Second court blocks Trump travel ban

Another US appeals court upheld a decision blocking President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban yesterday, dealing the administration another legal defeat as the Supreme Court considers a separate case on the issue.

The ruling from a unanimous three-judge panel of the ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals said the president violated immigration law by discriminating against people based on their nationality and by failing to demonstrate that their entry into the country would hurt American interests.

“Immigration, even for the president, is not a oneperson show,” the judges said. “The president’s authority is subject to certain statutory and constitutional restraints.”

The ruling keeps in place a decision by US District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii that the true purpose of the temporary ban on travel from six mostly Muslim nations was to discriminate against Islam not to protect national security, in violation of the US Constitution.