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from the unanimous-disapproval dept.

The Washington Post reports [washingtonpost.com]

A federal appeals panel has maintained the freeze on President Trump's controversial immigration order, meaning previously barred refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries can continue entering the United States.

In a unanimous 29-page opinion [on February 9], three judges from the [San Francisco-based] U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit [wikimedia.org] flatly rejected the government's argument that suspension of the order should be lifted immediately for national security reasons, and they forcefully asserted their ability to serve as a check on the president's power.

The judges wrote that any suggestion that they could not "runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy".

[...]The appeals court opinion was written by Judge Michelle T. Friedland, who was appointed by President Barack Obama; Judge Richard R. Clifton, who was appointed by President George W. Bush; and Judge William C. Canby, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter. It was detailed, but it does not represent a final judgment on Trump's immigration ban.

[...]The ruling, though [it is an interim ruling], is critically important, as Trump's ban on refugees lasts only 120 days, and his ban on visitors from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen lasts only 90 days.

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