Lawyers repeatedly asked about campaign promises
By Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes
May 8 at 5:39 PM
... Thirteen judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit were considering the case, and, during an extraordinary two-hour hearing, judge after judge asked acting solicitor general Jeffrey B. Wall about statements during the campaign and afterward in which Trump talked about a Muslim ban.
Wall said the order temporarily suspending foreign travelers from six majority Muslim countries was to protect the United States by reviewing the vetting of those who are potentially dangerous. That is not only within the president’s authority, Wall said, it is his responsibility.
But Judge Barbara Milano Keenan said that could mean a candidate for president could call for a Muslim ban every day for a year, enact a cleverly worded plan that accomplished that on his first day in office, and have courts ignore whether targeting Muslims was his real purpose ...
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