Travel ban faces second round at West Coast appeals court

Bloomberg

Attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department will again come before a federal appeals court to try to salvage President Donald Trump’s order banning travel from six mostly Muslim nations, after a judge said it appeared to be discriminatory.
The hearing gets underway at 9:30 a.m. in Seattle. It’s the second time a three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will consider Trump’s travel ban.
In February, a different panel of judges from the court ruled against the president’s first executive order, saying that the government had failed to make its case that a temporary freeze on the travel ban should be lifted. The judges also called into question presidential power to limit immigration the way Trump is trying to do. It’s the second time in less than two weeks that the Justice Department has been tasked with urging an appeals court to let Trump enforce his revised travel restrictions. On May 8, a 13-judge panel in Richmond, Virginia, heard from lawyers for the U.S. and a civil rights group on questions of presidential power, religious bias and the threat of terrorism.Trump’s first order, a broader decree that came a week after his inauguration, led to chaos in January at airports across the country. The Justice Department argued its revised March 6 edict addressed earlier issues that led judges to reject Trump’s original Jan. 27 executive order.