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Second federal judge rules against Trump travel ban stating the President's words prove its aimed at Muslims

Mythili Sampathkumar New York @MythiliSk 43 secs ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-travel-ban-latest-president-federal-judge-muslims-president-words-maryland-theodore-chuang-a8006861.html

A second federal judge, this time in Maryland, has ruled against Donald Trump's travel ban and used his own words to do it.

US District Judge Theodore D. Chuang cited the president's tweets and comments during his 2016 campaign as evidence that the third iteration of the ban is unconstitutional.

Mr Chuang said it was the “inextricable re-animation of the twice-enjoined Muslim ban.”

The ruling is "less complete" than the Hawaii ruling from 17 October, according to the Washington Post; it directs blocking the administration's enforcement only on those who lack a "bona fide" relationship with a US person or entity.

The Hawaii ruling, made by Derrick K Watson, had blocked the administration from enforcing the travel ban order on anyone from six countries: Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Chad, Somalia.

The other two countries added to the latest travel ban version, North Korea and Venezuela, were left out of the Hawaii and Maryland rulings.

Experts have said the Trump administration added those non-Muslim majority countries to the travel ban in order to argue against the claim that it is an unconstitutional "Muslim ban."


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