arriving in the U.S.
Attorneys told a U.S. District Court judge they are trying to work out a settlement involving hundreds of Yemenis and Somalians stranded in east Africa.
A few minutes later, the President began the task of using the decision to galvanize his devoted armies of supporters who sent him to Washington to carry out reforms exactly on the lines of his original executive order.
The order sparked protests and chaos at United States and overseas airports.
“The order is limited to the countries identified by Congress”.
The travel ban affecting seven predominantly Muslim countries drew criticism from voters and lawmakers across the country. They cite statements made on the campaign trail by Trump when he was a candidate favoring a Muslim ban.
But Clifton also was skeptical of the state’s argument on standing, wondering how many people in Washington would be harmed by the executive order. That is the issue that the 9th Circuit has raised.
“It was a lively oral argument”, said Cornell Law School professor Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, an expert on immigration issues. Both sides in the lawsuit have been asked to file briefs by next week.
It’s still unclear if Trump’s administration will appeal the case to the Supreme Court – or simply scrap the order and create a new one.
The order is on hold for now while federal courts consider the matter.
Trump and his aides frequently refer to a ruling by a federal judge in Boston who declined last week to extend a temporary injunction against Trump’s travel ban.
But Trump denounced the ruling of the “so-called judge” in starkly personal terms, and the Justice Department appealed to the 9th Circuit, the nation’s most liberal appeals court with jurisdiction over western states.
The appeals court refused to immediately reinstate the ban, and lawyers for Washington and Minnesota – two states challenging it – argued anew on Monday that any resumption would “unleash chaos again”, separating families and stranding university students.
Several states have challenged the ban on travellers from seven Muslim majority nations, stressing that it is unconstitutional. That should make the government think twice before going to the Supreme Court, he said.
“There is a lot of worry here in Arizona by those who. are illegally here but they have not committed aggravated felonies”, said Arizona Republican Senator Jeff Flake, adding that the only hope for permanent change lies in major Congressional reform. The federal government was ordered to submit its opposition to such a motion by midnight February 15, and the states were told to reply to that by February 17.
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Demonstrators urged the Prime Minister to withdraw her controversial invitation of a state visit to Trump and denounced his travel ban as “racist”.
