TRUMP TRAVEL BAN FACES ANOTHER DAY IN COURT

U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Paez on Monday delivered what may be the most succinct summary of the three-month legal battle over President Trump’s attempts to temporarily suspend travel from six majority-Muslim countries.

“There is no case like this, is there?” Paez said.

The hearing in Seattle before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit featured a wide-ranging debate over a president’s powers to manage the nation’s immigration system and the ability of courts to explore the motivations behind presidential actions.

The panel’s ruling should be finalized in the coming weeks and could propel the case to the Supreme Court, which would ultimately decide the fate of Trump’s controversial travel ban.