Donald Trump's new travel ban was supposed to be instated in the US this month, but a federal court in Hawaii blocked the executive order to take into effect. After the state requested the temporary restraining order to be extended, Judge Derrick Watson moved to block the ban indefinitely last Wednesday night.
Hawaii was the first state to sue the government over this controversial executive order. The next day, the federal court in Maryland did the same.
Trump's new travel ban would have banned citizens from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. Also, refugees are also banned from the country for 90 days. Countries affected are supposed to be Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Yemen, and Syria.
Watson issued a 43-page ruling about the TRO, declaring that the ban, much like the first one, is unconstitutional. The context is also based on Trump's comments himself during the election when he vowed to ban "all Muslims from entering the US."
"The illogic of the Government's contentions is palpable. The notion that one can demonstrate animus toward any group of people only by targeting all of them at once is fundamentally flawed," said Watson in his ruling via Travel Pulse. "The Court concludes that on the record before it, Plaintiffs have met their burden of establishing a strong likelihood of success on the merits of their Establishment Clause claim."
According to CNN, Trump commented that the TRO was an unprecedented judicial overreach and that he only wants to keep the US citizens safe. Unlike his initial order, he vowed to take the case to Supreme Court if necessary, so that he could uphold his promise to the people, he said in his rally at Tennessee Wednesday night.
The Justice Department also said that the new executive order was well within the President's reach, and should not have been taken down. They will side with President Trump to defend the ban in the courts, in order to keep America safe.
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