Second judge blocks new travel ban

By Laura Jarrett, CNN
Updated 10:09 AM ET, Wed October 18, 2017

... US District Judge Theodore D. Chuang -- who also blocked travel ban 2.0 -- did not go as far as the judge in Hawaii on Tuesday and has only extended his order to "individuals with a bona fide relationship with an individual or entity in the United States."

Chuang was not persuaded by the Trump administration's claim that the new travel ban was "cured" of "religious animus," concluding that his various positive statements about Islam did not in "any way repudiate the President's prior intention to impose a Muslim ban.

Particularly where, in August 2017, President Trump tweeted a statement that a method hostile to Islam — shooting Muslims with bullets dipped in pig's blood — should be used to deter future terrorism, there is no record of public statements showing any change in the President's intentions relating to a Muslim ban."

Chuang also found that the new travel ban "imposed a permanent, rather than temporary, ban on immigrants from the Designated Countries, and has effectively stopped the issuance of immigrant visas indefinitely," and says "the bar on entry is the equivalent of a ban on issuing immigrant visas based on nationality" ...

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