Hawaii files court challenge on Trump travel ban criteria
Source: The Hill
The state of Hawaii on Thursday filed a court challenge to the Trump administration's limitations on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations, asking a federal judge to clarify that the administration cannot enforce a temporary ban against certain relatives.
Currently, administration guidelines say that travelers from the affected countries can only come into the U.S. to visit spouses, parents, children, siblings or sons- and daughters-in-law.
Hawaii's challenge seeks to expand the exemptions to include "fiancés, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of people currently living in the United States."
“In Hawaii, ‘close family’ includes many of the people that the federal government decided on its own to exclude from that definition," Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin said in a statement. "Unfortunately, this severely limited definition may be in violation of the Supreme Court ruling.”
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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/340188-hawaii-files-court-challenge-to-part-of-trump-travel-ban
Laurence Tribe tweeted earlier that he hoped this would be challenged, and he linked to a law article that goes into detail:
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And not southern white folk, either.
