Another U.S. appeals court stomped on President Donald Trump's revised travel ban Monday, saying the administration violated federal immigration law and failed to provide a valid reason for keeping people from six mostly Muslim nations from coming to the country.
Hakim Ouansafi, president of the Muslim Association of Hawaii, right, speaks during a news conference as Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin, left, listens after a USA appeals court decision on President Donald Trump's revised.
Critically, the judges again pointed to Trump's social media presence to substantiate their ruling, including a seres of Twitter posts from June 5 in which the president claimed "we need a TRAVEL BAN for certain unsafe countries, not some politically correct term that won't help us protect our people!"
In refusing to reinstate the travel ban, the Ninth judges said there was no evidence presented by the Trump administration to back the measure - and pointed to a government report to support their decision.
But the judges said the government was allowed to review the vetting process for people entering the U.S. - something the earlier Hawaii ruling had blocked.
The court cited shortcomings with the order as it now is, saying the order does not tie people within the six designated countries in any way to terrorist organizations.
He then revised the executive order with the new version naming six predominantly Muslim countries - rather than seven.
Reacting to the latest ruling, White House spokesman Sean Spicer defended the executive order, saying "we need every available tool at our disposal to prevent terrorists entering the United States and committing acts of bloodshed and violence".
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Chin says it's a "practical guarantee" that the Supreme Court will weigh in on the 9th Circuit's decision - once the Trump administration appeals it, as it did with the 4th Circuit's.
That helped demonstrate that he was not assessing whether the roughly 180 million citizens of the six countries had ties to terrorism, they said.
The court had halted implementation of the entire executive order, which also sought to block issuances of new refugee admissions from around the world for 120 days.
On June 6, Trump tweeted: "That's right, we need a travel ban for certain risky countries, not some politically correct term that won't help us protect our people!", reports CNN.
The administration has argued, in defense of the travel ban, that the president used his broad powers to make immigration decisions to suspend immigration from the designated countries while the administration conducted a review of vetting procedures. The refugee program is not at issue in the 4th Circuit case.
It is pushing for justices to hear its appeal on the court ruling before they break for the summer.
"We conclude that the (president) did not satisfy this precondition before exercising his delegated authority", the ruling said.
They further acknowledged the White House's confirmation that Trump's tweets are official presidential statements.
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