IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For the second time in President Donald Trump’s young administration, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals will listen to lawyers battle over the legality of his executive order temporarily blocking foreigners from traveling to the US.
Two months ago, a federal judge in Hawaii halted the core portions of Trump’s revised travel ban just hours before it was slated to go into effect nationwide, finding it likely violated the Constitution by disfavoring Muslims.
Trump immediately slammed the decision as ‘an unprecedented judicial overreach’ and later tweeted about his frustrations with the West Coast-based 9th Circuit over an unrelated case.
Yet now, his lawyers at the Justice Department must defend the executive order before a three-judge panel of Clinton appointees on the 9th Circuit — Michael Hawkins, Ronald Gould and Richard Paez — and find a way to convince at least two to ignore Trump’s record of campaign calls to ban Muslims from entering the US.”
-Laura Jarett, “9th Circuit to hear travel ban appeal, again,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 15, 2017 6:24am