Federal court upholds block of Trump travel ban!
RICHMOND, Virginia (PNN) - May 25, 2017 - Trump may be traveling, but the bad news for the president never stops, and while we await tonight's daily "Russia collusion blockbusters" from the Washington Post and The New York Times, the president got some even more bad news after NBC reported that a Federal Appeals court has upheld the ban on Donald Trump's travel plan.
A Richmond, Virginia-based federal appeals court on Thursday refused to reinstate President Trump’s ban on nationals from six majority-Muslim countries from entering the Fascist Police States of Amerika, delivering a major blow to the Trump regime.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling that Trump’s executive order "speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination", and noted that the president's power to deny entry to immigrants is "broad" but "not absolute".
“It cannot go unchecked when, as here, the president wields it through an executive edict that stands to cause irreparable harm to individuals across this nation,” he wrote.
The court’s decision keeps a Maryland court’s order blocking the ban in place.
The government’s appeal of that order was heard by the court’s full panel of 13 judges.
Though Judge Stephanie Thacker concurred with the court’s decision to keep the stay in place, she said she would have not considered the remarks Trump made about banning Muslims while on the campaign trail. Those comments took center stage during oral arguments earlier this month while the judges grappled with whether they should be considered.
The new ban was announced in March, but was never implemented because federal courts blocked it just hours before it was set to go into effect. It would have banned people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the FPSA for 90 days, and all refugees for 120 days.
