Challenging the Ban

A judge's decision to uphold blocking the President's travel ban stands for now.

With legal challenges to President Trump’s travel ban in federal courts stretching from Massachusetts to Hawaii, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle now weighing in on whether the order should be reinstated or the block should be upheld. Over the weekend, the 9th Circuit refused the Justice Department’s emergency request to reinstate the President’s executive order.  the DOJ argued that the President is within his constitutional powers to set immigration policy but for now, the U.S. District Judge’s decision to temporarily halt the President’s extra vetting procedures for travelers from 7 countries will stand. It’s now a waiting game to see what the 9th Circuit says, and then possibly the Supreme Court.