Legal challenges to Trump’s travel ban mount from USA states

A three-judge panel from the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals had in early February ruled unanimously to uphold a federal judge’s restraining order on the travel ban, delaying the executive order’s implementation.

– Travel ban, take two -Trump’s first order had sparked a legal, political and logistical furor.

Hawaii is seeking a temporary restraining order to block Donald Trump’s new executive order on travel.

Citizens of Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Libya will now face a 90 day suspension of visa processing as the administration works towards its goal of tougher vetting. Citizens from the Syrian refugee program will not be indefinitely suspended.

He said although the revised order issued on Monday was narrower in scope, it still could be challenged on constitutional grounds. “No visas will be revoked exclusively based on this executive order”, a statement from the White House said.

Miller told Fox News that the new travel ban would have the same effect as the old one.

Tobias also said the fact that Hawaii’s lawsuit includes an individual plaintiff could be significant because some legal scholars have questioned whether the states themselves have standing to challenge the ban.

Nationals of the six countries with legal permanent residence in the U.S. Half were native-born USA citizens.

The new order is meant to address complaints raised by the federal judges that parts of the first version were unconstitutional.

The states and immigration advocates argue the new ban, like the original one, discriminates against Muslims.

“This will definitely be a more hard constitutional target”, Temple University law professor Peter Spiro was quoted as saying in the report.

At the Dallas office of the International Rescue Committee, the deputy executive director Daley Ryan said the new order continues to hurt those most needing help in what’s become the world’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.

It comes as Nigeria has warned its citizens not to travel to the U.S. and says Nigerians with valid visas have been put on the next plane home.

Crucially, travelers from the six banned countries who already have visas, and refugees who have already been given visas, won’t be turned away at the USA border.