Legal briefs and court rulings are flying in the battle over President Donald Trump’s travel ban, but the war is just getting started. A federal judge in Seattle upended Trump’s executive order nationwide on Friday by temporarily suspending the key provisions restricting travel for foreign nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugee admissions.
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Somali nationals, Najma Abdishakur, right, and her
Travel ban: How we got here and what is next Here’s a timeline of the latest news on the travel ban. Check out this story on CurrentArgus.com: http://usat.ly/2kFVJ79 President Donald Trump used his preferred platform to criticize the judge who blocked his administration’s travel ban on immigrants.
Federal appeals court refuses to immediately reinstate Trump’s immigrant travel ban
A federal appeals court on Sunday refused to immediately reinstate President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals acted after U.S. District Judge James Robart issued a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s travel ban.
Legal battles to test Trump and his travel ban
Demonstrators against the immigration rules implemented by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, rally at Los Angeles international airport in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 4, 2017. 12-year old Eman Ali of Yemen cries with her sister Salma Ali after seeing each other for the first time in years at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California, February 5, 2017.
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People hold a vigil in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday in solidarity with protests against President Trump’s travel ban. People hold a vigil in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday in solidarity with protests against President Trump’s travel ban.
A federal appeals court early Sunday denied an initial bid by the…
A federal appeals court early Sunday denied an initial bid by the Trump administration to restore its controversial immigration order that had barred refugees and those from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. A judge in a lower federal court had put a temporary stop to the travel ban.
Abrams: Travel ban threatens Main Street small businesses
Abrams: Travel ban threatens Main Street small businesses Risks include fewer foreign visitors and U.S. business people becoming less welcome abroad. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2katnhO President Trump speaks before signing an executive order surrounded by small business leaders in the Oval Office of the White House January 30, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Pence says Trump ‘speaking his mind’ on judge who stopped ban
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U.S. court turns down request to reinstate Trump’s travel ban
A U.S. court denied early Sunday a request by the government to overturn a ruling that has suspended a controversial travel ban targeting refugees and nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries. Consisting of three judges, the motions panel of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, based in San Francisco, Northern California, made the move hours after the U.S. Department of Justice filed an appeal with the court, arguing that President Donald Trump has constitutional authority to limit entry of foreign nationals.
Visa holders rush to board flights to US amid reprieve
Visa holders from seven majority-Muslim countries affected by President Donald Trump’s travel ban hurried to board U.S.-bound flights Saturday, fearing they might have only a slim window through which to enter the country after a federal judge temporarily blocked the ban. Those who could travel immediately were being urged to do so because of uncertainty over whether the Justice Department would be granted an emergency freeze of the order issued Friday by U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle.
US revokes visa ban after court rules against Donald Trump’s order
The Trump government complied with the court ruling for now, communicating to airlines that they could board passengers with valid travel documents, even as the President himself railed against it The Trump administration has been forced to back down from the presidential order selectively restricting entry into United States, setting up a potential confrontation between the executive and the judiciary, and pitting liberal, immigrant-welcoming states against a federal government accused of shutting doors. , setting up a potential confrontation between the executive and the judiciary, and pitting liberal, immigrant-welcoming states against a federal government accused of shutting doors.
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The Trump White House says it will seek to overturn a judge’s decision that lifted the week-old ban on travellers from seven countries. In a conference call late Friday, the US government told lawyers from airlines that they should resume boarding passengers from the seven predominantly Muslim countries.
US reinstates visas as court’s freeze on travel ban takes hold
US authorities on Saturday suspended President Donald Trump’s controversial ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries, following a court ruling that blocked its enforcement. “We have reversed the provisional revocation of visas,” a US State Department spokesman told AFP.
Democrats see anti-Trump momentum, launch early bid to take Upstate NY House seats
House Democrats, seeing opportunity in grassroots rallies and protests against President Donald Trump’s policies, on Thursday launched their earliest effort in a campaign cycle to hire organizing staff and target key swing seats in New York state. The New York campaign will initially focus on U.S. Reps.
