states don't have standing to even bring this lawsuit. the states in this case, washington and minnesota. it said that the state lacks authority to sue to protect its citizens from the operation of the federal law. this is important because you have to show injury. you have to prove that two of the courts and in this case, the department of justice is saying that there is no standing. so in the eppnd, it could come down to that. it talks about the refugees and the citizens from of the seven countries in the travel ban who have never set foot in the united states do not have constitutional rights according to department of justice lawyers. what's interesting, at the end of the 15-page brief there's a carve-out, an option that doj is giving the ninth circuit judges to limit the injunction, if they must, to previously admitted aliens who are temporarily abroad now, or who wish to