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President Donald Trump's administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to reinstate its temporary ban on travellers from six Muslim majority nations despite repeated setbacks in the lower courts The administration said the travel ban was needed so it could evaluate existing screening methods protocols and set new ones. Given the case's high-profile nature, the full Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia heard the arguments last week -- bypassing the usual initial three-judge panel -- for the first time in a quarter of a century.
Actor and "Saturday Night Live's" resident President Donald Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin has helped raise over $5 million for Democrats in New Jersey. Actor and "Saturday Night Live's" resident President Donald Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin has helped raise over $5 million for Democrats in New Jersey.
US President Trump's immigration ban has sparked mass protests, such as this rally at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on January 28, 2017. The Justice Department on Thursday night asked the US Supreme Court to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries.
Lawyers at the Department of Justice filed two emergency applications with the nation's highest court asking it to block two lower court rulings that the implementation of his second travel ban, which also halted refugees seeking to enter the U.S. The filing asks for a stay of a ruling made last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and another stay of an injunction The Justice Department has asked for expedited processing of the petitions so the court can hear the case when it begins a new session in October.
The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to let it move forward with the president's plan to temporarily ban citizens from six mostly Muslim countries, elevating a divisive legal battle involving national security and religious discrimination to the nation's highest court. Department of Justice lawyers asked the court to overturn a decision of the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that kept in place a freeze on President Donald Trump's revised ban.
Donald Trump's administration is pledging a Supreme Court showdown over his travel ban after a federal appeals ruled that the ban "drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination." Citing the president's duty to protect the country from terrorism, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that the Justice Department will ask the high court to review the case, although he offered no timetable.
A federal appeals court upheld Thursday a lower court's temporary block of key provisions of President Donald Trump's revised executive order banning travel from some Middle East and African countries. In the decision, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Roger Gregory writes that the executive order "in text speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination."
The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th Circuit is the first appeals court to rule on the revised travel ban, which Trump's administration had hoped would avoid the legal problems that the first version encountered. The government's "asserted national security interest ... appears to be a post hoc, secondary justification for an executive action rooted in religious animus and intended to bar Muslims from this country," wrote the chief judge of the circuit, Roger L. Gregory.
In another legal setback for President Donald Trump, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals refused on Thursday to lift an injunction against his revised travel and refugee order, preventing the White House from suspending new visas for people from six Muslim-majority countries, as this decision took another step on the way to a likely showdown on the matter at the U.S. Supreme Court. As in earlier rulings, the judges cited the President's own words calling for a "Muslim ban," ruling that the order was basically an effort to target "Muslims for exclusion from the United States."
Last month, a federal judge found that a voter ID law in Texas, similar to the one in North Carolina, was enacted with the goal to discriminate against blacks and Hispanics in the state. The justices left in place the lower court ruling striking down the law's photo ID requirement and scaling back of early voting.
The new 300-seat Karen J. Williams Courtroom is named for a late USC law school alumna who became the first female chief judge at the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Provided/USC The courtyard at the USC School of Law's new building includes benches made from Winnsboro blue granite that was salvaged from the old state penitentiary.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle Monday pressed attorneys for the Trump administration and the State of Hawaii on whether President Donald Trump's statements, both as a candidate and as president, render his revised travel ban unconstitutional, and whether Trump has disavowed his call for a "Muslim ban." Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall asked the appeals court to reverse U.S. District Court Judge Derrick K. Watson's March 16 order that blocked the president's second travel ban just hours before it was to go into effect - a ruling the president called an "unprecedented judicial overreach" that made America "look weak."
The Supreme Court's refusal to breathe new life into North Carolina's sweeping voter identification law might be just a temporary victory for civil rights groups. Republican-led states are continuing to enact new voter ID measures and other voting restrictions, and the Supreme Court's newly reconstituted conservative majority, with the addition of Justice Neil Gorsuch , could make the court less likely to invalidate the laws based on claims under the federal Voting Rights Act or the Constitution.
The U.S. Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of North Carolina's strict voter-identification law on Monday, rejecting a Republican bid to revive the measure struck down by a lower court for intentionally aiming to suppress black voter turnout. The justices left in place a July 2016 ruling by the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that voided the law passed by a Republican-controlled legislature and signed by a Republican governor.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal to reinstate North Carolina's voter identification law, which a lower court said targeted African-Americans "with almost surgical precision." The justices left in place the lower court ruling striking down the law's photo ID requirement and reduction in early voting.
For the second time in a week, government lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump's revised travel ban - and once again, they can expect plenty of questions Monday about whether the ban was designed to discriminate against Muslims. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled arguments in Seattle over Hawaii's lawsuit challenging the travel ban, which would suspend the nation's refugee program and temporarily bar new visas for citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The first federal appeals court to hear a challenge to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban appeared unconvinced that it should ignore the Republican's repeated promises on the campaign trail to bar Muslims from entering the country. An attorney for the president urged the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday to focus on the text of the religiously neutral executive order rather than use campaign statements to infer that the policy was driven by anti-Muslim sentiment.
Last week, as House Republicans voted to take health care away from millions of people , the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit made final preparations for a hearing on Donald Trump's Muslim ban. The Fourth Circuit will be the first federal appeals court to consider the second version of Trump's ban, which was halted by multiple federal trial courts around the time it was supposed to take effect on March 16. In an unusual move, the case will be heard Monday by every active judge on the court .
President Donald Trump's revised travel ban targeting six Muslim-majority countries is about to be scrutinized by a federal appeals court for the first time.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, right, accompanied by Virginia Solicitor General Stuart Raphael, speaks outside the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, following a hearing on President Donald Trump's travel ban. Legal challenges to President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on people from some Muslim-majority countries heat up again next week when two U.S. appeals courts consider whether it is constitutional.