“This is an epic confrontation between the presidency and the constitution,” says Marci Hamilton, a constitutional lawyer and scholar of religion at the University of Pennsylvania. Only the fact that the Department of Justice did not file for an emergency stay on Friday night kept a constitutional crisis from developing, Hamilton said. Robart sided with Washington state and Minnesota and declared the entire travel ban unconstitutional. That he is willing to wait before pursuing an emergency stay makes you ask what kind of ‘emergency’ is he talking about? Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protests have broken out across the country, and around the world, in the week since Trump signed the travel ban.

Source: The Guardian February 04, 2017 21:56 UTC