California moves to be 1st “sanctuary state” from Trump’s immigration policy
The Public Safety Committee of the U.S. California State Senate approved a bill Tuesday which would make the state a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Introduced by State Senate President pro tempore Kevin de Leon, this bill would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from using resources or spending money to enforce federal immigration laws, including to investigate, interrogate, detain or arrest anyone due to their immigration status.
GNA Foreign Minister Mohammed Siyala called it an “unjust decision” that should be reviewed.
Demonstrators protest against US President Donald Trump and his administration’s ban of travellers from 7 countries by Executive Order, during a rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2017. Photo – AFP Demonstrators protest against US President Donald Trump and his administration’s ban of travellers from 7 countries by Executive Order, during a rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2017.
Morning Spin: Bring your own bag because Chicago’s bag tax starts today
Shoppers carry plastic bags from Walgreens on Nov. 16, 2016, in the Loop. The drugstore chain has said it will revert to thinner bags in 2017, when the city’s 7-cent disposable bag tax takes effect.
Who is Justice Dept. veteran Sally Yates?
JUNE 28: Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice on June 28, 2016 in Washington, DC. Volkswagen has agreed to nearly $15 billion in a settlement over emissions cheating on its diesel vehicles.
Coup d-Trump?
” I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment .”
Two Florida ports cancel plans to ink pacts with Cuba
Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks at a press conference about the Zika virus in Doral, Florida, U.S. August 4, 2016. Two Florida ports have canceled plans to sign cooperation pacts with Communist-ruled Cuba after state Governor Rick Scott threatened to cancel their funding if they did business with the “Cuban dictatorship.”
Trump’s wall: PSU students’ thesis argues border wall would rip apart region
President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall, which could cost as much as $20 billion, along the entire U.S. border with Mexico isn’t just expensive, it would also rip apart the tight-knit communities that straddle the two countries. That’s according to research from three master’s degree candidates in architecture at Portland State University.
Questions abound after Trump says tax will pay for wall
” President Donald Trump is promising Mexico will pay for his massive border wall. On Thursday, his administration finally suggested how: a 20 percent tax on products imported from south of the border.
Virtual seats in the White House media room could serve the public interest – or just serve Trump
President Trump, champion of the free press, just wants as many journalists as possible to get as much access to his administration as possible. His abandoned plan to move reporters into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building wasn’t really about kicking them out of the White House.
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No. He should stand in solidarity with U.S. Rep. John Lewis and other congressional members who aren’t attending. I don’t care what he does on inauguration day, as long as he does a good job as a congressman.
Thousands march in London ‘solidarity’ event after Donald Trump takes office
Thousands of women and men descended on central London for a global “solidarity” march in the wake of the inauguration of US President Donald Trump. The Women’s March on London is being held in conjunction with others taking place in cities across the world to promote women’s and human rights.
Baltimore, BWI train stations overflowing with travelers to Women’s March on Washington
Penn Station in Baltimore felt like Penn Station in New York Saturday morning as thousands of people on their way to the Women’s March in Washington waited in lines that snaked from the tracks to the streets. They wore pink hats, carried signs and even a blow-up doll with a Donald Trump wig.
Change? Hypocrisy thrives in Washington
In the four days leading up to Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America, nearly 450,000 people chose to read a four-year-old story in Capitol Hill Blue about a number of Republicans who would not be attending the second inaugural of Barack Obama. The article, written by Ken Thomas of The Associated Press, said Republicans, after losing the second straight Presidential election to Obama, weren’t in any mood to celebrate.
Moscow nightclub hosts early inauguration party for Trump
Twenty-four hours before Donald Trump was to be sworn in as president of the United States, several dozen people packed a Moscow nightclub to get a head start on celebrating. “Trump, Trump – it is unbelievable.
