US court to hear case against Trump s travel ban

Washington May 15 (IANS) A federal appeals court is scheduled to hear case on Monday against US President Donald Trump s travel ban.

The US Courts for the 9th Circuit based in San Francisco Northern California ruled on February 9 against reinstating a travel ban signed on January 27 by Trump as part of an executive order.

The president subsequently issued a revised order on March 6 taking Iraq off the list of countries whose citizens are blocked from entering the United States for 90 days but keeping six other Muslim-majority countries on the list.

The travel ban in the second order was blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii thus throwing the case again into the 9th circuit court.

In initiating the legal challenge on March 9 Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin noted that the new order compared with the initial ban nothing of substance has changed: there is the same blanket ban on entry from Muslim-majority countries.

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