Five judges from the most liberal Ninth Circuit issued an opinion that even first, more broad travel ban by Pres. Trump is valid
Posted on | March 17, 2017 | No Comments
The five judges in the latest filing had hoped the Trump administration would appeal the original injunction to the entire Ninth Circuit where they could formally register their dissent or even reverse the three-judge panel’s decision.
The comments do not impact the move by the federal judge in Hawaii who blocked Trump’s new travel ban on Wednesday. Another federal judge in Maryland also issued an injunction against the travel ban, which critics say is a thinly veiled ban on Muslim immigration.
The Trump administration asserts that most of the world’s Muslims are welcome to apply to travel to the U.S., but that the ban is necessary for national security. It originally banned travel from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Iraq was dropped from the original list.
The initial ban was well within the president’s authority, according to the five judges.
“The panel’s errors are many and obvious” and the decision “stands contrary to well-established separation-of-powers principles,” wrote Judge Jay Bybee in a 26-page filing. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/16/republican-appointed-judges-on-9th-circuit-voice-support-for-trump-travel-ban.html
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