Marla Maples, Tiffany Trump reportedly refuse to pay for beauty services
She may have divorced Donald Trump, but Marla Maples is still married to the perks of their previous life together. Tricia Kelly , a freelance hairstylist in Washington, D.C., told the The Washington Post that she was contacted by a longtime client with connections to the Trump family asking if she would do Maples’s and her daughter Tiffany Trump’s hair on Inauguration Day.
In final speech, Obama must reconcile his hopes with Trump’s
Now an elder statesman, Barack Obama is returning to Chicago where he launched his unlikely political career to tell Americans not to lose faith in their future, no matter what they think about their next president. Obama’s final speech as president, before thousands who will gather at McCormick Place, is his last chance to try to define what his presidency meant for America.
Obama says goodbye Popular but politically humbled, President Barack…
Popular but politically humbled, President Barack Obama says goodbye to the nation Tuesday night in a dramatic reinterpretation of a presidential farewell address. Hoping to capitalize on a well of goodwill that’s expanded in the final year of his tenure, Obama has discarded the staid Oval Office or East Room for his last formal set of remarks.
Obama says goodbye
NOVEMBER 16: U.S. President Barack Obama waves before descending from Air Force One upon his arrival on November 16, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. President Obama is scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel tomorrow and hold talks with other European leaders on Friday as part of his last trip to Europe as President before continuing to Peru.
Chief of Naval Personnel Visits Sailors in Hawaii and San Diego
This week, the Navy’s top personnel officer is visiting Sailors in Hawaii and San Diego to discuss Sailor 2025 and some of the Navy’s other personnel initiatives. While in Hawaii, Vice Adm.
Taiwan leader heads to Americas; US stops set to irk China
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech before traveling to visit Central American allies including a U.S. transit, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, at the Taoyuan International Airport in Taouyuan, Taiwan. Tsai pledged to bolster Taiwan’s presence on the international stage on her visit four Central American allies on a trip that includes U.S. transits and looks set to raise China’s ire.
Taiwan leader heads to Americas; US stops set to irk China
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech before traveling to visit Central American allies including a U.S. transit, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, at the Taoyuan International Airport in Taouyuan, Taiwan. Tsai pledged to bolster Taiwan’s presence on the international stage on her visit four Central American allies on a trip that includes U.S. transits and looks set to raise China’s ire.
Professor Obama FINALLY Publishes A Piece Of Scholarship
REUTERS/Carlos Barria President Barack Obama, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, has finally published a piece of legal scholarship. The president’s first journal article appeared Thursday in the Harvard Law Review and concerned the role of the executive branch in advancing criminal justice reform.
Under 3 weeks left: Obama in closing stretch of presidency
His last vacation behind him, President Barack Obama is entering the closing stretch of his presidency, an eleventh-hour push to tie up loose ends and put finishing touches on his legacy before handing the reins to President-elect Donald Trump. Obama returned to Washington midday Monday from Hawaii with less than three weeks left.
Whale spotted spending New Year’s Eve in New York City’s East River
The lure of New York City’s massive New Year’s celebrations is irresistible to many even, apparently, giant mammals. Officers patrolling New York City’s harbor on Saturday spotted a whale swimming in the East River in Manhattan.
Russia pledges reprisals for US hacking punishment
Moscow – Russia on Friday eyed retaliatory measures against the US after President Barack Obama kicked out dozens of suspected intelligence agents and imposed sanctions in a furious dispute over alleged election interference. The barrage of punishment against Moscow over cyber attacks dragged ties between Russia and the United States – already at their worst since the Cold War – to a fresh low less than a month ahead of President-elect Donald Trump taking charge.
Obama sanctions Russia for U.S. election meddling
PanARMENIAN.Net – President Barack Obama on Thursday, December 29 unleashed a barrage of retaliatory measures against Moscow for meddling in the U.S.election, imposing sanctions on two intelligence agencies, expelling 35 agents and shuttering two Russian compounds inside the United States, AFP reports. Making good on a promise to punish Vladimir Putin’s government for allegedly trying to tilt the 2016 election in Donald Trump’s favor, Obama unveiled a broad range of steps that will inflame tensions with both Moscow and the president-elect.