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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 02:12 PM Mar 2017

Virginia court rules for Trump in travel ban dispute; order still halted

Source: Reuters



Fri Mar 24, 2017 | 1:31pm EDT

By Mica Rosenberg

A U.S. federal judge in Virginia ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump's travel ban was justified, increasing the likelihood the measure will go before the Supreme Court as the decision took an opposing view to courts in Maryland and Hawaii that have halted the order.

U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Trenga rejected arguments by Muslim plaintiffs who claimed Trump's March 6 executive order temporarily banning the entry of all refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries was discriminatory. The decision went against two previous court rulings that put an emergency halt to the order before it was set to take effect on March 16. The order remains halted.

Trump has said he plans to appeal those unfavorable rulings to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed, and differing opinions by lower courts give more grounds for the highest court to take up the case.

Trenga, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, said the complaint backed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights group, found that more than 20 individuals who brought the suit had been able to show they were harmed by the travel ban since they might be unable to reunite with their relatives.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-legal-idUSKBN16V2DE

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Virginia court rules for Trump in travel ban dispute; order still halted (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
sycophant and more of these will be appointed if this treasonous fuck is allowed to stay Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1
Boooooo Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #2
Is there a "not" missing from the last Reuters sentence? spooky3 Mar 2017 #3
Aha! ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #4
Trump travel ban upheld by Virginia judge, still blocked in other courts mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2017 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. sycophant and more of these will be appointed if this treasonous fuck is allowed to stay
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 02:15 PM
Mar 2017

in power or ANYBODY from the GOP

spooky3

(34,303 posts)
3. Is there a "not" missing from the last Reuters sentence?
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 02:26 PM
Mar 2017

I don't understand it.

On edit: In the full story, the next pgh, beginning "But...", clarifies it. It appears the judge agrees that the plaintiffs would be harmed, but wasn't convinced that it was discriminatory against Muslims.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
4. Aha!
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 03:16 PM
Mar 2017

"But he also ruled that Trump's revised order, which replaced a more sweeping version signed on Jan. 27 and rejected by courts, fell within the president's authority to make decisions about immigration.

He said that since the order did not mention religion, the court could not look behind it at Trump's statements about a "Muslim ban" to determine what was in the "drafter's heart of hearts."

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
5. Trump travel ban upheld by Virginia judge, still blocked in other courts
Fri Mar 24, 2017, 03:27 PM
Mar 2017
Trump travel ban upheld by Virginia judge, still blocked in other courts

By Max Greenwood - 03/24/17 12:27 PM EDT

A federal judge in Virginia on Friday upheld President Trump's revised travel ban, delivering a small victory to the Trump administration as it seeks to strengthen its legal case for the executive order that has been blocked in other courts.

U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga, who sits on the Eastern District Court of Virginia in Alexandria, rebuffed Muslim activists' request to temporarily bar the executive order on the grounds that the ban, which blocks travel to the United States for travelers from six predominately Muslim countries, acts as a discriminatory ban on a particular religious group.

The order, Trenga wrote in his opinion, falls well within the president's authority over the country's foreign policy and national security.

"The President has provided a detailed justification for the Order based on national security needs, and enjoining the operation of [executive order] would interfere with the President’s unique constitutional responsibilities to conduct international relations, provide for the national defense, and secure the nation," he wrote.
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