A West Coast federal appeals court on Monday blocked President Donald Trump from enforcing an executive order seeking to temporarily ban U.S. travel for people from six Muslim-majority countries, dealing another legal blow to the White House.
The ban, which targets six predominantly Muslim countries, was originally blocked by a court in Hawaii in March.
The White House has relied on another federal law, passed in 1952, that allows a president to suspend the entry of immigrants, or entire classes of immigrants, if he deems them to be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” The 9th Circuit ruled that a president must still provide a rational basis to reach that conclusion, a task that Trump failed to do with his executive orders.
“The Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president broad powers to control the entry of aliens, and to take actions to protect the American public. But immigration, even for the president, is not a one-person show,” a three-judge panel declared.
“The order does not offer a sufficient justification to suspend the entry of more than 180 million people on the basis of nationality. National security is not a ‘talismanic incantation’ that, once invoked, can support any and all exercise of executive power.”
The latest court ruling did vacate part of the injunction so the president’s administration can conduct internal reviews of immigration policy.
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