Jeffrey Wall: Travel Ban and Circuit Court

jeffrey wall: Seattle appeals court hears arguments on Trump's immigration ban Reuters No one has ever attempted to set aside a law that is neutral on its face and neutral in its operation on the basis of largely campaign trail comments made by a private citizen running for office, he said, according to Globe and Mail. Further, Wall said the president had backed off the comments he made during the campaign, clarifying that what he was talking about was Islamic terrorist groups and the countries that sponsor or shelter them. Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, defending the travel ban, told the three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the executive order should be reinstated because it falls well within the president's authority. Neal Katyal, who represented Hawaii, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, expressed disbelief at that argument and said Trump had repeatedly spoken of a Muslim ban during the presidential campaign and after. The 9th Circuit panel was hearing arguments over Hawaii's lawsuit challenging the travel ban, which would suspend the nation's refugee program and temporarily bar new visas for citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. This is a repeated pattern of the president, Katyal said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.