Trump Withdraws Appeal On Travel Ban Suspension, Promises New Immigration Order
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President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will announce a new immigration executive order next week, which he described as a revised version of the travel ban which was blocked in court earlier this month.
“The new order is going to be very much tailored to what I consider to be a very bad decision,” said Trump during a news conference, on Thursday.
The Justice Department in a brief to the ninth circuit court of appeals, also announced that President Trump will rescind his executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries as well as all refugees.
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“Rather than continuing this litigation, the President intends in the near future to rescind the Order and replace it with a new, substantially revised Executive Order to eliminate what the panel erroneously thought were constitutional concerns,” the justice department wrote.
“In so doing, the President will clear the way for immediately protecting the country rather than pursuing further, potentially time-consuming litigation,” it added.
The Ninth Circuit agreed Thursday evening to put any rehearing of the matter on hold for the time being.
Trump’s ‘çontroversial’ travel ban travel barring foreign nationals from Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and all refugees from Syria indefinitely has been suspended since a federal district judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order against it, which was upheld by the ninth circuit court of appeals in a 9 February ruling.
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Questions have swirled over what the Trump administration would do this week after the appeal hit a brickwall. The justice department filing argued that the ninth circuit should not reconsider its 9 February ruling against the travel ban but wait until the new order is released.
Trump continued his on-going war of words against the judiciary. He referred to the federal district judge who initially granted the temporary injunction against his executive order as a “so-called judge” on Twitter. During the campaign, he also accused a judge presiding over a case involving his “university” of being biased due to his “Mexican heritage”.
