On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to largely uphold a Hawaii court's nationwide preliminary injunction that blocked the revised travel ban's 90-day halt on nationals from the six designated Muslim-majority nations and a 120-day suspension of the refugee program. The 4th Circuit found the policy unconstitutional on that basis. It ruled based on immigration law, not the Constitution. "I think we can all attest that these are very risky times and we need every available tool at our disposal to prevent terrorists from entering the United States and committing acts of bloodshed and violence", Spicer told a briefing.
The judges largely affirmed US District Court Judge Derrick Watson's decision from March which found the core provisions of the revised executive order likely violated the Constitution because its primary goal was to disfavour Muslims, but on slightly different grounds.
Chin told reporters Monday in Honolulu that he expects the federal government to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The judges added that Trump's order also went against other provisions of the "Immigration and Nationality Act" (INA) 'that prohibit nationality-based discrimination and require the President to follow a specific process when setting the annual cap on the admission of refugees'. "(I) immigration, even for the President, is not a one-person show". The Trump administration can move the Supreme Court challenging the order.
The Ninth Circuit did, however, vacate part of the injunction allowing the government to perform review of internal vetting procedures for these travelers.
The Virginia court ruled that the president's policy was "steeped in animus and directed at a single religious group".
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Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin has already filed a memorandum in the Supreme Court, urging the nation's top court to reject Trump's travel ban.
Early Tuesday, he jumped on the social network to unleash a tirade against the mass media's coverage of his trainwreck of an administration and express outrage over the blocking of his travel ban.
Its ruling said that a report from the Department of Homeland Security issued just after Trump's first executive order in March concluded that citizenship of any given country "is unlikely to be a reliable indicator of potential terrorist activity".
A federal judge blocked it eight days later, an order that was upheld by a 9th Circuit panel.
Last week, Trump tweeted that the revised executive order was a "watered down" version of his original "travel ban".
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