U.S. Chief Circuit Judge Roger Gregory wrote that the text of Trump's executive order, which was challenged in courts across the country for targeting members of a particular faith, "speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination."
"Congress granted the President broad power to deny entry to aliens, but that power is not absolute," Gregory wrote in a ruling that largely upheld the original block on the travel ban. "It cannot go unchecked when, as here, the President wields it through an executive edict that stands to cause irreparable harm to individuals across this nation."
CAIR Welcomes
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, Monday welcomed a unanimous ruling by the three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding an earlier decision by a federal judge in Hawaii to block President Donald Trump's revised "Muslim ban" executive order.
"Today's ruling once again demonstrates the near-unanimity of judges in ruling against any type of 'Muslim ban,'" said CAIR National Litigation Director Lena Masri. "We welcome this ruling and believe it and the previous rulings in different courts outline a clear path that the Supreme Court should follow."
Masri noted that CAIR filed an amicus ("friend of the court") brief in the case.
Last month, CAIR similarly welcomed a ruling by the full panel of 13 judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond, Va., that refused to lift a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump's revised "Muslim ban."
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