Trump attacks ruling against travel ban

President Trump’s temporary travel ban targeting six majority-Muslim countries was dealt another blow Thursday after a federal judge in Maryland suspended a portion of the ban that prevented visas being issued to nationals of the six countries, reports said.

U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson in Hawaii froze the order nationwide.

The Department of Justice said Wednesday that it will continue to defend President Trump’s executive order which was blocked by a federal judge.

His initial travel ban, issued on a Friday in late January, brought chaos and protests to airports around the country. Another “so-called judge” has put on a hold on his new, revised, and supposedly court-proof travel ban. The White House maintains that its revised travel order seeks to limit threats to national security, an area over which the president had broad authority to act. He said Trump is “digging the grave” for the order.

Ferguson acknowledged the changes to the order but said it still “bars entry for virtually all other individuals from the listed countries”, including relatives of US citizens and students who have been admitted to state universities and people who might seek work at schools and businesses.

He said the court’s decision “makes us look weak” and said he was prepared to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

The order had placed a ban on granting asylum to refugees while denying entry to the United States to citizens of Libya, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia.

Herring has joined attorneys general from 13 other states in filing a brief in support of Hawaii’s bid to halt enforcement of President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban. The ruling Wednesday cited Trump campaign advisor Rudy Giuliani’s remark that Trump wanted a way to legally implement a Muslim ban, something he proposed on the campaign trail.

“Essentially what you still have is a blanket ban against entry from people who are from six different nations, it used to be seven”, said Chin.

The court ruling also points to an interview with Rudy Giuliani, in which the former Mayor of NY said Mr Trump had told him he wanted a Muslim ban, and told Mr Giuliani to “show me the right way to do it legally”.

He again criticized the Ninth Circuit, calling many of their past rulings “terrible decisions”.

The new order also exempts green card holders from the ban, as well as those who applied for a visa before the order went into effect.