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his syrian mother-in-law to the u.s. government lawyers argue the revised travel ban is more narrow and provides for waivers. oral arguments will be heard wednesday meantime, washington state has been joined by five others, oregon, maryland, new york, massachusetts and california. nationwide injunction slapped on the original travel ban extended to the executive order 2.0. james robards will make the decision. his injunction drew angry tweets from president trump but was upheld by the ninth circuit court of appeals. they target judges who they believe are going to give them a favorable ruling. they tried to bring these cases in circuits where they are most likely to have injunctions upheld. at the heart of the cases are calls made by then canada tromped on a ban on muslims.
his syrian mother-in-law to the u.s. government lawyers argue the revised travel ban is more narrow and provides for waivers. oral arguments will be heard wednesday meantime, washington state has been joined by five others, oregon, maryland, new york, massachusetts and california. nationwide injunction slapped on the original travel ban extended to the executive order 2.0. james robards will make the decision. his injunction drew angry tweets from president trump but was upheld by the ninth circuit court of appeals. they target judges who they believe are going to give them a favorable ruling. they tried to bring these cases in circuits where they are most likely to have injunctions upheld. at the heart of the cases are calls made by then canada tromped on a ban on muslims.
sure. the new ban. yes. set to take effect the day after that. you ve also had a conversation evidently with the president. tell me all about those things. that s right. well, last week i had a chance to be at the national a.g. s conference that was in d.c. president trump met with us and he opened it up for questions and answers. so at that time the executive order hadn t gone out, so i stood up and i introduced myself. i said i was we were wondering with the new travel ban coming out what was it that he was really trying to accomplish? what was it that he was trying to what was he thinking behind this executive order? and his response was civil. it was actually the same day as his statement to the his speech to the joint session of congress. and he said that his goals were to make america safe again and that extreme vetting was a part of that and that he knew that a lot of us wouldn t like his approach and yet that was his priority.
weekend and next week as well, but let s move on to the travel ban, 2.0. supposed to take effect next thursday, march 16th. two days there now though, monday, you ve got five additional states planning to file complaints challenging the revised ban. hawaii already filed a complaint, and today, guys, the same judge who issued the order blocking the original travel ban refusing to block the revised version saying the states lawyers, well, they needed to file more extensive documents. so do these state attorneys general face an uphill legal battle, alex? yeah, they do. it s difficult to overturn an executive order. the only reason it was so much easier or to overturn the last one is because it was so poorly constructed. courts tend to presume that the president and congress drafting laws do so competently, so you have the high bar to overcome. one of the biggest problems for the president here is that the previous ban happened at all. you know, that s history the court s going to take