As President Donald Trump’s travel ban remains in legal limbo, federal lawyers are trying to get a U.S. appeals court to reinstate the executive order. WSJ’s Jason Bellini reports. An appeals court pressed a Justice Department lawyer Tuesday on whether President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration is discriminatory, while also pushing an attorney for the two states fighting the order to explain how it could be unconstitutional to bar entry of people from terror-prone countries. August Flentje, the Justice Department lawyer arguing on behalf of the administration, urged the appeals court to remove a...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 07, 2017 18:13 UTC