Appeals court upholds block on Trump's travel ban

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SOURCE: CNN

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/25/politics/4th-circuit-travel-ban/index.html

By Ariane de Vogue and Laura Jarrett, CNN

A federal appeals court upheld Thursday a ruling blocking President Donald Trump's travel ban against six Muslim-majority countries.

The 10-3 ruling from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court's decision to halt core portions of the executive order indefinitely.

The ban was announced in March, but never got off the ground because federal courts blocked it just hours before it was set to go into effect. It would have banned people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the US for 90 days and all refugees for 120 days.

The court makes extensive use of Trump's comments during his campaign when he called for a full ban on Muslims from entering the United States as evidence against this executive order.

"The evidence in the record, viewed from the standpoint of the reasonable observer, creates a compelling case that (the executive order's) primary purpose is religious," the ruling states. "Then-candidate Trump's campaign statements reveal that on numerous occasions, he expressed anti-Muslim sentiment, as well as his intent, if elected, to ban Muslims from the United States."

CNN legal analyst and and professor at the University of Texas School of Law Steve Vladeck called the ruling "an enormous victory for the challengers to the travel ban, and a huge loss" for Trump.

This was the Trump administration's second attempt to install a travel ban. The first version, announced in January, also included Iraq.

"In its first test before a federal appeals court, the second, more nuanced version of the Executive Order still failed miserably -- and, once again, largely because of President Trump's own words, tweets, and statements," Vladeck said.

"About the only thing the 10 judges in the majority disagreed about was whether President Trump's campaign statements are relevant to his motive -- but even the judges who said no still thought there was enough evidence of discriminatory intent since his inauguration to strike down the ban."

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As chief Executive and commander in chief of this country, he has every right to ignore and invoke his Constitutional duty to protect us by restricting non-citizens from entering the US.

An attack like Manchester happening here, he will get the blame anyway.