Travel ban judges scrutinize Trump's Muslim statements

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Travel ban judges scrutinize Trump’s Muslim statements

By GENE JOHNSON
25 minutes ago

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal judges on Monday peppered a lawyer for President Donald Trump with questions about whether the administration’s travel ban discriminates against Muslims and zeroed in on the president’s campaign statements, the second time in a week the rhetoric has faced judicial scrutiny.

Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, who is defending the travel ban, told a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals that “over time, the president clarified that what he was talking about was Islamic terrorist groups and the countries that sponsor or shelter them.” He argued that the executive order halting travel from six majority Muslim nations doesn’t say anything about religion, and neither the state of Hawaii nor an imam from that state who wants his mother-in-law to visit has standing to sue.

“This order is aimed at aliens abroad, who themselves don’t have constitutional rights,” Wall said in a hearing broadcast live on C-Span and other news stations.

Neal Katyal, who represented Hawaii, scoffed at that argument and said Trump had repeatedly spoke of a Muslim ban during the presidential campaign and after.

“This is a repeated pattern of the president,” Katyal said.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/014c71ac88de41de83cde7471801127a/Travel-ban-judges-scrutinize-Trump's-Muslim-statements

[trotsky]

1. "...talking about was Islamic terrorist groups and the countries that sponsor or shelter them"

Which is a lie, because then Saudi Arabia would have been on the list.

[Lordquinton]

2. This order is aimed at aliens abroad, who themselves dont have constitutional rights,

There is so much wrong with this statement, I can't even start to unpack it.