Jul 11, 2017 · Maine Attorney General Janet Mills announced Monday that she ... President Trump's travel ban for immigrants from a group of Muslim-majority countries. ... going to stand on the sidelines and not ...
Apr 19, 2017 · Brief States That The Travel Ban Was Motivated By Anti-Muslim Animus, Is Not Supported By A Genuine National Security Rationale, And Would Significantly Harm States SACRAMENTO – Attorney General Xavier Becerra today joined a coalition of 17 states filing an amicus brief urging the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the district court ruling that …
Jun 25, 2018 · Timeline: Legal fight over Trump's 'Muslim ban' and the Supreme Court ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump 's travel ban in …
The appeal goes to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia.
Protests at airports around the country. Protests break out around the country in the days after the executive order, which comes to be known as the “Muslim ban” after Rudy Giuliani tells Fox News that is the phrase the president used to describe it at first.
Just a week after taking office, President Trump issues an executive order titled “Executive Order Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” which put a 120-day pause on the refugee resettlement program, and placed an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees.
The final list of countries is Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, though Chad is later removed from the list. More significantly, this version of the ban does not include an end date. President Trump speaks to the media following the third version of the travel ban. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
The new ban, which the president calls a “watered down version,” removes Iraq from the list of seven countries from which immigration is banned for 90 days , but retains the 120-day ban on refugee entry, including Syria. The cap on refugee admissions stays at 50,000, down from former-President Barack Obama’s 2016 cap of 110,000.
In a 5-4 vote with Chief Justice John Roberts presenting the majority opinion, the court ruled that the president did not overstep his bounds with his travel ban, despite the plaintiffs’ assertion that his campaigning reflected anti-Muslim sentiment.
Appeals court refuses to reinstate travel ban. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the ban, when taking President Trump’s campaign comments about Muslims into account, is discriminatory toward a certain religious group under the guise of a national security concern.
While campaigning for president days after a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., Donald Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.". That statement and others helped lead to sharp partisan attacks when Trump, ...
PolitiFact National found that according to New America, a think tank compiling information on terrorist activities in the United States since 9/11, 94 people have been killed by jihadists, but the large majority of the attackers have been American citizens or legal residents.
It's very hard to separate because you don't know who is who.". In June 2016, after a terrorist attack in Orlando, Fla., Trump reiterated his call for a temporary Muslim ban, saying in a speech: "I called for a ban after San Bernardino, and was met with great scorn and anger, but now many are saying I was right to do so.".
Trump’s statements evidently were pivotal for Sally Yates, whom Trump fired as acting attorney general after she instructed the Justice Department not to defend the executive order. A letter she wrote showed she was bothered by the focus on majority-Muslim countries.
Protesters and immigrants rights advocates gathered at Castle Clinton National Monument, the physical departure and arrival point for tours of the Statue of Liberty in New York City. (AP) While campaigning for president days after a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., Donald Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown ...