SEATTLE (AP) — The Justice Department wants a federal appeals court to put President Trump’s travel ban case on hold until he issues a new order.
A government motion filed Friday says all actions on the appeal should be stopped because Trump intends to issue a new executive order that addresses some of the constitutional concerns raised by his first action.
His executive order temporarily banned travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries and paused the U.S. refugee program.
Washington state and Minnesota sued to stop the order, and a federal judge put it on hold.
The government appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court set a schedule that requires the government to file an opening brief by March 3. The Justice Department wants that plan set aside for now.
Messages left with the Washington attorney general’s office were not immediately returned.
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Trump: Unfriendly Press is my Enemy #1. I am winning.
LA Times as well, apparently. Don’t know what the others than AP from those list have decided.
Plenty of good seats available for the correspondents’ dinner …
When you listen to the statements coming out of the WH, it’s pretty clear this promised new order is now about 2 weeks overdue. First, they suggested to reporters a new order would be coming within days of the Ninth Circuit ruling, then ‘next week’ which was last week.
Here we are on Friday without this magical new order and they are worried about a deadline next Friday.
They already knew outright discrimination based upon religion wouldn’t work so they thought they were being cute. Now, they have learned that Congress many years ago expressly banned discrimination based upon national origin.
Being a bigot in 2017 is so hard. My guess is we’ll never see this order and they’ll move to Congress and try to amend the Immigration and Naturalization Act. That will take months at least and likely will never happen.