The court is considering the third iteration of Trump’s travel ban, issued last fall, which barred various travelers from eight countries, six of them with Muslim majorities. How, he asked, did the travel ban not fall “squarely” within that power? In contrast, Francisco said Trump’s travel ban is an “easy case” because it came after a multi-agency review and on the advice of Cabinet officials. Trump had, on the campaign trail and afterward, suggested that he favored a Muslim ban, though the Justice Department argues that his travel ban is not that. However, Judge William B. Traxler Jr. switched sides, saying the administration’s work between the second travel ban and the third cured its problems for him.

Source: Washington Post April 25, 2018 09:56 UTC