President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning denounced a federal court ruling against his travel ban, his latest criticism of the judiciary in the ongoing legal battle over his controversial executive order.
The Ninth Circuit Court ruled only that Trump had failed to fulfill requirements under immigration laws that govern when the president may stop entry of foreign nationals into the country.
In response to the ruling, the president took to Twitter once again to express his displeasure for the ruling and to reference an impending review from the Supreme Court.
The Virginia court ruled that the president's policy was "steeped in animus and directed at a single religious group".
The justices agreed to a request from Acting U.S. Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall to address Monday's ruling from the federal appeals court in San Francisco. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
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"We conclude that the president, in issuing the executive order, exceeded the scope of the authority delegated to him by Congress", 9th Circuit judges Michael Daly Hawkins, Ronald Gould and Richard Paez wrote.
The appeals court, though, said that "immigration, even for the president, is not a one-person show".
Monday's decision upheld a ruling in March by a Hawaii judge that blocked part of the president's order from going into effect nationally.
To back up this argument they cited a tweet made by Donald Trump, which said the countries themselves were unsafe, rather than the people in them. The Hawaii judge also blocked a 120-day ban on refugees entering the United States. The administration says the executive order will receive further review at the U.S. Supreme Court. Under that new schedule, the Trump administration has until Thursday to press its case, Hawaii has until next Tuesday to respond, and then the administration until a day later to reply to Hawaii's opposition. The court also found that the president's order ran afoul of an immigration law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of nationality.
The ruling, issued on Mondayfrom a three judge panel was unanimous and upheld most aspects of a ruling made in March by Federal District Court in Hawaii that stayed Trump's revised version of his travel ban. They also could essentially do nothing, leaving the two appeals court rulings in place.
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